Tag Futebol

Brett Lee has admitted his embarrassment at unleashing another 90mph beamer, this time at Marcus Trescothick during the NatWest Series final at Lord’s on Saturday.Lee was slammed after bowling a beamer to New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum earlier in the year and, although he apologised after sending Trescothick sprawling early on in England’s innings, questions were again raised.”It is something I am not proud of – I am embarrassed about the whole thing,” Lee told BBC Sport afterwards. “When you are bowling at such a high velocity and trying to get momentum through the crease, and try to bowl a yorker, you only look at a slight variation in your trajectory to the wicket.”I went up there and apologised straight away,” Lee added. “It took me a couple of balls to get over it. You are under a lot of pressure to do well for your country and your team-mates and to have another distraction thrown at you is quite tough.”Ricky Ponting also leapt to the defence of his bowler. “It knocked the confidence out of him straight away. If you look at him after that beamer that he bowled, he’s holding back and [bowling] within himself immediately after that because he just can’t keep his front foot [from slipping].”I’m not trying to defend it or anything, but if you could slow it down and have a look at his front foot you’d understand he’s slipping a lot. There didn’t seem to be any hard feelings out on the ground. Trescothick accepted the apology and everyone got on with it from there.”At the time of the incident with McCullum, Peter Roebuck, in his syndicated column, called for Lee to be sent home from New Zealand. “His beamer was merely the latest in a series of violent deliveries sent down by a pace bowler at best reckless in his approach and at worst utterly unwilling to remain within long-accepted parameters governing conduct on the cricket field,” he fumed. “If Australia’s captain, coach and manager did not have sharp words with Lee after the match then they stand in dereliction of their duties.”

Runako Morton, the former West Indian middle order batsman, has escaped with only a reprimand following a charge of stabbing his cousin. Morton admitted that he had stabbed his cousin in the chest in January this year following a family dispute. He appeared before a court in Charlestown, a small town in the island of Nevis, where the magistrate decided to let him off with only a reprimand.It isn’t the first time that the 25-year-old Morton has had a tiff with the authorities. In 2001 he was expelled from the West Indian Academy for a series of regulation breaches. Then, in the Champions Trophy in September 2002, he withdrew from the West Indian squad citing the death of his grandmother. It later turned out that one of his grandmothers had been dead for 16 years, and the other was still alive.His various disciplinary problems have meant that Morton has played just two one-day internationals, and 34 first-class matches – for Leeward Islands – in six years.

KINGSTOWN – The score has been settled.With due care and diligence, Barbados completed a comfortable victory over Windward Islands with a day to spare here yesterday to reverse last year’s stunning defeat.Set 148 to win after rounding off the Windwards’ second innings in the first over after lunch, Barbados achieved a seven-wicket triumph in their opening Carib Beer Series contest without alarms, and with another 12 minutes still available on the penultimate day.Wary of an Arnos Vale Playing Field pitch that has been slowish throughout the match, Barbados initially approached their task with caution and were lifted by Sherwin Campbell’s fighting, unbeaten 66 that occupied the three-and-a-half hours Barbados needed to wipe off their modest target.It was sweet revenge for Barbados after losing to the Windwards for the first time in 19 years last season."This was a very good performance. To win your first game of the season is always special, especially against a team that beat you last year," said Barbados coach Hendy Springer.It was also a relief to start the tournament with maximum 12 points after the disappointment of last season when Barbados endured three successive defeats and finished fifth in the standings."We always wanted to start on a positive note," said captain Courtney Browne. "Over the last two years, the Windwards have been playing us well. That is something we had to look at. We needed a win to go forward."We’ve got India `A’ coming up next weekend and it is very important to go to India `A’ and Jamaica with a win behind your name."Campbell overcame an uncertain start to play solidly at times, but he was never at his best. The type of determined qualities he displayed, however, often does a lot for teams when chasing what are seemingly straightforward targets.Fellow opener Philo Wallace was also watchful, and his 32, along with Floyd Reifer’s 26 and Dwayne Smith’s 18 were equally important contributions.After adding 58 with Campbell, Wallace gave a return catch to leg-spinner Rawl Lewis, and Kurt Wilkinson duplicated his dismissal six runs later before Reifer arrived to provide some impetus to the innings.Reifer eventually skied a cross-batted shot to cover, but Campbell and Smith took Barbados home. There might have been some concern for the visitors in the middle of the morning session.As lunch approached, they had claimed just one wicket and the Windwards were gradually building a lead, but Barbados quickly regained the initiative by collecting the last four for 16 runs in 20 minutes either side of lunch.John Eugene resumed as the Windwards’ main hope of setting Barbados a difficult total, but was undone by a delivery from Ian Bradshaw that found the edge as it moved away on pitching.It was Barbados’ sole success in the first hour and three-quarters in spite of good bowling from Bradshaw and left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn, who operated in tandem for most of the session.Benn should have removed Orlanzo Jackson but Browne missed a stumping that did not prove too costly in the end.It required a big risk from the Windwards to end a potentially worrying seventh-wicket stand between Jackson and Darren Sammy.The pair were together for close on an hour when they attempted a non-existent single when the ball had only gone as far as backward short-leg.It was quickly swooped on by Wilkinson at forward short-leg and once his return was relayed to keeper Browne, Jackson was found wanting by some distance.By then, Tino Best was into the attack and got the ball to move around, but his direction centred too much on leg stump.When he was presented with a left-hander, Deighton Butler, it suited him just fine and he induced him into snicking a catch to the keeper.A typically enthusiastic Best fired in an unplayable yorker at Kenroy Peters with the last ball before lunch and after a short delay because of rain, Benn ended the Windwards’ resistance in the first over after the break when Sammy’s firm push was smartly caught by Wilkinson under the bat.It was Benn’s only wicket of the day but his fifth in the innings.SCOREBOARD:WINDWARDS 1st Innings 156BARBADOS 1st Innings 232WINDWARDS 2nd Innings(overnight 150-5)D. Smith lbw Benn 55R. Currency b Benn 41K. Sylvester c Reifer b Benn 19+J. Murray lbw b Hurley 6J. Eugene c wk Browne b Bradshaw 20*R. Lewis lbw b Benn 0O. Jackson run out 30D. Sammy c Wilkinson b Benn 23D. Butler c wk Browne b Best 3K. Peters lbw b Best 0S. Shillingford not out 0Extras (b1, lb6, w1, nb11) 19Penalty runs 5TOTAL (all out – 74.4 overs) 223Fall of wickets: 1-91 (Smith), 2-109 (Currency), 3-116 (Murray), 4-143 (Sylvester), 5-144 (Lewis), 6-173 (Eugene), 7-207 (Jackson), 8-210 (Butler), 9-223 (Peters), 10-223 (Peters).Bowling: Bradshaw 15-3-46-1 (w1, nb3), Best 7-1-17-2 (nb1), Hurley 21-2-57-1 (nb5), Thomas 2-0-23-0 (nb2), Benn 29.4-7-68-5.BARBADOS 2nd InningsP. Wallace c and b Lewis 32S. Campbell not out 66K. Wilkinson c and b Lewis 2F. Reifer c Sammy b Butler 26D. Smith not out 18Extras (b2, nb4) 6TOTAL (3 wkts – 59.2 overs) 150Fall of wickets: 1-58 (Wallace), 2-64 (Wilkinson), 3-115 (Reifer)Bowling: Butler 10-1-40-1 (nb1), Peters 7-5-4-0, Jackson 13-2-27-0, Sammy 4-1-17-0, Lewis 13-4-29-2 (nb1), Shillingford 12.2-4-31-0.Result: Barbados won by seven wickets with a day to spare.Points: Barbados 12, Windwards 0.Umpires: Goaland Greaves, Harry Rajkumar

Hampshire choose from 13 for their third round Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy meeting with Durham at the Riverside in Chester-le-Street on Wednesday.Director of Cricket Tim Tremlett calls up Giles White and Alex Morris to the eleven that recorded a 64-run triumph over the same opponents on Sunday at the Rose Bowl in the National League.That means there is still no place for wicket-keeper Adrian Aymes, who falls foul of the continued youth policy programme being employed in limited-overs encounters.Derek Kenway will continue behind the stumps with James Hamblin and Chris Tremlett in line for their competition debuts.Squad: Jason Laney, Neil Johnson, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Derek Kenway (wk), Laurie Prittipaul, Will Kendall, Giles White, Robin Smith (capt), Shaun Udal, Chris Tremlett, James Hamblin, Alex Morris, Alan Mullally.

ScorecardFile photo – Cameron Bancroft scored his fifth first-class hundred•Getty Images

Cameron Bancroft and Shaun Marsh rebounded from their Test team omissions with a stand of 172 for Western Australia before South Australia wrapped up the rest of the Warriors’ innings to give themselves a feasible fourth-innings target of 316 in the Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval.WA lost the nightwatchman Jason Behrendorff early on day three, but Bancroft and the stand-in captain Marsh then frustrated the Redbacks while composing the most substantial scores of the match. Bancroft’s 111 was further evidence of his ability to craft lengthy, sensible innings.At 2 for 217 the Warriors looked capable of batting SA right out of the match, but when Kane Richardson had Marsh caught behind with the second new ball, the day took on a different tone. All the Redbacks bowlers contributed to the fightback, which saw the visitors lose their last eight wickets for just 78.Mark Cosgrove and Kelvin Smith then negotiated the last five overs of the day for the addition of 17 runs, to leave the match finely poised entering the final day on a surface that has not shown signs of deterioration.

England XI 131 and 325 for 7 (Strauss 104, Bell 104*) drew with NZ Select XI 271 (How 65, Harmison 5-100)
Scorecard

Andrew Strauss and Ian Bell lifted the spirits on a chilly day in Dunedin, recording a century apiece to put a gloss on England’s final preparations ahead of next week’s first Test in Hamilton. By the time the weather closed in before tea to force an abandonment, Strauss had retired after more than four hours at the crease, but Bell was still there, unbeaten on 104 from 149 balls, with England comfortably placed on 325 for 7, a lead of 185.England’s performance was a far cry from their first-day capitulation, when they were bowled out for 131 in little more than a session. Batting was never easy in helpful conditions for seam bowling, against a committed attack featuring three members of the New Zealand Test squad that was announced during the lunch interval. But both batsmen displayed the sort of patience and application that has been lacking from much of England’s five-day cricket in recent months.For Strauss it was a particularly cathartic innings. It was his first century in English colours since the Headingley Test against Pakistan in August 2006, and it was notable for the patient approach that had been his watchword all throughout his prolific first two years in the Test side. He was happy to wait for his scoring opportunities, but latched onto them with 15 emphatic fours all around the wicket. The best of these was a short-arm pull through midwicket off Mark Gillespie, the shot he had mistimed for his first-innings dismissal.Though Strauss retired soon after reaching his landmark, Bell continued in the confident vein he has been displaying all through the tour so far. His one-day series was marked by a series of flying starts but a failure to go onto the big score, but he made no mistake this time in a chanceless innings. His off-side play was especially fluent, with a launched six onto the grass bank at extra cover, and a sweetly timed square drive on one knee to bring up his hundred.England’s batsmen didn’t have it all their own way. Paul Collingwood, struggling with a slight hamstring tear, lasted only four deliveries before chipping a tame catch to short leg off Jeetan Patel, while Tim Ambrose impressed briefly with five fours in a quickfire 33. But having cut and pulled Iain O’Brien off consecutive deliveries, he missed with an attempted drive off his next ball, and was bowled off the inside edge.O’Brien, who was awarded a Test place ahead of his fellow new-ball bowler, Gillespie, then ended Matthew Hoggard’s tortuous 10-ball duck, as Hoggard fenced a low catch to Ross Taylor’s left at slip. Another quick couple of wickets and England might have faced the prospect of seeing off a New Zealand run-chase, but Monty Panesar held firm until the rains rolled in to call a halt to the day’s proceedings.

Simon Katich showed no ill-effects from having been dropped from Cricket Australia’s 25-man contract list on Tuesday by hitting an unbeaten double-century a day later. Katich scored 220 not out as Derbyshire blasted to 448 for 4 against Somerset at Taunton in the Division Two County Championship clash.Katich’s unbroken 241-run partnership with Ian Harvey, who managed 123 not out, proved the undoing on a day of toil for Somerset. The ground has been a batsman’s paradise during the early part of the season, but for a while early in the day that looked like changing when Derbyshire quickly found themselves 0 for 2 as Andy Caddick struck twice.The third breakthrough, though, was a while coming as Katich and Steve Stubbings added 150. Katich was the aggressor before Stubbings edged behind to Craig Kieswetter, the promising wicketkeeper making his Championship debut, after facing 158 balls. Katich reached three figures off 167 balls, and his double off 298, while Harvey picked up his second century in two Championship matches. By the close Katich was eight short of his career-best score.

James Franklin, the New Zealand fast bowler, has pulled out of his contract with Glamorgan after a routine scan revealed a tear in his knee cartilage. The news has left Glamorgan’s management frantically searching for an emergency overseas replacement 24 hours before Franklin was due in Wales.According to the , a Welsh daily, John Derrick, Glamorgan’s director of cricket, spent much time on the phone yesterday assessing the bowling options open to the county side. He has reportedly been faxed a list of possible alternatives from Athletes One, a London-based cricket agent.Glamorgan had been in a similar predicament in March after Michael Kasprowicz, the Australian fast bowler, withdrew his contract. The management has also sought a temporary replacement for Mark Cosgrove, the Australian batsman, away on Australia A duty from June 24 to July 26.Franklin, 25, was part of New Zealand’s 0-2 Test loss to South Africa recently. He took 15 wickets and scored his maiden hundred in the three-Test series.

Tom Moody has been named as Sri Lanka’s new coach, less than a week after being overlooked for a similar position with the Indian team. Moody, who is currently the coach of Worcestershire, will be officially unveiled to the media at a press conference on Thursday morning, but it has been confirmed that his deal runs until after the 2007 World Cup.His appointment ends a period of uncertainty in Sri Lankan cricket after the departure of John Dyson, following Sri Lanka’s rearranged tour of New Zealand, where they lost the Test series 1-0.Moody is still in the early stages of his coaching career, but had been the favourite for the Sri Lankan job since earlier this month, when he surprisingly emerged from the list of candidates.By the time Greg Chappell was handed the Indian job Moody was already on a plane to Colombo to complete the interview process. He made a presentation to the interim cricket board, the chief executive Duleep Mendis, team manager Michael Tissera and cricket committee chairman Arjuna Ranatunga.”We are delighted to announce that we have signed up Tom Moody as our new national coach until May 31, 2007,” said Typhon Mirando, the board secretary. “Tom made a fantastic presentation about his background and the future of Sri Lanka’s cricket, and it was a unanimous decision to appoint him.”Although he brings limited coaching experience, Moody played eight Tests and 76 ODIs for Australia, helping them win two World Cups, in 1987 and 1999. He has a clause in his Worcestershire contract that allows him to pursue international opportunities, and at one point was considered to be a candidate to succeed Duncan Fletcher as England coach.

Royal College 294 for 6 dec and 35 for 2 lead St Thomas College 245 for 7 (Silva 85, Paduwawala 51) by 84 runs
ScorecardA captain’s innings of 85 from Kaushal Silva brought St Thomas College back into the match on the second day of their game against Royal College at the Sinhalese Sports Club. The day was almost a carbon-copy of yesterday – early successes for the bowlers, a middle-order recovery, and then late wickets.St Thomas College resumed on 22 for 2, and half-an-hour after lunch were in deep trouble at 91 for 6. But Silva, who has represented Sri Lanka at U19 level, arrested the slide in a seventh-wicket stand of 114 with Paduwawala (51*) which occupied a session-and-a-half and ground Royal’s bowlers down.Silva’s 196-minute innings was ended by Manoj Morawake, Royal’s most successful bowler with 3 for 45, but that only increased the tempo as Paduwawala and Videsh Balasubramaniam (25*) accelerated, smacking 40 in six overs.St Thomas declared 49 in arrears to leave Royal’s batsmen a tricky hour before the close, and the bold move paid off as Balasubramaniam, a legspinner who had bowled poorly in the first innings, removed both openers before bad light brought an early finish.With only one day remaining, the odds are on this match ending in a draw, although another morning of cheap wickets could give St Thomas a chance.