England have “huge confidence and belief” heading into their two final group games, captain Stuart Broad said
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Alex Hales’ and his “long levers” have poured confidence into the England campaign•Getty Images
England will go into their final two World T20 group games with a sense that they control their destiny, riding on the adrenalin of an exhilaratingly barmy gazumping of Sri Lanka. After Kate Bush’s announcement that she will be performing live again, it was the most unexpected comeback of the last seven days.The victory, built around Alex Hales’ maiden T20 hundred – the first by an England player in the format – confirmed T20’s capacity to startle whilst also reinforcing the view that batting second in the evening games at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury confers a distinct advantage. “Dew factor” is a buzz-phrase at the venue, despite the groundstaff now using a special spray shipped in from Dubai to try and minimise its effect.England will play their third evening match on Saturday, against a South Africa side whose three outings so far have all been in the afternoon. Stuart Broad, England’s captain, was buoyant after his batsmen kept alive hopes of reaching the semi-finals and suggested the team’s experiences in two dramatic games so far would give them an edge under the floodlights.”The confidence and belief we will get from that going into our final two group games is going to be huge,” Broad said. “It’s in our hands a little bit. We have got the advantage of having a few games under the lights here. Conditions are extremely different from anything we’ve had before. South Africa haven’t played under the lights yet and we can use our experience to our advantage.”We’re in a decent position. Our batting is firing, we need to up the standard of our fielding, but I thought we bowled really well for the first ten overs of the match against Sri Lanka.”Their catching was another matter entirely, apart from one stupendous effort by Michael Lumb off Mahela Jayawardene’s leading edge. That was ruled not out by the TV umpire (the ICC on Friday released a previously unseen angle used to make the decision) and four glaring drops, wet ball or otherwise, ensued. Broad felt that “Mother Cricket” had not been on England’s side over the winter but, partly due to the result and partly due to his punishment for previously expressing views on umpiring decisions, was able to smile sweetly on this occasion.Broad will have to make another deposit with the ICC, however, after being fined for England’s slow over rate – they were ruled to be two short against Sri Lanka. Alongside numerous ball changes, the close nature of most games in Group 1 so far has led to frequent delays. South Africa will be without their captain, Faf du Plessis, for twice infringing and Broad will also risk a one-match suspension if proceedings drag again.England’s confidence, which looked so fragile midway through their last game, has been reinflated and although they remain outsiders, the prefix “dangerous” will now be in circulation. Hales’ outrageous display has underwritten that, his record partnership with Eoin Morgan proving that individual feats can transcend a flawed team display.The sense of a weight having been lifted was evident at optional training, where Ashley Giles, Mushtaq Ahmed and David Saker conducted an oldsters net session with Paul Collingwood at the crease, as the England players present, including Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali, took part in a warm-up.”It was a must win-game,” Broad said. “If we had lost against Sri Lanka we were pretty much out of the World Cup. With that sort of pressure, it’s exciting to see players come through. I have seen Alex do it on numerous occasions but obviously not under the intense scrutiny of the World Cup in a must-win game. We’ve got young guys coming through and performing at this level with experienced guys as well, and that’s a good place to be as a team.”We have got two group games left and we’re very confident we can do well in those. We know what these tournaments are like, if you can get on a run, if you can get a few guys going you can win these tournaments and it’s not out of our grasp.”Hales was ranked the No. 1 T20 batsman in the world a few weeks ago, though that didn’t stop him being referred to as an “unknown English player” by one Indian newspaper when he entered the IPL auction. Hales went unsold after his contractual agreement with Nottinghamshire meant his services came at the highest base price. It seems his county got their valuation right after all.”He’s a great striker of the ball, his levers really help with that,” Broad said, referring to Hales’ tall frame and long arms, rather than another technological innovation. “He took amazing responsibility as well, he knew when he wanted to target a certain bowler and he finished the game early. We always talk about having in batters at the end, you can see such a difference in T20 cricket and that’s something we can take into the next two games.”Dropped from Nottinghamshire’s Championship team last year, Hales now finds himself ranked alongside Brendon McCullum, Chris Gayle, Suresh Raina and Jayawardene as the batsmen to have scored World T20 hundreds. He may be catnip for franchise leagues around the world but Broad suggested his county team-mate had unfinished business with first-class cricket.”We know the red-ball game is much different to the white ball game but he is a fantastic prospect in that format as well,” Broad said. “He had a tough year, but he’s 25, everyone has tough years from time to time and it will make him stronger for that.”He’s very focused on this T20 stuff at the moment but he’s very determined to put his wrongs right from last summer and make an impact for Notts because he feels he didn’t give Notts full value for money last year and he really wants to improve his game in the four-day stuff. But if he keeps playing like that in the T20 stuff for England I don’t mind too much.”In view of Hales’ cool striking, Broad’s claim that the England bench had experienced “more excitement than nerves” in the closing moments against Sri Lanka carried greater credibility. For all his six-hitting, one exquisitely timed clip for four against Lasith Malinga with five overs of the chase to go confirmed the sense that Hales was in control. With Malinga tamed, England must now attempt to do the same against Dale Steyn and the slippery legspin of Imran Tahir. Mother Cricket has not abandoned them yet.
O atacante Rodrygo será desfalque do Santos contra o Atlético-MG, nesta quinta-feira, às 20h, no Pacaembu, pelo jogo de volta das oitavas de final da Copa do Brasil. O Superior Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva (STJD) negou o pedido de liminar do clube para que pudesse escalar o atleta sem correr risco de punição da CBF. A informação foi inicialmente publicada pelo ‘UOL’.
Mesmo antes da decisão, o Menino da Vila se concentrou com o elenco, em São Paulo. Ele ainda está convocado pela Seleção Brasileira sub-20 para o Torneio de Toulon, que está sendo realizado na França.
O Santos poderia ser punido caso escalasse Rodrygo contra Ceará, domingo, e Atlético-MG, nesta quinta. Antes de Rodrygo se transferir ao Real Madrid-ESP, o Peixe ainda terá mais duas partidas ambas pelo Brasileirão: o próprio Galo, no domingo, e o Corinthians, na quarta, ambas na Vila Belmiro.
Com o empate em 0 a 0, em Belo Horizonte, o Santos precisa de uma vitória simples nesta quinta diante do Atlético-MG para se classificar à próxima fase. Um novo empate levará a decisão para os pênaltis.
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Glamorgan have brought in Middlesex seamer Tom Helm on a month’s loan, as well as signed former Surrey batsman Tom Lancefield on a one-year contract
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Former Surrey batsman Tom Lancefield has been given a one-year contract by Glamorgan•PA Photos
Glamorgan have brought in Middlesex seamer Tom Helm on a month’s loan, as well as signed former Surrey batsman Tom Lancefield on a one-year contract. Helm will help provide cover for Michael Hogan, who is currently back in Australia for the birth of his second child.Helm, 19, has been part of the England Potential Performance Programme for the last two winters and took five wickets on his Championship debut against Yorkshire last season. He goes straight into Glamorgan’s squad for the visit of Worcestershire.”I’ve been aware of the progress Tom Helm has made in recent years and his development work with the EPPP,” Glamorgan’s chief executive and director of cricket, Hugh Morris, said. “I’ve been getting encouraging reports on him regularly and he’s one of the brightest fast bowling talents in the country.”Clearly with an international calibre bowling attack at Middlesex, his chances there have been limited, but we can provide him with an opportunity and we’re thankful to Angus Fraser and Middlesex CCC for allowing us to have Tom for the next month.”Lancefield was released by Surrey at the end of the 2012 and has since played for the Unicorns as well as 2nd XI cricket for various counties. A left-handed opener, he scored more than 600 runs in all competitions for Glamorgan’s second team in 2013.Essex, meanwhile, have moved to bolster an injury-hit squad ahead of their Division Two match against Leicestershire. David Masters, Graham Napier and Saj Mahmood are all unavailable, leading to Oliver Newby’s arrival on loan from Lancashire. With Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara away with England and Nick Browne, Tom Craddock and Tim Phillips all suffering from broken fingers, Essex have also registered allrounder Tanweer Sikander, who plays minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire.
Com inúmeras experiências de jogadores que retornaram do Oriente Médio e não conseguiram acompanhar o ritmo de jogo praticado no Brasil nos meses seguintes, o atacante Mailson, que voltou do futebol catari para reintegrar o plantel do CRB, não quer ter o mesmo problema.
Para ele, a paralisação da temporada dos clubes em função da Copa América acabou sendo extremamente essencial nesse sentido:
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-Vamos ter quase vinte dias sem jogos, apenas amistosos. É um tempo que não teríamos normalmente em uma temporada como a nossa, intensa. Para mim será muito bom. Vim do futebol do Qatar no início do ano e não tive um período como esse para trabalhar. Acredito que vamos evoluir bastante nestas próximas semanas.
Mailson ainda acrescentou que o mais importante no retorno da Série B para que o Galo da Praia entre e não saia mais do G4 do torneio, a principal meta estabelecida, será criar a regularidade de resultados positivos e não apenas viver de “arrancadas” pontuais.
-A Série B é uma competição muito intensa. Qualquer vacilo te tira dessa briga pelo G4, por isso a necessidade de ter essa regularidade o tempo todo. Estamos buscando isso e tenho certeza que, pelo bom trabalho que o grupo vem fazendo, conseguiremos – avaliou o atacante de 28 anos de idade natural de Almas, estado do Tocantins.
كشفت تقارير صحفية موقف نجم فريق ليفربول، محمد صلاح، من العرض الجديد المرتقب من قِبل نادي اتحاد جدة السعودي للظفر بخدماته.
كان اتحاد جدة قد سبق له التقدم بعرض قيمته 150 مليون جنيه إسترليني للتعاقد مع النجم المصري صاحب الـ31 عامًا هذا الصيف.
ولكن إدارة ليفربول رفضت ذلك العرض، وأصرت على الاحتفاظ بخدمات محمد صلاح في صفوف الفريق.
ورغم ذلك، فإن اتحاد جدة يسعى إلى تقديم عرض جديد، خاصة وأن الميركاتو الصيفي لا يزال مستمرًا في المملكة العربية السعودية حتى يوم الخميس القادم.
وذكرت تقارير صحفية اليوم بأن اتحاد جدة ينوي التقدم بعرض ضخم، تصل قيمته إلى 215 مليون جنيه إسترليني، لحسم صفقة محمد صلاح، إلى جانب امتيازات خرافية أخرى.
ووفقًا لصحيفة “ذا صن” الإنجليزية، نقلًا عن “inews”، فإن محمد صلاح مستعد للاستماع إلى عرض اتحاد جدة المرتقب، السالف ذكره.
وأوضحت أن مصادر ترى بأن عرض اتحاد جدة الجديد لا يمكن لأحد رفضه، دون النظر على الأقل إلى ما يمكن فعله عند إعادة استثمار تلك الأموال.
وأشارت إلى أن مصادر سعودية تعتقد بأن محمد صلاح سيرغب على الأقل في الاستماع إلى اهتمام اتحاد جدة بضمه، ويصرون على أن أي لاعب عربي سيرغب في الحصول على ما سيظفر به المصري، خاصة مع وجود مكافآت إضافية.
وأكدت الشبكة في الوقت نفسه أنه لا يوجد إصرار فوري من جانب محمد صلاح على رغبته في مغادرة ليفربول في الوقت الحالي، خاصة وأن عقده لا يزال مستمرًا حتى عام 2025.
Foram três gols marcados pela Seleção Brasileira nos dois primeiros jogos de Copa América. Todos eles anotados no segundo tempo da partida contra a Bolívia, na estreia. Nas outras quatro partidas disputadas neste ano, o Brasil havia balançado as redes 13 vezes.
A equipe tem o segundo pior aproveitamento nas finalizações, de acordo com dados do Footstats. Das 36 tentativas, apenas seis foram na direção do gol. Ou seja, somente 16,7% dos arremates brasileiros chegaram ao alvo. Número bem inferior ao do Peru, por exemplo, que acertou 54,8% de suas 31 conclusões.
As dificuldades ofensivas que o time de Tite vem enfrentando pode ser visto também nos números individuais. Sem Neymar, terceiro maior artilheiro da história da Seleção, nenhum brasileiro aparece entre os cinco principais finalizadores da Copa América. Com cinco conclusões, Philippe Coutinho foi o que mais tentou, seguido por Firmino e Casemiro, com quatro cada. O volume é muito inferior ao de Luiz Suárez, líder do fundamento com 17. Cavani, outro uruguaio, é o segundo, com 10.
APROVEITAMENTO NAS FINALIZAÇÕES NA COPA AMÉRICA – Dados do Footstats
England batsman Ian Bell has said increased anti-corruption measures could be needed for televised domestic gamees
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Ian Bell on anti-corruption measures in county cricket: “Maybe if it is on television then it has to be the same as an international game.”•Getty Images
England batsman Ian Bell has said increased anti-corruption measures could be needed for televised domestic games to prevent further cases of spot-fixing like those revealed by Lou Vincent to the ACSU. The ECB, however, does not believe there is a need for the same level of restrictions on electronic devices players are allowed to use in domestic cricket as there is at international level.The vulnerability of county cricket is back in the headlines after the reports of Vincent’s confessions and details of the breadth of fixing at domestic level around the world. Three county matches are among those under scrutiny, all of which were televised in Asia.For international matches, players and support staff are required to hand over their phones, iPads and other electronic devices to the team manager or security officer and are not allowed them back until the end of the day. In county cricket, there are no such steps taken. Though there is no suggestion that players were directly tapped up in the dressing room, it does leave a potential loophole to be exploited.”From where I can see, I haven’t played one [on TV] for a while for Warwickshire, but it’s just a normal county game,” Bell said. “It’s different internationally where you have to hand your phones in. In county games there is nothing. You could be on your phone all day if you want. Maybe if it is on television then it has to be the same as an international game.”I’ve never seen it [fixing] at domestic level but then you hear what has been going on, not just in England but all around the world … there probably has to be a bit more done domestically as well.”The most recent county match to have emerged from Vincent’s claims is from 2011. That was the year the ECB’s anti-corruption unit was set up under Chris Watts, a former senior detective with the Metropolitan Police, and his team now have an official at every televised match. The ECB does not feel further restrictions are required.”We don’t feel the need to take away players’ mobile phones or laptops at televised county matches. It is a judgement call made by the anti-corruption unit,” an ECB spokesman said. “We are constantly vigilant but don’t believe corruption is endemic in county cricket. We take measures proportional to the level of threat.”The ECB’s anti-corruption unit is very active around televised county matches. Chris Watts set up the unit in 2011 and his team has been strengthened so that there are now seven anti-corruption officers who work on the domestic programme.”They are a physical presence at every televised match and frequently go into dressing-rooms and talk to players. We certainly can’t be complacent. The Mervyn Westfield affair showed that some players – and particularly young players – can be vulnerable.”Westfield was jailed for four months in 2012 for his part in spot-fixing during a televised Pro40 match against Essex in 2009 after being tapped up by former Pakistan legspinner Danish Kaneria.Bell said he had never been approached at any level or spoken to anyone in English domestic cricket who had concerns over a match being rigged. He was shocked by the extent of the claims emerging from Vincent during his plea-bargain with the ICC.”It’s frustrating to see it cropping again. Lou Vincent is saying that it’s in five different countries that he’s played in. That’s unbelievable. You’d like to think we can get to the bottom of it but whether we will or not is a difficult one to answer.Bell was not involved in the 2010 Test against Pakistan, at Lord’s, which is the highest profile recent case of spot-fixing. It led to jail terms for Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, and Bell believes harsh penalties are the way forward.”Seeing people getting the right penalties for a massive wrongdoing in the game, it’s important that we have that. The harsher the penalties, the better. The last thing you want is to look back on games you’ve played in and have to ask ‘was that real or was it not?’ It takes away some of the feelings you have, when you look back and are not quite sure.”Investec, the specialist bank and asset manager, is the title sponsor of Test match cricket in England. Visit investec.co.uk/cricket or follow us @InvestecCricket