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Prithvi Shaw was picked as one of the openers while Mayank Agarwal was dropped

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Oct-20181:28

‘We’re looking for a second wicketkeeper’ – MSK Prasad

Rohit Sharma, M Vijay and Parthiv Patel have all been recalled for the Tests in Australia in December and January, as the selectors have decided to fall back on experience for the big series. Prithvi Shaw, who shone with a century on Test debut, was picked as one of the openers in the squad of 18, apart from Vijay and KL Rahul, and the pace attack was back to its full strength of Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav.Allrounder Hardik Pandya, who had picked up a back injury during the Asia Cup, “had not fully recovered” for the Test series, according to chief selector MSK Prasad. “It’s very difficult to match Hardik’s all-round ability,” Prasad further said. “At least we don’t see that kind of ability now in India. That’s why no other alternatives were discussed. And we expect Bhuvi to come good, we know he can bat.”We felt that Rohit’s nature of play, a very good back-foot player, is suited for Australia. Murali Vijay was dropped from the England series. He went back and he played the county and showed his intent and performed and considering the intensity of the series, we’ve included him for the Australia series.”Hanuma Vihari, who was controversially given a Test debut in England ahead of Karun Nair, was retained while Mayank Agarwal was dropped after he was picked for the two home Tests against West Indies but did not get a game. By dropping Agarwal, the selectors strengthened the middle-order options, but went back to Rohit instead of giving Nair another chance. Vihari recently scored three straight half-centuries, two for India B in the Deodhar Trophy and one for Andhra in domestic one-day matches, and also counts as a bowling option with his offbreaks.The selectors picked the usual spin attack of R Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav, apart from allrounder Ravindra Jadeja.Both Rohit and Parthiv had played two out of the three Tests each in South Africa earlier this year. While Rohit was dropped later for his poor form with the bat – for a total of 78 runs in four innings in South Africa – Parthiv was dropped not just for lack of runs (56 runs from four innings) but for dropping several catches while keeping. Picked as the second wicketkeeping option apart from Rishabh Pant, it is unlikely Parthiv would have been called up had Wriddhiman Saha been fit for the Test series.While Rohit continued with his form in ODIs during the Asia Cup and against West Indies, Parthiv returned to the domestic circuit to score a half-century in two innings in the Duleep Trophy, but managed a high score of only 47 in eight innings in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He scored 182 runs at an average of 22.75 in the tournament, including two ducks.”He was not picked for the game against Afghanistan and also the England series but subsequently he played the Duleep Trophy, he batted well and kept well,” Prasad said of Parthiv. “If you see the selection we’ve done for the whole team, it’s a mixture of youth and experience, which we really wanted because it’s going to be a high-intensity series. Which is why we’ve fallen back on experience. The advantage of Parthiv is that he’s a left-hander and can bat at any position. When the team demanded, even with a fractured hand he opened the innings in South Africa. So considering all these factors, we’ve picked him.”BCCI

Vijay, on the other hand, played the first two Tests in England but made only 26 runs overall, including a pair at Lord’s, before he was dropped from the tour. Soon enough, he represented Essex in the County Championship and impressed with scores of 80, 2, 85, 56 and 100 – the century coming in a chase of 282. He could not impress as much in the Vijay Hazare Trophy back at home but his first-class form was enough to get him picked for the Tests.Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah had been rested from the Tests against West Indies and were slotted back, and so was Ishant, who did not play against West Indies after he picked up an ankle injury during the Oval Test.The Test squad will fly out for Australia on November 16, to play a warm-up game starting the 28th before the four-Test series begins on December 6 in Adelaide.Agarwal found a place in the India A squad that will play first of the three matches in New Zealand. Prasad said that fixture would act as a warm-up before the Australia Tests since it also includes Vijay, Shaw, Vihari, Rohit, Ajinkya Rahane (captain) and Parthiv, among others, from the Test squad. Nair was named captain for a different A squad that would play the remaining two first-class matches in New Zealand; the squad also features Agarwal, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, Ishan Kishan, Shahbaz Nadeem and Mohammed Siraj. The three four-day matches in New Zealand will be played in Mount Maunganui, Hamilton and Whangarei.Test squad: Virat Kohli (capt), M Vijay, KL Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-capt), Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Parthiv Patel, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar KumarA squad for first match in New Zealand: M Vijay, Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane (capt), Parthiv Patel (wk), K Gowtham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Rajneesh Gurbani, Vijay Shankar, KS BharatA squad for second and third matches in New Zealand: Abhimanyu Easwaran, Mayank Agarwal, R Samarth, Karun Nair (capt), Ankit Bawne, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan, K Gowtham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Rajneesh Gurbani

The draft resolution was sent to the state associations, including the Associate BCCI member units, on Sunday, and requires them to affirm that they will implement the Lodha Committee recommendations

Nagraj Gollapudi18-Sep-2017Anticipating appeals for funds for the ongoing domestic and international season in India, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has asked the various state associations to fulfil a draft resolution, wherein they must affirm that they will comply with the Supreme Court order to implement the Lodha Committee’s recommendations.

The draft resolution

Resolved the Name of the Association is agreeable to undertake, implement and support the reforms as proposed by the Hon’ble Justice Lodha Committee and accepted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court vide judgment dated 18 July 2016 in letter and spirit.
Resolved further that in the event the Hon’ble Supreme Court passes any further orders in relation to the recommendations of the Hon’ble Justice Lodha Committee and/or the judgment dated 18 July 2016, such orders shall also be accepted and implemented within one month thereof.

The CoA sent the draft resolution to the state associations, including the Associate BCCI member units, on Sunday. With India’s home season having got underway earlier in September, many states have already approached the BCCI, as well as the court, asking for funds to pay for cricket operations for hosting matches. In addition to the various domestic tournaments, India’s international commitments at home comprise a total of 11 ODIs, nine T20s and three Tests as they host Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka before departing for South Africa at the end of December.On Monday, the court rejected the appeals of the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) and the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA), both of whom had approached the BCCI funds for separate reasons. While the SCA wanted about INR 83 lakhs for cricket expenses, MCA wanted funds to the tune of INR 4 crores, to pay off the installment against a longstanding bank loan.Barring the Vidarbha Cricket Association, which approved the Lodha recommendations without any protest, no other BCCI member has complied with the court order so far. The CoA said despite the resistance, the BCCI had put forth, and will continue to make payments for the “conduct” of the cricket matches. The CoA also said it was “regrettable” that state associations continued to defy the court orders despite such a move having the “potential” to “prejudicially affect cricketing activity.”While the BCCI would continue to take care of the payments concerning cricket operations to third-party vendors, the CoA has said that going forward the state associations need to adopt the draft resolution. “In the hope that the defaulting State Associations would come around and comply with the orders passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, a draft of the resolution that should be passed by the General Body (or an equivalent forum) of the State Association is enclosed,” the CoA said in its e-mail. “By adopting this resolution, the State Associations will enable BCCI to release additional funds to them in a manner compliant with the orders passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court.”

“Not up to international standard” was the damning verdict of Australia’s coach Darren Lehmann after the tourists lost 11 for 77 on a frenetic day in Galle

Daniel Brettig in Galle05-Aug-2016″Not up to international standard” was the damning verdict of Australia’s coach Darren Lehmann after the tourists lost 11 for 77 on a hectic day in Galle to all but hand over the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy to Sri Lanka for the first time in its existence.Lehmann, who recently signed a contract extension to remain coach until October 2019, was frank in conceding that his side does not appear to have improved in playing spin bowling on Asian pitches since a 2-0 drubbing by Pakistan in the UAE in 2014. He also admitted that his players were being conclusively beaten between the ears as well as on the scoreboard by the hosts.”Disappointing full stop the way we played. Not up to international standard on that performance today,” Lehmann said. “Certainly haven’t played as we would like. Sri Lanka have played well and we haven’t. Can’t complain about the preparation from the lads and the work ethic, it gets down to the pressure in the middle of a Test match and being able to cope with it, and at the moment, we haven’t.”Certainly, some blokes have to look at themselves and how they want to go about it in these conditions and how to succeed. We’ve talked a good game in the media and the press, how we want to play, but we’re certainly not showing up at the moment.”I can’t put my finger on it really. It’s up to the players to get there and do that. We give them as much info as we possibly can, we’re pretty open in the way we want to play and the way we want to speak and all those sorts of things. It gets down to the players doing it on the ground, and at the moment, we’re letting ourselves down as a group. So they know what they want to do, it’s having the belief to do it and succeed. That’s the biggest thing with Test match cricket, especially here on the subcontinent.”Australia’s displays have been beset by similar problems to those witnessed in 2014, from batsmen failing to cover straight deliveries aimed at the stumps, to poor attacking shot selection and lapses in concentration that are seldom seen at home. This has been compounded by the fact that Sri Lanka are nowhere near as strong as Pakistan, or, for that matter, the Indian side that inflicted a similar hiding on the team coached by Mickey Arthur the year before.”Results will say we haven’t moved on, won’t they? It’s pretty simple,” Lehmann said. “So, from my point of view, and us as a group, we’ve got to get better, as simple as that. We’ve got to stop the rot. We’ve lost seven in a row, and tomorrow, we’ve got to play better to stop the rot. They know what they have to do, we’ve had lots of people who’ve played on the subcontinent help us out, so it’s not as though they haven’t got the knowledge or the knowhow to do it, it’s actually doing it out there on the ground under the pressure.”You get blame and that’s what happens when you’re a coach. If you play badly, you get blame, there’s nothing wrong with that, that’s part and parcel of professional sport. We’ve got to sit back and work out whether we’re doing the right thing. I believe we are, we’re just not implementing it on the ground. We’ve got to make sure we get the players doing what they’re supposed to be doing, and if they’re not, then we’ve got to find blokes that are going to.”The dire batting performances seen on this tour will add urgency to Cricket Australia’s search for a full-time batting assistant coach, following the departure of Michael Di Venuto earlier this year. While Lehmann’s former state and national teammate Greg Blewett had been appointed on an interim basis, and Stuart Law is in Sri Lanka while Blewett is on paternity leave, it appears a far greater level of Asian batting nous is required ahead of next year’s tour of India.”Still to be a full-time appointment there,” Lehmann said. “Diva’s left, Blewy’s there doing it at the moment and Greg had a baby, so that’s why he’s not on this tour, so Stuey’s come in to fit in there. That’s something we’ll have to look at after this series and all those things moving forward. No timeframe, but if we keep batting like this, it’ll be a bit quicker!”While acknowledging a superlative display from Mitchell Starc, who claimed 11 for 94 with minimal rest between innings, Lehmann said Australia’s spin bowlers, led by Nathan Lyon, also needed to improve. “Disappointing, same as the batters, no doubt about that,” he said.”Nathan Lyon’s experience has been very good for us over a period of time, but his record on the subcontinent’s not great. So he’s got to improve, there’s no doubt about that. Holland’s playing his first game and going to be a little bit nervous, so you give him a bit of leeway there, but, end of the day, their spinners have certainly out-bowled our spinners.”

Kyle Jarvis completed match figures of 9 for 106 as Lancashire strengthened their position at the top of the Division Two table with a 91-run win over Gloucestershire at Bristol

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ScorecardKyle Jarvis ran through Gloucestershire’s middle order to set up victory•PA Photos

Kyle Jarvis completed match figures of 9 for 106 as Lancashire strengthened their position at the top of the Division Two table with a 91-run win over Gloucestershire at Bristol.The former Zimbabwe seamer claimed 5 for 39, including four wickets in the space of 17 balls, to induce a second innings collapse by Gloucestershire from 113 for 2 to 160 all out as they chased a victory target of 252.It had looked good for Gloucestershire when they reached lunch on the final day at 104 for 2. But after Michael Klinger and Chris Dent had set up a winning position Jarvis blew away the middle order. He sent back Dent, Ian Cockbain, Benny Howell and Jack Taylor in a superb spell from the Ashley Down Road End to finally swing a compelling match Lancashire’s way.”To have 47 wickets at this stage of the season is very pleasing for me,” Jarvis said. “I am at my best when I can run the ball back at batsmen and that is what started to happen this afternoon.”Gloucestershire played some excellent cricket and made it a very tough game for us. But we never felt out it and knew if we kept the ball on the right line and length things would start to happen. It’s another huge win which has put us in a very strong position in the table. But nothing has been achieved yet and there is a lot of hard work still ahead.”Lancashire took 21 points to Gloucestershire’s five to go 31 clear of second placed Surrey in Division Two. But it was a closer contest than the outcome suggested and both teams could take encouragement from their efforts.Gloucestershire had begun the final day on 26 for 1, needing a further 226 to win. For a long while Klinger and Dent looked to have them in control.
Dent, dropped on 10 by wicketkeeper Alex Davies off Tom Bailey, was unbeaten on 49 at lunch.Klinger had helped add 68 for the second wicket before a rare error of judgement, driving at a good length ball from James Faulkner saw him caught by Davies, having faced 110 balls and hit seven fours.It took Dent until his 99th delivery to hit a boundary, but his application was showing signs of reaping reward as Gloucestershire approached the final two sessions needing only a further 148 to repeat their success at Old Trafford earlier in the season.The turning point came when Dent, who had faced 155 balls and hit six fours, miscued a pull shot off Jarvis and lofted a catch to mid-on. Jarvis grabbed the initiative and four more wickets fell in the space of 29 deliveries, Tom Bailey weighing in with the dismissal of Gareth Roderick, who registered a pair when pinned lbw by a full ball.Gloucestershire were suddenly in disarray as they plunged to 119 for 7. Skipper Geraint Jones and Craig Miles defiantly added 36, but when Jones was caught behind looking to cut Faulkner it was as good as over. Matt Taylor was caught behind to give Faulkner a third wicket and when Miles was last man out, caught at cover off Jordan Clark, the home side had lost their last eight wickets for 47 runs.Defeat for Gloucestershire was compounded by news after the game that Roderick’s thumb injury was a fracture, which will keep him out until the Cheltenham Festival in mid-July. The wicketkeeper batted in both innings against Lancashire, bagging a pair. Last season he spent two spells on the sidelines after breaking the same finger.”We are hurting in the dressing room because we had got ourselves into a position where we felt we had Lancashire,” Jones, Gloucestershire’s captain, said.”That makes the disappointment of losing all the greater. We describe ourselves as a young side, with some experience, and that was evident today. The worst of it was that we lost so many wickets bowled or lbw when we knew Lancashire would bowl at the stumps on that sort of pitch. Every game is a learning experience and we need to get over this setback quickly.”

The PCB has granted Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal permission to play a few games at this season’s Big Bash League, on the request of Cricket Australia

Umar Farooq19-Nov-2012Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan allrounder, has said he will not play for Sydney Thunder despite being given permission by the PCB to take part in Australia’s Big Bash League. Afridi said he wanted to play in Pakistan’s domestic Twenty20 tournament instead and that clashes with Australia’s Twenty20 competition.”I have ended my contract in the Big Bash League, because I want to play in the national event to improve my form and justify my selection in the team,” Afridi told AFP.The Pakistan board had earlier granted Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal and Afridi permission to play a few games at this season’s Big Bash, on the request of Cricket Australia. Ajmal and Akmal will miss the last round of Pakistan’s domestic Twenty20 tournament and will return in time for the conditioning camp in Lahore ahead of the India tour.The PCB had earlier denied the players permission to play this BBL, to ensure their participation in the local tournament. Akmal is signed with Sydney Sixers and Ajmal with Adelaide Strikers for the season, while Afridi was set to play for Sydney Thunder, having transferred from Melbourne Renegades.”We have reconsidered our decision, on the request of Cricket Australia, as the players had already signed their contract,” a PCB spokesman told ESPNcricinfo. “They will now leave at the tail end of [Pakistan’s] T20 tournament, which runs from December 2 to 10, and will return when our conditioning camp starts.”As per the arrangement, the players will leave for the BBL at the end of the group stages of Pakistan’s T20 competition; these end on December 7, and the camp for which they must return begins on December 12. The BBL begins on December 7, and each of the three concerned franchises have one game scheduled between the 7th and 12th.1200 GMT This story has been updated after Shahid Afridi said he would not play in the BBL

Michael Hussey says Shaun Marsh has the composure to deal with being 87 not out overnight and praised the debutant’s concentration

Daniel Brettig in Pallekele09-Sep-2011Michael Hussey batted with Shaun Marsh when he made his first-class debut, and again when Marsh clouted a first century for Western Australia. He hopes to be there again to see Marsh mark his Test debut with a century.Marsh was unbeaten on 87 when he and Hussey, 76 not out, were sent to the dressing room more than an hour before the scheduled close of play on the second day in Pallekele due to bad light. Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lanka batsman, made sure to remind the debutant that he was stuck on a score considered unlucky in Australia because it is 13 runs short of a hundred. But Hussey said Marsh had shown the composure of a Test batsman in an innings played in fluctuating conditions and circumstances, allying it to the talent he had first displayed when spanking 119 against New South Wales in 2003.That day Steve Waugh had attempted to unsettle Marsh in the 90s and, as Hussey recalled, the response was emphatic.”That was an amazing innings,” Hussey said. “I remember that vividly because Steve Waugh was at cover and Mark Waugh was bowling. Shaun got into the 90s and Steve just got into his head a bit saying `don’t get nervous now Shaun, you know you’ve played so well, don’t throw away a hundred now’, and he hit the next two balls for six to bring up his 100. Obviously there is still a lot of work to go in this match and as long as he keeps sticking to his game he’ll be fine.”It’s a bad score to be stuck on and Mahela did give him a little wink as he was walking off and said `Jeez, you wouldn’t want to be 87 not out overnight’. But it’s not going to bother him I don’t think. I said something like `I’d much rather be on 87 than seven overnight’.”In Pallekele, Marsh withstood a sharp early spell from Suranga Lakmal when he first arrived, then matched wits with the spin of Suraj Randiv for most of the day, which saw Australia recover from an iffy 116 for 3 to be powerfully placed at 264 for 3 by the early close. Hussey said Marsh’s concentration was the most impressive feature of his innings, which saw him face 211 balls on the second day.”I thought he showed tremendous concentration because there were periods when scoring was difficult. They bowled really tight for a while and it was tough. Obviously in your first Test match you’re going to be pretty nervous but he got his feet moving well. He showed good composure to be able to get through a tough early period and even beyond that.”They still continually bowled well to him and it was difficult to get any momentum going with his innings. He showed great concentration and then you could just see the confidence grow a little bit as the innings wore on. I think when he got that legspinner [Seekkuge Prasanna] away for a few boundaries in a row you could see him start to believe that he belonged there.”That sense of belonging at the international level has not always been evident, perhaps because Marsh’s overall record is somewhat underwhelming. He averages 37.71 in first-class cricket and has made only six hundreds, but can add to that tally on the third day by employing the more measured and consistent approach Hussey has witnessed him develop in Western Australia.”It’s been well documented that early in his career he was a bit inconsistent but I think if you look at the way he’s played in the last two or three years in first-class cricket he’s been a lot more consistent. With the way he’s prepared, the way he’s approached his innings and the way he’s played out in the middle, he’s had a lot more understanding of his game and the conditions and probably his routines. Obviously he wants more hundreds in the column but it’s pretty tough to make first-class hundreds let alone Test hundreds.”Hussey admitted to struggling for concentration and touch at times throughout his own innings, but it was another vital contribution on a tour during which he has made many, from the 95 on the first day in Galle to the stunning gully catch and freak wicket with the ball to start the Pallekele Test.Kumar Sangakkara had been a most unlikely Test victim of Hussey’s slow-medium seamers on the first afternoon, and attempted to get his own back by not only bowling but taking the new ball. Hussey admitted considerable relief when the ball was given back to a specialist.”You don’t want it to last for very long. I was pretty happy when he took the new ball; I thought at least it might come on a little more, but he got a little swing as well, so it was a relief when he went off. I didn’t want to get out to Kumar and for him to pay me back.”

Malachi Jones, Bermuda’s fiery young fast bowler, has run into further disciplinary issues after being sent to his hotel room by national coach David Moore

Cricinfo staff15-Sep-2010Malachi Jones, Bermuda’s fiery young fast bowler, has run into further disciplinary issues after being sent to his hotel room by national coach David Moore following an angry show of petulance during the team’s eight-wicket defeat to a West Indies High Performance Cricket XI in Canada on Saturday.Jones was previously removed from Bermuda’s squad in May after breaching the protocol that prohibited national players from playing for their domestic club on a scheduled rest day. But Moore dismissed Jones’s latest indiscretion as nothing to worry about and said it would be dealt with internally.Jones’s tantrum was sparked in his second over on Saturday when a wayward delivery was flicked towards the fine-leg boundary by Rajindra Chandrika, only for Kevin Tucker’s fumble on the rope to allow the ball to go for four.Jones angrily kicked the pitch, conceded two more fours in the over, and then marched back to his fielding position on the boundary where he stayed for the remainder of the game. It was his attitude during this period, when he did not walk in or back up and generally appeared to be sulking, that angered former West Indies coach Moore.”I’ve got nothing to say about that,” said Moore. “It’s a minor personal issue that Malachi Jones has to deal with and we gave to him time to do so. It’s an internal team matter, and we’ll deal with it amongst ourselves.”

Sergino Dest has bid farewell to Barcelona once again, with the USMNT star joining PSV on a loan deal that includes a permanent transfer option.

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• Dutch-born defender returns to Netherlands
• Struggled to make impact at Camp Nou
• Eager to get club career back on track

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  It may be the last time that the United States international packs his bags at Camp Nou, with the 22-year-old looking to restore stability to a promising club career that has fallen a little off track. He will be hoping to thrive back in the familiar surrounds of Dutch football, with the Almere-born full-back having previously starred for Ajax.

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  Dest made 38 appearances for Ajax before joining Barca in October 2020, but he was restricted to just 72 outings for the Liga giants as he struggled to nail down a regular starting berth. He was then sent on loan to AC Milan last season.

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  WHAT THEY SAID

  Dest, who has earned 26 caps for the USMNT, has told PSV’s official website of returning to the Eredivisie: “PSV were in touch with me every day and expressed a keen desire to get me on board, which was a good feeling. And on top of that, I like the style of football they play at PSV. I think it suits me very well. I return to the Netherlands. I’m still the same player but I’ve gained a lot of experience and I’ve hopefully acquired a higher efficiency. I can’t wait to make my debut.”

  PSV’s director of football, former USA international Earnest Stewart, added: “Sergino Dest was keen to join us, which we obviously liked. He is a very skilful and creative defender who can help the team with his explosive power and attacking intentions. He is as fit as a fiddle!"

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  Dest will go straight into the PSV squad, as he looks to make the kind of impact that will earn him an extended stay in Eindhoven, with their next fixture set to see them face Scottish outfit Rangers in the first leg of a Champions League play-off tie on Tuesday.

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Principal contratação do Corinthians para a temporada, o meia-atacante Luan revelou ansiedade para poder voltar ao trabalho. No dia em que o último jogo do Timão completa um mês, o camisa 7 relembrou o gol anotado diante do Ituano em Itaquera e falou um pouco sobre sua rotina durante a quarentena.

– Não vejo a hora de voltar, vestir a camisa do Corinthians. Todos sabem que era um sonho meu atuar por este clube, e já pude fazer alguns bons jogos, mas ainda temos muito a conquistar e buscar. Então esperamos de coração que tudo isso passe o quanto antes e, quando tudo estiver seguro, todos nós possamos voltar – afirmou o corintiano.

Melhor jogador das Américas em 2017, Luan veio do Grêmio com a missão de ser a imagem do novo Corinthians. O início de temporada e do trabalho com o técnico Tiago Nunes não é dos melhores. Afinal, a equipe foi eliminada precocemente da Copa Libertadores e está em uma situação muito delicada no Campeonato Paulista.

Mesmo diante de todas as dificuldades, Luan tem sido um dos principais nomes do elenco. O camisa 7 tem quatro gols em 2020 e está atrás apenas do argentino Mauro Boselli, com seis gols ao longo da temporada. No último jogo do Corinthians, inclusive, Luan balançou a rede do Ituano e garantiu o empate amargo ao Timão em Itaquera.

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– É curioso, né? Não imaginava que seria o último jogo nosso ali em um bom tempo. Apesar de já ter iniciado essa questão do coronavírus naquela época, e até termos jogado sem torcida, a gente não imaginava que seria assim, por esse tempo mais longo. Mas claro que entendemos, é uma questão de saúde e precisamos respeitar – disse o jogador, lembrando que a partida na Arena Corinthians aconteceu com os portões fechados.

Agora, o meia-atacante está em sua casa cumprindo a quarentena – assim como todos os outros nomes do elenco. O corintiano tem se exercitado para não perder muito da forma física enquanto não há uma definição sobre quando as competições irão retornar no Brasil.

– Estou tranquilo, ficando em casa como as autoridades de saúde estão pedindo e procurando treinar, continuar pelo menos com o ritmo e cuidando da parte física, já que ainda não temos uma previsão de volta aos treinos.

With college football's top prospects set to be snapped up by teams over the next three days, Goal ponders how such a process would work in soccer…

With the Covid-19 pandemic having brought a halt to almost all sport around the world, fans are begging for any kind of live event to get their teeth into while spending almost all their time at home.

The 2020 NFL Draft promises, then, to garner even more interest this week as the top college American football prospects are signed by the top professional league's 32 teams from Thursday through to Saturday.

However, what if soccer introduced a similar process for top clubs to select the best young players each year? How would it look, and could it give some of Europe's fallen giants the opportunity to rise again?

Goal has chosen to conduct such an experiment, using the recently revealed NxGn list of the 50 best teenage male footballers on the planet as the '2020 Draft Class', meaning the likes of Mason Greenwood, Gabriel Martinelli, Ansu Fati and winner Rodrygo are all up for grabs.

So how does our draft work? Here are the rules:

– Goal has selected 15 of Europe's biggest clubs to take part in the draft, with those selected regarded as the frontrunners to form a 'European Super League' should that ever come to pass.

– Clubs will select in reverse order of strength, based on their ELO rating, which calculates a team's ranking using historic results (full details here). The draft will consist of two rounds, meaning 30 players will be drafted.

– Unlike in the NFL and other North American sports drafts, there will be no trades made at any point.

– The draft is theoretically taking place ahead of the 2020-21 season. As such, clubs should consider all out-of-contract players as having left to become free agents, while players whose loan deals expire at the end of the current campaign have returned to their parent clubs.

– Players within the draft should also be considered as being unattached rather than part of squads.

So with that all hopefully explained, clubs must now consider where the major gaps are in their squad and which players can fill them. Let the 2020 Goal Draft begin!

Getty1LIVERPOOL select CURTIS JONES

With the final pick of the second round, Liverpool are left with a choice: take the best player left on the board in Lee Kang-in or opt for local knowledge in the same position and take Curtis Jones?

They choose the latter, knowing that the Anfield faithful love watching fellow Scousers thrive for the Reds.

AdvertisementGetty Images2BAYERN MUNICH select JOAO PEDRO

The strong class of strikers in 2020 is really baring its teeth in the second round as yet another team opt to add goals to their squad.

This time it's Bayern, and with Zirkzee lost to the draft, they bring in the next-best player in his position, Joao Pedro, to serve as Robert Lewandowski's understudy.

Getty3MANCHESTER CITY select RAYAN CHERKI

Having been left disappointed in the first round, City can barely believe their luck that they have the chance to bring in Rayan Cherki with the 28th overall pick.

The needs of other teams have left Pep Guardiola's side with a free path to the French playmaker, and though he does not necessarily fill any kind of void in their squad, the 16-year-old can learn under the Catalan before eventually making his mark on the first team.

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Getty4BARCELONA select JOSHUA ZIRKZEE

Not a difficult one this for Barcelona, who desperately need someone to provide able back-up for an ageing Luis Suarez.

As the top striker left on the board, Joshua Zirkzee is their man, with the Dutch star having already shown he can handle the pressure of first-team football.