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Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis lead the nominations for this year’s SA Cricket Awards, with three nominations each

ESPNcricinfo staff24-May-2011Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis lead the nominations for this year’s SA cricket awards, with three nominations each. The awards celebrate the achievements of South African cricketers over the last season. They will be presented at a gala dinner on June 7.In the last season, South Africa played against Zimbabwe in a one-day series, against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, India at home and in the World Cup, where they were knocked out in the quarter-finals.Amla has been nominated for the Test and one-day cricketer of the year awards as well as the overall cricketer of the year. In five Tests in the 2010-11 season, Amla averaged 64.25 and scored two centuries. He was equally impressive in the limited-overs format, averaging 60.61 and scoring five centuries in the 20 ODIs he played. Amla swept the awards last year, winning in all five categories he was nominated in.Full list of nominees

CSA umpire of the year: Johan Cloete, Shaun George, Adrian Holdstock

MTN40 cricketer of the year: Faf du Plessis, Ryan McLaren, Imran Tahir

Standard Bank Pro20 cricketer of the year: Albie Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Owais Shah

SuperSport series cricketer of the year: Vernon Philander, Jacques Rudolph, Imran Tahir

Standard Bank international Pro20 cricketer of the year: JP Duminy, Rusty Theron, Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Standard Bank one-day international cricketer of the year: Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Lonwabo Tsotsobe
Castle Test cricketer of the year: Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, Dale Steyn

SA cricketer of the year: Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Dale Steyn

Kallis scored 821 runs in five Tests in 2010-11, at an average of 136.83, including his first Test double-century. He also scored four other hundreds in the season, two of which came in the third Test against India in Cape Town in January. That performance has earned him the only nomination for the KFC so good award. He was slightly less prolific in one-dayers, averaging 38.90 in 11 matches, without scoring a hundred. He also took 10 wickets at an average of 24.50 in ODIs. Kallis previously won the cricketer of the year award in 2004.Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and AB de Villiers have also been nominated for the cricketer of the year award. The pace pair excelled with the new ball in all formats while de Villiers averaged 72.71 in Test cricket, 56.68 in ODIs and was given the added responsibility of keeping wickets in the limited-overs formats. Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who emerged as the third prong in South Africa’s pace attack, has been nominated in the ODI and T20 cricketer of the year categories.On the domestic front, Jacques Rudolph, who topped the SuperSport series batting charts and Vernon Philander, who was the leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket, have been nominated for awards. Imran Tahir, who became eligible to play for South Africa last season, led the SuperSport series wicket-takers list until his international call up and has also been nominated for two awards.Retired international fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and England international Owais Shah are up against Albie Morkel for the Pro20 Cricketer of the year award.

Patrick Boyland has now revealed some interesting Everton news on Asmir Begovic.

The Lowdown: Barely played

In truth, Begovic has barely played since arriving on a free transfer in the summer.

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The former AFC Bournemouth goalkeeper has played just six times in total so far this season, and has not featured since March (Transfermarkt).

The Latest: Contract extension

Taking to Twitter, The Athletic journalist Boyland has revealed that the Goodison Park faithful have now taken up the option of extending Begovic’s deal for another year:

“Understand Everton have also taken up the option of extending Asmir Begovic’s deal by a further year.”

The Verdict: Interesting

It is certainly an interesting decision by the Merseyside club to keep hold of Begovic for another year, despite the fact that he has barely featured for them.

At 34 years of age, and earning £43,000-per-week at the Toffees, one could question why they have decided to keep hold of him, especially given the fact that they have Andy Lonergan as another back-up goalkeeper to Jordan Pickford, and Joao Virginia still has to come back from his loan spell at Sporting CP.

However, he has done pretty well when he has come in, with the Blues winning four of the six games that he has featured and keeping two clean sheets (Transfermarkt), and so Frank Lampard and the board have clearly seen enough to keep him for another campaign.

In other news, find out what ‘certain’ EFC claim this injury expert has now dropped here!

Australia are looking for a new bowling coach with Troy Cooley leaving to head their Centre of Excellence, but Glenn McGrath won’t be applying

Peter English01-Jan-2011

Australia are looking for a new bowling coach with Troy Cooley leaving to head their Centre of Excellence, but Glenn McGrath won’t be applying. While his former team-mate Justin Langer quickly traded life in the middle for a role as the team’s batting coach, McGrath is comfortable as an occasional adviser to the attack.McGrath, who took 563 wickets in 124 Tests, will be omnipresent at the SCG over the next week and will seek out the fast men to pass on some tips. “I’m always happy to give advice where I can,” he said at the SCG. “I’ll chat to the boys a fair bit during this Test match and see what I can do.” But he is not interested in an official role.Four years ago McGrath retired after the 5-0 Ashes whitewash, but the scenery has changed dramatically since then. “To play the Ashes here and lose is pretty disappointing but you know what? It amazes me how, when Australia was so dominant, everyone was saying it was bad for world cricket. All of a sudden, the boys have lost a few games and everyone is calling for their heads.”He maintains faith in the leadership of Ricky Ponting and is confident the team will again climb towards the Test peak. “I’ve got total faith the boys will bounce back and get back to the top of the tree,” he said.The main purpose of McGrath’s week is to raise money for the McGrath Foundation, which supports breast cancer sufferers, and the organisation’s major event of the year is the “Pink Test”. England want to finish the series with a 3-1 result while Australia are desperately hoping to fight back to secure a draw.McGrath was the master of the 5-0 pre-series prediction but he has had to revise his tip. “It’ll be 2-all,” he said, unprompted.

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Sem clima para voltar ao Santos e sem atuar desde outubro de 2017, o lateral-esquerdo Zeca teria sido oferecido pelo Peixe ao Tigres, do México, como moeda de troca pelo meio-campista argentino Lucas Zelarayán. O LANCE! apurou que o negócio, porém, depende de inúmeros fatores para ser concretizado. O mais relevante deles é saber se o lateral aceitaria jogar em um mercado alternativo como o mexicano.

No ano passado, Zeca abandonou o trabalho alegando falta de pagamento do fundo de garantia, algo que o Santos nega com veemência. Uma audiência está marcada para abril e deve dar o desfecho final para o caso – o Peixe entende ter enormes chances de vitória, algo que facilitaria o trâmite com os mexicanos, que estariam estudando a possibilidade. Não está descartado um acordo antes mesmo da definição judicial.

De outubro para cá, o ala de 23 anos foi sondado por inúmeros clubes do futebol brasileiro. O Flamengo chegou a ficar muito perto de anunciá-lo, mas não obteve as garantias jurídicas necessárias que o isentariam do pagamento da multa rescisória de 50 milhões de euros (cerca de R$ 200 milhões), já que Zeca tem contrato vigente com o Santos até dezembro de 2020.

Bom negócio para o Santos
Trocar Zeca por Zelarayán é visto dentro da diretoria Santos como um ótimo negócio. Afinal, além de dar solução para o caso do lateral sem perder seu valor de mercado, o Peixe conseguiria, enfim, contratar o tão sonhado meia. ​O argentino de 25 anos ficou muito perto de assinar com o Alvinegro no começo da temporada, mas não houve um desfecho positivo. Valorizado no Tigres, o armador não deve ter sua saída facilitada.

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Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura has promised aggression from his team on the tour of South Africa which gets underway on October 8. The teams play two Twenty20 internationals and three ODIs.”We are looking forward to this tour, as the underdogs we have nothing to lose and we will be playing more aggressive cricket in comparison to our previous tours,” Chigumbura said upon his team’s arrival in South Africa. “The coach and I have chosen to go in a more aggressive route with the team; we will no longer be playing just for the sake of playing a match, but we will be playing to win.”The best way to build team confidence and to move Zimbabwe cricket forward is to win and that is our objective for this tour. We are concentrating on us and not so much on the opposition this time.”Zimbabwe recently beat Ireland 2-1 in an ODI series and have recalled Grant Flower, who’ll bolster the batting line-up. However, Flower’s arrival has been held up due to invalid travel documents, a problem his team manager Lovemore Banda hoped would be resolved in a day’s time.The teams have never played each other in a Twenty20 game and Zimbabwe coach Alan Butcher was looking forward to the challenge. “Pro20 cricket is about who is the better team on the day, the uncertainty of this format is what makes it so exciting. When a team plays Pro20 cricket, the outcome can never be set in stone as the margin for an upset becomes wider,” Butcher said. “The key is to focus for all twenty overs.”

Rangers have had a number of success stories in recent years in the transfer window as they have brought some terrific talent to Ibrox.

The likes of Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent, Joe Aribo and Glen Kamara are all first-team stars who were signed from elsewhere to improve the squad and played pivotal roles in securing the Premiership title last season.

Unfortunately, some players simply do not make the grade in Glasgow. Not every transfer is a success and some fall by the wayside instead of becoming a star like Kent.

Not good enough

One player who falls into the unfortunate category is striker Cedric Itten. Based on the evidence of his Gers career so far, the £10k-a-week earning ace is not good enough for Rangers and Van Bronckhorst must finally wield his axe in the summer – allowing him to leave on a permanent basis.

The Dutch head coach recalled him from his loan spell with Greuther Furth in January and claimed that he offered something “different” at the top end of the pitch. However, the biggest difference between him and Morelos is their respective quality in the final third.

In the Premiership this season, Itten has zero goals and zero assists in four appearances, whilst he has also lost a whopping 73% of his individual duels. This suggests that he is a lightweight off the ball who also offers no cutting edge. His Colombian teammate, meanwhile, has 11 goals and five assists in 20 starts as he has hit a rich vein of form this term.

Itten was given the nod to start against Livingston and Ross County but failed to contribute directly to a goal in either match. Van Bronckhorst handed him a huge opportunity to show that he is a viable option for the Gers in the Premiership as an alternative to Morelos but the drop-off in quality, as shown by the statistics, is far too steep.

This came after his previous spell in the side under Steven Gerrard where he scored four goals in 30 Premiership outings. He is simply not at the level Rangers require their first-team strikers to be and he must be sold at the end of the campaign. The club must cash in on him ahead of next season and look to bring in a replacement who could put more pressure on El Bufalo throughout the campaign or at least do a respectable job when filling in for him at times.

AND in other news, Big flop: £3.1k-p/w Rangers lightweight has been draining Wilson’s budget for 54 weeks…

An update has emerged regarding transfer interest in Celtic defender Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo… 

What’s the talk?

According to Football Insider, Russian outfit FC Ufa are in talks with the Hoops over a potential deal to sign the full-back on loan until the end of the season.

The report claims that discussions are underway for the move to take place, as he does not feature in Ange Postecoglou’s short-term plans.

Axe him

Instead of sending out Bolingoli-Mbombo on a temporary basis, the Australian boss must brutally axe him from the club entirely by pushing for a sale. If possible, Celtic must look to cash in on him now and move him on from Parkhead rather than only having a solution until June.

The full-back is simply not good enough for the Hoops, as he is a liability on and off the pitch. He has only played 31 times since joining in 2019, which shows that he does not have the quality – in either Neil Lennon’s or Postecoglou’s eyes – to be a regular fixture in the team, indicating that he is not up to the standard required.

Off the pitch, he has also shown that he can be a liability. After causing two games to be postponed in 2020 due to a secret trip to Spain amidst pandemic-related travel restrictions, Bolingoli-Mbombo was blasted by his then-manager Lennon, who said:

“I am livid; total betrayal of trust. He took a flight to Spain on the Monday and flew back on Tuesday – one day in Spain, no logic to that – and decided to keep it to himself.

“We couldn’t have done any more as a club to maintain the standards. This is a rogue who has gone off tangent and decided to do something very, very selfish.

“We were livid and appalled. We have been bitterly, sorely let down by the selfish actions of one individual. He blatantly disregarded instructions.”

This suggests that the 26-year-old is not someone who can be relied upon by the manager, as Lennon stated that the club were felt let down by his actions. However, it is worth pointing out that he may have learned from his mistakes and improved as a person.

His performances on the pitch have not improved, though, as Postecoglou has only deemed him worthy of two appearances in the Premiership this season. This is why the Hoops boss must push for Bolingoli-Mbombo to be sold on a permanent basis to the Russian club instead of being loaned out, because his time at Celtic so far does not suggest that he will come good any time soon.

AND in other news, Forget Taylor: Celtic “wizard” who had 39 touches proved Ange got it wrong vs Bodo…

Tillakaratne Dilshan has said the tri-series in Zimbabwe, in which he led Sri Lanka to victory as stand-in captain, helped him recover his lost form and carry it into the Asia Cup

Sa'adi Thawfeeq18-Jun-2010

Tillakaratne Dilshan has said the tri-series in Zimbabwe, in which he led Sri Lanka to victory as stand-in captain, helped him recover his lost form and carry it into the Asia Cup, where he sunk Bangladesh with an aggressive half-century followed by a canny spell in Dambulla.Dilshan made 71 off 51 balls, helping Sri Lanka achieve the first-ever 300-plus total in Dambulla, and set his sights on scoring 1000 runs before 2010 ends. He presently has 603. “Before the Zimbabwe tour I was out of form. I started training and watched video clips of my batting and the little things that had gone wrong with my batting, and I made the necessary adjustments,” he said after Sri Lanka’s 126-run win. “I got the start in the first match in Zimbabwe and I have carried the form to the Asia Cup.”I want to continue with this form for the next couple of months. I am close to 1000 runs in ODI cricket for the year. There are about five matches or so before the end of 2010 and I am hoping to make 1000 runs. I am enjoying my batting at the moment and trying to take some chances in the first 10 overs. If I survive I want to go for a big score. Today I had the opportunity to make a big score but unfortunately I got out in the 15th over.”Dilshan and his opening partner Upul Tharanga, who scored 54, put on 111 for the first wicket to set up Sri Lanka’s record total. “We have an understanding that whoever is hitting the ball well should get most of the strike. I enjoy batting with Upul.”According to Dilshan, the wickets in Dambulla were getting better and batsmen can enjoy batting in future matches. “It is a good wicket for both batsmen and bowlers. Bowlers who can hit the deck have a chance to get wickets and in batting, if the batsman plays strokes, he can put the bowlers under pressure. It’s an all-round wicket especially suited for batsmen.”Dilshan wasn’t done after his innings, returning to halt Bangladesh’s momentum with three quick strikes. He finished with 3 for 37 as Bangladesh were shot out for 186. “I am not surprised that I got three wickets. I knew when you play one spinner I will have to bowl a few overs,” he said. “In the last one and a half years I was keen to bowl but I hardly got a chance because of the presence of Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan.”Today there was only one spinner and I had to bowl and grabbed that opportunity and showed that I can still bowl. I think I can serve the team as an allrounder bowling offbreaks.”

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Craig Kieswetter returned to the Somerset team with a half-century as the Group A leaders maintained their successful Clydesdale Bank record with a 71-run win over Worcestershire at Bath. A festival crowd of around 3,000, basking in hot sunshine, saw the England World Twenty20 hero hit 52, with three sixes and three fours, in a Somerset total of 235 for 9. Zander de Bruyn made 55, and Ben Phillips 51 not out, his first one-day half-century.That proved too much for the Royals on an unpredictable pitch, as they subsided from 63 for 1 to 164 all out, Mark Turner taking a career best 4 for 36 from 7.4 overs. Somerset have now won all five of their group matches, and already look hot favourites to reach the semi-finals.Kieswetter received a warm ovation from spectators when opening the Somerset innings after they had lost the toss, and soon helped them make up for the early losses of Marcus Trescothick and Nick Compton. He shared a third-wicket stand of 86 with de Bruyn, and was soon demonstrating the clean hitting that had earned him the Man of the Match award in the World Twenty20 final seven days earlier.Having faced 63 balls, Kieswetter got a leading edge to Imran Arif and was caught at cover. When the in-form James Hildreth followed for a duck and De Bruyn was caughtbehind having hit five fours and two sixes, Somerset were 125 for 5.Worcestershire continued to claim wickets, but the match was taken away from them by 34-year-old Phillips, who hammered seven fours and a six in 34 balls. Daryl Mitchell was the pick of the Royals’ attack, with 2 for 30 from his eight overs.When Vikram Solanki fell to the first ball of the Royals’ reply, a sharp lifter from Turner, their struggles in the competition looked set to continue. Phil Jaques and Moeen Ali briefly raised hopes with a stand of 63, but once Jaques was well caught by Murali Kartik attempting to pull Turner, there was a steady procession of batsmen.Peter Trego produced a delightful slower ball to york Alexei Kervezee for 19, and soon it was 141 for 8. Kieswetter’s glovework was nowhere near as impressive as his batting, and the 22-year-old still has work to do on his keeping if he wants to challenge Matt Prior for his Test place.

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A Universidad de Concepción iniciou esta luta em 2017 para não descer à Primera B. Em seus planos, ele nunca teve em mente se classificar para a Conmebol Libertadores recentemente, mas sua campanha na primeira parte do ano foi boa, terminando em terceiro lugar atrás de Colo Colo e Universidad de Chile, campeão do torneio Clausura.

O segundo semestre foi discreto. Foi de poucos triunfos e muitos laços. Ele não perdeu muitas partidas. O torcedor do Vasco da Gama perguntará como esta equipe chilena conquistou a vaga na Libertadores. A resposta é simples: Colo Colo foi o campeão da Transição e desocupou seu lugar na final do segundo classificado, dando seu lugar aos “penquistas”, que não perderam a oportunidade de jogar a segunda Copa Libertadores depois de vencer a Unión Española.

Quanto aos seus jogadores, a Universidad de Concepción tem excelentes atletas. No gol, Cristian “Tigre” Muñoz, que com 40 anos jogou sua última temporada como profissional. O antigo goleiro de Boca Juniors e Colo Colo é uma garantia.

Na defesa, o paraguaio Gustavo Mencia foi um sucesso do clube “auriazul”. Assinado no início deste ano, os Guarani deram força à retaguarda e provavelmente fornecerão experiência internacional para um clube que tem poucas participações em torneios continentais. Outro jogador que se destaca no elenco é Ronald de la Fuente, que pode ser calmamente o novo lateral-esquerdo da seleção nacional chilena.

No meio-campo, Hugo Droguett foi transformado em seis meses no emblema deste elenco. Aos 34 anos, ele foi o motor dessa equipe contribuindo e indo além. Com objetivos importantes, como os lances que ele fez contra a Unión Española. Ele é o jogador a destacar nesta pintura, onde Fernando Manríquez e Alejandro Camargo, seus companheiros no mercado intermediário, também brilham.

Para jogar a Conmebol Libertadores, a Universidad de Concepción precisa urgentemente de um atacante experiente, que sabe como jogar essa chave contra o Vasco. Hoje eles não o têm e certamente será a prioridade quando se reforçar durante estas semanas. Por enquanto, o ponto fraco desta tabela porque seus atacantes praticamente não se firmaram, deixando outros jogadores serem responsáveis ​​por alcançar a grande área rival e marcar os gols.

A Universidad de Concepción não vai levar o cartaz favorito na série contra o Vasco da Gama, mas quer fazer história nesta Conmebol Libertadores de 2018. O motivo é simples: em suas participações anteriores neste torneio como na América do Sul, nunca foi além desta fase, então eles têm uma enorme responsabilidade diante dos cariocas para encontrar o caminho para a fase de grupos da Libertadores.

*Setorista do Universidad Concepción do Diario El Sur, do Chile, em texto feito a convite especial do LANCE!

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