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Andrew Symonds is not guaranteed to play in the game against South Africa on Saturday, which he has targeted since tearing his right biceps in February. Despite a strong recovery that is ahead of schedule, there are doubts he will be ready for the final Group A game at St Kitts.Symonds said he was getting stronger every day but was only hopeful of appearing. “The shoulder’s all right,” he told AAP. “The workload has gone up over the last five or six days and it seems to be handling it all right. I’m not a million miles off getting out there, hopefully, pulling the colours on and having a crack.”Alex Kountouris, the physiotherapist, said Symonds had not been confirmed to play and the major doubt was over his throwing, which is limited to about 30 metres. If Symonds is picked Brad Hodge is likely to be the unlucky batsman after posting 123 against The Netherlands on Sunday.”I really have to go day by day and see what’s required of me from the selectors’ point of view and what the physio wants,” Symonds said. “It depends what they want me to be able to do at 100%, or whether 90% [is acceptable]. So I don’t know exactly what will happen.”

Lalchand Rajput, who was part of the Indian thinktank till recently, is disappointed that the BCCI did not engage him for a long-term contract but hoped Gary Kirsten, the new coach, would take the team to the next level.”The team has performed well in the hard tours like Australia and now we have set the platform,” Rajput told Cricinfo. “Kirsten’s challenge is now to take the team to the next level.”Rajput, who worked as coach from the ICC World Twenty20 till the Australia tour, said Kirsten has begun well by acquainting himself with the team before he actually took over in Chennai this week for the South Africa series. “[Now] he needs to set both long-term and short-term goals to work out his plans,” Rajput said.With Kirsten firm on assembling his own bench, Rajput lost the assistant coach’s seat to Paddy Upton, who brings extra dimensions to the job as mental conditioning coach and trainer. “Once the coach comes into play, it’s his decision,” Rajput said. “Along with a bowling coach he [Kirsten] also has Paddy Upton as trainer-cum-assistant then it might be difficult to fit me in.Asked about his stint with the Indian team, Rajput said one of his key contributions was in the area of man-management, especially during the controversial period after the Perth Test when seniors like Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid were dropped for the subsequent CB Series.”It was a critical moment in the [Test] series when the team was announced in the immediate aftermath of the Test victory in Perth. Again it was man-management, and I went to Sourav who was disappointed at having been dropped. I told him there’s lot of cricket ahead in the season and that he should be hopeful and can come back as he’d done very well at home in 2007.”Crucial moments like those where he had understood his role make him hopeful, Rajput said. For the moment, though, his focus on the IPL where he is the coach of the Mumbai Indians. “I’m a very positive person. For now I’ll be concentrating on the IPL with the Mumbai team. Then we just have to wait and see.”

Duncan Fletcher, England’s coach, has admitted that Monty Panesar “knows he is under a lot of pressure” to improve the quality of his fielding.Panesar has been dreadful in the field, spilling a simple chance at Edgbaston and looking so uncertain that crowds have cheered whenever he has managed to even stop the ball. While many regard Panesar as a cult figure, there is serious concern that he could be mentally shredded if the Australian crowds get on his back this winter.”We can’t afford for anybody to drop any catches,” Fletcher admitted. “No one tries to drop them so we’ve got to make sure they work at their game and improve their game. We’ve only been working with Monty for a very short period of time.”He’s got to make sure he improves his batting and fielding, but he’s well aware of that,” Fletcher continued. “He’s always calling a coach across to work on certain aspects of it, but it’s also crucial he does have some breaks just as all the other players do.”We are working hard to try and improve his game and as long as he’s trying his damnedest and he’s working hard at his game, that’s the main thing. We’ve picked him as a spinner and he’s picked to play as a spinner and do his job as a spinner and as long as he’s trying there’s nothing more you can ask of an individual.”Even though Panesar’s bowling has impressed, Fletcher hinted that his place was by no means certain. “You have to look at what is best for England at the moment. We’ve lost a lot of experienced players and we need a spinner and you have to work out who’s going to do the best job.”Panesar was included in an unchanged squad for the final Test against Sri Lanka which begins at Trent Bridge on Friday.

In many South African cricket followers’ eyes, Loots Bosman, Roger Telemachus and Robin Peterson were the recipients of an all-expenses-paid jaunt to West Indies next month when they were named in South Africa’s 15-man squad for the World Cup on Thursday.Callers to radio stations and respondents to polls on internet websites have called into question their ability and some have suggested they are there just to fill a quota of seven players of colour in the squad.It must sometimes bring a tear to the eye for the players concerned and it was heartening that coach Mickey Arthur and selection convenor Haroon Lorgat backed the trio and gave clear, sensible reasons for their inclusion when they spoke to the media on Thursday night.All three have shown scratchy form of late, with Peterson and Bosman only appearing in the opening game of the series against Pakistan and Telemachus not playing at all.But Arthur was adamant the selectors have given him “the best possible bowling combination” and stressed Peterson and Telemachus had important roles in terms of the variation they bring to the attack.”If the pitch turns, then we are very confident Robin Peterson will do the job for us. He’s our man as far as a spinner is concerned and he is a wholesale cricketer who gives us three disciplines in one,” Arthur said.”If the pitch is slow, then Roger can bring us variation. He bowls wicket-to-wicket in the middle overs, can reverse the ball and is very good at the death.”Lorgat added that Telemachus’s particular role was to follow the new-ball bowlers, a job he is more suited to than the omitted Johan van der Wath.Lorgat also explained Bosman’s inclusion and Boeta Dippenaar’s exclusion by saying South Africa would like quick starts in the World Cup.”That decision was made around the game plan. We want to get off to a quick start in the powerplays, exactly the way Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers have responded at the top. Boeta is unlucky, but he had five innings at the Champions Trophy to cement his place,” Lorgat said.Arthur also defined the roles of those bowlers who will follow the brilliant new-ball pairing of Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini.”Andre Nel’s job is to strike behind Makhaya and Shaun, while Andrew Hall and Charl Langeveldt provide variation, reverse-swing and bowl at the death. Jacques Kallis is our fifth bowler and can swing it, Graeme Smith has been working hard on his off-spin and Justin Kemp has been working really hard on his cutters.”South Africa’s squad certainly has a settled look about it with Smith himself, Mark Boucher, Gibbs, Hall, Kallis, Langeveldt, Ntini, Peterson and Pollock all having appeared in previous World Cups. Boucher and Gibbs will be playing in their third World Cups, while Kallis and Pollock were members of the 1996, 1999 and 2003 South African teams.South Africa have had a harsh time of it in recent World Cups (actually in all of them, bar 1996), but Smith believes his team ought to make an impression in the West Indies.”This team has come a long way since 2003, it is much calmer and more confident. Everyone fits in really well, it is a happy team. Now we just need to adapt to conditions and deal with the pressures in the Caribbean,” he said.Cricket South Africa president Ray Mali certainly backed his skipper.”This squad has set the world alight for the last two seasons by playing positive, brave cricket. I am confident they will mount a formidable challenge at the World Cup,” Mali said.Now it just remains to be seen whether the composition of that squad will be greeted with similar positivity in the Republic.

ScorecardJacob Martin, Baroda’s captain, crafted a responsible 69 and steered them to a fine four-wicket win against Haryana at Vadodara. Resuming on 129 for 5, Baroda lost the wicket of Ajit Bhoite early but Martin and Pinal Shah, the wicketkeeper, added 79 for the unbroken seventh-wicket stand to take Baroda home. With 13 points from five games, Baroda now stand a great chance of qualifying for the knockout stage.
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On course for a win Uttar Pradesh came calamitously close to defeat, eventually forcing a draw and earning just two points against Tamil Nadu at Chennai. Chasing 129 for victory, in 25 overs, UP were motoring along at 72 for 2 in 13.1 overs when Ravichandran Ashwin, the offspinner, triggered a collapse. UP lost five wickets for the addition of just 17 – all to Ashwin who finished with 5 for 23 – and ended up battling for a draw in the final moments. Earlier Praveen Kumar, the medium-pacer, snared five wickets and restricted Tamil Nadu to 223 in the second dig. Anirudha Srikkanth top-scored with 86 but it was the crucial 33-run partnership between Vijayakumar Yo Mahesh and Ashwin that ate up valuable time. Eventually it proved to be the difference between a UP win and draw and the two teams may now have to battle relegation in the final rounds.
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Saurashtra wrapped up a thumping ten-wicket win, with a bonus point to boot, in their encounter against Delhi at Rajkot. Delhi, following on in the second innings, didn’t fare much better with the bat, with only captain Mithun Manhas’s 86 helping them to avert an innings defeat. Rakesh Dhruv, the left-arm spinner, ended with impressive figures of 5 for 67. Saurashtra were left with a meager target of 10 and their openers duly knocked it off without the loss of any wickets.
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Uday Kaul’s maiden first-class hundred ensured that Punjab gained two points from a drawn encounter against Rajasthan at Jaipur. Kaul, on 71 overnight, ground his way to his century, in an innings that spanned close to eight hours and included seven fours and a six. His captain Pankaj Dharmani, on 151 last evening, added another 16 to his score before Rajesh Sharma and Luv Ablish provided Kaul with valuable support. Rajasthan pottered around for 42 overs in the second innings as the game meandered to a draw.
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Hrishikesh Kanitkar managed an unbeaten 151 but Maharashtra had already conceded two first-innings points to Bengal at Kolkata. With the fate of the match decided, Maharashtra gained some batting practice on the final day with Kanitkar leading the way with a 266-ball knock. Yogesh Takawale supported him with a dogged 75 as the game petered out to a tame draw.
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Half-centuries from Robin Uthappa and Thilak Naidu, complemented by a plucky 42 from captain Yere Goud, helped Karnataka stave off defeat on the final day against Andhra at Anantpur. Karnataka were struggling at 94 for 5 before Naidu led the repair operation. His 49-run stand with Goud started the fightback before his obdurate stands with Stuart Binny and Sunil Joshi sealed the issue. Joshi spent 104 minutes in the middle for his 11 as Karnataka kept their semi-final chances alive.

Following the death of Clyde Walcott, the former legendary West Indies batsman, tributes have been pouring in

“Clyde had a powerful physique and his batting was based on power and strength. I first met him when we were about 11-years-old. We lived pretty close to each other and played together for many years. He hit the ball harder than any of us. Whenever I batted with him I enjoyed it and we had some great times together on and off the field. He was a pretty quiet person but would always find time to talk to you and find out what was going on. He was a great man, a great friend, and a great cricketer. We have lost a great man . . . I have lost a great friend.”
Everton Weekes, the sole survivor of the three Ws“On my first tour to England in 1976 he was my manager and he helped me a lot early in my career. I can give you one example of what Clyde was like. On that tour we’d played against Hampshire and I wasn’t very happy. I didn’t have the best equipment for English conditions, my studs were too short, and I was feeling sorry for myself. Clyde could see this because I sat at the back of the coach on my own and he just came up and sat down next to me – just to have a chat.After I’d told him the problem he suggested a talk to some the county pros and find out about how to get some new equipment. That was Clyde, he wouldn’t wait for you to ask him, he would approach you and try to help.”
Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding“He has been one of our greatest ambassadors. Clyde has always been a dominant individual as far as West Indies cricket is concerned. He will be a great loss indeed.”
Former West Indies offspinner Lance Gibbs“Sir Clyde was one of my closest personal friends and he will be remembered for his unique contribution as a player, coach, commentator and administrator.””Sir Clyde’s achievements as a selector, manager, board member, president of the West Indies cricket Board and the top administrator of cricket at the International Cricket Council (ICC) were outstanding – accomplishments that have brought great joy and pride to the hearts of most West Indians. No other West Indies player can come close to Sir Clyde in that regard.””We are greatly saddened by the news of the death of Sir Clyde. As well as remembering his contribution in 1950 to developing our passion for the game as schoolboys, we are particularly indebted to him as it was he who was the chairman of the ICC when we made our first presentations on the Duckworth/Lewis method ten years ago and his belief that revised targets should be fair to both sides was undoubtedly an important factor in our method becoming established. Since then we had the pleasure of meeting him on a number of occasions and got to know him as a kind and gentle man who would never miss an opportunity to be involved in the game. We especially remember how he honoured us with his presence at a lunch following a presentation we made to West Indian umpires and scorers in Barbados in 2004.”
“This news has saddened me greatly as cricket has not only lost a legend but also someone who devoted his life to the betterment of our great game. I never saw him play but people whose opinions I value have confirmed his greatness to me and his figures, with a Test average of more than 56 runs per innings, mean he will rightly be remembered as a giant on the field. As an administrator Sir Clyde was thoughtful and conciliatory and cricket in my homeland of South Africa owes him an enormous debt because he was instrumental in ensuring our return to the international fold in 1991.
“He was not only one of the greatest-ever post-War cricketers but also one of the finest people I have ever had the opportunity of working with. He took over as ICC Chairman at a critical time in the history of the organisation [the ICC’s first chief executive, David Richards, was appointed in the same year, 1993] and he succeeded in not only keeping it together but also enhancing it. Sir Clyde played a crucial role in shaping the ICC and for that, together with his lifetime of service to cricket, he has earned the unending thanks of a grateful game.”
“Sir Clyde Walcott was a good friend and a great Chairman of ICC. He was a true gentleman who was highly adept at calming troubled waters. He was a gentle but decisive man for whom cricket always came first and his own ego last. Throughout his impressive career he received tremendous support from his wife Muriel and my thoughts are with Muriel and the family at this sad time.”
“I don’t think he ever shied away from helping some young cricketer. I think that his presence would have inspired a lot of these players. I never really played with Sir Clyde per se. I was involved in some trials in 1957 in Trinidad and I think that Clyde captained one of the sides that I was playing in but that’s the nearest that I got to him on the cricket field. But afterwards, some of my fondest memories were sitting in selection meetings with him and probably afterwards when we had done the job, sitting with him and Lady Muriel (Sir Clyde’s wife), having a drink or two and discussing cricket. We sometimes incurred the wrath of Lady Muriel with some selections we might have made that she didn’t agree with.”
“Sir Clyde was an inspiration to many South African cricketers as a magnificent batsman, fierce opponent of apartheid in sport, and latterly as a most valued ally of unified cricket in South Africa.As a player, he was instrumental in changing the face of West Indies cricket and helped revolutionise world cricket which had then been very much a colonial sport. As president of West Indies Cricket and later as ICC president, Sir Clyde was particularly helpful in assisting the United Cricket Board of South Africa forge a new future for South African cricket after its formation in 1991. Cricket South Africa will always be grateful for the role he played in this regard, and our history will certainly record this.”

ScorecardFile photo – Dinda struck four times in two overs to amplify Bengal’s advantage•PTI

Bengal took big strides towards securing their berth in the knockouts as Ashok Dinda struck four times in two overs after Bengal whipped up a total of 444.Dinda had Pallav Kumar Das caught behind off his first ball before having the other opener – Rahul Hazarika – lbw for 1. He followed it with another double-wicket maiden to dash Assam’s hopes of a fightback.Earlier, Shreevats Goswami and Pankaj Shaw built on the platform laid by Sayan Mondal and Sudip Chatterjee. While Goswami went on to strike his maiden first-class century in his 28th match, Shaw was pinned lbw for 99 by left-arm spinner Syed Mohammad. Aamir Gani’s 43-ball 33 pushed the total further before Manoj Tiwary declared the innings at 444 for 6 in 158 overs.
ScorecardResuming on an overnight 284 for 6, Vidarbha surged to 504 thanks to centuries from Ravi Jangid and Aditya Sarwate. The pair added 212 runs for the seventh wicket before Jangid was run out for 110 by Jayant Yadav. Sarwate stayed unbeaten on 103 as S Badrinath called the batsmen in at 504 for 7 in 155 overs. Haryana then began steadily, openers Nitin Saini and Chaitanya Bishnoi taking their side to 53 by stumps on the second day.
ScorecardWickets continued to tumble in Jaipur as Rajasthan were set a target of 230. Basant Mohanty and Alok Chandra Sahoo, who began by routing Rajasthan for 51, reduced the hosts to 7 for 2 in the fourth innings. However, Puneet Yadav launched a counterattack, making 56 out of Rajasthan’s 78.Mohanty and Alok carried on from where they had left off on the opening day as Rajasthan managed only 23 runs to their overnight score before they were rolled over in 27.2 overs. The innings contained four ducks and only three double-digit scores.Pankaj Singh and Aniket Choudhary then took over, sharing eight wickets between them to shoot Odisha out for 129. Ranjit Singh and Alok offered a semblance of resistance with 30s but a first-innings lead of 100 meant that Odisha were ahead on another 16-wicket day.
ScorecardKarnataka, who ended the first day in Pune at 50 for 1, collapsed to 180, right-arm pacer Anupam Sanklecha doing the bulk of the damage with figures of 4 for 58. He was backed up by Nikit Dhumal and Shrikant Mundhe who shared six wickets between them.Mayank Agarwal was the first to go on the second day when he was undone by Sanklecha. Robin Uthappa and Karun Nair both had starts but failed to build on it. Shreyas Gopal then managed 21 but Maharashtra took a first innings lead of 32.Karnataka, however, hit back through Vinay Kumar and S Aravind to reduce Maharashtra to 39 for 4 in 17.5 overs. Just as Karnataka looked to make further inroads, Rahul Tripathi and Kedar Jhadav steadied the innings with an unbroken 31-run partnership.

The West Indies Cricket Board has confirmed that the five-ODI tour of Zimbabwe at the end of the month will proceed after a report for an independent security firm gave them the all clear.The side will arrive in Zimbabwe on November 27 and remain there until December 10, playing five one-day internationals before heading on to a full tour of South Africa. The Zimbabwe board had hoped that West Indies would play two four-day matches but it appears that this will not happen.A statement said that the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have agreed that the tour should proceed but will continually monitor the situation in Zimbabwe from the perspective of safety, security and food integrity.It is not clear where Dinanath Ramnarine, the CEO of WIPA, stands on the trip. In July he was against the A-team tour to Zimbabwe and that trip was subsequently cancelled after the board struggled to find enough players to go. But Ramnarine has now been co-opted onto the board and as such it seems inconceivable that he could oppose the tour with his WIPA hat on while being on the WICB executive that approved it. It seems unlikely that the security situation has changed between July and now given that at the time the WICB insisted that they had been given the all clear to tour.

Mohammad Abbas, the Pakistan Test seamer, has agreed to join Derbyshire as one of their overseas players, signing a two-year contract that covers the 2026 and 2027 seasons.Abbas has built an impressive record in red-ball county cricket with Leicestershire, Hampshire and Nottinghamshire, whom he helped to the Championship title last summer. He will be reunited at Derbyshire with Mickey Arthur, the man who gave him his Test debut with Pakistan and who will hope the arrival of Abbas can help to spark a promotion push next year.”This is a statement signing for us, we’ve beaten a number of Division One counties to sign one of the finest red-ball bowlers around and we’re absolutely delighted to have Mohammad on board for 2026 and 2027,” Arthur said.Related

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“He’s an exceptional bowler, he bowls maidens, builds pressure and his wickets come at a really impressive average. However, it’s not just his ability which will be huge for us, his experience is going to be massive for our young players to learn from.”Abbas, whose most-recent Test appearance came in January, has taken 291 wickets in the County Championship at 19.89 since first joining Leicestershire for the 2018 season.Abbas said: “It’s exciting for me to join Derbyshire and work with Mickey Arthur again, he’s a fantastic coach and hearing his plans for Derbyshire, we share the same ambitions for the club: to be in Division One.””The team only just missed out on promotion in 2025, so I’m hoping I can come in and perform to win a few more games and give our supporters a trophy to celebrate.”

The world has changed just a little bit since Michael Vaughan last took charge of England’s Test team. The Ashes he fought so hard to recover have been relinquished, humiliatingly. The band of brothers with whom he surged to an English-record six series wins in a row have been routed and scattered. The knees on which he used to play some of the most sumptuous cover-drives in the game have been weakened and stiffened by hours of surgery. It’s just as well he’s making his comeback on his home ground at Headingley. (Or Headingley Carnegie, as it wasn’t known when he played he last played a Test there in 2004.)”It does feel like a fresh start and like being at the beginning again,” said Vaughan, whose long-awaited comeback had to be postponed by yet another Test (his 16th on the sidelines) when he broke his right middle finger during his solitary first-class match of the season, for Yorkshire against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. After an indifferent World Cup, in which he found form just as the team was preparing to fly home after the Super Eights, he is returning to the side on reputation rather than merit.”Are you going to start calling me Jose?” he joked, in reference to Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho, the self-styled “Special One”. But it is a serious point. On the day that the Schofield Report, English cricket’s inquest into the failings of the winter, was unveiled, Vaughan’s uncontested return to the helm of the team felt more like a throwback to English selections of the 1950s. The Australians are the best in the world precisely because they have no truck with such issues of sentiment.Who knows what England would have done had Andrew Flintoff not failed his fitness test ahead of this game. To accommodate both the captain and the team’s talisman, the selectors would have had to dispense with either Ian Bell or Paul Collingwood – who have been two of the most reliable batsmen of the post-2005 era. “I know I need some runs and I am pretty confident I can get a few,” said Vaughan. “You are always under pressure playing international cricket. That is what I live for and why I want to play this week.””I am England captain, I have made myself available for selection and I’ve been selected,” he added. “Surely that is a positive thing? I want to play cricket. Yes, in a wonderful world I would have liked to have had a four-day game behind me, but that is not the case. What I do have is a lot of fond memories and a lot to draw back on. If I can re-live my net form in the middle, I am sure I can get a few runs this week.”He could hardly wish to face a more amenable attack than the current West Indian line-up, however. For all the confidence that Ramnaresh Sarwan and his colleagues took from the Lord’s draw, the fact remains that five of England’s top seven thumped centuries in the course of that match, although in mitigation, the bowlers had come into the game without so much as an over of first-class practice, thanks to England’s fickle spring weather.”A couple of our bowlers looked very shy,” said Sarwan – a notion that would make a few greats of the Caribbean turn in their graves. “But one positive we can take from the last game is that we bowled quite a few short balls in the second innings. In the first innings, we were very hesitant about it.”

West Indies enter the match, however, in high spirits after the defiance of their Lord’s performance. Chris Gayle and Daren Ganga ensured theirs was the last laugh to echo around an empty ground on that soggy final day, when they added 89 unbeaten runs for the first wicket. “One of the things we will try to do is stay on top of their main bowlers,” Sarwan said, in anticipation of a nervy opening gambit from Steve Harmison in particular. “We saw when Australia played them [in the Ashes] they were very positive against Harmison and kind of threw him off. We have a similar sort of approach.England will at least have an extra bowler to call upon for this game, after Matthew Hoggard’s injury effectively reduced them to a three-prong strike force. James Anderson would be the favourite for a recall, after featuring in the fifth Test at Sydney as well as the World Cup, although there must surely be a temptation to give the one-cap wonder, Ryan Sidebottom, a chance to atone for his wicketless debut against Pakistan in 2001, on a ground that he knows intimately from his seven-year spell with Yorkshire.”We’ve given them all the opportunities to bowl in the nets and it will be a tough decision to make,” Vaughan said. “They both look to be bowling pretty well. The left-armer is a different option, someone we haven’t seen for a while, who provides different angles. He has always got his wickets at a decent average, his economy is very good, he bowls in good areas and swings the ball nicely, so you could say he has been unlucky to only get one cap.”The key member of the seam attack, however, will be Harmison – one of only four surviving colleagues from Vaughan’s last victory as England’s Test captain, at Trent Bridge in 2005. Marcus Trescothick, Ashley Giles, Simon Jones and his namesake Geraint cannot expect to play international cricket ever again; Andrew Flintoff and Matthew Hoggard could miss the rest of this series. Maybe there does exist some telepathic connection between captain and strike bowler that will once again unleash the beast. But England shouldn’t bank on it. They did exactly that when Flintoff was named as Harmison’s captain last winter.”We have just been trying to get our minds into the right frame going into tomorrow’s game,” said Vaughan. “Sometimes you can try too hard and I felt he did that at Lord’s and just got away from himself. He has to relax and bowl, we all know he can do it, I am just looking forward to seeing him at his best here.” Maybe, with all eyes focused on the man at mid-off, rather than the man in the delivery stride, he can do just that.England (probable) 1 Andrew Strauss, 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Michael Vaughan (capt), 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Ian Bell, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Liam Plunkett, 9 Ryan Sidebottom, 10 Steve Harmison, 11 Monty Panesar.West Indies (probable) 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Daren Ganga, 3 Devon Smith, 4 Ramnaresh Sarwan (capt), 5 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 6 Runako Morton, 7 Dwayne Bravo, 8 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 9 Daren Powell, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Corey Collymore.