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WCL: Nepal relegated to Division 2 as match with Hong Kong cancelled

Captains of Nepal and Hong Kong toss before their match under the ICC World Cricket League Championship, in Hong Kong, on Friday, October 13, 2017. Kathmandu, October 16 It has been certain that Nepal will be relegated to Division 2 as their match with Hong Kong under the ICC World Cricket League Championship cancelled owing to rains today. The match was postponed for today from Sunday due to a tropical storm. But, post-storm rains did not stop and the umpire announced that both the teams receive one point each. Earlier, Nepal were defeated by Hong Kong by 83 runs in the first match played on Friday. Hence, as Nepal earned just one point from the Hong Kong tour, they could not made it to top four teams among the Championship participants and were relegated to the Division Two. Likewise, Namibia and UAE were also relegated to the Division Two. In the current Championship scoreboard, the Netherlands are on the top with 18 points, followed by Papua New Guanea (16), Scotland (1...
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Handscomb, Marsh pull off great escape

Thirty minutes before lunch,  Peter Handscomb  joined  Shaun Marsh  amid a Ranchi tumult. Their captain Steven Smith had just shouldered arms to let Ravindra Jadeja bowl him, symptomatic of a tired mind, the over after Matt Renshaw had also fallen. Australia were still 89 runs short of making India bat again; the hosts were circling hungrily. Five hours later, Handscomb was still there and Marsh not long departed. The Test match was drawn, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy bout remained locked at 1-1. Through batting of commendable calm and sure-footed technique, the Australian duo had thwarted India in a manner that will be a source of enormous satisfaction to the tourists. By getting out of a predicament few expected them to survive, they took the series to its final match. Equally, India will be left to ponder why they were unable to close out this match in the manner of others during this elongated home season after the sublime innings by Cheteshwar Pujara. Ce...
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Pakistan rise to No. 1 in Test rankings

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Pakistan have risen to No. 1 in the ICC's Test rankings for the first time. They took the top position from India, following India's washed out Test against West Indies in Trinidad. Pakistan had moved to No. 2 on the table last week, after drawing the Test series in England 2-2 and after Australia were whitewashed 3-0 in Sri Lanka. At the same time, India had moved to No. 1 after beating West Indies in the St Lucia Test to go 2-0 up in their four-match series; they needed to win the final Test, in Trinidad, to hold on to No. 1, but the match was drawn after weather and outfield issues forced play to be abandoned over four days. Last week was the second time in less than a year that Pakistan had moved to No. 2 on the rankings - the highest they had previously been since the current rankings system was put in place in 2003. They had featured at No. 2 for the first time in November 2015, after beating England 2-0 in the UAE. Their rise to No. 1 was built on the back of a...
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Finch, Smith help Australia pass SL spin test

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Australia 228 for 7 (Smith 58, Finch 56, Bailey 39, Dilruwan Perera 3-48) beat Sri Lanka 227 for 8 (Chandimal 80*, Kusal Mendis 67, Faulkner 4-38, Starc 3-32) by three wickets Sri Lanka had no fewer than six slow-bowling options - half of them specialists. And by the time Australia batted, the dry Premadasa pitch had begun to bubble and spit. In the Tests, these ingredients had led to humbling defeats for the visitors while the local spinners reaped sackfuls of wickets. But perhaps for the first time on tour, Australia satisfactorily negotiated the spin challenge. The win wasn't always pretty, but it was comfortable enough. With Aaron Finch and Steven Smith making half centuries, Australia chased down 228 with three wickets and more than three overs to spare. It had been Australia's quicks' discipline that had earlier tethered Sri Lanka to a relatively modest total, even given the difficult conditions. Mitchell Starc took three important wickets as he became the quicke...
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Nepal captain Paras Khadka talks about the road ahead for the game in his country

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Paras Khadka is sitting in the away changing room at Lord's, wiping the sweat and dried-on sunblock from his face. He smiles wearily after accepting congratulations for his team's performance, having closed out victory over MCC in their first appearance at cricket's most famous ground. Looking out through the balcony windows as his team-mates bustle about their post-match business, Nepal's captain savours the moment. Khadka is entitled to feel a little bushed, having directed his players in the field for the past three hours, as London stewed on one of the hottest days of the year. The sort of captain who leads with word and deed, Khadka made 30 batting at No. 4 - the second highest score in Nepal's 217 for 8, including their only six - before chipping to mid-on, and then opened the bowling, reeling off six straight overs of accurate medium-pace with the new ball. After the final MCC wicket fell, one of three for Basant Regmi, the players went for a walk around ...
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Luck favour Bangladesh

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Bangladesh will leave Brisbane with one point from their Group A match against Australia after incessant rain forced an total abandonment at the Gabba. The game was officially called off at 4.42 pm, a little more than two hours after the scheduled start. At around 2:30 pm, the ground staff braved the weather to put up advertising on the field but rain grew heavier in ten minutes. The two teams arrived at the Gabba later in the afternoon only to mill around the dressing room. The rain in Brisbane hardly relented following Cyclone Marcia's landfall on Friday morning. Australia's  venue with most washouts  lost its only chance to host the home side in the World Cup.The result left Bangladesh on three points in Group A, behind New Zealand and Australia (on net run-rate) and ahead of sides like England and Sri Lanka, who were yet to earn points. Bangladesh travel to Melbourne next to take on Sri Lanka on February 26. It will be their first match at one of Australia's m...
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