O Botafogo esteve longe de agradar o torcedor na estreia do Campeonato Carioca. Inseguro, ineficiente, nada criativo e sem ritmo, o time de Zé Ricardo foi derrotado para uma Cabofriense mais competitiva e inteira fisicamente, o que é natural pelo maior tempo de preparação da equipe da Região dos Lagos.
Era previsível que o Botafogo sofresse no Moacyrzão, ainda mais sem a presença de dois de seus jogadores mais experientes – Carli e Rodrigo Pimpão. Zé optou por quatro jovens da base entre os titulares, sendo dois quase sem rodagem nos profissionais (Helerson e Wenderson), e Alan Santos, que estava há um bom tempo inativo. O trio citado não correspondeu, e a conta chegou.
Em grave crise financeira, o Botafogo decidiu apostar na garotada e não ser agressivo no mercado. Uma atitude coerente, mas que carrega risco e requer muita paciência. O processo de maturação dos jovens geralmente é demorado.
– Não temos que fazer nenhuma avaliação agora. É realmente dar condição de jogo a todos, preparar aqueles que não tinham 100% de condição de jogar hoje. O fato é que é uma reconstrução, temos que ter paciência e mais razão do que emoção agora – disse Zé Ricardo, em entrevista coletiva.
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A torcida está no direito de cobrar, pois a Taça Guanabara é tiro curto e fevereiro é um mês decisivo. No entanto, a derrota na estreia não pode deixar as críticas destrutivas ecoarem. É preciso entender o contexto e crer no potencial do trabalho, que já culminou em bons frutos na reta final de 2018.
-É um Botafogo diferente. Não temos seis, sete jogadores que faziam parte do time que finalizou a competição no ano passado. Isso pressiona um pouco os meninos, mas a gente tem confiança no trabalho e daqui a pouco as coisas começam a encaixar – analisou o treinador alvinegro.
Zé Ricardo pediu um elenco mais enxuto para 2019. Acreditou na garotada, tanto que quis testar muitos desde o início desta temporada. E, contra o Bangu, no primeiro jogo diante de sua torcida, o Botafogo terá a oportunidade ideal de se redimir, vencer e ratificar o pedido de “mais razão” às arquibancadas.
India quick Ishant Sharma and Pakistan keeper Kamran Akmal have been fined for their altercation in the closing overs of the Pakistan innings in Bangalore on Tuesday
ESPNcricinfo staff26-Dec-2012
Match referee Roshan Mahanama: “The players on both sides have been reminded of their responsibility”•BCCI
India quick Ishant Sharma and Pakistan keeper Kamran Akmal have been fined for their altercation in the closing overs of the Pakistan innings in Bangalore on Tuesday. The players had been involved in a heated argument in the 18th over of the chase, which Pakistan eventually completed successfully to win the first Twenty20 by five wickets.Both players were reported to the match referee, Roshan Mahanama, by the umpires – S Ravi, C Shamsuddin, TV umpire VA Kulkarni and fourth umpire K Srinath – and charged with ‘conduct contrary to the spirit to the game’. They both pleaded guilty, and Kamran was fined 5% of his match fee. Ishant, though, appealed against the penalty levied; after reviewing video footage and reiterating his view that Ishant had initiated the incident, Mahanama fined Ishant 15% of his fee.Mahanama said with this series being so high profile, it became all the more important for the players to set the right example: “This is clearly a high profile and high-intensity series, and the players on both sides have been reminded of their responsibility. Both players recognised their duty to set the right type of example through their on-field behaviour and they have accepted that they fell short of the level of conduct required.”The game was played in the true spirit till this incident was initiated by Ishant, who is an experienced cricketer.”The incident occurred soon after Ishant had the well-set Shoaib Malik caught of a ball that was deemed too high to be legal. Earlier the same over, Ishant had claimed Pakistan’s other set batsman, Mohammad Hafeez. With the pressure building and a tight finish in view, Ishant beat Kamran and, after exchanging words in his follow-through, the two ended up standing inches apart from each other, yelling. Suresh Raina – followed by his India team-mates – came between the two, as did the umpires, but the talk continued for a while. When Ishant caught Kamran off Ashok Dinda in the next over, he was quite vocal in his celebration.This series is a marquee one, as it revives bilateral ties between the neighbours. The previous one-on-one series between the teams was five years earlier, in late 2007, with bilateral ties hitting a roadblock following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Batsman Colin Munro, allrounders Jimmy Neesham and Corey Anderson, and fast bowler Mitchell McClenaghan have been named in New Zealand’s one-day squad for the South Africa series
ESPNcricinfo staff28-Dec-2012Batsman Colin Munro, allrounders Jimmy Neesham and Corey Anderson, and fast bowler Mitchell McClenaghan have been named in New Zealand’s one-day squad for the South Africa series. These four players were the new faces to take the field for New Zealand in the Twenty20 series that preceded the ODIs; they have not played any other international games apart from those three T20s.McClenaghan being picked comes as no surprise as, earlier this week, he had also been added to New Zealand’s Test squad for the series starting on January 2, in place of the injured Tim Southee.Left-arm spinner Ronnie Hira, who is yet to debut in ODIs, was also picked. Batsman Kane Williamson, keeper BJ Watling, and quicks Kyle Mills and Adam Milne have been called-up for the one-day leg of the limited-overs series.Fast bowler Doug Bracewell missed out in the 15-man squad. The decision to leave him out, coach Mike Hesson said, was in view with ‘managing his workload’. “[It] is in-line with our policy to sensibly manage player workloads,” Hesson said. “He has a big role to play in the Test series against South Africa and will benefit from the opportunity to freshen up ahead of the home series [in February-March] against England.”Eleven out of the 15 from the Twenty20 squad were retained to give the limited-overs squad stability, national selection manager, Kim Littlejohn, said: “We’re keen to show consistency in selection for our short-form side and retain the nucleus of the squad who competed in the T20 series, along with four players from the last ODI series against Sri Lanka.”There is healthy competition for places in our starting line-up at present and we are working on developing a larger group of players who can compete at international level.”New Zealand will play three ODIs against South Africa, between January 19 and 25.
Warwickshire might look back on the maximum eight bonus points gained from an otherwise dead day at Edgbaston as enormously significant
Jon Culley at Edgbaston15-Jul-2012 ScorecardRikki Clarke produced a stunning display on the final day to power Warwickshire towards full batting points•Getty ImagesThe thing with bonus points is that you never know when they might come in handy. Nottinghamshire proved it emphatically a couple of years ago when six on the last day of a rain-wrecked match against Lancashire gave them a Championship title that looked to have slipped through their grasp.So Warwickshire might look back on the maximum eight bonus points gained from an otherwise dead day at Edgbaston as enormously significant should the race for this year’s title come down to similar margins. With the extra three for a draw, they emerge from this latest soggy round of matches as Division One leaders, one point ahead of Nottinghamshire, with a game in hand. Remember, too, that they meet Nottinghamshire twice in the final three rounds.Not that you could call this a dead day, in any event, given the exhilarating way in which Warwickshire not only chased, but chased successfully, a five-point maximum with the bat, and then bowled out Sussex for 191 in 46.1 overs. Rikki Clarke made an unbeaten 110 from 105 balls and then took 3 for 19 to leave no doubt over who was Man of the Match, Jeetan Patel’s 5 for 77 notwithstanding. The scorecard may say ‘match drawn’ but, in the words of their captain, Jim Troughton, to Warwickshire it felt like a win.”I was tremendously impressed with the way the players performed after so much white ball cricket,” Troughton said. “It feels like a win. We looked to get 400, we looked to get nine wickets as well, and we bowled them out for good measure.”The performance with the bat smacked in particular of a side rippling with self-belief. At the start they were 175 for 3 from 65 overs, the point at which they were marooned last Thursday when the rain began, and yet wound up with 400 for 8 from 109.2.Mainly it was down to Clarke, who is so capable of high-speed destruction you wonder why he is not back on the England radar, at least for the one-day side. It is six years now since he last played yet is performing as well as he ever has. Realistically, you supposed Warwickshire might have a sniff of four batting points, if they pushed hard, but Clarke was of a mind to look beyond that, even, and made the improbable possible.Warwickshire were in the 89th over by the time they notched their second point and a lunchtime score of 293 for 6 from 96 overs still suggested four points was the most they could expect, a thought reinforced when Chris Woakes, another big hitter, fell for 12 soon afterwards, playing across the line to Luke Wright.Until then, Troughton’s return to form with the bat had looked as good as anything they would take from the day. The captain, who has been woefully short of runs, exceeded his aggregate from nine previous Championship innings this season when he reached 51. Though he was clearly cross with himself when he was caught at first slip, slashing at a ball from James Anyon to be out for 81, his disappointment at missing the opportunity to complete only his second Championship hundred in three seasons should not negate the boost to his confidence that these overdue runs will surely provide.But after Woakes went – and with significant help from Keith Barker, who hit 34 off 31 balls – Clarke transformed the picture, advancing from 71 to 105 in just 16 deliveries, culminating in one extraordinary over against the offspin of Chris Nash that yielded 20 on its own, including a six over the bowler’s head that took him into three figures. It left Warwickshire with only four to get from two overs to reach 400 inside 110 overs and when Patel scooped a ball from Magoffin over the slip area for four the job was done.At this point, Warwickshire would have been content enough to take eight points from the match and trail Nottinghamshire by just two but Sussex had an interest in trying for at least one point with the bat and this played into the home side’s hands.Sussex made a flying start as Woakes and Barker struggled for early accuracy and were 26 without loss after only three overs when Woakes made a fortunate breakthrough when Ed Joyce tickled one down the leg side. Then Nash was caught at slip as Patel made his first incision.Luke Wells and Murray Goodwin steered Sussex back to an even keel but there was no keeping Clarke out of the game. Introduced at 87 for 2 he struck with his second ball, aided by a fine catch by William Porterfield, to remove Goodwin and claim a first bowling point. It seemed to have a galvanising effect on Warwickshire’s mood in the field, which became bouncier still when Matt Prior then drove at Patel rather lavishly and was caught at mid-on.Ian Bell, fielding at midwicket, missed a chance when Wells was 24 but took another one with the Sussex player only two runs better off to give Clarke his second wicket, which was quickly followed by a third as Darren Maddy took a brilliant, one-handed catch diving to his left at second slip to remove Michael Yardy.With the second bowling point in the bag, Warwickshire had the bit between their teeth and Sussex, obligingly, never gave up their pursuit of a batting point. After Patel had claimed his third victim as Naved Arif nudged one to slip, Luke Wright pulled Chris Wright straight to deep point and Warwickshire celebrated as if they had won when James Anyon was leg before. A fifth success for Patel was simply a bonus.Troughton said that setting up a positive result had been discussed. “It would have been nice to have got that bit further ahead with a win and we did talk about contriving something,” he said. “But what they were looking was not really close to what we were looking at.”In any case, on the balance of things we were lucky to get on the park at all, otherwise we would have been walking away with just three points.”We know what is to come later in the season but our way has just been to think about winning the next ball, the next over, the next session. We haven’t thought about where we are in the league.”
A round-up of matches from the fifth day of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers
ESPNcricinfo staff18-Mar-2012
Paras Khadka, the Nepal captain, reverse sweeps during his unbeaten 65 against Canada•ICC/Barry Chambers
Group BA career best Twenty20 performance from Louis Klazinga helped Namibia beat Kenya by seven wickets and maintain their perfect record in the ICC World T20 qualifiers. Klazinga rocked Kenya with a spell of 3-1-9-4, precipitating a collapse that saw Kenya crumble from 84 for 1 to 108 all out. Raymond van Schoor led Namibia’s chase with 49 from 48 balls, as they won their fifth straight game with 3.3 overs to spare. Duncan Allan and Collins Obuya were coasting along, having added 71 in 9.3 overs when Klazinga was handed the ball. The way he started gave no indication of what was to come, as the batsman milked six runs from his first five deliveries, which included a wide. However, he trapped Obuya leg before with his fifth legal delivery to trigger panic in Kenya’s ranks. Tanmay Mishra and Ragheb Aga were snapped up in his second over while Rakep Patel was stumped in his third over. Christi Viljoen then joined taking party, taking 2 for 5 in 1.4 overs as the rest of Kenya’s line-up succumbed meekly. Another solid performance from van Schoor at the top of the order took Namibia home and kept them in first place in Group B, two points ahead of Ireland.In a match that pitted two winless teams against each other, the USA bowlers managed to limit Oman and give their team their first victory, by 30 runs, in five games. USA chose to bat, and were steered through most of their innings by captain Sushil Nadkarni. Nadkarni scored 59 off 47, and with a few others contributing cameos, USA were propelled to 141 for 7. In reply, none of the Oman batsmen could quite get going and apart from a second-wicket stand of 54 between Vaibhav Wategaonkar and Adnan Ilyas, there was no resistance. Medium-pacer Japen Patel was the most incisive for USA, taking three wickets as Oman were restricted to 111 for 7.Italy, led by fast bowler Gareth Berg, stifled Uganda to register a 13-run victory. Italy were inserted and, driven by cameos from their middle order, got to 131 for 7. Damian Crowley top scored with 44. In the chase, Berg did much of the damage in a tidy spell, taking 4 for 20 in 3.4 overs. There were also three run outs, as Uganda folded for 118 to hand Italy the match.A fine unbeaten 78 by Ed Joyce guided Ireland towards the knockout phase of the ICC World Twenty20 qualifier with a comfortable win over Scotland. Read full report here.Group ANepal drew level with Canada on six points in Group A but were in fourth place on net run-rate after their 24-run win against Bermuda. Paras Khadka, the Nepal captain, made an unbeaten 65 off 48 balls to lead his team to 151 for 6. He was supported by Sharad Vesawkar, who made 44. Dion Stovell was Bermuda’s best bowler, taking 4 for 25 in his four-over spell. Bermuda were restricted to 127 for 5 in their reply, an innings that included 20 extras. Janeiro Tucker (32) was the only batsman to make more than 30. Shakti Gauchan took 3 for 17 in four overs for Nepal.A powerful all-round performance from Samiullah Shenwari led Afghanistan to their fifth consecutive victory in the UAE, beating Canada by 41 runs. Read the full report here.A commanding batting performance from Netherlands helped them ease to a nine-wicket win against Papua New Guinea (PNG), with all of 20 balls to spare. PNG chose to bat and got to 140 for 7 chiefly due to a partnership of 95 for the third-wicket between Tony Ura and Chris Amini. The opener Ura top scored with 70, while captain Peter Borren was the most effective of the Netherlands bowlers, claiming three wickets with his medium-pace. Chasing 141, the Netherlands openers settled in, scoring 96 in 11 overs to all but seal the match. Stephan Myburgh and Michael Swart scored half centuries each, as Netherlands breezed home in the 17th over.Irfan Ahmed scored an unbeaten 91 to set up Hong Kong’s 35-run win against Denmark. Irfan justified Hong Kong’s decision to bat, knocking around 91 from 60 and batting through the innings. As a result, Hong Kong put on 170 for 5, despite legspinner Bobby Chawla picking up three wickets in a tidy spell. In the chase, no one could score more than Aftab Ahmed’s 39, with Kinchit Shah knocking over middle order batsmen regularly with his offspin. Shah finished with 4 for 21, as Denmark managed only 135 for 9 in their 20.
وضع الجهاز الفتي للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي برنامجًا خاصًا للاعبين قبل مواجهة الهلال السوداني، اليوم السبت بدوري أبطال إفريقيا.
الأهلي يلاقي الهلال على ملعب الجوهرة الزرقاء ضمن الجولة الثانية لمباريات دور المجموعات من البطولة القارية.
يتضمن برنامج اليوم تناول وجبة الإفطار في التاسعة والنصف صباحًا، ثم وجبة الغداء في الحادية عشر والنصف، ثم يعقد الجهاز الفني المحاضرة الفنية في الواحدة إلا ربع ظهرًا، ثم التحرك إلى ملعب الجوهرة الزرقاء في الواحدة والربع.
وتم الاتفاق على جميع الجوانب الإدارية والتنظيمية الخاصة بمباراة الفريقين والتأكيد على موعد الوصول إلى ملعب الجوهرة الزرقاء.
طالع | تشكيل الأهلي المتوقع أمام الهلال السوداني في دوري أبطال إفريقيا.. شريف يقود الهجوم
ومن المقرر أن يعقد مارسيل كولر، المدير الفني للأهلي، محاضرة فنية للاعبي الفريق في الواحدة إلا ربع ظهرًا، وذلك استعدادًا لمواجهة الهلال السوداني، ومن المنتظر أن يقوم بمراجعة خطة اللعب التي استقر عليها، والدور المطلوب من كل لاعب خلال المباراة.
وأكد السفير هاني صلاح، سفير مصر في السودان، على حضوره مباراة الأهلي والهلال السوداني، وذلك لمؤازرة المارد الأحمر في هذه المباراة المهمة.
وكان السفير المصري بالسودان قد حرص على التواجد في مطار الخرطوم لاستقبال بعثة بالأهلي برئاسة العامري فاروق، نائب رئيس النادي، وكذلك تواجد في مران الفريق الرئيسي أمس الجمعة؛ لتذليل أي عقبات أمام البعثة خلال تواجدها بالسودان الشقيق.
ويتواجد الأهلي في المجموعة الثانية بدوري أبطال إفريقيا، التي تضم كلا من ماميلودي صن داونز الجنوب إفريقي والهلال السوداني والقطن الكاميروني.
A round-up of the fourth day of the first round of matches in the Ranji Trophy Elite 2011-12
ESPNcricinfo staff06-Nov-2011
File photo: Mandeep Singh scored a half-century as Punjab drew against Uttar Pradesh•Getty Images
Group AMumbai took 65 overs on the fourth day to complete a ten-wicket victory against Railways at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi. It was the only outright win in the first round of matches in the Elite division and Mumbai have a headstart on the competition as they picked up six points. Railways had batted with resolve on the third day to give themselves a chance of saving the match but it started to go wrong from the second ball of the final day, when Suryakumar Yadav dismissed Anureet Singh for a duck. When Shivakant Shukla, who started the day 64 not out, was dismissed by Ramesh Powar for 77, Railways were in trouble.Sanjay Bangar and Nitin Bille battled, batting out 39 overs together, but Iqbal Abdulla dismissed them in quick succession, and then got another wicket two balls after Bille was dismissed to break Railways’ resistance. Mumbai did not waste time getting rid of the tail and bowled Railways out for 244, leaving themselves just 18 to win, which they knocked off in 4.2 overs.
Rajasthan’s batsmen battled through the whole of the fourth day and hung on for a draw against Karnataka at the Field Club Ground in Udaipur. Rajasthan had got through 27 overs at the end of the third day but still had another whole day to survive, after Karnataka had managed a 368-run first-innings lead and made them follow on. The top order saw out the first two sessions but in the final one Karnataka’s seamers picked up four wickets within eight overs to set up a tense finish. Karnataka needed four wickets in just under 20 overs, but Robin Bist lasted 51 balls and wicketkeeper Rohit Jhalani stayed unbeaten off 60 balls to stave of defeat.The early work had been done by openers Vineet Saxena, who scored 99 off 283 balls, and Vaibhav Deshpande (52 off 150). After Deshpande departed 21.2 overs into the fourth day, captain Hrishikesh Kanitkar made a solid 45 off 84 and Ashok Menaria lasted 38 balls too. It was only when Saxena and Menaria fell in consecutive overs that Rajasthan began to wobble but luckily for them the lower-middle order saw things out.
In another battling performance, Punjab earned a draw against Uttar Pradesh by losing just five wickets on the final day in Mohali and wiping out the first-innings deficit. Punjab started the day on 26 for 2, still trailing by 220 runs, and managed to get to 280 for 7. They lost opener Sarul Kanwar in the fourth over of the day but Karan Goel played steadily and scored 55 off 153 balls. Mandeep Singh did not completely curb his natural attacking instincts and hit five fours and two sixes in his 79-ball 51. Unlike in Rajasthan’s case, runs mattered as much as time for Punjab as they had a chance to wipe out the deficit and avoid some awkward overs at the end of the day. Their batsmen’s contrasting approaches served them well.Mayank Sidhana came to the crease at the fall of Mandeep’s wicket and scored a crucial 76 not out off 146 balls. Punjab kept managing to string together partnerships and finally took a lead when Sidhana was batting with captain Harbhajan Singh, who scored 24 off 35. UP had to settle for three points for the first-innings lead.
Orissa and Saurashtra both took no points from their match at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack after Orissa’s first innings was left incomplete and they had not managed to pass Saurashtra’s first-innings score. Saurashtra needed six wickets at the start of the day to secure three points for a first-innings lead while Orissa needed an unlikely 300 runs to get the first-innings points. Natraj Behera converted his century into a double-hundred and Orissa’s middle and lower-middle order batted gutsily to take them to 494 for 7 in response to Saurashtra’s 545, meaning both sides are still on 0 points after the first round of matches.After Ravinra Jadeja’s triple-hundred over the first two days, Orissa had crawled along at a snail’s pace on the third day and started the final one on 246 for 4. Behera and Abhilash Mallick started at a slightly brisker pace on Sunday and Mallick was eventually dismissed for 64 off 175 balls. Saurashtra could not make use of that opening though and Paresh Patel came in and played a stodgy hand of 48 off 149 balls. Behera reached his maiden first-class double-hundred and when he was dismissed for 209 Saurashtra needed to take four wickets in just under 30 overs. Deepak Behera and Alok Sahoo resisted with an unbeaten 60-run stand.Group BFour wickets from Ashok Dinda helped Bengal bowl Gujarat out for 495 on the fourth day at Eden Gardens and secure three points for a first-innings lead. After having amassed 560 in their first innings, Bengal were given cause for worry on the third day when Gujarat played their way to 315 for 2. However, on the fourth day they picked wickets in clusters and made sure Gujarat fell 65 runs short of their first-innings score.Bengal got off to the ideal start on Sunday, with Ranadeb Bose dismissing Rikin Chauhan in the third over of the day and Dinda bowling Niraj Patel in the fourth. Gujarat did not collapse though, and Bhavik Thaker and Pratharesh Parmar both scored half-centuries and got the visitors to 430 for 4. Bengal would have been worried at that stage but Dinda gave them the breakthrough, trapping Parmar lbw and bowling Sunny Patel for a two-ball duck. Thaker was removed by Bose shortly after and there was not much more resistance from Gujarat as Dinda finished with 4 for 87.
With Haryana having already conceded the first-innings lead against Delhi at the Roshanara Club Ground in Delhi, they used the final day as batting practice and Sunny Singh helped himself to a century. Haryana started the day on 94 for 2 in their second innings and with the first-innings lead just 59 it would have taken a dramatic collapse to give Delhi any chance of an outright win. Delhi got an early wicket but Sunny Singh and Sachin Rana stitched together a 111-run stand to kill the game off. Sunny Singh scored 157 out of Haryana’s 318 for 8 in the second innings but had to retire hurt in the afternoon.
After three days of rain, there was finally some play between Tamil Nadu and Baroda at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai but it was only 12 overs before the match was called off. Baroda won the toss and reached 38 for 0. Both teams were awarded two points each since the match was affected by weather.
Australian cricketers would be loaned between states in an effort to ensure the nation’s best 66 players are consistently appearing in the Sheffield Shield, under a proposal outlined in the Don Argus-led Australia team performance review.A loan system, and the use of incentives to encourage strong states – namely New South Wales and Victoria – to allow fringe players to ply their trades elsewhere are key to the review’s recommendations about strengthening the pathway that underpins the Test side.Many figures within Australian cricket, the Tasmania captain George Bailey among them, argued that every effort should be made to get the best players playing first-class cricket, irrespective of their state. NSW in particular have an abundance of talent that may be better utilised by the greater flow of players to other teams.”Australian cricket must consider innovative ways of dealing with the geographical imbalance of talent resulting from the widely varying populations of states,” the Argus review said. “Consideration should be given to: a loan system at first-class level, perhaps managed by the National Talent Manager; mechanisms to encourage states to export under-utilised talent, for example: State Talent Managers being required to recommend players for transfer at the end of the season, where it is unlikely they will be selected by their current state; financial incentives for states for each first-class player they produce, regardless of whether the player plays for that state.”The rate of serious injuries among fast bowlers was also addressed, as the panel concluded that more needed to be done to manage the transition between short and long-format cricket. This conclusion shines harsh light on the scheduling of the expanded Twenty20 Big Bash League head-to-head with the home Test programme in December and January.Australia’s fast bowling stocks are believed to be strong, particularly in terms of the talent that is starting to emerge. However many fast bowlers, either young or more experienced, experienced serious injuries in recent times, and the panel argued that better and more thoughtful management was required, particularly to bridge the fitness and conditioning gap between the three formats.”Feedback suggests that fast bowling injuries are and have been caused by a combination of factors: absolute match schedule and workload; changes in workload and intensity (eg. shifting between from Twenty20 to Shield); intrinsic factors such as age, bone density and skeletal strength; bowling action; lower proportion of overs being bowled by spinners.”The ‘gut feel’ of most of the fast bowlers we spoke to, and others, was that: fast bowlers should be screened for the intrinsics above; workloads should be graded accordingly, with a bias to building players up over time through regular bowling (plus core strength work etc.) at higher levels than currently; workload management should be focussed as much on changes in workload than absolute volumes.”While the review’s recommendations to restructure the selection, coaching and management processes around the national team attracted the most attention initally, Argus and company looked far more deeply into the reasons why Australia had stopped producing players of substance.Among the other longer term plans outlined by the review panel were ways to encourage senior players to remain in grade cricket, while also discouraging the emergence of a “graduation mentality” that has seen first-class and Test players show reluctance to return to their local clubs.It was concluded that more had to be done to keep senior players involved, so better to keep standards high and so educate young players. Research has been recommended to ascertain why older players have been leaving the game earlier than in the past. First-class and international players should also be reminded that they are not exempt from playing at the grassroots level.”[We should] also reinforce that state players are not exempt from grade cricket and should play as often as possible,” the report said. “A ‘graduation’ mentality among players – ie. a belief that once they have played at a higher level, they are no longer obliged to play, or were above, the previous level they played – is unacceptable.”James Sutherland, Cricket Australia’s chief executive, will arrive in Sri Lanka this week to speak to the players and officials on tour about the review. He sought to clarify that the review, while scathing about so many aspects of the Australian team’s structure, performance and organisation in recent times, did not blame individuals.”The report does not and did not seek to blame individuals – it says we have the wrong high performance structure and need to change the design of that structure,” Sutherland said. “It doesn’t and nor should it blame individuals such as Andrew Hilditch, Tim Nielsen and Greg Chappell.”Take Greg Chappell for example – a person of stature – all the report says is that the job we created and then hired Greg to do should be structured differently to have a singular focus on national talent management. Similarly, Hilditch has previously argued Australian cricket needs a full time head of selection in the full knowledge that he would not be available should his recommendation be accepted.”
تحدث سامي قمصان المدرب المساعد للنادي الأهلي، عن فوز فريقه أمام إنبي في المباراة التي أقيمت بينهما اليوم الإثنين بالدوري.
وفاز الأهلي على إنبي، بهدفين دون رد في المباراة التي أقيمت اليوم الخميس، على ملعب المقاولون العرب، وسجل الهدفين ديانج، ومحمد مجدي أفشة.
وقال قمصان خلال تصريحات عبر قناة “أون تايم سبورتس”: “ثلاثة نقاط مهمنا بالنسبة لنا، خصوصاً بعد خروجنا من مباراة كبيرة أمام فريق بيراميدز”.
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وتابع: “كولر حذر من قوة المباراة، إنبي يمتلك مدربا مميزا مثل طلعت يوسف، ولذلك فلا يمكن أن نؤدي نفس أداء مباراة بيراميدز بسبب أرضية الملعب اليوم، لكن في النهاية نلعب على الثلاثة نقاط، وبالتأكيد كنا الأحق بتحقيق المكسب، وهذا كان الأهم بالنسبة لنا نفوز لكي نتصدر ونبعد عن المنافسين”.
وواصل: “درس تعلمناه من الموسم الماضي واللاعبون استوعبوا هذا الدرس، وفوز اليوم كبير ومرض بالنسبة لنا”.
واستكمل: “مهم جداً أن تستفيد من أخطائك في عوامل كثيرة، ولا أريد التحدث عنها، لأننا نلعب على بطولة وتحدي كبير ومهم لنا بطولة الدوري، الأهلي أكبر نادي في تاريخ مصر محقق بطولات، لم نعتد أن نفقد الدوري لمدة موسمين متتاليين وهذا كان شيء غريب علينا، حققنا أشياء ايجابية كثيرة مثل إفريقيا والكأس والسوبر ولكن بطولة الدوري المصري شيء مهم بالنسبة للجماهير”.
وتحدث عن إصابة كوكا لاعب الفريق: “الكرة جاءت في وجه كوكا تقريبًا تعرض لمشكلة في عينه وسيذهب للمستشفى”.
وأتم: “طاهر محمد طاهر وارد يكون متواجدا معنا في المباراة المقبلة”.
أثنى جراهام بوتر، مدرب فريق تشيلسي، على أداء لاعبيه في مباراة اليوم أمام بورنموث في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.
وتلاقى الفريقان في إطار منافسات الجولة السابعة عشر من البطولة، حيث فاز تشيلسي بهدفين دون رد.
وقال بوتر في تصريحات نشرتها شبكة “بي بي سي” العالمية: “الفضل للاعبين، لست متأكدًا أبدًا من كيفية سير الأمور مع فترة الاستراحة التي حصلنا عليها”.
وأضاف: “كان أداء الشوط الأول جيدًا، الموقف كان رائعًا، بذل اللاعبون قصارى جهدهم، كان فوزًا مستحقًا”.
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وواصل: “كان علينا الصمود، بورنموث جعل المباراة تنافسية، إنها خطوة للأمام بالنسبة لنا كفريق”.
وأردف: “لم نكن في أفضل اللحظات قبل استراحة كأس العالم، عليك استخدام فترات الراحة بأفضل ما يمكنك، قم بالتقييم وإعادة التقييم واستعادة اللاعبين المصابين، لقد استخدمناها بأفضل طريقة ممكنة حتى مع عودة اللاعبين في أوقات مختلفة”.
وفيما يتعلق بالجدول الزمني المقبل للفريق، قال: “”إنه أمر ممتع وصعب، لا فائدة من الشكوى من ذلك، نحن سعداء للمشاركة والمنافسة”.