While his rivals scrambled for a Test spot, Matthew Hayden proved he was the best opening batsman in Australia when he drove Queensland past Western Australia in the Pura Cup clash at the Gabba today.Hayden crashed 143 to lead the Bulls to first innings points after three days, tormenting the Warriors in a clear sign he was ready for the first Test against New Zealand on November 8.Just who will face the new ball with him remains uncertain after Jamie Cox and Greg Blewett scored centuries in their respective matches, but incumbent JustinLanger remains the favourite after his 96 against the Bulls yesterday.Hayden was more authoritative than Langer, providing the backbone of Queensland’s 6-403 declared in reply to the Warriors’ abbreviated first innings of 8-360.The visitors were 0-16 at stumps, leaving the door open for an intriguing finish tomorrow if rival captains Stuart Law and Adam Gilchrist set up a run chase.Hayden became Queensland’s leading century-maker in domestic four-day matches when he scored his 23rd ton, moving off a mark which included Law, the latePeter Burge and leading run-maker Sam Trimble.For all those centuries, Hayden has never entered an Australian summer guaranteed of a spot in the first Test – until now.”It’s great to be look at a record like that and think that you’ve got it,” Hayden said.”But you only have to look around the place to see that there is plenty of other blokes getting runs.”I was just really happy with the tempo of my innings today because I’ve done a lot of hard work and it was terrific to get a century.”Hayden was dangerous at times, belting an off-drive which almost knocked over Marcus North at mid-off before he fired a towering drive into the 12th row of the northern stand, missing a spectator by less than one metre.He played relatively straight for his first 100 runs and the knock was the highlight of a top-order assault which included a lively 73 from opener Jimmy Maher and a typically professional 78 from No.3 Martin Love.They pushed the score to 1-288 before veteran Jo Angel (3-70) found the spot with the second new ball.He removed Love, Clinton Perren (seven) and Andrew Symonds (15) and the Bulls only wobbled past the Warriors total before Law (35) eventually declared with12 overs until stumps.Langer hadn’t scored when he survived a confident shout for a catch behind off Andrew Bichel, probably leaving the match in need of a sporting declarationtomorrow to ensure a result.”It’s a shame we didn’t get a wicket tonight because it looks like a draw,” Hayden said.”But there are 112 overs tomorrow so maybe they will make a game of it.”

The Board of Directors of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union has agreedthat for transparency the findings by the Disciplinary Board ofInquiry be made public and accordingly the full report on theabove matter is now attached.DISCIPLINARY BOARD INQUIRY – ALISTAIR CAMPBELL : COMMENTS IN THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH CONCERNING RACISM IN CRICKETThe future of Zimbabwean Cricket depends on the integration ofblack players into the National Team. Apart from achieving theobvious benefit of having the cricket team properly reflectingthe racial diversity of Zimbabwe, the simple truth is that thepool of white players is far too small to sustain aninternationally competitive side. The selling of the game toblack Zimbabweans and creating and nurturing an increasing flowof black players through all levels into the National team, hasto be achieved if the game we love is not to wither and die inZimbabwe. The process of racial integration of the game ofcricket should have achieved much more given the 21 years ofZimbabwe’s life – it needs to be accelerated if the game is tosurvive.A balance, however, needs to be drawn. Success of the Nationalteam on the field is essential to spreading and selling the gameand providing the financial base to sustain and increasedevelopment and coaching programmes. If players are pushed ontothe field because they are black and not because they meritselection the process will be self-defeating. How then is thebalance to be achieved of increasing black representation in theNational cricket team while maintaining and improving performanceon the field? The answer is as with any human endeavour – by theexercise of commonsense, co-operation, understanding and lookingfor answers instead of problems.The ZCU’s implementation task force seeks the answer by settinggoals for racial integration and not quotas. Cynics always seemto look for problems instead of answers and are quick to saygoals really means quotas. That is by no means necessarily so. Anobjective look at the selection of the Zimbabwean team over thepast 6 months shows that goals means goals and not quotas. Thenumber of black players selected for the last 10 or so 1-dayinternationals, for example, has consistently been below the goalset – a situation which would not pertain if goals were quotas. Agoal which we would recommend achieving is to provide a quota ofone player representative to sit on the implementation task forcecommittee – that should help enhance communication andunderstanding between players and officials.Senior players in the National side need to understand andrealise the aims and goals of integration. They need to lendtheir experience, maturity and ability to making the programmework. The creation of harmony, team spirit and a necessarypositive attitude are vital components of success. That can onlybe achieved, and maintained, by the senior players. Negativity byeven a single senior player can destroy in days what has takenyears to build. Senior players need to realise that while theymay have made Zimbabwe cricket what it is, Zimbabwe cricket hasalso made them what they are. Very few of them would have had theopportunity to play test cricket for any other Nation and theyshould see it as their duty to actively help create anintegrated, growing and developing National cricket team – astheir legacy to Zimbabwe cricket when their careers come to anend.Those who misinterpret goals and quotas also, to our minds, tendto misunderstand merit. The truth of the matter, we believe, andwe have followed cricket in Zimbabwe and across the world forclose on 40 years, is that only two Zimbabwean players currentlycan claim to be selected truly on merit – with merit meaning aconsistency of performance meeting the minimum standard expectedfor a test class of cricketer. Those players, to our minds, areAndy Flower – who is in a class of his own -and Heath Streak. Athird player, though just at the start of his career, has made abeginning which shows the potential to scale the same heights asAndy Flower. That is Hamilton Masakadza. But the three tests this18 year old has played, is far too soon to make a proper judgmenton merit.Other current Zimbabwean cricketers have reached the plateau ofconsistent performance at a level to merit automatic selection -but have sadly fallen away. Here we think of Grant Flower and GuyWhittal. Hopefully they will regain that plateau by pushing theirtest batting averages above the unacceptable minimum of 30 aroundwhich they now hover. The erratic and injury prone Paul Strangalso falls into the category of a player who has in the pastmerited automatic selection. Henry Olonga is another such player.Stuart Carlisle is, in our view, approaching the plateau ofautomatically warranting selection on merit – but he is not yetthere and needs to make more scores of substance. With all theother players there is real potential, occasional performance atthe level required, but a frustrating lack of anythingapproaching the consistency necessary for automatic selection onmerit.Players whose claim to merit selection is that although they areperforming badly and without consistency they are the bestavailable – should not be surprised if selectors give other upand coming players the chance to test their mettle at the highestlevel. If those up and coming young players include as many blackas white players, that is only commonsense given a diminishingpool of white players, an increasing pool of black players andthe needs of the future. But once again there needs to be abalance. Young players, be they black or white, need to benurtured and not thrown into the unforgiving cauldron ofinternational cricket too soon – as that can result in a careerof promise being stillborn.What then of Alistair Campbell in this mix? He is an enigma. Hehas the natural talent to be a batsman of world class. At hisbest he stirs memories of David Gower, and at his very best thereare even echoes of Graeme Pollock. But he lacks the necessarydiscipline and concentration. His test batting average of 26,93after 50 tests would see him long since dropped from almost everyother team in the world. We emphasise that by stating that anaverage of 40 is regarded as the bench mark for a frontline testbatsman of world class. An average of 35 is regarded as justacceptable. But once that average slips below 33 to 30 it becomesunacceptably low. Alistair Campbell’s average of 26.93 is waybelow the acceptable minimum for a frontline test batsman. Hecannot seriously regard that performance level as warrantingautomatic selection on merit. It saddens us to say that becauseAlistair Campbell is one of the few batsman in Zimbabwe with thenatural talent to be a world class test batsman. He needs to addapplication, discipline and concentration to that talent and toeliminate rashness to reach his potential. We, like everyZimbabwean cricket lover, hope that he will achieve that in thelatter part of his career. And it has been encouraging to notethat in the last year his performances at test level haveimproved. We should, perhaps, add that as a one-day batsman,Campbell’s record is much better. But his average of 31.14 for atop order batsman in one-day cricket can only be regarded asacceptable as opposed to world class.Regrettably the rashness and lack of discipline which punctuatesCampbell’s batting seems also to affect his comments to thepress.To blame Zimbabwe’s poor recent performances on a perceived quotasystem for black players is, in our view, not correct. Zimbabwehas done amazingly well given its very small pool of players tobe playing test cricket at all – let alone often beingcompetitive against nations with massively greater playingresources. A sense of reality needs to accompany assessments ofZimbabwe’s performance on the international cricketing stage.There will always be peaks and troughs, but in general, until theplaying base is broadened, Zimbabwe will always struggle tocompete. To an outsider the major difficulty in recent times hasbeen the failure of senior players (and here we include Olonga)apart from Andy Flower and Heath Streak to perform consistentlyat an acceptable level – and indeed to have retrogressed in termsof level of performance. Hopefully that will change.It is the duty of the senior players to mould team spirit andpull the team together, not to become a divisive force. They maynot always like selectors decisions but that is a factor commonto all players, all teams and all spectators across the world.They need to understand the aims and objectives of the selectorsand the need to maintain the best possible team on merit, whilealso enhancing and ensuring the survival of Zimbabwe cricket byracial integration. Selectors and officials for their part mustmake sure that they properly understand the players and theirconcerns and keep open lines of communication. We don’t pretendthat the necessary balance is an easy one to draw -but it can beachieved by reasonable men working together.We now turn to the specific comments made to the London DailyTelegraph by Alistair Campbell. Comments like those referring to”the race thing having spilt onto the field” and “the team beingtorn apart”, are completely unhelpful and counter-productive.They create disharmony and conflict where sensible, rationaldiscussion, understanding and agreement are necessary. They putinto the glare of media publicity, matters which can and shouldbe resolved by discussion in private between players andofficials.In fairness to Alistair Campbell he realises that. In a letter toMr Chingoka, the President of the ZCU, on 17 October, heapologises “unreservedly for having spoken to the Press aboutthese issues and affording them the opportunity of publishing thearticles in question.” He adds that it was exceptionally naive todo so, “knowing the subject at hand is so sensitive”. He addsthat “I must emphasise that I did not make any comments about theperformance of black players, nor did I say that the inclusion ofplayers of colour was adversely affecting team performance”. Heconcludes by again expressing his sincere apologies for any harmcaused to the ZCU and the game of cricket in Zimbabwe. AlistairCampbell has also assured the President of the ZCU and ourselvesthat he is not racist and believes in the racial integration ofZimbabwean cricket. We accept his assurances.We hope that these proceedings have focused Alistair Campbell’smind. We hope that he realises his shortcomings and worksdiligently to correct them. We hope that he uses the opportunitywe propose to give him to become a cohesive force in Zimbabwecricket. We would like nothing better than for Alistair Campbellto achieve his potential and reach the level of a world classbatsman which his natural talent allows. But to do that he willneed to show a maturity which he has not yet shown, to replacerashness with discipline and carelessness with concentration. Inview of the damage his loose words have caused, he will need towork tirelessly to help rebuild and nurture team spirit. Thatwill take humility, maturity, strength of character and anunderstanding of others. We propose to give Alistair Campbell thechance to achieve this and hope that he will. But he must realisethat no team or responsible cricket union can allow division anddisunity to be paraded across newspaper pages as opposed tosensibly resolved by rational internal discussion. We hope theobservations we have made will help enhance that process. But anyrepeat of similar ill chosen and ill considered words to thePress by Alistair Campbell could, in our view, only be regardedin a serious light.Balancing all the factors we have tried to rationally analyse, wefind Alistair Campbell in breach of Clause 4.1.12.1 and 4.1.12.2of the his contract with the ZCU and in breach of Clause C8(a)and (b) of the ICC Code of Conduct (November 2000).The penalty imposed is a suspension of Alistair Campbell for twotest matches and two one-day internationals, which suspension issuspended for 12 months on condition Alistair Campbell does notin that period breach Clauses 4.1.12.1 and 4.1.12.2 of hiscontract with the ZCU or the equivalent clause of any newcontract and on condition that he does not in that period breachClause C8(a) or (b) of the ICC Code of Conduct (November 2000).THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE S MUCHECHETERE – CHAIRMANTHE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE D G BARTLETT – MEMBERThis the 31st dayof October, 2001

Central Districts bowler Brent Hefford produced a fine spell of bowling this morning to break through the Queensland Academy of Sport batting and bring the New Zealand Academy side back into the picture at Bert Sutcliffe Oval at Lincoln University.Going into the second day in the strong position of 267/4, Hefford found bowling into the stiff north-east wind no problem at all as he extracted leg before wicket decisions from the umpires against Allan Rowe and Craig Philipson. Soon after they departed he had another lbw decision when Scott O’Leary was caught in front to leave Queensland 290/7.Hefford completed a superb spell of seven overs by getting the edge of left-hander Chris Hartley’s bat. While finishing with five for 56 from his 25 overs, his spell this morning produced four wickets for 13 runs from his seven overs.Resistance was led by Boyd Williams who hit out hard but Craig Pryor induced a leading edge from Damien Mackenzie which was held by Chris Harris at cover and the innings was completed on 319 when Taraia Robin claimed his fourth wicket for 62 runs off 18.1 overs.It capped off an outstanding fightback by the New Zealanders as the last nine Queensland wickets fell for 95 runs.Brendon McCullum gave the home team a rollicking start and after five overs, 43 runs had been scored. Thirty-seven of them to McCullum off 19 balls.The 50-run partnership with Jamie How took 36 balls but Mackenzie struck for Queensland by trapping How leg before wicket.At lunch the total was 66/1 off 11 overs, with McCullum on 47 off 34 balls.After the break McCullum brought up his half century in 49 minutes off 40 balls.A 66-run second wicket partnership was broken when Jonathan McNamee edged Mackenzie to wicket-keeper Hartley. During his patient innings McNamee showed glimpses of a return to form after inconsistent performances over a prolonged period.McCullum finally departed six runs short of his century when he edged to Hartley, attempting to run the ball to third man off right-arm pace bowler Mark George.He hit 12 fours in his 102-ball innings which was riddled with flashing shots intermingled with resolute defence.While George was bowling to Nick Horsley there were six fielders between the wicket-keeper and point, with only one in front of the wicket.At tea the total was 174/3 off 47 overs.Horsley finally succumbed to the prolonged short-pitched attack outside off stump to be caught in the gully off the energetic George.The flamboyant Harris showed his intentions by attacking the bowling for a brief period before being caught at short mid off from off-spinner O’Leary.Two balls later Shanan Stewart played the ball on from George to see the total stumble to 210/6 off 57 overs. The great start to the innings was being squandered. Stewart, just missing his half-century, had weathered the early storm and was beginning to assert himself while George was rewarded for his sustained aggression claiming his third wicket.Reece Young misjudged a sweep off O’Leary to be lbw when he appeared set for a sizeable contribution.Pryor and Luke Woodcock mounted a lower order recovery and saw the 250 up in 265 minutes. While Pryor mixed caution with aggression, Woodcock was satisfied to defend resolutely and to rotate the strike.By stumps, the New Zealand Academy had reached 274/7, leaving the game interestingly poised with two days remaining. Pryor was on 30 and Woodcock 12.Too many of the NZCA batsmen failed to convert their starts into sizeable scores, failing to capitalise on the positive start from the top order.The QAS fielding effort was far from error free with at least three catches grassed and sloppy ground fielding being too prevalent.

Uttar Pradesh won their Ranji Trophy one-day match against Vidarbhy bythree wickets at Udaipur on Saturday.Opting to bat first, Vidarbha put 230 runs on the board. The runs weremade largely by Ulhas Gandhe and Harshal Shitoot, two batsmen who havedisplayed remarkable consistency lower down the order for Vidarbha.Gandhe made 46 off 71, with one four and one six, while Shitoot scored57 off 47, with seven fours.Needing 231 to win, Uttar Pradesh were never pressed for run-rate,with Mohammad Kaif hitting 65 off 61 balls and a number of otherbatsmen made quick runs. Kaif fell at 183/6, however, giving Vidarbhaa sniff at victory. The seventh wicket fell at 207, but ParvinderSingh (27 off 38) steered his side to a win by three wickets.

Victoria have announced the following team to play New South Wales in the ING Cup at the MCG on Sunday:

• Matthew Elliott (c)
• Brad Hodge (vc)
• Rob Bartlett
• Darren Berry
• Simon Dart
• Damien Fleming
• Ian Harvey
• Shane Harwood
• Ian Hewett
• Michael Klinger
• Michael Lewis
• Jon Moss
• Cameron White

New South Wales has confirmed its standing as Australia’s dominant women’s cricket state with a thrilling four wicket win over Victoria in match two of the National Women’s Cricket League finals series here in Sydney today.The victory, which arrived with a nail-gnawing two deliveries to spare at the Bankstown Oval, handed New South Wales an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the best-of-three finals series. It also guaranteed the state its sixth successive national women’s crown.Central to the Blues’ victory was the batting of Lisa Sthalekar (68), whose solidity at the top of the order enabled her team to produce a controlled start in reply to Victoria’s 9/186.The chase began well as Sthalekar joined with Lisa Keightley (35), Michelle Goszko (15) and Martha Winch (7) to pilot the Blues to a mark of 2/112 at one point. But the early trickle of wickets showed signs of developing into a flood as Sthalekar was run out by a direct hit in attempting a single to mid off and as Julie Hayes (0) drove a low catch to mid wicket with victory still more than 40 runs away.New South Wales’ task became complex as the Spirit forced them to notch 39 runs from the last 36 deliveries to win; 34 from the last 30; and even 31 from the closing 24.Victorian captain Belinda Clark’s leadership was typically astute all the while, with her rotation of the bowlers matched for quality by her expertise in setting fields.Three fielders were even set back on the straight boundaries to the hard hitting of Shannon Cunneen (28) in the dying stages as Clark continued to explore methods of building and maintaining pressure on her former team.But Cunneen and Alex Blackwell (12*) – and the concession of wides at untimely moments – joined to help their team surge back toward the winning post. Played out to an alternating chorus of gasps and roars from a captivated crowd of a few hundred spectators, the game was duly blessed by a breathless finish.”We had to fight for it really hard today; it genuinely came down to the wire,” said delighted New South Wales captain Hayes after the game.”The close ones are always nice to win; it definitely gets the excitement levels rising. Everyone’s just rapt in the win; this is the sixth one that I’ve won in a row but it feels just like the first.”It’s been a great team effort all year; we had a new coach, a new captain and some new players. But we’ve gone through undefeated which has been a wonderful achievement.”As events transpired, Victoria’s fate wasn’t genuinely sealed until desperate pleas for the run out of Therese McGregor (1*) two balls from the end were met only by the confusing reply of a signal of a wide at the bowler’s end and a no ball at square leg.McGregor nervelessly stabbed the next Cathryn Fitzpatrick (0/38) delivery – aimed at middle and leg – expertly toward mid wicket, set off with the stroke, and prompted the crowd to respond with a crescendo of acclamation.But it was desperately close. And a gallant Victoria could consider itself unlucky that it was unable to interrupt a streak of wins for the Blues that now stands at 16.Melanie Jones (77) had earlier been the shining light for the Victorians after they had been asked to bat first for the second successive day, playing with fluency and building important partnerships with Fitzpatrick (29) and Stephanie Theodore (19*) to see her side most of the way to its final tally.Jones had walked to the crease in the midst of a collapse of 4/17 that caused the visitors to wobble to an overall scoreline of 4/56 after a measured start. But, around fine bowling from McGregor (3/40) and Sthalekar (2/22) she held her nerve brilliantly to rectify the position.Later, she also played a starring role in the field with several fine saves and a direct hit run out from side-on to remove Cunneen in the midst of the fateful final over of the match.

Karachi Whites chalked up their sixth victory in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I Cricket Championship Thursday despite a gallant century by Sargodha skipper Misbah-ul-Haq at KCCA Stadium here.Misbah, who made a solitary Test appearance at Auckland on the tour of New Zealand last year, played a flawless knock of 108 on the final day of the four-day tie.The 27-year-old right-hander, this season’s leading batsman with a tally of 1386 runs, looked a class apart on a wearing track and completely neutralised Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria’s attempt to dominate him.Misbah, about whom Geoff Boycott had made some unsavoury comments during a coaching assignment at Lahore last year, played such an innings of which the former England opener would have been proud of. In fact, such was the quality of Misbah’s masterful display Thursday even Boycott would have struggled on this pitch to bat on for one minute short of five hours.Misbah was eighth out at the score of 311 after completing his third century in the current championship and the fourth of the season, when he was bowled by paceman Tanvir Ahmed.In all, Misbah faced 249 deliveries and struck 13 exquisitely-timed boundaries during the course of his first-class career’s eighth century despite the fact that the KCCA outfield, as usual, was horribly sluggish and uneven.Play was held up twice by light showers in the first session. The second stoppage forced the umpires to call for early lunch 10 minutes before schedule.Sargodha were eventually all out 20 minutes before the tea break for 334 in their second innings, leaving the Whites just 53 for victory.Kaneria claimed the first six wickets, including four Wednesday, to end up with six for 117 in 47 overs and a match haul of nine for 173.Mohammad Masroor again found batting difficult in the role of a makeshift opener and perished for a first-ball duck. But Hasan Raza and Saeed bin Nasir made light work of the target with the latter striking the winning boundary.

A century by former Zimbabwe international Craig Evans propelled Mashonalandtowards a huge total on the first day of their Logan Cup match against Matabeleland at Bulawayo Athletic Club.After winning the toss, Angus Mackay chose to have first use of a good batting pitch. His decision paid dividends as his side raced to a score of 427 for six at the close of play.The opening pair of Lance Malloch-Brown and Ryan Butterworth struggled in the first stages of the innings due to the pressure applied by the home bowlers. However they settled in and started accumulating runs. Their partnership produced 82 runs before Butterworth was dismissed by medium-pacer Greg Strydom, caught behind by wicketkeeper Warren Gilmour to depart for 36 runs off 54 balls.Strydom grabbed two quick wickets in the space of two overs. He dismissed Malloch-Brown with a yorker that sliced through the middle stump, to send him back for 43 which included eight boundaries. He claimed his last wicket of the day when he caught Kudzai Taibu with a leg break that hit the off stump to dismiss the younger brother of Zimbabwean international Tatenda for no runs in the 18th over.Evans then joined in the hunt for the runs with support from Barney Rogers. The two shared a partnership of 162 runs, of which Evans contributed 66 while Rogers weighed in with 96 runs. Evans produced some aggressive batting, getting off the mark with a six that went over cover.The visitors took their score to 167 for three at lunch, off 41 overs. After the interval, Evans continued his heroics but lost his partner Rogers for 96 when he was bowled by spinner Mecury Kenny. Evans continued to attack, frustrating the home bowlers, until spinner Gavin Ewing claimed his important wicket shortly after tea break. Evans was caught at fine leg by Matthew Townshend to end an innings that saw him stand at the crease for 231 minutes and in the process smash nine fours and five sixes off 194 balls.The visitors lost Darlington Matambanadzo before Blessing Mahwire and Campbell ended the day unbeaten on 43 and 8 respectively. The pick of the Matabeleland bowlers was Strydom, who had been brought into the team primarily as a batsman. The medium-pace bowler took three for 94 in 16 overs with one maiden. Ewing, Kenny and Norman Mukondiwa took a wicket each.Play resumes this morning with the visitors aiming to reach a big total before they consider declaring. Mackay was earlier quoted as saying that they were aiming to score 600 runs.

Leicestershire, from whom a number of players have moved during the winter months, have today announced a new signing.After saying goodbye to the likes of James Ormond (Surrey), Ben Smith (Worcestershire), Jon Dakin (Essex) and Aftab Habib, the county have secured the services of former Gloucestershire batsman Robert Cunliffe on a two-year contract.Cunliffe made his debut for Gloucestershire in one-day cricket in 1993 at the age of 19, and played first-class cricket the following season. He made his Minor Counties debut for Oxfordshire as early as 1991. But despite the early start to his career he has only played in 62 first-class matches, averaging a fraction under 25, and 80 one-day matches, where his average is very nearly 28.Announcing the signing of the former Young England batsman, Leicestershire general manager James Whitaker said: “We are delighted to have signed Robert. He has considerable experience of first-team cricket, and he will make an exciting addition to our squad.”

SYDNEY, Jan 23 AAP – Australia’s blond bombers sent England to an inglorious total of 117 in the first tri series final at the Sydney Cricket Ground today.Brett Lee led the charge by taking three for 29 off 10 quick overs, claiming England’s dangerous openers inside 15 balls to set up the rout.Andy Bichel got of the rid of the tail to finish with 4-18 off seven overs while Brad Williams (2-22) and the original bottle blond Shane Warne (1-28) completed the damage.Adam Gilchrist effected six dismissals – five catches and a stumping.The highlight for Australia was Warne’s return to the international arena with a confidence-boosting performance.Warne took a wicket with the last ball of his ten overs and looked comfortable in his first international appearance since dislocating his shoulder on December 15.He misfielded a couple of balls and, on one occasion, rather than replicate the sideways dive which led to his injury, he let the ball sail past just out of reach.Another time he preferred to clumsily use his feet rather than get down low.His wicket-taking ball was a ripped legspinner which beat Paul Collingwood in the air and off the pitch and he was stumped by Adam Gilchrist for 43.Lee had two wickets inside 15 balls, when both Marcus Trescothick (0) and Nick Knight (5) gloved catches to Adam Gilchrist.Williams got rid of Nasser Hussain (1) when the England captain played on and then had Alec Stewart (12) caught behind.Bichel struck twice in one over, trapping Michael Vaughan (21) lbw and then having Ian Blackwell (0) caught by Ricky Ponting at second slip.Lee returned to dismiss Ronnie Irani (10) off a miscue.Collingwood was single-handedly responsible for getting England to three figures.His 43 came of 71 balls and took nearly two hours but he made sure England avoided the ignominy of being bowled out for less than 100 for the fifth time in its history.