The Penn Quakers are set to hire former Iowa coach Fran McCaffery as the program's new head basketball coach, according to a report from Matt Norlander of CBS Sports.

News of McCaffery's imminent hiring was first reported by college basketball reporter Sam Federman.

McCaffery, who is a Penn alum, lands the Ivy League job just weeks removed from his dismissal from Iowa, where he coached the Hawkeyes for 15 seasons. The 65-year-old is the winningest coach in school history, but was in the midst of a program downturn over four consecutive seasons that culminated with Iowa missing the NCAA tournament each of the last two seasons. He went 297–207 at Iowa with seven NCAA tournament appearances. It likely would have been eight had the 2020 NCAA tournament not been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

McCaffery will take over for Steve Donahue, who was fired after going 8–19 this season in his ninth year on the job.

Sidharth Monga03-Aug-2018

As a host of candidates circled around the rare opportunity to becomes chief executive of Cricket Australia, the most obvious choice may well have been hiding in plain sight

Daniel Brettig23-Jul-2018In the hours and days following James Sutherland’s resignation announcement in early June, a host of names were thrown around as possible successors to the chief executive’s position at Cricket Australia. One name didn’t figure much, a name that should not be discounted.Among the cricket fraternity, most of the names that came up were familiar. CA chief operating officer Kevin Roberts. Former New South Wales chairman and Westfield executive John Warn. WACA chief executive Christina Matthews. ICC operations chief Geoff Allardice. Former national captain and CA game development executive Belinda Clark. Even CEOs from the National Rugby League and the Football Federation Australia (Todd Greenberg and David Gallop) were briefly mooted before withdrawing. Undoubtedly, the corporate recruits at Egon Zehnder had a long list of possibles to sort through.The level of secrecy around the appointment process is indicative of its significance, but that name that figure cannot be ruled out from the list. He has been both chief executive and chairman of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, CEO of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, CEO of the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA), and CEO of the wildly successful 2015 ICC World Cup. Since April 2016 he has also served as a CA Board director. He was even born a mere 16 days apart from Sutherland himself in 1965.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

John Harnden, a civil engineer by trade, found himself as one of many beneficiaries from the Formula One Grand Prix’s celebrated decade as an end-of-season party in Adelaide. Starting as a member of the project management team in 1989, he moved throughthe ranks and found himself moving with the event to Melbourne in 1993.Key to his contribution were oversight of the design of both tracks, as well as the set-up and dismantling of F1 precincts built temporarily, first around the streets of Adelaide and then Melbourne’s Albert Park. After Martin Brundle’s out-of-control Jordan hurtled into the wall shortly after the start of the 1996 race, there was no one happier than Harnden to see the Englishman dust himself off and resume the race in the team’s spare car. Two years after the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola, Melbourne had avoided a similar tragedy in its very first race.By 1998, Harnden had been promoted to chief executive of the Melbourne Grand Prix Corporation, a role he filled until 2002 when he was appointed to helm the city’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games, an undertaking that would overtake the 1956 Olympics as the largest sporting event ever held in the Victorian capital. There was some disquiet at ticket giveaways being required to ensure the MCG was brimful for the opening ceremony, but the Games were ultimately considered successful.Cricket was to nab Harnden at a critical time when he replaced Mike Deare as the CEO of SACA. Amid labyrinthine and sensitive negotiations for an AUD 535 million upgrade of the Adelaide Oval from a picturesque cricket ground to a globally-envied multi-purpose stadium, Harnden was a key link between previously warring parties over the redevelopment.Glimpsed pacing nervously and looking at his phone as SACA’s members voted on whether to approve the redevelopment in May 2011, Harnden and the association’s then president – former government minister Ian McLachlan – were perhaps the two most relieved men in Australian sport when an overwhelming “yes” vote not only opened the way to a rebuild but also wiped out AUD 85 million in SACA debt. “It was just hard to believe,” Harnden said at the time. “There has been so much talk about it and quite frankly it was quite unbelievable.”That bridge crossed, a still larger project loomed – a World Cup jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 1992. Harnden was unveiled as the organising committee’s CEO in November 2011, beginning the four-year road to an event that would ultimately be watched by more than a million spectators at the grounds and an estimated 1.5 billion on television. If the final between the two host nations was ill-tempered and one-sided, the MCG attendance of 93,014 made for a spectacular backdrop and outstripped the 87,182 who had seen Pakistan defeat England 23 years before.Within a few months of the tournament’s conclusion, Harnden was back at the Melbourne Grand Prix, this time as chairman. The Victorian state government, after a moment’s hesitation, chose Harnden on the strength of his skills, rather than choosing a candidate more politically motivated. Intriguingly, given the current vacancy at CA, it was for a three-year term expiring in August 2018. One link to cricket was re-established in April 2016, when he filled the South Australian spot on the CA Board left by the death of John Bannon (a former Australia premier) in December the previous year. At the time, CA chairman David Peever gave a glowing assessment of his “outstanding business credentials and experience,” and his “genuine passion to grow the game”. Harnden, he said, was an “elite sporting administrator”.A question surrounds the suitability of choosing a Board director for the chief executive’s role, given that CA is currently in the midst of dual cultural reviews. A similar query would be made of Roberts, widely considered the frontrunner from the moment he left the Board to become Sutherland’s second-in-command in September 2015. There is also the matter of last year’s MoU standoff with the Australian Cricketers’ Association, a saga that left CA and the players at a distance when they needed, if anything, to be closer. Roberts was ultimately sidelined from the brokering of a compromise, hardly an endorsement of his “stakeholder management” credentials.Those who have worked with Harnden refer to his diplomacy, his engineer’s attention to detail and a relative lack of ego. They also point to the diversity of his experience, and runs on the board helming major events when Australia is due to host dual ICC tournaments – the women’s and men’s World T20s – in 2020. It is also thought that, given a free hand, Harnden would be capable of the sort of cultural change desired within the four walls of CA’s Jolimont headquarters, while managing the complex web of international relationships that underpin Australian cricket’s comfortable position in the global game.Also significant is the fact that in the weeks preceding Sutherland’s announcement, the Board approved Peever’s continuation as CA chairman for three more years. It’s a role that, at one point, might have been suitable for Harnden. But the way events have unfolded, the chief executive’s berth may now be the best one for an administrator who, to many, has flown quite adroitly under the radar.

Although the New Zealand opener returned to form, his team couldn’t mount a good enough total thanks to Thomas and his fiery yorkers

The Report by Peter Della Penna30-Aug-2018

Jamaica Tallawahs exacted revenge for their bungled chase in Florida exactly one week earlier, with a five-wicket win over Barbados Tridents thanks to a sterling bowling effort spearheaded by Oshane Thomas. They are now the sole team at the top of the points table.Thomas’ yorkers wreaked havoc on Tridents in the Powerplay and at the death as the hosts were held to a well-below par total of 151 for 9 after being sent in.Johnson Charles began peppering the fence on the legside in his first fifty of the season and the seventh fifty-plus score by a Tallawahs batsman this year to give the Tallawahs early momentum in their chase. Wahab Riaz did his best to drag the Tridents back as the Tallawahs failed to score a boundary for five overs following the end of the Powerplay but Rovman Powell came in at No. 4, following the wicket of Charles, and produced a breezy 35 not out to seal the victory.No doubting ThomasTridents had already suffered the loss of Hashim Amla – lbw missing a sweep to Samuel Badree in the second over – when Thomas bowled one of the balls of CPL 2018. Shai Hope was on strike when a heat-seeking, outswinging yorker nearly knocked him off his feet as it crashed into the base of off stump. That was only the start of another long night for the Tridents, who slumped to 56 for 5 when rain took the teams off in the 10th over.Thomas put his stamp on the tail too. Coming back towards the end of the innings, he cleaned up Wahab with another laser-guided missile into the base of the stumps. Seven different bowlers took wickets on the night for the Tallawahs, but Thomas still managed to stand out.Total recallAfter totalling just 26 runs in four innings, including two ducks, Martin Guptill was dropped by the Tridents in the previous match against Trinbago Knight Riders. But his replacement – Shamar Springer – ran himself out first-ball during the course of a heavy defeat. Seeing how Plan B had failed, the team management brought Guptill back into the XI and the result was the second-highest score by a Tridents batsman this season.Guptill was the only batsman in the top six to reach double-figures, ending with 73 off 60 balls, including a 60-run sixth-wicket stand with Imran Khan. He struck some impressive blows, launching Colin de Grandhomme’s first CPL delivery onto the Kensington Oval roof to start the sixth over, and flicking Powell over long leg for another lost ball in the 18th. One ball later though, he pulled Powell to Andre Russell at long-on and Tridents’ last hope for a strong finishing kick was back in the pavilion.Charles in chargeIn 2016, Charles and Andre Fletcher formed a menacing opening combo to take the St Lucia franchise to their only playoff appearance in the CPL. He struck four fifties that year. Having ransacked 441 runs, he finished second on the top-scorer’s list just 13 behind Chris Lynn. Last season, however, was a major struggle, leading to a change of scenery with the Tallawahs.Charles had always been threatening to break free this year, with scores of 24, 31, 42 and 34 in his four innings, and finally went past fifty on Wednesday, capitalising on some very poor lines as the Tridents medium-pacers, resulting in a flood of runs through square leg and midwicket.Charles did all the heavy lifting in the chase, scoring 53 of the first 67 runs for the Tallawahs before getting out in the ninth over. Powell took over from there, cracking Mohammad Irfan for two sixes and a four in the space of four deliveries in the 14th over to bring the required run-rate down to a-run-a-ball. David Miller and Russell fell in the space of four legal balls after a pair of handy cameos before de Grandhomme slashed the winning boundary to third man in the 18th over.

Adam Milne and Marcus Stoinis spearheaded Kent’s attack as they bowled Hampshire out for 88 in a demolition at the Ageas Bowl

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ScorecardAdam Milne and Marcus Stoinis spearheaded Kent’s attack as they bowled Hampshire out for 88 in a demolition at the Ageas Bowl.Fast bowling duo Milne and Stoinis grabbed seven wickets between them to send Kent back to the top of the South Group of the Vitality Blast – after Somerset had temporarily overtaken them earlier on Friday.Stoinis ended with figures of four for 17 while Milne celebrated three for 14 in the 51-run thrashing.Heino Kuhn’s 29, alongside Stoinis’ 26 and Calum Haggett’s quickfire 19, had lifted Kent to what still seemed a below-par score.But needing 140 to win, Hampshire’s chase began with a wobble losing their first three wickets for seven runs, inside 14 balls, and continued on a downward curve.Milne was the chief early destroyer as he pocketed two scalps in two balls to see off James Vince and Sam Northeast.Skipper Vince slashing a drive straight to Joe Denly at cover, before former Kent star Northeast was comprehensively bowled by the New Zealander.Australian Stoinis then grabbed the attention of the over 7,000 strong Ageas Bowl crowd, by finding the outside edge of Colin Munro’s bat – the opening batsman ending his stint at Hampshire with a disappointing six.Rilee Rossouw and Tom Alsop were the next to fall, leaving Hampshire 20 for five, both collected by Stoinis. Liam Dawson and Joe Weatherley attempted to rebuild with a steady 22 stand for the sixth wicket.But the collapse resumed when Weatherley spliced to cover, where Denly produced a Superman-like effort to swoop inches off the ground.Kyle Abbott was dropped on a duck by Alex Blake, and by Sean Dickson on 10, but ran out of lives when he toed a flat-back shot to
Kuhn at mid-off.By the time Dawson was caught at deep square-leg, handing Stoinis his fourth wicket, the game had already petered out as a contest.Denly bowled Chris Wood before pinning Mujeeb Ur Rahman as Hampshire were put out of their misery with 23 balls to spare, for their second lowest Twenty20 score of all-time.Sam Billings had earlier won the toss and elected to bat first on a good, quicker than, track in lovely south coast heat and clear skies.A running theme of the Kent innings would be a case of batsmen getting in with a few boundaries before getting out as they set an underwhelming, yet ultimately enough, 139 for 7.Daniel Bell-Drummond started the trend by stroking Abbott through the covers before he was pinned by a low full-toss.Fast bowler Abbott was making his first appearance in the competition since early July, where he had been taken for 95-runs in 7.2 overs, but looked rejuvenated when he found Denly skying to point for his second wicket.Billings followed up his unbeaten 56 against Essex the previous night with a well-timed drive to get off the mark, only to falling into the curse and top edge a sweep to deep square leg.The wicket was Dawson’s first in a misery spin partnership with Ur Rahman – the pair’s eight overs going at three for 43.Dawson bagged his second when he bowled Kuhn, who top scored with 29, with a top-spinner, before Ur Rahman followed up with a wonderfully delivered googly as Blake was stumped.Stoinis kept the innings ticking with 26 off 25 but he and Sean Dickson both mis-timed attempted pull shots into deep mid-wicket.Kent had stuttered their way over 100, but Calum Haggett bumped up the score up to 139 with a 19 from nine ball cameo – which saw him smash the only maximum of the innings straight down the ground.

A statement from Northamptonshire said the surgery was successful and Capel is now recovering at home

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David Capel, the former Northamptonshire and England allrounder who became the county’s head coach, has undergone surgery for a brain tumour.A statement from Northamptonshire said the surgery was successful and Capel is now recovering at home.”David Capel has asked Northamptonshire County Cricket Club to pass on his grateful thanks to all those supporters and former colleagues who have sent their good wishes and messages of support during his illness,” the club said. “Everyone connected to the club wishes David a full and speedy recovery.”Capel spent a combined 33 years involved with Northamptonshire, holding the head coach role from 2006 until 2012. He was also assistant coach of the England Women’s team between 2013 and 2015 before briefly taking up the same position with Bangladesh.During his playing career he made 15 Test and 23 ODI appearances between 1987 and 1990, often entrusted with the unenviable task of filling Ian Botham’s shoes. In first-class cricket he scored over 12,000 runs and took almost 550 wickets.

Porto boss Sergio Conceicao has threatened to quit football after he was accused of assaulting a referee and a mayor at his son's Under 9s match.

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• Conceicao accused of assaulting multiple people
• Incidents reportedly took place at Under 9s match
• Conceicao responds to the accusations

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  The accusations first came from Manuel Barroso, the mayor of Cartaya in Spain, who claimed that the Porto boss had assaulted multiple people including himself, the referee and police officers at the scene. Conceicao filed his own complaint claiming that Barroso had pushed his son during the Under 9s match.

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• WHAT CONCEICAO SAID

  Speaking to the media, Conceicao said [via CM Journal]: "I will leave football if I have to prove the truth. My honour, what I am as a man, as a father, is much more important.

  "I always accompanied my children on their journeys. I had two of my children playing for different clubs [Benfica and Sporting] and I was always very respected. I would visit them and watch some games, both in Seixal and in Alcochete, and I never had a problem. This is exhausting.

  "These are false and lying accusations from someone who should have the responsibility and duty of being a person above authority in Spain, which I didn't know about. My lawyers are in Spain to do what needs to be done.

  On Barroso: "He attacked, not once, but several times, a 22-year-old young man who happens to be my son [Moisés, who was also watching the game]. Then he went into a barrage of lies and accusations that have practically all been denied by those present. Finally, he lost the narrative of his statements due to the amount of lies, which caused enormous damage to mine and other families, to the tournament and the city."

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  After listening to the mayor recount his version of events on Spanish radio, Conceicao has already informed Porto that he will file a defamation lawsuit against Barroso. According to the club, after Conceicao asked the referee about an incident, Barroso shoved his son, which prompted the coach to intervene and break up the fight.

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• WHAT NEXT FOR CONCEICAO?

  With the defamation lawsuit already announced, it'll only be a matter of time before the legal runaround will begin for Conceicao's legal team. Meanwhile, the Portuguese will remain concentrated on his club as they take on Estoril on Saturday, March 30.

India’s centurion from day two of the Southampton Test says he never lost the belief in his batting despite sitting out the opening Test on the back of a poor county season

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Sep-2018 this morning about how he had never lost the belief in his batting despite his lean form at Yorkshire and sitting out the first Test at Edgbaston.After Edgbaston, does he feel a bit of a scapegoat, as someone who constantly has to prove himself?Well, sometimes you just have to accept the fact. Sometimes if you are not part of the team it is not easy to sit out. But I just try and focus on things which I can control and focus on my batting, focus on the things which I can improve as a cricketer. And rather than thinking about whether I have to prove to anyone or whether I have to perform in each and every game, I just try and focus on my batting (and) what I need to do in the middle, rather than thinking about I need to score each and every game. Because when I was batting there, I wasn’t even looking at the scoreboard. So that is something which helps me focus on things I need to do rather than worrying about the outcome.On the struggle at Yorkshire where he averaged 14 in county cricketI wanted to score some runs for Yorkshire, which didn’t happen. But I always knew the way I was batting, even when I was playing for Yorkshire I got runs in white-ball cricket, but when it came to red-ball cricket I was batting well, but runs didn’t come through. I was still confident. It showed here because, as I said, my preparation was up to the mark and my work ethics. I believe in preparation and as long as you put in the efforts in the nets and you have self-belief then you can always pull off.Was he trying to get bit further forward than perhaps earlier in the series?Even the pitch is such where you can do that. It has slowed down a bit. Balls are keeping low. So most of the balls are hitting the stumps which is a good thing for our fast bowlers today because not many balls will go above the stumps. Yeah, that is the reason I made some adjustments.

The pair played key roles in Oman to help USA march into WCL Division Two

Peter Della Penna21-Nov-2018The Barbados-contracted pair of Aaron Jones and Hayden Walsh has come in for special praise from USA head coach Pubudu Dassanayake for their roles in helping the side earn promotion to WCL Division Two. The allround abilities of Walsh combined with the batting of Jones played a pivotal role in USA ending WCL Division Three on Monday with a 4-1 record, good enough to be promoted along with undefeated tournament champion Oman.”I can’t tell how happy I am about those two guys,” Dassanayake told ESPNcricinfo after USA finished runners-up at WCL Division Three in Oman. “They’re great players, they know how to behave inside a team and they fit straight into our culture. So I think that those two guys are the best thing that could happen to USA Cricket moving forward actually.”Jones and Walsh finished first and third for the team in scoring on tour with 200 runs and 167 runs respectively, regularly rescuing USA from perilous positions. Their best tag-team effort came against Denmark when they came together at 87 for 5 and produced a 131-run stand, a USA record for the sixth wicket.Jones came into the squad as an injury replacement for Sunny Sohal during the Super50 Cup, while Walsh hadn’t yet made his debut coming into WCL Division Three. Dassanayake revealed Walsh was initially picked as a legspinner, but a century during an intrasquad trial match at a USA training camp in North Carolina on the eve of the tournament convinced Dassanayake of his batting abilities.”When we looked at him the first time, we all thought he was a good legspinner but we were not sure about his batting, even though he came and said that he can bat,” he said. “But we had a few training sessions in Barbados and match scenarios basically playing a 50-over game on a full field using local players. Every scenario we played, he was scoring runs.”Dassanayake also hit back at criticism leveled at team management before the tournament for picking the pair in USA’s 14-man squad for Oman despite their non-participation in this year’s USA Cricket Combines. The caretaker administration run by the ICC Americas had communicated to stakeholders that anyone wishing to compete for a spot in USA’s Division Three squad had to attend a combine trial.That meant former West Indies batsman Xavier Marshall, who had made his USA debut in January, was axed after he skipped the last two days of the New York trial to play club cricket instead.New Zealand-based US passport holder David Wakefield also paid his own plane tickets to Florida to be evaluated, something that was not mandated of Jones nor Walsh. This was a source of unhappiness amongst players who attended the combines and felt it equated to double-standards.”Even though critics was there to criticise certain things about our performance and selections, we as a group had that confidence from the beginning which way we are moving and the players were confident and these results were not a surprise for our group,” Dassanayake said. “I’m not happy that we didn’t become number one but it’s part of the game. Oman played better cricket on that day against us but I still believe that USA is a better team and we are looking forward to move forward.”

For the South African quick, the increased scrutiny on player behaviour is just a sign of the game becoming “more professional”

Liam Brickhill02-Nov-2018At the end of a tumultuous week since the release of the cultural review, Australia’s focus will finally return to the cricket with the first ODI against South Africa in Perth, but amid the fallout from the Newlands ball-tampering scandal and all that has happened since, player behaviour will be under increased scrutiny come Sunday. For visiting quick Dale Steyn, that’s just a sign of the times as the game becomes “more professional”.”When I first started going to the IPL, in the beginning we didn’t even have a fitness trainer,” he said after South Africa’s training session in Perth. “Now it’s very professional. You get an email that tells you exactly what you’ve got to eat, tells you exactly what time the bus is. We’ve got to grow up with the times, that’s just how it is, and behaviour is one of those things that has become very much part of the game. There’s strict rules. KG [Kagiso Rabada] has faced harsh criticism and some trouble even within our side.”

Every time you play against Australia, you still feel like that culture from years back is going to be hard to crack

While Mitchell Starc said the team will be ignoring the boardroom drama, soul-searching about how Australia choose to play their cricket and their reputation in the game has been another talking point from the cultural review. An ultra-aggressive, win-at-all-costs attitude is increasingly out of place in a changing sporting landscape.”It’s going to be interesting to see which direction they go,” Steyn said. “Every time you play against Australia, you still feel like that culture from years back is going to be hard to crack. They’re in your face, an aggressive team, and people want that but you talk about this line – who knows where it is – but there’s rules and you’ve got to play along those rules.”This is the country that produced the Merv Hughes staredown and ‘mental disintegration’, where, as an opposition no. 11, you’d better be ready for a broken f***ing arm. Or rather, it was. For Australia, for everyone, the times they are a-changin’.”I watched this interview with Merv the other day … jeepers, that guy was a maniac wasn’t he,” Steyn joked. “We’re in a different generation. Times have changed. We all have to move with the times. If you’re going to live in the past, and do what you did in the past, in the current times you’re going to bear the consequences for that. That’s just how it is.”Dale Steyn clutches his right shoulder•Getty ImagesWith their former captain and vice-captain both still in the brig for their involvement in the ball-tampering scandal, Australia are still bearing the consequences for bad decisions made in March. Steyn wouldn’t be drawn into an opinion on whether Steven Smith and David Warner’s bans should be lifted early, but suggested that Australia still present stiff competition in their absence.”I’m not the headmaster here,” Steyn said. “I don’t make the rules and what the punishment is. But we all make mistakes and how each country deals with it is their issue.”Those two [Smith and Warner] are always going to test you. You want to be playing against the best. But I can guarantee you when you’re running in at Chris Lynn and he’s eyeing out deep midwicket, and Aaron Finch who’s been scoring runs lately especially for Surrey, it doesn’t matter. You’ve just got to take on who is at the other end, regardless of the name. When we walk out to the middle, it’s on.

The last time I walked off here I didn’t realise how bad my shoulder was. When I went in to see the doctor for the MRI he asked if I fell off a ladder or motorbikeSteyn on the injury he suffered in Perth in 2016

“We didn’t come here to lose,” Steyn added. “Any time South Africa plays against Australia it is always a good spectacle, both teams are highly competitive and do everything that they can to win. I don’t think that will change come Sunday.Steyn said he was excited to be back in Perth after a shoulder injury in the first Test in 2016 cut his tour short. This is likely to be his last international series in Australia, which makes him all the more motivated to put in a strong performance.”It is weird to be back here,” he said. “The last time I walked off here I didn’t realise how bad my shoulder was. When I went in to see the doctor for the MRI he asked if I fell off a ladder or motorbike, I didn’t realise it was actually that bad. Eight months of physiotherapy and non-stop rehab got me back, and I’m excited to be back here.”We haven’t played massively competitive cricket for a while. We played against Zimbabwe recently and I bowled in the high 140’s (kph) and hit 150 which I was quite pleased about,” he said. “If any bowler hits 150 he is going to tell you about it. I was happy with that, I got through those games and four months of county cricket with limited issues.”South Africa are coming off a comprehensive 3-0 series win against Zimbabwe, and Steyn said he expects an evenly contested series, despite the contrasting form the squads take into the series.”Both teams are coming off a little bit of a step back, Australia haven’t had the greatest tour in the UAE and they are trying to re-build themselves. We haven’t played much competitive cricket for a long time. I think it will be evenly matched.”