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Rubel Hossain, the Bangladesh fast bowler, has suffered a right shoulder injury while fielding on the third day of the Chittagong Test against Pakistan and will miss the rest of the game

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Dec-2011

Rubel Hossain, the Bangladesh fast bowler, has suffered a right shoulder injury while fielding on the third day of the Chittagong Test against Pakistan and will miss the rest of the game. The team management has sent him to Dhaka for an MRI. Rubel will not be available to bat in the second innings in which Bangladesh are tottering at 134 for 3. Bangladesh need another 325 runs to make Pakistan bat again.The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s physician Debashish Chowdhury said the injury did not appear to be serious. “It looks like the injury is not serious but we have to wait for the MRI report to know exactly what has happened to his shoulder,” Chowdhury said. “We can only talk about his treatment after the report.”Initially there was no swelling but after two hours there was some swelling in his right [bowling] shoulder which is not a good sign. The shoulder is not dislocated but what the bowler himself claimed was that it was dislocated first and then relocated. In that case it will take time but again we have to wait for the MRI report.”Rubel had to leave the field on the third day of the Test after he fell while trying to dive to save a boundary.

MS Dhoni reckons England might need to change their strategy of verbal intimidation considering it has not actually worked in their favour in the ongoing series in which India have taken an unassailable 3-0 lead.On the eve of the Mohali one-dayer the England pair of Tim Bresnan and Samit Patel had stressed on the importance of unsettling their opponents with “a little bit of a word or a look or a stare”. The planned aggression cost Bresnan 7.5% of his Mohali match fee, after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC’s code of conduct by snatching his cap from umpire Sudhir Asnani at the end of the 18th over of the chase. Players from both teams have been involved in a few verbal confrontations and Dhoni said he did not mind a little bit of “chit-chat” as long as long as his players did not step over the line or make personal remarks.”A bit of chit-chat is fine because it makes things interesting. You don’t always want a friendly series. But I think they should change their strategy for the next two games,” Dhoni said after the five-wicket victory in Mohali.Dhoni also did not want to get carried away and term this series victory as “revenge” for the disastrous summer India had endured in England, where they lost the Test and one-day series and the solitary Twenty20 match. “I don’t think the word revenge should be used. On the one hand we talk about the spirit of cricket, and on the other hand there’s this talk of revenge, which I don’t think is right.”In Mohali, India were cruising in the chase before a few quick wickets left Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja 64 to get off 50 balls. Dhoni said he just wanted to bat till the end because he knew the bowlers would eventually feel the pressure. “You always want to stay till the end because you reach a stage where the bowlers and batsmen are under pressure, and then whoever executes better wins. We knew that if Jadeja and I are there in the end then even if we needed 20-25 runs off the last two overs, Twenty20 cricket has taught us that is possible.”Dhoni also pointed out that he would not like to disturb the winning combination and instead would persist with playing their young batsmen at the top of the order because they needed time in the middle. “The youngsters need to be batting 20-25 overs. Once they are more experienced, then we can experiment with batting them lower in the order. Nos. 6 and 7 are difficult places to bat because there’s only one or two batsmen behind you so it’s better players are only tried there when they have a few games under their belt.”After having been thumped in the first two matches, England gave a better account of themselves in Mohali, but their captain Alastair Cook said that did not make the loss any easier to bear. The match once again threw the spotlight on Jonathan Trott’s position in the one-day side. Though Trott scored 98 not out, he took 116 balls to get there and struggled to hit boundaries in the end overs. Cook, though, insisted Trott played his role perfectly.”Trott played the anchor role and did it nicely,” Cook said. “Fifty overs is quite a long time to bat and you need people to bat around him. Three hundred was a decent score and was defendable. Trott’s instructions are the same as everyone else’s: to play positively and try to get 300. Today we did that and he got 98 at a strike rate of 80-odd, so he did his role.”Cook again highlighted his side’s fielding as the most disappointing part of their performance but said the team would still battle in the last two games. “One of the toughest challenges in sport is to lift yourselves when you’ve already lost a series. But there’s still desperation to win.”

Gautam Gambhir, the India opening batsman, could miss the solitary Twenty20 international against England in Manchester on August 31

Nagraj Gollapudi28-Aug-2011Gautam Gambhir, the India opening batsman, could miss the solitary Twenty20 international against England in Manchester on August 31. Gambhir had a light batting session during India’s optional training at Grace Road, but informed team management that he was not able to clearly sight the ball on a few occasions.”He said that he could not see the ball at times when it came at full speed,” Shivlal Yadav, Indian team manager, told ESPNcricinfo. “He will be taken to an eye specialist in Manchester on Tuesday.” With people making use of the long Bank holiday weekend (Saturday through Monday), Yadav said that private eye specialist who was recommended was on leave and the next available date for an appointment was August 30. “Based on what the specialist says we will have to wait for the next step. As of now it seems difficult,” Yadav said about Gambhir’s participation in the game.Gambhir suffered a concussion on the third day of the final Test at The Oval after falling on his back and hitting his head against the turf while attempting a catch in the outfield. He batted down the order in both innings was hit on the back of his helmet by Stuart Broad in the second innings that set his recovery back.He did not feature in either of India’s two victories in the tour games against Sussex and Kent and will likely miss the final practice match, a Twenty20 against Leicestershire on Monday, as well, although his name was printed on the county’s programme guide.On Sunday, the India squad minus MS Dhoni and Munaf Patel enjoyed a three-hour long training session behind closed doors. Dhoni opted out of the session to watch his favourite football team Manchester United trample Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford. Reportedly Suresh Raina and RP Singh, who did take part in the training but left early, joined Dhoni for the English Premiership game.The media were not able to watch the session, however, as they were barred from practice. According to Yadav, the decision was taken at the behest of the local police, who were manning the ground in strong numbers. The team’s security has been strengthened after the twin incidents in Kent -an unclaimed package was found on the railway track near Canterbury West train station and the fire inside a Marks & Spencer store that was very close to the Indian team hotel. “The police felt that the media could not be allowed inside the training,” Yadav said.The local ground security even refused to allow the media to watch the training from the few available viewpoints, such as the bar and cafe on the first floor of the block that houses the county shop. When some journalists tried to stand on the bucket seats meant for spectators, they were immediately asked to step down and warned that they would be asked to leave the ground if they continued to ask questions.

An elegant century from Varun Chopra stole the initiative for Warwickshire on the opening day of their championship match against Somerset at Taunton

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An elegant century from Varun Chopra stole the initiative for Warwickshire on the opening day of their championship match against Somerset at Taunton. Chopra, who finished the day unbeaten with a career-best 174 to his name, led Warwickshire to full batting bonus points for the first time since September 2009. For a side that failed to pass 400 in a single first innings last season, that represents quite an achievement. Indeed, the five batting bonus points that Warwickshire have already gathered puts them well on the road to over-hauling their paltry total of just 20 in the whole of last year.But if this was a pleasing day for Warwickshire, it was a bitterly disappointing performance from Somerset. Having won the toss and inserted their visitors on a green-looking pitch, they did nothing to justify their billing as pre-season favourites for the championship title.Of most concern was the performance of Ajantha Mendis. The Sri Lankan endured an awful day, conceding 24 in no-balls and delivering a fearful number of long-hops and full-tosses on the way to conceding 124 from his 24 overs. He was quite unrecognisable from the man who finished the recent World Cup as the most economical regular bowler.Perhaps there were extenuating circumstances. For a start Mendis only landed in the UK on Wednesday and could be forgiven for showing signs of jet-leg. More pertinently, this was the first time he had bowled with a Dukes ball which, for a man armed with so many subtle variations, clearly presented a sizable challenge. But, even that slightly charitable explanation, does little to explain his recurrent no-ball problems.So, was Marcus Trescothick’s decision to insert Warwickshire wrong? Perhaps. But, as Somerset coach Andy Hurry explained, the theory was that if the ball was to do anything in this game, it would be in the first 90 minutes. Certainly the pitch shows every sign of having reverted to the batting paradise of 2009 and there’s little reason to think it will deteriorate.But it would be wrong to blame Somerset’s new ball bowlers, either. They actually performed quite well in the opening hour, seeing Ian Westwood push an edge to slip and forcing Warwickshire to proceed with great caution.Instead, credit is due to Chopra. Immensely watchful early on, he took 27 balls to get off the mark and, in the opening hour, left the ball with admirable patience and discipline. Having done the hard work, he produced a selection of delightful strokes as the Somerset attack – the admirable Charl Willoughby and, to a lesser extent, Steve Kirby aside – waned alarmingly.Three times in an over Chopra cut Mendis for four, while when Peter Trego dropped short he was pulled, dismissively, for six high into the Somerset Stand. Mendis was also pulled for two sixes, while some of the cover drives Chopra played in the afternoon session would have made David Gower proud. It was the first time in his first-class career he had batted throughout a day’s play.Afterwards he explained Warwickshire’s policy on the second day would be simply to bat for as long as possible and hope that ‘scoreboard pressure’ might weigh heavily on Somerset.Chopra gave just one chance. On 82, Jos Buttler put down a tough chance at slip off Trego, while Hussain, at mid-on, also put him down when he had 97 off Kirby only to see the umpire signal no-ball. It was that sort of day for Somerset.Since marking his championship debut in 2006 with a century, 23-year-old Chopra’s career has not progressed as he might have hoped. A former captain of England U19, great things were expected of him yet, until this innings, he had made only one other championship century, in 2008 and has struggled to command a first team place.He followed the route of Nick Knight, 15 years earlier, in defecting from Essex to Edgbaston in search of greater opportunity, but passed 50 just once in 18 championship innings last season. Already in this innings he’s scored almost 50% of the runs he scored in the whole 2010 championship season. Oddly, all three of his championship centuries have come against an attack containing Steve Kirby.Chopra won good support during a stand of 89 for the second wicket with William Porterfield, 155 for the third with Darren Maddy and 96 for the sixth with Tim Ambrose. Porterfield, on his Warwickshire championship debut, timed the ball sweetly and looked impressively solid until clipping to square-leg just before lunch, while Maddy cut with power and looked back to his best after a horrible 2010 season. Having just swept Mendis for four, he dragged on the next ball attempting a repeat. Ambrose, too, who averaged just 13 in last year’s competition, seemed to have rediscovered his form, until Willoughby, armed with the new ball, accounted for him with one angled across.Such moments of success were few and far between for Somerset, however. Though Kirby persuaded one to bounce and take the shoulder of Jim Troughton’s bat and Rikki Clarke edged a full length one angled across him, this was – resoundingly – Warwickshire’s day. Particualrly bearing in mind how woeful their batting was last season.Somerset are not out of the game, however. This pitch looks full of runs and, over the last few years, a score of 400 could be considered par at Taunton. If they can strike early on the second day, they could yet dismiss Warwickshire for a manageable total.Meanwhile Somerset’s new chief executive, Guy Lavender, was enjoying his first match-day at the club. An impressive fellow, Lavender left the army at the rank of Lt-Col having seen service in the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.He inherits a club with big plans. The new, 450-seater Ondaatje Stand takes Taunton’s capacity to 8,500 and, in the words of Andy Nash, marks the halfway point in the ground’s development. Over the next five years, the plan is to increase the capacity to 15,000 (partially through the use of temporary seating) and bring Test cricket to Taunton. The remaining development will be funded not through borrowing, but through partnership with a hotelier.While that might sound optimistic, there is some logic in the plan. As Nash explains, why stage a Test against Zimbabwe or Bangladesh at a ground with a capacity of 25,000? Why not create a better atmosphere in more intimate surroundings and allow the people of the south-west the opportunity to enjoy Test cricket?While English cricket needs another Test ground like the world needs an update on Peter Andre’s love life, it’s a vision that does make some sense from a Somerset perspective.

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan captain, has said Pakistan are the most “dangerous team at the World Cup” and should at least reach the semi-finals

Osman Samiuddin11-Feb-2011

For the first time in three World Cup campaigns, Pakistan enters with a fresh-looking squad. Disastrous first-round exits in 2003 and 2007 were compounded by the absence of new faces, with the team reliant instead on jaded stars. But for the 2011 World Cup, seven out of Pakistan’s 15-man squad have not played more than 35 ODIs, and for eight, this will be a first World Cup. It is the kind of unknown they thrive on, the kind captain Shahid Afridi feels makes them “the most dangerous team at the World Cup.”Afridi’s optimism is based on more than just the newness of his squad. Since the end of the Australia tour last year, Pakistan’s ODI cricket has taken on the kind of swing that has marked their finest years: days of a complete, comprehensive ineptitude mixed casually with moments of such force they cannot be stopped.They’ve lost more than they’ve won since the Australia tour – 10 losses, 8 wins – but they’ve pushed good teams to the very brink, usually in direst off-field circumstances. And the immediate run-in was much needed: a first ODI bilateral series win in over two years. “For some time now we’ve been trying to give the team an identity, a face on the field,” Afridi told ESPNcricinfo before heading off to Dhaka.”It’s coming along. We’ve got some good young players in the set-up now, guys like Umar [Akmal], [Ahmed] Shehzad, Wahab [Riaz] mixed with some experienced guys. I see us as the most dangerous team at the World Cup.” A number of the older heads have not played in World Cups before: Misbah-ul-Haq, the vice-captain, Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman.The balance of a potential first XI, Afridi says, is right. Two of their openers have scored centuries in recent games and a third, dangerous option is back. The middle order has patience and power, old and young and the bowling spin and pace. “We’ve got options and I like that. We have batsmen like Younis [Khan] and Misbah who can play long innings, guys in the middle who are power-hitters. We have wicket-taking bowlers so I’m happy that we have a balanced side.”Though he has captained the ODI side through the last year, Afridi was only appointed leader for the World Cup last week, having led the side to the series win in New Zealand. He has said previously that not getting the captaincy wouldn’t affect him, but criticism of his individual form – as there has been by some former players recently – has clearly irked him.”There is uneducated criticism of my performances from former players on TV,” he said. “They should know that over the last year [in 2010] I have scored the most runs and taken the most wickets for Pakistan.”Behind those numbers – he 2010’s leading Pakistani run-scorer and joint leading wicket-taker with Shoaib Akhtar – is a more complicated story. His batting has held more substance – two hundreds and nine scores between 24 and 65 in 18 innings – are important numbers. But the bowling has lacked the wicket-taking bite of the last couple of years, averaging 45.05 per wicket and taking less than a wicket per game.Yet the pressure of leading in the field hasn’t, he says, affected him. “The pressure is there as captain for sure, to keep everyone up on the field, to get everything going, to get the field right and to do well yourself but I enjoy that. You have good and bad days but I’m confident my bowling is fine at the moment.”Afridi’s own World Cup record is poor. In 12 games, spread over three tournaments, he averages 11.36 with the bat and 39.85 with the ball, an aberration he is keen to rectify. “I’ve not been good at past World Cups, but my role and position has never been fully settled going into them. I go into this feeling better and much more positive and, importantly, my role and place is clearer than it has been in past tournaments. There are good times and bad times but I’m hoping this will be a good World Cup for us.”Realistically, with the kind of team we have, we should really make the semi-final and of course we want to play the final and win it – everyone does – but we should make the semi.”

Victoria 4 for 188 (Finch 58, Hussey 42*) beat Queensland 9 for 155 (Hopes 36, McKay 3-26) by 33 runs
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Big Bash defending champions Victoria have begun their 2011 campaign in perfect style with a clinical display to account for Queensland in game two at the MCG.The home side rewarded the 29,429 locals who turned out with a dominant display on a sluggish drop-in wicket.The Victorian openers set the tone, Aaron Finch and Brad Hodge clubbing 98 from the first 64 balls of the innings after Cameron White won the toss. Anything back of a length or shorter Hodge cut or pulled with typical ease. Anything fuller and straighter Finch clubbed to the sightscreen or into the long-on bleachers, which he did on three separate occasions.Finch’s brutal 58 from 38 balls earned him Man-of-the-Match honours. His dismissal and some tight bowling from Bulls’ captain James Hopes slowed the Bushrangers momentarily, but the classy veteran David Hussey (42 not out) sussed the conditions quickly to produce a gem of an innings to take the total to 4 for 188.It was always going to be a tough ask against a barrage of Victorian quicks. New-ball pairing James Pattinson and Dirk Nannes removed the Queensland openers in consecutive overs to put the Bulls well behind in the game. Hopes, on return from a broken thumb, clubbed five boundaries in 36 but his demise to a slower ball from Clint McKay signalled the beginning of the end as Queensland battled to 9 for 155.McKay claimed three wickets with off-speed bowling, Nannes three with blistering pace. The Victorians are going to be hard to beat again with the likes of Dwayne Bravo, Cameron White and Matthew Wade playing just minor roles in tonight’s first-up win.

تحدث الرئيس التنفيذي لنادي أتلتيكو مدريد، ميجيل أنجيل جيل مارين، عن وضع جواو فيليكس ودييجو سيميوني.

كانت هناك تقارير في الأسابيع الأخيرة تشير إلى أن جواو فيليكس قد يغادر أتلتيكو مدريد في يناير، وقال مارين إن هذا احتمال وارد.

اقرأ أيضًا.. جواو فيليكس يلجأ إلى طبيب نفسي بسبب سيميوني

وقال جيل مارين لقناة TVE: “كان توقيعه أكبر رهان حققه النادي في تاريخه، أعتقد أنه لاعب من الطراز العالمي، ولكن بسبب العلاقة مع المدرب، ووقت لعبه، ودوافعه سيكون من المعقول تحليل خيار رحيله إذا وصل أحدهم”.

وأضاف: “من المعقول التفكير في أنه قد يرحل، على الرغم من أنني أحب أن يبقى، لكن هذه ليست خطة اللاعب”.

وتابع بالحديث عن مستقبل دييجو سيميوني، المدير الفني وقال: “ماذا سيحدث في المستقبل؟ لا دييجو ولا نحن نعرف ذلك”.

واختتم مارين: “قد يكون من الصعب إعادة اللاعبين إلى أفضل حالاتهم بعد كأس العالم، ليس فقط جسديًا ولكن أيضًا عقليًا، كرة القدم تدور حول العقلية وليس من السهل إذا كنت قد عانيت للتو من الفشل”.

علق جلال القادري، المدير الفني لمنتخب تونس على خسارة نسور قرطاج، اليوم أمام أستراليا في بطولة كأس العالم 2022.

والتقى منتخيا تونس مع أستراليا على أرضية ملعب “استاد الجنوب”، وخسر نسور قرطاج بهدفٍ دون رد، ضمن منافسات الجولة الثانية من المجموعة الرابعة والتي تضم أيضًا كل من فرنسا والدنمارك.

وقال القادري في تصريحات عبر قناة “بي إن سبورت”: “كنا نعلم إن مباراة اليوم ستكون مصيرية، أستراليا في نفس المستوى، قمنا باللازم في المباراة الأولى ونجحنا فيها، للأسف لم نعرف أن نفعل ذلك اليوم”.

طالع أيضًا | ترتيب مجموعة تونس في كأس العالم 2022 بعد الخسارة أمام أستراليا

وتابع: “الشوط الأول كنا سيئين، كنا نعرف نقاط قوة المنتخب الأسترالي، حاولنا أن نتفاداها ونلعب على الأطراف، لكن خسرنا كرات كثيرة”.

وأضاف: “أضعنا فرصا عن طريق يوسف المساكني والدراجي، وكان يمكن نعود في المباراة لو استغللنا نصف فرصة”.

واختتم: “في الشوط الثاني غيرنا طريقة اللعب وسيطرنا سيطرة كاملة على المباراة، وأضعنا فرصا كثيرة، وكان يجب خلق فرص هجومية أكثر تصنع الفارق”.

Former England batsman Usman Afzaal has been released by Surrey leaving him searching for a new county.It is a move that was widely expected after Afzaal, 33, hadn’t featured in a first-class game since Surrey’s innings defeat to Middlesex at the end of July.Afzaal, who played for England in three Ashes Tests in 2001, joined Surrey from Northamptonshire at the end of the 2007 season and made 4328 runs in 101 games in all competitions for the county, with a first-class average of 46.44.This season, however, Surrey have backed the younger players coming through their system as they try to find a route off the lower end of the second division.Batsmen Arun Harinath (23), Tom Lancefield (19) and most recently Jason Roy (20), have all featured this summer and Surrey may also have Kevin Pietersen on their books after he joined on loan earlier this month.Surrey’s managing director Gus Mackay praised Afzaal for all he’s given the club over the last three seasons and wished him luck in finding a new county with which to continue his career: “I would like to thank Usman for his contribution to the club during his time here and wish him all the best for the future.”

Trinidad has turned out to be a nightmare for the organisers with yet another match – the second – to be abandoned without a ball being bowled

Cricinfo staff29-Jul-2010 – Match abandonedTrinidad has turned out to be a nightmare for the organisers with yet another match – the second – to be abandoned without a ball being bowled. The afternoons haven’t been kind to the players and spectators with the weather dictating terms. After yesterday’s game between Canada and Leeward Islands was washed out, today it was the turn of Barbados and Guyana to share points. Trinidad & Tobago will now play Guyana in the first semi-final while Barbados will take on Guyana in the other.nowThe rain still puts a question mark on the chances of playing the second game of the evening, the inconsequential one between Windward Islands and Combined Campuses and Colleges. However, yesterday’s late-evening game between T&T and Jamaica went ahead despite the first game being washed out.