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It’s the tournament that has had more names than Sean Combs and more format changes than a struggling TV show. The ACT Comets came and went, as did the ill-conceived split-innings concept. But now the newly-retitled Matador BBQs One-Day Cup might just be finding its niche as a season-opening three-week campaign that mirrors international tournaments.It begins in Brisbane on Saturday and Queensland will enter the competition hoping to make it a hat-trick of wins after taking out the past two Ryobi Cups. Remarkably, they will do so without having lost a single player to the national side. Ben Cutting and Usman Khawaja are the only Queensland players to have had chances over the past two years, but remain on the fringes.There is not a Bull in the UAE with Australia’s one-day international squad that will play Pakistan this month. More than anything, that reflects the evenness of their contributions. In their successful campaign last summer, they had none of the top five wicket takers, and one of the top 10 run scorers. The injured Chris Lynn and Ryan Harris will miss the tournament, but most of the Queensland squad remains intact.”We’ve been like that for a few years now. That’s probably what could have cost us for a few years at the Australian selection table as well. We don’t have those guys peeling off big seasons,” Queensland captain James Hopes told ESPNcricinfo. “Last year was probably the first time we got there … Usman Khawaja was the second leading run scorer in this tournament.”And we share our bowling a fair but up here, we all end up taking a pretty similar amount of wickets. I suppose that might hurt us at the selection table if we don’t have those standouts, but all we can do is keep winning games of cricket and our guys will be prepared for international cricket if that time comes for them.”Australia’s international schedule means that some of last summer’s leading players, including top run scorer David Warner and wicket taker Sean Abbott, will be missing from all or most of the Matador Cup. But others will use the competition as one last chance to audition for a call-up to Australia’s one-day side to play South Africa in November, and potentially a World Cup position.The condensed nature of the tournament, introduced last year, means players need not switch between formats too often during the summer. But it also means that should a player be injured, he can miss out completely on 50-over cricket for the summer, as is the case with Lynn, who could have on the verge of a national call-up but will sit out of the whole Matador Cup as he recovers from shoulder surgery.”We have lost our most destructive player missing for the whole tournament,” Hopes said. “But that’s the way it goes and to be honest, he’s actually looking at it the other way. He’s taken the positive view, I’m not going to be playing three forms so I know what I can prepare for now, T20 and Shield cricket. It is unfortunate time for him though, because he was slowly pushing his case to be something like a reserve for the World Cup squad.”I don’t mind it [the format]. They’re trying to mirror what happens in international cricket, and that’s what happens in international cricket. Gone are the days where you play a Test match and then two one-dayers and then another Test match. Some of the states have named a 15-man squad, so you start to see things like that, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”The entire tournament will be played in Brisbane and Sydney, with each side playing seven preliminary matches before the top three go through to the finals. The first games on Saturday feature Queensland hosting Victoria at the Gabba and New South Wales playing South Australia at Allan Border Field, a match that could be Shaun Tait’s first one-day game in nearly four years.Tait’s comeback to the 50-over format will provide one of the most interesting storylines of the Matador Cup, for at his quickest there is nobody currently in Australian cricket who can match him. However, the question is whether he can maintain that over 10 overs after spending the past few years as a Twenty20 specialist.He will be joined in the South Australia side by batsman Mark Cosgrove, who has returned to Adelaide after spending the past few seasons in Tasmania. In other major moves, Michael Klinger will next week make his first appearance for his new state Western Australia, and notably it will be against his former team South Australia.Another South Australian who has found a new home is the former Test fast bowler Peter George, who is set to make his debut for Queensland. Although George was never a major one-day force in South Australia, his new captain believes he can play a role in the Matador Cup as well as the Sheffield Shield, which begins on October 31.”I’ve been surprised at how quick he’s bowling compared to the last few years,” Hopes said. “He’s got that bit of zip back. And coming from that height, he’s going to be a handful, especially at the Gabba.”We played the Irish [in a practice game] and he bowled into what could best be described as a gale-force breeze and he was getting them through really well. So we’ve been looking for a bowler who can bowl into the wind, apart from myself, and Pete might be that man.”

Veteran spinner Brad Hogg has signed on for another season with the Perth Scorchers, who have also secured Pakistan fast bowler Yasir Arafat for another year

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Aug-2014Veteran spinner Brad Hogg has signed on for another season with the Perth Scorchers, who have also secured Pakistan fast bowler Yasir Arafat for another year.Hogg, 43, has just returned home from the Caribbean Premier League, where he played for the Antigua Hawksbills, and he was also part of Australia’s World T20 squad in Bangladesh earlier in the year.”The body is feeling great and the mind is just the same as ever; it’s feeling like an 18-year-old’s,” Hogg said. “I’m really looking forward to getting back out in the middle and playing. I know my career is coming to an end; it’s going to come to an end quicker than it will extend, we all know that. I just want to enjoy every moment and I’m just excited.”Like Hogg, Arafat was a key part of the side’s BBL triumph last summer with his 12 wickets at 14.75, and Scorchers coach Justin Langer said both men were important signings for the 2014-15 campaign.”I’ve said from day one that, the way I’m watching the game, is that, in Twenty20 cricket, that experience is so important,” Langer said. “To be able to handle the pressure, whether you’re batting, bowling, fielding, usually it’s the more experienced heads that do that. To have Brad Hogg and Yasir adding that experience to our group adds great layers to our squad.”

The BCB has sold its worldwide media rights for the next six years, until April 2020, to Gazi TV for the price of $20.02 million. The company won the rights after quoting an offer price slightly higher than the $20 million floor price set by the board.Gazi TV became the only contender during the open bid on Friday, after another company, Mediacom, quoted a lower price. BCB president Nazmul Hassan said the board was satisfied with the outcome, as it could have been worse.”There was an open bid this morning after which the board had to take a decision in a meeting,” Hassan said. “There were two participants, one of whom didn’t meet our floor price so they became automatically ineligible. Gazi TV has paid just more than our floor price, and their papers have been okayed. As they have no financial problems, we are giving them this work. BCB will receive from them $20.02 million (net) without production cost.”I don’t look at history, but we are satisfied. We believe that we received [the bid] according to the current market situation. If nobody had taken part in the bid, it would have put us in an embarrassing position.”There were several questions during the press briefing about the Gazi TV’s links with the BCB. Gazi Golam Murtoza, the vice-chairman of Gazi TV, is a BCB director and chairman of the tournament committee. Gazi TV’s chairman, Gazi Golam Dastagir, is also a former BCB director.However, Kazi Inam Ahmed, the BCB’s marketing committee chairman who handled the media rights, said Murtoza had stayed out of any discussion on the media rights.”We want to be clear that, during the entire process our committee worked on, the BCB director who is related to the Gazi family has signed legal papers that said he will not be present during any board meeting where we will discuss the TV rights deal,” Ahmed said. “We have ensured that our process remained transparent, and since everything took place through open bidding, there was no chance of corruption.”The BCB’s last long-term deal was with Nimbus between 2006 and 2012 after which Channel 9, Gazi TV and Masranga TV have been given rights separately for home series since October 2012.

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O Santos tem um retrospecto a favor contra o Atlético-MG. O Peixe nunca foi eliminado pelo Galo em mata-matas em toda a história. Em três ocasiões, o Alvinegro passou de fase em 1964, 1983 e 2010.

As eliminações aconteceram em três competições diferentes. No primeiro ano, o Santos passou pelo Atlético-MG nas quartas de final da então Taça Brasil, hoje Campeonato Brasileiro. Dezenove anos depois, já pelo Brasileirão, o Alvinegro tirou o Galo na semifinal.

A mais recente aconteceu nas quartas de final da Copa do Brasil de 2010. Com show de Robinho, Neymar, André e Ganso, o Peixe bateu o time mineiro por 3 a 1 após ter perdido o jogo de ida por 3 a 2. Naquela temporada, o Santos conquistava o título inédito do torneio nacional.

Confira os últimos cinco jogos do Santos no Independência:

12/8/18 – Atlético-MG 3×1 Santos – Brasileirão
​12/7/17 – Atlético-MG 0x1 Santos – Brasileirão
14/5/16 – Atlético-MG 1×0 Santos – Brasileirão
10/6/15 – Atlético-MG 2×2 Santos – Brasileirão
25/9/14 – Atlético-MG 3×2 Santos – Brasileirão

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O retrospecto não é dos melhores atuando no Independência. No estádio mineiro, o Santos já jogou 18 vezes, com seis vitórias, três empates e nove derrotas.

O último triunfo do Peixe no Independência aconteceu em 2017. Com outra grande atuação de Vanderlei, o Santos bateu o Galo, por 1 a 0, com gol do lateral-direito Daniel Guedes, hoje emprestado ao Goiás.

O Santos reencontrará pela segunda vez o atacante Ricardo Oliveira desde sua saída, em 2018. Com duas passagens pelo Peixe, o centroavante é o grande sonho do técnico Jorge Sampaoli e da diretoria santista. No entanto, a diretoria do Galo, mesmo com as críticas da torcida, já deixou claro que não pretende negociá-lo.

Atlético-MG e Santos se enfrentam nesta quarta-feira, às 19h15, no Independência, pelo jogo de ida das oitavas de final da Copa do Brasil. A partida de volta será disputada no próximo dia 6, às 20h, no Pacaembu.

أكد مصدر مسئول بفريق الزمالك لكرة اليد، أن النادي يحاول حل أزمة توفير النفقات المطلوبة للمشاركة في البطولة العربية للأندية لكرة اليد التي ستقام في السعودية.

وأسفرت قرعة البطولة العربية لكرة اليد عن وقوع الزمالك في المجموعة الثانية برفقة كل من الهدى السعودي مستضيف البطولة، العربي الكويتي، وفاق عين التوتة الجزائري، الشعلة اليمني.

طالع | نتائج قرعة البطولة العربية للأندية لكرة اليد.. الزمالك في مجموعة نارية

وقال المصدر لـ بطولات: “حصلنا على الموافقة من مجلس إدارة النادي للمشاركة في البطولة، ولكن لا تتوافر لدينا القيمة المالية المطلوبة للمشاركة حتى اللحظة”.

جدير بالذكر أن الزمالك شارك في النسخة الماضية من البطولة العربية، وخسر النهائي أمام الترجي آنذاك.

England are set to complete their preparations for the first Ashes Test in Brisbane against strong opposition having secured a significant concession from Cricket Australia.

Daniel Brettig30-Oct-2013Australia will expect the reciprocal fielding of strong opposing teams when they tour England in 2015 after the ECB secured a dramatic Cricket Australia backflip over the composition of the XI to face Alastair Cook’s tourists in their final fixture before the first Test in Brisbane.Pressure imposed by the ECB about the strength of the New South Wales team to appear at the SCG from November 13, during a concurrent round of Sheffield Shield matches, has led to CA selecting another near Australia A team for the match, in addition to the four-day game in Hobart that precedes it.Each state will be affected, as Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Aaron Finch and Adam Voges are among those set to appear, in addition to a selection of NSW players. By being named to face the Englishmen a week before the Test rather than playing Shield cricket, it also appears likely that none of the aforementioned batsmen will be part of the Gabba Test squad to be named on November 12.CA’s decision has raised plenty of eyebrows around the states, who are unhappy to be losing first-choice players at such short notice from the Shield. Questions have also been raised privately about why CA was not quite so insistent when their own Ashes tourists faced a weakened Somerset and Worcestershire in Ashes warm-up matches earlier this year.Pat Howard, the team performance manager, has claimed that the change is the result of CA’s desire to give players of interest an additional sight of international opposition, as much as any pressure from the ECB. Neither the Australia A team for Hobart nor the Invitational XI for Sydney will feature too many fast bowlers, as the selectors prefer to keep their powder dry for the Tests themselves.”We feel this match presents a good opportunity to give a core group of talented batsmen from a number of states, further experience against a strong international line-up,” Howard said.”We continue to look for opportunities to develop our batsmen and taking part in matches like this only helps in that area. The ECB is supportive of this plan. It wanted us to field a strong line-up, so we will use the opportunity to promote key players in the Australian system. In return, we look forward to the ECB fielding powerful teams for the touring Australian side in 2015.”We appreciate the cooperation of all the state associations in supporting this plan, particularly as it coincides with the third round of Shield matches.”With a full Sheffield Shield programme every week in the run up to the first Test, England were concerned about facing understrength opposition. According to reports, a complaint was made to CA executive management. A key feature of England’s success on the previous Ashes tour was their vigorous warm-up schedule, with three first-class matches.On their last tour of India, England were denied the opportunity to face any specialist spin bowling in their warm-up fixtures but won the subsequent Test series 2-1.England’s first warm-up fixture is a three-day match against Western Australia Chairman’s XI captained by Michael Beer and including the Queensland batsman Chris Lynn, for which England rested Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad while Cook was ruled out with a back injury.Their preparations for the first Test will then escalate with a four-day match in Hobart against Australia A before what will now be a demanding fixture in Sydney.

Yorkshire Bank 40 Group B leaders Durham cruised to victory in a rain-affected game against Scotland in Glasgow

11-Aug-2013
ScorecardMark Stoneman ensured no alarms in Durham’s chase•Getty ImagesYorkshire Bank 40 Group B leaders Durham cruised to victory in a rain-affected game against Scotland in Glasgow.Scotland made 161 for 6 in 37 overs and Durham were set a revised 104 from 20, Mark Stoneman’s unbeaten 54 leading them home with almost four overs to spare.The hosts won the toss and after they chose to bat first, their top order all got starts but failed to either push on to a big score or get any momentum going.Opener Hamish Gardiner and Freddie Coleman took 13.3 overs to compile a half-century stand before Coleman was the first man dismissed, bowled by Gareth Breese for 24. Another spinner, Scott Borthwick, accounted for Gardiner but Richie Berrington and Calum MacLeod came together in a resolute third-wicket stand.The scoring rate was still not up to scratch, though, and after a stand of 62 MacLeod was bowled by Ben Stokes for 33, made in 42 balls with three boundaries. The usually belligerent Berrington found the ropes just once in his top score of 39 before hitting his 62nd delivery, from Paul Collingwood, to Stokes.The two allrounders picked up a further wicket apiece, Stokes finishing with 2 for 22 and Collingwood 2 for 25, before wicketkeeper Craig Wallace at least gave Scotland’s total a late boost with 17 at a run a ball.Rain restricted Durham’s reply to half the standard allocation of overs, and a required scoring rate just above five an over was never likely to test them unduly. Captain Stoneman put on 86 in 13.2 overs with wicketkeeper Phil Mustard to take the visitors within sight of victory.Mustard hit three sixes and a four in his innings of 30, from 38 balls, before being bowled by Moneeb Iqbal – who had Gordon Muchall stumped without scoring two balls later.But Stoneman reached a 45-ball half-century containing nine fours, finishing 54 not out from 49, and Stokes came in to hit 13 from eight balls, rounding off victory with his second boundary.

Ankeet Chavan

Ankeet Chavan may now be in the news for all the wrong reasons but the Mumbai bowler had been steadily progressing over the last five years as a reliable left-arm orthodox spinner and a useful batsman lower down the order.Having started as a middle-order batsman and a spinner on the of Mumbai, Chavan made his debut for Mumbai in the 2008-09 season. Earlier this year, he emerged as Mumbai’s leading spinner during their 40th title triumph. He eclipsed Iqbal Abdulla to emerge as the No. 1 spinner in the side and also played his part in the win, as Mumbai’s highest wicket-taker of the season.The highlight of his career came during a Group A game against Punjab. Playing at the Wankhede Stadium, Chavan single-handedly brought Mumbai back into the game with a nine-wicket haul, after the side had conceded a sizeable first innings lead. Though the match was eventually drawn, his spell of 9 for 23 earned Chavan accolades from Punjab skipper, Harbhajan Singh.Even when he was away from the first-class scene for two years after making his debut, he was more or less a permanent fixture for Mumbai in the domestic one-day and Twenty20 championships. As a result, Chavan, who was a member of the Mumbai Indians’ set-up in the inaugural IPL season, was signed up by Rajasthan Royals in 2011 and was a quiet performer for the franchise over the last three seasons. Exactly two years since his debut in 2011, Chavan was picked up by Delhi Police, hours after representing Royals in his hometown.

Ajit Chandila

Ajit Chandila is a Haryana offspinner who struggled to make his state side but hit the headlines with a hat-trick in the 2012 IPL. In seven years since his Haryana debut, he barely got a handful of games for Haryana and was more active on the club circuit, playing for nondescript clubs like Hari Singh Cricket Academy in Ghaziabad. He is an established name in Delhi cricket circles, and was part of a strong Air India side for several years, and was mentored by former India legspinner Narendra Hirwani.Chandila – another of those left-field successes that Royals seem to routinely throw up – has a relaxed action, doesn’t flight or spin the ball much, but relied on a nagging accuracy to prove effective in the IPL. He used his height well, and had a pause in his delivery stride to gauge what the batsman was attempting.He was picked for eight matches by Royals in the 2013 season, and was only taken for 6.24 runs an over, a better economy-rate than IPL stalwarts like Lasith Malinga and R Ashwin. One of his on-field highlights of the season was to become the first bowler to dismiss both Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting in the same match.<!– START OF COMMENT

Amit Singh

A fast bowler, Singh was released by Rajasthan Royals after the 2012 season. He played 23 IPL games for the Royals between 2009-2012. He was also part of the Gujarat Ranji Trophy team in the 2012-13 season, last playing against Saurashtra. Singh, 31, had been in the news for having been reported twice for a suspect action during the 2009 IPL.

Siddharth Trivedi

Siddharth Trivedi made his first-class debut only in the 2002-03 season, and his nippy medium-pace also earned him a slot at the ICC under-19 World Cup in early 2002, where he took nine wickets in seven games. Noticed as one of India’s promising youngsters, he won the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship to train for five weeks at the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy in Australia. On his return to India, he was drafted into the ranks of India B for the 2003 Challenger Trophy. Trivedi gained a lot of recognition during the inaugural IPL during which he was part of the Rajasthan Royals’ title-winning side and was praised by Shane Warne, the Royals’ captain.END OF COMMENT –>

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O argentino Jonatan Gomez pode voltar a fazer parte do elenco tricolor nesta temporada. Depois de retornar de empréstimo do Al-Fayha, da Arábia Saudita – onde jogou durante todo o ano de 2018 -, o meio-campista está no CT da Barra Funda realizando um trabalho específico de recondicionamento físico e, nos próximos dias, deve passar a treinar com o restante da delegação são-paulina. Caso haja a necessidade técnica, André Jardine poderá utilizá-lo.

Gomez não estava nos planos da equipe do Morumbi para 2019. Entretanto, como seu empréstimo ao clube saudita foi encerrado e não houve ofertas para o meio-campista, o São Paulo repatriou seu atleta, com quem tem contrato até o meio da próxima temporada. Nos últimos dias, o jogador tem aparecido nos gramados do CT da Barra Funda trabalhando com os preparadores físicos do Tricolor para readquirir sua melhor forma física.

Na atividade da última segunda, jogo-treino contra o Nacional-SP, o argentino foi testado e teve uma boa atuação em seus pouco mais de 15 minutos em campo. A tendência é de que Gomez seja visto com mais frequência entre os jogadores do elenco principal e seja utilizado nos treinamentos. Dependendo de seu desempenho, o jogador, que também pode atuar como volante, pode ser utilizado no Campeonato Paulista. O São Paulo ainda tem cinco vagas para o estadual, que podem ser preenchidas até o dia 1º de março.

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Vale lembrar que Gomez atua em uma faixa do campo onde Jardine ainda não encontrou uma unanimidade. Jucilei, Hudson e Liziero têm sido testados na posição de segundo homem do meio de campo, mas, pelo menos neste início de temporada, não é possível dizer que haja um dono absoluto da posição. Sendo assim, o argentino teria espaço no elenco para brigar por uma vaga.

Caso o rendimento do hermano não seja dos melhores, uma outra possibilidade seria uma venda ou até mesmo um novo empréstimo. Aos 29 anos, Gomez ainda tem mercado no futebol sul-americano e poderia se transferir para uma outra equipe. O jogador, no entanto, não recebeu sondagens e tem contrato com o São Paulo até o meio do ano que vem. Caso venha alguma proposta, a diretoria do Tricolor deve analisar o custo-benefício antes de tomar uma decisão.

Ao todo, o meio-campista soma 12 jogos pelo Tricolor do Morumbi e nem um gol sequer. Em sua passagem pelo Al-Fahya, Gomez entrou em campo em 19 oportunidades e marcou um gol pelos sauditas. Sua última partida foi disputada no dia 27 de dezembro, quanto atuou os 90 minutos do jogo contra o Al-Faisaly, pelo campeonato nacional.

بدأ الاتحاد المصري لكرة القدم تحركاته من أجل تنفيذ أحد مطالب مدرب المنتخب الأولمبي روجيرو ميكالي، قبل المشاركة في كأس أمم إفريقيا تحت 23 عامًا.

ودخل الاتحاد في مفاوضات مع نظيره الغاني، لتنظيم ودية بين المنتخبين في المغرب قبل انطلاقة بطولة كأس أمم أفريقيا تحت 23 عامًا.

وعلم “بطولات” أن ذلك جاء بناء على طلب البرازيلي ميكالي، الذي وضع المنتخب الغاني اختيارًا أول له قبل بداية البطولة.

وأسفرت قرعة الأمم الإفريقية عن وقوع منتخب مصر في المجموعة الثانية مع مالي والجابون والنيجر.

طالع | محمد بركات عن مجموعة مصر في أمم إفريقيا تحت 23 عامًا: جاهزون لكل المنافسين

ويصعد إلى الأولمبياد أصحاب المراكز الثلاثة الأولى في البطولة القارية، فيما يواجه صاحب المركز الرابع نظيره صاحب الترتيب ذاته ببطولة كأس أمم آسيا تحت 23 عامًا.