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O Palmeiras iniciou sua maratona de jogos do mês de abril de maneira inesperada, com derrota diante do Água Santa na partida de ida da final do Paulistão no último domingo (02). Além disso, o Verdão agora tem mais uma preocupação: Piquerez, diagnosticado comum entorse no joelho direito. Logo, o substituto imediato do uruguaio será o jovem Vanderlan, de apenas 20 anos.

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No final do primeiro tempo contra o Água Santa, Piquerez acabou torcendo o joelho depois de ter seu tornozelo atingido por Igor Henrique. O lateral recebeu tratamento médico e fez testes no local para tentar retornar para a partida, mas isso não foi possível e ele foi substituído por Vanderlan no intervalo da partida.

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Com a ausência do uruguaio, Vanderlan deve se tornar o lateral-esquerdo titular da equipe do técnico Abel Ferreira, principalmente com a sequência de jogos que o Alviverde terá no mês de abril, em que disputará quatro competições diferentes em partidas com intervalo de praticamente apenas três dias.

Vanderlan chegou ao Palmeiras ainda no Sub-15 para jogar como zagueiro, mas se firmou na lateral esquerda e já fez também aparições como ponta. Pela base, além de ter conquistado o título inédito da Copinha, ele também foi campeão do Mundial de Clubes (2018), da Copa do Brasil (2019) e da Supercopa do Brasil (2019) pelo sub-17, e foi três vezes campeão do Paulistão (2019, 2020 e 2021) pelo sub-20.

Sua primeira partida como profissional aconteceu em janeiro de 2021, diante do Vasco, entrandono lugar de Lucas Lima aos 13 minutos da etapa complementar. Já o seu primeiro gol pelo elenco principal foi na vitória por 3 a 0 contra o Avaí no Brasileirão do ano passado. Na ocasião, Vanderlan comentou sobre a confiança depositada por Abel em seu futebol.

– O Abel sabe que posso jogar como ponta, mas minha posição mesmo é lateral. Então eu estava tranquilo… Ele me passou as orientações técnicas, mas eu já sabia o que fazer dentro de campo.

> Saiba quais foram as reações de Leila Pereira na derrota do Palmeiras para o Água Santa

Além de Vanderlan, atletas jovens como Fabinho e Naves também devem atuar por mais minutos nas próximas partidas. O próprio treinador português já havia falado sobre a rotação do elenco e voltou a comentar sobre o assunto na entrevista coletiva após o confronto diante do time de Diadema, na Arena Barueri.

– Já tinha dito que este ano vamos correr riscos com muita gente jovem no plantel. É ter que jogar, ter que assumir, ter que entrar. Hoje estávamos com três pontas no banco, o Dudu de um lado, Breno do outro e depois queria fazer substituições para a ponta e só tinha o Giovani, não tinha outro. Se eu quisesse trocar o Rony no final por outro ponta, não tinha – disse Abel.

– Portanto, o Fabinho tem entrado muito bem, eu disse e vou voltar a repetir, esse mês vai testar o nosso elenco, não o nosso 11 base, mas vai testar o nosso elenco e perceber o nível que nós estamos. É tão simples quanto isso.

O Palmeirasestreia na Libertadores diante do Bolívar (BOL), nesta quarta-feira (05), às 21h30, no estádio Hernando Siles, em La Paz. Já com os reforços regularizados, no final de semana o Verdão enviou a lista com os 50 jogadores inscritos na competição. Dentre eles, está o lateral Ian, do sub-20, que se torna mais uma opção do lado esquerdo.

O elenco palmeirense viaja para a Bolívia na manhã desta terça-feira (04) e treina às 17h (horário local) no Club de Tênis Huajchilla, em La Paz. A expectativa é de que Abel poupe alguns jogadores na estreia da Libertadores visando o jogo de volta da final do Paulistão diante do Água Santa, no próximo domingo (9), no Allianz Parque.

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The natural ability of Chelsea wonderkid Estevao Willian has left Joao Pedro stunned, with the youngster billed as being “like Vinicius Jr”.

• Moved to Stamford Bridge after turning 18
• Considered to be a hot prospect
• Likened to countryman at Real Madrid

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Having turned 18 in April, exciting youngster Estevao – who is known as ‘Messinho’ in his native Brazil – was cleared to make his way to Stamford Bridge over the summer after facing his new Premier League employers at the FIFA Club World Cup with Palmeiras.

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  Fellow countrymen such as Pedro – who also joined Chelsea in the last transfer window – and Andrey Santos have helped Estevao to settle in England. They are doing all they can to unlock full potential in the hottest of prospects.

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  Pedro told when discussing his compatriots: “We always stay together at breakfast, lunch, training. I’ve known Andrey for more than eight years because we have the same sponsor. Andrey is funny, we joke a lot. Estevao is shy. It’s difficult for him to adapt. I try to push him to ask for his breakfast in English.

  “Sometimes training is too long for him and he feels tired before gym. I don’t always need to do the gym, but I go with him because this is very important for him. He knows how physical the Premier League is. Me and Andrey push him.”

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  Pedro added when asked what makes Estevao special: “Mate, he’s from the street. You can see he is natural. Tosin [Adarabioyo] said to me: ‘Joao, wow. Estevao is amazing’. Playing for Brazil and Chelsea at 18, oh my God. He’s going to be like Vinicius Jr.”

Chelsea are making transfer plans ahead of the looming January transfer window that opens in just over one month’s time, with Enzo Maresca and co setting their sights on a Real Madrid player who wants out of the Bernabeu.

The Blues have made a respectable start to the 2025-26 season under Maresca, currently sitting third in the Premier League table with 20 points from 11 matches.

Their position represents a solid foundation for Champions League qualification, sitting just six points behind league leaders Arsenal and level on points with Tottenham and Aston Villa. However, the campaign has been significantly hampered by a mini-injury crisis that has tested the depth of Maresca’s squad to its limits.

The injury problems have been particularly concentrated in specific positions, most notably defence, and that has created selection headaches for Maresca whilst forcing him to constantly rotate his lineup.

Levi Colwill, Cole Palmer, Benoit Badiashile, Enzo Fernández, Pedro Neto, Dario Essugo, Liam Delap, Reece James, Wesley Fofana, Tosin Adarabioyo, Andrey Santos and Josh Acheampong have all spent time on the sidelines at various points already this term, and some are still a way off recovering.

Roméo Lavia also returned to the treatment table yet again recently and will be out for at least a month after injuring his quadriceps (Fabrizio Romano).

The Belgian launched his water bottle in frustration after being hauled off inside eight minutes away to Qarabag in the Champions League last week, and it’s not hard to see why considering the sheer amount of games he’s already been forced to sit out.

Taking their plethora of absentees from this campaign into account, Maresca has done fairly well to steer them towards a top three place, but reports suggest that he’s still not satisfied with the overall Chelsea squad despite being backed with a near-£300 million warchest last summer.

According to TEAMtalk, Maresca wanted Chelsea to sign Real Madrid’s Rodrygo during the last window, and he could now have another chance to bring the Brazilian to Stamford Bridge.

Rodrygo 'on the brink' of Real Madrid exit as Chelsea 'push' for January deal

According to their information, after growing ‘frustrated’ under Xabi Alonso, Rodrygo is now ‘on the brink’ of leaving Real in the winter.

The 24-year-old has started just two La Liga matches so far this term, and with the 2026 World Cup looming, he’s growing increasingly tempted by a move to the Premier League as Chelsea and other top English sides circle.

As per TEAMtalk, Chelsea are making a ‘late push’ for Rodrygo despite Man City being the overwhelming favourites for his signature, and Real have slashed his asking price by £35 million.

Once valued at around £88 million by Alonso’s side, Real president Florentino Perez is now prepared to negotiate a fee just above £53 million — which suddenly opens the door for Chelsea and other interested sides to make a move for the ex-Santos sensation.

Rodrygo, who has won La Liga three times and the Champions League twice during his time there, initially seemed out of reach, but a deal could be genuinely possible now given the player’s own frustration and dramatic drop in asking price.

The South American would bring versatility, proven quality and top pedigree to Chelsea’s youthful side.

Rodrygo bagged 14 goals and 11 assists in 50 appearances for Real just last season, including five strikes in the Champions League, but his £283,000-per-week wages could be a sticking point amid Chelsea’s carefully curated wage structure.

Quinton de Kock buckled down and played an uncharacteristic innings of great importance to South Africa’s confidence. It was a fine effort in erasing any doubt over his place in the XI too

Firdose Moonda in Durban04-Mar-2018Quinton de Kock’s batting was not belligerent or brash, he did not play the starring role, he did not even take the game away from the opposition, but he played an innings vital to both South Africa’s cause and his own. He showed patience, restraint and resilience, traits that have not often been attached to player of his extravagant style.”A lot gets said about Quinny, that he is all [only] talent, but today he showed a lot of fight and character, which is good for the rest of the series,” Aiden Markram, who shared in a 147-run sixth-wicket stand with de Kock, said.De Kock saw off 96 dot balls, which amounted to 70% of the 138 deliveries he faced. Of those, 19 came from Nathan Lyon and 21 from Steven Smith at the end of the day when there really was nothing to bat for. Instead of brattishly throw his wicket away, the way de Kock might be expected to do and forgiven for doing, he was steadfast until the end and dragged the Test into a fifth day. He may run out of partners and time to reach a fourth Test hundred but he has done enough to keep Heinrich Klaasen at bay for now.Klaasen was included in the squad after matchwinning knocks in the pink ODI and second T20 against India, matches he played in because de Kock was injured. But de Kock was also out of form and had not scored a half-century in eight innings against India across all formats and, more relevant for this discussion, in 15 Test innings dating back to July 2017. The problem was that he was never under real pressure for his place until the selectors were forced to look at Klaasen.In fact, both captain Faf du Plessis and coach Ottis Gibson glossed over de Kock’s lean patch and publically stated de Kock was safe. They said they knew de Kock was the kind of player who would just come good; the kind of player who is all talent. They never demanded a fight from him when a fight was what South Africa so needed. De Kock has finally showed that he can provide some, which will be crucial to South Africa’s team balance and his own place in future.The same requirement – to show fight or leave his place in jeopardy – applies to Theunis de Bruyn, albeit to a lesser extent. In his four Tests so far, de Bruyn has not showed the quality of a player who dominates at first-class level – he scored 190 for the Knights early last month to ensure he was not left out of this Test squad – but he also has not had the opportunity to. Temba Bavuma is ahead of him in the reserve-batsman queue, but could not play this match because he had not completely recovered from a broken finger.After the first innings, calls for Bavuma – who has batted through some of the trickiest periods in the last 15 months for South Africa – to return were loud, but now de Bruyn has provided a glimpse of what he can do too. In an entertaining 35th over, de Bruyn edged Mitchell Starc through the gap between the wicketkeeper and slip and then drove him for four twice in the over before Starc finished the over with a no-ball and a verbal barrage. “Theunis took it to a guy like Mitchell Starc, which was probably unexpected for most out there. It showed the character in the side,” Markram said.Bavuma may be back and having him, de Bruyn, de Kock and Markram all eager to prove their worth could be the best thing for South Africa’s line-up as the series unfolds. In particular, it will please the seniors, because they own failings have only made South Africa’s job harder; now can see there are others who can bear the load. “It [this innings] does give us confidence,” Markram said. “Obviously it’s a long series and every innings is vitally important. We would have liked to have done it better in the first innings. But what’s done is done and we had to fight our way back in the second innings and I thought the guys showed a lot of fight.”

Australia assistant coach Dan Vettori is impressed with the young spinners for playing the conditions and not the big-name India batters

Andrew McGlashan06-Mar-2023

Indore. India’s first innings. Todd Murphy to Virat Kohli.It was Murphy’s only wicket of the third Test among the 18 that Australia’s spinners claimed, but it was just about the perfect set-up from the young offspinner following the seven he took on debut in Nagpur. It came amid Matthew Kuhnemann’s five-wicket haul on the opening day in Indore as India fell apart for 109.Related

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Going around the wicket to take buckets of wickets

Nathan Lyon went on to enjoy one of the finest days of his stellar Test career with eight wickets in the second innings, but it’s the performance of Australia’s inexperienced spinners in this series that has been equally noteworthy.That dismissal of Kohli was the third time Murphy had removed him in the series: overall Murphy has conceded 41 runs from 99 balls against him. Kuhnemann has had Kohli twice in three innings.Spinners will rarely get better conditions to operate in, but with that comes the expectation to perform and with Murphy and Kuhnemann holding a combined first-class match tally of 20 before the series, they could easily have been overawed.”That’s the main challenge on these surfaces, the expectation is so high that you are going to do well [and] you are going to take a wicket every ball,” Australia assistant coach Daniel Vettori, who made his Test debut after just two first-class matches back in the 1996-97 season, said. “To be able to be consistent against some of the best players of spin you’ll come across in these conditions and with these expectations has probably been the most impressive thing so far.”I think the guys who do it consistently, there are quite a number of them on show in this series from both teams… they don’t wilt to the pressure. They just understand their process and they repeat, repeat and repeat. I think that’s the real skill over here. To repeat as much as you can because you can get carried away by what’s going on, the expectation, but all six spinners so far in the series have been able to manage those expectations.”Kuhnemann was more expensive in the second innings, although he did claim Kohli’s wicket, and Murphy’s wicketless 14 overs, which cost just 18 runs, have been praised for keeping a lid on India.Daniel Vettori: Todd Murphy can attack as well as defendAlex Carey, who was able to complete his first Test stumping when Murphy defeated Kohli in the second innings in Delhi, has had the perfect vantage point.”Credit to the two young bowlers coming in and not playing the batsmen,” he said. “Playing the conditions, playing the way that they have been for their state. I probably look to that second innings… at a time where Matty was leaking a little bit. So for him [Murphy] to do that, that’s a huge role. Although he didn’t get the wickets, we acknowledge that spell of bowling, the dryness that he had from his end.”Matthew Kuhnemann has dismissed Virat Kohli twice in three innings•BCCI

“Steve Smith singled him [Murphy] out around his performances in the last Test,” Vettori added. “Obviously Nathan and Matt got all the wickets but… his spell allowed everyone around him to take those wickets. And I think that probably embodies it, that series of balls that he’s bowled to Kohli.”Todd has that skill that he can be a defensive bowler and he can be an attacking bowler and work around pretty much whatever is required from him in the game. For such a young and inexperienced spinner… to be able to come here and handle these tough situations and perform the role that’s required has been impressive.”Vettori played eight Tests in India where he claimed 31 wickets at 44.77 in an era where the pitches were often in favour of the bat, at least in the first half of the game. It meant he hasn’t always been able to impart first-hand experience of the pitches served up in this series.”That’s been a question a lot of the guys have asked, if I’d played on these sorts of wickets and I just haven’t,” he said. “They were always just a war of attrition the wickets that I played on – India won the toss and got 600, you get 400 then hang on for dear life in the last couple of days. Now the game’s in fast forward in a lot of ways.”A game in fast forward that Australia’s young spinners are showing they can keep up with.

Jason Roy put what he described as a “horrible year” behind him with a career-saving century in Bloemfontein on Friday, and admitted afterwards that the angry emotions that he unleashed upon reaching three figures had been “locked away in a cupboard” throughout his run of lean form.Roy’s 79-ball century was his 11th in ODIs but his first against a Full Member nation since the 2019 World Cup, and though it was not enough to secure victory for England in the opening match of their tour of South Africa, it may well have transformed his prospects of helping to defend their 50-over title in India later this year.He struck 11 fours and four sixes all told, as he passed fifty in an England shirt for the first time in 15 innings, dating back to the tour of the Netherlands in June 2022. With the teams back in action on Sunday for the second ODI, also at Bloemfontein, Roy admitted that his personal satisfaction, for once, far outweighed the frustration of defeat.”I’m feeling very good,” he said on the morning after the match. “I actually didn’t sleep that well – I had about five hours sleep. I was a bit overcome with a few emotions and stuff like that, it’s been a turbulent few months. I woke up really well, though, it was the best five hours’ sleep I’ve had.”Yeah, it was a little bit of anger around it all, just because I set everything to the back of my mind and locked a few things away in a cupboard and went out and played the way I have played throughout my career and which I haven’t played in the last couple [of years]. I was frustrated I hadn’t got to that mindset earlier but it was a very nice feeling.”Unlike their build-up to the 2019 World Cup, England have limited opportunities to fine-tune their squad for India. The forthcoming tour of Bangladesh offers their last chance for 50-over practice until September, when New Zealand and Ireland visit for three ODIs each.Roy, however, doesn’t consider his return to form against South Africa to be any guarantee of selection for the World Cup.”No, not at all, absolutely not, I don’t see it that way,” he said. “I’ve played a lot of games in my career, been around for a while now and even after a bad year you can get forgotten quite quickly. It’s a case of keeping pushing, keeping this environment going in this culture we have in the team because it’s a huge year ahead for us in 50-over cricket.”Hopefully [I will play the World Cup] but it’s one step at a time. It’s one game into a series, one game into the year in international cricket, so I’ve got to keep scoring runs and just building this team to the place where we were at back in 2019.”It’s been a horrible year – it’s not how you start the year, it’s how you finish it. I think I started last year pretty nicely and then things went downhill from there. I’ve just got to stay positive and keep pushing.”Roy had given little indication of a return to form during his stint in the SA20 this month, having managed a top-score of 33 in eight appearances for Paarl Royals. However, with his England captain Jos Buttler alongside him at the franchise, Roy said that the support of his team-mate had been crucial in keeping a level head.”I’ve got a great relationship with Jos on and off the field, we speak very honestly with each other and spending the last couple of weeks with each other at the SA20 league has helped,” he said. “I had a lot of thoughts and opinions and how I felt my last year had gone, and those conversations were great and it allowed me to free myself up for this innings I just played.”

Chad Bowes and Ben Lister are the two uncapped players in New Zealand’s extended squad for this month’s ODI series against Sri Lanka, with a host of regulars missing due to a clash with the IPL.Lister, who plays for Auckland Aces, enters the 50-over set-up after making his T20I debut in India last month, while Bowes could make his international debut after top-scoring for Canterbury across white-ball formats this season, with 373 List A runs at 46.63 to date, and a further 359 at 39.89 in T20s.The squad will be led by Tom Latham, but will be lacking a number of senior players, including Kane Williamson, Tim Southee and Devon Conway – all of whom are playing in the ongoing Test series against Sri Lanka – as well as the left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner.Finn Allen, Lockie Ferguson and Glenn Phillips will be available for the first ODI at Eden Park on March 25, but will fly to India thereafter. Lister will then link up with the squad ahead of the second ODI in Christchurch, alongside Mark Chapman and Henry Nicholls.”It’s always exciting as a coach to have new players in the environment and to have players putting their hands up to be selected again in a particular format,” Gary Stead, New Zealand’s head coach, said.”Chad has been impressive for a number of seasons at the top of the order for Canterbury as well as being an excellent fielder.”We are set to play 16 white-ball matches between now and the start of May so there will be a number of chances for players to test themselves in familiar and unfamiliar conditions.”The series will also mark a return to the white-ball set-up for Will Young and Tom Blundell, who has been one of New Zealand’s stand-out players in Test cricket in the past 12 months, but has not played a limited-overs international since the tour of Bangladesh in September 2021.”Tom Blundell, in particular, is someone who we’ve been hugely impressed by in international cricket over the past 18 months as a leader in the Test team and then domestically with the Wellington Firebirds,” Stead said. “It’s an exciting opportunity for Tom ahead of a big year of white-ball cricket.”ODI Squad to face Sri Lanka Tom Latham (capt), Finn Allen, Tom Blundell, Chad Bowes, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Ben Lister, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Glenn Phillips, Henry Shipley, Ish Sodhi, Blair Tickner, Will Young

The deal covers the broadcast of 14 international events across men’s, women’s and Under-19 World Cups

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The ICC has signed a four-year deal with Willow TV and Digital in the USA and Canada, giving Willow digital and broadcast rights for all men’s and women’s major events till the end of 2027.The first direct live TV contractual relationship between the ICC and Willow will cover the broadcast of 14 international events across men’s, women’s and Under-19 World Cup and T20 World Cup competitions. All the senior men’s and women’s ICC events will receive TV coverage, beginning with the men’s T20 World Cup in 2024, scheduled to be held in the USA and the West Indies.Related

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“USA is an important strategic market for the ICC and the direct partnership with Willow will provide us with a number of exciting opportunities to strengthen engagement with fans in the region,” Geoff Allardice, the ICC CEO, said.The ICC had invited bids for media rights to global cricketing events over the next four (or eight) years for the Australian, US, Caribbean and Canadian markets last September.This is the first time the ICC has unbundled its media rights, choosing to sell them territory by territory. In August last year, the ICC sealed a deal in the Indian market for an undisclosed sum. That winning bid, thought to be in the region of just over US$ 3 billion, came from Disney Star* and covers both television and digital rights to men’s and women’s global tournaments between 2024 and 2027. Days after the winning bid was announced, Disney Star announced it would in turn be licensing part of the rights to Zee Entertainment Enterprises in another landmark deal.In January this year, the ICC struck an eight-year deal with Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland, giving them access to broadcast all World Cups between 2024 and 2031.

Matt Renshaw credits a moment of enlightenment on the Australia A tour of New Zealand with helping him to book a spot on the upcoming Ashes tour.The 27-year-old left-hander, who was born in England, had endured a dire Test tour of India where he made scores of 0, 2 and 2 in two Tests. Only runs, and lots of them, were going to get him on the plane to England.The Australia A tour started superbly for Renshaw against New Zealand A with scores of 112 and 78 at Lincoln while opening the innings.Related

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With just one match to go, he was looking out for the release of Cricket Australia’s centrally-contracted players list and his mind started to play tricks.”I had a little bit of a blip in the first innings of the second game. The contract list had just come out and I had missed out,” Renshaw told AAP. “I had done a bit of thinking about that and was trying to predict stuff in my own head, but that didn’t really work out.”That second game it got in my head in the first innings. I played a terrible shot and got out for two. I said to myself, ‘OK, that’s not why you play. Get back to why you want to play’…and I scored [140] in the second innings.”Obviously India was tough mentally from the cricket side of things. I would have like a lot more runs but unfortunately that wasn’t the case,” Renshaw added.”So I went to New Zealand with a mindset to enjoy my cricket. It can be tough when you know you have to score runs to get in a side, but I wasn’t thinking about that. I was just trying to enjoy myself. That is when I produce my best batting. The results over there were part and parcel of that.”Renshaw’s approach was like that of a zen monk, clearing his mind with no thought of grasping or striving for an elusive goal. He hit the jackpot when Australian chair of selectors George Bailey phoned later with news of the Ashes squad.”I had spoken to Usman Khawaja and he got his call the day before so I knew mine was coming,” Renshaw said. “George gave me a call and it started with all the standard stuff and I said,’ Come on, just tell me whether I am in or out’. He told me I was in and I was really excited to be going to England.”Renshaw opened the batting early in his Test career but said being dropped from the Queensland side several years ago was “a silver lining”.”It made me force my way back into the side at No. 5, just because of how strong our batting order has been,” Renshaw said. “I always thought I had the game to bat in the middle order. A lot of openers do, it’s just that they haven’t had the opportunity.”In terms of this tour, it is going to be about supporting the boys at the start and if I do get an opportunity to play, whether as an opener or in the middle order, I will enjoy myself.”It is the Ashes. There will be more emotions and more people watching but at the end of the day it is a bowler against a batter trying to score runs.”

Australia A and Sydney Sixers seamer reunites with head coach Charlotte Edwards

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Jul-2023

Southern Vipers have signed Sydney Sixers and Australia A seam bowler Maitlan Brown for their remaining July fixtures.The 26-year-old Brown will be available for Vipers’ Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy clash with Thunder on Friday and will be a part of their squad for matches up to and including the one against Northern Diamonds at Arundel on July 22 with fixtures against the Blaze and Western Storm in between.Brown made her debut for Melbourne Renegades in the WBBL in 2016 before moving to Sydney Sixers for the 2021-22 season. It was in Sydney that she was coached by Vipers head coach Charlotte Edwards in the 2022-23 competition.Edwards signed Brown to Southern Brave for £18,750 (A$35,875) in the inaugural women’s Hundred draft, held in March for the upcoming season, which begins in August.Brown was part of the Australia A squad which played three 50-over games and three T20s against England A on a tour running concurrently with the beginning of the Women’s Ashes, as well as a three-day red-ball warm-up game against England ahead of last month’s Test. She made her Australia A debut in 2018 against India, where she picked up figures of 2 for 16, and she has taken 20 wickets at an average of 28.25 in 24 matches.Adam Carty, Vipers’ regional director of women’s cricket, said: “As a cricketer and a person, Maitlan has all the characteristics and attitude to be a Viper and we are delighted to bring her into the fold for what will be a pretty busy 50-over period for us.”As a highly skilled, competitive bowling allrounder, we hope we’ll provide an environment that will allow Maitlan to show her best side both on and off the pitch at a time when we’ll be without a number of our senior players.”Three Vipers players – seamer Lauren Bell, offspinner Charlie Dean and batter Maia Bouchier – are part of England’s T20 squad currently locked 1-1 with Australia in their three-match Ashes contest, with a squad yet to be named for the three ODIs which will complete the multi-format series.