Dennis Lillee Caught Ball-Tampering and Considered Quitting the Game Off a Very Short Run-Up

Sports Sunday, December 23, 2018 17 Paul, Lewis clinch T20I Quick read series win for Windies Bangladesh lose Scoreboard West Indies third and final E. Lewis b Mahmudullah ������������������������������������� 89 S. Hope b Shakib ������������������������������������������������ 23 K. Paul c Ariful b Mustafizur �����������������������������������2 game by 50 runs R. Powell c Liton b Mahmudullah ������������������������ 19 S. Hetmyer lbw b Mahmudullah �����������������������������0 AFP N. Pooran c Hider b Mustafizur ��������������������������� 29 India cricketer Sanju Samson got married to his long-time girlfriend C. Brathwaite c Mehidy b Mustafizur ����������������������8 Dhaka S. Rutherford c Mushfiqur b Shakib �����������������������2 Charulatha at a resort in Kovalam, Kerala, on Saturday. F. Allen st Mushfiqur b Rahim ���������������������������������8 Keemo Paul grabbed a S. Cottrell not out ���������������������������������������������������2 Sanju Samson ties the knot record 5-15 and Evin Lewis O. Thomas run out ��������������������������������������������������0 Extras: (b1, w7) �����������������������������������������������������8 smashed 89 off 36 balls as the Total: (All out, 19.2 overs) ������������������������������ 190 Thiruvananthapuram: India and Kerala cricketer Sanju Sam- West Indies beat Bangladesh Fall of wickets: 1-76 (Hope), 2-90 (Paul), 3-122 son, who has played for the Rajasthan Royals and also donned the by 50 runs in the third and (Lewis), 4-122 (Hetmyer), 5-159 (Powell), 6-176 national blue, tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend Charulatha final Twenty20 in Dhaka on (Pooran), 7-178 (Brathwaite), 8-188 (Allen), 9-189 on Saturday. The former college mates got married in a simple (Rutherford), 10-190 (Thomas). Saturday to win the series 2-1. Bowling: Hider 2-0-39-0 (w2), Saifuddin 4-0-36-0 ceremony at a resort in Kovalam, near here, earlier in the day. The Lewis guided West Indies (w2), Mehidy 2-0-26-0, Shakib 4-0-37-3, Mustafizur wedding reception was slated later in the evening. “There were just to 190 in 19.2 overs despite 4-0-33-3 (w1), Mahmudullah 3.2-0-18-3 (w2). 30 of us from both the families and it was a very simple function,” a late fightback by Bangla- Bangladesh said Samson. “We are very happy that we have got the blessings Tamim Iqbal run out �����������������������������������������������8 desh led by Mahmudullah Ri- Liton Das c Brathwaite b Paul ����������������������������� 43 of both the families,” he said. While Samson is a Christian, Charu yad, Mustafizur Rahman and Soumya Sarkar c Cottrell b Allen ���������������������������9 is a Hindu Nair. The marriage was solemnised under the Special Shakib Al Hasan, who claimed Shakib Al Hasan c Cottrell b Allen �������������������������0 Marriage Act. Both have known each other since their graduation three wickets each. Mushfiqur Rahim c Allen b Paul �����������������������������1 at the Mar Ivanios College, here. Charu is presently doing her post Mahmudullah c Brathwaite b Paul ���������������������� 11 Paul then posted the best- Mehidy Hasan c Allen b Cottrell �������������������������� 19 graduation. Samson, 23, was part of the 2018 Indian Premiere ever T20 figures for a West Ariful Haque c Rutherford b Paul ���������������������������0 League (IPL) in the reinstated Rajasthan Royals team at a bid price Indies bowler to help the visi- Saifuddin c Hope b Paul ����������������������������������������5 of Rs 8 crore. (IANS) tors bowl out Bangladesh for Abu Hider not out ����������������������������������������������� 22 Mustafizur Rahman b Brathwaite ���������������������������8 140 runs. Extras: (b1, lb2, w6, nb5) ���������������������������������� 14 Opener Liton Das, Bangla- Total: (All out, 17 overs) ��������������������������������� 140 ICC asks BCCI to pay compensation or desh’s highest scorer with 43 Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Tamim), 2-65 (Soumya), 3-65 lose rights to host 2023 World Cup off 25, gave the hosts a strong (Shakib), 4-66 (Mushfiqur) 5-80 (Mahmudullah), 6-89 (Liton Das), 7-89 (Ariful), 8-96 (Saifuddin), start but they lost their way 9-129 (Mehidy), 10-140 (Mustafizur). New Delhi: In a major blow to the Board of Control for Cricket after an umpiring gaffe ap- Bowling: Cottrell 4-0-32-1 (nb1, w3), Thomas 3-0- in India (BCCI), the International Cricket Council peared to have broken their 56-0 (nb4, w2), Allen 4-0-19-2(w1), Paul 4-0-15-5, (ICC) on Saturday asked the board to either pay concentration. Brathwaite 2-0-15-1. $23 million (Rs 161 crore) by the end of this year Result: West Indies won by 50 runs In the fourth over of the Series Result: West Indies won 2-1 as compensation for the tax deductions incurred innings, Bangladeshi umpire Toss: Bangladesh. in hosting the 2016 World T20 or end up losing Tanvir Ahmed called a no-ball the World Cup 2023 rights. During the ICC board when Liton spooned a catch to meeting in Singapore in October, it was decided Shimron Hetmyer at mid-off. by Mahmudullah. that the BCCI would have to compensate for the But TV replays showed Sent in to bat by Bangla- tax deductions that the ICC faced as India hosted Oshane Thomas had bowled desh, openers Lewis and Shai the 2016 World T20, after no exemption in taxes a legitimate delivery, leaving Hope put on 76 runs in just five was given by either the state or the central govern- Carlos Brathwaite furious. overs for the visitors before ment. The ICC also mulled deducting the amount The West Indies skipper left-arm spinner Shakib and The ICC wants from the revenue share for the ongoing financial immediately asked for a re- pace bowler Mustafizur struck. BCCI to pay $23 year from BCCI’s coffers if they failed to comply view, which halted the game Shakib bowled Hope for million by the with the demands. As per reports, the BCCI has for nearly 10 minutes. 23 while Mustafizur removed end of this year asked the ICC to share the minutes of the meeting Match officials eventually West Indies bowler Keemo Paul (left), who claimed five wickets for 15 runs, celebrates the dismissal of Paul for two, but Lewis contin- as compensa- where they had promised to get them a tax waiver. upheld the decision of umpire Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Saifuddin in their third Twenty20 match at the Sher-e-Bangla National ued his onslaught, racing to 50 tion for the But the ICC, they said, haven’t shared the same as Ahmed after long discussion, Stadium in Dhaka on Saturday. The visitors won the series 2-1. (AFP) off just 18 balls. tax deductions of yet. According to reports, while former president but Bangladesh collapsed and Mahmudullah, who fin- incurred in host- N Srinivasan was at the helm of BCCI, he did not were soon all out in 17 overs. really well,” Brathwaite said. think it was... (a) 180-run Indies up for victory with a ished with 3-18, trapped Shim- ing the 2016 promise the ICC any compensation for tax deduc- “I am very happy. We Bangladesh skipper Shak- wicket. With the bat we were blistering innings, which in- ron Hetmyer leg-before for World T20. tions if they fail to receive a waiver from the govern- wanted to be aggressive and ib lamented their poor batting. not sure how to go about our cluded six fours and eight a duck right after he bowled ment. India is slated to host the 2021 Champions we wanted to be positive. In all “The way we came back business,” he said. sixes – four of the sixes in one Lewis, slowing the West Indies Trophy and the 2023 World Cup. (IANS) three matches, we have batted with the ball was terrific. I Earlier, Lewis set the West over – until he was dismissed scoring spree.

India’s pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah Disgraced Bancroft reveals he (left) with Ajinkya Rahane during the second cricket Test against Australia in almost gave up cricket for yoga Perth. (AFP) AFP to move forward. Sydney “This will become a defin- ing moment for you.” Disgraced Australian Yoga became an important player Cameron Bancroft on You know you part of his life in exile while Saturday said he was a vastly cannot say sorry dealing with an absence of different person to the one enough, but cricket, to the extent that he Bumrah reminds me of Thomson: Dennis Lillee caught ball-tampering and considered quitting the game off a very short run-up. Lillee said it is not only fast revealed he considered walk- actually it is time to become of a teacher of the “He jogs and then bowls bowlers, India is producing ing away from cricket to be- you allow your discipline. with a very short run. He has quality bowlers at the moment. come a yoga teacher. cricket to be about “Maybe cricket isn’t for He is not as fast as Jeff got straight arms. His bowling “It’s very satisfying to see The opener received a nine- what you have you, you’ll ask yourself ... Thomson was but similar in is not text book by any means, that. But you know what, it’s month ban from the interna- learnt and use this will you return? Yoga will be but it works. He is very differ- not just about fast bowlers, tional and domestic game for such a fulfilling experience,” the sense that they were ent from other pace bowlers, India is now producing quality his part in the scandal in South opportunity to he wrote. outside the guidelines of which reminds me of another fast bowlers. They are so well Africa that rocked the sport, in make a great Bancroft ultimately decid- normal fast bowling action fast bowler of my era, who was equipped in the pace bowling which he used sandpaper to try impact. ed to pursue his cricket career or technique. very different from everyone department now that if they to alter the ball. and is due to make his come- else - Jeff Thomson. have to pick four, they can Then-captain Steve Smith Cameron Bancroft back in the Big Bash Twenty20 Dennis Lillee “He is not as fast as Jeff pick four. And whatever little and his deputy David Warner League for the Perth Scorchers Thomson was but similar in I have seen of them, they are were suspended for a year. on December 30. IANS the sense that they were out- very very good Test bowlers. I A day after Smith re- the major influence Australian realise this is the moment “While you do not look that Kolkata side the guidelines of normal am pretty impressed with the emerged into public life with coach Justin Langer has had when you begin to become OK different, on the inside you are fast bowling action or tech- way they bowled in the first a press conference in Sydney, on him, along with West Aus- with the thought of never hav- a vastly different man to the Lauding Jasprit Bumrah for nique,” Lillee told a Bengali two Test matches in Austral- Bancroft has also broken his tralian mentor Adam Voges. ing cricket as part of your life bloke who made that mistake his exploits Down Under, leg- daily in an interview. ia. They could have had a bit silence a week ahead of his ban He said a crucial moment again,” he wrote in the self- in South Africa,” he added in endary Australian fast bowler Bumrah is the highest more luck, I guess.” running out. was Voges asking him to jus- addressed letter. the letter. Dennis Lillee compared him wicket-taker for India after Lillee picked the Austral- He did so in the form of a tify why he should be on a pre- “Until you are able to ac- “You know you cannot say with Jeff Thomson, saying the the first two Tests with 11 ian quicks ahead of Indians, long letter addressed to his for- season trip to Brisbane by the knowledge that you are Cam- sorry enough, but actually it is India pacer is ‘outside the guide- scalps to his name. adding that Nathan Lyon’s ad- mer self, published in the West Western Warriors Sheffield eron Bancroft, the person who time you allow your cricket to lines of normal fast bowling’. Asked about India fielding dition helps with the workload. Australian newspaper, describ- Shield team. plays cricket as a profession, be about what you have learnt “I think Jasprit Bumrah is four pacers in the second Test “I think both the teams have ing his emotional journey since. “On your way to present and not Cameron Bancroft the and use this opportunity to very very interesting. He runs which they lost by 146 runs, got very good pace attacks.” In it, Bancroft describes your case to your coach you cricketer, you will not be able make a great impact.” Row affected me, but time to focus back on cricket: Mithali

IANS dia (BCCI) and their respec- from the sport. So now that be issues and it does happen.” on him. I had met him briefly Kolkata tive letters got leaked. But the we have a tour again, it is time Terming the issues non- at the National Cricket Acad- selectors have retained their that we move and look forward existent and secondary, the emy. We have to support him Speaking for the first time faith on Mithali, who retained and be more optimistic going 36-year-old said: “These issues and look forward to build a after the controversy that her place in the T20 squad and forward,” Mithali said. are secondary to us... Not even team,” Mithali said. rocked women’s cricket in captaincy for the next month’s India are set to play five secondary these things do not Speaking on the New Zea- the country, India’s ODI cap- tour to New Zealand. ODIs and three T20Is during even come in the list of priority.” land tour, she added: “We last tain Mithali Raj on Saturday “The way things panned out the New Zealand tour begin- “But when we take on the toured there in 2007. Only acknowledged that she and was obviously not in a very good ning January 24. field as a national team, we are Jhulan and I from the current her family had gone through taste. It affected everybody in The differences between ambassadors of the sport and team were part of the last tour. “stressful” times in the last a different level, in a different T20 captain Harmanpreet represent the people of this For many in the team it will be few days but now with the way,” Mithali said during a pro- Kaur and ODI captain Mithali country at the biggest level. On a first tour. It will be challeng- New Zealand tour coming up, motional event here. was out in the open and the the field, we are one unit, we ing. We should give more im- it is time to get the focus back “I can only say that the last team was divided into camps. come as a team, we represent portance on the preparation. on cricket. few days has been very stress- Asked if she would go our country. We are there to The priority will be to getting Mithali has recently been ful for me and my parents. along well, she said: “We will give our best and perform as a the team together.” in the news after falling out And also for people around me see. When the 15 individual unit. As professional athletes, “The upcoming tour will be with Ramesh Powar, who was as the way it has panned out, players come together with we get on the field we know we important. It’s part of the ICC the coach of the India women’s it definitely did get women’s the support staff it’s a huge have a job to do,” she added. Championship one-dayers team at the recently held Wom- cricket a spotlight which was and big family. And usually in Mithali will now work in and there’s a point system in en’s World T20 in West Indies. not needed,” she added. a family there will always be tandem with newly-appointed place. It’s important for India The spat became public “When you talk about non an difference of opinion. Eve- India women’s ODI team coach WV Raman and she said to garner as many points as after both wrote to the Board cricketing issues of players and rybody will not have the same captain Mithali Raj. she was looking forward. it will help us in 2021 World of Control for Cricket in In- the team, the focus goes away kind of perspective. There will “It’s very early to comment Cup,” she concluded.