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ESPNcricinfo previews the latest round of matches in the T20 Blast with both groups tightly packed

Will Macpherson03-Jul-2015North GroupDurham v Leicestershire, Chester-le-Street, 5.30Leicestershire head into a weekend double-header riding high after pulling off a remarkable heist – with a wicket from the final ball – to claim a tie against Yorkshire last week. They sit third in the congested North Group and have both O’Briens – Kevin and Niall – available before they join Ireland’s bid to qualify for next year’s World T20. Durham’s Scotland star Calum McLeod is also available before he heads off to the qualifiers.So crowded is the North Group that while Durham sit sixth, they are just two points behind second-placed Worcestershire and two ahead of table-proppers Derbyshire. As with the County Championship defeat to Yorkshire earlier this week, the injured Paul Coughlin is replaced in the squad by Jamie Harrison, who hopes to make his T20 bow three seasons after his maiden first-class and List A appearances for the club. Leicestershire face four Blast matches in ten days – as well as a Championship match against Kent – and have named a 15-man squad for this match, including youngsters Lewis Hill, Aadil Ali and Rob Sayer, as well as in-form former Durham man Ben Raine.Lancashire v Yorkshire, Old Trafford, 6.30The Roses clash, following one for the ages at Headingley last month which Jos Buttler’s outrageous 71 won for Lancashire, has a distinctly Australian feel, with Yorkshire’s Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch lining up opposite their World Cup winning team-mate James Faulkner. Lancashire have lost three of their four games since Buttler’s knock but still sit a point ahead of Yorkshire in the table – both are outside the top four – as they scramble for qualification. Finch will have fond memories of this fixture last season, when he smashed 88 in 55 balls to help Yorkshire to a five-wicket win.Aussies aplenty, but both sides are missing England stars, with Buttler unavailable for Lancashire and Adil Rashid joining Joe Root, Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance among Yorkshire’s absentees. Man of the moment Jonny Bairstow remains, but Liam Plunkett is injured, while spinners James Middlebrook and Karl Carver are called up in Rashid’s stead. Lancashire have named the eleven who lost by one run to Warwickshire last week, plus Tom Bailey and Saqib Mahmood.Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire, Trent Bridge, 6.30Seventh-placed Nottinghamshire can draw level with second-placed Worcestershire with a win but they will have to do without star men James Taylor and Luke Fletcher, who both picked up hamstring injuries in the Championship match between the two sides this week. Riki Wessels, playing his 100th T20 in England, will captain the side in Taylor’s place. Even with the group so tight, Nottinghamshire can barely afford another defeat if they are to continue their run of five consecutive home quarter-finals. Sam Wood and Will Gidman take places in the squad after missing out against Northamptonshire on Sunday. Worcestershire are hoping to win four away games on the bounce for the first time in this format.Birmingham v Derbyshire, Edgbaston, 6.30It is top plays bottom at Edgbaston as star draw Brendon McCullum makes his home debut for high-flying Birmingham Bears who have won six of their first eight matches and 12 of their last 14 in the format. They sit two points clear at the top of the North Group after their dramatic, traffic-defying, weather-beating one-run win over Lancashire last Friday. Birmingham have named an unchanged squad while Derbyshire – who are bottom of the group but just four points off second after an important victory over Nottinghamshire last week – have named a squad containing the 11 players involved in that game, as well as batsman Ben Slater.South GroupSomerset v Gloucestershire, Taunton, 5.30Gloucestershire’s dramatic last-ball defeat to Surrey at Kia Oval on Wednesday leaves them a point and a position behind sixth-placed Somerset, leaving plenty riding on this game as the group stages reach the business end. Gloucestershire boast the tournament’s joint leading run-scorer – Michael Klinger with 520 – and wicket-taker – Tom Smith with 20 – but captain Klinger said after the defeat to Surrey that they now need to win all of their remaining fixtures to qualify for the knockouts.Recent history, however, is not in Gloucestershire’s favour. Somerset have won the last five fixtures between the two teams, including last month’s five-wicket win in Bristol. For Gloucestershire, Liam Norwell – is replaced in the squad by Miles Hammond, while Somerset add Craig Overton and Lewis Gregory to the XI that were pipped by Glamorgan at Taunton on Sunday.Surrey v Middlesex, Kia Oval, 6.30The first London derby of 2015 takes place after the two bottom sides in the South Group enjoyed contrasting midweek home games. Surrey will be in confident mood; Azhar Mahmood’s last-ball six against Gloucestershire gave them their second win on the spin, and they’ve won seven of their last eight against their rivals from across town. Mahmood, meanwhile has 11 more T20 wickets against Middlesex than anyone else (32) and has dismissed skipper Eoin Morgan six times in the format. Only the seven times Zaheer Khan’s has snared MS Dhoni gives a bowler more dismissals of a single batsman in T20 cricket.For Surrey, Freddie van den Bergh has been added to the 13-man squad for the win over Gloucestershire, while bottom-placed Middlesex, seeking to avoid a sixth consecutive defeat, have overhauled the squad that was thrashed by Sussex at Lord’s on Thursday. Mitchell McClenaghan is out with a badly broken and dislocated finger, while experienced men James Franklin and Nick Compton make way, with Ryan Higgins, Nick Gubbins, George Scott and Gurjit Sandhu all vying for places in the side.Hampshire v Glamorgan, Ageas Bowl, 7.00pmThese two sides are jostling for position in mid-table in the South Group. Hampshire – who have qualified for the knockout stages for the last five seasons – are battling to avoid losing three consecutive T20s for the first time since 2007 and the only change to the squad for the defeat to a Jesse Ryder-inspired Essex last Friday is the absence of allrounder Liam Dawson, who has headed to Chelmsford on loan, while Joe Gatting is expected to make his first T20 appearance of the season in place of the injured Sean Ervine.Glamorgan’s hopes of qualification for the knockout stages took a boost with their outstanding win at Taunton last Sunday but in that game they bid farewell to South African Wayne Parnell, whose stint with the county ended. Graham Wagg misses out with a lower back injury, while England U-19 star Aneurin Donald – who is available after completing his A-Levels – is in line to make his T20 debut.Sussex v Kent, Hove, 7.00pmSussex thrashed Middlesex at Lord’s on Thursday – their fourth win on the spin – to go top of the South Group but Kent, who have played a game less, can overtake them with a win in front of a sell-out crowd at Hove.Kent will be without death bowling specialist David Griffiths for the rest of the campaign after he underwent surgery on his back this week, but they welcome back Sam Billings from England duty, as well as Matt Coles and Darren Stevens, who sat out their clash with the Australians with minor injuries. Stevens needs just eight runs to become the first man to 3000 domestic runs in English cricket, while Oxford MCCU captain Sam Weller – a 20-year-old pace bowler – is also named in the squad for the first time. Sussex have named an unchanged squad.

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Não teve gol do Gabigol contra o CSA, apesar das oito tentativas do atacante na partida deste domingo. Não teve também bola na rede de Bruno Henrique, vice-artilheiro do Flamengo em 2019. Ainda assim, teve mais uma vitória rubro-negra e com um tento de um outro pilar ofensivo do time: Arrascaeta.

Essa versatilidade do ataque da equipe de Jorge Jesus, com variados jogadores decidindo as partidas, é tão incomum que caminha para um feito inédito na história do Campeonato Brasileiro. Pela primeira vez, uma equipe pode terminar com os três principais artilheiros da competição.

Com o tento deste fim de semana, o uruguaio chegou a 11 no campeonato, assumindo a terceira posição no ranking empatado com Gilberto, do Bahia, e Wellington Paulista, do Fortaleza. Gabigol segue liderando com 19 gols, enquanto que Bruno Henrique é o segundo, com 12.

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Na história, apenas duas vezes um clube teve os dois principais goleadores do Brasileirão: o Santos, em 1961, com Pelé (9 gols) e Coutinho (6), e o Vasco, em 1984, com Roberto Dinamite (16) e Arturzinho (14). Três, se acontecer, será a primeira vez.

ARTILHEIROS DO BRASILEIRÃO 2019

1º – Gabigol – Flamengo – 19 gols
2º – Bruno Henrique – Flamengo – 12 gols
3º – Arrascaeta – Flamengo – 11 gols
Gilberto – Bahia – 11 gols
Wellington Paulista – 11 gols

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Se aproveitando do sonho de milhares e milhares de jovens em se tornarem jogadores profissionais bem-sucedidos, golpistas tem se aproveitado do prestígio recente de um clube gaúcho para atraírem pessoas a caírem em uma artimanha que pode custar caro.

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Utilizando o nome do São Luiz de Ijuí e até mesmo mencionando o atual treinador, Leandro Machado, pessoas estariam se passando por intermediárias em negociações que, supostamente, auxiliariam a chegada dos interessados ao elenco da equipe que disputará novamente em 2020 o Campeonato Gaúcho.

Para isso, pessoas até mesmo de outros estados eram contatadas por um telefone com o DDD 77, geograficamente identificado como pertencente ao estado do Bahia, apresentando a oportunidade e a necessidade do pagamento de uma taxa de transferência para levar o atleta ao interior gaúcho.

Tamanha tem sido a repercussão desse golpe que o clube, através de nota oficial, utiliza um tom conscientizador alegando que jamais falará em nome de qualquer representante terceirizado ratificando o fato de que todas as contratações são feitas diretamente pelo Departamento de Futebol do Rubro.

Confira a nota oficial do São Luiz sobre o tema:

O Esporte Clube São Luiz comunica que indivíduos mal intencionados – e não autorizados pelo clube -, estão utilizando, indevidamente, do nome da entidade e do técnico, Leandro Machado, para fazer propostas a atletas com a suposta oferta de vaga no elenco 2020.

Se você recebeu esse tipo de oferta, denuncie e não compartilhe informações falsas.

New Zealand’s three-pronged spin attack smothered Australia to 103, which was chased down comfortably, thanks to a quick start from the top order

The Report by Shashank Kishore in Nagpur21-Mar-2016
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsOffspinner Leigh Kasperek ripped through Australia’s top order•IDI/Getty Images

Suzie Bates, the New Zealand Women captain, applied the same principle on a pitch where Kane Williamson and company pulled off a coup against India last week, by fielding three spinners on a slow, dry, and dusty Nagpur deck. They repaid the faith with an authoritative display to sucker-punch Australia Women, the three-time World Twenty20 champions, by six wickets to all but seal a semi-final berth at the Women’s World T20.Meg Lanning’s glee at winning the toss, a record that she hasn’t been proud of, in recent times, subsided even before she could get a feel for the conditions as she was beaten by Sophie Devine’s rocket throw to walk back for a duck. By then, Australia had sensationally slipped to 2 for 3, leaving the middle order with the unenviable task of batting out a majority of the overs in the face of more spin. They eventually managed 103 for 8, courtesy sprightly knocks from Ellyse Perry (42) and Jess Jonassen (23). But it wasn’t enough to test New Zealand, whose 12-hour travel ordeal to reach Nagpur yielded fruit. Bates and Rachel Priest produced a fiery 58-run opening stand as New Zealand made light work of the target.On a surface where batsmen had to curb their natural instincts, Australia came out looking to attack and the first sign of that resulted in a double-strike to Leigh Kasperek, the offspinner, as Ellyse Villani and Alyssa Healy holed out to mid-on. When Lanning walked back after a mix-up with Erin Osborne, Australia were completely taken aback by what hit them. Their struggle to get the ball off the square forced Bates to complete the quota of Morna Nielsen and Kasperek upfront; Australia limping to 17 for 4 in eight overs.Alex Blackwell briefly attempted what the top order didn’t: batting outside the crease in an effort to smother the spin. Soon enough, she brought out the reverse sweep to bring up the first boundary of the innings, before being foxed by a delivery that spun across the face of the bat to hit the off stump.Perry, however, comfortably rotated strike and brought out the big hits seamlessly to give her side some impetus. Particularly impressive was the manner in which she used her feet and her reach to combat New Zealand. She found an ally in Jonassen, who lived a charmed live after being dropped thrice, as the pair put together 49 in just 36 balls. After Perry fell, Jonassen and Beth Mooney unleashed their aggression as Australia blasted 76 off the last 10 overs, to give their bowlers something to defend.Australia’s spinners did not learn from New Zealand’s. They came out bowling either too full or flat, and were duly punished. Priest climbed on to Kirsten Beams, the legspinner, as the openers reeled off 51 in seven overs. Australia’s faster bowlers didn’t particularly find the wicket to their liking either. Bates fearlessly hit through the line while Priest took the aerial route to muscle five fours and a six.It was Bates, though, who unfurled the shot of the evening when he lofted Beams inside-out over cover for a six; the helplessness in Australia’s ranks was well summed up as Lanning applauded that effort. In many ways, the shot and the reaction summed up the day for both sides. While Australia did strike back with four wickets late in the day, the Bates-Priest stand meant the damage had been done.

Adrian St John, 22, is understood to have died following an incident on Sunday night. Local media reports say that a 24-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of murder

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Apr-2016

A young British cricketer has died after reportedly being shot during an armed robbery in Trinidad.Adrian St John, 22, is understood to have died following an incident on Sunday night. Local media reports say that a 24-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of murder.St John, who played for Alleyn Cricket Club in south London and for his university squad at the University of Hertfordshire, was captain of the The Chris Gayle Academy in London, which opened in 2013 to “improve access to good quality education, training and employment for at risk young people in Jamaica and the UK.”Gayle tweeted: “Such sad news to hear. My condolences to his family & friends. Adrian St John was the captain of the academy. #Sigh.”Donovan Miller, programme manager for the Chris Gayle Foundation, said: “I’m really finding it hard to come to terms with it, how someone could do something like that to such a lovely person.”Miller added that Mr St John had been one of the first members of the Chris Gayle Academy in London. “He wanted me to support him to go to the Caribbean,” he said, “and to kind of push hard with his cricket.”Paul Taylor, head of the Surrey Cricket Foundation, said: “On behalf of Surrey CCC and the Surrey Cricket Foundation I would like to send our condolences to Adrian’s family as well as everyone who knew and played with him at this difficult time. He was clearly a talented cricketer and a very popular guy and everyone at the club was shocked and saddened when we heard this news.”The Foreign Office confirmed it was in contact with authorities in Trinidad following the death of a UK national.According to local media reports, the incident occurred after Mr St John had stopped his car to pick up two friends. He was shot as he drove away after the robbery.

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AeroFla, título iminente do Brasileirão, treinador que virou ídolo, ataque avassalador, goleada contra o Grêmio nas semifinais. Não é fácil para o torcedor do Flamengo segurar a empolgação, o que explica a grande quantidade de rubro-negros festejando pelas ruas de Lima, no Peru, palco da decisão deste sábado da Libertadores. Mas do outro lado tem o pior adversário possível: o River Plate, clube sul-americano que conquistou duas vezes o torneio nos últimos quatro anos e que se transformou numa máquina de levantar taças sob o comando de Marcelo Gallardo. Os argentinos demonstram uma frieza incrível para superar cenários que parecem consolidados. Na campanha deste ano, os Millonarios venceram apenas duas partidas na fase de grupos e, ainda assim, ninguém conseguiu tirá-los do caminho de mais uma decisão. O time de Gallardo também investe nas rápidas trocas de passes pelo chão, com o suporte dos rápidos atacantes Rafael Borré e Matías Suárez. O goleiro Franco Armani, o meia Ezequiel Palacios e o volante Enzo Pérez são outros destaques de um time extremamente equilibrado e que não costuma entrar em desespero quando pressionado. Além do ótimo futebol que vem demonstrando desde a chegada de Jorge Jesus, o Flamengo terá que domar o aspecto psicológico e a pressa em resolver a partida. Com a primeira final disputada em jogo único, não haverá segunda chance.

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