Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsBen Cooper smashed three sixes and eight fours in his quickfire 59•ICC/Donald MacLeod

Netherlands bowled Kenya out for 97, and needed to chase the target in under eight overs to claim the top spot in Group B and gain direct qualification to the World T20 in India. But their four-wicket victory took a few balls too many.After seven overs, Netherlands were 80 for 3 and needed 18 more runs. Ben Cooper went 6 4 6, but was stumped off the fourth ball for a belligerent 59 off 24. The new batsman Max O’Dowd bagged a golden duck and Michael Swart managed only a single off the last ball. Netherlands managed 17 runs off the over, one short of the requirement.That left Netherlands tied with Scotland and Afghanistan on eight points, but Scotland by virtue of a higher run-rate finish as league leaders and have confirmed their progress to the World T20.In a group of fine margins, Kenya would have qualified for the World T20 as well had they won. They would have then finished at the top with nine points, but instead their tournament was prematurely ended, after failing to qualify for next week’s playoffs. Although they were tied on seven points with Oman. The heavy margin of defeat ensured they finished fifth – below Oman due to a lower net run-rate.Kenya were asked to bat and struggled from the outset, losing three wickets in the first 15 balls. Collins Obuya did his best with 33 off 44 balls, but the innings never gained any momentum. His 45-run stand with Morris Ouma(16) was the only significant partnership.Obuya was sixth man out in the 16th over with the score on 82 and Netherlands shot through the tail 15 runs later. Timm van der Gugten picked up figures of 3 for 13 while Swart and Michael Rippon picked up two wickets each.The chase began a little unsteadily with Stephan Myburgh caught in the second over but Cooper and Wesley Barresi took charge of the chase – smashing 61 runs in 31 balls. It wasn’t enough to go through punch their World T20 ticket tonight, but they have qualified for the playoffs and still have a chance of making it.

Senior batsman Michael Papps has been named captain of Wellington in all formats. Papps will replace allrounder James Franklin, who is currently unavailable with a back injury.Papps, 36, said he “accepted straight away” the offer by new coach Bruce Edgar to captain the team. “It was something that I maybe felt was in the pipeline and there was a chance I might be offered the role, and I thought about it over the winter,” Papps told .”At this stage of my career it’s something I’m really eager to have a go at and I feel I’ve got something to offer. It’s exciting, and an honour to be appointed.”Papps has been prolific with the bat for Wellington since moving Canterbury, and was confident that captaincy wouldn’t affect his batting. He also hoped to continue keeping wicket in T20s.”The times I have done it I feel the captaincy has helped my batting. I’m looking forward to getting back to my usual high standards.”

Pace, precision and a penchant for plucking wickets would ordinarily lead to a Test debut, but 20-year old Kagiso Rabada may have to wait just a little while longer to wear the whites. Rabada is part of South Africa’s squad in all three formats for the upcoming tour of India, but remains a reserve in the Test ranks for now.”We’re winning Test matches at the moment, so it’s going to be hard for Kagiso to get into the side and India is going to be even harder because we might even play two spinners,” Charl Langeveldt, South Africa’s bowling coach, said at a training camp for the Johannesburg-based bowlers. “We’ve got three seam bowlers that have done well for South Africa for a number of years now but if an injury comes along then you never know.”That means Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel remain South Africa’s first choice, but this will be the first time they bowl as a trio in India. The trio first came together in November 2011 and have since toured other parts of the sub-continent such as Sri Lanka where Steyn, in particular, was impressive. Langeveldt expects nothing less even in India.”Our fast bowling attack is still key. Steyn bowls well with the ball reversing and with the new ball; although it’s an SG ball, he does bowl well and he gets the ball to reverse,” Langeveldt said.Where Langeveldt expects things to be different is with Philander, who could move from a frontline attacking bowler to the last line of defence.”When Vernon bowled in Bangladesh, he was was one of our best bowlers. He made guys play a lot more than others,” Langeveldt explained. “If he can strike with the new ball in India, that’s key for us. He brings that consistency to our attack and he can keep the run rate down. He went for about one-and-a-half runs an over in Bangladesh recently.”He didn’t get the results but if you talk about keeping the run-rate down and creating pressure from one end while the spinner is attacking from the other end, he can do that.”A strategy where Philander is used as a container could also mean a return for Imran Tahir as the specialist spinner ahead of Simon Harmer and Dane Piedt, both offspinners. That move could further confine Rabada to the bench, where Langeveldt said he will learn what’s expected of him when he makes the step up.”I will make sure he is prepared so if the opportunity does come he is ready to play. I can’t say when he’s going to play, it’s out of my control, it’s out of his control, all he can control is that he will be ready.”Part of the preparation will involve the study of reverse swing, something Langeveldt believes Rabada can master. “KG has got a good wrist position so the ball will reverse for him as well,” he said.”It’s all about looking after the ball. That’s the key to teach him now: to prepare the ball, to look to shine, even throwing from the boundary, those are the things we will discuss. Everyone knows how to prepare the ball for when it does reverse, or when it is reversing or how to get it to reverse.”The more Rabada learns, the more the rest will have to look over their shoulder, which is exactly what Langeveldt wants. Already, Rabada is holding down a fairly regular place in South Africa’s limited-overs sides and with time, he is expected to challenge for a Test spot.”You want a battery of bowlers who are competing. When you’ve got guys competing for the same spot, everyone will lift their game – a senior player will lift his game,” Langeveldt said, while warning his bowlers that no one is safe. “I just don’t want to say he is going to play and that’s it. You have to earn your rights to play for South Africa, and I am a big fan of competition.”

ScorecardFile photo: Shreyas Iyer finished the opening day 33 runs shy of his second double-hundred of this season•PTI

Shreyas Iyer’s rapid 167 not out off 176 deliveries lifted Mumbai to dominant 317 for 3 on the first day of their match against Baroda in Vadodara. Iyer’s knock was complemented by fifties from opener Akhil Herwadkar (67) and Suryakumar Yadav (66 not out), after Mumbai won the toss and opted to bat. Mumbai’s move to promote Dhawal Kulkarni as an opener failed but Herwadkar steadied things, taking the lead in a 42-run partnership with Shrideep Mangela. He then added a brisk 57 for the third wicket with Iyer before falling for 67 to Hardik Pandya. Iyer kept up the tempo of the innings with Suryakumar – the pair added an unbroken 196 runs at more than four runs an over – and struck 13 fours and 4 sixes during the day to finish 33 runs short of his second double-century of the season.
ScorecardAndhra pacers CV Stephen and D Siva Kumar took three wickets each as Uttar Pradesh crumbled to 170 all out on the first day of the Group B match in Ongole. In reply, Andhra’s opening pair of DB Prasanth and Srikar Bharat took the side to 77 for 0, with Bharat finishing the day on 56 not out off 79 deliveries. Only two UP batsmen – opener Tanmay Srivastava (42) and captain Praveen Kumar (47) – scored more than 40 and it was the 65-run partnership for the fifth wicket between the two batsmen that allowed the side to stretch their score to 170. Put in to bat, UP had been reduced to 52 for 4 by Siva Kumar and DP Vijaykumar and once Praveen was dismissed, the side suffered another collapse, losing the last six wickets for only 53 runs.
ScorecardMadhya Pradesh opener Aditya Shrivastava’s fourth century in only his seventh first-class innings helped his side recover from a middle-order collapse against Punjab in Patiala. Shrivastava and Jalaj Saxena added 152 for the first wicket after Madhya Pradesh opted to bat, but Saxena’s dismissal for 70 allowed Punjab to fight back through quick wickets. Madhya Pradesh lost five wickets for 51 runs – offspinner Pargat Singh and legspinner Sarabjit Ladda took two each – before Shrivastava and Rameez Khan saw them through to the end of the day. Shrivastava’s unbeaten 105 came off 267 deliveries and included six fours and a six.
ScorecardRailways’ bowlers struck with late wickets to limit Gujarat to 286 for 6 in Delhi, after a century from opener Priyank Kirit Panchal had given the visitors a chance to post a stronger total. Gujarat lost early wickets to the pace pair of Krishnakant Upadhyay and Ranjit Mali after being put in to bat, but the 120-run, third-wicket partnership between Parthiv Patel and Panchal led the side’s recovery. Y Venugopal Rao supported Panchal in a 73-run partnership after Parthiv was dismissed, but the Railways bowlers – each had a wicket to show at the end of the day – kept chipping away. Panchal was the last wicket to fall on the first day, caught by Ashish Singh off Arnab Nandi for 141.

Chris Harris, the former New Zealand allrounder, told Southwark Crown Court how Chris Cairns “almost seemed like he was not pleased” when his team, Chandigarh Lions, beat Mumbai Champs in a Indian Cricket League contest in March 2008 that has since been tainted with allegations of match-fixing.Cairns, who denies two counts of perjury and perverting the course of justice, had worn an “unusual” expression on his face at the moment of victory in Hyderabad, according to Harris, after Chandigarh’s wicketkeeper, Sarabjit Singh, had cracked 41 not out from 22 balls to seal a two-wicket victory in the final over of the match.The match has previously been identified by Lou Vincent, who gave evidence during the first week of the trial, as one of “three or four” fixtures that he had been paid by Cairns to manipulate.Harris, who played in all three ICL tournaments in 2007 and 2008, described Chandigarh’s target of 136 as “modest”, adding that Sarabjit had played a “splendid innings” to rescue his team from 70 for 6 in the 13th over. However, he also recalled “a number of strange incidents” in the course of the contest.In the end, Sarabjit sealed the match with a six, and footage of the winning moment was played by Orlando Pownall, QC, Cairns’ defence lawyer, to the court. In it, Cairns was seen smiling and embracing one of his team-mates.”It’s perfectly plain, that after that six went over the boundary, the Chandigarh Lions appeared to be delighted,” said Mr Pownall. “Do you agree?””I don’t believe that was the footage I saw,” Harris replied. “I would agree with you that was a fair amount of emotion after winning a game.”Harris, who was captain of Hyderabad Heroes, also recalled a match against Chandigarh in which Cairns had won the toss and batted first, despite the fact that 80 percent of the teams that bowled first had won on that particular ground. “It was a bit of a surprise to me,” he recalled.Harris also claimed that Cairns’ co-defendant and former attorney, Andrew Fitch-Holland, who denies perverting the course of justice during his client’s libel action against Lalit Modi in 2012, had admitted Cairns’ guilt even before that case went to court.Cairns successfully sued Modi after he tweeted allegations of match-fixing in 2010. However, Harris claimed that, during a Lashings game at Bromley Cricket Club, Fitch-Holland had conceded Cairns’ guilt in a conversation with a group of players.”Someone asked him a question along the lines of “poor Cairnsy, what’s up with Cairnsy?”, Harris told the court. “Mr Fitch-Holland, to my surprise, replied ‘Cairnsy’s guilty’.”Sasha Wass, QC, the crown prosecutor asked Harris to clarify whether this conversation had taken place before or after the libel action.Harris replied: “I believe it was before.”However, under cross-examination from Mr Pownall, Harris conceded that he may have been mistaken, as his name had not appeared on the records for any Lashings match at Bromley in 2009.”That possibly could be the case,” said Harris.The comment, it was suggested, may have related to Cairns’ marital problems.The trial will continue from 12 noon on Tuesday.

To analyse Rahul Dravid’s game, there is probably none betterqualified than Keki Tarapore, his coach and greatest influence in hisimpressionable years. The 78-year-old Tarapore who, like Dravid, wasalso born in Indore and attended the St. Joseph’s Boys High School inBangalore is a former Ranji Trophy player himself. He made his debutfor Mysore against Madras at Bangalore in 1945 under the captaincy ofPE Palia.Tarapore’s foray into coaching began when he joined the RajkumariSports Coaching Scheme in 1959 at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay,now known as the NIS (Netaji Institute of Sports). He was posted toJaipur for six months to coach the Rajasthan team and later shiftedback to Bangalore to work under the aegis of the Mysore CricketAssociation. From 1960 to 1991, Tarapore worked as coach to the Mysore(later Karnataka) team.From 1977 to 1991 he was also involved with the national campconducted by the BCCI every summer, first under Col. Hemu Adhikari aschief coach, and for the last two years under Hanumant Singh. Duringthis period a number of future Indian stars like Kapil Dev, RaviShastri, Kiran More, Shivlal Yadav, Roger Binny cut their teeth underTarapore’s watchful eyes.During his service to Karnataka, Tarapore was involved in the earlydevelopment of many exceptional players like EAS Prasanna, BSChandrasekhar, GR Viswanath, BP Patel, SMH Kirmani, SadanandViswanath, Anil Kumble and of course Rahul Dravid. In 1991, he washonoured with the Rajyotsava award for lifetime achievement in thefield of coaching, bestowed on him by the Chief Minister of Karnataka.In this conversation with CricInfo, Tarapore makes a thoughtfulappraisal of the current Indian vice-captain (and future Indiancaptain as he suggests).When did Dravid first come to you and when did you first spot thetalent in him?I first saw Rahul when he was a 11-year-old boy and a student of St.Joseph’s Boys High School. He attended a coaching camp conducted bythe Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) at the M. ChinnaswamyStadium where I was the only coach. He was a boy with tremendousdetermination and eager to learn the right technique for a batsman. Hefirst started to represent the state at the junior level. Once hestarted playing Ranji Trophy for the state and consistently producedruns, I could recognise that he had a chance to play for the country.He was always very hardworking and consistent in the matches played atthe camp.Was he always a batsman from the beginning or did he also bowl a bitor keep wickets?He came as a pure batsman, later on he took up a little bit of wicketkeeping and started bowling off breaks. That’s why even now he keepswickets for the country in case of an emergency. As a fielder he isquiet competent, especially in close positions which he has proven.What were the specific areas in which you fine tuned his game?From the beginning Rahul concentrated on the basics of the game. Evennow whenever he is not in form I advise him to go back to the basics.The most important factor in his career has been that he was alwaysready to learn and take proper advice and apply the same on the field.What do you think are Dravid’s strengths and weaknesses?Rahul’s main strength has been his sound defence and his weakness evennow sometimes has been his tendency to play too far across which hascost him his wicket.Do you agree that he does not have the ability to dominate thebowling?I don’t agree with that. In some circumstances, for the sake of theteam he has scored fast but normally he plays the role of ananchorman. When the side loses early wickets, Rahul’s contribution hasbeen beneficial to the team.How would you assess his leadership qualities? Do you think he is afuture captain of India?I noticed in Rahul at a young age that he had a natural ability tocaptain the side. Whenever he got the opportunity to lead he showedgood promise. Given the opportunity to lead the Indian team, I don’tthink he will fail in his duty as captain.