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Lalit Modi has said that the sale of Andrew Flintoff to the Chennai Super Kings during the 2009 player auction was rigged and that he “should have not allowed that to happen”

George Binoy07-Feb-2012

Lalit Modi, the former IPL commissioner, has said he was arm-twisted in to rigging the 2009 player auction to ensure Andrew Flintoff was sold to the Chennai Super Kings. N Srinivasan, the BCCI president and the managing director of Indian Cements, the company that owns the Super Kings, dismissed Modi’s allegations as lacking in “substance or truth”.Modi, who was sacked as the league’s commissioner on charges of financial irregularities and is currently based in London, also claimed that the exclusion of Pakistan players from the 2009 IPL season was because of “arm-twisting” by BCCI officials.”I shouldn’t have let that [the rigging of Flintoff’s sale] happen”, Modi said during an interview to CNN-IBN, an Indian news channel. He also said the IPL was no longer the level playing field on which it was built, and that rules were changed to suit the bigger franchises. He conceded there was a lack of transparency and said the tournament had moved far enough from its basic principles to affect its long-term viability.Srinivasan, who was BCCI secretary at the time of the 2009 auction, denied the allegations. “All I can say is that there is absolutely no substance or truth in what he [Modi] is saying,” he said. “If he is talking about 2009 why is he saying all this in 2012.”The most damaging of Modi’s statements concerned Flintoff’s auction. Asked whether it had been rigged, he said: “Yes that is a fact. I made it clear that time. That onus was on me and as chairman I should have not allowed that to happen then. I was arm-twisted to allow Andrew Flintoff to go to Chennai Super Kings. I’m to blame for that. It’s a fact.”Chennai bought Flintoff for $1.55 million at the auction in Goa, making him the most expensive player at the time alongside Kevin Pietersen. In buying JP Duminy for $950,000, Mumbai Indians had effectively ruled themselves out from the bidding for Flintoff, and Royal Challengers Bangalore did not enter the bidding for him at all. Rajasthan Royals tried to keep pace, but after buying Shaun Tait they had only $1.5 million left in their purse. The Deccan Chargers showed no interest in Flintoff, and Chennai eventually got him. Flintoff, however, played only three matches in the 2009 season before returning home injured. Knee surgery then ruled him out of the 2010 tournament.In the interview, Modi also commented on the absence of Pakistan players from the 2009 tournament. They played the first season in 2008 but the Mumbai terror attacks in November that year put their future participation in doubt. Some Pakistan cricketers were part of the 2009 auction but they did not attract a single bid from any of the eight franchises. Modi said “arm-twisting” by the BCCI “that nobody should pick them” had led to the shut out of Pakistan cricketers.The BCCI has been under scrutiny and criticism following the decision by Sahara, the sponsors of the Indian team and owners of the Pune Warriors IPL franchise, to pull out of its association with Indian cricket. Pune Warriors did not take part in the IPL’s supplementary auction held in Bangalore on February 4. Modi said that in the light of the Sahara dispute, he would not have allowed the auction to take place. “I would have not allowed the rules to be changed at first place. There would have not been a problem with Mr Subrata Roy or anybody had the rules been consistent.”The pullout he said was “a big blow” for the BCCI, which was struggling to retain its sponsors. “We cancelled the contract with Nimbus without encashing their bank guarantee. With Kochi, Sahara, Nimbus and Sony contracts going down, it’s close to Rs 10,000 crores [approximately $2 billion] loss to BCCI.”Modi also criticised the IPL’s decision to allow the franchises to retain up to four players after the contracts expired at the end of the 2010 season. Chennai and Mumbai Indians were the only teams to retain four players.”The retention clause was only for first three years. All players were supposed to go back to auction after first three years,” Modi said. “In the fourth year [2011] that did not happen and they allowed the players to stay back. That became a problem… [it] was at the detriment of the new teams. When the new teams come in, that’s a problem for them and I had pointed it out last year. If you pull out few things the entire model is going to fall apart.”Lalit Modi turned up on India’s TV screens again, earnest, confessional, talking about what had happened to the IPL and Indian cricket in his absence. One IPL team has pulled out, two more are in arbitration, a fourth in litigation, the BCCI has dissociated with its broadcast partner Nimbus, lost its team sponsor Sahara, the team itself is losing and rights are hard to sell. Modi spoke forcefully about a list of the errors committed by BCCI’s honchos in the IPL and its discriminatory practices that worked against all but the two strongest teams and even admitted to wrongdoing on his part – of being “arm-twisted” by “senior BCCI officials.”During his tenure, Modi was the IPL’s chief mascot and the BCCI’s most energetic fund-raiser, earning the clout to twist a few arms himself. Not the meek accessory he says he was in the cases of Flintoff and the Pakistan players. Unlike the IPL’s current governors, Modi ensured that the league always looked like its marketing plan. It was a shiny, megabucks, high-octane package of cricket and glamour that drew big spenders towards its bonfire of vanities. To make that happen, though, the IPL’s rules became its bendy toys – starting in Modi’s time itself. Sometimes the rules were applied, sometimes rejigged, to suit a few beneficiaries. Money from public auctions “tie-breakers” was kept private and team ownership patterns were equally opaque and could never really be understood.Now in exile, Modi’s new marketing strategy is to become the IPL’s lone truth-teller when he is in fact the man who wrote its source code. What he said on TV is merely affirmation of what was largely known: that the IPL’s glitter disguised a closed-door clique of the wealthy who, rather than playing by the rules, played with them.
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أعلن ميكيل أرتيتا، المدير الفني لفريق آرسنال، التشكيل الرسمي، الذي سيخوض لقاء اليوم السبت، أمام ليستر سيتي، ضمن لقاءات الجولة 25 من الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

ويلتقي الفريقان، على ملعب “كينج باور”، بقيادة الحكم الإنجليزي كاريج باوسون، وتنطلق المباراة في الخامسة مساء بتوقيت القاهرة، السادسة بتوقيت مكة المكرمة.

اقرأ أيضًا.. الاتحاد الإنجليزي يفرض غرامة مالية على مانشستر سيتي وآرسنال

وشهد التشكيل استمرار غياب الدولي الغاني، توماس بارتي، لاعب خط الوسط، وتواجد المهاجم نيكيتاه على مقاعد البدلاء، وجاء التشكيل كالآتي: تشكيل آرسنال أمام ليستر سيتي في الدوري الإنجليزي

حراسة المرمى: أرون رامسديل.

خط الدفاع: بنيامين وايت، جابرييل، ويليام ساليبا، أولكساندر زينتشينكو.

خط الوسط: تشاكا، جورجينيو، أوديجارد.

خط الهجوم: ساكا، مارتينيلي، تروسار.

🔴 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎 ⚪️

🧱 Saliba at the back
💪 Xhaka in midfield
🔙 Martinelli returns

✊ Let’s do this, Gunners! pic.twitter.com/NN3MlxnbB3 — Arsenal (@Arsenal) February 25, 2023

ويحتل أرسنال صدارة ترتيب الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، برصيد 54 نقطة بفارق نقطتين عن المتصدر مانشستر سيتي مع مباراة أقل، ويأتي ليستر سيتي في المركز الرابع عشر برصيد 24 نقطة.

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Em meio às enormes dificuldades financeiras que se impõem em 2018, o Botafogo vai arrumando a casa. Ou tentando arrumar. Nesta quarta-feira, os jogadores vão entrar em campo com os salários praticamente todos em dia. Os pagamentos do mês de julho foram feitos nesta terça – faltam os direitos de imagem. Contudo, os dos funcionários seguem atrasados.

Na última sexta-feira, eles haviam recebido cerca de 40% dos vencimentos, e houve nova parcela paga, mas ainda há débitos, que devem ser quitados, no mais tardar, na próxima segunda-feira (não nesta sexta-feira porque é feriado do Dia da Independência). Importante ressaltar que os vencimentos de agosto ainda não venceram.

Em campo, o time que vai duelar com a Raposa deve ter mudanças significativas em relação à equipe que foi goleada pelo Grêmio no último sábado. Além do retorno de Igor Rabello, que estava suspenso, Rodrigo Lindoso e Kieza devem começar jogando.

Quem também tem tudo para começar jogando é o volante Bochecha. Desta forma, perderiam vaga Yago, Matheus Fernandes, Valencia e Brenner. A provável escalação: Saulo, Marcinho, Carli, Igor Rabello e Moisés; Jean, Rodrigo Lindoso e Bochecha; Erik, Kieza e Luiz Fernando.

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O São Paulo defenderá a liderança do Brasileirão neste domingo, na Ilha do Retiro, contra um Sport que perdeu o rumo após a parada para a Copa do Mundo. O time de Claudinei Oliveira somou só um ponto nos cinco jogos após a retomada da competição, enquanto o Tricolor de Diego Aguirre fez 12 dos 15 pontos possíveis e pulou para a ponta, um à frente do Flamengo.

Veja todas as informações desta partida pela 18ª rodada:

Local: Ilha do Retiro, Recife (PE)
Data/Horário: 12/8/2018, às 16h
Árbitro: Anderson Daronco (RS)
Assistentes: Rafael da Silva Alves (RS) e Michael Stanislau (RS)
Onde acompanhar: Globo, Premiere e em tempo real no site do LANCE!

SPORT:Magrão, Cláudio Winck, Ronaldo Alves, Ernando e Sander; Deivid, Fellipe Bastos e Gabriel; Rogério, Rafael Marques e Carlos Henrique. Técnico: Claudinei Oliveira.
Pendurados:Sander e Raul Prata.

SÃO PAULO: Sidão, Bruno Peres, Arboleda, Anderson Martins e Reinaldo; Jucilei e Hudson; Rojas, Nenê e Everton; Diego Souza. Técnico: Diego Aguirre.
Desfalques: Rodrigo Caio e Régis (aprimorando a forma física), Edimar (machucado), Carneiro (dores musculares) e Lucas Fernandes (indisposição estomacal.
Pendurados:Everton, Jucilei, Nenê, Liziero e Régis.

PALPITES: Na redação do LANCE!, 50% das pessoas que votaram acreditam que haverá empate. Outros 40% creem em vitória são-paulina, enquanto os 10% restantes disseram que o Sport vencerá.

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تحدث البرتغالي جايمي باتشيكو المدير الفني لنادي بيراميدز عن مواجهة فيوتشر في بطولة الكونفدرالية.

ويحل بيراميدز ضيفًا على فيوتشر في السادسة من مساء غد الأحد، على أرضية استاد السلام، في إطار لقاءات الجولة الثانية من دور المجموعات للبطولة القارية.

وقال باتشيكو خلال المؤتمر الصحفي الذي يسبق اللقاء: “مباراة فيوتشر ستكون غاية في الصعوبة، خاصة وأن مواجهات الفريقين دائما ما تحمل إثارة وقوة، والمجموعة الإفريقية بالفعل قوية”.

طالع..باتشيكو يعلن قائمة بيراميدز لمباراة فيوتشر في الكونفدرالية

وأضاف: “التأهل لن يكون سهلًا على الإطلاق في ظل قوة الفرق الأربعة، وجميعها مرشحة بالفعل للفوز ببطاقة التأهل والعبور إلى الدور المقبل”.

وأكمل: “اللقاء يصعب التكهن بنتيجته خاصة وأن كل المواجهات السابقة كانت صعبة على كلا الفريقين، ولكن في النهاية بيراميدز هدفه الفوز بالمباراة والثلاث نقاط حيث أن الفريق دائما هدفه الانتصار في كل لقاءاته وتأمين التأهل عن المجموعة وبعدها التركيز في المرحلة المقبلة”.

وأوضح: “جميع اللاعبين لديهم جاهزية تامة للمشاركة والكل واثق من تحقيق الانتصار ومواصلة المسيرة بكل قوة في المرحلة المقبلة، وتعويض التعادل السابق في المجموعة أمام الجيش الملكي المغربي”.

وأتم: “وجود فيوتشر في المجموعة يجعل المباراة صعبة خاصة وأن الفريقين يعرفان بعضهما كثيرًا والمواجهات السابقة تؤكد على ذلك ولكن في النهاية فريق بيراميدز هدفه واضح وهو الفوز مهما كان المنافس”.

According to The Liverpool Echo, Everton director of football Marcel Brands has outlined how much The Toffees would be willing to pay for Mexican star Hirving Lozano. 

The Dutchman said that Everton would pay no more than €20m for the PSV winger, due to the fact that he has no experience in the Premier League.

However, this approach by Brands is the shrewd attitude that Everton, and indeed all other Premier League teams, need. Too often Premier League teams spend extortionate fees on players that have no credentials in England, and they ultimately fail.

What is more important is that Brands is perhaps aware that The Toffees do not have a desperate need for wingers. With the likes of Bernard, Theo Walcott and Ademola Lookman at the club, as well as Richarlison being a natural winger, the club are quite well-stocked in this department.

On the other hand, there is an alarming demand at Goodison Park for an out-and-out striker that is performing well. Perhaps Brands does not want to use up too much of the club’s transfer budget if they are not addressing their greatest problem.

However, a move for Lozano could mean that Marco Silva is planning on fashioning Richarlison into a striker permanently. In which case, this opens up the door for a lethal partnership.

In a day and age where some players are going for unfathomable prices, particularly when they do not have the ability to back up their price, this was a wise move from Brands.

كشفت تقارير صحفية أن نادي تشيلسي لا يتعجل عودة الجابوني بيير إيميريك أوباميانج إلى تدريبات الفريق الاستعدادية للموسم الجديد.

ومن المعروف أن مستقبل أوباميانج مع تشيلسي غير مؤكد حتى الآن، خاصة أنه لم يحظ بأي فرص لعب منتظم في الموسم الماضي.

وارتبط أوباميانج بخطوة الرحيل عن تشيلسي هذا الصيف، حيث يسعى النادي اللندني إلى التفريط فيه لصالح نادِ سعودي، ولكن اللاعب نفسه يرفض تلك الخطوة.

ويرغب أوباميانج في مغادرة تشيلسي بالفعل ولكنه يتطلع للعودة إلى نادي برشلونة، وهو أمر غير ممكن نظرًا للظروف المالية للفريق الكتالوني.

اقرأ أيضًا.. كايسيدو يفتح باب انتقاله إلى تشيلسي

ووفقًا لصحيفة “تليجراف” الإنجليزية، فإن تشيلسي طلب من أوباميانج ألا يكلف نفسه عناء التواجد في التدريبات الأولية للفريق، استعدادًا للموسم الجديد والمزمع انطلاقها غدًا الأربعاء.

وأشارت إلى أن تشيلسي أكد لـ أوباميانج أنه يستطيع الانتظار حتى يوم الإثنين المقبل، 17 يوليو، والاشتراك في التدريبات.

وأفادت بأن تشيلسي يسعى إلى إيجاد حل للتخلص من أوباميانج بحلول ذلك الوقت، مثلما فعل كذلك مع البلجيكي روميلو لوكاكو، الذي لا يُعد جزءًا من الفريق.

وقضى لوكاكو الموسم الماضي على سبيل الإعارة في صفوف إنتر ميلان، ويرغب في البقاء مع النادي الإيطالي.

Ricky Ponting has dealt out heavy criticism of Cricket Australia for rolling out reams of Big Bash League hype in the hours after the Test team’s 347-run humiliation at Lord’s.

Daniel Brettig23-Jul-2013

Ricky Ponting has dealt out heavy criticism of Cricket Australia for rolling out reams of Big Bash League hype in the hours after the Test team’s 347-run humiliation at Lord’s.A flurry of press releases trumpeting the BBL’s success and the signings of players landed in email inboxes around the world as England’s players were celebrating their 2-0 series lead, while a slightly sheepish-looking Michael Hussey emerged from a helicopter at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium to promote his signing for the Thunder after choosing to retire ahead of the India and Ashes tours.Ponting, who alongside Adam Gilchrist has signed with Network Ten as a BBL commentator and will be used heavily as a selling point for the competition’s move to free-to-air television, was nonetheless “flabbergasted” to see so much CA airspace devoted to Twenty20 at the same moment the Test team’s state of severe disrepair was laid bare for all to see.”I was flabbergasted when Cricket Australia put out a statement on Sunday night promoting the success of the Big Bash Twenty20 league because the timing, coming so soon after that heavy defeat at Lord’s, was not ideal,” Ponting wrote in the “Cricket Australia is a business and they have invested a lot of time in the Big Bash while cuts have been made in first-class cricket. I can see what they were trying to do with that statement but we must remember that the strength of this business will be measured by the success of the national team.”Having viewed the Lord’s match closely, Ponting also argued that shuffling of the batting order from one Test to another had contributed to the dire first innings 128 that essentially sealed Australia’s fate. Ponting called on his successor Michael Clarke to stick to a position, noting that his move from No. 4 at Trent Bridge to No. 5 at Lord’s had forced Phillip Hughes to move out of a position at No. 6 he had just gained confidence in by making 81 in the first Test.”One thing Australia must have is stability, particularly in their batting order,” Ponting wrote. “Clarke was back at five having been at four at Trent Bridge, which led to other players like Phil Hughes being moved too, and I believe that your best player should be at three or four, particularly in an inexperienced line-up. There have been nine different players, I think, at three since I stopped batting there and Australia need to make their minds up over who should bat there and in the other positions and stick with them.”I moved Michael to four a few years ago because I thought it would be for the betterment of him and the team when it became clear he was becoming our best player, but if he feels that it is best to be at five, that’s where he needs to bat.”Amid all manner of hand wringing over the Test team’s poor results, now stretching to six consecutive Test match defeats, Ponting said it would be unwise to resort to short-term solutions, like the recall of the prolific Simon Katich.”Let’s get one thing clear. Australia cannot flick a switch and suddenly everything will be all right. We are not going to have a big group of young promising players all coming through to make things better,” Ponting said. “There are no better players outside this group who could come to the rescue but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of talent in this Australia team. It is just that many of them have to find their feet in the biggest series of them all.”There has been talk about a call-up for somebody like Simon Katich, who is going very well at Lancashire, but there is no point in looking back. This sort of thing used to come up with Shane Warne when Australia were trying to replace him and it would not solve anything to look at stop-gap measures. The selectors have picked these players as the best we have, and it was only a week ago after Trent Bridge we were saying how close things are.”

Two more centuries joined the count of six from the last match, but rain prevented any play on the second day resulting in a draw between West Indies A and Sri Lanka A in the second unofficial Test in St Vincent

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Jun-2013Scorecard
File photo: Narsingh Deonarine added 123 runs for the fourth wicket with Kraigg Brathwaite•DigicelCricket.com/Brooks LaTouche Photography

Two more centuries joined the count of six from the last match, but rain prevented any play on the second day, resulting in a draw between West Indies A and Sri Lanka A in the second unofficial Test in St Vincent.Seamers Miguel Cummins and Jonathan Carter struck early for West Indies A, reducing the visitors to 33 for 2 after they won the toss and batted. But wicketkeeper Kaushal Silva and Angelo Perera took advantage of their good starts and converted them into a century and half-century respectively. Silva’s 23rd first-class century, comprising 14 fours, propelled their 112-run partnership that guided Sri Lanka to safety.Sri Lanka were 275 for 7 when Cummins and Carter returned to sweep up the tail. They shared seven wickets between them as Sri Lanka finished at 314.Rain washed out the entire second day, and the probability of another draw loomed as large as the angry clouds above the Arnos Vale Ground.Still under grey skies on the third day, West Indies sunk to 11 for 2 as Suranga Lakmal claimed Kirk Edwards and Assad Fudadin for one run each. Opener Kraigg Brathwaite and Narsingh Deonarine came together at the fall of the third wicket and notched up a 123-run partnership, the highest of the match. Brathwaite fell for 77 on the fourth morning, also plagued by overcast skies, but Deonarine, with 13 fours, would not be denied his ninth first-class century.Malinda Pushpakumara’s left-arm spinners accounted for both Brathwaite and Deonarine and added three more to his tally to claim his 20th five-wicket haul which also ensured a lead of 30 for his side.Sheldon Cotterrell removed Sri Lanka’s in-form captain Dimuth Karunaratne in the third over. But a steady Udara Jayasundera, Kithuruwan Vithanage and Perera then climbed into the West Indian bowlers, especially Cotterrell who leaked over 8 runs an over. Vithanage smashed two sixes and four fours in 34 balls, falling eight short of a fifty while Perera beat his strike-rate with 34 off 25 balls with five fours.Carter claimed both batsmen and on the stroke of Jayasundera’s fifty, the match and the series ended in a tame draw.

اُختير ساديو ماني، لاعب فريق بايرن ميونخ، باعتباره أكثر من خيب آمال باقي لاعبي الدوري الألماني، في الموسم الماضي 2022/23.

كان ماني قد انتقل إلى بايرن ميونخ قادمًا من ليفربول، في الصيف الماضي.

وشارك ساديو ماني في 38 مباراة وسجل 12 هدفًا وصنع 6، حيث تأثرت مشاركاته بالإصابة طويلة الأمد التي أبعدته عن الملاعب أكثر من 4 أشهر.

اقرأ أيضًا.. بايرن ميونخ يحاول خطف صفقة ماونت من مانشستر يونايتد

وأطلقت مجلة “كيكر” الألمانية الاستفتاء الشهير، الذي يُعلن عنه بعد انتهاء الموسم، حيث يصوت لاعبو الدوري الألماني على أكثر من فئة.

وتم اعتبار ساديو ماني اللاعب الذي خيب آمال معظم لاعبي الدوري الألماني، بنسبة 41.7 %، ويليه زميله جوشوا كيميش بنسبة 7.5 %.

أما أكثر من أثار إعجاب لاعبي الدوري الألماني، فكان راندال كولو ماني لاعب آينتراخت فرانكفورت بنسبة 24.2 %، ويليه جود بيلينجهام لاعب بوروسيا دورتموند السابق 17.5 %، ثم نيكولاس فولكروج لاعب فيردر بريمن بنسبة 11.9 %.

وحصل الفائز من النسخة قبل الماضية، كريستوفو نكونكو، لاعب لايبزيج السابق الذي انتقل قبل أيام إلى تشيلسي، على 1.6 % فقط من الأصوات.

وعلى صعيد المدربين، تم اختيار جوليان ناجلسمان مدرب بايرن ميونخ السابق باعتباره الأسوأ بنسبة 26.2 %، ويليه برونو لاباديا المدير الفني السابق لفريق شتوتجارت.