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Shakib Al Hasan, the Bangladesh allrounder, will be rested during the unofficial T20 triangular series in Zimbabwe scheduled to start on June 18. Shakib asked to be rested and his request was approved, keeping in view his recent workload. He will be replaced by batsman Jahurul Islam in the squad.”The BCB Cricket Operations Department decided to withdraw Shakib from the tour squad following a request from the player,” a board release stated. “The break was approved considering the continuous cricket Shakib has played over the last two years.”Shakib, who had played each of Bangladesh’s 15 Tests, 70 ODIs and eight Twenty20 internationals since the start of 2009, said he was looking forward to time off. “It feels really good. I want to enjoy the break,” Sakib said. “I don’t want to talk or think about cricket during this break.”This year, Shakib also played for Khulna Royal Bengals in the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League, in which he was Man of the Series, and Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. He is currently the No.1 ranked allrounder in Tests and ODIs.Jahurul has played just the one Twenty20 for Bangladesh, against Australia in the 2010 World Twenty20.

International cricket could next year be held in Australia in April for the first time since 1877, with the possibility of Canberra hosting the national team for the first time. The has reported that Australia are likely to host New Zealand in two limited-overs matches in the first week of April 2013, as part of the city’s centenary celebrations.Canberra’s Manuka Oval has been the venue of two one-day internationals, between South Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1992 World Cup, and between India and Sri Lanka in 2007-08. It is also the site of the annual Prime Minister’s XI game, but it is the only state or territory capital yet to host the Australia team in a full international match.”We’re looking at the centenary year as not just a one-off big party, it’s about setting the groundwork for longer-term legacies,” Andrew Barr, the Australian Capital Territory’s sports minister, told the paper. “There certainly was interest from Cricket Australia as a longer-term goal to look at having more international cricket in Canberra and they’re seeing the centenary year as a great opportunity.”This is obviously a big thing for Canberra, we’ve never had the national team in the national capital so Cricket Australia, the Australian government, the ACT government were all very keen for that to occur and have worked very hard behind the scenes to get us to this point.”Should the plan go ahead, it will be the first occasion international cricket has been held in Australia in April since the second Test of all, which started at the MCG on March 31, 1877. A Cricket Australia spokesman confirmed that CA was keen to hold cricket in Canberra next year as part of the centenary celebrations, but said details were yet to be finalised.

The five-ball over gave MS Dhoni an opportunity to raise the question that if with so much technology available the officials couldn’t ensure the proper counting of balls in an over

Sidharth Monga at the Adelaide Oval14-Feb-2012India don’t want to create controversy about the five-ball 30th over that may or may not have made a difference to the final result of a tight game, a tie. However, it gave MS Dhoni an opportunity to raise the question that, with so much technology available, why couldn’t the officials ensure the proper counting of balls, and why blindly follow the DRS?The essence of Dhoni’s comments, though, was that this could easily be turned into a controversy but he didn’t want to do so. “Duncan [Fletcher, the coach] told me about it,” Dhoni said. “There have been five-ball overs in the past, but we have seen the third umpire interfere and you have to come back and bowl that ball. Usually that’s what has happened to us also. It didn’t happen in this game, fair enough. Nothing much can be done now.”I don’t know [if a full over might have broken the tie] because you could have had a dot ball. It happens in cricket, so maybe it would have been a dot.”Dhoni said India were not going to lodge an official complaint. “Well because it’s done and dusted,” he said. “That’s what is important. We can create a big fuss out of it but what’s the point? It’s like a controversy standing right at the edge, just about to happen, because we have seen in the past that we have bowled an over and they have almost changed ends. But then the third umpire interferes and says, ‘Okay you have to bowl one more ball in this particular over”. It didn’t happen in this game. I don’t know why. We don’t really want to create a controversy.”As an afterthought, Dhoni took a dig at DRS. “If this can happen then I don’t know why people back DRS so much,” Dhoni said. “We have seen people happy with DRS in one series as long as it goes in their favour. Once it doesn’t go in their favour, they are quite unhappy about it so. I am quite happy with three individuals. If I am not wrong, two umpires in the middle and the match referee and the scorer [are there], and it has still happened. Better off accepting it because we humans are bound to make mistakes.”The said over was, at that time, the second best of India’s innings. Gautam Gambhir and Dhoni had taken nine off Malinga when over was called after five balls. Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka’s captain, said he didn’t know of the error. “I am not complaining,” he joked.

South Australia’s batsmen made a firm start to their opening Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales, though it might have been better than a stumps score of 4 for 309

Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval17-Oct-2011
ScorecardSimon Katich found himself cast in the role of lead spinner in the absence of Beau Casson•Getty Images

South Australia’s batsmen made a firm start to their opening Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales, though it might have been better than a stumps score of 4 for 309.The Redbacks began soundly on a dry surface after winning the toss, Daniel Harris adding 164 with the captain Michael Klinger in good time before they were separated by the left-arm wrist spin of Simon Katich.The rest of the day was a more balanced affair, as NSW took regular wickets to prevent the formation of another major partnership, preventing the strokemakers Callum Ferguson and Tom Cooper from exploiting the strong start they were given.Lacking the spin of Beau Casson due to the unfortunate return of a heart condition, the visitors bowled with some precision despite the lack of help from the surface. Casson’s absence was sadder still in the prevailing conditions, for Katich extracted turn from the pitch that will interest the Australian off spinner Nathan Lyon, playing his first Shield game for SA since a successful Test debut in Sri Lanka.Another recent Test debutant, Trent Copeland, did not claim a wicket but was his usual stingy self, moving the ball a little in each direction. Mitchell Starc and Moises Henriques also bowled the odd decent spell, while Sean Abbott claimed first-class victim No. 1 when Klinger fenced to slip.Klinger had been the more reserved of SA’s batsmen in the morning session, absorbing the force of the new ball while Harris played his shots. As befits one of the more capable Twenty20 openers in the country, Harris drove, cut and pinged the ball crisply off his pads to take SA to 0 for 90 at lunch.The serene progress was maintained until the 51st over. Harris had reached the outskirts of a century but Katich turned a ball back to strike the opener marginally in line with the off stump and win an lbw verdict. Katich celebrated with vigour, but there was better to come when Ferguson, lately a curious omission from national squads, pushed firmly at a delivery angled across him and was pouched at slip by Copeland.Cooper was quickly into his stride, driving sweetly either side of tea, but Klinger’s occupation was ended by Abbott, and soon after Cooper tried to force through the offside and was held in the slips by the ever-involved Katich, who had also caught Klinger.Aiden Blizzard and Daniel Christian played with greater circumspection but the odd attractive stroke to keep SA in a healthy position at the close.

Dawid Malan scored a career-best 143 and his first Championship hundred ofthe summer to move Middlesex into the driving seat at Lord’s against DivisionTwo rivals Derbyshire

30-Jul-2011ScorecardDawid Malan scored a career-best 143 and his first Championship hundred ofthe summer to move Middlesex into the driving seat at Lord’s against DivisionTwo rivals Derbyshire.The left-hander batted just over five hours in helping thehost side reach 397 for 9 at the mid-point of the game for an overall lead of145, with one first-innings wicket remaining.Poor form and a niggling hamstring injury caused Malan to suffer an horrendousfirst half to the campaign in which he mustered only 234 runs in nine startswith a dismal season’s best of 45. But, in sultry conditions, Malan showed improved levels of patience and composure to crack 18 boundaries in a 262-ball stay which also helped his sidegarner four batting bonus points.Derbyshire used eight bowlers – with Greg Smith and Jonathan Clare the pickwith three wickets apiece – and toiled hard throughout to pick up nine wicketson the day, including that of Malan four overs from the close.Malan featured in a useful stands with Sam Robson, who contributed his thirdscore of 94 of the summer, and Tim Murtagh as the hosts successfully chased downa fourth batting bonus point with six balls to spare. All this came after a disappointing start for the home side who, having posted 119 for the first wicket, began to lose wickets at steady intervals.Opening batsman Scott Newman perished for 59 when his late decision to pad upto a Clare off-cutter saw him go lbw and, eight overs later, Chris Rogers wentfor 11 against his former side when chasing a wide drive – only to edge towicketkeeper Luke Sutton.Soon after lunch Robson, having looked in little or no trouble for 184 balls,went after another wide delivery from Ross Whiteley to slice a drive into thehands of gully. Home skipper Neil Dexter found a leading edge to give Smith a comfortablereturn catch and Jamie Dalrymple clipped a leg-stump half-volley straight tomidwicket to make it 262 for 5.Malan teamed up with John Simpson to post the Middlesex 300 before Simpsonfeathered a good ball from Mark Turner to Sutton, then Tom Smith was cleanbowled after pushing outside the line of namesake Greg’s arm-ball.Malan and Murtagh (19) regrouped but, late in the day, Murtagh chipped backanother return catch to Greg Smith and Malan, having beaten his career-best byone, flat-batted a Clare Long hop straight to Wayne Madsen at backward point anddeparted to a rousing reception.

It’s been an expensive few days for Stuart Broad, both in financial terms and in his bowling figures

Andrew McGlashan04-Jul-2011It’s been an expensive few days for Stuart Broad, both in financial terms and in his bowling figures. He remains wicketless in the one-day series against Sri Lanka and has been hit with a £1500 fine for swearing at Billy Bowden during the second game at Headingley.At Lord’s on Sunday, Broad ran in hard and produced one of his sharpest spells of the summer as he peppered Dinesh Chandimal with short balls. At one point he was bowling with a short leg and leg gully. However, the batsmen fended off deliveries wide or short of fielders to push Broad towards boiling point.He ended with figures of none for 52 from 10 overs which took his series tally to none for 154 at 5.92 runs per over. However, cricket, as ever, is a game of fine margins and if a couple of edges had gone to hand, Broad’s series would look different and Alastair Cook, England’s one-day captain, believes a change of fortune isn’t far away.”A couple of those chances when he was bowling aggressively, they can hit the glove and bounce up but they kept avoiding fielders,” Cook said. “At the moment it’s not quite going for Broady, a bit like the Tests, but this what cricket does. If he gets five-for at his home ground next week it will be worth it.”The incident with Bowden at Headingley, which came after an lbw appeal was turned down in the final over of Sri Lanka’s innings, was a sign of the frustration getting to Broad, who has skirted a fine line with officials in the past. It has put Cook in the interesting position of having to keep tabs on one of his fast bowlers, who is also captain of the Twenty20 team.”He overstepped the mark, he accepts that, but he bowled well and made life uncomfortable, which is what Stuart does well,” Cook said. “Broady has always played that way, it’s why he’s got so far in the game so quickly. Occasionally he has overstepped the mark and he knows that. When you are wrong you put your hands up.”Cook’s mention of Broad’s home ground at Trent Bridge, the venue for the fourth one-day international on Wednesday, suggests he is secure of his place for at least another match but England can’t carry a wicketless bowler for too long. He was unconvincing in the Test series against Sri Lanka with eight wickets at 48.75 and lost the new-ball role to Chris Tremlett in the second innings at the Rose Bowl, which appeared to motivate him.With India’s top-class batting line-up around the corner, and England set for a four-man attack in the Test matches, they can’t afford to carry any passengers even if Broad is an international captain. There are plenty of other candidates lining up for a chance, a list headed by Steven Finn who is in the current one-day squad.Jade Dernbach was 12th man for the Lord’s Test against Sri Lanka while Tim Bresnan, who performed so impressively in the Ashes, is now back to fitness. England showed how keen they were to have Bresnan in the team by rushing him into the side for the first ODI at The Oval. Graham Onions is also bowling well for Durham and is well-regarded in the England set-up.It could be that the impact of Broad’s winter injuries is still being felt. He only played five of England’s 21 internationals across the Ashes and World Cup due to the stomach-muscle problem picked up in Adelaide and side strain against South Africa in Nagpur. He started the season slowly for Nottinghamshire and has looked short of a gallop ever since.Nottinghamshire have one Championship match, against Somerset starting on July 11, before the first Test against India and regardless of how the final two one-dayers go against Sri Lanka Broad will surely need to play that match. As he showed against Australia in 2009 when he came out of a lean trot with 12 wickets in the final two Tests, including an Ashes-sealing 5 for 37 at The Oval, it doesn’t take much to turn the corner. Broad needs that to happen soon.

Tottenham Hotspur are interested in a deal to bring John McGinn to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this summer.

What’s the talk?

That’s according to a report by The Telegraph, who claim that Antonio Conte has now added the Aston Villa central midfielder to his list of summer transfer targets, with the same publication reporting earlier this year that Steven Gerrard would demand a figure of around £40m in order to part with the 27-year-old.

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The report goes on to state that, despite Fabio Paratici having already brought the impressive Rodrigo Bentancur to north London in the January transfer window, with both Harry Winks and Tanguy Ndombele looking set to leave the club this summer, Conte has targeted the Scotland international as a replacement for either the England or France international.

Conte can axe Winks with McGinn

Considering just how impressive McGinn has been for Aston Villa in recent seasons, it is easy to see why Conte would be interested in a deal to bring the midfielder to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this summer.

Indeed, over his 33 Premier League appearances this term, the £27m-rated talent has been in exceptional form for Gerrard’s side, scoring three goals, registering three assists and creating seven big chances for his teammates, as well as taking an average of 1.2 shots, making 1.5 key passes and completing 1.3 dribbles per game.

The £70k-per-week midfielder has also impressed in metrics more typical of his position, making an average of 28.4 passes, 3.4 long balls, 1.0 interceptions, 3.1 tackles, 0.8 clearances and winning 7.4 duels – at a success rate of 59% – per fixture.

These returns have seen the player who Sam Morsy dubbed “unreal” average a quite remarkable SofaScore match rating of 7.30, not only ranking him as Villa’s best performer in the top flight but also as the joint 14th-best player in the league as a whole.

As such, considering just how little Winks has featured under Conte, it would indeed appear a wise move for Paratici to move the £91k-per-week midfielder who John Wenham dubbed “terrible” on this summer, before reinvesting the funds received from his sale into a move for the much more promising McGinn.

AND in other news: Conte could land the new Broja as Spurs eye “serious” 20-goal gem who’s “like a beast”

Zimbabwe batsman Tino Mawoyo insists he is ready for the challenge of the World Cup after receiving a surprise call-up to replace Sean Ervine

Liam Brickhill28-Jan-2011Zimbabwe batsman Tino Mawoyo insists he is ready for the challenge of the World Cup after receiving a surprise call-up to replace Sean Ervine, who pulled out of the squad for the tournament due to personal reasons.”I was both excited and a bit surprised when I got the news,” said Mawoyo. “I was disappointed to have been left out at first just like all the players that have not been included, but despite having been left out I have been working hard all along so I think I will be as ready as the other guys when the World Cup starts.”Mawoyo, an opening batsman who played two one-day internationals against Bangladesh in 2006, has been one of the more consistent batsmen on the domestic limited-overs scene over the past two seasons. He furthered his claims for national selection with some impressive innings in the unofficial Test series against New Zealand in October last year, and his entry to the World Cup squad will also give the team more options at the top of the innings.”There is a slight change in the dynamics of the side as we lost a batsman we could have got some seam from,” explained national coach Alan Butcher. “On the other hand now we have a batsman who is used to opening the batting. I was comfortable with the options we had in that regard but now we have somebody who is used to taking the new ball at the top order and whose natural inclination is to play shots.””Tino has done well to improve on his fitness, as asked to, and he has had some rewards for his hard work,” added Butcher. “He has shed some weight and we can push that along for the next few weeks. Let’s hope that he takes to our regime for people to become fit and strong and at the same time compete in that way against other teams. We’ll get a good idea about how his attitude and mind work by the end of the tournament.”Mawoyo was in ebullient mood after being asked to join the squad and suggested that if Zimbabwe play to their strengths they could upset some of the bigger teams at the tournament. “We have always shown we are a good team,” he said. “We can get positive results against some of the big guns in our group if we apply ourselves fully. Everybody is excited and raring to go so I have a feeling it will be a successful outing for us.”Mawoyo’s words will have pleased Butcher, who expressed his hope that the Zimbabweans would approach the World Cup with a spirit of fun and adventure. “Pressure and opportunity are different sides of the same coin and I hope our people will look at it as an opportunity and an adventure rather than being under pressure,” he said.”There are other teams in the world cup that will be under more pressure than Zimbabwe and that is purely because their expectations will be greater. We have our own expectations but the more we can look at it as an opportunity to showcase individual and collective talent, rather than something that should stop us from performing, the better.”National team assistant coach Steven Mangongo added that he expected Mawoyo, who he suggested had been unlucky to miss out on selection in the past, to make the most of this opportunity. “It’s a big opportunity for him to finally get his international career going,” said Mangongo. “I always thought he was one player that had been left out who deserved to be in the squad. He is one of the few specialist openers that we have and we hope he takes this opportunity with both hands and does the job.”

استقر الجهاز الفني للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي الزمالك بقيادة البرتغالي جوسفالدو فيريرا، على ضم ثنائي الفارس الأبيض في قائمة اللاعبين المقرر لهم خوض المواجهة المُقبلة أمام طلائع الجيش بالدوري المصري.

ومن المقرر أن يلتقي الزمالك مع طلائع الجيش، يوم الأربعاء المُقبل، الموافق 7 من ديسمبر، في تمام السابعة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، ضمن منافسات الجولة السادسة من عمر المسابقة المحلية.

طالع أيضًا | مرتضى منصور يعلن سبب غياب أسامة نبيه عن مران الزمالك.. ويصرح: لم أتفاوض مع لاعب الأهلي

وعلم بطولات، أن الجهاز الفني لنادي الزمالك بقيادة فيريرا، استقر على ضم الثنائي أحمد فتوح الظهير الأيسر، والمدافع محمد عبد الغني، في قائمة الفريق للمباراة القادمة.

وجاء ذلك بعد التأكد من تعافيهما من الإصابة، وجاهزيتهما من الناحية الطبية للمشاركة في المواجهة المرتقبة.

يذكر أن الزمالك يحتل المركز الخامس في جدول ترتيب الدوري برصيد 8 نقاط، فيما يحل طلائع الجيش بالمرتبة الثالثة عشر بـ 4 نقاط.

يفتقد منتخب السعودية لاعبه عبد الإله المالكي في مباراته القادمة أمام المكسيك بمنافسات كأس العالم قطر 2022.

السعودية تواجه الآن منتخب بولندا، في إطار منافسات الجولة الثانية من عمر مواجهات المجموعة الثالثة للمونديال.

طالع | مباشر بالفيديو مباراة السعودية وبولندا في كأس العالم

وتأكد غياب عبد الإله المالكي لاعب المنتخب السعودي أمام المكسيك في الجولة الثالثة لمونديال قطر بسبب تراكم البطاقات.

ومن المقرر أن يلتقي منتخب السعودية مع المكسيك، يوم الأربعاء 30 نوفمبر الجاري.

وكان منتخب السعودية قد فاز في الجولة الأولى على الأرجنتين بهدفين لهدف.