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The missing scorecard for matches played on 3 November has finally been uncovered.

KWEKWE SPORTS CLUB v ALEXANDRA SPORTS CLUBAt Kwekwe Sports Club; 3 November 2002.Kwekwe won by 82 runs.KWEKWET Duffin c du Plessis b Blignaut 25V Sibanda b Blignaut 3R W Price run out (Goosen) 35*D P Viljoen c de Grandhomme b D Marillier 55G A Lamb lbw b Anticevich 77T J Friend c Goosen b S Marillier 15J M Cornford not out 31M J Vaughan-Davies not out 21+D J R CampbellI M ChinyokaT KarambaExtras (lb 5 w 16) 21(6 wkts; 50 overs, 202 min) 283Blignaut 10 0 52 2du Plessis 3 0 22 0Benhura 4 0 29 0Stannard 10 0 32 0D A Marillier 10 0 58 1S J Marillier 10 1 64 1Anticevich 3 0 21 1ALEXANDRAD de Beer run out (Cornford) 36+G C Goosen c Campbell b Vaughan-Davies 4B Benhura c and b Viljoen 20D A Marillier c Price b Vaughan-Davies 30A M Blignaut c Viljoen b Lamb 25*B Bath b Vaughan-Davies 9I de Grandhomme not out 24C M Anticevich c Friend b Lamb 11S J Marillier b Price 1D D Stannard b Viljoen 0G du Plessis not out 15Extras (b 3 lb 4 w 17 nb 2) 26(9 wkts; 50 overs, 188 min) 201Friend 4 0 18 0Chinyoka 7 0 25 0Vaughan-Davies 9 1 35 3Price 10 1 25 1Viljoen 8 1 26 2Lamb 9 1 40 2Campbell 2 0 21 0Karamba 1 0 4 0QUEENS SPORTS CLUB v HARARE SPORTS CLUBAt Bulawayo Athletic Club; 10 November 2002.Harare Sports Club won by 110 runs.HARARE SPORTS CLUBS V Carlisle not out 128*T R Gripper lbw b Meth 4+B R M Taylor c Mabuza b Chirwa 134R Croxford not out 2A M DurhamB BalaB KoenH MutenderaA MhanduC CremerG Johnstone-RobertsonExtras (b 2 lb 3 w 10 nb 2) 17(2 wkts; 50 overs, 180 min) 285Chirwa 10 1 59 1Meth 5 0 24 1Mboyi 8 0 69 0Nyumbu 10 0 53 0van Rensburg 10 0 38 0Lombard 7 0 37 0QUEENS+W T Siziba c and b Durham 19M W Townshend c Carlisle b Durham 2*R J King b Mhandu 4N R van Rensburg c Carlisle b Gripper 16R Lombard b Durham 0M Mabuza lbw b Bala 26K Meth not out 62J Nyumbu b Johnstone-Robertson 1T Chirwa st Taylor b Cremer 11F Dube b Cremer 3T Mboyi not out 7Extras (b 3 lb 8 w 12 nb 1) 24(9 wkts; 50 overs, 160 min) 175Mhandu 8 1 28 1Durham 7 0 19 3Bala 10 2 21 1Gripper 7 0 30 1Johnstone-Robertson 8 1 28 1Cremer 7 0 25 2Mutendera 2 0 10 0Carlisle 1 0 3 0

Western Warriors recruit Paul Wilson has agreed to play club cricket with Melville for the next two seasons.Wilson, 29, concluded negotiations with Melville president Malik Mascarenhas today.The powerfully built fast-bowler, who has played one Test and limited-overs internationals for Australia, will arrive in Perth next week.He will commence training with the Warriors on Monday, July 22.Wilson will be a specialist fast-bowling coach at Melville in assistance to former England Test batsman Paul Terry.Mascarenhas said recruiting Wilson was a major coup for one of Perth’s leading league clubs.”We wanted an experienced senior bowler to assist the development of our young cricketers and in particular our bowlers,” Mascarenhas said.”Paul fits that role for us and he comes to Melville with a reputation as an extremely good club man and genuinely good bloke.”We have been very close to winning a premiership in recent seasons and we think that recruiting Paul Wilson could perhaps take a step further to achieving our goal to win a title.”

Shaun Udal won the Hampshire Players Player of the year award for the second successive time, when he was presented with the trophy at the teams end of season party in Southampton.”Shaun” said Tim Tremlett, Hampshire Director of Cricket, “was by far Hampshire’s most consistent player in 2002. We may have had a mediocre season as a club, but no fault could be laid on Shaggy, who despite his benefit year activities continued to give more than 100% on the field, and was an inspiration to all in the dressing room”.

Shaun Udal was delighted with the award. “This means a great deal to me, especially coming from the lads, but it looks like an expensive night, as I suppose I better get some drinks in”.

A century from captain Michael Vandort helped the Sri Lankan Academy XI draw their three-dayer against India A at the the Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.On the final day, Vandort, who made an unbeaten 101, found an able ally in No. 5 Nimesh Perera, who made a quickfire 74 off 91 balls with 10 fours and two sixes. The 101-run partnership between the duo was the best of the home team’s innings. The Lankan team, then, made 261 for five in reply to India A’s first innings score of 474 for seven. Part-time medium-pacer Akash Chopra, who claimed two late wickets, was the most successful bowler for the tourists..Earlier, the first two days had seen the Indian batsmen thrive. Openers Akash Chopra (145), Gautam Gambhir (105), captain Hrishikesh Kanitkar (97) and wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel (51*) were all among the runs. While Chopra and Gambhir put on 252 for the first wicket, Kanitkar and Patel put on 109 for the sixth wicket as their team posted a mammoth total after electing to bat.For the Sri Lankan Academy XI, off-spinner Ganganath Ratnayake, who claimed 3-96, was the most successful bowler.India A now move to the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo where they play the first of three unofficial Tests against a Tillakaratne Dilshan-led Sri Lanka team from May 16-19. The two teams will also play three one-day matches. The tour ends on June 6.

Marvan Atapattu chance’s of playing a part in the forthcoming NatWesttriangular series have been boosted by the news that his finger injury isnot as bad as expected.Atapattu, hit on the hand by a delivery from Andrew Flintoff, saw aspecialist on Tuesday, who revealed that he had merely aggravated an oldfracture in his right index finger and sustained severe bruising.Atapattu is attempting to get hold of the sort of finger protector worn by, among others, England’s Alec Stewart, in order to guard his damaged digit while batting.Team manager, Chandra Shaffter, described Atapattu’s chances of playing inone-day series starting 27th June at Trent Bridge as "good," although thedecision to play will be "left entirely to Marvan."Aravinda de Silva remains on stand-by and did not depart on Tuesday with theother Test specialists. However, is not currently touring with the team.Sri Lanka started a series of warm-up matches at Hove. They will alsoplay at Taunton, Bristol and Northampon before their first game againstEngland at Nottingham.

Ed: Maria Naureen is our correspondent from Karachi, a FM 101 radio talk-show host, cricket radio commentator and sports journalist

Sri Lanka’s wicket-keeper batsman Romesh Kaluwitharana and veteran batsmanAravinda de Silva have not been offered fresh contracts with the Board ofControl for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL).The BCCSL will offer 12-month contracts to 15 players this weekend beforeSri Lanka’s 10-week tour of England. Four players will be given their firstever contracts.Kaluwitharana, 32, played in three games of the recently concludedtriangular tournament in Sharjah, but he was not picked for the Test matchesin England, although he could still be added to the one-day squad.For De Silva, 36, it was the second consecutive year that he has not beenoffered a contract. When contracts were offered for 2001-2002, shortly afterEngland’s tour of Sri Lanka, officials had privately questioned thecommitment of De Silva and the value of providing a contract.De Silva spent the year on the sidelines before being recalled into thetraining in January and then the Test squad last month. He now needs toprove that he can still retains the hunger to perform consistently at thehighest level before he is awarded a new contract.Players who have not received contracts can still be picked to play for thecountry on a tour and match fee basis. Indeed, there are five non-contractedplayers in the England squad.The four new players to receive fresh contracts are Buddhika Fernando,Thilan Samaraweera, Hashan Tillakaratne and Avishka Gunawardene. The firstthree clearly gain their contracts on merit, after impressive performancesduring the past year, but Gunwardene’s contract was a surprise having beendropped from both the Test and one-day squad.That decision was apparently swayed by his young age (24) and the fact thatover 40 One-Day Internationals are scheduled over the next 12 months.One other surprise ommission is the talented Tillakaratne Dilshan. Just 25years old and now back in the one-day squad, he has clearly been told toprove his value before being offered a contract.Those that have been excluded still have a chance to secure a contract, asofficials have indicated that three more will be awarded over the comingmonths because of this year’s busy schedule.Officials were reluctant to reveal the value of the new contracts until theplayers have signed for them, but last year the top players received anannual fee of US $ 40,000 with provisions to go over US $ 50,000 by way ofbonuses and tour fees. Fringe players received significantly less.The contracted players:Sanath Jayasuriya, Marvan Atapattu, Kumar Sangakkara Mahela Jayawardene,Russell Arnold, Hashan Tillakaratne, Thilan Samaraweera, Chaminda Vaas,Nuwan Zoysa, Buddika Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Dharmasena, DilharaFernando, Upul Chandana and Avishka Gunawardene.

Orissa secured the first innings lead after a grim tussle and thenbowled their way into a winning position at stumps on the fourth dayof their Ranji Trophy quarterfinal against Madhya Pradesh at theCaptain Roop Singh stadium in Gwalior on Sunday. After gaining afirst innings lead of 42 runs, Orissa dismissed six MP batsmen for153 by close of play.The keen duel for the lead was the highlight of the penultimate day’splay. Orissa seemed to be better placed to take the lead when theyresumed in the morning, having made 369 for five in reply to MP’s 437.But they suffered an early blow when they lost Rashmi Ranjan Paridaearly. Resuming on 159, Parida was leg before to HS Sodhi for 162. Ina stay of 505 minutes at the crease, Parida faced 372 balls and hit 19of them past the ropes. Then in one over Jai P Yadav put MP in thefavourites circle by dismissing both P Jai Chandra (40) and RR Das(7). At this stage Orissa were 386 for eight, still 51 runs behind theMP first innings total.Wicketkeeper Gautam Gopal and Jagannath Das came together and theyproceeded to bring Orissa back in the game with some purposefulbatting. Amidst a lot of tension and excitement, they took Orissa pastthe MP total. Finally, after the two had added 82 runs for the ninthwicket off 36.4 overs, Das gave former India leg spinner NarendraHirwani a return catch. Das batted 2-1/2 hours, faced 113 balls andhit two fours. The innings did not last long thereafter but Gopalremained unbeaten with 63. He batted 155 minutes, faced 123 balls andhit four boundaries and two sixes. Hirwani and Yadav finished withthree wickets for 121 and 112 runs respectively.A dispirited MP side put up a poor show in their second innings. Theylost three wickets for 51 before a fourth wicket partnership of 81runs off 17.2 overs between Abbas Ali (37) and Jai P Yadav (46) pulledtheir total into the realms of respectibility. However towards theend, MP lost three quick wickets and at close of play, were ahead byonly 111 runs with four wickets in hand.

Zac Morris, Hampshire’s 22 year old left-arm pace bowler will not forget his National League debut in a hurry: three wickets including that of Graeme Hick and then the winning runs with just two balls remaining.In a low-scoring match Hampshire scraped home by three wickets in front of a crowd of around 1,500 for the inaugural National League match at the Rose Bowl.Morris, younger brother of first team regular Alex, dismissed PhilWeston in his first over after Worcestershire had chosen to bat first and then bowled the dangerous Hick between bat and pad for 13 at the end of his first spell. Later he returned to get rid of Nick Boulton to finish with creditable figures of three for 31.Worcestershire were never able to accelerate after a shaky start but Vikram Solanki and David Leatherdale propelled them to respectability with a stand of 65 for the fourth wicket, Solanki hitting five fours in his 38 and Leatherdale making an innings top score of 41 before both were out to spinner Shaun Udal.At 133 for seven Worcestershire were in danger of not being able to set Hampshire much of a total to chase. But then the reliable Steve Rhodes and Stuart Lampitt added an unbroken 50 in nine overs so that Worcestershire’s 183 for seven was at least a test.When Robin Smith departed for 46 to leave Hampshire 95 for four a real battle was about to unfold. Will Kendall and promising newcomer Lawrence Prittipaul appeared to swing the match Hampshire’s way in a stand of 73; the best of the day, but still Worcestershire were not done.Kendall, Prittipaul and Dimitri Mascarenhas were all out with victory in sight so that seven were needed from the last over of the game from Alamgir Sheriyar. There were three balls remaining when Morris straight drove for four to provide Hampshire with a winning total of 186 for seven.

The owners of the Deccan Chargers franchise, Deccan Chronicles Holdings Limited (DCHL), have asked for a three-day extension (till October 12) to raise Rs 100 crore as a bank guarantee, one of the conditions set by the Bombay High Court ruling of October 1 to avoid termination from the IPL. On Tuesday, the franchise’s owners also filed an application requesting permission to raise the guarantee from a privatised bank and not a nationalised one, as originally stipulated by the court.Immediately after the BCCI had terminated the Chargers on September 14 for failing to “cure various breaches” of their contract, DCHL had moved court, challenging the expulsion. Having heard both legal counsels over a few preliminary hearings, Justice SJ Kathawala passed a judgement where he asked DCHL to fulfil various undertakings, including paying a bank guarantee to the BCCI by October 9 from a nationalised bank. Kathawala also appointed the retired Supreme Court judge CK Thakkar as arbitrator to determine a solution to the dispute.Kathawala had said that in the event DCHL failed to raise the sum, the BCCI had the rights to revoke the termination order. The other conditions included clearing players’ dues immediately and all liabilities pertaining to IPL 5 by October 31. The other important condition was to pay IFCI, a private financial institution, who had filed a winding-up petition against the DCHL. “There is schedule set under the consent terms with IFCI, it will be paid accordingly,” Zal Andhyarujina, the DCHL legal counsel, told ESPNcricinfo.According to Andhyarujina, his client had already disbursed the payments to the players and team officials, and were also in the middle of clearing up all other dues. “Today at court we would be moving an application to have the condition of the raising the bank guarantee from a nationalised bank to a private bank – ICICI,” Andhyarujina said.Kathawala had already pulled up the BCCI for having acted in “haste” before passing the termination orders. On September 14, the board had convened an emergency IPL governing council meeting in Chennai, after which the decision was taken to terminate the Chargers. That was also the last day of the one-month deadline set by the BCCI for the Chargers to put their house in order. However, DCHL sent a notice through their lawyers stating they had not committed any “breaches.””The judge held that BCCI acted slightly in haste because they were worried about the prestige of the IPL,” a BCCI official said. “He pointed out that the dues were payable on May 1, so why did the board wait till August to send the notice to the Chargers…”