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علّق جراهام بوتر، المدير الفني لفريق تشيلسي، على مستقبل اللاعب بيير إيميريك أوباميانج في النادي اللندني، في ظل التكهنات المُحيطة به.

وكان جراهام بوتر قد قرر استبعاد أوباميانج من قائمة تشيلسي في مراحل خروج المغلوب في دوري أبطال أوروبا، لإفساح الطريق أمام الصفقات الجديدة.

كما تم استبعاد لاعب برشلونة السابق من قائمة تشيلسي لمواجهة فولهام، يوم الجمعة الماضي في الدوري الإنجليزي.

وتسبب ذلك الأمر في انتشار التكهنات حول مستقبل أوباميانج في ملعب ستامفورد بريدج، حيث ذكرت تقارير صحفية أنه قد يرحل على سبيل الإعارة إلى الدوري الأمريكي.

وقال بوتر في تصريحات نشرتها صحيفة “مترو” الإنجليزية: “لقد كان يتدرب جيدًا معنا هذا الأسبوع، إنه محترف جيد حقًا، يدعم زملائه في الفريق وأثناء وجوده هنا”.

وأضاف: “إنه يقوم بما يتوقع أن يفعله وهو التدريب الجيد والتصرف بشكل جيد”.

وفيما يتعلق بتقارير إمكانية رحيله إلى الدوري الأمريكي، قال جراهام بوتر: “لا، لا يمكنني قول شيء عن ذلك الأمر، كل ما يمكنني قوله إنه معنا، ويتدرب بشكل جيد، ويتعامل جيدًا مع نفسه”.

Ross Taylor, the New Zealand captain, has said Jesse Ryder could be forced to give up bowling and play as a specialist batsman, given how prone he is to injury

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Oct-2011

Ross Taylor, the New Zealand captain, has said Jesse Ryder could be forced to give up bowling and play as a specialist batsman, given how prone he is to injury. Ryder was ruled out of New Zealand’s one-off Test against Zimbabwe, which begins in Bulawayo on November 1, because of a calf strain he picked up while bowling in a warm-up game.”It [such a decision] is not far away,” Taylor told . “With the no-runner rule in all forms, it [Ryder’s fitness] becomes an issue. His track record [with injuries] has been average to say the least, but he’s still one of our best players and we’ve got to try and keep him on the park as much as possible.”As captain I want Jesse to bowl as well, but I’d rather Jesse bat and score a lot of runs than bowl and get injured.”Ryder missed the ODI-leg of the India tour in November 2010 as well after straining his calf muscle. Previously, he had picked up injuries to his elbow, groin and abductor muscle.Apart from Ryder, New Zealand were also missing Tim Southee and Kyle Mills for the Bulawayo Test due to injury, and Andy McKay is also ill. However, they are bolstered by the addition of former captain Daniel Vettori to the squad. Taylor, who is playing his first Test as full-time captain, said he would use Vettori’s vast experience.”I’d be stupid and naive not to seek a guy who’s played 100 Tests and is the former captain,” Taylor said. “I’ve been in his ear a lot and getting a feel for what he thinks [in the build-up to the Test], and Brendon McCullum also has been outstanding.”Taylor, who took over the New Zealand captaincy in June, said he was still coming to terms with the demands of the job. “I’m still getting to grips with it, still getting to know the players a bit better, developing a relationship with John Wright [the coach] and the management, and getting to know my style [of captaincy] as well.”It was a little bit of a struggle early on to be honest. It’s totally different captaining the team on a one-off basis as vice-captain, and taking over the team full stop. But I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. ‘Struggle’ is probably not the right word to use – it just takes adjusting to. Like anything it’s not going to be smooth sailing the whole way, but it’s been really good.”New Zealand were clinical in the first four limited-overs games in Harare but slipped up in the last match in Bulawayo, where Zimbabwe chased 329.”That one-day game was [played in] 42 degrees [Celsius heat], and our bowlers struggled to bowl longer than three- or four-over spells,” Taylor said. “We’re going to have to try and get a little bit more out of our bowlers in terms of spells [during the Test].”

England performance programme (EPP) head to India for a training camp next month with the aiming of improving on the subcontinent

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Nov-2011

The England performance programme (EPP) squad travel to India next month and director David Parsons hopes to use the trip to enhance the players’ skills on the subcontinent.Batsman, spin bowlers and wicketkeepers will attend a training camp in Pune and Mumbai ahead of selection for the England Lions tours of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in 2012. Parsons believes the trip will provide vital experience for England’s rising stars.”India, statistically if you speak to any past England player, is the most difficult place to go and win,” Parsons told the ECB website. “Obviously, England haven’t got a great record out there in recent years, so we thought that would be a good place to go.”The trip follows England’s 5-0 defeat in the one-day series in India during October and poor performance at the World Cup in March, hosted in the subcontinent, which ended in a 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka in the quarter-final.Test captain Andrew Strauss will be among three senior England players joining the training camps ahead of England’s Test series against Pakistan in January.Matt Prior and Eoin Morgan, who has spent the last two months recovering from a shoulder injury which ruled him out of the India trip, will also travel with the EPP squad to begin acclimatisation for the tour to UAE.”The density of population, the traffic, the heat, the humidity; the types of pitches they will be playing on and the stadiums will be very unfamiliar to players,” said Parsons, “We want to give more familiarity with that environment. There will be a heavy emphasis on skills development from both the spin bowlers’ perspective and the batsmen perspective as well. To be effective, especially against spin, is an area where we haven’t been particularly strong.”The EPP squad includes several players who have been involved with senior England teams. Jonny Bairstow, who was part of the England team that lost in India last month; Alex Hales, the Nottinghamshire batsman with four Twenty20 caps; and James Taylor, who is set for a move from Leicestershire to Nottinghamshire, are all in the squad.

Steve Snell proved the unlikeliest of heroes for Somerset with a game-turning late cameo which ended Auckland’s Champions League hopes

The Report by Siddarth Ravindran20-Sep-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsSomerset picked up wickets regularly in Auckland’s innings•AFP

Steve Snell, who was in the anonymity of Minor Counties cricket last month, proved the unlikeliest of heroes for Somerset with a game-turning late cameo which ended Auckland’s Champions League hopes after a last-ball thriller in Hyderabad. Snell, only making the trip to India because Somerset’s two preferred wicketkeeper-batsmen Craig Kieswetter and Jos Buttler were tied up with the England Twenty20 team, concocted a 24-ball 34 that proved the difference in a low-scoring encounter.Somerset, battling jetlag after landing in India only a day before this match, began the game well, restricting Auckland to a moderate 125. They seemed to be on course after an enterprising start to the chase, moving to 32 in four overs before fast bowler Michael Bates intervened.Bates, whose triple-wicket maiden set up Auckland’s victory in the final of the HRV Cup, started with a momentum-stalling over in which he only allowed two runs. He returned in the 10th, a double-wicket maiden, removing the set batsman Peter Trego, and Nick Compton as Somerset slid to 54 for 4, after having been 52 for 1 in eight overs.Spinner Ronnie Hira choked the runs and the boundaries proved elusive for Somerset – there was only one four in the ten overs after the Powerplay – prompting the asking-rate to climb towards double-digits. Despite Snell edging a four past the keeper in the 17th, and forming a substantial partnership with a watchful James Hildreth, Somerset seemed in trouble at 94 for 5, needing another 32 from three overs.A flagging Somerset were then energised by Snell. A straight lofted four, a miscued swipe to midwicket and a scoop over short fine leg helped bring 12 runs off the 18th over bowled by Chris Martin. In the next over another experienced bowler, Kyle Mills, was taken for three boundaries, including two streaky ones, to make it a relatively straightforward five runs off the final over.Bates wasn’t going to give up yet. He started with a perfect yorker, and then limited Somerset to four singles off the next four deliveries, including a run-out to set Somerset captain Alfonso Thomas the task of making a single off the final delivery. Thomas was up to the challenge, carving the ball over the infield and towards sweeper cover to confirm Auckland’s exit.While Bates has been the stand-out performer with the ball in both Auckland’s matches, Lou Vincent has been the batting star, again top-scoring on a sluggish pitch though he was starved of strike and support.Auckland’s batsmen shuffled across the stumps, backed away to make room and attempted plenty of reverse-sweeps but they couldn’t shake Somerset from their lines and lengths. Even Vincent couldn’t connect some of his more fancy shots – in the 19th over, when he missed yet another reverse paddle, he showed his frustration by pretending to kick down the stumps three times.Auckland were on the back foot early on as they lost several of their better-known batsman cheaply. Martin Guptill did better than the diamond duck he managed on Monday, but holed out to long-on for 9 despite being dropped on his second ball and barely surviving a run-out on the next. Their Australian import Rob Quiney also flopped, trapped lbw by Thomas for 4.Vincent and captain Gareth Hopkins had to revive Auckland from 14 for 3, but were hemmed in by the raft of Somerset slow bowlers used, a strategy that worked well for Trinidad & Tobago earlier in the day. The extent of Auckland’s struggles showed in their boundary count – in the final nine overs there was only one four and one six.Auckland’s early exit underlined New Zealand teams’ poor performance in the Champions League since its inception, though they will feel hard done by to be ejected after two tight matches.

ESPNcricinfo previews the first semi-final of CLT20, between Royal Challengers Bangalore and New South Wales

The Preview by Sidharth Monga06-Oct-2011Match factsRoyal Challengers Bangalore v New South Wales, October 7, Bangalore
Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)Who wants to be a bowler?•Associated Press

Big PictureFor those who love this format of the game for the big hits, this is pure unadulterated Twenty20 porn. Imagine David Warner, Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virat Kohli and Moises Henriques on this true Bangalore track with good skiddy bounce, with pace that aids stroke-making, with dew affecting the already small outfield. Put together, Warner, Dilshan and Kolhi have scored 279 off 152 balls in their previous innings. It won’t be completely inadequate if the team meetings featured only the following words, also in tribute to Graham Dilley: “Let’s give it some humpty.”Dilley died hours before the Royal Challengers Bangalore and South Australia gave it some fine humpty in the virtual quarter-final on Wednesday. Two-hundred-and-fourteen was chased successfully with a last-ball six, and yet the striking feature of the whole match was the minimal slogging. Daniel Vettori was left marvelling at some of the cover-driven sixes.Vettori’s four overs for 24 runs also drew mild marvel. He will lead the bowlers’ attempts to come out of this without being violated. It didn’t happen in the last match, although Shaun Tait took an excellent five-for, but such games are often won by a bowler who does something out of the ordinary. Vettori, whose captaincy, particularly his use – or lack thereof – of part-time bowlers, has come under the scanner, will want to be the one doing that something extraordinary. So will Patrick Cummins, the young fast bowler who has impressed everybody with his raw pace. This pitch will only aid his quickness.It will take all the canniness that bowlers can muster to keep many records from being broken by the time the night is done. Even some 10 minutes after Arun Karthik hit that last-ball six to take the Royal Challengers through, he couldn’t breathe properly. He struggled to speak. He managed a few words before rejoining the celebration. Once the euphoria settled and when the implication of this win dawned, wonder if a bowler sympathiser went up to him, and whispered gently, “What have you just done?”Watch out for …Even though Karthik struggled to get words out during that post-match interview, what he said was clear and instructive. He said he knew Daniel Christian would bowl a slower ball, the sixth of the over, and he just waited for it before giving it his all. The slower ball is no longer a surprise delivery in today’s limited-overs cricket. In fact it is the new middle overs: the necessary evil. Hopefully there will be some real quick ones from Cummins and Dirk Nannes.The other ones. Both line-ups have three big batsmen each. NSW’s other batsmen aren’t ordinary, but they might not find their game suited to a 200-run match. The Royal Challengers’ other batsmen haven’t often generated a lot of trust, but they somehow managed a six each in the virtual quarter-final just when it looked like their top-heaviness would cost them the match. A mini contribution from these two sets of lesser batsmen could decide the game.Team newsBoth the teams are on winning streaks. Ideally it should mean no changes to the XIs, but both have two places to debate.Stuart Clark’s cutters were always going to be effective on the slow Chennai track, but can NSW risk his medium pace on this quick pitch with short boundaries? Nathan Hauritz, though, could be just as big a risk. Will they punt on the young Josh Hazlewood who has played just three Twenty20s? Another slightly adventurous move could be to bring in Philip Hughes at the expense of Daniel Smith. Hughes was a wicketkeeper-batsman at beginner levels, but this might be too left-field for a big match.The Royal Challengers have S Aravind to be worried about. On Wednesday he was given shows of trust after shows of trust despite the presence of such part-time bowlers as Gayle and Dilshan. He went for 69 in four overs. Abhimanyu Mithun could be a direct replacement. They also need to get a decent contribution from the middle order. With Saurabh Tiwary struggling, it’s almost as if it’s the top three, a hole, and then Vettori. They can’t really manufacture a valuable batsman at this deep end of the tournament, and might still go for the big, albeit unreliable, hitting of the likes of Tiwary and Mayank Agarwal ahead of Mohammad Kaif’s slower reliability and better fielding.Stats and triviaThe Royal Challenger’s win over South Australia was the first time an IPL team had beaten an Australian team.Aravind’s four overs for 69 smashed the previous record for the worst bowling figures in the Champions League by 10 runs, held by Amit Mishra when bowling against the Royal Challengers at the same venue in 2009. They are also the second-worst figures in all Twenty20 cricket, falling 12 short of Sarmad Anwar’s effort for Sialkot Stallions earlier this year.

Gary Kirsten’s support staff, Russell Domingo and Allan Donald, have been preparing South Africa’s new season that begins in October

Firdose Moonda01-Aug-2011

The first few letters of the latest chapter in Gary Kirsten’s coaching career will be written on Monday when the former India coach officially starts work in his home country, South Africa. Kirsten’s contract, and that of his assistant Russell Domingo, comes in to effect on August 1, but they will have a gentle easing in to their new jobs.The national team, who are in the middle of a seven-month break from the game, will only convene in four weeks’ time, effectively giving Kirsten more time to devise strategies. “We will have a camp towards the end of August where we will be workshopping ideas for the new season,” Allan Donald, South Africa bowling coach told ESPNCricinfo. “There will probably be no cricket played in that time, just a lot of planning.”Donald has not had the same break as Kirsten and Domingo have, and started work a month ago, when he went with the A-team to Zimbabwe. Donald travelled as the assistant to his predecessor Vincent Barnes, who now works as High Performance coach, with a specific view to looking at the next generation of bowlers in the country.The short ODI tour came at an awkward time, in the middle of the South African winter, and many of the players had to shake off the cobwebs before getting back into the groove. Donald was concerned that the team only managed to bowl out their opposition once in five matches. “We restricted sides, but we could not bowl teams out and we never really threatened,” he said. “Everyone was a bit underdone. Australia A spent three weeks together before then, we only had three days, but I fully expect the structures to change now that we have Vinnie and Corrie [van Zyl] at the High Performance Centre.”While Kirsten and Domingo’s views on the way forward for South African cricket will be known over the next few weeks, Donald has already outlined his mission. “We need to find a second wave of bowlers to Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel. That will be vital. Those two need to be challenged because that will make them even more potent,” he said. He identified left-arm seamer Wayne Parnell as one of the bowlers who will form a crucial part of the team’s future plans. “He needs to make an impact and stake a Test claim.”Donald has also been working with the bowlers at his home franchise, the Knights, in Bloemfontein and will soon start “going to the other franchises to talk to the bowlers there”. He has been in regular telephonic and email communication with Kirsten, working on compiling reports on some of players who are on the fringes of the national side.Domingo, who is the only one of the three to have coached in the franchise set up, has been working on similar dossiers. “I’ve communicated with Gary about some ideas I’ve got for players around the country,” he said. “I’ve also been in close touch with Vinnie Barnes, and have been following how the players have been doing in the A-side and on the [English] county circuit.”In between compiling the database of players that Kirsten will scrutinise during the course of the next month, Domingo has spent the winter “taking the kids to school and fetching them and fishing a lot.” He will still be able to do that until the end of August, because only then does the real preparation for the future begin. South Africa’s season kicks off with a Twenty20 on October 13 against Australia in Cape Town.

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Uma vitória que começou com um erro. Talvez, essa pode ser a definição do triunfo do Flamengo sobre o Corinthians, no Maracanã. O gol que garantiu os três pontos ao Rubro-Negro foi marcado por Felipe Vizeu, que substituiu Henrique Dourado, sacado após uma falha que custou um contra-ataque à equipe da casa e foi bastante vaiado pela torcida.

O duelo entre as equipes comandadas por Maurício Barbieri e Osmar Loss, apostas das diretorias de Flamengo e Corinthians, respectivamente, foi equilibrado – o Timão deu trabalho e criou chances –, a alegria e a vantagem na liderança do Brasileiro foram assegurados por um jogador que poucos imaginavam.

Na próxima rodada, os dois terão clássicos. Enquanto o Flamengo vai encarar o Fluminense, em Brasília, o Corinthians vai receber o Santos.

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Passou perto
Tanto Flamengo quanto Corinthians fizeram um primeiro tempo movimentado e com chances claras de gol, mas a etapa inicial do duelo foi a do “quase”. Apesar das oportunidades, nenhuma foi convertida para o fundo da rede. Culpa também de Diego Alves e Walter que, quando acionados, mostraram segurança.

Jeitos diferentes
O rubro-negro conseguia mais sucesso nas investidas pelo lado esquerdo do ataque, principalmente com os jovens Paquetá e Vinicius Júnior. Já a equipe de Osmar Loss apostava nas saídas em velocidade, com Jadson sendo um dos mais ativos.

Mudança e melhora
Apesar disso, o Corinthians mostrou melhora com a saída do meia, que sentiu um incômodo na coxa direita, e a entrada de Roger, tendo presença maior no campo de ataque.

Vaiado
Por outro lado, Henrique Dourado não vinha tendo boa atuação e, logo depois de um erro em um contra-ataque, foi substituído por Vizeu (no segundo tempo), e acabou sendo vaiado pela torcida.

Entrou e fez
E foi justamente Vizeu que garantiu a vitória do Flamengo. O camisa 47 aproveitou rebote de Walter, depois de chute de Paquetá e, em finalização de primeira, balançou a rede. Euforia na arquibancada e vantagem na liderança assegurada.

FICHA TÉCNICA

FLAMENGO 1 X 0 CORINTHIANS
Local: Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Data-Hora: 03/6/2018 – 16h
Árbitro: Anderson Daronco (FIFA-RS)
Auxiliares: Rafael da Silva Alves (CBF-RS) e Elio Nepomuceno de Andrade Júnior (CBF-RS)
Público/renda: 49.222 presentes / 44.075
pagantes / R$ 2.033.277,00
Cartões amarelos: Renê, Jonas e Diego (FLA); Balbuena (COR)
Cartões vermelhos: –
Gol: Felipe Vizeu (34’/2T)

FLAMENGO: Diego Alves, Rodinei, Léo Duarte, Rhodolfo e Renê; Jonas, Lucas Paquetá e Diego; Éverton Ribeiro (Jean Lucas 42’/2ºT), Vinicius Junior (Marlos Moreno – 45’/2ºT) e Henrique Dourado (Felipe Vizeu – 22’/2ºT) – Técnico: Maurício Barbieri

CORINTHIANS: Walter, Mantuan, Balbuena, Henrique e Sidcley; Gabriel (Kazim – 40’/2ºT), Maycon, Jadson (Roger – 33’/1ºT) , Rodriguinho e Mateus Vital; Pedrinho (M. Gabriel 29’/2ºT) – Técnico: Osmar Loss

Chris Gayle and WICB chief Ernest Hilaire have met in an attempt to resolve issues that are keeping the opener out of international cricket

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Aug-2011

Chris Gayle, the West Indies batsman, and WICB chief Ernest Hilaire have held a one-on-one meeting in an attempt to resolve issues that are keeping the opener out of international cricket. Though there was no major breakthrough in the hour-long discussion at the WICB head office in Antigua on Tuesday, it was still a step forward from the acrimonious meeting in June that worsened relations between the two sides.Hilaire, the board CEO, was cautious when asked about how the meeting went. “We took a decision yesterday not to discuss the matter that is currently in front of us while it is still unresolved,” Hilaire told . “What I can tell you is that we had a frank and excellent discussion.”Relations between Gayle and the board reached breaking point after he gave an interview in April to a radio station during which he was scathing about both the board and coach Ottis Gibson.The Gayle-WICB standoff was sparked off when Gibson criticised senior batsmen following the team’s quarter-final exit at the World Cup. Gayle was subsequently ignored for the home series against Pakistan, after which he travelled to India to participate in the IPL – where he was the player of the tournament – while the WICB were under the impression he was undergoing rehabilitation.The heated meeting in June with West Indies Players’ Association representatives present didn’t resolve the problem, and Gayle released an emotional public statement in July explaining his stance. The CARICOM heads of government have also given a commitment to mediate in the dispute.

The Melbourne Stars have poached three current and former state captains from around the country in a bid to be the tactical masters of the Big Bash League

Brydon Coverdale07-Jul-2011

The Melbourne Stars have poached three current and former state captains from around the country in a bid to be the tactical masters of the Big Bash League. The MCG-based Stars have signed Adam Voges, a regular stand-in skipper of Western Australia, Chris Simpson, the former Queensland captain, and the Tasmania leader, George Bailey.The trio will be joined by Victoria’s captain, Cameron White, and the man who has often deputised for him at state level, David Hussey. The Stars were the last of the eight city-based sides to confirm its first players, but coach Greg Shipperd said he was thrilled to have secured five such experienced and level-headed men.”We wanted players who understood the pressure of the game, understood the tactical side of the game,” Shipperd said. “We’d be disappointed across the course of the competition if we were tactically out-thought. It’s very important in starting off a new franchise that we get things right both on and off the field. With those five signings today we’ve started in the right direction.”Bailey would have been the logical choice as captain of the Hobart Hurricanes, but he has a Melbourne-based girlfriend and was keen to spend time in Victoria. Simpson, an offspinning allrounder, lost his Queensland contract this year after slipping out of the Sheffield Shield and Ryobi Cup sides, but remains a potential matchwinner in Twenty20.Attracting Voges, who has played 19 ODIs and Twenty20s for Australia, was a bonus, and he should be available for the full competition having dropped out of Cricket Australia’s 25-man contract list. Hussey considered a similar cross-country move to return to his home city of Perth, but decided to remain in Melbourne.”There was a little bit of a thought there,” Hussey said. “My wife and I are both from Perth, but playing at the MCG under Shippy and [assistant coach] Damien Wright is a pretty big motivation to stay here.”Meanwhile, the Adelaide Strikers have signed up another seven players, all men who are currently on the books with South Australia. Callum Ferguson, Aiden Blizzard, Kane Richardson, Tom Cooper, Aaron O’Brien, Michael Klinger and Nathan Lyon have joined the Strikers, who had already secured Cameron Borgas and Daniel Harris.However they were unable to secure the signature of the allrounder Dan Christian, who has decamped to the Brisbane Heat, a team that happens to be coached by Darren Lehmann, Christian’s coach at Deccan Chargers in the IPL.”You want quality people with great skills in your organisation and Dan certainly brings both,” the Heat’s general manager Andrew Blucher said. “He is a very clever bowler, a very powerful batsman and simply a great signing for our team.”The Strikers are believed to be trying to leave room in their salary cap to sign Kieron Pollard and Shahid Afridi, while the return of legspinner Adil Rashid to the Adelaide Oval is also a possibility.The Sydney Sixers have added Tasmania opener Ed Cowan, who is originally from Sydney, to their list, along with the fast bowler Mitchell Starc. Ricky Ponting signed with the Hobart Hurricanes, and is hoping to play two matches early in the campaign between Test matches.