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ScorecardRiki Wessels blazed 158 to begin Notts perfect day•Getty Images

Northamptonshire’s first taste of Division One cricket in a decade is rapidly turning sour. Given 76 overs in which to secure a draw in a badly rain-affected match, they instead crashed to 151 all out in 49.2 overs, a third defeat in four following last season’s euphoric campaign, when they combined promotion with victory in the Friends Life t20.Peter Siddle, the Australian fast bowler, took 4 for 61 and Ajmal Shahzad 4 for 46 as Nottinghamshire picked up their second win of the season to climb to fourth in the early table.Effectively half of the first three days had been lost to the weather and Nottinghamshire began the final day only 11 runs ahead at 259 for 5 in their first innings but a whirlwind 158 off 152 balls by Riki Wessels allowed them to declare with full batting points, a lead of 161 and two sessions plus 30 minutes in which to test Northamptonshire’s resolve.The visitors failed miserably and David Ripley, Northamptonshire’s director of cricket, was left to reflect that his side must learn lessons quickly to bridge the gap between the divisions.”We dominated with the bat at times last year and we’ve now got to earn the right to do that,” he said. “We need to invest more time in getting in because 30s and 40s are not going to win you matches. In the second innings today, there were a lot of batsmen who got starts but we never built any partnerships.”There is a gap in quality. There are sides, like Nottinghamshire, Sussex, Durham and Somerset who have cemented their position in the first division and the challenge for us is to become one of those sides because we want to be playing against these kind of opponents every week.”The big difference is in the back-up seamers. As one quality bowler comes off another one comes on, and you don’t get many overs off. That’s something we have to try to adjust to but we have to do it a bit quicker because we are four games in now.”But I think we have enough quality to compete in this division and we’re just not able to show it at the moment. In this match we have had our moments but have not been able to capitalise as Notts did. They got a foothold in the game today and ruthlessly hammered home their advantage.”Their foothold came from Wessels, 78 overnight – having been dropped, to Northamptonshire’s lasting regret, on just 22 – and it was after completing a 124-ball hundred that he really opened up, blasting his next 50 runs off just 20 deliveries.He had spectators in the Fox Road stand ducking for cover with a series of meaty leg-side blows, including one run of five sixes in the space of seven balls faced from the Pavilion End, four in five balls off Hall and one off Mohammad Azharullah, before showing he could also clear the longer boundary with a clip over midwicket for his eighth maximum when Maurice Chambers came on at the Radcliffe Road end.Ajmal Shahzad aided the cause with 36 off 25 balls and the two added 107 in just 51 deliveries before Wessels at last found a fielder, at wide long-on, prompting the declaration.Northamptonshire reached lunch only one down but after Stephen Peters, the captain and their best hope of plotting a path to survival, fell into a trap set by Siddle and flicked a ball off his legs straight to Andre Adams at short square leg, the innings followed a depressingly familiar pattern.Two more wickets in Siddle’s spell reduced them to 62 for 4. Adams held a return catch off a leading edge to remove Rob Newton, Siddle caught Ben Duckett, also off his own bowling, before Shahzad removed Hall – the man who had let Wessels off the hook at first slip on Tuesday – via a catch at the wicket as the South African followed one that swung away.Shahzad matched Siddle in claiming four wickets in the innings, taking out David Murphy’s middle stump and trapping Maurice Chambers in front, either side of another caught and bowled, popped back by Steven Crook to Samit Patel off a full toss.Things can only get better, Northamptonshire will hope. The start of the new NatWest T20 will be seen as a chance to rekindle form. Ian Butler, the New Zealand seamer who signed after three previous deals for overseas players fell through, will make his county debut in their T20 opener against Yorkshire at Headingley and face Middlesex in the Championship at Wantage Road on Sunday.

Dinesh Karthik, who was the second-biggest buy in the IPL auction, said he was not expecting to attract such a big bid

Vishal Dikshit12-Feb-2014

When his name went under the hammer for the IPL auction, Dinesh Karthik was sitting a few kilometers away, in the dressing room at the Chinnaswamy stadium, feeling disappointed with himself. He had just played on to a delivery from Vinay Kumar and walked back for 27, following a first-innings score of 91 in the Irani Cup match against Karnataka. His Rest of India team were on their way to a heavy defeat.Minutes later, someone in the dressing room yelled out that Karthik had been sold for Rs. 12.50 crore ($2.08 million) to Delhi Daredevils.”Somebody in the dressing room was just screaming that I went for such a price so that’s how I heard,” Karthik told ESPNcricinfo. “Very happy, definitely very happy and I wasn’t expecting such a big amount. Actually, I came to know a bit later as we didn’t have access to television in the dressing room.”Karthik attracted the second-highest bid on the first day of the auction, behind Yuvraj Singh’s Rs 14 crore ($2.33 million) bid from Royal Challengers Bangalore. Last year, playing for the victorious Mumbai Indians, Karthik amassed 510 runs with two fifties at a strike-rate of 124.08 and featured in all the 19 matches Mumbai played. Kings XI Punjab had bought him in the 2011 auction for $900,000, and he had moved to Mumbai in a pre-auction transfer in 2012, in exchange for Rajagopal Sathish, for an undisclosed sum.Now, Karthik is back in Delhi, for whom he had played for the first three seasons, but as part of a completely new Daredevils squad that features another marquee player, Kevin Pietersen.”I’m happy I’m back in Delhi but definitely I had a great time in Mumbai,” Karthik said. “I’ll miss the franchise, I had a great time there.”I think it will be wonderful. He [Pietersen] is a legend so it’s going to be great to share the dressing room with him and he’ll have a lot of things and inputs to say and It’ll be great to play with him.”Even though Karthik will be pleased with the big contract, not being part of India’s World T20 squad will have been a letdown, especially since he had been named among the 30 probables. But Karthik said he would continue to try and do well in whatever matches he plays.”I think I just missed the bus so there’s nothing else to it,” he said. “I just need to perform better and get back to the team. If I do well in IPL, it will be a good thing to happen. At the same time it’s important I score runs even in domestic cricket and everywhere else I play. I’ve got a few matches to come now and I’ll try and do the best in those series and take it from there.”

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Uma das novidades do São Paulo para a disputa do Campeonato Brasileiro, Alexandre Pato marcou o seu primeiro gol após o retorno ao Morumbi. Após passar em branco na vitória por 2 a 0 sobre o Botafogo, o atacante estufou as redes no triunfo por 2 a 1 sobre o Goiás, nesta quarta-feira, no Serra Dourada.

Em sua segunda passagem pelo Tricolor Paulista, Pato agora é um dos dez maiores artilheiros do clube neste século. O gol sobre o Esmeraldino o foi o seu 39º em 103 partidas pela equipe, igualando as marcas de Reinaldo e Diego Tardelli, que atuaram pelo time no início dos anos 2000.

MAIORES ARTILHEIROS DO SÃO PAULO NESTE SÉCULO

1º – Luis Fabiano – 212 gols em 352 jogos
2º – Rogério Ceni – 112 gols em 906 jogos
3º – França – 69 gols em 87 jogos
4º – Dagoberto – 61 gols em 241 jogos
5º – Borges – 54 gols em 150 jogos
6º – Kaká – 51 gols em 151 jogos
7º – Hernanes – 50 gols em 258 jogos
8º – Washington – 45 gols em 86 jogos
9º – Grafite – 40 gols em 98 jogos
10º – Alexandre Pato – 39 gols em 103 jogos
Reinaldo – 39 gols em 81 jogos
Diego Tardelli – 39 gols em 140 jogos

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Após abrir os confrontos das semifinais do Paulista contra o São Paulo, no sábado, o Palmeiras já está na Argentina para enfrentar o San Lorenzo, nesta terça-feira, pela Libertadores, tem outro Choque-Rei no domingo e, três dias depois, novo compromisso na Libertadores. Uma sequência que faz o time comemorar, graças ao elenco, em vez de falar em desgaste físico.

– Estamos bem fisicamente. Nosso time já vem desde o ano passado com uma sequência de jogos importantes no ano todo, e gostamos disso, de estar jogando jogos importantes, contra grandes equipes. Temos um elenco muito qualificado. Se algum jogador se sentir desgastado e o Felipão optar por trocar, com certeza, dará conta do resultado – falou Bruno Henrique.

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No ano passado, o Palmeiras disputou simultaneamente a Copa do Brasil e Libertadores, nas quais parou nas semifinais, e o Campeonato Brasileiro, que acabou conquistando. A alternativa do técnico Luiz Felipe Scolari em meio à maratona foi alternar escalações, com sucesso. Por isso, a sequência atual não incomoda o elenco.

Se tudo der certo, e o Palmeiras for à final do Campeonato Paulista (vencendo o São Paulo, no tempo normal ou nos pênaltis, no domingo, no Allianz Parque), o time terá iniciado no sábado uma sequência de cinco jogos importantes em 16 dias: São Paulo no Morumbi, no sábado, pelas semifinais do Paulista, San Lorenzo, na terça, na Argentina, pela Libertadores, São Paulo, no Allianz, no domingo, pelas semifinais do Paulista, Junior Barranquilla, no Allianz, no dia 10, pela Libertadores, e a primeira final do Paulista, no dia 14, como visitante.

– Dificulta ter muitos jogos, mas temos um elenco muito bom, em todos os aspectos, todas as posições, e o Felipão coloca todos para jogar. Os jogadores que jogarem contra o San Lorenzo cumprirão o dever, que é ganhar, porque não entramos para perder nem para empatar. Contra o São Paulo, o Felipão tem muitas peças maravilhosas para ganhar o jogo – disse Deyverson.

– Na terça-feira, já tem um jogo muito importante na Libertadores e temos de fazer de tudo para buscar um bom resultado na Argentina. Depois, focamos na semifinal do Paulista. Estamos muito contente por ter estes jogos – continuou Bruno Henrique.

O Palmeiras lidera o Grupo F da Libertadores com seis pontos, enquanto o San Lorenzo ocupa a segunda posição, com quatro pontos – o Melgar, do Peru, com um ponto, e o Junior Barranquilla, da Colômbia, ainda sem pontuar, completam a chave. O compromisso das 19h15 desta terça-feira, na Argentina, valerá, ao menos, para o Verdão se manter na primeira colocação e abrir vantagem.

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Após três meses de calendário competitivo em 2019, todos os clubes da Série A do Brasileirão já completaram, pelo menos, 17 jogos oficiais na temporada. E, depois do término dos torneios nos estados é chegada a hora de fazer um balanço sobre quem está se destacando em alguns quesitos, até o momento, somando as partidas dos estaduais, da Copa do Brasil, da Copa Libertadores, da Copa do Nordeste e da Copa Sul-Americana.

Na galeria abaixo, saiba quem tem o melhor aproveitamento, quem tem mais vitórias, quem tem menos derrotas, que é o melhor mandante, quem é o melhor visitante, quem marcou mais gols, quem sofreu menos gols, quem anota mais tentos, em média, quem sofre menos tentos, também em média, além daqueles times que estão há mais tempo sem perder. Confira a seguir:
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MELHOR APROVEITAMENTO

1) Cruzeiro – 15 vitórias/5 empates/0 derrota – 83,33%
2) Flamengo – 14 vitórias/5 empates/2 derrotas – 74,60%
3) Goiás – 14 vitórias/2 empates/4 derrotas – 73,33%
4) Internacional – 13 vitória/4 empates/4 derrota – 68,25%
5) Grêmio – 12 vitória/7 empate/2 derrota – 68,25%

MELHOR MANDANTE

1) Cruzeiro – 9 Vitórias/1 empate/0 derrota – 93,33%
2) Santos – 10 vitórias/1 empate/1 derrota – 86,11%
3) Atlético-MG – 10 vitórias/2 empate /1 derrota – 82,05%
4) CSA – 7 vitórias/3 empates/0 derrota – 80%
5) Grêmio – 8 vitórias /2 empate/1 derrota – 78,79%

MELHOR VISITANTE

1) Flamengo – 6 vitória/3 empate/0 derrota – 77,78%
2) Goiás – 7 vitória/1 empate/2 derrota – 73,33%
3) Cruzeiro – 6 vitórias/4 empates/0 derrota – 73,33%
4) Internacional – 6 vitórias/2 empate/2 derrotas – 66,67%
5) Fluminense e Vasco – 6 vitória/2 empate/3 derrota – 60,61%

MAIS VITÓRIAS

1) Cruzeiro – 15 vitórias (20 jogos)
2) Goiás – 14 vitórias (20 jogos)
3) Flamengo – 14 vitórias (21 jogos)
4) Vasco – 14 vitórias (23 jogos)
5) Atlético-MG e Avaí – 14 vitórias (24 jogos)

MENOS DERROTAS

1) Cruzeiro – Invicto
2) Flamengo e Grêmio – 2 derrotas (21 jogos)
3) Palmeiras – 2 derrotas (20 jogos)
4) Fortaleza – 3 derrotas (20 jogos)
5) Chapecoense – 4 derrotas (27 jogos)

MELHORES ATAQUES

1) Bahia – 50 gols
2) Atlético-MG – 45 gols
3) Cruzeiro – 44 gols (20 jogos)
4) Avaí – 44 gols (24 jogos)
5) Flamengo – 43 gols

MELHORES MÉDIAS DE GOLS

1) Cruzeiro – 2,20 gols por jogo
2) Flamengo – 2,05 gols por jogo
3) Grêmio – 2,00 gols por jogo
4) Athletico-PR – 1,89 gols por jogo
5) Atlético-MG – 1,88 por jogo

MELHORES DEFESAS

1) Grêmio – 5 gols sofridos
2) Palmeiras – 7 gols sofridos
3) Cruzeiro – 9 gols sofridos
4) Fortaleza – 11 gols sofridos
5) Fluminense – 13 gols sofridos

MELHORES MÉDIAS DE GOLS SOFRIDOS

1) Grêmio – 0,24 gol sofrido por jogo
2) Palmeiras – 0,35 gol sofrido por jogo
3) Cruzeiro – 0,45 gol sofrido por jogo
4) Fortaleza – 0,55 gol sofrido por jogo
5) Avaí – 0,58 gol sofrido por jogo

MAIOR INVENCIBILIDADE DO MOMENTO

1) Cruzeiro – 20 jogos sem perder
2) Fortaleza – 11 jogos sem perder
3) Internacional – 6 jogos sem perder
4) Bahia – 5 jogos sem perder
5) Chapecoense, Flamengo, Fluminense e Grêmio – 4 jogos sem perder

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Não foi surpresa a rejeição pelos clubes da proposta da CBF de limitar a apenas uma a troca de treinadores durante o Brasileirão de 2019. A intenção da entidade pode até ter sido positiva. Mas uma medida assim, que bate de frente com uma das práticas – ainda que condenável – das mais usuais do futebol nacional, realmente precisa de estudos mais detalhados e não pode ser decidida de forma superficial como o assunto foi tratado na reunião do conselho arbitral do campeonato, sexta-feira no Rio.

Não foi a primeira vez que a CBF propôs esse tipo de limitação. Em edições anteriores do Brasileirão, tentou passar o limite de até duas trocas por clube, o que também foi rejeitado sem muita discussão. Ao seguir essa linha, a entidade atende a demandas de entidades de classe como a Federação Brasileira dos Treinadores de Futebol (FBTF) e a Associação Brasileira de Treinadores de Futebol (ABTF) que há muito defendem medidas de proteção da categoria, principalmente um mínimo de estabilidade nas relações trabalhistas.

O combate ao troca-troca é necessário. Mas a simples limitação da mudança dos treinadores soa como algo arbitrário. Mais do que isso, pode ser encarada como uma interferência direta na gestão dos clubes, retirando deles o poder de trabalhar com quem julga ser melhor para essa ou aquela função. Há formas mais inteligentes e eficazes de proteger os treinadores. Boa parte delas, inclusive, já expressas em projeto de lei que tramita no Congresso Nacional desde 2014 e que, após o acidente aéreo da Chapecoense, recebeu o nome de Lei Caio Junior, em homenagem ao técnico que foi uma das vítimas da tragédia.

O projeto – que o próprio Caio Junior ajudou a elaborar como fundador da FBTF – estabelece mecanismos legais que modificam fortemente a relação dos treinadores com os clubes, reduzem a fragilidade dos contratos de trabalho, mas sem interferir na livre decisão dos empregadores. Entre os pontos previstos estão o estabelecimento de um tempo mínimo de seis meses de vínculo – o que não significa que ele não pode ser rompido, desde que cumpridas as exigências impostas pela nova lei – a obrigatoriedade de registro dos contratos na CBF e o pagamento de direitos de arena, hoje restrito na maior parte dos clubes aos jogadores.

A grande mudança, contudo, que funcionaria com a aprovação da nova lei, é a obrigatoriedade de acerto e pagamento efetivo de todas as pendências contratuais do clube com o treinador, quando esse for dispensado, antes da contratação de um novo profissional. A aposta da categoria é que esse dispositivo funcione como um desestímulo às demissões precipitadas e ilimitadas como acontece atualmente. Vale lembrar que, hoje em dia, há clubes que chegam a pagar salários a dois ou três técnicos simultaneamente por conta de rescisões atabalhoadas de contratos que, não raramente, terminam na Justiça. E não é bom para ninguém.

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Nos últimos anos, a CBF, justiça seja feita, tem se preocupado com a valorização da profissão de treinador. Os cursos de formação, que todos estão obrigados a fazer para obter a licença de trabalho nos clubes. É um passo importante, inclusive, para que se abra o mercado internacional de trabalho para os técnicos brasileiros já que a falta de uma licença reconhecida pela Fifa é um dos principais problemas que a categoria enfrenta hoje.

A recusa da limitação das demissões não deve, assim, ser encarada como uma derrota dos treinadores. Questões que não foram abordadas na proposta da CBF, como se a demissão por justa causa e não por desempenho técnico entraria na cota da limitação, precisam ser respondidas. Independentemente do resultado, a volta do assunto ao Conselho Arbitral do Brasileirão deve ser um estímulo para que novas gestões sejam feitas– inclusive mobilizando a CBF e alguns clubes que já se mostraram favoráveis à causa – para destravar a tramitação e aprovar a Lei Caio Junior no Congresso. O diálogo amplo, sem dúvidas, é o melhor caminho para por fim ao troca-troca que não interessa a ninguém.

Allrounder feels he ‘snatched’ at early opportunities in England set-up but is keen to make his chance count

Vithushan Ehantharajah02-Jun-2025″Imagine getting us five-down and Will Jacks comes out to bat?” Harry Brook had reflected on Thursday evening in Birmingham.It certainly was novel. Prior to Thursday’s first ODI against West Indies, Jacks had never previously batted in that position in List A cricket. In fact, he’d only done it once in all white-ball cricket – a couple of months ago in the IPL, a forgettable 1 off 1 for Mumbai Indians against Delhi Capitals.His match-morphing cameo at Edgbaston – a boundary-filled 39 off 24 deliveries, in a vital stand of 98 with Jacob Bethell that put England out of reach – was an impressive hard launch in a new position, albeit in step with an attacking batter. But it was Sunday’s innings in Cardiff, a more restrained 49 off 58, that highlighted the tactical dexterity he can bring to the role.Jacks struck just two fours while soaking up 20 dot-balls, but his entire role was geared towards handing the strike to an inspired Joe Root, whose unbeaten 166 went on to win England the match and the series. Root credited Jacks for his “maturity”, “skill level” and “calmness” throughout their stand of 143.There was a bit of Freaky Friday about it all. Root is usually the one getting the hitters on strike – a point not lost on either of them. “I did actually mention that to him at one stage,” Jacks said.”He played beautifully and made it very easy for me. I think the situation just required me to build a partnership. That’s all I looked to do really – try and build a score, taking as limited risks as possible, and that ended up just being ones and twos. When a boundary was required, he did that with ease, like he does.”The origins of Jacks’ new role are intriguing enough, and it’s worth walking backwards through the reasoning. When Brook took on the white-ball captaincy, he identified the need for a few more allrounders and a wider variety of spin.Under the previous regime, Liam Livingstone had been picked to perform a similar role, with his legspin/offspin repertoire and lower-order hitting potential. However, his combined total of 93 runs in nine innings at the 50-over World Cup and Champions Trophy highlighted a series of situational blindspots, and he has since been put out to pasture.Jacks and Bethell, Brook thought, with their right and left-arm fingerspin, could provide those options – combining as the fifth bowler – while deepening the batting. After two games, that logic is playing out perfectly.Jacks’ offspin broke through to end Keacy Carty’s century•PA Photos/Getty Images

At the time of conception, both players were out at the IPL, with Jacks operating with a similar “neither here nor there” remit with Mumbai. Bowling occasionally and batting without a set position had him thinking on his feet, trying to become a more malleable cricketer.With Jacks in particular, Brook knew he had the wares to do the job. The pair have come through the ranks together, notably when Brook was Jacks’ Under-19 captain. That pre-existing relationship, as far as Jacks was concerned, made transitioning into an allrounder role that little bit easier.”I’ve known Harry for a very long time. We played Under-19s cricket together almost a decade ago. When he mentioned this role to me, it came quite comfortably, and easy. Once I knew I had that trust and it had been spoken to me, I thought a bit about how I want to play it.”At the IPL just now, I was carded at No.3 and a couple of times I ended up having to go down No.6 and 7. That’s just limited-overs cricket, you have to be ready for anything. We practice that and I think it’s just about clarity of mind. Very rarely in 50-over cricket am I going to have to go out there and try and hit my first few balls for six. You always have more time you think, it’s just about adjusting to that with clarity.”The “clarity” Jacks speaks of around 50-over cricket has been learned the hard way by this group. Of the many talking points emanating from the blowouts at the 2023 50-over World Cup and this year’s Champions Trophy was the lack of List A experience among the players. Jacks, for instance, has made 17 of his 39 appearances in the format for England.It seems, though, the offshoots of the team’s recent ODI form – these victories over West Indies ended a run of seven defeats in a row – has been a greater understanding of the rhythms of the 50-over format, and a chance to bed in for a generation reared on 30 overs less.”I think watching 50-over cricket and thinking about it over the last year or two, we all realise there’s so much time. Coming from T20, that’s not something you always have the luxury of,” Jacks said.Related

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“Even going in the other day [first ODI], I came in during the 41st over – there was still so much time to go. That was on my mind [in the second ODI], and that was what we spoke about… even at 7-and-a-half, 8-an-over it got up to, there was no urgency. We know we can chase that with ease. It was just about staying calm, staying in control, and taking it as deep as possible.”Jacks’ experience of building into a T20 innings as an opening batter translates well for his new gig. Though he does have limited experience at the death – of his 202 T20 innings, he has only batted in the last four overs 11 times – he still strikes at 221.87 at an average of 53.25 in this period.This is still something of a make-over for Jacks. Despite 42 caps across all formats, including two Tests in Pakistan in 2022, he has never quite belonged to any of England’s three sides. A series of disappointments have punctuated the last two years, including missing out on the first tranch of multi-year central contracts in 2023 – despite being told he would be one of the 26 – before missing out on the Champions Trophy squad earlier this year.Though he has scratched his competitive itch with high-profile franchise gigs in the IPL and SA20, being back in the national reckoning clearly nourishes him. Particularly as he feels he snatched at the first part of his white-ball career.”I do,” Jacks answered immediately, when if he thought this was a new chapter. “I’ve come into it with a really fresh mindset, which has helped. Having that break… obviously I’d have loved to play every game, but that’s life. And I think it’s allowed me to reset.”I think my first time in the team I was just loving playing for England, and probably not performing how I wanted. I was ‘over-trying’ to get the results I wanted, whereas now I feel comfortable in myself, in the role and I think that’s really helped.”

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsRohit Sharma emerged from a form slump to play a crucial innings•BCCI

England fought hard to assemble a respectable total on a cold, wintry day in the Punjab, but when the fog cleared the view was a familiar one: another defeat in a one-day series in India. India’s pursuit of 258 was far from trouble free, but a winning margin of five wickets with 15 balls to spare was emphatic enough and left them 3-1 up one to play.Instead of a dead rubber in ODI in Dharamsala, in the foothills of the Himalayas, England would be forgiven for fancying a spot of skiing, but sadly for them the weather forecast is improving and only the cricket is going downhill. A record extended to 18 ODI defeats in their last 20 in India is proof of that.

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• India won their fourth consecutive home ODI series against England. Of their last 20 matches against England at home (bilateral series), India won 18 and lost two.

• The target of 258 is the third-highest successful chase in ODIs in Mohali. India also chased 299 against England at the same venue in 2011.

• Suresh Raina’s 89 is the second-highest score by an Indian No. 5 batsman against England, after Yuvraj Singh’s 118 in 2008.

• For the sixth time in ODIs in Mohali, 450 or more runs (batsman runs) were scored with five half-centuries but no hundred.

• Joe Root’s strike rate of 126.66 is the fourth-highest by an England No. 6 batsman against India (fifty-plus scores only).

• The 95-run stand between Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen is the fourth highest second-wicket stand for England in ODIs against India in India. It is also the second highest second-wicket stand for a visiting team in Mohali.

It might have been different had England not fallen again to the curse of Steven Finn’s knee. When Finn thought he had Suresh Raina caught by Alastair Cook at first slip, India still needed 80 from 89 balls with what would have been five wickets intact. But Finn’s recalcitrant right knee had collided with the stumps again and umpire Steve Davis invoked Law 23, ruling that Raina had been distracted. Cook’s protests that Finn was entitled to a warning went unheeded.Raina, in blissfully enterprising mood, took advantage of his let-off. Only Finn and James Tredwell demanded much respect. Tim Bresnan was despatched with ease, Joe Root’s callow offspin routinely picked off, and when met by Jade Dernbach’s circus act, Raina was the ringmaster. His unbeaten 89 from 79 balls guided India to victory with such comfort it passed almost unnoticed.The story of this series has been one of growing India dominance. MS Dhoni has looked as impregnable in one-day cricket as he seemed flawed in the Test series. After England’s win in the opening game in Rajkot, fuelled by a late batting assault from Samit Patel, India’s batsmen dominated in Kochi and Ranchi and when they got the benefit of an influentiual toss in Mohali, their quick bowlers accepted it with alacrity. They beat England in English-style conditions, although they did have the better of them. As for Ravindra Jadeja, India will be more convinced than ever that they have a player who can balance their one-day side.India’s run chase was a personal triumph for Rohit Sharma, whose selection ahead of Ajinkya Rahane as a replacement opener had not possessed obvious logic on a seam-friendly morning, but who took advantage of easing conditions to move on from a lean run of form which had brought eight single-figure scores in his last nine innings. Rohit burst ahead after reaching his fifty, addressing Tredwell’s threat in the process, and had 83 from 93 balls when Finn won a fortunate lbw decision for a delivery slipping down the leg side.On another day of fallible umpiring, Gautam Gambhir was adjudged caught at the wicket, carving at a wide one and left with a look of unfeigned surprise that the umpire thought he had hit it.Virat Kohli was gently removed by Tredwell, not as much dismissed as quietly informed that he would take no further part in the game. In the calming manner of a hospital consultant, Tredwell’s entire demeanour is designed to allay fears. “Good morning, Mr Kohli, do relax, there is nothing to worry about.” But there was and by the end of his first over, Kohli had chipped a gentle return catch as if half-anaesthetised. There must have been some dip, or subtle change of pace, but you could study innumerable replays and struggle to discern it.Tredwell claimed a second wicket when he defeated Yuvraj Singh’s sweep, dismissing him for the fourth time in the series.England could ill afford to allow let-offs in the field, but both Kohli and Rohit survived half chances. Rohit, on 12, drove Tim Bresnan high to mid-off where Kevin Pietersen leapt to palm the ball in the air with his right hand but failed to locate it as it fell. Kohli was 2 when he pulled at Finn and the ball fell between the wicketkeeper, Jos Buttler, and Bresnan at fine leg.Buttler was running backwards for a catch which could not have fallen more inconveniently had Kohli marked the spot with a cross, but he was a stand-in wicketkeeper for Craig Kieswetter, and an inexperienced one at that, and it was natural to wonder whether a more experienced keeper would have been more assertive.India’s pace attack made impressive use of a good fast-bowling morning after Dhoni had won the toss. Bhuvneshwar Kumar conceded only 30 runs in a probing 10-over allocation delivered without interruption and Ishant Sharma was as dangerous as at any time in either Test or one-day series.Alastair Cook’s methodical half-century was an appropriate response, but his demise, lbw to a ball from R Ashwin that pitched well outside leg stump was another rum decision. Umpires drawn from outside the elite panel, plus the absence of DRS, equals a greater likelihood of error wherever a game is played.There was 76, too, from Pietersen, but it was a more fretful innings delivered by a batsman anxious for the first shaft of sunlight. He was struck on the elbow as Ishant cut one back and narrowly escaped an lbw decision in the same over when he just got outside the line. He needed 13 balls to get off the mark; 33 to find the boundary, an authoritative straight drive against R Ashwin.He was illuminated only briefly, muscling Ishant over midwicket for six, but he got an excellent yorker in response as Ishant ensured that for once his bowling figures were not damaged by bowling at the most pressing times.Cook, for all his frustration at his dismissal, had provided a solid layer, but England’s cause was not helped when they lost Eoin Morgan and Patel in quick succession.Morgan has had a poor series in a country in which, with IPL in mind, he was anxious to advance his reputation. He drove Ashwin weakly down the ground and only reached Yuvraj at mid-on. Patel was promoted to No. 5, presumably with the approaching batting Powerplay in mind, but he made a single in 10 balls when he chipped a return catch to Ravindra Jadeja. Patel stalked off; he has done more stalking off recently than is good for him.England rallied with 100 from the last 10 overs, energised by Joe Root’s maiden ODI half-century, 57 not out from 45 balls, after he had been dropped off Ishant by Kohli at slip. Throughout the winter, in all three forms of the game, Root has proved more adaptable than perhaps even he had expected. His cricketing intelligence is one of his greatest assets.He should also have fallen on 42, a slog sweep against Jadeja bringing a comical drop by Raina at midwicket. Jadeja’s left-arm slows have disturbed England throughout the series. The dismissal of Buttler and Bresnan in his final over left him with 3 for 39.A paragraph on Suresh Raina, accidentally deleted, was reinstated in this report on January 24

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsVirender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar both lost their middle stumps to James Anderson•BCCI

After the first day in Nagpur it was tricky to know which side was on top. Twenty-four hours later there was a clear answer, after another world-class display from James Anderson removed India’s brittle top order to leave them tottering on 87 for 4 at the close – a scoreline that included failures for Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar – in reply to England’s 330.Debutant Joe Root, the youngest player in the England side who compiled a outstanding 73, and Graeme Swann, the oldest with a lively half-century, had done the bulk of the scoring for the first part of the day but throughout England’s long occupation of the crease – 145 overs – the one cry going up was ‘wait for Sehwag’, a player rarely dictated to by conditions. In Anderson, though, England have a bowler who is also able to transcend a pitch.With his second delivery to Sehwag he produced a wicked inswinger which, unusually for a Test opener, beat the outside edge to take out middle stump. It was high-class pace bowling; it is an obvious thing to say that batsmen are most vulnerable when they start, but it takes great skill from a bowler to take advantage in such style. While it was not an immediate end to India’s hopes, Sehwag’s early departure ensured that England, even when they weren’t taking wickets, would have been confident of controlling the game.The pitch was again the focus of much attention and there was just a hint during the final session that it was starting to play a few more tricks – albeit slow ones. England’s spinners, Swann and Monty Panesar, found a little more purchase than their India counterparts but that may just have been because they bowled better.Swann got one to turn and bounce at Cheteshwar Pujara although replays showed it had come off elbow rather than glove towards short leg. That, though, should take nothing away from the brilliance of Ian Bell’s catch, low to his right. Root had started the innings as bat-pad but, after he failed to stay down for a half-chance offered by Pujara, the role was given back to Bell. The position needs to be filled by the best fielder for the role.Pujara’s departure led to a raucous welcome for Tendulkar but he was never comfortable at the crease. Panesar ripped consecutive deliveries past his outside edge before his other nemesis in the England side, Anderson, removed him for the ninth time in Tests in his first over back in the attack. Another tick for Alastair Cook.Tendulkar, caught on the crease, got an inside edge into the stumps having been caught playing off the back foot when everything to date in the match has told batsmen to get forward. Anderson had become the most successful bowler against Tendulkar in Test cricket. There is one more innings in this series for Tendulkar, then who knows.

Smart stats

• The number of deliveries faced by Joe Root (229) is the third-highest by an England batsman on debut against India and the ninth-highest overall for an England batsman on debut.

• Sachin Tendulkar has been dismissed by James Anderson the most times in Tests (nine). Three of those dismissals have been bowled. Anderson has had the most success against Tendulkar and Jacques Kallis (seven times).

• Tendulkar has been dismissed bowled 53 times in Tests. Only Rahul Dravid (55 times) has been bowled more often. In 2012, however, Tendulkar has been out bowled most often (six times).

• Virender Sehwag’s duck is his 16th in Tests and his seventh against England. Among top-order Indian batsmen, only Pankaj Roy (8 times) has been dismissed for a duck more often against England.

• Graeme Swann’s half-century is his fifth in Tests. It is also the sixth-highest score by an England No. 9 batsman in Tests against India.

• The 103-run stand between Root and Matt Prior is the fourth-best sixth-wicket stand for England in Tests in India. The record is 171 between Ian Botham and Bob Taylor in Mumbai in 1980.

• Prior’s half-century is his 30th fifty-plus score in Tests. Among England wicketkeepers, only Alan Knott has more fifty-plus scores (35).

Gautam Gambhir, meanwhile, played what is becoming his template innings: a couple of run-out scares, a few well-timed off-side boundaries and then a wasteful end. Anderson did not even need to work him over, instead Gambhir played a half-hearted drive to edge to Matt Prior. One over later Anderson was given a break after a spell of 4-1-3-2. A case when figures don’t lie.Although not as dramatic a session as when India collapsed on the third evening in Mumbai or fourth afternoon in Kolkata it could prove just as telling. It was the situation that England managed to avoid during their innings, fully justifying the grafting approach which continued on the second morning.Root’s highly accomplished stay, which began shortly before tea on the first day and included a 103-run partnership with Prior, had spanned 229 deliveries when he finally gave a return catch to Piyush Chawla in the afternoon session. His half-century had come from 154 balls and even the loss of two quick wickets did not shake his concentration. If anything, it prompted a few more attempts at innovation, with some deft paddles and sweeps that would have made Graham Thorpe proud.Swann, meanwhile, played a priceless innings to ensure that England did not fritter away their position, which looked possible at 242 for 7, and he dominated as much as anyone else had managed. He twice lofted boundaries over deep midwicket against the spinners before lunch and after the interval he became ever-more aggressive, but selectively so rather than wild hacking.He deposited Jadeja over long-on for the first six of the match and after Root fell, closing the face as he tried to aim through the leg side, Swann targeted the straight boundaries to reach his first half-century since his career-best 85 against South Africa, at Centurion, in 2009.England had resumed on 199 for 5 and the familiar pattern of dead-batted blocks was the order of the day. After an early burst from Ishant Sharma it was all spin, which prompted both batsmen to remove their helmets in favour of England caps, Prior’s slightly more worn and sweat-stained than the crisp, fresh-out-of-packet version Root was wearing. This really could have been Test cricket out of the 1980s in the subcontinent.Steadily, though, England did begin to make useful progress. Any width was latched on to by both players as Root cut Chawla through point and Prior repeated the effort against Jadeja and another took him to his fifty. Curiously, both Jadeja and, more so, Chawla, were given a bowl before Pragyan Ojha, but in the end the breakthrough came from the man who now appears the fourth-choice spinner having begun the series tipped to be the major threat.R Ashwin switched his line to around the wicket and floated a straight delivery past Prior’s outside edge. Prior was aghast that he had managed to miss the delivery while Ashwin’s celebrations were those of relief as much as joy. India manufactured back-to-back wickets as Dhoni, in one of his more alert and innovative pieces of captaincy in what has been a passive series for him, immediately withdrew Ashwin from the attack in favour of Sharma, who promptly trapped Tim Bresnan lbw with reverse swing.Sharma, though, could not bowl long spells and the movement he found reinforced the feeling Dhoni would have been better served with another seamer. How he must be wishing he had someone as good as Anderson.

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O segundo dia de trabalhos do Palmeiras visando a partida contra o Ceará, no domingo, no Pacaembu, não teve centroavantes no gramado da Academia de Futebol. Mas contou com uma visita para Luiz Felipe Scolari: o técnico Fernando Diniz, atualmente sem clube, que apareceu conversando com o treinador antes do início das atividades.

Como tem sido costume, a imprensa teve direito a somente aos primeiros dez minutos do trabalho no gramado. Neste período, foi possível ver Fernando Diniz, que defendeu o Verdão como jogador em 1996, conversando com Felipão. Ele está desempregado desde 25 de junho, quando foi demitido pelo Atlético-PR com 34% de aproveitamento e em penúltimo lugar no Brasileiro.

No gramado, foi possível acompanhar o aquecimento e constatar que nem Deyverson nem Borja estavam no campo. Deyverson ficou se exercitando nas dependências internas da Academia de Futebol ao lado de Marcos Rocha, lateral-direito que trata lesão na panturrilha direita e só deve voltar a jogar no começo do mês que vem.

Deyverson ainda não é tratado como desfalque para a partida de domingo. Assim como Borja. O colombiano estava à disposição da sua seleção e, por isso, ainda não treinou no clube nesta quarta-feira, mas deve aparecer como opção para Scolari no fim de semana.

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O goleiro Weverton, que não tinha treinado no gramado nessa terça-feira, apareceu trabalhando normalmente ao lado dos colegas de posição. O camisa 21 foi poupado da última partida, dando chance a Fernando Prass na vitória por 2 a 0 sobre o Grêmio, no domingo, no Pacaembu.

Os desfalques certos do Palmeiras para enfrentar o Ceará são o zagueiro Gustavo Gómez e o volante Thiago Santos, que receberam o terceiro cartão amarelo e estão suspensos. O lateral-esquerdo Victor Luis e o volante Felipe Melo voltam a ficar à disposição, já que cumpriram o gancho por acúmulo de amarelos na última rodada. Os dois devem ser titulares, enquanto Edu Dracena, Antônio Carlos e Luan disputam as duas vagas na zaga.

O Palmeiras lidera o Campeonato Brasileiro com 59 pontos, três de vantagem para o segundo colocado Inter, a nove rodadas do fim da competição, e enfrenta o Ceará no Pacaembu porque o Allianz Parque receberá show da cantora colombiana Shakira. Daqui uma semana, o time abre contra o Boca Juniores, na Argentina, os duelos semifinais da Libertadores.

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