Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi has vowed to make a comeback to Pakistan’s one-day squad, claiming that he is “better than most”. He was dropped from the side for the upcoming tours of Scotland, Ireland and England for the Champions Trophy in June, along with batsman Umar Akmal and fast bowler Sohail Tanvir.”The decision to drop me from the side is taken by the captain (Misbah-ul-Haq),” Afridi told the . “It isn’t a big thing if the captain does not want a player but in cricket, being in and out is a one-off thing. It happens and I will soon come back.”I am still better than most. I know I have ample cricket left in me and I can represent Pakistan for the next few years. Players usually get dropped but I appeal to my fans to pray for me.”Afridi, 33, had been dropped from Pakistan’s squad for the ODI series in India in December 2012, but was chosen for the trip to South Africa because of his skill as a legspinner. He failed to take a wicket in 37 overs, though, and scored 126 runs in four innings with a high score of 88. Since the start of 2012, Afridi’s taken only 15 wickets in 21 ODIs, and five of those came in one game against Afghanistan. His batting average during this period was 19. He managed to score only 70 runs and take three wickets in four matches for his domestic side last month.”I have been training for the England tour. I want to insist once again that I will walk away before being a burden on the side but for a while I understand I have to work hard to come back,” said Afridi.However, Afridi could be playing Twenty20 games for Hampshire this season. Due to visa issues, he was forced to miss the T20 matches for the county last year. In 2011, he had a successful stint with the county, taking 17 wickets in 10 matches at 11.17.
“When you have 18-19 runs to defend in the last two overs, you give the 19th over to your best bowler,” Anil Kumble says
ESPNcricinfo staff28-Apr-20252:38
Can RCB and DC both finish in the top four?
Axar Patel has been getting positive reviews for his leadership in his debut season as captain in the IPL, but did he get it wrong against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Sunday night? RCB had the upper hand against Delhi Capitals (DC) as the match neared its closing stages but, as Anil Kumble, Wasim Jaffer and Sanjay Bangar pointed out after the game, shuffling the order of the bowler Axar used at the death might have made a difference.When the 17th over started, RCB needed 38 runs from 24 balls. Quite simple, ordinarily, but this wasn’t a pitch where run-scoring was easy. Mukesh Kumar bowled, and Krunal Pandya and Virat Kohli took 12 off him. Dushmantha Chameera gave away nine off the next. And then it was suddenly all over as Mukesh was hit for 6, 4, 4, 4 in the 19th by Tim David. Mitchell Starc had an over left. And Vipraj Nigam had bowled just one.”I don’t know [what DC were thinking]. When you have 18-19 runs [the requirement was 17 from two overs] to defend in the last two overs, you give the 19th over to your best bowler, to take it till the end,” Kumble said on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out show. “I was surprised that he gave the ball to Mukesh and not Starc. The result might have been the same, but the intent was wrong.”Related
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The intent was likely to give Starc eight-nine runs to defend off the last over, perhaps because of what he had achieved in that thriller against Rajasthan Royals (RR).”It must be the hangover from the [game against RR]. Axar must have thought that since Starc had defended nine runs in that last over, so let’s give this to Mukesh and see,” Bangar said. “It might have worked, but the thought process was wrong. Your best bowler should have bowled that over. Even if Starc had conceded, say, 12 runs, you have a legspinner [Nigam] for the last over if you don’t want to bowl Mukesh. Spinners sometimes create magical moments. It was a mistake on Axar’s part.”Was there a lack of faith in Nigam’s abilities, perhaps? Nigam is a newbie, but hasn’t done badly in his debut season for DC, with nine wickets so far at an economy rate of 9.34. But in nine games, he has bowled only 23 overs out of a possible 36. The left-handed and in-form Krunal’s presence in the middle might have forced Axar to ignore the legspinner.”I felt he [Axar] didn’t show enough trust in Vipraj,” Jaffer said. “Maybe he could have been given two-three overs too. Maybe it could have had an effect. Because at that stage [if a wicket had fallen], two overseas batters [David and Romario Shepherd] would have been there and they might have found it tough. Jitesh [Sharma] was the main batter left then.”Fortunately for DC, the loss hasn’t pushed them out of the race for the playoffs. They are still at No. 4 with six wins out of nine. Their next three games are against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) – the first two are among the bottom-four teams on the table, and PBKS have also been up and down, so DC would back themselves to win more often than they lose before their last two games, tough assignments against Mumbai Indians (MI) and Gujarat Titans (GT).
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ESPNcricinfo previews the second Test between India and England in Mumbai
David Hopps22-Nov-2012Match factsNovember 23-27, 2012 Start time 0930 local (0400 GMT)Monty Panesar could return for England but Stuart Broad is a doubt•AFP
Big PictureIndia’s victory in the opening Test in Ahmedabad went perfectly to plan. England capitulated against India’s spinners, just as everybody suspected they might, and even Alastair Cook’s wonderfully defiant hundred after England followed on had the air of a new Test captain merely delaying the inevitable.It will all deepen the conviction that India are strong favourites in this four-Test series, poised to avenge their thrashing in England last summer. But Mumbai always has good bounce and urban legend has it that early morning moisture and a final-session sea breeze often keep the seamers interested. England won here in 2006 and, if it was four surprisingly cheap wickets for Shaun Udal’s offspin that attracted the attention, India’s collapse to 100 all out in their second innings had been sparked by the pace of Andrew Flintoff and James Anderson.It would be doubly unfortunate for England if they compounded their error in not playing two spinners in Ahmedabad by opting this time for two seamers just when conditions most favoured pace bowling. But as green as the pitch looked on practice day, it is expected to be shaved bare by the start of play. MS Dhoni, unsurprisingly, wants it to spin.Form guideIndia: WWWLL (Completed matches, most recent first) England: LLDLD Players to watchAs Sidharth Monga has memorably observed elsewhere, Virender Sehwag would have liked nothing better than to move from 94 Tests to 100 with a six. Instead, he got there in scratchy fashion, with only one half-century in 10 knocks until his career-affirming hundred in Ahmedabad. No Test batsman performs more audaciously or with such an uncluttered method. Attention will be on him even more than usual.For England, much attention will be focused on Monty Panesar, whose left-arm spin is now seen as their route back into the series. It is hard to imagine a surface in his career that demanded his selection more than Ahmedabad or a time in his career – with tours in the UAE, Sri Lanka and now India – when he should have been more in demand, yet the reality is only three Tests in more than three years and a career that has stalled since the emergence of Graeme Swann.Pitch and conditionsWill the Test pitch last the course? Three weeks ago Mumbai played Railways on the same surface, encouragement for Sachin Tendulkar, who warmed up with a century, and even more so for India’s spinners who can anticipate residual wear.Team newsEngland will surely play Panesar alongside Graeme Swann, while there will be a new face in the middle-order, with Ian Bell returning home on paternity leave. Stuart Broad’s illness could also open up a fast-bowling position. For the hosts, Umesh Yadav’s bad back is likely to hand Ishant Sharma a recall. India’s spinners, Pragyan Ojha and R Ashwin, can anticipate no let-up in their workload.India (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Pragyan Ojha, 11 Ishant SharmaEngland (probable) 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Nick Compton, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Samit Patel, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Monty PanesarStats and trivia England have never lost more than eight Tests in a calendar year. Already this year they have lost seven – and they have three Tests to play.Panesar is expected to return to the scene of one of his greatest fielding escapades – in Mumbai six years ago, he badly missed MS Dhoni at long-off, the ball landing several yards away, before catching a similar opportunity in the same spot minutes later.England won in Mumbai in 2006 to the tune of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire”, the dressing room song championed by the captain at the time, Andrew Flintoff.Harbhajan Singh’s 22 wickets at the Wankhede have come at less than 20 runs each.In the last Test at the Wankhede – India v West Indies last November – the match finished as a draw with scores level, only the second such occasion in Test history.Quotes”If it does not turn I can come and criticise once again.” “I’m not concerned at the reaction of some players. I am concerned about the last game, and that we learn from that, and I’m concerned that we improve on the field.” “
Wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal has been recalled by Pakistan for the Twenty20s against Australia in August, and September’s World Twenty20.
Umar Farooq17-Jul-2012
Kamran Akmal was recently cleared by the PCB’s integrity committee•AFP
Wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal has been recalled by Pakistan for the Twenty20s against Australia in August, and September’s World Twenty20. Kamran, who last played for Pakistan in the 2011 World Cup, was cleared by the PCB’s integrity committee earlier this month.Batsman Imran Nazir, who last played for Pakistan in February 2010, and allrounder Abdul Razzaq have also made the squad for both tournaments. None of these three players has a central contract.”Each player in the side has a role and has been selected accordingly,” Iqbal Qasim, Pakistan’s chief selector, told ESPNcricinfo. “Razzaq and Imran are utility players and can make a difference. Imran is a good fielder, while Razzaq can also be useful as a seamer on Sri Lankan pitches [during the World T20] and can score some quick runs.”Mohammad Hafeez, who was named Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain ahead of the just-concluded Sri Lanka tour, will continue to lead. According to the PCB release that announced the squad, Hafeez has been named captain ’till the end of 2012′.Squad for Australia T20s, World T20
Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Imran Nazir, Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal (wk), Asad Shafiq, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi, Yasir Arafat, Umar Akmal, Saeed Ajmal, Raza Hasan, Umar Gul, Mohammad Sami, Sohail Tanvir In: Kamran Akmal, Imran Nazir, Abdul Razzaq, Asad Shafiq, Nasir Jamshed Out: Khalid Latif, Ahmed Shahzad, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail, Shakeel Ansar
Asad Shafiq has been picked following his solid Test series in Sri Lanka, during which he scored two half-centuries and a hundred in five innings. He has scored 192 runs in 10 Twenty20 internationals for Pakistan.Opener Nasir Jamshed is also back, after recovering from a fracture of the index finger that ruled him out of the Sri Lanka tour. He is one of four openers in the squad, along with Nazir, Kamran and Hafeez.Speaking after the news of his selection broke, Jamshed said was looking forward to the competition among the openers. “Winning back the opportunity [to play for Pakistan] is always hard, and I am glad to have [my place] back. I have recovered [from the injury] and am sensing tough competition for the opening slot. But being a left-hander, it differentiates me from the other [three].”The players to miss out from the Twenty20 squad that played in Sri Lanka are Khalid Latif, Ahmed Shahzad, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail and wicketkeeper Shakeel Ansar.There are no changes on the bowling front, with Saeed Ajmal and 20-year-old Raza Hasan being the specialist spinners, and Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir and Mohammad Sami the quicks.”Raza, though young, isn’t a new name,” Qasim said. “He has been performing and [taking into account] the need for a left-arm spinner, he is the best [option] at the moment.”Sami, along with Gul, is our strike bowler. They may not be in form, but with ample experience under their belt they can bounce back and play their role.”The message from Pakistan’s selectors in picking their squad for the Australia series and the World Twenty20 seems to be a green signal for tried and tested hands and an amber light for promising youth. The most bizarre omission is that of Junaid Khan, who, in his brief career, has made a name for himself in Tests and has been making strides in limited-overs cricket as well. He’s been passed over for Mohammad Sami but, given Sami’s inconsistency, could have been a more effective complement to Umar Gul. Junaid, still in his second year of international cricket, bounced back from a heel injury to pick up 14 wickets – including two five-fors – in the recent Tests against Sri Lanka.Also to suffer is the highly-rated allrounder Hammad Azam, who has lost out to Abdul Razzaq. Azam seemed to have answered the selectors’ call for a new allrounder in 2010, when he was picked in the national squad for the World T20, but his growth has been hampered by inconsistent selection. Razzaq’s last appearance for Pakistan was in November 2011, after which he was overlooked on grounds of form and fitness. He was not handed a central contract recently, so his recall raises more questions over the selectors’ rationale.And Ahmed Shahzad, 20, appeared to be in the selectors’ Twenty20 plans before the Sri Lanka tour but has now lost his place to Imran Nazir – who will be making his fourth T20 comeback for Pakistan since 2007. Nazir was last recalled in 2010, for the series against England in the UAE, but was sent back to the fringes after scoring 2 and 4. Umar Farooq
علّق أوليكساندر زينشينكو، لاعب فريق آرسنال، على فوزهم المثير ضد أستون فيلا في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.
وتلاقى الفريقان في إطار منافسات الجولة الرابعة والعشرين من الدوري الإنجليزي، حيث فاز آرسنال بأربعة أهداف مقابل هدفين.
وتمكن زينشينكو من تسجيل الهدف الثاني لصالح آرسنال، عندما كان فريقه متأخرًا بهدفين مقابل هدف.
وقال زينشينكو في تصريحات نشرتها شبكة “بي بي سي” العالمية: “أود أن أقول شيئين بناءً على تلك المباراة، أولًا أخذنا درسًا لا يُصدق لنا جميعًا، والذي يتمثل في ضرورة الإيمان بأنفسنا حتى النهاية”.
وأضاف: “وكما قلت في السابق، تلك المجموعة بها أناس رائعون، يمكنهم تحقيق كل ما يريدون، علينا مواصلة القتال والإيمان”.
وواصل: “رد الفعل من جانب الفريق بأكمله في الشوط الثاني هو طريقة مثالية للمضي قدمًا”.
واختتم: “لا يزال هناك الكثير من المباريات التي يجب أن نلعبها، ونحتاج فقط إلى الاستمرار والقتال والإيمان بأننا قادرون على فعل كل شيء، أنا سعيد جدًا بالمساعدة عن طريق التسجيل، ولكن الأهم هو الحصول على النقاط الثلاث”.
K Jeshwanth, the Karnataka coach, said it was primarily a batting failure that led to the six-wicket defeat, which secured Haryana their first semi-final berth since 1990-91
Nagraj Gollapudi04-Jan-2012How did Karnataka let Haryana, a surprise quarter-finalist, overwhelm them on their own turf inside three days? K Jeshwanth, the Karnataka coach, said it was primarily a batting failure that led to the six-wicket defeat, which secured Haryana their first semi-final berth since 1990-91.Karnataka were dismissed for 151 in the first innings after they chose to bat. They lasted only 49.5 overs and were destroyed by 21 year-old Harshal Patel, who took 8 for 40. A medium-pacer playing his maiden season, Patel bowled with an upright wrist and seam, and got both movement and bounce from the first-day pitch, forcing edges from Karnataka’s batsmen.The score of 151 was Karnataka’s lowest in completed innings this season. Before this game, Karnataka had four totals in excess of 500, two in excess of 600. Against Haryana, they didn’t even make 300. The six-wicket loss was their first outright defeat.”Obviously the batting,” Jeshwanth said, when asked to explain the reason for defeat. “After making 151, it is difficult to come back. It was not a 150-run pitch. Harshal Patel bowled really well, putting the ball in the right areas. We did fight back – Binny bowled well and Aiyappa showed a lot of heart – but it was always going to be difficult. If we had scored 250 in the first innings – like we did in the second – we would have been able to make a match out of it.”Karnataka had been below full strength for significant parts of the season and Jeshwanth said that had impacted their campaign. Their original new-ball bowlers, Vinay Kumar (also the captain) and Abhimanyu Mithun, were in Australia with the Test squad. Manish Pandey, who hit an unbeaten double century against Mumbai, suffered from hernia. S Aravind, the third quick, was advised four weeks after the penultimate group match because of a knee injury.”The season – Manish Pandey’s absence made a difference to our batting, and three bowlers were also missing,” Jeshwanth said. “We had expected to reach the final, so it is a disappointment. Haryana is a team we were supposed to beat. We were also unlucky in this match; everything our batsmen missed took the edge.”The problem was with the batsmen getting out after getting set. We thought we had overcome it when we crossed 500 in the last match (against Uttar Pradesh).” In Shimoga, after conceding the first-innings lead to UP, the Karnataka middle order comprising Ganesh Satish, Amit Verma and Stuart Binny converted their starts into big hundreds. Against Haryana, they did not manage even a fifty.The other problem for Karnataka was their batsmen’s inability to convert starts. Robin Uthappa, Karnataka’s top scorer, failed to anchor both innings. On Monday, after the first drinks break, Uthappa was caught off a ball that pitched marginally outside off stump and angled away from him. In the second innings, after he had hit an aggressive fifty, Uthappa played across to a delivery that nipped back in to trap him lbw. On the third day, Binny gave it away by holing out to mid-on while attempting an ambitious loft.Amit Mishra, the Haryana captain, was pleased to cash in on Karnataka’s weakness. “At the end of day two the match was evenly poised. But we knew that the pressure was on Karnataka to not lose wickets quickly, but at the same time score runs in quick time,” he said. “So our aim was always not give away any easy runs and we stuck to our plan. We were confident of chasing down any target between 150-170 and we eventually managed to do that.”
O Goiás foi consistente na defesa na vitória – de virada – sobre o Paysandu por 2 a 1, na noite desta sexta-feira, no Estádio Olímpico, em Goiânia, pela décima rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro. Os gols do Esmeraldino foram marcados por Alex Silva e Lucão. Para o Papão da Curuzu, o volante Renato Augusto.
Com a vitória, o time goiano conseguiu importantes três pontos na competição e somou oito pontos, na décima sétima posição. Os paraenses, por sua vez, têm segunda derrota na competição e estão com 15 pontos, na quinta colocação.
PRIMEIRO TEMPO
O Goiás começou com as primeiras jogadas de ataque, mas quem aproveitou melhor foi o Paysandu. O time paraense, depois dos dez minutos, se animou e pressionou os goianos. Deste modo, o gol foi comemorado: após contra-ataque, Renato Augusto recebeu na entrada da área e bate de perna direita; o goleiro Marcos aceitou.
Após o gol, o Esmeraldino se posicionou para os contra-ataques para conseguir balançar as redes. De tanto esperar a chance veio: Michael ajeitou pra Alex Silva, que bateu forte de fora da área e marcou. Com o marcador igualado, a partida rendeu em emoção, e as oportunidades apareceram para os dois lados. Contudo, apenas um time saiu para a segunda etapa comemorando. Aos 43, o atacante Lucão, do Verdão, balançou as redes e vira.
SEGUNDO TEMPO Os times fizeram uma segunda etapa com mais toques de bola, e com poucas paralisações. O último passe faltou qualidade para as equipes balançarem a rede, fazendo com que o treinadores fizessem substituições para tentar algo diferente.
O Goiás foi mais perigoso nos ataques. Aos 38 minutos, Renato Cajá colocou uma bola no travessão que levou perigo ao goleiro Renan Rocha. Além deste lance, Felipe Garcia armou contra-ataque, mas desperdiçou. Porém até o final, nenhuma equipe balançou as redes.
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From the wreckage of this match, two miserable batting performances stare back at every Bangladesh cricketer, coach, fan and administrator
Mohammad Isam in Harare08-Aug-2011As the Zimbabweans celebrated their historic victory with champagne-soaked joy at the post-match presentation ceremony, the Bangladesh players stood still for a while, watching the revelry. It was a poignant moment as the group seemed collectively lost in thought, pondering their lost opportunities.If the team’s mindset in recent years is taken into account, however, it could well be that their thoughts are already of the backlash that awaits. A 130-run loss at the hands of Zimbabwe, a team that they have dominated regularly for the past six years, will not be easy to accept and the visitors will be keen to make amends.From the wreckage of this match, two miserable batting performances stare back at every Bangladesh cricketer, coach, fan and administrator. A relatively experienced Bangladeshi batting line-up should have been able to give an impressive account of themselves against a bowling attack that has played a combined 31 Tests, and what transpired on a batting-friendly Harare Sports Club wicket should be considered a travesty.The inadequacy of the Bangladesh’s preparation and the botched first-class system back home has as much to do with the loss as the batsmen’s lack of footwork against Brian Vitori or their inability to convert a start into a hundred. It also didn’t help that they hadn’t played a Test for 14 months, and in that regard the fault lies squarely with the Bangladesh Cricket Board.The emphasis on one-dayers as preparation for the World Cup has come back to bite them. The BCB happily agreed to host New Zealand for only one-day matches in October last year and shut down the first-class competition. Though Bangladesh stormed to a 4-0 series win, the magnitude of their win hasn’t translated into long-term consistency.Instead, it has exposed the fact that the Board’s priorities lie almost entirely in Dhaka’s club cricket. By lessening the importance of domestic first-class cricket – a format in which thethe likes of Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes and Rubel Hossain have rarely appear last 3 to 4 years, they sowed the seeds of this defeat.The aforementioned players, and some of the others, also haven’t done themselves any favours by losing concentration after they were set and batting with an artificial sense of confidence on their ‘own game’. In the first innings, Shahriar Nafees rode his luck one too many times and got out on 50. Mohammad Ashraful valued his wicket for a change, but not for more than 73 runs, and Shakib Al Hasan’s forceful advances had him gambling on the Zimbabwean bowlers’ lengths; a bet that he lost.”There’s a lot of talk going on. It’s time to stop talking and put them into action,” said Stuart Law, Bangladesh’s new coach. “Everything was discussed but if you can’t back the talk with actions,you look stupid.”Law may or may not have been referring to Tamim’s strut at the press conference on Sunday, which would have looked better had he not got out in slightly brainless fashion to Christopher Mpofu and was a thwarted attempt at brinkmanship.Shakib, too, batted poorly and he admitted it wasn’t the right approach. “We never thought of drawing the Test match, of defending and spending time at the crease,” he said. “We thought of winning the game. I thought I played some shots which were too early in the innings. I shouldn’thave played those shots.”I don’t know if this is the most disappointing day for us or not, but it is disappointing to lose a cricket match, especially in this situation against them. Taking nothing away from [the opposition], they were disciplined. They outplayed us in both departments,” he said.”Maybe it is because we haven’t played longer-version cricket for a long time. Although we played some practice game and three-day game, actually it didn’t help us to get the Test match feeling.”