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O São Paulo se reapresentou nesta terça-feira, no CT da Barra Funda, para o primeiro treinamento após a derrota do último sábado, por 1 a 0, para o Internacional, no Beira-Rio. Apenas 13 jogadores foram a campo para trabalhar com bola, entre eles os quatro que estão sob os cuidados do Reffis. Dos titulares, somente Liziero esteve no gramado para trabalhar.

Os outros nove atletas de linha que iniciaram o duelo diante do Colorado, além de Gabriel Sara, ficaram na parte interna do centro de treinamento para realizarem exercícios regenerativos e devem retornar para campo nesta terça-feira no período da tarde. Liziero, que saiu durante a partida, trabalhou com aqueles que não atuaram ou aturam por alguns minutos.

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A primeira parte da atividade consistiu em exercícios físicos e aquecimento dos jogadores com materiais de academia. Em seguida, Cuca orientou a tradicional disputa em campo reduzido entre três equipes, que promove a troca de passes no espaço curto e marcação com pressão alta. Todos os três são-paulinos que pisaram no gramado nesta segunda-feira participaram do exercício.

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Depois, foram montados dos pequenos campos com pequenas traves, em cada espaço foram divididos dois times de três jogadores que se revezavam, enquanto um esperava do lado de fora. Neste momento, Pablo, Pato, Hernanes e Toró, em transição, pareceram trabalhar sem restrições e podem pintar entre os relacionados para o duelo diante do CSA, no próximo domingo.

Willian Farias, perto de acertar seu contrato de empréstimo com o Sport, foi liberado do treinamento desta terça-feira e deve ser anunciado em breve pelo clube pernambucano. Antony e Walce, que estão com a Seleção Olímpica, jogam nesta segunda-feira, no Pacaembu, e podem dar as caras no CT da Barra Funda já nesta terça-feira. Daniel Alves e Igor Gomes, retornam na quinta-feira.

Regenerativo: Juanfran, Arboleda, Anderson Martins, Reinaldo, Hudson, Tchê Tchê, Vitor Bueno, Everton e Raniel.

Em campo:Pato, Fabinho, Pablo, Hernanes, Diego, Toró, Bruno Alves, Helinho, Luan, Léo, Liziero, Igor Vinícius e Calazans

The IPL chairman has said that West Indies’ players won’t face any ban from the tournament after they pulled out midway through their tour of India. The IPL governing council also announced that the next season of the IPL will be played between April 9 and May 24. The World Cup final is on March 29, giving players a 10-day gap between the two tournaments, which is more than the five-day break they got in 2011.”It depends upon them (West Indies players). If they want to play IPL they are welcome,” Ranjib Biswal, the IPL chairman, said in Hyderabad, where the BCCI’s emergency working committee met to discuss the fallout of West Indies pulling out of the India tour last week.On Monday one of the WICB directors told ESPNcricinfo that he would like the BCCI to ban the core group of the players, who were instrumental in West Indies aborting the India tour, permanently from the IPL. The director felt it was a “just measure” after the players had “embarrassed” the Caribbean and brought “collective shame” by deciding to leave the India tour mid-way.But Biswal said the issue of participation of West Indies players had not at all come up for discussion. One of the Biswal’s colleagues on the governing council reiterated the BCCI stance on not holding the players responsible for the debacle. “It is all because of the arrogance of the WICB such a thing has happened. The players cannot be blamed.”

James Taylor would be quite justified in asking what more he must do to be given the chance to relaunch his England career

Jon Culley at Trent Bridge26-Aug-2014
ScorecardJames Taylor would be quite justified in asking what more he must do to be given the chance to relaunch his England career. As Nottinghamshire advanced to the semi-finals of the Royal London Cup, it was their captain who made it possible, marking his 100th appearance in List A matches with his third century in five outings, his 11th in the format overall, going on to finish with a career-best 146 not out.The first of the aforementioned three in five was for England Lions, whom he also captained, in the 50-over tri-series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand’s A teams earlier this month, which would seem to be as good a place as any for him to advertise his form.Given that they have lost both Alex Hales and Harry Gurney at a key point in their season, his Nottinghamshire team-mates would have been seriously inconvenienced if England had wanted Taylor for the one-day matches against India as well, yet they must wonder why he was overlooked. Interestingly, his average in one-day cricket is 52.33, compared with 36.55 for Hales.On a slow pitch, this was a wonderful, beautifully paced innings, sensibly cautious at the start, when the bowlers were getting some movement under heavy cloud cover following Monday’s deluge, nicely measured thereafter as Samit Patel, Riki Wessels and James Franklin played the key supporting roles, and with an explosion at the end.He and Patel added 136 for the third wicket despite the best efforts of the latter to bring about his demise, calling for a single not once but twice and sending his captain back when halfway down the pitch. Thus, on 26 and then 71, Taylor had to propel himself through the dirt and hope his bat was grounded at the critical moment. Patel did at least make some runs of his own, passing fifty for the first time this year in 50-over cricket.James Taylor’s stunning form continued with an unbeaten 146•Getty Images

This followed a double calamity in the fourth over after Taylor had won the toss and elected to bat first. Michael Lumb, looking in good touch as he hit the erratic Mark Footitt for four boundaries in the third, was run out at the non-striker’s end as Ben Cotton deflected a firm drive by Steven Mullaney into the stumps. Two balls later, Mullaney pushed at one outside off stump and edged to Wayne Madsen at first slip.Patel fell, hooking Footitt into the hands of Bill Godleman on the square-leg boundary, during a batting Powerplay that added 40 between the 33rd over and the 38th, advancing Nottinghamshire’s total to 198 for 3. Wessels hit 28 off 19 balls before he was caught at midwicket off a mistimed sweep, Franklin 27 off 26 before he was run out, and Taylor, once he had completed his hundred off 134 balls, let rip to add 46 more from 20 deliveries, including three sixes off Cotton and another off Tony Palladino.David Wainwright, the left-arm spinner, bowled nicely, conceding only 35 runs from his 10 overs, but the frontline bowlers leaked runs at more than seven an over, with Footitt a particular disappointment after enjoying a good season in general, his county’s leading wicket-taker in this competition and the Championship.Derbyshire would have needed to make the highest total in their history to win a one-day match batting second and though they kept pace with Nottinghamshire’s scoring rate for the first 20 overs or so they fell away steadily thereafter, despite Marcus North’s 67. Patel denied North the chance to inflict any further damage and was supported to greatest effect by Ajmal Shahzad, who took 3 for 33.Shahzad, having bowled Godleman off an inside edge for 25, struck an important blow when Madsen drove a slower ball in the air to Sam Wood at cover. Patel bowled Alex Hughes and had Scott Elstone caught behind thanks to the still extraordinary reflexes of wicketkeeper Chris Read before Derbyshire’s chance diminished to the point of mere academic possibility during the batting Powerplay, when North went down the pitch to be stumped off Patel and Gareth Cross, who had threatened briefly by smiting 23 off 14 balls before a miscue that Taylor took very well over his shoulder at cover gave the left-arm spinner his fourth success in the space of 22 deliveries.Wainwright gamely gathered 41 off 30 balls coming in at nine as Nottinghamshire allowed the last two wickets to add 65 but it was labour in vain.

Heath Streak, Bangladesh’s bowling coach, when asked what change he wanted to see from his batsmen said: “It’s just about backing their ability and playing according to the conditions”

Alagappan Muthu in Mirpur18-Jun-2014Bangladesh have lost nine ODIs in a row. They have ceded a home series to an India side their captain had labeled second-string. Everything from body language to haphazard shot-selection has been blamed and on Tuesday, when they were bowled out for 58, Mushfiqur Rahim could not pinpoint the exact source of his side’s troubles. There were just too many of them.The camp was in regroup mode at training in Mirpur, on the eve of the final ODI. Bangladesh’s chief of cricket operations, Akram Khan, dropped by. So did Habibul Bashar, selector and former captain. All of them would have known that the most glaring issue to be addressed was the batting, especially with the spice the weather can add to the Mirpur pitch.Heath Streak, the bowling coach, was succinct when asked by ESPNcricinfo what change he wanted to see from his batsmen. “To score runs,” he said jovially. “It’s just about backing their ability and playing according to the conditions on the day. That’s the important thing, and to have the confidence to go out there and apply yourself in different conditions.”The first [match’s] wicket was really flat and the second one was probably the opposite. So the whole approach and strategy was changed a lot and I know that’s something that has been addressed and they’ll have to work hard at getting it right for the next game.”While conceding that the task ahead was quite difficult and would not be achieved overnight, Streak believed his charges have the “ability” to overturn their prolonged slump.”I was part of a Zimbabwe changeroom that was in very similar situations quite regularly. That’s when you want people to show character and fight and that’s when you need your senior players to stand up and be counted and lead from the front. I know that will happen. This is a good team. They’ve got the potential. They will improve.”It’s not that they don’t have the ability. They’ve pushed some good teams close recently and they’ve just been on the wrong end of the results and sometimes it’s hard to get out of that losing streak, but I’m confident that when we do, we just need to make sure that we work hard and stay on top and build from there.”Bangladesh do have something working in their favour, in their bid to springboard back to from: the bowling. Streak was pleased with how the bowlers attacked India on Tuesday. Taskin Ahmed was pacy and he struck lengths that made the batsmen uncomfortable. Mashrafe Mortaza was accurate and miserly. They created enough opportunities, and that resulted from an adjustment in thought process, a lesson the batsmen will do well to pay attention to as well.”It’s still early days [for me as bowling coach],” Streak said. “I’m just getting them [the bowlers] to have a positive mindset, be a little more aggressive and not to be intimidated by the fact that they’re playing – in their minds – against superstars.”They [India’s batsmen] play the IPL, they’ve seen them play in India and other places. But they’re human beings. They make mistakes. They’re very good at doing their jobs, but a good ball is a good ball, doesn’t matter if it’s to Suresh Raina or Rayudu or one of our own like Mushfiqur. And if you do that more consistently and at a good pace, if you do that, then I think we will challenge people more.”

خسر منتخب مصر لكرة السلة أمام مونتينيجرو، اليوم الأحد، ضمن منافسات بطولة كأس العالم المقامة حاليًا في الفلبين واليابان وإندونيسيا.

منتخب مصر لكرة السلة خسر أمام مونتينيجرو بنتيجة 89-74، في إطار الجولة الثانية من دور المجموعات بالبطولة العالمية.

ويلعب منتخب مصر لكرة السلة في المجموعة الرابعة ببطولة كأس العالم، رفقة مونتينيجرو والمكسيك وليتوانيا.

طالع أيضًا | القنوات الناقلة لكأس العالم لكرة السلة 2023 ترتيب مجموعة مصر في كأس العالم لكرة السلة

1 – مونتينيجرو، 4 نقاط.

2 – ليتوانيا، نقطتان.

3 – مصر، نقطتان.

4 – المكسيك، نقطة.

ويلتقي منتخب مصر لكرة السلة المكسيك، في مباراته الثالثة بعد الخسارة أمام ليتوانيا في المواجهة الأولى.

The setting in New Zealand may seem enjoyable, but India’s bowling will again be under pressure against a power-packed batting line-up in alien conditions

Abhishek Purohit in Napier16-Jan-20140:00

‘NZ ready for India challenge’ – Hesson

“It is quite far from India,” was MS Dhoni’s first reaction when asked how he felt on reaching New Zealand. That was at Auckland airport, and Dhoni still had one last flight to take to Napier, where the tour will kick off with the first of five ODIs on Sunday.He might be around 18 hours of flying time and multiple stopovers away from home, but Dhoni faces the same old issue. How to keep his bowlers from leaking runs. India went for 280 in the second ODI against South Africa in Durban last month, and then collapsed for 146, but Dhoni felt it was an achievement for his bowlers to have gone for as little, or as many, as they did.In a way, it was an achievement, for bowlers who conceded 358 and 301 either side of Durban. Before that, in six attempts against Australia at home, the lowest they had managed was 295. There is hardly any Dhoni press conference these days where he does not mention how harsh the new fielding restrictions are on him.”You need to be aware of your bowling,” says MS Dhoni of the bowling challenges in New Zealand•AFP”Individuals have to step up when you play with the new rules,” Dhoni said before leaving for New Zealand. “You need to be aware of your bowling. You need to be confident that you can bowl with only four fielders out. We have seen that with the new rules, even the top bowlers in the world have had to bowl with fine leg and third man in the circle. You’ll have to be comfortable about your own bowling and you really need to know your strengths well. We’ll have to wait and watch. To see how they perform under pressure.”Adding to Dhoni’s familiar concern is the location. Cricket in New Zealand is usually played on rugby grounds, which means the shape of the outfield is anything but normal. It is not easy for a visiting captain to immediately work out the angles and place his fielders in optimal positions. This time, Dhoni will have the experience of his previous visit in 2009, but how much he is able to draw upon that with one less deep fielder allowed now remains to be seen.”I remember when I went to New Zealand for the first time, I was confused with some of the fielding positions because of the unusual shape of some of the grounds. So when we used to have a short fine-leg, we had to keep him so wide that from the wicketkeeper’s angle he was almost at square leg but still the ball kept going to him. It does take some time to get used to it.”The grounds here have a very different shape. You are used to playing in grounds that are oval or round. As a bowler, till you don’t play here it is very difficult to pinpoint the fielding position. It will be a good experience for some of us who have not played here.”Dhoni is expecting the pitches for the one-dayers to be flatter ahead of the two Tests. India’s bowlers, particularly at the death, are often found lacking in batting-friendly conditions. Even on more helpful surfaces in South Africa recently, they were expensive. Although Dhoni felt India’s death bowling had improved, he admitted there were lessons to be learnt from their previous tour.”(In) South Africa, we were on the shorter side. We did not get enough time to prepare or to get used to the bounce. Outside the subcontinent if you are on the shorter side and you don’t have that express pace, it means you can go for runs. That is what happened in that series.”

The grounds here have a very different shape. You are used to playing in grounds that are oval or round. As a bowler, till you don’t play here it is very difficult to pinpoint the fielding positionMS Dhoni

That series is gone. India had around ten days off after South Africa before they started their journey to New Zealand. They will have had five days to acclimatise and prepare before the first ODI. They did fielding drills and played football on the first one, after which they’ve had two full sessions at Nelson Park, across the road from McLean Park, where Sunday’s ODI will be played.To Indians, Nelson Park could pass off as one of the centrally-located grounds in the numerous MIG colonies in the country, only it is thrice as big. It is surrounded by neat, spacious one-storeyed houses. The floodlights of McLean Park tower over one side, while Napier Hill, with more houses and a steep road thrown in, looks down from the other.It is a beautiful setting to “enjoy” some cricket, as Mohammed Shami was heard saying during a long bowling stint. Bowling coach Joe Dawes seemed to be telling him to hit the pitch hard; India fast bowlers, used to releasing the ball to try and find swing on low home pitches, are often not able to dig it in when they tour. Shami took notice and generated steep bounce, keeping the batsmen on the back foot. While Ishwar Pandey was nowhere near as sharp, he produced several accurate yorkers, something he had also done on the A tour to South Africa. The skills are being tweaked and sharpened; Dhoni will want them to hold together “under pressure” when New Zealand’s power-hitters get going.

Eoin Morgan, the England batsman, has signed up to play for the Sydney Thunder at Australia’s Big Bash League. Morgan will join Michael Hussey and David Warner as the high-profile signings at the T20 franchise this year, for the league that begins on December 21.”I am really excited about getting the opportunity to join the Sydney Thunder for this season’s Big Bash,” Morgan said in a statement. “I have been a big admirer of the tournament and I’m looking forward to getting a chance to play in it.”Morgan, one of England’s premier limited-overs players, also plays in the IPL for Kolkata Knight Riders. He led a second-string England team against Ireland in an ODI recently, and in the one-day series against Australia following the 2013 Ashes. Morgan was not picked in England’s 2013-14 Ashes squad, and would most likely be on national duty only in the lead-up to the limited-overs series that starts on January 12.He tweeted about his keenness to work with Michael Hussey, who will lead the Thunder in the absence of Michael Clarke – away on national duty for the England Tests.Hussey was brought over from the Perth Scorchers, in a bid to revive the struggling Thunder – the team has won only two matches over the past two seasons. Warner, meanwhile, had re-signed with the Thunder after a season with their cross-city rivals, the Sydney Sixers. He had played the inaugural season for the Thunder, before leaving them after a dispute with the general manager John Dyson.

His love for cricket ebbed when he was sacked by Surrey in June but now Chris Adams is looking for another opportunity to get stuck into cricket again

George Dobell05-Sep-2013

A few months ago, Chris Adams cut a forlorn figure. Watching from his office at The Oval as Ryan Buckley, a teenage offspinner from Durham, spun his Surrey side to defeat, Adams looked drawn, exhausted and a little confused. Not defeated, but certainly wearied and chastened.Now, 10 weeks after he was sacked as director of cricket at Surrey, the “old” Adams has returned. He is refreshed and revived. He laughs. He is enjoying himself again and recovered a love for the game that had, if not died, ebbed for a while. More importantly he feels, after a period of introspection, that he is ready to re-enter the fray.Quite where that may be remains unclear. Had Hugh Morris stepped down from his position as managing director of England cricket 18 months ago, Adams may have been among the favourites to replace him. He might still be.But the intervening months did not go as planned. Tom Maynard’s death in June 2012 changed everything at The Oval and the attempt to add maturity to a grieving dressing room blocked opportunities for younger players. With the club management sensing a lack of progress and feeling a change was required – as much for Adams’s own good as anything – he was relieved of his position.History’s recall tends to be black and white. So, for many, memories of Adams’s time at Surrey will consist only of a side full of grieving or ageing players, struggling to win games. It’s a grossly unfair portrayal – Surrey won the Clydesdale Bank 40 and promotion in 2011 – and, after inheriting a sleeping giant at the start of 2009, he at least put them on the road to recovery. Right up until the accident, Surrey were playing – whether they won or lost – joyful cricket and appeared to have the players to benefit club and country for a generation.Now Adams admits he is “a man at a crossroads”. Each September tends to bring new opportunities in the world of county cricket and there are suggestions of changes or additions at three or four counties and Adams is likely to be considered for most of them. Whether the way things ended at Surrey counts against him remains to be seen, but it worth remembering that coaches as proficient as Duncan Fletcher, with England, and Bob Woolmer, with Warwickshire, also endured unhappy endings to coaching assignments. The man who played such a huge role in Sussex’s golden age and reviving Surrey, still has a great deal to offer English cricket.But before looking to the future, how does he reflect on the past. Does he feel the decision to sack him was a mistake?”Well, in the four years I was with Surrey, I’d overseen a complete restructure of the coaching and playing staff,” Adams told ESPNcricinfo. “We had won promotion and a Lord’s final. In the previous 24 months, Surrey had had more representatives in various England squads than at any time. All the key performance indicators were good.”Surrey were sixth in the Championship when Adams was sacked “We had lost two games. And the T20 hadn’t even started. I guess, in the end, players win games and coaches lose them. When we signed the big names – the likes of Graeme Smith – the expectations went up. Then he went home and the goal posts moved.”It hurt to lose the Surrey job. Of course it did. But that’s in the past. I actually felt sorry for Richard Gould, the Surrey chief executive, when he told me the news. Because of the nature of the club, with people living all over the place, he had to contact me on the phone. There’s no ill-feeling. In fact, I look back at the four-and-a-half years there as a privilege.”He is, he says, “open minded” about the future. He had enjoyed a foray into commentary, where his candour has made a welcome change to the facile timidity of some, and is keen, in his words, to “retain his status within the game”.”I have had offers from outside the game,” he says, “and it may be that I look towards a spectrum of interests that include a bit of several different things. But I still feel I have a huge amount to offer in cricket. Whether it’s in a planning role as a director of cricket, or in a coaching role, maybe as a batting coach, I don’t mind. It’s been my life for 27 years and I consider myself incredibly fortunate.”But he does intend to learn from the last few years. The weeks following his sacking, he realised how completely he had allowed the Surrey job to take over his life and how he had neglected other areas.”I was completely immersed in the Surrey job,” he says. “That’s fine, up to a point. That’s why people employ me, because they know that I’ll throw myself into the job with everything I have. I still feel some affinity with the squad. I signed most of them. But I have a family, too. And maybe I had moved away from that side of my life a bit through working too hard. I need to get the work-life balance better in the future.”A couple of months ago I was running low on gas; much lower than I realised at the time. But I have my energy back now. I’m ready to return. I’m just looking for an opportunity to get stuck back in.”

يستعد منتخب مصر لسيدات الكرة الطائرة، لمواجهة نظيره اليونان في 3 مباريات وديًا، من أجل الاستعداد الجيد والقوي لمنافسات بطولة الأمم الأفريقية المقرر إقامتها بالكاميرون.

ويخوض منتخب مصر لسيدات الكرة الطائرة، معسكرًا في اليونان خلال الفترة من 16 وحتى 24 يونيو الجاري ، حيث يعتبر هذا أول معسكر خارجي يخوضه فريق الفراعنة قبل بطولة الأمم الإفريقية.

اقرأ أيضا..منتخب مصر لسيدات الكرة الطائرة يتوجه إلى اليونان استعدادًا لأمم إفريقيا

ومن المقرر أن تقام المباراة الأولى بين المنتخب المصري واليوناني غدًا الأحد في تمام الساعة السادسة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، بينما تقام المباراة الثانية بعد غد الإثنين في التوقيت ذاته، وتقام المباراة الثالثة يوم 20 يونيو الجاري.

وتضم قائمة المنتخب الوطني لسيدات الطائرة كلًا من: “سارة أمين، آية خالد، دعاء الغباشي، مريم متولي، سابين حسن عابد، دعاء محمد، مايا ممدوح، دانا شوقي، أيسل نديم، زينة العلمي، آية النادي، داليا المرشدي، ندى وليد، هناء سند”.

ويقود المنتخب المصري لسيدات الكرة الطائرة كل من ماركو أنطونيو المشرف على الجهاز الفني، وعماد نوار مديرًا فنيًا، وسيد طه مدربًا، ومحمد أنور مدربًا مساعدًا، وشادي فهيم محللًا تقنيًا، ومنة الله الشرقاوي أخصائي العلاج الطبيعي، وهبة حسنين مديرًا إداريًا للمنتخب.

Australia’s acting captain Shane Watson has said a 4-0 thrashing is what Australia deserved given their struggles over the past few weeks and India’s outstanding performances

Brydon Coverdale24-Mar-2013Australia’s acting captain Shane Watson has said a 4-0 thrashing is what Australia deserved given their struggles over the past few weeks and India’s outstanding performances. Watson was in charge for the final Test in Delhi when Michael Clarke was ruled out due to his back injury but he was unable to turn the tide of a series that flowed in only one direction, and a loss inside three days was hardly the way the Australians wanted to end the tour.The only other time Australia have lost a series 4-0 was when an exhausted squad flew directly from a Test tour in India to South Africa in 1969-70 and the loss at the hands of Ali Bacher’s men cost captain Bill Lawry his job. Not since a team ravaged by World Series Cricket departures lost 5-1 to England in 1978-79 had Australia lost this many matches in a Test series.”It’s extremely disappointing,” Watson said. “We came here with high hopes of having a good series here and the 4-0 here is what we deserved. The Indians have totally outplayed us. We haven’t played to our best unfortunately. It certainly has been a big learning curve and that is one of the biggest challenges for us as a team is continuing to learn very quickly. We have got quite a number of young guys who are still learning.”But with me for example, I haven’t scored the runs that I wanted. I knew how important it would be to be able to score runs to help the team get to a total while other guys are learning around me. That has been extremely disappointing, knowing I have played a lot of cricket here and I didn’t score anywhere near the runs that I wanted. Especially when the team is learning in these conditions, these conditions are as foreign as we will ever get around the world.”Watson was one of the biggest disappointments for Australia on this tour, averaging 16.50 in his three Tests, and he was one of three members of the top six who averaged less than 20. Watson’s drought without a century now stands at 39 innings and stretches back nearly two and a half years, and the dearth of hundreds is starting to spread: Michael Clarke scored the only one for Australia on this trip.”Hopefully I haven’t rubbed off on too many of them because that would be a shame if they all get my disease,” Watson said. “For all of us as top-order batsmen, it has been very disappointing. Michael continues to be in amazing form. We’ve all got to continue to strive for what Michael has been able to achieve as a batsman. All top-order batsmen, we have to be scoring big runs if we want to be considered in the top six and playing consistently.”It just hasn’t been good enough from all of us to be able to score the runs we know we needed, especially in the first innings. That has probably been the biggest disappointment. We know that conditions change later on as the game gets older. The first innings really is the important one to get a big total. I’m the first one to put my hand up because I certainly haven’t been good enough in this series.”For me as an experienced senior player, it’s part of my role to be able to stand up and score runs. It has been very disappointing not to be able to do that. I personally take a lot of blame for that. I take just about full responsibility to be able to show the way and I’ve certainly got to get a lot better.”However, Watson also said the challenging pitches at all four venues needed to be taken into consideration when assessing Australia’s batting.”The conditions here are very foreign and the conditions have been just about the opposite to anything we have got in Australia, that’s for sure, but also playing cricket here in the past whether it was Test matches, one-dayers or T20s, the wickets have been different to those as well,” he said. “It’s been a big learning curve for everyone.”To see how the wicket played in this game was certainly a huge challenge against their high quality spinners and even they struggled at times with our high quality spinners as well. We’ve all learned a hell of a lot out of this series. We certainly need to continue to improve and improve and improve very quickly. With the challenges and the series we have coming up, the conditions are going to be different to what we have in this series.”The coming months for Australia will provide the challenge of changing formats a few times, for some players will spend the next month in India for the IPL before the Champions Trophy in England and then back-to-back Ashes series. A united side is important in such a big year and Watson said the so-called homework sackings – Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja were not considered for the third Test – had brought the side together.”It was a little bit rocky there for about a day,” Watson said when asked about his relationship with Clarke and the coach Mickey Arthur. “But after that things are very good. Michael and the leadership group had to make a decision. At the time I wasn’t very happy with the decision that was made but we’ve all sat down and had a great chat and we’ve all moved on and we’re really excited about the future that’s coming up.”It has been a big shot in the arm for just about the whole group let alone the Mohali four. It has been a big shot in the arm for us to be able to galvanise the team. It’s one thing coming back after the few days I had at home for the birth of my little boy. It has been amazing to see how the team has really come together. There was a bit of collateral damage with a few of us going down and missing a Test match. What has come out of it has been a very united group.”