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Wade and Green stun India to ace 209 chase

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Bumrah-less India pay for lax fielding and death bowling as Rahul and Hardik’s fifties go in vain

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Is India’s bowling a concern heading into the T20 World Cup?

Cameron Green blitzed a 26-ball half-century in his first innings as an opener in professional cricket and Matthew Wade provided the finishing kick as Australia hunted down 209 on a flat pitch in Mohali to go 1-0 up in the three-match series.Green unleashed some Mitchell Marsh-style slog-sweeps during his 30-ball 61 to lay the platform for Australia’s tall chase. Axar Patel then applied the brakes on Australia with figures of 3 for 17 in his four overs – he was the only bowler to go at under seven an over on the day – but Wade accelerated in the end overs to ice the chase, with four balls and four wickets to spare.It was Australia’s second-highest successful chase in T20I cricket. They made Jasprit Bumrah-less India pay for their lax fielding – they dropped at least three chances – and death bowling, as Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel ended with combined figures of 8-0-101-0India stay true to their attacking approach
Although both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli fell early, India kept attacking through KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. Rahul took on the pace of Josh Hazlewood and Green while Suryakumar picked off 22 runs off nine balls from legspinner Adam Zampa.Rahul went on to notch up a half-century off 32 balls in the 11th over, but in the next, Hazlewood returned to dismiss him. Suryakumar unfurled some delightful pick-up shots and punches before Green found extra bounce and cut his innings short at 46 off 25 balls.Hardik Pandya struck a rapid 30-ball 71 not out•BCCI

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The placid track, a lighting-quick outfield and incredible ball-striking formed the ingredients of a Hardik special. He smashed an unbeaten 71 off 30 balls to propel India beyond 200.He set to work with a clubbed six over midwicket off Green in the 14th over and proceeded to even squeeze yorkers – or near yorkers – away for fours. That he often flitted around the crease also threw bowlers off their lines and lengths. He reached his own fifty off 25 balls at the end of the 19th over and with only No.8 Harshal for company, he farmed the strike in the last and closed out the innings with 6,6,6.Aaron Finch gambled with Green for the final over and the allrounder ended up conceding 21. Nathan Ellis, fresh off a stint with London Sprit in the Hundred, was more impressive with his pace and length variations, returning 3 for 30 in his four overs, including the key wickets of Kohli and Dinesh Karthik.Green shows his range with the bat
Green might not have even played had Marsh or Marcus Stoinis been fit, but he seized his opportunity, giving Australia the blistering start they needed. He sent his first four balls – all from Umesh Yadav – for fours, with the third one demonstrating his firepower. Umesh took pace off and bowled a slower legcutter, but Green generated his own pace and flat-batted it back so hard that it burst through the hands of the bowler and sped into the straight boundary. Green was similarly strong against spin as well, taking Yuzvendra Chahal for 21 off a mere eight balls.Green got another life, on 42, when Axar dropped him at deep midwicket. He added 19 to his tally before Axar got him with the ball.The endgame
Green’s dismissal triggered a wobble as Australia lost three wickets for 14 runs in 12 balls. When Josh Inglis was bowled by Axar, Australia still needed 64 off 35 balls. Wade alone hit 45 off 29 balls, to expose India’s death bowling, providing a throwback to his heroics against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup semi-finals last year in the UAE.At one stage, it looked like Wade would finish the game off with Tim David after having handed David his first Australia cap. However, David fell trying to clear the boundary. Pat Cummins, though, got the job done with a four off the next ball.

Amorim can start reign with a bang by unleashing "outstanding" Man Utd star

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New Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim takes charge of his first game this weekend, looking to make the perfect start to his tenure at the club.

The Red Devils travel to Portman Road to face an Ipswich Town side who are yet to win a home Premier League outing after their promotion last season, with the meeting producing an opportunity for the 39-year-old to claim all three points.

Before the international break, United claimed a 3-0 win over Steve Cooper’s Leicester City at Old Trafford, in what was Ruud van Nistelrooy’s final game in temporary charge before the arrival of Amorim.

As for the hosts, they claimed their first league win last time out, causing an upset in the process, beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in North London – moving the Tractor Boys out of the drop zone.

Super Sunday never fails to deliver, but the big question is who the new United boss will opt to start with in his first game at the helm.

United’s injury news ahead of Ipswich clash

Over the last couple of weeks, United have been plagued with various injuries that have seen the side look depleted in numerous key areas.

The defensive unit has taken the biggest battering, with Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Tyrell Malacia and Victor Lindelof all looking set to miss the trip to East Anglia on Sunday evening.

Luke Shaw

Kobbie Mainoo hasn’t featured since the 0-0 draw away at Aston Villa back at the start of October but has been pictured training during the recent break under Amorim.

Along with the injuries, many positional questions will be answered by Sunday afternoon, with many wondering whether the new boss will utilise his 3-4-3 system or the 4-2-3-1 that has been tried and tested at Old Trafford over the last couple of years.

It could allow for numerous players to stake their claim for a regular starting role under Amorim, having endured an unsuccessful stint under former manager Erik ten Hag.

One player in particular may fit perfectly into the 3-4-3 system, deserving of a rare start in the meeting tomorrow evening.

The man who Amorim needs to unleash against Ipswich

Midfielder Mason Mount arrived in a £60m deal from fellow Premier League side Chelsea last summer, but has endured a torrid spell with injuries over the last 12 months.

The 25-year-old made just 20 appearances in all competitions during his debut year in Manchester, registering just two combined goals and assists.

However, the arrival of the 39-year-old could allow him to have a bigger role in the first team, featuring in one of the two attacking midfielder roles behind the striker of Amorim’s three-back system.

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The “outstanding” Mount, as dubbed by former coach Jody Morris, has previously featured in such a role during his time at Stamford Bridge, registering 13 goals and 16 assists during the 2021/22 campaign with his boyhood outfit.

He’s yet to demonstrate anywhere the level required of a player who costs £60m but, should he play in one of those aforementioned roles, he could well produce some performances to showcase why he cost such a hefty fee.

Manchester United midfielder Mason Mount

The clash against Ipswich could provide the perfect time to utilise the former England international in such a role, with Bruno Fernandes likely to feature in a deeper eight position.

It will take time for the squad to adapt to such a new system, but it could allow Mount in particular to have a huge revival under the former Portugal international at Old Trafford.

Ten Hag's Man Utd flop is now outscoring Zirkzee & Hojlund after leaving

The former Manchester United player has recaptured his form away from Old Trafford.

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Dane Vilas denies Sussex's kids their day out as grown-up century propels Lancashire to final

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Orr, Haines show fight for hosts but final step proves too great for young team

David Hopps30-Aug-2022Lancashire 319 for 8 (Vilas 121, Lavelle 50, Lamb 57*, Hudson-Prentice 3-43) beat Sussex 254 (Orr 71, Haines 49, Hurt 3-43) by 65 runsSussex have benefited more than any county from the mass exodus of players for the Hundred, a young side gloriously gathering in confidence as August has progressed, but their challenge in the Royal London Cup was stilled at the semi-final stage at Hove by Lancashire and, in particular, by Dane Vilas, a county cricketer who has long been in the ranks of the grown-ups and whose 121 from 99 balls was at the heart of their 65-run triumph.Lancashire now face Kent in the final at Trent Bridge on September 17. Half the crowd will probably be wearing Darren Stevens face masks but if any county can stare down his apparent swansong then it could be Lancashire, who are efficient and well captained. Vilas could adopt the role of Pliny the Elder, who pronounced as long ago as AD 77 that the idea that a dying swan sings is a nonsense.To claim victory was quite a feat for Lancashire, who found themselves 67 for 5 at the start of the 15th over. Optimism flooded over Hove. Sussex’s bowling attack is their weakest component, but remove Vilas and it felt as if the match was theirs. Instead, he effortlessly addressed the situation from the outset, strong of sinew, even stronger of mind. There was no sense of risk or rush, merely an innings that was brisk and businesslike. Even his six sixes had the feeling of appropriate punishment, magisterial in their judgment. He has served Lancashire wonderfully.Sussex’s coach James Kirtley said: “We got ourselves in a good position then Dane Vilas showed his real class. That was an outstanding one-day innings. It will be a hard defeat to accept over the next few days but it will harden them up for future semi-finals because there’s a hell of a lot of talent in that dressing room.”And so, cricket traditionalists have reached the end of August, or as they may prefer to know it, the age of Lalochezia – defined as the emotional relief that a person experiences after cursing loudly and often. England’s Test team has been a delight and to witness the Hundred figure out whether it wants to be seen as serious professional sport, with all the rigorous analysis that demands, or a superficial light entertainment show has been vaguely diverting. But for devotees of county cricket, Lalochezia has been a time of meagre returns.Only the Royal London Cup has consoled them, a denuded competition for sure, but one where crowds have been surprisingly resilient and where spectators have at least been able to find rich consolation in witnessing the first steps of the next generation. Considering all the disadvantages, it has been highly entertaining.But nobody knows how long it will remain as such, as county cricket adjusts to its latest redesign. The Strauss Review has produced vague initial findings intended to wed the professional game entirely to England’s needs, and Rob Key, England cricket’s MD, talks jollily about the need for Championship cricket in August. Everything is couched solely as “for the good of England”, the need for holistic solutions forever underplayed by a desire to best serve the elite.Sussex are reaching the end of a 60-day gap without a home Championship match. The 50-over competition has given them five days of sporadic consolation. Beaten they may have been, but they have acquitted themselves with promise. To find a player who has blossomed there is no need to look further than Ali Orr. Last season, he was a rangy and somewhat pedestrian Championship opening batter. This summer, he has struck 526 runs at an average of 58.44 and a strike rate of almost 100, led by a double-hundred against Somerset.Orr made 71 from 5 balls and deposited three sixes over midwicket with the gusto of a batter fast heading for the shorter formats, although one inside-edged slog against Tom Bailey would have rattled into leg stump if there was any justice. Sussex were on target, until Liam Hurt bowled him through the gate as he stayed leg side of the ball, just as he had gated Tom Alsop with his first delivery.Only three players have made more runs than Orr, one of them the Indian batter, Cheteshwar Pujara. Pujara, who had hit three stately hundreds in this tournament, has skippered Sussex in the absence (until this match) of Tom Haines and he was returning to India after the match whatever the outcome.The pressure to provide a final as a parting gift was considerable. When George Balderson’s yorker had him lbw for 10, Pujara had laboured 31 deliveries and had might have been out several times. One mid-pitch collision with Hurt, a big unit, caused him to complain to the umpire and underlined his state of mind. By the time he was dismissed, the required run-rate had escalated to more than eight an over.Haines produced a decent 49 off 59, only to fall in Balderson’s next over, and there was a cameo from Delray Rawlins, who hit a straight six over the media centre in a 14-ball 23 before Bailey bowled him as he whipped to leg. But it became obvious that the game departed with Pujara, a Banyan tree ripped up from English soil.Lancashire had lost six limited-overs semi-finals since they beat Hampshire in the C&G Trophy in 2006, and it looked as if it might be seven when they lost half their side for 67.Luke Wells was a circumspect opener at Sussex and he returned eager to parade his late-career adventure; a brief flurry of boundaries was followed by an ambitious retreat to leg which saw Bradley Currie uproot his off stump. Josh Bohannon, beaten on the drive, fell to a marginal lbw decision; Keaton Jennings was bowled off the bottom edge as he tried to pull; and Fynn Hudson-Prentice rounded up Steven Croft and George Balderson to giveaway drives of back and foot respectively.Their innings was transformed by a sixth-wicket stand of 132 in 20 overs by Vilas and George Lavelle, who made a breezy 50 and then ran himself out, mentally unsettled perhaps by Rawlins’ perfectly fair desire to rattle through his overs. Danny Lamb completed the repair work with 57 from 48 deliveries, with four fours and two sixes. But the hero was Vilas. He fell to a ball from Hudson-Prentice, dashing down the Hove slope, that rose steeply. But it was Vilas who bounced Sussex out of the competition.

Adam Rossington, Dan Worrall share first-day honours as Surrey trail Essex by 247

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Simon Harmer’s 50 another fine effort as Essex rally after Worrall’s 3 for 0 in five balls

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Dan Worrall claimed six wickets•Getty Images for Surrey CCC

Adam Rossington and Dan Worrall were the first-day heroes at the Kia Oval, with No. 7 Rossington scoring an extraordinary 100 and Worrall bowling brilliantly to take 6 for 56 as Surrey and Essex traded fierce blows in blistering conditions.Rossington rushed to his century with an exhilarating assault on the second new ball, in Essex’s 271 all out, clubbing Kemar Roach for three leg-side sixes before wearily skying the same bowler to long on in the 83rd over.Simon Harmer’s 50 was another fine effort as Essex rallied hard after Worrall had earlier taken 3 for 0 in five balls as the LV= Insurance County Championship leaders initially reduced their opponents to 91 for 6 by lunch.In 9.1 overs’ batting before stumps, Surrey replied with 24 for 1 with Ryan Patel, pushing forward, caught at second slip for 4 off Sam Cook from what proved to be the final ball of the day. Rory Burns remained 18 not out.The determined seventh-wicket stand of 113 in 41 overs between Rossington and Harmer held up Surrey for more than two-and-a-half hours and blunted an attack that had looked unstoppable in the morning session.Worrall, Roach and Jamie Overton were all highly impressive in a sustained, top-class exhibition of pacy swing bowling, with only Alastair Cook resisting for long in the opening session as Surrey’s battery of fast and fast-medium bowlers exerted an early stranglehold every bit as oppressive as the near-40 degree temperatures.Kemar Roach celebrates taking the wicket of Matt Critchley•Getty Images for Surrey CCC

Nick Browne got to 10 with a couple of flowing off-side strokes before Roach shaped one away from the left-hander from around the wicket to force him to thin-edge to keeper Ben Foakes in the fifth over.And although Tom Westley did well to dig out a searing Roach yorker early on as he reached 11, helping Cook to take Essex to 50, the Essex captain became the first of three strikes in quick succession by Worrall when he played around a straight ball and was bowled by the Australian’s third ball back into the attack.Worrall then pinned Dan Lawrence leg-before for 0 with his next ball and, with the first ball of his next over, made one climb steeply at Paul Walter to have the tall left-hander caught at leg slip off the glove.Matt Critchley narrowly survived two confident lbw appeals by Worrall, who was combining sharp outswing and inswing with exemplary control, and Essex did well almost to reach the sanctuary of the lunch interval before Surrey’s quicker bowlers intervened again.Overton, reintroduced five minutes before the break by Surrey captain Burns for a second spell – this time from the Vauxhall End – angled his second ball across Cook to have England’s record Test run-getter well held by Ollie Pope at second slip for a 75-ball 29.Roach then bowled Critchley for 21 off an inside edge and both Rossington and Harmer had to negotiate a number of leg-before appeals in the afternoon session before reaching tea at 194 for 6.Rossington, on 16, also edged a brute of a ball from Overton just out of third slip’s reach for four and, on 28, was close to being lbw to Tom Lawes. Harmer, for his part, narrowly avoided the umpire’s raised finger against Overton on 6 and Roach on 26. The West Indian paceman, in particular, looked distraught at the not out decision.Fourth-placed Essex, starting this game on the back of three successive championship wins but still 47 points adrift of Surrey, albeit with a game in hand, had chosen to bat on a well-grassed surface and Rossington’s heroics made sure they reached a competitive total.Harmer, having faced 147 balls, was finally lbw to Worrall, who then trapped Shane Snater in front two balls later to leave Essex 204 for 8.But tailender Sam Cook’s unbeaten 21 was a more than useful hand as 58 more runs were added with Rossington for the ninth wicket. After Rossington had gone to Roach (3 for 63) for his superb 151-ball and 227-minute effort, featuring those three late sixes and nine fours besides, Worrall finished the innings by having last man Jamie Porter leg-before for a duck.

2/10: Media slam £30k-p/w Rangers ace who lost possession 12 times vs Lyon

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One Rangers player’s performance in the 4-1 defeat to Lyon was lambasted by the watching media on a terrible night at Ibrox for Philippe Clement’s side.

Rangers humbled by Lyon in Europe

The Gers enjoyed seeing rivals Celtic thumped 7-1 by Borussia Dortmund earlier in the week, but the hope was that they could show the Scottish Premiership off in a better light when Lyon made the trip to Ibrox for a Europa League clash on Thursday evening.

Instead, Clement’s side were comprehensively beaten on their own turf, succumbing to a 4-1 defeat and looking another level down in quality from their opponents. Tom Lawrence equalised in the first half, but from that point on, the Ligue 1 outfit pulled clear and deservedly picked up all three points.

Phillipe Clement

It was an awful night for Clement and his players, with the Belgian no doubt likely to find himself under more pressure to keep his job, following a hit-and-miss start to the season across all competitions.

Rangers are already five points adrift of Celtic in the Scottish Premiership title race, and only narrowly won 1-0 at home to Hibernian last weekend, with the visitors missing a penalty.

Rangers star's performance vs Lyon slammed

There were so many players who underperformed for the Gers against Lyon, but one individual who has come in for more criticism than most is James Tavernier.

The Rangers captain was miles below his best, with Rangers News even giving him a 2/10 player rating, claiming he was given a “torrid time” throughout the night.

Meanwhile, The Scotsman could only hand him a four, saying: “Missed a very early chance that ought to have put Rangers in front. Struggled to deal with the sheer pace and trickery of the Lyon backline and was beaten by Fofana at the far post for Lyon’s fourth goal. Replaced on hour mark by Kasanwirjo.”

Give Me Sport said there were “question marks” around his defending while Glasgow World handed him a 3/10: “Poor positioning and too slow to react at the back post for Fofana to net Lyon’s fourth. Unable to keep tabs on Fofana and given the run-around all evening.”

Tavernier has been an unbelievable servant for Rangers down the years, producing remarkable levels of consistency and end product going forward, but the negativity towards him after the Lyon defeat feels warranted. The £30,000-a-week ace was so poor that he was substituted on the hour mark, but he still had time to lose possession on 12 different occasions, highlighting his wasteful nature on the ball, which can be punished in European competition.

Tavernier also completed just 70% of his passes and made zero tackles or clearances, as well as being dribbled past once, with his defensive frailties exposed at times. Every player has an off day and this was one such occasion for Tavernier, and the key now is for him to show his leadership and bounce back this weekend, with Rangers hosting St Johnstone in the league on Sunday night.

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At 32, there will inevitably be some supporters who will claim that the Englishman’s best days are now behind him, and it is up to the Gers skipper to prove them wrong.

"What is he doing?" – Carragher and Neville fuming at £60m Liverpool star

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Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville were both left fuming at one Liverpool player in the 3-0 win away to Manchester United, despite the result.

Liverpool thump Man Utd at Old Trafford

Arne Slot faced his biggest game as the Reds' new head coach to date on Sunday, as they made the trip to Old Trafford for a massive Premier League clash. If there were any worries before the game, those concerns were extinguished in no time, in what was an almost perfect day at the office.

Luis Diaz opened the scoring with a well-taken header, as his impressive start to the season goes on, and it got even better for the Colombian later in the first half, as he buried a fantastic finish in front of the Stretford End to double his team's advantage.

Things got even better for Liverpool in the second half, with Mohamed Salah scoring his customary Old Trafford goal in style, meaning he has now found the net ten times at the ground of the Reds' biggest rivals. Had Slot's side not taken their foot off the gas, the victory could have arguably been by an even bigger margin in the end, but they were more than happy to ease off.

The level of positivity from a Reds perspective was understandably huge after the game, but that doesn't mean that one individual didn't come in for criticism during the contest, feeling the wrath of two of the most high-profile pundits in the country.

Carragher and Neville fume at Liverpool player

Speaking on Sky Sports during Sunday's game [via Football Insider], Carragher was not impressed with Dominik Szoboszlai deciding not to shoot with the goal gaping in the second half, accusing him of a lack of professionalism and agreeing with Neville, who ripped into the Hungary international for not taking the occasion seriously.

"What is he doing? Is he trying to be cocky? If United get one back and the crowd gets up, we saw yesterday what happened to Everton. That’s ridiculous that from Szoboszlai. That’s just ridiculous. It’s unprofessional.”

Szoboszlai's decision to almost showboat and not shoot was frustrating at the time, even though Liverpool were 3-0 up and looking like scoring many more times in the game. As Carragher alludes to, matches at Old Trafford can suddenly change in an instant, so the Hungarian needed to put his foot through the ball and make it 4-0.

That being said, the criticism does still feel a little unwarranted, with Szoboszlai unlikely to be wanting to show off in that manner, and perhaps just taking too long in his thought process and trying to score the perfect goal.

It certainly shouldn't mask an excellent performance from the 23-year-old, who was part of a Liverpool midfield that dominated United in the middle of the park, enjoying a 90% pass completion rate, making two tackles and assisting Salah for his match-clinching strike.

As good as Diaz & Salah: Liverpool star is becoming a monster under Slot

The Reds maestro is enjoying a fantastic start to the campaign under the Dutchman.

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On this evidence, the former RB Leipzig star will be a massive player for the Reds this season, thriving alongside Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister, and there is still so much more to come from him since his £60m move last summer.

John Percy: New update shared on Gary O’Neil’s future as Wolves manager

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Reliable journalist John Percy has dropped a big update regarding the future of Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Gary O’Neil, following his side’s 5-3 defeat away to Brentford over the weekend.

O'Neil struggling as Wolves manager

Wanderers went into Saturday’s trip to Brentford looking for their first Premier League win of the season, but yet again, the travelling supporters didn’t get what they hoped for.

A hugely entertaining game saw the Bees run out 5-3 winners in west London, with Wolves twice coming from behind in the first half, but eventually succumbing to yet another defeat in the top flight.

It means that Wanderers remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table, having only got one point from their opening seven matches, so there is understandable pressure on the shoulders of O’Neil currently.

The 41-year-old made an impressive start to life at Molineux, standing out as arguably one of the most exciting young British managers in the game, but things have turned this season, and he desperately needs to turn his team’s fortunes around. Now, a fresh update has dropped on O’Neil’s future.

Update on Gary O'Neil's Wolves future

Writing on X on Sunday morning, Percy claimed that O’Neil still has the backing of those high up at Wolves, despite such a poor beginning to the season:

While many supporters could understandably be frustrated with Wolves’ struggles under O’Neil, it is refreshing to see the club’s board standing by him and still looking at him as the right man for the job.

There is a level of impatience that exists in the modern game that means managers get sacked far quicker than they used to, but if Wanderers believe their current boss is the correct individual to take them into the future, there shouldn’t be too big an overreaction to their start to the campaign.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that Wolves can stick with O’Neil forever, and at some point, a change may be needed if defeats continue to arrive after the international break, so the run of fixtures after the international break feels crucial as Percy alludes to.

A home clash with champions Manchester City is a horrible way to return to action later in the month, and it would be unfair to react after that game, regardless of the result.

O'Neil must ditch Wolves gem who took fewer touches than Johnstone

The Old Gold are in serious trouble now…

2 ByRoss Kilvington Oct 6, 2024

A trip to Brighton is also tricky, but the back-to-back home clashes with Crystal Palace and Southampton at the start of November feel massive. If Wolves are still without a victory in the league after those four games, you have to wonder whether the managerial situation will have changed, with the club possibly feeling they have given O’Neil long enough by that point.

فيديو | جوارديولا يلفت الأنظار بتصرفه مع مرموش بعد فوز مانشستر سيتي القاتل على أستون فيلا

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لفت المدير الفني لفريق مانشستر سيتي، بيب جوارديولا، الأنظار بتصرفه تجاه النجم المصري عمر مرموش بعد مباراة اليوم ضد أستون فيلا، في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

وافتتح مانشستر سيتي منافسات الجولة الرابعة والثلاثين من الدوري الإنجليزي بمباراة صعبة ضد أستون فيلا، على ملعب “الاتحاد”.

وحقق مانشستر سيتي فوزًا صعبًا ومثيرًا بهدفين لهدف، في الوقت القاتل عن طريق ماتيوس نونيز (لمطالعة التفاصيل كاملة من هنا).

وشارك عمر مرموش في تلك المباراة كأساسي، وخاضها حتى النهاية، وساهم في الهدف الأول، وسجل هدفًا وتم إلغائه بداعِ التسلل.

وعقب المباراة، احتفل بيب جوارديولا بقوة بعدما حقق فريقه فوزًا قاتلًا على أستون فيلا، مما يقوي آماله في إمكانية التأهل إلى دوري أبطال أوروبا الموسم المقبل.

وكان عمر مرموش يسير على أرض الملعب، قبل أن يقوم جوارديولا بمناداة اسمه حيث احتضنه في حالة فرح، وتبادل معه بضع كلمات، وظهر على الإسباني والمصري السعادة الشديدة. تصرف جوارديولا المميز مع عمر مرموش بعد مباراة مانشستر سيتي وأستون فيلا

ويستعد مانشستر سيتي لخوض مباراة نصف نهائي كأس الاتحاد الإنجليزي ضد نوتينجهام فورست يوم الأحد المقبل.

Alex Hales to make surprise return to PSL

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He had left the PSL just over a week ago, citing bubble fatigue as the main reason for his withdrawal

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Feb-2022

Alex Hales’ return will boost an injury-hit Islamabad United side•PSL

Alex Hales will make a surprise return to the PSL to help an injury-battered Islamabad United progress to the final of the seventh season.United are due to take on Peshawar Zalmi in the first eliminator at Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday, a game Hales is now expected to be available for. His return will be a massive boost to the two-time champions, who have been hit especially hard by injuries and absences this season.Hales had left the PSL just over a week ago, citing bubble fatigue as the main reason for his withdrawal. But a couple of amendments to the existing health and safety protocols, approved today, have allowed Hales to return and play immediately without the need to isolate beforehand once he arrives. Hales will have to clear a Covid-19 test on arrival.The amendment means that at this late stage teams can bring in players and make them play the day of their arrival. They will, however, be kept apart from the team as much as possible, including not having access to the team’s dressing room, staying in a separate area of the hotel and traveling in a separate car to the stadium.The other amendment has been to cut the isolation period for asymptomatic cases from seven to five days – with a negative rapid antigen test required to exit isolation. A number of members of the Zalmi and Multan Sultans squad have tested positive in the last couple of days, including Tim David. This tweak allows some room for positive cases – depending on when they tested positive – to return should their teams make the final on Sunday.According to the PCB, “the amendments were presented and unanimously approved by the six franchises this afternoon and were run past the Medical Advisory Panel before being introduced.”United, though, will be happiest, given how crucial Hales was to their fortunes this season. Despite not playing three games, Hales is United’s top-scorer this season, averaging over 40 at a strike rate of 156.44. Along with Paul Stirling – who had to leave for national duty with Ireland – his starts meant United were among the highest-scoring sides in the Powerplay earlier in the season.But Hales’ abrupt departure was part of a string of changes to what would’ve been their first-choice XI; Stirling and Rahmanullah Gurbaz both had to leave for international duty; Shadab Khan, the captain, has been injured; Colin Munro is injured; Zeeshan Zameer, their promising young fast bowler, is also out for the season. That has impacted United’s performances, the franchise stuttering into the playoffs with three defeats in their last four games (the last two especially comprehensive). Even with a close-to-full strength side early on though United had won three and lost three of their first six games.There is cautious optimism within United that Shadab might be fit to play in the first eliminator against Zalmi. Given the season he – and Hales – have had, they will be very welcome returns.

End of the road for the Fab Four

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With Steve Harmison’s retirement, English cricket has broken its last link with the bowling quartet of 2005

Tim Wigmore12-Oct-2013And then there were none. With Steve Harmison’s retirement, English cricket has broken its last link with the Fab Four of 2005. Andrew Flintoff left the game four years ago; and now none of Harmison, Matthew Hoggard or Simon Jones will ever play first-class cricket again.Their shared departures are a reminder that, as much as anything, the triumph of 2005 was one of timing. The entire pace attack was born within two years of each other and had the happy coincidence of sharing their peak years. If sporting teams are said to work best when there is a right blend of youth and experience, the fortune of England’s 2005 attack – really, the entire outfit save for Ian Bell – was that each player seemed to bring just the right amount of both qualities.It was a quartet of contrasting qualities, lacking only a left-armer. Harmison’s brawn and pace, Flintoff’s relentless back-of-a-length hostility, Jones’ reverse swing. And then there was Hoggard. The least glamorous, by some distance, of the four, but he didn’t mind. He famously once described his job as being to “brush up the debris of the shop floor”.England had bigger bowlers, faster bowlers and scarier bowlers. Hoggard embraced his role as a shaggy-haired shop steward. The image did not do justice to his considerable talents – not only the prodigious new-ball swing and nagging accuracy but also the ability to cut the ball, which allowed him to rise above the limitations of flat surfaces.The image of Hoggard is of the ever-willing supporter, but he could be the leader of the attack too. The 12 wickets he took in England’s win in Johannesburg – especially given the frailties of the rest of that attack – remains arguably the finest Test display by any English bowler in the 21st century. The suspicion has to be that we would remember it much more had it come from another member of the quartet, the perfect outswinger that snared Jacques Kallis first ball especially. Hoggard wouldn’t care.His new-ball partner Harmison, the self-described shy lad from Ashington, took a similar view to the limelight. In a way, Harmison was a victim of his natural gifts. While Hoggard could slip by – just a solid English-style quick, as the popular portrayal had it – Harmison was not so easily ignored. His physique and pace ensured as much; from the moment he broke through with 7 for 12 at Sabina Park and 61 wickets in a 11-Test run in 2004, Harmison attracted media attention of the sort that Hoggard could almost invariably avoid.The white Curtly Ambrose, they started called him. It didn’t seem ridiculous either, watching Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan and even Brian Lara floundering against his combination of pace, steepling bounce and surprise yorkers. The paradox was that if Hoggard envied Harmison’s greater natural gifts, Harmison must have been jealous of Hoggard’s relative unobtrusiveness.The relationship of England’s fans to Harmison was often one of exasperation. Why could he be Grievous Bodily Harmison one day and a 6′ 4″ mouse the next? From England’s tour to South Africa in 2004-05 – when he arrived as the world’s top-ranked bowler and left with nine wickets at 73 apiece – Harmison often had to contend with theories that if he wasn’t fulfilling his potential, it was in part because he didn’t want to. Playing for England was all a bit of a chore.Of course the perception was deeply unfair. As England collapsed in the final Test in Lahore in 2005, completing their ignominious post-Ashes hangover, Harmison certainly didn’t shirk. He bowled more overs, and better ones, than any of his team-mates. Few bowling analyses have ever been less fitting than his 43-3-154-1.Simon Jones may outlast the other members of the 2005 bowling attack, albeit only on the T20 circuit•Getty ImagesShivnarine Chanderpaul has cited Harmison as a model of toughness, contrasting today’s young bowlers, who “get a little hit or a niggle and they stay off the field”, with the Harmison who won Durham the Championship with “socks full of blood” and “a broken hand”. But none of this seemed to matter. Because Harmison could be so spectacular – the destruction he wrought in the Caribbean, the carnage of the first morning of the 2005 Ashes, that slower ball to Michael Clarke ­- it followed that when he was not, it was because he wasn’t trying or didn’t care.We now know that his dislike of touring was linked to his battles with depression. There were persistent injuries, too, particularly to his shins. But perhaps the greatest issue of all was of biomechanics. As beautiful as Harmison’s action could look when all was in sync, there was a lot that could go wrong. It was little wonder that, sometimes – think of the start of the 2006-07 Ashes – it did.Unfortunately a lot could go wrong with Jones too. Seldom has a bowler’s run-up been more deceptive: Jones gave the impression of ambling in with little more threat than seen in Sunday afternoon club cricket, but from a brief explosion onto the crease he was able to hit 90mph. The cocktail of jagging reverse swing and zest for high-octane moments made Jones an intoxicating cricketer. The mesmerising spell to Michael Clarke on the final afternoon at Old Trafford – darting the ball both ways and then decimating his off stump – almost evoked Wasim and Waqar.The shame is that, like his father Jeff, Jones’ dalliance with Test cricket was so fleeting. After his horrific injury in Brisbane in 2002, it took him until 2005 to become a truly established member of the side. After two five-fors in three innings, Jones became England’s wizard of reverse swing. The age-old conundrum of the England side had been how to harass good batsmen on flat wickets, especially in Asia. The two supreme reverse swingers, Jones and Flintoff, seemed to offer a compelling answer.Alas, he has spent much of the last eight years as he ended the 2005 Ashes. Only in one of the past seven seasons has he managed more than four first-class wickets; many people would assume that he has already retired. It is testament to Jones’ resilience that he has kept going amid it all. Just last month, Jones dismissed James Taylor in the CB40 final with a delivery that seamed late and kissed the outside edge. Of course, there was a sadness to the ball, a reminder of the shame in such a talent being consigned to 58 Test wickets. But the hope is that with luck – and Jones is certainly overdue some – he will outlast the other members of the quartet, albeit only on the T20 circuit.So now the sight of Jones in pyjamas is all that’s left of the Fab Four. The irony is that it was the least heralded man -­ the new fans cricket discovered in 2005 swiftly forget Hoggard’s name if it had ever registered – who departs with the most Test wickets and the greatest sense of promise fulfilled. We may have hoped for more from the quartet after 2005. But we will always have that, and after 16 years of evisceration by Australia, it was quite a sight.