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O goleiro Jean manifestou-se nesta quarta-feira sobre a briga que teve com Vagner Mancini na segunda. Cobrado pelo técnico interino por ter ido tomar banho assim que o clássico contra o Palmeiras acabou, sem esperar a tradicional roda de oração dos jogadores, ele se irritou e abandonou a reunião com todo o grupo. A diretoria o multou e o afastou por tempo indeterminado.

Em sua conta no Instagram, Jean publicou texto em que diz que não foi o único atleta a ir para o chuveiro logo que o jogo acabou, mas que foi o único a ser cobrado nominalmente por Mancini. Ele ainda citou a rivalidade do Ba-Vi como uma das razões para, segundo ele, nunca ter sido tratado da melhor forma pelo interino. O goleiro jogava no Bahia e o técnico já treinou o Vitória.

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“É bom explicar que desde a sua chegada ao São Paulo, Mancini não me trata da mesma forma que todo o restante do grupo de jogadores, motivado por uma rivalidade nos clubes que trabalhamos anteriormente. Quando ele foi colocado na posição de técnico, mesmo tendo prometido que não assumiria esta posição, eu já sabia que eu começaria a ser renegado e dificilmente poderia entrar em campo, fazer meu papel e ajudar o São Paulo da melhor forma possível”, escreveu Jean.

“Infelizmente, quando fui cobrado e apontado com culpado por uma derrota mesmo sem ter entrado em campo, não consegui me conter e aceitar ser execrado dessa forma. Não considerei justo e me retirei. Como eu disse anteriormente, sei que cometi um erro e me desculpo por isso”, diz um outro trecho da publicação.

Veja todo o texto do goleiro:

“Diante das coisas que li, vi e que chegaram até mim via imprensa nos últimos dias, gostaria de esclarecer e dizer a verdade sobre alguns pontos referentes ao ocorrido na última segunda-feira. Antes de mais nada, reconheço o meu erro ao ter deixado o campo de treinamento após o ocorrido e me desculpar publicamente com a instituição São Paulo Futebol Clube, meus companheiros de time e, principalmente, os torcedores são-paulinos. Respeito muito este clube e ajo de forma profissional desde o dia em que cheguei aqui.

Para finalizar, estou e estarei sempre à disposição do São Paulo Futebol Clube para cumprir meu dever. Sou feliz neste clube e sempre pretendi brilhar aqui, fazer uma história cumprindo meu contrato, só entendi que era necessário esclarecer uma injustiça que sofri. Desejo sorte aos meus companheiros na partida de hoje em busca da classificação no Campeonato Paulista. Sempre que puder estarei no Morumbi torcendo por eles e pelo São Paulo”.

BCCI president N Srinivasan looks to have succeeded in staving off attempts to dethrone him, with a late-night informal meeting of board officials not pressing for his resignation

Amol Karhadkar25-May-2013N Srinivasan seems to have staved off the stiff opposition from within the board and will continue as the BCCI president, at least for now and possibly till the AGM in September. A day after the arrest of Gurunath Meiyappan – his son-in-law and a senior official of the Chennai Super Kings franchise – on charges of betting on IPL games, the momentum that seemed to have built up overnight to force a change at the top of the BCCI has apparently fizzled out.More than half the board members attended a dinner hosted by former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya in Kolkata on Saturday night – notable absentees included vice-president Arun Jaitley, Srinivasan’s presumptive successor, joint secretary Anurag Thakur and treasurer Ajay Shirke – but the mood seemed to be one of preserving the status quo.Indeed, the mood was set before the dinner began, when a senior board official indicated to ESPNcricinfo that the members ‘will not demand’ Srinivasan’s resignation. Srinivasan and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla had a private discussion in Kolkata before heading for the dinner, the source said, adding that the likelihood of Srinivasan stepping down before the AGM was ‘very slim’.It was in keeping with Srinivasan’s defiant stand through the day. Soon after he landed in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon, he reiterated that he had no intention of resigning. “I cannot be bulldozed or railroaded into resigning by the pressure being applied,” he said. “The BCCI will follow strictly all its rules. The law will take its course. Somebody wants to replace me, let him get elected.”Where N Srinivasan can go from here

Scenario 1: If Srinivasan steps down voluntarily
The BCCI has to find an interim president till the annual general meeting (AGM) is convened in the last week of September. When a president steps down before his term is over, it is usually the vice-president from the same zone as the president who takes over as the interim president. In that case, it would be Shivlal Yadav. If the vice-president refuses, then it has to be one of the eligible representatives from the same zone who takes over.
Scenario 2: If board members want Srinivasan ousted immediately
One-third of the voting members – 10 – must write in to the BCCI secretary urging him to pass a motion against the president for tarnishing the board’s reputation. The secretary then has to convene a special general body meeting (SGM) at the earliest. At the SGM, if two-third of the members – 21, to be precise – vote against the president, he has to step down.
Scenario 3: If the board acts at the AGM
Srinivasan will remain as president till the AGM in September, when he will have completed two years of his term. According to the amended BCCI constitution, an office bearer’s term is extendable by another year at the end of two years. If Srinivasan wants to remain in power for another year, he will have to contest an election. The winner of the election – held by secret ballot – is decided based on simple majority.
Scenario 4: Compromise
If the BCCI members agree that Srinivasan is the best person to be the BCCI’s face, he will remain in charge till September 2014.

The board members know that if Srinivasan does not resign from the job, their options are both limited and complicated (see sidebar). According to the BCCI constitution, a special general body meeting can move a resolution against its president with a three-fourth majority only if the president is directly involved in a corruption case – which is not the case so far.Should the BCCI call an emergency general body meeting, it may come down to electoral numbers. Besides the 27 affiliated units who compete in the Ranji Trophy, the Cricket Club of India, the National Cricket Club, Kolkata and All India Universities have a vote each. If the incumbent president is presiding over the AGM, he is also entitled to a separate vote, thus extending the tally to 31. The last time the BCCI had a contested election for the post of president was in 2005, when Sharad Pawar defeated Ranbir Singh Mahendra to break Jagmohan Dalmiya’s monopoly over Indian cricket’s administration.There remains much internal grumbling about where this controversy around the Chennai Super Kings’ official and Srinivasan has left the BCCI. A former board official said that Gurunath’s arrest has “tremendously harmed the credibility of Indian cricket. And the process to restore credibility cannot even begin till he [Srinivasan] remains at the helm.”The twist in the entire saga is the Gurunath angle. Srinivasan has already constituted a one-man commission of inquiry, headed by Ravi Sawani, to investigate the spot-fixing allegations against the three Rajasthan Royals players.If Sawani’s report implicates anyone – a player or a member of support staff or management team – from Chennai Super Kings, the report will be forwarded to the disciplinary committee. With Srinivasan, in his capacity as the president, being a member of the three-member committee, there would be clear conflict of interest.In such a case, his only option would be to recuse himself from the disciplinary committee by stepping down as the president.Saturday night’s events were an about-turn from what transpired on Friday, well before Gurunath’s arrest, with several significant statements being made across the spectrum of politics and business that controls Indian cricket. Sahara chairman Subroto Roy, who had earlier this week announced his team’s pullout from the IPL and his company’s decision to not renew its sponsorship of Indian cricket, indicated he would be willing to reconsider the decision if there was a change of guard. He went so far as to say Sharad Pawar, a former BCCI president, was an “apt” person to head the board once again.Around the same time a senior member of Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party issued an unambiguous statement saying Srinivasan should go, though the party issued a clarification saying it was issued in a personal capacity and didn’t reflect the party’s views. On Saturday, Pawar told ESPNcricinfo that the party had no view on the matter. “I have resigned [from the BCCI] five year ago to go to the ICC and don’t want to come back.”

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Fernando Diniz não ficou preocupado com a atuação do Fluminense na derrota sobre o Vasco por 1 a 0, neste sábado, no Mané Garrincha, pela última rodada da primeira fase da Taça Guanabara. Muito pelo contrário, o treinador do Tricolor parabenizou a equipe pelos cinco jogos da competição e como o elenco assimilou o modelo de jogo.

– Acho que quanto mais o tempo passar, o time vai melhorar e indo ajustando os detalhes. Principalmente, quando a gente encontra dificuldades como a de hoje, no segundo tempo. A avaliação dos cinco jogos é positiva. A gente conseguiu adotar o modelo e os jogadores estão muito desejosos e estão de parabéns pelo o que fizeram, inclusive, hoje. Temos que sempre olhar a partida em dois aspectos: o resultado e o que aconteceu fora dele.

– Quando você com uma dificuldade muito grande, com limitação de espaço é o tipo de jogo mais difícil que a gente tem que fazer. Então, é muita coisa, qualidade técnica, padrões de jogo, sempre treinando harmonia de movimentos. Mas sempre encontra dificuldades quando se joga com uma equipe que marca atrás e se está bem treinada complica ainda mais – completou.

Na última sexta-feira, o Fluminense anunciou o meia Paulo Henrique Ganso como novo reforço. Diniz parabenizou o sacrifício da diretoria em trazer o jogador, que ainda precisa de ritmo para fazer sua estreia com a camisa do Tricolor.

– Claro que pode mudar, mas não podemos colocar toda a coletividade em cima de um jogador. O Ganso é um dos melhores jogadores que o Brasil produziu nos últimos 15 anos, seguramente. A gente espera que ele consiga colocar para fora o talento dele de uma maneira mais perene. Se isso acontecer, claro termos um salto de qualidade, mas vai precisar de um tempo de adaptação e uma série de coisas. Um esforço imenso da diretoria do Fluminense para trazer ele.

Com o término da primeira fase da Taça Guanabara, o Fluminense tem tudo para encarar o Flamengo nas semifinais da competição. Antes do clássico, a equipe tricolor volta suas atenções para a sua estreia na Copa do Brasil. Na terça-feira, o Flu encara em Teresina o River (PI), às 21h30.

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Bairstow leads new leadership shake-up at Headingley with Dawid Malan to captain in the T20 Blast

Vithushan Ehantharajah27-Mar-2025Jonny Bairstow has been announced as Yorkshire captain, following in the footsteps of his late father, David, who skippered the county between 1984 and 1988.Bairstow will lead the club upon their return to Division One of the County Championship next week as part of a new leadership set-up at Headingley which will see Dawid Malan captain in the T20 Blast.Born in Bradford, Bairstow came through the ranks at Yorkshire, playing a prominent role in their last County Championship title win in 2015, with 1108 runs at an average of 92.33 from just nine appearances that season. By then, he had broken into the England team, and played three Tests against Australia that summer to help England secure the Ashes – the last time they won the urn.Now 35, Bairstow finds himself out of the international reckoning, despite the fact he has six months remaining on an ECB central contract. He earned his 100th Test cap in the final match of England’s tour of India at the start of 2024, and made his last international appearance in June as England lost to India in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup.Related

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Captaincy had been on the table for Bairstow since last summer following the decision to part ways with Shan Masood, now at Leicestershire, who had held the role for two years as the club began emerging from the racism scandal that mired them in turmoil. Conversations progressed over the winter when Anthony McGrath left Essex to return to Yorkshire as head coach following the depature of Ottis Gibson, who secured promotion from Division Two in his final season.After not being picked up in the IPL mega auction, and with the ECB blocking players with red-ball commitments from taking part in the PSL, Bairstow will be available from the start of the season, which begins next week away to Hampshire.”I am incredibly proud to have been named captain of Yorkshire,” Bairstow said. “The county is embedded in my heart, and I take immense pride in representing the club on the field.”I’m very pleased and excited for what the season holds. We’ve got a great bunch of lads that have been working really hard over a period of time.”It was fantastic, first of all, for us to get promoted last year after what has been a very tough couple of years for the club. But what I will say is how resilient the guys, especially the younger guys, within the group – who three years ago went through turmoil – have been.”They’ve now got that in-built within them, and it’s started to come through not only because of the promotion but with the challenges that lead into Division One this year.”While Bairstow makes no secret that he intends to force his way back into the England set-up, particularly with a five-Test series against India this summer, followed by an Ashes tour at the end of the year, he has his sights on ending Yorkshire’s wait for meaningful red-ball silverware.”We need to be grounded in everything we do but you never say never. I firmly believe we are good enough to do it, whether it’s this year or further down the track, we’ll find out.”Malan, who moved to Yorkshire from Middlesex at the end of 2019, was as enthused about the prospect of his own captaincy. Having signed a two-year extension last summer on what was initially a white-ball only contract, he will be involved for the start of Yorkshire’s Championship campaign given the limited availablility of Joe Root and Harry Brook for the first six rounds leading into the opening men’s Test against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, on May 22.Dawid Malan will lead Yorkshire in the Blast•Mike Egerton/PA Images via Getty Images

“To be appointed captain in any format of cricket for Yorkshire CCC, with the history it’s got, is a proud moment and exciting moment as well,” Malan said. “It’s not only me with the new leadership, we’ve got a whole new leadership behind me with coaches and director of cricket. So it’s an extremely exciting time for the club and hopefully, you know, we can put some things in place that put white-ball cricket in a good place at Yorkshire.”Malan has a distinguished record in the shortest format, helping England to their 2022 World Cup success having broken into a settled team through a run of form that propelled him to the top of the ICC T20 batting rankings in September 2020.The 37-year old retired from international duty last year with 114 caps across all formats, having made his final appearance at the end of England’s botched 2023 ODI World Cup campaign, the first of three poor showings at ICC events in the space of 18 months.”Do I still think I was good enough to play last year? Yeah, I do I think I was good enough to play,” Malan said when asked if his enforced retirement had been premature. “That’s ultimately not my decision.”I wouldn’t say I was hard done by, I probably didn’t score as many run as I’d have liked in the T20 stuff for a little bit of a period, but especially … the 50-over cricket, I think the last year, year and a half, I had performed in every series.”But look, time moves on, cricket moves on, decisions need to be made and if you’re going to look back at every decision with regret or with bad or ill thoughts, it’s going to be a lonely world. I enjoyed my time with England and my time is done. My time has now been putting everything that I have into Yorkshire being as good as they can be.”Despite Yorkshire’s recent pedigree across all formats, certainly in terms of personnel, they remain huge underperformers in white-ball cricket. They are one of only four counties out of 18 who have yet to lift the T20 Blast, reaching Finals Day just three times, in 2012 (finishing as losing finalists), 2016 and 2022.Malan is keen to change that, drawing from his wealth of international and franchise experience. Domestically, he was part of the 2008 Middlesex side that lifted the Twenty20 Cup, and was a vital cog for Oval Invincibles last year as they won The Hundred. Having been picked up by Headingley-based Northern Superchargers for this season’s competition, a stand-in captain for Yorkshire’s One-Day Cup campaign will be announced in due course.”It’s surprising, actually because when you look at the teams and the players they’ve had, they’ve had some fantastic players over the years,” Malan said on Yorkshire’s limited-overs drought.”I think that’s the challenge for us, trying to look at what we can to put things in place to make us a better team. We’ve come close at times, we’ve made in the last four years a quarter-final and a Finals Day, and we haven’t managed to go one better. It means we have a good base of white-ball cricket and it’s just fine-tuning a few things here or there.”We’ve made some really, really good signings in Will Sutherland and Will O’Rourke. I think they’ve been really good additions.”If you look at over the last couple of years, we’ve really struggled with injuries and being able to nail down overseas players for the full Blast and we’ve had them for bits and pieces. But to have guys that are going to be available for a good bit and that are actually going be able to bowl in the tough times, which we’ve probably not had the personnel available to us at all times with injuries. I think that’s going be a massive plus for us.”

Avoidance of innings defeat provides crumb of comfort for Taunton faithful

Paul Edwards14-Sep-2021
The statisticians from cricket’s black museum were out in good numbers at Taunton today. “When did it last happen,” they asked, “that a side won three successive tosses and yet lost all three games by an innings?” You probably needed to support Somerset to risk such enquiries at the County Ground, especially on a morning when the floodlights were on and the gloomy skies matched the mood of a few locals. Autumn advances.Lancashire advanced, too, although not quite so quickly as to have us searching through the records of successive innings defeats. Nevertheless, the umpires took advantage of the regulation that allows them to delay the luncheon interval by four overs if a result is in prospect and by 12.35 Alex Davies and George Balderson had completed the ten-wicket victory that will leave their side with, at the very least, a mathematical chance of winning the title when they play Hampshire at Liverpool next week. Whether Lancashire’s position is even healthier will depend mainly on the result at Southampton but also on the outcome at Headingley.For the moment Dane Vilas can be heartened by the skilful, confident cricket his side played over seven sessions at the County Ground. However the season ends this Lancashire team loses nothing by comparison with the one that won the title at Taunton a decade ago although Vilas hears and honours the echoes of those four distant days. “The team that won the title played a lot of their cricket at Liverpool and I hope we can replicate what they achieved,” he said. “We know we have to get a victory next week but the Championship is the hardest competition and all the players want to win it.”That desire was evident again this morning as Lancashire’s seamers took Somerset’s last six wickets for the addition of 88 runs, thereby leaving only the formalities to be completed by their opening batsmen. Any serious hopes that the home side might set a testing target disappeared in the first eight overs of the day, first when James Hildreth tried to pull a shortish ball from Tom Bailey but only skied a catch to point and then when Lewis Goldsworthy was skewered on the back foot by the same bowler with a ball that nipped back. The cheery blows that followed may have heartened the remarkably large crowd but they did nothing to affect the going rate for fresh haddock.
Jack Blatherwick completed a memorable match for him by taking two further wickets and Balderson picked up a couple more. However, by far the biggest cheer of the day came from the Somerset supporters when the innings defeat was avoided. Any tokens of misery were purely coincidental. The scoreboard in the corner by Gimblett’s Hill went completely black although that was caused by mechanical malfunction rather than contagious mourning.Related

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Somerset, of course, have played some pretty dreadful cricket over the last fortnight and one was therefore pleased that they managed a better showing in the second innings of this match. Andy Hurry, the county’s director of cricket, faced some fairly searching questions after it all but he took his bottom hand away when quietly defending his players and such occasions should always be placed in context. Hurry is a former Royal Marine and has therefore been trained to kill enemies of the Crown. An inquisition from a gaggle of hacks is unlikely to chill his blood.In any case Somerset have the Vitality Blast Finals Day ahead of them and spectators leaving the County Ground late this afternoon will have been encouraged to see Craig Overton bowling a few overs in preparation for Saturday. But there will be no more first-class cricket on this famous field until next April and it is the four-day stuff that matters most to the vast majority of players on the circuit. One could be sad at the sight of the almost deserted ground until one recalls that only a year ago cricket was being played before equally empty stands. The game came through those horrors and it will come through another winter. The good folk on Gimblett’s Hill will settle for nothing less.

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As opções do técnico Enderson Moreira para montar a zaga do Bahia no jogo frente ao Paraná no próximo sábado (13) às 21 h estão bastante escassas. Para se ter uma ideia, pelo menos três nomes que já foram usados recentemente como titulares padecem com problemas físicos e também a questão disciplinar.

Tiago, titular por muito tempo no Esquadrão quando esteve em plena forma, voltava de problema por contusão frente ao Botafogo na vaga obtida às quartas de final da Sul-Americana e sequer completou o primeiro tempo.

Quem também tem problema de lesão é Éverson, com uma entorse no tornozelo, que não joga desde o dia 24 de setembro na derrota frente ao Bahia em São Januário por 2 a 1 ainda na Rodada de número 26 do Brasileirão. Outro zagueiro do plantel, Jackson, foi expulso diante do Grêmio e estará fora dos relacionáveis para o embate que acontecerá na Arena Fonte Nova.

Quem deve acabar ganhando uma oportunidade entre os relacionados ou até mesmo na equipe titular ao lado de Douglas Grolli, dependendo de como prosseguir a recuperação dos então lesionados, é o jovem Ignácio.

Sua apresentação no sul do país no último final de semana agradou a comissão técnica e o atleta que inicialmente estava nos planos da equipe de Aspirantes para o Campeonato Brasileiro da categoria pode acabar sendo aproveitado no elenco principal.

Por fim, Nino Paraíba também está suspenso por cartões (levou o terceiro amarelo) e desfalcará o Esquadrão de Aço na próxima rodada.

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Entrando no segundo tempo na vaga do uruguaio Jonatan Álvez, o centroavante Leandro Damião esteve em lances capitais da partida onde o Internacional acabou derrotado pela Chapecoense por 2 a 1 na última segunda-feira (17) na Arena Condá pelo Brasileirão.

Mediante a postura adotada pelo Colorado no jogo, Damião não entende que o time exagerou no aspecto defensivo, entendendo que a estratégia faz parte do estilo de jogo implementado na temporada pelo time.

Além disso, o atacante também pontuou sobre o pênalti que ele não conseguiu converter já nos minutos finais da partida onde o goleiro da Chape, Jandrei, acabou de transformando no verdadeiro herói da partida a favor dos donos da casa:

– Não acredito que fomos muito defensivos, esse é o estilo de jogo do Inter desde o início. Infelizmente no lance do pênalti poderíamos ter conseguido o empate, tentei tirar do goleiro mas ele acertou o canto. Mas temos que sair de cabeça erguida, consegui entrar para ajudar a equipe, no ano venho sofrendo com um problema nas costas que vem me atrapalhando no campeonato.

Para demonstrar como tem de ser o comportamento da equipe depois do revés em Chapecó, Leandro Damião relembra a superação do plantel depois que o time perdeu para o América-MG no Independência em 26 de julho. Na oportunidade, jogando no Beira-Rio, o Inter goleou o Botafogo por 3 a 0.

– No jogo contra o América-MG tivemos uma derrota complicada lá e levantamos a cabeça para. no jogo seguinte, dar o máximo de si. Então, no próximo jogo que vai ser diante do Corinthians na Arena, nós vamos buscar um resultado melhor – garantiu Damião.

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ESPNcricinfo previews the one-off Twenty20 between South Africa and India at the Wanderers

The Preview by Kanishkaa Balachandran29-Mar-2012Match factsMarch 30, 2012
Start time 1730 (1530 GMT)This game will mean a lot to Jacques Kallis•Associated PressBig PictureIf you thought India’s away season had ended with the Asia Cup, then you are wrong. There’s one more game, a Twenty20 against South Africa at the Wanderers, shoehorned into the tiny gap between the Asia Cup and the start of the IPL, which starts five days later. It’s the sort of scheduling usually reserved for unofficial charity games. South Africa have just arrived from a full tour of New Zealand. When this game was announced officially earlier this month, the big question was not , but .Cricket South Africa has announced that this will be an annual affair, following last year’s Twenty20 game between the two sides at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban. That match was Makhaya Ntini’s farewell game. Tomorrow’s match is dedicated to Jacques Kallis, and the proceeds will go to his scholarship foundation. The game might be for a noble cause, but is anybody aware that it is even happening? National newspapers in India have dedicated vast amounts of column space to the lead-up to the IPL. There’s little mention that the national team has flown to the southern hemisphere again, to play a solitary match. The channel broadcasting the game in India have started a countdown to the game as a bid to aggressively market it in the middle of two ongoing international series.Fans can be forgiven if they say they are fatigued, but MS Dhoni, the India captain, insists his team is not. It is his style to put a positive spin on everything, even when the ship is sinking. His team and the support-staff have clocked so many air miles in the last few months that they probably feel sick at the sight of airport lounges and hotel rooms. A one-off match with little context is the last thing they would have wanted.South Africa have shown some compassion, resting their jet-lagged senior Test players (except Kallis and Lonwabo Tsotsobe). There’s no rest for India’s seniors, bar Sachin Tendulkar (though he doesn’t play T20 internationals). Perhaps this could be seen as a last-ditch attempt to end a horrific season with a win. The IPL franchises have already vented their displeasure about the odd scheduling of this game because the India players are missing from the pre-tournament camps. The hosts are winding down their domestic season so this game hardly disrupts their plans.A year down the line, if you forget this game took place, don’t beat yourself up. In this era of “cricket excess”, it’s hard enough to remember a game which finished yesterday.Form Guide(most recent first)
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India WLLLWIn the spotlightWhen Richard Levi’s name was called out at the IPL auction this year, it did not create a ripple. A blazing century off 45 balls (a record for Twenty20 internationals) in Hamilton made those franchises sit up. He was promptly signed up by Mumbai Indians. This will be most Indian fans’ first chance to see him.India’s bowlers conceded 329 and 289 in their last two one-day internationals. Their generosity peaked in the match against Bangladesh, where they dished out full-tosses by the dozen. That malaise affected Australia recently. Praveen Kumar and Irfan Pathan have shown they can bowl swinging yorkers, though sporadically. Death bowling could be the difference for India.Pitch and conditionsA batting track is expected. The altitude in Johannesburg, though, could test the India players.TeamsThe hosts seem to be approaching the game quite casually. The 13 players did not train, and the captain Johan Botha hadn’t even met the coach Gary Kirsten the day before the game. There were rumours that the uncapped batsman Farhaan Behardian will play.South Africa (probable) 1 Richard Levi, 2 Farhaan Behardian, 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 Faf du Plessis, 5 Colin Ingram, 6 Albie Morkel, 7 Dane Vilas/Morne van Wyk (wk), 8 Johan Botha (capt), 9 Wayne Parnell, 10 Rusty Theron, 11 Lonwabo TsotsobeIndia, for whatever logic, picked 15 players for a solitary match. There were no announcements from the India camp. Robin Uthappa, coming off good form for Karnataka in the domestic one-dayers, looks good for a recall. Manoj Tiwary has sat on the bench ever since he scored a one-day century in December. Will his wait end?India (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Robin Uthappa, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 R Ashwin, 10 Praveen Kumar, 11 Ashok DindaStats and Trivia India are returning to the venue where they played their first ever Twenty20. Albie Morkel is the only survivor for South Africa from that game. India lead the head-to-head in Twenty20s by an overwhelming 4-1. The Wanderers has the highest runs-per-over – 8.23 – among grounds which have hosted a minimum of eight games.Quotes”There are a lot of young players we are trying to groom, and hopefully it will pay dividends in the future. From our point of view there is a lot of talent around, we need to give them the exposure they require.”
.”With the World Twenty20 coming up in October, every T20 game is important and you can learn in every game.”
Johan Botha says preparation for the World Twenty20 will be the focus in the one-off game.Edited by Dustin Silgardo