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Named in Afghanistan’s T20I squad to face Ireland; will be his first on-field action since the 2023 World Cup

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Mar-2024Rashid Khan has been named in Afghanistan’s squad for the upcoming Ireland T20Is, meaning he has now fully recovered from the back injury and subsequent surgery that has kept him out of action since the 2023 World Cup.Rashid had missed stints at the Big Bash League, the SA20, and Afghanistan’s assignments against UAE, India, Sri Lanka and now the Test and ODIs against Ireland due to the injury. He had travelled with the squad to India in January, but at that point was not yet good to go. His team-mate Ibrahim Zadran had said then: “He is not totally fit, but is travelling with the team. We hope that he gets fit as soon as we expect him to. He’s doing his rehab with the doctor, and we will miss him in the series.”Rashid had been Afghanistan’s leading wicket-taker at the ODI World Cup, with 11 wickets. If he can slot in here and hit the ground running, that will be good news for Afghanistan as they prepare for the next big global assignment: the T20 World Cup in the USA and West Indies in June. It will also be good news for Gujarat Titans, whom Rashid represents at the IPL. Titans open their IPL 2024 campaign on March 24.Getty ImagesIn another big boost to their spin attack, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who was recovering from a right phalanx sprain, also returns.Uncapped allrounder Ijaz Ahmad Ahmadzai features in the 15, as does Mohammad Ishaq, who debuted in the T20Is against Sri Lanka in February. Left-arm spinner Nangeyalia Kharote, who starred on debut in the third ODI of the ongoing tour, looks set for a T20I debut as well. Also in the squad is opening batter Sediqullah Atal, who last played for Afghanistan at the Asian Games in October.Afghanistan host Ireland for three T20Is in this series in Sharjah, on March 15, 17 and 18. Afghanistan had won the preceding ODIs 2-0, while Ireland had registered their maiden Test win in the one-off Test match.Afghanistan squad for Ireland T20IsRashid Khan (capt), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sediqullah Atal, Ijaz Ahmad Ahmadzai, Mohammad Ishaq (wk), Mohammad Nabi, Nangeyalia Kharote, Azmatullah Omarzai, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Wafadar Momand, Fareed Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi

A look at how ODI cricket before 2005 approached the question of risking wickets efficiently to score the highest possible total

Kartikeya Date07-Jun-2019Limited-overs cricket, in the form of the Gillette Cup in 1963, came about due to a perceived crisis in attendances for County Championship matches in England in the 1960s. By the end of the 1960s, international cricket was similarly in crisis. The D’Oliveira affair had led to the cancellation of South Africa’s 1970 tour to England. Apartheid South Africa were banned from the international game. Consequently, only six Tests were played worldwide in all of 1970. When the first three days of the Melbourne Ashes Test which began on the last day of 1970 were rained out, the authorities decided to abandon the Test and instead hold a single-innings match between England and Australia with 40 eight-ball overs per innings. This was the first one-day international.The four-innings game is one of control, where the bowlers try to dismiss batsmen who try to avoid being dismissed. Scoring rates and dismissal rates in that format have remained more or less stable over more than a century. Periods where teams have tried to score quickly have also been periods where wickets fall more quickly. The contest between bat and ball is optimally balanced in the four-innings contest.In contrast, the limited-overs game is a contest of efficiency. Given a certain number of deliveries, how efficiently can a batting side risk its wickets to score the highest possible total? Similarly, what kind of bowling attack is best equipped to restrict opponents to the smallest possible total, given a certain number of deliveries? Over the 48 years since 1971, different answers have been offered to these questions.The graph below shows the batting average, dismissal rate and economy rate in ODI cricket history, with increments of 200 matches as markers. ODI teams’ quest for efficiency has meant that while a wicket fell every 40 balls and roughly four runs were scored per over in the first 200 ODI games, in the most recent 200 ODI games, the corresponding figures are 35 balls and five runs per over. Broadly, ODI teams today are prepared to “spend” a wicket every six overs instead of one every seven overs in the early days, and to produce an extra run every over compared to the early days. Another way to think about this is that while batting teams spent between seven and eight wickets on average over the course of their allotted overs in the early days, today they spend between eight and nine wickets on average.These changes have not come about evenly. Nor have they been only a consequence of players learning to think differently. The ICC has, especially in recent years, updated the rules governing the ODI game several times to modify the incentives available (especially) to batsmen. The consequences of these rule changes are evident in the record. The history of limited-overs cricket has been the history of a continuing quest for an elusive equilibrium.Since its inception, and especially since administrators felt compelled to treat the game as a cash cow rather than as a sport that needs to produce an income in order to thrive, the ODI format has struggled with striking a balance between being a contest and being exciting. Creating a predetermined finite length for each team innings (be it 65, 60, 55, 50, 45, 40 or 20 overs) creates peculiar, often perverse, incentives for bowlers and batsmen. The imperative to provide excitement and entertainment meant that rational competitive choices made by batting and bowling sides in circumstances where there was too little time to provide the bowling side with the leverage to attack the batsmen produced stalemates – especially in the middle of the innings, when batsmen had an incentive to keep wickets in hand and bowlers had an incentive to keep the run-scoring in check with a ball that was no longer new. Ultimately, this stalemate is what led to the Powerplay era.Runs and balls per wicket and runs per over, through ODI history•Kartikeya Date/ESPNcricinfo LtdIn the early years, ODIs were considered secondary to the main event of Test cricket on international tours, and as a consequence, ODIs were infrequent. The 200th ODI was the opening game of the 1983 World Cup. The tournament marked the elevation of ODI cricket into a format on its own terms. The first 200 ODIs took just over 12 years. The next 200 took only three. By 1994, over a hundred ODIs were being played each year. The high point of ODI cricket was in the run-up to the 2007 World Cup, just before the emergence of T20.West Indies dominated limited-overs cricket in these early years. They had an outstanding attack and the best limited-overs batsman in the world by some distance. By the time Viv Richards played his final limited-overs game, in May 1991, he had compiled 6721 runs at an average of 47 and a scoring rate of 90. The average middle-order batsman scored at 70 runs per hundred balls during the first 20 years of ODI cricket. Richards was ahead of his time in a way no batsman has since approached. Every other top limited-overs middle-order batsman of his era scored at a rate between 65 and 78 runs per hundred balls faced. Saleem Malik and Zaheer Abbas were exceptional in that they scored at a rate in the mid-’80s. Kapil Dev scored at a run a ball, which he achieved at the cost of consistency, compared to Richards: he averaged 21 runs fewer than Richards per dismissal.ALSO READ: Is Kohli up there with Richards and Tendulkar as an ODI batsman?Openers tended to be even more cautious. They scored at a rate between 50 and 70 runs per hundred balls faced during those first 20 years. This was the orthodoxy of the time, borrowed from first-class and Test cricket, in which the new ball was respected and the role of the batsman early in an innings was to preserve their wicket so that the middle-order batsmen could make hay when the conditions were more favourable. This was the logic of control operating in a contest of efficiency. The operating question was not “How do we spend the ten wickets we have over 50 overs most efficiently to produce the highest possible total?” Rather, it was “How do we ensure that we preserve as many of our wickets for as long as possible?”The first great theorist of the international limited-overs game was Bobby Simpson. It is debatable how much of his reputation was due to Australia’s success in the 1987 World Cup and how much of expertise was the basis of that success. Simpson was Australia head coach for nearly a decade, a period that included three World Cups. In his book , published in 1996, Simpson laid out his three-point theory of ODI cricket:1. The team that scores at a run-a-ball wins nearly all its games.
2. Australia would target 100 from the first 25 overs, and a run a ball thereafter, including at least 60 in the final ten overs.
3. Wickets in hand were essential for the final 15 overs of the innings.As plans go, this was a succinct statement of the advanced orthodoxy of his day. Simpson also held that batting teams should target 100 singles in 300 balls, and bowling sides should try to keep this figure down to two figures. Keeping wickets in hand for the final 15 overs was a popular idea. The premise was that while a game could be lost in the first half of the innings, it could not be won.Imran Khan and Javed Miandad manned the Pakistan middle order in the middle overs to set the table for Saleem Malik and others (including, later, Inzamam-ul-Haq) to score quicker in the last few overs of the innings. Sachin Tendulkar reported that when Ajit Wadekar and Mohammad Azharuddin sent him up the order in New Zealand in 1994, Wadekar told him that he expected India to reach 100 by the 25th over.Simpson presented the thinking in his day in the form of an explicit plan. It allowed him to persuade his team to improve their ground fielding because this helped with keeping the number of singles down. It made thinking about efficiency possible by creating avenues for improvement.The big problem still lay with openers. This was the central tactical innovation of the 1990s.The graph below shows the scoring rates for openers and Nos. 3 and 4 through the history ODI cricket, with increments of 200 matches as markers. The scoring rate of openers began to catch up with that of the middle-order engine room by the mid-1990s. If considered by year, 1996 was the first year in which ODI openers scored quicker than the batsmen batting at three and four. The evident inefficiency in the 1980s approach to opening the batting (and the use of wickets as resources to be spent more generally) was addressed in three ways during the 1990s. Two of these were successful, the third was arguably not.Batting strike rate in ODIs through history•Kartikeya Date/ESPNcricinfo LtdThe first approach, which is arguably the best known, was to take advantage of the fielding restrictions imposed during the first 15 overs of the innings (a legacy of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket) by granting a licence to one or both openers to chance their arm. Romesh Kaluwitharana and Sanath Jayasuriya, a wicketkeeper and a spin-bowling lower-order batsman, did this most famously for Sri Lanka in the mid-’90s. Jayasuriya went on to become one of the outstanding limited-overs openers of all time.Martin Crowe’s New Zealand side of 1992 is often heralded as a path-breaking ODI team. They opened the bowling with the offspinner Dipak Patel and the batting with a pinch-hitter, Mark Greatbatch, who had a great World Cup in that role. He made 313 runs in seven innings at 88 runs per hundred balls faced. After the tournament his form fell away and he made only 909 further runs in his ODI career, at a strike rate of 65. Greatbatch’s World Cup success might be considered to owe as much to form in home conditions as to his approach. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, for instance, made 248 runs in seven innings at a strike rate of 83 during the 1987 World Cup, well above his career rate of 72 runs per hundred balls. During their brief purple patches at the top of the order, Srikkanth and Greatbatch demonstrated that it was possible for the opener to take advantage of the fielding restrictions.Pinch-hitting was not the only approach to exploiting inefficiencies in the first half of the innings. A second approach was based on the idea that, given an innings lasted only 50 overs, it made great sense to ensure that the best batsman in the side had the opportunity to face most of those overs, since he would exploit those 50 overs most efficiently more often than any other player. This meant that the best batsman in the side – typically the one who batted at three, four or five in the Test batting order – would open the batting in the limited-overs side. Inzamam and Brian Lara were sent up to open the batting under this theory, as were Mark Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar. Contra Simpson, the reasoning here was that given only 50 overs, there was no point in protecting the best batsman from the new ball, as one would in a Test match.The third, and most common approach, was the conventional one. It involved using the Test opener as the limited-overs opener. The majority of ODI openers in the 1990s were also Test openers. They had mixed success as Test and ODI openers, but played in both formats as openers.ALSO READ: The three phases of Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI battingTendulkar was the outstanding opener of this period. He was as far ahead of his contemporaries as Richards was in his day. No player could match the speed and certainty of his run production. Virender Sehwag, Jayasuriya, Adam Gilchrist and Shahid Afridi scored quicker than Tendulkar, but this cost them at least ten runs in batting average compared to him.To illustrate this, consider that Tendulkar’s average contribution as opener was 49 in 55 balls. The next best player was arguably Gilchrist, whose average contribution was 36 in 38 balls. If you prefer consistency to power, then the next best player was arguably Lara, whose average contribution was 47 in 63 balls.The chart below shows the records of Richards and Tendulkar relative to their contemporaries. Richards’ record spans a career of 167 matches. The first 15 years of Tendulkar’s record spans 241 matches.Kartikeya Date/ESPNcricinfo LtdThe table below lists all ODI openers who scored at least 1500 runs at the top of the batting order from 1990 to May 2005 (when the Powerplay era began). The pinch-hitting openers are in green, the best-player openers are in blue, and the conventional openers are on a white background.

A ball-by-ball account of the last over in RCB’s chase of 223 against KKR at Eden Gardens

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Apr-20241:17

Moody analyses Starc’s final over

19.1 Starc to Karn, SIX runs Tonks it for six! Would you believe it? Starc the bowler, Karn the batter. And he starts the over with a six. Full and wide outside off, he slices it over deep backward point.19.2 Starc to Karn, no run Was there an edge? Starc thinks so, Salt joins in belatedly, and KKR review. Full and wide outside off, 140.4kph, Karn looks to go over off again. Snicko shows a spike as the ball passes the bat. Now, did the ball carry? Does not look like that. The ball is grounded rules the TV umpire. Salt is unhappy and has a good long word with the leggie. Seems to suggest they just looked at one angle.19.3 Starc to Karn, SIX runs Starc vs Karn tonight – two sixes in three balls! Once again he goes length, at full pace outside off, 135kph, Karn anticipates it, gets his front foot out and thumps it over extra cover.19.4 Starc to Karn, SIX runs Karn is doing unbelievable things at Eden Gardens! KKR are shell-shocked. Russell cannot believe it. A large section of the crowd cannot, too. Once again opts for pace, outside off, Karn slices it well over backward point and gets six more.19.5 Starc to Karn, OUT Terrific catch from Starc in his follow-through! Karn is on his haunches. Siraj has run all the way to the other end. Low full toss just outside off, Karn smacks it right back, but off the toe end. Starc gets low down in his follow-through and it sticks in his right hand. He has his arm aloft. Another twist!19.6 Starc to Ferguson, 1 run, OUT Is Ferguson run-out? Or are we in for Super Over? Ferguson is well short and KKR sneak home! Starc went around the wicket and bowled a very full one outside off, he squeezed it through cover. The sweeper fielded the ball and returned a wide throw – that Pommie Mbangwa on-air termed “rubbish” – to Salt, who did well to collect it and dive on the stumps. Scenes at the Eden Gardens!

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da poker： O Palmeiras iniciou sua maratona de jogos do mês de abril de maneira inesperada, com derrota diante do Água Santa na partida de ida da final do Paulistão no último domingo (02). Além disso, o Verdão agora tem mais uma preocupação: Piquerez, diagnosticado comum entorse no joelho direito. Logo, o substituto imediato do uruguaio será o jovem Vanderlan, de apenas 20 anos.

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No final do primeiro tempo contra o Água Santa, Piquerez acabou torcendo o joelho depois de ter seu tornozelo atingido por Igor Henrique. O lateral recebeu tratamento médico e fez testes no local para tentar retornar para a partida, mas isso não foi possível e ele foi substituído por Vanderlan no intervalo da partida.

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da betway： Com a ausência do uruguaio, Vanderlan deve se tornar o lateral-esquerdo titular da equipe do técnico Abel Ferreira, principalmente com a sequência de jogos que o Alviverde terá no mês de abril, em que disputará quatro competições diferentes em partidas com intervalo de praticamente apenas três dias.

Vanderlan chegou ao Palmeiras ainda no Sub-15 para jogar como zagueiro, mas se firmou na lateral esquerda e já fez também aparições como ponta. Pela base, além de ter conquistado o título inédito da Copinha, ele também foi campeão do Mundial de Clubes (2018), da Copa do Brasil (2019) e da Supercopa do Brasil (2019) pelo sub-17, e foi três vezes campeão do Paulistão (2019, 2020 e 2021) pelo sub-20.

Sua primeira partida como profissional aconteceu em janeiro de 2021, diante do Vasco, entrandono lugar de Lucas Lima aos 13 minutos da etapa complementar. Já o seu primeiro gol pelo elenco principal foi na vitória por 3 a 0 contra o Avaí no Brasileirão do ano passado. Na ocasião, Vanderlan comentou sobre a confiança depositada por Abel em seu futebol.

– O Abel sabe que posso jogar como ponta, mas minha posição mesmo é lateral. Então eu estava tranquilo… Ele me passou as orientações técnicas, mas eu já sabia o que fazer dentro de campo.

> Saiba quais foram as reações de Leila Pereira na derrota do Palmeiras para o Água Santa

Além de Vanderlan, atletas jovens como Fabinho e Naves também devem atuar por mais minutos nas próximas partidas. O próprio treinador português já havia falado sobre a rotação do elenco e voltou a comentar sobre o assunto na entrevista coletiva após o confronto diante do time de Diadema, na Arena Barueri.

– Já tinha dito que este ano vamos correr riscos com muita gente jovem no plantel. É ter que jogar, ter que assumir, ter que entrar. Hoje estávamos com três pontas no banco, o Dudu de um lado, Breno do outro e depois queria fazer substituições para a ponta e só tinha o Giovani, não tinha outro. Se eu quisesse trocar o Rony no final por outro ponta, não tinha – disse Abel.

– Portanto, o Fabinho tem entrado muito bem, eu disse e vou voltar a repetir, esse mês vai testar o nosso elenco, não o nosso 11 base, mas vai testar o nosso elenco e perceber o nível que nós estamos. É tão simples quanto isso.

O Palmeirasestreia na Libertadores diante do Bolívar (BOL), nesta quarta-feira (05), às 21h30, no estádio Hernando Siles, em La Paz. Já com os reforços regularizados, no final de semana o Verdão enviou a lista com os 50 jogadores inscritos na competição. Dentre eles, está o lateral Ian, do sub-20, que se torna mais uma opção do lado esquerdo.

O elenco palmeirense viaja para a Bolívia na manhã desta terça-feira (04) e treina às 17h (horário local) no Club de Tênis Huajchilla, em La Paz. A expectativa é de que Abel poupe alguns jogadores na estreia da Libertadores visando o jogo de volta da final do Paulistão diante do Água Santa, no próximo domingo (9), no Allianz Parque.

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Zubayr Hamza struck a sublime double-hundred against Dolphins, but it was not enough to secure the title for Cape Cobras

Liam Brickhill31-Jan-2019Results summary
The 4-Day Franchise Series ended in thrilling fashion, with Lions claiming the 2017-18 title on a nail-biting final evening in Potchefstroom. With five overs lost to rain on the final day of a game that Lions had to win, and Yaseen Vallie and Sinethemba Qeshile adding 85 for the fourth wicket, Warriors had almost reached safety before Nono Pongolo and Nandre Burger made inroads into their tail in the afternoon. There were just two wickets standing when the last hour was signalled at 5.15pm. Thomas Kaber held on, limpet-like, at one end, but when the new ball was taken after the 80th over, Lions broke through. Burger had Basheeru-Deen Walters caught behind, and in fading light Wihahn Lubbe then struck with his third ball, beating Sithembile Langa’s forward defence to spark wild celebrations.The eventual result would not have been possible without a record-breaking first-innings stand between Bjorn Fortuin and Delano Potgieter, who helped their side recover from a perilous 96 for 6. Fortuin’s 183 was his highest score in Franchise cricket – and just nine short of his best ever effort with the bat in all first-class cricket – while Potgieter’s 145 was the highest score of his career in just his 12th first-class game. Potgieter then took 4 for 81 to secure the first-innings lead, and Kagiso Rapulana’s 114 in the second dig allowed Lions to declare at 292 for 9. Warriors had almost reached a position of safety when, on the final day, they were only five down after 4pm. But then came Lions’ match-winning, title-sealing burst in the closing moments.That result meant that Zubayr Hamza’s magical double-hundred on the penultimate day of Cape Cobras’ game against Dolphins in Pietermaritzburg was not enough to secure the title for his team, who had led the points table for virtually the entire competition. Hamza’s 201 was his maiden double at franchise level and the second of his first-class career, and allowed Cobras to declare their innings at 523 for 7. On a flat pitch, Keshav Maharaj’s 2 for 217 were the best figures for Dolphins, but while the pitch might have been benign the weather was anything but, and overs were lost to bad light on every day of the game. The lost overs forced the game into a draw, with Dolphins’ top four all passing fifty before the captains shook hands midway through the final afternoon after bad light stopped play once again.In Benoni, Titans and Knights were finally put out of their misery early on the final day after their match was abandoned due to a wet outfield at Willowmoore Park. All three previous days were also affected for the same reason, with players on both sides left frustrated by the conditions underfoot in what was their last match of the first-class season.The final decision by umpires Abdoellah Steenkamp and Johan Cloete meant there was no cricket played at all after all three previous days had to be abandoned – the main problem area being the bowlers’ run-up. The shared points from the game meant the hosts and defending champions Titans, as well as the Knights, ended in the bottom three.On the national radar
Hamza’s double-hundred should be enough for him to be retained in South Africa’s squad for the upcoming Tests against Sri Lanka in February, while in the same game his team-mate Vernon Philander defied the placid batting conditions to take 4 for 46 in Dolphins’ first innings. At the other end of the spectrum, Maharaj bowled a whopping 56 overs for his two wickets and, given that he has also been left out of South Africa’s Test playing XI in a seam-heavy attack recently, Maharaj could do with a confidence boost.Confidence shouldn’t be a problem for Temba Bavuma, who registered scores of 22 and 48 in Lions’ victory, but more importantly captained the side to the 4-Day title.Top performers
Bjorn Fortuin has made more of a splash with his left-arm spin than his batting in domestic cricket of late, opening the bowling for Paarl Rocks during the Mzansi Super League, but his knock against Warriors turned the game around and he was rightfully named Player of the Match in their title-sealing 84-run win. He also ended the season with 23 first-class wickets at 22.78 to his name.Over the course of the season, however, Cobras captain Dane Piedt stood head and shoulders over the other bowlers across the franchises. He ended the season with 54 wickets at 27.74, 20 more scalps than second placed Dane Paterson.With the bat, Knights’ Keegan Petersen and Warriors’ Eddie Moore both passed 900 runs for the season to top the run charts.