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Sussex qualify as Surrey go out

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ScorecardSussex booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Friends Life t20 and ended Surrey’s hopes in the process following an emphatic six-wicket win at The Oval.Surrey struggled to 106 for 6 before rain brought their innings to a premature end after 16.2 overs with Zander de Bruyn top scoring on 30 not out and Mike Yardy taking 2 for 15.Sussex made light work of reaching a revised target of 109 off 15 overs with Luke Wright (32), Matt Prior (25) and Chris Nash (22) steering them home with 20 balls to spare despite the efforts of stand-in skipper Gareth Batty (3 for 11).After making a positive start a flurry of wickets put the skids under Surrey’s hopes of setting a big target.Jason Roy was first to go for just four as he picked out Chris Liddle at mid-off to give Yardy his first wicket.Three balls later Steven Davies’ promising innings came to an end when he carved a wide ball from Liddle straight to Murray Goodwin at third man having hit 21 off 11 balls.Zafar Ansari lasted just three balls before he lobbed a catch to Wright off the bowling of Yardy to leave Surrey reeling on 32 for 3.Kevin Pietersen followed his duck against Hampshire the previous night by being caught on the boundary for eight trying to hit Will Beer over long on.Michael Rippon then bowled Matt Spriegel for nine and when the first stoppage for rain came Surrey were 86 for 5 after 14 overs.Rory Burns made 23 off 20 balls, including a six off Chris Nash, but then miscued a hook off Amjad Khan and was caught at deep fine leg by Scott Styris.When the rain returned Surrey were 106 for 6 after 16.2 overs and Sussex were set a revised target of 109 off 15 overs.Nash set the tone for Sussex’s reply as he blasted 22 off the first two overs before top edging a catch to Davies off the bowling of Stuart Meaker.Matt Prior plundered 25 off just 10 balls, including a big six off Dirk Nannes, only to be caught on the boundary while Wright made 32 off 21 balls when he offered a return catch to Batty.

Fleming not ready to coach New Zealand

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Stephen Fleming has ruled himself out of replacing John Wright as New Zealand’s coach, declaring he is not ready to return to the grind of constant touring. Fleming has not dismissed the possibility of pursuing the head coach position in the future but said the timing was not right and he would prefer to spend time at home with his young family.Fleming’s only coaching involvement is leading Chennai Super Kings and his side nearly won the IPL title on Sunday, narrowly losing the final to the Kolkata Knight Riders. He said the relatively abbreviated nature of the IPL was preferable to international coaching at the moment, given his desire to have plenty of time at home.”Not really, from a selfish point of view,” Fleming said on radio when asked if he would consider the New Zealand coaching job. “I enjoy these two months [in the IPL] because it’s my cricket fix and it’s done and dusted, whereas with the national side you’ve got constant development and requirements with trave, not dissimilar to when you’re playing and I’m still, I guess, weaning my way off playing for 15 or 20 years.”I don’t know if that’s the path I want to go down. I have a good relationship with a number of the players, I enjoy talking about their game … and that might pull me back at some point but I certainly can’t see that in the near future.”Fleming, 39, retired from international cricket in 2008 and the following year ended his ties with Wellington and focused on his sports management business. In October 2009 he was considered a candidate to replace Andy Moles as New Zealand’s coach but, like this year, ruled himself out due to his family commitments.”I’m enjoying the four years I’ve been away [from playing] to develop new skills, meet new people and dabble a little bit in cricket,” he said. “The timing really is the main point for me, I’m not quite ready to get back onto that roundabout of international cricket. I’ve got a young family that I love spending time with and while I do care deeply about the New Zealand side and the direction they’re going, the timing’s just not right for me to jump back into that touring lifestyle.”New Zealand Cricket wants to have appointed a new coach by the end of July, with Wright set to finish after the two-Test tour of the Caribbean in July and August. Wright took over from Mark Greatbatch as coach in December 2010 but decided against extending his contract this year, in part due to his differences with John Buchanan, who as NZC’s director of cricket will play a key role in appointing the new mentor.

Lord's groundsman bemoans early start

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ScorecardThe start of Andrew Strauss’ season was delayed by another day•Getty Images

After the stink kicked up by Surrey over the Lord’s pitch on which they were narrowly beaten last week, Andrew Strauss might have been permitted a grimace or two as he assessed the colour of the sky and felt the squelch under his boots. It is not the best time of year for a batsman intent on playing himself back into form.Mick Hunt, the MCC’s head groundsman, took the comments made by Chris Adams, Surrey’s team director, in the immediate aftermath of Middlesex’s thrilling victory, with a sizeable pinch of salt. Adams declared the pitch for that game to be the worst he had seen at Lord’s. After more than 40 years tending to the square here, the last 27 as the man in charge, Hunt can correctly claim to be in a somewhat better position to judge.Not that he could be blamed anyway for the problems that so upset Surrey. When captains have no recourse to the heavy roller between innings to take the fear out of a lively pitch, the indentations inevitably left by the ball in a naturally moist surface simply stay there.If Hunt had his way, there would be no Championship cricket at this time of year. The unusually warm Aprils of the last two seasons have made the early starts a relatively painless experience but this year’s damp picture is more typical.”We’ve had good weather the last two years but one swallow doesn’t make a summer,” he said. “If you look back over the last 20 years, say, this is probably more like the norm.”It makes pitch preparation difficult. It doesn’t matter that it was such a dry March – it is the weather while you’re preparing the pitch that counts. And if there is moisture about the sun just isn’t hot enough.”And yet, undeniably, early summer cricket is exciting. The first two rounds of championship matches produced only one draw. Suggest to Hunt that ‘result pitches’ are what the ECB and the counties want to see and you invite another wry smile.”They grumble if you give them flat pitches and if you give them sporty ones they squawk,” he said. Groundsmen up and down will nod their heads as one.However well or badly it behaves, depending on your point of view, one thing can be guaranteed about the pitch on which Strauss will hope to take guard at some time on the second day following the washout on the first: it will certainly not be flat.

Sales puts wind behind Northamptonshire

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ScorecardDavid Sales made the first half-century of the match as Northamptonshire went into the final day against Hampshire in control. Andrew Hall took 4 for 24 as Hampshire were skittled before tea for 154, 64 runs behind, with James Vince top-scoring with an unbeaten 46.Northants then extended their lead to 240 at the close, with Sales making 58. David Balcombe was the pick of the visitors’ bowling, taking 2 for 63.Hampshire began the day on 42 for 3 – after Thursday’s play was abandoned without a ball bowled – with their stand-in captain and former Australia international Simon Katich on 4 and Liam Dawson on 14. Dawson was to move on to 35 before he missed his attempted drive off David Willey in the 11th over of the day and his leg stump was sent tumbling.Hall brought himself on and took two wickets in three balls in the 33rd over. First Lee Daggett took a good low catch in front of him at short midwicket to dismiss Katich for 13 and then the same combination did for former Zimbabwe international Sean Ervine.Hampshire wicketkeeper Michael Bates was next to depart, for a nine-ball duck, when he edged Daggett to Stephen Peters at third slip to leave to visitors floundering on 84 for 7. The eighth-wicket pair of Vince and Chris Wood added 58 between them either side of lunch before Wood was trapped lbw by Willey for 26.Balcombe soon followed when his off stump was taken out by Jack Brooks before Willey bowled David Griffiths for a duck to end the Hampshire innings.Rob Newton went cheaply for 14 in the eighth over of Northants’ second innings when he edged Balcombe to Dawson at second slip. Peters then fell on 22 when he was pinned lbw by Ervine and Kyle Coetzer followed in the third over after tea for 25 when he was also taken by second slip off Balcombe.Dawson took his sixth catch of the match when he snared Alex Wakely (15) off the bowling of Wood but Sales went on to complete his half-century off 90 balls. He eventually perished late in the day when he was caught leg-before to give Dawson his first wicket.

Ingram, Kallis and rain sink India

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsNo jet lag for Jacques Kallis•Associated Press

In the end, it was probably a fitting end to a solitary Twenty20 international sandwiched between South Africa’s tour of New Zealand, the Asia Cup and the Indian Premier League. In the end, it was rain that proved decisive in what was shaping up to be a close chase and what could have been the highest successful one in T20Is. In the end, MS Dhoni was once again left to rue the profligacy of his medium-pacers and assorted part-time bowlers.Gautam Gambhir had launched India’s pursuit of 220 in a blaze of boundaries but even a total of 71 for 0 after 7.5 overs proved to be comfortably behind the Duckworth-Lewis par score of 82, such had been South Africa’s dominance earlier with the bat.Half-centuries from Colin Ingram and Jacques Kallis had lifted the hosts to their second-highest T20I total, and the fourth-highest ever. With all his three medium-pacers going for runs, Dhoni was forced to overuse his part-time spinners, who collectively went for 87 in seven overs.Kallis showed no sign of any jet lag after having flown halfway across the world from New Zealand just in time for this game. Ingram, with a T20I strike-rate of 117.85 before this match, stroked his way to his maiden half-century in the format, his 78 taking 50 deliveries.There was no respite for India right from the start as their three medium-pacers – with similar pace and reliance on swing – were easily taken for boundaries. Richard Levi provided India a sampler of what was in store for them, dismissively swatting Praveen Kumar and Irfan Pathan for a couple of fours each. Irfan provided temporary relief to his captain when he got Levi to edge one going across to slip but Ingram signalled there would be no let-up with an exquisite punch past point for four off his first ball.Vinay Kumar began promisingly with an over that went for just two but Ingram and Kallis ensured South Africa were always in charge. India seemed to have stopped the torrent of runs to some extent as R Ashwin and Suresh Raina got through a couple of tight overs but Kallis and Ingram responded in style. Ashwin and Rohit Sharma were dispatched over midwicket for huge sixes.Dhoni turned to the slow-mediums of Virat Kohli. Kallis lofted him past long-on for four and crashed the next two deliveries past the sweeper cover. After having slog-swept Ashwin over deep midwicket, Kallis found the fielder on the second attempt to depart for 61 off 42 but by then the second-wicket stand had realised 119 off 80.More punishment lay in store for India as Vinay disappeared for 20 in the 17th over, 14 of those coming in three deliveries against Ingram who slashed, flicked and cut for boundaries.Though Ingram holed out to deep midwicket off the first ball of the 18th, Farhaan Behardien and Justin Ontong took 14 off the 19th over bowled by Irfan. With Praveen and Vinay available to bowl the last over, Dhoni went for Raina.Ontong earned ten off the first two deliveries with a loft over extra cover and a slog over midwicket. Though Ontong was bowled off the third, Albie Morkel hammered two sixes and a four off the last three as Raina went for 26 in the over, and 49 in four.The last ball of the innings typified how shell-shocked India were, as Ashwin lost a straightforward catch in the lights to concede a six at long-on. That stroke boosted South Africa to 219, a score which would require India to better the highest-successful chase in T20Is they achieved against Sri Lanka in 2009.Gambhir seemed to be in the mood to pull it off on his own, laying into Albie Morkel’s first over which went for 16. Before the heavens opened up, it rained slashes, cuts, hooks, top edges and outside edges from Gambhir’s bat. India might have gone at a quicker rate but Robin Uthappa struggled to get going at the other end, scoring at below a run-a-ball.The only other man, apart from Kallis, from the South Africa Test squad to New Zealand to be playing this game, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, squeezed in three overs that went for only 15, ensuring that Duckworth-Lewis went against India.

Bird keeps Tasmania's final hopes alive

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ScorecardIt was another excellent day for Jackson Bird•Getty Images

The fast bowler Jackson Bird has kept Tasmania firmly in the race to make the Sheffield Shield final with a five-wicket haul in Hobart. The Tigers skittled the competition leaders Western Australia for 142 and by the close of the first day they were already halfway to first-innings points, having reached 1 for 72 with Ed Cowan on 46 and Nick Kruger on 5.Tasmania need at least two points from the match to have any chance of making the final, while the Warriors can still miss out should they lose the game outright. They faced a challenge when they were sent in by the stand-in captain Ricky Ponting on a Bellerive Oval greentop and Bird removed both openers for single-figure scores.Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges steadied for the Warriors until Marsh edged behind for 32 off the bowling of James Faulkner, who picked up Travis Birt two balls later. But it was Bird who really troubled the batsmen, collecting Luke Ronchi, who top-edged a bouncer, and Jason Behrendorff, who was caught at mid-off.The big wicket was that of Voges, who on 49 was taken at slip off the bowling of Bird, having already had two lives in the difficult conditions. Bird finished with 5 for 32 off 19 overs, an outstanding effort and his fourth five-wicket haul this summer, remarkable for a man who did not make his first-class debut until November.In reply, Tasmania’s top order got through until stumps for the loss of only one wicket, that of Steve Cazzulino for 18. The Tigers had made three late changes due to a food-poisoning outbreak in the side but that didn’t seem to affect their performance on the first day, and the Warriors face an uphill battle to secure their place in the final.

Defeat a 'good slap in the face' – Prior

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Matt Prior, the England wicketkeeper, has described defeat at the hands of Pakistan in the first Test in Dubai as “a good slap in the face”, as England arrived in Abu Dhabi adamant that they can recover to square the series.Prior, one of the few England batsmen to enjoy a decent game in Dubai, admitted that their pride had taken a serious dent, but said that England’s fine record over the last couple of years should not be annulled after one poor game and that confidence remains high.”It’s never nice to lose, but to lose in that fashion is even worse,” Prior said. “We’re a proud team. We’re used to walking off the pitch having inflicted the sort of defeat Pakistan inflicted upon us, so it was a very bitter pill to swallow. No-one in this team enjoyed it one little bit.”It’s taken a few days to get over it, but now there is a steely determination that it will not happen again. This performance has given us a real good slap in the face.”You don’t become a bad team over night. We’ve had one bad performance. But look at the stats. Look at the performances our guys have put in over recent years. We’re still a very good batting unit. We’ve had two bad innings, granted, but all the guys have taken that on the chin and accepted that we have to improve. We have to get better. I’ll back this team and this batting unit to come back strong.”Echoing the thoughts of his coach, Andy Flower, Prior suggested that England may have come in to the match a little underprepared, having not played a Test since August.”You can spend as much time in the gym and as much time in the nets or on the training ground as you want,” Prior said. “But until you’re out in the middle, you don’t get that ring-ready feeling. Getting used to little things takes time: the nerves; travelling into the ground; switching on and off again when batting. Having that two or three month break was invaluable. It was necessary. But obviously it is then tough to come back in and be ready.”Prior fielded what have become the obligatory questions about Saeed Ajmal’s bowling action, and reiterated the view that the England players were not allowing such issues to distract them.”It would be easy for players to make excuses after we’ve performed badly,” he said. “But we can’t get caught up in what is going on off the pitch. It has nothing to do with the players. The ICC has systems in place. We shouldn’t worry about things we don’t have to worry about.”The wicket wasn’t one of the reasons we lost, either. I thought it was a brilliant cricket wicket. You expect to come over here and find very flat pitches with very little in them for the bowlers. But the seamers had a bit of bounce and a bit of movement, there was a bit of spin and, and if you batted well and played good shots, you earned value for your runs.”The second Test starts in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and Prior agreed that England’s priority was an improvement in the way they played Ajmal’s spin bowling.”The obvious thing we need to think about is how we play spin and how we play Saeed Ajmal,” he said. “But it’s important we don’t get caught up with just one bloke. Umar Gul came in and took wickets in the second innings, so we just need to improve our general game really.”We tend to come back strong after these sorts of losses. We’ve had that bad one now – it’s out of the way – now we’re going to come back strong. We’re behind the eight-ball now and we know we have to play good enough cricket to force results in last two matches.”The England squad – now with the wives and girlfriends in tow – and the Pakistan squad both travelled to Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Although they stayed at the same hotel in Dubai, there has been little fraternisation between the sides. If there may be little warmth, however, there is certainly respect. England know they are embroiled in a tough series against a strong side. By going 1-0 down in a three-match series, they have made life desperately hard for themselves.

Stars prevail in rain-hit Melbourne derby

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David Hussey made a half-century and got the big wicket of Brad Hodge (not in pic)•Getty Images

Melbourne Stars raised themselves to fifth spot with a 11-run victory in a rain-hit derby at the MCG. David Hussey held together their innings with 51, while an array of smaller contributions from the rest lifted the Stars to 167 in front of a 40,000-plus crowd.The Melbourne Renegades’ chase was interrupted by rain as early as the second over but the brief stoppage caused the game to be reduced by only one over. In the ninth over, however, the showers returned and were heavier, ending the match, and the D/L calculations showed the Renegades were 12 short of the target. They had already lost the key wickets of Brad Hodge and Aaron Finch, though their overseas signings, Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq, were still to bat.For the Stars, runs continued to be elusive for captain Cameron White – his scores so far are 1, 1, 3, 2,1 – but the rest all reached double digits to steer the Stars to a competitive total. Hussey played a measured innings by Twenty20 standards and made his second half-century of the tournament – he is now the third highest run-getter of the BBL – while Luke Wright and Matthew Wade provided the big hits at the start and end of the innings.Afridi’s mix of googlies and faster ones made him the most effective of the Renegades’ bowlers with 2 for 20, but the rain denied him a chance to make a similar impact with the bat, leaving his team near the foot of the table.

Game even after day of 18 wickets

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ScorecardHarshal Patel took 8 for 34, bettering his season best performance from last week•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Eighteen wickets for a measly 171 runs in a single day’s cricket could easily suggest that the track on which this panned out had threatened life and limb. All that the Bansi Lal Stadium surface did on the first day of the Ranji Trophy semi-final was to be itself on a biting winter day and with it test batting skills.Haryana and Rajasthan find themselves locked in a struggle of nerve and application, with only two wickets needed on the second morning to complete the first two innings.Harshal Patel, the former India Under-19 bowler and current flavour of the season, again produced the best Ranji figures this year – 8 for 34 – as Rajasthan unraveled to 89 all out. Then came Rajasthan’s bustling Rituraj Singh taking 5 for 36 and coming close to completely dismantling Haryana’s batting, reducing them to 40 for 7. By stumps, they had inched their way 82 for 8, an obdurate 33-run eighth wicket partnership bringing some voice back to local throats and colour back to Haryana’s cheeks.Harshal was in the centre of things yet again, as one half of that partnership with Mohit Sharma. His lone scoring stroke in 20 minutes of batting sent out its own message to his top order. Two steps out to medium-pacer Rituraj and a whip past square leg for four. When Harshal walked back to the dressing room with Mohit, who had spent close to two hours for 16, the applause from their team-mates sounded more fervent than it had for their bowling efforts in the morning.It was a day when the bowlers on both sides could say they had done all the work. Rajasthan too had come apart at the seams reaching 66 for 9 just after lunch. Gajendra Singh and Sumit Mathur then put up 23 and helped the defending champions reach what only on such an absurd day’s cricket could be called a “respectable” total.Haryana’s decision to field may have appeared sagely and bold but turned out to be simple common sense. The dreaded fog was absent and the sun shone. Underneath all the brightness though were conditions made for seam bowling. The gossamer haze of the morning carried with it moisture and the breeze blowing over the ground, some bites of swing. The Bansi Lal Stadium square is built on a rich water table where it doesn’t take long to find water nor does it dry out enough in the winter to make life easy for batsmen.The ball moved laterally off the wicket and swung in the air. It stopped before coming on to the bat, making batting difficult and run scoring demanding. Harshal for his part made sure it wasn’t going to be easy for Rajasthan. He scythed through the top order, producing a spell that is simple to describe in clichés about good areas and line and length.When witnessed though, it was an impressive demonstration of discipline and lung power. He sent down 15 overs of a probing length and let the winter and his familiarity with Lahli do the rest. He said he had needed two overs to warm up and get started, “the ball was not coming out of my hand but I know what Lahli is like. The wicket’s always like this in the morning, it helps the seamers, when the dew is gone and the sunlight hits the wicket.”Sunlight and dew may make for poetry on paper but to Rajasthan’s most experienced batsmen, Aakash Chopra and Hrishikesh Kanitkar, it spelt a half-hour struggle before they nicked one to the wicketkeeper. Vineet Saxena was the lone frontline batsman for Rajasthan who survived the first session. He had scratched out 32 runs, the day’s highest score, but in the second over after lunch he flicked one to square leg.Until then it had been Haryana’s day driven by Harshal, whose 8-40 versus Karnataka in Bangalore had set them up in the quarter-final. They were going to be batting in the second session, when the wicket had at least dried out from the morning. They did not take into account the damage that the new ball could do.Haryana’s top order was trapped somewhere in no man’s land: unable to find the defence mechanisms needed to wear off the shine of the new ball or brazenly attempt an all-out attack to challenge the bowlers. Five were gone within eight overs of Rituraj and Pankaj Singh bowling at a good clip and with venom; captain Amit Mishra and Priyank Tehlan’s attempts to stitch a stand together fell apart in two overs around tea. Mishra’s leading edge off an expansive on-drive found Robin Bisht at point and Tehlan didn’t reach the pitch of the ball and looped one to mid-on Pankaj Singh’s hands. From 40 for 7, again the bowlers started giving Haryana a chance.Day one of the Ranji semi-final was very much a bowlers’ day. Mohit Sharma had bowled an uninterrupted spell of 15 overs in the Rajasthan innings, Harshal bowled 12 overs on the go. At stumps, Harshal said quite succinctly, “It’s not about the wicket settling, it’s more about the team settling on the wicket.”In conditions such as these, it would take batsmen of exceptional quality to play the match-defining innings. With three days to spare, that is still awaited.

Guyana board to take disciplinary action against Sarwan

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The Guyana Cricket Board has said it will take disciplinary action against Ramnaresh Sarwan, the Guyana and West Indies batsman, after Sarwan publicly criticised the board for not picking him in Guyana’s squad for the Caribbean T20. A GCB release said Sarwan had telephoned Guyana’s chairman of selectors Reyon Griffith on December 4, the day the squad was announced, and “engaged in behaviour now attracting the attention of the Guyana Police Force.”The board had said the selectors had not picked Sarwan because they were not sure he would be fit to play, but Sarwan had said “that is total c**p” and that he had informed the president of the board and Griffith that he had recovered from the injury that kept him out of West Indies’ tours of Bangladesh and India. The board, however, have said it had asked Sarwan to submit a medical report proving his fitness and only received a document on December 5, a day after the 14-man squad for the Caribbean T20 had been selected.The board also questioned whether the document Sarwan had submitted could be considered a medical report since it was submitted by a personal trainer and not a doctor.”This ‘document’ originated from Mr. Forrest Nelson, a personal trainer who has a degree as a physical therapy assistant (PTA),” a GCB release said. “The presentation of this document as a medical report by an assistant physical therapist is viewed as unethical and possibly illegal.”Sarwan had said he had informed the board of his fitness personally and when they asked him to provide evidence he had “got the experts who treated me to send an e-mail to me which I forwarded to the GCB on the status of my injury.”The GCB said Sarwan had contacted the board on November 12 and said he would be fit by December 2. The board, however, pointed to the fact that Sarwan had spent time in Canada, where temperatures are sub-zero at this time of year, rather than playing in the local T20 tournament in Guyana that was used to pick the Caribbean T20 squad.”The GCB received communication from Mr Sarwan on November 12 indicating he was confident he would be injury free by December2; this was passed on to the chairman of selectors,” the release said. “The Carib/Pepsi 20/20 Big Smash competition was designed to provide opportunities and preparation for cricketers, and at no time was Mr. Sarwan ineligible to play. Mr Sarwan’s suggestion that he is working on ‘match fitness’ in Canada during the winter is baffling.”Sarwan had said the board were being inconsistent in using his non-participation in the local T20 tournament as a reason for leaving him out of the Caribbean T20, since he had not played in Guyana’s local 50-over tournament either yet had was picked in the Guyana squad for the WICB’s 50-over event.”The behaviour of Mr Sarwan subsequent to his non-selection to the Guyana team and his continued attempts to influence the selection process and abuse to executive members has caused grave concern at the Guyana Cricket Board and we are in the process of instituting disciplinary measures,” the GCB release said.Guyana will go into the Caribbean T20 with Ravindranauth Seeram, the former Guyana captain, as head coach. Seeram had been replaced by former Guyana team-mate Mark Harper for this year’s regional first-class championship and Regional Super50 tournament. The GCB appoints coaches on a tournament-by-tournament basis and given Seeram’s success in the July 2010 Caribbean T20, which Guyana won, they have re-appointed him for the 2011-12 event.