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The Chairman of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, Denis Rogers AO today announced the following appointments within the structure of the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers for Season 2003/2004.

Daniel Marsh: Vice-Captain
Shane Watson: Deputy Vice-Captain
Dene Hills: Assistant Coach-Batting
David Saker: Assistant Coach-Bowling

Ricky Ponting has been re-appointed as the Captain of the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers.In announcing the appointments the Denis Rogers said: "Over the past months we have been reviewing our position and the Cricket Committee decided to appropriately address the challenge of re-building Tasmanian cricket. It was decided we should strengthen the coaching area in the senior structure from a batting and bowling point of view."The Chairman added upon the appointment of the Assistant coaches: "In our midst we had two relatively young men who have played a lot of 1st Class cricket and have been high achievers and we thought there was nothing better than to appoint Dene and David."This appointment of dual assistant coaches is a first in Australian cricket, with both being responsible for dedicated specific aspects of the game within the coaching environment.The Cricket Committee and the Board of Directors unanimously agreed that the leadership on the field be Ricky Ponting (Captain), Daniel Marsh (Vice-Captain) and Shane Watson (Deputy Vice-Captain).Mr. Rogers said of this announcement: "We are delighted with all these appointments and all concerned are looking forward to their challenges."Brian McFadyen, Head Coach of the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers expressed his delight with the new structure saying: "We needed to improve upon our support structure for the team and I am very excited with the support given to me this year and with this structure for the future. We are now a step ahead of the other states with the luxury of two full time assistant coaches with specific roles to develop the on-field performances of the team."Commenting on the appointment of Dan Marsh, McFadyen said: " Dan is a well respected person and player, he possesses an articulate knowledge of the game and has all the attributes of a good leader. He deserves the opportunity to Captain in Ricky’s absence."Upon the announcement of his elevation to Vice-Captain, Daniel Marsh who was in Adelaide with relatives after the birth of his daughter Ella said: "It is a fantastic honour to be named Vice-Captain of the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers and I am looking forward to the season ahead. With such a young squad of players I am sure that it will be an exciting one. To have people of the quality of Dene Hills and David Saker as assistants to Brian McFadyen can only be positive for Tasmanian cricket. With Shane Watson as Deputy Vice-Captain we have a good mix of people in the leadership positions."Shane Watson was extremely excited about his new role, which he hopes will lead to further leadership opportunities down the track. He was looking forward to helping the team move in the right direction and working with Brian, Dene, David and Daniel.Dene Hills and David Saker were equally looking forward to their new roles in the coaching area.Hills said: "I am proud to be wearing the badge in a different form. I played with a lot passion and I love Tasmanian cricket. I would hope that my experience at a 1st Class level and the passion I bought to the team will rub off on the current members of the Tigers."David Saker added: I believe we have produced some good bowlers in recent years and I am looking forward to the opportunity of working with some promising young bowlers and hopefully producing Australian bowlers for the future."Both believe they will work very well together. They also expressed a belief that their respective specific roles of batting and bowling inter link and they will assist each other in providing the best possible preparation for each and every player and the team in order for them to achieve the highest possible standard of performance.Profiles:Dene Hills: Assistant Coach- BattingDene Hills retired from 1st Class cricket in 2002/03. He is without doubt one of Tasmania’s most successful and celebrated batsmen. A left handed opener with a tight technique and a penchant for making big scores, Hills formed the other half of that famous opening pair, Cox and Hills. Dene played over 100 matches for Tasmania and was named Sheffield Shield Player of the Year in 1997/98. He served his state with distinction and his 265 in 1997/98 remains the highest by a Tasmanian. Dene is a Level 3 qualified coach and has recently coached the South Hobart-Sandy Bay Cricket Club in the TCA Grade competition after many years as a senior player and mentor at the University Cricket Club.David Saker: Assistant Coach- BowlingDavid Saker joined the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers in 2000/01 after a distinguished career with Victoria. And retired in 2002/03. David was a whole-hearted and resilient cricketer who was respected for his tenacity and determination as a player throughout the country. His leadership and competitive nature is sure to provide a good blend within the coaching staff. Saker has played 72 1st Class matches and 43 Domestic One-Day matches as a right-arm fast-medium bowler and was named Cascade Tasmanian Tigers Player of the Year in 2001/2002. He is a level 2 qualified coach.Daniel Marsh: Vice-CaptainDaniel Marsh first moved to Tasmania from South Australia in season 1996/97 and has since established himself as a respected cricketer of note and a senior member of the team. Daniel was named Cascade Tasmanian Tigers Player of the Year in 1999/2000 and was Man of the Match for the Prime Minister’s X1 against England in 1998/99. Marsh has played 87 1st Class matches and 62 Domestic One-Day matches. Coupled with his powerful stroke play in the middle order, all round skills as a left arm orthodox spin bowler and safe hands in the slips, his leadership qualities and experience have been utilised on many occasions in both forms of the game.Shane Watson: Deputy Vice-CaptainOriginally from Queensland, Watson moved to Tasmania in the 2000/2001 season and immediately enhanced his reputation as an exciting young all-rounder. In the following 12 months he caught the National selectors’ eyes and made his Limited Overs International debut against South Africa at Centurion Park in South Africa in 2001/2002. Shane has played 16 1st Class matches, 20 Domestic Limited Overs matches and 21 Limited Overs Internationals for Australia. He is currently making a full recovery from a back injury sustained during last season, which kept him out of Australia’s victorious World Cup campaign.

The past, present and future generation of West Indies cricketers will be on show today at the Carlton Club ground for a worthy cause.In an effort to raise funds to help with the construction of an autism centre, the Variety Club of Barbados has organised two matches, the first starting at 4 p.m. and the other at 7:30 p.m. under the lights.The feature attractions brings together a "West Indies" team and the Barbados team, and the preceding affair to set the stage will involve a clash with the island’s leading primary schools, Marshall Trading St Catherine and Barbados Public Workers Co-operative Credit Union Wesley Hall.Leading the list of former West Indies stars are: Senator Desmond Haynes, along with ace fast bowlers, Joel Garner, Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose.Recent West Indies players: Stuart Williams, Keith Arthurton and Adam Sanford. West Indies Under-19 selectees, Patrick Browne and Alcindo Holder, arealso in the "West Indies" line-up which has borrowed Barbadians Sherwin Campbell and Philo Wallace.The most known names in thematch featuring the juniors are:Anthony Alleyne, captain of recently-crowned primary schoolschamps St Catherine,and his rival skipper Roston Chase.The night match, which is a 35-overs-a-side affair, will feature coloured clothing and black sightscreens.Admission is $10.

Daryl Tuffey must have achieved one of the more remarkable records in international cricket with the number of occasions in which he has taken a wicket in his first over opening the bowling at either end.He did it again in Napier today when New Zealand were playing India in the second match of their National Bank One-Day International Series.Tuffey has completed the feat 14 times in 11 separate matches, six times in Test matches and eight times in ODIs. He has taken two wickets in his opening over once each in a Test and ODI.Ten of the occurrences have happened this year and four against India this month alone.The list of victims are:Tests:Marcus Trescothick and Mark Butcher (England) at Auckland, 1 April 2002
Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) at Lahore, 1 May 2002
Virender Sehwag (India) at Wellington, 12 December 2002
Sanjay Bangar and Parthiv Patel* (India) at Hamilton, 20 and 21 December 2002ODIs:Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) at Napier, 20 February 2001
Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) at Christchurch, 25 February 2001
Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) at Sharjah, 10 April 2001
Marcus Trescothick (England) at Auckland, 23 February 2002
Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) at Sharjah, 14 April 2002
Imran Nazir (Pakistan) at Rawalpindi, 24 April 2002
Sourav Ganguly (India) at Napier, 29 December 2002* Bangar was dismissed in the first innings, Patel in the second innings.

Never a batsman prone to wild abandon, Jacques Kallis slowly, steadily but ever so surely dragged the second Castle Lager/MTN Test match away from India on the third day at St George’s Park on Sunday.When an offer of bad light was offered to the South African batsmen with 14 overs still to be bowled (and with the floodlights on), Kallis’s contribution to the South African second innings score of 211 for five was 84 not out.Leaving aside for the moment the puzzle of why the home batsmen, well on top at that stage, should have taken the light, the significance of the South African total is that it gives the home team a lead of 372 with two days remaining.The significance of Kallis’s effort, meanwhile, is that he has now scored 585 runs in four Test matches this summer at an average of 290.25. This is a quite remarkable statistic, but it does go some way to underlining the strengths of Kallis as a batsman. He seldom, if ever, gives his wicket away, no matter the circumstances and his powers of concentration rival those currently in the game.He has been criticised at times for being one-paced, but there are moments and occasions when his value to his side lies mainly in him simply being at the crease. This was one of those occasions after South Africa had tumbled to 26 for three in their second innings after bowling India out for 201.At this point Javagal Srinath was bowling quite beautifully once again. He had nipped out Gary Kirsten and Neil McKenzie in an opening burst of 8-6-4-2 and with Ajit Agarkar bowling Herschelle Gibbs, South Africa were creaking ominously. The first innings lead was 161, but another wicket or two at that stage would have brought India right back into the match.Kallis, though, put down roots. He shared a fourth wicket partnership with Boeta Dippenaar which brought South Africa 65, a stand of 48 with Lance Klusener for the fifth wicket and the sixth wicket has so far produced 72 for South Africa, with Shaun Pollock’s share 38.Just as South Africa batted around Gibbs in their first innings, so they batted around Kallis on Sunday. He was not without fortune. On 21 he hooked at Agarkar, but the ball sailed between the hands of Srinath at fine leg to go for six. On 51 VVS Laxman snatched at, but could not hold, an edge off, again, Agarkar. But good players ride their luck and Kallis has placed South Africa, as Pollock put it, "into a good position at this stage".It should be a position from which only one of two results are possible – a South African win, which seems the most likely, or a draw. Both of these options, of course, could be dependent on the Port Elizabeth weather over the next two days.South Africa, then, have done much to get themselves into a position where they can almost smell a series win. They were also helped on Sunday, though, by some bewildering captaincy from Sourav Ganguly.As always seems to be the case, an Indian captain away from home finds himself under enormous pressure. This is the time when rumours and whispers start to surface and it is no different this time around.The word at St George’s Park was that Ganguly changed his team-sheet moments before the toss, scribbling in Anil Kumble and scratching out Ashish Nehra. Whether this is true or not is anyone’s guess. What is more certain, however, is that Ganguly let the South Africans off the hook after lunch when he started with himself and Sachin Tendulkar.South Africa were 47 for three at the interval and another wicket just after the break, if nothing else, would have made the Indians believe they were still in the game. Srinath, admittedly, already had eight overs under his belt, but India needed to strike and they needed to strike quickly.Instead, Kallis and Dippenaar were allowed to play themselves in again and it was 40 minutes before Srinath was brought back for his second spell. Kumble, too, was ignored until the 51st over when he bowled the last over before tea.For all that India have been handicapped by having to field unbalanced teams in both Test matches, they have also allowed South Africa off the hook several times. If the positions had been reversed, it is a safe bet that Pollock would have started the new session with himself and Nantie Hayward.If the guiding principle is always to do what your opponents like least, then India have missed more than a few tricks during this series.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed Tuesday that the officials of the Sharjah Test series have not expressed any concerns on the bowling action of Shoaib Akhtar.”So far, there has been no report from Sharjah about Shoaib Akhtar’s action,” the ICC said in a statement to Dawn.There were serious doubts about the future of Shoaib, particularly after Darrell Hair was appointed ICC umpire for the second Test. Hair blew the whistle on Shoaib when he reported him for a suspect bowling action during the Perth Test in 1999. Since then, Shoaib has been reported twice – both last year – and faces the possibility of being banned from international cricket for a year. However, team sources did confirm that an ICC umpire and match referee did see Shoaib’s action in slow motions.Nevertheless, not reporting his action to the ICC leads to the conclusion that two ICC umpires and Mike Denness have officially given clean sheet to the controversial fast bowler who did bowl pretty well in the desert city.The PCB chairman Lt Gen Tauqir Zia last week had expressed fears that Shoaib would be reported again, particularly after he started taking wickets and the World Cup just round the corner.Tauqir had further threatened that if Shoaib was reported or called, the team would be withdrawn from the field and the tour would be aborted immediately. However, aborting tour seems highly unlikely as Pakistan’s next off-shore assignment is in September in Sri Lanka (ICC KnockOut tournament) and the crucial African safari that leads upto next February’s World Cup.Former Test umpire Mahboob Shah who is also the chairman of the National Umpiring Council, however, said both the umpires were entitled to call or report any bowler for suspect bowling action.”Although the square-leg umpire is in better position to judge the bowling action, either umpire can report the matter to the match referee,” he said.He was commenting on the basis that from April, both third country umpires would officiate Test matches. In Sharjah, Shoaib bowled from Hair’s end.

BRISBANE – A knee injury has sidelined former Australian fast bowler ScottMuller for a month and he will miss Queensland’s opening trial game of thecoming cricket season.The Bulls will be back in action early next month in a City versus Countrytwo-day trial in Biloela, 350km north-west of Brisbane.International players Michael Kasprowicz (City) and Wade Seccombe (Country)will captain the respective teams for the match on September 8-9.But injury has forced Muller to postpone his planned comeback in the match,after undergoing minor surgery this week.Muller, who had knee surgery last season, was forced to have an arthroscopyon his “good” knee which was expected to sideline him for at least fourweeks.”It’s bad luck for Scott as he had made a successful return to bowling andwas beginning his pre-season build-up with us,” Bulls coach Bennett Kingsaid today.”Hopefully this setback will only be a brief one for him and he can get backinto the swing of things for the start of the season.”While Muller was not considered, fellow quick Ashley Noffke has been namedto make his return from the ankle injury that cut short his Ashes tour afterhe was called into the Australian squad to replace Nathan Bracken.Queensland’s other Ashes tourist, Test opener Matthew Hayden, will have abreak following his return home to Brisbane today.Bulls skipper Stuart Law, Martin Love, Jimmy Maher, Andy Bichel and AndrewSymonds are still in England playing county cricket and return home inmid-September.The trial teams contain several members of the Queensland Under-19 team thatwon the national championships last season as well as Cairns-basedAustralian Aboriginal Youth pace bowler Barry Weare and Townsville batsmanBrett Wightman.Both teams will boast a leg-spinner in their ranks – Beenleigh teenager LukeDavis, a member of the Queensland Under-17 and Under-19 teams last seasonfor City and Ingham-born Greg Chiesa, who recently attended the ACB SpinnersCamp at the Cricket Academy, for Country.CITY: Michael Kasprowicz (c), Ryan Broad, Jerry Cassell, Adam Dale, LukeDavis, Chris Hartley, James Hopes, Nick Kruger, Daniel Payne, MatthewPetrie, Craig Philipson, Nathan Rimmington.COUNTRY: Wade Seccombe (c), Greg Chiesa, Joe Dawes, Nathan Hauritz, MitchellJohnson, Lance Kahler, Damien Mackenzie, Brendan Nash, Ashley Noffke,Michael Sippel, Barry Weare, Brett Wightman.

New Zealand Academy batsman Shanan Stewart’s unbeaten 74 shone like a beacon at Lincoln Green today, as the home side ended the first day of their match with the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy side from Australia in a strong position.The Australians were 123 runs behind with three first innings wickets left.The New Zealand Academy were all out for 208 and by stumps the Australian Academy were 85/7.New Zealand struggled after being asked to bat first on a brownish-looking pitch in cool conditions. Australian fast bowler Andrew James put the pressure on with some accurate bowling, but just when it seemed the home team had settled in for the long haul Jamie How ran himself out.As if that wasn’t bad enough with only 20 runs on the board, three more wickets fell within six balls.Nick Horsley was bowled when leaving a ball outside his off stump which he deflected the ball onto his stumps.Then Luke Woodcock was comfortably caught at short forward-square, as he attempted to evade a rising delivery from the aggressive James.And finally Jonathan McNamee misjudged a full toss off James and was leg before wicket for a three-ball duck.Chris Cairns set about fashioning a recovery by aggressive means and hit four boundaries in his 21 off 37 balls, before being trapped leg before wicket.He wasn’t alone in the manner of his dismissal as three players around him in the batting order departed in similar fashion.Throughout all the misfortune, Stewart was in good touch and finally found a solid ally in Reece Young, who stayed around for more than an hour as 55 runs were added for the eighth wicket.Stewart had personal reward for his innings when bringing up his half century after 175 minutes, scored off 130 balls. Once he was joined by last batsman Wade Cornelius, Stewart hit out more but the innings ended when Cornelius was caught at slip from Beau Casson’s bowling.Australian patience proved the key to New Zealand’s dismissals. Mark Cosgrove took two for 26, James took two for 31 and Casson two for 44.Disappointed with their own effort, the New Zealanders soon had the Australians in trouble.Callum Ferguson was brilliantly run out by Brendon McCullum who threw down the stumps from point.Cornelius combined with wicket-keeper Young to remove Peter Dickson and Cameron Borgas in identical style, searching for fast deliveries outside the off stump.McCullum soon pounced again, taking a low catch in the gully to dismiss left handed Cosgrove to have the Australians struggling at 55/4.Young claimed his third catch when Casson cut unsuccessfully outside off to Sam Whiteman who was rewarded for his into the wind bowling with another wicket as George Bailey was caught by How at second slip.Adam Crosthwaite was the last wicket to fall when he missed a straight delivery from Cornelius and was bowled without scoring. The total was now 79-7.The day of great fluctuations, dominated by the bowlers, concluded in sunshine with the Australians trailing by 123 runs with three wickets in hand.Cairns picked up one wicket for six runs from his six overs. Cornelius took three for 30 while Whiteman’s two wickets cost 34.The game finished in sunshine, offering the hope that the remaining days are played out in warmer conditions.

There were a number of interesting features of this match. Firstly, SachinTendulkar passed his own record for the most runs scored in a World Cup tournament. He had scored 523 runs (avg 87.16) in 1996.Most runs in a World Cup tournament

Name Team M Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50 YearSR Tendulkar Ind 8 8 0 571 152 71.37 90.34 1 5 2003SR Tendulkar Ind 7 7 1 523 137 87.16 85.59 2 3 1996ME Waugh Aus 7 7 1 484 130 80.66 85.51 3 1 1996GA Gooch Eng 8 8 0 471 115 58.87 70.29 1 3 1987R Dravid Ind 8 8 1 461 145 65.85 85.52 2 3 1999MD Crowe NZ 9 9 5 456 100* 114.00 90.65 1 4 1992PA de Silva SL 6 6 1 448 145 89.60 107.69 2 2 1996DC Boon Aus 8 8 0 447 93 55.87 76.67 0 5 1987Javed Miandad Pak 9 9 2 437 89 62.42 62.33 0 5 1992GR Marsh Aus 8 8 1 428 126* 61.14 68.26 2 1 1987

Tendulkar was dismissed for the 8th time in the nineties in Limited OversInternationals, passing the 7 dismissals in the nineties by Aravinda deSilva. De Silva has also made two not out scores in the nineties, making 9 scores in the nineties in total, one ahead of Tendulkar’s 8.The Sri Lankan innings included 5 ducks. This one short of the most ducks ina Limited Overs International innings. It was, however, the first time inLimited Overs Internationals that the first four batsman dismissed in an innings all made ducks.Most ducks in a Limited Overs International innings

Ducks For Against Venue Season6 Pakistan England Birmingham 19876 Pakistan West Indies Cape Town 1992/936 South Africa Australia Sydney 2001/025 England West Indies Lord’s 19795 England Zimbabwe Harare 1996/975 West Indies Pakistan Melbourne 1996/975 South Africa Pakistan Sharjah 1999/005 West Indies Zimbabwe Sydney 2000/015 New Zealand Pakistan Auckland 2000/015 Zimbabwe Sri Lanka Colombo-SSC 2001/025 Canada Sri Lanka Paarl 2002/035 Sri Lanka India Johannesburg 2002/03

Finally, Mohammad Kaif became the first fielder to take 4 catches in aWorld Cup match. For the record the following fielders all held theprevious record of 3:

Name For Against Venue SeasonCH Lloyd West Indies Sri Lanka Manchester 1975DA Reeve England Pakistan Adelaide 1991/92Ijaz Ahmed Pakistan Australia Perth 1991/92AR Border Australia Zimbabwe Hobart 1991/92CL Cairns New Zealand UAE Faisalabad 1995/96GP Thorpe England Sri Lanka Lord’s 1999NJ Astle New Zealand Australia Cardiff 1999IL Philip Scotland Bangladesh Edinburgh 1999RT Ponting Australia Bangladesh Chester-le-Street 1999SC Williams West Indies Scotland Leicester 1999AR Whittall Zimbabwe South Africa Chelmsford 1999V Sehwag India Holland Paarl 2002/03LJ Burger Namibia England Port Elizabeth 2002/03HH Dippenaar South Africa Bangladesh Bloemfontein 2002/03D Mongia India Namibia Pietermaritzburg 2002/03V Sehwag India England Durban 2002/03AF Giles England Australia Port Elizabeth 2002/03

Test rejects Mohammad Ramzan and Mohammad Wasim struck identicalcenturies for KRL as Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD) took firstinnings points in the drawn Patron’s Trophy Grade-I match at JinnahStadium in Sialkot Saturday.According to details available were, Wasim was out for 123 afterdominating the opening partnership of 193 with Ramzan, who finishedunbeaten on 123 in KRL’s second innings score of 315 for one.Saeed bin Nasir was the other not out batsman with 52 to his credit inthe unbroken second wicket stand of 122 with Ramzan. Earlier, PWDextended their first innings lead to 135 by reaching a mammoth 592 inreply to KRL’s 457. Iqbal Imam, who resumed on 83 in the overnightscore of 544 for eight, became the second batsman in PWD’s innings toreach a century. Iqbal, the left-hander, made 114 off 190 balls instay of 244 minutes. On Friday, PWD captain Saad Wasim hit 132.Part-time off-spinner Intikhab Alam claimed both the wickets that fellSaturday. By far the most successful bowler for KRL was Yasir Arafat,whose final analysis were six for 166 in 34 overs while Shoaib Akhtar,the Test speedster, had only one wicket in the innings for 85 runs in28 overs.

National Cricket Academy XI completed a second trouncing in successivedays of the Combined Zonal Academy team at the RSI Ground in Bangaloreon Wednesday. NCA’s 115 run victory was built around a rollickingcentury by opener Deep Dasgupta, ably supported by lusty efforts fromGnaneswara Rao and Ishan Ganda. In a game that was reduced to 45 oversa side due to overnight rain, NCA piled up 303/5 and then rolled overtheir opponents for 188.NCA skipper Ajay Ratra won the toss and elected to take first strike,opening the batting himself with his fellow stumper Dasgupta. Ratra -playing as a specialist batsman – fell to Mihir Diwakar for 22 butDasgupta and Rao (67) proceeded to compile a 134 run second wicketpartnership. Dasgupta, who was among the probables for the Zimbabwetour, hoisted a 98 ball ton, advancing to 122 off 115 balls, before hebecame spinner Abhishek Sharma’s second victim. A late onslaught fromGanda who belted an unbeaten 66 off just 48 balls saw NCA top the 300run mark. Neither Gautam Gambhir nor Gulzar Inder Singh who put on a204 run opening stand for NCA on Tuesday got to bat. Sharma was by farthe best bowler on view with 3/40 in nine overs.The Combined XI never appeared remotely in the hunt, offering only afew pockets of resistance in the form of opener SM Dholpure’s 57 andAmbati Rayudu’s 43. Stuart Binny smacked three sixes in his 28 beforebeing ninth out and the game meandered to its desultory end shortlyafterwards. Six bowlers shared the wickets for the victors withManinder Singh, SG Yadav, Mulewa Dharmichand and Ishan Ganda scalpingtwo apiece.