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Gambhir's century takes India to easy win

Jaipur: A breezy unbeaten 138 from skipper Gautam Gambhir and his second-wicket stand of 116 with Virat Kohli took India to an eight-wicket win over New Zealand at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Wednesday. India reached its target of 259 with seven overs to spare.

After being sent in by Gambhir, the New Zealand innings saw three pairs post 50 partnerships, but the biggest was only worth 65. This, and a late burst of wickets from Sreesanth, who finished with four for 47, prevented the Kiwis from setting India a truly challenging target.

Wary of the effect the dew might have on the spinners deeper into India's chase, Vettori threw the new ball to offie Nathan McCullum.

He gave away just three from his first two overs before Gambhir stepped out and split the cover-mid-off gap. The left-hander's feet were moving smoothly, his right leg thrusting fully at anything full and wide. He brought up India's 50 with a clip off his legs for four off left-armer Andy McKay, and his own with a double to fine-leg off Scott Styris.

Unusually scratchy

At the other end, an unusually scratchy Murali Vijay survived two leg before shouts from Vettori off two balls, the first going with the arm and possibly sliding down leg, the second striking him off the inside edge. An over later, the left-arm spinner had his man, bowled missing a slog sweep off a too-full delivery.

Vettori kept the field in for Kohli, not the wisest idea considering he'd made hundreds in his last two ODI innings. The landmarks came one after the other. Kohli brought up his 50 with a hook off Southee that beat fine-leg haring to his left. A single off McCullum brought up the 100 stand. Gambhir jabbed McKay over mid-wicket to reach his eighth ODI hundred.

His previous century, at Eden Gardens against Sri Lanka last year, was also composed in Kohli's company.

Kohli spanked McKay down the ground, whipped him between mid-wicket and mid-on, and then — probably finding batting a little too easy — pulled him straight to short mid-wicket.

He didn't reach his third straight hundred, but this innings was possibly even better, for its imperious ease of strokeplay, than the 105 at Guwahati.

Yuvraj Singh got off the mark with his 50th ODI six on Indian soil, a typically flourishing swat over mid-wicket off McCullum. Gambhir flashed McKay for three consecutive fours past a hapless point.

The batsmen tore chunks off the target with authoritative strokeplay. With three required, Southee delivered a leg-side wide which Hopkins didn't gather properly, allowing the batsmen to complete two and put India 2-0 up.

Earlier, Gambhir chose to let his unchanged attack bowl before the onset of dew. New Zealand made two changes from Guwahati, Grant Elliott and the injured Daryl Tuffey making way for Tim Southee and skipper Daniel Vettori.

Brisk start

Martin Guptill rattled the boundary boards off the first and third balls of the innings, glancing Ashish Nehra off his hips and driving him past cover. Jamie How also got four from his first ball, cracking a wide one from Sreesanth in front of point. In his second over, Sreesanth got one to leave How late and kiss his edge through to the 'keeper.

Kane Williamson walked in and kicked on straightaway with three leg-side boundaries in two Nehra overs.

Munaf Patel replaced the left-armer, and immediately stemmed the run flow with his metronomic back-of-a-length, with the odd ball dipping in.

With Ashwin ensuring no let-up of pressure from the other end, the scoring rate dropped under four.

Guptill reached 50 with a leg-side single off Yuvraj. Till that point, he had struck only three fours off 82 deliveries, and celebrated the milestone by swinging Yusuf Pathan over cow corner for six.

But yet again, a wicket stalled New Zealand just when the innings seemed to pick up momentum. Ashwin went around the wicket to Guptill and found his edge with the carrom ball.

Styris reached 50 with a flicked single off Ashwin, reaching the mark off 49 balls. A single to Vettori in the same over brought up New Zealand's 200 and 2,000 ODI runs for the skipper. Then Sreesanth came back in the 46th over and dismissed Styris and Vettori off two balls.

New Zealand: M. Guptill c Saha b Ashwin 70 (102b, 3x4, 1x6), J. How c Saha b Sreesanth 5 (13b, 1x4), K. Williamson b Munaf 29 (46b, 4x4), R. Taylor c Kohli b Yusuf 15 (23b, 1x4), S. Styris c Saha b Sreesanth 59 (56b, 5x4, 1x6), D. Vettori b Sreesanth 31 (32b, 4x4), G. Hopkins (not out) 11 (12b, 1x4), N. McCullum (run out) 12 (9b, 1x4), K. Mills b Sreesanth 13 (6b, 1x4, 1x6), T. Southee (not out) 2 (1b); Extras (lb-5, w-6): 11; Total (for eight wkts. in 50 overs): 258.

Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2- 64, 3-96, 4-161, 5-219, 6-219, 7-243, 8-256.

India bowling: Nehra 9-1-45-0, Sreesanth 9-1-47-4, Munaf 8-0-34-1, Ashwin 10-0-52-1, Yuvraj 9-1-48-0, Yusuf 4-0-23-1, Raina 1-0-4-0.

India: M. Vijay b Vettori 33 ( 58b, 2x4), G. Gambhir (not out) 138 ( 116b, 18x4), V. Kohli c Taylor b McKay 64 ( 73b, 8x4), Yuvraj (not out) 16 ( 11b, 1x4, 1x6); Extras (w-8): 8; Total (for two wkts. in 43 overs): 259.

Fall of wickets: 1-87 (Vijay), 2-203 (Kohli).

New Zealand bowling: N. McCullum 9-0-37-0, Mills 7-0-49-0, McKay 7-0-59-1, Styris 3-0-20-0, Vettori 8-0-32-1, Southee 5-0-33-0, Williamson 4-0-29-0 .

Jacques Kallis hits ton after England set early pace

Jacques Kallis hit his 33rd century in Tests as South Africa recovered from 127-5 to reach 279-6 on day one of the third Test against England.

Kallis made a chanceless unbeaten 108, and featured in an 89-run stand with Mark Boucher (51) for the sixth wicket.

James Anderson and Graeme Swann each took two wickets for England, who opted to field first on winning the toss.

South Africa dropped Makhaya Ntini for Friedel de Wet in the only change made by either side at picturesque Newlands.

Middlesex captain Shaun Udal later confirmed his county were setting their sights on offering a Kolpak contract to the veteran paceman, should he now go on and announce his retirement from international cricket.

After England won the toss and put South Africa in to bat, the focus in Cape Town quickly switched to how South Africa could overturn their 1-0 deficit in the series.

And that they still had a reasonable chance to do so when stumps were drawn was all because of Kallis.

With the start of play delayed by half an hour following some light morning showers, and a thick layer of cloud concealing Table Mountain, the attacking move for a captain to win the toss was clearly to field first.This three-figure score put him fifth on the all-time list of Test century-makers as he went ahead of Steve Waugh, and one ton shy of Brian Lara in fourth place.

Andrew Strauss's tactic was instantly rewarded when the fourth ball of the match produced a wicket. Anderson sent down a wicked delivery, just back of a length and seaming away from Ashwell Prince.

The out-of-form left-hander nicked it to wicketkeeper Matt Prior and England, still buzzing after the win in Durban, were on the march.

They should have had their next wicket just three balls later when Graeme Smith leant forward and across to drive Graham Onions through the covers only to get a thick edge.

He turned round, expecting Swann to complete an easy catch but England's star turn in recent times, fielding at second slip to protect Paul Collingwood's fractured finger, made a terrible mess of the chance, with Jonathan Trott attempting in vain to grab the rebound.

With the ball continuing to seam about, England pressed on. Although Smith released some pressure with a couple of pulled boundaries off Onions, Stuart Broad was convinced Hashim Amla had feathered an edge behind which umpire Daryl Harper missed.

Strauss asked for the review, but despite an audible nick on the stump microphone the evidence was not conclusive enough for third umpire Aleem Dar, and the not-out verdict remained.

Anderson had the big wicket of Graeme Smith straight after lunch

Not long afterwards, Smith survived a marginal lbw against Onions. England did not use up their one remaining review - and sensibly so because, although Hawkeye suggested the delivery was clipping the bails, there was enough doubt and so on-field umpire Tony Hill's decision would not have been reversed.

The second wicket eventually came on the stroke of lunch, as Onions - persisting with straight, full deliveries at Amla - finally had his reward when the right-hander's penchant for playing across the line was exposed and he fell lbw.

South Africa were in decent shape at 51-2 at lunch but seven balls into the second session Anderson struck again when Smith edged the same sort of delivery that had removed Prince to a tumbling Prior.

It was an important tonic for England, because the clouds were now lifting to make batting so much easier.

So when Kallis and De Villiers busily launched into an important partnership, the tourists needed a couple of lucky breaks.

They got precisely the opposite when De Villiers survived a concerted appeal for caught-behind off Swann. Harper was again the umpire involved and this time England did not review the decision, perhaps chastened by the earlier experience.

Replays showed visible deflection after the ball passed the bat, and to make matters considerably worse when Prior took off the bails the batsman had his foot in the air - but England had not really considered the stumping.

There was a healthy contingent of England fans at Newlands

De Villiers now pounced on a couple of shorter balls from Swann to hit boundaries but had not made good his escape when justice was done for England. Attempting to clip a ball through the on-side he tamely chipped a catch to Strauss at short mid-wicket and England celebrated wildly as they ended an important 76-run partnership.

There was more joy to come from the very next ball when JP Duminy got a thin edge and Prior did the rest, leaving South Africa in strife with half their wickets gone and 150 not yet on the board.

Boucher, one of the South Africans whose position in the side has been questioned, responded to the situation with some positive cricket, including three consecutive fours in a rare poor Swann over.

By tea, Kallis had reached his half-century and South Africa were 183-5, but there was reverse swing on offer now for England's bowlers.

Eventually, Broad capitalised with a delivery that curved back into Boucher, removing the right-hander lbw.

South Africa pushed Dale Steyn two places up the order from his customary number 10 berth, and he responded solidly as Kallis reached his century by driving a wide full-toss from Kevin Pietersen to the extra-cover fence.

It had been a masterful innings from the 34-year-old whose most alarming moment came when he top-edged a pull shot over the slip cordon.

If there was only one really memorable shot played, a dreamy on-drive for four off Onions, it was a classic example of how building an innings in Test cricket is all about high-quality defence and putting away the bad ball.

Steyn was dropped on 22 late in the day after Anderson had taken the new ball, but it was a tough chance missed by Trott diving yards to his right at third slip.

With 6.4 overs left of the scheduled 90, bad light returned to bring the players off and play will start 15 minutes early on day two at 0815 GMT.

Twenty20 May be the End of One-day Cricket

THE Big Bash is the greatest entertainment to hit cricket since, well, one-day internationals in the 1970s.
The days when coloured clothing and light towers lit up the night, when queues snaked for literally miles outside the MCG and SCG, and when fences were pulled down at the WACA because the "sold out" signs had gone up.

When microphones bashed out songs between overs, and canny canines and pop stars weaved their magic at the intervals.

Same game, same popularity, same gimmicks, same television ratings to drool over, same queues and public adoration.

The only difference is the Big Bash goes for 40 overs and is completed within four hours, a much faster and more frenzied version of the 50 overs a side format that provided Kerry Packer with day and night live television content.
Interesting then, that fans and the cricketers are suggesting that of the three formats of the game to take a backseat, the first in line is the 50 over games.

Three decades of the same smash and grab has worn thin (or perhaps too long).

The constants of the game are Tests and the Sheffield Shield, the backbone of this nation's cricket that defy time, change, wavering public opinion.

So it is interesting to note that Mike McKenna, a marketing guru whose sporting background is six years at the Essendon Football Club before joining Cricket Australia in April of 2005, has a mandate to determine the future of the Big Bash in Australia.

CA chief executive James Sutherland has handed him a blank piece of paper and asked him to be ambitious to find a specific and separate space in the cluttered Australian cricket calendar for the Twenty20 Big Bash.

Grey hairs have blossomed on many foreheads of cricket officials since, mainly because the mandate involved being "customer driven".

In other words, what do the fans want? The answer, from considerable research that surprised nobody, is the majority want to watch cricket during the December-January holiday period.

Similar thinking in the late 1970s resulted in one-day cricket taking over many traditional dates, including the Australia Day weekend Test in Adelaide.

Today fans and players alike believe one-day games should be the first format to be down-graded.

While McKenna and his committee ponder what can be achieved to best suit the fans (including television viewers), the blank piece of paper has been screwed up many times.

Would anyone dare to suggest that Melbourne's Boxing Day Test, or the New Year Test in Sydney, be shunted aside to make way for the Big Bash?

Cricket Australia's Peter Young said McKenna had a difficult assignment because his challenge was to avoid making a decision on what is most convenient to CA and to come up with the best scenario according to customer research.

"All things being equal, the way we would prefer to do it is play the Big Bash during the December-January period when people are on holidays," Young said.

"Whether that is achievable is problematic."

The Big Bash is here to stay, and it will become an integral part of the summer, especially with eight and possibly 10 teams in the helter-skelter format. It is a hit already, attracting massive television audiences and huge crowds.

However, while it would be easy for McKenna to say the new phenomenon should suddenly take centre stage at the expense of Test cricket, he must consider equally the traditions of the game.

The wheel turns. Test cricket is vibrant in this nation, and the December-January period is the peak viewing period.

If Tests are not played then, who would be able to attend to support the traditions of the game?

Especially when they cannot be played at night, when more would attend, because of an inability to unearth an acceptable ball.

Whereas, one suggests, the Big Bash will be popular, overwhelmingly attended and a focal point of television viewers whenever it is played.