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Ben Rohrer, Ahmed Shehzad and Davy Jacobs have been drafted in to the Caribbean Premier League as replacements for Steve Smith, Shaun Marsh and Aaron Finch, after the Australian trio was unable to get no-objection certificates from Cricket Australia.Rohrer will replace his countryman Smith for Antigua Hawksbills, Pakistan opener Shehzad will step in for Marsh for Jamaica Tallawahs, and South African wicketkeeper Jacobs will be coming in for Finch for Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel.Rohrer, who scored 295 runs at a strike-rate of 152.09 in the 2012-13 edition of the Big Bash League, said that he was relishing the prospect of working with Hawksbills coach Viv Richards and Ricky Ponting, who is part of the squad.Shehzad was part of the Pakistan squad that won the 2009 World Twenty20 and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 World Cup. He has scored two domestic T20 centuries and has a strike-rate of 134.23.”Losing Shaun is a shame but we have got a like-for-like replacement with Ahmed Shehzad who is perfect for the team’s balance,” Paul Nixon, the Tallawahs coach, said. Nixon also praised Shehzad’s “special ability” as a top-order batsman.”Chris (Gayle) knows him well and we believe that he will be a match-winner who can really make his mark on the world stage. He is a very gifted and classy player and we feel he is the last piece in our jigsaw.”Jacobs, like Shehzad and Rohrer, initially missed out on a spot with one of the six franchises in the draft in June. He captained South African franchise Warriors to their first ever Twenty20 title in 2010-11.”Davy Jacobs is a proven performer in Twenty20 cricket,” Gordon Greenidge, coach of the Red Steel, said. “The fact he can bat anywhere in the top order is great as it provides us with real flexibility and I like the balance of our squad.”He will add steel to the Red Steel dressing room and bring a winning mentality and vast experience to the squad.”The inaugural Caribbean Premier League starts on July 30 in Barbados and concludes on August 24 in Trinidad.

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O diretor de futebol do Palmeiras, Alexandre Mattos, está na Europa, mas desta vez não é para buscar mais uma uma contratação. O clube está bem próximo de acertar a venda ao Barcelona de duas revelações da base: o zagueiro Vitão e o lateral-esquerdo Luan Cândido. Nos bastidores, especula-se um valor de 20 milhões de euros (R$ 84 milhões) pela dupla. Inevitável? No caso do Palmeiras, certamente não. A viagem de Mattos tem como objetivo melhorar o caixa do Alviverde, que gastou mais de R$ 85 milhões em contratações para 2019 e ainda teve que aumentar os salários de peças fundamentais do elenco desejadas pelo futebol chinês, caso de Dudu e Bruno Henrique. O comportamento sempre agressivo no mercado desde a chegada da Crefisa como patrocinadora muitas vezes coloca em xeque o critério de escolha. Muitos jogadores contratados recentemente pouco são utilizados no Paulista, que, em tese, deveria servir para o entrosamentos dos atletas. Zé Rafael mal entrou em campo, Arthur nem inscrito foi. A ambição do Palmeiras em ser um natural predador do futebol brasileiro gera um efeito colateral entre os mais jovens, protagonistas nos torneios de base, mas sem espaço entre os profissionais. Formar talentos para os gigantes europeus definitivamente não é o sonho do torcedor palmeirense.

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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will felicitate its chief curator, Anurudda Polonowita, at the end of next month’s second Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.Polonowita, who will be retiring as chief curator on March 31, has been involved with the game in Sri Lanka for 53 years in different capacities, including as vice-president of SLC and chief selector. He also played 20 first-class matches, including an unofficial Test against India in Ahmedabad in 1964.”We have plans to felicitate Polonowita in recognition of the contribution he has made to Sri Lanka cricket,” Ajith Jayasekera, Sri Lanka Cricket’s CEO, said.Polonowita was involved in the development and construction of the Khettarama Stadium (now the Premadasa Stadium) in Colombo, and was encouraged by former Sri Lankan president R Premadasa to pursue his interest in curating. “I did the pitches and ground, and it was during that time that he asked me what I wanted. I told him I would like to go to Australia and do a course in curatorship,” Polonowita said. “Within a couple of months, it was arranged and I was sent to Australia for three months.”Polonowita was instrumental in setting up a curators’ department in 2000, where seven graduates with agricultural degrees were recruited. Speaking of his protégés, he said: “They were trained under me and now they are recruited as curators at stadiums owned by SLC.”

England Lions batter fell out with Hampshire during summer before loan spells with Yorkshire and Notts

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Oct-2021Sam Northeast has signed a three-year contract with Glamorgan, completing the 31-year-old batter’s protracted departure from Hampshire.Northeast signed a new contract with Hampshire at the start of the season but fell out with the club’s management and subsequently embarked on loan spells with Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire as part of efforts to find a new county. Chances were limited, however, and he only managed one half-century in six innings (five first-class, one T20) between July and September.Described by Mark Wallace, Glamorgan’s director of cricket, as “one of the very best players in the county game”, Northeast’s arrival represents something of a coup. Glamorgan finished bottom of Division Two in the County Championship, winning just two four-day fixtures all season, but did claim their first silverware since 2004 by winning the Royal London Cup.”Sam is one of the very best players in the county game and when we found out he was available we did everything we could to bring him to Wales,” Wallace said. “Signing Sam is fantastic news for everyone associated the club and to attract a player of his quality is a good sign of the direction the club is heading in.”He has a terrific record across all three formats and his versatility means he can bat in a number of different positions, while his experience will bring a lot to the changing room and help develop our younger players.”Northeast has been one of the most consistent run-scorers in county cricket since coming through with Kent more than a decade ago, although full England honours have continued to elude him. He was made club captain at Kent in 2015 before moving to Hampshire ahead of the 2018 season in an attempt to press his international ambitions.At Hampshire, Northeast collected a Royal London Cup winner’s medal, as well as captaining the club for extended periods during 2019 and 2020 in the absence of James Vince. He scored six first-class hundreds, averaging 36.92, but has been unable to add to a handful of Lions appearances made on the 2017-18 tour of the Caribbean.”I’m extremely excited for the challenge ahead at Glamorgan,” he said. “Next year is the perfect time to build on the Royal London Cup success the club achieved this summer.”I still have a lot of ambition in the game and I believe Glamorgan share that with me. Speaking to Mark Wallace and Matt Maynard, I knew this was the right place for me to commit my future to. I am really looking forward to the next few years and the success we can have on the cricket pitch.”

علق محمد جودة لاعب الأهلي السابق، على توقيع النادي غرامة على محمد الشناوي حارس مرمى الفريق، موضحًا أنه يجب عليه تحمل الضغوطات.

وأعلن الأهلي توقيع غرامة مالية على الشناوي عقب مباراة سموحة، والتي حسمها الأحمر لصالحه بنتيجة هدفين دون رد. طالع التفاصيل.

وقال جودة فى تصريحات تلفزيونية عبر قناة “الحدث اليوم”: “ما بدر من محمد الشناوي لا يجوز على الإطلاق خاصة وأنه قائد للفريق ويجب أن يتحمل الضغوطات”.

وتابع: “أرى أن قرار الأهلي بتوقيع غرامة مالية على الشناوي عقب المباراة مباشرة جيد للغاية، ويجب على الحارس تحمل الضغط في الفترة القادمة”.

وعن فوز الأهلي على سموحة، قال: “مارسيل كولر يستفيد من كل اللاعبين في الأهلي، ويقوم بسياسة التدوير بشكل جيد للغاية من أجل إراحة اللاعبين قبل مباراة الرجاء المغربي”.

طالع أيضًا.. الرجاء يعلن إصابة مدافعه قبل مواجهة الأهلي في دوري أبطال إفريقيا

واختتم: “الفوز الذي حققه الأهلي مهم جدًا قبل مواجهتين مهمتين أمام الرجاء والزمالك”.

Preview of the second ODI between West Indies and New Zealand in Kingston

The Preview by Abhishek Purohit06-Jul-2012Match factsSaturday, July 7
Start time 0930 (1430 GMT)
New Zealand have to get Chris Gayle early•AFP

Big PictureYou haven’t played together as a team for three months. Forget warm-up games, you arrive for a long tour in completely different conditions from home without even a camp for the entire squad. One of your best batsmen, also your first-choice wicketkeeper, who has already had a month’s break, is “rested” for the limited-overs leg of the tour. After you get hammered in the Twenty20s, there emerge reports of his arriving sometime “midway” during the ODI series, but scarcely anyone has a clue when exactly he is expected to reach, while his side gets thrashed again in the first ODI.Another of your top batsmen is trading blows in a boxing ring, an allrounder is busy playing domestic T20s in England, and to top it all, you have lost your regular captain to injury in the first match of the tour. Welcome to an ongoing demonstration on How Not To Approach A Cricket Tour, or New Zealand’s tour of West Indies.That they have managed to make fellow strugglers West Indies look like some dominating force says it all. It was expected that their batsmen would have no clue against Sunil Narine, but tackling slight swing and bounce was supposed to be no great task. Their batting has looked utterly incapable in Florida and in Jamaica so far. Ross Taylor is expected to be out for some time; Brendon McCullum is now expected to arrive on July 10*.What can this tattered New Zealand side do to turn around what is quickly becoming a horror tour? For starters, they can pray for a halt to the injuries before they run out of 11 fit players.West Indies must be overflowing with confidence. Albeit playing with one medium-pace allrounder too many, including the captain, they appear a powerful side in these conditions; wonder why they don’t win more often. Can they find some consistency?Form guide West Indies WLLLW (completed games, most recent first)
New Zealand LLLLWWatch out for…New Zealand have to get Chris Gayle early. Three matches, three brutal fifties, three easy wins. At least that will ensure there is some sort of contest. At the moment, Gayle is just biffing straight sixes, without expression and with minimal follow-through.The visitors have lacked the kind of starts Gayle has given West Indies. And have never recovered thereon. Martin Guptill has to somehow revive his Derbyshire form.Team newsBarring injuries, West Indies should stick to the same XI which won by nine wickets on Thursday.West Indies: (possible) 1 Lendl Simmons, 2 Chris Gayle, 3 Dwayne Smith, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Darren Sammy (capt), 9 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 10 Ravi Rampaul, 11 Sunil NarineAndrew Ellis joined the injury list in the first ODI. New Zealand have Doug Bracewell and Trent Boult available. It was an interesting decision to play legspinner Tarun Nethula ahead of the experienced offspinner Nathan McCullum on Thursday. Probably it was influenced by the fact that West Indies have only left-hander, Gayle, in the top nine. At least New Zealand have a few bowling options left. Wicketkeeper Tom Latham is the only batting replacement available in the squad, but last heard, he had cut his eye during training. If this wasn’t actually happening, it would be tragi-comic.New Zealand: (possible) 1 Rob Nicol, 2 Martin Guptill, 3 Daniel Flynn, 4 Kane Williamson (capt), 5 Dean Brownlie, 6 BJ Watling (wk), 7 Jacob Oram, 8 Tim Southee, 9 Nathan McCullum/Doug Bracewell, 10 Tarun Nethula 11 Kyle MillsStats and trivia New Zealand’s nine-wicket loss in the first ODI was their heaviest defeat against West Indies (in terms of wickets) since January 1995 In 64 ODI innings, Dwayne Smith has batted all the way from the opening position to No. 9, barring No. 4.Quotes”We’re not high in confidence at all and they are, so that’s probably hurting us. We need to find it in the next game or two, otherwise the series will be gone before we even know it.”

July 7, 2012, 06:20 GMT – The preview has been updated with Brendon McCullum’s expected date of arrival in the Caribbean

ScorecardKarim Sadiq launched the chase with a stroke-filled innings•ICC/Saleem Sanghati

Karim Sadiq and Izatullah Dawlatzai starred as Afghanistan hit back with a five-wicket win against Netherlands after having been thrashed by nine wickets two days ago. Dawlatzai led with four wickets as Afghanistan restricted Netherlands to 256 for 9. Sadiq cracked 100 off only 74 deliveries at the top to leave the middle order with enough space to motor to victory in the 47th over.Netherlands were left to rue several wasted starts with Nos. 2 to 5 departing for individual scores between 47 and 52. Dawlatzai, the 20-year old fast bowler, jolted Netherlands with a strike in his second over, the fourth of the innings, when he bowled Stephan Myburgh for 5. Michael Swart (52) and Alexei Kervezee (47) settled the innings but departed in the space of 16 runs. It was the turn of Tom Cooper (52) and Wesley Barresi (51) to put on another substantial partnership that took Netherlands past 200 from 112 for 3.At 206 for 4 in the 42nd over, Netherlands were eyeing a big finish but Cooper fell to Javed Ahmadi and Dawlatzai took out Barresi in the next over. Netherlands could not get going at the death, but Afghanistan still had a testing target.Sadiq launched the chase with a stroke-filled innings, hitting 12 fours and four sixes in an opening partnership of 141 inside 20 overs with Ahmadi (43). Though Sadiq was bowled by Peter Borren immediately after reaching his hundred, Mohammad Shahzad (37) and captain Nawroz Mangal carried Afghanistan past 200. Mangal remained unbeaten on 45 as victory was achieved with 22 balls to spare.

Geoff Marsh, the Sri Lanka coach, has said his batsmen worked hard on their technique after the defeat at Centurion and their efforts reaped rewards

Firdose Moonda at Kingsmead26-Dec-2011

As the Sri Lankan score trickled over 200, Thilan Samaraweera’s body language changed. He took the team there with a classy clip through midwicket and then relaxed a little. A good player of spin, he latched on to Imran Tahir, coming down the track with more authority. Dinesh Chandimal joined in, bringing up a half-century that proved his potential.The pair took Sri Lanka to within eight overs of ending the day in control, before Chandimal threw his efforts away chasing a wide one and Thisara Perara’s dismissal made it advantage South Africa. The stumps total of 289 for seven probably has two wickets too many as far as Sri Lanka are concerned but on the whole represents a far more convincing effort from a batting line-up that appeared frail and limp in Centurion.”Today was a bit of a breakthrough for us,” Geoff Marsh, the Sri Lanka coach said. “We looked and played a lot better.”Sri Lanka had much to ponder after they were shot out for under 200 both times in the first Test. The SuperSport Park pitch, which Marsh called “disappointing”, did nothing but expose their weaknesses against pace and bounce. Kumar Sangakkara said they had done some soul searching, captain Tillakaratne Dilshan said they put in extra hours in the nets and Marsh said it paid off with a better display today.”When you keep getting bowled out in the first innings for under 200, it happened against Australia, Pakistan and here, there were things we had to address,” he admitted. “Guys worked hard on technique, the way they were approaching their innings, and how they were thinking in the middle. We have a very good batting line-up and we should be getting 300-plus totals.”A score of that size is in sight, thanks largely to the efforts of the two men who were at the crease when the 200 mark had been passed. Samaraweera and Chandimal shared a century-stand and took Sri Lanka to a semblance of safety with an approach that showed the most maturity they have displayed on the tour so far.It was a particularly important knock for Samaraweera, who was recalled to the side for this series after missing out on the previous one – against Pakistan in the UAE – and had plenty to prove. “We are pleased he is in the side and on this tour so far he has played really well,” Marsh said. “I thought he batted well in the last game on a difficult wicket against that attack. He is a quality player and any side that has a quality player like him sitting on the bench was going to miss him.”While Samaraweera was fighting to show reasons for prolonging his career, Chandimal was trying to justify his inclusion in the team, at the expense of Kaushal Silva. Marsh felt Chandimal performed his role well, as he was picked with the idea that he could provide impetus in the lower-middle order. “He has worked very hard and we thought it was an opportunity for him,” he said. “We have Dilshan at top of the order who plays shots and we felt that we should have someone at No. 7 who will give us that oomph. He has all the shots and doesn’t mind playing those shots.”The one shot too many came when Chandimal reached for a wide ball and gave Morne Morkel a reason to celebrate what has been an uncomfortable time for him of late. Like all of this team-mates except Sangakkara, who was undone by a near-unplayable ball from Marchant de Lange, Chandimal scripted his own demise but Marsh said he was not too frustrated by the occasional moments of mindlessness from his batsmen. “Obviously you want them to get along, once they get to 30s to make a big score,” he said. “But they are working really hard and thinking about it and focusing. We’ve got ourselves up to around 300, which you’ve got to get to be competitive.”On a pitch that is flattening in the heat, but one that Kallis said “stayed pretty slow throughout the day,” and offered a little bit of turn, a total of around 300 could turn out to be a score that Sri Lanka’s bowlers will fancy defending to complete the breakthrough that Marsh hopes they are achieving.

The Premier Limited Over Tournament Tier A semi-final line-up has been decided with Nondescripts Cricket Club, Sinhalese Sports Club, Chilaw Marians Cricket Club and Colts Cricket Club coming through

Sa'adi Thawfeeq13-Dec-2011The Premier Limited Over Tournament Tier A semi-final line-up has been decided with Nondescripts Cricket Club and Sinhalese Sports Club qualifying from Group A and Chilaw Marians Cricket Club and Colts Cricket Club coming through from Group B. The same sides made the semi-finals of the previous season as well.The previous final was washed out with SSC and Colts being declared joint champions. The two teams could meet again in the final this year as Colts take on NCC and SSC clash with Chilaw Marians in the semi-finals. However, the weather could be a factor as the final weekend of matches produced two no-results and four out of the remaining six games were decided on the Duckworth-Lewis rule.The group matches produced some exciting finishes, none more than the Colts v Bloomfield game where Colts scraped through by one wicket, scoring the winning runs off the last ball. Bloomfield, dismissed for 183, fought back to reduce Colts to 148 for 8. When the ninth wicket fell at 175, the match could have gone either way. But last man Sajeewa Weerakoon used all his 16-year experience as a first-class cricketer to stick around with match-winner Chathuranga Kumara (39 not out) to steer Colts home.Two days earlier, Bloomfield had managed to win another thriller by one wicket against Ragama. Chasing 222 for victory, they were cruising at 199 for 5 in the 36th over, but former Sri Lanka legspinner Malinga Bandara snapped up three wickets in nine balls to reduce Bloomfield to 211 for 9. It was left to the last pair of Suraj Randiv and Tyron Gamage to knock off the required 11 runs, for which they took 31 balls amid high tension.The opening match of the tournament had two brothers battling it out as Badureliya took on Tamil Union at the P Sara Oval. Tillakaratne Sampath, younger brother of Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan scored a fighting century to help Badureliya recover from 89 for 6 to 193. But Dilshan, opening the batting, struck a run-a-ball 61 as Tamil Union won by five wickets with more than 15 overs to spare.In Tier B, Sri Lanka Army take on Sri Lanka Ports Authority (formerly Seeduwa/Raddoluwa) while Sri Lanka Navy meet Saracens in the semi-finals. Army made the semi-finals previous season as well.Sri Lanka Air Force, who recruited the services of former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya for their final group match, finished second from the bottom in Group B with a solitary victory. Jayasuriya scored 23 off 22 balls in his debut for Air Force against Ports Authority in a match ruined by rain.The 42-year-old Jayasuriya, a Member of Parliament with the ruling party United People’s Freedom Alliance, was given permission by Sri Lanka Cricket’s tournament committee to change clubs midway through the tournament and he joined Air Force from Bloomfield. He will now represent Air Force for the rest of this season.A board official said that a player could represent a team after only seven days of registration especially if he had been out of the country by producing a copy of his passport confirming the date of arrival in Sri Lanka. Jayasuriya was in the UAE recently as part of the Ten Sports commentary team for the series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan.