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Kagiso Rabada said he had spoken to South Africa team-mates about the suspension and was open to going in further detail if needed

Andrew Fidel Fernando31-May-2025Kagiso Rabada had admitted to testing positive for recreational drug use and served a one-month ban as punishment, and now he has to return to the highest levels of cricket, where he has to face further consequences. He must clear the air – if that is required – with national team-mates, endure whatever the opposition decides to throw at him, and face down various media as he prepares for South Africa’s World Test Championship (WTC) final.All of these were assignments he was taking seriously, Rabada said in his first media interaction since the incident, as he left for London. “I think I owe it to them [to talk about what happened] – they’re my team-mates,” Rabada said of speaking to the squad about his suspension. “We’ve come from so far, you know, and to my closest people I owe it to them.”Look, this is not an ideal situation. I don’t need too many pats on the back here. I’m going to be joining with them again. I’ve already spoken to them and I guess we can do so in more detail when we get together for an extended amount of time.”Related

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Rabada had flown home from IPL 2025 late in March for supposed “personal reasons”, before the facts of his misdemeanours were rolled out following his testing positive for a drug that was either cannabis, cocaine, heroin or ecstasy, as per the code of the South African Institute of Drug-Free Sport. He returned to India to play two further games for Gujarat Titans (GT) following the end of his suspension.Rabada did not disclose in public the circumstance that led to him taking the banned substance, but he had tested positive in January, during the SA20 league.”It led me to a bit of introspection about myself, and I took some time away from the game,” he said. “I think the biggest thing I took away from it is having gratitude for playing the game that we love. I’m just glad to be playing again… the process was handled really well.”Rabada admitting to the offence is understood to have led to him being handed a more lenient punishment.6:18

Was it right to term Rabada’s absence due to doping ban as ‘personal reasons’?

“The decision to come back early [from the IPL] was brilliant, and that’s a decision that I made,” Rabada said. “I could have tried to contest it and whatnot, but coming home was the best option, and I was in good hands. All the parties that were involved made the whole process smooth.”I think, as a player, and a man, people will have their different opinions. I can live with that.”Though he had issued a statement in which he’d apologised to fans, he said he was looking forward to just playing cricket for South Africa again.”As you would have seen in my statement there are some people who would have been disappointed. And to those people I’m deeply sorry,” Rabada said. “The people closest to me are the ones I felt I let down.”But life moves on. I’ll never be ‘Mr-I-Apologise’ too much. But I’ll never condone that action.”

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A Chapecoense está atrás de reforços para 2019. Um deles é o zagueiro Gum, que não renovou com o Fluminense para a próxima temporada. Com isso, o LANCE! buscou explicações com o diretor do clube catarinense, Newton Drummond sobre uma possível e futura negociação.

– É meu procedimento quando eu estou em um clube, e só fala em nomes quando há o contrato assinado. O Gum é um jogador que interessa, mas é muito difícil, mas vamos tentar viabilizar alguma coisa. Ou seja, estamos monitorando a situação do jogador – disse o diretor.

Gum deixou o Fluminense sendo o jogador que mais conquistou títulos com a camisa Tricolor. Ele saiu do clube carioca, com 414 partidas disputadas. Além disso, conquistou dois títulos Brasileiros (2010 e 2012), a Primeira Liga (2016), um Campeonato Estadual (2012), duas Taças Guanabara (2012 e 2017) e uma Taça Rio (2018).

Caso a Chapecoense e Gum consigam chegar em acordo, será mais um a compor a zaga do Índio Condá. Além dele, Rafael Pereira, Nery Bareiro, Neto, Douglas, Luiz Otávio, Thyere e Hiago. A situação de Fabrício Bruno está indefinida.

Além da Chapecoense, outro clube monitora a situação. O CSA-AL, que acabou de garantir o acesso a Série A, também monitora a situação do zagueiro Gum.

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Australia will play the fewest home ODIs in 34 years during the 2013-14 Ashes summer, as Twenty20 takes a more prominent place in the schedule ahead of the tiring 50-over format

Daniel Brettig22-Nov-2012

Australia will play the fewest home ODIs in 34 years during the 2013-14 Ashes summer, as Twenty20 takes a more prominent place in the schedule ahead of the tiring 50-over format.The schedule unveiled by Cricket Australia on Thursday offered the slimmest programme of one-day matches since Mike Brearley’s England tourists played four ODIs alongside six Tests in 1978-79, the second summer of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket rebellion and the last before commercial television began to dictate a surfeit of limited overs fixtures.Five Ashes Tests will be followed by five ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals, the most substantial T20I series played in Australia since the format’s introduction. Previously Australia have played either one-off matches or two-match series, but the raging popularity of international T20s has forced the addition of an extra match.England’s presence as the sole touring side, the first time since India visited in 1977-78 that only one side has toured Australia in a summer, will also reduce the number of scheduled days of international cricket to 33, significantly down from this summer’s 43 days. This will allow more room for the domestic T20 Big Bash League to thrive, with the possible benefit of Australia’s players being available for a greater number of matches.James Sutherland, the CA chief executive, was unconcerned about waning interest in the ODI format ahead of the World Cup.”Next summer’s going to be very much about the Ashes and the programme’s been designed about that,” Sutherland said. “We will play a bit more one-day cricket eh following season, we’ve got the World Cup at the end of that season, but before then we’ll have a couple of series of one-day cricket that are designed to prepare ours guys for the World Cup.”I don’t have any concerns about maintaining the interest in the one-day format. That’s there. Would we like greater attendances? Absolutely, but we know that the television ratings and all of our research on the popularity of the one-day format is not a cause for concern.”The England tour will begin with a trio of warm-up fixtures against Western Australia, Australia A and New South Wales. The first Test will take place in Brisbane from November 21 to 25, before the series moves on to Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.October 31-November 2 Western Australia XI v England, WACA
November 6-9 Australia A v England, Bellerive Oval, Hobart
November 13-16 New South Wales XI v England, SCG
November 21-25 Australia v England, 1st Test, Gabba
November 29-30 CA Chairman’s XI v England, Manuka Oval, Canberra
December 5-9 Australia v England, 2nd Test, Adelaide Oval
December 13-17 Australia v England, 3rd Test, WACA
December 26-30 Australia v England, 4th Test, MCG
January 3-7 Australia v England, 5th Test, SCG

ScorecardEngland Twenty20 opener Alex Hales’ fine form continued with the bat as he propelled Nottinghamshire back to the top of the Friends Life t20 North Group with a 41-run victory over Durham.Hales, 23, fresh from his brilliant 99 against the West Indies on his home ground last weekend, hit 88 off 51 balls with four sixes and six fours, sharing a club record partnership of 142 with Riki Wessels for the second wicket. Wessels himself made 53 and Michael Lumb 36 as Notts posted 210 for 3 in the first innings, Mitch Claydon picking up 3 for 34.Durham lost early wickets and although Ben Stokes (56) smashed four sixes from 32 balls, his dismissal by Darren Pattinson ended any hopes of a win for the visitors, who finished on 169 for 7.Notts have developed a formidable home record in T20 in the past two seasons, based on defending heavy first innings totals. They followed the recipe to perfection again with Lumb kick-starting the innings with a massive six over midwicket off Graham Onions, as well as thumping six boundaries, before he was caught by a diving Stokes at the start of the fifth over.Hales was only on seven at that point with Lumb dominating the strike, but slipped into gear by sweeping Scott Borthwick for six as Hales and Wessels blazed 142 from 13.3 overs. Durham’s night was summed up when Liam Plunkett was banned from the bowling attack after two head-high beamers to Wessels, who managed to pull both balls for four.Needing to get a good start, Durham were restricted to one run off the opening over from Harry Gurney and saw Herschelle Gibbs run out after a mix-up with Phil Mustard, who fell in the next over to Pattinson.Durham’s chances rested on the shoulders of the big-hitting Stokes, who briefly had the visitors up with the run-rate and reached his 50 with two straight sixes off Samit Patel, before his attempted paddle shot in the next over from Pattinson ended in the hands of short fine leg.That ended any hopes of a win, with the result putting Notts back ahead of Yorkshire on run-rate, both team having nine points from six matches.

Worcestershire’s Auastralian Michael Klinger struck an undefeated 69 to make light of a previously treacherous Oval pitch where all 22 players had batted the previous day. Rain forced an abandonment with Surrey under pressure.

David Lloyd at The Oval22-Apr-2012
ScorecardMichael Klinger, seen here for South Australia, steered Worcestershire to safety•Getty Images

So the script went something like this: a pitch that produced several examples of uneven bounce on the third day – when 19 wickets fell and the ball seamed about so much that 12 players were caught by keeper or slips – would deteriorate further, leaving Surrey to win with ease.There were no thoughts of a rewrite, either, once Alan Richardson had scuttled a few deliveries through at grubber height in his first couple of overs on the fourth morning to finish with match figures of 10 for 128.But all good plots have a twist – and what a turn-up we could have had here but for rain washing out the final session when Worcestershire needed a further 152 runs from 39 overs. They had progressed to 94 for 1 with something approaching ease, losing only their captain Daryl Mitchell a moment or two before bad weather stopped play for the umpteenth and final time in this contest.So what went right, so to speak, from a batting point of view? Well, for a start, Michael Klinger – a 31-year-old Australian, who has joined Worcestershire on a short-term basis while countryman Phil Hughes tours West Indies – played wonderfully well.He struck ten fours, many of them threaded through the covers, and drove a sumptuous six, against spinner Gareth Batty, while making an undefeated 69 from 95 deliveries. But on top of that the pitch, spiteful at various times, looked almost docile while the sun shone for most of the afternoon.”It confused me as well,” said Chris Adams, Surrey’s team director, when asked to explain what had happened to a dry, hard surface. “It looked a belter this afternoon. We certainly expected more with the new ball, in terms of movement, but having said that I thought their batsman played really, really well. That is the first time I have seen Klinger and he looks a very well organised player who takes the game to the opposition.”Adams, of course, was widely quoted last week when he lambasted the Lord’s pitch after Surrey lost to Middlesex by three runs as the worst he had seen at HQ. In this match, the stand of 94 between Klinger and Mitchell was one of only two half-century partnerships and there was almost a positive outcome, despite six of the 12 scheduled sessions being lost to rain.Adams had no intention of back-tracking on his comments of seven days ago, asking people to bear in mind that he was comparing the Lord’s pitch with the “superb” surfaces he has encountered there on other occasions.As for cricket generally this showery April, Adams said: “My sympathies go out to batsmen around the country at the moment because clearly conditions are proving very difficult. For three days here it was very difficult for all batsmen.”What it is producing is an entertaining spectacle because people are seeing action and entertainment on a consistent basis. What I don’t think it is producing is the quality of cricket we want to see from a batsman’s point of view. “It is anyone’s guess how this match would have panned out given another two or three hours of play. But Worcestershire would certainly have fancied their chances of pulling off a terrific victory against a powerful attack after being set what appeared an out-of-the-question target of 246 from 70 overs.

يأمل كارلو أنشيلوتي مدرب ريال مدريد، استمرار لاعبه ناتشو في صفوف النادي الملكي العام القادم، متحدثًا عن مستقبله هو ولاعبه.

وأكد أنشيلوتي أنه يتفهم غضب بعض لاعبيه من عدم اللعب باستمرار، مشددًا على أن هدفه الأساسي يكمن في فوز ريال مدريد.

وتحدث المدير الفني الإيطالي في مؤتمر صحفي اليوم الجمعة، قبل الديربي أمام أتلتيكو مدريد، حيث يلتقي الفريقان غدًا بمنافسات الدوري الإسباني.

وعن محادثات تجديد عقد لاعبه ناتشو، أشار أنشيلوتي: “لا أعرف ما الذي سيحدث العام المقبل، ربما كلانا سيكون هنا أتمنى ذلك، أود الاستمرار في رؤيته في فالديباس بدلاً من التليفزيون، بالطبع”.

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وواصل: “أراه كل يوم ولديه أيام لم يكن سعيدًا فيها (لعدم اللعب)، لم يشتكي معي واستمر في المعاناة من الفترة التي لم يلعبها، لقد كان محترفًا وعندما كنت في حاجة إليه كان يلتزم دائمًا”.

وشدد الإيطالي: “لدي نقطة ضعف وهي أنني هنا من أجل أن يكون ريال مدريد سعيد.. وهذا يحدث فقط إذا فزنا، أشعر بالأسف للاعبي فريقي لأنني مغرم بهم للغاية، لست هنا لتكوين صداقات، أريد فقط أن يكون ريال مدريد راضيًا، وبعد قولي هذا، ناتشو سيلعب غدًا”.

وأتم بشأن مستقبله مع ريال مدريد: “أنا هادئ جدًا، لست مضطرًا لتجديد العقد، يجب فقط أن أفوز بالمباريات الآن”.

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Fagner voltou ao Corinthians após “realizar o sonho” de disputar a Copa do Mundo com a Seleção Brasileira. O lateral-direito retomou os treinos no Timão no último sábado, e falou nesta segunda-feira sobre a experiência na Rússia.

– Foi um marco na minha carreira, todo jogador sonha isso, toda criança idealiza isso, para mim foi um sonho realizado. São momentos e lembranças que vão ficar marcados. Sabemos da disputa que é no futebol brasileiro, muitos jogadores surgem, então para mim foi uma felicidade imensa. Primeiro ser convocado, depois poder jogar e demonstrar por que eu estava lá. Serão lembranças que ficarão guardadas para sempre com muito carinho – disse o lateral.

Fagner sabe que disputar a Copa do Mundo deixa o jogador valorizado. O Corinthians teme perder seu lateral-direito titular e o próprio jogador não descartou sair. Porém, disse que não chegou proposta.

– A gente sabe tudo que pode acontecer, ainda mais tendo jogado uma Copa do Mundo. Mas estou muito tranquilo, tenho contrato. Não adianta ficar pensando, não sabemos o que pode acontecer. Diretoria e meus empresários estão atentos, o meu papel é focar dentro de campo, ficar com a cabeça boa. Se chegar algo interessante para mim e para o clube, vamos sentar e analisar – afirmou Fagner, que tem contrato até o fim de 2021.

Em sua entrevista coletiva, Fagner ainda defendeu Neymar, disse torcer pela permanência de Tite na Seleção e falou sobre a maratona do Corinthians. Vaja outras respostas:

Volta melhor da Copa do Mundo?
A tendência é evoluir. Estar no dia a dia com grandes jogadores, níveis de seleções, a tendência é estar em evolução. Sou um cara muito chato, sempre falo isso, e sempre vou procurar evoluir. Não é porque eu joguei uma Copa que vou voltar pensando que sou o melhor ou qualquer coisa do tipo. Tenho que continuar trabalhando para as coisas acontecerem.

Acredita que o Tite tem que continuar?
Sem dúvida, ele demonstrou toda a capacidade dele. Em dois anos a Seleção estava até então fora da Copa, e ele conseguiu resgatar o orgulho de torcer pela Seleção. Eu acredito e gostaria de vê-lo nesse ciclo até o próximo Mundial.

Como vê a situação do Neymar, que ficou marcado por ser um jogador que simula faltas?
O mais importante é ele se sentir bem e confiante no que faz. Não adianta falar. Ele tem o método de jogar, o jeito dele. O camisa 10 da Seleção a gente sabe que vai ser caçado, muitas vezes vão para matar a jogada mesmo. E muitas vezes o juiz não marca, e acaba virando essa situação de “ah, se jogou”. Mas sabemos o quanto ele apanha também, porque se deixar ele vai para dentro do gol.

Como analisa o jogo contra o Botafogo?
Por ser uma retomada e saber que o campeonato é longo, sabemos que é importante não deixar de somar pontos. É importante para dar confiança, se quisermos ficar em cima, temos que vencer esses jogos. Temos que ter inteligência.

Como se preparar para a maratona de jogos?
Sabemos que os próximos dois meses serão puxados pela sequência de jogos. Vamos tentar nos cuidar o máximo para todo mundo estar inteiro nesses próximos meses. Tem que estar bem, todos precisam estar preparados porque podem acontecer situações de cartão ou algum desconforto, então todos precisam estar preparados. Por ter essa sequência, todo mundo vai ser importante.

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أعلن نادي ريال مدريد تشكيل الفريق لمواجهة أتلتيكو مدريد في ديربي العاصمة الإسبانية مساء اليوم الخميس.

ويلتقي ريال مدريد مع جاره أتلتيكو مدريد ضمن مواجهات الدور ربع النهائي لمسابقة كأس ملك إسبانيا.

وتلعب مباراة ديربي مدريد بين الفريقين على ملعب “سانتياجو برنابيو” معقل ريال مدريد.

تعرف على معلق مباراة ريال مدريد وأتلتيكو مدريد اليوم في كأس ملك إسبانيا تشكيل ريال مدريد ضد أتلتيكو مدريد

حراسة المرمى: كورتوا.

خط الدفاع: ميندي، ميليتاو، روديجر، ناتشو.

خط الوسط: كامافينجا، مودريتش، توني كروس.

خط الهجوم: فالفيردي، بنزيما، فينيسيوس جونيور.

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The three Pakistan players accused of spot-fixing in the Lord’s Test got off lightly, according to the majority of players polled in a recent survey. The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) has revealed the results of its player survey, and 77% of respondents believed the penalties handed to the Pakistan trio were too lenient.An ICC tribunal found Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif guilty of orchestrating deliberate pre-planned no-balls during the Test against England last August, and they received bans ranging from five to ten years. All three men could be free to play officially-sanctioned cricket again in five years, due to part of the penalties for Asif and Butt involving suspended sentences. None of the 45 players surveyed believed the penalties were too harsh, while 23% considered the bans “fair”.The process by which the three Pakistanis were punished was more complex than a simple ICC edict. Under the anti-corruption code, the decision must be deliberated over by an independent tribunal, with the verdict and penalties handed down from those arbiters. Provisions for far harsher punishments are included in the code.Although the ICC has achieved its goal of making players aware of the Anti-Corruption Code – 100% of players said they were given education on the code before the World Cup – it’s not all good news for the game’s governing body. While 100% of players said they would report any suspicious approach they received, 20% did not have confidence in the ICC’s anti-corruption unit treating that information confidentially.Two-thirds of the players said they would be more comfortable reporting any approach to their team manager than to the anti-corruption unit, despite their obligation to do so. Tim May, the chief executive of FICA, said the responses from the players surveyed was an indication that they wanted a tougher stance on corruption.”This sends a strong signal to stakeholders that the vast number of players want significant penalties to be invoked against those who are found guilty of serious corruption offences,” May said.FICA co-ordinates the activities of players’ associations in seven countries: Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Bangladesh. Notably, Pakistan and India are the two major Test-playing nations – along with Zimbabwe – who are not affiliated with FICA.In addition to being found guilty of spot-fixing by the ICC, Butt, Asif and Amir are now facing criminal charges in the UK. Under Britain’s Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, penalties of up to seven years in prison can be meted out for accepting corrupt payments. The trio also face charges under the Gambling Act 2005.The players were questioned by Scotland Yard detectives after the tabloid newspaper made accusations that they had orchestrated deliberate no-balls in the Lord’s Test.

Michael Clarke will fly out of Bangladesh with a clean-sweep to his name in his first series as Australia’s full-time captain, but it didn’t come without a few jitters in the final match

The Bulletin by Brydon Coverdale13-Apr-2011
Scorecard and ball by-ball detailsMichael Hussey made 108, his first ODI century in four years•Associated Press

Michael Clarke will fly out of Bangladesh with a clean-sweep to his name in his first series as Australia’s full-time captain, but it didn’t come without a few jitters in the final match. Michael Hussey’s century and another Shane Watson blitz set Australia on the path to their fourth-highest ODI total of all time, and while the final margin of 66 runs may appear comfortable, Bangladesh put up a feisty chase.The hosts needed 362 for victory, which even their most ardent fans must have felt was unachievable after they managed only 210 and 229 in the first two matches. But Imrul Kayes and his top-order colleagues gave the Mirpur crowd something to cheer about, pushing the score to 179 for 1 with 20 overs remaining, and Clarke was scratching his head for an answer.It came in the form of the debutant fast bowler James Pattinson, who picked up his first wicket for his country – not the same country his brother Darren represented – when Kayes edged behind for 93, and the required run-rate crept into unrealistic territory. If only, the Bangladeshis must have been thinking, we’d batted like this earlier in the series. If only we’d kept Australia to something more gettable.The chase fizzled out as Shahriar Nafees skied a catch off a Mitchell Johnson slower ball for 60, and then Shane Watson collected two wickets in an over. Mahmudullah made a late half-century, although by then the game was decided.But at least there was a pursuit, not just a surrender. That much was apparent from the first over, which brought Bangladesh ten runs as Tamim flicked Johnson through midwicket for four and slashed him over third man for six. But Tamim (32 off 17 balls) couldn’t keep out a Johnson yorker, and it was left to Kayes to maintain the tempo.He did that admirably. The Australians had rested Brett Lee and the attack was missing some bite, the medium-pacer John Hastings having shared the new ball with Johnson. Kayes was rarely troubled by the bowling and he played some classy drives and cuts, finding the gaps and trying to avoid the type of risks taken by Tamim.However, Kayes showed that he could also clear the boundary, with a well-judged slap over midwicket off Watson. The occasional gamble was necessary, given the enormous target and the fact that Nafees at the other end, while sticking around and turning over the strike, wasn’t exactly peppering the boundary.But just when Kayes looked set to post his second ODI century, he fell. It was an anticlimax for the crowd, who knew Bangladesh had let themselves down earlier in the day, when Australia rocketed to 80 for 0 from eight overs thanks to Watson’s second demolition of the week.Half an hour into the match, if the horse hadn’t bolted it had at least noticed that the gate was open, and thanks to Hussey’s third one-day international century, Australia rode to the relative safety of 300-plus and then galloped further ahead. In 768 one-day matches across four decades, only three times had Australia scored more than their 361 for 8.There was 368 against Sri Lanka in Sydney five years ago and 377 against South Africa in the 2007 World Cup, both of which were, not surprisingly, winning totals. There was also the small matter of 434, which was chased down in Johannesburg in 2006, and Clarke was relieved Bangladesh didn’t have the depth in batting of that South African unit.The Australians themselves relied on three strong partnerships. First it was Watson and Ricky Ponting, opening for just the third time in his ODI career, who launched the innings with a 110-run stand. Then Hussey and Clarke (47) combined for an 89-run partnership that negotiated the middle overs, and a 70-run effort from Johnson and Hussey put the finishing touches on the total.Hussey was lbw in the final over for 108, ending his first ODI century in four years and showing that even at 35, he still has something to offer this limited-overs outfit. There were a couple of sixes but it was a typical Hussey knock, as he found the gaps and the boundaries, and ran hard when the ball couldn’t be properly dispatched.He was overshadowed during his partnership with Johnson (41 off 24 balls), who lifted consecutive sixes over long-off from the bowling of Mashrafe Mortaza. It was a forgettable day for Mortaza, who took three wickets but haemorrhaged 80 runs from his nine overs. The only bowler who could hold his head up was Abdur Razzak, who collected 3 for 58.It was Razzak who pegged things back after the early carnage, as he beat Watson in the air and turned a ball past his attempted sweep to rattle the stumps. Ponting (47) also fell to Razzak, lbw while trying to sweep. The Australians had been on top since the first over, when Watson pulled and punched through the off side for a pair of boundaries off Shafiul Islam, and he followed with four fours in Shafiul’s next over.Watson’s half-century came from 25 balls, and he finished with 72 from 40 deliveries. Not that everything worked out for Australia, whose young batsmen were notable failures. Steven Smith was promoted to No. 4, but didn’t take his chance, and popped a return catch to Suhrawadi Shuvo for 5, while Callum Ferguson spooned a catch to mid-off for 3 and Tim Paine was lbw trying to reverse-sweep for 7.Today, it didn’t matter. The old guard ensured a clean-sweep, and Australia can now enjoy their winter hibernation.