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Alex Hales who earned a call-up to the England ODI side on Monday, has said that he is grateful he was not picked for IPL 2014, allowing him time to improve his four-day game. Hales was one of the English players passed over by franchises during the auction in February 2014.Hales, who is a regular in England’s T20 side, had made a strong case for an ODI spot with three List-A hundreds in the last three weeks, including a 96-ball 141 for Nottinghamshire against Middlesex. He had been a part of England’s ODI squad to the West Indies earlier in the year but missed out on a debut after suffering a thigh injury. Hales also succeeded in carrying his rich one-day form into first-class cricket, with an unbeaten 102 against Northamptonshire last week.”Had I got picked up in the IPL who knows whether we would have been having this conversation now,” Hales told the . “I am almost glad that the door shut on me in the IPL and it has given me the chance to work hard on my four-day game. Had I gone to India it would have all been T20 and whacking the ball rather than ­technique and building and compiling innings.”Hales is expected to open the innings along with Alastair Cook and a strong showing could only help build his case for a top-order spot in Tests, especially after Sam Robson’s struggles in the recent Tests against India. His success in the first-class games has also helped prove that his technique may not be an issue. In nine Division One games this season, Hales has scored 848 runs at an average of 56.53 with three hundreds and three fifties.”Test cricket is definitely still my ambition. I’m still only 25 so I have just about got time on my side,” Hales said. “From what I have learnt last year and the steps I have made, if I continue with those improvements then who knows?”After the Big Bash I had a lot of time away to think about four-day cricket and discover that hunger for runs again and building an innings and working hard on my technique. I’m really happy that I have reaped the rewards this year.”Hales brushed aside any doubts over his readiness for the one-day stage. The batsman has played 32 T20Is for England since his debut against India in August 2011 and said the experience had helped him get accustomed to the international stage.”I have played 30-odd games of international T20 and that comes with a lot of pressure, so I don’t think the big stage will be anything too new,” Hales said. “It’s just whether my technique and temperament are ready for the step up, but I feel I have shown in the last few weeks that they are.”

New Zealand A pulled off their second win in as many days, an emphatic dismantling of Sri Lanka A to follow victory over England Lions, giving them control of the triangular series

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Aug-2014
ScorecardTom Latham struck 64 from 56 balls as New Zealand A completed a comfortable win (file photo)•AFPNew Zealand A pulled off their second win in as many days, an emphatic dismantling of Sri Lanka A to follow victory over England Lions, giving them control of the triangular series. Their bowlers were again impressive, with Doug Bracewell and Ish Sodhi sharing seven wickets, before rattling through the chase with more than 30 overs to spare.The Sri Lanka A innings got off to a solid start, reaching 43 before Bracewell took the first of his three wickets. Hamish Bennett removed the other opener, Mahela Udawatte, in the following over but Sri Lanka A progressed to 84 for 2 only for the innings to really to unravel.Bracewell had the Sri Lanka A captain, Ashan Priyanjan, caught behind for 20 and dismissed Bhanuka Rajapaksa in the same over. Dinesh Chandimal, the other set batsman, fell to Colin de Grandhomme one ball later, with the score still on 84, and Sodhi then got involved as Sri Lanka A slipped to 101 for 7.Sodhi, whose 4 for 10 came off six overs, broke a stand of 31 for eighth wicket by having top-scorer Seekkuge Prasanna caught for 24, as the innings was wrapped up with 15 overs to spare. The New Zealand A bowlers managed six maidens between them, with only Bennett going at more than five runs an over. While seven of the Sri Lanka A batsmen got into double figures, none could go on to build a substantial innings.If there were any fears about the state of the Bristol pitch, New Zealand A’s openers allayed them by racing to 85 inside ten overs before Hamish Rutherford fell for 38. Tom Latham completed an aggressive half-century as Sri Lanka A used eight different bowlers and, although Dushmantha Chameera took two in two balls, the result was never in doubt.

India Women booked a place in the 2016 Women’s World T20 with a narrow win over Pakistan Women in the qualification play-off in Sylhet

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Apr-2014
ScorecardIndia’s bowlers combined to defend a moderate total•ICC

India Women booked a place in the 2016 Women’s World T20 with a narrow win over Pakistan Women in the qualification play-off in Sylhet. Six teams – the four semifinalists and the two winners of the play-off games – qualify directly for the next edition of the tournament, while the other teams go into a separate qualifying tournament.Chasing 107, Pakistan lost wickets regularly, three of them to medium-pacer Soniya Dabir, but useful knocks from their No. 3 Nahida Khan and No. 9 Nida Dar had kept them in the hunt. At the start of the final over, Pakistan needed 17 to win with two wickets in hand and Nida at the crease on 19. Shubhlakshmi Sharma conceded a four to Batool Fatima second ball of the over, and a two and a leg-bye of the next two balls to leave Pakistan needing nine off the last two. Fatima, however, was run-out off the penultimate ball and Nida only managed a single off the last ball, leaving India winners by six runs.Having chosen to bat, India’s top three made decent starts but nobody kicked on to make a big score as the rest of the batting collapsed. Mithali Raj hung around to make 39 and was sixth out, off the penultimate ball of the innings, as India lost their way, going from 64 for 1 to 106 for 7. Medium-pacer Sania Khan was Pakistan’s most successful bowler, with three wickets.

Bangladesh’s make-shift captain Mashrafa Mortaza said that the team were unaffected by the sudden resignation of Tamim Iqbal as vice-captain

Mohammad Isam11-Feb-2014

Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has spoken out for the first time about Tamim Iqbal’s resignation as vice-captain, urging the seniors to take charge of the situation. Apart from a 48-hour media ban and a statement from the BCB president, the team has been largely left unaffected by the controversy.Mortaza was announced as captain hours after the end of the drawn second Test. However, the Bangladesh’s match-saving performance was soured by Tamim pulling out of the deputy’s role, explained in public as a decision to ease his game but it was a slight to his persona.”The captain was not immediately announced after Mushfiqur Rahim was out injured. At that point it was our focus that those of us who are here, we have to play as a team,” Mortaza said. “When the board let me know, we were all there. We are all professional cricketers and it didn’t affect us. It’s only natural for it to be spoken of outside but amongst us we didn’t face any frictions.”I have been given the duty so I feel that it is my duty. At the same time, Tamim and other senior players are helping me and everything is happening in a professional manner.”There were reports that Mortaza had to spend time with Tamim to clear the air, but the makeshift captain dismissed them. He also explained that the media ban was to protect the new players from speculation.”To be honest, I didn’t have to speak with him separately because he is a very professional cricketer and he has played all around the world. He knows the process very well. I want to tell all the fans of Bangladesh that we haven’t been concerned at all regarding this issue.”We are together united as a team and we are focused completely on the match tomorrow. This was no problem at all. The reason behind the ban against speaking to the media was that we have plenty of young players in our side, so that they can be prepared and concentrate during practice. We have some uncapped players, so that they could concentrate more on practice.”Despite all the talk, Tamim’s neck-strain hasn’t healed and during practice on the eve of the match, he had a light knock. It will be touch-and-go and his participation in the game will hinge on a last-minute call made by the team’s physio.

The third day in Mumbai belonged almost entirely to bottom-placed Jharkhand – not only have defending champions conceded a substantial first-innings, they could also lose this one outright

The Report by Abhishek Purohit in Mumbai08-Dec-2013
ScorecardFile photo: Varun Aaron intimidated the Mumbai lower order•AFP

How the mighty have fallen. Not only have defending champions Mumbai conceded a substantial first-innings lead to bottom-placed Jharkhand, they could also lose this one outright. However, if they dismiss Jharkhand quickly on the final morning, if they go after a minimum 260-plus target, and if they chase it down, they will still come out with a win, but that is a lot of ifs. The third day belonged almost entirely to Jharkhand in their first Ranji game against Mumbai.Mumbai started the day 141 behind with their last specialist batting pair of Suryakumar Yadav and Hiken Shah at the crease. Jharkhand sent both back within 45 minutes. And, encouragingly for Jharkhand, it was not Varun Aaron who did it. Hiken was bowled through the gate trying a drive against the legspinner Samar Quadri after having swept the bowler for four. Yadav went in the next over, trying a weak drive against seamer Shankar Rao and edging to second slip, where substitute Rahul Shukla took his second sharp catch of the innings. Mumbai were 236 for 7 now, and they had no Saurabh Tiwary to nearly double that score.Aaron, used in short, sharp bursts again, now intimidated the three Mumbai quick bowlers. He bounced out Javed Khan, had Shardul Thakur pop a leading edge to mid-off and broke Akbar Khan’s bowling hand with a lifter. Mumbai finished not only 86 behind in the first innings, but also a bowler short, albeit an utterly unimpressive one. Akbar had been swatted for 22 runs in an over by Tiwary on the second morning during a return of 0 for 54 in ten overs.Not that Javed and Thakur went on the rampage in contrast. They allowed Jharkhand’s openers to add a solid 65 before captain Nayar himself delivered the breakthrough, having Rameez Nemat edge to first slip. Then there was a mix-up between Bhavik Thaker and Bhavin Thakkar that led to only Thakkar remaining in the middle. Thakkar then pushed left-arm spinner Vishal Dabholkar to silly point. At 91 for 3, and given Jharkhand’s shaky batting this season, Mumbai might have hoped for a collapse but it wasn’t coming.Instead, Ishank Jaggi and Tiwary blunted the pressure with a quick partnership of 75. Jaggi hit a flurry of boundaries soon after he came in, helped by Thakur’s wayward lines. Thakur had claimed Jaggi for 5 in the first innings, but this time, he kept offering him width and was punched for several fours. Solid and stylish, Jaggi easily outscored Tiwary, who edged a drive off Javed to the keeper to depart for 38, exactly 200 fewer than what he made in the first innings.Soon after, Jaggi survived a very confident caught-behind shout off Dabholkar and proceeded to clamp down on the scoring for the last half-hour. Jharkhand wicketkeeper Pappu Singh had blocked to 14 off 85 in the first innings and repeated the approach as both batsmen played for stumps.Mumbai then showed a belated glimpse of their champion status. Sensing another late wicket, they targeted Pappu, posting as many as seven catching fielders around the bat. Javed came back from the listless start and bowled a probing final over. Pappu shouldered arms to the last ball of the day, but it jagged in to take off stump.Mumbai have five more wickets to take, though, and a sizeable chase on their hands if they want to earn their fourth outright win of the season. Jharkhand, promoted from Group C and with three points from five games, have already achieved more than what they would have hoped for at the home ground of the 40-time champions. Aaron said they’ll see how the first hour pans out on the final morning before firming up their approach for the rest of the day. But he also added that Jharkhand would be satisfied with the three points a draw will ensure.

ESPNcricinfo previews the Yorkshire Bank 40 final between Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire

The Preview by Alan Gardner20-Sep-2013

So, farewell then, 40-over cricket (until you reappear at some point down the line). History will need to come with its notebook and pen to Lord’s on Saturday, when Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire will contest the final of the Yorkshire Bank 40, the last time the competition is played in its current form before the return in England of 50-over domestic cricket next season.The rise of Twenty20 has steadily diminished the presence of one-day cricket in the calendar – little more than a decade ago, counties would compete for three List A titles: NatWest/C&G Trophy, Benson & Hedges Cup and National League. The B&H was stubbed out as Twenty20 came into being and four years ago the remaining two competitions were amalgamated.The change of sponsor this year from Clydesdale to Yorkshire Bank led some wags to dub it the Why Bother 40, but 40-over cricket, which began with the John Player League back in 1969, continues to be a draw for the public. The counties had stubbornly resisted attempts to revert to a 50-over tournament but, with team England increasingly flexing its financial muscle and protection of the Championship taking on a higher priority, an agreement with the ECB was reached.Some argue that playing 50-over cricket in occasionally damp, seaming conditions doesn’t really aid England’s chances at global tournaments (unless they are at home). You can go further, and suggest that the added pressure of having to score at a higher rate for a shorter period has helped to create some of England’s more destructive current players, such as Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright.That is just as likely to have been the effect of T20, however, and those that have played internationally are particularly inclined to espouse the benefits of reflecting the ODI template in England’s domestic game.”I’ve enjoyed it but I think it’s key for young lads coming through, or anyone who gets an opportunity to play for England, that they’re playing the right cricket,” says Simon Jones, the former England seamer who is hoping for a winning send-off with Glamorgan at Lord’s.”Fifty overs is what they play at international level and I think that’s what should happen at county level, just to prepare people. You’re bowling ten overs rather than eight, the Powerplays are different, there are different strategies, it’s a totally different game. I think they’ve made a bold decision to go back to 50-over cricket and I think it’s the right one.”It is probably fair to say that the two counties who have reached the YB40 final do not have outstanding one-day CVs, however many overs are involved – which makes the match-up all the more appealing from a neutral perspective. For all their respective excellence this year, Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire are the unusual suspects, with just a few pieces of one-day silver between them.Nottinghamshire are firm favourites, their impressive squad bolstered by the availability of two of England’s Ashes winners, Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann, though it is 24 years since the club last appeared in a Lord’s showpiece, when they beat Essex to lift the B&H Cup. Notts won their sixth Championship in 2010 but only have three List A titles in their history, the most recent being the Sunday League in 1991. However, as the captain, Chris Read, says “over the last few years we’ve been improving in this form of the game”.Jim Allenby has been a key player for Glamorgan with bat and ball•PA Photos

Having won Group A, Nott crushed Somerset by eight wickets in their semi-final. In James Taylor and Samit Patel they have two England internationals with over 500 YB40 runs this season; in Michael Lumb and Alex Hales, they have England’s T20 openers; at No. 5, there is David Hussey, veteran of more than 100 limited-overs internationals for Australia.Although a back injury has ruled out their joint-leading wicket-taker, Jake Ball, Swann and Broad are likely to provide a high-class sticking plaster. Mick Newell, Nottinghamshire’s director of cricket, has said they will play the “best eleven players” and that could see Broad make his 40-over debut for the county, with his only previous List A appearance coming in the 2008 FP Trophy. How well a bowler with 160 ODI wickets (out of 185 in List A cricket) makes the quick switch down from 50-over competition will be an interesting subplot.For Glamorgan, who booked their place in the final by beating the reigning champions, Hampshire, on their own turf, there will be fewer selection issues. Marcus North, the limited-overs captain this year, has left to take part in Perth Scorchers’ Champions League campaign but in Michael Hogan they have the tournament’s leading wicket-taker and Jim Allenby a one-day allrounder fit to lace Dimitri Mascarenhas’s (recently hung-up) boots. Ben Wright has been dismissed twice for 165 runs at a strike rate of 133.06 and Chris Cooke has also hit the 500-run mark.Glamorgan’s journey to London should also be a little less arduous, though Notts avoided having to fly down from Durham on the eve of the final by contriving to be heavily beaten inside three days. Whatever the result at Chelmsford, it is only an hour’s drive up the A12. The Welsh county will doubtless be greeted by an armada of passionate supporters who have made a significantly longer journey from the west. It is 13 years since they lost to out in the B&H Cup to Gloucestershire and their only other final appearance, in 1977, also ended in defeat. There will plenty hoping Glamorgan can lose their white-ball cherry at Lord’s.On the 50th anniversary of Sussex lifting the inaugural Gillette Cup, another chapter in the story of domestic one-day cricket is about to come to a close.

Middlesex’s day got better and better after Steven Finn’s arrival, thanks to another rock-solid innings from the hugely impressive Sam Robson

David Lloyd at Hove18-Jul-2013
ScorecardSam Robson’s 166 made him the leading run-scorer in the Championship•Getty ImagesMiddlesex’s day began well with the news that a tall, understandably upset fast bowler was on his way to pep up their attack – and then it just got better and better, thanks to another rock-solid innings from the hugely impressive Sam Robson.Steve Finn’s omission from the second Ashes Test could yet prove to be decisive so far as this contest is concerned. “Gutted not to be playing,” Finn tweeted before leaving Lord’s to drive to the south coast, where he replaced Gurjit Sandhu in the visitors’ line-up.Middlesex will hope that any lingering annoyance or frustration felt by Finn will be taken out on Sussex during the remainder of this match. And despite Robson’s best efforts to suggest that this pitch is a featherbed, a surface still producing steep bounce should be right up the England 12thman’s street.”All the guys were pretty gutted for Steve Finn when he was left out by England this morning,” Robson said. “But I think he’ll be a handful for Sussex here. The pitch does have some pace and bounce and at times it was pretty hard work batting today. Given the context of the game and the fact we really wanted a good lead, I think this was probably my best hundred of the season.”Whatever the outcome, and regardless of how Finn bowls, it will take something spectacularly special to dislodge Robson from the role of star man in a game that could see Championship leaders Sussex suffer their first defeat of the campaign while putting Middlesex right back among the title favourites.True, Ed Joyce batted beautifully on Wednesday in making an elegant hundred for Sussex. Even that innings was put in the shade, though, as Robson blunted the dangerous home attack for hour after hour while scoring his third century of a wonderfully profitable season.A good number of deliveries, rearing past the outside edge, were simply unplayable. But Robson chased nothing, shrugged off those balls that beat him and, with his splendidly tight technique evident throughout, accumulated runs so assuredly that Sussex were left close to despair well before the close.The 24-year-old opener – born in Sydney but only 12 months away from qualifying for England on residency grounds – came into this contest with 802 Championship runs to his name. By the time he trudged away in the evening, finally dismissed for 166 after six-and-half hours at the crease, that total had soared to within touching distance of four figures, leaving him alone at the head of the run-scoring charts.With Chris Rogers now playing for Australia, the responsibility on Robson to hold the Middlesex innings together has increased a notch or two. But on the evidence of this performance, the more pressure they put on him the better. As an example of how to open and anchor an innings while scoring at a perfectly decent clip, it could hardly have been bettered.Sussex perhaps missed a trick on the first evening when they bowled too short, too often during a 13-over session that saw the visitors reach 44 without loss. In any event, their three-pronged pace attack of Steve Magoffin, Jimmy Anyon and Chris Jordan was made to sweat buckets under a burning sun today in order to add only modestly to their pre-match aggregate of 120 Championship wickets.Dawid Malan, who has struggled in four-day cricket this season, did fall early to one from Anyon that lifted and left him. But that merely allowed Joe Denly to complement Robson perfectly during a rollicking stand of 120, in 27 overs, for the second wicket.Denly did most of the scoring – a Championship best of the season 77 – throughout a passage of play where almost every delivery seemed to either beat the bat or race across a brown outfield for four. The No. 3 led a charmed life at times (he was dropped at short leg on 31) but his attitude of making hay before something came along with his name on it paid valuable dividends.Even at 180 for 2, Middlesex did not appear guaranteed a lead but Robson’s stands of 50 with Adam Voges, 102 alongside Neil Dexter and 62 with John Simpson enabled the advantage to grow into match-winning proportions.Driving fluently whenever the opportunity arose, Robson reached 100 from 183 balls, 150 from 245 and was finally out – bowled while advancing on Monty Panesar – by the 261st delivery he faced, having just hoisted the spinner for a six to add to 22 fours. It had been an innings to cherish.As for Sussex, they have been in tighter spots this season – most obviously against Middlesex at Lord’s in early June when they were made to follow on. But this pitch, and these hungry opponents, will take some subduing.

Dhaka Gladiators, the Bangladesh Premier League champions, have reacted strongly after the schedule of this year’s Champions League T20 was announced without the two-time BPL winners. Of all the Test-playing countries, domestic Twenty20 champions from only Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have never participated in the CLT20.They had also alleged that the BCB did not send out any requests to one of the three cricket boards that organise the tournament, but the BCB has denied this claim.”We expected (to be included) and were waiting for a meeting with one the organisers – the BCCI – of the tournament,” Shihab Chowdhury, Dhaka Gladiator’s managing director, said in a statement. “We also said that things are on track but the fixtures were released before we could even make a move. We were informed that the Bangladesh Cricket Board was supposed to recommend and request the BCCI. But surprisingly this was also never done.””We were informed that Bangladesh Cricket Board was supposed to recommend and request the BCCI. But surprisingly this was never done.”In reply, BPL secretary Ismail Haider Mallick has said they never got a reply from the organisers, but they will try to include the BPL champions. “They [Dhaka Gladiators] are misinformed about our stance. We have sent letters to the Champions League T20 committee but didn’t get any replies from the concerned people. We will send letters to the BCCI, CA and CSA in this regard next week.”They went to meet the ICC but I don’t think the ICC has anything to do with this,” Mallick told ESPNcricinfo.”We were even told by the concerned that process is going and there was a very good chance for us to participate in the tournament this year, but no communication was made by the concerned thus we were not considered,” he said.

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Alex Santana era um alvo cobiçado no mercado. Se o Paraná foi rebaixado em 2018 e penou durante todo o Brasileiro, o meia conseguiu se destacar e atrair holofotes com boas atuações pelo Tricolor. Pra trazê-lo, o Botafogo saiu na frente da concorrência e até incluiu Rodrigo Lindoso, um dos capitães e o então mais longevo no elenco alvinegro, na negociação com o Internacional.

Talvez o botafoguense não lembre, mas Alex Santana foi o responsável por calar 30 mil torcedores no Estádio Nilton Santos e certamente foi bastante xingado – direta ou indiretamente. Isso porque, na despedida de Jefferson, pela penúltima rodada do último Brasileirão, o jogador foi o responsável por empatar a partida com um golaço, da entrada da área, já na etapa final. Erik, no entanto, voltou a marcar naquela noite e deu a vitória ao Botafogo (2 a 1).

O personagem que protagonizou o anticlímax no Niltão chegou a ser tema da entrevista exclusiva de Jeferson ao LANCE!, concedida em dezembro, logo após o encerramento da carreira do ídolo alvinegro.

– Não (chegou a brincar)… quer estragar a minha festa? (risos) Mas faz parte. Claro que estava muito ansioso e me cobrando muito quanto à performance. Não poderia encerrar a carreira com derrota – comentou o agora ex-goleiro.

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Alex Santana já havia marcado contra o Botafogo no primeiro turno do Brasileirão. E a ocasião também era especial para o clube carioca, uma vez que Zé Ricardo estava estreando sob boas perspectivas. Ele marcou já nos acréscimos, também com chute de longa distância, e empatou o jogo – encerrado em 1 a 1. A evolução de Alex, revelado pelo Inter, é nítida.

-Com Alex Santana, joguei uns três anos com ele na base do Inter, muito bom jogador. Começou mais na frente, no profissional retornou um pouquinho. Muito bom jogador. Onde ele estiver, vai ajudar bastante – disse Gustavo Ferrareis, outro reforço do Glorioso e que atuou com Alex há alguns anos.

Alex Santana, de 23 anos, esteve emprestado ao Paraná ao longo de toda a última temporada. Ele também já foi cedido ao Guarani e ao Criciúma. Para reforçar o Botafogo, assinou um vínculo de três anos e passou a ser a esperança de boas atuações e gols importantes, só que agora do lado “certo”.

Zaka Ashraf, the PCB chairman, said Pakistan players would play in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) but indicated that their presence could depend on the BCB agreeing to a tour of Pakistan.The BPL is scheduled to begin on January 18 and several Pakistan players were sold at its auction last month. Their participation, however, could hinge on the BCB’s response to Ashraf’s comments. There has been a lot of talk of Bangladesh touring Pakistan but with security continuing to be a concern, there have been no concrete steps forward.”Bangladesh almost toured Pakistan but at the last moment they pulled out over the security concern and I don’t want to repeat this again,” Ashraf said at the unveiling of the Pakistan Super League in Lahore. “We can’t send our players like this, as Bangladesh have an agreement to fulfill. If they decide to come Pakistan and play then we will consider supporting and favoring them [in this matter].”The BPL also clashes with the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan’s premier first-class event, and the PCB said it wouldn’t be fair to disrupt the players’ commitments to their teams.The PCB and BCB have been discussing a short Bangladesh tour to Pakistan since 2011, but have faced hurdles. A proposed tour in April 2012 was postponed because of an order from a Dhaka court, and another proposal for a tour in January this year was rejected by the BCB on security grounds. Pakistan have not hosted international cricket since the 2009 terror attacks on the Sri Lanka team bus and have played all their home matches at off-shore venues such as England and the UAE.