Peter Trego, the Somerset allrounder, has re-signed with Central Districts for the coming HRV Cup in New Zealand. He will also participate in the opening five rounds of the Plunket Shield. This is Trego’s second season with the domestic side, with his first season being cut short due to injury.”It was bitterly disappointing to get injured last year and miss most of the HRV Twenty20,” Trego said. “I was really keen to get another opportunity so when the invitation came to come back out to New Zealand I jumped at it.”While Trego only featured in three matches for Central Districts last season, scoring just 21 runs, he hopes to bank on his current form. He enjoyed a sterling run in the Yorkshire Bank 40 this past season, finishing on top of the run-scorers list with 745 runs at an average of 82.77, which included two hundreds and five fifties.He will hope to carry this form into the HRV Cup, which is scheduled to begin on November 1 with a match against Canterbury in Christchurch.
ScorecardRahmat Shah’s maiden century helped Afghanistan to an important 72-run first-innings lead•ICC/Saleem Sanghati
Afghanistan took firm control of the Intercontinental match against Kenya in Dubai after a maiden century from Rahmat Shah and quick wickets by their bowlers. With two days left, they are now in touching distance of a win with Kenya only 21 runs ahead with their last two wickets remaining.Sixteen wickets had fallen on the first day and 12 went down on the second, most of them in quick succession. But the difference between the situation of the two teams was due to a 122-run stand for the seventh wicket between Rahmat and Mohammad Nasim Baras. Rahmat, who had only one half-century in first-class cricket before this match, did the bulk of the scoring and went past the 100-mark for the first time in his career. He got ample support from Baras who played out 125 deliveries for his 32 in the partnership.Once the stand was broken, the remaining batsmen didn’t survive for long. Rahmat was the last batsman to be dismissed after scoring 144, that included five sixes, but his innings had ensured an important 72-run lead.Kenya’s second innings started the same way as their first: they lost their first two wickets within the first four overs and never recovered from that position. Their innings never really got going as the Afghanistan bowlers made regular strikes to put the team within sight of a huge win. Collins Obuya was the top-scorer in the innings with only 16 as four bowlers picked up a couple of wickets each.
ScorecardRichard Pyrah continues his excellent form in the YB40•Getty Images
Rain brought a damp end to Thursday’s Yorkshire Bank 40 game between Yorkshire and Middlesex at Headingley, but the silver lining for the home side was that they pulled off their first win of the season against county opposition.After Middlesex had been restricted to 217 for 8 from their 40 overs in the Group C fixture, Yorkshire reached 54 without loss in 13 overs in reply before a 26-minute break for rain reduced their Duckworth-Lewis target to 197 off 35 overs.And when the rain returned, openers Andrew Gale and Adam Lyth had taken the score to 81 in 17.2 overs, Yorkshire winning by the comfortable margin of 17 runs under the D/L system.It was Yorkshire’s best start to an innings in the competition this season, skipper Gale ending unbeaten on 34 from 56 balls with two fours and Lyth 38 off 50 deliveries with three fours and a six. Before this game Yorkshire’s only success in seven outings had been against Unicorns, their six other matches all being lost.Middlesex’s modest total meant Gale and Lyth were under little pressure when they began the reply and their main concern in the increasing gloom was to make sure that they were always comfortably ahead of the required rate. Gale led the way for a while but Lyth moved ahead by hooking Toby Roland-Jones for four and cracking his next ball for a flat six over midwicket.After the first stoppage for rain, the batsmen had sufficient time to make it Yorkshire’s best opening stand of the season, overtaking the 61 by Gale and Phil Jaques against Leicestershire at Scarborough, Jaques not being selected because of an abdominal strain.Having been put in to bat, most of the action came inside the first nine overs of the Middlesex innings as Paul Stirling lashed a rapid 32 from 20 balls with five fours and a six and paceman Iain Wardlaw knocked over three of the first four batsmen to claim career-best figures of 3 for 39.Stirling set the tone by cover-driving Wardlaw’s first ball for four and he took seven off the over before tearing into 15-year-old Matt Fisher, striking him for three fours and a six in his initial over to score the visitors’ first 25 runs from a dozen deliveries. But Wardlaw replied with a perfect yorker to knock over Stirling’s stumps for 32 from 20 balls and end an opening partnership of 42 in five overs with Dawid Malan.Joe Denly then chopped Wardlaw into his stumps which meant that the seamer had bowled his last five victims in the competition and in the following over Sam Robson suffered a similar fate against Ryan Gibson, whose next two balls were leg-glanced and cover-driven for boundaries by new batsman, Adam Rossington.It became 65 for 4 as Malan cut loosely at Wardlaw and was caught behind by Andy Hodd, leaving the Middlesex middle order to rebuild the innings – a job chiefly done by Rossington (42) and Gareth Berg (43) before both became victims of Yorkshire’s leading YB40 League bowler Richard Pyrah, who ended up with figures of 3 for 33.
انسحب نادي باريس سان جيرمان، من السباق من أجل التعاقد مع مهاجم بوروسيا مونشنجلادباخ السابق، ماركوس تورام، خلال الانتقالات الصيفية الحالية.
وأعلن بوروسيا مونشنجلادباخ في أبريل الماضي رحيل ماركوس تورام، بعد نهاية الموسم، حيث ينتهي عقده بنهاية يونيو الجاري، وسيكون لاعبا حرا، ويمكنه الانتقال إلى أي فريق.
وكانت هناك منافسة واهتمام قوي من جانب عدة أندية، أبرزها برشلونة وآرسنال ومانشستر يونايتد وتشيلسي، وباريس سان جيرمان وميلان، واستمر آخر فريقين في المنافسة حتى انسحب الفريق الفرنسي.
اقرأ أيضًا.. ديفنسا سنترال: ميسي نصح مبابي بالرحيل عن باريس.. لكن ليس إلى ريال مدريد
وبحسب صحيفة “ليكيب” الفرنسية، فإن ماركوس تورام أوقف المفاوضات مع باريس سان جيرمان، حيث يتطلع إلى العرض المُحسّن من فريق ميلان الإيطالي، وهو ما لم يعجب النادي الباريسي وقرر عدم استمرار المفاوضات.
ماركوس تورام صاحب الـ25 عاما، لعب 30 مباراة في الدوري الألماني، خلال الموسم المنقضي، وسجل 13 هدفا وصنع 6 أخرى، وأهدر 18 فرصة كبرى.
BCCI president N Srinivasan has agreed to call for a working committee meeting next week to discuss the corruption issues plaguing the IPL
ESPNcricinfo staff31-May-2013BCCI president N Srinivasan has agreed to call for a working committee meeting next week to discuss the corruption issues plaguing the IPL, following the arrest of Gurunath Meiyappan, his son-in-law and a top official of the Chennai Super Kings. The date of the meeting is yet to be confirmed. It was initially planned for the next weekend but following the resignations of the BCCI secretary and treasurer on Friday, ESPNcricinfo understands it is now likely to be held mid-week, “either Tuesday or Wednesday.”On Friday, Anurag Thakur, the president of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association and a BJP member of parliament, had joined the chorus of BCCI officials asking for a meeting to deal with the problems facing Indian cricket after the arrests of three Rajasthan Royals players on charges of spot-fixing and Gurunath on charges of betting. Thakur had not yet spoken out on the issue until today.”We are talking to various members of the board and I have spoken to the president to convene a meeting and discuss all these issues in the meeting,” Thakur, who is also a joint-secretary of the BCCI, had said. “I think it’s very important to convene a meeting, I have spoken to the president and the secretary asking them to convene a meeting and I think they will convene a meeting over the next few days.”I have spoken to Mr Ajay Shirke (BCCI treasurer), he is also keen to have a meeting. Let there be a meeting where everyone can come and speak their opinion.” Thakur’s comments came a day after Shirke said he would consider resigning as BCCI treasurer because of the manner in which the board had handled the corruption scandal.Earlier today, Sachin Tendulkar broke his silence via a statement, saying he was shocked and disappointed by the developments in Indian cricket over the last fortnight.ESPNcricinfo understands that senior BCCI officials have been in constant discussion with Srinivasan, asking him to step aside from his office as board president until the three-man commission completes its inquiry into his son-in-law Gurunath, the Super Kings owners India Cements and the owners of Rajasthan Royals. Srinivasan, however, had paid no heed to their advice.The working committee does not have constitutional authority to ask the president to step down. What it can do, however, is pass the resolution calling for a special general body meeting and, with that, set in motion the procedure required for the impeachment of the BCCI president.It would require ten BCCI members to send out written requests before the special general body meeting commences in order to begin impeachment proceedings against the president.The working committee, which is responsible for the board’s functioning, constitutes of 24 members at the moment. Besides the nine office-bearers, it includes a representative from each of the five permanent Test centres, another representative from an association from the five zones by rotation, and those from the affiliated units who have hosted a Test match in the last two years.*14.00GMT May 31: This article has been updated after news of the BCCI calling for a working committee meeting came in
VVS Laxman, in his 16-year Test career, established himself as one of the best players of spin bowling in the world but, by his own admission, it wasn’t a talent he had acquired when he first picked up the bat
Kanishkaa Balachandran in Hyderabad01-Mar-2013
VVS Laxman, in a discussion with Harsha Bhogle and ESPNcricinfo editor Sambit Bal, at the launch of in Hyderabad•ESPNcricinfo Ltd
VVS Laxman, in his 16-year Test career, established himself as one of the best players of spin bowling in the world but, by his own admission, it wasn’t a talent he had acquired when he first picked up the bat. Failures early in his career taught him to respect spin bowling more and after hours of practice his batting had evolved to the point where he could master any attack.Laxman was speaking at the launch of , a compilation of the best Q&A long-form interviews published by ESPNcricinfo and Walt Disney. The book features 22 interviews with current and former players speaking on specific topics such as captaincy, swing bowling, commentary, batting etc. Those interviewed include Sachin Tendulkar, Ian Chappell, Mahela Jayawardene, Barry Richards, and Laxman himself.”I never got to play quality spin bowling when I was growing up,” Laxman said in a discussion with Harsha Bhogle and ESPNcricinfo editor Sambit Bal, responding to an extract from an earlier interview. “As a kid I always enjoyed playing fast bowling. I neglected playing spinners. At the end of the practice session I got extra throw-downs, asking the coaches to throw from ten yards so I could play quicker bowling. I used to practice on cement wickets using a plastic ball or a wet tennis ball.”When I started playing the Ranji Trophy, there were some quality spinners in domestic cricket and I remember I would invariably get out to Sairaj Bahutule (former Mumbai legspinner), playing against the spin and getting caught at midwicket. That’s when I came back to the nets and luckily Hyderabad had some quality spinners like Arshad Ayub, Venkatapathy Raju, Kanwaljit Singh. I practiced hard at the nets against them and I always felt that the hard work you put in the nets will reap results. Within a span of six months to one year I became an excellent player of spin. In domestic cricket we used to get tough wickets, like the one in Chennai for the Test (against Australia), and my confidence grew.”Laxman’s admissions could be a lesson for the touring Australian team, whose batsmen struggled against spin in Chennai. “You react to the ball that is coming at you,” he said. “If you focus on the guy holding the ball, your thought process changes. You should remove things like the state of the pitch from your thought process and only react to the ball. If you think too much about the wicket, you’re only expecting a certain kind of delivery and in the bargain you lose out on the shot you could have played.”Laxman also spoke at length about how it’s a bigger challenge for youngsters today to strike the balance between their game and their personality, compared to the scenario at the time he was growing up. He felt it is a challenge for the modern cricketer to manage distractions better, given that players nowadays have plenty on their plate to deal with.”It’s not just about distractions. It’s the amount of options available to you. For example, when I chose not to become a doctor and chose cricket as my career path, there was nothing in my life except cricket. When my friends went to movies etc, I used to go home, so I could be fresh in the morning for practice. Now, there are so many options. If you are not successful as a cricketer you could be successful in any other field. That is why now it is very important how you communicate with the youngsters. You cannot be negative with them. You have to be positive so that their interest in the game always remains.”There is so much of fame, adulation, scrutiny, and money [these days]. It is very important for any young cricketer to be as balanced as possible. It is very difficult to do so and I feel for them.”While he agreed that mentorship is important to a player’s growth, he insisted that a youngster should be educated on what his priorities should be at an early age.”What was the one thing that kept me going? It was the pride of playing for your country,” Laxman said. “That can be ingrained at a young age. [Money] is a danger. For young cricketers, their priorities should be emphasised. They should know that money is a by-product of what you’re trying to achieve. Pride and passion should be the first priority. I have noticed in the same coaching camps I used to attend as a kid, the parents now say ‘I don’t care if my son plays for India or not but I want him to get into one of the IPL franchises.’ There has to be a balance. That will happen in the ages of 16-19. The coaches at camps like at the NCA have to address the issue.”Coaching youngsters, he says, also needs to be handled with caution. “After my retirement my son suddenly became interested in the game, I don’t know why,” Laxman said, which was followed by laughter. “I just tell him to hit the ball. My nephew goes to a coaching camp and one day I was playing with the two of them. It was strange. My son was only hitting the ball without bothering about his head position etc, but my nephew would come to me as ask, ‘uncle, how is my elbow position?’ They are just aged 6 and 7. What structured coaching sometimes does is it removes the natural instincts of a player. Till a cricketer is mature, one should not load too much information on him. I notice spinners are at their best till they are 15, but they vanish. The coaches try to correct them and the player gets confused.”
With ten needed off the last over, Rahul Tewatia took down Mitchell Starc to seal GT’s victory
ESPNcricinfo staff19-Apr-202510:24
Boucher: Buttler’s takedown of Starc sealed it for GT
The Gujarat Titans (GT) top order has been so prolific this season that it is easy to forget the previous time Rahul Tewatia had much to do in IPL 2025. In fact, he had batted in each of GT’s previous three games and made an impactful 24 not out off 12 against Rajasthan Royals (RR).On Saturday, Tewatia came in at No. 5 with GT needing 11 off 7 against Delhi Capitals (DC) in Ahmedabad, and Mitchell Starc to bowl six of those balls. Only a game ago, Starc had successfully defended eight runs in the final over against RR with a barrage of reverse-swinging yorkers to take the game into a Super Over, where he bowled DC to victory.Tewatia’s first ball was the last of the 19th over and he took a single to retain strike for the 20th, with Jos Buttler on 97 off 54 balls at the other end. He then slog-swept Starc over midwicket for six and got an inside edge to go between his legs for four to complete the chase of 204 with seven wickets in hand and four balls to spare.Related
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“It was not as if I expected him to bowl just yorkers,” Tewatia said after sealing the win that took GT to the top of the points table with five wins in seven games. “But the way he bowled yorkers in the last match and defended nine [eight], I expected him to back his yorkers. My aim was to see the ball and hit, whether he bowled length or yorker.”Tewatia said Buttler had backed him to go for his shots in the last over instead of thinking of handing over the strike to the set batter. He had batted with Buttler only once previously before Saturday, for RR in IPL 2020.”He told me just one thing when we needed ten off the last over – don’t look at my hundred,” Tewatia said. “He told me ‘I know you are very clear in your mind – so just execute your plan and not at my hundred, just look at winning the game’.”GT had won the toss on a hot afternoon in Ahmedabad and all the DC batters got rapid starts, which kept them on course for a 220-plus score. They were 105 for 3 after ten overs and 163 for 4 after 16, but got 40 for 4 at the death to finish on 203 for 8. GT captain Shubman Gill credited his bowlers for fighting back.Rahul Tewatia hits Mitchell Starc for a maximum•BCCI
“The way we pulled back in the game, at one point it was like the total is going to be around 220-230,” Gill said. “But in the last overs, the way we pulled back in the game, credit to the bowlers for that. Before this match, we talked about [having] back-to-back games tonight and then the day after tomorrow at Eden [Gardens against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)]. These two games, we thought, would decide where we will stand in the points table and we are very happy to get this one.”Despite DC scoring at a high rate, GT’s reluctance to bowl left-arm spinnerR Sai Kishore came as a surprise considering his performances this season. Rashid Khan was brought on after the powerplay and, for most of the innings, was the lone spinner used. With Ashutosh Sharma finding pace on the ball easy, Gill turned to Sai Kishore for the final over of the innings. He gave away just nine runs and dismissed Ashutosh, his 11th wicket in IPL 2025.”They were ahead in the game and we didn’t want them to get too much ahead,” Gill said. “The thought process was it was difficult to hit the fast bowlers in the middle. So we thought let’s continue with them.”One of the factors that went against Sai Kishore’s introduction was the presence of the left-handed Axar Patel almost through the middle overs of DC’s innings. “The way the game was going on, [Sai Kishore] was not needed,” Tewatia said. “Ashutosh had hit medium-pacers for sixes, so coach and captain felt we need to go to spin. That last over went for just eight or nine, so it worked in our favour. It was not a miscalculation; it was all as per match situation and batters in the middle.”
Australia Women won the Rose Bowl 3-1 with a seven-run victory in the final ODI in Sydney, following a middle and lower-order collapse from New Zealand Women
ESPNcricinfo staff19-Dec-2012 ScorecardJess Cameron scored a quick half-century•Getty Images
Australia Women won the Rose Bowl 3-1 with a seven-run victory in the final ODI in Sydney, following a middle and lower-order collapse from New Zealand Women. Chasing 267, New Zealand were comfortably placed at 220 for 3 in the 43rd over, but lost five wickets for 40 runs and failed to level the series.New Zealand had made a solid start to the chase, with Suzie Bates continuing her impressive form in the series by making another half-century. Nicola Browne contributed 63 off 71 balls and three of the other top five batsmen got to 30 and beyond.The Australian turnaround began when Rachael Haynes ran out Katie Perkins for 40, breaking a partnership of 87 with Browne that had taken the visitors to 220. Ellyse Perry then bowled Rachel Priest and Sara McGlashan in successive overs and New Zealand had slumped to 240 for 6 in the 47th over.With 28 runs needed off the last three overs, Lea Tahuhu hit Sharon Millanta for a six and a four, reducing the equation to 17 off 12 balls. Megan Schutt, however, bowled a superb penultimate over in which she conceded only three runs and dismissed Tahuhu. Browne was out off the first ball of the final over and New Zealand managed only six runs off the remaining deliveries, when they needed 14.Australia’s total had been built on a half-century from Jess Cameron and the 62 runs added by their last two wickets. Cameron made 66 off 56 balls, but her dismissal in the 21st over, with the score on 131 for 2, led to a slump. Australia lost wickets frequently thereafter and were struggling at 205 for 8 in the 39th over.Perry, however, made an unbeaten 33 off 30 balls, and had partnerships of 37 and 25 with Schutt and Millanta to lead Australia to a match-winning total.
Na tarde desta terça-feira, o Grêmio se reapresentou no CT Luiz Carvalho para dar início aos trabalhos de olho no jogo contra o Corinthians, que pode garantir uma vaga na fase de grupos da Libertadores 2019.
A principal novidade foi a ausência do técnico Renato Gaúcho. Ele ainda não acertou sua renovação de contrato e tem uma reunião marcada com o presidente Romildo Bolzan nesta quarta-feira para definir o futuro.
Em relação aos jogadores, o Tricolor não terá Pedro Geromel. Em seu lugar, a tendência é que Marcelo Oliveira jogue ao lado de Kannemann. No ataque, a aposta será em Jean Pyerre, Everton e Jael formam o trio.
Caso não haja nenhuma mudança de última hora, o Grêmio entra em campo com a seguinte formação: Paulo Victor; Leonardo, Kannemann, Marcelo Oliveira e Cortez; Michel, Matheus Henrique, Alisson (Ramiro), Jean Pyerre e Everton; Jael.
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Com 63 pontos e na quarta colocação do Brasileirão, o Grêmio depende das próprias forças para carimbar seu passaporte para a fase de grupos. Se houver um tropeço, terá que torcer a favor da Chapecoense contra o São Paulo.
The fast bowler Adam Milne has been named in New Zealand’s squad for the ICC World Twenty20, 18 months after he last played for his country. Daniel Vettori has also been included after being ruled out of the upcoming Test series in India due to a groin problem, and he will have the chance to test his injury early next month with the same squad to play two T20s in India on September 8 and 11.There was no room for Andrew Ellis, Tom Latham, Daniel Flynn or Dean Brownlie, all of whom were part of New Zealand’s squad for their most recent T20s, in the West Indies. As expected, James Franklin is part of the final 15, having missed the West Indies games because the team management wanted to allow him an extended run in the T20 format in county cricket instead of flying in to the Caribbean for just two games.Others left out from the original 30-man preliminary squad include the fast bowlers Neil Wagner, Andy McKay and Trent Boult, and the legspinner Tarun Nethula. The national selection manager, Kim Littlejohn, said he was pleased to see the return of Milne, 20, who debuted for New Zealand as an 18-year-old in December 2010.”Adam Milne has impressed during his time with the winter development squad and his extra pace offers something a little different,” Littlejohn said. “We are confident he will have an impact in international cricket and will seize this opportunity.”We are thrilled to have Daniel Vettori back in the fold. He brings a huge amount of experience and knowledge of conditions in the sub-continent. The squad also welcomes back James Franklin, who has been playing for Twenty20 cricket for Essex in the county competition.”After their two matches in India, New Zealand head to Sri Lanka for the World T20, where they must first face Pakistan and Bangladesh in the group stage, before learning whether they have qualified to move through into the next phase.New Zealand squad Martin Guptill, Rob Nicol, Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor (capt), Kane Williamson, BJ Watling, James Franklin, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Kyle Mills, Doug Bracewell, Tim Southee, Ronnie Hira, Adam Milne.