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Tickets for the traditional end-of-season Australian Rules Football game at The Oval on October 8 are selling well, with over 10,000 already sold for the event.The main attraction is the game between Grand Finalists the West Coast Eagles and local Perth rivals the Fremantle Dockers which starts at 2.40pm. That will be preceeded by a clash between the Irish AFL side, the Green Machine, and the British Bulldogs.AFL first appeared at The Oval in 1972 but the end-of-season exhibition only became a regular fixture in the late 1980s.And in 2006 the ground might host Major League Baseball (MLB) after it was revealed that officials of Surrey had held discussions with MLB representatives. “MLB is very interested in playing games in Europe,” Paul Archey, the organisation’s senior vice-president said. “We’re investigating possibilities in Europe where we may be able to play regular-season games as early as the 2007 season. There’s a lot of interest in us playing in London, and I think selling tickets would be the easiest part of it.”Tickets for the event are £20 and are available on Surrey’s website or 0207 582 7764

After beating India twice in one month, Moin Khan said that he believed Pakistan had the firepower to do it a third time, during the Champions Trophy. Pakistan first romped to an authoritative win over their rivals in the Asia Cup, and then completely outplayed them on an uneven pitch in Amsterdam.The victories were significant, for they showed the improvement the team had made since Bob Woolmer became coach, and that they had put the series defeat against India behind them. Moin spoke about the pressure of facing India in front of a large Pakistani crowd away from home, as well as his own expectations. “In the last two games we dominated them, we beat them and I hope we’re going to perform in the same way,” Moin said to the BBC. “It’s going to be an exciting game because a lot of Pakistani people live here and support us. Definitely there’s going to be lots of pressure on both teams.”The match will be played at Edgbaston on September 19. Both teams have met only once before on an English ground: in the 1999 World Cup, where India beat Pakistan. But since then, Pakistan have beaten India seven times on neutral territory, while India have won three games.

Worcestershire 216 for 8 (Anurag 74, Leatherdale 62) beat Leicestershire 141 by 75 runs

After enjoying the upper hand for much of yesterday’s play, Leicestershire were caught cold on the resumption of their rain-interrupted quarter-final at Grace Road, as Mark Harrity and Matt Mason took three wickets each on a slow seamer. Leicestershire resumed on their overnight 5 for 0, but immediately lost Virender Sehwag for 2 and never recovered. They stumbled to 60 for 6 in pursuit of Worcestershire’s 216 for 8, and only a desperate rearguard from Phil DeFreitas and Charlie Dagnall enabled them to reach the relative prosperity of 141.Sehwag was trapped lbw by Mason off the very first ball of the day, and though Darren Stevens crashed his way to 34 from 26 balls, the game was sealed when five wickets fell for 12 runs, including Stevens and the dangerous Darren Maddy in consecutive deliveries from Andrew Hall. It was sweet revenge for Hall, who had himself been dismissed first-ball by Maddy in yesterday’s play.Going into the match, Worcestershire had been deprived of three key players in Graeme Hick, Stephen Peters and Nantie Hayward, and their own innings had never really got going. They seemed destined for a heavy defeat when Maddy picked up three wickets in an over, including his former Leicestershire colleague, Ben Smith, for a duck, but Anurag Singh and David Leatherdale knuckled down and ground out a competitive total.Singh defied a hamstring injury to make a gritty 74, and Leatherdale followed his matchwinning 80 against Yorkshire in the previous round with a well-paced 62. They added 111 for the fifth wicket, but until the rainclouds rolled across the ground towards the end of the day, it scarcely seemed enough.

Nashua Western Province squads to play the Highveld Strikers in the SuperSport Series at the Wanderers Stadium, 12 to 15 October 2001 and Namibia in the UCB Bowl at Windhoek, 11 to 14 October.1) Graeme Smith
2) Rashaad Magiet
3) Andrew Puttick
4) H.D. Ackerman ( C )
5) Jonathan Trott
6) Neil Johnson
7) Thami Tsolekile
8) Alan Dawson
9) Paul Adams
10) Claude Henderson
11) Roger Telemachus
12) Charl Willoughby
COACHES: Vincent Barnes and Eric Simons
Nashua Western Province Bowl Team Vs Namibia1) Ryan Cotterel
2) Ryan Maron
3) Renier Munnik
4) Sean Ackerman ( C )
5) Warren Wyngard
6) Wesley Euley
7) Faghmie Jardine
8) Marc de Stadler
9) Grant de Kock
10) Paul Harris
11) Quentin Friend
12) Antonio Mullins
Coach: Peter Kirsten

Max Sorensen has been ruled out of the remainder of Ireland’s tour of Zimbabwe and Namibia due to a back injury.Sorensen, the 29-year-old allrounder, was slated to play the four-day fixture against Zimbabwe A starting in Harare on Saturday, but will now return to Ireland immediately. He will also miss the Intercontinental Cup clash against Namibia in Windhoek starting October 24.Stuart Poynter, the wicketkeeper who was to leave the squad after the Zimbabwe leg of the tour, has provisionally been named as Sorensen’s replacement, subject to an approval from the ICC’s technical committee.Sorensen, who last represented the country in a T20I against Scotland in June, did not play a part in the ODI series against Zimbabwe, which Ireland lost 2-1. His last ODI was against South Africa, during the 2015 World Cup in March.

Maharashtra held Mumbai to a draw in the Under-14 West Zone leaguematch played at the Pune Club in Pune on Saturday. The hosts tookthree points while the visiting Mumbai lads went home with five pointsowing to their first innings lead.After Maharashtra skipper AkshayOak won the toss and invited the visitors to bat,Mumbai declared their innings at 434/8 off 105.4 overs on the secondday of the match. The highlight was a mammoth 209 run partnership forthe fifth wicket between Shoeb Shaikh and Prashant Naik. Shoeb scored100 off 127 balls with 14 boundaries while Naik piled up 148 off 221balls with 20 hits to the fence.Maharashtra were skittled out for 260 in 92.5 overs. Opener NikhilMunde scored 60 off 121 balls with nine hits to the fence. ChetanKasbekar was unbeaten on 53 off 92 balls. Pratik Kar bagged four for44.Conceding a 174 run lead, Maharashtra followed on. Their secondessay was similar to the first one as they were bundled out for 203 in84.5 overs. Nikhil Paradkar scored 55 off 134 balls with nine hits tothe fence. Rohit Kakde topscored with 60 off 65 with a dozen hits tothe fence. Sanket Chavan picked up three for 34.Mumbai were set a target of 30 runs in three overs to win the matchoutright. They managed to score 22 off the three overs for the loss ofone wicket.

Pakistan A fast bowler Mohammad Sami has been fined Rs105,000 for reporting late on Thursday and Friday during the ongoing Test match against Australia A at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.Aaqib Javed, Pakistan A coach, said that Sami was handed a Rs5,000 fine on Thursday for joining the team 35 minutes late. However, on Friday, Sami reported almost an hour after the scheduled start time and was consequently fined Rs100,000 in keeping with the clause of the players’ central contract.

Kevin Pietersen has claimed that racial quotas forced him into making the biggest decision of his life, to quit his native South Africa and move to England.In an exclusive extract from his new book Crossing The Boundary, being serialised in the Daily Mail, Pietersen said that he was left out the Natal side in 2000 because of the prevalent quota policy and that led to him making up his mind to seek his career in England.”I was dropped because the quota system was brought into South African cricket to positively discriminate in favour of ‘players of colour’ and to fast-track the racial integration of cricket in the country,” he said. “To me, every single person in this world needs to be treated exactly the same and that should have included me, as a promising 20-year-old cricketer. If you do well you should play on merit. That goes for any person of any colour. It was heartbreaking.”Even though it was very hard for me to take in at the time, it turned out it was the best thing that could have happened.”Not that that seemed to be the case when he was told that he was being left out so that Goolam Bodi could play. “I flew into a rage,” he admitted,” flinging a water bottle across the dressing-room and shouting ‘I’m leaving here’.”Pietersen said that he and his father tried to reason with Phil Russell, Natal’s coach, but got nowhere. And as for Goolam? “I’m not aware he’s made much impact … certainly not with the South Africa team.”Pietersen admitted that he had spoken to Nasser Hussain about the possibility of playing cricket in England when he played against the touring side earlier that season, and that by the time he fell out with Natal there was already considerable interest from several counties in England.Some players advised him to go, but the decision finally came after a meeting with Ali Bacher, at the time the key man in South African cricket. “He was rude to me in that meeting and he was rude to my dad. I had never met the man before. As far as I was concerned the least he could do was be polite.” Bacher failed to offer any encouragement that things would improve. “As soon as we left the meeting my dad said to me: ‘You’re going … the quota system will never finish’.”Pietersen immediately rang Clive Rice, the Nottinghamshire coach, and agreed to join them. He had an English passport which enabled him to do that, although he knew he still faced a delay before he could qualify for England. He also knew that he had played his last game for Natal and that his move had to be for good. “I wouldn’t call it an agonising decision,” he added. “It was well thought out. I’ve always been a confident bloke and I was sure I would be successful.”Pietersen also speculated that had he remained in South Africa he might not even be playing cricket now. “I would have been frozen out of the system … I would have gone out and done something else.”

Rageb Aga, Kenya’s stand-in captain, has warned that nothing less than victory will do, as they prepare for their Intercontinental Cup semi-final clash against Scotland, which begins in the United Arab Emirates on November 17.”It is vital for the future of Kenya cricket,” said Aga, 20, who has been handed the captaincy in place of Hitesh Modi, who is getting married in London on the final day of the match. “It is important that Kenya shows its potential and does well. The bigger picture for Kenya is attaining Test status and winning this tournament will be astepping-stone towards achieving this goal.”Kenya’s preparations have been clouded in controversy, with several of the country’s leading players going on strike after a pay dispute with the Kenyan Cricket Association. But Aga is eager to put the unrest to one side. “We have a blend of youthful exuberance and experience,” he said of his squad. “We are a team willing to take up any challenge and a team willing to work for each other.”Kenya’s match against Scotland takes place at Abu Dhabi, while the other semi-final, Canada against UAE, is being held at Sharjah. The final will take place at Sharjah from November 21.

The announcement by Ten Sports in India that it would be televising live the forthcoming tri-series between Kenya, India A and Pakistan A surprised many, not least the officials of the Nairobi Gymkhana (NG) where the games are scheduled to be played.The Nairobi Gymkhana ground is the only one of international status in Kenya, and was the venue for the 2000 ICC Champions Trophy. But the acrimonious dispute between various Nairobi-based clubs and the Kenya Cricket Association (KCA) meant that last year the Gymkhana authorities took the decision that it would not allow the stadium to be used for any KCA events.The situation is further complicated by the fact that the Gymkhana ground is also home to the offices of the KCA, and that rent for those offices, as well as outstanding ground-admission fees, have apparently not been paid for at least three years.The deal to televise the tri-series was done through Media Plus, a company controlled by Sharad Ghai, who also happens to be the chairman of the KCA. Media Plus is believed to take a 20% cut for handling such deals. And the KCA, which is broke, desperately needs the funds.It soon became clear that without the agreement of the Gymkhana authorities there would be no television monies. Although Ravindra Patel, the Gymkhana Club’s secretary, specifically forbade his board to deal with the KCA, it seems that while he was in London an agreement was struck between Ghai and Raj Thaker, the Gymkhana chairman.When Patel returned he was livid that Thaker had acted without his – or his board’s – consent, but the deal had been done. The KCA, however, still owed around 2.5 million schillings for back rent, and Thaker insisted that until this was paid, there would be no matches.The word of the KCA that the monies would be paid after the event counted for little, as all previous attempts to get the debt settled had been answered with a wall of silence.Ghai was in a corner as the KCA couldn’t pay. So, in desperation, he gave the board his personal cheque for one million schillings as a part-payment, with the balance, which he disputed, subject to arbitration at a later date. What worried some was that Ghai insisted that the cheque was post-dated until after the tournmament. One Gymkhana official said that suspicions remained that once the tri-series was over that the cheque might be cancelled, but it is extremely unlikely that Ghai would act in that way.And so the tournament will go ahead, and the television rights, which according to sources close to the KCA were sold for US$1.5 million, will give Kenyan cricket a much-needed financial boost – once Media Plus have taken their cut.