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Michael Carberry and Jimmy Adams put Warwickshire to the sword at Edgbaston•PA Photos

Centuries by Hampshire left-handers Jimmy Adams and Michael Carberry turned the Clydesdale Bank 40 formbook upside down at Edgbaston. After five straight wins, Warwickshire surrendered their 100% record in a crushing 130-run defeat by a side who had lost their first four games in Group C.With Carberry setting the pace in a 64-ball dash to three figures, Hampshire piled up 341 for 6 – the highest total conceded by Warwickshire in 40-over cricket – and then bowled out the home side for 211 in the 32nd over.Boyd Rankin’s bowling figures of 2 for 32 in four overs hid the scale of Warwickshire’s hammering. He might normally have been happy to dismiss the opening pair – except that his wickets were 331 runs apart.Michael Lumb’s first county innings since winning the ICC World Twenty20 with England ended with a catch at point from Rankin’s second ball but Adams stayed until the last over when he was bowled for 131.A head-up swing across the line with two balls to go was entirely forgivable. The former British Universities captain sensibly allowed Carberry to lead the initial charge and then set his own agenda in accelerating to his first one-day hundred in 85 balls.After a relatively modest start, Hampshire lit the turbocharger as Carberry crashed eight fours and a six in a sequence of 12 deliveries from Rankin, Neil Carter and Keith Barker.The partnership with Adams built up to 168 in 19.5 overs before Carberry holed out at deep mid-wicket after making 82 of his 103 in boundaries.Sean Ervine made his first contribution in a fine all-round display with 48 from 29 balls before he was stumped off Ian Westwood and Adams’ onslaught included nine fours and four sixes, two of which landed in the construction site for the new pavilion.When Warwickshire began their run-chase, Jonathan Trott’s half-century gave them a glimmer of hope. The England batsman shared a stand of 47 with Carter (20), but wickets began to fall regularly after they had reached 100 in the 12th over.Ian Bell played beautifully for 41 from 24 balls, only to get out to a premeditated shot, lapping to Carberry at short fine leg for Ervine’s first success in a spell of 4 for 39.The medium-pacer also had Trott caught at long on for 60 and left arm spinner Rangana Herath (two for 28) applied further pressure as Warwickshire lost for the first time in 17 games in 40-over competitions.

ScorecardShaun Udal rescued his side with a half-century•PA Photos

Runs were again hard to come by at Lord’s where 13 wickets fell and pacebowlers from Middlesex and Gloucestershire exchanged blows on day two of thisCounty Championship Division Two basement clash.Having been dismissed for 203 to trail the visitors by 95 on first innings,Middlesex rallied in the final two sessions of the day to reduce Gloucestershireto 139 for 7 at the mid-point for an overall advantage in the match of 204runs.Resuming on their parlous overnight position of 71 for 4, the Middlesex topmiddle order struggled to cope against the impressive Steve Kirby and GemaalHussain who finished with 4 for 50 and 3 for 50 respectively.Hussain made the first breakthrough of the day having Sam Robson held at thirdslip off a thick edged back-foot force then, with the score on Nelson’s, DawidMalan (25) was lured forward in defence by Jon Lewis only to nick to thekeeper.When all-rounder Gareth Berg (4) steered one to second slip off Kirby to makeit 124 for 7 Middlesex were in real danger of missing out on a batting bonuspoint, but a vital, combative half-century from their skipper Shaun Udal – theonly 50 of the day – enabled his side to edge past 200.Udal, the oldest player in county cricket at 41, rode his luck and might havegone with his score on 13 and 14 when Chris Taylor, at point, then HamishMarshall, off his own bowling, both dropped diving chances.In tandem with John Simpson (42), right-handed Udal flourished in the face of abarrage of short-pitched bowling from the Gloucestershire attack. Udal hittingeight fours and a six off a top-edged hook into The Mound Stand, in a 72-ballhalf-century.A leg-cutter from left-arm seamer James Franklin accounted for Simpson and ittook a stunning, overhead catch on the ropes at deep mid-wicket by Abdul-KadeerAli to finally send Udal packing.Unable to use the heavy roller after close-season changes to the playingregulations, Gloucestershire’s batsmen were taking guard again just after 2.30pmon a pock-marked pitch that, left virtually untouched by the light roller,continued to assist the seamers.For the second time in the game Kadeer Ali (1) was undone by afull-length off-cutter from Iain O’Brien then Jonathan Batty (22) reached for aDanny Evans out-swinger to feather to his opposite number Simpson.Four overs after tea, first innings top-scorer Hamish Marshall fell for ninewhen he edged a steeply lifting ball from Gareth Berg to second slip as theGloucestershire collapse gathered momentum.In a flurry of four more wickets, Chris Dent (42) went to a catch at thewicket, Alex Gidman (28) played across a Tim Murtagh off-cutter to go lbw andthe same bowler jagged one in off the seam to dismiss James Franklin (11) in thesame manner.Berg, who struggled to find his best line on the opening day, produced anothervicious ball that reared up on Steve Snell who fend it off into the hands ofRobson at short leg and go for a first-ball duck and a pair in the match.

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How they were outPraveen Kumar took the first hat-trick of the season•Indian Premier League

A superlative bowling performance by Royal Challengers Bangalore, including a hat-trick by Praveen Kumar, decimated Rajasthan Royals to a paltry 92 and set up a huge win. The match lasted just 30.3 overs as Bangalore strolled home by 10 wickets to call it an early night, and also seal the second-most comprehensive victory in terms of ball to spare.The bowlers stuck to a plan of bowling quick, short deliveries, which contributed to an abject batting performance by a weakened Rajasthan. The batsmen struggled to find a weak link to exploit. Although Praveen hogged the limelight with the first hat-trick of IPL 2010, it was the combined bowling performance that set the platform for back-to-back wins at home.The Bangalore bowlers focused on bowling as straight as possible and tucking the batsmen up. The batsmen looked out of depth from the beginning, playing and missing and failing to find gaps. The first five overs produced only two fours and 27 runs, quite an antithesis to the Twenty20 brand of cricket.The pressure began to tell on Rajasthan, and the urgency to push on cost them three early wickets. Jacques Kallis struck with his first delivery when he had Naman Ojha splicing to cover-point. Michael Lumb, the Hampshire left-hand batsman, had a testing IPL debut, particularly against Dale Steyn, who got the ball to skid through and fizz past the outside edge on a few occasions. He tried his luck against Anil Kumble by chipping down the track to a slow flighted delivery, but failed the read the googly and was stumped by yards.Even the experienced Damien Martyn looked out of sorts. The rustiness of not having played too much competitive cricket since retirement began to show against some sharp bouncers from Kallis. The dismissal of Abhishek Jhunjhunwala – chopping Kallis onto the stumps – heralded the arrival of Yusuf Pathan, the best man to get them out of jail.There wasn’t to be an instant manic revival. Yusuf struggled to put bat on ball early on. Realising his weakness against the short ball, Bangalore persisted with back-of-a-length deliveries, and Yusuf kept swishing at thin air. Between the seventh and 11th over, the run-rate did not cross four and even their most attacking batsman was in inertia.However, the bowlers were made to pay when they bowled fuller, as Yusuf demonstrated with consecutive thumps over deep midwicket off Vinay Kumar. He was dropped twice – on 19 and 24 – off thick top edges, but it didn’t cost Bangalore much as he was sent packing with an athletic direct hit by Virat Kohli, diving forward.Praveen used three different deliveries to get his hat-trick, the seventh in the tournament’s history. A sluggish Martyn struggled to break free and lost his middle stump when Praveen returned for a new spell. Praveen followed the yorker with a short delivery to Sumit Narwal, who top-edged it down fine leg’s throat. Paras Dogra faced the hat-trick ball, but had his middle stump pegged back to a length delivery, trying to swipe him across the line. The procession of wickets stamped Bangalore’s authority on the game, which was all but sealed at that point.Going by the way Manish Pandey and Kallis closed out the game, only a double hat-trick could have saved Rajasthan. Kallis was at his elegant best, clipping the ball off his pads, tearing into his countryman Morne Morkel for 20 in his first over. Pandey showed scant respect to his countryman, Munaf Patel, muscling the ball down the ground. He also planted one over deep midwicket off Sumit Narwal. The only time Rajasthan looked like taking a wicket was when Pandey sliced the ball to mid-off, and replays couldn’t confirm if Morkel took it cleanly.Rajasthan looked deflated and lost for ideas as Kallis and Pandey threatened to finish the game within 10 overs. Bangalore went to second place in the points table, behind Mumbai Indians.

Alastair Cook is preparing to stick with the same balance of seven batsmen and four bowlers that carried his side to a comfortable, if somewhat laboured, 181-run victory in the first Test at Chittagong, as he aims to hand the England captaincy back to Andrew Strauss with a 100% record from his first tour in charge.On the eve of the second Test at Dhaka, England are still weighing up their options and have not ruled out the introduction of a second spinner in James Tredwell to partner their ten-wicket Man of the Match from Chittagong, Graeme Swann.But in the absence of a genuine allrounder – and Luke Wright has been virtually eliminated from their considerations – the likelihood of calling upon a five-man attack seems slim, especially now that England have a 1-0 lead in the series, and therefore no need to gamble with their selection.”Historically four bowlers tend to do very well,” said Cook. “In an ideal world you’d love to find that fifth bowler who can bat to find the perfect balance, and obviously that’s what great allrounders like Jacques Kallis bring to the side, but they are few and far between. There’s always a chance this pitch might suit a different attack or it might spin more, so you have to go with whatever side you think will win the game.”England’s preparations received a boost when their senior fast bowler, Stuart Broad, reported fit after missing Thursday’s practice with a stomach complaint. Assuming he is fully recovered, the only realistic change to the line-up that played at Chittagong would be the introduction of Tredwell at the expense of one of the other two seamers, most probably Steven Finn. However, given the positive impression he made on debut, an unchanged XI is the likelier scenario.”We’ll sit down after a look at the wicket and pick a team to win the game,” said Cook. “If we think that two seamers and two spinners is the best way to go, then we will do that, even though it is very un-English. We are used to playing in English conditions where it’s very unlikely you’d ever to go out with fewer than three seamers. But these are the selection decisions that do come up in the subcontinent, and if we want to do expand our game on turning wickets, we’re going to have to get used to it.”Broad’s most notable moment in a somewhat lacklustre performance at Chittagong was his failure to address the umpire while appealing for an lbw decision against Abdur Razzak, and with Swann also attracting opprobrium for his four-lettered send-off to Bangladesh’s centurion, Junaid Siddique, England’s behaviour will be under scrutiny at Dhaka. Cook, however, was unconcerned. “A lot has been made of those two incidents but the umpires haven’t reported it, and the match referee hasn’t reported it,” he said.”They were probably very close to the mark and Swanny has apologised, but we want to play hard, aggressive cricket and our disciplinary record over the last couple of years has been exceptional,” he added. “You want to play close to the edge but if you do go over, you have to hold your hands up.”However, a mean streak will doubtless be essential during England’s next overseas Test assignment, which just happens to be the small matter of an Ashes tour in roughly nine months’ time, and Cook admitted that some of the team’s thoughts and plans were already beginning to be projected towards Brisbane, the scene of that eagerly awaited first Test – especially after the manner in which the team capitulated against South Africa at Johannesburg in January.”This is our last Test match away before we go to Australia and that has been noted,” he said. “We discussed the issue this week about what it means to play for England and wanting to win, and how big it is to win 2-0. We’ve got jobs to do and responsibilities, and it’s all part of our development as a side because in South Africa we didn’t really do ourselves justice in that last Test match.From Cook’s own point of view, he is ready to relinquish his stand-in role having become a more rounded and mature player, thanks to his opportunity to take charge of the team in Strauss’s absence. “I’ve got an understanding of what Straussy goes through and what you need from the people around you,” he said. “When I go back into the ranks I’ll a lot more confident in my thoughts and hopefully help Straussy a lot more.”The balance of his leadership and my role will hopefully improve. You definitely need an air of confidence from that right-hand man. During the field I’ll go and chat to Colly [Paul Collingwood] and his ideas are good, trustworthy ideas. You gain trust as a leader and hopefully I can give more help to Straussy, not just on the pitch but off the pitch as well.”England (probable) 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Michael Carberry, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Ian Bell, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Tim Bresnan, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Graeme Swann, 11 Steven Finn.

Paras Khadka, the Nepal captain, struck a rapid half-century to lead his team to victory against Jersey in their opening match of the World Cricket League Division Five in Bhaktapur. Chasing 175, Khadka scored 69 off 66 balls and received support from Shakti Gauchan and Sharad Vesawkar, who made 32 and 33. Nepal completed their six-wicket victory in the 38th over. Earlier, Nepal’s new-ball attack had played an important part in dismissing Jersey for 174 in the 45th over. Mahaboob Alam took 1 for 8 in six overs and Binod Das took 1 for 20, creating pressure which was maintained by the other bowlers. Opener Dean Morrison played a slow and steady innings of 62 off 112 balls but got no support from his team-mates. Only one other player, Samuel de la Haye (38), got past 20.”We’ve many more games to come and we need to improve on our batting and bowling,” Khadka said. “I feel we lacked intensity in some places and I’ll be looking for the guys to take it up a notch tomorrow against Singapore.”Formidable batting and incisive bowling from the USA crushed Fiji by 285 runs in Lalitpur. Fiji won the toss and put USA in, a decision they came to regret as all of the top and middle-order batsmen, barring opener Carl Wright, contributed to post 353 for 8. Steve Massiah’s 74 was the top score but the innings got its final thrust from Rashard Marshall, who smashed 61 off 28 balls with eight fours and four sixes. Timroy Allen also made 32 off 17 balls. Fiji bowler Josefa Dabea took four wickets but conceded 84 in eight overs. Fiji were always going to struggle to chase such a target but they didn’t even come close, collapsing for 68 in 28 overs. Dabea, who made 13, was the only batsman to get into double figures. Kevin Darlington, with 3 for 9 in six overs, and Imran Awan, who took 3 for 16, were USA’s best bowlers.”It was a positive start – just the start we were looking for,” Massiah said. “I felt very good – it is always good to get some runs and hopefully I can continue this form. Our aim was to get above 300 and we wanted to get four or five partnerships of 50 or more. It was a terrific batting performance. The bowling was disciplined and very professional. We aimed to create pressure and we did that very well.”Singapore thumped Bahrain by 126 runs at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground to begin their World Cricket League Division Five campaign on a high. Opting to bat, Singapore were given an encouraging start by openers Buddika Mendis and Chetan Suryawanshi who put on 95. However, Bahrain then hit back, courtesy Adil Hanif, Tahir Dar and Zafar Zaheer who grabbed seven wickets between them to limit Singapore to a chaseable 224 for 8. But their batsmen simply failed to measure up to Singapore’s determined bowling display, as Anish Param and Jackie Manoj-Kumar, both left-arm spinners, grabbed three wickets each to skittle out Bahrain for 98.”Winning your initial games is so important so I was very happy that we won today on a wicket that had turn, even though it was on the slow side,” Singapore coach Marvan Atapattu said. “To win by 126 runs is a remarkable achievement. Playing in front of live television cameras is one thing but playing in front of large crowds is a another thing here, as you don’t get too many people watching cricket back home in Singapore. I hope that they will continue to enjoy it, especially when we play Nepal.”

West Indies fast bowler Daren Powell has withdrawn from Jamaica’s squad for the rest of the regional first-class season, according to Nehemiah Perry, the Jamaica Cricket Association’s chairman of selectors. Powell, who has managed just two wickets in two matches at 73.00 in the tournament so far, called Perry and cited “personal reasons” behind his decision.”He has some issues where he is not up to it [playing cricket],” Perry told the . “He is not giving 100% and he figures he should give someone else a chance. His mind is not there to really come out and train and play the game and he’s not motivated to perform at the highest level.”He has decided to take a break and won’t be available for the rest of the season. It’s not a situation where he got dropped or anything. He’s not enjoying cricket anymore as a person. The team spirit is good, but he has things to deal with and his mind is not there. He probably lacks confidence as well.”Powell, 31, last played a Test in March last year, at home against England, and has a modest career haul of 85 wickets from 37 matches at 47.85. He also has 71 ODI wickets from 55 matches at 31.73. Perry said the dimming hopes of a recall to the national setup could have also contributed towards his decision.”He hasn’t been getting a lot of wickets in any one innings and he’s over 30 and he probably isn’t motivated and doesn’t think West Indies’ [selectors] are looking at him anymore,” Perry said. “If you are 20-odd years old and running in hard and hitting the pitch then you would be motivated to train hard and work hard, but he’s been there and done that and people might be thinking he has passed his best.”Jamaica captain Tamar Lambert expressed surprise at Powell’s decision. “The team was a little bit surprised to hear that Powell has opted out,” he told the . “But having said that, people come and people go and everyone realise that we still have a job to do and we will just have to do it to the best of our ability. We cannot allow that to distract us from our goal.”He will definitely be missed as an experienced player. It was always good to have him around, having represented the West Indies and Jamaica on numerous occasions. He is a strike bowler and it was always good to have a player like that, who will bowl fast and get us early wickets.”He is someone that always gives 100 per cent. You can’t not notice a person like Daren when he is around.”

Spinners Shane Shillingford and Rawl Lewis picked up four wickets each to help Windward Islands seal a nine-wicket win over Combined Campuses and Colleges in Barbados. CCC began the day with two wickets down and still 90 adrift of their deficit but, barring a determined 71 by captain Floyd Reifer and 34 from wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton, there was little competition from the others as their side was bowled out for 198, a lead of just 70. Reifer and Walton added 54 for the seventh wicket but the spinners tore through the line-up. Devon Smith, who scored a century in the first innings, followed up with a crisp 44, ensuring victory was achieved in just 12.5 overs and with a day to spare.The Windwards and the CCC both have 12 points now but the Windwards haveonly played two matches to the CCC’s three. CCC host Guyana at this same venue next Friday while the Windwards head a few miles south to Kensington Oval where they face Barbados in an historic day-night encounter.Nikita Miller put Jamaica squarely on top against Guyana in St Philip, grabbing six wickets to skittle the opposition out for just 166 and secure a first-innings lead of 263. Jamaica imposed the follow-on and Dave Bernard proved Guyana’s nemesis in their second innings, grabbing three wickets and effecting a run-out to leave them at 161 for 4 at stumps, still 102 adrift. The highlight for Guyana on a disappointing day was Assad Fudadin, who top scored in their first innings with 39 and hit a half-century in the second before being dismissed. Guyana’s effort in the second innings was an improved one, with three of their top and middle order batsmen going past 30. However, they failed to convert them into substantial scores to cripple the possibility of a fightback.”I am happy with the way we played over the last few days,” said Jamaica captain Tamar Lambert. “We completely outplayed Guyana. The hundreds from Wavell Hinds and Carlton Baugh jnr really set us up well, and our first innings total of 429 over five sessions was the perfect start to the match for us.”We talked to a few of the Barbadian players, and they told us that the pitch would be slow and would turn a bit, so it was surprising to see them win the toss and put us in to bat. Knowing Guyana through the years, they always pack their sides with spinners, so I thought that they would have batted first, and then bring their players into play over the last few days of the game.”Barbados retained the advantage against Trinidad and Tobago at the Kensington Oval. Ryan Hinds, who began on 111, finished on 139 but legspinner Imran Khan’s best first-class haul of 7 for 71 limited Barbados’ lead to 115. T&T were in trouble in their reply, as a three-wicket burst from Pedro Collins had reduced them to 98 for 4. But Justin Guillen, their opener, fought hard, smashing 134, his best first-class effort. Guillen was involved in a 138-run fifth-wicket stand with Denesh Ramdin, who made an unbeaten 94 and remains the key to T&T’s fortunes heading into the final day. Trinidad finished the day on 299 for 7, just 184 ahead and will need much more to pose a challenge.

Virender Sehwag, the Indian batsman, wants his team-mates to maintain the consistency that helped India achieve the No. 1 Test ranking in 2009 as the team arrived in Dhaka for its first assignment of the New Year: a tri-series involving Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, followed by two Tests against Bangladesh.”Our target is to play good cricket. Last two years, we have played very tough and good cricket and hopefully we will do it in 2010 also,” Sehwag said. “It’s important for the team to play well consistently. If you do that you will stay No. 1 or No. 2.”India arrived in Bangladesh following a 3-1 victory in a home ODI series against Sri Lanka, who will be without key players such as Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Mahela Jayawardene for the tri-series. Sehwag, however, said India would not be underestimating them.”When new players break into the side, nobody really knows what he will do or what his strength is. It’s difficult for the teams to bowl or bat against them,” Sehwag said. “I think Sri Lanka still are a good side. It will be a tough task for us.”The tri-series will begin with Bangladesh taking on Sri Lanka on January 4, while India’s first match is against Sri Lanka the following day at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium.

Ninety-seven players, including 26 from Pakistan and several latterly with the ICL, have registered for the third IPL auction, which will be held on January 19. The list also includes four players from Associate countries – Rizwan Cheema and Khurram Chohan (Canada), Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands), Niall O’Brien (Ireland) – as well as former Zimbabwe nationals Murray Goodwin and Ray Price.Prominent among the players who were part of the unofficial ICL are Shane Bond, who recently retired from Test cricket, Damien Martyn, Chris Cairns, Saqlain Mushtaq and Justin Kemp.The Pakistanis – the current world Twenty20 champions – include Mohammed Aamer and Umar Akmal, and the list also includes the exciting West Indian Kieron Pollard.Merely registering, however, does not guarantee the player will be included in the auction list. The IPL will send the list of 97 names to the franchises who will then select those players they would like included in the auction. The selected players will be informed of their inclusion by January 5.The number of overseas players a franchise may have on its roster is capped at ten and at present it is unclear how many slots are available. In 2009, over 100 players registered for the auction out of which 50 went under the hammer to fill 17 available overseas slots. The IPL said it expected the number of places to be substantially lower this time.The list sets a “preliminary expected availability” date against each player’s name and, intriguingly, those from Australia and South Africa have been marked as free from the conclusion of their domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, in the case of Australian players, and the Standard Bank Pro20 series for South Africans. This suggests that the league has shifted from its earlier stated position, that players would have to put the IPL above their domestic tournaments and be available for the entire season.That decision, taken in November, said defaulting players would face penalties including termination of player contracts and a ban on future participation, although Lalit Modi, the league’s chairman, told Cricinfo that this would only happen in a worst-case scenario.Registered players
Pakistan: Mohammed Aamer, Shahid Afridi, Shahzad Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal, Fawad Alam, Yasir Arafat, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Faisal Iqbal, Asim Kamal, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Khalil, Abdur Rauf, Khalid Latif, Azhar Mahmood, Shoaib Malik, Khurram Manzoor, Saqlain Mushtaq, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Imran Nazir, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Sami.Sri Lanka: Malinga Bandara, Indika de Saram, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Thilina Kandamby, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Suranga Lakmal, Jehan Mubarak, Thisara Perera, Dammika Prasad, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, Suraj Randiv, Rangana Herath, Gihan Rupasinghe, Upul Tharanga, Kaushalya Weeraratne, ChanakaWelegedara.South Africa: Yusuf Abdulla, Nicky Boje, Zander de Bruyn, Tyron Henderson, Justin Kemp, Rory Kleinveldt, Andre Nel, Wayne Parnell, Vernon Philander, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Johan van der Wath, CJ de Villiers.New Zealand: Shane Bond, Ian Butler, Chris Cairns, Brendon Diamanti, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Nathan McCullum, Daryl Tuffey, Lou Vincent.West Indies: Carlton Baugh, Tino Best, Daren Ganga, Wavell Hinds, Kieron Pollard, Kemar Roach, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons.Australia: Brad Haddin, Phillip Hughes, Ashley Noffke, Jason Krejza, Ben Laughlin, Graham Manou, Damien Martyn, Clint McKay, Adam Voges.England: Tim Bresnan, Anthony McGrath, Eoin Morgan, Monty Panesar, Adil Rashid, Jonathan Trott Usman Afzaal, James Foster.Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan, Shahriar Nafees.Canada: Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan.Zimbabwe: Murray Goodwin, Ray Price.Ireland: Niall O’BrienNetherlands: Ryan ten Doeschate

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has named a 12-man squad to face Pakistan in a three-day warm-up game in Queenstown starting November 18. The squad will be captained by Grant Elliott, who has recovered from his thumb injury, and includes a fit Daryl Tuffey and Test hopefuls Tim McIntosh and Daniel Flynn.Elliott and Tuffey, who suffered injuries during the ICC Champions Trophy, were ruled out of the ODI and Twenty20 series against Pakistan in the UAE. Mark Greatbatch, a national selector, said the match would provide a good opportunity for them and several other New Zealand players.McIntosh and Flynn were a part of New Zealand’s disappointing Test tour of Sri Lanka earlier this year and did not fare too well in tough conditions and against quality pace and spin. Craig Cumming, who scored a century in the first round of the Plunket Shield this week, has been included as well. Cumming, 34, played the last of his 11 Tests in January 28.”Grant Elliott and Daryl Tuffey have recovered well from injuries received at the Champions Trophy in South Africa,” said Greatbatch. “They have been playing domestic cricket and this will be a further solid workout for them. There are also a few players who are knocking on the door for selection at the top level – and they will get a good opportunity to test themselves against a strong touring side.”Pakistan are due to arrive in New Zealand on Sunday and commence a series of three Tests, the first of which will be played in Dunedin from November 24.New Zealand Invitation XI squad: Grant Elliott (capt), Craig Cumming, Tim McIntosh, BJ Watling, Daniel Flynn, James Franklin, Reece Young (wk), Daryl Tuffey, Tarun Nethula, Tim Southee, Iain O’Brien, Brent Arnel.