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The circumstances surrounding the death of Peter Roebuck will probably not be known before another month at the least, police have said

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Nov-2011The circumstances surrounding the death of Peter Roebuck, the well-known cricket journalist, will probably not be known for another month at the least, police have said, even as details emerged of Roebuck’s last few minutes. Roebuck, 55, committed suicide in Cape Town on Saturday night while being questioned by police over an alleged assault.Colonel Vishnu Naidu of the South African Police Services told Sydney’s paper the inquest could take “anything from six months to two or three years”. On Sunday, he’d told ESPNcricinfo a formal statement would be made after the inquest.”But what is critical here is to get the autopsy reports, or what we call the post-mortem report,” Naidu said. “We will be looking at that first and that can take four to six weeks, sometimes up to eight weeks. When we get that report, we can determine officially what his cause of death was.”There is no crime suspected as far as Mr Roebuck’s death is concerned. If someone dies of unnatural causes and there isn’t suspicion of a crime being committed, then we conduct an inquest.”Details have also emerged of Roebuck’s apparent mental turmoil in the minutes before he ended his life. Roebuck’s colleague Jim Maxwell, whom he had phoned from his hotel room during the questioning, told the – the paper Roebuck worked for – of the scene when he entered the room.Maxwell said he found two policemen in the room, and Roebuck stunned by news he’d been accused of sexual assault.”Peter was in a state of utter despair. He was sitting in a chair, near the window and I can tell you it takes five seconds to open that window,” Maxwell said. ”Given his state of mind, he just had a brain snap. That is all I can assume.”Maxwell was allowed to remain in the room for about two minutes, during which time Roebuck asked him to find a lawyer and contact the students he helps house in Pietermaritzburg, near Durban. Then police told Maxwell to leave.

Kumar Sangakkara led Sri Lanka to 294 for for 5 on the second day, completing his hundred in the process, before rain halted play

The Bulletin by Andrew Fernando24-Nov-2010
Live scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsKumar Sangakkara reached his century in style before rain brought an end to the day’s play•AFP

Kumar Sangakkara continued to make batting look easy on the second afternoon of the second Test, as he completed his 24th Test century to take Sri Lanka to 294 for five, when rain forced a premature end to proceedings at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The Sri Lanka captain ensured that that the hosts continued to stride towards a good first innings total, despite the loss of Thilan Samaraweera and Angelo Mathews to some excellent sustained pressure from the West Indies fast men.Sangakkara raced to his hundred after lunch having ended the previous session on 84, dancing down the pitch to caress Shane Shillingford over long-on for six, before repeating the dose for the following delivery, this time for a one-bounce four. His century came in the next over and he maintained his fluency throughout the session as he continued to put away the bad balls, even amidst testing periods of good bowling from the visitors.Dwayne Bravo outfoxed Thilan Samaraweera, laying a leg-trap for the right-hander, who had looked good for another century in what has been a prolific year for him. With a leg gully, short leg and two men out for the hook, Bravo repeatedly dug them in short, inviting Samaraweera to take on the field and clear the boundary ropes. He duly obliged in Bravo’s second over of the afternoon, pulling one straight to Shane Shillingford at long-leg, to end his 170-run association with Sangakkara that had rescued his side from 34 for three.West Indies persisted with the short stuff for Angelo Mathews, with Bravo in particular, exploiting the bounce in the Premadasa pitch to good effect, once the second new ball had been taken. Mathews looked assured against the spin of Shillingford, slamming him for a straight six early on in his innings, but rode his luck against the quick bowlers, twice mishitting the ball in the air, only for it to land agonisingly close of the diving fieldsmen. It was a good length delivery that ultimately did for him though, as an angled ball from Kemar Roach took the outside edge on its way to the keeper.Prasanna Jayawardene then added 21 with Sangakkara before the rains came down, and the umpires decided to call an early tea, with the hosts at 294 for five. Play was called off for the day a short while later.The overnight pair rebuilt the innings in style during the morning session, unfurling an array of classy strokes. Sangakkara and Samaraweera put on the biggest partnership for Sri Lanka against West Indies, and went in to the lunch break unbeaten, having added 115 runs to the 84 for three from the previous evening.West Indies were flat in the field for much of the morning, adding lazy misfields to the costly missed chances from earlier in the innings. The batsmen negotiated the spinners with ease, advancing down the wicket to drive down the ground, then sitting back to hit through the off-side once the adjustment in length was made for the next delivery. Sangakkara drove through the covers to scintillating effect and together with Samaraweera, made full use of a pitch that retained little of its bite and liveliness from the opening exchanges of the match.

Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lankan spinner, has said he may quit international cricket before the 2011 World Cup that will be held in the subcontinent

Sa'adi Thawfeeq28-Nov-2009Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lankan spinner, has said he may quit international cricket before the 2011 World Cup in the subcontinent.Murali, on his fourth tour to India, his final overseas tour, is struggling to come to terms with the placid Indian pitches and a strong batting line-up which has treated him harshly in the series so far. In the second Test, in Kanpur, he went for over 100 runs for the second time in two Tests in the series, and so far his five wickets have cost him 396 runs, at an average of 79.20.”I am 37 years old and I can’t bowl as much as those days because I get tired after 15-16 overs. But I will try and play a little bit of one-day cricket – that’s only 10 overs to bowl. If I find everything is not going well I might retire from both forms of the game before the World Cup,” Murali said. “Everything depends on how much my body can take. In Test cricket it’s a little bit harder because I have always been a threat to other sides [but] at the moment it’s not looking like that because others are playing me well. I think I made the right decision to retire from Test cricket at the end of the West Indies series next year.”Two to three years ago it was not like this. Now you have niggles here and there and my groin is not the same as it used to be. We got the worst bowling conditions in the last two Tests. We didn’t have the bowlers, that was one of the factors. But that’s the way cricket goes, everything won’t work in your favour.”Sri Lanka are struggling in the series because Murali has not been able to give them the breakthroughs he usually does. “I’ve played only eight Tests this year: two against Bangladesh, two against Pakistan, and two against New Zealand when I really did well bowling in the second innings of the second Test with a groin injury,” he said. “Whenever the side wanted a breakthrough I got it for them in the New Zealand series. I don’t know why it’s not happening here.”You have to give credit to India also for playing well. Whatever we were expecting didn’t happen. Even the spinners didn’t do well in any Test because everyone was not up to the mark and the wicket was not assisting them.”Sri Lanka are yet to win a Test in India, but Murali said that he won’t be too disappointed if he had to return home without a Test victory in India. “Every cricketer has to go through disappointments. Everything you want to happen in life won’t happen; something will be missing. Looking back I can say what an amazing career I have gone through but if we can’t win in India that’s it. Life has to go on.”Already the leading wicket-taker in Tests, he needs 12 more wickets in a possible three Tests to reach 800, but he said he was not targetting personal milestones. “I am not really focussing on finishing off my career taking 800 Test wickets. My focus is on winning matches. I don’t believe in numbers. Eight hundred is just a number everyone will forget once you retire. It’s a number to have in your mind. It is good if I get it but if I don’t, still I will be happy and go out knowing I had a great career.”

New competition continues cricket’s attempts to rid itself of elitist tags, as revealed in ICEC report

Andrew Miller30-Jun-2025Lord’s is well on its way to proving it is not the “Augusta of cricket”, according to MCC’s chair Mark Nicholas, following the launch of a new nationwide T20 competition, the Knight-Stokes Cup, aimed specifically at state-school pupils.The tournament, named in honour of England’s former women’s captain Heather Knight and current men’s Test captain, Ben Stokes, is for Year 10 pupils (ages 13-14) with separate events for boys and girls. It will begin in April 2026 with a season-long qualifying process, followed by regional knockouts and a finals day at Lord’s in September.The initiative, spearheaded by another former England captain Michael Vaughan, is a continuation of the sport’s bid to rid itself of the “sexist, classist and elitist” tags that it received following a damning 2023 report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC).The creation of a “national Under-15 state school finals’ day for boys and girls” was one of the report’s specific recommendations, alongside a call for MCC to discontinue its hosting of the annual Eton-Harrow and Oxford-Cambridge fixtures – two of the longest-running annual sporting contests in the world.A decision on the future of those historic fixtures has since been deferred until 2028, but Nicholas insists that MCC has made, and will continue to make, significant strides in broadening the reach of cricket’s most famous venue.”We’re an open-hearted body,” Nicholas told ESPNcricinfo. In particular, he contrasted the club’s bid for greater inclusivity with the explicitly exclusive offering of Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, the home of the annual Masters tournament, and a venue that is renowned for its strict rules and entry criteria for members and patrons alike.”People who say, ‘oh, we’re the Augusta of cricket’, we’re not at all,” Nicholas added. “Augusta is a fabulous exclusive place. Its mystery comes from its exclusivity. We want Lord’s and MCC to be inclusive. The fact that children can come here is very important for the future of cricket, and very important for the future of MCC and Lord’s.”Children who attend private school are significantly more likely to play professional cricket than those in the state sector, with the ICEC report citing 2021 statistics that showed 58% of England players were privately educated, out of a nationwide figure of 7% of pupils.Various factors contribute to this, including the cost of equipment and the standard of playing facilities. However, as Nicholas pointed out, the private sector also acts as a conduit for the best young talent in the country, citing the example of Harry Brook, England’s white-ball captain, who attended Sedburgh School in Cumbria on a sports scholarship.”It’s not absolutely right to say that there’s no state-school players involved in the England team,” Nicholas said. “But state schools have other priorities, and it’s not easy to fit cricket into the curriculum, especially when there’s pressure on GCSEs in the summer term.”While the incentive for state-school pupils to play at Lord’s is a strong one, Vaughan also recognises the importance of role models in driving interest in cricket. Twenty years on from his role in captaining England to glory in the 2005 Ashes, he backs the current men’s and women’s teams to provide similar star billing to the sport.”We talk about 2005 all the time, and all the stories been told,” Vaughan said. “But the proudest bit is when people of that age come and say, ‘I got into cricket because of ’05’.”They might be 28, they might be 30-35, but they would have been at school, and not necessarily at independent schools either. It’s then that you know you’ve done something great.”[The current men’s and women’s teams] have also played a part in changing people’s lives, and that’s why this tournament’s so important. Because, yes, it’d be great to create a new Heather [Knight] and a new Ben [Stokes], but it’s not about that. It’s about creating fans and cricket lovers.”That’s why this has been created, to make sure that, for the first time, a state school is going to be represented at Lord’s next year, and that’ll be every year going forward.”Speaking ahead of the announcement, Knight said: “As someone who played cricket from a young age at my local state school and then here at Lord’s including in a World Cup final, I’m proud to have my name associated with this new competition which will inspire thousands of state-school children across the country and continue the vital work that cricket is doing to create more opportunities for children from state schools to play and access the talent pathway.”Stokes added: “Coming from a state school myself, when I was informed that they wanted to name this competition after me, it was a pretty easy ‘yes’. Playing at Lord’s is the pinnacle of any cricketer’s career and something I dreamed of when I played cricket at my school so to open up the opportunity for boys and girls to play here is fantastic. I can’t wait to see the competition get underway next year and start to see some of the incredible talent that’s out there in our state schools come through the system.”

Johnson called Bailey’s inference to his mental health ‘pretty disgusting’

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Dec-20231:30

Bailey: ‘Ultimately, Warner is in our best XI’

Mitchell Johnson says he had received a “pretty bad” text message from David Warner earlier in the year which in part prompted his attack on Australia’s Test opener in his column while he called chairman of selectors George Bailey’s response “quite disgusting”.Johnson set off an extraordinary public slanging match among the former Australia team-mates when he penned an article in the querying why Warner was getting a hero’s send-off in Test cricket despite his substandard form and whether chair of selectors Bailey was too close to the players.Bailey was asked to respond to Johnson’s article during a press conference after Australia’s Test squad for the first Test against Pakistan was announced on Sunday and said “I hope he’s okay.”Related

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Warner has not reacted publicly but his manager James Erskine spoke on radio on Monday and said Johnson was entitled to his opinion but thought it was “a bit sad” to see ex-cricketers criticising the current players.Usman Khawaja defended Warner and called Johnson’s criticism of Bailey “harsh” while a host of ex-Australia players and coaches had had their say on the furore in various media outlets.Johnson then spoke on his podcast , hosted by journalist Bharat Sundaresan, on Tuesday and claimed that the foundation of his attack on Warner had come from a text message he had received in April following another article Johnson wrote where he had queried both Warner’s form and Candice Warner’s public defence of her husband’s Test place on a Fox Sports television show .”I got a message from Dave, which was quite personal,” Johnson said. “I tried to ring to try and talk to him about it, which I’ve always been open to. I know I’ve been open to the guys when I finished playing. I said if I’m in the media and writing things or saying things that you don’t like, just come and speak to me.”It was never a personal thing then until this point. This is probably what drove me to write the article as well, part of it. It was definitely a factor. Some of the stuff that was said in that, I won’t say it. I think that’s up to Dave to say it if he wants to talk about it. There was some stuff in there that was extremely disappointing, what he said, and pretty bad to be honest.”Former team-mates Mitchell Johnson and George Bailey have fallen out•Getty Images

Johnson went on to state that his attack on Bailey had also been sparked in part by an overnight text message he had received from Australia’s chairman of selectors after another article he wrote recently where he queried why Western Australia quick Lance Morris had been withdrawn from a Sheffield Shield game to manage his workloads ahead of the Test summer.”He had sent me a message after the Lance Morris article that I wrote,” Johnson said. “It was just a little bit condescending. When you receive it at all hours of the morning, it was pretty disappointing.”Johnson was also furious at Bailey’s response to his article on Sunday, which he interpreted as a reference at his mental health.”To ask if I’m okay because I’ve had mental health issues is pretty much downplaying my article and putting it on mental health, which is quite disgusting, I think,” Johnson said.”It’s basically having a dig at someone’s mental health and saying that I must have something going on, a mental health issue has made me say what I have said. That’s not the truth. That’s completely the opposite. I’m actually clear-minded.”I’m okay. I want to make sure everyone knows that I’m okay and I’m actually in a good headspace.”I’m not angry, I’m not jealous. I’m just writing a piece that I felt like I needed to write. I probably was set off by getting a message from him at all hours of the morning and not having the respect to make a phone call.Mitchell Johnson and David Warner played together for six years•Getty Images

“I wouldn’t say I was hurt by the messages. I was disappointed and it was unexpected. It probably just threw me off a bit.”The thing I struggle with the most is not having those phone calls. I would prefer to have a conversation with those guys face-to-face or over the phone. Preferably face-to-face would be the best way to do it. So to get those messages were to me, very disrespectful.”Johnson took full ownership of the article even though it was written in conjunction with a ghostwriter from the . He said his only regret was not withdrawing a line in the piece suggesting “Bunnings would sell out of sandpaper” if fans were asked to bring something to wave for Warner’s farewell.”It was probably distasteful and something that I think didn’t need to be said,” Johnson said. “Apart from that, it’s all proof read and I sign off on it.”I did come up with this myself. This was something that popped into my head early in the week that I wanted to speak about. And I actually gave myself a few days to go through it.”I’m not looking for attention. It’s just my opinion and how I see it.”

The West Indies captain will join Harmanpreet Kaur at the top of the order

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Aug-2022West Indies captain Hayley Matthews has signed with Melbourne Renegades for the upcoming WBBL season.In five of the past seven years, Matthews has played for Hobart Hurricanes where she scored 865 runs at 18.02 and took 41 wickets.Her signing means she will team up with Harmanpreet Kaur in Renegades’ top order.”Any team that I’m part of, I try to bring a bit of West Indian flair to it,” Matthews said. “I really like to go out there and have fun every time I’m out on the field.”As a West Indian, our culture is big hitting and excitement in the field – that’s exactly what I’m looking to bring to the Melbourne Renegades.”James Rosengarten, Melbourne Renegades general manager, said: “Alongside Harmanpreet Kaur, we see Hayley playing an important role in our top four. She brings a wealth of experience at international level and in the WBBL.”Hayley’s ability to impact the game with the bat, ball and in the field – combined with her leadership attributes – makes her an exciting addition to our team.”Although Australia fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck is part of Renegades’ squad having moved from Hurricanes she won’t be available this season as she continues her recovery from the stress fracture of her foot sustained earlier this year.Current squad Sophie Molineux (capt), Sarah Coyte, Josie Dooley, Ellie Falconer, Ella Hayward, Harmanpreet Kaur, Carly Leeson, Hayley Matthews, Rhiann O’Donnell, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham, Courtney Webb

Young’s success presents a selection dilemma ahead of the WTC final

Matt Roller11-Jun-2021Devon Conway was 71 not out when Joe Root threw the old ball to Mark Wood, 15 minutes before tea. Other than an announcement over the PA system, there was no way to make the short-ball plan more obvious: fielders were stationed on the boundary at fine leg, long leg and square leg, with three more in close at square leg (again), forward short leg and straight midwicket.Wood banged his first ball in short towards the ribcage and Conway unfurled a pull shot, as if making a point of hitting it rather than using the ball’s pace to deflect it round the corner, and his placement was perfect, somehow finding the gap between two of the boundary-riders. Wood grimaced in frustration at a shot which encapsulated how easy Conway has made Test cricket look in his first two appearances at this level.England thought that they had found a gap in Conway’s armour on the first day of the Lord’s Test last week when Wood hit him on the shoulder with a bumper, but he has now hit 40 runs off the 31 short balls he has faced in the series and swivel-pulled with rare elegance, at times resembling Brian Lara with a raised right leg. Conway explained at Lord’s that he had been taken aback by the lack of bounce, having grown up playing on fast pitches in South Africa, and once he had adapted to Wood’s skiddy short stuff, he was away.The only surprise came when he whipped Stuart Broad off his pads and straight down Zak Crawley’s throat shortly after tea, causing him to throw his head back and shut his eyes in disbelief in his only show of emotion to date. No New Zealand player has scored as many runs across their first three Test innings and few of any nationality can have made such an impression.”It was good just to be out there in the middle and gain more experience at this level, I suppose,” he said afterwards, with typical understatement. “It was all about trying to be nice and positive, as I am throughout any sort of innings. It was a little bit disappointing getting out on 80 – when you get to those positions you’d really like to cash in as much as you can but such is life.”It’s a tough challenge facing two guys [Broad and James Anderson] that have been really successful over a number of years but it’s not really about facing the bowler, it’s about facing the ball that’s presented in front of you and sticking within your gameplan.”Related

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Things could have been very different. On 22, Conway had edged a low chance to second slip which was scooped up by Crawley, but stood his ground, waiting for a definitive verdict. Richard Kettleborough gave a soft signal of not out as he referred the decision to Michael Gough, the third umpire, who found no hard evidence that a mistake had been made. It was “Schrödinger’s catch – out and not out simultaneously,” Daniel Norcross suggested on Test Match Special.Broad was visibly exasperated, and pundits queued up to criticise the soft-signal protocols, which has already been scrapped in the IPL and will soon be up for debate at ICC level. Jason Holder, the former West Indies captain, tweeted, “How much longer will the soft signal cloud the game?” but in the case of marginal slip catches leaving the decision solely to the third umpire is no silver bullet: issues of foreshortening mean that they are destined to be unclear and contentious regardless.Devon Conway continued an impressive start to his Test career•Getty Images

Conway’s only obvious deficiency has been a proclivity to play a fraction outside the line of the ball, bringing chop-ons via the inside edge into play. At Lord’s, he inside-edged 25 times against seamers – including once onto his stumps in the second innings – compared to only one outside edge, according to CricViz’s data, and the figures were six and three respectively today. He has also had limited exposure to top-quality spin bowling, and will be tested by R Ashwin in the World Test Championship final next week.Conway was supported ably by Will Young, who gritted things out for just over six hours before inside-edging Dan Lawrence’s whirly offspin to short leg via his pad immediately before the close. He was dropped on 7, Root shelling a straightforward catch at first slip as Olly Stone induced an outside edge, and had to cling on for dear life during a probing burst from Broad and Anderson after tea, but he appears to be reaping the benefits of an early-season stint with Durham in which he hit two County Championship hundreds.Young’s success presents a selection dilemma ahead of the WTC final, with Kane Williamson due to return after resting his sore left elbow and New Zealand certain to go in with five bowling options, including an allrounder at No. 7. One batter will be squeezed out and while Ross Taylor has been in a tough run of form over the last 18 months, he survived a characteristically anxious start and reached the close unbeaten on 46 to further his case for retention. Assuming a clean bill of health, that leaves Young as the favourite to miss out despite his 82 – providing further illustration of New Zealand’s new-found strength in depth.

The proposed tournament – with a fourth team participating – could become an annual affair

Daniel Brettig23-Dec-2019India, England and Australia may overturn the delicately balanced global cricket calendar and play an annual limited-overs tournament among themselves – with one other nation – from 2021 onwards, according to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.In a possible indicator as to how the new BCCI administration would like to see the game’s schedule shape up in the future, Ganguly is reported to have revealed that the Indian board has been in discussion with the ECB and Cricket Australia about staging a four-nation tournament, hosted by rotation, every year. The arrangement could run against the ICC’s intentions – agreed to in principle by member nations earlier this year, albeit with a host of caveats – to add an extra 50-over tournament to the ICC events cycle beginning in 2023, so there is a global event providing revenue to member nations in each year of the cycle.”Australia, England, India and another top team will feature in the Super Series, which begins in 2021, and the first edition of the tournament will be played in India,” Ganguly was quoted as saying by Kolkata-based newspapers at an event organised by a fantasy cricket app over the weekend. This was soon after he had returned from a trip the UK along with BCCI secretary Jay Shah and treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal to meet ECB officials.ALSO READ: Earl Eddings – from the frying pan into the fire?Other details for the event purportedly include potential windows for each of the three nations to host it – October/November for India, September for England and October/November or February/March for Australia.There have been plenty of discussions lately about the future shape of the global game, with CA chair Earl Eddings and chief executive Kevin Roberts recently hosting ICC chief executive Manu Sawhney for a meeting in Melbourne, in addition to Ganguly’s visit to London. Eddings and Roberts are set to sit down with Ganguly and the BCCI in January, during Australia’s ODI tour of India.Some discussion is also believed to have surrounded arrangements for warm-up matches ahead of next year’s men’s T20 World Cup in Australia. It is understood that Australia are currently set to play India and West Indies in two series of warm-up matches ahead of the tournament proper.When contacted about the BCCI’s plans, a CA spokesperson declined to comment. Eddings, however, has previously expressed to ESPNcricinfo his reluctance to see the world’s major financial powers again separate themselves from the rest of member nations, who depend largely upon revenue from ICC events for their financial health, as had taken place in 2014.”I don’t think that did cricket any favours,” Eddings said of the Big Three plan. “I think there’s a balance, you find that balance between looking after your own backyard and understanding your responsibilities as a custodian of the global game, and I think that’s always a challenge.”But certainly we walk into those conversations saying we need to look at bilateral cricket, but we also, as members of the ICC, have a responsibility and accountability to maximise it and make it work for everyone.”

Andrew Tye, a member of Australia’s squad, felt the force of South Africa’s batsmen ahead of the T20I

Alex Malcolm14-Nov-2018South Africa’s batsmen tuned up for Saturday’s T20I against Australia with a blistering display of hitting to beat the Cricket Australia XI in the warm-up game at Allan Border Field in Brisbane.Aiden Markram (45 runs off 26 balls), Heinrich Klaasen (41 from 23), Reeza Hendricks (39 from 38) and Farhaan Behardien (27 not out from 14) struck 14 fours and nine sixes between them to post a imposing total of 5 for 201 against an attack that featured Australia T20 squad members Jason Behrendorff and Andrew Tye.Behrendorff took 1 for 25 in three overs including the wicket of Quinton de Kock, who was caught at mid-off, but Tye was hammered for 55 runs from his four overs and did not pick up a wicket.CA XI’s chase got off to a bad start losing two wickets in the Powerplay including Ben McDermott. He was unfortunately run out again, this time backing up too far after a powerful straight drive from Max Bryant was deflected onto the stumps by Lungi Ngidi, following the T20 series against Pakistan were he was run out in all three innings.Bryant clubbed 36 from 22 balls before holing out to long on from the bowling of Imran Tahir. Alex Ross made 40 off 35 but he too fell to spin with Tabraiz Shamsi getting his first wicket of the tour. Chris Morris finished with 2 for 35 after not playing at all during the one-day series.

Solomon Mire also returns and is set to debut; Tendai Chatara misses out due to injury

Firdose Moonda17-Oct-2017Brendan Taylor and Kyle Jarvis, both back to the Zimbabwe fold after county stints, have been included in the Test squad for the two-match series against West Indies starting on Saturday in Bulawayo. Solomon Mire, the Australian-based allrounder who is also in the 16-member squad, is in line to make his Test debut.Zimbabwe have made seven changes to the squad that last played a Test, in Sri Lanka in July, with no space for Ryan Burl, Tendai Chatara, Tarisai Musakanda, Carl Mumba, Natsai Mushangwe, Nathan Waller and Donald Tiripano. Of these, Chatara is the only one missing out due to injury.

Zimbabwe squad

Graeme Cremer (capt), Hamilton Masakadza, Solomon Mire, Chamu Chibhabha, Craig Ervine, Brendan Taylor, Sikandar Raza, Sean Williams, Malcolm Waller, Peter Moor, Regis Chakabva (wk), Michael Chinouya, Chris Mpofu, Kyle Jarvis, Tendai Chisoro, Nyasha Mayavo

Wicketkeeper Nyasha Mayavo and left-armer Tendai Chisoro are the other uncapped players in the squad. However, Mayavo could miss out to regular gloveman Regis Chakabva and Chisoro may have to battle for his place alongside veterans Chris Mpofu, the returning Jarvis and Michael Chinouya, who wasn’t part of the Test squad in Sri Lanka. Chamu Chibhabha, also not part of the Sri Lanka squad, has been included.The new-look squad heralds the start of a new era in Zimbabwe cricket, with the board having actively sought the return of players who left seeking financial stability elsewhere. With a more secure governance structure in place under new managing director Faisal Hasnain, convener of selectors Tatenda Taibu has been able to convince Taylor, Jarvis and Mire to return.While Jarvis is certain to open the bowling and add much-needed pace, swing and aggression to a usually pedestrian Zimbabwe attack, Taylor and Mire will slot into a line-up that is taking on a more solid appearance. Hamilton Masakadza, Craig Ervine, Sean Williams, PJ Moor and Sikandar Raza have all recently scored Test centuries, adding to Zimbabwe’s new-found confidence.Though Zimbabwe’s main aim over the next few months is to work towards 2019 World Cup qualification, they are also seeking to play more Tests, more so now following the addition of two new Full Members in Ireland and Afghanistan.Apart from hosting West Indies, they are also slated to travel to South Africa for the inaugural four-day Test, which will also be played under lights, in December. There is also talk of a series against Afghanistan, possibly in the UAE, before they host the World Cup qualifiers in March.Zimbabwe last won a Test more than four years ago, against Pakistan in Harare. They have since lost nine Tests: five at home, three in Bangladesh and one in Sri Lanka.