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The SRH allrounder said he didn’t know whether his bowling would be needed against RR but he was prepared just in case

ESPNcricinfo staff24-May-2024Abhishek Sharma said he “didn’t know” whether he would have to bowl for Sunrisers Hyderabad in Qualifier 2 against Rajasthan Royals in Chennai but was ready in case the call came. And despite bowling just three overs previously in IPL 2024, Abhishek sent down a match-winning spell of 2 for 24 to put SRH in the IPL final.”To be honest, I didn’t know I will bowl this match but I was very much ready with my bowling because I’ve been working really hard on my bowling,” Abhishek said after the game. “The last two years it’s been really good with my batting so I wanted to work on my bowling with my dad. So special mention to my dad.”Abhishek’s had a blockbuster season with the bat, scoring 482 runs at a strike rate of 207.75 in 15 innings. His 42 sixes are the most this season, and the most for an Indian batter in any IPL season. On Friday night, however, it was his left-arm spin that came to the fore against RR’s middle order. He had Sanju Samson caught at wide long-on with his third ball and bowled Shimron Hetmyer with a carrom ball in his third over to leave RR six down. Abhishek did not concede a boundary in his first three overs.He was the sixth bowler used by SRH in their defence of 175 as the Chennai pitch began to offer lots of turn in the absence of dew. Though he hadn’t bowled much for SRH this season, Abhishek had bowled 20 overs in Punjab’s successful campaign in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy last season.Related

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“When I saw the starting XI, I knew he’s [Abhishek] going to bowl today,” Varun Aaron said on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out show. “He’s a really good bowler. I’ve seen a lot of him in domestic cricket. He’s one of those bowlers who tosses it up a little bit, more than the others. He bowls that carrom ball which comes out from the front of the hand, that was a really good ball. That shows he has a lot of tricks up his sleeve and he’s a full-time bowler for Punjab. He’s one of those who likes to bowl and tells the captain, ‘I want to bowl in domestic games, it helps me be in the game more.’ He’s one of those allrounders who look forward to bowling. The other thing is he would have been wanting this chance to bowl for the longest time and he lapped it up really well.”Though he hasn’t bowled much this IPL season, Abhishek is one of only a few Indian batters who can bowl as well in limited-overs cricket, along with the likes of Shivam Dube, Riyan Parag and Nitish Kumar Reddy. That skill-set has been missing in the Indian team for a while – none of the specialist batters in the squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup can bowl.”He backs himself 100%,” Tom Moody said on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out show. “Yes, he doesn’t bowl as much as he needs to bowl in domestic cricket for whatever reasons but for the future of Indian cricket he needs to be bowling because he is a serious package to be reckoned with. [Bats] at the top of the order, someone who can bowl left-arm spin whatever the format, he’s going to be a real asset going forward.”The reason that makes him unique as a spinner is he tosses it up and what he tries to do is get overspin on the ball, so the ball comes down like that (with seam upright and facing the batter, not sideways), Nathan Lyon style, it dips. So he doesn’t bowl side spin, he bowls overspin and he’s got that clever carrom ball he’s been working on which is the one Hetmyer got and was an absolute peach.”

Visitors face stiff final day of batting after being set a target in excess of 400

ECB Reporters Network14-Apr-2024Glamorgan pulled in front on day three of their Vitality County Championship match against Derbyshire after they posted 361 for seven declared to set a target of 401 for the visitors.The mainstay for Glamorgan was Chris Cooke who finished on 126 not out, by far the highest score of this match so far. He was well supported by 61 not out from James Harris and a well made 32 from Dan Douthwaite.In the 12 overs that were bowled before the close Derbyshire reached 40 for one with David Lloyd and Luis Reece undefeated.With Derbyshire still 361 runs away from their victory target a Glamorgan victory is the most likely outcome as the match heads into a final day with a mixed weather forecast.Mason Crane had come into bat as a nightwatchman late on day two and he did a good job of supporting Colin Ingram in a 45-run stand for the fifth wicket. Crane was trapped lbw by Thomson for 19 to bring the experienced pair of Ingram and Cooke together. For the first time in this match, batting started looking straightforward.Ingram was batting with great rhythm as he passed fifty from 76 balls. Shortly after reaching the milestone, he called Cooke through for a single and was sent back too late and was run out by a throw from Sam Conners.In the first two innings of the match, it was at this point that wickets had come in a hurry. Here Cooke and Douthwaite put together a partnership worth 109, the highest of the match up to that point. Cooke missed out on a chance to bat during the record-breaking efforts at Lord’s last week and he made the most of his chance in the middle in this game as he made the 13th hundred of his first-class career.After seeing the ball spin appreciably throughout the first two days, it was a lot easier going on day three, but Thomson continued to be a threat. He bowled the first 33 overs of the Glamorgan innings from the River Taff end and sent down 44 overs in total as he finished with career-best match figures of 12 for 201.Cooke was joined by Harris after Douthwaite was dismissed by Thomson to complete his second five-wicket haul of the match and Glamorgan continued to turn the screw with a second hundred-run stand in succession, eclipsing the stand by Cooke and Douthwaite as they made 116 undefeated for the eighth wicket. When the declaration came it set Derbyshire a target of 401.Harris was the man to make the one breakthrough on the third evening when he had Harry Came trapped lbw for three. As the clouds came over Sophia Gardens in the early evening it became too dark for play to continue and the players left the field with three overs unbowled.With the ball still turning on this pitch much will depend on how well Crane bowls on the final day with Glamorgan still needing nine wickets for victory.

واصل الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي مانشستر يونايتد التفوق على منافسيه وديًا بتحقيق انتصار جديد بنتيجة 4-1 على حساب بورنموث في ثالث التجارب الودية للموسم الجديد 2025/2026.

وأقيمت المباراة على ملعب “سولدجر” في مدينة “شيكاغو” الأمريكية بقيادة الحكم الإنجليزي، لي سميث.

اقرأ أيضًا.. مانشستر يونايتد يعقد صفقة انتقال إيزاك إلى ليفربول شاهد أهداف مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وبورنموث الودية

وافتتح راسموس هويلوند النتيجة لصالح مانشستر يونايتد في الدقيقة الثامنة من زمن الشوط الأول، قبل أن يضاعف باتريك دورجو الفارق إلى هدفين في الدقيقة 25.

وانتهى الشوط الأول بين مانشستر يونايتد وبورنموث بتقدم الشياطين الحمر بقيادة المدرب، روبن أموريم، بهدفين نظيفين.

في الشوط الثاني، استطاع أماد ديالو أن يسجل الهدف الثالث في شباك بورنموث بالدقيقة 53 وأضاف إيثان ويليامز الرابع بالدقيقة 72.

وقبل نهاية الوقت الأصلي بدقيقتين، منحت النيران الصديقة والمدافع، ماتياس دي ليخت، هدفًا لحفظ ماء الوجه لصالح بورنموث بالدقيقة 88.

وكان مانشستر يونايتد قد فاز على وست هام في المباراة الماضية ضمن سلسلة مباريات الدوري الإنجليزي ما قبل الموسم بنتيجة 2-1.

وسيكون على الشياطين الحمر مواجهة إيفرتون ولكن يوم الإثنين المقبل في تمام الساعة الثانية عشر مساءً بتوقيت “القاهرة”، قبل العودة إلى أوروبا ومواجهة أخيرة قبل الموسم ضد فيورنتينا.

Situation in 2024 set to be even more problematic due to T20 World Cup at height of summer

Vithushan Ehantharajah28-Sep-2023Alec Stewart has accused the ECB of disrespecting the County Championship on the day Surrey secured the 2023 title.Stewart, who has been Surrey’s director of cricket since 2014, criticised the decision to schedule a one-day international series against Ireland that affected availability for the final two rounds of the Championship. He also complained about the mooted 2024 schedule, which will further marginalise the first-class game, urging the governing body to better support the counties.With England resting their World Cup squad for the Ireland series, Surrey were without Gus Atkinson and Sam Curran for the run-in, and then had to do without Will Jacks and Jamie Smith as both were included in a second-string squad for those matches. Jacks and Smith missed the penultimate fixture against Northamptonshire, with Surrey struggling in their absence, before joining the final match against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl on day two (Wednesday) after Ireland series ended in Bristol on Tuesday.”I have a bit of a moan here at the ECB,” Stewart said after Surrey had been confirmed as champions for the 21st time in their history. “They still need to respect the County Championship. We all like the Championship, have played in it, worked with it.”Take these Ireland games – England didn’t pick their first team, which was understandable because of the World Cup. But also to say that there was one game during round 13, then a game in between and then one game on the first day of this game. That to me is disrespectful to the county game.Related

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“Could they have staged it better so that you only missed one game and had all three games during that penultimate game and perhaps on that first rest day so that everyone is then available?”With the 2024 T20 World Cup in June and July, domestic competitions will be squeezed further to the periphery next summer. The ECB has discussed billing the season’s climax as “Super September”, with the latter stages of the T20 Blast, finals of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, along with the climax of the County Championship season.The men’s competitions will be shorn of personnel given the international fixtures running concurrently, with the third Test against Sri Lanka, and three T20Is and five ODIs against Australia crammed into 18 days from September 11. Stewart, who has seen the early plans, regards the situation as unworkable.”Even next year, what the probable schedule looks like next year, the ECB are going to try and call it Super September. It’s anything but. When the quarter-final of the T20 is on, there’s a Test match. When the finals of the T20 is on, England are playing Australia in T20s on the Friday and the Sunday. When the 50-over final is on, England are playing Australia.”You have to work with the national team, and I always want England to be the best. But also trying to find a way of being more respectful to the county game because that is where your players are made to go on to England. That’s what we’re up against.”Stewart also called for a return to an eight-team top division to ensure greater integrity in the competition. The ECB shifted to a 10-team Division One in 2021, along with a leaner fixture list with each team playing 14 matches. It meant not everyone in the top-flight plays each other twice, leading to Surrey facing second-place Essex just once this season, after only playing closest challengers Hampshire at the Kia Oval in their successful 2022 campaign.Stewart also regarded the experimental use of the Kookaburra ball for two rounds in June and July as another impediment to a balanced league structure.”If there is symmetry to it, it is so much better. We only played Essex once this year, and the fact that we brought the Kookaburra in for two games – why? We had two home games, others had two away games, others had one at home and one away. So, the integrity of the tournament, you still want to try and keep. We don’t want to be talking about [whether] it is right or fair that we’ve only played Essex once.”It is not easy – I do have sympathy with the people who have to put the schedule together – but my role is director of cricket at Surrey so I care about county cricket a lot. I just want to see that it’s not diluted or put on the backburner and everything is just looked at, internationally or franchise.”

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Apesar de ter tido uma semana inteira de treinamentos, o Botafogo não conseguiu sair de campo com os três pontos. No entanto, de acordo com a visão do técnico Luís Castro, o Alvinegro não mereceu ser derrotado por 1 a 0 pelo Flamengo,e mostrou evolução tendo profundidade e sendo agressivo com Jeffinho.

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– A equipe confirmou em campo a semana de trabalho. Tínhamos abordado vários temas importantes, a equipe se mostrou muito consciente e trouxe respostas positivas. O primeiro tempo evidencia mais isso, dominamos, conseguimos pressionar alto, criamos situações. Infelizmente, no futebol nem sempre o resultado acompanha o merecimento – frisou:

– No segundo tempo, o jogo foi mais equilibrado. Alguns jogadores nossos começaram a cair de produção por cansaço físico. Quem pressiona alto costuma ter esse desgaste – disse o treinador, e em seguida acrescentou:

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– Jogamos dos dois lados do campo, tivemos profundidade, fomos agressivos com o Jeffinho. O gol aconteceu em um desajuste que é normal em uma linha nova. Nos levou a uma derrota, na nossa opinião, que não foi justa. O empate seria mais justo. Só que não há justiça no futebol – completou.

Com o resultado, o Glorioso estacionou nos 27 pontos, dois à frente do Cuiabá, primeira equipe presente na zona de rebaixamento. O time necessita encontrar o equilíbrio e a identidade para não sofrer na reta final da competição para finalizar o ano com tranquilidade.

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O Botafogo volta a campo no próximo domingo, dia 4, às 16h, para medir forças com o Fortaleza, no Castelão. O jogo será válido pela 25ª rodada do Brasileirão, e a equipe terá mais uma semana livre para treinar e se preparar.

خاض فريق إنتر ميلان الإيطالي مباراته في إطار منافسات دور الـ16 من بطولة كأس العالم للأندية، مساء يوم الإثنين، وذلك ضد نظيره فريق فلومينينسي البرازيلي.

واستضاف ملعب “بنك أمريكا” مباراة الفريقين ضمن منافسات تلك المرحلة من البطولة، التي تستضيفها الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية حتى يوم 13 يوليو الجاري.

وتمكن فلومينينسي من الحصول على بطاقة التأهل بعدما فاز على إنتر ميلان بهدفين دون رد في مباراتهما الإثنين. أهداف مباراة إنتر ميلان وفلومينينسي في كأس العالم للأندية

كان فلومينينسي قد سجل هدفه الأول في شباك إنتر ميلان، في الدقيقة الثالثة من عمر الشوط الأول، عن طريق اللاعب خيرمان كانو، بعدما سدد الكرة برأسه.

وتم إلغاء الهدف الثاني لصالح فلومينينسي، والذي سجله إجناسيو، في الدقيقة 39 من عمر الشوط نفسه نتيجة التسلل.

واستمر الوضع كما هو عليه في الشوط الثاني، مع محاولات مستمرة من فلومينينسي لتعزيز تفوقه وتسجيل الهدف الثاني، في حين كافح إنتر ميلان من أجل تسجيل التعادل.

وقضى فلومينينسي على أي آمال لدى إنتر ميلان بعدما سجل الهدف الثاني في الوقت القاتل، في الدقيقة 93، عن طريق هرقل.

بتلك النتيجة، يتأهل فلومينينسي إلى دور ربع نهائي كأس العالم للأندية، حيث ينتظر الفائز من مباراة مانشستر سيتي والهلال، التي ستجمع بينهما فجر يوم الثلاثاء في دور الـ16.

There has not been much to celebrate for Tottenham Hotspur fans this season.

Ange Postecoglou’s side have seriously struggled in the Premier League, were demolished by Liverpool in the League Cup and crashed out of the FA Cup against Aston Villa.

The one competition the fans have been able to really enjoy has been the Europa League, and it’s no surprise that it’s where the club’s brilliant youngsters have made the most impact.

The most exciting academy star is undoubtedly Mikey Moore, but that might not be the case next season, as Hotspur Way might have another superstar in the making for Postecoglou.

Mikey Moore's incredible talent

While he might have been something of an unknown quantity to the majority of fans at the start of the season, Moore certainly isn’t anymore.

The 17-year-old phenom hasn’t played loads of football this term, with Postecoglou opting to ease him in slowly and illness keeping him out of the team for a while, but when he has stepped onto the pitch, he’s looked like he belongs there.

For example, despite not scoring or providing an assist in the first Europa League game against AZ Alkmaar back in October, the Southwark-born gem completely stole the show.

In fact, he was so brilliant to watch that James Maddison compared him to Neymar Jr in a post-match interview, which, as comparisons go, is not a bad one.

So far, the teenage dynamo has scored one goal and provided two assists in 16 first-team appearances, totalling just 632 minutes, meaning he’s chipped in with a goal involvement on average every 210.66 minutes.

Overall, Moore looks like he will become an incredibly important player for Spurs and Postecoglou over the coming years.

Still, he might have some extra competition out of Hotspur Way for the title of best youngster next season.

The prospect who could be better than Moore

The next young superstar in the making to come out of Hotspur Way looks like it could be the incredibly exciting Luca Williams-Barnett.

The 16-year-old phenomenon hasn’t made a first-team appearance yet – although he has featured on the bench – but don’t let that fool you; he appears to have what it takes to be a future world-beater.

In fact, he’s showing it week in and week out at the youth level, and so far this season, he has racked up a truly unbelievable tally of 19 goals and ten assists in 23 games, totalling 1797 minutes for the U18 team.

Appearances

23

Minutes

1797 ‘

Goals

19

Assists

10

Goal Involvements per Match

1.26

Minutes per Goal Involvement

61.96 ‘

That means he’s averaging 1.26 goal involvements every game, or one every 61.96 minutes.

On top of that, the unreal talent can play in attacking midfield, on either wing, in left-midfield and he’s even played up top as well, leading academy expert and pundit John Wenham to describe him as a “cheat code.”

With such an astounding rate of return in the academy, it’s easy to understand why one prominent Spurs content creator asked, “is he a bigger talent than Mikey Moore?”

Ultimately, while that might seem a little premature to some, Williams Barnett has taken the Lilywhites junior sides by storm this season, and we would not be in the slightest bit surprised to see him lining up alongside Moore in the first team next year.

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قرر مجلس إدارة نادي الزمالك، توقيع عقوبة على أحمد حمدي، لاعب وسط الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بعد ما نشره عبر حسابه على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي إنستجرام.

ونشر حمدي، خلال الساعات القليلة الماضية عبر خاصة الاستوري في انستجرام: “محتاج حد في بنك قناه السويس أسأله هل دخل حسابي 1700 یورو”.

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وفسر البعض، عبر مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، أن اللاعب يقصد السخرية من مجلس إدارة النادي بسبب خلافات مالية.

وأوضح مصدر خاص لـ بطولات أن الزمالك قرر توقيع عقوبة مالية على أحمد حمدي بسبب ما نشره عبر حسابه الشخصي على إنستجرام.

وأكد المصدر أن سفر اللاعب إلى المانيا جاء على نفقة النادي وليس كما يدعي البعض بأن حمدي هو من تكفل بتكاليف السفر.

وأشار إلى أن القياسات الطبية التي خضع لها حمدي في ألمانيا ليست الأولى وسبق وسافر للإمارات وقطر والدليل مشاركته بعد عودته لكنه تمسك بالسفر لألمانيا للخضوع لقياسات طبية تحت إشراف الطبيب الذي أجرى له العملية.

The perennial runners-up of the Lanka Premier League, Galle Gladiators, have had an indifferent start to this season’s LPL, but under new leadership they look to be steadily building up a head of steam that they hope will take them over the final hurdle this time around.They have two wins and three losses this season. Aside from a one-sided five-wicket loss to Kandy Falcons, the Gladiators gave Jaffna Kings an early tournament scare and then were pipped at the post in a high-scoring encounter against Colombo Stars.In the first, it was the batting that let them down and in the second their bowlers failed to defend a target of 194. But one consistent feature across each of their games has been their high intensity in the field. For captain Kusal Mendis, it is this which has been a non-negotiable under his captaincy.”Aside from batting and bowling, one thing I emphasise is ensuring 100% is given in the field,” he said during an online media briefing. “Because with the former two it’s hard to ensure things go your way, but with fielding it’s something you’re completely in control of. Fielding well means you’re about 70% of the way towards winning a game.”In other aspects however, Mendis takes a more laidback attitude to leadership, choosing to trust in his team-mates to deliver on their roles. A role he seems to have adopted from Gladiators’ head coach and former Pakistan wicketkeeper Moin Khan.”As a coach he doesn’t get too involved during the games; when it comes to bowling or fielding changes, he doesn’t get very involved. It’s only during a timeout that he’ll give his input. As a captain I’m happy to work with him as he tends to be positive in his feedback, while any suggestions are merely suggestions as opposed to outright demands. I’m very happy with him and how he handles the team.”Both Mendis’ and Khan’s approach seemed to reap rich dividends in Gladiators’ last match against Stars, when Mendis batted through the innings, stitching together partnerships with potential future Sri Lankan stars Thanuka Dabare and Lahiru Udara, as they piled up 193 runs.”I just told them to play their normal game, to not let it get into their heads, and just play like it’s a club game. For me it takes a lot of the pressure off when you have batters who play like that. In the last two games, it’s just been a matter of supporting them. Yesterday I was only able to get to 50 because Dabare took on the scoring burden early on. My goal is usually to bat out as many overs as possible and play the anchor.”Gladiators would ultimately lose that game, but Mendis isn’t reading too much into it, putting much of his side’s inability to keep things tight down the heavy dew which had descended on Pallekele. Jaffna captain Thisara Perera had earlier commented on how the dew had been akin to hosing down the ball with water, a sentiment Mendis concurred with.”We were looking at winning the toss and bowling first, but we couldn’t do that. Fortunately I and the rest of the batters were able to put a good total – 193 is a very good score in T20s. With the dew it’s not easy to bowl with the slower bowlers. There was considerably more dew than you would expect usually. I think we even changed the ball it was so bad. That was probably the reason why our bowlers missed their lengths some time.”Dew however will likely be less of a concern going forward, as from Saturday onwards the action moves to Colombo, where Mendis and Co. will be hoping to iron out the kinks and finally get their hands on a trophy that has narrowly eluded them so far.

Thierry Henry has set up a meeting with Lamine Yamal, as the 17-year-old and the Arsenal and Barcelona legend plan to swap shirts when they meet.

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Yamal puts on stupendous show vs. InterHenry wants Yamal's shirt for his sonSpaniard plans a shirt swap with the legendFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

Yamal has been setting the world alight since his emergence as a 16-year-old winger with Barcelona, however, his 2024-25 season has seen him rise up as a world-beater. Under Hansi Flick, as a part of their stupendous front three alongside Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski, the 17-year-old has shown the understanding and brilliance of a veteran to complement his burst of pace and his overall skillset.

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On Wednesday evening, Yamal had one of his best games in a Barcelona shirt as the Catalan side drew 3-3 with Inter Milan, as he ran the Serie A side's defence ragged and also scored a spectacular goal after a solo run. After the game, Henry revealed to Yamal that he was going to watch Barcelona's La Liga Clasico against Real Madrid and wanted his jersey for his son, who is a big fan, which prompted the Spaniard to encourage a trade deal with the Arsenal legend that would see him get one of Henry's shirts.

WHAT YAMAL AND HENRY SAID

During Yamal's interview on CBS Sports, Henry said: "I am coming to see El Clasico [later this month]. I am coming to watch the game. Can I get your shirt for my son, please?

Yamal responded, "Then we have to do a swap, and you have to give me your shirt," which prompted Henry to ask him, "The Barca one is the one you want?"

Yamal then said he was okay with "Barca, Arsenal, whatever you want."

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Barcelona's next game against La Liga bottom side Real Valladolid will likely see Yamal rested for the crucial second-leg away clash against Inter Milan before the Catalan side play in front of Henry in league action against Real Madrid.