Hamilton (New Zealand), Mar. 17: New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori has reportedly received some tips from a schoolboy on how to get the wicket of Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar.

According to the Waikato Times, Owen Robinson told the Black Caps skipper that Tendulkar is susceptible to the lofted drive after bowling to the cricket superstar in the nets.

London, Mar. 17: Andy Flower, the assistant coach of the England cricket team, has given a withering assessment of its chances in Twenty20 cricket.

“We’re rubbish and we know we are,” The Sun quoted Flower as saying, adding that England will be among the rank outsiders when they host the World Twenty20 this summer.

Speaking after his team’s six-wicket loss to the West Indies on Sunday, Flower said the plain fact is “England are poor at Test cricket, inconsistent in 50-over games and utterly hopeless at Twenty20.”

Cape Town (South Africa), Mar. 16 : Four of South Africa''s top six batsmen in the forthcoming Test match have brown skins, and had tall left-arm fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe recovered from knee surgery, most of Graeme Smith's team would have included players from previously repressed communities.

We are talking about Ashwell Prince, who blasted 254 of the best at the weekend to remind the selectors about what they had been missing in the two-nil series defeat against Australia.

Another brown-skinned star in the making is Imraan Khan, who stroked a stylish 145 for KwaZulu-Natal at the Pietermaritzburg''s cricket ground.

Sydney, Mar. 16 : Having lost their last match to India by 16 runs, a vengeful Australian women''s cricket team today pummeled Pakistan into submission by 108 runs.

Needing a victory to maintain their slim hopes of making next Sunday''s final, Australia finished on 6-229 and made their best start of the tournament after winning the toss.

Openers Shelley Nitschke (56 off 64) and Leah Poulton (47 off 86) compiled the host nation''s first century partnership of the tournament, adding exactly 100 in 20.3 overs.

Cape Town, Mar. 16: After having his path blocked to Test cricket by part-time spinners, many believe the time has arrived for Bryce McGain to try out his leggies on the big stage.

Australia has searched unsuccessfully for a spinner since Shane Warne''s retirement, and many believe McGain''s wrist spin is the best option.

But Marcus North and his modest offies were preferred for the first Test against South Africa in Johannesburg and Simon Katich came to the party with his left-arm wrist spin in Durban.