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Sri Lanka Cricket has begun a campaign to stamp out bowlers with illegal actions from the domestic game

Sa'adi Thawfeeq24-Aug-2014Sri Lanka Cricket has begun a campaign to stamp out bowlers with illegal actions from the domestic game. The drive, which includes schools, started a month ago and has brought encouraging results.Umpires officiating in the ongoing Under-23 division I and 2 tournament were asked to report bowlers with suspect actions. Around 20-25 bowlers have been reported till date, the majority of them offspinners.”This has been an ongoing issue with our cricket and we are now taking radical steps to eradicate this menace which is like a cancer spreading to all corners of the country,” SLC umpires educator Tyron Wijewardene said. “Since we started to crack down on illegal bowling from last month there have been encouraging signs. Bowlers who have been reported once or called during a match have shown a big improvement.”The procedure for reporting of a bowler in Sri Lanka is slightly different to that of the ICC. “If a bowler is reported twice in succession he will be banned from bowling and referred to the SLC coaching department for remedial action,” Wijewardene said. “Similarly if a bowler is called for chucking on three occasions in a match he will not be able to bowl until he is cleared by the coaching department.”The coaching department is headed by Jerome Jayaratne, a former fast bowler, and also has former Sri Lanka spinner Piyal Wijetunge supported by district coaches.After a bowler is reported by the umpires and match referee, a copy of the report is handed either to the bowler or the team manager at the end of the match. The match referee’s copy is sent to Wijewardene who subsequently updates what is called ‘the Grid’ and sends a copy each to the coaching department, the illegal bowling action review committee and to all the umpires and match referees officiating in the tournament.The committee is headed by former national selector Shabir Asgerally and comprises former Sri Lanka fast bowler Graeme Labrooy and PR Paranavitana.Wijewardene, who took up the position in April, said he has conducted workshops in Kandy, Kurunegala, Colombo and Galle in educating umpires on illegal bowling and held a workshop at Ananda College, Colombo for school coaches. He hopes to expand the campaign to Under-19 level prior to the start of the next schools season and later go to the grassroots level of Under-13.”Provincial coaches have also been briefed to rectify suspect bowling actions rather than bring them all the way to Colombo,” said Wijewardene, a former ICC international panel umpire and first-class cricketer.”It’s the fault of the system that from junior levels they don’t detect a bowler’s defective action early in their careers and correct it. These bowlers get exposed once they reach the Under-19, Under-17, provincial or national levels. We hope to completely eradicate this growing menace in the next two to three years.”The reporting and banning of Sri Lanka offspinner Sachithra Senanayake for an illegal action was the trigger for SLC’s campaign. Senanayake was reported in May during the ODI series in England and has since been tested in Cardiff and undergone remedial action in Perth.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsJermaine Blackwood’s 63 on debut helped West Indies stretch their lead•Associated Press

A half-century on debut from 22-year-old Jermaine Blackwood was the key performance on the third morning, during which West Indies stretched their first-innings lead to 239 in the Trinidad Test. Blackwood added 47 for the seventh wicket with Shivnarine Chanderpaul, then followed it up with a 76-run association with captain Denesh Ramdin to thwart New Zealand’s plans of limiting the damage. In response, New Zealand were set back by the early loss of Brendon McCullum but held fort till the end of the day with old-fashioned attritional cricket. With two days remaining and a 166-run lead, West Indies are in pole position to square the series.West Indies owed much to Blackwood, who was circumspect to start with and went hard at swinging deliveries. One inswinger from Boult cut him in half, but his response was to launch the next delivery over long-on for six. He was lucky early in his innings when Tom Latham could not hold on to a low chance at short leg. Blackwood was on 11 then. With the spinners serving up a regular dose of easy deliveries, he grew in confidence.Ish Sodhi, the legspinner, went on to pick up four wickets, including those of Blackwood and Chanderpaul, but his inconsistency meant New Zealand neither controlled the flow of runs nor looked like taking a wicket in between. Blackwood found it easy to score runs off him – the full deliveries were smashed down the ground for a six and a four – and apart from the delivery that took the outside edge of his bat to slip, he didn’t appear in any trouble and reached his maiden fifty off 93 balls. His dismissal spelt a quick end for the West Indies innings, but a healthy lead was already on the board.And Sodhi was not the only bowler who struggled – Mark Craig, the hero of the Jamaica Test, went for 111 runs in 29 wicketless overs, Jimmy Neesham’s seam-ups served no purpose, while Williamson was just steady at best.While the ball was still new in the morning, New Zealand would have hoped to pick up early wickets. They were already behind by 89 runs, and Chanderpaul’s stubborn presence meant West Indies continued fortifying their position.Seventeen runs came in the first eight overs of the morning, a period during which Trent Boult and Tim Southee generated enough movement from the pitch to keep New Zealand interested. They beat the bat a number of times but the early breakthrough, that of nightwatchman Kemar Roach, took 9.1 overs to come.Blackwood’s partnership with Chanderpaul then helped West Indies take the game further away from New Zealand. Until he was dismissed, Chanderpaul maintained his usual stoical stance to frustrate the bowlers. His 33rd run took him past Kumar Sangakkara in the list of leading run-getters in Tests. Out of nowhere, though, he fell padding up in the same way to the same bowler, Sodhi, as in the previous Test.Ramdin joined Blackwood and the increased urgency caught New Zealand somewhat offguard. Ramdin’s three consecutive boundaries on the first three balls after lunch, off New Zealand’s most threatening bowler, Boult, unravelled their intent. The partnership between the two batsmen inflated to 50 in 67 balls. By that time, the Netherlands had reasserted their supremacy over Australia in the football World Cup match and West Indies’ lead was past 200 too.Faced with a survival situation similar to what defending champions Spain were facing against Chile, New Zealand also had to adjust their batting order because Hamish Rutherford was not available due to an illness. McCullum promoted himself to open with Latham, but the move didn’t work as the New Zealand captain was trapped lbw by Jerome Taylor in the seventh over. New Zealand were 9 for 1.Both Taylor and Roach stuck to impeccable lines around off stump and with the ball darting around just enough, another wicket didn’t seem too far. Taylor was particularly impressive, starting up with an opening burst of 7-3-8-1 while Roach complemented him with a spell of 6-3-9-0.Only two boundaries came in the first 14 overs as New Zealand trudged to 19. Sulieman Benn and Shannon Gabriel kept up the pressure once the two frontline bowlers were off. Benn kept pegging around the off-stump line, while Gabriel’s disconcerting bounce troubled Williamson more than once. Still, both Williamson and Latham made most of the infrequent loose deliveries. Two fours in the 27th over, bowled by Chris Gayle, took New Zealand past 50. While Spain withered away from Brazil, Williamson and Latham took the fight to another day.

Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis has been appointed national coach for a period of two years. He will join the team in June

Umar Farooq06-May-20149:10

No problem working with Afridi – Waqar

Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis has been appointed national coach for a period of two years. He will join the team in June, having previously served as bowling coach of the Pakistan side in 2006-07 and briefly in 2009, and as head coach in 2010-11.”I am extremely pleased to have been selected as the head coach,” Waqar said. “My immediate aim would be to prepare the team for the upcoming busy cricket season including the next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.”A committee comprising Intikhab Alam (director domestic cricket operations), Haroon Rashid (director game development) and Moin Khan (chief selector) met today in Lahore to review the applicants for the coaching job and “unanimously” recommended Waqar, a choice that was endorsed by the PCB chairman.After Dav Whatmore’s contract with Pakistan ended in February, Moin, who had been the team manager, was named coach and was in charge until the World Twenty20 in April, when the same PCB administration under Najam Sethi that had appointed him, gave him the dual roles of team manager and chief selector of the national team.Waqar had previously quit as Pakistan coach reportedly because of personal reasons, but his differences with former captain Shahid Afridi were a factor during Ijaz Butt’s term as PCB chairman. When asked last week if he was okay with working with Afridi, Waqar said: “Pakistan cricket is like my family and differences aren’t the end of life, so things get better. I am here to serve cricket and want to return what I have learned from my playing career.”During Waqar’s previous stint as Pakistan coach between March 2010 and August 2011, Pakistan endured several off-field controversies – the spot-fixing scandal in England and Zulqarnain Haider fleeing to the UK mid-way through a tour – but their performances were satisfactory. They drew a Test series against South Africa, won one in New Zealand and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 World Cup. After his term came to an end, Waqar applied for the Australia job but did not make it past an interview with Cricket Australia.

Sri Lanka will anticipate stiffer resistance from Bangladesh in Chittagong, despite the feebleness of their Mirpur loss, batsman Kumar Sangakkara said

Andrew Fidel Fernando in Chittagong02-Feb-2014

Sri Lanka will anticipate stiffer resistance from Bangladesh in Chittagong, despite the feebleness of their Mirpur loss, batsman Kumar Sangakkara said. The hosts had failed to exert pressure on Sri Lanka for significant periods in the first Test, and were bowled out cheaply in both innings as they continued to offer rash strokes. The Bangladesh bowlers had only dismissed six Sri Lanka batsmen – one of them a nightwatchman who was slated to come in at No. 11 – as the visitors amassed 730.Bangladesh had been more spirited in the two-match Test series the teams had played in Sri Lanka last year, drawing one match and stringing together impressive periods in the second, which they eventually lost.”We are pretty much used to Bangladesh putting up a pretty good fight usually,” Sangakkara said. “They pushed us in the Test series over there, and we walked away 1-1 in the one-day series. More often than not, they are more competitive in the one-day version of the game, so in the shorter formats of the game, we know we’re in for the fight. We won’t expect anything less than that from them here. The earlier game was easier than we thought it would be, but we expect it to be different here.”Whether we are complacent or not can only be seen when we start playing. The guys usually are very good in their preparation. Complacency is not something we think about or pay much attention to. We just go through our preparation process really well.”Sri Lanka’s fast bowlers had blasted Bangladesh out with the short ball in Mirpur, but a change in tack may be required for a drier Chittagong pitch, Sangakkara suggested.”It’s hard to use the same strategy, because the wicket looks quite different from there to now. But even on this track a short ball can be useful,” he said. “We don’t really know what we will plan for the batsmen, but our job is to do the basics well – put the ball in the right areas. If we have a specific strategy, to make sure the bowlers bowl to that field and that strategy.”There’s not much grass, and not much moisture in the pitch. I’m not that great at predicting exactly what happens on a wicket, but we’ll have to wait and see how it pans out over the five days.”Kithuruwan Vithanage and Kaushal Silva had made maiden hundreds in the first Test, as Angelo Mathews continued his fine stretch of form with 86. Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene are the towering figures in that top order, but contributions from the younger men do not necessarily ease their burden, Sangakkara said.”Whoever scores runs, it doesn’t take that expectation away from any other player. Pressure is something that’s constant,” he said. “It’s not really something you think about. If you can’t handle pressure, it’s no use walking out there in the middle. There’s no guarantee that you’ll score every time you go out, but chances are every time you walk in, after a good start – whether you’re in form or not, your job is to score runs.”

Virender Sehwag failed for the second time in Surat after briefly promising a serious attempt to chase down the target of 257 runs in less than two sessions on the final day of the Group A game against Gujarat

Devashish Fuloria in Surat10-Nov-2013
ScorecardFile photo – Virender Sehwag’s short stay at the crease promised an exciting chase but Delhi had to buckle down once the batsman was dismissed•AFP

Virender Sehwag failed for the second time in Surat after briefly promising a serious attempt to chase down the target of 257 runs in less than two sessions on the final day of the Group A game against Gujarat. Sehwag managed 15 off 18 deliveries and, with his dismissal, Delhi switched to a safety-first approach and played out for the draw. Gujarat took three points for the first-innings lead, while Delhi had to settle for one.Sehwag didn’t open the innings, but he was soon in the middle after Unmukt Chand was brilliantly run out from a direct hit by Jesal Karia at point in the first over of Delhi’s second innings. Then, in the first five balls Sehwag faced, he was dropped at midwicket, flicked one to the boundary, played and missed two and defended one, declaring his intentions of leading the chase. Gambhir, at the other end, was also looking to force the pace, but was given a life as Parthiv Patel missed an easy stumping chance. Sehwag also survived a run-out chance soon after, the third umpire ruling that he had made it back in the crease. All that action in the first four overs of Delhi’s innings.Parthiv responded with five fielders in the deep, knowing he had plenty of time. Gujarat didn’t have to wait for long, though. In the seventh over of the innings, Akshar Patel appealed for an lbw against Sehwag, who thought the ball had rolled away towards fine leg and left the crease thinking of a single. However, Parthiv had collected the ball with his left hand and flicked the bails off, leaving Sehwag stranded outside the crease.Sanjeev Sharma, Delhi’s coach, justified Sehwag’s approach saying that if the side had any chance, it was through him. Parthiv also conceded that Sehwag’s wicket put an end to Delhi’s aim of chasing down the target.”He is always a big wicket and you saw how Gambhir was also attacking in his presence,” Parthiv said. “But the following batsmen had to change the approach and I think that was the end of the game.”At the start of the day, an outright win had been a possibility for either team. On a deteriorating pitch, Gujarat had a lead of 114 runs with six wickets in hand, a situation from where they could have fashioned a win. Delhi would also have fancied chasing a score of around 220, Sharma said, since they needed points.The opening hour played to that script as Delhi removed Smit Patel, Parthiv and Rush Kalaria within eight overs. Parthiv scored an aggressive half-century but edged one from Parvinder Awana to Chand at first slip. Akshar, Karia and Rakesh Dhurv, however, frustrated the Delhi bowling for 26.4 overs and stretched the lead by 90 runs, adding valuable runs for the last three wicket stands.Parthiv mentioned how important those runs were. “I was honestly worried last night, given Gujarat’s history at the ground,” Parthiv said after the game. “But that’s why we have allrounders in the team and they all came good. In the context of the game, that was a vital period.”Gujarat play Karnataka in Bangalore next, while Delhi take on Mumbai from November 14.

أعلن أحمد دياب رئيس رابطة الأندية المصرية المحترفة، عن راعي الدوري المصري الجديد، لمدة ثلاث سنوات، مما يستدعي تغيير اسم المنافسة المحلية.

وقال أحمد دياب في المؤتمر الصحفي المنعقد الأن: “العالم سبقنا في تكوين روابط الأندية، أشكر كل مؤسسات الدولة المصرية على الدعم والمساندة”. 

رابطة الأندية لـ بطولات: الزمالك طلب حكم أجنبي لمباراة الأهلي.. وتوضح موقفها

وأضاف: “نجحنا في إعادة الجماهير بعد غياب 12 سنة، الآن المباريات تذاع بجودة الـHD، نهدف أن كل موسم يكون أفضل من الموسم الذي يسبقه”. 

وأردف: “نجحنا في استضافة اجتماع كونجرس روابط العالم نهاية العام المقبل، وسنستضيف روابط إسبانيا وإنجلترا وألمانيا”.

وكشف: “اسم الدوري المصري سيكون (دوري النيل) بداية من الموسم المقبل ولمدة 3 مواسم، وشركة النيل هي راعي الدوري”.

واستكمل: “درع الدوري الجديد يتم تصنيعه حاليًا في أعرق مصانع إنجلترا، وسيتم تسليمه لبطل الموسم المقبل”.

وأتم: “لا بد من الحفاظ على الأندية الجماهيرية، سيكون هناك شركات للكرة في الأندية الجماهيرية، وهذا لا يعني أننا سنبيع الأندية الجماهيرية، بالعكس سيتم إخراج مصاريف فريق الكرة من ميزانية النادي”.

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Os comentaristas do programa “Bate-Bola”, da ESPN, movimentaram a semana com uma gafe. Em edição que foi ao ar na quarta-feira, os jornalistas presentes analisaram a atuação de Paulo Henrique Ganso pelo Fluminense contra o Antofagasta (CHI), na última terça-feira, pela Copa Sul-Americana. No entanto, o atleta não está inscrito na competição e, claro, não entrou em campo.

É evidente que o movimentado ambiente do jornalismo esportivo, assim como qualquer outro, está passível de erros, que com uma dose de bom-humor, podem ser levados na “esportiva”. O LANCE! reuniu algumas situações que, ao longo da jornada dos programas esportivos, deixaram alguns de nossos colegas numa saia justa. Confira, na sequência, abaixo:

Fernando Vanucci no mínimo ‘confuso’ ao anunciar Itália tetracampeã em 2006

Em 2006, logo após a Itália bater a França nos pênaltis e sagra-se Campeã do Mundo pela quarta vez, Fernando Vanucci começaria o extinto “Bola na Rede”, da RedeTV, falando sobre o tema. Ou, pelo menos, tentando. Com a fala arrastada e frases desconexas, a audiência não perdoou e acusou o apresentador de estar alcoolizado após a folia tradicional de final da Copa. Que situação!

“Nederland, bravo guerreiro!”

A jornalistaAdriana Reid, durante a Copa do Mundo de 2014, também soltou uma gafe das boas. Apresentadora do Bandsports fazia o aquecimento da partida entre Holanda e Costa Rica, quando o ponta Robben apareceu no caminho para os vestiários durante a transmissão. Provavelmente sem conhecer bem o jogador, Reid interpretou que a palavra “Nerderland”, (Holanda, em holandês), na camisa do atleta, era, na verdade seu nome, e pronunciou a frase que até hoje permanece na memória dos torcedores:

– Ta aí o Nerdeland, bravo guerreiro!

Reinaldo Rueda anunciado pela Rádio Bogotá

Em dezembro de 2016, após o fim da temporada daquele ano, o jornalista Jorge Nicola, da ESPN, disse em programa ao vivo que, segundo a Rádio Bogotá, o Corinthians estaria trazendo o treinador campeão da Libertadores, Reinaldo Rueda, do Atlético Nacional-COL. O único problema é que a informação era baseada apenas num twite da rádio, que na verdade, não existe. Que coisa, hein?!

Nervoso, repórter desiste de entrevista

Este já é um clássico na internet brasileira. Estreando na TV Votorantim, o repórter chamado Alex cobria um jogo do Botafogo pela Copa do Brasil de Futebol Infantil. Nitidamente nervoso, o repórter ensaiou uma pergunta, gaguejou bastante, e no mas no fim não saiu nada.

Neto e os “dois pulmões”

O ex-jogador Neto virou motivo de piadas no Twitter durante a transmissão da final do Mundial sub-20, em 2011, entre Brasil e Portugal. O comentarista da Bandeirantes se empolgou ao elogiar o preparo físico do volante Fernando e afirmou que o meio-campista “parece até ter dois pulmões”. Prato cheio para as “cornetadas” dos internautas, na época.

Jornalista abandona programa ao vivo

O vídeo deste comentarista abandonando a transmissão de uma TV regional é outro que já se eternizou no hall dos memes da internet. Indignado com a falta de minutos para se pronunciar, o profissional da direita, no vídeo, deixa o programa ao vivo, sem pestanejar. Que coisa!

Acorda, Noronha!

A Copa do Mundo de 2002 foi disputada na Ásia, e por uma questão de fuso horário tinha os principais acontecimentos durante as madrugadas. Esse pode ter sido um dos motivos do comentarista Sérgio Noronha, na época, na Rede Globo, ter cochilado durante uma das transmissões da emissora no continente asiático.

‘Voxê é muleque!’

A famosa troca de farpas entre Vanderlei Luxemburgo e Marcelinho Carioca aconteceu em 2007, no programa “Por Dentro da Bola”, comandado por José Luiz Datena. Na oportunidade, o treinador se irritou ao lembrar um comentário de Marcelinho sobre sua suposta atuação como empresário, paralelamente ao trabalho de treinador.

Vanderlei diz então que o ex-jogador “não vale nada”, que retruca dizendo o mesmo de Luxa. O clima esquenta, e Vanderlei classifica Marcelinho como “moleque”, “mentiroso” e “safado”.

Gurinder Sandhu began the 2012-13 season with a state rookie contract for the first time and modest goals in mind. By the end of the summer he had represented Australia A and the Prime Minister’s XI, played all three formats domestically, and won the Steve Waugh Medal as the best New South Wales player of the domestic campaign. That would be enough to satisfy anyone in their debut season.But there is one final honour heading Sandhu’s way: he has been voted the Australian Cricketers’ Association Player of the Month for March. It has been an incredibly rapid rise for Sandhu, a 19-year-old fast bowler who first emerged in the BBL in December while playing for the Sydney Thunder. Last year he was part of Australia’s Under-19 World Cup team; over the coming year a call-up to the senior side is not out of the realms of possibility.”At the start of the season I would have been happy just playing a couple of Ryobi Cup games,” Sandhu told ESPNcricinfo. “I played four of them and then a couple of Shield games at the end of the season and that topped it off even better. The Australia A games came out of nowhere, a bit like the Prime Minister’s XI game. I just ran with it all and tried to do my thing.”And Sandhu’s thing is to take wickets. In six one-day games – including two for Australia A against the England Lions – he has collected 18 wickets at 14.22 and in his two Sheffield Shield appearances he has managed 14 victims at 11.85. At 194 centimetres, Sandhu uses his height to gain bounce and he has shown that he can swing the ball both ways.”I like to keep the batsman guessing,” he said. But Sandhu knows there is plenty of room for improvement. He and another young New South Wales fast bowler, Chris Tremain, recently travelled to Perth for some sessions with Dennis Lillee and Sandhu said Lillee had helped him with some technical issues, including a tweak to the way he positions his front arm.Of course, Sandhu is of a generation that has only heard of Lillee’s exploits rather than witnessing them first hand. The men he wants to emulate are much more modern. Although he hopes to bowl in a similar style to Glenn McGrath, hitting a consistent spot and nibbling the ball around a fraction, Sandhu also sees Andrew Flintoff as another role model.”He’s a pretty big guy as well and I’m trying to work on my batting to become a bowling allrounder,” Sandhu said. “Maybe one day.”An innings of 45 against South Australia in his second Shield match showed that there is some batting potential there, although he is yet to score a half-century in first-grade cricket for Fairfield-Liverpool in Sydney. He is not the only Sandhu to have played at the top level for that club: his younger brother Harmon Sandhu made his first-grade debut this summer.”He filled in for me when I played the couple of Shield games,” Sandhu said of Harmon, who is also a fast bowler. “He played two games before the end of the season. He’s not as quick yet, he’s only 16 at the moment. Hopefully maybe this year we might play a couple of games together.”The Sandhu brothers were born in Australia after their parents Iqbal and Mukhtyar, originally from Punjab in India, moved to Sydney in the 1980s. Iqbal’s job as a taxi driver allowed him to ferry the boys around to all their junior cricket matches, a commitment that has paid off handsomely given his son’s success this season.And while Sandhu dreams of one day earning a baggy green, his ambitions for the coming year – which should feature a stint at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane and a trip to the MRF Pace Academy in Chennai – are more grounded.”Hopefully I can cement my spot in the New South Wales team in the Ryobi Cup and the Sheffield Shield and then any higher honours are a bonus, like any more Australia A games,” Sandhu said. “One day if I could play for Australia it would be pretty nice.”Sandhu received 23.5% of the votes for the ACA’s Player of the Month award for March, ahead of Michael Hussey on 21.6% and Ryan Harris with 11.8%.

Waqar Younis, the former Pakistan fast bowler, captain and coach, will be joining Sunrisers Hyderabad as a bowling consultant for the 2013 IPL season

Nagraj Gollapudi08-Mar-2013Waqar Younis, the former Pakistan fast bowler, captain and coach, will be joining Sunrisers Hyderabad as a bowling consultant for the 2013 IPL season. Waqar will be the second Pakistani bowling coach in the IPL, following the footsteps of his former new-ball partner Wasim Akram, who has performed the same role with defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders since 2010. Akram, though, has taken a break this season.Former Australia allrounder Tom Moody, who is the Sunrisers’ head coach, was active in hiring Waqar, who is based in Sydney. “Tom is a fine buddy since our playing days and he asked me if I could come and help and I accepted the offer,” Waqar told ESPNcricinfo. “I want to go and have a feel about it and how it works.”After he stepped down as Pakistan’s head coach in September 2011, Waqar coached Ruhuna Royals in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League last year. During his stint as Pakistan coach, Waqar was instrumental in leading Pakistan to the semi-finals of the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies where they were silenced by Michael Hussey’s heroics late in the match.Waqar said the IPL job would be a good challenge. “I am going to go the way I go about things. It will be a good experience for me also to interact with a lot of fast bowlers.” And he has already set himself a goal: working closely with the Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma. “I am really excited to work with Ishant Sharma. He can be a better bowler than he is.”Dale Steyn, Clint McKay, Sudeep Tyagi are some of the other quick bowlers in the Sunrisers squad, who are bound to benefit from Waqar’s vast experience.”We hope Waqar’s experience and Steyn’s expertise will help our bowlers restrict the opposition batsmen’s charge and reduce the pressure on our batsmen,” a Sunrisers’ official said on Waqar’s appointment.Last October, the Sunrisers replaced Deccan Chargers in the IPL after the BCCI had terminated the contract with Deccan Chronicles Holdings Ltd (owners of the Chargers), due to a prolonged financial crisis. Sun TV network successfully bid for the franchise rights for 85.05 crores per year (approx $15.9m) for a five-year deal.Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: Akshath Reddy, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Biplab Samantray, Cameron White, Chris Lynn, Clint McKay, Dale Steyn, Darren Sammy, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Hanuma Vihari, Ishant Sharma, JP Duminy (currently injured), Karan Sharma, Kumar Sangakkara, Nathan McCullum, Parthiv Patel, Quinton de Kock, Sachin Rana, Shikhar Dhawan, Sudeep Tyagi, Thalaivan Sargunam, Thisara Perera, Veer Pratap Singh.

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Em busca de seu quarto título seguido da Copa RS, a equipe sub-20 do São Paulo mede forças com o Vasco nesta quinta, às 18h, pela semifinal de um dos principais do futebol sul-americano nas categorias de base. Depois de eliminar o Corinthians, nos pênaltis, o Tricolor tenta uma vaga na final da competição.

Além do favoritismo pelas seguidas conquistas, o triunfo diante de seu maior rival dá mais confiança para a equipe do São Paulo seguir em busca de seu objetivo. Apesar da empolgação, o volante Marcos Júnior pede que o Tricolor mantenha os pés nos chão e foque no duelo com os vascaínos.

– Estamos muito bem na competição, mas não podemos nos deixar levar por isso. Temos consciência de que a cada jogo é uma final e não temos o direito em errar em momento algum. Nosso foco é avançar cada vez mais para fechar a temporada com mais um título – afirmou o atleta, um dos homens de confiança do técnico Orlando Ribeiro.

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O Tricolor chegou às semifinais com uma campanha equilibrada. Em cinco jogos, foram duas vitórias (Flamengo e Nacional-URU), dois empates (Independiente-ARG e Corinthians) e uma derrota para o Cruzeiro. Já o Vasco, adversário de logo mais, soma duas vitórias (Atlético-MG e Toluca-MEX), um empate (Grêmio) e duas derrotas (Palmeiras e River Plate-ARG).

O vencedor deste confronto encara, na decisão, Internacional ou Palmeiras. As equipes se enfrentam às 15h30. A final está marcada para o próximo domingo, no estádio Universitário da PUC-RS.