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Autor do gol da vitória do Santos contra o Delfín na noite desta terça, pela Copa Libertadores, o zagueiro Lucas Veríssimo deu uma declaração, em entrevista após a partida, cobrando diretamente o presidente do Santos,José Carlos Peres. O atleta, que é um dos desejos do treinador Jorge Sampaoli, do Atlético-MG, pediu para ser mais valorizado pela diretoria do Peixe. O jogador tem contrato com o Santos até o meio de 2022.

– Trabalhei com o professor (Jorge Sampaoli), ouvi esses rumores, a única coisa que peço é uma valorização, já tive propostas aqui no clube e ainda não fui valorizado. Digo isso diretamente para o Peres, mas aqui quero falar sobre o jogo – criticou o zagueiro.

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Sobre o jogo, o defensor comentou que a equipe não teve uma boa atuação, mas destacou a importância da vitória, que colocou o Santos na liderança do grupo G da Copa Libertadores, com 6 pontos.

– Primeiramente, a gente buscou a vitória do início ao fim. Não fizemos uma grande exibição, mas o mais importante é vencer. A gente sabe que a equipe pode mais, vamos trabalhar para isso. A gente entrou concentrado, infelizmente não fizemos uma grande partida – disse.

Com a vitória, o Santos disparou na liderança do Grupo G da Copa Libertadores com 6 pontos. Na próxima rodada da competição, o Peixe encara o Olímpia, às 21h30, terça, na Vila Belmiro. Antes disso, o time tem o clássico contra o São Paulo, sábado, às 19h, no Morumbi.

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O São Paulo visitou o Ceará na noite deste domingo, no Castelão, e ficou no empate pelo placar de 1 a 1 nesta reta final de Campeonato Brasileiro. Depois de um primeiro tempo quase todo sem inspiração por ambos os lados, a partida melhorou bastante e o resultado foi o adequado dentro dos desempenhos das equipes. O detalhe do duelo ficou por conta de os dois gols terem sido marcados nos acréscimos – o Tricolor no do primeiro tempo, com Vitor Bueno, e o Vozão no do segundo, comFelipe Baxola, após desvio decisivo de Léo.

Com o resultado, o São Paulo chegou a 54 pontos, na sexta colocação do Campeonato Brasileiro, último dentro da faixa de classificação para a fase de grupos da Conmebol Libertadores de 2020. O Ceará, por sua vez, chegou a 37 pontos, em 15º lugar, e segue na briga contra o rebaixamento. Ambas as equipes voltam a campo no meio de semana – enquanto na quarta-feira os cearenses visitam o Flamengo, já campeão da competição, os paulistas recebem o Vasco no dia seguinte.

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SEM INSPIRAÇÃO
Praticamente todo o primeiro tempo da partida foi sofrível. O São Paulo tinha a posse de bola, mas não apresentava perigo. O Ceará trabalhava no contra-ataque, mas também pecava na hora da finalização. Em um lance isolado, quando a troca de passes enfim funcionou, Igor Gomes perdeu uma chance na cara do gol defendido por Diogo Silva, recebendo excelente passe de Daniel Alves aos 26 minutos. Os cearenses foram responder somente aos 44, quando Wescley aproveitou falha de Arboleda e obrigou o goleiro Tiago Volpi a fazer grande defesa.

JOGO MELHORA
A partir dos acréscimos do primeiro tempo, o jogo melhorou – e muito. Os setores criativos de ambas as equipes passaram a funcionar, e no fim da etapa inicial, aos 45 minutos, Vitor Bueno colocou o São Paulo na frente – Igor Gomes achou Juanfran, que encontrou Vitor Bueno, responsável por estufar as redes, 1 a 0 sobre o Ceará. Na volta para o segundo tempo, o ritmo frenético foi observado: logo aos dois, os cearenses chegaram a empatar em cobrança rápida de escanteio, mas o árbitro Rafael Traci anulou por não ter autorizado o reinício da partida.

NO ÚLTIMO LANCE!
O Ceará seguiu pressionando em busca do empate. O São Paulo, administrando o resultado, trabalhava mais no contra-ataque – aos 11 minutos, Liziero perdeu um gol inacreditável depois de jogada iniciada por Daniel Alves. Os cearenses foram com perigo novamente aos 18, com Chico obrigando Volpi a se esticar todo para espalmar. Na pressão final, Thiago Galhardo quase fez um golaço para o Ceará, aos 44 a chance foi de Mateus Gonçalves, até que no último lance do duelo, aos 50, Felipe Baxola bateu, Léo desviou, o que acabou encobrindo Volpi, que nada podia fazer. Empate em 1 a 1, justo pelo apresentado, até por conta de o São Paulo ter recuado além da conta no segundo tempo…

FICHA TÉCNICA
CEARÁ 1 X 1 SÃO PAULO

Estádio: Castelão, em Fortaleza (CE)
Data/hora: 24/11/2019, às 19h (de Brasília)
Árbitro: Rafael Traci (SC) – Nota LANCE!: 6,5 (controlou bem a partida)
Assistentes: Alex dos Santos (SC) e Éder Alexandre (SC)
Árbitro de vídeo: Rodrigo D’Alonso Ferreira (SC)
Gramado: Bom
Público/renda: Indisponíveis
Cartões amarelos: Samuel Xavier, Fabinho, Luiz Otávio (CEA) e Juanfran (SAO)
Cartão vermelho: –

GOLS: Vitor Bueno 45’/1ºT (0-1) e Felipe Baxola 50’/2ºT (1-1)

CEARÁ: Diogo Silva, Samuel Xavier, Luiz Otávio, Tiago Alves e João Lucas; Fabinho, Ricardinho (Juninho Quixadá 33’/2ºT), Chico, Felipe Baxola e Wescley (Mateus Gonçalves intervalo); Bergson (Thiago Galhardo intervalo). Técnico: Adilson Batista.

SÃO PAULO: Tiago Volpi, Juanfran, Bruno Alves, Arboleda e Reinaldo (Léo 21’/2ºT); Tchê Tchê, Liziero (Hudson 30’/2ºT), Igor Gomes e Daniel Alves; Antony (Raniel 19’/2ºT) e Vitor Bueno. Técnico: Fernando Diniz.

England’s style of play compared to the World Cup could not be more of a contrast but Steven Finn insisted the aggressive mindset so effective in this series was the plan for World Cup too

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Jun-2015Steven Finn suffered more than any England bowler at the World Cup but he, like the team, has shown a remarkable turn of form in the ODI series against New Zealand, which heads to the final match on Saturday level at 2-2. England’s style of play compared to the World Cup could not be more of a contrast but Finn insisted the aggressive mindset so effective in this series was the plan for that tournament too.The removal of Peter Moores as coach has been highlighted as the primary cause of England’s change of attitude but Finn insisted Moores was also trying to instill the type of cricket they have produced in this series.”We talked about what we wanted to do in the World Cup,” Finn said. “We sat in front of the media and said we wanted to play with freedom and smiles on our faces. We didn’t do it. I’ve been involved in both series and I can’t put my finger on why but it seems there has been a huge change in attitude here.”There’s been some personnel changes and those guys have come in and done really well. Everyone is playing with a smile on their face. Even when we walked off the field after going for 350, we felt as though we were in the game. When you are 100 for 0 off 11 overs, everyone is sitting there in the dressing room and there’s a real camaraderie with the guys that I’ve rarely experienced in a dressing room before. It is really exciting.”All the credit for England’s turnaround has gone to their batsmen but Finn has played a crucial, and largely unheralded, role in the series, staging his own comeback having been their most expensive bowler at the World Cup, and then left out of the tour to West Indies. Finn is the joint-top wicket-taker in the series and is the most economical of those to have played in three or more matches, conceding 5.67-an-over, which before this series would have been considered expensive. Finn recognised how much the game has changed.”It is about accepting that the game has changed. [Brendon] McCullum hit me over wide long-off for six and I thought, ‘that was probably hitting the top of off stump’. So you have to walk back and think, ‘fair play, that was a good shot’. It’s that sort of attitude that bowlers are having to take into games.”It’s like playing a long Twenty20. You almost have to accept that you’re going to be hit for boundaries, you have to accept that people will play good shots. It’s just trying to make sure they are playing good shots to get their boundaries and they are not hitting bad balls. It has changed big time since the World Cup. To come into this series and for there to be scores regularly of around 350, as a bowler you have to change your mindset and go about things slightly differently.”It’s been tricky so far but it’s been really exciting. We have a good, young, very talented group of players at the moment. We’ve talked a lot about playing with a carefree attitude and playing with freedom – we talked a lot about it in the winter but never did it – so it’s great that four games in a row now, win or lose, we’ve played with that attitude. It has stood us in good stead so far.”Finn might have feared his England career was over when left out of the West Indies tour but he has staged a second return to international cricket, following his initial resurgence having been dubbed “unselectable” during the Ashes tour of 2013-14.”When I came back from that Australia tour, we stripped everything back and went right back to basics,” Finn said. “It’s been a case of grooving that over the last 18 months. To be now feeling in control of what I’m doing when I’m at the end of my mark is a nice feeling and something I want to keep doing. I learned a lot about my bowling and my action in that time and I feel as though I have a really good understanding of it now. I don’t feel as though I’ve ever bowled this consistent in terms of where I’m bowling it. I’d love to get that high-end pace back 100 per cent all the time that I had when I was taking wickets a lot a few years ago. That’s something I’m working towards but I’m happy where I am at the moment.”My mantra is very much to keep it as simple as I can. When I’ve done alright in T20s and one-dayers, it is about keeping it as simple as you can. If you’re clouded at the end of your mark or clouded when you’re running up, that generally leads to you bowling a poor ball. So it is about having a clear plan and saying, ‘if you hit me while I’m bowling to this plan, then you’ve got the better of me and are too good for me today’. It’s about finding plans for each batsman and you try not to bowl to their strengths.”Finn was named in the 14-man training squad that will travel to Spain ahead of the Ashes and now has his sights set on a return to the Test arena.”Well my last Test match was in the last Ashes over here nearly two years ago. I’d love to be involved. I’m going to have to keep bowling well and taking wickets for Middlesex. I dream and hope and wish I can play in this Ashes series but I can’t change what I’m doing in order to do that. I can just keep plugging away, keep trying to get better, keep feeling that rhythm, keep feeling as if I’m getting better. If that gets me in the Ashes squad, then great.”

Shakib Al Hasan wants Bangladesh to forget their past record against Pakistan as they target a win in the ODI series that begins on Friday. He urged the side to go into the first ODI with a winning mentality, which he felt was missing in their previous games against Pakistan.Bangladesh’s win-loss record against Pakistan is the most lop-sided for them against any team in ODIs, with just one win in 32 games.”I think our approach is fine,” Shakib said. “We will definitely target a win. I don’t know what anyone else is thinking. If we go into a game thinking we won’t win because we have never won in the past, then we can never win. We have to change this way of thinking. Bangladesh cricket will be at a standstill if we think it won’t happen, as it didn’t happen in 16 years.”That one win came in the 1999 World Cup in a famous game in Northampton where Bangladesh – in their first World Cup – beat Pakistan by 62 runs. Pakistan coach Waqar Younis recalled that Bangladesh were better in that match.”I remember everything about that match,” Waqar said. “I played the only game in the 1999 World Cup. Bangladesh played really well. They were a better side on the day. We were a fine side but that particular day Bangladesh was too good for us.”Pakistan have not lost any of the 25 ODIs against Bangladesh since that match, including five 100-plus-run wins and a 10-wicket victory, too. Waqar felt Bangladesh have improved vastly since those days.”Since then we have had a lot of success against Bangladesh but I am not saying it is going to happen again,” Waqar said. “They have developed a fine side from even before the World Cup. They have produced some good results. They have beaten most sides in the world. We won’t take them easily or lightly. We want the youngsters to get the experience and we will look to win the series.”The last three matches between the sides, all in Mirpur, have been close encounters with Pakistan winning all the games. Shakib remembers the two Asia Cup games in 2012, particularly the final which Bangladesh lost by two runs. It was a heart-breaking defeat that left several Bangladesh players in tears.”It all started when Mushfiqur bhai started crying,” Shakib said with a smile. “I remember the 2007-08 tour to Pakistan, also the 2012 Asia Cup matches. We could have won both games (in the Asia Cup). We also got very close in 2014, but we couldn’t win. If luck is on our side and if we can give our best, then anything is possible.”Shakib praised Pakistan’s pace attack but believed the Bangladesh batsmen can counter them. “There is no doubt about their world-class bowling attack. But we strongly believe that we also have world-class batsmen. It will be a good contest. Everyone is keen to give it their all,” he said.Waqar admitted Bangladesh are favourites, as Shakib had stated earlier in the month, but stressed that Pakistan, despite being short of experience, cannot be counted out of the contest before the start.”Yes, they are favourites. I think he felt this way because we are a young side. We don’t mind that,” Waqar said. “We are in the transition period. We are playing Bangladesh after a while. If he is confident, fair enough. But we are not lacking anything. We have a disciplined side with match-winners.”

Harbhajan Singh has said that the BCCI initiative to prepare seamer-friendly pitches has given “fake confidence” to medium-pacers and has taken spinners out of the game. Harbhajan also felt that Indian batsmen are being deprived of facing quality spin.”I don’t have an issue with leaving grass on the wicket,” Harbhajan told ESPNcricinfo in Pune on the sidelines of Punjab’s Ranji Trophy game against Maharashtra on a greentop. “But we shouldn’t leave so much grass where even a 120-kph bowler appears like Malcolm Marshall. It is okay if someone bowling 120 looks like 125 but he shouldn’t appear unplayable. Our wickets make such bowlers look unplayable. Some of these bowlers end up picking 50 wickets in a season. So you can’t ignore them. When such a bowler is picked for international cricket, he gets exposed while bowling on a slightly drier surface. The ball doesn’t reach the batsman.”I feel the wicket should offer help to pacers on the first morning but it shouldn’t get bowlers into a mindset that ‘ [wow, we have won the toss. Now it is my day]”. There should be help for bowlers but if a batsman applies himself he should also be able to score big. And on the fourth-fifth days, spinners should come into play.Harbhajan Singh: “We shouldn’t leave so much grass where even a 120-kph bowler appears like Malcolm Marshall.”•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

“Play on a sporting wicket but don’t play on a wicket where ordinary bowlers are made to look terrorizing. It doesn’t help. We are not taking the game anywhere. You are giving fake confidence to bowlers. Anybody can bowl on such wickets. It is like on a rank turner, anybody can take wickets. Similarly, any seamer who can swing the ball a bit and bowls a good line and length will do well on such tops. But to make it challenging, you have to make the conditions change just like it happens in Test cricket.”Ever since India’s twin whitewashes in four-Test series in England and Australia in 2011-12, the BCCI has instructed curators across the country to prepare seamer-friendly wickets. According to Harbhajan, this has resulted in Ranji league games being either played on greentops or flat decks, both of which have little help for spinners.”It is very difficult to produce spinners if you are playing Ranji Trophy on greentops like this (Pune) wicket. You cannot see any cracks, any foot marks on this wicket. We won the toss and bowled them out for 210. Even in the first session [on the second and third days], the ball kept moving because there is so much of moisture below the wicket. It will remain green on all four days.”Where will you get spinners to come into play on such tracks? The moment a spinner comes on to bowl, batsman feels it is an opportunity to make runs. There is no challenge. There is no spin, no bounce. There should be something for spinners. There should be something to play for each of the eleven guys in a team. That is missing.”The push for pace-oriented tracks seems to have affected Indian batsmen’s skills against spinners. While India faltered against Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann in the home Test series against England in 2012-13, part-timer offspinner Moeen Ali proved difficult to tackle in the away series in England earlier this year. Nathan Lyon ran through India’s line-up on a turning pitch in Adelaide earlier this month.Harbhajan felt that batsmen were not getting to face quality spinners in domestic cricket. “Where are the spinners? I remember Sachin (Tendulkar) practising for Shane Warne’s deliveries that were pitched in the rough. Now when the rough isn’t created at all, where will a spinner learn the art of bowling into the rough? It is good to make greentops but when the same players progress to Test cricket, they have to play on surfaces that are completely different. It does affect.”Harbhajan said that Ranji matches should be played over five days so that “everyone will have a fair chance to get into the game”. He also suggested that batting and bowling points should be awarded to avoid draws. “Perhaps we can introduce bonus points based on runs scored and wickets taken. Like in England,” Harbhajan said. “For instance, if you score 300, you get one, two for 350 and three for 400. Similarly while bowling, if you take six wickets, you get one point and three for nine. It will make the game more competitive.”The Pune game is Harbhajan’s first this Ranji season. His previous game was the Vijay Hazare Trophy final a month ago. His absence from the Deodhar Trophy, the first two Ranji rounds and the Duleep Trophy has fuelled speculation that he has either lost interest in the game or wants to make an odd Ranji appearance with an eye on the IPL.Harbhajan maintained that he hadn’t lost his desire to make an international comeback. “I have commitments towards Punjab. I am playing because I love playing cricket. I have never thought of playing Ranji Trophy to keep myself in shape for IPL. It is a wrong perception that either me or any of the seniors are playing Ranji Trophy because they want to play IPL. There is a reason for me to play Ranji Trophy: I want to make a comeback into the Indian side. For that, I will have to do well in all domestic tournaments, including the Ranji Trophy.”

Mitchell Johnson will not join Kings XI Punjab for the remainder of the Champions League after Cricket Australia ruled that he has not yet recovered from a rib injury.Johnson was ruled out of the early part of the tournament after picking up the problem during the tri-series in Zimbabwe and Cricket Australia’s general manager of team performance, Pat Howard, said he was still not ready.”Unfortunately Mitchell is not back to 100% fitness so we will not be releasing him to Kings XI Punjab for the remainder of the Champions League,” Howard said. “He will travel with the squad to Dubai on Sunday to continue his rehab with the team medical staff.”The Australians fly out on Sunday for their Twenty20 and three ODIs against Pakistan in the UAE, which will be followed by two Tests.Johnson will be a key figure for Australia in the Tests especially and it is no surprise that Australia would not risk rushing him back too soon with Shane Watson already ruled out with a calf injury and Michael Clarke in doubt with a hamstring problem.Johnson played four of the five ODIs in Zimbabwe, resting for one match in the middle of the tournament. However, he suffered rib pain during the series and when he returned to Australia scans confirmed when team physio Alex Kountouris described as “irritation of the tip of the rib”.

Durham produced a solid all-round bowling display to secure a first innings lead of 101 as they moved closer to securing their Division One place

Alex Winter at Lord's10-Sep-2014
ScorecardDawid Malan fell three short of a hundred as Middlesex conceded a sizeable deficit•Getty ImagesDurham used to produce upwards of eight million tons of coal a year before their last deep pit closed in 1993. A year earlier, the county cricket club gained first-class status and ever since Durham has become better known for its production of seam bowlers. Deeper reserves have been reached for this season with injuries rife but the makeshift attack has proven it can steer Durham away from relegation.At Lord’s they are chasing a second consecutive victory that would surely protect their Division One status for next year. They also play relegated Northamptonshire next week. Led by Chris Rushworth, who removed both openers and Paul Stirling, Durham claimed a 101-run first-innings lead. It would have been even more of a gulf without a stand of 74 for the ninth wicket.Like Warwickshire, Durham have managed to reach the final of the Royal London Cup despite a host of injuries. But losing bowlers Mark Wood, Usman Arshad, Jamie Harrison and Graham Onions for long periods of the season has had a deeper effect on their Championship campaign – those four have managed only 19 four-day matches between them this year having collectively taken 127 wickets in Durham’s title victory in 2013.Last week they turned to an Irish debutant for inspiration – Peter Chase’s second innings five-for delivering a superb victory over Nottinghamshire. He took two more here as Durham produced a fine display in the field, bowling a touch fuller than Middlesex and being well rewarded.Durham took maximum bowling points but failed to progress their overnight 348 for 7 to a fifth batting point. Three wickets fell in little more than half an hour, two catches via top edges to solid takes at long leg; one of them Scott Borthwick, who only added seven to his overnight total. The sharp morning work from Middlesex earned them a full haul of bowling points, ensuring they lost no ground to Lancashire.Rushworth is Durham’s leading wicket-taker this season. His full length rendered him liable to be regularly driven – his 18 overs cost 86 – but he landed three in just the right place. Two of those took out Chris Rogers and Sam Robson. Rogers lasted just five balls of the innings before nicking a delivery that held its line up the slope. Robson had one that nipped down it into his off stump. Robson’s run without a half-century is now eight innings.Rushworth changed ends to have Stirling lbw after tea. It was the fifth wicket in a collapse of 5 for 36 that left the hosts struggling for even two batting points on an amicable surface for batsman. Toby Roland-Jones’ 49 from No. 9 ensured 250 was at least passed.Dawid Malan’s wicket brought about the slide but until he fell, Middlesex’s progress for the fourth wicket was as smooth as Durham had found it the previous afternoon.Malan liked to drive. He played plenty with his languid leftie style. He twice took Rushworth through the covers in the morning session before another attempt produced a flashing edge wide of the slips. But largely Malan’s driving was safe. He went to fifty 20 minutes after lunch by angling Chase backward of deep point to the short Mound Stand boundary.Another drive from Malan off Ben Stokes up towards the grandstand saw him pass 1000 Championship runs for the season. But he has a habit of getting out in the 90s – three times in the Championship this season – and attempting to flash Stokes away through the covers again, got a thin edge through to Phil Mustard. His 97 included 84 in boundaries.The wicket came shortly after Paul Collingwood had bowled five consecutive maidens as an older ball and a ringed field proved impossible to score against. Cheers greeted Collingwood’s 35th delivery when Neil Dexter drove him for four. Presumably distraught at his run ending, Collingwood took himself off.But he was forced to bring himself back as Roland-Jones drove merrily for seven fours in a ninth-wicket half-century stand at more than five-an-over. Collingwood denied Roland-Jones his fifty with one that slid up the slope for an lbw.Building on their lead, Keaton Jennings avoided a king pair when he was dropped first ball in the slips by Ollie Rayner but could still not get off the mark when his off stump was knocked out by Tim Murtagh three deliveries later.

Glen Chapple opted for safety first against Warwickshire but Steven Croft still enjoyed a day to remember

Paul Edwards at Edgbaston11-Jun-2014
ScorecardSteven Croft scored a hundred then gave Warwickshire a brief scare with the ball•PA PhotosSkippers from another age – one thinks of Stuart Surridge or Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie – tended to regard draws either as a last resort or a personal defeat. In the latter case, their teams may not have lost but their own captaincy skills had been found wanting.Such an attitude is rarely to be found in today’s county cricket, fine as much of it is. This is a deeply pragmatic age, and with five points awarded for a draw, the cautious approach is also the business-like option. Somewhat bizarrely – this is early June, after all – Lancashire reached the halfway point of their County Championship season at the conclusion of this drawn game against Warwickshire and Glen Chapple clearly felt that that the final afternoon was too soon to employ such wanton fripperies as a remotely sporting declaration.Indeed, one felt that the Lancashire captain would rather have taken up a second career as a fan dancer than given Varun Chopra’s men much of a chance of winning this game. When Chapple did finally declare, soon after Steven Croft had reached his first century for over a year, Warwickshire were left needing to score 287 runs at a rate of 7.36 runs per overs. The scoring rates in the previous three innings of the game had been 2.68, 2.60 and 3.92. To quote the Shangri-Las: “You get the picture? (Yes, we see).”Chapple might now be regretting not giving his spinners more time to befuddle the out of form Warwickshire batsmen. After William Porterfield had been run out for 20 in the 12th over when Chopra turned down a second run to midwicket, Croft completed a day he will remember fondly by removing both the Warwickshire captain and Laurie Evans for whom good form must currently seem like a condition other cricketers experience.Moreover, when Sam Hain was lbw for nought, playing no shot to Croft in only his fourth first-class innings, there were still over nine overs to be bowled. Tim Ambrose then strode out like a young P.E. master intent on sorting out shenanigans in the playground. Sadly, he reckoned without the classic slow left-arm delivery from Kerrigan which clipped the top of his off stump, and it was left to Rikki Clarke and the imperturbable Ateeq Javid to secure an unexpectedly nervy draw with 12 minutes remainingChapple’s position on the declaration was still defensible. This game was played a slow wicket – the pitch was more suited to a five-day game, if anything – on which it had seemed difficult to take wickets in clumps, yet on which Croft had managed a century in 114 balls. The nine points Lancashire took from this game moved them two above Durham, whom they meet at the Riverside on Sunday. In eleven days’ time Lancashire host Northamptonshire at Old Trafford. There are still plenty of winning opportunities left in the season. That, at any rate, is the argument.What was certainly more encouraging for Lancashire supporters was the way in which some of their side’s batsmen coped with bowlers of the quality of Boyd Rankin and Jeetan Patel. Although Andrea Agathangelou perished when trying to hit the offspinner over the top in the fourth over of the morning and Ashwell Prince was also stumped when coming down the wicket and trying to defend, those successes were separated by 22 overs. That period included only the dismissal of nightwatchman Kerrigan brilliantly caught one-handed high to his right by second slip Porterfield off Rankin.And while Prince, who possesses forearms like floodlight pylons, was punching Keith Barker down the ground and through the covers to make 36, Croft was employing judicious aggression of his own and settling into an innings which has re-established his place in Lancashire’s middle-order wherever Usman Khawaja bats against Durham. Having reached a 55-ball half-century with a cut off Chris Wright, Croft received the congratulations of his captain in the middle when he got to three figures. The declaration followed soon afterwards.And for all that Jos Buttler had nicked Clarke to Ambrose and Tom Smith had been bowled off the inside edge by Rankin, Lancashire will be justifiably pleased to have reached 300 for only the third time this season. At least they can argue that they toughed this game out in difficult circumstances. Whether toughing it out will be enough to enable them to prosper in Division One is another matter.

أعلن الفريق الأول للكرة الطائرة للسيدات بنادي الرياض، ضم نوران سعد لاعبة الزمالك، استعدادًا لخوض منافسات البطولة المحلية في الدوري السعودي.

وستنطلق منافسات الدوري السعودي للكرة الطائرة خلال شهر سبتمبر المقبل، وتستمر لمدة شهر على أن تنتهي في أكتوبر المقبل.

وانضمّت نوران سعد على سبيل الإعارة قادمة من نادي الزمالك، حيث ستخوض منافسات الدوري المحلي السعودي للكرة الطائرة.

ويقود فريق الرياض السعودي للكرة الطائرة للسيدات المدرب المصري حاتم فاروق، والذي يسعى لقيادة الفريق لتقديم موسم قوي بعد التدعيمات الكبيرة التي أبرمها من أجل التواجد على منصات التتويج خلال الموسم المقبل.

طالع أيضًا.. الزمالك يتعاقد مع لاعب طائرة الأهلي

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The BCCI today virtually served notice on any ICC Full Members opposed to a makeover of the ruling body, indicating that India’s participation in ICC events was subject to the radical draft proposal being approved by the ICC’s executive board

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jan-20140:00

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The BCCI today virtually served notice on any ICC Full Members opposed to a makeover of the ruling body, indicating that India’s participation in ICC events was subject to approval of the radical draft proposal by the ICC’s executive board. The proposal recommends a structural overhaul of the ICC and proposes bigger revenues and more executive decision-making powers to the BCCI, Cricket Australia and the ECB.The BCCI, in a three-point release following an emergent working committee meeting in Chennai, said the committee had formally approved the proposal, terming it as being “in the interests of cricket at large”. The message as regards ICC events was then sent out to the other members, stating that the committee has “authorised the office bearers to enter into agreements with the ICC for participating in the ICC events and hosting ICC events, subject to the proposal being approved by the ICC board”.The BCCI’s working committee also cleared the way for its leading officer bearers to sign bilateral agreements with all other Full Member boards, including Pakistan. The draft proposal contained commitments from the ECB and Cricket Australia over legally-binding bilateral agreements with eight Full Members. The absence of such a guarantee from the BCCI in the draft document had raised apprehensions among smaller boards who subsist on tours from India. Such a commitment could not have been made by the BCCI without approval of the its working committee, a formality completed on Thursday. While the ECB and CA have committed to undertake tours to the top eight countries, in principle, the BCCI’s proposal covers all Test playing nations.”We have never said that it [the draft proposal] was set in stone or a ‘take-it-or-leave it’ proposition,” a BCCI official said. “It is clear that it is a draft and members can discuss it with their respective boards and it can be discussed in the ICC board meeting.” The draft proposal will be presented to the ICC executive board during its quarterly meeting in Dubai on January 28 and 29.It is also understood that the draft proposal, put together by a working group of the ICC’s Finance & Commercial Affairs committee was open for discussion and amendments as long as the BCCI’s central plank – redistribution of the ICC central revenue being proportionate to the income generated through each member board – was not diluted.The BCCI working committee was insistent on not yielding ground on the matter revenue distribution. The proposal recommends a maximum allotment of 21% of the ICC’s revenues to the BCCI on the grounds that Indian cricket helps generate 80% of ICC’s global revenues. The draft proposal, when handed out to the Full Member nations at a specially called board meeting in Dubai on January 9, did not however contain any supporting documentation for its current revenue distribution percentages or future estimates.The ICC’s current broadcast deal expires after the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand but the new tender document for media rights cannot be floated without the all the member boards signing the Members Participating Agreement. The BCCI has made that signature conditional to the re-organisation of the ICC, which automatically implies that no progress on the broadcast deal will be possible till this proposal is cleared.Cricket South Africa is the only board to have publicly opposed the proposal, and the Pakistan Cricket Board have made their opposition privately known. The West Indies Cricket Board is yet to make a statement, but was engaged in a teleconference over the week and has stated that it has “taken a position in the best interests of West Indies cricket”. It is understood to be negotiating a deal with the Big Three. Cricket South Africa argued the idea was “fundamentally flawed” and “in breach of the ICC constitution”, while New Zealand Cricket said it was wrong to jump to the conclusion that the proposal would be bad for cricket. FICA, which represents player associations in seven of the ICC’s ten Full Member countries, declared itself “extremely concerned” with the proposal.One of the key governance changes proposed in the position paper, pertained to the creation of a proposed Executive Committee (ExCo) – a security-council style group with three permanent members, the BCCI, Cricket Australia and the ECB. While the Big Three will insist on being founding members of this committee, the possibility of enlarging it from the recommended four to more could be discussed. “It must be understood however that this another committee just like an F&CA committee that currently works under the IDI (ICC Development International), the ICC’s commercial arm,” the BCCI official said. “It will report to the ICC board, which will have the right to approve or reject its recommendations.” The draft states that the ExCo will act as a “sole recommendation committee … on all constitutional, personnel, integrity, ethics, development and nominations matters”.The BCCI working committee meeting, which took place in Chennai, was chaired by one of the board’s vice-presidents Shivlal Yadav, in the absence of BCCI president N Srinivasan, who could not attend due to the death of his mother early on Thursday morning. It was not Yadav who did the talking, though. Sundar Raman, the IPL chief operating officer, explained the details of the ‘position paper’, outlining the revamp of the ICC and why it was necessary. The proposed revenue model, according to which India stood to earn a bigger percentage of the ICC earnings, was also explained to the members.The other big advantage of the proposal, Raman highlighted, was that India could be more free to negotiate bilateral series with another Full Member instead of being obliged to follow the FTP. The members were also made aware that under the new structure India would host at least one ICC tournament almost every two years, further enhancing its financial strength. Most BCCI members were happy to hear about the move to deal directly with other countries’ boards, which would result in India hosting more international cricket. It was explained to the committee that with this move the BCCI can take even Test cricket to the new stadiums in the country, with one committee member stating that “all the unutilised stadia in the country will be able to host more big matches”.The document was drafted by a “working group” of the ICC’s Finance & Commercial Affairs (F&CA) committee comprising Giles Clarke of the ECB, Wally Edwards of Cricket Australia and N Srinivasan of BCCI, who were assisted by a clutch of commercial executives: Dean Kino (general manager of legal and business affairs, Cricket Australia), John Perera (commercial director ECB) and Sundar Raman (chief operating officer, IPL). Kino and Raman also form a two-man technical committee in the Champions League T20, one of the world’s wealthiest cricket tournaments. It happens to be one of only three committees listed on the tournament website.