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A função de proteger a meta do Athletico-PR pode ganhar um reforço importante nos próximos dias de acordo com informação do jornalista italiano Gianluca Di Marzio.

Na última terça-feira (11), o profissional que ficou conhecido no Brasil por acompanhar de perto as negociações entre Mario Balotelli e Flamengo veiculou que o Genoa-ITA teria interesse em emprestar o goleiro brasileiro Jandrei para o Furacão até dezembro de 2020.

A ideia é dar mais rodagem ao atleta que tem vínculo com os genoveses até 2023, fez apenas duas partidas na temporada e que deve ficar ainda mais sem espaço com a chegada deSalvador Ichazo ao clube.

Por parte de quem gerencia a carreira do arqueiro de 26 anos de idade, a postura até então é de negar a possibilidade. Em palavras do portal Globo Esporte, o empresário Carlos Escuro alegou que não existe nenhuma movimentação nesse sentido.

Caso a informação se confirme, a competitividade no que se refere ao rodízio de atletas necessário durante a temporada aumentaria consideravelmente no Rubro-Negro da Baixada. Isso porque, apesar de Léo fazer boas partidas dentre os Aspirantes, nesse momento Santos é titular absoluto e conta com imenso respaldo no clube suportado também pelas convocações a Seleção Brasileira.

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Marlon Samuels, Man of the Match in West Indies’ World T20 final victory, had scores to settle with Shane Warne and Ben Stokes afterwards

Sidharth Monga at Eden Gardens03-Apr-2016″Badass” is a word often thrown around lightly. Not for Marlon Samuels. Having won his second Man of the Match award in World Twenty20 finals, Samuels came for his press conference still in his pads. The England press conference was on when he arrived, and he sat and waited, accepting congratulations from those working in the media centre. About five minutes had gone by when he finally lost patience, and inquired when the thing would start. He had come without the West Indies media manager and he was going to do things media managers lose their jobs for.Finally Eoin Morgan left the press conference room. They didn’t look at each other. Samuels walked in. Sat sideways because he was wearing pads, and couldn’t stick his legs under the table. The ICC representative, who was going to coordinate the press conference, tried to explain to him the cameras were in front. In a heaving room, though, Samuels had the audience on side. Without moving his head, he looked at the cameras and asked, “Are you ready for me?” No one objected. They’d be damned if they objected to him.And then, just to make himself more comfortable, Samuels placed his feet on the table, spikes and all. The ICC representative tried to talk him out of it. Samuels just wanted to be comfortable. He had played some of the most gorgeous straight drives under immense pressure just minutes ago. Surely nobody minds him not giving the cameras the perfect angle. The ICC records this press conference on a camera just to the right or the left of the player. All it is likely to have got is the spikes talking. And the words stung more than his scorching hits.There is history between Shane Warne and Samuels. During a BBL match in January 2013, Samuels seemed to have grabbed Warne’s Melbourne Stars team-mate David Hussey as he turned for a second run. Warne indulged in some shirt pulling when Samuels came out to bat. Then a Warne throw from close range whizzed by Samuels’s face after which Samuels threw away his bat in anger.Warne the commentator has also not been very complimentary of Samuels, who doesn’t like it. When accepting his Man of the Match award, Samuels said he had only Warne on his mind when he woke up, and – following criticism of his dismissal against India in the semi-final – that he knew he would turn up for the final. Then he displayed his trophy to the cameras and said, “This is for Shane Warne.”At the press conference he laid into Warne some more. “Every team I play for, Shane Warne has a problem with me,” Samuels said. “I don’t know what, I’ve never disrespected him, it seems he has a lot inside him that he needs to come out with. I don’t appreciate the way that he continues to talk about me, and the things he keeps doing. I don’t know, maybe it is because my face is real and his face is not.”Ben Stokes, who also has some history with Samuels, came in for stick as well, after their ongoing tussle through the final. Samuels was waiting for the third umpire to rule on a catch – eventually he was given not out – when he and Stokes had a word. Once the umpires confirmed Samuels was to come back, he gave Stokes an angry word or three. After the match was won, Samuels removed his jersey and rushed across to be in front of the England dressing room to gesticulate. He was later fined 30% of his match fee by the ICC for “abusive and offensive language” directed at Stokes.Marlon Samuels and Ben Stokes exchange words•Getty Images

“Stokes is a nervous laddie,” Samuels said when asked of his chat with Carlos Brathwaite before the last over, off which West Indies needed 19 to win. Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes to win the match with two balls to spare. “So what I tell Braithwaite is to just hold his pose, and he’s going to bowl a couple of full tosses, as always, and it will work in our favour. And he played a brilliant knock at the end there to give me a little break down at the other end.”Stokes came in for further anger. “Well, he doesn’t learn,” Samuels said. “They keep telling him when he plays against me, do not speak to me because I’m going to perform. I didn’t even face a ball and he had so much to say to me that I know I had to be right there at the end, again.”Samuels said that the needling kept him going. “That’s what I thrive on,” Samuels said. “That’s why I’m still around for so long, despite so much ups and downs. I’ve turned my life around in the last five years, and I wake up every day and give thanks to god and to my kids, this is what I am doing for them.”For some inexplicable reason the press conference was ended abruptly at six minutes. Samuels wanted to talk more. He asked for more questions. At this moment he was laying into everything that moved. The ICC representative, though, put his foot down. Perhaps it was Samuels’ posture, perhaps it was the lack of political correctness. They might want to control him off the field, but on the field Samuels couldn’t be controlled on the night.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMark Craig picked up three wickets on the final day as New Zealand swept England aside•Getty Images

Hearts and minds are one thing but what New Zealand really wanted to win was this Test. At Headingley, the ground where they first claimed a Test victory in England more than 30 years ago, they had to battle the weather, which took almost a day out of the game, and an England side still swaggering from their heroics at Lord’s last week.They overcame both with time to spare, having scored 804 runs at almost five an over and twice rattled through England with pace, swing and, on the final day, spin. Every member of the side contributed to their victory in the second Investec Test, one which levelled the series and preserved a two-year unbeaten run. In 54 Tests against England in England, it was only New Zealand’s fifth victory and their first of the 21st century.Mark Craig followed some lower-order slugging and immaculate slip catching with three wickets on a wearing surface, finishing England’s resistance by having Jos Buttler lbw without playing a shot. Kane Williamson also picked up three-for with his part-time offspin, after Trent Boult, the joint-leading wicket-taker on either side, had struck twice early on to set New Zealand on their way.That England extended the game into the final session was chiefly down to dogged half-centuries from Buttler and Alastair Cook. Obdurate crease occupation is Cook’s greatest strength and he absorbed 171 balls in making 56, bowing his head over the bat like a monk at prayer. Buttler showed a different side to his game by playing with admirable restraint during his lengthiest Test innings, in terms of balls faced.England had gone to lunch five down, any bravado about attempting to chase 455 scattered to the far corners of the Yorkshire Ridings. Cook was their chief hope of saving the game but he fell shortly after having become the youngest man to record 9000 Test runs – when he failed in an attempt to reverse his lbw decision against Williamson, who struck in the first over of a spell for the second time, Brendon McCullum things were going his way.Buttler made it through to tea, surviving a review for caught down the leg side off Tim Southee and a working over by Matt Henry, who followed a throat ball with one that took the outside edge and fell short of slip; Buttler also required treatment after a length delivery from Henry leapt to strike him a vicious blow on the hand. He was later doubled up by the same bowler, winded by a blow to the stomach. It was an apt representation of England’s pummelling.New Zealand had enjoyed a perfect morning, Boult and Craig taking two wickets apiece in the first hour to help New Zealand once again seize the initiative. Only a scattering of spectators had braved another icy day – despite reduced ticket prices – as the people of Yorkshire wisely decided England were not worth the investment. This was a working Tuesday, after all, and England did not get close to replicating the final-day drama served up against Sri Lanka at Headingley a year ago, never mind their Auckland rescue act against McCullum’s New Zealand in 2013.Still, for the couple of thousand in attendance as well as those watching on television screens around the world, there was much to admire in the way New Zealand went about their business, each wicket celebrated with joyous collective abandon. McCullum’s side have not lost a Test series since their last visit to England and they have won many more admirers besides for the spirit in which they approach a challenge.It made the absence of a deciding Test all the more disappointing, though both sides could take credit from the fact that no two-match series has ever enjoyed such a glut of run-scoring (not to mention 78 wickets as well).If England did intend to play positively and keep the threat of a world-record run chase in the back of Kiwi minds, it was not easy to discern. Five of the first six overs were maidens, one of which included the wicket of Adam Lyth, caught behind after nicking yet another good one from Boult. With Boult making the ball swing under grey skies and McCullum able to do much as he pleased with his fielders, England regressed into the defensive posture that has frequently cost them in recent years.Lyth was always the likelier of England’s openers to press New Zealand back with his strokeplay but his dismissal without adding to his overnight score brought the seemingly ill-at-ease Gary Ballance to the middle. Despite an attempt to counter a perceived weakness against full, swinging deliveries by batting out of his crease (before stepping back in as per his trigger movement), he was undone by the skills of Boult for the second time in the match. Lightning struck twice, this time via a full ball deflecting off the pads and into off stump.The offspinner Craig, who England dealt with brusquely at Lord’s, was able to settle into a rhythm from the Kirkstall Lane End and he gained rich reward halfway through the session, removing Ian Bell and Joe Root within the space of three deliveries.Both fell to excellent leg-side catches, though the decision making – from Bell in particular – was questionable. Having seen McCullum instruct Kane Williamson to go and stand at leg slip, Bell went back into his crease and steered the ball obligingly straight to the fielder, who scooped it off the ground with glee. Root struck his leg glance much more powerfully, only for Tom Latham’s woolly jumper to absorb the impact and his hands to gratefully clutch the ball.Root had declared on the fourth evening that England still had a chance of chasing 455 but a slim chance had become no chance by the time he was the fourth batsman out inside the first hour. England attempted the talk but it was New Zealand who walked it.

Michael Clarke has conceded that Australia have focused too much on power hitting and not enough on negotiating the swinging ball during their preparation for this World Cup

Brydon Coverdale in Auckland28-Feb-20152:04

Extremely poor – that was Michael Clarke’s assessment of Australia’s batting

Michael Clarke has conceded that Australia have focused too much on power hitting and not enough on negotiating the swinging ball during their preparation for this World Cup. Australia’s deficiencies against swing have been apparent for several years in all forms of the game, and again they were ill-equipped to deal with the hooping white ball during their loss to New Zealand.Trent Boult and Tim Southee both got the ball to move at Eden Park and what Australia expected to be a high-scoring contest on one of cricket’s smallest grounds became one of the lowest-scoring battles of this tournament. Mitchell Starc also gained significant swing and nearly bowled Australia to victory, but it could not disguise Australia’s batting woes.During the week leading up to this game, Australia spent considerable time smashing sixes down the ground of throwdowns on the similarly small Eden Park outer oval. But when Aaron Finch tried the same against Southee in the match, he succeeded once and then had his stumps rattled when he tried the same next ball.It was the start of what Clarke described as a “horrendous” batting display as Australia were dismissed for 151 in the 33rd over, and only reached that thanks to a 45-run last-wicket stand between Brad Haddin and Pat Cummins. It looked for a while like they would suffer the ignominy of being bowled out by only three bowlers, although in the end New Zealand did use five.”I think sometimes in T20 cricket and one-day cricket you can get caught up working on the power side of your game,” Clarke said. “I don’t think we have had too many training sessions where we have worked on the start of our game and actually defending the brand new ball or the swinging ball and that’s an area we can focus on.”You face conditions like that all around the world, not just here in New Zealand. I think you will see the ball swing at the WACA in our next game and we have experienced it plenty of times in Brisbane, even the MCG and the SCG these days. The ball is going to swing and we have some work to do with the bat, that’s for sure.”Australia have had nothing but net sessions and centre-wicket practice over the past fortnight due to their wash-out against Bangladesh at the Gabba. But Clarke said their lack of game time was no excuse for a batting performance that became their worst completed World Cup innings since the 1983 tournament.”I think it was more shot selection and probably being in a bit of a rush as well, thinking we probably had to score a lot more runs than we did,” Clarke said. “That type of wicket with the ball swinging, you’ve got to give yourself more opportunity at the start of the innings and try and catch up later at the end.”Clarke saw four of the dismissals from the other end of the pitch as he looked for a while like he might steady the innings. However, he then became one of Boult’s five victims when he drove on the up to a specially placed short cover, which Clarke admitted was a prime example of the poor shot selection that defined Australia’s innings.”We were extremely poor, there is no doubt about that,” he said. “I think credit need to go to the New Zealand bowlers, they bowled really well, swung the ball nicely and bowled good areas, but our shot selection was very poor and I think our defence more than anything else was an area that was a lot poorer than we would have liked.”Australia got themselves back into the game through Starc’s second six-wicket haul in ODIs this year; Australia’s late surge and the one-wicket margin made the match one of the classic trans-Tasman contests. Clarke said he had impressed upon his men at the change of innings that their total was defendable, and he had nothing but praise for the work of Starc.”The faith was there, we just had to execute,” Clarke said. ” I think we did, even to get Brendon [McCullum] out for 50 the way he is playing at the moment, we changed our plans in the middle of his innings and found a way to get him out. But Mitchell Starc was the stand-out today for me. That individual performance is as good as you will see in any form of the game, good pace good swing and most importantly very good execution.”

Alastair Cook’s future as England ODI captain appears to be in the balance after another series loss left coach, Peter Moores, unable to guarantee his place in the World Cup side.

George Dobell13-Dec-20141:00

Cook pleased to be away from social media

Alastair Cook’s future as England ODI captain appears to be in the balance after another series loss left coach, Peter Moores, unable to guarantee his place in the World Cup side.England succumbed to a 90-run defeat in the sixth ODI of the series in Pallekele giving Sri Lanka an unassailable 4-2 lead with one match to play. It means England have lost six of their last seven ODI series and nine of their last 12 ODIs.Cook endured another miserable match, failing once again with the bat – he has now scored one half-century in his in his last 21 ODI innings. He also dropped a straightforward catch offered by Kumar Sangakkara when the batsman had 41. Sangakkara went on to score a match-defining century.It left Moores unable to offer anything but equivocal support after the match. Admitting Cook “needs runs” he also stated that, as one of four selectors, it would be presumptuous for him to offer a definite opinion and that, as usual, the management will “review everything” after the series.Asked by whether Cook would be captain at the World Cup, Moores replied: “We review everything at the end of every series, we’ve always said that.”We’ve had many things happen on this series and we’ve got a very new batting line-up with people like Moeen Ali and James Taylor coming in and doing well.”We make no bones that we’re passionate to try and get our best side to go out and win a World Cup. Cook needs runs but he’s also had some great times as an England player. He’s in a tough patch at the moment but that’s something he’s working hard to get out of.”Cook was more confident about his future, however. Asked afterwards if he believed he would be the man leading England at the World Cup, Cook said: “Yes.””It’s clearly been a tough day,” he said. “We came in with high hopes, especially with the way we played at the same ground two days ago. So it’s been a frustrating day all round and it doesn’t make the job any easier.”I’m not scoring the runs I would like, it’s not a great place to be as a captain, you want to lead from the front and when it’s not happening for you it’s frustrating. I’m a better player than I’m showing at the moment and I’ve just got to keep going.”Despite their abject run of form over the last 18 months, Cook said he felt the side had made improvements but that another series defeat was a “reality check”.”I think we’ve actually made some good strides on this tour in one-day cricket,” he said. “The way the lads have gone about it has been fantastic. Today is a really tough day for everyone involved in an England shirt. We played so well last game and to play nowhere near as well as that is incredibly frustrating because we need to be consistent. We’ve always struggled a bit with our one-day and hopefully we’re making steps to get better at it. But this is obviously a reality check.”While Moores celebrated the opening spells of Chris Woakes and Steven Finn, he admitted that England’s death bowling allowed Sri Lanka to “get away” from them.”It’s disappointing,” he said. “We came here thinking we could draw the series level, but we were outplayed in probably all three departments. We dropped catches and we lost too many wickets early despite being up with the rate.”Bowling, we did well in the first 10 overs, but towards the end of the innings we need to make sure our plans are a bit clearer, a bit simpler. We also didn’t choose the right lengths with the ball at times. We did some good things at times, but some costly errors let them get away from us.”

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsVirat Kohli made his 20th ODI century•BCCI

Virat Kohli cracked his 20th ODI hundred, Suresh Raina and Ajinkya Rahane made fifties as India comfortably downed a seemingly eager-to-leave West Indies in Dharamsala. The news that West Indies’ tour had been cut short due to the players’ payment dispute with their board broke during India’s innings, and the visitors backed that up with shoddy fielding and bowling performances. Marlon Samuels overcame a struggle of a start to make his seventh ODI century, but barring Andre Russell’s belated and brief blitz, the rest of the line-up sank after India had racked up 330. India took the five-match series 2-1, with the third ODI washed out by a cyclone and the fifth cancelled by West Indies’ pullout.There was more bounce in the Dharamsala track than on most Indian ODI pitches, but it was useful to the bowling side only when backed by serious pace. West Indies weren’t really willing to bend their backs barring the odd occasion. They were eager to bowl short, though, and continued to do so throughout the innings. And India kept hooking and pulling harmless stomach-high bouncers to the short boundaries.As early as the first ball of the second over, Shikhar Dhawan showed there was nothing to worry about the bouncers short on intent as he pulled Jason Holder for four. West Indies refused to learn and Dhawan helped himself to easy boundaries.Ajinkya Rahane was timing the ball superbly at the other end, caressing full deliveries both sides of the wicket. West Indies tried bowling wide with a packed off-side field, but he disturbed those plans by stepping out and going leg side.The stand had grown to 70 in the 12th over when Russell combined pace with bounce and Dhawan, not for the first time, top-edged an awkward hook to the deep. West Indies had an opportunity to claw back further in Russell’s next over, but Jerome Taylor spilled a simple chance at fine leg off another top-edged hook, reprieving Rahane on 38.Kohli, at No. 4, had made his first fifty across Tests and ODIs since February in the previous game. Back at his usual No. 3 position today, he had his ODI-autopilot mode on from ball one, to which he leaned forward solidly and pushed a single to cover. There was some turn and bounce for the spinners, and Kohli wasn’t going to go after anything unless it was too wide or short. He and Rahane collected 72 at just under five an over without taking any risk, and it took an incorrect leg-before decision against Rahane, on 68, to break the partnership.India were 142 for 2 when Rahane went in the 27th over. Kohli and Raina nearly doubled that with a 138-run stand that took 108 balls.West Indies had gone overboard with the short ball; they weren’t going to hold back against Raina. But even he wasn’t troubled with their half-hearted, predictable offerings as he swiped and pulled five sixes on way to 71 off 58.Raina and Kohli collected 52 off the batting Powerplay, and India took 94 off the last ten overs as West Indies, who had been threatening to do so all the time, completely lost it in the field. The dropped chances, overthrows and misfields piled up.Kohli reached his hundred on an overthrow off his 101st delivery, and he and MS Dhoni were both put down in the same over. Kohli ended with 127 off 114.Samuels responded with 112 off 106 and was last man out as the rest crumbled around him, despite the considerable dew soaking the outfield in the cool mountain weather. Samuels was peppered with bouncers, especially by Mohammed Shami, when he came in but he survived and hit back with the odd boundary before taking 47 off the 29 deliveries he faced from Ravindra Jadeja.Jadeja went for 2 for 80 from nine overs, while the second left-arm spinner in the XI, Akshar Patel, returned 2 for 26 from ten. Akshar conceded just one boundary from his quota, and broke the 56-run third-wicket stand between Samuels and Darren Bravo, who fell for a steady 40.Bhuvneshwar Kumar had tied up the top order with prodigious swing under lights. Kieron Pollard, promoted to No. 3, could not put bat to ball, unable to figure out which way it was swinging. When Bhuvneshwar ended Pollard’s crawl on 6 off 31, West Indies were 27 for 2 in 11 overs. West Indies kept losing wickets, and though Russell powered 46 off 23 at No. 8, they had already slipped too far behind on the asking-rate.

Tarini Bikram Shah, the acting president of the Cricket Association of Nepal, has said the board is committed to conducting the T20 leg of the Nepal Premier League (NPL) in a clean and transparent manner

Bishen Jeswant27-Jul-20149:18

No reason to present accounts to CAN – Aamir Akhtar

Tarini Bikram Shah, the acting president of the Cricket Association of Nepal, has said the board is committed to conducting the T20 leg of the Nepal Premier League (NPL) in a clean and transparent manner.The inaugural NPL was divided into 50-over and 20-over divisions, of which the 50-over games were held in May. However, the T20 competition, which is yet to be played, has seen some controversy in its build-up, after a few members of CAN filed a no-confidence motion against Tanka Angbuhang Limbu, the CAN president. Angbuhang has since stepped aside due to ongoing investigations against CAN.Nepal fans will be hoping for the NPL to get underway without further controversy•ICCThe primary cause for the no-confidence motion was the outsourcing of the NPL to Zohra Sports Management, a private sports management firm. According to a few reports, there was no bidding process before the league was outsourced and Angbuhang had reportedly not made it mandatory for the firm to submit the tournament accounts to CAN. Before the procedural formalities of the no-confidence motion were completed, the board came under investigation by Nepal’s Commission for Investigation into Abuse of Authority, after which 10 members, including Angbuhang, the secretary and other office bearers had to step aside.”It was Zohra Sports who initially proposed the idea to conduct an NPL and this is great for the game,” Shah said. “However, we wanted the tournament to be held in a transparent manner – whether it be around the code of conduct, anti-corruption or other financial matters. There is no question about the utility of the NPL, we just need to ensure that it is run in a clean and transparent manner.”Aamir Akhtar, a former Nepal cricketer and the owner of Zohra Sports, confirmed that the agency had conceived the idea for the tournament but emphasised it had no reason to share its accounts with CAN since the two parties did not have a financial arrangement.”The idea and initiative to conduct a Nepal Premier League came from Zohra Sports and not CAN. Therefore, there is no question of there being any bidding or tender process,” Akhtar said. “On the submission of accounts, since Zohra Sports has no financial arrangement with CAN, whether revenue-sharing or otherwise, there is no rationale for us to share our accounts with them. All payments to players, umpires, ground staff, etc. are being made by Zohra Sports. We have nothing to hide, but as a matter of principle, we will not disclose our accounts since we have no obligation to do so.”With Nepal cricket lurching from one controversy to another since the World T20 in March, Shah said Angbuhang ought to have stepped in and resolved the matter at the time.”What happened between Zohra Sports and the governing council is not very clear. Our suspended president should have stepped in and resolved the matter,” Shah said. “I’m not sure whether he had the time or if he got caught up with other political commitments. We are sorry that the progress of a good thing was hindered. Going forward, we will make sure that everything is to everyone’s satisfaction.”The tournament has an IPL-inspired set-up of privately-owned franchises and the rules of the league allow team owners to include within their side any two overseas players who are not restricted or banned by the ICC. It is expected that domestic players from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be part of the league. The dates for the tournament are expected to be finalised once Shah returns to the country from England.

Following a morale boosting win against Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians find themselves in with a chance, albeit a tough one, of sneaking into the playoffs

The Preview by Rachna Shetty22-May-2014Match factsFriday, May 23, 2014
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)3:26

Guha: Simmons has given Mumbai the platform they lacked

M Vijay is still finding form at his new franchise•BCCI

Big PictureFollowing a morale-boosting win against Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians find themselves in with a chance, albeit a tough one, of sneaking into the playoffs. Mumbai’s last two league games are at home, and both are undoubtedly must-win ones, but they also need help from other teams to stay in contention.With Kolkata Knight Riders beating Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad beating Chennai Super Kings on Thursday, Mumbai now find themselves in a race with Sunrisers and Rajasthan Royals for the last playoff spot. If Kings XI beat Royals, the last league match between Mumbai and Royals will decide which team makes it to the top four – and progression will depend on net run rate in Mumbai’s case. If, however, Royals beat Kings XI, Mumbai and Sunrisers will be out of the race.In Daredevils, they have an opposition that has struggled all season; the only thing at stake for Daredevils is pride. That can be an oddly liberating thing, though, especially for the marquee players who have lurched from the 30-somethings to single-digit scores regularly. The odds are stacked heavily against them, but all of the pressure is on Mumbai, giving Daredevils the freedom to play fearless cricket.Form guideMumbai Indians: WWLWL (most recent first, completed matches only)
Delhi Daredevils: LLLLLWhere they standMumbai Indians: Sixth on the points table, with five wins in 12 games
Delhi Daredevils: Last, with two wins in 12 gamesPrevious encounterDelhi Daredevils notched up their second win of the tournament the last time the two met. Shahbaz Nadeem, JP Duminy and Wayne Parnell all gave away less than five runs an over as Mumbai were stifled to 125 for 6. M Vijay’s 40 and an unbeaten 18-ball 26 from Kevin Pietersen then took Daredevils to a six-wicket win the 19th over.Watch out forBrought in to lend some stability into a shaky top order, Lendl Simmons has found his feet in the IPL. In five innings, he has scored 280 runs at an average of 70 with one century and two fifties. In the last two games, his partnerships with Michael Hussey have set the foundations for Mumbai’s wins.M Vijay is one of three current players in the IPL to have two or more hundreds in the tournament. Both came for his old franchise, Chennai Super Kings. This is shaping to be a poor season for him – he has 199 runs in 10 games – and the fact that Daredevils have nothing to lose could spur him on to finish the tournament on a strong note.Stats and trivia Among all partnerships to score at least 100 runs for Mumbai this season, the pair of Michael Hussey and Lendl Simmons have been the quickest. They have added 188 runs while opening the innings in two games. The pair have also added only the second century-partnership for Mumbai this season Kieron Pollard is the second batsman after Chris Gayle to have hit 300 sixes in T20 cricket With seven successive losses, Delhi Daredevils are one defeat away from equaling their worst streak of successive losses in the IPL – eight across 2012-13 Seven teams have picked up 56 or more wickets in this IPL. Delhi Daredevils, however, have only taken 41 wickets and their economy rate of 8.44 is the worst for this seasonQuotes”Since Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard have played for Mumbai Indians, they always vouched for me to the owners that I am a good player and that they should bid for me.”

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Adversário do Botafogo no próximo domingo, pelo Campeonato Brasileiro, o Goiás carrega um retrospecto positivo diante do Botafogo em jogos no seu domínio. A última vez que o clube de General Severiano venceu uma partida no Serra Dourada, palco do duelo da quinta rodada do atual Brasileirão, diante do Esmeraldino foi em outubro de 2009.

Na ocasião, o Botafogo, na luta contra a metade de baixo da tabela, venceu o Goiás por 3 a 1. Com certa folga, os atacantes Jobson, Victor Simões e André Lima construíram o placar favorável ao Alvinegro durante o duelo. Amaral, nos minutos finais, descontou para o Esmeraldino.

De lá para cá, o Botafogo retornou ao Serra Dourada em três oportunidades diferentes e saiu derrotado em todas. As equipes não duelam desde 2014, já que o Esmeraldino e o Alvinegro, desde então, não se encontraram mais na primeira divisão do Campeonato Brasileiro.

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Em 2019, a solução do Botafogo para reverter este cenário negativo pode ser um jogador criado nas bandas do próprio Serra Dourada. Erik, um dos atletas de maior destaque do elenco alvinegro desde o ano passado, foi revelado pelo Goiás, estreando profissionalmente em 2013. Pelo clube esmeraldino, ele foi eleito a revelação do Campeonato Brasileiro do ano seguinte.

Erik, artilheiro do Botafogo na temporada, com oito gols marcados até aqui, vai enfrentar o clube que o revelou pela primeira vez na carreira. O atacante afirmou que, apesar do carinho pelo Goiás, vai buscar a vitória para o clube de General Severiano.

-Estou feliz por voltar ao Serra Dourada, onde vivi momentos marcantes da minha carreira vestindo a camisa esmeraldina, mas vou em busca de mais três pontos para o Botafogo neste Brasileirão – afirmou.

As duas equipes vão se enfrentar neste domingo, às 16h (de Brasília). O Botafogo, após três vitórias seguidas, soma nove pontos e ocupa a quinta posição na tabela. O Goiás, por sua vez, é o nono colocado, com seis pontos.

ScorecardFile photo: Offspinner Jalaj Saxena finished with figures of 4 for 83•BCCI

Services couldn’t capitalise on their overnight score of 256 for 3 as much as they would have liked but ended the day in a strong position after scoring 391 and removing three Madhya Pradesh batsmen. MP were 127 for 3 but still trail be 25 runs.Services batsmen Rajat Paliwal and Yashpal Singh were 92 and 81 overnight but the former fell one short of his seventh first-class hundred. Yashpal brought up his 15th, but lost another partner soon and Services were 309 for 5. Along with Vishnu Tiwari, Yashpal took them past 350 but fell for 142 soon after to legspinner Jatin Saxena. With the help of Jalaj Saxena, who dismissed Irfan Khan, Jatin ran through the tail to restrict Services’ first-innings lead to 152. Jatin and Jalaj picked up four wickets each.MP lost their openers cheaply and were struggling at 30 for 2 before Naman Ojha rescued them again with a half-century. Mohnish Mishra gave him able support with a useful 31, but he handed a return catch to Koteswar Rao at the score of 101, ending the 71-run stand. Even though, Ojha and Devendra Bundela remained unbeaten at stumps, MP face a tough task of taking a hefty lead to take control of the match.
ScorecardBengal’s middle-order batsmen and Saurashtra’s pacers set up an exciting last day of the third round at Eden Gardens, as the hosts lead by 272 and have two wickets in hand.Bengal’s top four batsmen departed for low scores, two of them dismissed by Chirag Jani, leaving the score at 59 for 4. Wriddhiman Saha and Anustup Majumdar scored fifties and averted any more damages for a while with a partnership of 91. Once the score passed 150, Jani struck again and removed Saha for 52. Before Bengal could build on their lead further, Abhishek Bhatt took the next three wickets within 25 runs, and with the wicket of Majumdar for 69, Bengal were 189 for 8.With three fours, Sourav Sarkar was unbeaten on 13 at stumps. Bhatt and Jani finished the day with figures of 4 for 47 and 3 for 54 respectively.
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Piyush Chawla was on 9, and Uttar Pradesh were still 81 away from Tamil Nadu’s score when Abhinav Mukund put down a fairly straightforward chance at point. On a day when Tamil Nadu’s bowling looked listless, and opportunities were rare, their fielding had to be spot-on. It wasn’t, and Chawla capitalised to reach his fifth first-class hundred as UP took a big lead on the third day in Meerut.Read the full report here.
ScorecardRajasthan added 36 to their overnight score of 142 and then dismissed Railways for 150 to set themselves a target of 256 for the last day.Trailing by 141 at the beginning of the third day, Rajasthan lost Vineet Saxena in the third over of the day before he could score. Ranjitkumar Mali dismissed Deepak Chahar and Pankaj Singh soon enough to help Railways take a first-innings lead of 105. Mali, Anureet Singh and Krishnakant Upadhyay took three wickets apiece.The main contributions for Railways came from the top and middle order, as only four of the batsmen reached double-figures. Chahar removed both openers within eight overs but with a contribution of 22 from No. 4 HD Rawle, Nitin Bhille found some stability for Railways. However, Rawle was caught behind off Aniket Choudhary causing Railways’ lower-order to collapse.Within nine overs, they slipped from 95 for 3 to 119 for 7 as Chahar removed Arindam Ghosh, and Choudhary took two more wickets. To add to that, Anureet and Upadhyay were run out and Railways folded for 150, with Bhille unbeaten on 50. Chahar and Choudhary notched three scalps each.With a day left, Rajasthan need 251 more to win, with both openers unbeaten overnight.