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Phil Jaques raised his fifth first-class double-century and passed 1000 runs for the season as he provided the brightest Australian note during a rain-troubled round of the County Championship. Batting at No. 4 for Yorkshire, Jaques piled on 219 from 261 balls as he shared a county-record partnership for the third wicket against Derbyshire with Anthony McGrath, who made 134.The pair’s 310-run stand at Headingley put Yorkshire in a strong position before they lost 7 for 24 to close the innings at 570 after Ian Harvey chipped in with 83. Surviving chances on 21 and 94, Jaques, who last summer became the first New South Wales batsman since Bob Simpson to score two double centuries in a season, reached 217 by the end of day one, but was part of the collapse on the second morning and now has 1039 Championship runs at 64.94.After watching their Australian counterparts plunder, Michael Di Venuto and John Moss both picked up half-centuries before the third day was washed out. Yorkshire then enforced the follow-on and Moss’s second half-century, his fourth of the season, helped his side to a draw. Derbyshire remain at the bottom of the Division Two table while Yorkshire are second, 15 points behind Durham.As Paul Collingwood was pushing for England selection with twin hundreds, Mike Hussey stepped in with 63 and 27 as Durham avoided the rain in their 207-run win over Somerset at Taunton. Mick Lewis, the short-term replacement for the injured Ashley Noffke, was wicket-less in the first innings but cleaned up the second time round with three late victims. The victory was Durham’s sixth of the season.In Division One, David Hussey added 29 and 30 as Nottinghamshire, who top the table, held on for a close draw against Surrey at The Oval. Notts have a six-point buffer over Kent while Hampshire, who also didn’t play this week, are 19 points adrift.Stuart Law struck 59 off 45 balls in the final of the Twenty20 Cup at The Oval on Saturday, but it was the highlight of a dismal innings of 112 as Lancashire easily gave up the trophy to Somerset. Andrew Symonds, who made 52 from 30 deliveries in the semi-final against Surrey, collected 12 before he was run out and then watched Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, sweep Somerset to victory.

Daan van Bunge, who was the youngest member of the Holland side at the 2003 World Cup, entered the record books earlier this week when he hit the fastest century in the history of MCC’s Young Cricketers.van Bunge, 21, smashed a 38-ball hundred, including 14 fours and nine sixes, against the Surrey Under-19 team at Weybridge on Monday. His innings of 121 eclipsed Surrey’s total of 119, and helped his side to a 258-run victory. His record-breaking knock was made all the more impressive considering the other players who have passed through the young cricketers programme, including Ian Botham, Martin Crowe and Mark Waugh.”It’s a tremendous achievement for Daan to have scored a faster century than any previous MCC Young Cricketer,” said John Stephenson, MCC’s new Head of Cricket. “He is a player of enormous promise and, ever since he joined MCC, he has been a great credit to the club – on and off the pitch.”van Bunge, who is in his second year on the MCC staff, has been part of the Dutch international side since 2002, and had an impressive World Cup last year. He scored 62, his highest score in an international, against India in a losing cause, and then took 3 for 16 against England, taking the wickets of Nick Knight, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff.Darren Sammy, who is part of West Indies’ squad for this summer’s NatWest Series, is also a current MCC Young Cricketer, while England’s Rikki Clarke and Hamish Marshall of New Zealand are recent graduates of the scheme.

Nasser Hussain has delivered a riposte to Mike Gatting, who had said last week that Hussain was putting personal ambition ahead of the interests of the national side.Hussain has insisted that he is still the right man to lead the Test side even though Gatting said that England’s new one-day captain, Michael Vaughan, ought to be in charge of both teams.Speaking to the , Hussain said: “I believe that England will be a better side because I’m leading them – and no one else. If that sounds selfish or big-headed so be it.”I’ve told the selectors – and this is not selfish – that if they believe Michael Vaughan or anyone else will do a better job or I’m not doing a particularly good job, I’ll step aside.”Gatting, the last England captain to lead the team to an Ashes win, in 1986-87, said that Hussain’s pursuit of 100 Test caps and the desire to lead England to more Test wins than anyone else was “self-centred”. But Hussain insisted that there was nothing wrong about goal-setting.”I’m not apologising for having ambitions. That’s part of being a professional sportsman, captain or not. It’s the English mentality. When someone states ‘I’m ambitious’, he gets knocked. Here, everyone loves a loser.”Everyone loved me when I got back from Australia and South Africa last winter. ‘Poor old Nasser, having to try to deal with the Aussies and the Zimbabwe issue.'”England lost the Ashes series in Australia and subsequently boycotted their World Cup match in Zimbabwe, a decision that cost them points and contributed to their failure to make it into the second round. After England’s exit, Hussain announced his retirement from one-day international cricket, saying that it was the right decision for England as well as himself.And he insisted that staying on as Test captain was an equally selfless act on his part. “I’m taking the difficult road. I’m not taking the selfish road. I’m putting my neck on the line this summer because if we lose to Zimbabwe or South Africa [England’s Test opponents this season] it will be me the finger is pointed at.”

* Kambli drops out of Kenya tri-seriesFormer India left-hander Vinod Kambli has dropped out of the Mumbai team that is to tour Kenya to play a tri-series as he is down with gastroenteritis and tonsillitis. Jatin Paranjpe has been named to replace him.Meanwhile, Ranji champions Baroda, who will also be playing in the tournament, have named a squad under Jacob Martin, currently touring Sri Lanka with the Indian side. Connor Williams has been named vice-captain. Mumbai and Baroda will clash in the tournament opener on September 11.Squads: Mumbai: Paras Mhambrey (captain), Sairaj Bahutule (vice-captain), Robin Morris, Wasim Jaffer, Vinayak Mane, Jatin Paranjpe, Kunal More, Nilesh Patwardhan (wicket-keeper), Ajit Agarkar, Ramesh Powar, Nilesh Kulkarni, Swapnil Hazare, Paul Valthaty and Bhavin Thakkar. Coach: Lalchand RajputBaroda: Jacob Martin (captain), Connor Williams (vice-captain), Satyajit Parab, Tushar Arothe, Ajit Bhoite, Nayan Mongia (wicketkeeper), Zaheer Khan, Rakesh Patel, Irfan Pathan (Jr), Irfan Pathan (Sr), Umang Patel, Valmik Buch, Milap Mewada, Himanshu Jadhav and Rahul Chandorkar.* Bailed out Prabhakar is not a free man yetManoj Prabhakar might have been granted bail by the Uttaranchal High Court but he is not a free man yet. The colourful former Indian Test all-rounder will now be taken to Indore on Wednesday where a local court had recently issued arrest warrants against him for duping small investors in the same chit fund case that originally led to his arrest. The Indore police had handed the arrest warrants to the Uttaranchal police recently.Prabhakar had earlier secured a bail from the Uttaranchal High Court after his counsel produced four sureties before the Chief Judicial Magistrate. He is currently recovering in a private nursing home in Haldwani after suffering from a brain stroke.* Nagaraj denies duping the KSCAFormer BCCI Secretary C Nagaraj on Thursday denied that he had ever duped the Karnataka State Cricket Association. “The resolution passed by a Special General Body Meeting (SGM) of KSCA, debarring me from contesting elections, has been done with malafide intentions,” he said in a statement in Bangalore. He also claimed that senior members of the KSCA were absent at the SGM and that over 100 proxy votes were cast in support of the resolution.”As I know I am innocent of the charges leveled against me, and time will show this, I would like the cricket loving public of the state to know that the present KSCA office bearers feel that I am a thorn in their flesh”, he said. “I do not accept the strictures passed against me, as these have been done to prevent me from contesting elections.”The SGM had, during the weekend, adopted a resolution barring Nagaraj for life from holding any post in the association.

Lancashire completed a 20 points win over Somerset today which should clinchthem runners-up place in the championship for the third year on the trot.Theoretically Surrey need a point to retain the title when they visit OldTrafford on Wednesday for the final game of the season. But there is no wayLancashire can even dream of a 20-0 victory, as a first innings declarationby Adam Hollioake would foil them of bonus points.But today Lancashire were happy enough with an innings and 109 runs overover Surrey – and a landmark for acting captain Warren Hegg.The 32 years-old keeper took his catches tally to 635, a Lancashirerecord, beating the 634 of George Duckworth who played between the wars.Hegg, who yesterday hit his first century in four years, passed Duckworth’s milestone by claiming the first three catches today, the third ending a defiant innings by left-hander Ian Blackwell who slammed two sixes and five fours in his 37 before top-edging an attempted hook off Glen Chapple.Michael Burns and Graham Rose had already fallen to Lancashire’s potentseam attack and Somerset’s last chance of survival disappeared when PeterBowler, on 75, was snapped up off bat and pad off left-arm spinner GaryKeedy’s first over.Jason Kerr followed Blackwell’s example but tried one big shot too manyoff leg-spinner Chris Schofield and only lunch further delayed Lancashire,the lastwicket falling nine balls after the interval when Steffan Jones wasrun out.

Dale Steyn, South Africa’s pace spearhead, has said that he will continue to represent his domestic team, the Titans, after he was linked to a move to the Cape Cobras.There was speculation that Steyn was planning on leaving the Titans, since he had decided to move out of Centurion, where the franchise is based. His national coach, Mickey Arthur, had also said that he was “definitely moving.””I think some messages got a bit mixed up,” Steyn told the , a Gauteng-based daily.”I am moving down to Cape Town, which is where my girlfriend lives.”I couldn’t really do anything while I was in the subcontinent, but when I got back from Bangladesh and India, I was able to sit down with the Titans management, and we agreed that I would continue to play for them.”The Titans’ chief executive, Elise Lombard, expressed satisfaction over retaining the services of Steyn. “We are very happy our boy from Phalaborwa is going to continue to play for us when he is not on national duty. He came through the system, and we don’t like to bring the players through only to lose them to another franchise.”We don’t mind where Dale lives, as long as he plays for the Titans when he is available.”Steyn also said that travelling to join his team-mates would not be an issue. “It might have been more convenient to play for the Cobras, but it is also easy to get back to Pretoria to join the rest of the team.”Incidentally, Steyn had played against the Cobras in the semi-finals of the Pro20 tournament in South Africa, before taking 1 for 16 in the Titans’ title triumph against the Dolphins on April 25.

The Indian board (BCCI) has named Nitin Patel as replacement for the injured physiotherapist John Gloster.Patel, a London-based physiotherapist, has previously worked with the Baroda Cricket Association and with the England and Wales Cricket Board’s fast bowling research group. He did his masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine from the University of Nottingham in the UK.”He [Patel] has acquired experience [by] working closely with national high performance programme team to develop measures for injury prevention/pre-rehabilitation and rehabilitation,” said Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI’s chief administrative officer.The BCCI said that Gloster, who fractured his elbow on June 21, would be out of action for at least four to six weeks. However, he is expected to return to the side after his surgery and advise and assist Patel in the interim.Patel said that he would leave for Belfast on Tuesday evening and would reach only after the first ODI against South Africa. Though the BCCI release indicated that Patel would be with the team for the rest of the tour, captain Rahul Dravid stated otherwise.”The board has checked out his credentials apparently, and he’ll be here with us for two-three weeks only, till John gets fit,” Dravid told . “And John will be with us in any case after two-three days to supervise.”Shetty had earlier stated that India A physio Vaibhav Daga would join the team in England.

Young talent from four Test countries – Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa – will be on display in the 12-day Emerging Players tournament beginning July 10 at Brisbane’s Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence (CBCE).The CBCE side, which has players from the Australian Institute of Sport’s cricket programme, apart from three overseas players – Pinal Shah, Gaurav Dhiman and Kshemal Waingankar – on scholarship from India, will play the teams from the other three countries. The teams will play six Twenty20 games and 14 fifty-over matches from July 10 to July 21.Dene Hills, the CBCE coach, said the focus of this tournament will, apart from team success, be on development of skills. “New Zealand and South Africa are sending players who have already debuted in their national squads so we will certainly find ourselves up against sides that are very talented and have some international experience,” he said.The South African side, coached by Allan Donald, is a strong one with seven Test players including Neil McKenzie and Charl Langeveldt.”Our team is very capable and has experience within domestic first-class cricket. However, international cricket is a step above domestic competitions and this tournament will expose our side to international players and give them a taste of cricket at the highest level,” Hills added.CBCE squad: David Warner (NSW), George Bailey (TAS) CO-Captain, Doug Bollinger (NSW), Beau Casson (WA), Adam Crosthwaite (VIC), Daniel Doran (QLD), Ben Edmondson (WA), Callum Ferguson (SA), Aaron Finch (VIC), Shaun Marsh (WA), Tim Paine (TAS), Peter Siddle (VIC), Adam Voges (WA) CO-Captain, Gaurav Dhiman (visiting OS Scholar), Pinal Shah (visiting OS Scholar), Kshemal Waingankar (visiting OS Scholar)Coaches – Jamie Siddons and Dene Hills

Travis Friend, the sacked Zimbabwe allrounder, has fallen from Test status to second-tier club cricket in six months and will play in the Sydney Shires competition this weekend.Like exiled countrymen Sean Irvine and Andy Blignaut, Friend will spend the summer in Australia. But unlike his higher-profile team-mates, he struggled to attract any first-class interest and accepted an offer with the South Sydney club, which plays in a competition one step lower than grade cricket and includes the former Bangladesh captain Aminul Islam.Friend, who bowled in the last of his 13 Tests in March against Bangladesh, was part of a group of 15 white players who accused the Zimbabwe Cricket Union of racist selection policies.”I did realise it would be a lot harder for me [playing overseas] than some of the other guys,” Friend told . “I was looking to go anywhere. I was prepared to start from the bottom and work my way up.”

The ICC has agreed to the Sri Lankan board’s request to hurry up their bowling-review process. After discussions at the ICC’s annual conference, representatives from the Sri Lankan board challenged the ICC on how they currently deal with illegal bowling actions.The result of the discussions was that the ICC will speed up the process of looking at illegal actions as far as they can, as long as it doesn’t hinder the Cricket Committee and the Chief Executives’ Committee, the groups which will specifically be researching these issues.The ICC has promised to look further into the problem of throwing during the Champions Trophy in England this September. After that, members of the Cricket Committee, including the former cricketers Tim May, Aravinda de Silva and Angus Fraser, will have another look at how the current process of reviewing bowling actions is dealt with.The Sri Lankan board’s request came in response to the ICC’s recent handling of Muttiah Muralitharan’s action. After Murali was put through a series of high-tech tests at the University of Western Australia earlier this year, it was confirmed that when he bowled the doosra his elbow did exceed the permitted five-degree tolerance level for spinners. However, Bruce Elliott, the biomechanics expert who led the testing, then called for further research into the setting of tolerance levels for bowlers.As a result, Murali escaped any punishment and was allowed to continue bowling, although he was advised not to deliver any doosras. He went on to break Courtney Walsh’s Test-wickets record during Sri Lanka’s tour of Zimbabwe. However, his decision not to tour Australia for personal reasons – not unconnected with Aussie disapproval of his bowling action, not least from their prime minister John Howard – has put his position in danger, with Shane Warne hot on his heels only seven wickets behind going into the second Test against Sri Lanka at Cairns.The ICC’s stand on throwing has been scrutinised, and its tolerance levels for throwing have been criticised by Elliott, who believes that the limits are set on illogical data. He said that “the five-degrees [rule] is based on illogical data because they’ve just tested fast bowlers and assumed that there is some relationship between fast bowlers and spin bowlers. Fifteen degrees is the right angle for fast bowlers and you probably should come down to 10 degrees for spin bowlers.”While Elliott’s suggestion would ensure that fewer bowlers are reported for throwing, a current player told that even under the current method of reporting a bowler, too few bowlers were called. The batsman went on to say that the degree of extension for the bowlers had to be on a lower scale and that special allowances should not be made for bowlers with deformities, as there were no such provisions for the batsmen.But of late, what has become even clearer is that most bowlers bend and straighten their arm to a certain degree, which goes against the traditional definition of a legal delivery. Resolving this issue is what the ICC’s goal is, come September.