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Dimitri Mascarenhas was the star of the show as England beat a Players' Association XI by 51 runs.

He scored an unbeaten 84 from only 54 balls while captain for the day Ian Bell chipped in with 55 as England warmed up for the Twenty20 international against West Indies with a routine win in Pointe-a-Pierre.

Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood and Andrew Strauss were all rested as England strolled to a big total of 299-8.

They then reduced their hosts to 100-7 before Samuel Badree and Kenroy Williams put together an impressive 114-run stand for the eighth wicket.

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England Lions brought their tour of New Zealand to a discouraging close, slumping to an 84-run defeat in their Twenty20 match at Pukekura Park. The result means the tourists return home winless despite dominating the earlier four-day series for large parts.

Shanan Stewart was the match winner for New Zealand A, clubbing an unbeaten 88 from just 39 deliveries in his side's 227–6 in just 20 overs, while Gareth Hopkins chipped in with an 18-ball 41 at No7. The pair cleared the ropes nine times between them, with Stewart hitting seven sixes. Nobody escaped punishment for the bowling side, but Samit Patel came off worse than most, leaking 53 runs from his four overs.

Robert Key's Lions have proved no more attuned to the short form of the game .

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England have failed to win an international game throughout the winter - a terrible indictment on a team of very highly paid, extremely cosseted cricketers.

 They must start performing soon to build some confidence ahead of the Ashes because since the turn of the year Australia have reinvented themselves extremely well and could complete a series sweep of South Africa in the coming days. But national selector Miller has other worries, amongst them the decision of Middlesex and Kent to snap up Australians Phil Hughes and Stuart Clark respectively ahead of the Ashes.

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