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New Zealand were reminded of what was going to be the tougher of their two tasks on this brief tour of India. Not so much bowling against the Indian batting on the country’s slow, low turners, but batting on them

The Report by Sharda Ugra24-Aug-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsPragyan Ojha dismissed Brendon McCullum in his first over•AFP

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Cheteshwar Pujara’s 159 is the fifth-highest score by an Indian No.3 batsman against New Zealand. It is also the 16th time an Indian has passed 150 against New Zealand.

The aggregate for India for the No.3 and No.5 positions (217) is the second-highest in a single innings since the start of 2005. The highest in the period is 295 against West Indies in Kolkata in 2011.

Pujara’s 159 is the third 150-plus score by an Indian batsman against New Zealand since 2010. Of the previous ten 150-plus knocks by Indian batsmen, nine have come in home Tests with Sachin Tendulkar scoring the only away one.

MS Dhoni’s 73 is his 20th fifty-plus score as captain. Only Sunil Gavaskar (25) has most fifty-plus scores in matches as captain of India.

The 127-run stand between Dhoni and Pujara is the third-highest sixth-wicket stand for India against New Zealand. Dhoni has featured in three of the top five partnerships.

The aggregate of 55 runs for the first four wickets is New Zealand’s second-lowest in Tests since the start of 2011. In the same period, they have failed to aggregate more than 100 runs for the first four wickets in nine of 22 innings.

India have lost only three times at home after scoring more than 400 in their first innings. The last two such occasions came in Tests in Bangalore against Australia and Pakistan.

New Zealand were reminded of what was going to be the tougher of their two tasks on this brief tour of India. Not so much bowling against the Indian batting on the country’s slow, low turners, but batting on them, against the pressure of a sizeable total and the hypnosis wrought by spin. In reply to India’s first – innings total of 438, New Zealand ended the second day of the Hyderabad Test at 106 for 5.At the crease at stumps were James Franklin on 30 and keeper Kruger van Wyk, who is yet to score. Franklin was one half of the only decent partnership for New Zealand . He came at 55 for 4 and with Kane Williamson put up 44 for the fifth wicket, the two being the most confident against spin. They sent out a message to their floundering team-mates on the basics that work against playing spin in India – the use of the crease, the precision of movement either forward or back and the willingness to score rather than defend.When Williamson fell with three overs to go before stumps, incorrectly cutting Pragyan Ojha into Virender Sehwag’s hands at slip, it sent out another message. That New Zealand would need to play the best they have over the last month in order to take this game to the fifth day.The Indian spinners hit their stride quickly and turned the Hyderabad pitch into a turning trampoline for the opposition. After eight overs of pace, MS Dhoni turned to spin in the eighth over bringing on left-arm spinner Ojha in place of Umesh Yadav. The rewards were instant. Brendon McCullum had taken 20 runs in 21 balls off Zaheer Khan, including all his three spanking boundaries. Ojha, off the third ball, floated one away from McCullum, had him reaching for the ball and hitting it straight to Virat Kohli at cover. Ojha two for 35 at the end of the day included the wicket of Kane Williamson, 15 minutes before stumps, exposing, far too early, New Zealand’s lower order.Two overs later, R Ashwin got a wicket off his first ball and went on to prise out the middle of the New Zealand batting, getting Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor and Daniel Flynn. He ended the day with three for 30, tightening the noose, particularly against Guptill and Taylor, who were trapped in a defensive muddle. Guptill had lunged forward to defend a ball floating up on his middle stump, and inside-edged it to leg slip Kohli. Six runs later, a struggling Taylor was gone. He tried to turn Ashwin over to the leg side, the low edge flying to give a diving Kohli his second catch at leg slip. Flynn had used the sweep well against Ojha but was out leg before playing across to Ashwin, who came round the wicket. The delivery held its line and hit him low.Until his departure shortly before the close of play, if any batsman had looked capable of handling the spinners provided he had company at the other end, it was Williamson. Two years ago, Williamson had announced his arrival in international cricket with a century on debut against India in Ahmedabad. In Hyderabad, for the better part of his innings, he did not allow either the spinners or the men around bat to impose. With stumps approaching and three men around the bat on the off side, Williamson tried to cut the persistent Ojha. The ball was neither short enough nor wide, and the catch went straight to Sehwag at first slip.The batting blues came down heavy over New Zealand, ironically, after a session in which they had produced their best cricket of the Test. If prising the overnight batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara and Dhoni had not been possible before lunch, they cleaned up the remaining five Indian wickets for 67 by tea. It was because they did what teams must do in order to seize control of proceedings – attack.Dhoni and Pujara had waited for the bowling to flag, the first intended boundary coming after 15 overs of play. The last five overs before lunch had them peeled off 23 runs. Pujara went past 150 and Dhoni his half century, each offering a chance before lunch.After the break, Taylor gave his bowlers attacking fields and pulled the men off the straight boundary. Three men around the bat and a couple on the inner ring meant that the hard-working Jeetan Patel could offer enough temptations for the batsmen to rush into their big run-scoring shots.Pujara was the first to do so as he left his crease and tried to tonk Patel over the on-side fence but failed and was caught by Franklin. Pujara left the field annoyed, scoring 159 on his return to the Indian team after 20 months. Dhoni then smacked a flighted one from Patel to Bracewell at mid-off and Patel was to end the innings with four for 100. Once Dhoni was gone, a 37 off 54 balls from Ashwin helped the Indians inch towards 438.The start of the match was delayed by 25 minutes due to a threat of rain. While there are predictions of showers over the next two days, India’s spinners have threatened to ensure an early conclusion.

واصل الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي استعداده لمباراة الهلال السوداني المقبلة، في دوري أبطال إفريقيا.

الأهلي يواجه الهلال، مساء يوم السبت المقبل، على استاد القاهرة، ضمن منافسات الجولة الأخيرة من دور المجموعات يدوري الأبطال.

طالع أيضًا | تذكرتي تُعلن نفاذ تذاكر مباراة الأهلي والهلال بدوري أبطال إفريقيا

وعقد مارسيل كولر المدير الفني للأهلي محاضرة مع اللاعبين قبل انطلاق المران للحديث في كافة الجوانب الفنية والخططية، كما عقد المدير الفني جلسة مع معاونيه على هامش المران ضمن الجلسات التنسيقية للتحضير لمباراة الهلال.

وخاض الفريق فقرة بدنية مطولة تحت إشراف اندرياس أندويا مخطط الأحمال، قبل تنفيذ الجزء الفني في تدريبات الكرة.

ويلعب الأهلي ضمن المجموعة الثانية بدور المجموعات والتي تضم معه كلا من صن داونز الجنوب إفريقي والهلال السوداني والقطن الكاميروني.

West Indies assistant coach Toby Radford has said that he expected his bowlers to exploit the slow pitch during the Twenty20s in Florida

By Peter Della Penna in Lauderhill29-Jun-2012

When Sri Lanka and New Zealand made the first foray by Full Members into cricket in Florida at the Central Broward Regional Park in 2010, many fans bought tickets hoping to see Lasith Malinga bowling bouncers and shattering stumps at 90 mph. However, the most lethal bowling on the weekend came in the form of cutters and canny changes of pace offered by medium pacers Scott Styris and Nuwan Kulasekera.With the wicket expected to be on the slow side once again, West Indies assistant coach Toby Radford feels the conditions will be well-suited to be exploited by medium pace from the likes of captain Darren Sammy and all-rounder Dwayne Bravo.”I think [Sammy] would like bowling on it,” Radford said on Thursday. “The surface as it is, we believe it will grip a little bit, turn a little bit. So those bowlers with skill, Bravo the same, he’s got a lot of clever little slower balls. So I think the Sammys, the Bravos could do a very good job on there. But I also think that it’ll spin so someone like Sunil Narine who’s a world-class spinner should enjoy bowling on it.”Both squads have had to adjust to sticky conditions since arriving at the start of the week, with temperatures above 90 degrees and 60% humidity making it slightly uncomfortable. It’s a far cry from the conditions the West Indies dealt with on their recent tour of England.”It’s been a big change. It was a very cold and damp summer in England. We barely had four or five nice hot days in two months so to come here is a big change but for most of the West Indians I think they’re at home in this.”While seven players in the New Zealand squad took part in the Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka at this venue two years ago, Marlon Samuels is the only player in the West Indies side who has had a chance to play a competitive match on this ground. Samuels was part of a Jamaica squad two years ago that played a series of matches against the USA as part of a double-header with the higher profile contests between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. For everyone else in the West Indies squad, Radford says they have been pleased with what they’ve experienced thus far on their first trip to Florida.”The facility is excellent. Nice ground, nice oval. The pitch is very different obviously to what we’ve just been playing on the last couple of months in England. The nice time to bat on it will be against the new ball here and I do believe it will spin so probably batting in the middle will be a little bit more tricky than first up.”I feel that the States and the people here are taking it seriously, which is great. I know that they’ve put a lot of work into getting this game on and hopefully it will be really well attended at the weekend and I think it’ll do a great thing for cricket in America, so what we want to do is give those who do turn up here at the weekend a really good show and an enjoyable time here.”

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Ao fim desta semana, Daiju Sasaki completará um mês desde que chegou ao Brasil. O meia-atacante japonês de 18 anos de idade fez na segunda seu primeiro treino com o elenco profissional do Palmeiras e ainda não jogou pelo sub-20. Agora, considera-se que está melhor adaptado à capital paulista.

Logo que chegou, Sasaki teve dificuldades por conta do clima em São Paulo (SP). Ele já se sente melhor, tanto que há 15 dias treina sem limitações com o restante do grupo de juniores à espera da primeira chance. O clube deu a ele um tradutor exclusivo para ensiná-lo palavras básicas em português e facilitar o convívio nos primeiros dias no Brasil.

O jogador completou o treino dos profissionais nessa segunda-feira, que ocorreu sem a presença de jornalistas. Luiz Felipe Scolari já havia dito que iria também analisar o potencial de Sasaki, emprestado por um ano pelo Vissel Kobe (JAP), time que conta com Andrés Iniesta e Lukas Podolski no elenco.

Considerado um atleta promissor, o jovem tem passagens pelas seleções de base do Japão. Pensando em uma negociação futura, o Verdão adquiriu 30% de seus direitos econômicos – o valor pago não foi revelado. Alavés, da Espanha, e Werder Bremen, da Alemanha, eram outros interessados nele.

O Palmeiras considerou que ao contratar Daiju, além de um reforço esportivo, podeganhar espaço no mercado asiático, especificamente o japonês. E, assim, criar relações, hoje ainda embrionárias, com o milionário Hiroshi Mikitani, dono do Vissel Kobe e presidente da Rakuten, empresa que estampa sua marca no uniforme do Barcelona, por 55 milhões de euros por ano (R$ 242 milhões).

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Mohammad Yousuf, the Pakistan batsman, has said that he’s still passionate about playing cricket and would relish the chance to play Test cricket again

Umar Farooq26-Apr-2012

Mohammad Yousuf, the Pakistan batsman, has said that he’s still passionate about playing cricket and would relish the chance to play Test cricket again. He took a fitness test under Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore on Tuesday in a bid to stage a comeback to international cricket.Yousuf, 37, last played a Test in 2010, when Pakistan took on England in the controversial Lord’s Test that was marred by spot-fixing. Yousuf has not featured in international or domestic tournaments in more than nine months due to personal reasons. “I never lost my passion for cricket,” Yousuf told ESPNcricinfo. “There were certain commitments in my life that got higher priority for a while, but now I am hungry to play.”He made his debut 14 years ago and has played 90 Tests (scoring 7530 runs at an average of 52.29) and 288 ODIs (scoring 9720 at 41.71). He says he wants to focus only on Test cricket in the future. “I am least concerned about ODIs. My focus [right now] is Test cricket, I want to play it. My basics are right and I have lots of experience under my belt.”Yousuf, whose career has been plagued by controversy in the past, was banned by the PCB twice in 2010. First, for his poor performance on a winless tour of Australia and then for differences with Younis Khan, which the PCB said was a bad influence on the team. “I don’t want to live in past, people learn from mistakes. I have always tried to do my best, but sometimes things go wrong,” he said. “I can’t change the past, but I can only hope to revive my career.”With younger players like Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq now featuring regularly in the side, some feel Yousuf will find it difficult to break into the team again. “I am not against new blood being inducted in the side – it’s good,” Yousuf said. “No one plays forever, but I still have cricket left [in me] and I have a role to play.”Pakistan are slated to tour Sri Lanka soon after the IPL to play two Twenty20s, five ODIs and three Tests. PCB’s chief selector Iqbal Qasim said that the board would discuss Yousuf’s future during their next meeting in May. “He is training and that’s what all players must do, but that doesn’t mean he will be selected in the team,” Qasim said. “If a coach is interested in a player he must convince the selection committee [first].”

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O Vasco definiu nesta terça-feira seu novo vice-presidente médico. Trata-se de Antônio Vitor de Abreu, de 71 anos. Ele possui graduação em medicina pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 1973), mestrado em ortopedia e traumatologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1980) e doutorado em ortopedia e traumatologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1992). Ele não é vinculado a grupos políticos do clube.

Antônio Abreu é atualmente professor-associado do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e chefe do serviço de Traumato-Ortopedia do Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Há alguns anos, vale destacar, o agora vice médico já participou de cirurgias de jogadores do Vasco.

A chegada de Antônio Abreu ao Vasco acontece em um momento de pressão sobre o departamento médico, que vem encarando um número grande de lesões ao longo desta temporada. A expectativa no clube é a de que o departamento melhore ao passar dos dias, diminuindo o número de machucados. Até então, o cargo vinha sendo acumulado pelo presidente Alexandre Campello, que também é médico.

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Hampshire old and new will come together as two stands are named after two former famous former players later this season

ESPNcricinfo staff01-May-2012

Two larger-than-life Hampshire characters will come together at the county’s ground later this season, to cap off the £48million redevelopment of West End. Former captains Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie and Shane Warne are to be honoured with stands named after them before England’s ODI against West Indies on June 16, the club has announced.Both were much loved and one is much missed – Ingleby-Mackenzie died of cancer in 2006, aged 72. He guided Hampshire to their first County Championship in 1961. Another first of his was allowing women to become members of the MCC – the vote taken during his term as Secretary from 1996-98.Ingleby-Mackenzie, asked what the secret to his success as Hampshire captain was, once said: “Wine, women and song.” Surely there are some training rules? “Yes, everyone must be in bed by breakfast.” That is a mantra quite possibly endorsed by Warne too.Their taste for a flamboyant lifestyle was matched by their aptitude for captaincy. Both men were lauded for their tenure, with the art of declaration becoming a particular specialism. Warne’s time in charge was a demonstration of the skills Australia chose not to employ.Warne led Hampshire to the 2005 C&G Trophy, guided them back to Division One of the County Championship in his first year in charge and engineered title challenges in the next three seasons. He left the club in 2007 and earlier this year the suite named after him was taken over by the ground’s new sponsors, Ageas. But now he has a far grander tribute.”Naming our new stands is a fantastic way for us to acknowledge two legends from Hampshire’s history,” Rod Bransgrove, Hampshire’s chairman, said. “One pre-dates the move to the new stadium while the other is symbolic of the first few seasons at West End.”We consulted our membership and fans to hear their suggestions as to whom they would like to see honoured and I think they have helped choose two very worthy individuals to be honoured by the club.”

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Se em relação ao desempenho em campo, o clima é de preocupação, fora dele o sentimento é de expectativa no Botafogo. O clube espera para esta terça ou quarta-feira o pagamento da Caixa Econômica Federal pelo patrocínio máster do futebol, oficializado há duas semanas. A partir do dinheiro novo na conta, a primeira medida é o acerto dos salários atrasados de jogadores e funcionários.

Atualmente, estão em atraso os vencimentos de julho – funcionários receberam o equivalente a 40%. O salário com mês de referência em agosto vence nos próximos dias, e a promessa é de que até a semana que vem os pagamentos serão regularizados. O iminente depósito do banco estatal representa parte significativa dos R$10 milhões acordados pela exibição das logomarcas.

O Botafogo já vinha utilizando as logomarcas da Caixa no uniforme desde a celebração verbal do acordo, no início do ano – nem havia retirado desde o início da parceria, no fim de 2016. Contudo, o clube só pôde ser considerado apto a receber um aporte financeiro estatal após obter as Certidões Negativas de Débito (CNDs), o que se confirmou há duas semanas.

Antes, as dívidas se acumulavam e a situação financeira do Alvinegro continua delicada. Porém, tanto dirigentes mostram otimismo, apesar da preocupação, quanto quem aguarda para receber afirma que o ambiente segue bom, e que a má fase recente nada tem a ver com atrasos.

-Não, em momento algum (influencia). A diretoria tem conversado com a gente. Em campo, a gente não pensa nisso. Não está interferindo no resultado. Temos a maior culpa, a gente que erra passe e gols. Questão de salário não interfere em campo, não – garantiu o lateral-esquerdo Moisés.

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Namibia beat Scotland in the ICC World T20 Qualifer in Dubai

The Report by Peter Della Penna in Abu Dhabi14-Mar-2012
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Louis van der Westhuizen hit eight sixes in his hundred•ICC/Ian Jacobs

If a century is scored in an empty stadium, does it make a sound? The answer is yes according to one photographer on the field Wednesday afternoon inside the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.Each time Louis van der Westhuizen connected with one of his eight sixes for Namibia, it sounded like a gunshot had been fired from the crease. Scotland certainly grew weary of hearing the rat-a-tat-tat off his bat that started 11 balls into the match and didn’t stop until the innings concluded with the broad-shouldered, brutally elegant left-hander 106 not out off 54 balls in 33 degrees.”It was quite hot, I think I’m a bit dehydrated now,” van der Westhuizen told ESPNcricinfo after receiving the Man-of-the-Match award for his performance in Namibia’s 49-run win. “It’s hot but it’s always nice to get a century.”Namibia lost their first wicket with six on the board when Gerrie Snyman was beaten for pace by Safyaan Sharif. After top-scoring with 34 off 16 in Tuesday’s win over Ireland, van der Westhuizen arrived in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday ready to convert another start into the first century of the tournament.He hit his fifth ball into the sight screen at the Media End off Scotland captain Gordon Drummond. It was a warning shot signalling his intentions for the carnage he was set to unleash two overs later against off-spinner Preston Mommsen.Van der Westhuizen took the first ball from Mommsen and effortlessly lifted it over mid off for his second six, then followed it by flaying Mommsen over point for a boundary. On the next delivery, he leaned forward to launch the frazzled Mommsen over extra cover for another six. The over went for 18 and took the score to 43 for 1. Namibia, and van der Westhuizen, never looked back from there.”I think the fifth over was a bit of a turning point,” van der Westhuizen said. “I got used to the pace of the wicket and then started stroking the ball good.”The second-wicket partnership between van der Westhuizen and Raymond van Schoor added 86 in nine overs. Van Schoor was eventually trapped leg before for 30 when he missed a sweep against Drummond. Craig Williams came in and picked up the pace even more with two sixes but was caught on the midwicket rope going for a third.Van der Westhuizen continued on with his chanceless knock, beginning the final over on 88 and on strike to Richie Berrington, the only bowler to escape van der Westhuizen’s wrath to that point in time. But the Namibian didn’t let Berrington get off scot-free. Van der Westhuizen lofted the first ball over long off to go to 94. Berrington bowled a meaty full toss on the next delivery which was clubbed over long on to bring up van der Westhuizen’s century in 51 balls. There was time for one more boundary as well before the innings finished with Namibia 192 for 3.Scotland came out fighting to start the chase as Berrington laced two fours in front of point in a 17-run first over. Scotland were 45 for 1 after five but lost all momentum when van der Westhuizen came on to start the sixth and removed Berrington for 31 on his first delivery to continue a dream match. Berrington missed a sweep, was struck dead in front and with that Scotland’s momentum stalled.Any hope Scotland had of winning drifted away for good when Kyle Coetzer was bowled for 22 by van Schoor, foxed by a slower ball, to make it 90 for 5 one ball into the 13th over. The chase was abandoned and Majid Haq made sure to bat out the overs. Haq finished 27 not out in 21 balls and Scotland ended on 143 for 8.After winning their first two matches against ODI nations to start off tournament, Namibia are now in the driver’s seat to top Group B by the end of round-robin play on March 20. They play a winless USA on Thursday, who Namibia beat in a warm-up fixture last week by 22 runs. Van der Westhuizen isn’t ready to pencil his team into the knockout phase just yet though.”We’re a very unpredictable side,” van der Westhuizen said. “Like today if it comes off and we can just keep our composure, we are always in the running.”