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To the doubters who questioned whether a Nottinghamshire side that stumbled over the line to win the 2010 County Championship could defend their title, here was the retort that captain Chris Read and coach Mick Newell so desperately wanted.Andre Adams, the 35-year-old New Zealander whose 68 wickets last season gave Nottinghamshire the right to feel worthy winners, was the architect – or, more accurately the co-architect – of a three-day victory over Hampshire that emphasised many of the qualities on which success in 2010 was built.Read’s team had been beaten heavily by MCC in the curtain-raiser in Abu Dhabi, which only reinforced the belief among their doubters that their batting was too fragile and their bowling too lacking of real edge, especially with Ryan Sidebottom gone, to win the title two years in a row.But the key absentee in the desert, of course, was Adams, whose return from a season back home was delayed until last Monday. Remarkably, he stepped off the plane having played no cricket for virtually two months because of a side strain. Yet there was no sign of rustiness whatsoever.After taking 5 for 45 in Hampshire’s first innings on Thursday, Adams topped that with 6 for 31 as the south coast side crumbled to 131 all out second time around. After Samit Patel’s century for Nottinghamshire on Friday had provided the fabric for a halfway lead of 109, the home side had to score just 23 runs to collect a 22-point victory, which they managed for the loss of only Paul Franks.The combined haul gave Adams career-best match figures of 11 for 76. So easily had he slipped back into last season’s rhythm that it was as if the wickets with which he clinched Notts’ title at Old Trafford last September had been taken yesterday, rather than six months ago.The value of Patel’s 116 – aided, it should be restated, by some poor slip catching by Hampshire, but for which he might have scored none – was clear as Hampshire soon began to see their first-innings deficit as a daunting one after openers Jimmy Adams and Liam Dawson fell cheaply to Luke Fletcher and Charlie Shreck.Once Adams had torn out their middle order, it seemed they might not even force Nottinghamshire to bat again. With the ball swinging readily and still something in the pitch, Adams was in his element, nipping one back to trap Neil McKenzie with only his second ball and then taking three wickets in the space of nine deliveries.Johann Myburgh was the victim of another full inswinger, Sean Ervine had no answer at all to a ball that took his off and middle stumps as Adams came around the wicket to the left-hander and Nic Pothas – batting with a runner – hung out his bat at one outside off stump that Read pouched routinely. That left Hampshire reeling at 56 for 6.Friedel de Wet, a little unlucky to see the ball roll off his pads on to the stumps, and Danny Briggs, who edged to first slip, were victims five and six, with Shreck and Fletcher mopping up the rest.Only James Vince, who played some classy shots in an unbeaten 59, batted with sufficient vigilance, although Adams bowled brilliantly at times, overshadowing a performance of some merit from Hampshire’s David Griffiths, who relished the friendly conditions too to finish with a career-best 6 for 85.Adams can really do little wrong, with bat or ball, having started the day by ensuring the home side did not miss out on a third batting point after closing day two on 293 for 9.With Charlie Shreck in the picture, 10th wicket partnerships for Nottinghamshire have a limited life expectancy so it was by no means guaranteed that they would pick up the extra seven runs.Moreover, Adams rarely favours the steady, sensible approach with a bat in his hand but here he waited at least until four byes fired down the leg side from de Wet brought up the 300 before opening his shoulders. In the end, he landed a couple of hefty maximums in a 40-ball 37, which made things all the more difficult for Hampshire.Adams makes a modest hero. “I’m lucky to play here,” he said. “Trent Bridge has great tradition and there have been some great New Zealanders who have played here. Wickets were always going to come on this deck. It was always going to swing and there was a little bit of seam. You can’t underestimate Samit’s innings, a hundred at Trent Bridge, especially early in the season.”I picked up a bit of a side strain at the end of a fairly tough season in New Zealand and I probably needed the rest. The key was to maintain the discipline I had last year and I’ve come back in good rhythm.”Mick (Newell, the coach) and Ready (captain Chris Read) trust me virtually to do what I like with the ball. It always swings here and I just try to bowl maidens and be tricky and if the wickets come, they come.”I don’t feel under extra pressure this year. We’ve lost Ryan (Sidebottom) but we have some good young bowlers coming on such as Luke Fletcher and Andy Carter and my role as a senior player is to give them someone to look up to.”

Elton Chigumbura has urged his top order to start delivering as his side look ahead to the daunting task of taking on co-hosts Sri Lanka in Pallekele on Thursday. Zimbabwe have a solitary win from three games – against Canada – to show for their efforts in the tournament so far, and they have been outplayed by both Australia and New Zealand.But captain Chigumbura believes if they can get through the first 15 overs unscathed, his side stands a chance. Zimbabwe stuttered to 57 for 4 in 15 against Australia, 46 for 5 against New Zealand and 73 for 2 against Canada.”We’ve been working on keeping our wickets in the first 15 overs, which we haven’t done,” Chigumbura said. “Our top order has been working on keeping their wickets in hand and to build their innings. Hopefully we do that tomorrow and if we do I am sure we can have a good game.”Zimbabwe have struggled against the pace of Australia and New Zealand, but Sri Lanka bring an entirely different examination with bowlers such as Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan. “It is a big challenge,” Chigumbura said. “Most of their bowlers are matchwinners.”We’ve been watching them play against other teams. If we keep our wickets in hand, I’m sure we can handle them a bit better. But if we lose wickets first up then it’s going to be hard for us to come back in the game.”Elton Chigumbura said Zimbabwe’s top order needed to keep wickets in hand if they had a chance of competing against Sri Lanka in Pallekele•AFP

Zimbabwe’s own strength has been spin and the reliance on it has been heavy. Of the 125.4 overs bowled by the side in three games, a staggering 101.1 – or over 80% – have been bowled by a variety of spinners. Thirteen of the 15 wickets taken by bowlers have been by spinners, Ray Price, who has opened the bowling during the tournament, and Grame Cremer leading the way with four each.But the surface at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on which New Zealand and Pakistan played on Tuesday helped faster bowlers and wasn’t as responsive to spin as might have been expected.That might, said Chigumbura, force a tinkering of their strategy, but only a tinkering. “I saw the game yesterday and it was assisting seamers and not spinning a lot. I think it will remain the same.”My spinners are more consistent. They are not big turners of the ball so it’s not going to really affect them. It’s just a matter of bowling a good line and length and they have been doing it for a long time. There might be one or two seamers, and we might try to make use of them. But after that we will mainly use our spinners.”Ireland’s win over England over in Group B has pumped hope into the heart of all weaker teams and Chigumbura said the chance of an upset comes down to a question of belief. “Ireland always believed and so do we, obviously, but there might be room to improve. It is down to how much you want it. If you believe you can beat a bigger team, it’s up to every individual to have that same belief.”It gives me motivation when you see other teams who don’t give up and end up winning. That teaches you it isn’t over until it’s over. If we correct our batting I always back my bowlers to defend any score of more than 260, and we’re working on our batting.”

With their boisterous, fun-loving demeanour both on and off the pitch, Ireland were always going to be one of the Associate teams that, as AB de Villiers said, make the World Cup “more colourful”. When captain Will Porterfield arrived for a pre-match press conference ahead of their encounter with England in Bangalore tomorrow, it quickly became apparent that that description could be applied quite literally too, as he took off his cap to reveal a shock of bright purple hair.

Porterfield on the difference between England and Ireland

“If you look at England, they’ve got that first-class structure and a very good one at that, and you can produce a lot of cricketers from that. You’ve got a lot of county systems, the volume of numbers playing the game over there and they’ve got that natural progression up through the ranks to get up through first-class and onto the international level.
“In Ireland, we’re at the stage where we’re pretty much a club-orientated country and that gap between club cricket and the country is something we’ve got to get a structure to bridge in terms of producing more international cricketers. I think like everything in sport a lot comes down to funding and you can only do so much if your hands are tied on that front. We’re making steps in the right direction and we’ve just got to get that stage where we’re producing more international cricketers.”

“You’re not imagining things,” he explained, smiling. “The Irish Cancer Society and Today FM, a radio station back home, they run a ‘Shave or Dye’ campaign in February. It’s just about raising awareness. There’s a few interesting lids floating about, five of us dyed and a good few shaved. Boyd Rankin’s got his own dyed blue as well, Kevin O’Brien’s similar to me own and there’s a bit of blonde in there. Anything we can do for the cancer society back home is good, it’s for a good cause.”It would be wrong, of course, to interpret the team’s jovial attitude as a sign that they’re not taking this tournament seriously. They are, and having risen to level on points with Zimbabwe in the ICC’s one-day rankings, there’s no denying their status at the top of the Associate pile. They’re at the threshold of full membership, and the team knows full well what slaying a couple of giants in this tournament would do for their case. More immediately, there’s also the small matter of getting one over on the ‘old enemy’ – England.”We need absolutely no motivation when facing the old enemy and I know how desperate everyone in the camp is to atone for what we see as our failure on Friday night,” Porterfield wrote in his World Cup Diary on Sunday. “In many ways the game is like a local derby, and we know anything can happen on the day.”Shortly after Ireland’s mid-morning practice session on a steaming hot day in Bangalore, Porterfield expounded further on what the game means for Ireland: “I think it is [a special occasion]. Any Irish sports team playing an English team is always pretty special for them, and especially to people back home. They always want to see us get one over on the English, so I’m sure there’ll be plenty back home watching and hoping for a positive result from the Irish. Anyone can slip up on any particular day, but [England] are playing good cricket and we’ve just got to be on top of our own game.”Ireland are also under added pressure to take down one of the bigger teams after their 27-run loss to Bangladesh in Dhaka last week – a match they could easily have won. “To go through our group we’re going to have to win probably three of our next five games, so every game is kind of a must-win from here on in,” Porterfield said. “But we can’t look too far ahead in terms of the result, we’ve just got to look at the process of how we get there and what we’ve got to put right from the last game and how we’ve got to go about our own game.”The day after the game and that night the lads were pretty gutted. It’s no lie, anyone that loses a game like that you’re going to be pretty down, but that’s professional sport. You’ve got to pick yourself up from the lows like that. It’s no secret our batting let us down, there were a few soft dismissals in there. It’s just a matter of being a bit tougher on ourselves. You can’t afford to give away free wickets like that. It’s just being cricket smart, there’s nothing dramatic that has to change.”William Porterfield dyed his hair for a good cause•AFP

It may well be the bowlers, rather than the batsmen, who are more anxious ahead of Tuesday’s game after watching 676 runs being scored in England’s game against India at the same venue. Porterfield insisted he had confidence in Boyd Rankin and George Dockrell, perhaps the two most important members of his attack.”[Rankin] has got all the attributes to be a fantastic bowler. He went for a few in Dhaka. They got a few away and that can happen to anyone on their day. I still think he’s one of our main wicket-taking threats. He may go for a few runs but as we’ve seen in this tournament you’ve got to take wickets to peg things back and he’s one of our main wicket-takers and I’m pretty confident he can bounce back.”[Dockrell] is pretty new to the game. He only came in last year in the Twenty20 World Cup and was dropped in at the deep end in the West Indies. He hadn’t had much experience before then, he had one Under-19 World Cup under his belt. He’s taken everything in his stride, he’s a pretty level-headed young guy. He’s just finished school and he’s done pretty well there as well.They are utterly different species as bowlers, Dockrell a mantis-limbed left-arm spinner and Rankin a towering 6′ 6″ fast bowler, but they may well end up sharing the new ball. Spin has been introduced very early by several teams in this tournament, and it appeared Dockrell could be given the responsibility of exploiting Kevin Pietersen’s much-discussed weakness against left-arm spin.”Anything is possible, it’s definitely an option for us,” Porterfield admitted. “He’s bowled in the Powerplays for us before, and he’s bowled in the first six overs in Twenty20s so that’s nothing new to him. He knows how to bowl with the new ball so that’s definitely an option as well.”While obviously focussing on the present and the immediate challenge of taking on England, a team Ireland have never beaten, Porterfield is also well aware of his team’s duty as pioneers of Irish cricket and the important position they occupy in Ireland’s cricketing history.”Cricket’s been played in Ireland for a very long time now, since 1855 we’ve been playing cricket as a nation. We want to get to the stage where we become a full member ourselves and get into the Future Tours Programme. We want to get to the stage where lads don’t have to make that call [to play for England] or have to move on and play that way. We want to be in a position where we can contract 12 to 15 full-time Irish cricketers.”In an ideal scenario we’d have 15 lads contracted back in Dublin training day in, day out. It’s obviously a financial thing, it’s a fixtures thing, it’s everything, but we’re at the stage now where that’s where we want to be and everyone’s working towards that and hopefully we’ll get there.”

Jacob Oram is set for his international comeback after being included in New Zealand’s 12-man squad for the first two ODIs against Pakistan that start in Wellington on Sunday.Oram was named in New Zealand’s World Cup squad having completed his rehabilitation from knee surgery and hasn’t played for New Zealand since August last year.Hamish Bennett, the 23-year-old paceman, is also included after playing the last of his two ODIs in October last year while three players named in the World Cup squad – uncapped Luke Woodcock, Kane Williamson and Kyle Mills – have been left out of to play domestic cricket.Williamson was in New Zealand’s side during their recent ODI series against India but has struggled for form in the Test series against Pakistan.New Zealand face a resurgent Pakistan side who completed their first Test series win since 2006 after drawing the Wellington Test. Allan Donald, who has recently been named as New Zealand’s bowling coach, will join the squad ahead of the opening ODI.Squad: Daniel Vettori, Hamish Bennett, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Jamie How, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor.

Ricky Ponting put in a strong performance at Australia’s training session at the MCG on Thursday, significantly easing any doubts over his place for the Boxing Day Test. Ponting fielded well during the drills, although he was using only his right hand and made sure to keep his left well out of the way, to avoid any chance of suffering a knock to his broken little finger.He will not bat until Friday, but given that this time last year he was nursing a much more serious elbow injury, which couldn’t keep him out of a Test against Pakistan, the chances of him missing a Boxing Day encounter with the Ashes on the line are slim. Ponting has not missed a Test since October 2004, and his 72-match streak seems likely to grow to 73.”If there is ever a Test match you want to play, it’s Boxing Day in Melbourne, so I have been doubly determined to make sure I’m fit after suffering a broken little finger in Perth,” Ponting wrote in his newspaper column in the Australian. “I’m confident I’ll be there playing in front of what we all hope will be a world-record crowd of 91,000 or more at the MCG, because it doesn’t get much bigger than this.”The prognosis has been positive and I fielded yesterday without discomfort. I will bat today and Christmas Day in the nets and see how it pulls up but I will be very surprised if I’m not out in the middle tossing the coin with Andrew Strauss come Boxing Day.”Ponting’s batting form is nowhere near his best, and since the end of Australia’s home Tests last summer, he has averaged 29.62 and hasn’t made a century in nine matches. It’s a most un-Ponting-like stretch, but with Australia needing to avoid defeat at the MCG to keep the series alive, his on-field guidance will be important in a side that has six men with 25 or fewer Tests’ experience.”It hasn’t hurt me to back off a bit with my finger injury and spend a bit of time with the family, who are in Melbourne for Christmas, just to freshen up,” said Ponting. “As team leaders Michael Clarke and I know our performances have to improve. I actually look at our lack of runs as a positive going forward. We just can’t keep performing this badly. If you watch us train, it would appear that nothing is amiss. It’s not as if we’re struggling. Far from it. I feel good and Michael looks as good as he ever has.””He’s our leader and we get a lot of inspiration from him,” said Australia’s wicketkeeper, Brad Haddin. “He’s been a great leader for Australia for a long time and especially with this group of players. You just have to see the turnaround we had from Adelaide to Perth to see the effect he has on the cricket team. It’s very important that he plays.”Australia’s other selection issue surrounds the makeup of their attack, with the left-arm spinner Michael Beer a strong chance to come in to the side on an MCG surface that will be much slower than at the WACA. The likelihood is that the Victorian Peter Siddle will be left out of a Test in front of his home crowd, but the selectors haven’t always taken the most expected option this summer.”I think if a spinner does come in, it will be a tough call on whoever they leave out,” Haddin said. “Ryan [Harris] and Mitch [Johnson] obviously got the results in Perth but look at the spell [Ben] Hilfenehaus bowled, when Mitch was taking the wickets.”He shut down the scoreboard. And look at the aggressive spells Sidds bowled that made the English batsmen quite uncomfortable. Whoever they decide to go with – it will be a tough decision if they go with three quicks and not four.”Beer bowled in the nets at the MCG on Thursday, and while those practice facilities are familiar to him as a former Victorian squad member, he can’t be expected to be overly used to bowling on the ground itself. Beer did not play at the MCG while he was on the fringes of the home state side, and now faces a debut in front of 90,000-plus spectators.”He’s a quality spinner,” Haddin said. “The little I have seen of him, he likes the contest and is a very competitive bowler. He’s fitted into our group very well and we’re looking forward, if he gets his opportunity, to another Australian getting a debut at Test cricket. He’ll do Australia and himself proud.”

There were no surprises in Ireland’s preliminary 22-man squad for the World Cup, with Will Porterfield to captain and Ed Joyce set to return to international cricket with Ireland more than five years after his last match for the country of his birth.Ireland’s emphasis appeared to be on experience, with seven of the players currently attached to English counties and eight members of the squad having participated in the last World Cup in the West Indies in 2007.”There’s a lot of experience in the squad, but that’s balanced by the fact we’ve got a few exciting youngsters as well,” explained coach Phil Simmons. “Both Paul Stirling and George Dockrell have turned in some great performances in 2010, and the World Cup will be a great stage for them.”Our training camp in India last month went well and it was fantastic preparation for the conditions which we’ll be facing when the tournament starts.”Questions do however remain over the fitness of two members of the squad. Fast bowler Boyd Rankin is suffering from a long-term foot injury that first flared up in January this year and, after a short recovery, ruled him out of Ireland’s World Cup training camp in India. Left-arm spinner Regan West is recovering from a shoulder injury.”Boyd is bowling again and on track to be fully fit for the tournament,” said Simmons. “Regan is working hard after his shoulder operations, and will undergo a final fitness assessment before the final squad is announced. We’re still hopeful that he’ll make it.”Ireland will travel to Dubai in January for a pre-World Cup training camp, and have scheduled warm-up games against New Zealand and Zimbabwe in Nagpur before their first game in the competition proper against Bangladesh in Dhaka on February 25. India, England, Netherlands, South Africa and West Indies are the other teams in Ireland’s group.Preliminary Ireland squad: William Porterfield (capt), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Phil Eaglestone, Allan Eastwood, James Hall, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, Ed Joyce, Rory McCann, John Mooney, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Andrew Poynter, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe, Regan West, Gary Wilson, Andrew White, Craig Young.

Western Australia 368 & 3 for 222 dec beat Victoria 141 & 208 (Hussey 57, Dorey 3-33) by 241 runs
ScorecardBrett Dorey took three wickets to help set up Western Australia’s win•Getty Images

Brett Dorey and Michael Beer combined for six wickets as Western Australia moved off the bottom of the ladder with their 241-run win over Victoria. The hosts needed to reach 450 but only David Hussey, the stand-in captain, could resist for long and the game was over shortly after tea.The Bushrangers resumed at 0 for 43 but could not overcome an attack led by Mitchell Johnson, who finished with six wickets for the game. Dorey was the pick with 3 for 33 in the second innings while Beer, the spinner, ran through the lower order with 3 for 39.Johnson helped dismantle the top by removing Aaron Finch, with his 1 for 58 following his first-innings 5 for 35. Hussey posted a hard-working 57 but when he was caught behind off Michael Hogan the end was near.Victoria weren’t helped by being without Andrew McDonald, who broke his hand on day one, and limped to 208. The Warriors moved to fifth, two points behind the Bushrangers.

Richie Richardson, the former West Indies captain, is disappointed that leading Caribbean cricketers have declined to sign central contracts with the board. Chris Gayle, the recently replaced leader, along with allrounders Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard turned down offers from the WICB so that they are free to take up lucrative Twenty20 offers around the world.At the time of not signing their contracts the three players – some of the most marketable Twenty20 stars in the world – insisted they remained fully committed to West Indies cricket. Gayle and Bravo are part of the Test squad currently in Sri Lanka, and Pollard is likely to be included for the one-day series next month, but their decisions have done little to ease tensions between the players and the board.”Playing for your country should always be No. 1 then anything else comes after that,” Richardson told ESPNcricinfo. “It might be different for a player who is coming towards the end of his career or hasn’t been selected much, but the main players should be contracted to the board. I know they’ve stated their full commitment to West Indies, but clearly there are distractions around the game these days.”West Indies are a distant second favourite for the Tests in Sri Lanka which start on November 15, but Richardson is hopeful they can mount a challenge in a country where they never won a Test in six attempts. That’s despite the efforts of Brian Lara in 2001-02 when he hit 688 runs, a record for a three-Test series, and still West Indies lost 3-0. Yet the scale of their challenge was clear on the opening day of their warm-up match against a President’s XI when the visitors’ batting crumbled for 176.”I’m always hopeful and I always want West Indies to do well. But it’s going to be tough, there’s no hiding from that,” Richardson said as he announced the launch of his own cricket academy in Antigua. “Sri Lanka are playing really good cricket and have just beaten Australia. It’s a tough country to tour for any team, not many sides have gone there in recent years and won, and West Indies haven’t been playing all that well, but you have to go in with a positive frame of mind. Anything is possible.”Darren Sammy has replaced Gayle as captain after the West Indies board decided it was time for a fresh face to take the side forward into the World Cup and beyond. Richardson has first-hand knowledge of the unique challenges involved in leading West Indies having captained them on 24 occasions – albeit before the severe decline set in – and believes Sammy has the personality and skills to be a success.”It’s too early to make a judgement on whether it’s a good or bad move, but from what I’ve seen he is a very passionate cricketer which is what is needed,” he said. “He’s been playing well in the last couple of years and he’s shown in some of his performances that he has leadership qualities so I’ll certainly be supporting him.”However, Richardson is mystified by the absence of Ramnaresh Sarwan who wasn’t even offered a central contract after the board voiced concerns over his fitness following a string of injuries. To leave out a batsman averaging 41.73 in Tests seems a luxury West Indies can ill-afford. “I don’t know what is going on with Sarwan but he’s certainly got the time to get back into the side,” Richardson said. “He’s one of our premier batsmen and I’m not quite sure why he isn’t with the team or what the problem is. He’s been playing cricket back home so should be there.”While the immediate prospects for West Indies remain bleak, with his academy hat on Richardson is convinced the game can thrive again on and off the field. “There are still a lot of youngsters in the Caribbean who want to play cricket,” he said. “Obviously there are other distractions these days, but I’m convinced the passion is still there and will always be there. It’s part of the Caribbean way of life. It will always be in the veins of Caribbean people.”

A team representing the Sagicor High Performance Centre (HPC) will compete with the national sides in the WICB’s domestic 50-over competition, which begins on October 14 in Jamaica. The 11-day tournament will be played at three venues – Sabina Park, Trelawny Stadium and Chedwin Park. The final is on October 24, with the winner standing to gain $10,000 and the losing team $4000.”The inclusion of the Sagicor HPC team [in the tournament] is a demonstrable commitment by the board to the sustained development of young regional players,” Ernest Hilaire, WICB’s chief executive, said. “This superb opportunity for the team will allow them to compete in a seriously competitive 50-over tournament against tough teams comprising highly experienced international and regional players.”The HPC was opened in Barbados in June as part of the board’s plan to improve West Indies cricket. Fifteen players between the ages of 19 and 27 were selected to spend three months at the state-of-the-art centre. The HPC team recently concluded a tour to Canada.As part of the new selection criteria, players seeking West Indies ODI selection will have to make themselves available for participation in the regional tournament. The eight competing teams were divided into two groups:Group A
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Windward Islands, Combined Campuses & CollegesGroup B
Barbados, Guyana, Leeward Islands, Sagicor HPC

Allrounder Abhishek Nayar has replaced Dhawal Kulkarni in the Mumbai Indians squad for the ongoing Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa. Kulkarni injured his back during training the day before the tournament started.Nayar has been a steady performer for Mumbai during the IPL, scoring 457 runs in 30 games at a strike rate of 134.01 and also picking up five wickets at an average of 30.40. However, he played only three matches in the last IPL, having spent most of the tournament recuperating from a wrist injury. He last played in the BCCI Corporate Trophy earlier this month, turning out for Bharat Petroleum.Mumbai play their next game on September 14 against South Australia in Durban. It is not clear whether Nayar would be available for the match.