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O Corinthians pode ter mudanças para o jogo de quinta, contra o Fluminense, pelas quartas de final da Copa Sul-Americana. No treino desta terça, o técnico Fábio Carille fez atividades separadas entre defensores, meio-campistas e atacantes e sinalizou que pode iniciar o duelo diante do Tricolor das Laranjeiras com Mateus Vital como armador.

Durante a atividade no CT Joaquim Grava, Carille comandou uma atividade com os defensores. O sistema defensivo ganhou os reforços de Danilo Avelar e Cássio, suspensos no último fim de semana, quando o Timão bateu o Botafogo, por 2 a 0. Com isso, a zaga do Alvinegro foi formada por Cássio, Fagner, Manoel, Gil e Danilo Avelar.

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Na frente, a comissão técnica fez um treino de marcação pressão na saída de bola. O provável time teve Gabriel, Júnior Urso, Pedrinho, Mateus Vital, Clayson e Mauro Boselli. O centroavante Vagner Love ficou treinando cabeceios e finalizações de fora da área, enquanto Sornoza trabalhou com os reservas.

Ainda não há uma confirmação sobre os titulares que iniciarão o primeiro jogo das quartas de final contra o Fluminense, contudo há um indício de quais jogadores devem ser utilizados por Fábio Carille, que ainda terá a atividade da a próxima quarta-feira para definir a equipe.

Focado em conquistar seu segundo título nesta temporada, o Corinthians recebe o Fluminense às 21h30 da próxima quinta. A partida de volta será disputada na semana seguinte, no Maracanã. O classificado do confronto entre os brasileiros medirá forças com o Independiente Del Valle, do Equador.

Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand allrounder, has been formally charged with perjury. Cairns attended a North London police station on Thursday to hear the charge

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Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand allrounder, has been formally charged with perjury. Cairns attended a North London police station on Thursday to hear the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.Andrew Fitch-Holland, a London barrister, from Saffron Walden in Essex, who gave evidence in the libel case against Lalit Modi from which the charge emanates, has also been charged with one count of perverting the course of justice.Cairns, who flew from New Zealand to receive the charge, is scheduled to appear before Westminster Magistrates on October 2 for an initial hearing at which he will enter a plea. The full hearing, which will be heard in the Courts of Justice in London, is not expected to be heard until at least May 2015.Cairns will be able to return to New Zealand on the undertaking that he returns to the UK for the full hearing next year. He will also be eligible for legal aid.In a separate development, lawyers representing Modi have begun civil proceedings against Cairns to recover £90,000 paid in damages and costs following the libel case in 2012.A previous statement from the Crown Prosecution Service statement said: “We can confirm that we have authorised police to charge Chris Cairns with one count of perjury, which arises from a libel trial held in the UK in March 2012.”We have also authorised police to charge Andrew Fitch-Holland with one count of perverting the course of justice, which arises from actions taken relating to the same trial. Both suspects will be formally charged by police in due course.”Metropolitan Police stated that a 33-year-old woman and 36-year-old man also arrested as part of the investigation have now been released and that no further action will be taken.

ScorecardVarun Chopra led his side to victory•Getty Images

Captain Varun Chopra guided Warwickshire to a Royal London Cup Group B victory over Glamorgan at Swansea under the Duckworth-Lewis method.After being put in to bat, Glamorgan had reached 225 for 7 in 39 overs when heavy rain caused a near three-hour delay. When play restarted after a major mopping-up session the Bears, who are still in the mix to reach the quarter-finals, were required to chase 90 to win from 10 overs.The visitors managed that with nine balls to spare with Chopra (39 from 26 balls) winning the match with a straight six off Michael Hogan in the penultimate over.Will Porterfield struck Hogan and Jim Allenby for sixes as they reached 23 for 0 after two overs, but Porterfield holed out to Dean Cosker on the midwicket boundary. But the loss of Porterfield did not stop Warwickshire from reaching the halfway stage of their total after four overs.Cosker struck again in the sixth over to have Laurie Evans caught at deep extra cover as the Bears reached 54 for two and, though Rikki Clarke took some of the pressure off by striking Cosker for a four first ball, he was run out with a direct throw leaving the Bears needing a further 29 from 21 balls.Glamorgan’s hopes were not helped when Gareth Rees dropped Ateeq Javid and David Lloyd’s over went for 13 and it left the Bears needing 13 from the final two overs.Earlier, the mainstay of Glamorgan’s innings was a pair of half-centuries from Jacques Rudolph and Murray Goodwin. Rudolph’s half-century was his fifth in seven innings and he is the highest run-getter in the competition.Glamorgan suffered four separate rain breaks in their innings, which reduced the overs from 50 to 39. Rudolph put on 47 for the first wicket with Jim Allenby, who played on to Recordo Gordon.Rees, who had been preferred to fellow left-hander Will Bragg, made only 4 before being caught behind trying to leave a ball from Rikki Clarke. Rudolph, whose 50 came up off 71 balls with seven fours, put on 76 in 12 overs with Goodwin. But at 136 for 2, Rudolph was stumped by Tim Ambrose giving offspinner Jeetan Patel the charge on 57.Goodwin, who went to 50 from 40 balls with six fours and a six over long-off, and Chris Cooke continued to accelerate Glamorgan’s innings. The score had reached 163 for 3 when Goodwin was caught at midwicket and he was followed by Graham Wagg who holed out at long-off and Cooke who was stumped.Glamorgan took the Powerplay for the last two overs but lost Lloyd to the first ball skying one to long-off and were only able to have one of the Powerplay overs before rain ended the innings.

The Andrew Flintoff guessing game is back in operation after Lancashire named him in their NatWest T20 Blast squad to face Warwickshire at Old Trafford and again encouraged speculation of a comeback

David Hopps04-Jul-2014

The Andrew Flintoff guessing game is back in operation after Lancashire named him in their NatWest T20 Blast squad to face Warwickshire at Edgbaston and again encouraged speculation that tonight might be the night he makes a much-heralded return to professional cricket. Or there again, it might not: Lancashire are giving nothing away. Perhaps in this case they should do.With the five-year anniversary since his last competitive match rapidly approaching, Flintoff, at 36, is edging ever closer to a return. If he makes it tonight, he might for once struggle for the headlines – contending, as he will be, with the rival attraction of two televised World Cup football quarter-finals, including the appearance of the hosts Brazil.Flintoff turned up at Lancashire second XI game at Southport on Thursday and had a decent batting net plus a longish bowl in the middle.One observer was asked for an opinion on Flintoff’s comeback by ESPNcricinfo but he was determinedly looking to the future and claimed to be more taken by the batting talents of Haseeb Hameed, an England U-19 who made an impressive, if cautious, 30.It would also be unusual if he returned in Birmingham, so denying the home crowd at Old Trafford the chance to observe a spot of history. But Lancashire now have a run of three away games before returning to Old Trafford to face Derbyshire on July 18 and Durham, in their final match, six days later. A partisan crowd and a home quarter-final potentially already secured: that sounds more likely.Flintoff, the former England allrounder, and hero of their 2009 Ashes triumph, came out of retirement in May but although his efforts have commanded respect he has yet to force his way into a Lancashire side which lies second in the North Division and is strongly placed to qualify for the quarter-finals.He has made a couple of appearances for Lancashire’s 2nd XI, even playing a 50-over match against Nottinghamshire where he thumped 40 off just 23 balls to help his side to victory. Lancashire’s assistant coach, Gary Yates, has remarked that he is getting better and better.Whatever Flintoff’s fate, one record looks set to fall at Old Trafford: Lancashire’s Steven Croft is set for his 96th consecutive Twenty20 appearance, which is record in professional cricket in England and Wales.Flintoff’s short stint as a professional boxer – one victory against the American Richard Dawson at the MEN Arena 20 months ago – has been put down as a contributory factor in his cricketing comeback.Flintoff’s friend and agent, former Lancashire and England batsman Neil Fairbrother, said this week: “The fitness levels which he got out of boxing have enabled him to run in and bowl again without the pain and stiffness he used to have. He has realised his body is up to the task. I just think it will be an amazing experience for everybody in the crowd as and when he plays for Lancashire again.”

England opener Michael Carberry has questioned the man-management skills of coach Ashley Giles and expressed surprise at England’s decision to end Kevin Pietersen’s international career, declaring Pietersen had been “very helpful” on the Ashes tour

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England opener Michael Carberry has questioned the man-management skills of coach Ashley Giles and expressed surprise at England’s decision to end Kevin Pietersen’s international career, declaring Pietersen had been “very helpful” on the Ashes tour.Pietersen and Carberry were England’s two leading run scorers during their disastrous Ashes series in Australia but by February Pietersen was gone from England’s future plans and Carberry was unsure where he himself fitted in. Carberry was ignored by the England selectors throughout the ODI series that followed the Ashes and he said Giles, the limited-overs coach, had not shed any light on why that was the case.”I had a brief chat with Ashley Giles during the fifth ODI in Adelaide and his response was that he didn’t really know,” Carberry said in an interview with the . “If you don’t know, mate, I sure as hell won’t know.”It’s that age-old word: man-management. I’ve accepted over my short and breezy England career that that’s the way the selectors tend to do things. I wouldn’t say I’ve been in the loop when it comes to why I’ve been left out. I’ve had to try and work it out for myself which, again, is disappointing.”Despite being one of England’s more solid performers during the Ashes defeat, Carberry said that response from Giles left him wondering about his international future in all forms of the game, especially if Giles is named as Andy Flower’s replacement as Test coach.”Leaving Adelaide after our brief chat I’ve got to be honest, it didn’t fill me with a great deal of optimism,” Carberry said. “I feel that this is a question he should have answered. And, okay, if it’s not him answering, it should be one of the selectors. But that’s the way England like to do things. It disappoints me because I’m quite an approachable guy. Maybe I’m a bit straight-talking but it’s the best way to be in this world – say what’s on your mind.”Carberry said that “some very, very strange decisions have been made” since the tour of Australia, not least the ending of Pietersen’s England career despite him being the team’s leading run getter in the Ashes. As a 33-year-old trying to make a success of his second chance in the Test side, Carberry said he benefited from Pietersen’s advice on the mental side of the game during the Ashes tour.”It was a big surprise because I don’t think anyone saw that coming,” Carberry said. “Through the tour, certainly, Kev was very helpful to me. Over the years Kev, as one of the greats of the game, has always been very helpful in talking about the mental side. In England’s position you want to retain that knowledge as much as you can. You hope he will still be around the county game for the benefit of the next generation.”Carberry also said he felt he received better feedback from the Australians than he had from within the England camp. “I’ve played against enough Australians to know they’re very cagey with their compliments,” he said, “so I must have shown a glimpse of something for them to say: ‘Look, mate, you stood up through some serious spells’.”

The Pakistan coaching regime change has coincided with a stunning return to batting form for Shahid Afridi, but while praising the set up Afridi also said he was his own coach

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The Asia Cup is Pakistan’s first tournament under a new-look team management, with Moin Khan as coach and Zaheer Abbas as chief consultant. The regime change has coincided with a stunning return to batting form for Shahid Afridi, whose unbeaten 18-ball 34 against India and a brutal 25-ball 59 against Bangladesh were instrumental in Pakistan reaching the final.But correlation, Afridi has said, didn’t quite mean causation. While praising the support staff for backing him, he said he was essentially his own coach.”It was different earlier, it’s not that it was not good,” Afridi said, after Pakistan’s practice session on Thursday. “The support team that we have now are all knowledgeable and keep you positive. As I’ve said earlier also, having played at this level for so many years, I don’t need a coach. I am better off coaching myself. I know very well what to do and what not to do. It’s about having the right people to back you and support you.”Pakistan, Afridi said, had peaked at the right time in the tournament, and this would help them at the World Twenty20 as well.”I’ve already mentioned before how important for us this series is,” he said. “The World Twenty20 is coming up after this. I think we peaked at the right time, that was the requirement.”Pakistan have never beaten India in an ICC world event, be it the 50-over World Cup or the World T20. Asked if they could overcome the jinx when they meet in the World Twenty20 on March 21, Afridi said he wouldn’t think about it till the Asia Cup ended.”I’m not looking that ahead,” he said. “My and my team’s focus is just on the Asia Cup final at the moment. When the World Twenty20 comes, we will talk about the India-Pakistan then.”Afridi said India and Pakistan should play each other more frequently.”It should be like that only,” he said. “Pakistan have always supported India at every step. Despite threats, Pakistan have always toured India. I think cricket can only revive India-Pakistan relations. Sport brings friendship. The way I enjoyed my cricket in India, I never enjoyed anywhere else. We are after all neighbours. The relations should be good between us. Cricket can only help better the relations.”This year’s IPL, like most other editions before it, will not include Pakistan players. “Ask your Indian government,” Afridi said, when his views were sought on this. “Why ask me?”Afridi will turn 35 during the 2015 World Cup, and will have entered the 19th year of his international career. But the thought of retirement, he said, had not entered his mind yet.”Obviously, the World Cup 2015 is going to be a huge thing for me and my team,” he said. “As long as I’m fit and give my life to cricket, I’ll continue playing the sport. I will sideline myself the moment I start thinking that I’m becoming a burden on my team. I will not give anyone an opportunity to talk.”

The lips said one thing; the eyes quite another.Alastair Cook, as is his way, led from the front after England’s harrowing defeat in Adelaide. He faced the media with the same undemonstrative determination with which he faces the new ball. He didn’t shirk or make excuses. He never does.He spoke well, too. He spoke of fight and belief. He admitted faults and accepted responsibility. He was deeply impressive.But the eyes told another story. They told a tale of shock and disappointment and pain and exhaustion. They suggested that even he didn’t quite believe what he was saying. Amid the call to arms was the unmistakable hint of doubt. Cook has an innate honesty that would render him a hopeless politician.”We’ve been outplayed,” Cook said. “We haven’t played very well. You can’t get away from that. It’s hurting us like hell. It’s certainly not impossible [that we can retain the Ashes]. A lot of people will probably give us no chance. But if we don’t believe that in our dressing room, if we believe the urn has gone, then it might as well have gone.”Do we have the will? It’s a good question. Sometimes, when you haven’t been playing well, that’s one thing you start looking at: whether we do have that. I can only say, from speaking to the guys, and watching them – how much this is hurting – that we do. Only the guys will know that inside themselves. But I honestly believe we’ve got that.”Self-belief is certainly an issue you need to make sure you look after when you’ve lost heavily in two games. If we don’t believe it, then no one else is going to believe it. That’s the simple deal. We’ve got to look deep into our souls, deep into our hearts, and turn it round. We can’t mope about giving it the ‘poor me’. It’s whether we can drag a performance out of ourselves. We’ve got players who have scored a lot of runs, players who have taken a lot of wickets. We need to stand up and do that.”It does not help that Cook’s own form is poor. His record suggests – it all but insists – that he will find a way through the mire, but England – feeling the loss of Jonathan Trott as a building misses a supporting beam – can afford no delay. And he knows it more than anyone.”We’ve been outplayed. We haven’t played very well” – Alastair Cook•PA Photos

“I need to score more runs,” he said. “We all do. But there are only so many times you can tell the lads to do it. And if you’re not doing it yourself, it makes it harder.”I’m there at the top of the order as a batter and in the last two games I haven’t been scoring enough runs. I need to go and change that. You can get good balls sometimes as an opener, and you can play poor shots. In this game I’ve got a good ball and played a poor shot.”There are some very tough moments for the captain and we’re in the middle of one. We’re 2-0 down and I’m responsible as the captain for that. I’m leading the troops out there. It hits you hard.”England veered off course in this game long before they batted, though. By squandering several chances in the field – it is hard to recall a worse fielding display by an England side in the last decade – they wasted the opportunity of bowling Australia out for around 350. From then on, they were tired, dispirited and frustrated. Punch drunk, perhaps.”On a good first-innings wicket, we created some chances and we didn’t take those chances. Australia have been very clinical in taking every chance that has come to them. We haven’t done that. We let them off the hook and they punished us very heavily.”Quite clearly getting bowled out for 170 wasn’t good enough. And there were some poor shots in there as well. We have to be honest with ourselves.”It is hard to be optimistic for England. The next Test is in Perth, where their record is so grim that the squeamish should look away now: in 12 Tests at the ground, England have lost eight and won once. That was in 1978, when Australia were forced to field a virtual second XI due to World Series Cricket. Since 1991, England have lost all six Tests at the venue.”Our record there is of total irrelevance to this team,” Cook said. “We have to go there as this side in 2013 and deliver something very special, otherwise we’re not going to do what we’ve come to do.”Following their media responsibilities, the team had a long meeting in the changing room at the ground. It must have smarted that, even while they were picking through the bones of the most wretched England performance for several years – in other defeats, the batting has been at fault; here all three facets of the game began to crumble – they could hear the team song echoing from their Australian conquerors.The atmosphere in the England dressing room was later described as “honest.” Suffice to say, there is more than a little anger and frustration that, even in the second innings with a Test to save, four batsmen fell to hooks or pulls, one more hit a full toss to mid-on and not one was dismissed by a delivery that would have hit the stumps. England’s batsmen are making life much too easy for Australia’s bowlers and not giving their own a chance.England were woeful on the final day. They could have tried to keep Australia in the field in an attempt to tire their bowlers ahead of Perth. They could have tried to occupy the crease with a view to the rain saving them later in the day.Instead they thrashed around in a display of macho posturing that proved nothing about their ability to withstand the short bowling they will continue to be tested by this series. Some cheap runs were scored. Some cheap wickets fell. It was no consolation.But there are, if you look hard, a couple of areas of encouragement for England. Most of their top-order have shown that they are capable of withstanding the barrage – Michael Carberry, Ian Bell, Joe Root and Kevin Pietersen and even Cook have made half-centuries – and the bowling has remained respectable if impotent. If they can hold their catches and string some individual scores together, there is plenty of room for improvement.But his tour may well be remembered as a bridge too far for this England team. Flogged to exhaustion by a cricket board whose obsession with the bottom line has obscured the damage they are doing to the long-term future, several of this team have arrived with too many miles on the clock. Graeme Swann and James Anderson, revealed, have bowled more deliveries in Test cricket than anyone in the world since the start of the 2010-11 series. Sometimes it shows.

The Islamabad High Court has reserved judgment in the motion brought by the PCB against the order passed by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on July 20

Umar Farooq17-Dec-2013The Islamabad High Court has reserved judgment in the motion brought by the PCB against the order passed by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on July 20, when the court overruled all major decisions taken by interim chairman Najam Sethi, asked for fresh elections and changes in the structure of the PCB, among other measures. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan and Justice Noor-ul-Haq Qureshi heard the arguments on Tuesday and will issue an order later this week.Siddiqui’s original order had called for drastic changes in the PCB – it questioned the appointment of the selection committee as well as its financial and recruitment affairs – and brought the board’s administration to a standstill. The judge had ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan to carry out elections for PCB chairman, directed the federal government to appoint a District Management Group (DMG) officer as the PCB secretary, and also reduced the powers of the president of Pakistan, making the Prime Minister the new patron of the PCB.The court had earlier suspended the elected chairman Zaka Ashraf and questioned the legality of his election, calling the process “dubious” and “polluted”. Sethi had been appointed interim chairman until his powers were also eventually clipped.The PCB appealed against Siddiqui’s judgment, claiming the election could not be carried out because electoral collage of regional associations was incomplete. They argued that the board has its own constitution, according to which chairman has been nominated by the patron, a practice that has been followed for decades.Ashraf’s lawyer said to the bench that the government of Pakistan and the ICC had endorsed Ashraf’s election, and that he should be reinstated as PCB chairman.

Dom Sibley, the Surrey schoolboy who became the youngest scorer of a Championship double-hundred last week, has been named among England’s Under-19 touring party for a tri-series in the UAE during December

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Oct-2013Dominic Sibley, the Surrey schoolboy who became the youngest scorer of a Championship double-hundred last week, has been named among England’s Under-19 touring party for a tri-series in the UAE during December. Yorkshire’s 15-year-old bowler Matthew Fisher was also included in the 18-man squad.The Under-19s form part of a larger England Development Programme intake for the winter, announced by the ECB. The players selected will take on Pakistan and UAE, ahead of the Under-19 World Cup in February 2014, also to be held in the UAE. The other half of the EDP, formed largely of Under-17s, will take part in training and development camps at Loughborough, with fixtures scheduled against Sri Lanka Under-17s next year.”This winter will offer great development opportunities for both of these squads of young players,” the EDP chairman of selectors, David Graveney, said. “We will have two competitive England Under-19 tours for the players selected to be involved in, which will be an excellent opportunity for development and also the testing of skills of our best young players under tournament pressure in challenging conditions.”The EDP squad will also have a great opportunity to develop their games at a world class facility at the NCPC in Loughborough, with access to a variety of leading coaches, plus later a training camp in Sri Lanka testing their skills under extremely tough conditions.”England U-19s squad: Tom Barber (Hampshire), Ed Barnard (Worcestershire), Karl Carver (Yorkshire), Joe Clarke (Worcestershire), Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire), Harry Finch (Sussex), Matthew Fisher (Yorkshire), Miles Hammond (Gloucestershire), Ryan Higgins (Middlesex), Robert Jones (Lancashire), Lewis McManus (Hampshire), Rob Sayer (Leicestershire), Will Rhodes (Yorkshire), Josh Shaw (Yorkshire), Dom Sibley (Surrey), Jonny Tattersall (Yorkshire), Kishen Velani (Essex), Jack Winslade (Surrey)England Development Programme squad: Ben Green (Somerset), Max Holden (Middlesex), Arthur Godsal (Middlesex), Aaron Beard (Essex), Harry Dearden (Lancashire), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Haseeb Hameed (Lancashire), Jared Warner (Yorkshire), Mosun Hussain (Yorkshire) Joe Weatherley (Hampshire), Aneurin Donald (Glamorgan), Simon Walton (Nottinghamshire), Matt Taylor (Northamptonshire), Tom Moores (Leicestershire), Brad Taylor (Hampshire), Anuj Dal (Nottinghamshire), Harvey Hosein (Derbyshire)

Sami Aslam’s century set up a daunting total and Zafar Gohar’s four-wicket haul ensured Pakistan Under-19s thumped England Under-19s by 192 runs in the final of the tri-nation tournament

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ScorecardSami Aslam’s 121-ball 110 in the final helped Pakistan Under-19s seal the series•Getty ImagesA century from opener Sami Aslam, followed by an incisive spell of 4 for 25 from left-arm spinner Zafar Gohar, helped Pakistan Under-19s lift the tri-nation tourmanent trophy with a comprehensive 192-run win over England Under-19s in the final at Trent Bridge.Aslam, the Man of the Match, struck 10 fours during his 121-ball 110, and put up a mammoth 163 runs for the third wicket with Shayan Jahangir, who scored 85 off 70 balls. The pair were dismissed in consecutive overs towards the end of the innings, but Kamran Ghulam smashed eight fours and two sixes during his unbeaten 32-ball 61 to take the visitors to 343 for 6 in 50 overs. The English bowlers were all expensive, Will Rhodes, the best of them, picking up 2 for 64.England, chasing nearly seven-an-over, stumbled to 31 for 2 after the first 10 as openers Jonathan Tattersall and Harry Finch fell to left-arm seamer Mohammad Aftab. Ryan Higgins, with an unbeaten 70 was the only batsman to offer resistance as Pakistan kept up the pressure.A 42-run stand between Higgins and Will Rhodes sought to restore the chase but Gohar snuck through the latter’s defences to wrest the advantage back. He also accounted for Lewis McManus and Miles Hammond in the 26th over as England slipped to 116 for 6. Hussain Talat, with 3 for 18, was an able deputy, polishing off the lower order as he and Gohar set up a comfortable win that gave Pakistan the trophy.