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Cricket South Africa’s board of directors, which met on Thursday, has rejected the “unwarranted attacks” by the Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB) against CSA and its chief executive Gerald Majola

Cricinfo staff30-Jul-2009Cricket South Africa’s board of directors, which met on Thursday, has rejected the “unwarranted attacks” by the Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB) against CSA and its chief executive Gerald Majola. It has insisted that the GCB must withdraw its comments and apologise to Majola, CSA, the IPL and the BCCI, and submit its terms and conditions before international games are staged at the Wanderers in Johannesburg.The Wanderers was stripped of international status after the GCB levelled accusations of mismanagement at Majola and CSA with regard to the staging of the 2009 IPL. The ground could lose its fixtures during the England tour, which have already been reallocated, if the issue is not resolved.At the meeting, Majola presented a report pertaining to the IPL being held in South Africa. It highlighted the financial benefits for CSA, its affiliates, and the country, the enhanced goodwill with the BCCI, and the IPL’s contribution to charity in South Africa.The board said that the allegations of mismanagement were unfounded and the dispute contained “misinformation and inconstancies” from GCB. The board also said the GCB had complained against CSA to the ECB, a “breach of national and international protocols” which would be investigated further.

يستعد الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي لمواجهة نظيره المصري مساء اليوم الأربعاء في بطولة الدوري المصري.

وتقام مباراة الأهلي والمصري على استاد الجيش ببرج العرب بالجولة الثلاثون من المسابقة الأكبر محليًا.

ويحتل الأهلي المركز الثالث في جدول ترتيب الدوري المصري برصيد 59 نقطة، ويحل المصري في المرتبة الحادية عشر بـ33 نقطة.

طالع أيضًا..تشكيل الأهلي أمام المصري في الدوري.. صلاح محسن وبيرسي تاو أساسيان

ويشهد تشكيل الأهلي المتوقع قيادة أحمد سيد غريب لهجوم الأحمر أمام المصري، فيما يحرس العرين علي لطفي. تشكيل الأهلي المتوقع أمام المصري

حراسة المرمى: علي لطفي.

خط الدفاع: محمد هاني، محمد عبد المنعم، محمود متولي، محمد أشرف.

خط الوسط: رامي ربيعة، أليو ديانج، محمد محمود، زياد طارق، محمد فخري.

خط الهجوم: أحمد سيد غريب.

Shane Warne wants Bryce McGain to be given another chance after his expensive Test debut in Cape Town

Cricinfo staff27-Mar-2009

Shane Warne wants Bryce McGain to be given another chance after his expensive Test debut in Cape Town last week. McGain, who flew back to Australia on Wednesday, returned 0 for 149 in 18 overs in a worrying sign for the team’s already brittle spin stocks ahead of the Ashes.”I just hope that Bryce McGain is not judged on one game,” Warne told FoxSports. “He has been the best spin bowler in domestic cricket … so hopefully they don’t just discard him.”Warne texted McGain to remind the legspinner he went for 150 on his debut in 1991-92. “It is always very daunting that first Test match and something like that can happen,” Warne said. “When he came onto bowl, it was a perfect time for South Africa to face him.”They were not under pressure and they were cruising. Unfortunately that is what happens. That is sport, those things happen. It does not mean that he can’t bowl.”Warne, who took 129 wickets in 22 Tests in England, said slow bowlers would be valuable for Australia during their off-season tour. “The history of Ashes series is that spinners have had a big part to play in those series for both sides,” he said. “I think there will be a spinner but whether they go with an all-out pace attack … who knows?”

Mitchell Marsh scored an unbeaten half-century to lead Australia Under-19 to a series-leveling win on the third day against India Under-19 at the WACA in Perth

Cricinfo staff21-Apr-2009
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Mitchell Marsh scored an unbeaten half-century to lead Australia Under-19 to a series-leveling win on the third day against India Under-19 at the WACA in Perth. Chasing a score of 130, Australia reached the target with six wickets in hand.The hosts began the day on 19 for 0, needing only another 108 for victory. The Indian bowlers, however, caused a scare by taking early wickets. They took four wickets for 14 runs to reduce Australia to 4 for 40. Harshal Patel picked up 3 for 32 with the new ball. Patel Marsh, though, ensured there was no further damage. He scored 69 off 102 balls and shared a 90-run stand with James Garrett to complete the victory.”When we were 4-40 we were in a bit of strife but Joel [Garrett] and I put on a good partnership and it got us over the line in the end,” Marsh said. “It’s been a great tour for everyone and that’s why we have these types of series so we can learn and adapt to different situations.””Coming over to Perth we knew we were 0-3 and we really wanted to get a win on the board and the boys came together well,” Marsh said. “The wicket was a lot bouncier and Kane Richardson bowled extremely well in the first innings of this match taking five wickets which was a great reward for him. He worked hard in Hobart but things just didn’t quite go his way.”Kane Richardson was named Player of the Match for his five-wicket haul. “Hobart was a bit disappointing, not just for myself but for the whole bowling group – we didn’t really execute what we wanted to – but as soon as we got over here and into training we really emphasized hitting our lengths and tried to make the batsman play,” he said. “We tried to get them to play all the time or where ever possible and it paid off for us this game.”Australia coach Brian McFadyen said it was a learning experience for the players. “It was a really impressive turn around from when we were in Hobart,” McFadyen said. “To be honest, I don’t think we really expected to come here and win two games and to win them convincingly was a very pleasing result.”I was really very, very impressed with how our guys were able to talk about delivering plans, and one of those plans was using their feet to spinners, but more importantly, their courage to actually integrate that into their game, experiment with it and further develop those skills, learning from the experience. To see that these players are prepared to make adjustments to their game and have the courage to apply that in a match situation was really pleasing.”

Hundreds from Phillip Hughes and Simon Katich helped Australia to 303 for 4 on the opening day of the second Test in Durban

The Bulletin by Alex Brown06-Mar-2009
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How they were out

Phillip Hughes jumps for joy after reaching his maiden Test century © Getty Images
Phillip Hughes and Simon Katich registered centuries as contrasting as their cricketing resumes to provide Australia with the kind of start not seen since the halcyon days of Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer. But two late strikes from Paul Harris spared some South African blushes, reducing Australia to an authoritative, if not entirely overbearing, 303 for 4 at stumps on the first day.The 20-year-old Hughes combined with the vastly experienced Simon Katich (108) for a 184-run partnership – the highest first-innings opening stand by an Australian duo since 2005 – and in so doing announced himself a legitimate international force. Just nine days removed from a fourth-ball duck in his maiden Test innings, the rookie left-hander produced a powerful, nerveless 115 highlighted by a pair of towering sixes that guided him through the 90s and into Australian cricketing folklore. Not since Doug Walters in 1965-66 has an Australian batsman notched a Test ton at such a tender age.The Australians could not have hoped for a brighter start from their fledgling opening combination, but their bid to close out the series in Durban was undermined by the finger-spin of Harris. His dismissals of Ricky Ponting (9) driving on the up and Michael Clarke (3) playing down the wrong line tempered Australia’s once-rampant run-rate and drew the South Africans back into the contest. Harris’ effectiveness on day one should unnerve Australia’s selectors, who again overlooked the specialist spin of Bryce McGain in preference of two allrounders in Andrew McDonald and Marcus North.But those concerns are for another day. For Friday will be remembered as one of triumph for the Australians who, in just two Tests, have gone far to dispursing the vultures of doubt that circled after Matthew Hayden’s retirement in January.Targetted by South Africa coach Mickey Arthur in the press during the week over his supposed short-comings against short bowling, Hughes seldom looked troubled during his 151 ball stay at the crease, taking full advantage of a low Kingsmead pitch and inoffensive South African bowling. At one stage, Hughes struck four consecutive boundaries against Morne Morkel which, combined with a no-ball and four byes from an errant bouncer, left the out-of-sorts paceman with the unflattering return of 21 runs from four legal deliveries. Whatever pressure Dale Steyn and Makhaya Ntini built in their opening spell had vanished. The Australians were away.
Simon Katich celebrates his fifth Test hundred since his recall last May © Getty Images
Curiously, after all the talk of short-pitched bowling, the South Africans maintained a full, straight line to Hughes. He duly responded by driving strongly down the ground, and clipping crisply off his pads. Hughes raised his second consecutive Test half-century with an extravagant square drive off Jacques Kallis that raced to the boundary, then duplicated the stroke (and the four) the very next ball. But the highlight of the innings was undoubtedly the consecutive sixes swatted over the head of Harris to raise his first Test ton – a feat he celebrated with an exuberant leap in the air and pump of the fist.Hughes was granted a life by Kallis at a wide first slip, but the allrounder had his revenge one run later when he coaxed Hughes into a slash outside his off stump that was snaffled by a diving Neil McKenzie in the gully. Katich also received a reprieve when turfed by Hashim Amla at midwicket off the bowling of Steyn, and the senior opener appeared intent on punishing the South Africans for their error in advancing to an unbeaten 84 at the tea break.Katich’s watchful approach was rewarded in the final session with a seventh Test century, and fifth since his recall to the Test side last May. The revitalised left-hander has scored 1,250 runs in those 14 Tests – better than half his career tally – at the robust average of 54.34 and, with Hughes, provided the team with hope that a new, dominant opening partnership has been uncovered.The South Africans will be bitterly disappointed with the opening two sessions. Steyn and Ntini threatened sparingly – the former swinging into the pads of the left-handers, the latter angling across – and Morkel proved underwhelming in the extreme. Arthur’s mantra of winning the first hour of a Test match was brutally dispatched by the swinging blade of Hughes, and the pair of dropped catches in the second session will do little to improve the coach’s mood.The period leading up to tea was notable for the first Hot Spot referral – the umpires found in favour of the batsman – and the demise of Ponting. Clarke’s fall shortly after temporarily raised South African hopes of a late day fightback, but North and Michael Hussey weathered a testing period from Steyn and Ntini with the second new ball to carry their bats through to stumps.

The IPL has released the final list of 43 players who will be up for auction in Goa on February 6 with Kevin Pietersen commanding the highest base price at $1.35 million

Cricinfo staff02-Feb-2009
JP Duminy’s outstanding performance in Australia has fetched him a base price of $300,000 at the IPL auction © Getty Images
South African batsman JP Duminy’s rising stature in international cricket was reflected in the final IPL auction list of 43 cricketers. Duminy’s base price has been pegged at US$300,000, the most expensive after those of Kevin Pietersen, Michael Clarke and Andrew Flintoff.The new list has only 43 players – the original had 111 – and includes 15 from Australia, four from Bangladesh, seven from England, three from New Zealand, five from South Africa, four from Sri Lanka, and five from the West Indies.Each franchise has a maximum of US$2m to spend on their overseas signings in the auction. The bidding for Pietersen will start at $1.35m, while that for Clarke and Flintoff will begin at $1m and $950,000 respectively.Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, said the franchises with Pakistan players on their roster would be allowed to use money equal to the cost of the player to make purchases after the auction. Pakistan players have not been allowed by their government to participate in the league this season.”The Pakistan players have a three-year contract with the franchises and the only reason of their unavailability could be injuries. But since that is not the case here, we will have to look at the legal aspect of the issue,” Modi said. “The spots for Pakistan players will be freed up and the money they invested on these players last year would be made automatically available post auction, so that the teams can buy new replacement players.”Modi told Cricinfo that if franchises buy replacements for Pakistan players from the auction – as they are entitled to – they would have to stay within the US$ 2 million cap. “After the auction, they will be allowed to spend the equivalent of what they would have paid the Pakistan player for this year on a replacement,” Modi said. “However, this replacement will have to be from our original list of players that was released last week.”The new group also includes ten players who were not on the original one: Aaron Bird, Brett Geeves, Daniel Harris, Dominic Thornley, Jon Moss, Phil Jaques, Steven Smith, Samit Patel, Chamara Kapugedera and Jerome Taylor. Geeves was with the Delhi Daredevils for the IPL’s inaugural season, while Kapugedera and Thornley played for the Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians respectively.Final list of players for auction (all figures in US$)
Australia: Aaron Bird (45,000), Brett Geeves (45,000), Bryce McGain (50,000), Daniel Harris (50,000), Dominic Thornley (50,000), George Bailey (50,000), Jon Moss (50,000), Michael Clarke (1,000,000), Michael Dighton (85,000), Michael Hill (50,000), Phil Jaques (100,000), Shane Harwood (75,000), Shaun Tait (250,000), Steven Smith (75,000), Stuart Clark (250,000).England: Kevin Pietersen (1,350,000), Andrew Flintoff (950,000), Luke Wright (150,000), Owais Shah (150,000), Paul Collingwood (250,000), Ravi Bopara (150,000), Samit Patel (100,000).Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (75,000), Mohammad Ashraful (75,000), Mashrafe Mortaza (50,000), Tamim Iqbal (50,000).New Zealand: James Franklin (50,000), Jesse Ryder (100,000), Kyle Mills (150,000).South Africa: Gulam Bodi (100,000), JP Duminy (300,000), Morne van Wyk (100,000), Tyron Henderson (100,000), Yusuf Abdullah (25,000).Sri Lanka: Thilan Thushara (100,000), Nuwan Kulasekara (100,000), Kaushalya Weeraratne (50,000), Chamara Kapugedera (150,000).West Indies: Kieron Pollard (60,000), Fidel Edwards (150,000), Dwayne Smith (tbc), Kemar Roach (50,000), Jerome Taylor (tbc).

Sheffield United left-back Max Lowe is on the verge of joining Nottingham Forest on loan, according to reliable journalist John Percy.

The Lowdown: Lowe linked with exit

The Blades may be fairly short on left-back options currently, but that hasn’t stopped Lowe from being linked with a move away from Bramall Lane.

A temporary move to fellow Championship club Forest was mooted recently and another key update has now been provided on the matter, as deadline day slowly approaches.

The Latest: Journalist confirms news

According to The Telegraph‘s Percy on Twitter, Lowe will sign for Forest imminently and could even be available to face Derby County on Saturday lunchtime:

“#nffc are close to signing Sheffield United defender Max Lowe on loan for the season. Lowe could make his debut at former club Derby this weekend. Forest targeting a number of other signings before Tuesday night’s deadline.”

The Verdict: Strange decision by Blades

While Lowe was unlikely to feature prominently under Slavisa Jokanovic this season, it does still seems slightly odd that United are willing to let him go so late into the window.

It may be that a replacement is lined up, however, which would then make far more sense, in terms of allowing Lowe to join their Championship rivals.

Enda Stevens will also hopefully return from injury next month, which alleviates the issue significantly, given his status as an undisputed key man for United.

In other news, a pundit has urged one exciting player to join Sheffield United this summer. Find out who it is here.

16-Dec-2008It is not too difficult to see why, if Sanath Jayasuriya had notbeen a cricketer, he would have been an accomplished fencer, sal-lying forth towards his opponent, as he does when he dances downthe wicket, with nimbleness of foot and alertness of eye. You canvisualise the epee twirling dexterously in his quick hands andsense the swordsman`s acceptance of having his life hang by astring. The qualities of skill and daring form a rare combina-tion, perhaps suited more to a gambler than a top order batsmanand yet, to see Jayasuriya bat is to see a finely crafted gamblerat work, sensing an opportunity and thriving on it.Over the last 16 months, Jayasuriya has made the leap that somany cricketers aspire to but rarely can; from being an excitingscene-stealer to playing the lead role. You could sense somethingwas going to happen when he walked out but you could be surethere would be just a few flashes of lightning. The promise ofa storm without the dense cloud to back it.Though he was talked about as a one-day specialist then, he onlyhad a batting average of about 13 and certainly didn`t haveenough wickets to justify his presence as a bowler even though heheld the best bowling figures by a Sri Lankan in one-day cricket.It was tempting to label Jayasuriya as someone who could neitherbat nor bowl well enough. Or at any rate, consistently enough.Unlike men of destiny who make their future, Jayasuriya seemed towait for fortune to stop by. As any sportsman will tell you, itonly happens rarely, and crucial years of youth passed by, takingaway opportunity and a fair chunk of hair. Then suddenly, thewheel of fortune stopped alongside him. At Bloemfontein, theheart of rightwing Afrikaner territory, Jayasuriya first rode thecrest of a new revolution. Opening the batting against New Zea-land, he scored 140, his first limited overs century. It alsomade him the record-holder for the highest individual score inone-day internationals by a Sri Lankan and while that didn`t makehim a great batsman overnight, it meant that he was up above suchoutstanding talents as Roy Dias and Aravinda de Silva. A wandererin search of home had found it; at the top of the order.In the next few months, Jayasuriya waded into opposition attacksnot with the fluency of the swordsman but with the bluntness of abattle tank. The guns boomed for a while but he was also an easytarget and the opposition waited for him to shoot himself. In-variably he did. Until the tour of Australia late last year. Onthe bouncy tracks that had exposed so many before him. Jayasuriyadiscovered that he loved the ball coming onto him. Better still,he relished the challenge of aggressive cricketers and hostileofficials and his century in the last Test at Perth was a wonder-ful innings studded with bold shots and marked by a refreshingabsence of orthodoxy.Too often, batsmen tend to be predictable, playing a ball as themanual suggests. Bowlers don`t mind bowling to such batsmen be-cause they can work out the best way to attack them. But herewas a batsman who believed strokes were meant to be playedeven in the Test match theatre and who was just as much at homedriving through cover on the rise as he was pulling in front ofsquare. He had begun to like fast bowlers and they had starteddiscover- ing a distaste for him. Subtly, quite unlike themanner in which he plays his cricket, the balance was tilting.And then came the World Cup. And Delhi. Jayasuriya made 79 from76 balls, a pedestrian pace by recent standards but his partner-ship with Kaluwitharna had redefined the way the early overswould be played in one-day cricket. Ironically, their battingaverages only added up to around 35, the figure you would want agood top order batsman to have.With batting records falling like rain in a Bombay monsoon,Jayasuriya took on England, a side whose defeats bring a totallyinexplicable but perverse joy to most cricket-playing countries.His 82 from 43 balls brought him instant international attentionfor he was now playing innings that were long enough to winmatches on their own. And then came the crucial spell in Calcuttathat destroyed India and showed up the Eden Gardens as justanother fair weather crowd. That was one of the outstandingbowl- ing performances of the tournament because he bowled theperfect line on a helpful wicket: the sign of a shrewd, think-ing crick- eter.The World Cup made him a star but there were many including me,who remained a bit sceptical of the Player of the Tournamentaward. Did he have the substance, one wondered, to win it aheadof Tendulkar or Waugh ? Did he have the statesmanship to play thekind of innings Mark Waugh played at Madras: surely one of thegreat innings of limited overs cricket ? Did he evoke the sameawe as those two ?If the end of the World Cup, a stunning success for him, stillevoked an uncertain response, the picturesque Padang in Singaporeprovided convincing proof. A century from 48 balls against one ofthe best attacks in the world had to be something special, ir-respective of the length of the boundary. The world recordhad gone by 14 balls; a bit like a young upstart coming up anddoing seven metres against Sergei Bubka.Jayasuriya is now writing a new chapter in the short history ofthe one-day game because he is perfecting a style that is radi-cally different from anything that has come before; a lot morerevolutionary than Martin Crowe`s use of Dipak Patel with the newball in the 1992 World Cup. There is now a new grammar to cricketfor underneath this carnage lies a definite pattern.Even as the fastest 50 appears in the record books what is mostawesome is not the power behind the shots but the sense of pred-ictability around the obvious danger of his approach. That is be-cause he picks his spot to hit, sees the ball very early and hasthe divine ability to find spaces rather than fielders.As he drives his Audi down past Galle on the road to Matara,Jayasuriya will be aware, being a shrewd cricketer, that cricket-ing brains around the world will be working on how to stop him.At 26, that is a great reputation to have.If I was Jayasuriya, I`d turn the music on and watch the beauti-ful palms of Sri Lanka.Source :: Daily News (http.//www.lanka.net)

Liverpool will be looking to kick off their new Premier League season with a positive result when they take on Norwich City at Carrow Road on Saturday evening.

A hugely disappointing 2020/21 campaign ended with a five-match winning streak, propelling Jurgen Klopp’s men to a third-placed finish in the final standings.

With key players such as Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez returning to fitness following extended spells on the sidelines, the Reds will be hoping for an improved showing this time around.

Former RB Leipzig centre-back Ibrahima Konate is Klopp’s only summer addition to date, but the German will be delighted to see so many star names sign new contracts in recent weeks.

In yesterday’s press conference, the Liverpool boss gave an update on his squad’s injury concerns, with only Andy Roberston and Curtis Jones ruled out of action.

“All our players are here. I have the situation I want to have. We have no major injuries apart from Robbo. Curtis is fit again, but it is protocol, and we must respect that,” said Klopp.

With that in mind, here’s how Football Fan Cast expects him to line up his side against Norwich this evening…

There’ll be no surprise in goal as Brazil international Alisson Becker lines up between the sticks for his 101st Premier League appearance.

However, in front of the South American shot-stopper will be a couple of rather unfamiliar faces. Greek left-back Kostas Tsimikas is set to make his first Premier League start for the Reds, while Konate should make his competitive debut for Klopp’s charges.

Van Dijk will make his long-awaited return to competitive first-team action after nine months out with a serious knee injury, and Trent Alexander-Arnold will complete the back four for the Anfield club.

In midfield, Klopp is unlikely to call upon Thiago or Jordan Henderson following their late returns to pre-season training, so the experienced James Milner will partner Fabinho and Naby Keita in the engine room.

The biggest dilemma for the Liverpool boss will be who makes up the front three. Both Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane have had the summer off, so it’ll be between Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota as to who gets the nod at centre-forward.

We fancy Klopp to axe the £45m-rated Brazilian, who started Liverpool’s last Premier League game of 2020/21, for Jota after a fabulous maiden campaign on Merseyside for the 24-year-old, who netted 13 goals last term.

In other news… Liverpool must axe “unbelievable” £7.2m-rated beast this summer, he’s not good enough 

Former Premier League defender Steve Howey is happy with Sunderland’s start to the season and the transfer business they have completed so far.

The Black Cats have brought in seven new first-team players this summer, with Alex Pritchard, Corry Evans, Callum Doyle, Dennis Cirkin, Frederik Alves, Nathan Broadhead and Niall Huggins all joining Lee Johnson’s Stadium of Light project.

Johnson’s side have clicked and gelled quickly, too, picking up three wins in four League One matches and have progressed to the third round of the Carabao Cup after beating Port Vale and Blackpool in the opening two rounds.

And Howey believes that Sunderland have made a decent start and seem to be making the right moves in the transfer window, exclusively telling Football FanCast: “I think you’re looking at Sunderland and they’ve bought in a couple of young lads, a lad from Everton, one from Tottenham and a couple of other ones that have come in, they seem to be doing it right.

“Listen they’ve got the finance but obviously they want to do it the right way. 

“They got beat against Burton, but they won at the weekend, it’s a decent start from them to be quite honest. I think it’s a great opportunity for these lads.

“Yes, its League One, but Sunderland is not a League One setup, it’s a Premier League setup. Sunderland’s training ground is absolutely amazing, the ground’s amazing.”

Sunderland host promotion hopefuls Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday afternoon, with the Chairboys looking to maintain their unbeaten start to the new League One season.