For Boland, the former England Test bowler, Phillip DeFreitas, will have
For Boland, the former England Test bowler, day Phillip DeFreitas, will have more to prove than anyone following Illingworth's assertion that the World Cup door remains open.ENGLAND (Four-day match v Boland, Paarl, starting today): A J Stewart (capt), R A Smith, J P Crawley, G P Thorpe, G A Hick, R C Russell (wkt), M Watkinson, D Gough, R K Illingworth, M C Ilott, P J Martin.. Brian Lara says his dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board of Control will force all the problems in Caribbean cricket out into the modules open. Lara withdrew from the extcal West Indies' tour to Australia after being fined by the extcal WICBC - along with three other players - for misconduct during last summer's series in day php?year=2010&month=3&day=2 England. The 26-year-old batsman said that he had "assessed my situation and I thought that I could not continue playing cricket under the same problems that day keep coming up."My issue is a very small one in the entire scenario and hopefully next Friday when the West php?year=2010&month=3&day=2 Indies board meet they could address the real facts and modules what's facing West Indies php?year=2010&month=3&day=2 cricket."The WICBC have scheduled a meeting for 15 December in Barbados to address the dispute.Lara said the Board "will now have to account to the people. So, too, the players will have to account to the people."For those who would prefer he fight his battles at the crease, Lara suggested modules extcal that the World Series Cup is the day only series he will miss. He said: "If I am allowed back into the team, whenever, I will just assess the situation and see if I can play under the same environment."Lara has won the extcal backing of Trinidad and Tobago's sports minister, Pamela Nicholson. "I am very supportive of the line Brian took," Nicholson said.There is precedent for governments intervening in cricket controversies and Trinidad's prime minister, Basdeo Panday, has said that "if it becomes necessary, government could become involved in resolving the matter.". Surrey yesterday appointed Paul Sheldon as their modules new chief executive modules extcal in succession day php?year=2010&month=3&day=2 to Glyn Woodman, who announced his resignation php?year=2010&month=3&day=2 earlier in the day Sheldon will take up the post on 1 January.
A former director of the publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, 42-year-old Sheldon played cricket for Durham University and Sussex Young Cricketers and has a background in sales, marketing and general management. Woodman, 48, started a three-year contract in February 1993, but his term of office was marked by membership unrest and dressing-room dissatisfaction. Geoff Arnold left Surrey as coach in November 1993 and was replaced by Grahame Clinton - but he resigned earlier this autumn.Woodman said in a letter, announcing his decision: "I was brought in three years ago and my brief was to run the club on a modern businesslike basis, while recognising that it was still a members' club. This was a difficult and not always popular task, not made easier by having to serve under three separate chairmen in three years. I worked well with all three but their views on the club were different.". The Welsh rugby union and league international winger, Adrian Hadley, has walked out on Widnes, saying he will never play for them again, writes Dave Hadfield. Hadley, like a number of Widnes player, is owed money and said: "Widnes haven't honoured my contract and I'm not prepared to accept the situation any longer. I have played my last match for them." Hadley, who is recovering from a knee injury has been linked with a return to his old code at the age of 32.
But he says that he has had no approaches and may retire.The club's chairman, Jim Mills, said that he was disappointed by Hadley's decision, but promised that players will be paid before Christmas.Another Welshman, Scott Gibbs, has been passed fit to return for St Helens in their Regal Trophy quarter-final against Halifax on Sunday. Saints have told Welsh clubs they are wasting their time trying to entice Gibbs, who replaces the cup-tied Paul Newlove, back to union. The Western Samoan captain, John Schuster, will miss that match and could be out until the new year after breaking his thumb.Kevin Ellis has offered his services to his former club, Warrington, who have their first-choice scrum-half, Mike Ford, with a hamstring injury, while his predecessor, Greg Mackey, is due to retire and fly home to Australia next week.Wigan have been invited to take part in Bristol rugby union club's sevens next May.. The lost tribe of South Leeds have come home, although on this showing, a 17-4 win against Barrow, it will be a little longer before it starts to feel like it. After 23 years in alien surroundings like Elland Road Greyhound Stadium and a grudging Leeds United's grandiose premises across the road, Hunslet have been back where they belong for four matches now. Geographically, there is no doubt about the authenticity of the location, it being necessary to go through the industrial estate that replaced the Parkside ground they vacated in 1972 to get to the new South Leeds Stadium.This, far more than the well-heeled areas around Headingley, is rugby league's heartland in the city, where the vast majority of its players spring from.The first game back home against Leigh last month attracted an encouraging crowd of over 2,000, but last Sunday, at home to a relatively well supported Second Division team like Hull Kingston Rovers, only 875 turned up. Last night, with a bitter wind bending the corner flags to the M1, there were considerably less than that, not helped by the fact that Barrow, a power in the game themselves not too long ago, now outnumber their own supporters on away trips.The council-owned ground, although still one-sided, has potential, but Hunslet, for whom the 1965 Wembley defeat by Wigan in what was for 20 years generally regarded as the best of all cup finals, was a recent memory when they sold Parkside, will have to stir some memories of old glories before they can begin to fill it consistently.Courtesy of a good individual try by Darren Wilson, the Braves led the Hawks 4-2 at half-time, the Americanised alliterations doing nothing to disguise the fact that these are northern English institutions fallen on hard times on and off the field.But one of Hunslet's longest-serving players, Mick Coyle, put them ahead and Barrow lost their prop Sam Hansen, sent off for a high tackle.When the Western Samoan World Cup squad member, Des Maea, went over, hailed like all the scorers by an airport-style announcement that adds to the stadium's sense of transience, Hunslet were on their way. It would have merited a few choruses of what people who have heard always claim to be the most poignant of club anthems, "We've swept the seas before," if only anyone could have remembered the tune.Hunslet: Baker; White, Grant (Evans, 61), Viller, Richardson; Rowse (Walker, 71), Close; Lambert, Brook, Pryce (Grant, 74), Coyle, Maea, Sharp.Barrow: Trainor; Smith, Robinson, Wilson, Creary; Ashcroft, Shaw; Chelton (Brown, 72), Walsh, Hansen, Morrow, Spenceley, Luxton (John, 68).Referee: G Shaw (Dewsbury)..