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Malinga Bandara, the 25-year-old legspinner, has been included in a 20-player Sri Lankan pool for the tour of India later this year. The probables list also includes Sajeewa Weerakoon, the left-arm spinner who has been in impressive form with the A team recently, and Upul Tharanga, the left-handed opening batsman.Bandara made his Test debut as long back as May 1998, but hasn’t got another opportunity on the international stage after turning in an insipid performance in that match. Bandara’s first-class stats, though, are impressive – 233 wickets at 25.05 – and what swung the decision his way was probably his performance for Gloucestershire in the 2005 county season: he played only eight games but finished joint-highest wicket-taker, along with Steve Kirby, his 45 scalps coming at just 24 apiece.Sri Lanka will play seven one-dayers and three Tests in India over a two-month period from October 25.The 20-man list
Marvan Atapattu, Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Tharanga, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thilan Samaraweera, Russel Arnold, Avishka Gunawardena, Muttiah Muralitharan, Rangana Herath, Dilhara Fernando, Malinga Bandara, Upul Chandana, Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga, Sajeewa Weerakoon, Farveez Maharoof, Nuwan Zoysa, Dilhara Lokuhettige.

Michael Kasprowicz, the Australian fast bowler, will be back on board for Glamorgan in their National League match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston tomorrow. He is due to fly in from Zimbabwe early tomorrow morning, in good time to make his first appearance for the county since the win over Lincolnshire on May 5.Glamorgan’s thoughts will still be with their six-wicket defeat to Middlesex at Lord’s yesterday, as well as their five-wicket loss to Lancashire in a league game last Sunday. Before that match, Glamorgan had won all four of their Division One encounters, beating Surrey, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and Essex.”The important thing is that we are up and ready again for Warwickshire after Lord’s,” coach John Derrick told ic Wales. “All our thoughts have been on Middlesex, but Warwickshire tomorrow will be another hard game. The problem in the defeat against Lancashire was that we were poor in all three disciplines of batting, bowling and fielding,” said Derrick. “Hopefully that was a wake-up call”.Glamorgan
Matthew Elliott, Robert Croft (capt), Mike Powell, Matthew Maynard, David Hemp, Adam Dale, Mark Wallace(wk), David Harrison, Ian Thomas, Alex Wharf, Michael Kasprowicz, Andrew Davies, Dean Cosker

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 6 AAP – Jason Gillespie proved he was on track for Thursday’s first Test against the West Indies during a strong bowling performance in his return match in Georgetown today.Gillespie claimed 2-13 from nine overs as Australia moved towards victory against the Guyana Board President’s XI in the opening three-day tour match at the Everest ground.At stumps on the second day, Australia was 8-180 in its second innings, leading the home team by 425 runs after it was dismissed for 132.Gillespie made seven during a late knock while Queenslander Martin Love was unbeaten on 55 as Australian captain Steve Waugh reshuffled his batting order to continue the build-up to the Test at nearby Bourda.Waugh’s top order received valuable time at the crease on the first day before the captain declared at the overnight score of 3-377.Gillespie’s bowling was among the most satisfying results from a commanding Australian performance on the slow Everest wicket.The South Australian had not bowled since he was sent home from the World Cup with a heel injury and there were doubts over whether he would recover before the four-Test series.He appeared on track today, bowling well across two spells, as the Australians rattled a team containing three players from the Windies’ 14-man Test squad.Spinner Brad Hogg claimed 4-23, including three late wickets, while his rival for the slow bowling spot, Stuart MacGill, was punished by the local batsmen.His two wickets came at the expense of 49 runs from eight overs.Andrew Bichel (2-10), opening the bowling in place of rested quick Brett Lee, was lively during a six-over burst.Under the rejigged second innings line-up Hogg and Adam Gilchrist opened the batting but wickets fell quickly.Gilchrist (eight) fell in the third over, Hogg (16) was out nine balls later and Bichel, batting at three, had his stumps spread by former Test quick Marlon Black after scoring seven.Queensland quick Ashley Noffke made a polished 20 before Darren Lehmann was the first of the recognised batsmen at No.6.Lehmann made 42, following his unbeaten 44 in the first innings, combining with Love for a 72-run stand.Love reached his second half-century for the match in a solid build-up to his role at No.4 in the first Test.

Only 40 overs were possible due to frequent squally showers as Worcestershire maintained their grip over the side immediately above them in the Division Two table.The visitors struggled with the bat, as Notts had done on the first day, and were dismissed for 252, having been well-placed at 130-3 at the start of the day. Anurag Singh top scored with 88 before being undone by the best ball of the day, a peach of a delivery which squared up the batter before clipping his off bail.Andy Bichel scorched to his second Championship 50, in just an hour, but was then last man out three balls into the afternoon session, which began 55 minutes late. Greg Smith took the plaudits with ball, reaping his first five-wicket haul for three months to end with 5-59.Nadeem Malik, the England Under-19 bowler, failed to collect his first first-class wicket but did deflect a Bichel drive on to the stumps to run out the unfortunate Steve Rhodes, who hadn’t faced a ball.When Notts batted for the second time, 103 runs in arrears, they were indebted to a wayward first over from Bichel which cost 15 runs but then soon lost their first wicket.John Morris, for the second time in the match, failed to cope with an inswinger from Alamgir Sheriyar and got an inside edge on to his leg stump.After another lengthy delay Greg Blewett got off the mark with a crisp drive through the covers but on 39-1, with four lights showing on the scoreboard meter, he and skipper Darren Bicknell accepted the invitation to retire to the pavilion.Shortly afterwards another downpour prevented any prospect of a resumption so Notts will begin Day Three still 64 runs adrift with nine wickets in hand.

ScorecardFile photo – Paras Dogra batted through the second day•K Sivaraman

Himachal Pradesh were hell bent on recovering the time lost – two sessions, due to a government intervention – on the first day, as Paras Dogra’s double century powered them to 543 for 5 by close of play – 407 of those scored on the second day in Dharamsala.Dogra’s form from the last season – five centuries, joint highest with Andhra’s Amol Muzumdar in 2012 – went a long way in pummelling the life out of Goa’s attack. He batted through the day, to claim his third double century in first-class cricket, which included 26 fours and a six and led two century stands today alone.Abhinav Bali was playing his first match after serving out a one-year ban for bringing the game into disrepute through “loose talk and unsubstantiated bragging” after a Television sting operation revealed his involvement in alleged corruption in domestic cricket.He announced his return with a confident half-century but was the first to fall, on 73 to left-arm spinner Shadab Jakati. But it was only a momentary stumble. Rishi Dhawan, the Himachal Pradesh captain, had begun his Ranji campaign last year with a typically aggressive century, but though he kept up the pace, the landmark eluded him as he was dismissed for 89 of 92 balls. However, he was bettered by new import, Bipul Sharma, who was unbeaten on a 74-ball 86, which included eight fours and four sixes as three of Goa’s bowlers leaked over 100 runs.
ScorecardMaharashtra-born Yogesh Takawale could not replicate his stubbornness of yesterday as Tripura were dismissed for 304. Tripura’s bowlers, though, mimicked the ineffective start by their batsmen as Maharashtra ended the day at a comfortable 133 for 1.Seamer Sachin Chaudhari ended Takawale’s resistance on 125, and made short work of the tail to finish with 4 for 44. Shrikant Mundhe was next best, though he only added one wicket to his overnight tally.Opener Harshad Khadiwale steered Maharashtra to their position of solidity with a well-compiled half-century. Vijay Zol, playing his first Ranji Trophy match, was just as collected. With Zol, 18, having scored a century on his first-class debut against New Zealand A in August, Tripura must look to break through early on the third day.
ScorecardSeamers Syed Sahabuddin and D Shivkumar knocked off seven of Hyderabad’s batsmen as they were bundled out for 221 in their first innings against Andhra at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Hanuma Vihari was responsible for one-third of Hyderabad’s total and Amol Shinde contributed with a half-century as well.Shivkumar broke through both the set batsmen, as Shinde nicked off to the keeper and Vihari holed out to C Stephen. With the lower order exposed, offspinner Shaik Basha claimed two wickets in the same over to wind up Hyderabad’s innings.Openers Srikar Bharat and Prasanth Kumar gave Andhra a good start, but Ashish Reddy broke through for Hyderabad in the 12th over. Andhra trail by 136, but have nine wickets in hand and the sedate Prasanth still at the crease.
ScorecardKerala lost a couple of wickets late on the second day after a solid start to their innings against Assam, but with Sanju Samson holding one end together, the match in Guwahati was still in the balance. Samson added 64 runs for the second wicket with Nikhilesh Surendran, and was unbeaten on 46, with Kerala still trailing by 204 runs.Assam, five wickets down overnight, stretched their innings for almost 50 overs on the second morning. Syed Mohammad scored a useful 40 in a century stand for the sixth wicket with Niraj Patel, who scored 82. Kerala would have thought of dismissing the team for below 300, but a half-century stand for the last wicket between Arlen Konwar and Arup Das thwarted the bowling. Vinoop Manoharan and Chovvakkaran Shahid shared three wickets each.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMichael Hussey’s unbeaten 80 was the standout performance of the match•Getty Images

Michael Hussey will be a coaching consultant with Australia at the World Twenty20 in India next year, but the first night of the 2015-16 Big Bash League showed that he still has plenty to offer as a T20 batsman as well. Hussey scored an unbeaten 80 from 59 balls to lead Sydney Thunder to their first win over their cross-town rivals Sydney Sixers in the eight meetings between the teams, a convincing 36-run victory at Sydney’s Showground Stadium.Hussey ensured that the Thunder posted a competitive 4 for 158 after he won the toss and chose to bat, and regular wickets throughout the Sixers innings, including three each to Andre Russell and Shane Watson, kept the Thunder on top throughout. The innings petered out and the Sixers were dismissed for 122 in the 20th over, opener Michael Lumb (34) the only batsman who made it past the teens.In his first match for the Thunder, having played with Melbourne Renegades last summer, Russell was especially key with the ball. He delivered two quick, accurate yorkers that lit up the bails and bowled Brad Haddin and Nic Maddinson to leave the Thunder at 2 for 37, and from there they never really recovered. His economy was also outstanding, his four overs earning him 3 for 13.Watson also chipped in with 3 for 13 from two overs; having had Jordan Silk caught in the deep he added Sean Abbott, who was caught and bowled, and Trent Lawford, who was bowled. While Russell and Watson picked up three wickets each, Jacques Kallis had also made an important breakthrough by trapping Lumb lbw, although the ball appeared to have pitched outside leg stump.That ended Lumb’s chances of helping the Sixers to victory after he earlier dropped one of the easiest chances imaginable on a cricket field. Watson was on 8 when he chipped a sitter off the bowling of Abbott; Lumb, at mid-off, had only to watch the ball into his hands, but somehow allowed the ball to bounce off his abdomen and could not grasp it. He was lucky the drop cost only eight runs as Watson was bowled by Nathan Lyon for 16.But there was enough batting in the Thunder line-up to post a strong total. Batting at No.3 and having walked to the crease in the second over, Hussey seemed to set himself the task of batting through the innings, and he did so with class. He lofted Jackson Bird over wide long-off for the first six of the tournament and added three more through his innings.Twenty runs came off the 17th over of the innings as Hussey and Ben Rohrer (30 off 20) lifted the tempo towards the end. Hussey’s efforts proved more than adequate to end a run of seven straight victories for the Sixers over his side and ensured a perfect start for the Thunder, who have yet to finish above the bottom two in any BBL tournament.