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The stats highlights from Afghanistan’s historic win against Australia

Sampath Bandarupalli23-Jun-2024Afghanistan scripted a historic win against Australia in the Super Eight stage of T20 World Cup 2024. The game saw one big opening partnership, a winning streak coming to an end, a four-wicket haul, and lots more. Here are all the stats highlights from the game:1 – Afghanistan’s 21-run win against Australia is their first in six attempts in international cricket. Afghanistan lost all previous meetings against Australia, including four in ODIs.8 – Consecutive T20Is won by Australia before their defeat against Afghanistan in Kingstown. It is their longest winning streak in the format. Australia won all the five matches they played at the T20 World Cup 2024 before Saturday and defeated New Zealand 3-0 in February, their last T20I series before this tournament.Related

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1 – Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran became the first pair to stitch three century partnerships for any wicket in a T20I series or tournament (for men or women). They had century stands against Uganda and New Zealand in the group stage before putting up 118 against Australia.118 – The opening partnership between Gurbaz and Ibrahim. It is the third-highest stand by any pair against Australia at the men’s T20 World Cup and the second-highest for the opening stand. The 15.5 overs Gurbaz and Ibrahim together for make it the longest partnership against Australia in men’s T20Is, in terms of balls.8 – Wickets between Afghanistan pace bowlers against Australia are the joint-most they have taken in a men’s T20I. Their fast bowlers took eight wickets in the 2021 T20 World Cup game against Namibia and twice in bilateral matches earlier this year.ESPNcricinfo Ltd4 for 20 – Gulbadin Naib’s bowling figures are the second-best for any bowler against Australia in the men’s T20 World Cup, behind R Ashwin’s 4 for 11 in the 2014 edition in Mirpur.3 – Players to bag a four-wicket haul in T20Is as the eighth bowler in the innings, including Naib against Australia. The previous two instances were by Ireland’s Stuart Thompson against Oman in 2019 and Abass Gbla of Sierra Leone in 2022 against Ghana.1 – Pat Cummins became the first player to take two hat-tricks in T20 World Cups. He claimed a hat-trick in Australia’s previous game against Bangladesh in Antigua. He is only the fifth bowler with multiple hat-tricks in men’s T20Is after Lasith Malinga, Tim Southee, Mark Pavlovic and Waseem Abbas. Cummins is also the first to bag hat-tricks in successive T20 matches. Pavlovic came close to this feat when he took two hat-tricks on consecutive days for Serbia in June 2023, but those came across three T20Is.1 – Players to bag hat-tricks in consecutive matches in international cricket before Cummins. Wasim Akram took hat-tricks in successive Test matches against Sri Lanka in 1999. Jimmy Matthews of Australia had hat-tricks in each innings of a Test match against South Africa on the same day in 1912.

From 54 for 5, the duo fought back in bowling-friendly conditions

Shashank Kishore15-Jun-2022Fifty-four for five.Manoj Tiwary is batting with an injured right cartilage. He is struggling to sprint but is willing himself to survive. Bengal’s Ranji Trophy campaign is on the line. They are trying to enter their second straight final, but the top order has been blown away after Madhya Pradesh’s 341. A huge first-innings lead could mean curtains.A delayed start, a moisture-laden surface, overcast conditions and stiff breeze – everything points to the fast bowlers having a massive role to play early on. MP medium-pacer Puneet Datey certainly thinks that way as he sends down a few deliveries on the side pitch during changeover. To the surprise of many, Bengal most certainly, let-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya is handed the ball.You saw him bowl the carrom ball, the slider, his wristspin, googly and quicker one – left-arm everything – in his maiden IPL season for Mumbai Indians. In red-ball cricket, he sticks to his left-arm orthodox, and boy, he bowls them with immaculate control. In his very first over, he nips out two big wickets.Related

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Left-hand batter Abhishek Raman is beaten by sharp turn. He shapes to cut but sees it wickedly spinning in and tries to bail out. That split-second indecision costs him because that’s all it takes for the ball to roll back onto the stumps off the inside edge. Sudip Kumar Gharami, fresh off a career-best 186 in the quarter-final against Jharkhand, is squared up as the ball rips across the surface and whizzes past the edge to knock his stumps.After 105.3 overs on the field, Tiwary may have hoped for some time to rest his aching knees, but even before he could imagine, he is in the heat of the battle. There are five fielders around him – slip, short leg, silly point, short cover and short midwicket. It’s game on.Tiwary takes guard at 11 for 3 in the fourth over, surveys the field carefully and quickly gets down on one knee to paddle his first ball for four past short fine leg. In the same over, he reverses Saransh Jain for two more boundaries – wrists nicely rolled over the ball to keep it down and send it scurrying behind point. This is a calculated tactic of throwing the offspinner off gear.The idea was perhaps to have Tiwary stretching. In reverse sweeping him, Tiwary has immediately given the bowlers something to think about. It helps that there is Abhimanyu Easwaran at the other end, but he falls soon after to become the fourth wicket when Datey, introduced in the ninth over, nicks him off for 22. When Abishek Porel, the young teenaged wicketkeeper, flicks a length ball to the deep square leg fielder, the Bengal dressing room appears resigned to fate.File photo – Manoj Tiwary rescued Bengal yet again•PTI Yet again, it was down to Tiwary to do the dirty job. Or so you thought. Except, there was Shahbaz Ahmed coming in. An orthodox left-hand middle order batter who goes to any length to remind people he is first a batter and then a left-arm spinner. While bowling isn’t an afterthought, he admits to being work in progress, never mind the three wickets he picked up in the first innings. Never mind the 35 wickets he picked in the 2019-20 Ranji Trophy.Four years ago, Tiwary watched Shahbaz bat in a league game at the Kalighat Club grounds and asked for his stats. At the selection meeting the next day, to pick the squad for 2018-19 season, Tiwary carried a printout that had Shahbaz’s numbers in club cricket. Tiwary wouldn’t have even an inkling of the opposition he was to face from certain quarters, because the boy was an “outsider.””Then I’m an outsider, too,” he is believed to have said, pointing to his Uttar Pradesh roots. Tiwary eventually had his way. A senior player fighting for a talented rookie and shielding him from the scrutiny – which he was getting for no fault of his – told you how much he was valued.It’s this early promise that Shahbaz carried with him then that he is slowly repaying now. The Shahbaz of today is a more confident individual who understands his game better. He has already graduated to become an important member of the set-up within three years of his debut, and the confidence of three IPL stints with Royal Challengers Bangalore only shining bright.Here, Tiwary and Shahbaz had a job to do. They were the last recognised pair. They couldn’t have gone hard because of the inherent risk of losing a wicket and exposing the lower order with a massive deficit. They couldn’t have just blocked out the bowling, because of the time left in the game. They chose the in-between route and along the way, kept reeling off runs every time the bowlers erred.As tea approached, MP went flat, and Tiwary brought out a neat shuffle from middle to off and reached out to meet half-volleys that he caressed through covers and down the ground. It didn’t occur to him until after he played the shot that this is the very position he wasn’t entirely comfortable getting into because of his injury. He was batting on instinct.Tiwary got to his half-century off 121 balls; Shahbaz got there a tad faster, off 108. By the time they got to their individual landmarks, the century stand had been raised and the deficit had been whittled down to 144. Tiwary was unbeaten on 84; Shahbaz on 72. As they walked off, tired, and very satisfied, overcast skies had given way to bright sunshine and Bengal’s hopes had brightened significantly. There was still a glimmer of hope. The Ranji Trophy dream was alive.

With five Australians making up the core, here’s how our 2020 T20 World Cup team of the tournament stacks up

Annesha Ghosh10-Mar-2020Beth Mooney (Australia)
After clinching the 2019-20 WBBL title for Brisbane Heat and the tri-series title for Australia in January-February with match-defining fifties, Beth Mooney shepherded Australia with a chart-topping tally in a breakout T20 World Cup. Named Player of the Tournament for her 259 runs – the most for one player at any of the seven editions of the T20 World Cup – her three fifties in six innings, including a most opportune one – a 54-ball unbeaten 78 in the final against India – were pivotal in Australia’s run to their fifth T20 world title.Shafali Verma (India)
Her strike rate of 158.25 was the highest among the top 50 run-scorers at the tournament, her 163-run tally the most among the Indians. The youngest member in runners-up India’s squad, Verma, 16, was the rock in a floundering line-up that was buoyed by her brisk 20-plus scores through their four-match undefeated streak in the group stage when most of their more established batters failed to break out of the batting funk. Verma’s nine sixes in the tournament were joint-most with Alyssa Healy’s.ALSO READ: Women’s cricket in hyperdrive – Records from the T20 World Cup Alyssa Healy (Australia, wicketkeeper)
Much like her team, Alyssa Healy saved her best for the last. Bookending her up-and-down campaign with fifties against India, the Australia opener, on route to her match-winning 37-ball 75 in the final, struck an 83 against Bangladesh during the league stage and brought her belligerence best in the title clash, where she got to her fifty in 30 balls, the quickest in an ICC final by either men or women. With second-most dismissals behind the stumps, Healy is the best fit for wicketkeeper-batter on this team.Meg Lanning (Australia, captain)
For the captain of a home team in a T20 world tournament billed as the biggest ever, Meg Lanning set the benchmark for how to rally a side far from their best in the group games, and one intermittently pegged back by injuries to as many as three key players in the Australian side. With star allrounder Ellyse Perry ruled out of the tournament just ahead of the knockouts, the leader in Lanning channeled the world-beating batter in her with match-winning run-a-ball 49 not-out in Australia’s thrilling win against South Africa in the rain-shortened semi-final. The knock, Lanning’s best in the tournament, was indispensable in Australia’s title-winning campaign and yet another testament to her distinction as one of the best captains of all time. Heather Knight (England)

Rain in Sydney robbed England of a well-deserved chance to make a second straight T20 World Cup final, but that they featured in three consecutive world tournament knockouts since Heather Knight took over as captain is, to a great extent, down to her. At the T20 World Cup, Knight finished fourth on the run-scorers’ table, on the back of two emphatic fifty-plus scores, including an unbeaten 108 against Thailand. The century, one of only two made in the tournament, earned Knight the distinction of the first England woman cricketer to make three-digit scores across all three formats.Laura Wolvaardt brings up her half-century•AFP Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa)
“She’s been brilliant; she’s my pick of the tournament as well,” said South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk about the 20-year-old Laura Wolvaardt, minutes after her side fell five runs short of making the final despite the latter’s unbeaten 41. Wolvaardt, the second-highest run-scorer for South in the tournament after Lizelle Lee, stood out with her dream-like driving and resilience under pressure, her match-winning 53 not-out against Pakistan a highlight in their table-topping run in Group B in the league stage. Nat Sciver (England)
A key cog in England’s middle order, Sciver hit a purple patch at the tournament, smashing three fifties in the league stage, her average the best among the top 15 run-scorers. With Knight, she was involved in a 169-run third-wicket stand in their side’s 98-run win against Thailand. Apart from emerging as England’s most prolific batter in the tournament, Sciver also bowled a combined 10 overs in four games at an economical 5.40 runs per over, returning 2 for 5 in the game against Thailand. Jess Jonassen (Australia)
Her best returns in the tournament came in the final, but in the five games prior, too, the experience of left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen held Australia in good stead. She picked up at least one wicket in each one of them, and her identical figures of 1 for 28 in two hard-fought wins against New Zealand and South Africa included the wickets of the big-hitting Rachel Priest and Chloe Tryon respectively. The latter came in a clutch phase in the semi-final as Jonassen defended 19 off the last over to help seal Australia’s berth in the final.ALSO READ: T20 World Cup takeaways: Australia’s lead at the top Megan Schutt (Australia)
In a tournament dominated by spinners, pace bowler Megan Schutt whizzed past them all to the top of the wicket-charts, riding on 4 for 18 in the final against India. After picking up two three-fors in Australia’s four league-stage wins, Schutt upped the ante at the MCG, striking third ball into India’s chase to have opener Verma caught behind for just 2. Sprinkled across two spells – her 12 dots in 19 deliveries in the final included – in a double-wicket 18th over set up Australia’s successful defence of 184. It was only fitting that Schutt’s dismissal of Yadav would mark the final wicket to fall in the tournament and seal Australia’s first home T20 World Cup win.Sophie Ecclestone (England)
No bowler in the T20 World Cup could better left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone’s average (6.12) and economy. On the back of her eight wickets in England’s four completed games in the tournament, Ecclestone, still only 20, reached a career-high No. 1 ranking among bowlers in women’s T20Is. Her 3 for 7 against West Indies in England’s last group game extending her streak of picking up at least one wicket in consecutive T20Is to 18.Poonam Yadav celebrates•Getty Images Poonam Yadav (India)
India’s premier bowler since 2018 and their leading wicket-taker at the T20 World Cup, right-arm wristspinner Poonam Yadav set the tone for India’s impressive campaign with a momentum-shifting 4 for 19 against the hosts in the tournament opener at the Sydney Showground Stadium. She followed it up with a three-for against Bangladesh and picked up a wicket in each of India’s last three games, including that of Rachael Haynes in the final, the latter having suggested earlier in the tournament that Sydney Thunder, the WBBL side she leads, might like to have a wristspinner like Yadav in their ranks.12th player: Hayley Jensen (New Zealand)
New Zealand suffered a second straight league-stage in the T20 World Cup, but Hayley Jensen emerged among the bright spots in their campaign. The pace bowler’s economy was second-best after Ecclestone’s, and among her two three-wicket hauls, the second one, against a low-scoring match against Bangladesh, was her career-best returns which averted a likely upset and kept New Zealand in contention for a knockouts berth until the final league game of the competition.

خاض منتخب مصر الأول لكرة القدم، مرانه اليوم الأربعاء، ضمن البرنامج الإعدادي لبطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2025 المقرر إقامتها في المغرب.

ومن المقرر إقامة بطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2025 في المغرب، خلال الفترة من 21 ديسمبر 2025 إلى 18 يناير 2026، وسيشارك 24 منتخبًٍا في كأس أمم إفريقيا، مقسمة على 6 مجموعات.

طالع.. خاص | اتحاد الكرة يحسم مصير حسام حسن قبل أمم إفريقيا

وواصل منتخب مصر استعداداته في مركز المنتخبات الوطنية بالسادس من أكتوبر حيث بدأ المران بتدريبات بدنية في صالة الألعاب الرياضية، ثم بعض الجمل الفنية تحت إشراف الجهاز الفني للمنتخب.

كما شهد المران التدريب بالكرة الرسمية لبطولة كأس الأمم الإفريقية في حضور الدكتور مصطفى أبو زهرة، والأستاذ محمد أبو حسين عضوي مجلس إدارة اتحاد الكرة، والدكتور مصطفى عزام الأمين العام للاتحاد.

ويقع منتخب مصر الأول ضمن المجموعة الثانية في كأس أمم إفريقيا والتي تضم: “زيمبابوي وجنوب إفريقيا وأنجولا”.

Mason Mount has vowed to build on his positive run of form with Manchester United after a stop-start career at Old Trafford. The midfielder volleyed home a Bruno Fernandes cross to score his second goal in three matches and his third of the season as the Red Devils hammered Wolves 4-1 away from home on Monday to move into sixth in the Premier League table.

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  Mount has now scored as many goals this season as in his two previous campaigns with United – which were both overshadowed by serious injury problems. The midfielder was limited to five league starts in his first season since signing for United from Chelsea for £60m in 2023 while he only made eight starts in his second campaign. He has missed a combined 52 matches in his three seasons but he looks to be on the path back to full fitness after playing in 12 of United's 15 league games this season.

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  Mount: I've had setbacks

  "Anytime I play I obviously want to play to the best of my ability and perform," Mount told after the win over Wolves. "I've had setbacks. I've had difficult times, I feel now I'm ready to keep pushing on and building on these performances. Getting in the goals, that's the most important thing as a forward player and just keep going and working hard. That's exactly what I'm focusing on now."

  On his volley, Mount added: "As soon as I see Bruno [Fernandes] with the ball and has time and space to turn, that's my trigger to try and get in behind and try and time my run. I thought it was going to be a bit close [to offside] but the defender dropped back and bit and kept me onside. Delighted with that. And as I said before, it was about being ruthless in the second half and finishing our chances off.

  "We all know the calibre of player he [Fernandes] is. When he gets on the ball he's always trying to create something. He's a joy to play with as a player that's higher up the pitch because you know he's having a look and he's going to play the ball over the top."

• Mount praises response after 'frustrating' equaliser

  United became the first team to concede a league goal against Wolves since October when Jean-Ricner Bellegarde equalised just before half-time. But they brushed off the disappointment of being pegged back after Fernandes' scrappy opening goal and restored their lead with a goal before Bryan Mbeumo before Mount struck and Fernandes wrapped the points up from the penalty spot.

  Mount was pleased with how he and his team-mates responded to the equaliser. He added: "Obviously, first half we let them back in it before half-time and we go into the changing room frustrated and disappointed with the end to the first half. The manager had a few things to say and we come out there and it was down to us to attack with purpose and finish our chances we were creating. We're happy with the second half, parts of the first half as well. Overall, very happy with that.

  "I thought some of the combinations going forward were crisp, were sharp and that's what we can do. Attacking with freedom. We know we can do that. It's about us creating as many chance as we can as forward players and trying to get on the scoresheet. I thought going forward we were solid, and as a defence it's about defending as a team and not letting them have any chances to get back into the game."

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  Amorim feels 'nothing' despite going sixth

  United coach Ruben Amorim claimed he was not thinking about the team climbing into sixth and he stressed the importance of beating Bournemouth in the next game at Old Trafford, where United have failed to win in their last two games against Everton and West Ham. 

  "Nothing," he said. "It's always the same feeling we should have more points. But that's in the past, let's focus on the future. We need to win the next one, this one is in the past. Let's go."

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O ex-diretor de futebol do Corinthians, Rubão, participou do programa “Mesa Redonda”, da TV Gazeta, na noite deste domingo (5), e afirmou que o racha com o Presidente Augusto Melo começou depois que o mesmo questionou comissão em patrocínio da empresa “VaideBet”.

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Rubão contou que o presidente, Augusto Melo, disse a ele que não havia contrato com a empresa de casa de aposta, não tinha intermediário. Dias depois, porém, Augusto teria confirmado o pagamento de R$ 25,2 milhões à empresa Rede Social Media Design.

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– Eu fui perguntar: você falou que não tinha intermediário? Quem é esse cara? Quem é essa empresa? “Você está desconfiado?” (Augusto teria perguntado) Não, não estou desconfiado de você. Nunca. Se eu estou te perguntando é porque eu quero saber. E aí ele… Ficou assim, tal. Não gostou muito da indagação. Eu olhei para ele e falei: só estou te perguntando porque nós estamos aí numa jornada. E você me falou na minha casa que era sem intermediário e agora apareceu uma empresa. Você está sabendo disso? Até onde você sabe disso? E aí? Daí para frente… – declarou Rubão, à TV Gazeta.

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A Rede Social Media Design pertence a Alex Fernando André, conhecido como Alex Cassundé, que participou da campanha presidencial de Augusto Melo, no fim do ano passado.

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Scott Boland could not hide the smirk on his face.Not long after he had scythed through New South Wales to take a match-winning 5 for 67 to go with his 3 for 59 in the first innings to help Victoria claim a thrilling Sheffield Shield win at the Junction Oval, Boland was asked the obvious question in his post-match conversation with a group of reporters.Boland was asked if he had seen former England captain Michael Atherton write in the that he “holds no fear” for England’s batting line-up based on how they played him in England two years ago.”I saw it. My cousin sent it to me. He [Boland’s cousin] was taking the piss,” Boland said. “I’m sure there’s going be so much banter between the former players in between now and the first Test and even the end of the summer.”Related

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He was asked if it motivated him at all ahead of the Ashes.”Not really,” Boland said. “I’ve got my own internal motivations for what I want to do for the summer. I’ve never gone into a game where I’m just middling along. I guess there’s always some motivation for me to try and either come into the team and try to put in a really good performance, to try and keep my spot. There’s so many good fast bowlers in Australia that you just don’t want to give anyone an inch. So that’s sort of my goal when I’m playing Test cricket.”Boland, 36, always speaks like a man on the outside looking in. But right now, he is actually an incumbent in Australia’s Test XI having played in their last Test match in Jamaica in place of Nathan Lyon as part of a four-man pace attack. In fact, he took a Test hat-trick in the last Test over he bowled.And it’s looking increasingly likely that he will retain his spot even though Lyon is set to return for the first Test against England in Perth, with skipper Pat Cummins saying it’s “less likely than likely” he will be fit to play as he continues a slow recovery from a back injury.Boland said he had not spoken to Cummins in several months. But he was not expecting the skipper to miss all five Tests.”Patty’s so resilient,” Boland said. “He can play through a little bit of pain if he has some. Those guys play so much cricket there’s bound to be games where someone misses out. But if Pat happens to not play the first game, we’ve got a pretty handy incoming in at some stage during the summer.”Boland is primed if he is called upon for the first Test. Like a prized race horse ahead of the Melbourne Cup, he seems to have timed his preparation down to the minute. He is pain free and without strapping on his knees for the first time in several years after a block of strength work in the gym following the Caribbean tour. His former Victoria team-mate and now Australia coach Andrew McDonald had challenged him to rethink the way he trained to become even more resilient as he ages.He bowled impressively in the opening Shield game of the summer against South Australia at Adelaide Oval last week and then backed it up with eight wickets at the Junction Oval. But he was frustrated with his performance this week having been far more expensive than usual. He conceded a tick over 4.1 runs per over across 30.4 overs in the match as the New South Wales batters looked to attack him, with Sam Konstas reverse ramping him for six in the second innings.With 0 for 54 to his name from 9.5 overs in the second innings, Atherton’s words felt prescient. But Boland found another gear, snaking a stunning delivery back through the gate to bowl the dangerous Oliver Davies for 64. He took 5 for 13 from his final 35 deliveries, including clattering the stumps twice more, to win the game for his state.”I knew the game was on the line,” Boland said. “I didn’t feel like I’d… not that I’d let the team down, but I hadn’t bowled as well as I wanted to for the whole week.”I just think it’s just a minor thing in my run up. I’m probably just stressing a little bit too much from what I usually do. But I know sometimes that just happens. I just want to find my rhythm as quick as I can in the game. And sometimes it happens in half a spell. Sometimes it takes a bit longer. This game just took a little bit longer, but I still felt like I was able to hang in there enough to bowl some spells when I’m getting wickets for the team.”Scott Boland took eight wickets for Victoria in their last Sheffield Shield game•Getty Images

He also showed a rare sign of raw emotion. After knocking over Davies, he charged past him and glared at him with a guttural roar. It was out of character for a man who barely celebrated a Test hat-trick and it caught the eye of veteran New South Wales coach Greg Shipperd.”Yeah, interesting, wasn’t it,” Shipperd said. “I don’t know what might have led up to that, but it’s not the Scotty Boland I know.”Victoria coach Chris Rogers said Boland and Davies had some history and that Davies “likes to give as much as he gets” but Boland played a straight bat.”I was just excited to get a wicket,” Boland said. “I hadn’t got one for a while. But I know we’ve had some good contests. I played an Aussie A game with him last year. Really enjoyed his company. So nice fellow. We had some nice words for each other after the game.”Boland is set to rest from Victoria’s next Shield game against Tasmania but will return for round four against New South Wales at the SCG in a game that is likely to feature Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Lyon.”I’ve got two really good games of work into my body now,” Boland said. “My body’s feeling really good. No issues with any my knees or anything like that that have been little niggles in the past. So I’m really happy with how it’s tracking. It’d be nice to have a few days off now and get some strength back in, because I know that when I’m doing that, my body’s feeling great, and I feel like I can get through as many games as needed for the summer.”

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Novo executivo de futebol do Corinthians, Fabinho Soldado foi apresentado neste sábado (10), em coletiva realizada no CT Joaquim Grava. O profissional, que trabalhou durante anos na gestão de futebol do Flamengo, chega para ocupar a vaga deixada por Alessandro.

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Questionado sobre a chegada de reforços, Soldado admitiu que o clube enfrenta dificuldades no mercado. Na visão do dirigente, o Timão precisa trabalhar de maneira criativa para encontrar soluções dentro das condições da instituição.

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➡️ Falta de fluxo de caixa tem atrapalhado o Corinthians no mercado

– A dificuldade ela existe, de mercado. Vamos precisar ser criativos, já estamos sendo, pensar em soluções dentro das nossas condições para que a gente consiga reforçar a equipe, fazendo contratações pontuais e importante para que tenhamos um elenco mais qualificado. Isso vai passar pelo nosso treinador, tenho uma reunião com ele após o treino. Para olhar para dentro do nosso elenco, formatação em relação a quantidade, posição e até mesmo qualidade – afirmou Soldado.

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Na sequência, ele explicou as negociações com Matheuzinho e Igor Coronado. O lateral, que chegou a realizar exames médicos no clube, já tem um acordo há dias para assinar vínculo válido por quatro anos e aguarda detalhes finais para ser anunciado.

As negociações por Coronado estão em um estágio menos avançado. O meia tem interesse em vestir a camisa do Timão, mas as partes ainda discutem valores e tempo de contrato.

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– Matheuzinho está muito aberto. Tem o interesse no atleta, importante falar que o atleta está muito fechado com a gente, quer o Corinthians e estamos por detalhes. Estamos conversando com o Flamengo e esperamos resolver a situação. O atleta está com muita ansiedade em estar com a gente. Temos o desejo, o Flamengo também, mas enquanto não tem acerto não posso comentar – disse o dirigente.

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Arsenal are now looking to get ahead in the race to sign Levante striker Karl Etta Eyong, amid widespread interest from some top Premier League clubs.

The Gunners made it nine wins on the bounce in all competitions on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of a 2-0 victory at Burnley, with their backline once again looking very strong, limiting the Clarets to an xG of just 0.41.

Goals from Declan Rice and Viktor Gyokeres secured all three points, with the latter bagging his first Premier League goal since September, displaying his striker’s instincts by nodding home from close range.

Mikel Arteta is very well-stocked in attacking areas on paper, although Gabriel Jesus has suffered persistent injury issues and Kai Havertz has featured just once in the Premier League this season due to a knee problem.

As such, it could make sense to bring in a new striker to compete for Gyokeres’ starting spot, and the north Londoners are now looking to sign a highly-rated young forward.

Arsenal looking to get ahead in Etta Eyong race

According to a report from Spain, Arsenal are now looking to get ahead in the race to sign Levante striker Etta Eyong, who is being targeted by a number of the Premier League’s top clubs, with Manchester City and Manchester United also keen.

Signing a new striker isn’t a priority for the Gunners, but the 22-year-old is of interest, and a release clause of around just €40m (£35m) means he would be an affordable option.

Ideally, however, the forward would prefer to play in La Liga, so it remains to be seen whether the interested English clubs are able to tempt him into a move.

Stan Kroenke & co clearly mean business, having set out to sign another striker, despite Arteta already having the likes of Gyokeres, Havertz and Jesus to choose from.

With Arsenal looking to compete on all fronts, however, it makes sense to have squad depth, and the Levante star could be an exciting addition, having been lauded as “powerful” by journalist Kai Watson.

The Cameroonian has certainly hit the ground running at Levante since arriving from Villarreal in the summer, scoring five goals in his opening seven games for the La Liga side, while he also has three assists to his name this season.

There are question marks over whether Etta Eyong would be a necessary signing, but he is showing very promising signs in La Liga, and £35m would be a reasonable fee.

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“There was a bit of confidence in our group when they only got 200 [203], thinking we’ve dragged them back here,” Hopes said

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Moody: Shreyas identified key moments to go into the fifth gear

The Punjab Kings [PBKS] batting unit, led by Shreyas Iyer’s unbeaten 87 off 41 balls, will get all the plaudits after they topped Mumbai Indians’ [MI] 203 with an over to spare. But bowling coach James Hopes was also effusive in his praise of the PBKS bowling group, particularly the way they “just hung in there the whole night” on a belter of an Ahmedabad surface in Qualifier 2.Sent into bat, MI had raced to 65 for 1 inside the powerplay and regularly went at better than ten runs an over through the middle phase. But the PBKS bowlers struck at regular intervals to prevent the death-overs assault.”There was a stage where I reckon they [MI] were looking at 220, 225 and we just kept pegging them back at the right time,” Hopes said in a press conference after PBKS qualified for their first IPL final in 11 years. “We never went for that big over of 18, 19. We kept pegging them at 10, 11 knowing that we got Arshdeep [Singh] coming at the end and Azmatullah [Omarzai] bowled beautifully as well.Related

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“We gave them a few extra runs, yeah, but that’s why I was saying I thought they were going to get 220. There was a bit of confidence in our group when they only got 200 [203], thinking we’ve dragged them back here. You could even tell our first over batting the way the ball came off the bat, it was just skipping off the bat a little more and you could tell there was just a little bit of dew, a little bit of wetness out there, that was going to help us, and it did.”Chasing 204 against five-time champions MI, who had never before lost a game defending a score in excess of 200, was going to be a tough ask. Especially when the bowling group was led by Jasprit Bumrah, who was coming into the game with an economy rate of 6.36.But Josh Inglis was determined to not let Bumrah settle down, crashing him for two sixes and two fours in his opening over – the fifth of the innings – to give the chase the momentum it needed.”The way Josh Inglis attacked Boom [Bumrah] up front to get him off his game a little bit… if you’d told us we were chasing 200 at the start of the day and we were going to take 40 off Jasprit, we would have taken that every day of the week and liked our chances,” Hopes said. “Josh has got a pretty good record against him in short-form cricket. He plays him well.”I don’t think it was a conscious decision to go after [Bumrah in that] over. He just got some balls and he put them away, and on another day, those balls go to the fielder and he’s not taking what he did off that over. So doing that to him in the first over not only has a flow-on effect for his bowling but has a flow-on effect for the rest of their team as well.2:31

‘Such a big over’ – Aaron on Inglis taking 20 off Bumrah in the fifth

“We were having the chats at half-time that if Bumrah bowls four overs for 26, what do we need off the other 16 overs? So there’s just an expectation he’s going to be at a certain level every game, and even tonight he bowled well.”Varun Aaron and Tom Moody agreed that Inglis’ assault on Bumrah formed the base of PBKS’ successful chase. That they were all “cricketing shots” and Inglis was not “trying to just hit the cover of the ball” was the highlight.”Big over, such a big over,” Aaron said on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out. “It was down to someone to take him [Bumrah] on tonight. These are those big games where somebody has to show up and be like, ‘you know what, I’m going to take the bull by the horns and I’m going to take down their biggest bowler’, and that’s Jasprit Bumrah, and he did that so well. Just played cricketing shots.”Moody pointed to Inglis’ technical acumen against Bumrah.”He [Inglis] has got a really good technique,” Moody said. “So when it comes to playing high-quality bowling, like Jasprit Bumrah, he’s got the ability to play proper cricketing shots that have penetration – whether that be the cover drives, the shot down the ground; the six he hit, it was the slower ball, he was technically in perfect position [to play it].Shreyas Iyer led Punjab Kings’ chase with a composed half-century•Associated Press”So it’s not like he is trying to just hit the cover of the ball. Just identified it was an off-pace delivery and hit straight through it. And most batters when they are facing Bumrah, they are more in the defensive position. He is still engaged in the contest – ‘okay, you’re bowling it short, I am still comfortable because I back myself to get into that position; if you’re slightly fuller, I’ll take advantage and cover drive; slower ball, I’m hitting you over the top’.”‘Shreyas a sensational captain, a sensational player’While Inglis’ 21-ball 38 put PBKS’ chase in top gear, it was captain Iyer who formed the spine of the innings with a clinical knock. He measured his innings, rotated the strike well, before going on an all-out attack. Hopes, who has worked with Iyer previously at Delhi Capitals (DC) in 2020, said that his calmness stood out.”He doesn’t get flustered very easily and he knows his match-ups,” Hopes said. “He knows what he has to do at certain times and he’s prepared to take that risk. When he was a younger player in Delhi, he was a little bit more explosive and gung-ho, but he scores at a high strike rate now strictly because he knows when a bowler comes on that that’s his match-up and he’s going to take it and with his captaincy.”Tonight we kept them to 200 when I reckon they could have got 220, 230 and just because the way he pulls the strings out there and manoeuvres bowlers around. We had [Vijaykumar] Vyshak with one over left. He took his gut call to bowl Azmat. He’s a sensational captain and he’s a sensational player.”