Monday 23rd March, 2009 England asked to look into England win hosting IPL LONDON (AP) - English cricket officials say they have been asked to look into the feasibility of hosting the 2009 Indian Premier League by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The Twenty20 tournament will be Women’s World Cup held outside India this year after its SYDNEY (AP) - Caroline cricket board failed to get government Atkins top-scored with 40 runs SCOREBOARD approval for its matches due to a clash of and late replacement Nicky schedule with general elections and con- Shaw took four for 34 as New Zealand innings S. Taylor b Mason 21 cern over security. England beat New Zealand by K. Pulford c SC Taylor b Guha 8 C. Edwards c Priest b Doolan 10 The England and Wales Cricket four wickets Sunday to claim the H. Tiffen c SJ Taylor b Shaw 30 L. Greenway c Satterthwaite b Mason 8 Board said Sunday that "officials from Women’s World Cup. S. Bates c Atkins b Shaw 2 B. Morgan run out 9 both boards have held exploratory dis- It was England’s third World A. Satterthwaite c SJ Taylor b Shaw 0 N. Shaw 17 cussions to relocate the tournament to Cup win and came after the side S. McGlashan c Greenway b Colvin 21 H. Colvin not out 5 dismissed New Zealand for 166 in England and Wales. Further meetings the 47th over at North Sydney A. Mason b Marsh 13 Extras: (lb 1, w 17) 18 will be held during the forthcoming Oval after the Kiwis won the toss N. Browne lbw b Shaw 25 Total: (6 wickets) 167 week." and chose to bat. S. Tsukigawa c SJ Taylor b Brunt 2 Overs: 46.1. The second edition of the annual England scored 167-6 and sur- L. Doolan st SJ Taylor b Marsh 48 Did not bat: L. Marsh, K. Brunt, I. tournament is set to be held from April passed New Zealand’s total with S. Devine lbw b Edwards 0 Guha. 10 to May 24, while the elections for the 23 balls remaining. R. Priest not out 0 Fall of wickets: 1-74, 2-109, 3-111, 4- Fast medium bowler Shaw Indian Parliament's lower house will Extras: (lb 2, w 15) 17 121, 5-139, 6-149. take place across the country in five dif- received a call-up just a few min- Total: (all out) 166 : Devine 9-0-30-0 (1w), utes before the team list was sub- ferent phases between April 16 and May Overs: 47.2. Pulford 3-0-17-0 (6w), Browne 7-1-24- mitted after aggra- 13. Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-49, 3-49, 4-62, 0 (1w), Bates 4.1-0-21-0 (1w), Doolan vated a calf strain during her India's federal Home Ministry reject- 5-74, 6-92, 7-101, 8-164, 9-166, 10- 10-4-23-3 (1w), Tsukigawa 4-1-23-0, team’s warmup. Shaw’s figures of England women’s cricket team holds her ed two proposed itineraries from IPL 4-34 from 8.2 overs were her best 166. Mason 9-0-28-2 (6w). team’s trophy aloft as they celebrate after defeating New Zealand in organizers before advising them to speak Bowling: Brunt 10-3-33-1 (6w), Guha Toss: New Zealand , who chose to bat with security agencies in the states 5-0-24-1 (3w), Shaw 8.2-0-34-4, Series: England Women won the the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, where matches were to be played. Colvin 10-1-26-1, Marsh 10-3-34-2 2008/09 ICC Women’s World Cup March 22, 2009. England won by four wickets. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) "We made the best of our endeavors (1w), Edwards 4-1-13-1 (1w). Player of the match: N. Shaw (Eng) New Zealand captain first time they had lost three to stage the event in India, but have to Player of the series: S. Taylor (Eng) Haidee Tiffen said her side times in the one tournament. move it out of India because of existing England innings Umpires: S. Davis and B. Jerling (SA) might have been caught up in At Bankstown Oval in S. Taylor c Tiffen b Doolan 39 Third umpire: T. Wijewardene (SL) the emotion of the day. Sydney, India clinched the win conditions," Shashank Manohar, the C. Atkins c Devine b Doolan 40 Match referee: B. Aldridge (NZ) “Maybe there were some with 13 balls to spare in a match President of Board of Control for nerves in amongst the camp,” that was reduced to 46 overs after Cricket in India said. Tiffen said. “We didn’t hype it a 104-minute morning rain delay. Some states gave clearance but a few one-day international totals of needed respectability to the Kiwi up to be anything more than Australia was dismissed for 142, her career. total. refused to sanction matches until the another day at the office. with veteran skipper Karen elections were over and at least two Shaw (17) was at the crease England captain Charlotte Unfortunately it was a bad day at Rolton top-scoring with 52 in pos- states changed their decision to permit when Holly Colvin (5) hit the Edwards said the win was a big the office.” sibly her final World Cup innings. winning runs for England. relief after having dropped Shaw On Saturday, India beat Player of the match Rumeli games, which Manohar said forced the Earlier, New Zealand from the side only to recall her Australia by three wickets in the Dhar (24 not out; 2-21) and captain BCCI to look for a foreign venue. slumped to 101-7 after 29 overs when Gunn suffered her injury. match for third place, ensuring Jhulan Goswami (18 not out), Manohar said the organizers' options and at one stage went scoreless “It’s a really special moment the hosts posted their worst per- who was playing her 100th one- shrank Saturday when the governments for 23 balls. and I’ll treasure it for the rest of formance at any Women’s World day international, also combined An eighth- partner- my life,” said Edwards. “We were of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh Cup. It was the first time in nine at the end in a decisive unbroken states reversed their earlier decision to ship of 63 off 99 balls between up against a very good New tournaments Australia has fin- stand of 41 off 51 balls to guide Lucy Doolan (48) and Nicola Zealand team and they never ished lower than third and the India to a winning total of 145-7. approve matches. Browne (25) added some much gave up.” Kingswood check Trinity’s forward march in school rugby sevens by Ravi Nagahawatte Nalanda College proved a little down and punched three holes in Kingswood College had to tap too hot for Maliyadeva to handle the opponent’s defence with touch all their resources to down in the final of the Plate downs coming from Fazal (2) and Trinity 26-17 in a closely contested Championship trophy. Nalanda Rifas (1). Cup Championship final of the scored a run-away 29-5 win with “This is a big win in terms of Inter-school under-20 rugby sev- tries coming from Kosala rugby for Carey because the ens tournament at Royal Sports Madushanka, Nadeera Nihal, school is still new to the sport. It’s Comples, Reid Avenue yesterday. Waruna Nimesh and Abeeth the first time the school’s under 20 Trinity’s sudden progress in Athokorala. team has won a trophy in sevens sevens rugby made life difficult “Winning the Plate Trophy is rugby.There is very little rugby at for many of the fancies teams, the first step towards making under 13 and 15 level so this win is especially Kingswood, which was progress in rugby for Nalanda. sure to boost the morale of all who forced to trail during most part of The boys trained very hard and as play rugby at Carey,” said D. the final. Kingswood skipper a result beat all their opponents Nimal, Carey College rugby Roshan Weeraratne planted two quite easily in the tournament. coach. tries at crucial junctures of the The team earnestly needs a lot of final and further touch downs by help from the old boys if further Results at a glance- D. M. Wijesinghe and Rajitha progress is to be made in rugby,” Cup Championship- (Semi-finals) Sansoni helped the Kingswood Nalanda College rugby coach Kingswood beat Isipathana 26-10, recover and win. Sirikumara said. Trinity beat Prince of Wales 21-12. Weeraratne showed his bril- Carey College beat St. (Final) Kingswood beat Trinity 26-17. liance with an effortless try very Aloysius 19-7 in a lopsided final of Plate Championship- (Final) early in the first half but Trinity the Bowl Championship Trophy. Nalanda beat Maliyadeva 29-5 burst into action almost immedi- Carey never allowed the team Bowl Championship- (Final) Carey ately with two solid tries which from Southern Province to settle beat St.Aloysius 19-7. helped them lead 12-7 at half-time. Trinity’s aggressive style of playing helped them snatch back the lead once more with their third try. However, any dreams of Trinity creating sevens history were dashed when Kingswood’s Wijesinghe and Sansoni scored a try each, the final try coming dur- ing the dying stages of the game when Kingswood led 19-17. Trinity’s tries were scored by N. U. P. Samarasekara, Vishwajith Wijesinghe and Adeep Hamid. “We knew Trinity would enter the final but our aim was to beat Isipathana in the final. Trinity played better than we expected in the final,” said Kingswood rugby coach Nilufer Ibrahim. Kingswood beat Isipathana 26-10 Kingswood College won the inter-school under-20 rugby sevens tournament in one of the semi-finals of the beating Trinity College 26-17 in the final at the Royal Sports Complex at Reid Cup Championship while Trinity Avenue yesterday. Here two Kingswood defenders are unable to prevent got the better of Prince of Wales Trinity from crossing their line. 21-12 in the other semi-final. (Pic by Nishan S Priyantha)

Monday 23rd March, 2009