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Australia were the last team to enter the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals but they got there after surviving a scare against Pakistan that had Ricky Ponting chewing his fingernails on the dressing-room balcony

Cricinfo staff30-Sep-2009

Australia were the last team to enter the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals but they got there after surviving a scare against Pakistan that had Ricky Ponting chewing his fingernails on the dressing-room balcony. Chasing Pakistan’s total of 205, Australia were cruising at 140 for 2. However, they lost six wickets for 47 runs and Brett Lee and Nathan Hauritz ended up scrambling a last-ball bye to scrape a two-wicket victory in Centurion.”I was chewing my fingers nails up there for the last little bit,” Ponting said after the game. “That ended up being closer than I thought was possible. We snuck across the line.”The result left Australia on top of Group A with five points, compared to Pakistan’s four, which means they’ll face England, the second-placed team in Group B, in the first semi-final in Centurion on Friday. Australia came to South Africa having won a bilateral one-day series 6-1 in England but despite that success Ponting was wary of a resurgent England team.”We’ve just come from a really good series against them over there, but it’s different conditions here to what we confronted over there and they’ve been playing some pretty good cricket of late,” Ponting said. “We need to get back to the drawing board a little bit and talk about what went wrong in the last part with our batting this afternoon and make sure we don’t do that again on Friday.”As the ball got older it reversed a bit at the end and spun a bit for the spinners too so we were pretty lucky we restricted them to that total. I thought the bowlers in the second half of the innings particularly, did a good job.”Pakistan will face Group B leaders New Zealand in the other semi-final in Johannesburg on Saturday. They will be gunning for their second ICC title this year after winning the World Twenty20 in England in June. “I’m always happy whether you play England, Australia or any team in semi-finals or final it doesn’t matter,” Younis Khan said. “If you play good cricket then you are the winner.”

أعرب الدولي الإنجليزي السابق، ديفيد بيكهام أسطورة مانشستر يونايتد، عن حزنه الشديد لوفاة الملكة إليزابيث الثانية، ملكة بريطانيا والكومنولث.

وتصاعدت المخاوف بشكل كبير على صحة الملكة صباح أمس الخميس عندما أعلن القصر أنها تخضع للإشراف الطبي في بالمورال، ثم في الثامنة مساءً من نفس اليوم، أعلن قصر باكنجهام وفاة الملكة إليزابيث عن عمر ناهز 96 عامًا.

وكتب بيكهام من خلال حسابه الرسمي بمنصة التواصل الاجتماعي “إنستجرام”: “أشعر بالحزن الشديد لوفاة جلالة الملكة، يا له من فيض من الحب والاحترام رأيناه لليوبيل البلاتيني على حياتها في خدمتنا”.

اقرأ أيضًا.. أندية البريميرليج تنعى الملكة اليزابيث: نشعر بحزن عميق لرحيل صاحبة الجلالة

وأضاف: “مدى الدمار الذي نشعر به اليوم يظهر ما كانت تعنيه للناس في هذا البلد وفي جميع أنحاء العالم، إلى أي مدى كانت مصدر إلهام لنا بقيادتها، وكيف كانت تقف بجانبنا في الأوقات صعبة”.

واختتم: “حتى أيامها الأخيرة، خدمت بلادها بكرامة وسخاء، هذا العام كانت ستعرف مدى حبها، أفكاري وصلواتي مع عائلتنا المالكة”.

يُذكر أنّه من المتوقع أن يتم إيقاف مباريات الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز طوال فترة الحداد في بريطانيا، حيث ستدخل البلاد في حالة حداد بعد رحيل صاحبة الجلالة، ويُعد الإعلان عن ذلك مسألة وقت؛ وفقًا لما ذكرته صحيفة “ديلي ميل” البريطانية.

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Além de Lugano, Dorival Júnior tem outro desfalque por problema físico para a partida desta quarta-feira, contra o Atlético-MG. O São Paulo viaja para Belo Horizonte nesta terça-feira sem Gilberto, atacante reserva que foi vetado por contusão muscular.

O time vem realizando treinos sem a presença da imprensa desde sábado e, segundo o clube, Gilberto teve contratura na coxa esquerda no trabalho desta segunda-feira. Já Lugano sofreu pancada na panturrilha direita durante o aquecimento de sexta-feira e foi vetado por conta de um desconforto na região.

Os outros desfalques são Arboleda e Cueva, que atuarão na noite desta terça-feira em Equador e Peru, respectivamente, o lateral-direito Bruno, com dores na região cervical, e os atacantes Brenner, que disputa o Mundial sub-17 com a Seleção Brasileira,Morato e Wellington Nem, que passaram por cirurgias no joelho direito e não atuarão mais nesta temporada.

Já Rodrigo Caio, apesar de estar à disposição de Tite para a partida entre Brasil e Chile, nesta terça-feira, no Allianz Parque, em São Paulo, foi relacionado por Dorival Júnior. O zagueiro não será titular na Seleção e só não atuará contra o Atlético-MG se precisar atuar por muitos minutos no jogo desta noite, desgastando-se para o confronto do clube em Belo Horizonte.

O treinador já confirmou três alterações em relação à equipe que venceu o Sport, na última rodada, e tirou o time da zona de rebaixamento do Campeonato Brasileiro: o zagueiro Bruno Alves e o meio-campista Jonatan Gomez entram nos lugares de Arboleda e Cueva e o lateral-esquerdo Júnior Tavares, que cumpriu suspensão, retorna na vaga que foi ocupada por Edimar.

Desta forma, o São Paulo entrará em campo com:Sidão; Militão, Bruno Alves, Rodrigo Caio e Júnior Tavares; Petros e Hernanes; Marcos Guilherme, Jonatan Gomez e Lucas Fernandes; Pratto.

Em 14º lugar do Brasileiro, com 31 pontos, um acima da zona de rebaixamento, o Tricolor se prepara para enfrentar o Atlético-MG, concorrente direto na briga para evitar a ida à Série B – tem 34 pontos e figura na nona posição. O jogo será às 21h45 de quarta-feira, no estádio Independência, em Minas Gerais.

Confira a lista com os relacionados por Dorival Júnior:

Goleiros: Denis e Sidão
Laterais: Edimar, Buffarini e Junior Tavares
Zagueiros: Rodrigo Caio, Aderllan e Bruno Alves
Volantes: Petros, Éder Militão, Jucilei e Araruna
Meias: Maicosuel, Hernanes, Thomaz, Shaylon, Lucas Fernandes e Gomez
Atacantes: Lucas Pratto, Paulo Bóia, Marcinho e Marcos Guilherme

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ExWHUemployee has dropped a worrying injury update regarding West Ham United centre-back Kurt Zouma.

What’s the latest?

In a recent post on The West Ham Way, the club insider revealed that, following an injury sustained during Saturday’s 3-2 win over Chelsea, the centre-back will have a scan on Monday to determine the extent of the damage to his knee.

ExWHUemployee continued to state that the defender “felt something pop” – something which is often associated with a torn ligament – before going on to suggest that, should the France international’s injury be a long-term one, a January move for a centre-back will be “even more important.”

Speaking about the 27-year-old’s injury, the Hammers insider said:

Fans will be devastated

Considering how impressive Zouma has been since making a £29.8m move to West Ham this summer, should the defender indeed have torn a ligament in his knee – something which could potentially be season-ending – fans of the club would undoubtedly be devastated.

Indeed, over his 11 Premier League appearances this season, the £28.8m-rated centre-back has helped his side keep two clean sheets and has scored one goal – which just so happened to be the winner against Liverpool – as well as making an average of 1.2 interceptions, 0.6 tackles, 5.2 clearances and winning 60% of his duels per game.

These returns have seen the £120k-per-week man average a SofaScore match rating of 6.91, ranking him as David Moyes’ 10th-best performer in the top flight of English football.

As such, losing the defender for an extended period of time would undoubtedly come as a major blow to West Ham’s chances of securing a top-four finish this season, and would more than likely result in the Hammers having to once again dip into the transfer market for a new option in the position come January – as ExWHUemployee suggests.

In other news: Forget Bowen: West Ham’s “fantastic” 5-tackle beast seized his “big chance” vs Chelsea

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O meia Lucas Lima falou pela primeira vez após ter seu nome envolvido com o Palmeiras. Nesta quinta-feira, após o empate do Santos com a Ponte Preta em 1 a 1, em Campinas, o meia não descartou defender um rival do Alvinegro um dia e afirmou:

– O Santos é a minha casa, estou feliz. Quem está na mídia são vocês. Vocês têm que provar, não eu que tenho que provar. Deixo a porta aberta. Se o Santos não me quiser, vou ficar desempregado? Futebol é dinâmico. Vou resolver a minha vida quando acabar o Brasileiro – disse.

O Peixe, no entanto, oficializou uma proposta de renovação de contrato em junho. No dia 27, Lucas Lima se reuniu com seu pai, empresários e advogados para ler a oferta do Peixe, que lhe propôs R$ 41 milhões até o fim de 2020.

Seu pai, porém, nega que exista uma oferta do Palmeiras e diz que há negociações com clubes da China.

O vínculo de Lucas Lima com o Santos vale até o fim desta temporada.

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The ICC has announced the schedule for the 16-team Under-19 World Cup which will be held in New Zealand between January 15 and 30 next year.

Cricinfo staff29-Oct-2009The ICC has announced the schedule for the 16-team Under-19 World Cup which will be held in New Zealand between January 15 and 30 next year.Defending champions India will start against qualifiers Afghanistan at Bert Sutcliffe Oval, near Christchurch, with Pakistan facing the West Indies in Palmerston North, while 2008 runners-up South Africa take on Ireland in Queenstown.The teams are split into four groups with Groups A and C being based in and around Christchurch, Group B teams playing their matches in Queenstown and Group D games taking place in Napier and Palmerston North. In addition to the 10 Full Members, there are six Associate and Affiliate teams taking part, having won through their respective regional qualifying tournaments as well as the global qualifier, which was held in Canada in September.The top two teams from each group will qualify for the quarter-finals with the remainder of the teams taking part in the plate competition.The groups are as follows:Group A India, England, Afghanistan, Hong Kong
Group B South Africa, Australia, Ireland, USA
Group C New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada
Group D Pakistan, Bangladesh, West Indies, Papua New Guinea

يواصل نادي الاتحاد السكندري برئاسة محمد مصيلحي، سعيه لانتقاء العناصر المميزة، من أجل تدعيم صفوف الفريق الكروي الأول خلال فترة الانتقالات الصيفية الحالية.

وعلم “بطولات” أن نادي الاتحاد السكندري قد اقترب من التعاقد مع اللاعب الشاب أحمد سيد غريب، قادمًا من صفوف الأهلي.

خاص | الاتحاد السكندري يقترب من التعاقد مع لاعب الزمالك

ومن المنتظر أن يتمم أحمد سيد غريب انتقاله إلى نادي الاتحاد السكندري على سبيل الإعارة.

وشارك أحمد سيد غريب في 12 مباراة، بواقع 5 مباريات في كأس الرابطة وواحدة في كأس مصر، ومثلهم ببطولة الدوري الممتاز الموسم المنقضي بعد قرار تصعيد الناشئين، سجل خلالهم 6 أهداف وحصل على إنذارين.

Shahid Afridi first resuscitated Pakistan from a disastrous start with the bat and nearly took a hat-trick as they romped home to a 138-run win against New Zealand

The Bulletin by Osman Samiuddin03-Nov-2009
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out
Shahid Afridi had to have the final word and nearly puled off a hat-trick•Associated Press

Who needs the captaincy when you are in this kind of form? Shahid Afridi’s supposed desire to lead Pakistan in ODIs and his rift with captain Younis Khan has dominated the chat in Pakistan since the Champions Trophy, and his all-round performance tonight to dismantle New Zealand – along with the captain’s duck – will do nothing to quell further talk. But why burden yourself with leadership hassles when you can turn in the kind of man-mountain performance Afridi did, first resuscitating Pakistan from a disastrous start with the bat and then nearly taking a hat-trick as his side romped home to a 138-run win at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.Afridi’s day had begun halfway through Pakistan’s innings, when having won the toss, they were making a mess of things. Shane Bond had bowled an opening five-over spell of refreshingly attacking intent, of real cunning, occasional pace and much guile. Each ball he bowled, it seemed, was geared only to take wickets, not save runs. With the rest of Bond’s colleagues chipping in, Afridi turned up to find his side limping around at 75 for 4.Much like a magician he turned it into an ominous 287 for 9 with his innings opening up the floodgates for his lower order, in particular Kamran Akmal, who plundered New Zealand relentlessly at the death. In all, 137 runs came in the last 15 overs and 206 off the last 25, and Afridi was the culprit.It was a calm hand by his standards, pretty brutal by any other, and the kind of innings Twenty20 has brought out of him. In its entirety it was mature, particularly in the realisation that he need not go at it helter-skelter from the off and that if his forearms are somehow aligned to his brain then mountains can be moved.Indeed there was nary a miscue or hoick to begin, just urgent nudges and grunted pushes to revive Pakistan’s comatose run-rate. Once Khalid Latif, drafted in as opener, pulled a first boundary for nearly 12 overs in the 29th, he freed Afridi’s mind. Soon Afridi was dancing out to hoist three sixes in two overs of spin from Daniel Vettori and Nathan McCullum.The flurry of boundaries is an Afridi trait, but once out of the way he reverted – pleasingly – to taking well-placed singles and doubles, managing the occasional boundary. Shane Bond was muscled over long-off for one such, to bring up his fifty off 37 balls, which was still sedate for him. He went soon after biffing a couple more, but not before, with a tranquil Latif, having revived Pakistan. Latif looked as threatening as a butterfly, without being as pretty, but he stuck around for what was a valuable fifty. And he was at his most effective when Afridi was going for it, simply because he ensured that Afridi got much of the strike.Akmal, relieved of opening and for Afridi’s ballast, gleefully looted runs over the death, putting on 86 with Abdul Razzaq in just over seven overs – driving, scything and squeezing a parade of sixes and fours en route to a stunning 43-ball 67.The momentum with them, Pakistan’s pacemen worked their way through the top order, crippling the chase at the very off. Umar Gul may have been the main beneficiary in terms of wickets, but Mohammad Aamer’s opening spell – much older than the 17-year-old body and mind that produced it – was the key. At whippy pace, he gnawed away at both Brendon McCullum and Aaron Redmond over after over, regularly beating them for pace and inward movement and ultimately setting the tone of who was to boss the chase.Inevitably, though, Afridi had to have the final word. Daniel Vettori and Redmond had gamely kept New Zealand within a sniff, though Redmond’s ponderous fifty – unlike Latif’s earlier – did not have anyone going crazy enough around it. After an indifferent, hurried first spell, Afridi got the pesky Vettori to drag on an attempted sweep, and with his next ball trapped Nathan McCullum. Another umpire might have even given the hat-trick – incorrect as it may have been – but denying Afridi in this kind of mood took some standing. New Zealand found it beyond them.

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O Cruzeiro anunciou no fim da manhã desta sexta-feira a permanência de Mano Menezes. Campeão da Copa do Brasil, o técnico tinha contrato até dezembro e o renovou por mais duas temporadas, até o fim de 2019. Isto frustra os planos do Palmeiras, que tratava o treinador como o principal nome para substituir Cuca no ano que vem.

A decisão foi tomada em uma reunião na manhã desta sexta-feira, entre Mano,
o novo vice-presidente de futebol, Itair Machado, e o presidente recém-eleito na Raposa, Wagner Pires de Sá.

– Houve uma convergência absoluta entre os meus ideais para o futebol e o que planeja a nova diretoria – comentou Mano.

Havia a incerteza na permanência do treinador, por conta da reestruturação do departamento de futebol da Raposa, que perdeu pessoas de confiança de Mano. A nova diretoria, contudo, tinha como principal meta renovar o seu contrato, com direito a um aumento salarial e promessa de reforços importantes para que o Cruzeiro brigue pelos principais títulos de 2018.

O Palmeiras monitorava a situação do treinador, aquele que mais agradava à diretoria para assumir na próxima temporada. Agora, terá de pensar em outras opções para a vaga de Cuca, que deixou o clube na semana passada.

Por enquanto, o auxiliar Alberto Valentim é o interino e conta com o apoio do elenco e da torcida para ser efetivado. O capitão Dudu, antes do jogo contra a Ponte Preta, disse que esta era a vontade dos jogadores já no fim do ano passado, quando Eduardo Baptista chegou.

Com duas vitórias seguidas, Alberto levou o Palmeiras ao terceiro lugar no Brasileiro, a nove pontos do líder Corinthians, restando nove rodadas. Embora na diretoria ele seja visto como um profissional ainda “em evolução”, o atual técnico disse que está pronto para o cargo.

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Eddie Howe ended his wait for a first win in charge of Newcastle United as they beat Burnley 1-0 at St. James’ Park over the weekend.

The ex-Bournemouth boss has slowly been making a difference since his move to Tyneside and he has picked up five points in four games so far, with draws against Norwich and Brentford sandwiching a defeat to Arsenal prior to the win against the Clarets.

Save millions

One change Howe has made in recent weeks that could end up saving PIF millions in the transfer is bringing Jamal Lewis back into the fold at left-back.

Matt Ritchie’s suspension for the clash with Norwich offered an opportunity for Lewis to start his first game of the Premier League season.

He put in a tireless shift to help earn the Magpies a point in that game before being handed a starting berth again for the match against Burnley, with Newcastle winning their first league game of the campaign to move off the bottom of the table. During that performance, he typified why Darren Bent once described him as a “dark horse.”

In the draw with the Canaries, Lewis made two clearances, one block, one tackle and one interception whilst managing to avoid being dribbled past once – per SofaScore. He then stepped up his game further against Sean Dyche’s team, with four clearances, one block, one interception and four tackles without being dribbled past.

This shows that he has been able to come back into the team and immediately make a positive impression, helping the team to four points in two games with two solid displays. It highlights his mental fortitude and ability to step straight in and perform despite so long on the sidelines.

To that point, Former Norwich boss Daniel Farke previously hailed the defender’s mental strength after winning his place back at Carrow Road. He said:

“This was the first time he had this experience. He had to fight for his position and find this mental strength to not be too disappointed, or to doubt yourself. He had to stay mentally strong and to live another week and another week and another week. He had to show this feeling that I want to be professional, to prepare my mind and my body for this situation.

“To have this experience will definitely help him in his career, and I think that’s one of the reasons why I really trust him that he comes back even stronger than before. Jamal is no different to any other player, in the sense they want to play each and every game, but in the mid and long term he might look back on this period as a crucial one to reach the next step in his career. I think he learned a lot during this time.”

But that isn’t the only area the defender thrives in with his attacking play once being applauded by the former Norwich boss who said after a goal that Lewis had “some magic” in his feet.

If the youngster can continue to catch the eye and impress in the Premier League then it could prevent any need for PIF to splash the cash on a new left-back, having been linked to AC Milan’s Theo Hernandez earlier this year.

They could save millions in the transfer market by playing the £10.8m-rated beast week-in-week-out, with Howe’s decision to bring him back into the picture potentially a lucrative one for the club.

AND in other news, Howe could find ASM 2.0 for NUFC in £45m-rated beast who’s “better than Kylian Mbappe”…