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Andrew Strauss hopes that England will utilise the anguish of the first-Test defeat as a motivational tool

George Dobell in Dubai19-Jan-2012Sometimes it is in their lowest moments that sides find strength. Just as Pakistan, torn asunder both on and off the field, regrouped at the end of 2010, so England used the pain of their humiliation in Jamaica in 2009 to inspire them to build for better times.Now Andrew Strauss hopes that England will utilise the anguish of the first-Test defeat as a motivational tool. While accepting that England’s much vaunted batting line-up had seriously underperformed, England’s captain was keen to avoid recriminations.”In both innings we didn’t apply ourselves as well as we should have done with the bat,” Strauss said. “You can scratch your head and ask why and come up with so many recriminations and questions. The most important thing is that the batsmen are very clear about their method and that they use that feeling of disappointment as motivation to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”It won’t be a huge challenge to pick the team up. There will be a huge feeling that we haven’t given a good an account of ourselves, and that will give us good motivation to come back in the second Test. We’re a really tight unit. We win and lose together, you move on and it’s a chance for us to show our resilience and character. I know we have those in abundance but we have to show that. Nobody likes losing, that is for sure.”We treated it like an aberration when we lost in Perth and we will treat this as an aberration as well. But we do have to make sure we don’t repeat those mistakes. One of the things you have to be, as an international cricketer, is honest with yourself. You have to make sure you ask yourself the right questions and come up with the right answers before moving on.”Andrew Strauss: “As a side it’s important we keep connected with the fact we’ve done a lot of good things over the last two years.”•Getty Images

Strauss has a hard balancing act, however. Several of England’s batsmen – notably Kevin Pietersen – fell to shots bordering on reckless, but Strauss is aware that the spirit within the squad will not be improved by blaming individuals. At the same time, though, he wants the players to take responsibility for England’s first Test defeat since December 2010.”When a guy has just come in after a bad shot, you don’t expect your team-mates to jump up and down telling you what a terrible shot you played,” Strauss said. “But it’s important you don’t run away from facts and the truth. As batsmen we have to be honest and ask did we play well enough. We have to ask: was our game plan smart enough, were we switched on enough. All those questions are important. But I also think, at times like these the easy thing is to look at everything that went wrong. As a side it’s important we keep connected with the fact we’ve done a lot of good things over the last two years and we will continue to do so.”Strauss made no excuses, though. He accepted that the pitch was flat and dismissed that his side had any inherent problems against the spin of Saeed Ajmal.”We were caught off guard in that first session of the first day on a very flat wicket,” he said. “From then on Pakistan never let us back into the game. You have to congratulate them for the way they played, but we’re disappointed with the way we batted in both innings, particularly the first innings as it wasn’t a 50 for 5 wicket. We have to learn some lessons and move forward.”A couple of us contributed to our own downfall, which allowed Ajmal to put more pressure on the batsmen coming in. The ball wasn’t turning a huge amount and I think the players who did get in and spend some time at the wicket looked fairly comfortable, but not enough of us were able to do that. We face a lot of good bowlers in Test cricket. I don’t think there’s anything about Ajmal that we should be unduly worried about. We have to be very clear about our game plan and make sure we don’t make the same mistakes.”It’s a disappointing result because we did a lot of things well in our build-up. We played good cricket in the warm-up games. We weren’t undercooked or underprepared. I’m certainly determined to come back strong in Abu Dhabi and I’m sure the rest of the guys are too.”

On the last day of Adam Gilchrist’s IPL career, another veteran, Azhar Mahmood, scored 80 off 44 balls to give Kings XI Punjab a consolation win against Mumbai Indians

The Report by Sidharth Monga18-May-2013
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File photo: Azhar Mahmood scored 80 off 44•BCCI

On the last day of Adam Gilchrist’s IPL career, another veteran, Azhar Mahmood, scored 80 off 44 balls to give Kings XI Punjab a consolation win over Mumbai Indians. Gilchrist, though, had the last word on the night. When Mumbai needed 51 off the last over, Gilchrist asked Praveen Kumar to keep wicket, and bowled offbreaks. Offbreak, to be more precise, because Harbhajan – the last man because Dhawal Kulkarni wasn’t batting – lofted the first ball he bowled to long-on. Cue laughter, celebration, joy, and from Gilchrist an improvised version of Harbhajan’s version of Gangnam-style. He also mimicked Kieron Pollard’s celebration.The match held absolutely no bearing on the rest of the tournament. Mumbai had already qualified in the top two, and Kings XI had already been knocked out. Mumbai now go to Delhi to play Chennai Super Kings in the first qualifier, and even if they lose it they get another shot at making it to the final.Assisting the veteran Mahmood was the Kings XI Punjab veteran, Shaun Marsh, who scores a fifty every third IPL innings. Today’s 63 off 47 was his 17th in 49 efforts. Along with Mahmood he helped Kings XI recover from the early troube of 6 for 2 in the third over. Marsh took the early lead, hitting six fours in the Powerplay, reaching 28 off 20. He dominated the strike too: Mahmood was yet to get off the mark.When Mahmood did open up, he took on the best Mumbai bowler, Lasith Malinga. A top-edged pull for six was followed by three fours, a slice past point, a drive through cover, and a glance fine of fine leg. By now 6 for 2 had become 63 for 2 in eight overs.Mumbai weren’t helped by Dhawal Kulklarni’s walking off with a back trouble. They are already struggling with injury to Sachin Tendulkar. Even Dwayne Smith hasn’t played the last two games. The fifth bowler, a combine of Kulkarni, Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard and Glenn Maxwell, went for 53 runs. Maxwell paid the worst price, going for 18 in the 13th over with Mahmood hitting him for six, six and four in consecutive deliveries.In the next over, both the batsmen got reprieves, dropped by IPL debutant Nathan Coulter-Nile and Harbhajan. Coulter-Nile came back to be smacked for consecutive fours by Mahmood. The century was on for Mahmood when he missed a Malinga full toss in the 18th over. Kings XI got a satisfactory 27 off the last 16 balls.Mumbai’s non-regular openers, Maxwell and Aditya Tare fell inside the first four overs. Ambati Rayudu, promoted because he generally doesn’t get to bat much, couldn’t covert his start and gloved a bouncer through to Gilchrist. A Dinesh Karthik duck later, it was down to regular Mumbai saviours, Rohit and Pollard. Piyush Chawla bowled Rohit with a quicker delivery, and Pollard fell under the pressure of rising asking rate. Mahmood signed off the night with his 200th T20 wicket when he bowled Coulter-Nile in the 19th over.

Daniel Vettori says the strong wind in Wellington made the second day of New Zealand’s Test against South Africa one of the toughest days he has had to bowl on

Firdose Moonda at the Basin Reserve 24-Mar-2012

Complaining about the weather is not becoming of athletes. After all, they choose to play sport for a living so they should be willing to put up with conditions that are occasionally less than pleasant. Today, though, nobody would have blamed any of the New Zealand players for moaning about the weather.They had to field under heavily pregnant skies with tufts of drizzle blowing in intermittently. Worse than that, a wind of up to 80kph lashed the Basin Reserve, blowing the flags off their poles, the seagulls off their perches and the bowlers off their delivery strides. Regularly.”Out of the 460 odd days of Test cricket I have played, this ranks somewhere near the bottom,” Daniel Vettori said with a wry smile when asked to assess the day. “It was an incredibly tough day in terms of the conditions. Just not easy for the bowlers.”From the stands, or on television, one cannot judge just how difficult it is to deal with wind. “For the fast bowlers bowling with the wind behind them, it’s just about settling in and getting used to having it on your back,” Vettori said. “But into the wind it’s pretty tough for the seamers and even for the spinners. You get blown around in your run-up and in your delivery stride, and it can be a little difficult.”Mark Gillespie and Kane Williamson had the most notable difficulty with their run-ups, having to restart a few times, but all the bowlers struggled.Vettori did not use the conditions as an excuse for New Zealand’s performance, though, which saw them bowl 37 overs on the second day without taking a wicket, miss the two chances that were created from the edge of Alviro Petersen’s bat and allow Petersen and JP Duminy to get on top of them. That came on the back of an ordinary first day, on which New Zealand managed to take only two wickets after putting the opposition in. Vettori said they were willing to front up to the fact that they had not done enough despite the two truncated days of cricket.”We were pretty disappointed after winning the toss and that first session [on Friday]. We probably fought back a little bit with the big wicket of [Hashim] Amla but the sort of stop-start nature of today and not knowing what we were doing also did not help.”We were a bit shocked to be starting at 2pm as well. The start of today wasn’t as successful as we wanted because we needed an early breakthrough this afternoon. Overall we are disappointed in only taking two wickets on a wicket that offered some assistance early on.”JP Duminy was less critical in his appraisal of the conditions, rating the day “about a seven,” as far as conditions go. Although the wind has a less hostile effect on batsmen, it did require Duminy to make certain adjustments. “I spread my feet a little bit more to get a good centre base,” he said. “It was difficult at times facing bowlers coming into the wind; if they pitched the ball up it sort of wobbled a bit. I tried to play as straight as possible. The other trouble is maybe the bat wobbling in the air during your backlift, so I held it a bit firmer to make sure I had control.”Duminy’s adjustment to the conditions was accompanied by an adjustment to the format, as he has not played Test cricket in more than two years. He finished the day unbeaten on 76 and has shown every intent of hanging around for long. “It’s a decent deck to bat on and there’s a little bit there for the bowlers as well,” he said.Vettori said he expected there to still be something in the track for the bowlers on the third day. “It’s still got some pace in it but it depends on the conditions tomorrow. That’s always the key in Wellington; overhead conditions play a big part,” he said. “Sometimes the best days are when it’s a big blue sky and the ball can swing here.”Clear weather and sunshine is predicted for the rest of the match and Vettori said he hoped New Zealand could make the most of it. “Wickets can fall in clumps here, so that’s our goal tomorrow morning. If the conditions hold out and it’s a better bowling day we need to attack pretty earlier on.”Edited by Dustin Silgardo

Sri Lanka A openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Kusal Perera provided the substance and impetus of Sri Lanka A’s 291 for 9, before Seekkuge Prasanna’s 5 for 38 ensured New Zealand A could not draw close to the target in a rain-reduced chase

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ScorecardFile photo – Karunaratne followed up his ton in the first match with an 81•Manoj Ridimahaliyadda

Openers Kusal Perera and Dimuth Karunaratne provided substance and impetus to Sri Lanka A’s innings once again, this time to happier effect, as the hosts leveled the one-day series with New Zealand A, in Pallekele. Legbreak bowler Seekkuge Prasanna’s 5 for 38 then ensured the visitors would not threaten the target.Kusal struck his second aggressive half-century in as many matches, while Karunaratne followed up a ton from the first ODI with 81 from 105 balls on Tuesday. Their 108-run stand became the platform for Sri Lanka’s 291 for 6, before that target was revised for the visitors, who lost ten overs from the chase due to rain. They eventually fell short of the new total of 241 by 44 runs.Tearaway Adam Milne took his first five-wicket haul in List A cricket, but before he bore down on Sri Lanka’s middle order, Kusal’s 61-ball 65 had set the hosts off apace. The scoring rate slowed somewhat after his demise as Angelo Perera contributed a relatively unhurried 36 alongside Karunaratne, but Chaturanga de Silva ensured his side achieved the challenging total they had promised early in the innings, when he struck 36 from 25.Rain after 6.5 overs of New Zealand’s innings stole an over from the reply, but bad light after 40 overs cut a further nine overs. New Zealand had begun with a 43-run opening stand, but four wickets between the eighth and 16th overs forced a deceleration that would prove definitive.Grant Elliott made 63 from 75, but his team-mates continued to surrender ground to Sri Lanka’s phalanx of slow bowlers, led by Prasanna, who took 5 for 38. Sri Lanka required only seven overs of pace bowling in the 40-over innings.New Zealand managed 196, and the teams will now play the decider in Dambulla on Thursday.

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Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl has confirmed during his Crystal Palace pre-match press conference, via Sky Sports, that Charlie Austin could leave the club before the end of the January transfer window.

What’s the story?

Hasenhuttl told reporters on Monday, as quoted by Sky Sports:

“Sometimes you get to a point when you as a club can’t give a player what he expects us to give him so in this situation we are trying to find a win-win situation for both sides.

“I think he has played two times from the beginning since I have been here. He is a fantastic striker who can score for every team. He is 100 per cent professional, he shows the team that if we need him he is here.

“But like every player he wants to start from the beginning and if there is not the option here in Southampton then maybe he will be looking for another club where he has this option.

“Then we have to talk about these things. We don’t send any player away but if there is a different option for him it can be he is an option for another club.”

Austin joined Southampton from Queens Park Rangers in January 2016.

The centre-forward has managed 20 goals in 72 appearances in all competitions for the Saints, as per Transfermarkt, but has netted just two Premier League goals this season.

Hasenhuttl has admitted that he will be unable to give Austin the football that he wants in the second half of the season, which could lead to an exit.

The 29-year-old has actually only started two Premier League matches since Hasenhuttl replaced Mark Hughes as head coach at the start of December.

Should Southampton fight to keep him?

Austin’s Premier League record is 34 goals in 97 appearances, suggesting that the striker certainly knows how to find the back of the net at the top level.

Southampton recorded a 2-1 win over Everton in the Premier League last time out, but the Saints are far from safe in the top flight.

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Austin – valued at £9m by Transfermarkt – will only have 12 months left on his Southampton contract this summer and a move at the end of the 2018-19 campaign makes sense for all involved.

For now, the Saints, who face Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Wednesday night, must fight to keep hold of a player who is certainly capable of coming off the bench and scoring some vital goals before the end of the season.

That said, Austin is understandably desperate to secure regular football at this stage of his career and a move away this month is looking increasingly likely.

SLC have named the Sri Lanka A squad for the series against New Zealand A and the side includes Nuwan Pradeep, Kusal Perera, Kaushal Silva and Kithuruwan Vithanage, among others

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Aug-2013

New Zealand A’s schedule in Sri Lanka

1st 4-day match: September 17-20, Pallekele
2nd 4-day match: September 23-26, Dambulla
1st one-dayer: September 29, Pallekele
2nd one-dayer: October 1, Pallekele
3rd one-dayer: October 3, Dambulla

Fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep has been named in Sri Lanka’s A team for the forthcoming series against the touring New Zealand A side. Pradeep, who last played for Sri Lanka in January this year, had been sidelined with a back injury he suffered in March. Wicketkeeper-batsman Kaushal Silva, batsmen Kusal Perera, Kithuruwan Vithanage and Angelo Perera, and slow bowlers Seekkuge Prasanna and Akila Dananjaya are among the other high-profile inclusions in the 22-man squad.Pradeep has played four Tests and two ODIs for Sri Lanka, his most recent game being the New Year Test against Australia. One of the fastest bowlers on the island, Pradeep’s career has been constantly plagued by injury and he missed the A team’s tour of West Indies after suffering an injury during Sri Lanka’s first-class season.Dimuth Karunaratne, who captained the side during that West Indies tour, has not been named in this squad, though he is part of Sri Lanka’s preliminary squad for the tour of Zimbabwe. Silva, Vithanage and Prasanna are the other Test cricketers in the squad, while Dananjaya, Angelo Perera and Mahela Udawatte have played limited-overs matches for Sri Lanka.Twenty-year-old offspinner Tharindu Kaushal, who took 55 wickets at 19.56 in his debut first-class season, is also in the A squad. He was a part of the Test squad for the last two home series in Sri Lanka but was not given a chance. Kaushal was also omitted from the 27-man preliminary squad for the Zimbabwe tour.Sri Lanka A will play two four-day matches and three one-dayers against New Zealand A. The first-class matches will start on on September 17, and all five games on the tour will be split between Pallekele and Dambulla.Sri Lanka A: Kithuruwan Vithanage, Kusal Perera, Kaushal Silva, Udara Jayasundera, Shehan Jayasuriya, Mahela Udawatte, Ashan Priyanjan, Angelo Perera, Danushka Gunathilaka, Sachithra Serasinghe, Niroshan Dickwella, Madura Lakmal, Lahiru Gamage, Nuwan Pradeep, Vimukthi Perera, Lahiru Jayaratne, Malinda Pushpakumara, Tharindu Kaushal, Chaturanga de Silva, Seekkuge Prasanna, Akila Dananjaya

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O Vitória sequer esperou o espaço de dois dias para demitir o treinador Marcelo Chamusca e escolher o respectivo substituto. Isso porque Cláudio Tencati, com ótimo trabalho nos últimos anos no Londrina e que esteve em 2018 no Atlético-GO, foi anunciado como o técnico do Leão da Barra.

Essa será a primeira vez que o comandante de 45 anos de idade vai treinar uma equipe da região nordeste.

Começando a sua trajetória em 2006 dirigindo o Cianorte, Tencati concentrou boa parte de sua trajetória no futebol paranaense onde, depois de Paranavaí e as categorias de base do Iraty e Londrina, subiu ao time principal do Tubarão em 2011. Ali, começava uma bonita história que colocou a equipe na Série B do Brasileirão e também um título estadual em 2014.

Segundo o planejamento de treinador e clube, ele já começa seus trabalhos no próximo compromisso do Vitória em caráter bastante decisivo. Isso porque, no sábado (23), o time baiano só pode pensar em ganhar do ABC no Frasqueirão para seguir ao menos próximo da zona de classificação ao mata-mata da Copa do Nordeste.

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خضع جرانيت تشاكا، لاعب خط وسط آرسنال الإنجليزي، إلى الكشف الطبي، اليوم الخميس، في ألمانيا، من أجل إتمام انتقاله إلى باير ليفركوزن.

وبحسب صحيفة بيلد الألمانية، فإن الانتقال سيكلف خزائن ليفركوزن حوالى 21.5 مليون جنيه إسترليني، وسيوقع تشاكا على عقد لمدة خمس سنوات.

Granit Xhaka (30) has arrived in Germany for his medical check for his Transfer to Bayer Leverkusen @BILD_Sport @Arsenal — Christian Falk (@cfbayern) July 6, 2023

خاض تشاكا 7 مواسم مع آرسنال، وحقق فيها بطولتي كأس الاتحاد الإنجليزي والدرع الخيرية، ولعب 297 مباراة وسجل 23 هدفًا وقدم 29 تمريرة حاسمة.

اقرأ أيضًا.. تقارير: لاعب آرسنال يوقع عقدًا جديدًا حتى 2027

يعود تشاكا من جديد للدوري الألماني، في انتظار فقط الإعلان الرسمي، بعدما انتقل من بوروسيا مونشنجلادباخ إلى آرسنال في صيف 2016 مقابل 45 مليون يورو.

ونجح آرسنال في التعاقد مع كاي هافيرتز وأعلن عن الصفقة رسميًا، كما توصل لاتفاق مع وست هام يونايتد من أجل التعاقد مع القائد ديكلان رايس، وكذلك توصل لاتفاق مع أياكس للتعاقد مع المدافع يوريان تيمبر.

Here’s Granit Xhaka in Germany in order to complete medical tests, spotted by @SportBild @CFBayern. 🔴⚫️🩺📸 pic.twitter.com/SbcYATPPCo — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 6, 2023

Shane Watson followed James Pattinson and Mitchell Starc in providing a tantalising glimpse of the destructive power to be found within this Australian side as they warmed up against Somerset

The Report by Daniel Brettig27-Jun-2013Stumps
ScorecardMichael Clarke looked in no discomfort in his first innings back from injury•Associated Press

Shane Watson followed James Pattinson and Mitchell Starc in providing a tantalising glimpse of the destructive power to be found within this Australian side as they warmed up against Somerset. In sending Watson up to open the innings and promising he will stay there, the new coach, Darren Lehmann, appeared to bring an immediate change to the allrounder’s previously drifting game.An innings of 90, on a blameless pitch against presentable bowling, does not quite indicate that Watson is to regain the Test match effectiveness that won him two Allan Border Medals, and had him named as Michael Clarke’s deputy in 2011. In fact the score itself was emblematic of Watson’s career aversion to making Test hundreds. But the clarity of his stroke production and the ease of his rapid scoring was exactly what Lehmann will hope for against Jimmy Anderson and company.It was a marked contrast from Watson’s previous innings, a brief affair against Sri Lanka in the Champions Trophy when one cover drive was followed by a horrid attempt to cut in line of the stumps. Wasteful dismissals such as these have been a significant factor in the failure of Watson to deliver on a promise that has hung in the air around him for a decade now, but there was nothing muddled about the way he opened up at Taunton, driving when the bowlers overpitched, pulling or glancing when short, and leaving most in between.Michael Clarke also offered a promising cameo, finding touch in his first innings of any kind for three months before rain brought an early end to day two. A pair of low scores for Ed Cowan and Usman Khawaja did not enhance either left-hander’s chances of winning a place in the XI for the first Investec Ashes Test at Trent Bridge. As the others proved, these were ideal conditions for batting.Phillip Hughes and Brad Haddin were easing their way towards useful tallies when the showers arrived. Haddin lofted George Dockrell down the ground with typical flourish to have the ball pounding off the scorers’ window in the Taunton press box. When the match resumes, Hughes should have the opportunity to press his case for retention after Cowan and Khawaja had failed to capitalise on their precedence in the batting order.Watson ran up a huge percentage of his runs in boundaries, his straight drives a particular delight. He also took full advantage whenever Craig Meschede angled into the pads, flicking with wristy power between midwicket and mid on. He briefly threatened to collar a century before lunch, but a front edge from the bowling of the slippery Craig Overton ended a stay that lasted only 94 balls, 20 of which reached the rope.Clarke’s start was a little less forthright, as could be expected for someone who had not batted since the Mohali Test match against India in March, when the suspension of four players for failing to follow instructions was followed by the flaring up of his chronic back condition. But he punched a couple of drives through cover off the back foot to get going, and showed familiar balance and footwork against Dockrell’s left-arm spin. It took a precisely-pitched away swinger from Meschede to dislodge Clarke, although by then he had probably given his back enough of a work out.Cowan, whose odds of playing in Nottingham were lengthened somewhat by the coach Darren Lehmann’s declaration that Watson would definitely open, fell in the very first over of the morning when he was deemed to have touched a Gemaal Hussain delivery on its way through to the wicketkeeper Alex Barrow. The dismissal had Cowan pointing agitatedly towards his trouser or pocket, but whatever the merits of the decision it now means one less opportunity to make the runs that would shore up his place, which may need to be earned again to some extent under Lehmann.Khawaja survived somewhat longer for his 27, but it was a scratchy effort with numerous angled deliveries troubling him outside off stump. He was struck on the body when trying to pull Overton, who was slippery, and fell in an unsurprising manner by wafting at Meschede to be pouched in the slips. Hughes had time to snick one streaky boundary before the morning session concluded.Minus Watson, the afternoon’s scoring was more sedate, but Clarke’s lack of discomfort was a welcome sign that his back has settled, and Hughes worked the ball around effectively with only the occasional flirt through the slips. He remained a little more hesitant against spin, but at least managed to get off the strike every now and then, which represented progress from India. Like Watson, a fresh start may be about to do him some good.

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