Justin Langer’s first day as Western Australia’s Sheffield Shield coach could hardly have gone worse as Jackson Bird led a Tasmanian destruction of the Warriors batting order in Hobart
ESPNcricinfo staff25-Nov-2012 Scorecard Justin Langer’s first day as Western Australia’s Sheffield Shield coach could hardly have gone worse as Jackson Bird led a Tasmanian destruction of the Warriors batting order in Hobart. Western Australia were skittled for 67 and to make matters worse for the visitors, the Tigers proceeded to pass their total with only one wicket down and went to stumps in a commanding position.Tasmania finished the day at 2 for 201, with Ben Dunk unbeaten on 71 and George Bailey on 42, and their lead had already ballooned to 134 runs. Michael Beer picked up both wickets, Mark Cosgrove and Alex Doolan each for 42, and Mitchell Johnson didn’t do his Test prospects much good with 0 for 50 from 12 overs on a pitch that Bird had enjoyed working on earlier in the day.Bird took a career-best 6 for 25 as the Western Australia batting order failed completely. Marcus Harris (21) and the recalled Shaun Marsh (11) were the only men to make double figures and it continued the trend of sides struggling on the first day at Bellerive Oval – in the three matches there so far this season, the teams batting first have made 112, 95 and 67.
MS Dhoni feels India’s batsmen have contributed well as part-time bowlers in the absence of a genuine allrounder in the squad
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MS Dhoni: “We have to rely on part-time bowlers who are specialist batsmen.”•AFP
MS Dhoni feels India’s batsmen have contributed well as part-time bowlers in the absence of a genuine allrounder in the squad. Dhoni also said conditions in Sri Lanka had changed over the years and there wasn’t much help for spinners during India’s limited-overs tour to the country in July and August.”We are a team who rely strongly on batting. But some of the top batsmen play the role of part-timers,” Dhoni said after arriving in Colombo for the World Twenty20. “In T20 cricket, part-timers are very important. Our part-timers have been doing well.”We also don’t have a genuine all-rounder so we have to rely on part-time bowlers who are specialist batsmen. Yuvraj [Singh] is one and we have Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina. They will chip in an over each and that makes it a lot easier for us.”Dhoni was pleased to have Yuvraj back in the side but refused to comment on his selection soon after recovering from a rare cancer. “It’s a selection matter. But I am happy that he is in the team as he is a champion player and a match-winner. He also brings a balance in the team as in T20 cricket you don’t include a fifth bowler.”India will be based in Colombo during the World Twenty20. Dhoni said playing at one venue would help but also felt that conditions could still change as the tournament progressed. “We won’t be travelling much. We can put in a bit more effort in the net session and skill-oriented session.”I feel the conditions in Sri Lanka have changed a lot in the past years. When we came here in 2005, the wickets were different and when we came here last time [in July 2012], the wickets were different. The spinners did not get much help from the pitches in the five ODIs and one T20 we played here in our last tour.”If a ground is hosting many matches, then it will slow down and the spinners will get help. So we have to see the conditions and plan accordingly.”
Northamptonshire moved off the bottom of Group C in the Clydesdale Bank 40 with a comprehensive eight-wicket win over the Unicorns at Wormsley
29-Jul-2012 ScorecardNorthamptonshire moved off the bottom of Group C in the Clydesdale Bank 40 with a comprehensive eight-wicket win over the Unicorns at Wormsley.Having restricted the home side to 163 for 8 from their 34 overs, the game having been delayed by the weather, the visitors wasted little time in marching to victory with 46 balls to spare as Alex Wakely top scored with an unbeaten 52.Having elected to bat the Unicorns made a solid start thanks mainly to some strong hitting from opener Bradley Wadlan, who struck 41 off just 40 balls in an opening stand of 63 with Vishal Tripathi.But once Wadlan was removed lbw by James Middlebrook the innings began to come apart, with only James Ord (38) making a strong contribution in the middle order as Lee Daggett (four for 39) and Middlebrook (3 for 14) did the damage with the ball.In reply, Northamptonshire suffered an early blow as Kyle Coetzer (16) was bowled by Glen Querl with the score on 29.But Rob Newton (45) and Wakely kept the scoreboard ticking over at a handy rate, and even though Newton was bowled by Wadlan, David Sales came to the crease to smash 47 off 40 balls to bring the game to a rapid conclusion.
É hoje. Às 21h45, começa a segunda partida da final da Copa do Brasil. De um lado, o Corinthians, que superou o favoritismo do Flamengo para chegar à decisão, mas agora precisa lidar também com o risco, ainda que pequeno e improvável, de um rebaixamento no Campeonato Brasileiro. Do outro, um Cruzeiro que desde janeiro parecia destinado a grandes títulos, mas que tem na Copa do Brasil sua última chance para a temporada. Orbitando no Brasileirão sem interesse ou objetivo, ainda vê cicatrizar as feridas da doída eliminação na Copa Libertadores. No jogo de ida, o que se viu no Mineirão foi um Corinthians inexistente na criação e um Cruzeiro pouco ousado e que desperdiçou a chance de sacramentar a conquista nos primeiros 90 minutos. O Timão tentou repetir a estratégia da partida contra o Flamengo no Maracanã, mas não conseguiu evitar a derrota, ainda que pelo placar mínimo. Na Arena Corinthians, a vantagem da Raposa é insuficiente para cravar um prognóstico. E a preleção feita em treino aberto ontem pela torcida alvinegra é um aditivo que equilibra ainda mais a final. Jair ventura já está no lucro e não poderá ser cobrado por uma eventual perda do título. Mano Menezes, por sua vez, percorre hoje a linha tênue que separa a consagração da corneta infalível das arquibancadas. Dois treinadores que parecem sempre esperar o erro do adversário como o caminho ideal para triunfar. Não é hora mais de julgar os métodos: o que importa agora é quem leva o troféu para casa.
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Jonathan Trott feels the special tradition of Ashes matches will be diluted if contests between England and Australia continue to spill outside the regular tours.
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Jonathan Trott has warned against an overkill of England v Australia matches•Getty Images
Jonathan Trott feels the special tradition of Ashes matches will be diluted if contests between England and Australia continue to spill outside the regular tours.Australia arrive in the UK tomorrow for a five-match ODI series with England, starting on June 29. Trott warned against scheduling series outside Ashes years to protect the England-Australia rivalry.”It definitely needs looking after,” Trott told the “It mustn’t be overdone. You want it to be special. England used to play Australia at home every four years, it was in the books and people had years to look forward to it. Now, they were here two years ago, they’re here now and they’re here again next summer.”Australia’s last full Ashes tour was in 2009 but they played a five-match ODI series in 2010, which England won 3-2. The upcoming ODI series precedes the next Ashes tour by 12 months, meaning Australia will tour England four times in five seasons – something Trott feels could send a dangerous message to supporters.”You don’t want people to think: ‘I’m not going this year because I know they’re here next year’. Or next year, people not coming to the games because they saw England-Australia in 2012,” Trott said. “People might wonder what the point is, or they might think it’s too monotonous.”The public can sniff these things out and they know when it’s a little bit too much. We’ve seen what happened with the domestic Twenty20 competition, when they started throwing in tons of games and there was overkill. It was about right when there were only ten matches in the first round.”The scheduling of this ODI series is the first part of a bilateral arrangement between the ECB and Cricket Australia. England will tour Australia for an ODI series in January 2015 to warm-up for that year’s World Cup, which is being staged in Australia and New Zealand in February and March – a move hoped to improve England’s poor record at recent World Cups.While Trott maintains concerns about too many Ashes meetings, he understands why the ECB have taken steps to boost England’s World Cup hopes.”With England, everything has been about the Ashes, whereas Australia and the rest of the world have a balance,” Trott said. “It’s like in football, where European teams would put the World Cup ahead of the European Championships. In the past, maybe England were like that with the Ashes and our World Cup.”For England, it was always the Ashes, which we hadn’t won for 20 years before 2005. The attention to the World Cup — because we’ve now won the Ashes home and away — will be greater, and the tournament will be put on a higher pedestal. We set ourselves a target of being the No. 1-ranked Test team, and we achieved that, so now we set ourselves up to be top of the one-day rankings, too.”England begin their ODI series against Australia on June 29 at Lord’s, the tour concludes on July 10.
O Juventude venceu o Atlético-GO fora de casa na última rodada da Série B e deixou o Z4 da disputa. Titular da equipe gaúcha neste confronto, o lateral-esquerdo Neuton falou sobre a importância de ter saído da zona de rebaixamento da competição e projetou uma sequência positiva da equipe em 2018.
– Foi importante ter vencido na última rodada. Estávamos precisando dessa vitória para, primeiro, deixarmos a zona de rebaixamento e para ganharmos confiança visando a sequência da Série B. Vamos trabalhar muito para manter esse ritmo para garantirmos o Juventude na Série B para 2019 – disse.
Para ele, agora o grupo vai aproveitar o tempo que terá até a próxima partida, dia 27 contra o Londrina, em casa, para aprimorar dentro de campo e recuperar a parte física:
– Vamos ter uma semana até a próxima partida. Esse tempo será importante para recuperarmos a parte física e para evoluirmos dentro de campo. Temos que aproveitar ao máximo para iniciarmos uma sequência positiva nestas últimas dez rodadas que restam na competição.
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حسم التعادل الإيجابي نتيجة مباراة الرجاء المغربي وفايبرز الأوغندي بهدف لكل فريق، اليوم السبت، ببطولة دوري أبطال إفريقيا.
والتقى الرجاء المغربي مع فايبرز الأوغندي، على أرضية ملعب سانت ماري، في إطار مواجهات الجولة الخامسة للبطولة القارية.
وسجل اللاعب سفيان بنجديدة هدف الرجاء المغربي في المباراة في الدقيقة 18 من عمر الشوط الأول.
طالع | مباشر بالفيديو | مباراة الهلال والاتفاق في الدوري السعودي
وأدرك فريق فايبرز الأوغندي التعادل في الدقيقة 45 من زمن المباراة، عن طريق اللاعب أبوباكار لاوال.
وبتلك النتيجة، يظل الرجاء في صدارة ترتيب المجموعة برصيد 13 نقطة، بينما يتواجد فايبرز في المركز الرابع والأخير ولديه نقطتين.
وتضم المجموعة الثالثة كلًا من: “الرجاء البيضاوي المغربي وحوريا كوناكري الغيني وسيمبا التنزاني وفايبرز الأوغندي”. أهداف مباراة الرجاء المغربي وفايبرز في دوري أبطال إفريقيا
England will host the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in Cardiff, at Edgbaston and at The Oval from June 6 to 23, the ECB has confirmed
ESPNcricinfo staff01-Jun-2012England will host the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in Cardiff, at Edgbaston and at The Oval from June 6 to 23, the ECB has confirmed. Edgbaston will host the final of the tournament, which will be the last time it is played as the ICC moves towards having one championship for each of the game’s three formats from 2015.”Wales has earned an outstanding reputation for its ability to deliver world-class sporting events and we are delighted that Cardiff will be used as a host venue for the ICC Champions Trophy and stage a semi-final,” David Collier, the chief executive of the ECB, said.England last hosted the Champions Trophy in 2004, with West Indies emerging victorious. The ten Test-playing nations joined USA and Kenya to compete in fifteen matches during that series.Champions Trophy scheduleGroup stage: June 6-17 (Cardiff, Edgbaston and The Oval) Semi-finals: June 19 (The Oval), June 20 (Cardiff) Final: June 23 (Edgbaston)
Jimmy Adams’ task is to raise the temperature among Kent supporters. Kent have slumped from title-contenders at the turn of the century to second-bottom of the pile last season: the third-worst finish in their history.
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Jimmy Adams is excited to be working with an exciting crop of youngsters, including England Under-19 captain Adam Ball•Getty Images
When Jimmy Adams arrived in Britain, the country was gripped by a cold snap that brought snow to the garden of England. With the mercury having jumped 15 degrees, Adams declared t-shirt weather for his first day as Kent’s new head coach.His task is to raise the temperature among Kent supporters. Kent have slumped from title-contenders at the turn of the century to second-bottom of the pile last season: the third-worst finish in their history.Charged with reviving one of the most famous counties, Adams is unconcerned about what has gone before. “There is lot of history here,” he said. “But I’m sure every county would gladly roll out the history books. A lot of fantastic players have come through this club; I wouldn’t use that to burn the players.”Adams plays up to all the stereotypical impressions of a laid-back West Indian as he slumps against a wall inside Kent’s indoor school, but it belies a determination to get things done. “I’ve got to get stuck in, nose to the ground,” he said. “There’s a lot of work to be done – in a good sense – we’ll try to construct something here that will hopefully bring us results.”The environment and culture around the squad is something that Adams seems keen on, getting the values and discipline right to be able to get a young squad working for each other. This focus endeared him to Kent chief executive, Jamie Clifford, during a three-month recruitment process to replace Paul Farbrace, who has since moved on to Yorkshire’s coaching staff.”Jimmy is quite big on culture. He’s got a very clear idea about how he wants the cricket part of the club to run which is what we wanted: a clear sense of direction,” Clifford said. “He is coming into this role fresh, he’s never had a county role, so we’ve got the chance to freshen it up. Jimmy stood out from what was a very strong shortlist; there were some guys on there with quite strong coaching pedigree and big names in the world of cricket.”Having survived a thorough recruitment process involving psychometric testing and independent interviewers, Adams has the chance to make his name in coaching with his first major role. He had been technical director for Jamaica, a role Adams describes as “a bit of everything” with all the cricket programmes running through his desk. He thinks that all-encompassing experience will lend itself well to county cricket.”At this stage in my life I’ve mixed it pretty much with every age group over a period of time,” Adams said. “There a lot of talent here but I’m just happy that we have lads that seem to want to get better individually and would like to be a part of a successful team. Once that attitude is there, it makes my job a lot easier, instead of trying to push people you’re trying to hold them back.”Kent’s squad has undergone significant change with Joe Denly departing for Middlesex and Martin van Jaarsveld retiring. Mark Davies, Ben Harmison, Charlie Shreck and Mike Powell have all arrived. But the man who Adams says everything revolves around has been at Kent for 24 years: captain Rob Key. His experience and leadership will give Adams the chance to focus on developing Kent’s crop of youngsters – including England Under-19 captain Adam Ball and batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond – than immediate results.”There are a lot of intangibles when you talk about the game of cricket,” Adams said. “The opposition might just outplay you totally but in that three or four days you might have made progress along the way, depending on the players that you have.”Kent begin their new season at Headingley against Yorkshire, who were relegated from Division One of the championship last season and who are strong favourites to bounce back immediately. Faced with such a stern opening assignment, Adams’ reduced emphasis on winning from the start might yet prove advantageous.