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Had it not been for a nasty, pre-match injury to Simon Katich, Andrea Agathangelou would have been 12th man. Instead, he is within seven runs of what would be a terrific maiden Championship century

David Lloyd at the Ageas Bowl23-May-2013
ScorecardAndrea Agathangelou passed fifty for the first time in the Championship and closed in on a century•Getty ImagesThere is not much Andrea Agathangelou can’t do on a cricket field, it would seem. Capable of bowling off-spinners as well as leg-breaks, he can keep wicket if required, catch flies in the slip cordon and bat anywhere in the top order. But that’s not all.The 23-year-old, who was born in South Africa and has a Cypriot father who once ran the 100 metres in an Olympic qualifying time, is a more than competent squash, rugby and hockey player. Oh, and he has competed in biathlons.Had it not been for a nasty, pre-match injury to Simon Katich, though, Agathangelou would have spent his time here buzzing around on nothing more challenging than 12th man duties. Instead, he stepped forward at short notice to move within seven runs of what would be a terrific maiden Championship century while preventing Lancashire’s innings from being blown away completely by a resurgent David Balcombe.Having joined the Red Rose county on a scholarship in 2010, Agathangelou has a record that includes a stack of runs in South African provincial cricket. But he has had to bide his time at Old Trafford, despite creating a good impression in the second XI, and he made only three Championship appearances last summer with a top score of 24.On today’s evidence, plenty more first team outings will follow. Joining the action with the visitors 95 for 3, he lost partners at regular intervals as Lancashire threatened to fall short of 200 for the third consecutive first innings. While one batsman after another fell to outside edges, though, Agathangelou used the middle of his blade to excellent effect.Driving and cutting with great conviction, he reached 50 with the help of a pulled six off James Vince, then kept his composure when the end looked nigh at 182 for 8.With Glen Chapple, as handy a No 10 as you could wish for, lending stout assistance, 43 precious runs were added. Then Simon Kerrigan took over the supporting role and when rain finally called a halt 12 overs early Agathangelou was well within dreaming distance of three figures.Not that Katich knew much about developments. Having looked forward to playing against his old county, the Australian suffered a nasty blow to the side of his head while batting in the nets less than an hour before start of play and was taken to hospital in a groggy state.Kept in Southampton General for several hours while undergoing tests, Katich was eventually allowed to return to the team hotel where he was later told, no doubt, that his stand-in had played a fine hand.Batting seldom looked an entirely straightforward occupation on a green-tinged pitch that offered enough sideways movement – as well as occasional extra bounce – to keep the pace bowlers interested. Not that bowling, or fielding, was a bowl of cherries, either, thanks to a blustery and bitingly cold wind that prompted Sean Ervine to wear a woolly hat while standing at slip after lunch.Perhaps the unpleasant conditions were at least partly responsible for Balcombe’s nightmare start with the new ball. After three legitimate deliveries of his opening over, he had gone for 21 and was on course for some kind of ghastly record.Balcombe, though, pulled his act together to claim one of the more unlikely five-fors, James Tomlinson drilled a consistently good line and Hampshire, defying cold hands to hold most of their catches, would have been in complete control but for Agathangelou.”It was very unfortunate that Simon got hit but, having been given the chance to play, I’m just pleased I was able to take that chance,” said Lancashire’s star man. “It has been going well for me in the second XI and it felt really good out there today.”Having hit 14 fours as well as that six off Vince, and faced 156 balls, two or three more solid blows would take him to his century. “Fingers crossed,” said Agathangelou, who believes he will complete his England qualification period at the end of this year.

After Pakistan’s early exit from the Champions Trophy, the PCB has decided to extend the selection pool ahead of picking a squad for the upcoming tours of West Indies and Zimbabwe

Umar Farooq27-Jun-2013After Pakistan’s early exit from the Champions Trophy, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to extend the selection pool of players and shift focus towards youngsters ahead of picking a squad for the upcoming tours of West Indies and Zimbabwe. Ten cricketers, including Shahid Afridi, underwent fitness tests conducted by a panel of doctors and coaches at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.The change in leadership of the PCB, in the form of Najam Sethi for the suspended Zaka Ashraf, has seen a changed persona of the board. The new interim chairman publicly dismissed the culture of [unmerited recommendation] and ordered selection strictly on merit to produce immediate results. He asked the selection committee and coaches to take more responsibility from now on.The selections for the West Indies tour were nearly settled before the selection panel was given an additional five days by the board chairman, to justify each selection before sending it for approval. The panel, led by Iqbal Qasim, thereafter formed an extensive pool to be tested. The intentions are clear as selectors have been given a free hand to replace the older players with youngsters. They may now think beyond the likes of Imran Farhat, Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal, who fared poorly in the Champions Trophy.Haris Sohail, who suffered an ankle injury earlier this year, and Raza Hasan, who had major surgery on his spine, are back in contention, along with Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shahzad. Umar was also seen with the wicketkeeping gloves along with coach Dav Whatmore, which means he may be selected as the wicketkeeper in the squad. Mohammad Irfan and Nasir Jamshed, automatic selections over the last eight months, were also asked to undertake fitness tests. Top-order batsmen Sohaib Maqsood from Multan, Sharjeel Khan from Hyderabad, left-arm spinners Zulfiqar Babar and Abdur Rehman, and legspinner Usman Qadir, all featured in a three-hour fitness test.Pakistan suffered three straight defeats in the Champions Trophy with their batting being their major woe. They failed to cross 200 – bowled out for 170 against West Indies, 167 against South Africa and 165 in a rain-affected match against India to get eliminated from the group stage. Only captain Misbah-ul-Haq hit two half-centuries, while the other senior batsmen Mohammad Hafeez, Farhat, Malik and Kamran performed poorly.

George Bailey, Australia’s stand-in captain for the Champions Trophy, has admitted that Australia are low on confidence, reasoning that the fate of the Ashes hinges on the result of the first couple of Tests

Nagraj Gollapudi at The Oval18-Jun-2013George Bailey, Australia’s stand-in captain for the Champions Trophy, has admitted that Australia are low on confidence, reasoning that the fate of the Ashes hinges on the result of the first couple of Tests. Australia, the defending champions, failed to make the semi-finals of what is supposed to be the last edition of the Champions Trophy, after they lost to Sri Lanka on Monday at The Oval narrowly by 20 runs, finishing at the bottom of Group B behind England, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.It has been a demoralising few weeks for Australia, starting with the loss of their regular captain Michael Clarke to back injury, following by the David Warner controversy after the player admitted to being involved physical altercation with England batsman Joe Root in a pub in Birmingham last week before culminating in their exit from the tournament on Monday. With the first Investec Ashes Test commencing on July 10 at Trent Bridge, Australia could not be in a worse state of mind.However, Bailey felt that the switch in the formats, the change of the ball, the infusion of fresh legs and the probable return of Clarke in to the squad could reinvigorate an Australia and arrest the downward spiral.”There is probably not a great deal of confidence there,” Bailey said at the Oval. “But it’s just a very different mindset, I think, going from a one‑day tournament to a Test tournament. I don’t think it’s mattered where sides have been ranked going forward or in the past.”The Ashes just tends to bring out something special in both sides. Whatever can be written and said leading up into those games, but until that first Test and the result of that first Test, I think that will dictate how the summer plays out. I think there is a huge importance in the results of the first couple of Tests.”Whatever Bailey’s thoughts, the worries will persist. The biggest concern would be the slump the top-order pair of Shane Watson and Phillip Hughes. Watson had an aggregate of 34 runs while Hughes finished with 43 runs in the three Champions Trophy matches. Add to that the failure of Warner, who managed nine runs in the match against England and successive ducks in two warm-up matches, and the fragility of the Australian batting order becomes that much prominent.There were only four half-centuries by Australia’s batsmen including one from the James Faulkner, a bowling allrounder. Bailey and Adam Voges, the best performing batsmen, are not part of the Ashes plans. Australia, Bailey pointed out, would need to forget the Champions Trophy as soon as possible to move into the Ashes with a positive frame of mind.”All of these guys will have to put this tournament behind them whether they’ve scored runs or not, and just focus on going forward,” Bailey said. “That’s no different for an Australian player to any other international player. Everyone has form slumps, everyone has their ups and downs. As a team, I think there is a really big challenge that’s going to be ahead of them in the next couple of months. I think what Australia have done this time is they’ve got a really good preparation.”I think a couple of the guys, the batters from this group, will maybe even join up and play the Australia A game that’s due to start later this week. So, there are going to be plenty of opportunities for those guys to get some match practice in. Plenty of opportunity to get lots of practice against the Dukes balls in.”What would help the Australians immensely would be the return of Clarke who, Bailey reckoned, was likely to return for the first Ashes warm-up match, starting next Thursday, against Somerset in Taunton. According to Bailey even though it might seem Australia had been mortally wounded in the Champions Trophy there were still some positives to take forward. One reason for encouragement was Faulkner, the left-arm fast bowler, who might have just had three wickets, but his rich mix of variations could make him the surprise weapon during the Ashes.”Faulkner has been really impressive. I think it’s been good to have a lot of guys over here playing a lot of cricket in the lead‑up to the Ashes. So it’s not necessarily just on the Champions Trophy group, but a lot of guys that have been playing county cricket,” Bailey said. “Obviously, the Australia A groups are over here. The Champions Trophy boys that have been here for a number of weeks have been getting used to the conditions, different color ball and different format. But all of that plays a part in getting settled in. So I think all of those things will take some positives out of.”

JP Duminy’s 100-ball 92 saw the South Africans overcome a sedate start, as they posted 271 for 6 on a slow, but seaming pitch in the warm-up encounter at Colts Cricket Club in Colombo.

The Report by Andrew Fidel Fernando in Colombo17-Jul-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsFile photo: JP Duminy was strong square of the wicket, sweeping well and often•AFPJP Duminy’s 92 runs, and two wickets helped the South Africans cruise to a 73-run victory in their warm-up match in Colombo, ahead of the five-match ODI series that begins on Saturday. Duminy injected urgency to the South Africans’ batting effort after it had threatened stagnation early on, before building strong partnerships with AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis, on a slow Colts Cricket Club surface. The South Africans could not score as many as they might have hoped in the final overs, considering they had only lost three wickets by the 45th, but their bowlers’ fire and discipline might have defended a much lighter total than 271 for 6 against this opposition.The visitors attack was bereft of Morne Morkel’s services for much of the innings though, after he left the field with tightness in his left quad after his third over. Morkel had left the Champions Trophy in June with a quad injury, and had been believed to have recovered fully, but his availability for the series will now need to be assessed on Thursday morning, after he is observed overnight.Earlier in the day, Duminy was strong square of the wicket, sweeping well and often, while also regularly gliding back to stroke the slow bowlers through point, as he progressed smartly against the friendly spin of Chaturanga de Silva and Jehan Mubarak. He was reluctant to use his feet, with the pitch offering some bounce, but he prospered whenever he advanced, hitting his first six over long on off Mubarak in the 45th over, before depositing de Silva over deep-square leg next over.Having batted securely since the 13th over, Duminy had begun to search for quick runs after the 42nd, but perished in sight of a fifth List-A ton when he attempted to pick the bowler off his legs by shuffling to the off side only to be bowled behind his pads by Dhammika Prasad. Prasad and Thisara Perera picked up three wickets between them in the final overs, as the South Africans struggled to time the ball in their search for a furious finish.In the opposition’s innings, Chris Morris was intense in his early spell, pinning Dimuth Karunaratne to the crease with a barrage of quick, short deliveries aimed at the body, and when Karunaratne finally ventured an expansive cover drive, the extra bounce Morris generated drew a thin top-edge to the keeper. He also dismissed Kusal Perera in his first spell, after the batsman had looked typically threatening early on before playing the familiar loose shot that brings his demise. This time he missed an ambitious swipe to the leg side to be trapped in front.The home side sought stability through a string of promising partnerships in the middle overs, but the South African spinners had bowled tightly, and attempts to stay in touch with the required run rate led to regular dismissals. Dinesh Chandimal could not shake himself out of a poor run of form, holing out to deep-square leg on 21 ahead of what is likely to be his first match as ODI captain on Saturday, while Thisara Perera’s innings of 19 may not be enough to see him regain his place in the national side. Angelo Perera and Jehan Mubarak improved their chances of selection, however, with scores in excess of 40.Both Morris and Robin Peterson finished with three wickets apiece, and the South Africans dismissed Mubarak in the 45th over to complete the win.

Five weeks to go and one or two at the wrong end of the table are starting to get twitchy, including now Nottinghamshire

Jon Culley at Trent Bridge21-Aug-2013
ScorecardLuke Fletcher has a vital part to play in the rest of Nottinghamshire’s season•Getty ImagesFive weeks to go and one or two at the wrong end of the table are starting to get twitchy, including now Nottinghamshire, whose director of cricket, Mick Newell, took the opportunity on the eve of this match to warn his players that if they think that relegation cannot sneak up they would be foolish.Their season is in danger of ending poorly. Beaten in the quarter-finals of the FLt20 and stuttering a little in the YB40, in which they have lost their last two matches, they are not yet secure in the LV= Championship. Newell made a point, it seems, of highlighting the need to buck up ideas, mentioning in particular his side’s failure to take 20 wickets in a match since early in the season and stressing that with fitness issues an ongoing concern for Andre Adams, someone else among the bowlers would have to make an impact.Newell fears that Adams, who turned 38 last month, will have to be nursed through the remaining five matches after recurring problems with calf and hamstring injuries, so it will have come as a relief to him that Luke Fletcher was able to pick up his first five-wicket haul for two years, even if the pleasure was tempered somewhat by watching the big seamer flat on his back being treated for cramp two balls into his 25th over, ending his involvement in the day.He should recover with rest overnight, which is just as well for Nottinghamshire after a performance that brought some balance after Yorkshire, asked to bat first, on a hard pitch with some grass left on it, batted with adventure. The match is important for them, at the other end of the table, with a 10-point lead over Sussex ripe to be extended.That Yorkshire should have a chance of marking their 150th year with the title is all the more worthy for having managed so often without Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow. Bairstow drove up the M1 to join this match after being released by England at The Oval and Yorkshire’s closing position after day one is strengthened by the fact that he will begin day two at the crease, his entrance having been delayed. It might be enough to secure an extra batting point.Bairstow’s return is countered by the absence of Gary Ballance with England Lions, although in anticipation of that Yorkshire moved last week to recruit the New Zealand batsman, Kane Williamson, for the remainder of the season. Williamson, who had not batted in a first-class match since the second Test against England in May, steered his first ball to third slip in succumbing for a duck and Yorkshire will hope the rustiness does not last long.His dismissal put Fletcher on a hat-trick after a beautiful delivery had accounted for Andrew Gale, who was looking in ominously good order before he was caught behind for 33.Yet Gale will look on the day’s work as a respectably good one by his side. There were frustrations for Adam Lyth and Adil Rashid, both of whom might have made hundreds, but any total above 300 after being put in can be seen as a success.Lyth went closest to a century and will curse himself, given that he was only five away from his second of the season. Dropped on 33 – a difficult chance to Patel at third slip off Adams – he had played fluently for the most part, revelling in the licence to drive, when he became Fletcher’s fourth victim, playing needlessly outside off stump and getting himself caught behind. He had hit 14 boundaries and, at that point, might have been wise to be more circumspect.The catch enabled Chris Read to draw level with Bruce French’s tally of 737 victims from catches as the county’s most successful post-war wicketkeeper. The two more he pouched later to improve Harry Gurney’s figures provides the statistical evidence to support claims that Read is Nottinghamshire’s finest gloveman of all time, although there is some evidence, apparently not verified beyond all doubt, that Tom Oates, who kept from 1897 to 1925, finished his career with 744.Rashid, who survived Fletcher’s hat-trick ball before producing a typically elegant innings of sometimes deliciously timed shots, added 78 before Fletcher had him leg before on the back foot, after which Liam Plunkett’s bold 41 secured a third point and an air of satisfaction in the Yorkshire dressing room that will not have been matches in the one above them.

Dale Steyn has said he would look forward to the contest with Shikhar Dhawan, his Sunrisers Hyderabad teammate and India’s likely first-choice Test opener, if India’s tour to South Africa was finalised

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Sep-2013Dale Steyn has said he would look forward to the contest with Shikhar Dhawan, his Sunrisers Hyderabad teammate and India’s likely first-choice Test opener, if India’s tour to South Africa is finalised. There is uncertainty over the tour, scheduled for later this year, and a decision is likely to be taken after the BCCI’s AGM on September 29.”Shikhar [Dhawan] is in some good form right now,” Steyn told . “It will be nice to have that contest especially now that I know him well. It will be a great battle between good friends as well as strength and strength because he is batting really well at the moment.”Steyn has played 10 Tests against India in which he has collected 53 wickets at an average of 19.00. During India’s last tour to South Africa in 2010-11, he was the leading wicket-taker in the drawn series with 21 dismissals in the three matches.”It would be quite nice if India come to South Africa,” he said. “There has always been a great rivalry between the two sides.”Steyn, back in action in the Champions League after three months away from cricket due to injuries, said he was gradually getting into the rhythm of bowling and the tournament was ideal preparation for the season ahead.”I don’t think you want to jump straight into the shark tank with the longer version, it’s quite difficult, so this is about getting perfect,” he said. “You get a couple of hours of competitive cricket and you can stand in the field for 20 overs. It’s not exactly the ideal preparation for Test match cricket but I think it’s a good start for me.”I am just taking it easy. There is no point in going full tilt from the first ball; you have to build it up. I feel like every game that I have played so far on the tournament, I have gotten better.”Steyn will lead the South Africa bowling attack next month in the two Tests against Pakistan in the UAE, which begin from October 14.

Chadwick Walton returns to the West Indies Test side after a two-Test stint during the troubled times in 2009

Sidharth Monga06-Oct-2013Chadwick Walton has played two Tests for West Indies, but you probably don’t know. When he did play those Tests, you either didn’t care or were too disgusted with the way things were going in West Indies cricket. It was in 2009 when the first-choice West Indies players went on a strike, and a host of lesser players lost two Tests against Bangladesh. The crowds stayed away; at worst the team was seen as an establishment eleven, at best they were lambs to the slaughter. When the pay dispute was resolved, out went most of the replacement players, Walton being one of them, with 10 catches and 13 runs to his name.Four years on, Walton is back, not as a there-is-no-alternative. “I didn’t realise it was four years,” Walton says. “It’s always a good feeling. I have been doing a lot of work to come back to international level. I hope this time I can put up a better show.”Walton is a man of a few words. He doesn’t want to talk too much about those troubled days. He sees it as a case of selectors’ calling him up and his answering the call. He says it was all normal: the team atmosphere, and the relationship with players who had struck work. He admits to one thing, though – he probably wasn’t ready back then. And it wasn’t his age; he was 24. But it was the timing of the call.”It came as a surprise,” he says. “It was sudden. It was very shocking.” Was he ready for the Test debut then? “I would tend to lean to the no side.”Now Walton has enough time to be ready to be part of a normal Test squad. What do you mean normal, he asks. “I can’t compare with any other. I haven’t been there since. I have nothing to compare it with.”That Test series was an eye opener, Walton says. Now he can joke about it, though. “The most challenging cricket I have played? Has to be playing with my niece. She get me out all the time because she makes the rules as she goes.”Apart from trying to become more consistent with the bat, Walton has spent the last four years trying to add a masters in sports science and marketing to his undergraduate degree in accounting. If he doesn’t want to talk about if others were bitter towards him when he agreed to play for West Indies during the strike, he doesn’t betray a sense of hurt at being left out either. “I always support what the selectors put out. If the selectors say we want to go with the same players, I support what they put out.”Walton, now the understudy to Denesh Ramdin on the tour of India, clearly supports what the selectors have put out, but is he ready? “You never know if you are ready,” he says.

The Islamabad High Court has ordered that the PCB elections must be held by November 2 to elect a chairman of the board

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Oct-2013The Islamabad High Court has directed Pakistan’s election commission to hold the election for a new PCB chairman by November 2.The court was hearing an appeal on a case of alleged contempt against Sethi, who according to the petitioner had failed to comply with the order to conduct elections by the previous deadline. The PCB argued that the election commission had refused to hold the board elections despite repeated correspondence, and that the electoral collage was incomplete because of various legal problems with regional cricket associations. The court, however, has now ordered the election to be held irrespective of other issues.The election commission had earlier been reluctant to conduct the PCB elections but today they expressed their willingness to do so before the court.The order is the latest in a series of developments that began with the court’s judgement on a constitutional writ petition challenging the election of the previous PCB chairman, Zaka Ashraf, who was then suspended and replaced temporarily by Najam Sethi for a 90-day term. When Sethi, a senior journalist and former caretaker chief minister of Punjab, had his powers curtailed, the court had set a deadline of October 18 for the PCB to hold fresh elections. The PCB, however, wasn’t able to comply with the deadline.On October 15, the prime minister of Pakistan and new patron of the PCB, Nawaz Sharif, dissolved the governing board of the PCB, and formed a five-member interim management committee (IMC) to administer cricket. Sethi‚ former chairman Shahryar Khan, former players Zaheer Abbas and Haroon Rasheed and former team manager Naved Cheema were appointed to the committee.The IMC had been directed by Sharif to elect one of its members as chairman, and the committee unanimously chose Sethi, who had been acting as caretaker chairman since July. The IMC wanted to hold off elections to allow time for various local cricket associations to resolve outstanding legal issues but Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui ordered the Election Commission to press ahead with the poll.

West Indies’ Marlon Samuels and Shane Shillingford have been reported for suspect bowling actions by the ICC

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Shane Shillingford has been suspended from bowling in the past•BCCIWest Indies’ Marlon Samuels and Shane Shillingford have been reported for suspect bowling actions by the ICC and are required to get their actions independently tested within the next 21 days. The bowlers are also required to submit the results of the tests within a further 14 days failing which both could be suspended from bowling in international cricket till remedial action has been taken. The two can, however, continue bowling in international cricket during this period.The bowlers’ actions were reported at the end of the second day’s play of the Mumbai Test by umpires Nigel Llong, Richard Kettleborough, Vineet Kulkarni and match referee Andy Pycroft, with particular references to the quicker deliveries and the doosras.Both bowlers have been suspended from bowling in international cricket because of illegal actions in the past. Samuels was first reported in 2008 after which he didn’t bowl for the next three years. Shillingford was also banned from bowling in 2010 but returned to bowl in 2011 after undergoing remedial work.

James Anderson conceded a world-record 28 runs off the final over of Australia’s innings as he came under an assault from George Bailey.

Brydon Coverdale16-Dec-2013George Bailey, Australia’s newest Test player, has joined Brian Lara in the history books by equalling his world record of 28 runs in a Test over. Bailey’s assault came off the bowling of James Anderson in the final over of Australia’s second innings at the WACA and matched Lara’s mauling of Robin Peterson at the Wanderers, which occurred ten years ago almost to the day.Bailey, who was playing his third Test, could have been forgiven for batting conservatively given that he has yet to really cement his place in the side, but followed the team plan for quick runs to allow Michael Clarke to declare once the lead passed 500. His attack against a bowler of Anderson’s quality and Test experience highlighted the gulf that has grown between the two sides this series and pleased his team-mates no end.”We didn’t know it was a record,” Shane Watson said after stumps. “There’s no doubt we’ve had quite a few bad experiences against Jimmy Anderson. To see that is always nice to have the shoe on the other foot, because he’s certainly had the upper hand on a lot of our batsmen in the Ashes series that I’ve been involved in … at certain times individuals in the Australian team have been at his mercy. It certainly provided a little bit of enjoyment for us.”Watson had already thrilled the crowd with a sustained assault on the England bowlers earlier in the session, his best over having brought 22 when he launched Graeme Swann down the ground for three sixes. But Bailey’s efforts were all the more remarkable given Anderson’s pace, and brought to mind the way he has played in his highly successful one-day international career.He began with a hard cut that flew over the slips and ran away for four, then followed up with a straight six that cleared the sightscreen at the Prindiville Stand End. A two clipped through the leg side followed, and then came a better-placed swat through square leg for four. Bailey finished the over with two more sixes down the ground, one that just cleared long-off and another that sailed much further into the crowd at long-on.Anderson was unable to find a length that stopped Bailey from getting under the ball but Clarke’s declaration at the end of the over prevented any further carnage, although Anderson and his team-mates still looked dejected as they left the field facing a chase of 504. Bailey was left unbeaten on 39 from 30 deliveries; he had started the over with 11 from 24 balls.Anderson now holds the unwanted record of most runs conceded by a fast bowler in a Test over, the previous record having been the 25 that Andy Roberts took off Ian Botham at Port-of-Spain in 1980-81. Australia’s previous record for most runs in an over was the 26 that Mitchell Johnson – Bailey’s partner during the over – clubbed off Paul Harris at the Wanderers in 2008-09.