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Chandu Sarwate, a former Indian Test player and national selector, has died in Indore following a protracted illness. Sarwate, 83, represented India in nine Tests, scoring 208 runs and taking three wickets.His international record was modest, but Sarwate’s first-class record was superb: over a career spanning 32 years and 171 matches – most of them for Holkar – he took 494 wickets with his mix of offspin and legspin bowling at an average of 23, while scoring 7430 runs at a shade under 33.Sarwate’s best moments came when the Indians toured England in 1946. Playing a match against Surrey at The Oval, Sarwate, who normally batted in the middle order, came in at No. 10 and added 249 for the last wicket with Shute Banerjee, the No. 11. Both batsmen hit centuries – the only instance in first-class cricket when the No. 10 and No. 11 scored hundreds – as India recovered from 205 for 9 to 454. Not satisfied with that effort, Sarwate went on to take 5 for 54 in Surrey’s second innings as the Indians wrapped up a nine-wicket win.A fingerprint expert by profession, Sarwate was also a national selector for three seasons, from 1980-81 to 1982-83.

The 2003 edition of the Deodhar Trophy kicks off on January 3, with West Zone and East Zone facing off in Chennai, while South Zone and Central Zone take the field at Hyderabad.West Zone, led by Hrishikesh Kanitkar, boast a potentially explosive batting line-up, but the likes of Vinayak Mane will only be helped by the steady batting of Connor Williams and Abhijit Kale at the other end. Figuring importantly in their plans will be Mumbai leggie Sairaj Bahutule, both for his abilities with the ball as well as his batting skills lower down the order.East Zone, however, are no pushovers. Led by Bengal skipper Rohan Gavaskar, they seem solid rather than flashy. Steady bats like Shiv Sunder Das and Sanjay Raul are complemented nicely by the experienced Utpal Chatterjee and Debashish Mohanty.West Zone Squad: HH Kanitkar (captain), SV Bahutule, NA Godbole, CC Williams, VR Mane, AV Kale, KD Damani, SK Trivedi, IK Pathan, JP Jobanputra, RF Morris, RR Powar, AA Merchant, MP Mewada, RV DhurvEast Zone Squad: RS Gavaskar (captain), DS Mohanty, U Chatterjee, SS Das, SG Das, PM Mullick, SD Chowdhury, MS Dhoni, Javed Zaman, DJ Gandhi, PR Mohapatra, RR Parida, SS Raul, AA Ranade

The Pakistani gladiators Saeed Anwar (77) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (79) literally mauled England’s bowling to raise Pakistan to an indomitable position for victory. We saw, for a change, the Pakistan team in high spirits and tremendous form placing a target of 274 on the board, not easy for England to grab.

During England’s innings a drama full of thrills was enacted. Pakistan bowlers, for once, supported by top class alert and agile fielding demolished England to clinch a stunning victory by 108 runs. Except for Nick Knight who played a defiant innings of 59 not out, the remaining batsmen fell like ninepins. The triumph takes Pakistan to its encounter against Australia at Cardiff, with spirits high and full trust in their prowess.

Edgbaston was the venue of the NatWest Series curtain raiser where Pakistan won the toss and took the obvious choice of batting first. Pakistan included Shahid Afridi, one of the 3 players called in for this tournament, to face the new ball with Saeed Afridi. But England made 5 changes from their test squad, the most important being of Alan Mullally invited to launch the attack in place of Andy Caddick, down with injury.Shahid Afridi started with his traditional hurricane hitting to score 25 off 24 balls with 4 hits to the boundary. Not able to resist his impulse of playing high shots, he holed out to Mark Ealham at long on off Alan Mullally. Certainly not an impressive start, losing the 1st wicket at 34.The 2nd wicket went at 55 when Abdur Razzaq made a quick exit after being run out. Some tight fielding by England temporarily restricted the scoring, from 31 in the first 5 overs it dropped to 79 in 20 overs. Saeed Anwar was joined by Inzamam and he gave it a boost by hitting Mark Ealham for a mighty 6 followed by a blistering 4 in the 23rd over. With a tantalizing sweep to fine leg Saeed hoisted his 50 of the innings.

Pakistan’s 100 came in the 25th over and with two superstars on a hitting spree now, the score stormed upwards. In the 31st over Saeed delighted the crowd by hitting Ealham over the long on boundary for his 2nd six. The 100 run partnership came up in 106 balls when Inzamam had hit a sparkling 50.Climbing to a run rate of 5, the pair raised the total to 200 in the 40th over and provided the large crowd a feast of entertainment by playing thrilling shots all over the field. In full command of the game they carried on punishing the bowlers to the crowd’s delight.

Just as the 150 partnership off 157 balls came about, England struck back and ousted this dangerous pair. The paid for trying to slog for quick runs and made their way to the pavilion one after the other. Both Saeed (77) and Inzamam (79) did give the fans an exhibition of exhilarating batsmanship and with their departure Pakistan was 207 for 4.The batsmen who followed played with the sole object of providing Pakistan an impressive total and had raised it to 273 for 6 when 50 overs were up. Azhar Mahmood remained not out with an invaluable 38 scored with the help of 4 fours and a towering six, setting England a challenging target of 274 to win.Losing the opening pair of Marcus Trescothick (28) and Ally Brown (6) at only 48 England too made a depressing start but the run rate of 4.8 was quite impressive. It now was up to the rest to do what Pakistan had done but it came down drastically with the new batsmen taking the crease.Encouraged by early success, Waqar and Azhar Mahmood bowled a devastating spell. Alec Stewart (10) and Michael Vaughan (5) were the victims of spectacular catches taken by substitute Shoaib Malik and Saeed Anwar off a deadly Azhar Mahmood and England slumped to 86 for 4.Putting on more pressure, the bowlers continued to take their toll. Paul Collingwood (2) and Ben Hollioake (6) were the next to depart, bringing England down to 108 for 6. I have never seen Pakistan fielders as brilliant, sharp and agile as in this game.It simply was not England’s day. The procession continued with Dominic Cork bowled by Shahid Afridi, a stock bowler who bowls fastish leg breaks on the very first ball he delivered and England on a miserable 135 for 7. On his heels followed Marl Ealham and Darren Gough putting England down to 147 for 9.With only the last wicket to fall, the writing was on the wall. The partisan crowd full of Pakistan supporters invaded the ground and delayed the inevitable by over 35 minutes with the security personnel chasing them around and even the Pakistan skipper was called out for help. When play resumed for the final rites, Nick Knight had scored a heroic half-century but was unable to rescue his team and ran out of partners. England was at last out for 165 runs in 47.2 overs. Nick Knight remained unbeaten with a gallant 59.Pakistan won by 108 runs and Shahid Afridi with 3 wickets and Waqar Younis, Azhar Mahmood and Saqlain Mushtaq with 2 apiece were the bowlers who did the damage. Pakistan will now take on Australia at Cardiff on Saturday with renewed vigour and confidence, another thrill in store.

Global news and photograph agencies will carry out their threat to boycott coverage of the Indian Premier League because of the restrictions on the distribution of photographs. Agencies are prohibited from providing photographs of the Twenty20 tournament to cricket-specific websites.The News Media Coalition (NMC), the umbrella body that comprises global news and photograph agencies Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images, called the restrictions “discriminatory”.”It is discriminatory for the accreditation terms to prohibit international news agencies from being able to serve a specific group of users, such as cricket websites,” the NMC said in a statement. “The interests of the IPL are protected by the fact that its accreditation terms limit news content generated by the news agencies to be used for editorial purposes only. The NMC calls upon the IPL to remove remaining obstacles in the way of full editorial coverage of the tournament.”The Editors Guild of India also called for the withdrawal of “unacceptable conditions” while the Press Trust of India, India’s leading news agency, had said it would cover the event “under protest”.The tournament’s initial media guidelines which, among other constraints, gave the IPL the right to use all pictures taken at its grounds for free and without restrictions, had met with severe criticism from media bodies. The IPL then removed some of the limitations imposed but news agencies, stand-alone cricket websites and news channels were still unhappy. News channels dropped their boycott threat after their two main issues – accreditation and access to match footage – were resolved.

Maninder Singh, the former Indian left-arm spinner, was granted bail on Wednesday by a Delhi court for allegedly being in possession of 1.5 grammes of cocaine, an offence under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.On Tuesday, the narcotics branch of the Delhi police brought in Maninder for questioning after raiding his residence. “Maninder has confessed that he was a drug addict and consumed drugs to deal with family problems. He first took drugs 10 years ago in Holland,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Narcotics) AS Cheema told Indo-Asian News Service. The bail was granted on a personal surety of Rs.50,000 (approximately $ 1160).An Associated Press report quoted police spokesman Rajan Bhagat as saying that local club cricketer Sayyam Siddique, who was with Maninder when police raided his apartment, was arrested for carrying 100 grams of contraband “charas” [hashish]. “They were arrested while exchanging the drugs. Maninder told us that he used to procure drugs from Siddiqui, who purchased them from a south Delhi based drug peddler,” Cheema said.The amount allegedly found in Singh’s residence is less than a “commercial quantity” and puts the case in the category of possession of a banned substance for personal use, thereby increasing his chances of being granted bail. However, Bhagat said police were investigating whether Maninder kept the cocaine for his personal use or was involved in the drug trade.Maninder, who played 35 Tests for India between 1982 and 1993, surged intoprominence when only 17 years old. His prodigious talent promptedcomparisons to Bishan Bedi, but consistency was to elude Maninder. Heenjoyed tremendous success on India’s tour of England in 1986, and thenpicked up a bagful of wickets against Pakistan and Sri Lanka at home, butsoon after the wheels came off. Maninder had problems with discipline,lost the loop and control that were his strengths and was dropped from theteam. He attempted more than one comeback but met with limited success.Since retiring from cricket Maninder has been involved with the game as acoach in Delhi, where he lives, and as a television commentator. WhileManinder is often remembered as a cricketer who promised much and lost hisway, the one thing that he is most famous for was being the last Indianvictim – given out lbw to Greg Matthews by umpire Vikram Raju – in thetied Test against Australia at Chennai in 1986-87.Chetan Chauhan, the former India opener and Maninder’s Delhi team-mate, told Indian news channel : “I am completely surprised. I have played with him for Delhi, for two or three seasons. I had no inkling of any previous instances involving him. I can’t believe this. “

Steve Waugh has sent out a message to the ageing members of the current Australian side to retire when they feel it’s best for each of them, rather than getting caught in unnecessary media publicity.”It’s a high-profile sport. As a player, you can make the decision and let everyone know and then get on with it,” Waugh told the . “Just go ahead and do it, if that’s your plan.”Waugh’s comments follow Justin Langer’s, who hinted that he may retire after the Ashes series early next year. Langer cautioned other players of announcing their decision too early, as it would be a huge distraction and that it was up to each individual to decide how much attention they wished to attract.Waugh was speaking out of personal experience. He went public with his retirement plans before the 2003-04 home series against India. Waugh also pointed out that such a situation could put a lot of pressure on the new captain.”It’s different when you’re a captain compared to being a player,” Waugh said. “As captain, you get all the talk about who is going to be the next guy in charge.”We were able to deal with that. Ricky [Ponting] was given the job almost straight away so that was taken care of. People had been talking about whether I was going to stop playing for so long and I wanted to put an end to it.”With these guys, if a few of them are leaving, there won’t be just one bloke caught up in it. Ideally, you probably want to leave the game without all the fuss. That would be perfect, but it can’t work that way.”The Australian side has quite a few players in their mid to late 30s, including Matthew Hayden, Langer, Shane Warne, Damien Martyn and Stuart MacGill. With next year’s Test tour of Zimbabwe in doubt, Australia’s next Test series after the Ashes probably won’t be until 2007-08.”Most of us have already been on our last overseas Test tour together,” MacGill said. “I’m not saying it’s impossible to be playing the next Test series but, realistically, that’s a long way away. I wouldn’t count on myself being a definite starter and you’ll find a lot of players my age are in the same boat.”MacGill added that the Australian public ought to know if they were seeing the greats of the game for the last time. “It’s not just Australia versus England next summer and it’s not just Australia trying to get back the Ashes,” he said. “It’s the last time most Australian crowds are going to see a lot of these players.”

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out

Pakistan fought hard and managed to claw their way back into the second Test against West Indies at Sabina Park, ending the third day with a healthy lead of 193. The day began badly for West Indies, and there was no respite till it ended.But if they were flat in the first session, they were downright lax in the second. Bowled out for 404, with a token lead of 30, the home fast men sprayed the ball, allowing Pakistan to race away to a fabulous start in their second innings. At tea, Pakistan had wiped out the deficit and were 86 for 1.Pakistan managed to wrap up the West Indies tail fairly quickly after lunch, with Shahid Afridi getting into the act. He accounted for the tail-enders Tino Best and Reon King easily enough, and then induced a false shot from Wavell Hinds. Slipping one in just outside the off, Afridi induced the cut, but the ball was too close to the stumps for the shot and the resulting edge flew to the lone slip fielder. Yasir Hameed accepted the sharp chance, and the West Indian innings ended.Then West Indies served up a wide selection of freebies. The customary no-balls came with wides, the odd dangerous beamer, and a seemingly unending supply of short and wide deliveries that Hameed and Shoaib Malik tucked into with relish. Pakistan’s 50 came up in only 43 balls, at a run-rate of around 7 runs per over.Hameed and Malik breezed along, largely untroubled, until Corey Collymore, the hero of the first innings, came into the attack and put the ball in the right areas often enough to beat the bat. Hameed, perhaps lulled into a false sense of security because of the poor bowling he faced in the first spell, slashed at a wide one and watched as Devon Smith took a good catch to give West Indies the breakthrough (66 for 1).The early ineffective bowling of the West Indians set the tone for the day and allowed Pakistan’s batsmen to get on with their job without much pressure. The gamble of using Malik at the top of the order paid off. He played his shots without inhibition, and rattled up 64 off 79 balls before being caught behind off Collymore (119 for 2). Asim Kamal lasted only two balls, and all of a sudden Collymore had his third wicket, and became the first West Indian bowler to take 10 wickets in a match since Courtney Walsh against England at Lord’s in 2000. Pakistan’s step had faltered with their score on 119 for 3.Inzamam-ul-Haq, returning to the team after serving a one-Test ban, received a let off when a catch was grassed. He made sure that West Indies paid for their mistake, scoring an unbeaten 64 to steer Pakistan to stumps. Pakistan’s lead of 193 could already be enough to level the series. But before they start thinking along those lines, they need to make sure they close out the game, and not repeat West Indies’ mistakes.Brian Lara had given West Indies a fighting chance of closing out the second Test with his century on the second day. But they squandered the opportunity in the first session of the third when Shabbir Ahmed struck twice in as many balls to give Pakistan the edge. The first hurdle, wiping out Pakistan’s lead, had just been achieved.The session began uneventfully enough, but that proved to be the calm before the storm. First Danish Kaneria was warned for running on the danger area by Darrell Hair. Struggling against Lara’s clever footwork Kaneria’s already ordinary game took a serious turn for the worse. He could not adjust his follow-through enough to please Hair and when he repeated the offence was barred from bowling further in the innings, ending with figures of 1 for 94 from 28.5 overs.Strangely Kaneria’s predicament turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Pakistan, as they did not hesitate to take the second new ball, and Shabbir took full toll. With just his second delivery he produced a snorter to Lara, who only managed to edge it to the keeper (326 for 5). Lara had moved along to 153, but his dismissal gave Pakistan a foot in the door. Shabbir then got rid of Courtney Browne with his very next ball, again caught behind (326 for 6). Wavell Hinds managed to spend long enough batting around the tail to reach 63, and take West Indies to a slender lead. At that stage West Indies were on top, but no-one expected them to fritter away such a good position.

How they were out

Pakistan 2nd inningsHameed c Smith b Collymore 26 (66 for 1)
Flashed at a wide one and edged to slip.Malik c Browne b Collymore 64 (119 for 2)
Tiny inside edge.Kamal lbw b Collymore 0 (119 for 3)
Missed a straight one.Younis c & b Gayle 43 (194 for 4)
Popped a simple return catch.West IndiesLara c Akmal b Shabbir 153 (326 for 5)
Tickled a snorter that leapt from a length.Browne c Akmal b Shabbir 0 (326 for 6)
Chased a well-pitched outswinger.Powell c Akmal b Shabbir 14 (356 for 7)
Caught in two minds and only managed an edge.Best b Afridi 18 (385 for 8)
Inside-edged a big drive on to his stumps.King lbw b Afridi 0 (393 for 9)
Played back to a straight ball, plumb.Hinds c Hameed b Afridi 63 (404 for 10)
Slashed a wide one to slip.

Cricket Australia today announced that middle-order batsman Darren Lehmann has been ruled out of the 3 Test Series against India due to an Achilles tendon injury.Lehmann, who has been undertaking enforced rest since suffering the injury to his left Achilles in early October, was reviewed today by Sydney-based foot and ankle specialist, Dr Martin Sullivan.The South Australian will now undergo an intense rehabilitation program with a view to returning to first-class cricket in early January.While disappointed to miss the four Test matches against India, Lehmann said he was determined to fix the problem for good.”I’m naturally disappointed with the knowledge that I’ll be watching this series from the sidelines, but I’m determined to get back to full fitness as quickly as possible, with a view to being right again in early January,” Lehmann said."Obviously the VB Series is now my target, but there’s a lot of hard work to do before then to ensure I am 100 per cent fit.”It’s been a frustrating period given that I’ve had to wear a protective boot since October, but I’m pleased that I can now get on with my rehabilitation and work towards a return to the Redbacks’ squad," he said.

The West Indies returned home yesterday from another catastrophic overseas tour singing the usual upbeat tune.There is still hope . . . . Give it a couple of years’ time and we’ll turn it around, said captain Carl Hooper.There was an echo from coach Roger Harper.I can see the improvements. It is slow in coming, but it’s coming.Their comments came in the aftermath of yet another overseas debacle in which the Caribbean side lost both Tests against Pakistan and managed to save some face with a consolation victory in the last of the three One-Day Internationals in Sharjah.Their recent overseas record now reads an abysmal 24 defeats in 27 Tests.If you are losing, people are going to think you are not making any headway whatsoever, Hooper said.Since I have taken over the job, I’ve seen improvements, maybe not as fast as I’d like to see, but I’ve certainly seen improvements.The West Indies captain, however, admits that it is not going to be easy to convince fans.The average cricket follower will probably disagree with me because he basically will see winning and losing, simple, straightforward.Being among the guys, I’ve seen a change in attitude. I’ve seen guys a bit more determined. I’ve seen a lot of preparation mental and physical.Harper was probably spot-on in assessing why the West Indies were inconsistent in batting, ordinary in bowling and woeful in the field.It’s one thing doing it in the classroom and another thing going into the job situation and executing, the West Indies coach said.That’s why we are having problems.Harper is not one who is usually at a loss for words. But he stuttered a bit when asked if the persistent disappointing results had ever frustrated him to the extent that he might consider packing it in.FrustratingIt is frustrating, yes, but at the same time . . . you know . . . you know, you don’t just turn . . . you just don’t turn things around instantaneously like that.It takes time. It is a process that has to be undergone. It is comment we have been hearing for a few years.We’ve been going through this process from since 1993/94, Hooper added.We haven’t really got the facilities or the money to set up the infrastructure to start rectifying some of the problems that we have.If we had come back winning 2-0, people would say that we had swung the corner, but to get back to where we want to be, you’ve got to play consistently good cricket for years. It’s not going to be one good year or two good years.Harper also admitted the quality of the players wasn’t as high as when West Indies were ruling the world stage in the 1980s.And he believed the lack of experience was a problem in spite of the fact that a number of the players had been in the international game for a few years.We have young players and they are in the process of learning, he said.Unfortunately, for a lot of them, they are learning at this level, but it’s taking a lot longer than we would like.

Yorkshire increased their lead at the top of the CricInfo Championship after a comprehensive 328-run win over Glamorgan at Swansea inside three days.The Division One leaders took 17 points from the game after bowlingGlamorgan out for 125 in their second innings by 3.30 today.At the start of day three Yorkshire batted on in their second innings toextend their overnight lead of 374 and set Glamorgan the daunting taskof 474 to win in five and a half sessions.Glamorgan would have had to re-write their record books if they weregoing to reach the winning post, but by lunch it became obvious thatonly rain that was forecast for later today and tomorrow would savethem.At lunch Glamorgan had disintegrated to 52-4 with Jimmy Maher, MikePowell, Matthew Maynard and Steve James all back in the pavilion, withthe damage having been done by Ryan Sidebottom and Gavin Hamilton withtwo wickets apiece.After lunch Hamilton continued where he left off by taking three wicketsin an over to remove Adrian Shaw and Darren Thomas in consecutive balls,as well as Alex Wharf.The match was wrapped by Darren Lehmann who ended a cameo from SteveWatkin. Watkin perished with a minimum of 150 overs of the match stillto bowl.In the process of posting a huge target for Glamorgan, David Byas scoredhis first century for three seasons, ending with 105 not out before thedeclaration.