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More stats that’ll make you wonder how you did without them for so long. Starring a glittering cast of Kohli, Cook, Ashwin and others

Andy Zaltzman15-Dec-2016While India and England prepare for the final Test of what has been an unusually gripping and competitive one-sided clobbering, here is your next batch of pre-Christmas stats. This series has certainly been one of the most closely fought clobberings I can remember, involving, last week in Mumbai, a fascinating match that began with three days of classic, momentum-shifting, undulating cricketing tug of war, and ended with rampant, high-skilled Indian dominance, and a baffling display of white-flag English batting. Should anyone ever write an instruction manual entitled , this match would be Example A. Further examples would not be required.Four years ago at the Wankhede, as India subsided rapidly to defeat against England’s spinners, Virat Kohli had clonked a filthy Graeme Swann full toss straight to mid-off in what will always remain a compelling challenger for Worst Shot of the Third Millennium, a shot of such complete mistiming that it made a noise reminiscent of a catapulted tortoise landing on the roof of a cheap wooden shed. If memory serves. This time, he created a masterpiece of the art of batsmanship, a performance of such near-flawless technical and tactical brilliance that England could have bowled him a hand grenade disguised as a Rubik’s Cube and he would have defused it, solved it, signed it, and deposited it effortlessly to the extra-cover boundary. R Ashwin’s gradual hypnosis of England’s batsmen completed the Test’s transformation: from level pegging on the judges’ scorecards to Rocky Marciano pummelling the daylights out of a stuffed toy penguin.Stats time.15 December
It has been another odd year for England in the Test arena, a cocktail of personal and collective successes and failures. In their intensive 31-Test deluge since April 2015, they have (a) won an Ashes, (b) drawn three series in which they had held a lead, (c) triumphed in South Africa, and (d) failed to construct a sequence of more than three matches without defeat. This constitutes England’s longest period without a four-match unbeaten run since 1997-2000.16 December
As has been widely noted, England were only the third side to lose by an innings after scoring at least 400 batting first. There have only been three more instances of a team scoring 375 or more and losing by an innings. Mumbai illustrated how a first-innings score of around 400 is no longer the platform for success (or at least, the platform for avoiding failure) that it once was.This millennium, teams batting first and scoring between 380 and 420 (inclusive) have won 26, lost 23, and drawn 16. Before the year 2000, such a first-innings score led to 54 victories, only ten defeats, and 59 draws.A 400-ish opening innings has become sub-par in Asia, where since December 2009, teams batting first and scoring between 380 and 430 have won two, lost nine and drawn five; against India in their home conditions, the record is: played six, lost six.17 December
Today is Ashwin day. The Chennai Conjuror’s fifth wicket in Mumbai made him the first player to achieve a 200-run, 20-wicket series double since Andrew Flintoff and Shane Warne in the 2005 Ashes.Ravindra Jadeja needs 27 runs and four wickets in Chennai to join the list, and provide the fourth instance of two players on the same side registering a 200-20 double series (after Jacques Kallis and Shaun Pollock for South Africa in West Indies, 2001; Ian Botham and Geoff Miller, England in Australia 1978-79; and Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia v West Indies 1951-52). (If you want another impending potential stat to keep an eye out for during the fifth Test, if Jadeja scores those 27 runs, and Jayant Yadav takes one more wicket, India will become only the third team in Test history to have three players score 200 runs and take ten wickets in a series, after Australia in the 1907-08 [Warwick Armstrong, Charlie Macartney, Monty Noble], and Australia again in the West Indies in 1955 [Ron Archer, Richie Benaud, Keith Miller].)Ashwin needs 11 runs to register the eighth 250-run-25-wicket double in a series, and the first since Botham in the 1985 Ashes. (There have been some near-misses. Warne fell short by one run in 2005, and Flintoff by one wicket; Imran Khan was three runs away against India in 1982-83; Malcolm Marshall needed six more runs in India in 1983-84; and Tony Greig took 24 wickets to go with his 430 runs in the West Indies in 1973-74.)Ashwin is also 61 runs and three wickets away from the fourth ever 300-30 series double. He would follow Botham in 1981 against Australia, Benaud for Australia in South Africa in 1957-58, and Benaud’s baggy-green predecessor George Giffen, in the 1894-95 Ashes.

Ashwin’s gradual hypnosis of England’s batsmen completed the Test’s transformation: from level pegging on the judges’ scorecards to Rocky Marciano pummelling the daylights out of a stuffed toy penguin

His two six-wicket innings in Mumbai made Ashwin only the fourth player ever, and the second since the First World War, with three 50-plus scores and three five-wicket hauls in a series. Giffen’s 1894-95 Ashes was the first instance; England’s Frank Foster achieved the feat in the 1911-12 Ashes; and Botham in the 1981 Ashes, when he also crammed in 12 catches, three ducks, a resignation/sacking from the captaincy, and a heroic beard, into his hectic schedule.With his half-century in the third Test, in Mohali, Ashwin had already become only the second player to make five 50-plus scores and take five five-wicket hauls in a year. Daniel Vettori had five of each in 2008. Ashwin has eight five-fors, and needs one more five-for to equal the record for a year of nine (jointly held by Malcolm Marshall in 1984, and Muttiah Muralitharan in 2006).
His two six-fors in Mumbai tied Murali’s 2006 record of six six-wicket hauls in a year.Enough Ashwin stats. He has had, unquestionably, a good year. A better year than, for example, David Cameron or Hillary Clinton. Albeit in rather different circumstances.18 December
In Mumbai, Moeen Ali (2 for 174) and Adil Rashid (4 for 192) provided only the 11th instance of two bowlers conceding 170 or more in the same innings, and the first in which the bowlers have been English. The last six of these 11 have all taken place in Asia. None of the previous ten had featured an attack with six front-line bowlers.It was also:(a) The first time for 23 years that two England bowlers have bowled 50 overs in an innings. Mark Ilott, in his second Test, and Martin Bicknell, on debut, were the victims on the previous occasion, at Headingley in 1993, as Australia piled up 653 for 4 declared, which, at the time, was considered a slightly disappointing score for the baggy greens in an Ashes Test. If I remember correctly. Some measure of vengeance for Ashwin, one of the two Indians to bowl 50 overs in Kolkata four years ago, along with Pragyan Ojha. And…(b) The third time since 1965, and the eighth time ever, that seven England bowlers have bowled ten or more overs in an innings.19 December
India, from 307 for 6, added 324 more runs before England could finally leave the field and start thinking about how nice it would have been to take a couple more catches. This was the 13th time a team has added 300 or more for its last four wickets, and the first either by India or in India.20 December
Cheteshwar Pujara and Kohli, batting behind an unsettled opening partnership, and ahead of a malfunctioning five and six, have combined for 845 first-innings runs at an average of 105 (Pujara has made 341, Kohli 504). This is the most first-innings runs ever scored by India’s three and four in a Test series. The all-time record Most First-Innings Series Runs by a Team’s Numbers Three and Four – 1095, by the 1930 Australians in England (Don Bradman 842, Alan Kippax 239, Alan Fairfax 14) – is just about within sight.”Bradmanesque, moi?”•AFP21 December
Kohli Day. If Kohli makes 40 in either innings in Chennai, he will be the first player to make seven scores of 40 or more in a series since Nasser Hussain in the 1998-99 Ashes, since when there have been 18 other instances of a player scoring 40 six times.In 2016, Kohli currently has 1200 Test runs at an average of 80.0, 739 ODI runs at 92.3, and 641 T20I runs at 106.8. Only one player has ever returned a year tally of 600 or more runs at an average of at least 70 in two formats – Hashim Amla, who in 2010 made 1249 at 78.0 in Tests and 1058 at 75.5 in ODIs, and in 2012, 1064 at 70.9 in Tests and 678 at 84.7 in one-dayers. Even a pair in Chennai will leave Kohli averaging over 70 in all three formats this year.His overall all-format international tally for 2016 is currently 2580 at 88.9. Kohli could deliberately smash his stumps down first ball in both innings in the final Test and still finish the year as the only player to have made more than 2000 international runs in a year at an average of more than 80. Only three others have made even 1250 runs at 80-plus in a year – Garry Sobers (1299 at 144.3 in 1958), Sachin Tendulkar (1766 at 84.0 in 2010) and Viv Richards (1926 at 91.7 in 1976). Illustrious company.22 December

This Asian winter, Alastair Cook has faced 580 balls of spin in six Tests, been dismissed 11 times – once every 53 balls – and scored 265 runs, for an average against spin of 24.1. In his previous 21 Tests in Asia, spaced over seven separate winters, Cook had scored 1422 for 21 against spin, averaging 67.7.On his previous three tours of India, he made 592 for 6 against spin, and was dismissed once every 222 balls. Between them, Muttiah Muralitharan, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh, the three leading wicket-takers in Tests on the world’s largest continent, with more than 1300 wickets on their home landmass between them, dismissed him once in 112 overs in Asia. The old certainties have been chipped away from his batting, for now at least, by two months of unrelenting high-class tweakery.23 December
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24 December
Invent your own stat. This is the post-truth world of 2016. Make something up about a player you like whose numbers do not quite stack up, or insert yourself into a list of all-time greats.Happy Cricketstmas.

If other men were witness to as much incompetence as Angelo Mathews has become used to, dressing rooms might have been set ablaze

Andrew Fidel Fernando in Colombo01-Sep-20152:52

‘We need to score more runs’ – Mathews

Angelo Mathews is now the first Sri Lanka captain in almost two decades who does not have a consistent match-winner in his team. It is a fate that has been coming to him for some time. There are occasional flashes of the sublime from this team, but those are oases in the desert. Mathews has no batsmen who routinely transforms matches, like Aravinda de Silva or Mahela Jayawardene did. Rangana Herath is tenacious, but not often transcendent.So as the greats faded one by one, Mathews had gradually built up his own legend. Fifty-two Tests in, the medals on his breast are many. As captain he averages 68.80 – third after his Holiness Donald Bradman and statistical first-apostle, Saint Sangakkara. In the fourth innings, Mathews’ 75.71 is third again, this time one place ahead of the Don. On a trying pitch, in the back end of the SSC match, Mathews was the best batsman. With 339 runs at 56.50, he has been the pick of the series.His is an easy plight to sympathise with. Constantly abandoned by young middle-order batsmen, consistently beating out top-order fires, Mathews is the crisis manager who is never not in crisis. In this match, he came to the crease with the score on 40 for 3 and then 7 for 3. It is a good thing he is ruled by a timeless stoicism, equally measured after the SSC’s heavy loss as he was after Galle’s frantic win. As subdued when he hooks for six, as he is dispassionate when his edge is beaten. If other men were witness to as much incompetence as Mathews has become used to, dressing rooms might have been set ablaze. Team buses would have run off cliffs.On Tuesday, he had Kusal Perera’s company for 135 runs, and while the two were together, there was a nuggety sense of hope. It would have been fitting if Kusal – the kind of cricketer the island specialises in producing – had helped orchestrate one of those truly chaotic Sri Lankan victories. But the pair were left with too much to do. They had sadly been preceded by another kind of Sri Lanka specialty – the batsmen who muck around for 25 balls, then hang bat and arms out like wet noodles to send balls to the slips.

Tragic heroes have an end to their journey, after all. Hector is overcome by Achilles. Anakin Skywalker gives into the dark side. But series after series, Mathews turns up and turns it on

So when debutant Kusal took the wrong option and reverse-swept R Ashwin straight to point, Mathews still had a mountain to climb. One of of the more comically-inclined tails in world cricket was to come. His ship was sinking, and yet again, Mathews was the last man left on deck. He was playing that same old mournful tune.You’d think that after a while, he would tire of this fruitless pursuit. That one day he will snap and become enraged, or become bored and think: “What’s the point?” Other tragic heroes have an end to their journey, after all. Hector is overcome by Achilles. Anakin Skywalker gives into the dark side. But series after series, Mathews turns up and turns it on. He was Sri Lanka’s second-highest run scorer against Pakistan, and had played his team’s best innings of the series. He finished each of the previous years with an average higher than 70.”It doesn’t really matter if you score a hundred or not if you end up losing,” Mathews said after the match. “If I get a duck and the team wins, I’ll be the happiest. That wasn’t the case. Today I had to change my gears a little bit, as wickets fell down. I had to try and build up a partnership. It was quite difficult. It was hot and humid – quite draining.”Aggression is not a quality that comes naturally to Mathews, but to his great credit, he has not been so jaded by the losses that he has given up on the idea of risk. Sri Lanka might have been tempted to play conservatively and hope for rain today, but the run-rate rarely languished, even after two wickets fell in the first session. In the past, Mathews has led doomed chases against South Africa and Pakistan in Galle, and against New Zealand in Wellington. Each time the target has been daunting.With the two seniors gone from the top order now, Mathews treads a lonely road. He can count himself unlucky. Most other exceptional Sri Lanka batsmen had a partner in crime. Aravinda had Arjuna Ranatunga. Sanath Jayasuriya had Marvan Atapattu. Mathews is left hoping that one day, at least one other reliable batsman will emerge. There are no clear takers yet.

Plays of the Day from the IPL match between Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders in Dubai

Alagappan Muthu19-Apr-2014The dubious record I
It is no surprise that Jacques Kallis and Gautam Gambhir would be in a heated tussle for an IPL record. Only, the stat under contention was for the most ducks in the tournament. They began the game even on eight each but Kallis took the lead when he was squared up by a lovely Mohammed Shami outswinger.The dubious record II
Alert captaincy from Dinesh Karthik came to Kallis’ rescue, though, as Gambhir was out for a duck as well, tying the ignominious count at nine each. Nathan Coulter-Nile seemed to offer an escape hatch to the rather uncertain Gambhir with a shortish delivery on the hips. Any batsman from the subcontinent would have gone for the flick, only in this case there was a leg gully. Not the kind of team-building exercise Knight Riders would have hoped for.The price of variation
Coulter-Nile was on the cusp of ending with an economy under six on Daredevils debut. Despite it being the final over of the innings, his prospects grew when Yusuf Pathan dragged a third consecutive yorker onto his stumps. It was supposed to be the final ball of the innings, but an attempt at variation backfired on him. A back-of-the-hand slower ball strayed over Suryakumar Yadav’s waist and was paddled away for four. The dreaded extra ball was a full toss as well and was reverse flicked to the third man boundary and what began as an excellent over leaked 12 runs.The deflection
An innocuous ball was met by an equally dull clip off the legs and yet five runs came off it courtesy both teams indulging in some simultaneous brain fades. In the third over, Mayak Agarwal and Dinesh Karthik took too much time in the middle of the pitch deciding on a single. The midwicket fielder, in his haste to throw the ball, chose the wrong end. Manish Pandey raced in from point to remedy the mistake as he hurled at the bowlers’ end, but the ball struck Agarwal hustling to make his ground and wandered away to the long-off boundary.The forgotten bat
Wide yorkers have become the popular method to stifle batsmen in the death. When Morne Morkel hurled one down in the 18th over, JP Duminy just about dug it out for two runs – both of which were secured with his bat lying forgotten in the middle of the pitch. The pace of the delivery had jarred his hands so much that he lost his hold of the bat. Then in his haste to set off for the run, he coudn’t quite regain control of it. It was a testament to his swiftness between the stumps that he made his ground with time to spare.

The Punjab opener has had an outstanding start to his first-class career, and is in contention to be the highest run-scorer in this Ranji Trophy season

Amol Karhadkar22-Dec-2012Despite their jittery form in the last two rounds, Punjab have undoubtedly emerged as the team to beat in this Ranji Trophy season. A large part of their success has been because of their 22-year-old rookie batsman, Jiwanjot Singh, who has lived up to the meaning of his name – light of life – for Punjab’s batting unit.For an opener playing his maiden first-class season, Jiwanjot’s numbers are mind-boggling. After seven games, he has 776 runs with four centuries and averages 77.60. He scored 213 on debut against Hyderabad and, going into Punjab’s final Group A game against Gujarat in Valsad, is in contention to be the season’s top run-scorer.His stats seem to indicate that he has dominated the best bowlers on the domestic circuit but Jiwanjot, who is from Patiala, says he hasn’t had the sternest test yet. He is yet to face his captain Harbhajan Singh, the most successful international bowler in the Ranji Trophy, in the nets when the offspinner is not on India duty. “You won’t believe it but I still haven’t faced Bhajjupa [Harbhajan] in the nets. The first time I was selected for Punjab was during last season’s one-dayers, when he was the captain,” Jiwanjot said. “I made my Ranji debut under his captaincy. But somehow I have never faced his bowling.”While Jiwanjot hasn’t been able to face one of the two biggest names in Punjab cricket, he did bat with the other last week. Yuvraj Singh played for Punjab for the first time this season, and he and Jiwanjot added 192 runs for the third wicket during the follow-on against Madhya Pradesh in Gwalior. Punjab lost that match by eight wickets, but for Jiwanjot his partnership with Yuvraj was a revelation.”It was nothing less than living a dream – to bat with such a big player, whom I have been watching on TV all these years. He plays with such ease and flair,” Jiwanjot said. “And most importantly, he didn’t put me under pressure. He just told me to not think of anything else – like we were following on and all – and to bat from over to over.”While Yuvraj was displaying his array of strokes during his 131 off 150 balls, Jiwanjot produced another workman-like century, his first away from home. In an era where patience is one of the last words on a youngster’s mind, and cricketers prefer Twenty20 riches to first-class grind, where has Jiwanjot learnt to be patient? The answer lies more in the seam-friendly conditions in Mohali, Punjab’s home ground, than in Jiwanjot’s attitude.”During the build-up to the season, I spoke a lot with Rathour sir [former India opener Vikram Rathour, the Punjab coach before he was appointed national selector]. He kept telling me the importance of being patient while opening the batting in Mohali,” Jiwanjot said. “And I just kept telling that to myself whenever I went out to bat.”It’s not that I can’t play my shots. You have to adapt to the situation of the game. If the situation demands for me to bat quickly, I can do that. I showed it against Rajasthan, when we were chasing a little over 200 for an outright win, and I scored 100 off 150-odd balls.”Despite his success in his debut season Jiwanjot, who is pursuing masters in computer applications, remains grounded. And even if he gets a lucrative IPL deal, Jiwanjot might prefer being the lifeline of Punjab’s batting unit.

There are two sides to Ross Taylor: the side that attempts too many strokes early, and the one that can be absolutely devastating. In Pallekele, both sides cohabited the same innings

Brydon Coverdale08-Mar-2011Ross Taylor’s seven searing sixes will be the enduring image of Pallekele’s first one-day international. The fact that Taylor flailed early in his innings, with his feet glued to the ground, that he was dropped and missed again by Kamran Akmal, that he skied another top-edge and was lucky it landed safely, will fade into the haze around Kandy’s hills. All that mattered was those seven strikes that cleared the boundary from square leg to midwicket in the final six overs.One spectator might even have pocketed a souvenir, after the ball disappeared over a stand next to the electronic scoreboard and into the trees behind it, never to return. Twenty20 cricket has made ridiculously fast scoring passé, yet the way Taylor finished his innings still felt like something special. Having scratched his way to 69 from 108 deliveries, he made a scarcely believable 62 from his last 16. It was like he suddenly realised he was better than that. His partnership with Jacob Oram had the best strike-rate of any 50-plus stand in ODI history.Taylor makes the kind of mistakes that great batsmen don’t, but some fine batsmen can’t do things that come naturally to Taylor. Most impressive was his timing in those final stages of the innings, when 28 came off a Shoaib Akhtar over and 30 off the next over from the same end, bowled by Abdul Razzaq. The boundary was short and the bowlers helped by sending down low full tosses, but many players would still have skied a catch.New Zealand supporters have been galled as much as enthralled by their captain-in-waiting in recent times. In the two years up until this match, he was averaging 28.80 in one-day internationals, nowhere near enough for the man who should be the best in the team. He chose a good time to score his first hundred since mid-2008, and not just because it was his 27th birthday.Ross Taylor’s century in Pallekele was his first since 2008•AFPAfter thrashing Kenya and Zimbabwe, but being soundly defeated by Australia, New Zealand needed to beat one of the stronger sides to prove to themselves that they could compete in this World Cup. And, though he didn’t know it while he was compiling his career-best 131, Taylor might have to lead the side in their upcoming matches if a knee injury sustained by Daniel Vettori in the field turns out to be serious.If that is the case, he should at least be full of confidence. He wasn’t at the start of his innings. Too often when Taylor comes to the crease, he tries to play strokes that he should save for later. His fifth ball was edged between Kamran and slip, his seventh drew an edge that most wicketkeepers in Under-13 cricket would take, but Kamran spilled, and he slashed cuts just out of reach of point off Shahid Afridi.But good Ross and bad Ross often cohabit in the same innings. When he brought up his hundred with a pull for six off Akhtar, Taylor squatted close to the ground, catching his breath and feeling the relief of ending his century drought.”I had a bit of luck early on,” Taylor said. “My first 50, 60 or 70 balls I felt like I struggled and just tried to guts my way through, and probably caught up in those last 25 or 30 balls, which made my score look a lot better and made my day a lot better as well.”It’s been well documented back home that I haven’t been in the greatest form of my life. It’s been frustrating for myself, and probably a lot of others as well. When you’re out of nick you need a bit of luck and I got that today. Over the last few months I’ve been trying to search for the perfect game. I’ve just tried to keep things as simple as possible and just watch the ball. Today was my day.”There is no question that it was Taylor’s day, and when Vettori left the field in the sixth over of Pakistan’s chase, it was Taylor who captained the side to victory. New Zealand just need good Ross to turn up for the rest of the tournament.

Stats highlights from the South Africa-India match at Centurion

S Rajesh03-Dec-2006

Graeme Smith: some runs at last © AFP
1 – The number of runs India scored between overs 10 and 15. There were four maiden overs during that period.8.1 overs – The stage of the game when Graeme Smith finally faced his first ball from Zaheer Khan, who has been his nemesis throughout this series. At that stage Smith had already scored 21 from 17 balls106.25 – AB de Villiers’s scoring rate against Zaheer. In 32 balls, de Villiers scored 3430 – The number of runs Smith had scored in his last six ODIs before the match at Centurion92 not out – AB de Villiers’s score at Centurion. It’s his highest in ODIs, beating the 68 he scored against Australia at Port Elizabeth in 2005-06.2 – The number of fifty-plus scores for Sachin Tendulkar in 20 ODIs against South Africa in South Africa. He averages 26.1 in those matches.6 – The number of consecutive day games at Centurion that the team batting second has won. (Click here for the results of day games here.)17.72 – Shaun Pollock’s bowling average against India in 16 ODIs since 2001. His economy rate in those games is 3.62.6 – The number of times Pollock has dismissed Virender Sehwag in ODIs. No other bowler has dismissed him more often, while Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Chaminda Vaas have also dismissed him six times.6 – India’s current losing streak in ODIs. The last time they had such a poor run was in 1988-89, when they lost five in the West Indies and two more in Sharjah, for a total of seven losses in a row.

Playing against Nepal, he brought up his century in 33 balls, bettering Kushal Malla’s record by one ball in the process

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Feb-2024

Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton has broken the record for the fastest T20I hundred in men’s cricket. He achieved the milestone during the opening match of the tri-nation series in Nepal.Playing against the home side, he brought up his century in 33 balls, thus bettering Nepal’s Kushal Malla’s record by one ball. In all, Loftie-Eaton scored 101 off 36 balls, which included 11 fours and eight sixes. The 92 runs he scored in boundaries were also the most by a batter in T20Is.Malla’s feat had come during the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, when Nepal had smashed 314 for 3 against Mongolia. It was the same match in which Dipendra Singh Airee had hit the fastest T20I fifty, off nine balls. Coincidentally, Loftie-Eaton broke the record off Airee’s bowling with Malla watching in the field. After opting to bat, Namibia were 62 for 3 in the 11th over when Loftie-Eaton came out to bat. He got going by hitting two sixes and a four in the first six balls he faced, and reached his fifty in 18 balls.Along with Malan Kruger, he added 135 off 52 balls for the fourth wicket to power Namibia to 206 for 4. Kruger, who had opened the innings, remained unbeaten on 59 off 48 balls.Later, Loftie-Eaton also picked up 2 for 29 from his three overs as Nepal were bowled out for 186 in the 19th over.

MatériaMais Notícias

O Botafogo demonstrou interesse na contratação de Matías Rojas, meia-atacante paraguaio que pertence ao Racing, da Argentina. Os dirigentes alvinegros formalizaram uma proposta de pré-contrato pelo jogador. A informação foi publicada primeiramente pelo intermediário Francisco Ferreira e confirmada pelo LANCE!.

Matías Rojas tem contrato na equipe argentina até junho deste ano. O objetivo do Botafogo é contratá-lo sem custos de transferência. O clube vem sendo muito pressionado por reforços nesta janela de transferências e busca uma peça ofensiva no mercado para suprir as saídas de Jeffinho e Junior Santos.

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+Um ano de Luís Castro no Botafogo: treinador faz balanço do período e projeta futuro

O jogador vem sendo um dos destaques do Racing nos últimos anos e tem sido especulado em outros clubes como Atlético-MG e Palmeiras. O paraguaio deseja respirar novos ares e não descarta uma vinda ao futebol brasileiro.

Antes do Racing,Matías Rojas teve passagens por Cerro Porteño, Lanús e Defensa y Justicia. O meia-atacante está com 27 anos e chegaria para qualificar um setor alvinegro que vem sendo muito questionado nos últimos meses.

ذكرت تقارير إعلامية اليوم الخميس، أن لاعب نادي برشلونة مطلوب من أحد أندية الدوري الإيطالي خلال فترة الميركاتو الصيفي الحالي.

برشلونة يريد تقليص قائمته الحالية، من أجل توفير سيولة داخل النادي تتيح تسجيل الصفقات الجديدة وحل المشاكل المالية لإدارة الفريق.

اقرأ أيضًا.. باو فيكتور: وجهت رسالة شكر إلى فليك بعد الرحيل عن برشلونة

وأشار موقع ”Fichajes”، أن مدافع نادي برشلونة، أندرياس كريستنين، قد يرحل عن صفوف البلوجرانا خلال سوق الانتقالات الصيفية الجاري والذي سوف ينتهي خلال الأسبوع المقبل.

وأضاف أن إي سي ميلان يضع عينه على التعاقد مع كريستنين، حيث يجهز النادي الإيطالي 30 مليون يورو للتعاقد مع الدولي الدنماركي.

وأوضح أن ميلان في الجهة الأخرى بحاجة إلى قلب دفاع وسط، حيث يريد الروسونيري تعزيز صفوفه من أجل المنافسة على لقب الدوري الإيطالي والعودة إلى دوري أبطال أوروبا الموسم المقبل.

وأردف أن مدرب ميلان، ماسيميليانو أليجري، مقتنع أن كريستنين سوف يكون إضافة كبيرة لتشكيلة النادي الإيطالي.

ميلان كذلك وضع مانويل أكانجي، لاعب نادي مانشستر سيتي، كهدف له من أجل تدعيم مركز قلب الدفاع بجانب كريستنسن كذلك.

ويعتبر كريستنين بديلًا مع برشلونة منذ الموسم الماضي، وخرج بشكل كبير من خطط المدير الفني هانز فليك بالفعل.

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No caminho de Pelé tinha o Vasco. Não só o Vasco de São Lourenço, que despertou seu carinho e apresentou Bilé, um de seus primeiros ídolos. O torcedor declarado do Cruz-Maltinoteve a oportunidade de vestir a camisa do clube de São Januário, no caminho para sua consagração como campeão da Copa do Mundo pela Seleção Brasileira.

Tudo começou quando Santos e Vasco decidiram organizar um combinado para disputar o Torneio Internacional do Morumbi em 1957. O Combinado Santos/Vasco teve a presença de Pelé, então adolescente de 16 anos, em três partidas disputadas no Maracanã com a camisa cruz-maltina.

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Logo na primeira partida, Pelé levou a torcida ao delírio ao marcar três gols na goleada por 6 a 1 do Combinado Santos/Vasco sobre o Belenenses (POR). O “Rei” ainda balançou a rede diante do Flamengo, no empate em 1 a 1. A outra partida, contra o Dinamo de Zagreb (IUG) também terminou em 1 a 1 e com gol do “Rei” com a camisa do Vasco. A única partida do combinado com a camisa do Santos foi realizada no Morumbi e trouxe o empate em 1 a 1 com o São Paulo.

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O torneio foi disputado entre os dias 19 e 29 de junho. Pelé estava entre os convocados da Seleção Brasileira na lista do técnico Sylvio Pirillo para a Copa Roca no mês seguinte.

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Em 7 de julho, o jovem estreou contra a Argentina no Maracanã. Coube ao então camisa 13 substituir Del Vecchio. E logo depois, balançou a rede pela primeira vez com a camisa brasileira na derrota por 2 a 1 para os “hermanos”.

Três dias depois, o “Rei” dava a volta olímpica. Com um gol seu e outro de Mazzolla, a Seleção venceu a Argentina por 2 a 0 no Pacaembu. Aos poucos, Pelé foi se aprumando até abrir caminho para o título da Copa do Mundo de 1958.

Pelé morreu na última quinta-feira (29) em decorrência da falência de múltiplos órgãos. Ele não resistiu a uma progressão do câncer de cólon que enfrentava.