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Shane Watson challenged Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard to research his reputation as a team man and denied he had any major problems with the captain Michael Clarke

Daniel Brettig12-Mar-2013

Shane Watson denied he had any major problems with the captain Michael Clarke•AFP

Shane Watson challenged Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard to research his reputation as a team man among cricketers around the country and denied he had any major problems with the captain Michael Clarke on his early return home from the India tour.Having left Chandigarh to spend time with his pregnant wife following his dumping from the team for the third Test alongside James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja, Watson declared Howard did not know him or the game well enough to make the contention that he only “sometimes” does the best thing for the team.”All I can really say is go around and ask every person I’ve ever played cricket with and that will give you the best indication of whether I’m a team man or not,” Watson said at Sydney airport. “Pat Howard doesn’t particularly know me very well. He’s come from a rugby background and hasn’t been in and around cricket very long. I think the best people to ask are the people I’ve played cricket with and they’ll be able to give their honest opinion.”As for Clarke, of whom Howard said he and Watson had to “sort their issues out”, the vice-captain insisted their relationship was strong. Watson also revealed he had spoken to Clarke immediately after landing in Australia following the airing of Howard’s comments.”The way relationships work, there’s always ups and downs like there is in marriages, friendships and everything,” Watson said of Clarke. “I’ve been playing cricket with and against Michael Clarke since I was 12. We’ve got a lot of history as people. We’re obviously quite different people in certain ways but very very similar in a lot of ways as well.”In the end, like you do in every relationship, it goes up and down and things are going really well at the moment with me and Michael. With Pat Howard, he’s only come on board the last year and a half. Myself and Michael go a little bit further back than a year and a half.”Maintaining his view that the sanctions for four players having failed to send in feedback ahead of the third Test was extremely harsh, Watson noted how many bouts of injury and rehab he had battled through to keep playing for Australia.”I, with a few other guys, took it as leading into the Test match and I got that extremely wrong, which meant that it’s cost me a Test match,” he said. “They [the leadership group] obviously thought that was the right decision for the team at this point in time. I accept that I did the wrong thing with what I did, but I will always find it very hard to accept being suspended from a Test match for my country. 
”I’ve missed Test matches and games through injury throughout my career. I feel like I’ve worked my absolute bum off to have an opportunity to represent my country. When that’s taken away from you, you think the actions must be very severe. That’s where we differ on our opinions. I think it’s extremely harsh. I expressed my extreme disappointment with the punishment. But everything happens for a reason in your life.”Watson’s father has spoken of how a future without international competition may be comfortably filled by Twenty20 duty in the IPL and for other clubs, and the sometime allrounder said he would be carefully weighing up his love of the game and the hurt this suspension has caused him.”It’ll give me a chance to reflect on what’s really happened over the past couple of days and be able to absorb what’s happened and have a think about where things are at,” he said. “I absolutely love playing cricket. I love nothing more than being able to have the opportunity and privilege to represent my country. That’s something that, when it was taken away from me with this suspension – well, the guys back in India know how much it hurts me.”

يعود فريق الكرة بالأهلي لاستئناف مبارياته المحلية بمواجهة قوية أمام إنبي ضمن لقاءات بطولة الدوري المصري.

واستطاع الأهلي الفوز أمام الترجي بنتيجة 1-0 في المباراة التي جمعت بينهما مساء اليوم على أرضية استاد القاهرة الدولي. طالع التفاصيل

وينتظر الأهلي المتأهل بين فريقي الوداد وصن داونز من أجل مواجهته في نهائي دوري أبطال إفريقيا.

ويتصدر الأهلي جدول ترتيب الدوري المصري برصيد 53 نقطة جمعها من الفوز في 16 لقاء والتعادل خلال 5 مواجهات دون الوقوع في أي هزائم. موعد مباراة الأهلي وإنبي في الدوري المصري

ويلتقي الأهلي مع إنبي يوم الثلاثاء المقبل الموافق 23 من مايو الجاري، في تمام الساعة 09:30 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية.

أعرب ألكسيس ماك أليستر، لاعب فريق كرة القدم الأول في ليفربول، عن سعادته بالانضمام إلى الريدز، قادمًا من برايتون الإنجليزي خلال فترة الانتقالات الصيفية.

ماك أليستر انضم إلى ليفربول، بعد أن خاض 112 مباراة مع برايتون، وسجل 20 هدفًا، وفاز ببطولة كأس العالم مع المنتخب الأرجنتيني في ديسمبر الماضي.

بعد أن وقع على عقود انضمامه وأعلن النادي عن قدومه لملعب أنفيلد، تحدث اللاعب رقم 10 في تصريحات للموقع الرسمي لـ ليفربول: “لقد لعبت في جميع المراكز، وكل مدرب عملت معه يعرف أنه يمكنني اللعب في أكثر من مركز وتقديم كل ما يحتاجه مني”.

وأضاف ماك أليستر: “أحاول اللعب بأبسط طريق ممكنة، ومساعدة زملائي في الفريق دفاعيًا وهجوميًا، وسأحاول تقديم ذلك للنادي في كل مباراة للفوز بالبطولات”.

وأكمل: “لدي ذكريات جيدة في ملعب أنفيلد، لكن آمل أن تكون الذكريات القادمة أفضل، لقد لعبت مع بوكا جونيورز من قبل وأشعر أن ليفربول يمتلك نفس المشجعين وطريقة التشجيع المثالية”.

واختتم: “أتطلع حقًا للعب أمام جماهير ليفربول، وإظهار ما يمكننا القيام به من أجلهم، ولا أستطيع الانتظار حتى أخوض مباراتي الأولى في ملعب أنفيلد”.

أقيم الاجتماع الفني لمباراة الأهلي والترجي اليوم بحضور مندوبي الناديين ومسؤولي الاتحاد الإفريقي لكرة القدم.

وحضر الاجتماع من الأهلي كل من سيد عبد الحفيظ مدير الكرة، وسمير عدلي المدير الإداري، وماهر عبد العزيز إداري الفريق، والعميد علاء صلاح المنسق الأمني.

طالع | أشرف صبحي يتواصل مع سفير مصر في تونس للاطمئنان على الأهلي والزمالك ومنتخب رفع الأثقال

وخلال الاجتماع تم التأكيد على كافة الضوابط الإدارية والتنظيمية للمباراة، وتقرر أن يرتدي الأهلي الطاقم الأسود كاملًا، والحارس الزي الأخضر، فيما يرتدي الترجي القميص باللونين الأحمر والأصفر والشورت والجوارب الحمراء.

كما تم الاتفاق على وصول الفريق إلى ملعب المباراة قبل ساعة ونصف الساعة من موعد انطلاقها.

ويلتقي الأهلي مع الترجي في الثامنة مساء غد الجمعة بتوقيت تونس، العاشرة بتوقيت القاهرة، على الملعب الأولمبي حمادي العقربي برادس، في ذهاب الدور نصف النهائي لدوري أبطال إفريقيا.

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Vendido no ano passado pelo Flamengo para a Udinese-ITA em negócio que envolveu R$ 19 milhões, tudo indica que o atacante Felipe Vizeu está de malas prontas para retornar ao futebol brasileiro para vestir a camisa do Grêmio.

A informação do Globo Esporteconfirma o acerto entre as partes, mas o departamento de comunicação do clube gaúcho, procurado pelo LANCE!, não comentou sobre o negócio.

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Segundo o que ainda informa o site, o último acerto que restava para que as duas partes chegassem a um acordo era a questão salarial.

Aos 21 anos, Vizeu fez apenas cinco jogos oficiais desde que chegou ao seu novo clube e tem na preocupação com a gravidez de sua esposa uma espécie de “imã” para voltar a sua terra natal. Na viagem a Europa, o atleta foi sozinho enquanto a companheira continuou morando no Brasil.

For the first time since readmission, the majority of South Africa’s television viewers could be left without any live Test cricket on their screens for the 2012-13 season

Firdose Moonda19-Dec-2012

South Africa’s No. 1-ranked Test team will not have their matches shown live on terrestrial TV this summer•AFP

For the first time since readmission, the majority of South Africa’s television viewers could be left without any live Test cricket on their screens for the 2012-13 season. The national broadcaster, the SABC, has decided it will only air Twenty20s and ODIs and show highlights packages of up to two hours from the upcoming Tests against New Zealand.This comes after it was revealed that the SABC was under financial constraints, which led it to consider not broadcasting any cricket this summer. Cricket South Africa and the SABC were engaged in talks early this week to negotiate and reached a compromise where the free-to-air channel paid ten times less this season compared to last.In a press release, CSA said it hoped that the following series against Pakistan, which includes three Tests, five ODIs and two T20Is, “will be shown by the SABC in its entirety”. The first of two Tests against New Zealand begins on January 2.”It is a huge disappointment for us that the Tests matches won’t be shown live although we are pleased the other games will,” Jacques Faul, CSA acting chief executive told ESPNcricinfo. “We want to grow the game and the communities we want to reach out to will not have access to the matches.”Although CSA sold production rights for home internationals to subscription channel SuperSport, it still controls the broadcast rights. The package it sold to SuperSport excludes the free-to-air rights, which CSA holds back for the SABC. “Even though it means we get less money from those rights we carve them out so we can get the free-to-air broadcast,” Faul said.Last season, the SABC reportedly paid in the range of R30 million (US$3.5 million) to broadcast matches. CSA initially offered the SABC a deal for about half that but it was rejected. It has since had to resort to an even lower rights fee, partly because the parties ran out of time to negotiate further. The first match of South Africa’s home summer, a T20 international against New Zealand in Durban will be played in two days’ time and CSA were anxious for the deal to be sealed.It has, however, led CSA to question its arrangement with the SABC going forward. “We will definitely assess our relationship with them in future because we do not want to do business like this,” Faul said.CSA’s only other option would be to look at an arrangement with e.tv, the other non-subsciption channel in the country. International cricket matches played in South Africa are regarded as “listed sports events” by the Independent Communications Authority, which means they must be available on free-to-air television.Despite those regulations, the SABC does not believe it has failed its remit. “The decision to broadcast these matches is a clear indication that we take our mandate seriously and we are cognisant that the public of South Africa deserve to see their cricket team,” it said in a statement.Cricket is the second-most popular sport in South Africa and almost five times as many people watch T20 and ODI matches on the SABC compared to SuperSport. Almost seven times more watch Test cricket on the national broadcaster and those could now face a blackout on live coverage. SuperSport will continue to show all matches live and the SABC’s main sports radio station, 2000, will provide live ball-by-ball commentary at all the games.

Except for a couple of players, the England team lacked flamboyance, butthey remained dedicated to the task at hand

Partab Ramchand14-Nov-2012The England Tony-Greig-led squad that toured India in 1976-77 was thestrongest since Douglas Jardine’s side of 1933-34. Fittingly enough,then, it won the series in India, the first English team to do so in 43years. Virtually no major player declined to make the trip as in thepast, and Greig was fortunate to have a well-balanced side of batsmen,bowlers and all-rounders.

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Except for a couple of players, the England team lacked flamboyance, but they remained dedicated to the task at hand. As true professionals, the players showed determination and a thoughtful approach, and this paid rich dividends. Greig’s charisma enabled him to extract maximum effort from his players.

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Still, it was not as formidable a squad as the results would indicate.England won the first three Tests ­ the first side to accomplish thatfeat on a tour of this country – and, although India came back in thefive-match rubber, the final margin of 3-1 was somewhat flattering tothe visitors. However good the visitors were, it must also be admittedthat India played a lot of bad cricket in the first three Tests, and bythe time they recovered, the series as a contest was over.The truth is that the home team was exhausted when the first Testcommenced at New Delhi. Just before the series started, the Indians hadcompleted a three-Test rubber against New Zealand and had put their bestfoot forward, winning it 2-0. The Indian players were thus already jadedand perhaps a shade over-confident.Greig, a tough competitor and never one to miss a chance to strike back,spotted the chinks in the Indian armour and exploited them ruthlessly.He saw to it that the batsmen were always under pressure, thanks to histhree-pronged pace attack of Bob Willis, John Lever and Chris Old, whoresponded magnificently. Whenever required, he and Derek Underwoodpicked up vital wickets with spin. The batsmen, inspired by theircaptain and elder statesman Dennis Amiss, played the famed Indian spinattack with a great degree of assurance.Except for a couple of players, the England team lacked flamboyance, butthey remained dedicated to the task at hand. As true professionals, theplayers showed determination and a thoughtful approach, and this paidrich dividends. Greig’s charisma enabled him to extract maximum effortfrom his players.However well the batsmen responded to the challenge of coming goodagainst the spinners, it was the bowling that played the key role in thetriumph. Willis, used in short spells, was very effective, and hefinished with 20 wickets at 16.75 apiece. Underwood gave the batsmenlittle respite with his accuracy and deceptiveness, and he finished asthe highest wicket-taker with 29 wickets at 17.55 apiece. But thebiggest success was left-arm seamer John Lever. Making his debut in thefirst Test, he had a match-haul of 10 wickets for 70 and ended theseries with 26 wickets at an average of 14.61.Among the batsmen, Amiss led the way with 417 runs at an average of52.12. His 179 in the first Test was vital, for it proved that theIndian spinners could be negotiated. Greig came up with his tacticallybrilliant 103 in the second Test at Calcutta, reaching his hundred in413 minutes, then the fourth slowest for England. Alan Knott as usualfrustrated the spinners, sweeping them repeatedly with his unorthodoxapproach. These three ­ and the bowlers ­ covered up for the lack ofdepth in the batting.For India, this was a series to forget as little went right for them.Their main problem was the batting; that there was only one hundred byan Indian in the series ­ by Sunil Gavaskar in the last Test at Bombay ­best exemplifies this problem. Their totals in the first six inningswere 122, 234, 155, 181, 164 and 83. The form ­ or lack of it ­ ofGundappa Viswanath symbolized the Indian plight; in the first seveninnings, the great stylist was reduced to just 87 runs, and although hecame good with an unbeaten 79 ­ at number seven ­ in the fourth Test,that remained his only knock of note, and he finished the series with175 runs at an average of below 20.Gavaskar topped the aggregates with 394 runs, but for large periods hetoo struggled and did not bat very fluently. Brijesh Patel hit 286 runsat an average of only 28.60 but finished third in the averages ­ a telltale sign of the fragility of the Indian batting. The inability ofAnshuman Gaekwad to come good, and the failures of Parthasarathy Sharma,Mohinder Amarnath, Madan Lal and Yajuvindra Singh in the limitedopportunities that they had, added further to the batting blues. Theinclusion of Surinder Amarnath for the last two Tests was a slightadvantage, particularly as a counter to Lever and Underwood.The Indian spinners suffered from the failure of the batsmen, who didnot give them the adequate totals. The bowling, however, was less aproblem when compared to the batting. Bishan Singh Bedi, baffled as hewas by the battering that his side was receiving, did not let thisinterfere with his bowling skills and took 25 wickets at 22.96, in theprocess bagging his 200th wicket – the first Indian to reach the mark.BS Chandrasekhar, after a slow start, did well in the third Test and wonthe Bangalore Test for his side with a bag of nine wickets. He finishedthe series with a haul of 19 at 28.26. But perhaps the best Indianbowler was Erapalli Prasanna who, at 36, still retained all his oldguile and control. He headed the averages with 18 wickets at 21.61apiece.A series played in a competitive but happy spirit, thanks to theexcellent public relations of Greig and Ken Barrington, wasunfortunately marred by the Vaseline controversy, in which Lever was thecentral character. The swing bowler was accused of smearing the ballwith Vaseline at Madras. The matter was taken up by officials from bothteams, and finally it was accepted that, though it was a breach of law46, the offence was totally unintentional and was not a directinfringement of the laws of the game.

Cameron White led Victoria out of trouble with an unbeaten 88 after Gary Putland struck three times in one over to give South Australia the upper hand early on the first day in Melbourne

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Nov-2012
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Cameron White finished not out on 88•Getty Images

Cameron White led Victoria out of trouble with an unbeaten 88 after Gary Putland struck three times in one over to give South Australia the upper hand early on the first day in Melbourne. At stumps, the Bushrangers had reached 6 for 259, with John Hastings at the crease on 14 alongside White, who had earlier combined with Peter Handscomb for an important 131-run partnership for the sixth wicket.White was within sight of what could become only his second first-class century in four seasons, his most recent one having come two years ago this week, for Australia A against the touring England side in 2010-11. He and Handscomb steered Victoria out of the trouble they found themselves in at 5 for 83, after Putland got rid of Chris Rogers, Glenn Maxwell and David Hussey in one over.Rogers played on for 39, Maxwell was lbw to an inswinger for a duck and Hussey (29) was taken at slip, before White and Handscomb came together. The innings hadn’t started well for Victoria either, as Chadd Sayers picked up the early wickets of Ryan Carters and Aaron Finch to leave the Bushrangers at 2 for 14 having been sent in.Handscomb was put down at slip on 13 but fought on to reach 69 before he became another victim for Putland, who finished the day with 4 for 48 from 26 overs.

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O lateral-esquerdo do Flamengo, Renê, entrou para Seleção do Campeonato Brasileiro de 2018. Na sede da CBF, no Rio de Janeiro, na Cerimônia do Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão, o lateral-direito do Flamengo, Renê afirmou, nesta segunda-feira, que a regularidade foi essencial para conquista do feito individual.

– Depois da tristeza em perder um título, vem uma alegria em conquistar um título individual. Acho que a regularidade me colocou aqui hoje, sou muito grato por isso e estou muito feliz. Quem conhece minha história, sabe que tive muitas dificuldades, sempre perseverei e batalhei e graças a Deus pude ter um bom ano individualmente. Agora, é trabalhar para ter um bom 2019.

O jogador ressaltou que buscou evoluir para chegar em bons jogos no Brasileirão. Seja defensiva ou ofensivamente e almeja bons resultados para 2019.

– Acho que individualmente foi um ano muito bom e tive meus melhores momentos da carreira. Como ofensiva e defensivamente, desde quando eu cheguei no Flamengo procurei evoluir. Para a temporada que vem é melhorar cada vez mais.

Para finalizar, Renê destacou a força do grupo para buscar o título na competição, contudo, o objetivo não foi alcançado. Agora, atleta ergue a cabeça e mira títulos para temporada que vem.

– O Flamengo ficou muito próximo de conquistar o título, mas infelizmente não conseguimos garantir, apesar de ter lutado até o fim. Mas é vida que segue, levantar a cabeça para 2019. Foi um ano muito bom, mas sei que tenho coisas a melhorar. Espero que ano que vem seja um ano melhor e com títulos

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Sri Lanka’s coach Graham Ford has criticised his team for sloppiness in the field and between the wickets during their opening ODI loss to Australia

Daniel Brettig12-Jan-2013

Sri Lanka lost three crucial wickets via run-outs, which hurt their chase of 306 in Melbourne•Getty Images

Sri Lanka’s coach Graham Ford has criticised his team for sloppiness in the field and between the wickets during their opening ODI loss to Australia, stressing that both departments must improve if the visitors are to achieve parity in the series with a victory in Adelaide on Sunday.Facing an Australian side lacking numerous luminaries, including the captain Michael Clarke and the opening batsman David Warner, Sri Lanka allowed the hosts to post a muscular 5 for 305 before tossing away their chance at getting near to the target by surrendering three wickets to run outs. Ford was concerned by both the issues between the wickets and a lack of consistent pressure with the ball.”We know we’re a better side than that in the field,” Ford said before the team’s departure from Melbourne. “We dished up some fairly easy boundary balls which released pressure for the batters. The game plan is to try to build pressure and when you’re releasing it every couple of overs it puts up on the back foot.”The new field-place restrictions, we found that a little bit hard and maybe the fielders didn’t support the bowlers as well as they could have. The problem is we did just give away too many easy boundary balls.”Both Australia and Sri Lanka had been bedevilled by run outs during the recent Test series and the pattern was maintained at the MCG, though the hosts’ loss of Usman Khawaja proved far less ruinous than the trio – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Angelo Mathews and Lahiru Thirmanne – lost by the tourists during their chase.”There’s been a bit of discussion. There was some good fielding which contributed to some of them,” Ford said. “When you’re chasing a score like that, you just can’t have the guts of your batting taken out through run outs. The pleasing thing is that quite a number of our batsmen look in good form and played really nicely but to give away three wickets to run outs makes the job almost impossible.”Eyebrows were raised at the indifferent showing of Lasith Malinga and Ajantha Mendis in Melbourne, after both had been considered major inclusions to the Sri Lankan limited overs XI following the Tests. Ford expressed hope that neither would lose confidence as a result, suggesting both would be better for the run in Adelaide.”As far as their confidence goes, I certainly hope not,” Ford said. “They all showed at times how classy they are as bowlers but one or two overs got away from them which made their figures look a little bit nasty.”We always knew we were up against some high-class one-day cricketers. You just can’t afford to be off your game at all against players of that calibre. I don’t think anything’s changed. I don’t think there’s any sort of intimidation. We know we’re up against a good team.”You want to get on the scoresheet. We want to get out and play some good cricket and show that we’re a good team. The next game is really, really important.”