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Fim do mistério. Após muita expectativa, o Bahia anunciou que renovou o contrato do atacante Gilberto até o final de 2020. O acordo foi selado nesta segunda-feira e deixou a torcida do Esquadrão de Aço contente.

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Nos últimos dias, o centroavante fez inúmeras brincadeiras nas redes sociais e deu indícios que o desfecho positivo estava próximo. Em uma das postagens, pediu para a diretoria diminuir o preço da camisa, pois assim o torcedor poderia adquirir sem maiores problemas.

A permanência do jogador era um desejo da diretoria e principalmente do técnico Enderson Moreira, que pretende manter a base do Esquadrão de Aço para a disputa da Copa Sul-Americana da próxima temporada, torneio que será prioridade no Bahia.

Contratado no segundo semestre deste ano, Gilberto disputou vaga com Edigar Junio no ataque do Tricolor e após 25 partidas, anotou oito gols, números que o deixaram como artilheiro da equipe no Brasileirão.

Dhaka Gladiators were too powerful for a depleted Khulna Royal Bengals in the BPL opener

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Jan-2013
ScorecardFlashes of spectacular cricket marked the first innings of BPL’s second season but the difference in strength between the star-studded Dhaka Gladiators and the hastily gathered Khulna Royal Bengals, who played with just one foreign player, was stark. Owais Shah’s blast with the bat and Mosharraf Hossain’s good form with the ball exacerbated the difference and Dhaka’s margin of victory in Mirpur was 62 runs.After faring poorly for Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League, Shah found form immediately in Bangladesh, hammering six sixes and four fours in his 48-ball 84. He targeted the on-side in his typical method, using the angles even while lofting the ball. Shah added 90 runs for the third wicket with Anamul Haque, who batted with utmost freedom against a bowling attack that lacked direction.Anamul scored 50 off 39 balls with four boundaries and three sixes, and thrived on Shah’s aggression at the other end. He was caught off Dolar Mahmud in the 15th over, letting Shakib Al Hasan take the crease for the first time since he suffered a shin injury in late November. He blasted his first ball for six over wide mid-on, and gave support to Shah in their 64-run stand for the fourth wicket. Shakib was unbeaten on 27 off 14 balls.Royal Bengals depended a lot on Riki Wessels and though he delivered a 23-ball 30, it was never enough when the asking rate was above ten an over. When he fell in the ninth over with his team on 67, Khulna lost their way, with Mohammad Mithun and captain Shahriar Nafees also falling on the same score.Left-arm spinner Mosharraf took four wickets, all important ones in the context of the innings, and it masked the gaps in the Dhaka bowling attack, which is based mostly on spin. Asif Ahmed made 29 low in the order, but it was too late in the day to turn the game.

Wasim Jaffer and Sachin Tendulkar scored centuries to take Mumbai to a position of strength in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Baroda

The Report by Sidharth Monga06-Jan-2013
ScorecardFile photo: Mumbai’s big batsmen came good on big day•ESPNcricinfo LtdThe last time Sachin Tendulkar played first-class cricket in Mumbai, his team fell to arguably its worst defeat in Test cricket. The last time Wasim Jaffer played in Mumbai, he scored a hundred to get his side three points but had to leave midway to tend to his father who had suffered a heart attack. On Sunday in Mumbai, albeit against a limited Baroda attack, normal services resumed as the two scored centuries to take Mumbai to a position of strength in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final.This was Jaffer’s 31st Ranji century, which takes him level with Ajay Sharma as the highest centurions in Ranji Trophy. Jaffer is now just 44 short of reclaiming his record of most runs in Ranji Trophy, which he lost to Andhra’s Amol Muzumdar in the first half of the tournament. Tendulkar, too, took a step towards records. This was his 80th first-class hundred, just one behind Sunil Gavaskar’s Indian record of 81. Also, with 18 centuries in this competition, he is two behind Gavaskar’s 20.The two came together with Mumbai 35 for 2 after choosing to bat first. Jaffer had already survived an lbw decision when South African umpire Adrian Holdstock – part of umpires exchange programme – reprieved him off an inswinger from left-arm quick Gagandeep Singh. Tendulkar squashed all nerves by batting with intent, and racing away to 23 off 32 without taking any risks. A straight drive between the stumps and the non-striker stood out.Tendulkar now settled in for a big innings, and Jaffer began to look comfortable. It was a slow pitch, and scoring was not easy, which showed in how Tendulkar once ended up dragging a lofted shot to cow corner while he intended to hit it straight down the ground. He stopped taking risks then. Jaffer, who cut one wide of Yusuf Pathan at first slip just after lunch, began to score more freely with some beautiful flicks through wide mid-on and midwicket. The two were complimenting each other again.No wicket fell in the middle session as Mumbai went from 77 for 2 at lunch to 193 for 2 at tea. Tendulkar’s strike rate had dropped to around 50, but Jaffer’s had risen to about a run every two balls. Jaffer began the final session not out on 92, and soon made his only mistake of the day after an uncertain start. As he edged a cut off Gagandeep to slip, Baroda’s captain, Yusuf, couldn’t hold on to a fairly simple chance. Jaffer then went on to bring up his century with an exquisite cover-drive off the same bowler.Tendulkar wasn’t far behind, and brought his three figures up with a nudge fine of long leg and scampering for two. A spectator, a middle-aged man, charged onto the field, and embarrassed Tendulkar by insisting to touch his feet in reverence. You could see Tendulkar wasn’t comfortable with the notion, but it seemed he had no choice.Murtuja Vahora, Baroda’s spirited right-arm fast bowler, finally broke through Tendulkar’s defence with a beauty that swung prodigiously in to sneak through the small gap between bat and pad even as Tendulkar strode forward. The off stump went cartwheeling, and Vahora was overjoyed. Jaffer, though, had become even more fluent, ending unbeaten on 137. Nightwatchman Dhawal Kulkarni did his job with an unbeaten 0 off 15 balls.

Michael Hussey will not get his desired ODI farewell at least partly to keep Usman Khawaja and Phillip Hughes away from the Twenty20 Big Bash League ahead of the India tour, the national selector John Inverarity has admitted.Inverarity unveiled a curious squad for the first two matches of the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka on Sunday, captained by George Bailey while Brad Haddin resumes as the ODI gloveman in order to allow rest for Michael Clarke and Matthew Wade. David Warner has also been given time off after playing all formats for the past year.Aaron Finch was rewarded for a compelling limited-overs summer so far while Ben Cutting has returned to the national squad for the first time since he was 12th man for the first Test match of last summer. Hussey’s omission despite indicating a desire to play a final round of limited-overs games before he exited the international stage was notable, and Inverarity said the the call was made with an eye on the 2015 World Cup but also the India Test tour that begins in February.”Our intention before two weeks ago was to give Michael a break during the Sri Lankan series and then have him refreshed and ready to come back into the ODIs against the West Indies and then off to India,” Inverarity said. “Of course things changed a bit last week. We’ve talked it over with Mike but the overriding fact is what’s best for Australian cricket and we move forward.”We’re very mindful of the 2015 World Cup and we think these ODIs are very important in terms of players like Usman Khawaja and Phillip Hughes and others having the opportunity being within the team and being in the ODI side rather than playing Big Bash League cricket partly as an opportunity for India for those who are selected. So I think we need to use those places for the future of Australian cricket.”I think we have picked a particularly exciting side. Aaron Finch, and a lot of you have seen him play, there are not many more exciting players than Aaron. When he gets runs he gets them in quite spectacular fashion. Ben Cutting too. I think this is a very very attractive side. How will we know about the best players of the future if opportunity is not invested in them?”Australia’s coach Mickey Arthur had used the term quarantine after the Hobart match when explaining why members of the national squad were not being handed over to their BBL teams in between Tests. There is real concern among the coaches and selectors that a lack of first-class cricket through such a large chunk of the season is harming the development and preparation of both current and potential international players.Haddin’s return to the team ahead of the younger Tim Paine meanwhile provided a reminder that the selectors still valued the New South Welshman’s experience. Inverarity said that Haddin remained the back-up Test wicketkeeper also, and that he would tour should the panel choose two glovemen for India or the Ashes tour of England.”We’re of the view that the two best wicketkeeper-batsmen are Matthew Wade and Brad Haddin. If something happened to Matthew than Brad Haddin would come into the side,” Inverarity said. “We may or may not take two keepers to India and/or England. At this stage, our firm intention is if we take two it’ll be Matthew Wade and Brad Haddin.”Matthew’s a very talented cricketer, very talented keeper and batsman, he’s young and we think he’ll get better and better and this has been the history of Australian cricket, we go back to Rod Marsh starting in 1970-71 and he and Ian Healy and others improved remarkably over the first couple of years. So we are certainly looking towards Matthew to improve, I think he’s keeping well, he’s got good skills and he’ll get better as time goes on.”Another on something of a Test trial over the next month will be the allrounder Glenn Maxwell, who was 12th man for the Sydney Test. Inverarity said he was hopeful that Maxwell’s progress as a cricketer and a spin bowler would gain in momentum.”We’re certainly hoping Glenn Maxwell develops as a batting all-rounder who bowls decent off-spin,” Inverarity said. “He’s a very talented played who we think is likely to improve on a fairly steep incline. We were close to playing him [in Sydney] – It was a close decision – but we thought the best side for this game was the side we put out.”ODI squad George Bailey (capt), Phillip Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Aaron Finch, David Hussey, Brad Haddin (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith, Mitchell Johnson, Ben Cutting, Mitchell Starc, Clint McKay, Xavier Doherty.

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Designated captain Javeria Khan, senior player Nida Dar unavailable for series opener

Annesha Ghosh07-Nov-2021Designated captain Javeria Khan, pacer Diana Baig and spin-bowling allrounder Nida Dar has been ruled out of Pakistan’s first ODI against West Indies scheduled for Monday, hindering their preparations ahead of the 2022 ODI World Cup global Qualifier slated to take place in Zimbabwe from November 21.In Javeria’s absence, Sidra Nawaz has been named stand-in captain for the opening ODI of the three-match bilateral series which will be held in its entirety at the National Stadium in Karachi. Pakistan head coach David Hemp put Javeria and Baig’s unavailability down to fitness concerns, saying the duo are not “not quite right” yet though they, along with top-order batter Omaima Sohail “came out of isolation a couple of days ago” after a Covid-19 outbreak in their original 18-member squad forced six players into isolation.According to Hemp, all three players trained with the extended squad on Sunday morning. While Sohail was named in the 12-member squad for Monday’s fixture, Javeria and Baig will miss out along with Dar, who exited the bubble a few days ago following her father’s passing.”As you are aware, we have been hampered by a Covid outbreak cumulatively in our camp from October 22,” Hemp said on Sunday during a virtual press conference. “We still have three players that will return to us over the next three to four days. Today (Sunday) we got three players back into the group, so we now have an extended group but we’re still three players short. We are also short of Nida Dar. Our condolences go to Nida and her family. Unfortunately, her father passed away a few days ago.”

Fixtures (All matches start at 10am local time)

• 1st ODI: November 8 at National Stadium

• 2nd ODI November 11 at National Stadium

• 3rd ODI: November 14 at National Stadium

Despite the trio’s absence, and the unavailability of Bismah Maroof, who is on maternity leave, Hemp, who was appointed Pakistan’s coach in October 2020, backed the home team to come good against West Indies. This series will be his first home assignment.”We have Sidra Amin, Iram Javed, Ayesha Zafar and Aliya Riaz,” he said. “In the top six, we have players that are capable and performing. This [series] is a great opportunity for them.”

West Indies beat Pakistan 3-2 the last time the two teams squared off in a bilateral ODI series in the Caribbean in July-July. Pakistan won the last two matches of that series. Hemp hopes several members of Pakistan’s batting department will look to build on their performances from the Caribbean tour.”Muneeba, she got herself in most of those innings [in West Indies],” he said. “She was disappointed not to go on and get to 60, 70 or even a hundred. Omaima did manage to get through the 30-run mark and a couple of 60s. There has been some progress there.”Stafanie Taylor missed the previous tour to Pakistan in 2019 due to security concerns•IDI via Getty Images

The series – Pakistan’s first home assignment since November 2019 – also marks the return of captain Stafanie Taylor to the West Indies side. She had missed the T20I series against South Africa in Antigua in August-September after being identified as a primary contact of a Covid-19 case in Jamaica, which required her to serve a period of isolation.Now she returns to tour Pakistan after having opted out of the previous tour to the country February 2019 due to security concerns.”It was really disappointing not being in the last ODI series [against South Africa]. I had to take some personal leave of absence,” she said on the even of the series opener. “But I’m back and it’s really good to be back. In Pakistan it’s my first time being here and it’s been good so far.”It seems obvious that we struggled against South Africa. We had some time to go back and reflect on things that we needed to improve our game,” she said. “We were fortunate enough to have a few weeks’ camp in Antigua to rectify some of those errors. So yeah, hopefully, you know, starting tomorrow (Monday), something new.”We are using these games to get the preparation going for the qualifiers, but not looking too far ahead. We definitely want to take away winnings, of course. So not just this practice, but also for us personally, to get some runs and wickets under our belt, and I think looking at not just the qualifiers but also for [the] World Cup [proper next year]. You never know, probably Pakistan again. So, it’s good preparation for us moving forward.”Women’s cricket is set to return to the National Stadium after 15 years•Getty Images

The series also marks the return of international women’s cricket to the National Stadium nearly 16 years after Pakistan last played at the venue in January 2006. Back then, Karachi hosted the Asia Cup during which the home team, India, and Sri Lanka played at Karachi Gymkhana and National Stadium.Spectators up to 50% capacity will be allowed for each of the three matches, though only those with invites – strictly colleges and schools – can attend the first two games. The ground will be open to the general public for the third fixture.West Indies served a three-day quarantine upon landing in Karachi on November 1 and had their first training session on November 5. After the series, which ends on November 14, both teams will travel to Zimbabwe where they will be among the 10 teams vying to secure one of three places for the World Cup to be played in New Zealand in March-April next year.Pakistan squad for first ODI: Aliya Riaz, Sidra Nawaz (captain and wicketkeeper), Anam Amin, Ayesha Zafar, Fatima Sana, Iram Javed, Kainat Imtiaz, Muneeba Ali, Nashra Sandhu, Omaima Sohail, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra AminWest Indies squad for Pakistan tour and World Cup Qualifier: Stafanie Taylor (capt), Anisa Mohammed (vice-capt), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shemaine Campbelle (wk), Shamilia Connell, Deandra Dottin, Sheneta Grimmond, Chinelle Henry, Qiana Joseph, Kycia Knight, Kyshona Knight, Hayley Matthews, Chedean Nation, Shakera Selman, Rashada Williams; Reserves: Cherry Ann Fraser, Shabika Gajnabi, Karishma Ramharack

يعقد مارسيل كولر، المدير الفني للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي، محاضرات بالفيديو مع اللاعبين مساء اليوم داخل فندق الإقامة، قبل التوجه إلى ملعب التدريب.

ويلتقي الأهلي مع الترجي التونسي مساء يوم الجمعة المقبل على الملعب الأولمبي حمادي العقربي برادس في ذهاب الدور النصف النهائي لدوري أبطال إفريقيا.

وكانت بعثة الأهلي قد وصلت إلى مطار قرطاج مساء أمس، بعد رحلة استغرقت ما يقرب من ثلاث ساعات ونصف، منذ إقلاع الطائرة من مطار القاهرة.

وحرص إيهاب فهمي، سفير مصر في تونس، على التواجد في مطار قرطاج واستقبال بعثة الأهلي والاطمئنان على وصولهم إلى فندق الإقامة.

ويؤدي الفريق الأول بالأهلي، مرانه اليوم في السابعة مساء بتوقيت تونس، التاسعة بتوقيت القاهرة على الملعب الفرعي باستاد حمادي العقربي برادس.

وصعد الأهلي إلى نصف النهائي لدوري أبطال إفريقيا، بعد تخطي الرجاء المغربي في الدور ربع النهائي بمجموع لقائي الذهاب والعودة، حيث فاز الفريق بهدفين دون رد في مباراة الذهاب، وانتهت مواجهة العودة بالتعادل السلبي.

كما تواجد سيد عبد الحفيظ مدير الكرة وسمير عدلي المدير الإداري في مطار قرطاج لإنهاء كافة الإجراءات الإدارية الخاصة بالخروج من المطار.

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وكان عبدالحفيظ وعدلي قد سبقا البعثة إلى تونس؛ للاطمئنان على كافة الأمور الخاصة بحجز ملعب التدريب وفندق الإقامة ووسائل التنقل وإنهاء كافة الإجراءات الإدارية لتسهيل مهمة الفريق منذ لحظة وصوله إلى تونس.

وأدى الفريق مرانه الختامي بالقاهرة ظهر أمس على ملعب التتش واشتمل على جانب بدني قبل تنفيذ الجزء الخططي خلال تدريبات الكرة.

Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt are set to appear before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, to appeal against the ICC’s ban for spot-fixing. Asif* will have his case presented by his lawyer Ravi Sukul through teleconference today and tomorrow, but he will appear before the court on February 7. Butt will be accompanied by his solicitor Yasin Patel when he appears before the court on February 8.Both Asif and Butt have served approximately two-and-a-half years of their seven and ten-years bans respectively (with the possibility of a suspended sentence after five years).Mohammad Amir, the third player to be sanctioned, has decided not to appeal against the five-year ban against him. The ban doesn’t permit the players to take part in any official match, international, domestic or club, until at least September 2015.Apart from being sanctioned by the ICC, the trio was also found guilty by Southwark Crown Court in November 2011, on charges of conspiracy to cheat and accept corrupt payments over deliberate no-balls. After being implicated, Butt served seven months of his 30-month jail sentence, Asif six months of a year-long term, while Amir spent three months in a young offenders’ institute.Asif was released from Canterbury Prison in south-east England after completing half of his one-year sentence in May 2012 while in June, Butt was released from prison seven months into his 30 month sentence.Butt since his release has been pressing for his innocence and asserted that he didn’t fix or influence any of the bowlers to bowl a no-ball. “I have no links with spot-fixing nor I have ever entertained any offer, nothing ever practically happened in a match that was linked to any offer,” he told reporters on his return to Pakistan last year. “Of spot-fixing or any fixing, I never asked anyone to do anything or bowl any no-balls, I am not associated with it.Butt, 28, had also hinted to lodge an appeal with the International Criminal Court, but decided against it due to the expense involved and the lengthy duration of the proceedings.* February 5, 2013 11.30am This story incorrectly said that Mohammad Asif was already in Switzerland. He is set to reach there on February 6. The length of the players’ bans has also been corrected.

Stuart Broad, England’s captain, described their final performance as “perfect” as they secured the T20 series 2-1

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Feb-2013England carried out a round tour from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again during the T20 series against New Zealand, which they secured 2-1 with a crushing ten-wicket victory in Wellington. Talk before the match had been of New Zealand comebacks but England produced the the ideal response to defeat in Hamilton, with the captain, Stuart Broad, describing their performance as “perfect” – though he needed to take a deep breath before deciding to insert New Zealand again.The pace bowlers’ use of a short length paid off and England took regular wickets, before Alex Hales and Michael Lumb peppered the boundaries to complete the highest successful chase without losing a wicket in T20 internationals. While in the second match, England’s batsmen struggled against a moving ball under lights, the only swing on offer in Wellington came in the form of another dramatic shift in fortunes between the teams.”All round, it was probably the most powerful [T20] performance I’ve seen from an England side really,” Broad said. “The result, and the way we adapted to the conditions with the ball, was brilliant. The fielding was strong as well, catches being held. It was a pretty perfect performance really.””We know early wickets kill you in Twenty20, so it was great to see the guys take their time and get used to the wicket a little bit for two or three overs … then once Alex Hales got going, it looked hard to stop him. Some of the sixes were huge. Lumby’s almost went out of the ground to finish the game.”Broad accepted responsibility for bowling first in Hamilton but his team justified the decision this time, continuing a run that has seen the chasing side win all five T20 internationals played at the Westpac Stadium. Having taken 4 for 24 in the first match in Auckland – then going for 53 in the second – Broad collected his second-best T20 figures of 3 for 15 to finish the series on a positive personal note ahead of England’s ODI and Test commitments.”After winning the toss and deciding to bowl – it took a little time to make that decision – it was important we put our wrongs right,” Broad said. “We hung into a heavy length, and the way we started with the ball, the tone we set, was fantastic. We probably kept them to 20 or 30 under par. But the power the two openers have shown there was pretty spectacular.”For Brendon McCullum, New Zealand’s captain, it was a return to lauding the opposition after his side was comprehensively outplayed. The batsmen could only manage three sixes in limping to 139 for 8 and then New Zealand’s sloppy series in the field continued as Hales was dropped twice early the England chase.”We were blown off the park tonight. [Our] batting, bowling and fielding was nowhere near the standards they need to be – and England were ruthless, and thoroughly deserved the series victory,” McCullum said. “There was some excellent hitting. We served them up … and I thought we bowled too straight; we weren’t able to get any swing whatsoever.”We were aware, once we were batting, we’d need to get somewhere near 170 – because it would skid on later – to be competitive. But in the end we probably needed 200, the way they played. We were just poor across the board, and they were excellent across the board; hence the gulf between the two teams.”

A hard line adopted by the Indian board towards English county players practicing in India has its roots in a much deeper dispute

Nagraj Gollapudi09-Feb-2013

A hard line adopted by the Indian board towards English county players practising in India has its roots in a much deeper dispute arising from the ECB’s refusal to allow IPL teams to play exhibition matches in Ireland and Scotland.The ECB holds the broadcast rights for both Ireland and Scotland and used its right of veto over televised fixtures in those countries to prevent what it saw as IPL infiltration on its own territory.This dispute over territorial rights flared up again recently when seven counties intending to send players to the Global Cricket School, a privately-run academy in Mumbai, switched instead to Sri Lanka after the ECB and GCS officials advised the counties that potential visa issues made this the best course of action.The counties – Yorkshire, Durham, Kent, Hampshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire – failed to receive permission to visit India from a muted BCCI as a stand-off between the Indian and England boards failed to be resolved.Tensions surfaced at the end of the fifth IPL last year when the BCCI approached both Cricket Ireland and Cricket Scotland directly, to check if they were interested in playing exhibition matches against a team of IPL players from different franchises.It is understood that Cricket Ireland’s initial response to the offer was that they did not have sufficient funds to host the matches. In response, the BCCI said it would underwrite the players’ costs and that the arrangement would therefore be financially attractive.However, ESPNcricinfo has learned that the ECB then refused to sanction the matches in any circumstances because it was concerned that its lucrative broadcasting deal with Sky TV, which guarantees exclusive TV coverage of cricket in England, Ireland and Scotland, could be undermined in the long term by the alternative attraction of an IPL side playing in Ireland. The Sky deal underpins the survival of first-class cricket in England.Under the terms of the ECB’s deal with Cricket Ireland for 2008-13, it gained ownership of media rights for all Ireland’s home international matches. In return, Cricket Ireland receives an annual fee, the chance to play in some of England one-day competitions should it so wish and coaching support.Details of the new TV deal have yet to be officially revealed, but it would be natural both for Cricket Ireland to want to maximise its income whilst maintaining healthy relationships with the ECB. In the meantime, it remains uncomfortably placed between two boards in conflict.Asked to clarify their respective position, all the boards involved – BCCI, ECB, Cricket Ireland and Cricket Scotland – declined to discuss the issues publicly. But it is clear that the ECB and BCCI both viewed each other’s behaviour as hostile.A BCCI official did say, however, that although communication channels between the two boards had not been closed, the ECB had a lot to explain before English county sides could be automatically welcomed again for developmental visits to India.The official said: “Discussions are still on but it has to be a two-way process. We can’t see how we can allow the counties to send their players to practice here when the ECB refuses to allow the IPL players to play even in Ireland. They must explain why they did it.”Irked by the ECB refusal, the BCCI had assumed a tough stance of its own. Last November, the ECB was forced to apologise to the Indian board for not taking the necessary approvals for the England Performance Programme (EPP) squad’s tour of India.Simultaneously, the Indian board’s secretary Sanjay Jagdale pulled up the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), demanding an explanation as to why the MCA had allowed the EPP to play games in Mumbai without gaining clearance from the Board.In the letter dated November 29*, 2012, Jagdale noted: “The Chairman brought to the notice of the house that there were instances where foreign teams were invited by state associations to play matches and attend practice camps. He advised all members not to entertain any foreign team without the prior permission of the Board.”*11:59pm, February 9: The piece had initially stated that the letter by Sanjay Jagdale had been dated November 31, 2012. This has been corrected.