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Worcestershire have signed New Zealand allrounder Jacob Oram as an overseas player for their 2013 Friends Life t20 campaign.

George Dobell05-Mar-2013

Worcestershire have signed New Zealand allrounder Jacob Oram as an overseas player for their 2013 Friends Life t20 campaign.Oram, 34, is one of a raft of players to have retired from other forms of cricket to allow him to pursue a career as a T20 specialist. He negotiated his release from his New Zealand central contract just before Christmas and, having just played in the Bangladesh Premier League, will also appear in the IPL for Mumbai Indians.”The opportunity to play for Worcestershire in this season’s competition was something I could not turn down,” Oram said. “While I have never played county cricket, it has always been a goal of mine so I am very excited at the prospect.”Another attraction to Worcestershire was the chance to play at the picturesque New Road cricket ground. I have played a few games there for New Zealand, in 2004 and 2008, as well as the New Zealand Youth Team in 1996. It’s a beautiful ground and one that I will be privileged to call home, at least for a month.”Worcestershire are one of only two counties – Derbyshire are the other – never to have progressed beyond the quarter-final stages of the domestic T20 competition. But they did make it to the quarter-finals in 2012 for just the third time in the 10-year history of the competition and Rhodes hopes that Oram’s versatility will help them go a step further in 2013.”I have admired Jacob’s all-round qualities for some time now and his t20 experience, which he has gained from global competitions, is a major plus factor in our desire to have a successful Friends Life t20 campaign,” Worcestershire’s director of cricket, Steve Rhodes, said. “He can bowl at the start, middle or end of the innings and can clear the ropes as a batsman, so our supporters will enjoy watching his exciting performances.”Oram made his ODI debut for New Zealand in January 2001 and played his first Test the following year. During a career frequently interrupted by injury, Oram played 160 ODIs, 33 Tests and 36 Twenty20s. A big-hitting batsman and canny medium-pace bowler, he will be of several allrounders in the Worcestershire side along with Gareth Andrew, Aneesh Kapil, Moeen Ali and the club’s other overseas player, Thilan Samaraweera.

England Lions continued their difficult start in Australia with a third-straight warm-up defeat as Victoria eased home by eight wickets at the MCG

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Feb-2013
ScorecardRob Quiney guided Victoria’s run chase with 76•Getty ImagesEngland Lions continued their difficult start in Australia with a third-straight warm-up defeat as Victoria eased home by eight wickets at the MCG.The Lions never recovered sufficiently from a poor start which left them on 3 for 18 and could only post 173. Scott Boland took 4 for 29 and Fawad Ahmed also impressed with 2 for 21 from nine overs. Victoria cruised to their target with more than 12 overs to spare, Rob Quiney leading the way with 76 to following the hundred he scored in the first of the warm-up matches.After putting the Lions into bat, Victoria’s seamers made early inroads with the first three wickets all falling to catches by the wicketkeeper. A recovery of sorts was started by James Taylor (31), who scored a hundred in the previous match, and Gary Ballance, who finished as top-scorer with 57, but the batsmen rarely dominated.Ahmed removed Taylor and Ben Stokes, the Durham allrounder, was run out to leave the Lions 5 for 95 in the 31st over. Ballance added 46 with Rikki Clarke (32) but when Ballance was lbw to Clive Rose it meant there was no late flourish to the innings. The last four wickets fell for 11 runs in four overs.Victoria made a brisk start to their chase with Quiney and Peter Handscomb adding 83 for the first wicket and another half-century stand followed for the second wicket. The Lions bowlers have failed to impress during the warm-up matches and again did not make much of an impression although Chris Wright and Craig Overton were economical.The Lions now travel to Hobart where the five-match one-day series against Australia A begins on February 16.

They join Umran Malik in the net bowlers’ list; teams have until October 15 to finalise their squads

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Oct-2021Avesh Khan and Venkatesh Iyer have been asked by the BCCI to stay on in the UAE after the completion of the IPL to join Umran Malik as net bowlers for the Indian team during the T20 World Cup. As things stand, they are not part of the list of standby players, which currently includes Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar, though India – like the other teams – have until October 15 to make changes to their final squad for the competition.Related

• Venkatesh Iyer, the 'Stephen Fleming clone' who turned KKR's season around

• Shardul Thakur replaces Axar Patel in India's T20 World Cup squad

• Umran Malik to stay back in UAE as net bowler for India's T20 World Cup campaign

• Avesh Khan wants to be a bowler who can produce what his captain wants

Avesh had travelled with India to England earlier this year after a series of starring performances for Delhi Capitals in the first leg of the IPL. But he had to return home after injuring his thumb during a tour game, and while he has been on the fringes of the national team, Iyer’s inclusion in the list of “net bowlers” came as a bit of a surprise, primarily because while he bowls seam-up, it is as an opening batter for Kolkata Knight Riders that he has made a name.Iyer, a Madhya Pradesh player who made his List A and T20 debuts in 2015 and then his first-class debut in 2018, has been one of the finds of the second leg of the IPL in the UAE, where he has been a big performer, especially with the bat at the top of the order for Knight Riders. He has so far scored 265 runs in eight innings at a strike rate of 123.25. He has also picked up three wickets in 7.3 overs – including 2 for 29 in a league match against Delhi Capitals – while returning an economy rate of 8.53.Avesh Khan is the Delhi Capitals’ leading wicket-taker in IPL 2021•BCCI

Avesh, meanwhile, has continued to be one of the stars for Capitals, and is their leading wicket-taker by far: 23 in 15 games with an economy rate of 7.50, eight strikes ahead of second-placed Axar Patel, who has 15.The third member of the net bowlers’ line-up, Malik, has been another outsider to have turned heads at the ongoing IPL, primarily because of his pace and ability to crank it up to above 150kph regularly. The 21-year-old Jammu & Kashmir rookie was promoted from net bowler to the Sunrisers Hyderabad squad proper after T Natarajan had to miss the second leg of the IPL because of Covid-19-related issues. A rank newbie, Malik was included in the XI for Sunrisers’ last three games, after the team had been knocked out of the competition, and he impressed with his pace, even though he didn’t end up picking up too many wickets – just two – and has tended to be a bit wayward at times.All the India players have been in the UAE for the past few weeks because of the IPL, and will get together in time for their first warm-up game, against Australia on October 18, three days after the completion of the IPL. Their second and final, warm-up game is against South Africa on October 20, and they will kickstart their campaign in the main tournament on October 24, against Pakistan.

ESPNcricinfo previews the first T20 international between England and South Africa at Chester-le-Street

The Preview by Alan Gardner07-Sep-2012Match FactsSeptember 8, 2012
Start time 2.30pm (1330 GMT)Stuart Broad will be the latest England captain to try and succeed against South Africa•Getty ImagesThe Big PictureWe’ve been here before: England’s seemingly-quite-resistible force against South Africa’s immovable Hashim Amla. This time the tourists are the No. 1-ranked side going into the series, however, and England are merely the reigning World Twenty20 champions. Both have solid records from sporadic outings in the shortest form this year and both will be looking to nail down their plans for the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, which starts in less than two weeks’ time.For England, it means a change in captain and Stuart Broad will aim to become the first of the now-defunct triumvirate to hand South Africa a series defeat. Andrew Strauss retired from cricket after his side were steamrollered in the Tests, though Alastair Cook did marginally better, clinging on to the one-day top ranking and gaining a promotion into the bargain. Broad will probably settle for a trio of consistent performances from the squad, as well as the avoidance of injury.There is no respite for AB de Villiers, who had the wicketkeeping gloves thrust upon him at the start of the Test series and now continues to balance his own personal three-for in the T20s as captain, batsman and keeper. After two months away from home and with one eye on the subcontinent, he will need all his powers of multitasking and compartmentalisation to help drag his team towards the finish line.Form guide
(Most recent first, completed matches)
England WWWLW
South Africa WWWLWWatch out forAlex Hales scored 99 in his only international outing of 2012 so far but walked off the pitch at Trent Bridge looking distraught to miss out on a hundred. Still, making the highest T20I score by an Englishman is as good a way as any to start life as Kevin Pietersen’s replacement. Hales’ coach at Nottingham, Mick Newell, recently suggested his first-class returns had been wanting this season but he is a talented young opener who could offer England options in all formats.Without Jacques Kallis, rested for the ODI series, South Africa looked an unbalanced side. They will welcome back the ursine allrounder with wide open arms ahead of the World Twenty20, even though his sole T20I appearance in the last two years came during a one-off tribute match against India in March. Experience can count for a lot in T20 cricket and Kallis, an IPL winner with Kolkata earlier this year, is smarter than your average bearTeam newsBarring one high-profile exception, England have played the same team in all four of their T20 internationals this year. Graeme Swann should return after being rested for the last three ODIs against South Africa, while Steven Finn and Tim Bresnan are both carrying niggles, which could mean a first T20I appearance in three years for James Anderson. Ravi Bopara has struggled with the bat recently but made fifty in his last 20-over outing against West Indies.England (possible) 1 Craig Kieswetter (wkt), 2 Alex Hales, 3 Ravi Bopara, 4 Eoin Morgan, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Jos Buttler, 7 Samit Patel, 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Stuart Broad (capt), 10 Steven Finn, 11 Jade DernbachSouth Africa have a similar squad to pick from as for the ODIs, with Kallis, Richard Levi and possibly Johan Botha likely to be the only different faces in the mix for a starting spot. Depending on his fitness, Albie Morkel could come back into the side, while South Africa have also experimented with batting Wayne Parnell up the order in de Villiers’ short reign as captain.South Africa (possible) 1 Richard Levi, 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 AB de Villiers (capt & wk), 5 JP Duminy, 6 Justin Ontong, 7 Wayne Parnell, 8 Johan Botha, 9 Robin Peterson, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne MorkelPitch and conditionsThe pitch at Chester-le-Street has not been a friendly one to batsmen all season and Australia struggled to 200 for 9 in an ODI there in July. Durham twice made 300 or thereabouts in 40-over games last month, however, and the prospect of sunshine breaking through the fluffy white clouds at some point in the afternoon should boost the chances for a high-scoring affair.Stats and trivia Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann are tied as England’s leading T20I wicket-takers, with 41 each. Richard Levi struck the fastest-ever T20 international hundred, from 45 balls, in only his second appearance. There have been six T20 meetings between the two sides – England have won two, South Africa three, with one abandonment… …which occurred when they were due to play each other at Chester-le-Street in 2008.Quotes”The planning started from Trent Bridge, when Kevin said he wasn’t available for the Twenty20 World Cup, and his replacement came in and got the highest score by an England batsman.”
“Twenty20s fly by. You can almost see the finish line now.”

يستعد فريق الكرة الأول بنادي الهلال السعودي لمواجهة نظيره الفتح في خضم منافسات كأس خادم الحرمين الشريفين.

المباراة المقرر إقامتها في خضم منافسات الدور ربع النهائي من عمر البطولة المحلية، على ملعب استاد الأمير فيصل بن فهد (الملز).

طالع | ترتيب الدوري السعودي بعد فوز الهلال على التعاون

وكان الهلال قد صعد من دور الـ16 بالفوز على الاتفاق برباعية نظيفة، كما تأهل الفتح على حساب الطائي بركلات الحظ الترجيحية.

وكان فريق اتحاد جدة قد نجح في الوصول إلى الدور نصف النهائي من البطولة بعد الفوز على الفيحاء مساء الإثنين بركلات الترجيح. موعد مباراة الهلال والفتح في كأس خادم الحرمين

وتنطلق مباراة الهلال والفتح في تمام الساعة الثامنة مساءً بتوقيت مصر والتاسعة بتوقيت السعودية. القناة الناقلة لمباراة الهلال والفتح اليوم

وتذاع مباراة الهلال والفتح عبر فضائية SSC1 HD، بتعليق عبد الله الغامدي.

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ESPNcricinfo previews the IPL game between Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians in Mohali

The Preview by Siddhartha Talya24-Apr-2012Match factsWednesday, April 25, Mohali
Start time 1600 (1030 GMT)Mumbai need Rohit Sharma to contribute more•AFPBig PictureIn this round of back-to-back matches, Kings XI livened up the tournament with their win over Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium. The talking point for Mumbai Indians – who’ve lost two in a row – in that game was their selection of just three foreign players, though their overseas bench was weakened by injuries to Lasith Malinga and Herschelle Gibbs. The overseas batting options, barring perhaps Gibbs, are not automatic picks given there being plenty of strength in the Indian contingent, but the performance of James Franklin at the top of the order is a welcome development for them. The game against Kings XI was lost in the last five overs of the Mumbai Indians innings, which produced just 34 runs, something they’ll seek to rectify in Mohali.Kings XI did well in the absence of Adam Gilchrist, who is yet to recover completely from a hamstring injury, with openers Mandeep Singh and Nitin Saini giving them a good start in the chase. Their strength is a powerful middle order that includes Shaun Marsh, David Hussey and Azhar Mahmood and being the seniors in the side, the responsibility is theirs to guide an otherwise young team. Whoever wins will take their tally of victories to four, something at least six other teams have either achieved or bettered this season, showing how the clamour for a place in the final four is getting more intense.Form guide (most recent first)
Mumbai Indians: LLWWL
Kings XI Punjab: WLLWWPlayers to watchRohit Sharma’s last-ball six off Daniel Christian to win Mumbai Indians a thrilling game against Deccan Chargers was his highlight of the season so far. Since then, he hasn’t lived up to that form, getting out to avoidable shots in the previous two games when the situation demanded some restraint. Consistency is something he’s lacked this IPL.Parvinder Awana has bowled with good pace, got the ball to move both ways and kept things tight while opening the bowling. He plays for Delhi on the domestic circuit, and was their highest wicket-taker in this Ranji Trophy season. He was the top wicket-taker in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, the domestic one-day tournament, and so far he’s repaid Kings XI’s faith with six wickets in three games at an economy-rate of 6.25Stats and trivia The average score for a team batting first at the PCA Stadium in Mohali in the IPL is 169. Eight times have teams won batting first. Dinesh Karthik will be approaching a Twenty20 landmark – he needs two more games to play100 T20 matches.Quotes”We are sitting probably sixth or seventh on the league table. If we just keep collecting the wins here we can make it to the finals. If we stick to good basic cricket we can shock a few teams.”

David Warner’s career is only two Tests old but already he has achieved something that eluded Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer: he has carried his bat through an innings. Australia emerged from the loss to New Zealand in Hobart with plenty of concerns, but the way Warner adapted from Twenty20 to the five-day game was not one of them.Warner nearly lifted Australia to an unlikely victory with his unbeaten 123, an innings of responsible strokeplay and impressive resilience. He survived into the 64th over, removing any lingering doubts about his suitability for the longer format, and joined Bill Lawry, Ian Redpath, David Boon, Mark Taylor and Simon Katich as the only Australians to carry their bat through a Test innings since World War II.It continued an outstanding 2011 for Warner. This year he has averaged 75.53 from his 15 first-class appearances. Only two of his innings have been scored at better than a run a ball. The average length of his innings is 132 minutes. His near three-hour effort in the second innings at Bellerive Oval was impressive, but when he scored a double-hundred for Australia A in Zimbabwe in July he batted more than twice that long.”As a kid growing up you want to keep striving 100% to get that baggy green,” Warner said. “Now I have got it I am going to try to hold onto it as long as I can and I am going to keep doing that. Everyone keeps talking about T20 cricket but I have always said I wanted to prove I could play the longer form and at the end of the day it is overwhelming to show people what I have done.”Not that Warner is resting on his laurels. He knows that Test cricket won’t get any easier, although the pitches might, and working at the top of the order requires intense concentration against quality attacks. He had a few moments of luck in Hobart and he is well aware of the challenges that will arise if he retains his spot in the side.”There were some patches where I played at balls that I don’t really need to,” he said. “I’m still learning. At the end of the day, the next game, whatever it is, I’ve got to be a bit more cautious and more tight in my defence and hopefully I can keep playing my natural game.”My mood is always going to be the same when I go out there and to achieve a milestone like that is always fantastic. But at the end of the day we lost and it’s disappointing to be out there with eight runs to go and not get across the line.”It was a remarkable achievement in itself for Warner to get Australia so close to victory. When he was joined by the No.11, Nathan Lyon, Australia still needed 42 runs for victory. Warner refused to hog the strike and backed Lyon, who played some good shots but also survived two perilously close lbw calls, and in the end Lyon survived for 43 minutes before he was bowled by Doug Bracewell.”It was our decision and 100% on backing my team-mate,” Warner said. “No matter who it is, still going to back him. Every run was crucial. I batted with Nathan in Zimbabwe this year and he hit the running runs over there and we had to get 30 runs there as well. He’s a fantastic person in general and was laughing and carrying on a little bit out there today and at the end of the day it’s what happens. Doug Bracewell bowled well and it shouldn’t have come down to Nathan there at the end anyway.”Warner battled a back injury in the later stages of his innings, receiving attention from the physio Alex Kountouris several times. However he was confident the problem would not cause him any long-term trouble.”After I dived back in for a run-out chance I then played a pull shot and the right side of my back sort of seized up a little bit and I couldn’t bend down but I don’t think they took much notice of what happened so they didn’t bounce me too much,” he said after the match. “Obviously some of the drugs the physio gave me settled in and it’s okay at the moment. I should be fine.”

MS Dhoni reckons England might need to change their strategy of verbal intimidation considering it has not actually worked in their favour in the ongoing series

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Oct-2011MS Dhoni reckons England might need to change their strategy of verbal intimidation considering it has not actually worked in their favour in the ongoing series in which India have taken an unassailable 3-0 lead.On the eve of the Mohali one-dayer the England pair of Tim Bresnan and Samit Patel had stressed on the importance of unsettling their opponents with “a little bit of a word or a look or a stare”. The planned aggression cost Bresnan 7.5% of his Mohali match fee, after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC’s code of conduct by snatching his cap from umpire Sudhir Asnani at the end of the 18th over of the chase. Players from both teams have been involved in a few verbal confrontations and Dhoni said he did not mind a little bit of “chit-chat” as long as long as his players did not step over the line or make personal remarks.”A bit of chit-chat is fine because it makes things interesting. You don’t always want a friendly series. But I think they should change their strategy for the next two games,” Dhoni said after the five-wicket victory in Mohali.Dhoni also did not want to get carried away and term this series victory as “revenge” for the disastrous summer India had endured in England, where they lost the Test and one-day series and the solitary Twenty20 match. “I don’t think the word revenge should be used. On the one hand we talk about the spirit of cricket, and on the other hand there’s this talk of revenge, which I don’t think is right.”In Mohali, India were cruising in the chase before a few quick wickets left Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja 64 to get off 50 balls. Dhoni said he just wanted to bat till the end because he knew the bowlers would eventually feel the pressure. “You always want to stay till the end because you reach a stage where the bowlers and batsmen are under pressure, and then whoever executes better wins. We knew that if Jadeja and I are there in the end then even if we needed 20-25 runs off the last two overs, Twenty20 cricket has taught us that is possible.”Dhoni also pointed out that he would not like to disturb the winning combination and instead would persist with playing their young batsmen at the top of the order because they needed time in the middle. “The youngsters need to be batting 20-25 overs. Once they are more experienced, then we can experiment with batting them lower in the order. Nos. 6 and 7 are difficult places to bat because there’s only one or two batsmen behind you so it’s better players are only tried there when they have a few games under their belt.”After having been thumped in the first two matches, England gave a better account of themselves in Mohali, but their captain Alastair Cook said that did not make the loss any easier to bear. The match once again threw the spotlight on Jonathan Trott’s position in the one-day side. Though Trott scored 98 not out, he took 116 balls to get there and struggled to hit boundaries in the end overs. Cook, though, insisted Trott played his role perfectly.”Trott played the anchor role and did it nicely,” Cook said. “Fifty overs is quite a long time to bat and you need people to bat around him. Three hundred was a decent score and was defendable. Trott’s instructions are the same as everyone else’s: to play positively and try to get 300. Today we did that and he got 98 at a strike rate of 80-odd, so he did his role.”Cook again highlighted his side’s fielding as the most disappointing part of their performance but said the team would still battle in the last two games. “One of the toughest challenges in sport is to lift yourselves when you’ve already lost a series. But there’s still desperation to win.”

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Vindo de derrota para o América-MG, o Botafogo busca se recuperar neste Brasileirão no domingo, diante do Vitória, no Nilton Santos. Contudo, o jogo no Independência ainda repercute. Até por isso, Alberto Valentim se defendeu sobre as críticas em relação a exibição alvinegra em jogos fora do Rio de Janeiro e projetou uma maior evolução até a parada para a Copa do Mundo.

– Ás vezes as pessoas enxergam o trabalho, mas se o resultado não vier… Vi a matéria que foi feita do melhor e pior jogo. Foi eleito o pior o que nós perdemos e não concordo. Meu pior jogo foi o que nós vencemos, contra o Fluminense. Não da boca para fora que precisamos melhorar todo dia. Estamos tentando nos fortalecer e esperamos fazer um bom campeonato. O desafio e nos mantermos o mais alto possível no Brasileiro – afirmou o técnico.

Um dos fatores necessários para o Botafogo evoluir dentro do Brasileirão, na opinião de Valentim, é o aproveitamento do ataque. Com seis gols marcados em seis jogos disputados, a equipe ainda sofre para balançar as redes rivais.

-Precisamos melhorar esses números. Mas não é culpa só dos três da frente. A gente precisa fazer com que a bola chegue. No Carioca, fizemos bem. Temos procurado alguns treinamentos de finalização.Algumas vezes, a gente joga melhor, outras não joga e vence… São detalhes que precisamos melhorar. Isso acontece em todos os clubes. A gente precisa evoluir a cada dia – completa.

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William Porterfield, the Ireland captain, admitted his side had “let a few people down” by surrendering tamely to Pakistan in the first of two one-dayers in Belfast

ESPNcricinfo staff29-May-2011

William Porterfield, the Ireland captain, said his side had “let a few people down” by surrendering tamely to Pakistan in the first of two one-dayers in Belfast, and put his side’s disappointing performance of 96 all out down to a lack of application with the bat. Opener Paul Stirling got them off to a flyer in the rain-reduced game, but once he departed, Ireland, to their detriment, did not rein in their strokeplay on a pitch that was offering the seamers a fair bit of assistance.”The way Paul started I think a few lads got caught up in that and thought it was a bit flatter,” Porterfield said. “It did seam about a bit and there were some poor shots. It was going to be difficult but I don’t think we acquitted ourselves as we should have.”There were too many bad shots and not enough application at the crease, especially after losing a couple of early wickets which can happen on any day. I think to keep losing wickets, we just folded too easily. We never put a partnership together. You never know on a wicket like that if you can scrap 160 or 170 in a reduced game you can contain teams and put them under pressure.”The series is a significant one for Ireland, as the ICC chief executive committee meets in a month’s time to discuss whether to overturn their decision to omit the Associates nations from the 2015 World Cup. Ireland’s impressive showing in the 2011 World Cup has garnered global support for their right to play in the next edition of the tournament, but their capitulation against Pakistan on Saturday suggested there is still a gap to be bridged between them and the top teams.”We’ve let a few people down today but we’ll be looking to turn that around come Monday,” Porterfield said. “We are disappointed in the way we performed today. We wanted to put on a performance for the fans that turned out and keep a buzz around Irish cricket.”He, however, stuck to the stand taken by him and coach Phil Simmons before the series began, in saying the ICC’s decision over the 2015 World Cup was not the top-most thing on their minds.”It is disappointing to make 96, but as I’ve said before it [the World Cup decision] is not something we think about or put in the forefront of our minds. We go out there with a plan to win a game and we didn’t do that today. We didn’t execute anything with the bat. We didn’t put any type of performance together.”The next one-dayer is at the same venue, the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont, on May 30, and despite the seven-wicket loss Porterfield was positive about his team’s chances of levelling the series.”I think it’s a mental think more than anything. It is something that will come together if everyone brings their A-game. We have to rectify that for Monday; we will do that.”