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Promoted Essex bowled themselves within sight of an innings victory in their opening CricInfo Championship game of the season against Leicestershire at Grace Road.Left-arm paceman Mark Ilott and Ricky Anderson both took four wickets as Leicestershire were bowled out for 104 in their first innings and followed-on 214 behind.The homeside’s problems continued second time around and by the close they had struggled to 62-2 off 32 overs – still trailing by 152 runs.It was a superb effort from Ilott and Anderson on a pitch that always gave them some assistance. The ball swung and seamed for much of the day but Leicestershire contributed to their own downfall with some poor shots.Iain Sutcliffe top scored with 21 but the home side lost their last eight wickets for 44 runs with Ilott taking 4-27 and Anderson 4-21.Then Ilott had Vince Wells taken by Stuart Law at slip in the fourth over of the second innings and Darren Maddy was trapped lbw by Ronnie Irani.At the start of the day Essex also suffered a batting slump, losing their last five wickets for 42 runs in 19.1 overs to be dismissed for 318. James Ormond claimed 5-71 and Devon Malcolm, on his debut, 3-54.

The Stroud and Swindon Building Society West of England Premier League XI to play against Somerset CCC on Monday April 8th at the County Ground in Taunton has just been named.Captained by Ryan Jamieson of Optimists and Clifton CC, the rest of the players are, Chris Budd, Damien Forder and Neil Pritchard (all Thornbury CC), Kevin Sedgebeer (Taunton St Andrew’s) Ben Staunton and Paul Thorburn (both Bath CC), Richard Trotman, Paul Redwood and James Whitby-Coles (all Optimists and Clifton CC), and Peter Baxter (Cheltenham CC).The match on Monday will be 45 overs per side and play gets underway at 10.30 am. Entry is free and all spectators will be made very welcome. The bar in the Colin Atkinson Pavilion will be open to serve refreshments.One special spectator who is expected to be present on Monday is D.A. (David) Allen, the former England and Gloucestershire off spinner who is the President of the West of England Premier League

As Central Zone looked in control of their chase at tea time on the final day of the Duleep Trophy final in Chennai, having lost only four wickets for 147, Anustup Majumdar was introduced, not exactly as a wicket-taking option. His 4 for 29 with his legspinners changed the complexion of the game and handed East Zone the trophy.Majumdar, earlier only classified as a batsman, now has five wickets in first-class cricket, four of which came in that spell. Left-arm spinner Iresh Saxena, who took 5 for 58 to contribute to Central Zone’s ensuing collapse, said he had asked for Majumdar’s introduction so he could change ends.”I knew Anustup bowled legspin because I’m also from Kolkata. I told Natraj (the captain) to give him one of my overs, because I wanted to change ends. I wanted to change ends because I wasn’t getting wickets, and I thought there was more purchase from the other end. After Anustup got the wicket, we really came together as a team and started enjoying it more,” Iresh said.Central Zone slipped, losing four wickets for 20 runs, eventually falling short of East Zone’s first-innings score of 232, and thereby the Duleep Trophy title, by 43 runs. Majumdar took a wicket in his first over, breaking a partnership of exactly 50 by dismissing Mahesh Rawat, who edged to the wicketkeeper. After bowling two overs, he removed Bhuvneshwar Kumar for a duck with a googly, and followed it up with the wicket of Praveen Kumar in his next over. The Duleep Trophy title thus swerved East Zone’s way.”I haven’t bowled much in first-class cricket,” Majumdar said. “I bowled offspin in one or two first-class matches, although I began as a legspinner and a lower-order batsman in junior cricket. After that things changed a bit. On this wicket we had gone with only one spinner and three seamers, so I tried bowling, and I managed it. Legspinners are generally more inconsistent and I hadn’t been practising bowling legspin. I bowled a good ball, got a wicket (that of Mahesh Rawat) and my confidence went up.”Iresh Saxena, meanwhile, dismissed Jalaj Saxena and opener Tanmay Srivastava to contribute to the collapse. Central Zone were bowled out for 189.Majumdar had been part of the India A squad that toured New Zealand in September, scoring 150 runs in two first-class games, including two half-centuries, to be India’s fourth-highest run-getter. With his bowling now an added asset, it can only mean a boost to the Bengal side ahead of the upcoming Ranji Trophy season.

Hemang Badani scored a brilliant unbeaten 104 before his home crowd toturn possible defeat into glorious victory in the final of the HeroHonda NKP Salve Challenger Series at the floodlit MA Chidambaramstadium on Thursday.Replying to India A’s imposing total of 311 for six in 50 overs, IndiaSeniors were in a hopeless position at 96 for five in the 18th over.But then Virender Shewag joined Badani and the two changed thecomplexion of the game with some great running between wickets and alot of innovative strokeplay. They added 168 runs off 24.4 overs tohave the crowd on their feet before some fine work by RS Sodhi in thefield had Shewag just short of the crease. Shewag made 94 off 95 ballswith nine fours and two sixes.Sunil Joshi joined Badani and the two left handers hastened the pace.Badani kept his appointment with his century and he and Joshi sawIndia Seniors through to a remarkable victory with 1.5 overs to spare.Fittingly, Badani got the winning run to cap a great tournament forhim. In the two earlier games he scored 64 not out and 70. In all, the24-year-old Chennai born left hander faced only 87 balls hitting sixfours and three sixes. Joshi, for his unbeaten 22 faced only 18 ballshitting a six and a four.Earlier, Ajit Agarkar removed openers SS Das and Vikram Rathour with33 runs on the board. Skipper Sourav Ganguly scored a bright 34 off 24balls. But then in quick succession, Ganguly, VVS Laxman and YuvrajSingh left putting India Seniors in a precarious position at 96 forfive. Then came the grand recovery.Earlier, India A after a slow start, hit 153 runs in the last 20 oversto end up with a challenging score.Batting first on an extremely hot and humid afternoon, India Astruggled to score runs and after 15 overs, were 69/2. The two wicketsto fall caused some confusion and controversy, both of them caught byRathour off Srinath who bowled with a lot of fire and bounce on a deadChepauk pitch.Sriram was the first batsman to be dismissed for just four in thethird over. Sriram stood his ground as Rathour had taken the catch lowdown and close to the ground. The third umpire SC Gupta took a longlook at the TV replays before adjudging him caught behind.Ramesh played some awesome drives off Zaheer and Srinath and waslooking like getting back to his best. In the 11th over of theinnings, Srinath got one ball to move away from Ramesh and there was amuffled appeal by the bowler and close in fielders. The events thatfollowed might be crucial to Ramesh’s career.Ramesh (26 with 4 fours) was given out caught behind. A visibly upsetRamesh did himself no favour by standing his ground for a long timeand gesticulated at both the umpires that the ball had hit his pads.He kept on talking to the umpires and walked off the ground whennobody would listen to him. His miserable run with the bat continueswith the third failure of the series that could well ruin his chancesof a place in the national side. To add to his misery, all thishappened right in front of the selectors and the coach, who might notbe pleased by his indiscipline on the field.Dravid and Hrishikesh Kanitkar added 99 runs for the third wicket off18 overs to put the innings back on track. And the impetus wasmaintained with Dravid and Jacob Martin putting together 101 runs forthe fourth wicket off 15.5 overs.Dravid and Kanitkar played some sensible cricket, playing the ballinto the vacant spaces and building up the innings. Dravid who washampered by cramps moved along with the help of a runner, Sriram.Kanitkar was easily the more aggressive of the two batsmen, strikingeight boundaries in his innings. He did not hesitate in stepping outof his crease and lofting the ball on either side of the wicket,whenever the ball was given some air.Kanitkar was finally caught by Yuvraj Singh in the covers off thebowling of Shewag for 56. He faced 69 balls in his stay at the crease.Dravid who looked good for a big hundred, despite being visibly indiscomfort with cramps, was dismissed after making 88 runs off 105balls. He struck five boundaries in his stylish effort at the crease.When Javagal Srinath came in to bowl his second spell, Dravid playedone of the most stunning cover drives of the series. He stood thereand whacked it through the covers, striking it clean on the rise.Nobody moved an inch as the ball sped into the fence like a bullet.Dravid was dismissed going for the big shot, caught by Yuvraj at thesecond attempt in the 45th over off the bowling of Nehra. Jacob Martinand Dravid then came together. Martin was a revelation today, strikingthe ball as clean as a whistle to all parts of the ground. He made 61runs off 58 balls with the help of eight boundaries before being runout by a throw from SS Das to Rathour.Towards the end of the innings Agit Agarkar and RS Sodhi playedexplosively to carry the total past 300. Agarkar made 27 runs off amere 15 balls, striking a six and two boundaries, all off AshishNehra. Sodhi remained unbeaten on 22 off 13 balls with a six and afour. Saurav Ganguly who bowled the last over did a wonderful job,giving away just six singles.

Michael Muirhead, a management consultant, has been appointed CEO of the West Indies Cricket Board. Muirhead, a Jamaican, will replace Ernest Hilaire, who steps down on September 30 after completing a three-year term.Muirhead, 55, served as Executive Director of the Tourism Product Development Company of Jamaica from 2004 to 2006 and since then has been engaged as a management consultant with several high-level projects in the country. He was also with Price Waterhouse and served in senior management positions at the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica.”The Board is confident that the appointment of Mr. Muirhead will ensure that West Indies cricket remains resolutely on the path to structured development and progress and that he is most capable of continuing the process of overseeing the implementation of the WICB Strategic Plan 2011-2016,” Julian Hunte, the president of the WICB, said. “Michael brings a wealth of experience in a range of sectors in Jamaica. He is an accomplished, astute and measured executive on whom the Board will rely to execute its programmes and policies and further build capacity at the WICB secretariat.”The interview panel was most impressed with his resume, clarity of thought, broad understanding of the sport, communication skills and overall skills set, and specifically, his capacity for judicious management. Now that we are exiting the ‘season of fundamental change’ in West Indies cricket and approaching the road to sustained stability and steady progress, the Board believes that Michael is the ideal candidate to lead its administrative arm.”Muirhead said: “I am delighted at the confidence that the Board has placed in me and stand committed to advancing the implementation of the Strategic Plan and the policies of the Board.”West Indies cricket has been enjoying some recent successes and is now positioned to be a competitive force once again among the cricketing nations of the world. I will do my utmost to maintain and improve on what has already been put in place thus ensuring that we as West Indians can once again proudly hold our heads high.”

ScorecardMichael Klinger has scored more than 2000 runs in all competitions for Gloucestershire•Getty Images

Michael Klinger, the Australian batsman, has turned down an offer to play for Gloucestershire as a domestic-qualified player.Klinger, 33, is coming to the end of the first season of a two-year contract, currently as Gloucestershire’s overseas player, but the club have explored a loophole that could see Klinger qualify with an Hungarian passport.Klinger’s late mother was an Hungarian passport holder and a recent change in Hungarian law would allow him to obtain a passport through that route. The move would see Klinger gain domestic status as a European Union passport holder and allow Gloucestershire to sign another player as their overseas option.But Klinger has rejected the offer because it would threaten his deal with Big Bash League franchise Adelaide Strikers. Should Klinger become a domestic player in the UK, to play domestic cricket in Australia he would have to be signed as an overseas player. Klinger signed a three-year deal with Adelaide in July 2012.”We’d be silly if he we didn’t explore the option,” Gloucestershire’s director of cricket, John Bracewell, told ESPNcricinfo. “We are just looking for a loophole and an opportunity to then perhaps reinvest in another overseas. But he is already contracted long term with South Australia in the Big Bash and it’s not worth him risking that contract.”To be fair to him he has that option. We had already signed him for two years as our overseas anyway. So he doesn’t need to take that option. It’s a no.”For Bracewell, Klinger has “matched expectations and then some” with his outstanding contribution this year. He has made over 2000 runs in all competitions, including four Championship centuries and an average of 87.75 in the Yorkshire Bank 40.His leadership has also helped revitalise Gloucestershire, who narrowly missed out on qualification for the semi-finals of the YB40 and were not far off the promotion race in the Championship.Bracewell has challenged his side to win their final two matches and achieve a pre-season target of six Championship victories. But their initial progress against Lancashire was hampered by rain that allowed only 10 overs to be bowled on the opening day in Bristol.Gloucestershire won the toss under skies that threatened interruption and Will Gidman immediately struck with the wicket of Paul Horton from the final delivery of his opening over. Gidman struck again two overs later, bowling Ashwell Prince for a duck before Luis Reece and Karl Brown settled. Rain arrived around 11.20am and remained steady for several hours. A heavier burst saw the umpires abandon play at 3pm.

Mamelodi is a long way from Jaipur, not just in geographical terms. The streets of the township north-east of Pretoria are lined with small and medium sized houses in close contact with each other and makeshift shops which seem a world away from the palatial grounds of one of India’s most touristy cities. So it was unexpected that the cricket pitch in Mamelodi so closely resembled a sub-continental one.The surface, meticulously worked on for days to host the first franchise match in a previously disadvantaged residential area, had a hint of help for the seamers early on before becoming slow, low and difficult to score off. “It was ideal preparation for us for the Champions League. I actually wish we could play a few more matches here before we head off,” Geoffrey Toyana, Lions’ coach said.Gearing up for one of cricket’s most lucrative events was not the intended purpose of the first eKasi Cup match – it was actually about taking the game to the people – but it was a welcome consequence for the two franchises involved. Both Lions and Titans, who have qualified for next month’s CLT20 competition in India added to their training by having their first competitive match since the winter break staged on a surface which required the skills they will need in the sub-continent.”It was a beneficial experience for both the batsmen and the bowlers,” Rob Walter, coach of Titans, said. “We started a little slowly with the ball but I think we came back well. The bowlers had to think about what’s needed on a surface like this. Is it cutters, slower ball, that kind of thing? And the batsmen had to work for their runs too.” Walter was South Africa’s fitness and fielding coach before taking over at Titans.For Titans, particularly, it exposed what they will need to work on with the bat ahead of their trip to India. Only three of their batsman got into double figures as they struggled against the pace of Hardus Viljoen upfront and the slower bowling of Aaron Phangiso and Jean Symes later on.They were not helped by a stodgy surface which became more difficult to build an innings on as the afternoon wore on and their own bowlers conceding heavily upfront. Lions had two century stands upfront before losing their last eight wickets for 50 runs. Quinton de Kock, who had a torrid time on the tour of Sri Lanka recently, scored a century, which both Toyana and Walter think will help boost his confidence.”He saw that he can score runs on pitches that are more difficult and slower,” Walter said. Toyana also hoped this would start de Kock’s second full franchise season off on positive note. “They always say the second season is the most difficult and I can see Quinton is prepared. Since he came back from the national team he has been hitting more balls than I ever seen him hit and working very hard. He is a gun player and an awesome talent and he is maturing nicely,” he said.De Kock will be an important part of the Lions’ CLT20 ambitions but his record at the IPL and in Sri Lanka, where he appeared struggle outside the offstump suggested he would have work to do before heading there. With him finding his feet, Toyana was more at ease ahead of the Lions training camp, which will take place in Potchefstroom, where the tracks are spicier, early next month.The conditions there were why Toyana jokingly said he’d prefer his team to train in Mamelodi, where the spinners came into play much more than they do at other South African grounds. Symes and Phangiso took eight wickets between them, with the latter enjoying a sensational return to the ground he once called home, when he played club cricket here just a few years ago. The schoolchildren, who like all in attendance were given free entrance, immediately recognised him and chanted his name with glee.They also got behind their home team, Titans, and created a special banner for wicket-keeper batsmen Mangaliso Mosehle. Despite their heavy defeat, Titans will not be too concerned with their early preparations under a new coach, because they will welcome back big-name players AB de Villiers, Morne Morkel and Marchant de Lange, provided he returns from injury, for the CLT20.Instead, for them the day was about reaching out to the community in a way South African cricket has not done before. Cricket is not traditionally played in predominantly black African areas such as this one and both teams did as much as they could to enjoy the experience to the full.Lunch was a typical South African meal of pap, boerewors and chis a nyama (maize meal, sausages and barbequed meat). Toyana encoruaged his players to engage with the schooldchildren, pose for pictures and hand out cricket balls.Walter did the same. “I want to get my boys out there, whether its here in Mamelodi or somewhere else in Pretoria. We want to become involved in new markets and get the local fans behind us,” Walter said. They will need a much better showing in places like Hyderabad and Jaipur to do that but at least they’ve got their eye on what to expect from conditions early and they will get an opportunity to improve on them when they play a practice match against the Cobras at the same venue next Saturday.

ScorecardMark Wood took a career-best 5 for 44 to seal victory•Getty Images

A raucous rendition of The Blaydon Races resounded from the home dressing room moments after Durham completed an equally resounding victory which elevates them to second in Division One of the County Championship and sets up a mighty showdown with leaders Yorkshire at Scarborough next week. For Surrey the outcome was equally significant but for very different reasons.Surrey have a game in hand on all their rivals trying avoiding the drop to Division Two but they have yet to win a Championship game this season, and on the evidence of their performance at Chester-le-Street, the wait could be extended. The gap between them and Derbyshire, who are third from bottom, is now 15 points and the two teams will meet at The Oval at the end of next week. That makes the next round as important for those two sides as the game at the seaside in Yorkshire.When the 2013 season started, Chris Adams was in charge of coaching at Surrey and he brought in a new bowling coach, Stuart Barnes. A poor start to the year led to Adams’s dismissal in the middle of June, and the installation of Alec Stewart who predicted an expanded role for Barnes. This had to be daunting, given the underperformance of a side containing several big money imports including Graeme Smith, Ricky Ponting, Vikram Solanki, and now Hashim Amla.Barnes has become more hands-on as the weeks have passed, and after his side lost by an innings, after winning the toss and choosing to field, he was understandably disappointed. “I think we lost it in the second session of the first day, when we didn’t take a wicket,” Barnes said.He spoke of the importance of “bowling partnerships”, and acknowledged that Chris Tremlett, while taking eight wickets in the Durham innings, was not well supported at the other end. “We talk long and hard, we make our plans, we practise them, but we don’t always execute them on the field”.Surrey’s performance had relegation candidates written all over it. In addition to the bowling frailties, their bottom five batsmen added a combined total of 26 in 10 innings. Their capitulation on either side of lunch today, while testament to the skills of the Durham bowlers, looked like that of a side resigned to failure. Hashim Amla made 89, supported stoutly by Zander de Bruyn, whose 12 runs came from 71 balls.De Bruyn was dropped at leg slip by Keaton Jennings off Mark Wood, then edged the next ball to third slip and this time the chance stuck. Steven Davies, the mainstay of Surrey’s first innings, was greeted by an extraordinary field of two slips and three gullies, and the introduction of Chris Rushworth to the attack. “Steve absolutely hates batting against Rushy”, Paul Collingwood said at the end of the day, but it was to be a less experienced quick bowler who would initiate the last rites.Mark Wood’s Championship opportunities have been limited this year, but he took his chance today. Collingwood switched him to the Finchale End for the last over before lunch, and he took wickets with the fifth and sixth balls, both caught behind the wicket by Phil Mustard, who claimed six catches in the innings and eight in the match. It seemed emblematic that on a day when resistance was paramount the Surrey captain, Gareth Batty, went first ball, albeit to a very decent ball.Wood was at it again immediately after lunch, when Gary Wilson swished injudiciously outside his off stump. When Tim Linley top edged a pull and Will Smith pouched it at short leg, it was all over, and Wood had career best figures of 5 for 44.Surrey had lost their last five wickets for 13 runs in four overs. Stuart Barnes remains upbeat, but he and his team have their work cut out.

CIC’s contradictions

January 2008: A CIC ruling on an RTI application says that the BCCI does not come under the purview of the Act as it is not a ‘public body’
July 2011: The CIC issues a similar ruling in another RTI application filed against the BCCI, stating that the board is not a ‘public authority’ under the RTI Act.
June 6, 2013: An RTI application from Madhu Agrawal demands information from BCCI and its state associations on use of government-provided facilities and payments to the government, along with details of stadiums and land owned by BCCI.
July 10, 2013:CIC issues notice to the BCCI in response to Agrawal’s RTI application. Constitutes a full bench of the Commission to hear the case on July 25 and 26
July 25, 2010: Madras High Court issues stay order on enquiry, citing two previous rulings of the CIC, which stated that BCCI was not a public body.

The Madras High Court has stayed the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) proceedings on whether the Indian board is a public authority. The stay was granted by Justice KK Sasidharan while making an interim judgement on a BCCI petition challenging the CIC proceedings.During the appeal for a stay, the board’s counsel argued that the CIC had issued the notice on July 10 though two earlier orders, passed in 2008 and 2011, had clearly held that BCCI was not a “public authority” under section 2(h) of the RTI Act and therefore was under no obligation to provide any information.The CIC, the government’s information watchdog, had sought financial details of the Indian board and its 29 member associations and started a two-day hearing against the BCCI on Thursday. The CIC was formed to bring more transparency to the working of India’s public institutions by looking into petitions from the public under the country’s relatively new Right to Information Act.The CIC’s issuing of a notice to the BCCI was yet another step by the Indian government to establish the BCCI as a public body. The BCCI is currently registered as a private society. In its notice, dated July 10, the CIC has directed the BCCI and all of its affiliated units to attend the hearing either personally or through authorised representatives.The CIC’s actions came after a Delhi resident Madhu Agrawal filed a petition asking for information on financial dealings the BCCI and its member associations had with the government over the past five years.The BCCI challenged the petition in court arguing that it did not come under the purview of the RTI Act as it did not receive any financial assistance from the government and was not a ‘public authority’.Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI’s (Game Development) manager, cited three previous Supreme Court rulings in which the BCCI was deemed an autonomous body, and said the CIC’s move was “totally without jurisdiction”. He also questioned the procedure the CIC followed, calling it “wholly illegal” as only the board’s 29 affiliates were informed about the hearing and not the board or its members. (In fact, the board was mentioned in the CIC notice.)In Delhi, the CIC’s hearing was attended by a BCCI lawyer and representatives from five state cricket associations – Baroda, Bengal, Delhi, Himachal and Punjab. The hearing lasted only a few minutes as when asked to present its reply, the BCCI informed the CIC bench that it had obtained a stay on the petition from the Madras High Court. It is learnt that the stay was obtained late on Wednesday afternoon. Also present at the venue was former India cricketer and Member of Parliament Kirti Azad who called the proceedings a “mockery of justice.”

ScorecardMarcus Trescothick now has three ducks in a row for Somerset•Getty Images

For Somerset, the visit of the Australians and two no-less-bumper T20 crowds have made for a pleasing diversion from the nitty-gritty reality of the LV= County Championship.They are now not aiming to win it, as was expected of them at the start of the season, but merely looking to remain in the First Division. To that end, they were bowled out for 244 by Sussex upon winning the toss and conceded runs at a disturbingly rapid rate in reply; there was scant indication on this day at last that their survival goal would be achieved.At least this match will not finish within five sessions, as was the case when these two sides met at Horsham earlier this summer. There were, though, plenty of additional surprises: Nick Compton out for a duck, ditto Marcus Trescothick, although, sadly, he has not scored a run in his last three innings; a smaller attendance than normal for the opening day of a Championship match; and the non-appearance of Ed Joyce, the Sussex captain, who will dip in and out of this contest.Joyce, and George Dockrell, the Somerset spinner, are both required to play for Ireland in a World Cup qualifying match against the Netherlands. Assuming that is completed in one day, they will participate in the third day of this match – also assuming, of course, it is not over by then.One is a first-class match and the other is not, yet the one-dayer is deemed to be of more importance. It is all unsatisfactory and only devalues county cricket.Maybe it was inevitable that Compton, excluded by England from their party for the first Test this week, would be dismissed by an Australian. Steve Magoffin it was who gained sufficient movement to have him caught at first slip in the second over. Trescothick had already gone by then, edging a ball from James Anyon that lifted sharply outside off stump.Normally there is assistance for the new ball bowlers only in the first hour at Taunton, but now this was to be the scenario for much of the day.Given how swiftly Sussex bowled out Somerset at Horsham, and their respective positions in the Championship, perhaps it was not such a good idea to leave some grass on the pitch.Jamie Overton, after tea, relished the movement off the seam this afforded him, soon having Luke Wells edging to first slip. Steve Kirby had Chris Nash caught behind, but Somerset’s change bowling was far from impressive.Mike Yardy and Matt Machan both reached half centuries rapidly, off 40 and 56 balls respectively, each with ten fours, and during a period of 12 overs added 113 runs against medium pace which constantly erred in length. Yardy was six runs short of a century by the close. Given the fine weather, there will be a positive result, for sure – perhaps before Joyce re-appears.The two Somerset batsmen who profited were James Hildreth, who chose to take on the Sussex attack in reaching a half century at virtually a run a ball with eight fours, and Craig Kieswetter, who batted responsibly before chancing a single to mid on that could only have been born of T20 cricket; Anyon threw the wicket down from only a few feet distant.Magoffin finished with four wickets, including that of Alviro Petersen, caught behind off a thin edge. There were useful runs at the end of the innings from Alfonso Thomas, assisted, reasonably ably, by Steve Kirby, who took 32 balls to get off the mark.