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In more favourable conditions, batsmen should fine life easier in and 2013-14 Sunfoil series and South Africa will hope some Test batsman emerge

Firdose Moonda19-Nov-20130:00

Sunfoil Series – Better contests anticipated

It does not have the cult following of the English county circuit or the scale and speed of the Indian system but South Africa’s first-class competition is a competitive breeding ground that continues to supply the No. 1 Test team with players ready to make the step up.Last summer was a bowler’s tournament. The top three wicket-takers claimed 134 scalps between them, the most in the last four seasons, while the top run-scorer made only 776 runs. South Africa’s stock of seamers rose with Kyle Abbott making a Test debut, Wayne Parnell finding form and the likes of Beuran Hendricks and Ayabulela Gqamane coming to the fore.Naturally, that left South Africa a little short on batsmen, particularly in the top order. The playing field is expected to even out this season. With the competition starting later in the year, when pitches have calmed down a touch, it should provide the perfect contest.Cobras
The defending champions have already enjoyed a good start to the season, having shared the one-day cup with Titans. They are led by the experienced Justin Ontong, who is now in his 17th season, and have the likes of Justin Kemp and Andrew Puttick to mentor the younger players. With the frequency at which their players graduate to the national team, this will again be a tournament to blood a fresh crop.Watch out for
An exciting selection of players in all departments has given Cobras some interesting options this season. The focus will be on batsmen Yaseen Vallie, quick bowler Lizaad Williams and offspinner Dane Piedt who will all look to secure regular places. Stiaan van Zyl, second on the run-charts last year, will hope to use this summer to push for national selection.Lions
The Johannesburg-based team almost caught Cobras last summer but were too far behind to leapfrog them. They’ve struggled with a host of injuries at the start of this season and with some of their players on national duty, their depth has been under scrutiny. Having worked hard to clamber their way out of mediocrity last season, the Lions are unlikely to throw that away easily.Watch out for
Imran Tahir was rehabilitated at Lions after his Adelaide nightmare and has become a feature in all three formats for South Africa. Lonwabo Tsotsobe will hope for the same for himself. The loss of his Test place coincided with the rise of Vernon Philander but Tsotsobe has intentions to get it back and hopes to show that this summer. Quinton de Kock will be hopeful of something similar. Now a firm fixture in South Africa’s limited-overs team, the young wicket-keeper batsman will look to hone his longer form game and show he is capable as a Test player as well.Quinton de Kock will hope to use the competition to stake his claim for a place in South Africa Test side•Associated Press

Dolphins
Lance Klusener’s maiden season in charge in 2012-13 was about turning Dolphins into a competitive unit again. They finished in third place. In his follow-up summer, Klusener wants to win something. Dolphins missed out on a place in the one-day cup final after being the form team of the competition and will want to make amends. They are under a new captain in Morne van Wyk and seem to be responding well to his style.Watch out for
Dolphins are the only team with an overseas professional playing in all formats and Graham Onions will be the focus of their campaign. He was instrumental in Durham’s victory in the County championship where he took 70 wickets at 18.45, numbers not good enough to earn an Ashes place but numbers Dolphins would love replicated. His influence on Kyle Abbott will also be important as Abbott looks to earn himself more Tests for South Africa.Warriors
A shift in focus last season saw Warriors place more emphasis on the first-class format. They finished fourth, winning four games and losing four – with two drawn – which may not seem very fruitful but there were positives. They totalled 100 points in the competition, which Rusty Theron revealed was a first for them, “in a long time”. Their bowlers were their strength but they are still in search of batsmen with the temperament to help them total over 400.Watch out for
Ashwell Prince has a reputation for grinding it out and will have to serve as an example to the likes of Colin Ingram. Ryan Bailey’s inclusion from the Knights should also bolster their batting. Parnell, who had a good season with bat and ball last summer, will try to use the campaign to show his Test worthiness while bowling talent in Gqamane, Theron and Simon Harmer will all be on the national selectors’ radar.Knights
Bloemfontein is known for being hot and dry but the Knights 2012-13 first-class competition was ruined by weather. Their home town was not to blame as all three of their abandoned matches were away from home. A lack of competitive edge saw them draw three others and finish with only one win. Having done well in seasons past piling on big totals rather than going for wins, they failed to adjust to the new allocation of points which rewards teams for victories far more than it used to, when high-scoring draws could still result in a good overall position on the table. They will need to get the balance right this time.Watch out for
Dean Elgar is an opening batsman by trade and will be eyeing that position in the Test team, especially given the lack of form of Alviro Petersen. Rilee Rossouw and Reeza Hendricks can always be counted on to notch up big runs but there will be keen interest in Diego Rosier, an under-19 player looking to make his mark.Titans
Last season’s last-place team have already come back well this summer. They shared the one-day cup and are making big strides under new coach Rob Walter. They have an impressive arsenal of players that includes former international batsman Jacques Rudolph, the aggressive Roelof van der Merwe and the all-round skill of Albie Morkel. Combined with their younger hopes, they could be seen as serious title-contenders this time. Watch out for
A stress fracture kept Marchant de Lange out of most of last season but he is back, bowling quickly and wants another shot at Test cricket. Farhaan Behardien is another player who is also keen to work his way back into the South African side while Henry Davids, who is part of the T20 squad, will want to display his longer-form credentials.

David Warner called for continuity in Australia’s Test batting line-up during the forthcoming Ashes series, after the unsettling changes swung in England by the new coach Darren Lehmann and the captain Michael Clarke

Daniel Brettig25-Sep-2013

As he set aside last year’s acrimonious exit to return to the Sydney Thunder franchise, David Warner called for continuity in Australia’s Test batting line-up during the forthcoming Ashes series, after the unsettling changes swung in England by the new coach Darren Lehmann and the captain Michael Clarke.While England maintained the same top six until the series was won, Lehmann preferred a constant shuffle that seemed only to rest on a productive combination in the fifth Test at the Oval after all other avenues had been exhausted. Warner was tried as a middle-order batsman before returning to the top alongside Chris Rogers, and said he was hoping for a clear path forward in the home series.”You just want some clarity,” Warner told ESPNcricinfo. “It’s a word that’s been popping up the last 12 months with us in the Australian team, and I think now they’ve found the right combination. I thoroughly enjoyed batting with Chris out there, he’s a quiet guy, he kept me going. If I played a false shot he didn’t come down and say, ‘Don’t play that’. It was more like, ‘Alright mate, next one, wait for the right one’ and we’d feed off each other very well.”Darren’s the new coach, and he knows how we all play, but under different situations of the game and scenarios it gave him an insight about where you can bat and how well you can bat. So it’s good for him to see what our batsmen can do and our bowlers, and hopefully they’ve got everything set in stone come the first Test.”Warner referred to the hype around the visit to England as something of a distraction, quite apart from the misadventures in Birmingham – labelled “despicable” by the Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland – that cost him his place until the third match in Manchester. While quipping he was glad to see Joe Root making the tour, Warner acknowledged the height of England’s chosen pace battery as an area requiring preparation.”Leading into this Ashes series hopefully the hype’s not as big as it was in England, because we know we just lost the key moments,” he said. “We know that over here, we’ll be right on top of those key moments. Hard wickets, home advantage, they’re not going to be as slow as they were over there, and with our bowlers being fresh going into that first Test, I’m pretty sure we’ll be ready to go.”They’ve got some tall bowlers and some bounce there definitely. They’ll use it to their advantage. We’ve just got to go to our training sessions. For the last 12 months, a lot of us have been training with a guy standing on a big board and getting throw downs. We’ve got some tall fast bowlers as well, which get up around the ears and you’ve got to play it how it is. We’re not scared at all.”The sight of Warner again modelling a Thunder shirt at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium was not a possibility many would have predicted a year ago, when he quit the Big Bash League team after falling out with the general manager John Dyson. Warner’s reservations about the organisation of the team were to be backed up at summer’s end, when the team’s poor performance and questionable administration resulted in a complete overhaul by CA and Cricket New South Wales.Dyson has been replaced by Nick Cummins, a widely experienced corporate operative, while the team’s highest profile signing is no longer the flashy Chris Gayle but the consummate team man, Michael Hussey. “Obviously there were a bit of personal issues with me and John, nothing to do with the coaching staff,” Warner admitted. “But that’s how it is and now we look forward to this season. I always said I was going to come back to the guys here, so I’m looking forward to the challenge again.”Led by Huss, the guys who aspire to play at the top level and get that baggy green, he’s one guy who you can just look up to, the way he trains and goes about things, his character’s going to be fantastic for the guys in that team. I know when I was first here guys were rocking up late to training, just doing little hits here and there and not progressing. I know with Huss and his work ethic and experience, he’s going to lead by example.”

After their fifth heavy defeat in five games, Zimbabwe’s cricketers might have been excused for wanting to leave Queens Sports Club as quickly as possible and, perhaps, get away from cricket and the pain of defeat for a little while. But the Zimbabweans d

Liam Brickhill in Bulawayo04-Aug-2013

After their fifth heavy defeat in five games, Zimbabwe’s cricketers might have been excused for wanting to leave Queens Sports Club as quickly as possible and, perhaps, get away from cricket and the pain of defeat for a little while. But the Zimbabweans didn’t head straight for the team bus. Instead, they walked into the Indian dressing room to talk to the Indians and glean a little knowledge from the world champions. Their rationale being that if you’re going to get walloped, you might as well try to learn something in the process.”They’re in the changing room with [India] now, to talk to them,” said Zimbabwe coach Andy Waller. “The best time to learn is now in the change room with the best players in the world, and talking one-on-one when you’re not shy talking out in the open. And our guys are quite bad like that. They don’t go up and ask questions about cricket, and that’s how you learn. And I’m hoping we try to change that culture. Hopefully they’ll learn something from what they hear from the guys.”Earlier in the day, when Zimbabwe were in the field, Waller himself had decamped to the top floor of the City End stand for a one-on-one chat with India’s bowling coach Joe Dawes. Later, Waller was slightly late to the post-match press conference and Sean Williams, who had arrived slightly early, suggested that his coach was trying to get as much out of the Indian camp as he could before the visitors depart for Johannesburg, and on to Mumbai, on Sunday morning.The opposition dressing room is, of course, not the only place from where Zimbabwe should be picking up a few tips. Having watched India’s batsmen pile on over a thousand runs for the loss of just 19 wickets in the series, they’ve had plenty of time to observe the best way to go about compiling a limited-overs innings.”You look at someone like Kohli for example,” Waller said. “He doesn’t play risky shots. He plays good, simple cricket and he finds the gaps, whereas I think our guys try to improvise more than they should. That’s something that we’re working really hard at: trying to convince them that that’s the way we should be playing cricket.”I think it’s watching all this IPL and that sort of stuff that’s got these guys thinking the only way you can score runs is hitting over the top and hitting sixes and fours. The Indians have proved to us that that’s not the case. They shoulder arms like they’re playing Test cricket, but they’re still getting the runs on the board, because they’re waiting patiently.”The lessons Zimbabwe are learning are not easy ones. The international cricket arena is a ruthless classroom, and their classmates are wealthier, more famous and more popular. Williams, who’d scraped his way to a fifty that held together a flimsy batting performance, admitted that the problem for Zimbabwe was that they might have been a little starstruck during their brush with the cool kids.”I struggled with the bat in the first four games, but it was really a mindset of playing against the world champions,” Williams said. “It’s a lot different to playing against other teams like Bangladesh, Kenya and Ireland. Once I overcame that, everything seemed to gel together. Obviously I’m not happy that I didn’t finish it off, but it’s getting better. I’m looking forward to Pakistan arriving.”It’s not just Zimbabwe’s batsmen who could learn a thing or two from India. Though the Indian bowling attack was marginally less experienced than Zimbabwe’s, they went about their business in a professional, consistent manner. Waller touched repeatedly on what Zimbabwe’s game plans had been – to keep wickets in hand at the top of the order, to bowl a consistent line and length – and how those plans hadn’t always been stuck to.Indeed, Kyle Jarvis seemed to pay the price for his lack of consistency and inability to stick to a plan earlier in the series when he was rotated out of the playing XI, but he did, at least, seem to pick up quickly what was required of him and bounced back with a strong performance with the ball in the final match.”Jarvis wasn’t really dropped,” insisted Waller. “We’ve tried to rotate the guys. My whole intention at the beginning was to give all four seam bowlers an equal opportunity. But also, to be honest with him, Jarvis wasn’t quite going by our game plans and he’d be the first to admit it. We wanted him to bowl a line and length and create pressure, and get wickets like that.”The way he was feeling, he’s a strike bowler and he swings it away slightly and that’s how he thinks he was going to get his wickets. So he was bowling full and he was getting hit. So it’s a learning curve for him, that we must play by the game plan. It’s a team game, and he’s learned from it and it’s shown today when he got 2 for 18 from eight. He bowled exactly how we wanted him to. We know he’s capable of doing it, but I think he’s learned from that error.”Zimbabwe don’t have a lot of time to let the lessons learned from India’s trip to sink in. Pakistan will be visiting in a matter of weeks, and after them Sri Lanka follow. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, quite the opposite. A curriculum based around regular, top-level competition is exactly what this team needs.”It’s not something we can turn over in two or three months,” added Waller. “I’m not trying to make excuses, but it’s a long process. It’s a confidence thing. The guys haven’t played hard, competitive cricket for three or four months now, and I think you’ll find by the end of the Sri Lanka tour, playing more of that standard of cricket, the confidence will build up and we’ll start improving.”

Alice Springs will host an international cricket team for the first time in 13 years after Cricket Australia announced England would play a tour match there during the 2013-14 Ashes

ESPNcricinfo staff07-May-2013Alice Springs will host an international cricket team for the first time in 13 years after Cricket Australia announced England would play a tour match there during the 2013-14 Ashes. Traeger Park is set to host a two-day game between England and the Cricket Australia’s Chairman’s XI on November 29 and 30 after the original venue, Manuka Oval in Canberra, had to withdraw due to scheduled resurfacing work.The last time an international team played in Alice Springs was when the West Indies side led by Jimmy Adams played a one-day match there against a Northern Territory Cricket Association Invitation XI in November 2000. The England game will take place after the first Ashes Test in Brisbane and before the second Test at Adelaide Oval.”When we were informed that Canberra could not host this year’s Chairman’s XI fixture, we wanted to bring the match to an iconic part of Australia,” Andrew Ingleton, CA’s executive general manager of game and market development, said. “Alice Springs, set against the backdrop of the MacDonnell Ranges, is an iconic part of our great country and an ideal setting for the game.”Matt Conlan, the Northern Territory’s minister for sport and recreation, said it was exciting for the territory to be part of the Ashes battle.”The Ashes is one of the biggest events in Australian sport and for Alice Springs to have a slice of the action in between the first and second Tests of this highly anticipated series is incredibly exciting,” he said. “It’s been 13 years since Traeger Park hosted an international cricket team and I’m delighted this drought we now be broken in November.”

Neither Alan Richardson nor Glen Chapple were ever capped at Test level. But, even aged 37 and 39 respectively, England’s loss remains county cricket’s gain.

Tim Wigmore at Old Trafford11-Apr-2013
ScorecardGlen Chapple, like his opposite number Alan Richardson, still counting the wickets not the years•Getty ImagesNeither Alan Richardson nor Glen Chapple were ever capped at Test level. But, even aged 37 and 39 respectively, England’s loss remains county cricket’s gain.There is much linking the two. They are euphemistically described as elder statesman. Let’s face it: that means by the standards of professional cricket, and especially fast bowlers, they are rather old.They are two seam bowlers destined to be labelled ‘workmanlike’ by those who rarely see them. And, on a day in which rain, gloom and sheer cold might have put off many, both Richardson and Chapple were typically exemplary, mixing accuracy with enough late-career nip to induce OCD in batsmen constantly having to check the safety of their off-stumps.Yet the differences between the two are, perhaps, even more significant. Chapple is a one-club man of the sort 21st Century sport is meant to have eradicated while Richardson is onto his fourth county. Chapple enjoyed early stardom in his career – he almost played for England as a 21-year-old in 1995, and was a regular on A tours in the mid-to-late 1990s – but Richardson has undergone a more circuitous route to success.After a solitary game for Derbyshire in 1995, Richardson spent a few years playing Minor Counties cricket and could easily have drifted out of the game. It was only in 1999, at the age of 24, that Richardson enjoyed success at first-class level. He has continued his trajectory of improvement ever since: averaging 33 for Warwickshire, for whom he played until 2004, then 27 for his next county Middlesex, who he represented until 2009. But that season, he took only 11 wickets at 56: nearing 35, would anyone give him another?Happily the answer was yes, and Worcestershire have been spectacularly vindicated ever since: 185 wickets, and counting, at an average of 23. Last year, Richardson even had the honour of being named one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year. Fittingly, Chapple was rewarded in the same year, after leading Lancashire to their first Championship in 77 years.Not only because he plays at Old Trafford and is in his 40th year, Chapple could be described as the Ryan Giggs of county cricket. And – like Giggs and indeed Richardson – he probably now needs an element of protection to ensure readiness for the biggest challenges. Lancashire and Worcestershire will be reluctant to do so but surely need to rest the duo from limited overs games to maximise their chances of immediate Championship promotion in 2013.Although descriptions of their bowling styles inspires many of the same adjectives, Chapple and Richardson have subtly different virtues. Chapple has a smooth, rhythmical action and generates just enough seam movement to worry batsmen. Equally reliable, Richardson’s action could hardly be described as smooth – just before his delivery stride, he shapes as if like a windwill. It is slightly ungainly, but what comes next isn’t: able to extract more bounce than Chapple, Richardson can shape the ball both ways.As they have edged towards middle age, Chapple and Richardson have lost a little pace but have acquired new skills – they are both adept at bowling either over or around the wicket. Richardson used this variation to trouble Lancashire’s openers in a typically testing spell (8-2-13-0) towards the end of the day.Chapple, after a first day in which his wicket-taken impact was limited to an athletic catch, claimed two wickets, including opposite number Daryl Mitchell for an attractive 74, to restrict Worcestershire to 334. They had earlier reached 315-6, thanks to a 96-run stand between Mitchell and Gareth Andrew, who smashed Simon Kerrigan for a six over mid-wicket en route to his 52.The washout of the entire afternoon session, and the threat of further interruptions in the game – notwithstanding the use of floodlights – makes it likely that Chapple and Richardson’s efforts will soon be forgotten as mere features of an uneventful drawn game. That may be true, but their career-long exploits certainly will not.

A round-up of the HRV Cup matches on January 6, 2013

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Jan-2013
ScorecardAn aggressive knock of 74 from Tamim Iqbal and a spell of 4 for 18 from seamer Ili Tugaga led Wellington to a comfortable 57-run win over Canterbury in Rangiora, and took them to second in the points table.In 7.1 overs, their openers Jesse Ryder and Tamim put on 71 runs to establish a platform for domination. Spinner Ronnie Hira ended the stand by getting Ryder out for 37, but another one, worth 77, ensued, till Iqbal was dismissed in the 16th over. By then, they were cruising at 148 for 2, and to boost the rate Michael Papps scored 32 off 17 deliveries towards the end to get his team to 190.Canterbury lost wickets in a hurry. Tugaga destroyed the top order as the first four batsmen in their line-up scored 18 runs together. After 10.3 overs, they were reduced to 60 for 5. Middle-order batsman Andrew Ellis scored 48, but when he got out in the 15th over, the contest was virtually over. Thirty-year old left-arm spinner Luke Woodcock was the other bowler to prove effective, claiming three wickets.
ScorecardA 95-run stand between Ryan ten Doeschate and Nathan McCullum, both of whom scored half-centuries, and a combined bowling effort helped Otago inflict a 93-run win over Central Districts at the University Oval in Dunedin. The win, Otago’s sixth this season, consolidates their position at the top of the table, while Central Districts’ sixth loss kept them at the bottom.Chasing a stiff 195, Central Districts lacked a steadying hand to halt the collapse. Only four batsmen scored in double-figures, with opener Jeet Raval, who made his Twenty20 debut, top scoring with 20. By the 17th over, they were bowled out for 101. The wickets were shared around, with seamers James Fuller and Jimmy Neesham, and spinners Nathan McCullum and Nick Beard, all taking two wickets each.The win was set up by a commanding batting performance from Otago. At the halfway mark in their innings, they were scoring at a run rate of 7.5 per over, but ten Doeschate, who scored an unbeaten 59, and McCullum struck eight sixes and six fours between them to boost the rate. The final total of 194 for 4 proved enough to defend.
ScorecardA blistering knock from Colin de Grandhomme and restrictive bowling from Michael Bates and Kyle Mills carved a 28-run win for Auckland over Northern Districts in Mount Maunganui.Set a target of 181, Northern Districts managed 152 in their 20 overs led by Steven Croft and Brad Wilson (39). Michael Bates and Kyle Mills, both gave only 19 runs each in their four overs and picked up five wickets together. They were ably supported by Bhupinder Singh (1-22) who also gave less than six runs per over and picked up the wicket of Wilson.Earlier, when Auckland were put in to bat, they lost their openers within six overs for 37. Captain Gareth Hopkins led the side from there, first with Anaru Kitchen and then with Grandhomme. Grandhomme smashed an unbeaten 30-ball 66 which included eight fours and two sixes and pushed the run-rate from under seven to nine when their innings ended.Auckland picked up four points from the match and moved to fourth place in the points table.

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O STJ (Superior Tribunal de Justiça) negou o pedido de liminar realizado por Ronaldinho Gaúcho solicitando a devolução de seu passaporte e de Assis, seu irmão e empresário. Francisco Falcão, ministro relator, entendeu que a defesa do ex-jogador não comprovou que a entrega do passaporte é um direito de Ronaldinho. A informação foi publicada inicialmente pelo portal Uol.

Vale ressaltar que a Justiça não avaliou se o pedido do craque tem ou não sentido. E sim o relator do caso, que ainda não vê nenhum indício claro de que estão ‘passando por cima’ de um direito do Ronaldinho. Francisco também garante que aguardar mais alguns dias por uma decisão não afetará o caso.

A retenção deste documento foi determinada em 31 de outubro pela Justiça, pelo fato de o ex-jogador não ter cumprido uma sentença judicial de fevereiro de 2015. Ao lado de seu irmão, Ronaldinho foi condenado por crime ambiental por conta da construção ilegal de um píer, com plataforma de pesca na orla do Lago Guaíba (RS). Sendo assim, a sentença havia determinado o pagamento de uma multa de aproximadamente R$ 9 milhões, há mais de três anos atrás. O acordo não foi cumprido até o momento.

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Ronaldinho estava em Tóquio quando a ordem de entrega dos passaportes aconteceu. Ele retornou ao Brasil no último fim de semana, para a disputa de um jogo festivo na cidade de São Paulo e participar de um lançamento de aplicativo.

Ainda antes de voltar ao seu país, Ronaldinho entrou com um pedido de habeas corpus no STJ alegando que a medida desrespeitava seu direito de ir e vir. Contudo, o Ministério Público negou essa tese e defendeu que era uma atitude necessária.

Sanath Jayasuriya was one of six players to be valued at the maximum price of $35,000 in the local player portion of the draft for the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League

Tariq Engineer06-Jul-2012

Sanath Jayasuriya, the former Sri Lanka opener, was one of six players to be valued at the maximum price of $35,000 in the local player portion of the draft for the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League. The other five other players valued in the top bracket were current Sri Lanka internationals Dinesh Chandimal, Chamara Kapugedara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thisara Perera and Rangana Herath. In all, 107 local players were drafted.The 43-year-old Jayasuriya, who played for the Mumbai Indians in the first three seasons of the IPL, was selected in the ninth round by Kandurata on Friday in Colombo. Jayasuriya also played for Khulna in the first season of the Bangladesh Premier League earlier this year. Chandimal was the first Sri Lanka player to be drafted when he was selected by Wayamba with the day’s first pick. Perera and Kulasekara were the second and third players picked, by Kandurata and Nagenahira respectively, while Uthura selected Kapugedara with the fifth pick, according to the results released by Sri Lanka Cricket.Herath was taken in the second round by Basnahira. Chaminda Vaas, the former Sri Lanka fast bowler, was valued at $25,000 and selected by Wayamba in the 11th round.Angelo Mathews was named icon player of Nagenahira, taking the place of Shahid Afridi. The franchise had decided to release Afridi before the international players’ draft as they wanted an icon player who would be available through the tournament – Afridi could potentially miss the semi-finals and finals of the SLPL due to the recently announced Pakistan-Australia series.On Thursday, 56 foreign players were picked by the seven franchises via the same draft system, giving each franchise a preliminary list of 24 players. The teams will now prune that list down to 18 players comprising 12 Sri Lankan and six foreign players, one of the tournament organisers told ESPNcricinfo. The remaining six players – four Sri Lankan and two foreign – then become part of the supplementary list for their respective teams. In case of an injury to a player in the primary squad, teams will be allowed to replace the injured player with a player from the supplementary list.One player who is likely to find himself on the supplementary list is Adam Voges, who was picked up by Kandurata. Voges is currently Nottinghamshire’s Twenty20 player and the county insists his obligations at Trent Bridge will be met in full.Preliminary SLPL squads
Uthura(Foreign players): Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh), Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe), Kevon Cooper (West Indies), Imran Farhat (Pakistan), Fidel Edwards (West Indies), David Miller (South Africa), Dillon du Preez (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies)(Local players): Chamara Kapugedara, Jehan Mubarak, Farveez Maharoof, Janak Gunaratne, Nilanka Premaratne, Mahela Udawatte, Chathura Peiris, Akalanka Ganegama, Roshen Silva, PHD Kaushalya, Sandun Weerakkody, Madra Lakmal, Sohan Boralessa, Yohan de Silva, Madushanka Ekanayake, Muttiah MuralitharanNagenahira(Foreign players): Mitchell Marsh (Australia), Imran Nazir (Pakistan), Travis Birt (Australia), Ahmed Shehzad (Pakistan), Ben Laughlin (Australia), Elias Sunny (Bangladesh), Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh), Nasir Hossain (Bangladesh)(Local players): Nuwan Kulasekara, Angelo Perera, Ajantha Mendis, TM Sampath, Sachith Pathirana, Suraj Randiv, Gayan Maneeshan, Chammera Dushmantha, Shaminda Eranga, Udara Jayasundera, Kanishka Alvitigala, Sajeewa Weerakoon, Andy Solomons, Ishan Jayaratne, Charith Sylvester, Angelo MathewsRuhuna(Foreign players): Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), Daniel Harris (Australia), Ryan Harris (Australia), Aaron Finch (Australia), Jerome Taylor (West Indies), Nathan McCullum (New Zealand), Ryan McLaren (South Africa), Richard Levi (South Africa)(Local players): Lahiru Thirimanne, Chamara Silva, Prasanna Jayawardene, Dilruwan Perera, Ramith Rambukwella, Tharanga Lakshitha, Gihan Rupesinghe, Shaluka Karunanayake, Denuwan Rajakaruna, Malinga Bandara, Kasun Madushanka, Dananja de Silva, Shanuka Dissanayake, Gayan Wijekoon, Chaminda Vidanapathirana, Lasith MalingaWayamba:(Foreign players): Azhar Mahmood (England), Umar Akmal (Pakistan), Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh), Colin Ingram (South Africa), Kemar Roach (West Indies), James Faulkner (Australia), Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan), Brad Hogg (Australia)(Local players): Dinesh Chandimal, Isuru Udana, Kushal Janith Perera, Akhila Dhananjaya, Kaushal Weeraratne, Shehan Jayasuriya, Suranga Lakmal, Milinda Siriwardana, Chathuraga Kumara, Nimesh Perera, Chaminda Vaas, Alankara Asanka, Dashun Shanaka, Malinga Pushpakumara, Dilesh Gunaratne, Mahela JaywardeneKandurata:(Foreign players): Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan), Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan), Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan), Chris Lynn (Australia), Dane Vilas (South Africa), Albie Morkel (South Africa), Johan Botha (South Africa), Adam Voges (Australia)(Local players): Thisara Perera, Thilan Samaraweera, Kosala Kulasekara, Kithruwan Vithanage, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Jeevantha Kulatunga, Malinda Warnapura, Chanaka Welegedara, Sanath Jayasuriya, Dilhara Lokuhettige, Tharanga Paranavitana, Romesh Buddika, Chintaka Perera, Kaushal Silva, Niroshan Dikwalla, Kumar SangakkaraBasnahira:(Foreign players): Brad Hodge (Australia), Marlon Samuels (West Indies), Daniel Smith (Australia), Dirk Nannes (Australia), Robin Peterson (South Africa), Tim Southee (New Zealand), Clint McKay (Australia), Cameron Borgas (Australia)(Local players): Jeevan Mendis, Rangana Herath, Indika de Saram, Danushka Gunathilaka, Dhammika Prasad, Lahiru Jayaratne, Rushan Jaleel, Sachitra Serasinghe, Nuwan Pradeep, Dimuth Karunaratne, Amal Athulamudali, Sanjaya Gangodawila, Nadeehra Nawala, Thilan Tushara, Ishara Amerasinghe, Tillakaratne DilshanUva:(Foreign players): Andrew McDonald (Australia), Umar Gul (Pakistan), Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), Callum Ferguson (Australia), James Franklin (New Zealand), Abdur Rehman (Pakistan), Hammad Azam (Pakistan), Chris Gayle (West Indies)(Local players): Sachithra Senanayake, Thilina Kandamby, Upul Tharanga, Dilshan Munaweera, Dilhara Fernando, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Chintaka Jayasinghe, Sameera Zoysa, Seekkuge Prasanna, Ashan Priyanjana, Vishva Fernando, Lahiru Madhushanka, Akila Ishanka, Dinesh Darshapriya, Saliya Saman, Ashen Silva

وجه نادي جالطة سراي إنذارًا شديدًا لمسئولي نانت المنافس في بطولة الدوري الفرنسي بشأن مستقبل مهاجم الفريق الأول لكرة القدم المعار، مصطفى محمد، بعد نهاية الموسم الحالي.

ويلعب مصطفى محمد مع نانت حتى نهاية الموسم في 30 يونيو المقبل، على سبيل الإعارة مقابل 250 ألف دولار مع بند أحقية شراء بقيمة 5.7 مليون دولار.

ولكن المشكلة تكمن في أن نانت قد قام بحسم شراء مهاجمه المعار من نيس، أندي ديلورت، نهائيًا بمقابل 5 ملايين يورو والذي انتقل للكناري في يناير الماضي على سبيل الإعارة.

اقرأ أيضًا.. مصطفى محمد يعلق على مستقبله مع نانت

وبحسب صحيفة “الصباح” التركية فإن جالطة سراي قد تحدث مع مسئولي نانت حول مستقبل مصطفى محمد وأكد أنهم لن يتفاوضوا بشأن تقليل المقابل المادي لبند أحقية الشراء.

يريد جالطة سراي الحصول على المبلغ بالكامل أو استعادة مصطفى محمد مع نهاية الموسم، خاصة وأن الفريق التركي قد قطع إعارة مهاجم بنفيكا المعار، هاريس سيفيروفيتش، بعد فشله في النصف الأول من الموسم الحالي.

الجدير بالذكر أن جالطة سراي كان قد دفع مبلغًا قيمته 4 ملايين دولار لصالح الزمالك في ديسمبر 2021 من أجل التعاقد مع مصطفى محمد نهائيًا بعد فترة إعارة تألق فيها مهاجم منتخب مصر.

نجح فريق إنبي في تسجيل الهدف الأول بشباك نظيره بيراميدز، خلال المباراة الجارية حاليًا ضمن منافسات بطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز.

ويتواجه بيراميدز مع إنبي على أرضية ملعب استاد الدفاع الجوي، في إطار مواجهات الجولة الـ18 من عمر المسابقة المحلية.

وأحرز رفيق كابو الهدف الأول لإنبي في الدقيقة 12 من عمر المباراة، بعد خطأ من أحمد سامي مدافع بيراميدز لتصل الكرة إلى أحمد أمين قفة ويرسل كرة عرضية ويسددها كابو داخل الشباك.

طالع..فيديو | بقذيفة بوبو.. فيوتشر يقتنص فوزًا صعبًا من حرس الحدود في الدوري

ويدخل بيراميدز المباراة محتلًا المركز الثالث في ترتيب جدول الدوري برصيد 34 نقطة، فيما يتواجد إنبي في المركز الثالث عشر برصيد 16 نقطة.  هدف إنبي الأول أمام بيراميدز في الدوري