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Pakistan might have won the first Test at Karachi, but all the gains went to Bangladesh. To push Pakistan into the fifth day was an excellent effort on their part, especially after their hapless showing of the last few months. Pakistan’s performance, on the other hand, left a lot to be desired.Bangladesh batted with a new-found grit and determination, especially in the second innings. Shoaib Akhtar was not allowed to rip through the batting order, and Rajin Saleh and Habibul Bashar handled his extreme pace with remarkable ease. Saleh, the talk of the town on his debut, is a player to watch out for – he has a good technique and can stay at the crease for long periods of time without getting flustered.Dav Whatmore, who took over as coach just before Bangladesh’s series against Australia, has already made an impact on his side. Whatmore was instrumental in converting one Asian minnow into a top team – he coached Sri Lanka to the 1996 World Cup. Bangladesh might be a different ballgame, as he recently explained in an exclusive interview to Wisden CricInfo, but he has begun well.One of Whatmore’s biggest worries will be the bowling. Mashrafe Mortaza troubled the Pakistani batsman and Mohammad Rafique was economical, but the rest lacked penetration. Bangladesh do not yet have the ability to take 20 wickets in a Test, and Khaled Mahmud hardly leads by example. He doubled his tally of Test wickets in this game, but his bowling average still stands at 244. The cricket academies back home need to breed genuine pace bowlers – and a quality legspinner would do quite nicely as well.Pakistan do not have much cause for cheer. Their fielding was atrocious – a major reason for Pakistan’s lack of success in the longer version of the game is their inability to hang on to chances in the slips. The bowlers, as a result, concentrate on getting batsmen out bowled or lbw and are taken for runs when they drift onto the pads. This Test was no exception, as Taufeeq Umar dropped a sitter in the first innings and Yasir Hameed bungled a simple chance offered by Habibul Bashar in the second. Bashar was then on zero – he went on to make 108.The batting, with the exception of Yasir Hameed’s centuries, was ordinary. The shot selection by Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar was awful. Pakistan must sort out its opening combination quickly, as neither Hafeez nor Taufeeq seem to possess the technique to succeed against better teams. The Bangladesh attack was modest, yet Pakistan managed just 346 in the first innings on a docile pitch.The only positive to come out for Pakistan was the impressive performance of 25-year old Hameed. He had shown a glimpse of his talent in the one-day internationals that preceded this Test, but had failed to convert any of his starts. He showed great composure and concentration and worked his way to two centuries on debut, only the second player to achieve that feat. However, it would be too early to say that Pakistan’s worries over the crucial No. 3 slot are over. Pakistan has a penchant for discarding players after the odd appearance in a Test match, and Hameed will have to prove himself against better teams.The pitch at Karachi was pathetic. Pakistan’s strength lies in its pace attack, and the pitches prepared for a home series should be lively, with an even covering of grass. The Karachi pitch offered no assistance to Pakistan’s fast bowlers, and neutralised the home advantage they had. It may not matter against Bangladesh – it will against better teams.Final day Bulletin

Brian Lara’s chances of regaining fitness in time for West Indies tour ofPakistan looked slim on Tuesday morning after a hairline fracture wasdiscovered in his elbow.The star left-hander had dislocated his elbow in a collision with MarvanAtapattu whilst batting on Saturday in Kandy.Initial x-rays – taken in Kandy, contrary to false reports that said he wasairlifted to Colombo – allayed fears of a fracture and Lara was expected tobe sidelined for 4-6 weeks.But on Monday the left-arm started swelling and Lara was taken off for asecond batch of x-rays in Colombo, which revealed the hairline fracture inhis elbow joint.”It was always our intention to seek a second opinion upon our return toColombo and it has now been diagnosed that there is definitely a hairlinefracture at the elbow joint,” team manager Ricky Skerritt confirmed.Skerritt expects the fracture to prolong his recovery period and jeopardisehis chances of touring Pakistan, if the West Indies Cricket Board give thego-ahead to the tour scheduled to start at the end of January.”After resetting the cast around the repaired joint, it is now suggestedthat Lara would be out of cricket for much longer than was at first thought,for an extra two weeks and for no less than six weeks in all, perhapslonger, depending on healing.””Brian will be having yet another MRI examination on Tuesday afternoon toconfirm all this, plus to see what progress in the healing process has beeneffected.”What this means is that Brian Lara is effectively ruled out of the nextscheduled West Indies tour of Pakistan, if and when, that takes place.”Lara was to stay with the team during the remaining days of the tour but hehas now been booked on an early direct flight to London before West Indiestake on Sri Lanka in the final of the LG Abans tri-series on Wednesdayafternoon.

In farcical proceedings at the Asgiriya International Stadium today,Nepal qualified for the Super League by virtue of a 14 run victoryagainst a devastated Kenyan side.Having bowled out Nepal for 107, Kenya contacted The ManagementCommittee of the U-19 World Cup to clarify what was required for entryinto the Super League. They were told that they needed to score theruns in just 17 overs. Thus the coach informed the players to attackthe bowling right from start. In the rush to score quick runs, Kenyalost early wickets. Reduced to 44-5 in the eigth over, the coachinformed the players to bat normally. It was too late. Kenya waseventually bowled out for 93.However the regulations state that when points are equal, the firstdeciding factor should be the number of wins. If Kenya had won, theywould have gone through to the Super League. Whilst the Kenyamanagement will have to share some of the blame for this unfortunateincident for not clarifying the position earlier, The ManagementCommittee too will have to accept responsibility for giving erroneousinformation at a such a crucial moment.In another extraordinary incident, a Nepalese bowler broke the wicketin his delivery, dismissing Halali for a duck. When asked whether suchan act was in the spirit of the game the Nepalese manger said, “technically such a dismissal is out. You have to understand such anaction in a game of this importance.”However the batsmen was not warned first. Secondly the bails werebroken with his right hand. Being a left arm bowler the Law stipulatesthat the left hand must break the wicket.Nepal will now face England, Sri Lanka and either India or NewZealand.

Sri Lanka coach Marvan Atapattu said Lasith Malinga’s lack of penetration, and the bowlers’ failure to execute plans has paved their path to decline, though the plans themselves remain robust.Sri Lanka had run hot in the first six months of 2014, winning all of their limited-overs tournaments, including an Asia Cup, a World T20 and an ODI series in England. However, they have been much poorer since January this year, losing bilateral series against New Zealand and now Pakistan, in addition to losing a quarter-final at the World Cup.

‘Shehzad played exceptionally’ – Azhar

Pakistan captain Azhar Ali lauded the consistency of his batsmen, as they chased down 252 with ease, to win their first ODI series in Sri Lanka since 2006. Pakistan’s top order has made runs all through the series. On Wednesday, Ahmed Shehzad hit 95 and Mohammad Hafeez scored 70.
“Shehzad played exceptionally,” Azhar said. “He played very positively and put the bad balls away. When Hafeez came, he played a crucial knock as they were putting a lot of pressure on us. He played like a senior player would play. We had a 100-run stand between them.”
Pakistan’s batsmen have also scored quickly throughout the series, notching run rates higher than six in each of the last two innings. “Once you have confidence that all the batsmen are in good form, you suddenly have a leverage to play fluently and take a few risks as well.”
The victory had been set up by Pakistan’s bowling, which has consistently been menacing through the tour. “When we got wickets we knew they lack a little bit of experience after Mathews – they didn’t have a lot of in form batsmen,” Azhar said. “When the wickets did come we knew that we can keep them to about 250 or 260.”

The team’s strategy has been brought into question through their limited-overs forays in 2015, as they have persisted with a substantial number of allrounders instead of fielding specialist bowlers. In this series, Pakistan’s bowlers have claimed 33 wickets to the Sri Lanka attack’s 15. Malinga, meanwhile, averages 37.50 this year.”I don’t think there’s a hell of a lot of issues with our planning and what we want to do with the ball,” Atapattu said. “Executing under pressure is something that concerns us. Plus we have played on good wickets. We’ve played on really good tracks starting in January this year when we started playing New Zealand in New Zealand.”We got six wickets in Kandy, but we haven’t got the wickets quite regularly as you would expect from Lasith Malinga. That’s something that we have missed. That’s one of the reasons we’ve lost the series.”Sri Lanka hit 252 for 9 batting first in the fourth ODI, but the ease with which Pakistan chased this total down suggested the target was at least 20 runs light. Atapattu said the absence of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara had left a considerable void in the side, but urged the young batsmen to begin converting their chances.”A lot of the batsmen getting starts and not going on to get a big score on basically flat wickets is disappointing. Most of them got starts and we needed a big one off one of them to get a big score or chase a big score. We got one when Kusal Perera got a 50 off 17 balls in Kandy. We haven’t had that frequently, and that is something people have to be responsible at the top of the order.”The exit of the two senior players has not just impacted the team’s batting, Atapattu said. “Missing two knowledgeable experienced players like that is going to be a bit difficult at the start, but life goes on. The young players have to take responsibility. Their capabilities and their thinking only surfaces when players like Mahela and Sanga leave. It’s a learning curve in terms of tactics and so on, but they are the ones who have to take Sri Lankan cricket forward. “Fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep bowled only 2.2 overs on Wednesday, before leaving the field with a hamstring complaint. He will be assessed before the team can decides on whether to draft another player into the squad, Atapattu said.

But for the difference of a few days, Ottis Gibson might well now be in Barbados, overseeing the preparation of the West Indies team for the forthcoming tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa as head coach. Instead, the widely travelled former Barbados and West Indies allrounder leaves South Africa on Monday for the Test series in Sri Lanka as the officially appointed bowling coach to the England team.Gibson has been in South Africa for the past two weeks on his first assignment since the confirmation of his full-time contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board. It is a one-on-one project with Steve Harmison aimed at getting England’s leading fast bowler, literally out of action since July with injury, technically and physically ready for the three Tests in Sri Lanka.As Gibson explained it during a net session at the Wanderers Stadium, England got in with their proposition days before he was to make a presentation to the West Indies Cricket Board in support of his application for the head coach vacancy.He first forwarded his interest and his CV to WICB cricket operations officer Tony Howard back in June and was subsequently asked to make a formal presentation on October 19. By then, following South African Allan Donald’s departure, he had been assigned to the England job on a temporary basis for the separate tours of Sri Lanka, for five ODIs in early October and for the forthcoming three Tests.”Things went very well in the ODI series in Sri Lanka which England won for the first time,” Gibson said. “I’d worked with the head coach Peter Moores before so he knew what I am capable of doing. He told me he wanted me to stay on.”Acquainted with his well-publicised interest in the West Indies job, the ECB moved quickly and submitted a permanent contract on his return from Sri Lanka. “The decision was whether to take it or wait for something else,” Gibson stated.By the time he went back to Barbados, with his young son, for a week’s holiday following the initial Sri Lankan trip, his mind was made up. There was no longer any point in pursuing the presentation to the WICB which ultimately named Australian John Dyson as head coach.”The England offer was what was on the table and I accepted within a day of it being put,” Gibson added. “I got back in touch with Howard and told him what was happening from the England side and that was that,” he explained. “They [WICB] didn’t indicate whether they wanted me for the job or anything like that, just that it was my decision to make.”While he was “absolutely delighted” to be with an England team that is “on the up”, with several promising young fast bowlers to work with, Gibson was convinced that there was still enough talent in the West Indies for him to have had a go at lifting them out of their lengthy decline.”When I was in Barbados, a lot of my friends told me I had done the right thing to take the England job, given the state of West Indies cricket,” he said. “I made my decision but I wouldn’t have put in for the West Indies in the first place if I didn’t believe that, with the right people around me, I could make a difference.”Gibson, looking as lithe and athletic as a 38-year-old has any right to, enjoyed a dream all-round season with Durham in the County Championship. He earned the prestigious Professional Cricketers’ Association Player-of-the-Year award on the votes of the players, and was beseeched by Durham to stay one last season.But he has no qualms about moving into coaching. “Durham’s success [winning the one-day title and finishing second in the Championship] and my own made you feel that you could go on for another year but you had to be realistic,” he said.In spite of his record – ten wickets in an innings against Hampshire, 80 wickets at an average of 20.85 overall, mostly from swing bowling in the high 80mph range, and 576 hard-hitting runs at 27.52-Gibson said he had to appreciate he was 38 and “not getting any younger”.Durham was the last of his many stops as player. Apart from two Tests, 15 ODIs and two A-team tours with the West Indies, he also represented Barbados, Border Gruiqualand West and Gauteng in South Africa and Glamorgan and Leicestershire prior to his two seasons with Durham.”The truth is that an opportunity like this, to be involved with an international team, might not come around again and I’ve always wanted to go out and prove myself as a coach,” he noted. A few days later and he might well have had the chance with the West Indies.

Shoaib Akhtar once again attracted controversy when he was fined by the organisers of the Twenty20 Cup for refusing to wear a sponsors’ logo during the event.A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said on Tuesday that Shoaib was fined Rs10,000 after he flatly refused to wear the logo of Mobilink, which sponsored all the participating teams of the Twenty20 Cup held in Karachi from December 21 to 26.Shoaib, still in danger of being banned for doping, was told by match referee Anwar Khan to wear the cellular company’s logo when he featured in the Twenty20 Cup for the Rawalpindi Rams. He was told that all players have to wear the logo since the PCB has an agreement with the company. However, Shoaib refused, saying that he had no contract with the PCB and was not being paid by the board or the sponsors to do it.Shoaib hid the logo on his T-shirt with a sticker and played two matches for the Rams who were bundled out of the competition at the first hurdle.The PCB official said that after giving Shoaib repeated warnings, the event’s officials decided to fine him.Shoaib was not present to hear about the fine as was among 25 players invited by the PCB for a conditioning camp that got underway at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Tuesday in preparation for next month’s tour of South Africa.

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How they were out

On a day whose events were purely of academic interest, thanks to cyclone-induced rain washing out the first three-and-a-half days of play, Sri Lanka dominated, grabbing a bit of the psychological advantage for the rest of the series. A probing spell of left-arm seam from Chaminda Vaas engineered an Indian collapse, for their lowest-ever total against Sri Lanka, before the batsmen, led by the classy Mahela Jayawardene, managed some useful practice ahead of the second Test at Delhi in four days’ time.The ease and flourish shown by the Sri Lankan batsmen was in stark contrast to the pottering nature of India’s display. The difference in run-rates today – India crawled along at a little over 1.5 runs an over while Sri Lanka motored at close to 4 – may lead one to believe that the pitch was changed midway through the day, but the Indian batsmen did themselves no favours by retreating further into their shells when the choke was applied. The pitch wasn’t keeping as low as last evening and it was left to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, on Test debut, to breathe some life into the innings and save them from ignominy.For most of last week, there was no respite from the rain. On the final morning, it was more like a drought, not water but runs, with the batsmen managing just 19 runs in the first 20 overs of the day, including a period when they endured 38 consecutive dot balls. Staggeringly, Vaas’s first 11 overs of the day were maidens – the greybeards in the crowd probably harked back to nearly 42 years back when Bapu Nadkarni sent down 23 consecutive maidens in this city – and both Muttiah Muralitharan, who equalled Anil Kumble’s record for 24 caught-and-bowled dismissals, and Malinga Bandara, the legspinner, posed plenty of problems.There was no record 35th hundred for Sachin Tendulkar, undone by a fastish offbreak from Murali after a painstaking 126-ball knock, and he was lucky not to fall much earlier, when Sangakkara failed to latch on to a nick in the second over of the day. Neither Sourav Ganguly nor VVS Laxman succeeded in breaking the shackles – a mix-up when Laxman took off for a non-existent single and Ganguly hesitated ended their partnership – and didn’t endeavour to use their feet against the spinners. Ganguly, who was given a warm reception when he walked out to bat, managed one well-timed cover-drive but soon chipped low to point where Tillakaratne Dilshan plucked an excellent catch.Countering Murali on a sluggish surface on one’s Test debut can be a nervy prospect, but Dhoni backed himself and wasn’t afraid to loft the ball over the fielders. In 54 deliveries, he scored more fours than what both Dravid and Tendulkar had managed in 231, and made sure he wasn’t bogged down by rotating the strike.Dhoni showed that one could score runs on the track and the point was reinforced, with finesse, by Jayawardene and Sangakkara. Neither Ajit Agarkar nor Irfan Pathan managed to exert any sort of control and Sourav Ganguly, coming on in the 10th over, was singled out for punishment with 16 runs in his two overs. Jayawardene’s velvet-smooth drives came as a whiff of fresh air, after most batsmen struggled to get the ball off the square, and he showed his full repertoire in his breezy 71. He shifted to one-day mode after tea, finding the boundary with ridiculous ease and often managing to adjust in the last minute. Just when he appeared all set for a hundred, in his first match in India, he was given out when the ball appeared to have only brushed the pad.Sangakkara and Thilan Samaraweera joined the fun and it was only Anil Kumble, who was unlucky not to have more than three wickets, who asked some searching questions. He foxed Marvan Atapattu with a short one that hurried on and deceived Sangakkara with a legbreak that stayed a bit low. The rains ensured that there was no chance of a result in this game, but based purely on today’s events Dravid’s boys will know that, despite the 6-1 hammering in the one-dayers, beating Sri Lanka in Tests, especially in subcontinental conditions, is a different kettle of fish.

IndiaRahul Dravid c Sangakkara b Vaas 32 (97 for 3)
Sachin Tendulkar lbw b Muralitharan 22 (108 for 4)
VVS Laxman run out (Tharanga/Sangakkara) 5 (109 for 5)
Sourav Ganguly c Dilshan b Fernando 5 (117 for 6)
Irfan Pathan c and b Muralitharan 0 (118 for 7)
Ajit Agarkar run out (Gunawardene/Sangakkara) 4 (128 for 8)
Anil Kumble c and b Vaas 9 (159 for 9)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Gunawardene b Bandara 30 (167)
Sri LankaAvishka Gunawardene c Dhoni b Pathan 4 (5 for 1)
Kumar Sangakkara lbw b Kumble 30 (62 for 2)
Mahela Jayawardene c Gambhir b Kumble 71 (124 for 3)
Marvan Atapattu b Kumble 7 (158 for 4)

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Australia began the New Year with a new-look line-up, but it was a veteran and a returning legspinner who ensured that the first day ended in the old dominating fashion. As they had on Boxing Day, Pakistan stepped promisingly ahead as they were carried by Salman Butt’s first Test century, but the topple began in the third session, and Glenn McGrath and Stuart MacGill scattered seven wickets.MacGill, playing in only his ninth Test alongside Shane Warne, overshadowed the game’s greatest wicket-taker, and McGrath reminded Ricky Ponting that he was worth the wait with three. The two Big Macs dumped Pakistan from an envious 1 for 193 to a comparatively disastrous 9 for 292 before they accepted a bad-light offer with eight overs remaining.Ponting was handed five bowlers to play with in a test-tube attack as MacGill and Shane Watson replaced Michael Kasprowicz and Darren Lehmann for thisdead-rubber Test. But Ponting had too many toys in the opening sessions, and the crease was crowded with experiments. The backlog meant McGrath didn’t start his second spell until 4.07pm. He had been missed, and immediately leapt into Butt (4 for 241) before knocking back Naved-ul-Hasan (7 for 261) and Shoaib Akhtar (8 for 261) in a satisfying spell.The change in MacGill after his first wicket was extreme. Yasir Hameed welcomed him back for his first Test since Kandy last March with two fours in his first over, and after six he was leaking a run a ball. His day changed when Younis Khan drove him straight to McGrath (2 for 193), and from then on he again looked like a Test bowler with the sort of sharp spin that’s rarely spotted on a first-day pitch.Employing two slips at times and bowling in tandem with Warne after tea, MacGill watched Yousuf Youhana push a tame catch to Warne at first slip (3 for 209), forced Asim Kamal to slog to Jason Gillespie at mid-on (5 for 241), and picked up Shahid Afridi with a waist-high full-toss that flew to McGrath on thesquare-leg boundary. It was traditional legspin of big turn and the threat of wicket-taking bad balls. His fifth arrived with Danish Kaneria’s edge to Gilchrist, a fierce celebration and the knowledge that wickets in the Pura Cup do sometimes get noticed.While choosing MacGill was an instant success, judgment of the allrounder Watson, who became Australia’s 391st Test player, must wait until he hasshown both facets of his game. Pakistan made four changes – three down to injuries and illness – from Melbourne, and only Hameed provided batting value to a side that lost both previous Tests inside four days.Pakistan’s only positive after tea was Butt’s century, as they spoiled an ideal opportunity to post an intimidating first-day total. Hameed – who survived two reprieves in Gillespie’s first over when dropped by Warne and Gilchrist – and Butt upset a large home crowd expecting submission with bright and controlled resistance through a 102-run opening stand.Butt played the innings Pakistan had wanted from him all tour with a composed display when measured against those of his team-mates. The cheeky smile the moment after the ball trickled into the boundary showed the relief and joy of his maiden Test century.Unlike the rest of the order, Butt paced his innings and was rewarded for tempering his approach. Steady before lunch, he increased his tempo, first bringing up his half-century, and then his highest Test score as he sped towards three figures. At Melbourne he reached 70 as Pakistan briefly scared their rivals, and Australia were in a tight spot thanks to this talented 20-year-old. Pulling Warne to midwicket for his fifty, Butt accelerated to 82 with four boundaries, including three in an over behind point off Watson, before Warne and MacGill almost slowed him to distraction. The pair were stifling, but he managed to stay in control, although he almost departed to the ball that brought up his hundred, an ugly swipe which dropped centimetres short of the diving McGrath at deep square leg.The applause was deserved, but what Butt needed was another half-century in support. Instead he was part of the rush to the dressing-room instigated by twoAustralian bowlers desperate for recognition after waiting their turns.Peter English is Cricinfo’s Australasian editor.

Plans have been submitted for a major refurbishment to the Walker Cricket Ground in Southgate, Middlesex’s second home in recent years. The main clubhouse and neighbouring squash courts would be demolished and replaced with a purpose-built two-storey facility.”The plans are all about trying to secure the future of the ground," Chris Sexton, the Walker Ground’s administration director, told the Barnet & Potters Bar Times. "It has been here for over 150 years and we want to see it carry on. "It’s very expensive to maintain the cricket ground, so if we don’t improve facilities we may not be able to make ends meet.”Middlesex have increasingly regarded Southgate as their second home, and with fewer matches staged at Lord’s in recent seasons they have increased the numbers of games held there. Sexton would like to host even more Middlesex games.”One of the problems we have here is that although Middlesex like coming here, and enjoy the excellent pitch, the players have to sit in a tent to watch the game as we have no viewing facilities,” Sexton explained. “We have to cordon off their changing rooms from the public as well, which is not ideal for county cricket. We want them to continue to play here and this development will certainly help in that respect.”

Otago’s bold bid to defy the planning for the State Cricket Max in Auckland today came undone on the basis of one hard-hitting over from Richard Petrie in the semi-final against Wellington.Petrie hit 34 off the ninth over of the second innings, bowled by the unfortunate James McMillan.Unfortunate, because until that stage he had been one of the bowlers of the tournament. But Petrie found the Max zone twice with sixes to boost the scoring rate impressively.That left the pressure on Otago to score 123 to win in its last innings – that would have been the highest total recorded in the tournament to date.Otago captain Chris Gaffaney admitted disappointment afterwards that it had come down to one over.”We feel like we were the spare parts in this weekend and we were looking forward to upsetting their party,” he said.”Their party” being the advantage Wellington and Auckland were given when they were provided with a second life for being last year’s finalists.Otago by comparison knew that if they made the final they would have had to play four games by the end of it all.Auckland only had to play two and Wellington, by virtue of its loss yesterday to Auckland had to play three games.”It’s not easy when teams have to win all their games,” Gaffaney said. “One over made all the difference out there.””We thought throughout the weekend we had a pretty good chance. We were checking out of the hotel each morning only to keep on winning.”We thought it might have been a fairytale finish but it wasn’t to be,” he said.There were still bonuses for Otago however, as they looked towards the start of the State Championship on Monday next week.Craig Pryor had shown how much he had developed since moving to Otago from Auckland for last summer. He was a key player in Otago’s progress through the tournament and Gaffaney was delighted in his efforts.”He has blossomed as a cricket and is an interesting prospect.”Kerry Walmsley and Andrew Hore also played well for Otago, he said.The loss to Wellington this morning was based around the inability to get the tight bowling away. Hore was out for 12 and none of the other batsmen were able to find the Max zone to any significant advantage.Wellington had a five run first innings lead and Otago bowled well to restrict Wellington to 73/5 after eight overs in the second. And then Hurricane Petrie blew in with two Max sixes as part of a 34-run over haul which was backed up by another 10 runs from the last over.Petrie brought up his 50 off 17 balls and was 52 not out at the end of the innings which saw Wellington on 117/6.Hore started a one-man wrecking mission with a four and a six in Andrew Penn’s first over but was caught off the fourth ball and from that stage the 123 run target was always going to be steep.Evan Marshall took three successive fours off the ninth over but the all-important Max zone couldn’t be breached and Otago ended up 25 runs short.