BCCI LIMITS SHAMI’S WORKLOAD
Kolkata, Nov. 17: The BCCI has allowed senior India pacer Mohammed Shami to turn up for Bengal in the upcoming Ranji Trophy match against Kerala on the condition that he will bowl only 1517 overs per innings. The decision to limit his workload in the Ranji game has been taken keeping the Test series in Australia in mind. India physio Patirck Farhat will also be updated every day on Shami’s fitness as he was rested after the first two ODIs in the series against West Indies. The series opener begins at Adelaide on December 6 and will be preceded by three T20s against Australia starting November 21.
The Bengal pacer is the leading wicket taker for India in Tests with 33 wickets this year. Bengal captain Manoj Tiwary played down the advisory from the BCCI. “Shami is a quality bowler, we have faith in his abilities and I don’t think we will need more than 15 overs per innings from him,” Tiwary said.
Bengal are yet to win a match this season and have six points from their matches against Himachal Pradesh and Madhya England (1st innings) 290. Sri Lanka (1st innings) 336. England (2nd innings): J. Leach lbw b Perera 1, R. Burns lbw b Pushpakumara 59, K. Jennings c de Silva b Dananjaya 26, J. Root lbw b Dananjaya 124, B. Stokes lbw b Perera 0, J. Buttler b Dananjaya 34, M. Ali lbw b Dananjaya 10, B. Foakes (not out) 65, S. Curran b Dananjaya 0, A. Rashid lbw b Dananjaya 2, J. Anderson b Perera 12. Extras (b4, lb9) 13. Total (in 80.4 overs) 346. FoW: 1-4, 2-77, 3-108, 4-109,
5-183, 6-219, 7-301, 8-301, 9305.
Bowling: Perera 20.4-2-96-3, Pushpakumara 27-1-101-1,
The Bengal pacer is the leading wicket taker for India in Tests with 33 wickets this year
Pradesh in the Raji Elite Group B.
On Friday, Indian team departed to Australia for a gruelling tour, which will see them play four matches in whites, three ODIs and as many T20 Internationals. Experts are seeing this tour as India’s best bet to defeat Australia in Tests as the hosts will be without their two key batsman, Steve Smith and David Warner, who are facing a year long ban for heir involvement in ball tampering scandal. Dananjaya 25-0-115-6, De Silva 4-0-7-0, Lakmal 4-0-140.
Sri Lanka (2nd innings): D. Karunaratne c Foakes b Rashid 57, K. Silva st Foakes b Leach 4, D. de Silva c Jennings b Leach 1, K. Mendis lbw b Leach 1, A. Mathews lbw b Ali 88, R. Silva c Root b Ali
37, N. Dickwella (batting) 27, D. Perera lbw b Leach 2. Extras (b5, lb4) 9. Total (for seven wickets in 65.2 overs)
226
FoW: 1-14, 2-16, 3-26,
5-176, 6-221, 7-226. Bowling: Anderson 5-2-12-0, Leach 23.2-2-73-4, Ali 150-65-2, Rashid 17-1-52-1, Root 5-0-15-0 4-103, Trophy New Delhi, Nov. 17: Former all-rounder Dwayne Bravo says the BCCI “offered to pay” his players who threatened to pull out of the 2014 ODI series in India after a contracts fallout with the West Indies Cricket Board. H e