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أكد رودري، لاعب فريق مانشستر سيتي، أنه جاهز لمواجهة إيفرتون يوم الأربعاء المقبل في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، رغم إصابته القوية أمس.

وتعرض رودري لإصابة قوية بعد تدخل من لاعب فلومينينسي، في نهائي كأس العالم للأندية 2023.

اقرأ أيضًا.. صورة | رغم عدم مشاركته.. هالاند يحصل على ميدالية كأس العالم للأندية

وفاز مانشستر سيتي بنتيجة 4-0 ضد الفريق البرازيلي، حيث حصل النادي الإنجليزي على البطولة لأول مرة في تاريخه.

وتعكرت أفراح مانشستر سيتي بعدما عانى رودري من إصابة في الركبة، جعلته غير قادر على استكمال اللقاء.

ونشر الصحفي Kaveh Solhekol، بشبكة “سكاي سبورتس” العالمية تصريحات على لسان رودري، حيث أكد الأخير أنه جاهز لمواجهة إيفرتون يوم الأربعاء القادم.

وأكد البرتغالي أن ذلك التدخل كان من أسوأ ما واجهه في مسيرته المهنية، مشيرًا إلى إنه كاد أن يبكي ولكنه بخير تمامًا، مؤكدًا: “لا مشكلة”.

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O gol de número onze mil da história do Corinthians ficou a cargo de um jogador especial: o lateral-direito Fagner. O camisa 23, além de marcar o gol histórico, também quebrou um jejum de três anos e meio sem marcar em uma partida profissional.O último foi também pelo Corinthians, contra o Vitória, em Salvador, no dia 22 de maio de 2016.

Fagner se tornou o autor do gol número onze mil graças a uma ‘atualização’ da contagem de gols corintiana.Tudo porque recentemente foi descoberto mais um jogo na história do clube: Esportiva de Guaratinguetá 0 x 3 Corinthians, em 19 de setembro de 1920. Assim, os autores dos gols históricos foram mudando com o decorrer das partidas.

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Durante a partida, o jogador foi muito utilizado principalmente na primeira etapa, quando foi a válvula de escape ofensiva da equipe de Fábio Carille. Porém, assim como toda a equipe, ele caiu de rendimento no segundo tempo e fez parte da desorganização do Timão, que acabou levando a virada.

Fagner tem dois motivos para lamentar: além da derrota, o lateral levou o terceiro cartão amarelo e será desfalque no clássico contra o Santos, sábado que vem, às 17h (de Brasília), em Itaquera.

Veja a lista dos autores dos gols históricos do Corinthians:

Gol Mil – Buzetti, em Portuguesa 2 x 4 Corinthians (12/10/1927)
Gol 2 mil – Carlinhos, em Corinthians 7 x 3 SPR (atual Nacional) (11/08/1940)
Gol 3 mil – Nenê, em Corinthians 4 x 3 Palmeiras (14/05/1949)
Gol 4 mil – Baltazar, em Ypiranga-SP 3 x 5 Corinthians (06/05/1956)
Gol 5 mil – Lima, em Ferroviária 1 x 3 Corinthians (08/11/1962)
Gol 6 mil – Rivellino, em Palmeiras 1 x 1 Corinthians (27/01/1972)
Gol 7 mil – Biro-Biro, em Corinthians 1 x 0 Santos (22/08/1982)
Gol 8 mil – Moacir, em XV de Piracicaba 1 x 3 Corinthians (29/04/1993)
Gol 9 mil – Müller, em Corinthians 1 x 0 Ponte Preta (24/09/2000)
Gol 10 mil – Boquita, em Corinthians 2 x 0 Atlético-MG (16/8/2009)
Gol 11 mil – Fagner, em Corinthians 1 x 2 Cruzeiro (19/10/2019)

Billy Godleman is standing in as captain of Derbyshire, winning cricket matches, scoring runs and enjoying life again

Tim Wigmore at Canterbury09-Jun-2015
ScorecardBilly Godleman, shown here applauded off by Cheteshwar Pujara [file picture]•PA Photos

There was an understated satisfaction to Billy Godleman as, a little sheepishly, he raised his bat leaving the field. Derbyshire’s captain had engineered a remarkable turnaround in the match. Resolute and undefeated until the end, he had underpinned Derbyshire’s successful chase of 232.Just twelve months ago, Godleman’s very future as a professional cricketer was uncertain. He had not scored a first-class century since 2012. In mid-summer he was marooned in Derbyshire’s second team, a precarious existence for a 25-year-old who was out of contract in the winter.When Godleman was recalled for Derbyshire’s final six Championship games, he returned “100% playing for my career,” as he reflects. “There were times when I was very concerned about what would lie ahead in the future and whether it was actually going to be in the professional game.”No one would have envisaged such struggles when, as an 18-year-old opening batsman, Godleman scored 842 runs at 38.27 in 2007; that remains both his highest first-class aggregate and average in a campaign.”I was reasonably successful straight away from a young age. Then when I started not to do very well I didn’t quite know how to deal with that,” he admits. “I also realised that I wasn’t quite as good as I thought I was when I was 18, 19, 20.”Twice he suffered the pain of being released, by Middlesex in 2009 and again by Essex in 2012. Nine matches for Derbyshire in 2013 brought a miserable average of 17.18. When 2014 began equally badly, Godleman faced “accepting I wasn’t at the level that I thought I was. And then working out a method of dealing with disappointment and looking at every experience as an opportunity to learn something.”Of one thing Godleman was certain: he was not ready to abandon the game. With Derbyshire faring miserably, Graeme Welch sounded Godleman out. “You’ve got our full support, go and show us what you can do,” he was told.And then something seemed to click. At The Kia Oval last September, Godleman finally scored a century – and it was a match-winning one to boot. After his recall, Derbyshire won five of their last games. He earned a new one-year contract. After an encouraging start to the season and an injury to Wayne Madsen, Godleman was even entrusted with the captaincy, quite a turn-up for a man with a somewhat chequered past.It has evidently sat easily with him. Last week Godleman saved Derbyshire from defeat with an unbeaten 64 of 228 balls against Gloucestershire. Here, once again, Godleman’s defence was unbreachable in the fourth innings.Adhesiveness is integral to Godleman’s game. He knew that trying to mimic Chesney Hughes or Tillakaratne Dilshan when they were smiting Kent’s attack would be fool’s gold. Yet, as he showed with a series of rasping cuts and neat pushes through mid-on, he has also expanded his repertoire. Five half centuries at an average of 62.14 so far in 2015 are testament to that.”Previously he used to be a survivor, trying just to get through, and now he’s starting to develop the game to actually influence the play and put the bowler under more pressure and look to be more assertive,” says Neil Burns, who has worked extensively with Godleman.When Essex released Godleman, Burns devised a 60-month programme to turn his game around. “He’s had lots of ups and downs but the great thing about Billy is he’s prepared to look inside himself and do the tough learning.”Here Godleman’s assiduousness was rewarded with Derbyshire’s first victory at Canterbury since 1999; quite the reversal after Kent had cruised to 63-1 in their second innings, a lead of 182, before lunch on day two.Even a bumper crowd of school children on the third day would have done little for Kent’s mood. Darren Stevens was immediately whisked away to Maidstone, to play for the second XI, hoping to find some semblance of form after 16 runs in his last six first-class innings. On the evidence of this game, in which Kent hemorrhaged 20 wickets for just 317 runs, perhaps some of his teammates here should join him.

Nick Compton was dropped midway through the last Ashes series in England. His chances of an Ashes recall are remote no matter how much he tries to prove otherwise

Tim Wigmore29-Jun-2015
ScorecardNick Compton would need an avalanche of runs and an Ashes crisis to regain an England place•Getty Images

Two years ago Nick Compton was dropped for the Ashes, only three games after he had made centuries in back-to-back Tests. The implication seemed clear: to the selectors, Compton did not fulfil their mind’s eye of what an England batsman looked like. Many thought his treatment shabby.Only industrial quantities of runs could persuade the selectors, with whom Compton has had “no dialogue”, to think again. While often exuding permanence at the crease, Compton has not quite managed them. He averaged 43.08 in what proved his last season at Somerset; so far his return to Middlesex has brought just one hundred.Hence Compton’s chagrin after his dismissal for a typically well-compiled 87: he held out his arm as if he could not believe that his edge from Danny Briggs had reached first slip on the full.”I just thought how on earth has it gone from there to there? It was more dismay really and disappointment,” he reflected.While he still bats in the assiduous style that has made him one of county cricket’s most prized wickets in the last five years, Compton is a man short of time in one sense. Three days after his 32nd birthday, he needs to embarrass the selectors into a rethink, something that even Mark Ramprakash was unable to do when he averaged 100 in consecutive summers. It is a task that calls for more than substantive innings of two figures.”Obviously I would have liked a big hundred. I think I’ve got ten scores between 80 and 100 in the last two years which hurts you a little bit when you’re trying to push for higher honours, realising that people don’t watch the innings. All they look at is a scoreboard and if you’ve got a hundred it seems to make them take notice. It’s quite hard to take because you feel you’ve worked your balls off for that and to fall so close to the landmark is not great.”It has been a familiar feeling recently: as he noted, Compton has a pair of 70s to go with this 87 since recording a century four games ago. “If I’d just batted a bit longer and with a bit more composure I’d have got four hundreds on the bounce. Now talk to me.”Unfortunately that’s the world we live in. It would be nice if the selectors and everyone was watching ball-by-ball and seeing some of the qualities even if it wasn’t a hundred but that’s just the way it is. And that’s why it hurts more.”For all his personal frustration, Compton’s innings has been the most influential of the first two days at Lord’s. It has established Middlesex with a lead of 122 with two first innings wickets still intact: though not necessarily decisive, it has put Hampshire’s batting under an unflattering light. In isolation taking eight wickets for 239 made this a commendable day’s work for Hampshire, even if the sight of James Vince and Will Smith sharing 16 overs suggests their attack is missing an allrounder.That Middlesex would still be batting at the close seemed unlikely when Hampshire took five wickets for 53 runs before lunch. While there was nothing surprising about the parsimony and movement generated by Jackson Bird and Gareth Berg, the performance of Bradley Wheal was notable. An 18-year-old lured from Cape Town by Dale Benkenstein, Wheal bowled with oomph in his third first-class game. As his mother hails from Scotland, the Saltires might soon be minded to ask about his international availability.In three balls Wheal snared two Test batsmen. Extra pace compelled Joe Burns to inside edge a delivery onto his middle stump. And then Eoin Morgan, seeking to translate the swagger of the recent ODI series to the first-class game, was enticed to flash his second ball to the slips while his feet lay unmoved.The day was no better for the other Middlesex batsmen with recent England Test experience: resuming on 17, Sam Robson was trapped in front by Bell’s incisive spell before adding a run. A year ago he was playing Test cricket for England; now he has made only one score over 50 in 16 first-class innings this season. Admittedly that was a hefty 178 against Durham: exactly the sort of score Compton is imploring himself to make.

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Às 19h30 desta quarta-feira, o Allianz Parque recebe o último Choque-Rei da temporada, pela 29ª rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro. Vice-líder, com 57 pontos, o Palmeiras está dez atrás do Flamengo e, além de manter o sonho do título, tenta abrir distância dos concorrentes às quatro vagas diretas na fase de grupos da Libertadores. O São Paulo está em quarto lugar, com 49 pontos, e joga para se firmar ainda mais nessa faixa da tabela.

TABELA
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Local: Allianz Parque, São Paulo (SP)
Data-Hora: 30/10/2019 – 19h30
Árbitro: Raphael Claus (Fifa-SP)
Assistentes: Emerson Augusto de Carvalho(Fifa-SP) eNeuza Ines Back(Fifa-SP)
Árbitro de vídeo: Jose Claudio Rocha Filho (SP)
Assistentes de árbitro de vídeo:Vinicius Furlan eHerman Brumel Vani (ambos de SP)
Onde acompanhar: Premiere

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PALMEIRAS:Weverton; Marcos Rocha, Gustavo Gómez, Vitor Hugo e Diogo Barbosa; Felipe Melo e Bruno Henrique; Dudu, Lucas Lima e Willian; Deyverson.Técnico: Mano Menezes
Desfalques: Ramires e Luiz Adriano (problemas físicos)
Pendurados: Bruno Henrique, Lucas Lima, Carlos Eduardo e Antônio Carlos

SÃO PAULO:Tiago Volpi;Daniel Alves,Bruno Alves,Arboleda eReinaldo;Luan,Tchê Tchê (Liziero) eIgor Gomes;Antony,Vitor Bueno ePato. Técnico: Fernando Diniz.
Desfalques: Pablo, Everton e Rojas (machucados)
Pendurados: Antony, Tchê Tchê, Pablo, Liziero, Anderson Martins, Raniel e Igor Gomes

Jake Lehmann reeled off his third century of the summer as a young South Australia side held their own against New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield match at Coffs Harbour

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Feb-2016
ScorecardJake Lehmann’s 148-ball 122 included 14 fours and a six•Getty Images

Jake Lehmann reeled off his third century of the summer as a young South Australia side held their own against New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield match at Coffs Harbour.Following Lehmann’s hundred, Joe Mennie was able to dismiss Ed Cowan cheaply before stumps were drawn. Cowan was returning to the team after he missed their draw against Western Australia in Perth due to the after-effects of a blow to the helmet inflicted by a Joel Paris bouncer in Lincoln.The match is being held on the NSW north coast in memory of the late Phillip Hughes, and Lehmann marked it with a swashbuckling left-hander’s century as part of a concerted Redbacks counterattack that followed the loss of three early wickets.SA’s selectors had been the subject of considerable debate in Adelaide after the decision to drop the experienced but underperforming Tom Cooper and Tim Ludeman.Their replacements Jake Weatherald and Alex Carey both made strong contributions. Opener Weatherald made a sprightly 58 while the gloveman added 105 with Lehmann after the visitors had slipped further to 5 for 123.Another youngster, the second-game seamer Cameron Valente, helped add further runs with Lehmann, allowing the Redbacks to reach the fringes of 300.Arjun Nair, the teenaged finger spinner who became the Blues’ 738th first-class cricketer and 11th youngest debutant, claimed a pair of tail-end wickets to help round up SA’s innings.

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A quarta-feira iniciou de maneira diferente no Internacional. Após dois anos, o Ministério Público do Rio Grande do Sul concluiu uma parte da investigação que apurou várias irregularidades (organização criminosa, estelionato, falsidade ideológica e lavagem de dinheiro) na gestão do ex-presidente Vitorio Piffero, que comandou o Colorado entre 2015 e 2016.

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De acordo com as informações reveladas pelo MP-RS, os desvios dentro do clube gaúcho alcançaram a marca de R$ 13 milhões, valor que tem influência na situação financeira delicada que o clube atravessa até os dias atuais.

Descoberta

As suspeitas de desvios foram descobertas em 2017, quando a atual gestão contratou uma auditoria para analisar as contas do Internacional e foi informada sobre uma série de irregularidades, como, por exemplo, pagamentos de obras que nunca foram realizadas nas dependências do clube.

Confira abaixo os denunciados:

Vitorio Piffero, ex-presidente do Inter
Pedro Affatato, ex-vice de Finanças do Inter
Emídio Ferreira, ex-vice de Patrimônio do Inter
Carlos Pellegrini, ex-vice de Futebol do Inter
Carlos Eduardo Marques, engenheiro do Inter
Arturo Affatato, empresário e irmão de Pedro Affatato
Paola Affatato, empresária e irmã de Pedro Affatato
Adão Silmar de Fraga Feijó, contador
Ricardo Bohrer Simões, empresário da construção civil
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Fedato, empresário de futebol
Giuliano Bertolucci, empresário de futebol
Fernando Otto, empresário de futebol
Rogério Braun, empresário de futebol
Paulo Cezar Magalhães, ex-jogador e tio do ex-lateral do Inter de mesmo nome

Rebaixamento

Vale lembrar que, foi sob o comando de Vitorio Piffero e seus pares, que o Internacional acabou rebaixado para a Série B do Campeonato Brasileiro na temporada 2016.

The Mumbai Cricket Association has decided to file an intervention application before the Supreme Court to highlight the “difficulties and inconsistencies” in the Lodha Committee’s report, making it potentially the first member unit of the BCCI to seek cl

Arun Venugopal22-Feb-2016

The Mumbai Cricket Association has decided to file an intervention application before the Supreme Court to highlight the “difficulties and inconsistencies” in the Lodha Committee’s report, making it potentially the first member unit of the BCCI to seek clarity on the committee’s recommendations. According to an MCA official, the key concerns highlighted in the application are the age limit of 70 for the office bearers, the cooling off period between terms in office, and bringing state associations under the purview of the RTI.Should the recommendations be accepted in their present form, it will become untenable for the incumbent president, Sharad Pawar, who is well over 70, to continue in office. MCA vice-president Ashish Shelar said the association was seeking advice from the Supreme Court on the implementation of the recommendations. “There is no objection. There are some difficulties about implementing [the recommendations] which we will point out to the court,” Shelar told ESPNcricinfo.”Right now the existence of MCA itself is in question [because of the one-state, one-vote recommendation], we will ask the guidance from the court on how to deal with it. We are doing that [pointing out that MCA is the oldest body in the state].”It has also emerged that many other member units, including the KSCA, TNCA and the Cricket Club of India, are likely to follow suit and file similar applications in the coming days. An official of the CCI, which according to the Lodha report has “no cause” to be treated as a Full Member, said after the SGM on Friday that it was contemplating an intervention application. “Our contributions to the BCCI over the years have been significant,” he said. “We will present our arguments to the Supreme Court.”The TNCA, it is learnt, is likely to be among the last few associations to make the intervention plea. “We are going to wait for associations like Mumbai and Maharashtra to make the first move,” a TNCA source said. “Because of the whole CSK episode we don’t want to be seen by the court to be in the forefront in opposing [the recommendations].”Meanwhile, the BCCI is expected to file its affidavit – one that will point out the “anomalies and difficulties” encountered in implementing the recommendations – in the next few days. According to a source privy to the goings on at the SGM on Friday, the BCCI was required to submit the affidavit “around February 25 or 26,” about a week before the deadline of March 3 that the Supreme Court had given for the BCCI to inform if it could implement the Lodha report.The source also said that the BCCI had encouraged its member units to file intervention applications to the Supreme Court, as each member had specific concerns that needed to be raised individually. BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur had in fact said after the SGM that the board could not stop the state associations from filing pleas to the Supreme Court.In an oral submission before the Supreme court on January 25, the Cricket Association of Bihar, the original petitioner, had sought a full implementation of the Lodha report.The BCCI’s legal counsel said the board found certain anomalies in the report and needed more time to further review the recommendations. Justice TS Thakur dismissed the request for any extension, and said the court was going to accept the Lodha report completely and implement it if the BCCI did not inform the court before the March 3 deadline.The Lodha committee, appointed by the Supreme Court in January 2015, recommended a complete overhaul of Indian cricket. Its report covered every aspect of the game with special focus on the BCCI’s administrative and governance structures and the issue of transparency.

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Luiz Adriano teve atuação decisiva na vitória do Palmeiras sobre o Vasco, mas novamente gera preocupação no clube. O atacante voltou a sentir um incômodo na coxa direita, a mesma que lesionou contra o Santos, e será reavaliado nesta quinta-feira, na volta da delegação a São Paulo.

A recuperação do atleta ocorreu em três semanas, uma abaixo do prazo mínimo. O clube ainda preferiu deixá-lo fora da relação do jogo contra o Ceará para contar com o camisa 10 contra o Vasco. Reserva, Luiz Adriano entrou no intervalo, na vaga de Deyverson.

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Depois de duas chances claras, o centroavante fez o gol da vitória por 2 a 1, com bastante reclamação dos vascaínos por conta de uma possível falta no início da jogada. Foi o sétimo gol do jogador em 12 partidas pelo Palmeiras.

Se Luiz Adriano tornou-se uma dúvida para o clássico deste sábado, contra o Corinthians, às 19h, no Pacaembu, Lucas Lima é desfalque certo. O meio-campista recebeu o terceiro cartão amarelo e terá de cumprir suspensão automática. Felipe Melo também está fora, graças ao gancho imposto pelo STJD.

Em contrapartida, Mano Menezes receberá de volta seis jogadores poupados na quarta: Weverton, Marcos Rocha, Vitor Hugo, Diogo Barbosa, Bruno Henrique e Gustavo Scarpa. Todos têm chances de começar jogando o clássico da 32ª rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro.

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Alastair Cook’s exploratory first outing in a new helmet ended after five balls but that was the worst of the impermanence from Essex

Alan Gardner at Hove18-Apr-2016
ScorecardAlastair Cook trudges off after making 1 from five balls in his first innings with his ECB-approved new helmet•Getty Images

Alastair Cook’s exploratory first outing in a new helmet ended after five balls but that was the worst of the impermanence from an Essex side doggedly battling to prove their credentials as Division Two promotion challengers at Hove. Cook scored just 1 in his first innings wearing ECB-approved headgear and spent most of the day ensconced in the changing rooms, barring a quick rendezvous with a familiar face in the shape of England’s assistant coach, Paul Farbrace.Cook seems resigned to the fact he will have to get used to a helmet with a fixed grille, with England hopeful that he can make the required adjustments before the start of the Test summer next month. While the ECB has been quietly urging Cook to come into line with new safety regulations, the prospect of England’s captain suffering a dip in form over the issue – he made a century for Essex batting in his old England helmet last week – may cause some disquiet at Lord’s.As well as coming to terms with a narrower window in which to sight the ball, there is also the matter of modified helmets weighing more than the old style. Some have pointed out that picking up a delivery early, and therefore being better able to avoid being hit, is as important as physical protection when it comes to batsman safety.Cook is an old-fashioned batsman in more ways than one – although with 24,000 runs to his name in senior cricket perhaps that is unsurprising – and Michael Atherton, another former England captain and opener, has suggested he should be allowed to make the decision for himself.No opener likes to be out in the third over and Cook concealed his emotions pretty well after falling to his first ball from Steve Magoffin, but it was not hard to imagine a fresh blast of salty sea air accompanying his return to the changing rooms. Still, as Essex’s batting coach, Anthony McGrath, pragmatically put it: “As an opener against the new ball you’re going to get a few low scores.”Cook would surely have preferred not to be facing a bowler as metronomically exacting outside off stump as Magoffin for this unwanted trial. Having survived four deliveries from Ollie Robinson from the Sea End, he was dismissed pushing at one in the channel, a thick edge flying low to second slip. The lid stayed firmly on for the slow walk back, although some wag hollering “Wrong helmet!” from the deckchairs probably did not help his equilibrium. Not since David Beckham was pictured in a sarong has there been so much attention on what an England player is wearing.There was far less focus on Essex’s No. 3, though Tom Westley ought to have caught the eye of Farbrace, huddled on a bench at the Cromwell Road End. Westley looked in good touch, having scored a century in Essex’s opening-round win over Gloucestershire and another in the university match at Fenners, and it was something of a surprise when he mistimed a pull against Danny Briggs and gave a simple catch to midwicket.Nevertheless, Westley’s 86 meant he now has 397 first-class runs this season, the most in the country, and he provided the Essex innings with its ballast. He might have been run out on 31, had Robinson’s throw been more accurate, and an edge flashed over the slips for four from the final ball before lunch but his class was otherwise evident. A high front elbow that bore the menace of a shark fin in shallow waters accompanied one straight drive off Robinson, while on another occasion he dealt with George Garton’s pace with the sort of dismissive pull reminiscent of Cook.Garton, 19 years of age and whippy of left-arm action, was not so easily shrugged off by the rest of Essex’s batsmen. Ravi Bopara gloved behind during his first spell and he returned later in the day to strike Ryan ten Doeschate a blow on the arm that necessitated a short delay for treatment from the physio. He also removed James Foster, who played on while hanging back in his crease, and did enough to suggest that Sussex’s pace reserves are not as thin as some have feared.Briggs, meanwhile, enjoyed the sort of extended workout he switched south-coast allegiances for, a 22-over spell of stately twirling and gentle entreaties to the umpire. Briggs looks like he would be an excellent maître d, upright and dexterous, with a suitably enigmatic smile; it would not be a surprise to hear he applies a squirt of L’Air de Panache – as favoured by Monsieur Gustave in – during intervals.He was, however, twice clubbed down the ground for six from consecutive balls by ten Doeschate, an unceremonious attempt by the Essex captain to rally his side from 219 for 7, with the floodlights shining down and a chill wind whipping in from the sea; the slow bowler’s equivalent of being told the cutlery is dirty and needs to be replaced.