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ScorecardMarcus North, seen here for Perth, made his ninth List A hundred•Getty Images

Marcus North hit a brilliant 137 not out as Glamorgan made it two wins from two matches in this season’s Yorkshire Bank 40 by overpowering a below-par Middlesex by 26 runs at Lord’s.Glamorgan skipper and former Australia batsman North led from the front. He hit 16 fours and three sixes in his 98-ball innings and featured in an unbroken stand of 156 in just 16.3 overs with Jim Allenby, who scored 69 not out from 50 balls.Opener Will Bragg also contributed a 72-ball 62, riding some early luck against the new ball after Middlesex had decided to bowl first on an excellent surface.Bragg’s partnership of 86 in 16 overs with North got the Glamorgan innings going again after they slid to 38 for 2 when Mark Wallace was caught at first slip and Chris Cooke, later in the same over, was run out by Joe Denly’s direct hit from cover.Dawid Malan, Chris Rogers and Paul Stirling all briefly threatened to do something spectacular at the top of the Middlesex batting order but Will Owen took three wickets in 18 balls from the Pavilion End, after Allenby had initially removed Rogers.And, with slow left-arm spinner Dean Cosker also putting in a tight spell, it was only a matter of time from 110 for 4 – despite Berg’s late hitting – before Glamorgan’s victory was confirmed. Berg made a brave 75 from 57 balls but it only served to reduce the margin of victory.It was a fine effort by Glamorgan, who had totalled 285 for 7 from their 40 overs in the previous day’s 28-run win against Yorkshire at Colwyn Bay but then had to endure a near five-hour journey to London from north Wales before waking up to prepare for this match.Rogers, fresh from his match-saving County Championship double hundred against Surrey, produced some eye-catching strokes in his 22 before being caught off a leading edge at cover, but Malan had already survived a stumping chance on 35 when he fell at the same score, lifting a catch to point off Owen.Denly went for 11, caught at the wicket driving loosely at a wider ball from Owen, who then struck a crucial blow for his team by bowling the hard-hitting Stirling for 36 through an ugly legside heave.Neil Dexter drove one six over long on against Michael Hogan in his 24, but Hogan soon had him caught at deep cover and Berg was then left with only the tail for company. He hit Owen for two defiant sixes but saw wickets continue to tumble as John Simpson was caught at deep mid-off, Josh Davey was held at deep midwicket and Toby Roland-Jones also hit a catch into the deep. Berg was finally ninth out, bowled by Hogan after hitting six fours besides his two sixes.The North-Allenby partnership was far too much for Middlesex. Hardly anything got past the bat, once they both got their eye in, as they took full advantage of a superb batting pitch and Middlesex’s attack was beginning to look very ragged by the time the overs ran out.The last five overs of the innings brought 60 runs and, in all, 180 runs were plundered from the last 20.3 overs only for the loss of Bragg, who was athletically held by a diving Tom Smith at backward point off Davey.North’s first six was swung over midwicket off a Dexter full toss, just before Glamorgan’s 200 arrived in the 34th over, and he later added a powerful hit into the grandstand off Roland-Jones’s penultimate ball of the innings.Allenby, too, produced some meaty blows as he went past 50 from 39 balls, including a full-blooded club over wide long on from a couple of steps down the pitch against an astonished Corey Collymore.

Abdur Razzak, the left-arm spinner, has been added to the Bangladesh squad for the Test series in Sri Lanka

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Mar-2013

Abdur Razzak, the left-arm spinner, has been added to the Bangladesh squad for the Test series in Sri Lanka.Razzak, 30, is among the most experienced players for Bangladesh in the limited-overs formats but has not been a regular in the Test side. His last Test came in August 2011, when Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh in Harare.”We received a request from the Bangladesh team management in Sri Lanka and according to their requirement Razzak has been included in the side,” Akram Khan, Bangladesh’s chief selector, said.Razzak will join the squad on Monday, in Galle where the first of two Tests is currently taking place.Meanwhile, another senior bowler, Mashrafe Mortaza said he was worried about the slow recovery from an ankle injury, though he didn’t rule out playing the ODI series that begins on March 23. “I still want to wait for another four-five days but right now the recovery has taken more time than I would have liked,” he said.Mashrafe suffered the injury during the BPL final, when he also hurt his heel after taking the first wicket. He continued playing in the game, but afterwards had to go through a rehabilitation process which was expected to last three weeks.

ScorecardMeg Lanning steered Australia’s chase, scoring 64•Getty Images

Australia Women leveled the Twenty20 series against New Zealand with a close, five-wicket win in Melbourne on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, New Zealand Women had beaten Australia by six wickets.Chasing a target of 132, Australia’s innings revolved largely around opener Meg Lanning – who was their batting mainstay in the first T20 too – whose knock of 64 included seven fours. Although the New Zealand bowlers picked up wickets regularly, the target was too small for them to defend and Australia knocked off the runs with a ball to spare.Having chosen to bat, the New Zealand batsmen got off to a solid start and looked set to rattle up a big total. However, the Australia bowling unit managed to peg them back, as New Zealand went from being 2 for 121 to 6 for 130. Medium-pacer Megan Schutt and offspinner Erin Osborne were the most effective bowlers for Australia.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is in talks with the Pakistan Cricket Board about a short tour to the country next month

Mohammad Isam14-Dec-2012

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is in talks with the Pakistan Cricket Board about a short tour to the country next month. BCB president Nazmul Hassan said that the talks are now all about a suitable timeframe for the tour.”We can’t go in December so we will speak to the PCB today, about whether we can fit in a small tour before the BPL,” Hassan told ESPNcricinfo.Bangladesh’s proposed tour to Pakistan hit a snag earlier this year when, on April 19, a Dhaka court order embargoed a series between the two scheduled for the end of April.In November, Hassan said that the BCB had made a “written commitment” to the PCB to go ahead with the tour.On Friday Hassan explained that they are now in the second phase of talks with the PCB because the first phase, which dealt with security issues, was satisfactory. “I have spoken to those who went for the security assessment and they are quite satisfied,” he said. “If we can agree on a time, we will go next month.”He also said that the players and the support staff will be spoken to about the tour, but no one will be forced to go on the tour. “The last time when we discussed [touring Pakistan], we wanted to talk to the players and find out their opinion. We will also speak to foreign staff but it is highly likely that they won’t go. That we can understand. We don’t want to force them.”Back in March, the ICC had introduced a “special dispensation” to be made only in “exceptional circumstances” that allowed bilateral series to take place even if the ruling body determined it “unsafe” to appoint its officials for these series. This would allow such series to be manned by “non-neutral match officials”, a departure from the ICC’s Standard Playing Conditions.Hassan said the dispensation will take effect if the ICC doesn’t send its officials to conduct the matches. “They [ICC] are quite clear about it. They want us to decide if we want to go or not. We will submit a security plan to them, after which they will decide whether they will send their match officials or not. If they don’t, we will have to appoint match officials.”

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O Botafogo não conseguiu avançar às quartas de final da Copa Sul-Americana. Nesta quarta-feira, no Nilton Santos, o Alvinegro caiu para o Bahia nos pênaltis e, logo após a dura eliminação, Rodrigo Pimpão fez uma revelação curiosa sobre uma situação que poderia ter mudado o classificado da noite.

De acordo com o treinado, Pimpão afirmou que seria o sexto cobrador, na primeira penalidade das alternadas, mas disse que Moisés chamou a responsabilidade no momento decisivo – o que não reflete culpa. O camisa 6 perdeu, assim como Marcinho – o Bahia venceu por 5 a 4 nos pênaltis.

– Na hora o Moisés falou: “Posso ir?”, eu disse que podia. Não tem que culpar ninguém, sabemos que pênalti é loteria – disse Pimpão, na saída de campo, à “TV Globo”.

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Quem abriu o placar no tempo normal, que terminou por 2 a 1 para os cariocas, foi o próprio Rodrigo Pimpão. Com o gol, o atacante igualou Sinval e tornou-se, com oito gols, o maior artilheiro de competições internacional do Botafogo. Ele também falou sobre o feito, minimizado pela queda no torneio.

-Nada disso teria acontecido se o Botafogo não tivesse aberto as portas pra mim. A gente fica triste sim. Desatenção nossa, acabamos sendo eliminados, mas não podemos nos abalar agora porque tem o brasileiro pela frente.

ZÉ FALOU SOBRE OS PÊNALTIS

Na entrevista coletiva, Zé Ricardo foi questionado a respeito da situação envolvendo Moisés e Rodrigo Pimpão.

– Trabalhamos muito pênalti, da lista de 8 só quem não estava ali era o Brenner, que é um dos batedores. Quando entrou no alternado tinha Moisés, Pimpão e Igor Rabello. Como foi falado, Pimpão poderia abrir, Moisés pediu para bater na frente – comentou o treinador.

O Botafogo, agora, folga nesta quinta-feira e se reapresenta na sexta. O próximo desafio será o clássico contra o Vasco, pelo Brasileiro, na terça (9).

A chronology of events

December 17, 2011
BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal announces tour to Pakistan in April 2012; says a security team will ascertain in January whether it is safe to visit
March 3-5, 2012
After a two-month delay, the security team headed by Kamal is “satisfied” with arrangements
March 7, 2012
ICC introduces special dispensation to be made only in exceptional circumstances allowing “non-neutral match officials”, a departure from the ICC’s Standard Playing Conditions
March 12, 2012
Kamal says Bangladesh will not tour if the ICC doesn’t send match officials
March 19, 2012
PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf says bilateral ties could suffer if Bangladesh backs out of tour
April 15, 2012
ICC announces BCB and PCB have agreed on the tour to Pakistan, outlining two matches for April 29 and 30 in Lahore
April 19, 2012
BCB informs PCB that the series is postponed after the Dhaka High Court rules in favour of a four-week* embargo

Bangladesh has postponed its tour of Pakistan following a court order that set a four-week embargo on the national team’s plans. The decision, communicated on Thursday to the PCB by the BCB’s acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury, is the latest twist to a long-running saga that began last December; the tour itself, comprising two limited-overs games, had been finalised last weekend to take place in Lahore at the end of April.The order came on a day when Pakistan said it had sent a 70-page security plan for the tour to the ICC and announced details of match tickets that were to have gone on sale next week. The events that followed will have added to doubts over whether the tour will indeed go ahead at all.The PCB reacted sharply to the news. “It is astonishing to note that a matter lacking any legal issue has been dragged in the court by petitioners who appear to have vested interest and want to jeopardise Pakistan-Bangladesh cricketing relations,” the statement said.”It is extremely disturbing to note for the PCB and Pakistan cricket fans and world cricketing nations that such an adverse order has been passed to block a bilateral cricket series.”The court order, delivered by Justices Farid Ahmed and Sheikh Hasan Arif on Thursday afternoon, was in response to a writ petition filed in the morning by a university teacher and a Supreme Court lawyer who, citing concerns over security, challenged the BCB’s decision to send the team at the end of April for a three-day tour.It also said that in the interim period the sports secretary, the National Sports Council chief and BCB chief Mustafa Kamal justify the decision for the tour.Azim, one of the lawyers for the petitioners, said: “The ICC asked for a security plan from PCB. They have still not given it. Pakistan is not safe for any foreign teams now. Their own media says so. For that reason, no country agrees to play there. Under the same circumstances, we should not go there also.”The petition echoes the prevailing public sentiment surrounding the tour since it was first announced. The mood against the tour – which has been called short-sighted and opportunistic, at the cost of players’ safety – grew following the confirmation of dates on Sunday. The tour, of immense importance to Pakistan, is widely seen as a quid pro quo for Kamal getting the Pakistan-Bangladesh joint nomination for the ICC vice-presidency; with the latter in almost certain cold storage, the tour has become an even more complex issue. Kamal’s own flip-flops on issues relating to the tour have added to the confusion.Adding to the complexity is the security angle. The ICC’s stated stand is that it has no role in clearing tour; its remit extends to checking to see whether its officials can be deployed. It has, however, scripted its own escape clause by introducing a “special dispensation” that would allow non-neutral officials where the situation did not allow for neutrals.The security issue prompted the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) to issue a strongly worded statement against the tour.”This decision of whether Bangladesh should tour Pakistan needed to be a concise and transparent process,” FICA CEO Tim May said. “Unfortunately all we have witnessed is seemingly a complete lack of any process and a series of indecisive and contradictory comments, particularly coming from Mustafa Kamal.”The actions and words of Kamal certainly give the impression of confirming rumors that there has been a deal reached between the PCB and Kamal … What has resulted since has been a series of actions and comments that rather than reassure everyone of the safety of such a tour, only have created heightened apprehensions and doubts amongst players re the safety of the tour and the motives of those involved in the decision.”* The entry initially said four months. It has been corrected to four weeks

The battle for top spot between the two forces, Sri Lanka Navy and Sri Lanka Army, continued with the former taking the lead on the third weekend of matches in the Premier League Tier B.Navy thrashed Police SC by an innings, the key features of the match being the legspin bowling of Dulanjana Mendis (he bagged nine wickets in the match) and a maiden first-class hundred from Chanaka Ruwansiri that enabled Navy to recover from a shaky 99 for 4 to 309.Army were held to a draw by Panadura, who took a first innings lead of 142.Burgher RC moved to third place with their first win of the season. They beat Saracens by seven wickets with left-arm spinner Malan Madusanka picking up nine wickets in the match.Gayan Manesha, the former Maliyadeva College left-hand batsman, narrowly missed scoring a century in each innings of a match, making 115 (his maiden first-class century) and 94 in Kurunegala Youth CC‘s drawn encounter against Sri Lanka Air Force at the Welegedara Stadium.

Graham Onions, the Durham pace bowler, will travel with the England squad to UAE next month to provide cover for the fast-bowling attack

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Dec-2011

Graham Onions, the Durham pace bowler, will travel with the England squad to UAE next month to provide cover for the fast-bowling attack in the opening weeks of the trip.Onions won’t be an official member of the squad which was named on Friday but the selectors want to ensure there is adequate back-up available to Andy Flower and Andrew Strauss with three of the quick bowlers – Stuart Broad (shoulder), Chris Tremlett (back) and Tim Bresnan (elbow) – recovering from injuries.Tremlett hasn’t featured for England since the first Test against India, at Lord’s, and Broad hasn’t played since the fourth ODI against the same team at the same ground in September. Both are currently in South Africa, along with Onions and James Anderson, at a training camp with the performance programme players. Bresnan, meanwhile, recently underwent elbow surgery to remove a bone fragment.The England management are hopeful all three will be fit for selection ahead of the first Test against Pakistan, in Dubai, on January 17 and if Onions isn’t required he is likely to return home when that match begins.”We’ve obviously got some niggles from the seamer point of view, so Graham Onions will go out there in a cover capacity,” Geoff Miller, the national selector, said. “If he’s not required then he’ll probably come back after the first Test, or even during it.”Onions hasn’t played for England since the third Test against South Africa, at Newlands, in early 2010 after suffering a career-threatening back injury. However, he was back around the national set-up last season when he was called into the Test squad as cover for Anderson at The Oval. He then went to Ireland with the one-day squad and flew out to India for the ODI series in October after injury to Chris Woakes.Onions may yet find himself in a similar position to Ajmal Shahzad, the Yorkshire pace bowler, on last year’s Ashes tour when Shahzad started as an unofficial 17th member of the squad during the warm-up matches before the management decided to keep him on for the whole of the Test series.

أكد أسامة نبيه المدير الفني لنادي الزمالك، أنه سيكافح ويجتهد من أجل عودة الفريق إلى النتائج الجيدة وتصحيح المسار في الدوري.

مرتضى منصور رئيس مجلس إدارة نادي الزمالك أعلن رحيل البرتغالي جوسفالدو فيريرا وتعيين أسامة نبيه بدلاً منه، وذلك عقب الخسارة من غزل المحلة.

طالع | التشكيل النهائي للجهاز الفني لـ الزمالك بقيادة أسامة نبيه

وقال نبيه خلال اجتماعه مع مرتضي منصور اليوم الأربعاء بمقر القلعة البيضاء: “أشكر مرتضى منصور وجميع أعضاء مجلس الإدارة على ثقتهم في، وأتمنى أن نعود للطريق الصحيح”.

وواصل: “أتمنى أن أكون جزءًا بسيطًا أو سببًا صغيرًا جدًا في إسعاد جماهير الزمالك”.

وتابع: “سأكأفح وأجتهد وأتعب من أجل عودة فريق الزمالك لمساره الصحيح”.

وأتم: “مرتضى منصور داعم لنا طوال الوقت، نمر بمنعطف ولكن سنصححه في الفترة المقبلة”.

ويحتل الزمالك المركز الخامس في ترتيب جدول الدوري المصري برصيد 26 نقطة.

ويستعد الزمالك لمواجهة فيوتشر، يوم الأحد المقبل، ضمن منافسات الدوري المصري الممتاز.

England Women made it two one-sided matches on the opening day of the quadrangular series with a comfortable eight-wicket victory over New Zealand Women at Chelmsford

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jun-2011
ScorecardHolly Colvin’s three wickets put England on their way to victory•Getty Images

England Women made it two one-sided matches on the opening day of the quadrangular series with a comfortable eight-wicket victory over New Zealand Women at Chelmsford.England’s spinners proved a key weapon, as Holly Colvin and Laura Marsh shared five wickets, while Aaron Brindle marked her return to international cricket with 3 for 11. Needing barely four-an-over for victory England had few problems during their chase as captain Charlotte Edwards led the way with an unbeaten 40.The tone for the match was set in the first over when Katherine Brunt removed Aimee Watkins with a wonderful leg-cutter. Although a second-wicket stand of 34 steadied New Zealand there was never any momentum behind the innings and when Colvin struck three times the slide was on.England’s fielding was also sharp, although Sarah Taylor needed some luck to gain a stumping off her pads to give Brindle her first wicket who also ended the innings with three balls unused.Edwards and Marsh then gave the run chase a rapid start as they added 42 inside the Powerplay. Marsh hit four fours in her 24 – New Zealand only hit four in their whole innings – before falling to Sian Ruck, but nothing was going to stop England.”Katherine Brunt bowled brilliantly today and the spinners chipped away and bowled fantastically and were backed up well by the fielders,” Edwards said after the game. “We’ve worked hard on our fielding recently and it has been something we have always prided ourselves on, so I’m really pleased with the performance today. It’s great the way we went out there and knocked off the runs, we were aggressive from the start and Laura Marsh played fantastically well.”I’m really looking forward to playing Australia on Saturday, they won today too so it should be an exciting game in Bristol.”