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Controversy appears to have been averted with the match referee Farooq Zaman saying that he is not taking any action against Andy Caddick for his altercation with umpire Sajjad Asghar, after his appeal for a catch behind had been turned down.Caddick was convinced he had Akhtar Sarfraz caught by Stewart. After umpire Sajjad Asghar had turned down the appeal Caddick gestured to his ear suggesting the nick was clearly audible. In a hostile spell Caddick made his feelings clear to the batsmen too.The referee told CricInfo: “Nasser Hussain asked me if an official complaint had been made and I confirmed that the umpire has not done so. I cannot take any action unless a complaint is made to me. I shall be speaking to Nasser Hussain again in the morning.”Asghar confirmed: “Caddick apologised to me at the end of the over and I accepted it so I am not going to report it officially.”England, having taken a stranglehold on this match at the start of the second session, had loosened their grip a little by the end of it.A century partnership for the fourth wicket took the Governor’s XI to 115 for four at stumps on the third day in Peshawar, with injured opener Wajahatullah Wasti unable to bat. They have an overall lead of 24.The two batsmen who did the repair work, Naumanullah and Akhtar Sarfraz battled for two and a half hours, taking every opportunity to score.Sarfraz, who had been dropped on 16 by Graham Thorpe at second slip, went on to play his strokes freely, hitting six boundaries before surviving, on 47, the confident appeal for a catch behind.By close of play Sarfraz was 53 not out from 125 balls. Meanwhile his partner, Naumanullah, was more aggressive, hitting a six over long-on off Ashley Giles and reaching his half-century from 99 balls. He fell on that score, caught at short mid-wicket, giving Darren Gough his third wicket. Two balls later bad light brought an end to the day’s play.Earlier in the innings a brilliant opening burst by England’s fast bowlers had reduced the Governor’s X1 to 13 for three.With a first innings deficit of 91, the Governor’s X1 lost Taufeeq Umer for one when Gough induced him to play-on to his stumps in his second over. Six balls later, Imran Farhat edged behind off Caddick with still just the one run on the scoreboard.Yasir Hameed, a high contributor in the first innings with 57, then fell leg before wicket to Gough for five. Within half an hour after lunch England had removed the first three batsmen. But by tea they had progressed to 65 without further loss.England were earlier all out for 315. The Governor’s X1 claimed two quick wickets when they dismissed Thorpe with the total on 282, after 41 had been added to the overnight score, and seven runs later Craig White fell to a catch on the long leg boundary for 21.Thorpe, who had hit 88 in the previous match in Rawalpindi, was again in fine form but batted more steadily, for two hours, before falling just two short of a half-century. He had hit three boundaries and in going for a fourth, from an attempted pull, he top edged to gully.Pace bowler, Kashif Raza struck twice shortly before lunch. He first had Ian Salisbury leg before wicket on 297, and eight runs later Caddick, slashing, was caught at point. Finally, Giles, on 24, was caught when he skied his shot behind the bowler.

A Mumbai court has issued a non-bailable warrant against former IPL chairman Lalit Modi in an IPL-related money-laundering case being investigated by India’s Enforcement Directorate, a government agency responsible for prosecuting economic offences. The warrant could pave the way for the ED to request a red-corner notice by Interpol against him, with the aim of securing his extradition from the UK, where he currently lives, to India.The sessions court judge PR Bhavake said it was a fit case to issue a warrant as Modi had not co-operated with the agency despite being summoned three times for the investigation. The ED said it had sent multiple summons since July 3 to Modi for its investigation without any response. The deadline for Modi’s personal appearance as stated by the summons expired on July 19.The case against Modi, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002, was filed by the BCCI against him in 2010. It relates to the handling of IPL broadcast rights in 2009 and his role in the deal between the two broadcasters – Multi Screen Media and World Sports Group (Mauritius) – is under investigation.In 2008, the BCCI sold the IPL’s global television rights to World Sport Group India for a period of ten years, while the broadcast rights in India were awarded to MSM for a period of five years.In March 2009, the BCCI terminated its agreement with MSM on account of various breaches and within a few hours of the termination, granted global and Indian broadcast rights for 2009 to 2017 to World Sport Group Mauritius which had the same directors as WSG India.A fresh agreement with WSG Mauritius was entered into, under which WSG Mauritius had 72 hours to find a broadcast partner, failing which the rights would revert to the BCCI. It was also expected to pay the BCCI Rs 112.5 crores as a signing fee – a sum the BCCI contended it never received. When WSG Mauritius failed to get a partner, it agreed the rights would come back to the BCCI but WSG India would retain the global rights (excluding Indian subcontinent) till 2017.The BCCI then contended that MSM had paid WSG Mauritius a facilitation fee of $80 million [Rs 425 crore] to cut a deal that would ensure the India rights came back to MSM. According to the BCCI, this was done with the knowledge and active participation of Modi. In June 2010, the BCCI terminated all IPL media license agreements with WSG Mauritius over the issue of the facilitation fee.In its petition, the ED – which called Modi a “potential accused” – said that he “was not authorized to terminate the media rights contract with …MSM” and didn’t follow a tender process or obtain approval from the IPL governing council for signing the deal with WSG Mauritius.

Gabriel Jesus’ future at Arsenal is in doubt as the club continue to evolve their attacking options under Mikel Arteta.

Jesus returns to fitness as Berta eyes new signings

Jesus has played an important role since joining from Manchester City, but competition for places and injuries have reduced the Brazilian’s role.

The signing of Viktor Gyokeres has pushed Jesus out of his preferred central striker role, and while the 28 year-old has recently returned to fitness to make his 100th appearance fo the club, Arsenal may see value in selling him at the right time, while Jesus will not want to play a minor role in a World Cup year.

“He’s very fit. We’ve been gradually increasing his minutes,” Mikel Arteta said after the Gunners’ Carabao Cup penalty-shootout triumph over Crystal Palace on Tuesday night.

“But [against Palace] as long as he was OK, everybody was happy to let him go on. When we get into fatigue mode, we took him off, but we’re very happy.”

Arsenal are expected to dip into the transfer market to strengthen their options in January, and a new forward signing could come at the cost of their current number nine.

Arsenal could sell Jesus to sign Semenyo

That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, who told Football Insider Antoine Semenyo could ditch his proposed move to Manchester City if Arsenal clear a role for him.

Jesus is one of Arsenal’s highest earners on £265,000-a-week, and while reports suggest Semenyo has already turned down a large contract off from Tottenham, the Bournemouth star would likely command lower wages than Arsenal’s current number nine.

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With a release clause of £65m which will become active in January, Semenyo, who Pep Guardiola has called “extraordinary” and “unbelievable”, is set to be the most in demand player of the winter transfer window.

Muttiah Muralitharan has lashed out at Shane Warne, calling him a “miserable man” and declaring he would not speak to Warne at the unveiling of the new trophy that bears their names. Muralitharan was angered by Warne’s suggestion that the ICC should have Muralitharan’s bowling action analysed during a Test match, despite the fact he has repeatedly passed laboratory tests.”I am very disappointed with what he said,” Muralitharan told the . “He can’t keep his mouth shut because he wants to keep making these comments. He must be a miserable man in his life. But that is his opinion and there is nothing I can do about it.”Warne is the world’s leading Test wicket-taker with 708 victims but Muralitharan needs only seven more to overtake him and that could happen in the second Test, which starts in Hobart on Friday. The rift comes at an awkward time after the two champions were honoured with the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, which will be held by the winner of the Australia-Sri Lanka Test series and will be unveiled by the pair on Thursday.”Maybe he just doesn’t want me to pass his record,” Muralitharan said. “Why else would he keep saying these things? I will shake his hand [at the ceremony] and go straight off the field instead of trying to be friendly.”Warne wrote in his column on Tuesday that checking Muralitharan’s action during a match would offer “peace of mind” to everybody in world cricket and “surely Murali would want that”. The comments came after a newspaper article on the weekend in which Warne’s mentor, Terry Jenner, floated the idea of in-match testing for Muralitharan.”Terry Jenner played cricket a long time ago and cricket is very different now,” Muralitharan said. “So it doesn’t matter what he says. But Jenner and Warne are still always commenting, commenting, commenting. It makes them feel important.”Muralitharan told the paper he and Warne were not on good terms before these latest problems, as he believed Warne considered Muralitharan had collected too many cheap Test wickets against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Although 163 of Muralitharan’s Test victims have been Zimbabwe or Bangladesh players, he also has an outstanding record against England and South Africa and says he can only play whoever Sri Lanka is scheduled to face.Muralitharan said he had no comment about the decision to use his name alongside Warne’s on the new trophy. “That was the decision between the boards of Sri Lanka and Australia,” he said. “I cannot say anything else.”

Stuart Clark’s stunning returns in the Ashes series have not surprised Michael Hussey, who has been regularly troubled by his current team-mate’s accuracy and bounce. Hussey said Clark, the right-arm fast bowler, has always been able to hit difficult spots for batsmen early in his spell and the threat has proved especially tricky for England.Clark has often chipped in after Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee have taken the new ball and he will start his first home Test at the SCG on Tuesday with 21 wickets at 16.76 from the series. “I’ve often had battles with him while playing for Western Australia and in the nets and I wish I had a dollar for every time he went past my edge because I’d probably have an island somewhere,” Hussey said. “He’s been a very fine bowler for a long time and he knows his game very well. I was confident that once he got a game for Australia he’d be successful.”McGrath’s withdrawal from the South Africa tour in March gave Clark an opening and his performances have been so spectacular that his New South Wales team-mate’s upcoming retirement is no longer as frightening for Australia. Clark was Man of the Series in South Africa and he is the equal leading wicket-taker in the Ashes with Shane Warne.”He’s experienced and unflappable,” Hussey said. “He’s not affected by pressure too much and has a clear mind about what he’s trying to do. His job is to keep chucking it into that area and he’s getting the right results.”

Matthew Hayden, the Australia opener, has backed his team-mate Andrew Symonds to replicate his terrific one-day form in the Test series against South Africa, beginning at Perth on December 16.Symonds, 30, was named in the squad for the Perth Test. He smashed a match-winning 156 to set up a thrilling two-run win over New Zealand in the second match of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy at Wellington two days ago. However, when it comes to the longer version of the game, Symonds averages a meager 10.50 from four Tests. His form in the recent Test series against the West Indies left much to be desired, and he struggled to nine from 51 balls in the final Test at Adelaide.Hayden, though, remained upbeat on Symond’s ability to perform. “I don’t think he has to do anything different in Test cricket,” Hayden told ABC Sport. “He has to lay a foundation, which we saw in Adelaide the other day. Unfortunately he just cut off at that point and we didn’t see the Andrew Symonds that we all love.”Meanwhile, Michael Clarke, who was not included in the squad for the Perth Test, has been backed by Shane Warne, Australia’s star legspinner. “Michael Clarke, whether he’s back in Perth or whenever that may be, he’ll be ready,” he said. “He’s another quality player who we’ve seen what he’s capable of doing. I think we all enjoy watching him play too.”I think his enthusiasm rubs off on all of us,” he added. “Look, Michael Clarke will be back, there’s no doubt about that. It’s just a matter of when.”

Just two days into the match, and it’s a depressingly familiar story for Bangladesh: India have already built a sizeable lead, to which they’ll add a few more runs tomorrow, and then unleash Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh and Co. on Bangladesh’s hapless batsmen. One more innings defeat – their 19th in 33 matches – looms, and the scorecard will reveal another hugely unequal contest. What it won’t show, though, is what could have been had Bangladesh’s fielders supported the bowlers the way they deserved to be. With player of the class of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, often one chance is all it takes to swing the momentum of the game; Bangladesh generously offered three, and now can only pray that the defeat which will inevitably come their way is an honourable one.Bangladesh have clearly struggled as a batting side, and the bowling have often lacked bite. While their lack of skill in these two areas can be forgiven, there is little excuse for sloppiness in the field – the first two are largely skill-driven, the third is all about hard work and diligence. A week ago, Jonty Rhodes was in India, and during a chat on television, he made a telling comment on South Africa’s attitude towards fielding when they were readmitted into the international arena. Since the players had no international exposure at the time, none of them if they would measure up as batsmen or bowlers, he said. What they did know, though, was that they were excellent fielders, and Kepler Wessels, the captain at the time, urged that regardless of what happened with bat or ball, the team should stand tall as a fielding unit.Dav Whatmore, Bangladesh’s coach, needs to instil that mindset into Habibul Bashar and his men. Before this Test Bangladesh had dropped 53 catches in their last 29 Tests, and worryingly, they are no signs of improvement – in the last 15 matches, 37 chances have gone abegging, that’s two-and-a-half per match. They exceeded that quota in less than a couple of hours today, though, and instead of having India on the mat at 128 for 5, had them dominate large parts of the last two sessions.It was especially disheartening for Mashrafe Mortaza, who later showed his team-mates a thing or two about fielding with a sharp effort to dismiss Dinesh Karthik. Mortaza made his debut against Zimbabwe in 2001-02, which was also the first time Bangladesh drew a Test, but injuries have meant that he has played only 12 matches in three years, and never more than four Tests in a row. Today, it took him only one over to show what Bangladesh were missing out on – he had Virender Sehwag edge twice, and then beat Gautam Gambhir with a beauty that pitched on off and seamed away.The pace – around 135 kmph – was impressive, but what was outstanding was his control and the swing and seam movement he obtained. From just outside off, he made the ball move both ways consistently in an effort that was McGrath-esque in sustained accuracy. Rahul Dravid was completely clueless, while Tendulkar was forced to play out 20 dot balls against him. Unfortunately, there was no Mark Taylor or Mark Waugh to support him in the slips, and Mortaza ended the day with hugely undeserving figures of 1 for 80.While the fielding had a large hand to play in the way the game shaped up today, India still needed a batsman to stand up and wrest the initiative away from Bangladesh’s bowlers, and Tendulkar did that en route to his 34th Test hundred. Despite the two chances he offered, this was one of his more fluent efforts in recent times – the footwork was decisive and the mindset aggressive from the moment he came out to bat. It showed early in the piece too, when he launched into a pull off Mortaza when his score was still in single digits.Too often in the recent past, Tendulkar has come out to bat in an inexplicably defensive frame of mind, allowing bowlers to shackle him up and dictate terms. Today, he drove confidently through the off side whenever offered the width, and punched the ball down the ground off either foot with exquisite timing and fluency. What should have been a fluent cameo, though, will probably end up being a matchwinning hundred, thanks to Bangladesh’s largesse in the field.S Rajesh is assistant editor of Cricinfo.

Morne van Wyk, the 24-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman from Free State, will join the injury hit South African squad in Pakistan. South Africa have been plagued by a number of fitness worries early on the tour: Herschelle Gibbs missed the first one-day international due to muscle soreness, Neil McKenzie suffered from back spasms, while Graeme Smith and Boeta Dippenaar were clearly bothered by the heat and humidity in that match.Explaining the decision to opt for a reinforcement, Eric Simons, the South African coach, said: "We do have a few injury worries with Herschelle and Neil, and the severe heat and humidity also took its toll on Friday when Graeme Smith and Boeta Dippenaar suffered from cramps. Morne will give us more flexibility if we have further injury problems or if we decide to rotate players in the rest of the games." van Wyk will join the South African team on Monday.South Africa have a busy schedule ahead of them in Pakistan, playing four ODIs in a week’s time before being faced with back-to-back Tests. Simons added that the packed itinerary was also a reason why the team management decided to ask for cover. "It takes nearly 24 hours to travel from South Africa, so we would rather have him here than back home should problems arise next week."van Wyk made his international debut in the NatWest Series final against England earlier this year, and has been in terrific batting form for the A side, scoring 52, 56 and 118 in three one-day matches against the Sri Lankan A team last week.

All other cricket in New Zealand has been affected by the miserable summer weather so it was no surprise that the start of the women’s State League should not prove immune to problems caused by rain.The Canterbury match with Wellington at the Village Green in Christchurch suffered from a thunderstorm that struck the Garden City around noon today.Wellington, who were asked to bat were 53/3 after 19 overs. Anna O’Leary scored 20 and Maia Lewis 10. The weather did not clear sufficiently to allow a restart.They will be hopeful for better weather tomorrow when they are scheduled to meet again.In Dunedin, the Otago Sparks batted first against Central Districts at Logan Park and were 102/5 after 39 overs when rain forced players from the ground.Erin McDonald had taken one for 21 from her 10 overs while Kate Pulford had two for 20 from nine overs.At 4pm the umpires decided to abandon play because of the weather.For Otago, Elizabeth Scurr and Rachel Pullar each scored 20.

Stunned! I suppose this is the only word that can sum up the mood ofthe camp. “So close yet so far” — a cliche so often used yet onewhich offers no help. People who read this report who do not pridethemselves on knowing much about the great game will only seestatistics and probably wonder to themselves how a team chasing 99 towin a game failed to do so and how a team who had controlled the gamefor most of the match lose one hour of the game and lose the match.The answers do not immediately spring to mind, but I suppose that iswhy this is such a great game and why we as players train so hardjust to take part in matches such as this. Unfortunately somebody hadto lose, and on this occasion it was us. We need to feel honouredthat we were able to take part in such a fascinating and thrillingTest match.These are very philosophical words on my behalf, and the result abitter pill to swallow, but a pill that must be digested and passedout in order for us to refocus our attention on winning the next Testmatch to level the series. If this match showed us anything, it wasthat the two teams are evenly balanced and that whoever plays themore intense and disciplined cricket will emerge on top.Day five of the Test match started exactly as planned. Streak moppedup the last wicket in the first over over the day to have the WestIndies all out for 147. Streak’s figures of 5-27 was a brilliantreturn for some outstanding bowling. We knew the 99 needed forvictory was going to be a testing target on a deteriorating wicket.The ball was staying low, sometimes running along the ground. Someoneneeded to get in and bat through with the rest of the team chippingin around him.Grant Flower was doing very well, and at lunch we were 40 for 3, bothFlowers at the crease. A partnership here would see us through, andwe were still very much in the driving seat. What transpired in thenext two hours would go down in the annals of cricket history. In themidst of some great fast bowling, a deteriorating wicket and somemisfortune, we were bowled out for 63.The sensation was numbing, but one can’t help but think back to thelast ball and the scenes that followed. The West Indies players werejubilant, pulling stumps out of the ground, waving their hands in theair and gathering together to run a victory lap. The crowd wasprobably more ecstatic than the players — the music was raging, thespectators were dancing and hugging each other. They had waited solong for their team to do well in the face of what had happened tothem in the last two years, and without Lara they thought itimpossible.People say that West Indies cricket is in a crisis, a sentiment thatI partly agree with, although every nation goes through ups and downsand periods of rebuilding. But the passion that was evident on thatMonday afternoon can only lead to improving times in the West Indies.It was left for us to wonder what might have been after playing suchgood cricket for four days. A few interesting statistics to come outof the match were that this was the only side chasing under 100 runs in thesecond innings that had lost. It was the first time that Zimbabwehave been bowled out for under 100 in Test matches. A few otherinteresting facts were that the last 17 wickets fell for 93 runs, anindication of how the pitch played. And the last fact that made usfeel a little better was that in the last Test match played at thisground, the West Indies were bowled out for 51 by Australia in theirsecond innings.What is left is for us to put what happened firmly behind us and takethe numerous positives from the game into our next game. If you keepdoing the right things, everything will come right. This is my firmbelief, and hopefully in the next Test match, due to start on Fridayin Jamaica, we will be on the right side of what the papers here havedubbed “Miracle Monday”.