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O Avaí encerrou o Brasileiro de maneira melancólica. Após uma campanha decepcionante, na despedida do ano, o Leão voltou a apresentar um futebol mito abaixo e apenas empatou diante do Athletico-PR.

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Na entrevista coletiva, o técnico Evando voltou a pedir desculpas aos torcedores e espera que o 2020 seja bem diferente para o clube catarinense.

‘A gente já pediu desculpas ao torcedor. Temos que formar uma equipe que traga o torcedor de volta, que faça a Ressacada ficar cheia como de habitual, quando o nosso time está forte. Nosso torcedor merece isso e é isso que a gente vai procurar fazer’, afirmou o treinador.

Após 38 rodadas, o Avaí somou 20 pontos e terminou na última colocação do torneio nacional.

Chandika Hathurusingha, the Bangladesh coach, has said that India sending their best team for the ongoing ODI series is an indication that they regard Bangladesh as a stronger unit than last June. He was, however, not entirely satisfied with his team’s performance on Thursday despite them posting their biggest win against India.”The best example (of the change in the Bangladesh team) is that India is sending their strongest team,” Hathurusingha said. “It speaks for itself, how far we have come from that series to now. It is always good to gauge your success or what you are doing, by how your peers are looking at you. I think it is a big rap for our boys that India came with their full strength. Our confidence is high, the way we are playing now is also a bit different.”During last year’s three-match ODI series, India were without regular captain MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Shami. But Suresh Raina’s side won 2-0, including the one in which they bowled Bangladesh out for just 58 runs. It was also Hathurusingha’s first assignment as head coach and it was a tumultuous time after Shakib Al Hasan had got into a fracas with a fan during one of the matches.Bangladesh turned around their fortunes remarkably since the Zimbabwe series last November, winning nine consecutive ODIs at home on either side of a decent World Cup campaign. This time India are only without Shami who is recovering from a knee injury.Hathurusingha, however, was not pleased with the Bangladesh batsmen giving away good starts in the first game. Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar got to fifties but didn’t push on despite looking comfortable. Debutant Litton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim fell early before Shakib Al Hasan and Sabbir Rahman got them back into reckoning with a strong fifth-wicket stand.”I am not happy at all with the last game,” Hathurusingha said. “That’s the scary part: we still can improve in all departments. We played better against Pakistan. I think we are looking to improve from the next game.”When you get a start, we always talk about going big in partnerships. We talk about simple things, which we did well against Pakistan. I want them to do that in the middle. We had three-four hundreds against Pakistan. If one of the top batters get set and go for a big score. It helps us to score big runs,” he said.On Mustafizur Rahman, who took a five-wicket haul on debut in the previous match, Hathurusingha said it helped him that he is an “unknown factor” but his job would only get challenging as teams would start preparing for his kind of bowling.”Definitely for any bowler, when you come into international cricket, because you are unknown factor, it is a big plus,” he said. “Nowadays even before that, they can look at videos and be prepared. For Mustafizur it is going to be a challenge because people get to know more and respect him a bit more. But again, he has to execute well, so has the batsmen. We expect the Indians to come hard at us.”

A round-up of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Super League games played on April 4, 2015

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Apr-2015 Group A Gujarat chased down a target of 150 set by Madhya Pradesh to beat them by five wickets in Bhubaneshwar.Having been put in, MP lost both openers inside two overs and were 1 for 2 before Zafar Ali and Udit Birla steadied their innings with a 76-run stand for the third wicket. Zafar then played a part in two 30-plus partnerships, with Harpreet Singh and Parth Sahani, as he made an unbeaten 56-ball 70 that helped MP to 149 in their 20 overs.Gujarat’s chase began briskly and the early wicket of Smit Patel didn’t deter Priyank Kirit Panchal, who struck seven fours and two sixes in a 33-ball 60 before falling to Jatin Saxena in the 11th over. Jalaj Saxena and his older brother Jatin then removed Rujul Bhatt and Chirag Gandhi in quick succession, leaving Gujarat 103 for 4.While Manpreej Juneja anchored the chase with a run-a-ball 40, Himalaya Barad struck three sixes in an eight-ball 22 to hand Gujarat victory with seven balls to spare.Ishank Jaggi’s unbeaten 108 off 67 balls, including 14 fours and three sixes, went in vain as Andhra got the better of Jharkhand by six wickets with 20 balls to spare, and climbed to third place on the points table.Needing 160 to win, Prasanth Kumar, who made 51 off 26 balls with six fours and three sixes, and Murumulla Sriram put on 78 runs in 7.2 overs for the first wicket. Despite losing both of them in the space of an over, Andhra continued to attack through KV Sasikanth (46* off 31 balls) and AG Pradeep (23 off 13 balls), and polished off the target with relative ease.It was Sasikanth who ensured Jharkhand, after being sent in, didn’t get off to a good start, snaffling a caught-and-bowled to remove Ishan Kishan. Save for Jaggi there were no other significant contributions. CV Stephen was frugal, picking up a wicket and conceding only 17 in his four overs. Group B An inspired bowling performance from Mumbai saw them beat Rajasthan by 33 runs in Cuttack. Javed Khan and Rohan Raje picked up three wickets each, while the 15-year old Sidak Singh finished with figures of 2 for 7.Having been set a target of 154, Rajasthan’s chase was jolted early by Javed, who struck twice in his first over. Rajasthan lost three more wickets soon after and were 36 for 5 inside eight overs.Rajasthan managed two quick 30-plus partnerships for the sixth and seventh wickets but Sidak removed Ashok Menaria and Manjeet Singh off successive deliveries in the 15th over, after which there was little resistance from the tail.Mumbai, who were put in, rode on Jay Bista’s unbeaten 59-ball 81 and Siddarth Chitnis’ 38 to finish on 154 for 4.Hyderabad left it to the last ball to grab a five-wicket win over Odisha in Cuttack.Given a target of 154, Hyderabad lost Tirumalasetti Suman in the third over of their innings and Akshath Reddy in the seventh, leaving them 34 for 2. Tanmay Agarwal and Dereck Prince shared a 48-run stand for the third wicket to steady the chase, before Hyderabad lost Prince (31) and captain Hanuma Vihari (0) in the space of five balls.Deepak Behera dismissed Agarwal one short of his fifty after which Benjamin Thomas and Akash Bhandari saw Hyderabad home with an unbroken 47-run stand. Bhandari smashed three sixes and two fours for his 17-ball 37 to finish off the chase.Odisha, who chose to bat, began briskly and scored 35 in 3.5 overs before Anurag Sarangi was run out. Biplab Samantaray top-scored with 33 as a couple of 20-run partnerships took Odisha to 121 for 6. The Hyderabad bowlers kept chipping away at the wickets eventually bowling Odisha out for 153 in 19.1 overs. Vihari and M Ravi Kiran picked three wickets each, while Chama Milind took 2 for 21.

Coaches, city workers, coffee shop owners – all occupations of retired first-class cricketers. But David “Syd” Lawrence, once a fearsome fast bowler for England, has deviated somewhat in his second life.David Lawrence’s career was cut short by a cruel knee injury•Getty Images

Lawrence is still performing in public but has swapped cricket’s 22-yards for the stages of the bodybuilding circuit. And now he his not judged by the accuracy of his deliveries but the definition of his muscles.Lawrence’s career was effectively ended by a harrowing knee injury in Wellington in 1992 and he admits the cruel turn of fate was tough to deal with for a long time after he had retired: “You can’t look back – it just wasn’t meant to be,” he said.But that competitive edge has never left him and he is now training harder than ever, with morning gym sessions completed before 9am and a diet that puts his food intake as a cricketer to shame.”Even when I was playing cricket I was always in the gym,” Lawrence told ESPNcricinfo. “People said I spent too much time in the gym. But I was probably ahead of my time, if you look at cricketers today, they spend a hell of a lot of time in the gym.”If someone throws me the ball at half five on a hot day, that’s physically hard work. It’s very demanding. Fast bowling is one of the hardest things you can do. You have to be mentally very strong as well.”But bodybuilding is pretty tough. Not just the training but to be in the best shape for competition is about 14 weeks of hard dieting. And that is mental pressure.”He has enjoyed success, becoming over-40s South West champion, over 20 years on from the end of his playing career.Lawrence took 515 first-class wickets at 32.07 in just over a decade with Gloucestershire. “1985 was probably one of my best years,” he said. “I opened the bowling with Courtney Walsh, we finished second in the Championship – and should have won it. The partnership between me and Courtney was frightening for so many people. They didn’t want to play against us.”His England debut came in 1988 against Sri Lanka at Lord’s but it would be three more years until he gained a run in the side. His 18 wickets across five Tests included dismissing Viv Richards for the final time in Test cricket – at The Oval in 1991.Lawrence was one of a number of British West Indians in county cricket. But there has been a remarkable drop off in recent years. It is a concern for Lawrence: “There’s a massive problem with English West Indian kids – they’re just not interested in the game. And they have no role models. What we need is West Indians born in Britain to be able to fly the flag.”

Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka Cricket’s chief selector, has said that the side’s ODI series loss in India was “a bad dream” and expected the side to bounce back in the forthcoming matches against England

Sa'adi Thawfeeq16-Nov-2014Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lank’s chief selector, has said that the side’s ODI series loss in India is “a bad dream” and he expects the side to bounce back in the forthcoming matches against England. Sri Lanka will host England for a seven-match ODI series, which starts in Colombo from November 26.Jayasuriya admitted that a second-string bowling attack and the inability of the top order to score big runs were the main factors behind the heavy defeats in India.”I was not expecting miracles for Sri Lanka to win the series in India and all that kind of thing. What I expected was good, competitive cricket,” Jayasuriya said. “If we are to play competitively, somebody had to bat a long innings like the Indian batsmen were doing. One of the top four needed to bat for 40 overs. Unfortunately it didn’t click, set batsmen got out. Overall, it was not the best performance but it’s a good experience for us.”The full strength of our bowlers was not there. We got the second-string bowlers for the series. It’s not easy bowling in India, we all know that. We had to give those bowlers the exposure one day, otherwise we would never get a chance. With injuries to so many bowlers, we had to put them in.”India is a bad dream and it is not the first time we have gone through a series like this. People will criticise and say a lot of things about the team that we should not have gone to India and all that. If we had done well everyone would have said that was a good experience for the team. It can happen either way.”According to Jayasuriya, the series defeat could end up as a blessing in disguise coming before a World Cup as the team still had ample time to improve their performances and start peaking in time for the tournament in February-March 2015.”It is not only the cricketers but all of us have to take the blame for the Indian defeat,” he said. “We can’t push the players into a corner, this is the time we need to support them. The entire country needs to support them.”This defeat in a way before the World Cup is like a blessing in disguise. Going through a bad patch I don’t mind that because there are 90 more days to go. If the team can start peaking from the England and New Zealand series till the end of the World Cup, that would be ideal.”

“Going through a bad patch I don’t mind that because there are 90 more days to go. If the team can start peaking from the England and New Zealand series till the end of the World Cup that would be ideal.”Sanath Jayasuriya

Jayasuriya was hopeful the team could recover from the negative impact of the India series before their matches against England: “There will be some negativity after the losses but history shows that we have gone to India and got thrashed and have come back and done well most of the time. We need to get our confidence back from here onwards and have an idea of what the World Cup squad is going to be.”One of the areas Sri Lanka will be looking to address before the World Cup is the second opener’s slot. Upul Tharanga and Kusal Perera have been tried as opening partners for Tillakaratne Dilshan but have not done well. Mahela Jayawardene’s recent statements, expressing his desire to open the innings, has also added another dimension to the issue.”We have discussed a few things recently with the captain, coach and we need to come up with a plan and implement it in such a way that it will be beneficial for the team till the World Cup,” Jayasuriya said.He also stated that developing the part-time bowling skills of batsmen was a key area to fill the gap of the fifth bowler in the side, allowing Sri Lanka to play a seven-batsmen-four-bowlers combination.”We don’t have batsmen who can also bowl a few overs,” he said. “During my time, I used to bowl, there was Aravinda de Silva and Kumar Dharmasena. This is the issue we have in the middle – the batsmen who can bowl a bit.”We can go with seven batters and four bowlers if we have someone to perform the role of fifth bowler. At practice, players like Dilshan and Ashan Priyanjan need to concentrate and bowl a little bit more so that they will be able to play the role of fifth bowler.”

Phil Mustard scored an impressive half-century and Graham Onions produced a treble-wicket maiden over as Durham condemned Glamorgan to a third straight Royal London Cup in a low-scoring game

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ScorecardGraham Onions took three wickets in an over (file photo)•Getty Images

Phil Mustard scored an impressive half-century and Graham Onions produced a treble-wicket maiden over as Durham condemned Glamorgan to a third straight Royal London Cup in a low-scoring game at the Swalec Stadium.Despite Durham only able to make 185 all out in 45 overs after winning the toss, Glamorgan could only reply with 133 as they went down by 52 runs with 8.5 overs remaining.On a very two-paced pitch the main damage to the Glamorgan innings was done by Onions’ three-wicket over with the new ball with Jacques Rudolph (61 from 99 balls) the only one of the top six to make double figures. Onions, who finished with figures of 4 for 48, struck to have Will Bragg caught at point, David Lloyd was bowled first ball and Jim Allenby was trapped lbw.After that wickets fell at regular intervals. Murray Goodwin went lbw playing across the line to John Hastings and that became 53 for 5 when Chris Cooke was caught behind off England allrounder Ben Stokes attempting to drive.Mark Wallace hung around for eight overs but became the sixth man out caught behind off Paul Collingwood, who also bowled Graham Wagg via an inside edge as Glamorgan sank to 86 for 7 in the 30th over. All hope went for Glamorgan when Rudolph edged Collingwood to leave his side 106 for 8. There was some resistance shown by the last wicket until James Harris was caught at slip off Collingwood, who finished with figures of 4 for 16 from 7.1 overs.At the halfway stage Glamorgan had looked in the driving seat. Michael Hogan led the way with 3 for 22 with Lloyd recording figures of 4 for 10 in three overs – three of his wickets coming in one over – and slow left-armer Dean Cosker weighed in with 3 for 33.Hogan made an immediate impact by dismissing visiting captain Mark Stoneman with the second ball of the game. He edged a rising ball behind. Mustard, who reached his 50 from 72 balls, and Calum MacLeod laid down a useful platform but after the second-wicket pair put on 101 in 23.3 overs the Durham innings rather unravelled. They lost five wickets for only 30 runs.The slide was begun by Cosker, who trapped MacLeod leg before, and continued by the return of Hogan after his opening spell of five overs had conceded only seven runs.Hogan accounted for Mustard and Collingwood in consecutive overs. Mustard was bowled attempting to pull before Collingwood went lbw shouldering arms. Cosker dismissed Scott Borthwick leg-before and then had Keaton Jennings caught behind attempting a reverse sweep.Stokes put together a typically pugnacious innings, striking three sixes, but on 49 from 43 balls he became Lloyd’s first victim caught on the midwicket boundary by Hogan. It was the start of Lloyd’s three-wicket over. Two balls later Hastings edged to slip before he bowled Paul Coughlin. After a brief cameo from Gareth Breese, Lloyd ended the innings when Graham Onions edged to slip.

ScorecardTom Smith gave Lancashire a platform for victory•Getty Images

Paul Horton and Tom Smith’s 128-run stand allowed Lancashire to edge to a 12-run Twenty20 Blast victory over Worcestershire at Old Trafford.When Lancashire posted 194 for 3, Horton and Smith could have been forgiven for expecting a solid victory. The visitors had other ideas, maintaining a brisk pace throughout and falling just 13 runs short of an impressive turnaround result.Worcestershire reached 182 for 5 in their 20 overs – with little more than half a run an over between the two sides.Lancashire claimed their first win of the tournament after losing out by 33 runs to Nottinghamshire on Friday night.Horton’s unbeaten 71 from 43 balls steered Lancashire to an imposing total. Opener Smith fired 74 from 53 balls to set the tone, before Saeed Ajmal had him stumped by wicketkeeper Ben Cox.His was the third wicket to fall. Karl Brown went first for 28, with Charles Morris forcing him into an edge to Cox. Two balls later the sequence was repeated, with Steven Croft being drawn into nicking one to Cox.Lancashire could have found themselves in bother at 55 for 2, but Horton joined Smith and the duo forged a decisive partnership.Smith eventually fell to Ajmal with eight balls of the innings remaining and Lancashire 183 for 3, with Jos Buttler adding an unbeaten 10 before the finish.Moeen Ali blasted Worcestershire out of the blocks, with a quick-fire 11 from four balls. Steven Croft dismissed the opener though, with Brown holding the catch in the fifth ball of the innings.Worcestershire settled quickly though, with Tom Kohler-Cadmore hitting 25 from 13 deliveries before James Anderson had him caught by Stephen Parry. They maintained the pace despite losing relatively regular wickets, with Richard Oliver eager to keep the scoreboard ticking over. Oliver struck 34 from 23 balls before he was clean bowled by Arron Lilley, with Worcestershire 78 for 3.Colin Munro and Daryl Mitchell immediately struck up a fruitful partnership, until Jordan Clark had Mitchell caught by Parry. Mitchell made 19 from 14 balls, and departed with the visitors 121 for 4 from 12.3 overs.Clark claimed his second wicket by dispatching Munro for 39 from 33 deliveries, with Horton claiming the catch. Munro’s removal left Worcestershire 144 for 5 with less than four overs remaining.Alexei Kervezee and Ross Whiteley set about trying to blast their way to an unlikely victory – and came impressively close.

Ireland captain William Porterfield believes that Ireland will be making a “big statement” if they make it to the main round of the World T20

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Ireland have earned such a reputation over the years that whenever they play now, especially in a big tournament or against a Full Member, they are expected to be making statements with their performances about themselves, about Associate cricket and about the apparently narrowing gap between them and the lower-ranked Full Members.Should they be able to make it to the main round of the World T20, their captain William Porterfield thinks they will be making a “big” statement, especially given the shake-up that the ICC, and the world cricket order, are undergoing. Porterfield wants Ireland to not only qualify for the Super 10, but move on from there by causing the odd upset.At the same time, he also wants his side to not trip over lofty goals such as making statements, and focus on the job immediately at hand, which is to beat Full Member Zimbabwe.”There has been a lot of talk in the ICC and world cricket about restructuring. Anytime we have got a World Cup, we have to perform,” Porterfield said. “It is not just about winning one or two games, it is about doing more than that. The last few World Cups we have been to, we have beaten sides but not been as consistent as we would like. Tomorrow is another great opportunity for us, to try and get a win and set ourselves up for the next game and then we will be in a good position to move forward.”The intention is not just to qualify but to go on and beat teams in the Super 10. It will mean a lot for Irish cricket. With restructuring and everything going on, it will be a big statement for us to make but we cannot look too farther than tomorrow’s game.”I might sound clichéd, but you got to take each game as it comes. First one is Zimbabwe, that is the first hurdle, the first priority, we have to go out there and win that game. And then we move forward to UAE and then to Holland. That is the simplest way of looking at it. We go out and take out tomorrow’s game first, and then we regroup, reassess and see where we are at for the UAE game.”Considering Ireland’s latter two opponents, it can be argued that the fate of the group will hinge on the outcome of their first match against Zimbabwe. But Porterfield was wary of the fallout of such an approach. “If you think it will all come down to one match, you are underestimating other teams in the group. If you are doing that you are putting yourself on the back foot really. It is an important game, every game is. If you win this one, you take momentum into the next one. If you put it down as one game, you could come up short.”Ireland beat Nepal in their first warm-up match but went down to Bangladesh by 44 runs in the second. Porterfield said their mood was upbeat despite that loss, saying the side had been putting in consistent displays of late. “We are feeling good, we are confident. We lost the warm-up game against Bangladesh but apart from that we are going well. We had a tough game against Bangladesh. Maybe we could have bowled more slower balls. But we have been playing good T20 cricket over the last few months. We take confidence from the West Indies series. We are in a good place.”It may appear that a European Associate side would find itself out of place in a city tucked in the north-eastern fringes of the subcontinent, but Porterfield said Ireland were not in unfamiliar territory. “We have been here before, Zimbabwe have been here before. This is my fourth time to Bangladesh. We have been to India and Sri Lanka as well. We are pretty well-travelled and have played a lot in subcontinent conditions.”

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Alexandre Pato e Cuca têm se entendido muito bem em seus primeiros dias de convivência no São Paulo. O técnico tem se preocupado em conversar com o atacante sobre seu posicionamento, e a receptividade tem sido boa.

Pato gosta de jogar aberto pelo lado esquerdo, onde se deu muito bem sob o comando de Juan Carlos Osório em sua primeira passagem pelo Tricolor, mas Cuca ainda não o utilizou nessa função. Na vitória por 2 a 0 sobre o Botafogo, no sábado, o escalou como homem de referência. No triunfo por 2 a 1 sobre o Goiás, na quarta, o recuou para jogar como um armador e o viu marcar um gol e ser o melhor em campo.

– O Pato ficou quatro, cinco meses sem jogar. Hoje, não consigo vê-lo jogando pelo lado do campo, até ele ter uma condição física ideal. A intensidade é muito grande. Você não precisa ser um marcador, mas você tem que passar a linha da bola algumas vezes pelo menos. Eu já conversei com ele sobre isso. O melhor caminho para ele é trabalhar a bola por dentro, sendo segundo atacante, como ele foi no jogo de hoje (quarta). Muitas das vezes o primeiro (atacante), como no lance do gol – analisou Cuca.

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Quando Pato rescindiu com o Tianjin Tianhai (CHN) e ficou com o caminho livre para jogar no Brasil, o técnico não era um grande entusiasta da contratação. Achava que o São Paulo tinha necessidades mais urgentes e temia que um alto investimento para trazê-lo impedisse a chegada de reforços que ele priorizava, como Tchê Tchê. Durante as conversas, porém, Cuca foi se convencendo de que o atacante poderia ser uma referência no elenco tricolor. Quando falou com ele por telefone, a impressão se confirmou. No fim da negociação, disse à diretoria que o clube não podia perder o jogador, ainda mais se fosse para um rival, o Palmeiras. Nessa fase inicial de trabalho, os dois estão bem entrosados.

– Ele (Cuca) me chamou na sala dele, tivemos uma conversa. Ele perguntou para mim se eu poderia jogar no meio. Eu disse que sim, que já fiz isso na Espanha, na China e até no Milan. Aqui é coletivo. Se ele pedir para eu jogar de atacante, de segundo ou aberto, é opção do treinador e eu tenho que respeitar. A conversa vai ajudar bastante. O grupo é maior que qualquer um – disse Pato, à TV Globo, na saída do Serra Dourada, mais uma vez colocando o coletivo acima dos interesses individuais.

– Fico muito feliz de encontrar um treinador assim, que conversa muito. Isso ajuda bastante o jogador. O entrosamento vem aos pouquinhos, a torcida tem que ter um pouco de calma. São muitos jogadores novos, é o meu segundo jogo. Tenho certeza que vão ter coisas boas até o final do ano – completou.

Ainda sofrendo com falta de ritmo, Pato foi substituído nas duas partidas. Ele deve ser titular novamente contra o Flamengo, às 16h de domingo, no Morumbi, pela terceira rodada do Brasileirão.

Ricky Ponting, the former Australia captain, has buried the hatchet with the concerned players involved over the Monkeygate scandal of 2008, and has derided Cricket Australia over catering to the interests of the BCCI over the welfare of one of their play

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Ricky Ponting, the former Australia captain, has drawn a firm line underneath the Monkeygate scandal of 2008, stating that he cleared any remaining tension with Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble during his IPL stint with the Mumbai Indians this year.The Australian release of Ponting’s autobiography, , has exhumed the five-year-old wounds of the affair. Ponting’s ire was raised firmly in the direction of Cricket Australia for its compromises and collusion with the BCCI, but there has been some suggestion of lingering enmity between Ponting and the three central Indian players concerned.Kumble has said it is “important to move on” from events that did not cast any of its characters in a favourable light, while offering the rejoinder that “if you really want to know what happened, you have to wait for my book”. For his part, Ponting said his relationship with Tendulkar, Kumble and Harbhajan had been largely rehabilitated by sharing the Mumbai dressing room, pointing out that any real discord would have made his presence in the team untenable.”I had to captain Harbhajan and Sachin, and Anil was the mentor/coach. They wouldn’t have had me there if that (Monkeygate) hadn’t passed over,” Ponting told ESPNcricinfo. “And Anil hasn’t said anything about being angry or anything like that, it’s just about moving on and ‘wait until my book’.”I didn’t have any problem with them. Sachin was trying to look after his mate and changed his story a couple of times to suit. Harbhajan was the one there was a problem with, but we got to Mumbai, looked each other in the eye and shook hands and said we’ll make this work for the next couple of months. That’s well and truly gone.”What has not left Ponting is his discontent with how CA failed to support their players in a case that left the victim of abuse, Andrew Symonds, painted as a villain. Duly disillusioned, he drifted from the game via a series of disciplinary problems, a loss Ponting still felt angered by.”The worst of it all was the impact it had on Symmo (Symonds),” Ponting wrote. “I had tried to protect him from most of what was going on in the lead-up to the hearing, but when it was done I reckon it took the wind out of his sails. In many ways Symmo was gone from this moment on and it still makes me angry.”As maddening for Ponting were the political machinations around the appeal, with India’s threat to fly home given far more importance by CA than the defence of one of their own players. While engaged in many meetings during the Adelaide Test match that immediately preceded the appeal hearing in the South Australian capital’s Federal Court Building, he was unaware of numerous other events, including the sight of Tendulkar arriving on the morning of the appeal in the company of CA’s then chairman, Creagh O’Connor.