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Luke Ronchi returned to Edgbaston in style to help preserve Leicestershire’s unbroken record

ECB Reporters Network16-Jul-2017
ScorecardLuke Ronchi’s return to Edgbaston was painful for Birmingham•ICC

Leicestershire Foxes continued their 100 per cent start to the NatWestT20Blast campaign with a nine-run win over Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston.Put in, the Foxes raced to 50 in the fifth over thanks to Luke Ronchi’s 23-ball 46, but went on to total only 147 for 9. At 72 for one in the eighth over, they seemed set for a tall score but the last 12 overs brought 75 for 8.It was a modest total but one they defended with great skill, restricting the Bears to 138 for 8. Clint McKay, fresh from a Foxes T20-best 5 for 11 against Worcestershire Rapids on Friday, denied the Bears a flying start with two overs for 11 runs and then the pressure was maintained by Colin Ackermann (4-0-21-3) , Cameron Delport (3-0-14-1) and Mathew Pillans (4-0-23-1).Against a Bears bowling attack missing Rikki Clarke due to a bruised thumb, the Foxes were given a blistering start by Ronchi. The Black Caps star, who played for the Bears in last year’s Blast, smashed six fours and three sixes before another intended big hit, off Boyd Rankin, lobbed up to mid-wicket.Mark Cosgrove soon edged Grant Elliott’s fifth ball to wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose and the innings went into decline. Only Delport stayed long against an attack led by paceman Rankin, leg-spinner Josh Poysden and medium-pacer Elliott.Elliott’s second wicket arrived when Delport skied a catch and only Tom Wells and Pillans offered anything from the lower order.Colin Ackermann had missed out with the bat but soon struck twice with his off-spin when the Bears replied, having Ian Bell caught at short fine leg and Sam Hain taken at deep mid-wicket.When Tim Ambrose was stumped off Delport, Birmingham were 64 for 3 at the halfway stage, needing to find 84 from the second half of the innings.That was far from easy against Delport’s skilful slow-medium and the accurate Ackermann and, as the required rate rose, the pressure told. William Porterfield and Elliott charged and missed and were bowled by Callum Parkinson and Ackermann respectively.The Bears needed 44 from the last four overs and, after Colin de Grandhomme edged Pillans behind in the penultimate over, it came down to 16 off the last, delivered by McKay. The Foxes captain closed the game out with predictable efficiency.

كشفت تقارير مغربية، عن أزمة تُهدد إقامة مباراة نهضة بركان واتحاد العاصمة الجزائري، المقرر لها اليوم الأحد، ضمن منافسات بطولة كأس الكونفدرالية.

وتنطلق المباراة في تمام التاسعة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، على ملعب “5 جويلية” في ذهاب دور نصف نهائي البطولة القارية.

وبحسب موقع “le360 سبور” المغربي، فإن الجامعة المغربية أرسلت خطابًا للاتحاد الإفريقي لكرة القدم “كاف”، تخطره بتجاهل الاتحاد الجزائري لمطلبها بتسليم الأقمصة الرياضية لفريق نهضة بركان.

وأشار الموقع إلى أن السلطات الجزائرية تُصر على افتعال الأزمات لبعثة نهضة بركان، من أجل التأثير على لاعبي الفريق قبل مواجهة اليوم.

طالع أيضًا | حكم الـvar يطالب بشطب اللاعب المعتدي على محمد معروف في مباراة نهضة بركان وأبو سليم

وكان الاتحاد الإفريقي قد هدد نظيره الجزائري بخسارة اتحاد العاصمة حال عدم تسلم نهضة بركان أمتعته الرياضية؛ وذلك بحسب الموقع المغربي.

وأكد مصدر داخل نهضة بركان للموقع، أنهم متشبثين بعدم خوض المباراة المذكورة، في حال أصرت السلطات الأمنية الجزائرية مصادرة أقمصة الفريق، التي تتضمن خارطة المغرب كاملة.

يذكر، أن هناك أزمة سياسية بين البلدين الشقيقين على ترسيم الحدود بينهما.

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino is tasked with securing Champions League football this term, with the club finishing in the bottom half of the Premier League during 2022/23.

It won't be easy, however, given the vast clear-out which has been underway since the transfer window opened, along with his own shrewd business, the Argentinian could get them challenging for a top-four spot.

He urgently needs another striker or two and the Stamford Bridge outfit have been linked with a move for Elye Wahi this summer.

Could Chelsea sign Elye Wahi?

Fabrizio Romano claimed that the Blues were “advancing in talks” to sign the striker from Montpellier last week.

A recent update however has seen the French side reject a bid of £24m for the 20-year-old from Chelsea, but the forward – who has been valued at around €30m (£26m) – is still keen on making a move to London.

It is reported that if a deal is struck between the two clubs, Wahi could first spend a season on loan at Strasbourg before moving to the Premier League side from the 2024/25 campaign.

How good is Elye Wahi?

Following the appointment of Jose Mourinho in 2004, he earmarked Didier Drogba as his main target. The Ivorian was playing for Marseille at the time and the club shelled out £24m to lure him to London, turning out to be one of their finest-ever signings.

Drogba became something of a talisman for the Stamford Bridge side, scoring 164 goals across two spells at the club and immortalising himself by scoring the winning penalty as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich in the 2012 Champions League Final.

Wahi, like Drogba, would join Chelsea from the French top-flight, and he would also have something to prove following impressive performances in Ligue 1.

The youngster ranked first across the Montpellier squad for league goals last season (19) along with topping the pile for shots on target per game (1.2) and penalties won (two). He did showcase his ability to create opportunities for others too as he registered five assists and created seven big chances, indicating that he is more than just a penalty box operator waiting for chances to score.

Reporter Andrés Onrubia Ramos waxed lyrical about the prodigious talent in 2022, saying: “Montpellier: Elye Wahi (2003). If he manages to polish the definition, we are facing a striker who is going to exceed ten goals per season.

“A real beast in space that, in addition, associatively also leaves interesting things. It should definitely explode.”

Drogba was also a menace to defenders like Wahi, using his physical strength to win duels regularly and not only did he score goals, but he enjoyed the physical battle and creating opportunities for teammates, with ex-Crystal Palace man Wilfried Zaha notably saying of his talents:

"He was literally a beast. Defenders just couldn't handle him He'd hold someone off and – at the same time – turn and swerve and volley it in somehow. He was different class."

Wahi won three duels on average per game last term and the older he gets; the striker will also develop further physically, suggesting that the 5 foot 10 gem could be a hit in the Premier League.

It appears as though Pochettino has a long-term plan for the club and as long as he improves the team during 2023/24, Wahi could arrive and become a key focal point in the near future.

Mark Taylor, the Cricket Australia board director, has admitted that compromise must be found between the game’s governing body and the Australian Cricketers Association before the game suffers further damage

Daniel Brettig11-Jul-20173:46

What exactly is the Cricket Australia-ACA pay dispute?

Mark Taylor, the Cricket Australia (CA) board director, has admitted that compromise must be found between the game’s governing body and the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) before the game suffers further damage, in an ugly pay war that has put the national team’s upcoming series at risk of abandonment.In speaking at an Ashes event organised by the Nine Network in Melbourne on Tuesday, Taylor became the first senior CA figure connected to the MoU debate to offer a public opinion on the dispute in more than six weeks, since the chief executive James Sutherland was interviewed by the ABC on May 25. Taylor also remains the only board director to have spoken publicly about it at all.Prior to that, Taylor had spoken firmly about CA’s desire to breakup the revenue sharing model on Nine’s programme on May 14. But he took on a more conciliatory tone this time, 11 days after the expiry of the most recent MoU between the players and the board left more than 230 of the country’s cricketers unemployed and a mounting mess of commercial problems for the board. Not least of these is reassuring its chief broadcaster Nine – for whom Taylor commentates – that the Ashes will go ahead as planned.”I think there’s got to be compromise on both sides, I really believe that,” Taylor said on Tuesday. “I think at any negotiation you give and you take. I think when you get to that situation, which I hope we are getting very close to now, then you get close to a resolution. I’m confident there will be a resolution soon. I don’t know when but I just hope both sides keep working hard at it.”I think everyone has probably read and heard enough about things that don’t involve people scoring runs and taking wickets, me included, and I think that [the cricket] is what we all want to see. That includes sponsors, TV networks, past players, commentators, and I think the quicker we get to that situation the better for the game.”I’m still very confident there will be an Ashes series and I’m very confident there will be some Test-match cricket played by Australia before them. That’s certainly what I’m working towards and I’m assuming both parties are working towards that. It’s far from ideal and it’s cost an Australia A tour of South Africa which is disappointing, no doubt about it. But at this stage we haven’t lost a Bangladesh tour and we certainly don’t want to lose an Ashes tour here in Australia.”While Taylor has only recently returned home from holidays, he said all board directors had been kept informed of progress in talks by CA’s lead negotiator Kevin Roberts, including conference calls every three days that he had dialled in to from overseas. ESPNcricinfo understands that some progress appeared to have been made by the middle of last week before regressing and forcing the cancellation of the Australia A tour. While talks go on, little if any movement from entrenched positions has been discernible since.Mark Taylor said it was necessary for everyone involved to “be adult” about the pay dispute; Ian Chappell said while his sympathies lie on the side of the players, give how protracted this dispute is, there has to be fault on both sides•Getty Images

A director since 2004, apart from a brief absence in 2012-13 when the CA board was changed from a body of 14 state representatives to an independent group of nine, Taylor agreed that it was vital to find a way for the two parties to coexist in whatever new landscape was drawn up as a result of the next MoU.”Day to day it’s management’s job, I’ve been away for the last couple of weeks, only got back on Sunday night myself, but I’ve been kept abreast of the situation,” he said. “Calls every three days, sometimes a bit more often if need be, and now I’m back in Australia I’m well aware of the situation. And I’ll be doing everything I can to try and find a resolution to this.”I think we all have to be adult about it. It’s a big game these days. Players are fully professional. Cricket boards are trying to do what they think is right for the game in general, so there’s going to be times when you disagree and that’s where we are at the moment. But I think both sides have to work towards finding a resolution which is in the best interests of the game and the players.”From a game point of view, it’s far from ideal. We are in July, the Ashes are still four months away, but the Bangladesh tour is only a month away. The quicker we can get it resolved the better, the quicker we can move on and rebuild the relationship [that] I think is important between CA and the ACA. The quicker we can start rebuilding that, I think that’ll be good for the game.”The former captain Ian Chappell, meanwhile, termed the standoff as “the biggest bust up since World Series Cricket between players and administrators” and reckoned both sides of the argument, whatever their merits, had begun to be damaged from the moment the previous MoU expired on July 1.”I think once it went past the June 30 deadline I think it started to hurt the game from both points of view,” Chappell said. “I think the public were probably sick to death of it by then it was a plague on both their houses as far as the public are concerned. I think the quicker it gets resolved the better and if it’s going to be a partnership, which I think it needs to be, it’s not a boss-employee situation.”If it’s going to be a partnership there’s got to be give and take on both sides, and probably most importantly there has to be a bit more respect, that’s the first thing that needs to happen to help rebuild the relationship. My sympathies are always going to be on the side of the players, but when a dispute goes on this long there has to be fault on both sides.”The job of the players association is to work with the administrators. Your job as a cricketer is just to play the game and having come from an era where the players had to fight the fight, that’s not an ideal situation at all. To me it’s up to the players association to get the thing sorted out with the board, and for the players to just play their game.”

Chelsea loaning out some of their young midfielders could pave the way for Mauricio Pochettino to bring in Leeds United midfielder Tyler Adams, according to journalist Ben Jacobs.

How will Chelsea's midfield numbers look if Tyler Adams enters the fold?

Chelsea recently completed the signing of young midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu from Ligue 1 side Rennes for a fee in the region of £23.5 million, according to The Daily Mail.

The French youth international has moved to Stamford Bridge on a seven-year contract with the option of a further 12 months on his deal at the club.

Cited by GOAL, Blues boss Pochettino has spoken about what the future may hold for the 19-year-old and whether he could be shipped out on loan this summer, stating: "Now is time to assess him until the end of the transfer window and see if he is going to be with us or the way the club signed, maybe it can be a different possibility to loan or stay with us. We need to assess him when he starts training with us today and then in London after the tour."

In a separate article by The Daily Mail, Chelsea are reportedly interested in Leeds United midfielder Adams, who has a £25 million relegation release clause built into his contract at Elland Road.

Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Brighton & Hove Albion and West Ham United are all monitoring the United States international's situation as they seek reinforcements in the engine room.

Last term, Adams, who has been a "leader" in the midfield, featured 26 times in all competitions for Leeds United and impressed despite their eventual fall into the Sky Bet Championship, as per Transfermarkt.

Speaking to Football FanCast, journalist Jacobs has confirmed that Adams moving to Stamford Bridge is a possibility this summer and could become viable if Chelsea send some of their young midfielders out on loan.

Jacobs told FFC: "The thing about this Chelsea squad is that it's big, but a fair few players will be going out on loan now over the course of the next few weeks. Lesley Oguchukwu came in recently and he'll be out on loan for sure and it's believed that he'll be off to Chelsea's sister club, Strasbourg.

"It may look on paper like Chelsea have got a lot of young midfielders already, but give it two weeks or so and two or three of them might have departed out on loan and there may be space for more than one midfielder. This is where somebody like Tyler Adams, as a squad player at Chelsea, may be one to watch. He's certainly on their list of possibilities."

What next for Chelsea?

Chelsea look set to continue their recruitment drive in the coming weeks and could target Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Leandro Paredes as an alternative to Moises Caicedo in midfield, with the latter proving to be hard to attract after Brighton knocked back an £80 million bid for the Ecuador international last week, as per The Evening Standard.

Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez could be on his way to Stamford Bridge in a deal worth £25 million and is soon set to undergo a medical ahead of a proposed move to the Blues, as per Sky Sports.

Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise is on Chelsea's radar amid stiff competition from Manchester City for his services, though the Eagles are holding out for a fee of £50 million, according to The Guardian.

Pochettino will be keen to rubber stamp arrivals of key targets by next weekend when Chelsea take on Liverpool in their opening clash of the Premier League season.

كشف الجهاز الفني لفريق الكرة الأول بالنادي الأهلي، النقاب عن تشكيل لاعبيه لمباراة الإسماعيلي في بطولة الدوري.

ويحتضن ملعب استاد الجيش ببرج العرب، مباراة الأهلي والإسماعيلي، ضمن منافسات الجولة الـ20 من عمر الدوري المصري “النيل”.

ويزين دكة بدلاء الأهلي كل من حسين الشحات ومحمود كهربا وأنتوني موديست، بجوار الحارس محمود الزنفلي.

ويتواجد الأهلي حامل لقب النسخة الماضية من بطولة الدوري، في المركز الحادي عشر في سلم ترتيب النسخة الحالية برصيد 21 نقطة من 11 مباراة، و يتبقى له 8 مباريات مؤجلة، لم يخوضها بعد.

حكم مباراة الأهلي والإسماعيلي في الدوري

وجمع فريق النادي الأهلي نقاطه من ست انتصارات و3 تعادلات فيما نال هزيمتين، سجل لاعبوه 24 هدفًا واستقبلت شباك المارد الأحمر 13 هدفًا.

ويقبع فريق الإسماعيلي في المركز الثالث عشر برصيد 19 نقطة، حصدها من 19 مباراة خاضها ببطولة الدوري حتى الآن.

واستطاع الإسماعيلي تحقيق 4 انتصارات فقط و7 تعادلات فيما نال 8 هزائم، سجل الدراويش 18 هدفًا واستقبلت شباكه 22 هدفًا. بدلاء الأهلي أمام الإسماعيلي

محمود الزنفلي وعمر كمال ومحمود متولي ورضا سليم وحسين الشحات وأحمد نبيل كوكا وعمرو السولية ومحمود كهربا وموديست.

The minimum retainers for the women’s cricket team surpassed the deals recently unveiled for top tier equivalents in soccer and AFL

Daniel Brettig12-Sep-2017

Australia’s cricketers are now comfortably the highest paid female athletes in the country, with minimum retainers for the national team and domestic sides outstripping deals recently unveiled for top-tier contracts in soccer and AFL.While 2017 has been a breakthrough year for female athletes across the country through the inaugural AFLW competition and this week’s announcement of a new pay deal for female footballers with the Football Federation of Australia, the terms granted to cricketers under the MoU completed last week have put them well ahead of the rest.Under figures obtained by ESPNcricinfo, the minimum contract for a Cricket Australia-contracted player (minus match payments, prize money and other performance bonuses) will be A$ 72,076 for 2017-18, as opposed to a “tier-one” representative of the Matildas national soccer team on A$ 41,000 a year. Listed players at AFLW clubs earn between A$ 5,000 and A$ 25,000 each.All domestic contracted players – taking part in the WNCL and the WBBL – are entitled to deals worth A$ 25,659 from playing for their states, and a minimum A$ 10,292 (average of A$ 19,926) for playing in the domestic Twenty20 competition. By contrast, W-League soccer players will be paid wages ranging from A$ 10,000 to A$ 20,000.Average wages for international female cricketers – factoring in match fees and performance bonuses plus WBBL retainers – will be around A$ 180,000 this season, rising to A$ 211,000 in 2021-22, the final year of the recently completed MoU. Average wages for domestic-only players will be around A$ 55,000 this season, rising to A$ 58,000 in 2021-22.These figures, reached after a lengthy and often ugly period of negotiation and then dispute between CA and the Australian Cricketers Association, were always likely to be reached as both sides of the argument believed fundamentally in improving the lot of female players, not only by raising their wages but also by including all players in a single MoU for the first time.However the women were caught in the middle of the dispute as all players were left out of contract after the previous MoU expired on June 30, a deadline that passed in the middle of the World Cup contested in England this year – squad members signed short-term deals to enable to stay employed throughout the tournament. Ironically, the few weeks spent without pay for the women echoed the experiences of many in earlier years of their careers, as the vice-captain Alex Blackwell has said.”Women would have to take massive chunks of leave without pay, if not sacrifice their job, to go on tour to play for Australia,” Blackwell said in the ACA’s Onside magazine. “Over my career I have known team-mates of mine who have lost their jobs from being selected for their country and having to say to their employer, ‘I’m away for five weeks’. What would happen if that player got injured two days into the tour, would be that they lose the financial benefit of the tour and be in a really poor and vulnerable position.”This the first time that a female player group has come under an MoU, and for it to be one MoU combined is a historic event. I didn’t always feel like we were respected as well as we could have been in terms of the part we play in growing the game. So, that’s the first thing that this MoU makes me feel; like there has been a switch, and we are now partners in growing the game into something that is bigger and better.”CA has made a concerted effort to be more inclusive in recent years, and one of the battlegrounds of the pay war was the board’s claims that the players association had shown as much willingness to strive for gender equity – a claim the ACA rejected. Its recent strategy document for the next five years made no secret of CA’s desire to attract more women to the game as both fans and players, with major pay increases for female elite players a key part of their approach. The board’s stated goals include to:”Achieve gender equity across Australian Cricket. Develop and accelerate the opportunities for women in all areas and levels of our game. Sustainably grow women and girls’ participation, and make sure they find cricket clubs welcoming and enjoyable places to be. Cricket becomes a viable professional career for talented female athletes, who will be supported by an expansive and structured female pathway. Grow women’s elite cricket and remain number one in all formats. The WBBL becomes the undisputed leader of women’s sporting leagues in the world.”While the WBBL is currently played concurrently with the BBL, CA has flagged plans to move the tournament to a standalone slot in the calendar in October. The men’s and women’s World T20 tournaments to be hosted by Australia in 2020 will be played in separate slots, the women in February-March and the men in October-November.

Last week, Chelsea confirmed the signing of midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu from Stade Rennais for £23.2m (€27m).

Upon his arrival, the Blues co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley said: “We're delighted Lesley is joining Chelsea. He is an impressive young player who has already made his mark in Ligue 1.

"He has a huge amount of potential and we know he is going to continue to develop and improve."

However, it has been revealed by the Evening Standard that Chelsea are considering loaning Ugochukwu to Strasbourg, where his development under the tutelage of Patrick Vieira is a frightening prospect.

Who is Lesley Ugochukwu?

The 19-year-old has been in the Rennes youth system since 2012 and made his senior debut just after his 17th birthday, becoming the club’s fourth-youngest debutant at the time.

Read the latest Chelsea transfer news HERE…

Since then, he has amassed 60 appearances for the first team and is preparing to forge the next step of his glittering at Stamford Bridge.

How good is Lesley Ugochukwu?

The Frenchman had always stated that it has been his “dream” to play in English football and now with a pathway to the Chelsea team, via a possible loan with Strasbourg under his hero Vieira, he has a clear aim to ruthlessly work towards.

A Premier League scout from a top-six club described the youngster as someone whose potential "is very high”, whilst his “athletic presence” has led to comparisons with the Arsenal legend.

Standing at 6 foot 3, Ugochukwu occupies a domineering and physical presence, which has ramped up his similarity to Vieira.

This has been recognised by the prodigy himself, who added:

“It’s an advantage being tall and powerful. People like Vieira inspire me a lot because of what he did for Arsenal. It’s something that I want to do during my career, to live like that and for people to say, ‘Lesley was that kind of player’.”

The teenager bestows this monumental reputation with supreme defensive solidity on the pitch. Over the past 365 days, when compared against his positional peers in Europe’s top five leagues, Ugochukwu ranks within the top 27% for tackles and interceptions per 90, as well as the best 12% for blocks per 90.

Moreover, across 26 Ligue 1 outings this term, the recent Chelsea recruit managed 88% pass accuracy, completed 70% of his dribbles, won 70% of his aerial duels, and didn’t make any errors leading to a shot or goal.

The engine has only started 18 league games and remains very much in the infancy of his career. Having another year to develop in his homeland is an intelligent move and as the 2021 Champions League winners look to reap the rewards of their multi-club project.

With the added bonus of being managed by the retired 107-cap international, Ugochukwu can potentially flourish into a tremendously accomplished and tenacious midfield pivot, mirroring the unassailable excellence of Vieira’s glittering career.

The 6 foot 4 mountain is one of the Premier League's most imposing and influential pivots, who anchored the record-breaking invincible season in 2004. With endless experience and a fountain of expertise that he can supply to Ugochukwu, it really is the perfect scenario for all parties.

Next year, Ugochukwu could give Mauricio Pochettino a serious selection headache if he continues on this stunning trajectory.

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Luciano marcou o gol que garantiu ao São Paulo o empate por 1 a 1 com o Bahia, na noite desta quinta, no Morumbi. O estreante entrou no intervalo e anotou de cabeça aos 40 minutos do segundo tempo.

Na comemoração, ele fez um gesto parecido ao que Rossi fez quando marcou para o Bahia. Ele explicou ao ser questionado pelo Premiere:

– Eu só fiz ali para dizer que aqui não tem brincadeira. Só isso, nada demais.

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O novo camisa 11 do São Paulo admitiu que a equipe tem muito a melhorar, mas disse que o problema não é falta de confiança.

– A gente tem muito o que melhorar. Se ganha, tem que melhorar. Se perde, mais ainda. Se empatar, então, nem se fala. Vamos ver o que a gente errou hoje para corrigir. O professor passa confiança para a gente, acho que não falta isso. Vamos trabalhar, ver o que erramos e corrigir domingo.Ganhar os jogos é o mínimo que temos que fazer. O São Paulo não pode ficar tanto tempo sem vencer.

The 18-year old batsman has been rewarded for his good returns with the India Under-19 team home and away against England Under-19

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Oct-20174:14

Who is Shubman Gill?

Shubman Gill, the 18-year old batsman from Punjab, has been rewarded for his good returns in Youth ODIs with a place in the India A squad for the five-match, one-day series against New Zealand A that starts from October 6. The captaincy of the team has been split, with Shreyas Iyer to lead in the first three games before Rishabh Pant takes over for the final two matches.Gill was one of the standout performers for the India Under-19 team that swept the two Tests and five ODIs during their tour of England in July and August. He scored 174 runs in the two Tests, including a century in the second game in Worcester, and then made 278 runs at 92.66 and a strike rate of over 100 in the one-day series, comfortably finishing as the highest run-getter from either side.The England tour was preceded by a breakout home series against the same opposition earlier in the year, when Gill dominated the one-dayers with 351 runs at an average of 117, despite playing only four of the five games. That included back-to-back centuries in the third and fourth games in Mumbai.India A are currently playing a four-day game against New Zealand A in Vijayawada, after winning the first match by an innings and 31 runs. They then head to Visakhapatnam for the ODIs.The BCCI also named a 12-man Board President’s XI squad, also captained by Iyer, to play the New Zealand senior team in two warm-up matches in Mumbai ahead of their limited-overs series against India. New Zealand play three ODIs and three T20 internationals starting October 22.Prithvi Shaw, Gill’s team-mate on the England tour, was picked in the India A squad for the first three one-dayers and Board President’s XI side. The 17-year-old became the youngest batsman to hit a century in a Duleep Trophy final last week, when he made 154 in the first innings.India A team for first three one-day games Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Shreyas Iyer (capt), Deepak Hooda, Shubman Gill, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Shahbaz Nadeem, Karn Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shardul Thakur, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Basil Thampi.India A team for last two one-day games AR Easwaran, Prashant Chopra, Ankit Bawne, Shubman Gill, Baba Aparajith, Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), Shahbaz Nadeem, Karn Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shardul Thakur, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Basil Thampi.Board President’s XI team Prithvi Shaw, Shivam Chaudhary, Shreyas Iyer (capt), Karun Nair, Gurkeerat Mann, Milind Kumar, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shahbaz Nadeem, Deepak Chahar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Avesh Khan.