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Ajit Chandila, the suspended Rajasthan Royals cricketer, has been sent to three-day police custody by a Delhi court for interrogation under provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Jun-2013Ajit Chandila, the suspended Rajasthan Royals cricketer, has been sent to a further three days in police custody by a Delhi court. He was arrested for his alleged involvement in the IPL spot-fixing case, along with his Royals team-mates Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan.”The matter is being investigated under the provision of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA),” the judge Ajay Kumar Jain said. “The prosecution is to be given full chance to unearth the entire crime. The accused is remanded in 3-days of police custody.”Chandila is required to corroborate evidence collected from the other accused cricketers after invoking MCOCA, which is a special law passed by the Maharashtra state government to tackle organised crime syndicates and terrorism and contains far stricter provisions relating to bail and admissibility of confessions compared to the Indian Penal Code. It allows police longer spells of custody of the accused.Chandila has been directed to be produced in court on June 20. The court also deferred the hearing on bail applications of Chandila and five others, including former Ranji player Baburao Yadav, to June 22 after being informed by the police that some statements of the bookies arrested in the same case have to be placed on record.Chandila was arrested on May 16 and remained in police custody till May 28 before he was remanded to judicial custody.While Sreesanth and Chavan were granted bail on June 10 and released the next day, Chandila had not applied for bail.The three Royals cricketers were arrested, along with 11 bookies, and were charged under the Indian Penal Code section 420 and 120B, which deal with fraud, cheating and criminal conspiracy.

Herschelle Gibbs thrashed an unbeaten 83 off 58 balls as Durham beat Derbyshire by eight wickets

27-Jun-2012
ScorecardHerschelle Gibbs scored his second half-century in three games•Getty Images

Herschelle Gibbs thrashed an unbeaten 83 off 58 balls as Durham beat Derbyshire by eight wickets with 17 balls to spare in Wednesday night’s Friends Life t20 match at Chester-le-Street.Derbyshire’s 131 for 7 was more than had looked likely for most of their innings but 45 came off the last four overs as former Durham player Garry Park made an unbeaten 29 off 20 balls.Derbyshire chose to bat on a cloudy evening and took 10 off the first over but needed a further four overs to double that tally, while losing two wickets. Wes Durston pulled Chris Rushworth to Ben Stokes on the square leg boundary, while Graham Onions conceded only two runs in his first two overs and struck with his ninth ball.He swung the ball away from left-hander Ross Whiteley, who followed it and edged to Phil Mustard, recording a five-ball duck. Usman Khawaja and skipper Wayne Madsen put on 52 in eight overs before spinners Gareth Breese and Scott Borthwick both struck with their sixth ball.Khawaja was well caught just inside the long-on boundary by Onions for 33, made off 38 balls, then Chesney Hughes went down the pitch and was bowled by Borthwick. Madsen had made 27 off 30 balls when he skied a straight drive off Borthwick and Johann Myburgh ran in from long-on to hold a well judged catch.Jon Clare boosted the total with a swift 17, but it was plain sailing for the Durham openers as Gibbs and Mustard had 60 on the board after seven overs before spinner David Wainwright applied a brake.With the opening stand worth 70 in nine overs, Mustard went down the pitch and was stumped for 35 as Wainwright conceded only eight runs in his first three overs. Dale Benkenstein made seven off 12 balls before driving Hughes to long-off but Gibbs hurried Durham home.He had seven fours in his 42-ball half-century then added three sixes, two of them off Rana Naved-ul-Hasan.

Mohammad Amir, the banned Pakistan fast bowler, has confirmed that he played for Addington in a Surrey Cricket League Division One match on June 4

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Jun-2011Mohammad Amir, the banned Pakistan fast bowler, has confirmed that he played for Addington in a Surrey Cricket League Division One match on June 4 but said that he took part only because he was told playing would not violate his ICC ban. His comments come in the wake of revelations in the that the ICC is investigating whether he violated his five-year ban for spot-fixing by turning out for Addington.”I was informed by club representatives before the game that it was a friendly match, being played on a privately owned cricket ground,” Amir told . “I asked the club representatives if the match fell under the jurisdiction of the ECB and they informed me that the match did not. I spoke to several club representatives about the issue and they all told me that it was a friendly match and therefore would not contravene my ban from the ICC. I was informed that I was fine to play.”Amir also denied that he had signed any registration documents with the club and insisted that he would never have taken the risk of playing had he known it was an official match.”I would not be stupid enough to knowingly play in a match that I knew would contravene my ban. Wherever I am going to play cricket, the world will know about it. I would not be stupid enough to play in a match where I knew that I would be taking a risk”.Amir was central to Addington’s 81-run victory in the game, against St Luke’s CC. He surprisingly opened the innings and scored 60 before returning figures of 4 for 9 in seven overs.This is not the first time Amir has appeared in a game which has had to be investigated by cricket authorities. Earlier this year in January, when he was under provisional suspension and still awaiting punishment for the Lord’s scandal, he turned out for a Rawalpindi club to play a friendly game. That prompted the ICC and PCB to investigate the nature of the game before the former eventually concluded that it was an unofficial game and the club wasn’t registered with the Rawalpindi cricket association; Amir was thus found to have not broken the ICC’s anti-corruption code of conduct.

An extraordinary return of 3 for 5 by Isle of Wight-born spinner Danny Briggs eased Hampshire to an emphatic 45-run Friends Provident t20 win over Kent in Canterbury

02-Jul-2010
ScorecardAn extraordinary return of 3 for 5 by Isle of Wight-born spinner Danny Briggs eased Hampshire to an emphatic 45-run Friends Provident t20 win over Kent in Canterbury.
The 19-year-old slow-left arm spinner ran through the Kent middle order in the space of four overs to secure Hampshire’s sixth win in 11 in the South Group, while inflicting an eighth defeat on the Spitfires, who now look unlikely to qualify for the knockout stages.Batting first in what transpired to be a low-scoring clash on a spin-friendly pitch, Hampshire limped along at seven an over – a sedate pace for t20 – especially against an injury-ravaged Kent attack.Sean Ervine comfortably top-scored for the visitors, clattering 44 from 26 with six fours before he top-edged a catch to the keeper off Malinga Bandara.Otherwise none of the Royals top order moved to 20 as Sri Lankan legspinner Bandara took 3 for 14 and occasional offspinner Martin van Jaarsveld 3 for 25, a haul that included the experienced scalps of Nic Pothas (13) and Dominic Cork for a first-ball duck.Kent lost Joe Denly early in the reply when a crisp pull-shot against Chris Wood, which the right-hander believed might sail for six, simply picked out Jimmy Adams at deep square leg.Spitfires skipper Rob Key (22) and van Jaarsveld coaxed the home score through to 28 before Key, in looking to pull a short one from Wood through the leg side, bottom edged the ball onto his foot only to see it trickle back onto the stumps and remove one bail.Without the experienced duo of Darren Stevens and James Tredwell, both absent on England Lions duty, Kent’s rookie middle order struggled to hit boundaries as Hampshire skipper Cork took pace off the ball through Briggs.The teenage slow left-armer, who said afterwards he “didn’t bowl one bad ball”, had left-hander Alex Blake caught at backward square-leg off a miscued paddle and Matt Coles (one) snaffled at deep cover.Kent’s last hope rested on the shoulders of former Pakistan allrounder Azhar Mahmood, who reached 16 from 17 balls, but when he slogged across the line to be bowled, Kent’s hopes of progressing beyond the knockout stages went with him.Talking after securing the win with 21-balls to spare, Briggs said: “It came out well. I just kept to my plans and have got more confident as the tournament has gone on.”

The PCB has taken charge of the Quaid-e-Azam stadium in Mirpur and has identified it as a potential venue for international cricket. Mirpur is the largest town in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), a self-governing state under Pakistani control to the north-east of Punjab, and is known as ‘Little Britain’ because of the large immigrant population in England from this area.The region’s cricket coordinator Fazal-ur-Rehman told ESPNcricinfo that the AJK sports development authority had handed over the stadium’s rights to the PCB on Monday. “The stadium has all the basic requirements for cricket but the PCB was keen to develop it and raise it to international standards,” Rehman said. “This part of the region is fine from the security point of view.”Pakistan currently has 25 first-class venues and four major Test venues. The Mirpur stadium has a capacity of 16,000 and has hosted eight first-class matches from 2005 to 2009; it has also hosted several Under-19 international matches against Australia in 2007.”It is a potential venue with a good law and order situation,” Intikhab Alam, the PCB’s director of international cricket, said. “We have scrutinised various venues around the country and this venue has all the features to be an internationally recognised stadium. There are things that obviously have to be improved and the PCB will ensure all the required facilities for international fixtures. The city has quality logistic facilities, including hotels.”

Angelo Mathews is determined to play his role as an allrounder for Sri Lanka despite being sidelined by constant leg injuries

Sa'adi Thawfeeq05-Apr-2012Angelo Mathews, touted as the heir apparent to the Sri Lanka captaincy, is determined to play his role as an allrounder in the team despite being sidelined by constant leg injuries.Ashantha de Mel, Sri Lanka’s chief selector, suggested on the eve of the Test series against England that Mathews faced a potential future as a specialist batsman, saying: “I don’t think we can use Mathews as an allrounder in the future. He has some problem with his legs and it is very unlikely he will bowl much. We have to look at him purely as a batsman.”Mathews himself, who was powerless to intervene as England crawled towards a position of authority on the second day of the second Test in Colombo, disagreed. “Definitely I am not going to give up on my bowling in ODIs and T20 cricket,” he said.”The longer format I need to rethink and manage my workload. I’ve been having a few issues in my legs. I really don’t know why I tend to get injured constantly. I am trying my level best to get rid of those injuries.”Mathews missed the World Cup final against India last year and was ruled out of the Asia Cup last month as well as the first Test of the present series.”If I have a long season I need to readjust and think about my workload because playing in all three formats it takes a lot out of you,” he said. “As an allrounder it’s very demanding. You need to keep yourself fit.Mathews returned to the Sri Lanka side after being forced to miss the first Test at Galle because of an injury to his right calf and scored a cautious 57 from 157 balls to help Sri Lanka to a first innings total of 275.”We were looking at around 300-plus when we went to bat in the morning but the English bowlers bowled really well. The pitch wasn’t easy to bat on as it was getting slower and slower but the bowlers made it even harder for us,” he said.”The English have played really well for the first couple of days and we need to get back into the game by taking a few wickets early on. If we can do that we can push them back. The wicket is not that great to bat on and it’s pretty slow so we need to keep bowling in the right areas and do the right things.”Mathews said that Alastair Cook. who was missed at 20 and remained unbeaten on 77 at the close. was the key batsman to dismiss. “If we had held onto that catch it would have been different, but chances do go begging sometimes. Nevertheless he batted well and he held his nerve. We need to get his wicket early tomorrow.”

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Mesmo com a derrota por 2 a 0 para o Corinthians, na última quarta-feira, o técnico Mano Menezes pretende manter o rodízio de jogadores para a próxima partida, contra o São Paulo, que acontece às 16h deste domingo, no Mineirão. Entretanto, pelas dicas que o técnico deu em entrevista coletiva concedida nesta sexta-feira, os jogadores poupados do confronto só devem ser definidos no treino de sábado.

– Vamos decidir amanhã (quais jogadores serão poupados). Essa questão é muito clara aqui dentro da comissão técnica, não é uma decisão que foi tomada aleatoriamente. É a tomada para aquilo que nós julgamos ser um encaminhamento adequado dessa intensidade, sucessão e sequência de jogos que vamos ter pela frente. Se eu não fizer isso, como decisão final, se não fizermos isso como comissão técnica, nós vamos perder os jogadores lá na frente, é só olhar para os adversários, cada jogo você alguém saindo com lesão muscular, com dificuldades.

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Questionado sobre o motivo do revezamento dos jogadores, Mano Menezes revelou ter adotado a tática por conta da quantidade de competições disputadas pela Raposa nesta temporada. Atualmente, além dos compromissos do Campeonato Brasileiro, a equipe também tem suas atenções voltadas para as quartas de final da Copa do Brasil, que acontece no dia 1º de agosto, contra o Santos, e nas oitavas de final da Libertadores, marcada para o dia 8 de agosto, contra o Flamengo.

– Porque vão acontecer (as lesões), então queremos ter todos, porque depois eu também não preciso, lá na frente, retirar (os jogadores) em um momento que talvez seja mais crucial para a gente como equipe, em um jogo super decisivo, porque aí não vou poder escolher. Aí nós vamos ter que desgastar nesse e aí vamos colocar em um limite, mas aquela hora será a hora de colocar no limite. Agora, nós podemos conduzir assim – concluiu Mano Menezes.

Com o revés para o São Paulo na última quarta-feira, o Cruzeiro perdeu duas posições na tabela do Brasileirão e chega para a 16ª rodada brigando para continuar no G6, com 24 pontos.

Suryakumar Yadav, the batsman who was omitted from the Mumbai Indians squad for the Champions League T20 on account of injury, has scored an unbeaten 182 in an under-22 tournament in Mumbai on Thursday

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Sep-2011Suryakumar Yadav, the batsman who was omitted from the Mumbai Indians squad for the Champions League T20 on account of injury, has scored an unbeaten 182 in an under-22 tournament in Mumbai on Thursday. Yadav’s omission from the MI squad on September 22 had left them with seven Indian players, which prompted their request for an additional overseas player for the tournament and resulted in theirs being the only team allowed to field five foreign players in the final XI.Yadav was captaining the Chandrakant Pandit XI against Dilip Vengsarkar XI in a three-day match of the Shalini Bhalekar Trophy; on Wednesday he had fielded the entire day and bowled 6.3 overs as well, according to . The paper also reported that he’d had surgery on an injured finger, which was the reason for his being withdrawn from the Mumbai Indians squad.”As soon as we heard he was available, we picked him for this tournament,” Yadav’s team coach Deepak Patil told ESPNcricinfo. “We wouldn’t play an unfit player. Our selectors had assessed and approved his fitness, and picked him to play.”The current event is aimed at selecting the Mumbai squad for the CK Nayudu Trophy, the national Under-22 tournament. Yadav is seen as a sure-shot pick and a possible captain.He was one of six Indian players to be ruled out of MI’s CLT20 campaign, along with Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, Ali Murtaza and Dhawal Kulkarni.In addition to those six injured players, the CLT20 technical committee had announced that they had also received medical reports ruling out two more Mumbai players – Aditya Tare and Pawan Suyal – from the tournament. That left eight out of Mumbai’s 23 contracted players unavailable for selection. It also meant the final 14-member squad had an equal number of Indian and overseas players, without a buffer to handle any potential injury to an Indian player. The organisers then allowed Mumbai to field five overseas cricketers in their playing XI, though other other IPL sides continued to be limited to four.The MI media manager refused to comment on the issue.

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فجرت تقارير صحفية مفاجأة قوية فيما يتعلق بمستقبل مدافع فريق مانشستر يونايتد، هاري ماجواير خلال موسم الانتقالات الشتوي الحالي.

ويُعد ماجواير أكثر اللاعبين تعرضًا للانتقادات والهجوم في صفوف مانشستر يونايتد، بسبب تذبذب مستواه وكثرة أخطائه.

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وسبق أن ارتبط المدافع الإنجليزي بخطوة الرحيل عن الشياطين الحمر، أكثر من مرة، ولكنه ظل في النهاية رفقة الفريق.

ومع ذلك، فإن التكهنات حول مستقبل ماجواير لم تتوقف، حيث ذكر الصحفي أنيل كاندولا بشبكة “TalkSPORT” الإنجليزية أن اللاعب صاحب الـ29 عامًا لم يعد مرغوبًا في مانشستر يونايتد.

وأوضح أن هناك ناديًا إنجليزيًا على وشك التعاقد مع ماجواير، وهو أستون فيلا حيث يتطلع إلى ضم اللاعب.