Tag Futebol

Afghanistan continued their unbeaten streak in the tournament, as they completed their fourth successive title win against Nepal

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Apr-2013
ScorecardAfghanistan’s Gulbadin Naib starred with both bat and ball as Nepal’s 135 was chased with ease, with Afghanistan winning the Asian Cricket Council Twenty20 Cup in Kirtipur. Nepal were put into bat but were quickly reduced to 23 for 3 in the fifth over, with Naib and Shapoor Zadran providing the strikes. A 71-run fourth-wicket partnership between Paras Khadka and Binod Bhandari helped lend stability to the side, before Khadka fell for a vital 50. Nepal pushed their total to 135 for 7 at the completion of their 20 overs. Naib had the best figures of 2 for 20.Afghanistan started markedly well in comparison, as openers Karim Sadiq and Naib put up a 43-run partnership. Afghanistan were composed in their chase, losing a further two wickets along the way. Naib finished unbeaten on 43, with Mohammad Nabi striking a valuable 38 off 23 balls, including six boundaries. Afghanistan chased Nepal’s total of 137 inside of the 18th over, continuing their unbeaten winning streak in the tournament as they completed four out of four title wins.

India Women broke their run of losses against Australia Women in the final Twenty20 of the series, coasting to an eight-wicket win with 5.3 overs to spare

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Mar-2012
ScorecardIndia Women broke their run of losses against Australia Women in the final Twenty20 of the series, coasting to an eight-wicket win with 5.3 overs to spare.Having lost the first four games, India were playing for pride. Jhulan Goswami and Archana Das produced inspired spells to make sure the hosts had at least a consolation victory to show for what has been a disappointing home series. Goswami began by bowling Alyssa Healy and Lisa Sthalekar as Australia limped to 22 for 2. Offspinner Das then wound her way through the middle order, first having Rachael Haynes stumped and then removing Alex Blackwell and captain Jodie Fields in the same over.Goswami returned to clean up the tail in spectacular fashion. Ellyse Perry was caught behind off the second ball off the 19th over. Two balls later Goswami bowled Erin Osborne and made it three wickets in four balls by repeating the feat to dismiss Sharon Millanta. Australia were dismantled for 89; Goswami’s figures read 3.5-1-11-5, four of which were bowled. Leah Poulton offered some resistance in making 30 at the top of the order and Blackwell chipped in with 20, but none of the other batsmen made it past 10.India had struggled for runs in the series but opener Amita Sharma made sure there would be no twist in the tale with a measured unbeaten half-century. Sthalekar did manage to pick up two wickets but Australia just didn’t have enough runs on the board to defend and India overhauled their target with plenty of time to spare.

A round-up of the twelfth day of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 tournament

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Mar-2011An all-round team performance helped Bengal ease to a 31-run victory over Vidarbha at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, and sealed their place in the quarter-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.Electing to bat, Bengal got off to a solid start as openers Anustup Majumdar and Shreevats Goswami put on a 50-run stand in seven overs. After medium-pacer Amol Jungade got rid of Majumdar for 38, captain Manoj Tiwary (top scorer with 39) joined with Goswami. While the pair maneuvered the bowling well, their running between the wickets let them down, as both were run out by Sandeep Singh. A couple of big hits towards the end by Wriddhiman Saha pushed Bengal to 167.Vidarbha were never in a commanding position during the chase, losing wickets at regular intervals and scoring at just over a run a ball to finish their quota of overs on 136 for 7. While the Bengal bowlers shared the wickets around, Shami Ahmed was the pick with 3 for 24.Bengal will take on Maharashtra in the quarter-final on March 14 at the same venue.Haryana chased down a target of 141 with three balls to spare to knock out Mumbai at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on the back of steady knocks from Nitin Saini and Hemang Badani.Mumbai began poorly, losing both openers with just one run on the board. Wasim Jaffer and Rohit Sharma steadied the innings though, before some big hitting from Abhishek Nayar and Iqbal Abdulla got Mumbai to 140.Vineet Rathee was the pick of the bowlers, picking up 3 for 33.Haryana, too, lost their openers cheaply, before Sunny Singh was run out to leave them in trouble at 26 for 3 in the fifth over. But an 80-run fourth-wicket partnership between Badani and Saini got the innings back on track. After the pair was dismissed, Joginder Sharma and Amit Mishra struck a few boundaries to catch up with the increasing required rate and took Haryana home in the last over with four wickets in hand.Haryana will take on Kerala in the quarter-final on March 14 at the same venue.

Pakistan will announce a captain for the World Twenty20 in the next couple
of days

Osman Samiuddin14-Mar-2010Pakistan will announce a captain for the World Twenty20 in the next couple
of days, as speculation grows over the identity of the man in the wake of
meetings the board chairman Ijaz Butt is said to have had with a number of
players.On Friday, the selection committee had taken the unusual step of naming a 15-man
squad for the defense of the world title without appointing a captain, and over the weekend Butt is reported to have met four candidates: Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq and Salman Butt.The vacancy has arisen out of circumstance: Afridi was meant to be
Pakistan’s captain in the format but the ball-biting incident in
Perth has seen question marks appear over his role. He was banned by the
ICC for two games and has also recently been fined heavily by the board.
Though some in the hierarchy are keen to have him resume the role, there
is said to be opposition after the Perth incident.Shoaib Malik, who took over for two Twenty internationals in Afridi’s absence and has led the side in all three formats, including a run to the World Twenty20 final
in 2007, would’ve been in the running but he is now out of international
cricket for at least a year following a PCB-imposed ban.That leaves few options in the current squad, increasing the chances of,
in particular, Misbah and Razzaq, whose experience will help them. Butt is
said to have held one-on-one meetings with the candidates, though he
refused to comment on them.”In the next few days we will name a captain for the World Twenty20 but
beyond that I will not say anything,” Butt told Cricinfo.There has been speculation over the board wanting to unify the leadership
for all formats. Butt, however, seemed to play that down for now. “We are
only naming a captain for this format and tournament right now and nothing
else,” he said.Pakistan’s next Test and ODI assignment isn’t until this summer when they
head to England to play six Tests against Australia and the hosts, as well
as a series of ODIs. Though they will be in no rush to name a
captain for the other formats, it will be a tricky decision given that
their previous two Test and ODI captains, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf,
are both banned for indefinite periods.Troubles with the leadership began last year when Malik was removed after
a series loss to Sri Lanka amid mounting unrest over his leadership. Since
then, Younis has stepped down twice as captain, to be replaced by Yousuf,
whose own place is now in doubt. Afridi took over as Twenty20 captain when
Younis – having led the side to the title in June 2009 – retired from the format.

Patriots stuttered a little bit in their small chase against Falcons, but Alick Athanaze and Jason Holder finished the job with five overs to spare

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Aug-2025CPL 2025 got off to a low-scoring start in Basseterre, where St Kitts and Nevis Patriots rode on a stellar bowling performance led by Waqar Salamkheil to run out six-wicket victors over Antigua and Barbuda Falcons.After Jason Holder opted to bowl, Kyle Mayers, Fazalhaq Farooqi and Naseem Shah left Falcons at 39 for 3 inside the fifth over. Salamkheil, the Afghanistan left-arm wristspinner, came on in the eighth over and was on target off his fourth ball, pitching just outside off stump and turning it back in to hit Fabian Allen’s stumps. He went on to spin out Shakib Al Hasan, Imad Wasim and Odean Smith to end with 4 for 22 from his four overs.Fortunately for Falcons, USA batter Karima Gore was in good nick, but with no other batter making a significant contribution, he had to pretty much go it alone. Gore’s 34-ball 61 included eight fours and two sixes, and Falcons would have wanted him to bat longer than he did after having walked out in the first over itself. As it happened, Farooqi returned to get rid of Gore in the 12th over, a slower delivery sliced high for Andre Fletcher, the wicketkeeper, to take a sharp running catch.All Patriots, the CPL 2021 winners, needed to score was 122, and though they got there quite comfortably, and never really looked in danger of not being able to, there was a little stutter in between thanks to Rahkeem Cornwall.Evin Lewis took off in a flash, scoring 25 in 13, before falling to Obed McCoy in the fourth over. Patriots made it out of the powerplay with just the loss of Lewis and 55 runs on the board, but in the seventh over, Cornwall sent back both Kyle Mayers and Rilee Rossouw. And suddenly, at 56 for 3, Patriots were looking just that little bit out of sorts.But Fletcher was playing a sedate knock, and in Alick Athanaze, Patriots found just the man for the job. Fletcher fell after scoring a 26-ball 19, to Salamkheil’s compatriot AM Ghazanfar at the end of the tenth over, but Patriots had reached 76 already by then. Athanaze, with an unbeaten 28-ball 37, and Holder, with 18 in 14 balls, finished the job from there with five overs in the bank.

Hazlewood back into the top ten in T20I rankings while Scholtz, Erasmus of Namibia dazzle too

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Feb-2024Joe Root’s first century in England’s ongoing tour of India has lifted the batter to No. 3, while Yashasvi Jaiswal’s consistent scores have taken him to No. 12 on ICC’s rankings for Test batters.Root’s unbeaten 122 in the fourth Test, his first major contribution with the bat this series, lifted him two places and into the top three. His exploits as an offspinner have also moved him up to No. 4 among Test allrounders.For Jaiswal, now only two shy of the top ten, the rise has been meteoric. He started the Test series at No. 69 in the rankings, but in a matter of weeks, his 655 runs at an average of 93.57 in eight innings has seen him jump 57 steps to 12th. The batters’ rankings are still led by New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, with Australia’s Steven Smith at No. 2.

Full rankings tables

• Click here for the full team rankings

• Click here for the full player rankings

In the Test bowling rankings, world No. 2 R Ashwin has closed the distance between him and World No. 1 Jasprit Bumrah to only 21 rating points. After missing parts of the Rajkot Test for personal reasons, Ashwin took a second-innings five-wicket haul in Ranchi to set up India’s victory. Bumrah was rested. Behind the pair are Kagiso Rabada at third, with the Australian duo of Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood to follow.

Australians surge in T20Is

Hazlewood’s spell of 4-1-12-1 in Auckland against New Zealand has taken him six places up to No. 7 on the rankings for T20I bowlers. He is now the only Australian in the top 10 of the T20I bowling rankings, with England spinner Adil Rashid leading the way followed by the Sri Lankan pair of Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana.Travis Head and Tim David have also gained positions among T20I batters. Head’s scores of 24, 45 and 33 elevated him 18 places up to 19th. Tim David’s 10-ball 31 in Australia’s final-ball win in the opening game of the series now sees him at a career-best 22nd. Suryakumar Yadav, Phil Salt and Mohammad Rizwan still hold the top three spots.

Scholtz makes history for Namibia

Bernard Scholtz’s six-wicket haul across two games at the League 2 tri-series in Nepal has taken him to 11th among ODI bowlers, a record high for Namibia. Scholtz’s slow left-arm orthodox spin earned him 4 for 31 against Nepal and 2 for 15 against Netherlands.Scholtz’s captain Gerhard Erasmus, meanwhile, is tied at No. 8 among ODI allrounders alongside Glenn Maxwell of Australia. Erasmus struck 52 against Nepal and took 3 for 33 against Netherlands to zoom eight places up and into the top ten.

The former coach continues to believe he made the changes asked of him and still got forced out

AAP23-Nov-2022A war of words has erupted between Cricket Australia and Justin Langer after CEO Nick Hockley rejected criticism from the former coach and moved to defend senior players.Langer attracted front- and back-page headlines on Wednesday when he lashed out at officials over his February axing, while accusing players of not being up front with him early enough.The former coach also claimed the majority of players supported him, while labelling sources who leaked concerns over his intense nature to the media as “cowards” with agendas.Speaking to the podcast, Langer praised former Test captain Tim Paine’s feedback but claimed others, including Pat Cummins and Aaron Finch, should have been up front earlier.Related

• Starc: I have a pretty good relationship with Langer

• Justin Langer joins Channel Seven's commentary team

• Langer looks at 'other opportunities' despite Ponting's pursuit for Hurricanes job

“I spoke to Pat Cummins. He said to me about five times, ‘This might be brutally honest’,” Langer recalled. “I said, ‘Pat, there is nothing brutal about your feedback. What is brutal is I’m hearing it behind my back through the media or through sources’.”No one’s telling me. Tell me. People say that I’m very intense, but they’re mistaking intensity with honesty.”The drama coincides with concerns of a rift between current and former players over Langer’s exit, centred around whether players should have stood by the coach.Langer insisted he was not an angry coach, and that players had misinterpreted his silence and reflection after losses.He also claimed there was no mutiny against him beyond a few loud voices, and was adamant he deserved more than a six-month extension after T20 World Cup and Ashes successes.”The hardest thing for me of all of it was, I got the feedback [and] I did something about it,” Langer said. “We won the T20 World Cup, we won the Ashes. We were No.1 in the world…and I’ve still got sacked. You can’t give someone feedback, [they] do something about it, and then [for] that to happen.”Having largely maintained an eight-month silence over Langer’s exit, Hockley on Wednesday broke that when he claimed he wanted to “correct inaccuracies” in the former coach’s comments.”Regular formal and informal opportunities to provide and receive feedback took place throughout his tenure, which is consistent with a high-performance environment,” Hockley said. “Following a comprehensive process, Justin was offered a short-term contract extension, which he rejected.”I am disappointed by Justin’s comments unfairly criticising some of our players. The playing group are aware they have my full support.”The drama comes a week out from Australia’s first Test against West Indies in Perth, where there is significant hometown support for Langer.The former coach will also step into the commentary box for the first time with Seven, meaning the ghosts of his tenure are likely to linger over the summer.It is unlikely Langer’s comments will go down well with current players, who could be interviewed by their old coach during broadcasts during the season.Some close to the team have claimed last summer’s success came after Langer took a back seat following the mid-year feedback, with assistants taking charge.There were signs of feedback as early as the 2018 Boxing Day Test, after which Usman Khawaja can be seen in documentary telling Langer players were “intimidated” and “walking on eggshells”.

Visitors rolled aside for 144 despite battling fifty from Tom Taylor

ECB Reporters Network06-Aug-2021Warwickshire 278 for 6 (Burgess 73, Rhodes 65, Lamb 65, Mousley 54) beat Northamptonshire 144 (Taylor 57*, Brookes 3-15) by 134 runsMichael Burgess, posting a one-day career-best of 73 for the second time in 15 days, and Will Rhodes, with 65, set up comfortable victory for Warwickshire over Northamptonshire by 134 runs in the Royal London Cup at Edgbaston.With rain reducing play to 46 overs a side, the home team, put in, were 11 for 2 after 19 balls but the pair’s stand of 133 paved the way for a late onslaught. Matt Lamb, belting 65, and the innovative Dan Mousley, with 54 from 44 balls, smashed all but two of the 104 ultimately hammered from the final eleven overs.Both men fell swinging in the last seven balls but a target of 279 at 6.07 an over always looked demanding. By the reply’s eighth over, it seemed formidable. As Ricardo Vasconcelos, the skipper and key batsman, edged behind, cutting at Jordan Bulpitt, Northants became 35 for 3.Bulpitt’s outswing to fellow left-handers also did for Saif Zaib and, with Manraj Johal also claiming two in his opening burst, the inexperienced new-ball partners, with only seven previous appearances between them, impressively covered for injuries to four senior seamers.Rout beckoned when Rhodes, the captain, brought himself on to strike with his thirteenth ball, Rob Keogh dangling his bat to give Burgess a third successive catch at the wicket. With five gone and seven an over now needed, the match was essentially decided an hour into the visitors’ response.To their credit, they refused to submit. But sadly, Charlie Thurston, pulling at Ethan Brookes, top-edged into his chin and had to retire on 21. Tom Taylor famously helped win a T20 game from the dead here last September but, though he reached an entertaining and unbeaten 57 from 65 balls, the four remaining wickets went at the other end in five overs, Thurston unable to resume.Earlier, in a deceptive start, Ed Pollock lost off stump to Jack White’s inswing from the second ball of the match without a run on the board and his inform opening partner Rob Yates was soon gone for 5. But Rhodes and Burgess followed 35 minutes of quiet reconnaissance by taking control on a pitch offering slow turn.This Keogh exploited when his off-spin found Rhodes’s leading edge for the bowler himself to hold a fine, diving catch to his right, and he had Burgess tamely lobbing to mid-wicket. Nobody could shackle Lamb and Mousley, however.

Fingerspinner says self-belief comes from the consistent success he has had in the IPL

Nagraj Gollapudi25-May-2020Harbhajan Singh will be turning 40 in July, but he believes he is fit and “ready” to play for India in T20Is. Having featured in four IPL finals with the two most successful sides in the tournament – Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings – Singh said he had the experience and skill to add value for India in the shortest format.”I’m ready,” Singh told ESPNcricinfo in an interview, which will be published later this week. “If I can bowl well in IPL, which is a very difficult tournament for bowlers because the grounds are smaller, and all the top players in world cricket play in the IPL… it is very challenging to bowl against them and if you can do well against them in IPL, you can do well in international cricket. I have bowled predominantly in the powerplay and middle overs and got wickets.”The last time Singh played for India, it was in the T20 format, in 2016, when he featured in a solitary game in the Asia Cup that preceded the T20 World Cup that year.At present Singh is the joint third-highest wicket-taker in the IPL, with 150 strikes at an economy rate of 7.05. While Sunil Narine and R Ashwin, the big-draw fingerspinners in the league, have tried out different actions and added more variations to their repertoire, Singh has stuck to his classical offspin.Harbhajan Singh opens up on adapting to T20 cricket•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Singh said that he was hurt that the selectors hadn’t considered him despite his IPL success. “They will not look at me because they feel I am too old,” he said. “Also I don’t play any domestic cricket. [In the] Last four-five years they did not look at me even though I was doing well in the IPL, taking wickets and I had all my records to back my case.”According to Singh, IPL is the toughest tournament in T20 cricket and having excelled there, he felt he had the self-belief to return to the national side.”In international cricket not all teams have quality players like IPL teams, where every team has a top-six which is good,” Singh said. “Yes, Australia, England, India have all got very good batting line-ups. But if I can get Johnny Bairstow and David Warner in IPL, don’t you think I can get them in international cricket? But it is not in my hands. No one comes and talk to you in this present Indian set-up.”