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As atenções do mercado de transferências estão voltadas para o atacante Alexandre Pato. Aos 29 anos, o jogador tem contrato com oTianjin Quanjian, da China, até dezembro de 2019, mas tenta uma rescisão amigável com o clube chinês para voltar ao futebol brasileiro. Santos e São Paulo são os principais interessados, mas outros clubes já monitoram a situação do jogador.

Abaixo, o LANCE! relembra os altos e baixos da carreira do jogador revelado pelo Internacional. De Corinthians à Seleção Brasileira, passando por Milan, da Itália, e São Paulo, reviva um pouco da carreira de Alexandre Pato!

FENÔMENO NO INTER!

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Alexandre Pato, então garoto prodígio do Internacional, estrou pelo Colorado em 2006, com apenas 17 anos. Em 26 de novembro, em seu primeiro jogo como profissional, Pato só não fez chover no antigo Palestra Itália (hoje Allianz Parque). Na ocasião, o Inter venceu por 4 a 1. Fez um gol, deu duas assistências e mandou bola na trave do Verdão. Foi vendido ao Milan, da Itália, em 2007.

MILAN – AUGE OU DERROCADA?

Alexandre Pato desembarcou em Milão no meio de 2007, mas só pôde estrear pelo Milan em janeiro, após completar a maioridade. No clube italiano, ficou até 2012 e teve uma primeira temporada interessante. Bem como foi a temporada de 2008/09. Chegou, inclusive, a marcar belo gol contra o Barcelona, em jogo da Liga dos Campeões.A partir de então, passou a sofrer com uma série de lesões e teve temporadas bastante irregulares na Itália. Da explosão de superestrela, tornou-se um jogador sob desconfiança na Europa.

CORINTHIANS E A IRA DA FIEL

Depois de uma longa negociação, o Corinthians anunciou a contratação de Alexandre Pato em janeiro de 2013. À época, o Timão investiu R$ 40,5 milhões para ter o jogador de então 23 anos. A paciência da Fiel torcida durou 10 meses. O estopim da crise de Pato no Corinthians se deu em outubro daquele ano, nas quartas de final da Copa do Brasil.

Responsável por bater o último pênalti na disputa contra o Grêmio, no Sul, o atacante optou por uma cavadinha, facilmente defendida pelo goleiro Dida, e eliminou o Corinthians da competição. Em biografia escrita pela jornalista Camila Mattoso, o técnico Tite contou que na ocasião falou para Pato “virar homem” ainda nos vestiários da Arena do Grêmio.

SÃO PAULO E OS TEMPOS DE PAZ

Ciente do alto investimento feito para contratá-lo, o Corinthians tentou valorizar Pato tirando-o do elenco. Para isso, o emprestou ao São Paulo no ano seguinte, em 2014, com contrato de dois anos que envolveu também a ida do meia Jadson ao Parque São Jorge. Pato chegou a ser ameaçado por torcedores do Timão e ficou completamente sem clima no Alvinegro.

No Tricolor Paulista, os tempos foram de paz. Pato criou vínculos com a torcida tricolor. Em 2014, foram 44 jogos e 12 gols marcados. No ano seguinte, foram 59 partidas e 26 tentos. Números que os transformaram em xodó. Até hoje o atacante mantém contato com o clube. Mesmo com vínculo com o Timão, não foram poucas as provocadas dirigidas ao clube.

CHELSEA E MAIS POLÊMICAS NO TIMÃO

Quando retornou de empréstimo do São Paulo, Pato seguia sem clima para atuar no Corinthians, mas com apenas mais um ano de vínculo. Para não perder o investimento feito outrora, o Timão topou emprestá-lo por seis meses ao Chelsea, da Inglaterra, mesmo tendo recebido uma oferta doTianjin Quanjian, da China. Pato se recusou a jogar na Ásia por acreditar ainda ter futebol para atuar na Europa. A recusa provocou a ira da diretoria alvinegra.

Na Inglaterra, não teve sucesso. Foram apenas duas partidas disputadas e um gol marcado nos meses de clube. Quando retornou ao Corinthians, passou a treinar separado dos demais companheiros e não pôde jogar por veto da diretoria corintiana.

VILLAREAL E CHINA

Embora tenha investido mais de R$ 40 milhões na contratação de Pato, o Corinthians conseguiu vendê-lo por pouco mais de R$ 10 milhões ao Villareal, da Espanha, em julho de 2016. No clube espanhol, Pato ficou por seis meses e disputou 24 partidas, marcando seis gols. Em janeiro de 2017, foi vendido aoTianjin Quanjian, oficializando, enfim, sua ida para a China, por aproximadamente R$ 60 milhões. O Timão ficou com 10% do valor.

Na China, Pato teve destaque nos últimos anos. Entre 2017 e 2018, disputou 58 partidas e marcou 34 vezes, com uma média de 0,58 gol por jogo. Aos 29 anos, o jogador entende estar pronto para voltar ao futebol brasileiro.

E A SELEÇÃO BRASILEIRA, PATO?

Conforme revelado pelo LANCE!, Pato confidenciou ao técnico Jorge Sampaoli, do Santos, o desejo de disputar a Copa América pelo Brasil em junho deste ano. O atacante não é convocado à Seleção desde 2013, quando foi chamado por Felipão, hoje técnico do Palmeiras. Pato nunca conseguiu ter sequência com a camisa da amarelinha, mas ainda sonha em retornar.

Sem somar os jogos pelas categorias inferiores do Brasil, Pato tem apenas 28 jogos e dez gols pela Seleção. A decepção de Tite com sua postura no Corinthians certamente dificulta ainda mais o caminho do atacante, já que o ex-treinador do Timão é o comandante do Brasil desde 2016.

Australia’s captain Michael Clarke has said that a defensive, time-wasting mindset never entered his thinking as India slowly cruised to a six-wicket victory that won them the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Mohali

Brydon Coverdale18-Mar-2013Australia’s captain Michael Clarke has said that a defensive, time-wasting mindset never entered his thinking as India slowly cruised to a six-wicket victory that won them the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Mohali. After Australia were bowled out in the second session on day five, it left India chasing 133 in a minimum of 27 overs and while Clarke could have employed delaying tactics to ensure Australia did not give India any extra time, his focus was firmly on pushing for victory himself.India’s innings began approximately half an hour before tea, meaning that even if Australia had used only their fast bowlers it would have been a struggle to bowl only the minimum 12 overs before the start of the final hour. Instead, Clarke rotated his bowlers quite normally and got through an extra nine overs, which meant that in the end India had 36 overs to chase their target. They got there in the 34th.A draw would have been nothing but a consolation for Clarke’s men, who needed a victory in order to stay alive in the series and retain any hope of keeping the Border-Gavaskar Trophy following their losses in Chennai and Hyderabad. Although India never looked in serious trouble, they did lose four wickets along the way and Clarke said breakthroughs were not only Australia’s only path to victory but the best way of restricting the runs.”We still believed that we could win the Test,” Clarke said. “We thought there were going to be opportunities to take wickets, knowing that India were going to have to score at a decent pace. In that first hour when we went out and bowled we could have taken as much time as possible, wasted time to slow the scoring and not bowl many overs because I knew once 3.30 came around, we had to bowl 15 overs in the last hour.”But I don’t think that’s the way we play our cricket. We try to win and unfortunately that wasn’t the case. We couldn’t get a draw, so we deal with a loss. But I think our players deserve a lot of credit for the way they tried their best. Our fast bowlers worked their absolute backsides off and we were very close to hanging on for a draw.”It was all about taking wickets. We had to try to win the Test match and even if you defend, the best form of defence is taking wickets. If you want to slow scoring whether it be in T20, one-day cricket or Tests taking wickets is the best way to slow the scoring and that was our goal, with 130 on the board you never know what can happen in this game but I think the boys showed a lot of fight and deserve credit for that.”Australia’s fight with the ball was worthy of credit but the lack of a big hundred from any of their batsmen in either innings was again costly. Australia’s first innings of 408 looked good until India posted 499, and the difference was that Shikhar Dhawan and M Vijay both passed 150 and put on a 289-run stand, while Australia’s innings featured four scores above 70 but none of them turned into triple-figures.Australia kept trying hard for wickets in India’s chase•BCCI

Conceding huge partnerships and failing to build their own have both been ongoing issues for the Australians in this series. In Chennai, MS Dhoni scored a double-century and put on 140 for the ninth wicket with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, which turned the match, and in Hyderabad Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara compiled 370 together. Australia’s highest stand of the series is 151 by Clarke and Moises Henriques in Chennai, and Clarke’s hundred there is Australia’s only one of the trip. India’s batsmen have made six tons.”Credit needs to go to the India batters, that’s for sure, and as a batting unit that’s what we’re trying to do as well,” Clarke said. “We’re making just as many fifties as India but nowhere near as many hundreds. We have to be more disciplined once we get to fifty, to stay nice and patient, swim between the flags I guess and go on and make a big score.”But I think their batters throughout this series have made the most of conditions. Again in their first innings they are making big scores. I think in the last two Test matches we’ve shown if we can break that partnership, we’ve bowled really well. Apart from the first partnership the other nine wickets fell for 210 runs for us, which was a really good sign for us. And it was similar in the second innings. It’s just breaking that big partnership that we need to keep working on.”This was the sixth consecutive Test Australia have lost in India and at 3-0 with one match remaining, the series has been by far the worst under Clarke’s leadership. Australia won 3-0 at home to Sri Lanka this summer after fighting hard against South Africa but losing 1-0, and Clarke said the team would need to find ways of handling foreign conditions and not just being a threat at home.”I think it’s probably a very fair indication of where both teams are at,” Clarke said of the 3-0 scoreline. “I don’t want to talk for India. But for the Australian team it’s probably a fair indication. We’re playing some really good, consistent cricket at home back in Australia, in conditions we’re very used to, very accustomed to, but we’re not performing as well as we’d like when we go overseas in conditions we’re not used to.”That’s an area we’ve spoken about as a group for a while now, over the past 12 months. We continue to work hard on that. As disappointing as it is that we can’t level the series now that we’re 3-0 down, I think the players individually and the team have learnt a lot over the first three Test matches. We’d love to go home with a win in this last Test in Delhi.”

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O São Paulo concretizou nesta quarta-feira uma das transferências de maior impacto na janela de fim de ano – contratou o atacante Pablo, do Athletico-PR -, mas promete não parar por aí. O meio de campo passa a ser o foco principal da diretoria, que está à procura de pelo menos mais duas peças: um volante e um meia.

O preferido para a posição de volante é Willian Arão, do Flamengo, nome que está na pauta do São Paulo desde o meio de 2018. Na ocasião, o jogador deu preferência a uma oferta de um clube da Grécia, mas o acordo acabou não se concretizando.

Marcos Braz, novo vice de futebol rubro-negro, disse na noite de quarta que o volante não sairá. A diretoria carioca fala até em negociar a renovação do contrato que vence em dezembro de 2019. Mesmo antes disso, a expectativa do São Paulo era de que a negociação só esquentaria após a virada do ano. Arão está passando férias nos Estados Unidos e atualmente não tem um empresário para tomar a frente de qualquer tratativa. Ele tem conduzido a carreira junto com o pai.

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Para a função de armador, uma das maiores carências do elenco de 2018, ainda não há uma prioridade – ou, pelo menos, nenhuma que tenha se tornado pública. Se o São Paulo fizer um investimento semelhante ao que foi feito por Pablo, que custará 6 milhões de euros (chegará a 7 milhões de euros se ele cumprir três dos quatro anos de contrato), muito provavelmente será nesta posição.

Paulo Henrique Ganso, que está emprestado pelo Sevilla (ESP) ao Amiens (FRA) e deve rescindir para retornar ao Brasil, está no radar do Tricolor, mas inicialmente a ideia é contratar um jogador de características diferentes, mais intenso e dinâmico. Alguns nomes têm sido oferecidos por empresários, como Jarlan Barrera, do Junior Barranquilla (COL). Na semana passada, a imprensa argentina noticiou que o jovem de 23 anos tem pré-contratos tanto com Tigres (MEX) quanto com Rosario Central (ARG), o que deve causar transtornos nas próximas semanas.

O Tricolor também está atento a jogadores de outras posições. Embora a lateral direita não seja uma prioridade, o clube viu em Victor Ferraz uma boa oportunidade de mercado e chegou a apalavrar um acordo com ele, outro que já havia sido alvo anteriormente, na semana passada. Na última terça, porém, o presidente do Santos descartou a possibilidade de transferência após Jorge Sampaoli dizer que conta com o atleta. Se Victor insistir com o Santos que deseja sair, o negócio pode reacender.

O São Paulo chegou a fazer sondagens por alguns goleiros, mas decidiu que só vai investir nesta posição se tiver a chance de contratar um jogador incontestável. A princípio, Jean e Lucas Perri começam o ano com moral. O clube ainda cogita contratar um atacante que jogue pelos lados, mas também não vê urgência neste setor, que poderia ser preenchido até por Pablo. Os jogadores oferecidos até o momento, caso de Marcos Caicedo, do Barcelona de Guayaquil, não convenceram.

Além de Pablo, o lateral-direito Igor Vinicius e o lateral-esquerdo Léo Pelé já foram confirmados pelo clube do Morumbi.

سقط منتخب مالاوي على ملعبه ووسط جماهيره برباعية نظيفة أمام مصر، في المباراة التي جمعتهما ضمن منافسات التصفيات المؤهلة إلى كأس الأمم الإفريقية 2024.

وقدم منتخب مصر أداءً جيدًا أمام نظيره مالاوي الذي ظهر بشكل سيء للغاية أثار غضب جماهيره بعد اللقاء.

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وعلم بطولات، أن بعض الجماهير حاولت الاعتداء على لاعبي منتخب مالاوي بسبب غضبهم من نتيجة المباراة، وتدخلت الشرطة لفض التجمعات بالقنابل المسيلة للدموع.

وارتفع رصيد منتخب مصر ليصل إلى النقطة 9 متصدرًا المجموعة التي تضم غينيا (9 نقاط)، إثيوبيا (3 نقاط)، مالاوي (3 نقاط).

ويكفي منتخب مصر وغينيا التعادل في مباراتهما المُقبلة، من أجل حسم التأهل رسميًا إلى كأس الأمم الإفريقية 2024.

ScorecardDarren Bravo made his third half-century of the tour against Leicestershire•Getty Images

Sometimes a person’s absence is more notable than their attendance. So, just as Kate Middleton might have provoked even more column inches had she not shown up to her wedding, so Sunil Narine’s absence from the first day of the tour match at Grace Road was arguably more surprising than anything he might have achieved on the pitch.Narine, the 24-year-old spinner, was called up on Wednesday to replace the injured Kemar Roach in West Indies’ squad for the third Test at Edgbaston which begins on Thursday. But Narine, it turns out, has not even arrived in the UK yet. Instead he spent Friday playing club cricket in Trinidad – T20 club cricket at that – and is expected to arrive in England on Sunday. He will not, therefore, have the benefit of any match practice or even an extended period of acclimatisation before the Test. Ottis Gibson, West Indies’ coach, admitted that he did not know if Narine had ever played in England.But it appears that will not prevent Gibson selecting him on Thursday. Nor will the fact that Narine has only played six first-class games, or that the last of them was in February. Indeed, Gibson expressed the belief that Narine’s lack of exposure was a significant bonus for West Indies.”He’s just come back from playing a hell of a lot of cricket, so I’m sure he’s been bowling a lot,” Gibson said. “I think it’s his first time playing international cricket in England and there’s a disadvantage playing for the first time in these conditions but it’s an advantage because the opposition haven’t seen him yet.”If he were to play this two-day game then there would be some footage of him for them to go and have a look at. He isn’t playing and it means that if he plays [at Edgbaston] it will be something completely new to them so that could be a bit of an advantage for us.”It is an interesting replacement. He’s somebody we’ve identified from the shorter version of the game but the selectors also believe he can play the longer version and this is an opportunity to put that to the test.”The one major flaw in Gibson’s argument is that Narine has just finished playing in the IPL; the most high-profile domestic tournament in world cricket. Still, the spinner’s record is exceptional: his last three first-class games have brought 31 wickets at an average of 9.61, while he could also claim with some justification – he was the second-highest wicket-taker and had the second-best economy-rate – to have been the best bowler at this year’s IPL. Bearing in mind England’s recent struggles against high-quality ‘mystery’ spin and there is the possibility that Narine may prove something of a game-changer. It is, however, asking a great deal of a young man with so little experience to adapt to new conditions and a different format so quickly.Narine is also unlikely to solve West Indies’ problems with their top-order batting. There were, however, some welcome signs of improvement on the weather-shortened first day of the game against Leicestershire. With Adrian Barath and Darren Bravo both recording half-centuries and adding 111 for the third-wicket, two of West Indies’ top four will arrive at Edgbaston with renewed confidence and the benefit of having spent time in the middle.Both played very well. Barath, who has shown glimpses of his ability in the Test series, again left the ball well and demonstrated his pleasing cover drive without the moments of lost concentration that have dogged him of late. Bravo, having survived some loose shots early on, calmed down to play some delightful strokes including a six over long-on off rookie left-arm spinner, James Sykes.It was a less happy day for Kirk Edwards, despite being promoted to lead the side, and Kieran Powell. Powell – who has scored 47 in four Test innings on this tour – was drawn into an edge as he pushed at one he might have left before Edwards, with the footwork of a statue, was bamboozled by swing. Both wickets were claimed by Nadeem Malik who, aged 29 and nine years into his first-class career, will be out of contract at the end of the season.Edwards’ failure means he has scored just 20 runs in eight innings on this tour. While he can take comfort of sorts from the fact that this game against Leicestershire does not have first-class status, he will also know that his travails over the last month have left his international future in jeopardy. When he arrived in the UK he had a Test average in excess of 50, two Test centuries to his name and he had recently been elevated to the vice-captaincy.With English conditions – and English bowlers – exposing some obvious technical flaws, however, Edwards currently looks bereft of form and confidence. His third-ball duck here begged the question as to whether he was enduing the most miserable tour of England in history by a specialist batsman. The Maharaja of Porbandar – who scored only two first-class runs on the All-India side’s 1932 tour of England – has strong claims to that title but, as he was selected more due to his wealth and perceived social standing than any ability with the bat, it is probably unfair to consider him a specialist batsman. It may be relevant that West Indies also used this game as an opportunity for Assad Fudadin and Narsingh Deonarine to apply pressure on their under-performing top order.This Leicestershire attack is perfectly respectable. Robbie Joseph generated pace even on a sluggish surface, Malik bowled some dangerous deliveries and Sykes, while raw, could go a long way in the game. Suffice it to say, however, that whoever England select at Edgbaston will provide a substantially sterner test.

Richard Pybus has resigned from his current position as the head coach of Cape Cobras with immediate effect.

Firdose Moonda24-Mar-2012

Richard Pybus has resigned from his current position as the head coach of Cape Cobras with immediate effect. Pybus was in charge of the Cape Town-based franchise for two seasons during which they won three titles.”There are a range of issues to do with the chief executive and the franchise that have undermined me as head coach and made my continued position untenable,” Pybus said. “I won’t be making any further media comment at this stage.”Although Cobras won this season’s Franchise 1-Day Cup, they failed to defend their first-class and Twenty20 titles. They also failed to qualify for the Champions League T20 after finishing fifth in the MiWay T20 Challenge.The Cobras chief executive Andre Odendaal and the board will discuss Pybus’ resignation at a meeting on Monday evening, after which they will issue a response.Pybus has had two stints as coach of Pakistan. He has previously coached the Titans franchise, based in Centurion, where he also enjoyed success. He also had a brief stint at Middlesex but made his name at Border, in the Eastern Cape, where he played an instrumental role in developing Mark Boucher.Edited by Devashish Fuloria

MS Dhoni, the India captain, has said Virender Sehwag has the ability to repeat his feat of a double-century in a one-day international. Sehwag, who is standing in for Dhoni during the ongoing one-day series against West Indies, broke the record for the highest score in an ODI on December 8, hitting 219 in Indore. Dhoni said he always knew Sehwag was capable of going past 200 in a one-dayer.”I had always believed that on his day, Sehwag has the ability to score 200 because apart from the big shots, he also uses the bowlers’ pace against them and plays calculative innings,” Dhoni told . “It was a pleasure to watch him batting. Given his talent, he can do it again. So, hopefully, it will be done by him again.”Suresh Raina, who shared a 140-run partnership with Sehwag in Indore, said Sehwag was singing songs by famous Indian singer Kishore Kumar during his knock. “He was playing very well with no tension,” Raina said at a youth summit in Chennai, where India will play the fifth and final ODI against West Indies on December 11. “That day, he was singing some Kishore Kumar songs. He was not feeling any kind of tension.”

تحدث أحمد عبد المقصود المدرب المساعد لنادي الزمالك، عن فوز الفريق على فيوتشر، في المباراة التي أقيمت اليوم الأحد، بالدوري.

وعاد الزمالك للانتصارات تحت القيادة الفنية الجديدة بقيادة أسامة نبيه، بالفوز على فيوتشر بهدفين لهدف بالجولة الـ16.

وقال عبد المقصود خلال تصريحات عبر قناة “أون تايم سبورت”: “الزمالك ناد كبير بطل الدوري والكأس، صادفنا سوء توفيق الفترة الماضية ومشاكل داخلية وخارجية أثرت علينا”.

وأضاف: “لكن عندما طُلب منا العودة مرة أخرى لم نتأخر، وحاولنا تصحيح الأخطاء داخل غرفة الملابس والتنظيم في الملعب”.

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وواصل: “الونش أفضل مساك في مصر، وبالتأكيد غيابه أثر، وعودته ستضيف للفريق، فتوح وعبد الله جمعة ونداي عندما سيعودون أيضًا سيكونون إضافة قوية”.

وأكمل: “تعاقدنا مع ناصر منسي، ولا زال هناك صفقات ستنضم للزمالك خلال الـ 48 ساعة القادمين، سينضم لنا مدرب أحمال، وهناك أكثر من سيرة ذاتية ندرسها”.

وأردف: “أشكر فيريرا، هو مدرب كبير واستفدنا منه كثيرًا، وسعيد بعملي معه، صادفه سوء حظ الفترة الأخيرة وهذا شيء وارد في كرة القدم”.

وأستطرد: “نادي الزمالك لا ينسى أي شخص دعم النادي، خاصة فيريرا الذي حصد الدوري والكأس، وأشكره على الفترة الماضية”.

وأتم: “يجب أن نعود سريعًا، مقبلين على بطولة إفريقيا وهذا هدفنا أن نحقق دوري أبطال إفريقيا ولن تخرج البطولة من ميت عقبة هذا الموسم”.

علّق ناتشو، لاعب فريق ريال مدريد، على فوزهم في مباراة الأمس ضد أتلتيك بلباو في بطولة الدوري الإسباني.

واستضاف ملعب “سان ماميس” مباراة الفريقين في إطار منافسات الجولة الثامنة عشر من الليجا، حيث فاز ريال مدريد بهدفين دون رد.

وقال ناتشو في تصريحات نشرتها صحيفة “ماركا” الإسبانية: “كل مباراة هي نهائية بالنسبة لنا، نحن في المركز الثاني، وفاز برشلونة، لذا كان ضروريًا أن نفوز الليلة”.

وأضاف: “سعيد بمشاركتي والاستمرار في تقديم كل ما لدي، أستفيد من كل الفرص التي أحصل عليها، لقد كان عامًا صعبًا بالنسبة لي ولكني أظهر أنه في كل مرة ألعب فيها، أؤدي بشكل جيد”.

وواصل: “أنا سعيد عندما ألعب، الأمر يكون مختلفًا عندما لا ألعب، أحب أن أعيش من يوم لآخر واليوم لعبت وفزنا”.

وفيما يتعلق بمعادلة كريم بنزيما لرقم راؤول، بعد هدفه أمام أتلتيك بلباو، قال ناتشو: “بنزيما شخص رائع، إنه يساعدنا كثيرًا في تحقيق أهدافنا، إنه لأمر جيد أن يحقق ذلك معنا”.

Graeme Swann and Chris Tremlett bowled England to an extraordinary innings-and-14-run victory as Sri Lanka collapsed in a barely believable 24.4 overs on the final day in Cardiff

The Bulletin by Andrew McGlashan30-May-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAndrew Strauss took a sharp catch to remove Tharanga Paranavitana and start Sri Lanka’s rapid demise•Getty Images

Graeme Swann and Chris Tremlett bowled England to an extraordinary innings-and-14-run victory as Sri Lanka collapsed in a barely believable 24.4 overs on the final day in Cardiff. The pair shared eight wickets before Stuart Broad bounced out the last two batsmen to secure one of more remarkable wins in recent memory considering the amount of time lost to rain. Sri Lanka were shell-shocked and couldn’t handle the pressure, losing eight wickets in the final session.When Andrew Strauss declared two overs into the day, having given Ian Bell chance to reach his hundred – after play was delayed until 3pm by heavy morning rain – the summit of England’s ambitions appeared to be taking some psychological points to Lord’s on Friday. However, Tremlett removed both openers before tea to set the nerves jangling, and when Mahela Jayawardene became his third at the start of the final session, panic was beginning to set in the Sri Lankan ranks.Only when they were eight down did the visitors try to erase England’s advantage with any haste as Thisara Perera and Ajantha Mendis put bat to ball, but wickets were never far away against a pumped-up bowling attack. It didn’t matter that Strauss only had three frontline options, with James Anderson suffering a side strain. Tremlett preyed on the batsmen’s insecurities against the short ball, Swann found turn to force frazzled minds into playing loose shots, and then Broad hustled through the final resistance with 26 overs still to play.The merits of Strauss allowing Bell to reach three figures would have been hotly debated had England run out of time at the end, but his bowlers ensured he didn’t have to worry. The door was pushed ajar by Tremlett’s new-ball burst, elevated to the role vacated by Anderson and one he’ll be reluctant to relinquish. He struck with the last ball of his first over when Tharanga Paranavitana edged a low chance to first slip that was well held by the captain.Tillakaratne Dilshan is a player who could have quickly erased the deficit and eased the pressure, but he got into a tangle against a shorter delivery from Tremlett and the chance lobbed back to the bowler. Dilshan was given out straight away but he went to the DRS and replays confirmed a glove. Mahela and Kumar Sangakkara survived until tea with Sri Lanka 33 for 2, yet they gave a false sense of security.Although Tremlett changed ends after the interval, he maintained a probing length which left doubt in the batsman’s mind as to whether to play forward to back. Mahela opted to come onto the front foot and Tremlett’s extra carry ensured another edge carried comfortably to Strauss. England began to sense something could happen.Swann then gave another example of why he’s the world’s best spin bowler. Thilan Samaraweera was caught playing back to one that didn’t bounce and dragged onto the stump. Next, from round the wicket, a beautiful piece of bowling lured Sangakkara into an edge and Strauss snaffled his third edge – this time in the unaccustomed position of slip to the spinner.There was no stopping England or Swann as Farveez Maharoof edged his third ball and again the DRS was fruitless as HotSpot showed a clear edge. However, TV evidence was less clear when Prasanna Jayawardene, the first-innings hero with 112, was given out off a gloved pull. This time it was England who called for the review and although HotSpot wasn’t conclusive, Rod Tucker, the third umpire, went on the noise as he had with Sangakkara’s first-innings dismissal. The subsequent use of Snicko proved he was right again.Sri Lanka aided in their own demise, none more so than Rangana Herath who played a horrid sweep at Swann to be caught in front, leaving the visitors 52 for 8. Perera and Mendis quickly worked out the only chance was to get in front of England and the next two overs brought 20 yet, amazingly for a match were 139 overs were lost to rain, there was plenty of time left.Broad was disappointing in the first innings but when Tremlett was rested he responded with a fierce spell to the lower order. He roughed up Perera who lobbed a chance between three fielders before being brilliantly caught, low down, by Bell at short leg. Two balls later Suranga Lakmal fended another short delivery into the slips. England, four months on from Sydney, were back in victory mode. In contrast, Sri Lanka’s dressing room was full of blank faces and this will take some getting over.