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Shane Watson is back at the SCG, seeking to prove his value to the team once more but also to ward off the images of November 25, an experience he shared with Brad Haddin, David Warner and Nathan Lyon

Daniel Brettig in Sydney03-Jan-2015On the way to the SCG nets for their first training session ahead of the New Year’s Test, Australia’s batsmen walked past the motorised stretcher that had taken Phillip Hughes from the middle of the ground a little more than a month ago. There as a precaution, it also provided a reminder of how cricket has changed this summer, and how difficult it will be for the hosts to clear their minds and play on at the scene of Hughes’ death.Shane Watson has wrestled with these sights, reminders and unwanted visions as much as anyone. His concentration and technique have wavered often as he tries to push on as a batting allrounder and senior member of the team now led by Steven Smith. In Adelaide he spoke frankly of those difficulties, and a series of harried innings did little to dissuade observers from concluding that Watson’s struggles went beyond his usual inconsistencies with the bat.But a score of some merit on Boxing Day offered evidence of progress, while a hamstring injury to Mitchell Marsh bought time for Watson to consolidate without the glare of too much speculation about his place. Now he is back at the SCG, seeking to prove his value to the team once more but also to ward off the images of November 25, an experience he shared with Brad Haddin, David Warner and Nathan Lyon.”It’s the first time I’ve been back here since just before Phil’s funeral. It was always a time that I wasn’t really looking forward to, coming back to the ground,” Watson said. “But in the end, enough time has sort of passed to be able to find my own personal way to be able to deal with what happened to Phil. I’m sure once I get out into the middle and playing those visions will be coming back.”Melbourne was the first time after getting through especially the short ball that I started to feel comfortable or more comfortable again. For the first couple of Test matches it was always in the back of my mind obviously because of what I saw and trying to go through it and process what happened that day out here. Melbourne was the first time I really started to feel the confidence grew back in myself and my game to know that my instincts are going to be hopefully good enough to play the short ball well.”Watson took some succour from the way that Haddin dealt with the barrage of bouncers he faced in Melbourne, first aiming to survive Boxing Day in the company of Smith then hitting out boldly on the following morning when India maintained their unsubtle angled of short-pitched attack.Shane Watson says he has started to find a way to deal with the death of Phillip Hughes•Getty Images”I think just in general how Brad took on what the Indians served up to him in Melbourne was incredible,” Watson said. “He’s a tough man – he’s not going to take a backward step, he’s always going to find a way to take on the game. And Brad was out on the ground as well so we’re all dealing with it in our own way after what we saw. So to be able to see Brad play the way he did and take it on was awesome.”Watson’s hesitation against the short ball has added to the kind of introspection he has commonly carried to the middle of the ground. In the journal , the Sydney Thunder coach Paddy Upton summed him up thusly: “Shane Watson is a sensitive man with a high regard for his team-mates and an ability to be self-critical.” At times this self-criticism has been more hindrance than help.”Growing up all I wanted to do was be the best cricketer I possibly could be,” Watson said. “There are positives and negatives in that. The positives are that it always drives me to want to continue to get better. But on the flip side it means I can put too much pressure on myself when I go out there. I’m always trying to find that perfect balance where I’ve got freedom in my mind when I go out to bat but I’m also very well prepared and I feel comfortable and confident going into the game as well.”I’ve been through a few different ways of how to deal with it. I’m very lucky to have a great support network around me to be able to talk through certain times when I feel like I am putting too much pressure on myself to perform. Darren Lehmann for example has always been incredibly good to be able to talk to about my game.”This summer has then been a trial of those qualities. Watson is fitter, stronger and fresher than at any other time in recent memory. But his confidence and instinct were rocked by the loss of Hughes, and his capacity to use that freshness limited by the resultant emotional toll. It is a long summer, though, and Watson hopes now to make the SCG Test a starting point for greater returns.”I feel I’m under pressure when I’m not scoring runs at any stage,” he said. “If I’m not performing of course I’m under pressure. The thing I think about the most is to just being able to contribute to the team, not whether I’m playing or not. It’s more so just being able to contribute to the team and feel like I’m not a passenger in the team. I do really want to be there to be able to contribute with bat and ball, that’s what I think about the most.”The motorised stretcher was still there when Watson was among the last to leave the nets. It had not been needed.

أوضح الحكم الأسبق والخبير التحكيمي الحالي أحمد الشناوي، مدى صحة قرارات حكم مباراة الزمالك والبنك الأهلي محمد معروف، والتي جمعت بينهما اليوم ببطولة الدوري المصري، وانتهت بفوز الزمالك بهدفين مقابل هدف.

والتقى الزمالك مع البنك الأهلي، على أرضية استاد القاهرة الدولي، ضمن مواجهات الجولة الثالثة من بطولة الدوري المصري.

وقال الشناوي في تصريحات تلفزيونية عبر قناة “أون تايم سبورتس” عن احتساب ركلة جزاء لصالح البنك الأهلي: “تقنية الفار أبلغت محمد معروف أنه لا توجد ركلة جزاء لأن الكرة كانت من خارج منطقة الجزاء”.

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وعن حالة طرد محمد عواد، أوضح: “كريم بامبو أخذ قرار القفز من فوق محمد عواد، وحارس المرمى يريد أن يلتحم بقدمه على الكرة وهذا طبيعي، لاعب البنك الأهلي هو الذي خلق التلامس مع حارس مرمى الزمالك، كنت أتمنى تقنية الفار تظهر لمعروف القفز المبكر من بامبو، بالتالي أتفق مع تقنية الفار، كان يجب استمرار اللعب، وعواد لا يستحق الطرد”.

وعن مطالبة الزمالك بركلة جزاء لصالح زيزو، أفاد: “لا توجد ركلة جزاء، لاعب البنك الأهلي قفز لكي يلعب الكرة برأسه”.

وأتم تصريحاته عن طرد لاعب البنك الأهلي: “اللاعب دخل بمنتهى التهور في الالتحام ومعروف قام بإتاحة الفرصة ومع أول توقف احتسب الخطأ وتستحق الإنذار، وبعد ذلك أعطاه الطرد”.

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Os semifinalistas da Copa do Brasil decidem quem vai para a final da competição na noite desta quarta-feira. Internacional e Grêmio largam em vantagem. O Colorado venceu o Cruzeiro, em Minas, por 1 a 0, enquanto o Tricolor gaúcho bateu o Furacão, em Porto Alegre, pelo placar de 2 a 0.

O LANCE! mostra tudo sobre os jogos de volta das semifinais: retrospectos dos confrontos, premiação, números de títulos, números dos times e curiosidades sobre os clubes que seguem em frente na competição.

Panorama das semis

Cruzeiro e Internacional estão se enfrentando pela primeira vez na história da Copa do Brasil. No retrospecto, os clubes duelaram 82 vezes, com 31 vitórias do Colorado, 29 vitórias da Raposa e 23 empates. O último confronto entre eles foi justamente o jogo de ida da semifinal do mata-mata deste ano, com vitória do Inter por 1 a 0, no Mineirão. Com o resultado, o Colorado joga pelo empate para chegar à decisão.

Na outra semifinal, Grêmio e Athletico Paranaense se enfrentaram quatro vezes na Copa do Brasil. O retrospecto é favorável ao clube gaúcho, que eliminou o rival em três oportunidades (1996,2016 e 2017). A única vez que o Athletico saiu vitorioso foi, curiosamente, na semifinal da Copa do Brasil de 2013. O Grêmio tem a vaga encaminhada, pois venceu o primeiro jogo em Porto Alegre por 2 a 0, e pode até perder por um gol de diferença que se classifica à final.

Premiação

Os classificados para a semifinal da Copa do Brasil receberãoR$ 6,7 milhões. Quem for o grande campeão da competição desembolsaráR$ 52 milhões, e o vice receberá R$ 21 milhões. Vale lembrar que a CBF (Confederação Brasileira de Futebol) aumentou a premiação do torneio nesta temporada.

Números de títulos

Entre os quatro semifinalistas, o Cruzeiro é o clube que possui mais conquistas. A Raposa, atual bicampeã, tem em sua história seis conquistas (1993, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2017 e 2018) . O clube que vem logo atrás é o Grêmio, que ao longo dos anos venceu cinco vezes (1989,1994, 1997, 2001 e 2016).

Já o Internacional tem uma conquista, conseguida em1992, quando derrotou o Fluminense. O Athletico Paranaense está em busca do seu primeiro título da Copa do Brasil em sua história. O Furacão chegou a decisão em 2013, mas foi derrotado pelo Flamengo.

Cruzeiro x Inter inédito na Copa do Brasil

A semifinal da Copa do Brasil terá um duelo inédito. Cruzeiro e Internacional vão se enfrentar pela primeira vez na história da competição. A Raposa derrotou o rival Atlético-MG, enquanto o Colorado eliminou o Palmeiras nas quartas de final da Copa do Brasil.

Histórico vencedor

Um dado curioso pode trazer mais esperanças aos torcedores cruzeirenses e gremistas. Sempre que a Raposa e o Tricolor gaúcho ficaram juntos entre os quatro melhores da competição, um deles terminou campeão.

Isso aconteceu em quatro edições nos últimos 26 anos, sendo que o Cruzeiro venceu três delas (1993, 1996 e 2017), e o Grêmio ganhou uma (2016).

Alastair Cook was not taking much credit for the remarkable turnaround in the 3rd ODI after the 99 all out at Chester-le-Street, instead praising his team-mates for “putting their necks on the line for me”.

Andrew McGlashan29-May-2014

Alastair Cook became England’s most successful ODI captain with the overwhelming victory over Sri Lanka at Old Trafford, but he was not taking much credit for the remarkable turnaround after the 99 all out at Chester-le-Street, instead praising his team-mates for “putting their necks on the line for me”.Cook missed the Durham match due to a groin injury – he admitted watching on “was not pretty” – and his return could not have heralded a more emphatic upturn in England’s fortunes as Sri Lanka crumbled to 67 all out, the second lowest completed ODI innings against England, and the runs were knocked off in 12.1 overs.At various points throughout Sri Lanka’s innings England’s fields looked more like those that will be on show during the Test series next month. Dinesh Chandimal was greeted with three slips and a short leg, and then Cook also added a leg gully for good measure as Chris Jordan targeted the lower order with hostile short deliveries.The lack of an attacking mind-set has been one of the criticisms levelled at Cook during his captaincy tenure, but no one could argue he did not take the match by the scruff of the neck once England had Sri Lanka struggling.There will be tougher scenarios to test Cook and to see whether he can become a gambling type of captain, but he sensed the moment to go for the “jugular” although put the praise on his bowlers for allowing him to do that.”I gambled a little bit, but luckily every time I was thinking about taking Jords off he took another wicket,” he said. “The overs were counting down and I was wondering how long I could keep him going but the decision was taken out of my hands.”At the time they were six or seven down I was going to go for the jugular and would have bowled out our seamers. If we didn’t get the wickets then Ravi and Tredders could have done the job, but luckily we didn’t get that far.””You’re only as good as your bowlers and we got backed up by some very good bowling. We had the chance to put Sri Lanka under some real pressure. We bowled with real intensity and Sri Lanka found it very hard and I could afford to set attacking fields.”But Cook said leadership was not just coming from him. The day before the Old Trafford match, James Anderson said senior players let Cook down in Australia but now the captain was seeing a renewed sense of kinship in the side.”Maybe this summer they are determined to help the youngsters,” he said. “I’m in a lucky position at the moment because the guys are putting their necks on the line for me and are helping me out on that side. You do need a strong group of players who are prepared to do that.”He also thought that his team had caught Sri Lanka “napping” on a day where the forecasts had not given much chance of any cricket. Instead, within a period of less than an hour the covers were off, the toss had happened and Anderson was threatening with the new ball.But given the nature of this one-day series so far it would be dangerous to presume that even though the victory was record-breaking (England had never had so many deliveries left in a run chase) it means they are now clear favourites. Durham will serve as a warning to that, as does the expectation of warmer, sunnier weather for Lord’s which should make Sri Lanka feel a little more confident.Cook admitted that inconsistency is likely to be a feature of a team being rebuilt, but hoped that the swings in performance would not be as dramatic as over the last week. “It was a realisation to the guys that after one good performance, you have to keep going at 100% or you get found out,” he said. “There will be some inconsistency with the less experienced guys, but that doesn’t mean you can pass off every poor performance on that.”

حسم النادي الأهلي، وجهة لاعب الفريق الأول لكرة القدم عمار حمدي بعد عودته من الإعارة، وذلك خلال فترة الانتقالات الصيفية الجارية.

وكان عمار حمدي يلعب معارًا في صفوف الاتحاد السكندري في الموسم الماضي، والذي نجح الأهلي خلاله في التتويج بلقب الدوري المصري للمرة 43 في تاريخه.

وعلم “بطولات” أن عمار حمدي انتقال لصفوف نادي سيراميكا كليوباترا على سبيل الإعارة لمدة موسم واحد.

طالع أيضًا.. الأهلي يرسل إلى كولر مكافأة أبطال إفريقيا والدوري

جدير بالذكر أن عمار حمدي يلعب كظهير أيمن ولاعب وسط ارتكاز كما يمكنه اللعب في مركز الجناح الهجومي.

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Why is Hashim Amla getting bowled?

Jacques Kallis was given a guard of honour•Associated Press

In his final Test, Jacques Kallis methodically reached yet another half-century and left people wondering why he wasn’t carrying on in the longest format.He remained on course for a farewell hundred, and with the help of AB de Villiers, who conjured a 50-plus score for the 10th Test in a row, took South Africa to a solid position before rain and bad light stopped play an hour after tea. India had begun the day well, with three wickets early on, before Kallis and de Villiers got together and blunted the attack with a 127-run stand.De Villiers was the more fluent of the two as Kallis, who was struck on the arm by Zaheer Khan, took his time gauging the track. He opened up with a couple of cracking aerial hits down the ground off Jadeja and there was also a classic backfoot punch off Ishant before lunch as evidence of his solidity at the crease.But there were questions to be asked of Kallis’ tactics as the day wore on. While an undisputed all-time great, the questions over whether his batting is dominant enough have never really gone away, and those doubts will be back in circulation after his sluggish scoring rate towards the end of the day. He showed little enterprise against even a part-timer like Rohit Sharma and South Africa scored at below two an over at a time when they needed to get the game moving, especially considering a high possibility of rain on both the remaining days of this Test.The one bright spot in the Indian attack was Ravindra Jadeja who, in his first Test as the lead spinner, put an end to discussions over whether he should have been picked ahead of R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha. He didn’t just play a containing role to support the quicks – which he did, wheeling in over after over – but also made four breakthroughs to make sure South Africa didn’t run away with the game.The most important of those was of de Villiers midway through the second session. South Africa were rattling along at about five an over after lunch, India were looking ragged, and though Jadeja brought in a measure of control, de Villiers had just hit a reverse-swept boundary and the deficit was below 100. Jadeja then got the ball to spin sharply, taking the outside edge through to slip to end a burgeoning partnership.That sucked the momentum out of the innings, as JP Duminy took his time to settle in and Kallis couldn’t force the pace either. Kallis reached his half-century soon after de Villiers’ dismissal, but scored just five singles off his next 40 deliveries as Jadeja kept a leash on the scoring. In the 15 post-de Villiers overs till tea, South Africa made 27. India opted against the new ball and with Jadeja and Rohit bowling in the fading light, South Africa crawled, losing Duminy in the process as well.Progress had been more brisk in the morning for South Africa, before Jadeja’s bounce provided the first wicket of the day. Graeme Smith looked to smash the ball over the leg side, but it hit high on the bat and swirled to midwicket, where Shikhar Dhawan sprinted back and safely collected the ball as it fell over his shoulder.Hashim Amla’s dry spell continued when he played down the wrong line to a Mohammed Shami delivery to lose his offstump, and off the very next ball, the set Alviro Petersen was surprised by the bounce from Jadeja to glove a catch to first slip. Again, it was a sharp catch, with M Vijay diving forward to pouch a low chance. South Africa had lost three wickets for 10 runs and had two new batsmen in the middle.There was only a small crowd in considering it was an early start, but they made plenty of noise as Kallis walked out to bat and was greeted by a guard of honour from India. The emotion of the moment didn’t seem to affect Kallis, as he set about thwarting India’s bowlers.He was helped by the off-colour India attack. Ishant Sharma was back to his profligate self, providing gifts on the leg stump, and Zaheer wasn’t able to consistently threaten either. Shami was the pick of the medium-pacers, getting the ball to regularly reverse in and constantly hitting speeds near 140kph.Though they take the points for the day’s play, South Africa’s batsmen would have to find a better balance between caution and aggression when they take the crease tomorrow if they want to fulfil de Villiers’ hopes of a lead of 100 and a subsequent series win.0:00

‘Surprised by South Africa’s attitude’

South Africa’s unbeaten run in Test series on the road will extend further after their victory in Dubai, which allowed them to share the spoils of this two-match rubber with Pakistan

The Report by Firdose Moonda in Dubai26-Oct-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMisbah threw his wicket away and fell 12 runs short of a century•Associated PressSouth Africa’s unbeaten run in Test series on the road will extend even further after their victory in Dubai, which allowed them to share the spoils of this two-match rubber with Pakistan. The last time South Africa lost a Test series abroad was in Sri Lanka in 2006. Since then, they have become the No. 1 ranked Test team and they will stay there, but their lead will be cut by four points by virtue of the drawn series.Pakistan have risen to No. 4, thanks to their victory in Abu Dhabi, but were unable to protect fortress UAE, losing in their adopted home for the first time since moving here in 2010. They went down fighting though, with Asad Shafiq notching up his highest score in Test cricket and sharing in a 197-run fifth wicket stand with Misbah-ul-Haq, which kept South Africa in the field for much longer than they would have anticipated.On the fourth evening, AB de Villiers said the team felt they were one wicket away from running through Pakistan. That dismissal came 20 minutes before tea as Misbah, who had treated South Africa’s attack with the caution of someone handling a shipment of crystal glasses, gifted Dean Elgar, the part-time spinner, his first Test wicket. In Elgar’s second over, Misbah attempted to slog him out of the park, but got a thick outside edge which Jacques Kallis collected at first slip.Smart stats

South Africa are now unbeaten over the last 12 Test series played away from home, with their last loss coming against Sri Lanka in 2006, by a margin of 2-0. Including this series, South Africa are undefeated in 13 consecutive Test series, which is the longest sequence for them. Click here for a list of the longest undefeated sequence by teams in Tests

Graeme Smith won the 11th Man-of-the-Match award of his career in this Test beating Imran Khan to claim the most awards as captain in Tests.

The fifth-wicket partnerships in this match added 535 runs – the second-highest ever in a Test. This is only the third time ever that 500 runs or more were added for the fifth wicket. The 563 runs added by West Indies and England for the fifth wicket in Port-of-Spain in 2009 is the highest.

This is only the second instance since South Africa’s return to international cricket that their spinners have taken ten or more wickets in a Test. The last such instance was against Bangladesh in Chittagong in 2003.

Imran Tahir’s 8 for 130 in this Test is his career-best match-haul, just as his 5 for 32 in the first innings is his best return for an innings.

This was AB de Villiers’ second Man-of-the-Series award as a wicketkeeper equalling Andy Flower. Only Adam Gilchrist (3 awards) has won more

The 197-run partnership between Misbah-ul-Haq and Asad Shafiq equalled Pakistan’s record for the fifth wicket in the second innings set by Javed Burki and Nasim-ul-Ghani against England at Lord’s, in 1962. The Misbah-Shafiq partnership was the seventh-highest for Pakistan in the second innings of a Test.

This was Asad Shafiq’s highest score in Tests beating the 111 he hit against South Africa at Cape Town earlier this year. Asad Shafiq has now hit four hundreds for Pakistan batting at No. 6, equalling Saleem Malik. Only Asif Iqbal has more centuries – six – for Pakistan in Tests at that position. Garry Sobers holds the overall record with eight centuries at No. 6.

Jacques Kallis had a poor all-round performance this tour, a very rare occurrence for him. Not since his debut against England in 1995, has he gone an entire series without managing a score in double digits or without taking a wicket.

Including the two Kallis took in this match, he has taken 198 catches in Tests, the second-highest by any fielder. He went ahead of Ricky Ponting who has 196. Rahul Dravid is on top of the list with 210 catches.

JP Duminy’s bowling figures of 3 for 67 in the second innings are his best in an innings in Tests and are also his best in a Test.

That ended a vigil in which Misbah had ushered Shafiq to his second century against this opposition, and the fourth of his career, and seen off the second new ball to put Pakistan in a position to frustrate South Africa even further. They had only one wicket-taking opportunity before Misbah’s lapse in concentration, when Shafiq was given out lbw in the fifth over to a Vernon Philander delivery that pitched on leg-stump and hit him on the front pad. He was on 36 at the time and reviewed with replays showing the ball would have missed leg stump.Shafiq survived and went on to play a balanced innings combining defence with attack, particularly against the spinners. His footwork against Imran Tahir and JP Duminy was excellent, typified by the shot of the day – a spank over midwicket off Tahir.Misbah was more stoic, nudging the ball into spaces and encouraging Shafiq to keep the scoreboard moving, but not too quickly. They both brought up half-centuries off 121 balls before slowing down as the second new ball came. Once comfortable against it, Shafiq pushed past his captain after lunch. He danced into the nineties with a boundary off Duminy and brought up his century with a square drive off a full and wide ball from the same bowler. Encouragingly for Pakistan, once the milestone had been reached, Shafiq kept going.Misbah will be furious that he did not do the same. Although South Africa’s attack did not lapse into the lazy short-ball showing they put on in Abu Dhabi, they seemed to be running out of ideas. After trying everything from having two short midwickets in against the spinners – between whom Shafiq threaded the ball through – to having two short covers in for the quicks, Smith turned to Elgar to buy time.Smith would probably not have imagined getting a wicket off the tactic, Elgar’s delivery was innocuous as well, but once Misbah ran out of patience, the result was a foregone conclusion. Pakistan’s tail proved pesky to remove even though they were without Zulfiqar Babar, who did not bat because of the torn webbing on his right hand.With a ball short of 10 overs remaining in the day, Shafiq, after resisting for seven hours, was stumped off JP Duminy, to give him the same number of wickets as Tahir in the innings – three.On this day in 1952 Pakistan won their first Test, beating India in Lucknow. They did not have reason to celebrate on their anniversary but they did enjoy some positive signs as they dragged the Test late into the fourth afternoon and pushed South Africa as much as they could given their first innings failing.

ESPNcricinfo presents the plays of the day from the fourth day at Trent Bridge

Daniel Brettig at Trent Bridge13-Jul-2013With deed and then word, Australia’s captain Michael Clarke has ruled a line under the debate that surrounded Stuart Broad’s decision not to walk in the second innings of the Trent Bridge Ashes Test. Clarke himself declined to depart after none other than Broad procured a thin edge to Matt Prior behind the stumps as the tourists slid badly in their chase of 311 to win.Afterwards he said that while the Australians had been frustrated by failing to secure Broad’s wicket, there was little case for directing their anger towards the England No. 8. Clarke even referred to the concept of “getting away with” standing your ground and forcing an umpire to deliberate, something he has done several times himself in the past with varied results.”We would’ve liked him out for a lot less that’s for sure, but that’s the way the game goes,” Clarke said of Broad. “I’m not going to go back there. There’s no need, it’s the game of cricket. There’s ups and downs, good times, bad times. Sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you don’t. That’s what I’ve seen through my career and that’s the way it goes.”Clarke also offered unabashed support to Broad on Sky TV. “I’ve always been a believer that umpires are there to take decisions,” he said. “If everybody walked, we wouldn’t need umpires. It is an individual decision but I don’t think any less of Stuart for what he did.”Regarding his own dismissal, Clarke said he had been unsure of whether he hit the ball or not, having also brushed bat with pad. His consultation with the non-striker Steven Smith better reflected the 21st century conventions of dismissals in the DRS era than much of the commentary surrounding the question of walking that has sprung up since Broad also stood his ground.”Obviously not – I referred it,” Clarke said. “Well, I knew I had hit my pad. I asked my partner up the other end and he certainly wasn’t convinced I hit it either so I referred it. Actually when we both looked at the big screen we couldn’t see anything, so we were pretty pumped that we made the right decision. Then I was given out and had another look when I came in the change room and there was a little spot there on Hot Spot. That’s the way it goes. That’s how the review system operates.”I’ve said to our team that if you feel you’re not out then back your judgement. And if the review doesn’t go your way we move on. I’m not going to go into the DRS at the moment. We’re using it. Both teams are using it. It’s the same for both teams. We have no excuses at the moment. I’m certainly not going to use DRS as one.”Clarke also offered an extraordinary endorsement of the 19-year-old debutant Ashton Agar. Clearly impressed after watching Agar’s treatment of Graeme Swann during his startling, world record 98 at No. 11 in the first innings, Clarke declared Agar to be among the best players of spin to enter the Australia dressing room in years.Clarke explained that he had batted Agar at No. 11 in the first innings to help ease a nervous debutant into the match. But it seems inconceivable now that Agar will ever do so again for any team. His poise was on display a second time as he hung on stubbornly in the company of Brad Haddin to reach stumps on day four, Australia still needing 137 runs on the final day.”He’s as good a player against spin as we’ve had in the Australian team for a long time, so I think he’ll certainly look forward to facing Swanny tomorrow,” Clarke said. “He is definitely not a No. 11 in any team in the world. I batted him there in the first innings only so that he could find his feet in Test match cricket and get into the game. He showed he was ready.”I thought it was the right thing to let him get into the game slowly, but he obviously proved me wrong there, he batted beautifully.”Apart from Agar, Phillip Hughes in the first innings and a composed opening stand by Shane Watson and Chris Rogers on the fourth afternoon, Australia’s batsmen have largely failed to cope with the pressure imposed by England in Nottingham, even if Alastair Cook’s side have not sustained it for anywhere near as long as Australia managed. Clarke said the falling of wickets in clusters could be attributed to conditions that England’s batsman Ian Bell spoke of in subcontinental terms.”I think that’s the conditions in the UK to be honest,” Clarke said. “Especially when you’ve got a wicket that is quite dry so you’ve got reverse swing and a lot of spin. I think it’s these sort of conditions where if you get in it’s about cashing in, going on to big scores, because it is a hard place to start.”We’ve spoken about it as a batting unit. It’s not from lack of work, the boys have been working extremely hand for the start of their innings and we’re as well prepared as we can be. I think we’ve put up a really good fight so far and I’m excited about tomorrow.”

James Harris, the Middlesex seamer, has aggravated the hamstring injury he picked up during the opening Championship match of the season

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Apr-2013

James Harris, the Middlesex seamer, has aggravated the hamstring injury he picked up during the opening Championship match of the season and has been ruled out for another two weeks starting with the local derby against Surrey this week.He picked up the original problem against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge during his first-class debut for Middlesex, but had been passed fit to return against Cambridge MCCU last week where he took four wickets in the game and struck an unbeaten 43.He then played in a friendly 40-over match against the Unicorns, the team made up of players without professional deals that will compete in the YB40, during which he felt further problems with his left hamstringAngus Fraser, Middlesex’s managing director, said: “Everybody at the club feels sorry for James who is desperate to get his time at Middlesex off and running. But we are all confident that this is just a minor setback and that he will have a major role to play in our season as it develops.”At the moment we have the fast bowling resources to cope with James’ injury and it will be great to get him back fully fit for when Steven Finn departs for England duty.”Although Middlesex will be able to call on Finn, Toby Roland-Jones and Tim Murtagh for the Championship match against Surrey the following four-day fixture against Warwickshire could be more of a challenge if Harris is still sidelined because Roland-Jones has been named in the England Lions side to face New Zealand.

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Depois de fazer seu primeiro gol logo na primeira oportunidade como titular do Palmeiras, garantindo a vitória por 1 a 0 sobre o Oeste, em Barueri, na quarta-feira, Felipe Pires se mostra ainda mais animado. O atacante, emprestado pelo Hoffenheim, da Alemanha, até dezembro, vive a expectativa de estrear em clássicos pelo clube, neste sábado, contra o Corinthians, no Allianz Parque.

– Temos mais um desafio extremamente difícil, contra o nosso rival, e a minha expectativa é muito grande. É o meu primeiro clássico e, caso o professor precise de mim, estou preparado para fazer o meu melhor e ajudar o time a ir em busca da vitória – comentou o jogador de 23 anos de idade.

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Se atuar no Dérbi, o camisa 27 ainda poderá, finalmente, jogar no estádio do Verdão. Felipe Pires tem três jogos pela equipe, mas todos na condição de visitante: o empate por 1 a 1 diante do Red Bull, em Campinas, e o triunfo por 2 a 0 sobre o São Caetano, no ABC, além da vitória da última quarta-feira.

-A oportunidade de jogar pela primeira vez no Allianz Parque também me deixa bastante animado. Todos sabem que o Palmeiras é muito forte atuando em casa e a nossa torcida faz a diferença. Tenho certeza de que o estádio estará lotado no sábado e eles irão nos apoiar do início ao fim.

É o ânimo ainda maior do atacante depois do gol feito na Arena Barueri. Felipe Pires chegou ao Palmeiras ciente de que é um desconhecido para boa parte do público, já que nunca tinha atuado profissionalmente no Brasil, mas disposto a mostrar um nível que convença o clube a adquiri-lo em definitivo.

– O gol me deixou muito feliz porque me dá ainda mais confiança pra seguir trabalhando firme e forte. A gente sabe que esse início de temporada é complicado, as equipes do interior estão muito bem preparadas e cada vitória precisa ser conquistada com muito esforço.

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