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The 17-year-old made his maiden first-class century playing his third game, against Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy

Vishal Dikshit18-Oct-2024The Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) isn’t like the rest of Mumbai. In a city where poverty and opulence co-exist without any tangible borders, the BKC is an upmarket commercial hub embellished with offices of multinational companies, high rises adorned by modern-day reflective glass, five-star hotels, upscale restaurants and lavish offices of some of the top banks of the country. Against the backdrop of a metro, its chaos and congestion, this place feels as if it was planted there like a drop-in pitch.And in the middle of this swanky complex stood a 17-year-old boy on Friday who was a bit different to everybody that was around him too. He had been toiling in the scorching sun for close to four hours, sweating to earn each and every run for his team, getting his whites dirty, and physically proving his worth surrounded by people much older – some twice his age.Ayush Mhatre’s face still has a boyish roundness to it. It was hard to miss when he took his helmet off after scoring his maiden century in only his third first-class game and held his arms aloft facing the Mumbai dressing room.Mhatre is the latest from Mumbai’s production line that rolls out promising youngsters ever ready to step up when the first-choice players are unavailable. Two years ago, when the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sarfaraz Khan were away for national duty for the last couple of seasons, a 17-year-old Musheer Khan made his Ranji Trophy debut. And now when Musheer is out injured after a car accident last month, another 17-year-old has stepped in in his place, almost like he was packed and ready in a warehouse in BKC.Mhatre embodies the struggle of the average Mumbaikar. To chase his cricket dreams, he has had to travel nearly 80 kilometers one way by train from Virar (outside Mumbai) to Churchgate (next to Wankhede Stadium) to access the famed and cricket coaches. He was always supported by his parents to pursue this dream, and it was his (maternal grandfather) and then his (father’s younger brother) who chaperoned him on his journey into the city so he could have it all.Mhatre took the game up when he was five, but it was at 15 that he really began to think that the runs he was piling up in school and club cricket could be done professionally. His personal highest score stands at 254 not out, in a private tournament, and he “gained a lot of confidence” in playing the Kalpesh Koli Under-16 tournament in Mumbai. By December 2023, he had made it to Mumbai’s Under-23 squad for the CK Nayudu Trophy and was also named in MCA’s Under-19 team of the year for 2023-24.Ayush Mhatre is unbeaten on 127 against Maharashtra•PTI At the start of this season, still in Class XII, Mhatre had an inkling that a Mumbai call-up was coming. He was asked to take part in the red-ball KSCA Thimmappiah Tournament, which several players use to tune up for the start of a new Ranji season. There, he smashed 173 against Gujarat and 52 in the next game opposite Andhra. He also started prepping for the challenges fast bowling could throw at him in first-class cricket by batting against plastic balls on tiles with Prashant Shetty, who has coached many Mumbai players including Prithvi Shaw and Jemimah Rodrigues. Eventually, when the call came for the Irani Cup clash against Rest of India, after Musheer had met with an accident, Mhatre was mentally ready.”I was surprised, but there was no pressure, I was excited,” he said on Friday.Mhatre scored 19 and 14 against the likes of Mukesh Kumar and Yash Dayal, and as soon as the Ranji Trophy season started, he took no time to register his maiden first-class half-century against Baroda, top-scoring with 52 on a spicy surface in Mumbai’s first innings when only one other team-mate crossed 30.On Friday, batting on his home turf, after Maharashtra had been bowled out for just 126, Mhatre saw off the new ball while Shaw and Hardik Tamore fell cheaply, and he stitched useful partnerships with his captain Ajinkya Rahane and Shreyas Iyer to power the score past 200.He reveres his Mumbai senior Rohit Sharma – also from the suburbs – for his trademark pulls and timing, and almost as a tribute to him, Mhatre pulled a short ball so handsomely towards the Bank of America building towering over the ground that the Mumbai dressing room erupted in applause. He seems comfortable off both the front and the back foot – the straight bat drives and the confident cuts showed as much. There was rarely a lull when he was at the crease, his strike rate hovering around 75 as he brought up a half-century off 63 balls and his century off 133 balls. Eighty of his 127 runs came on the off side.”The first hundred is always special,” he said after the day’s play. “I was confident which kept building in this innings.”Mhatre said Rahane coached him through a 99-run stand for the third wicket by setting “small targets of five runs at a time,” before he batted “calmly” with Iyer in an unbroken partnership of 97 as the field spread out and the baking sun made the pitch more batting friendly. Even at this nascent stage of his career, he understands he can’t get carried away even if he loves to attack.”I have to play with control, play according to what the situation demands, that’s what the team expects from me.”Mhatre has started with a bang, he has lived up to the promise he had shown in age-group cricket, and now he will want to stay true to the character of a promising Mumbai batter and really make it big.

The Australia captain has shown over the years that he has the tools to extract help from the flattest of tracks

Karthik Krishnaswamy04-Feb-20231:31

Cummins won’t forget ‘how good Australia fast bowlers are’

Among all the remarkable things about Pat Cummins, the most remarkable could be his durability. In an era when other world-class, genuinely quick bowlers – think Jofra Archer or Jasprit Bumrah – routinely miss matches and series for injury or workload-management reasons, Cummins is almost always part of Australia’s Test XIs. He has featured in 46 of Australia’s last 50 Tests, and only Nathan Lyon (50) has been more of an ever-present.It wasn’t always so, of course. Cummins, the Player of the Match on Test debut in November 2011, waited five-and-a-half injury-ravaged years before getting to play Test cricket again.In March 2017, he made his comeback in Ranchi, and proceeded to show the world just how special a talent he was. Figures of 39-10-106-4 aren’t immediately eye-catching, perhaps, but that performance was exceptional for two reasons.Related

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The first reason was what Cummins brought up when asked about Ranchi on Saturday, in Australia’s first press conference since landing in India for the four-Test Border-Gavaskar series, which begins in Nagpur on February 9.Cummins had only played one first-class game in the 18 months leading up to that game in Ranchi, and given his injury history, no one could have been certain how much of a workload he could get through. As it turned out, he bowled 39 overs as India piled up 603 for 9 declared. To date, he hasn’t bowled more overs in a Test innings.”I think what I learned about myself was, it was my first Test match in six years, it kind of reaffirmed that that’s where I wanted to be,” Cummins said, “and in Test cricket, you can’t be worried about your body or different things, you’ve just got to go all-in. I really enjoyed that.”I think also the lesson there is that Test cricket can be really, really hard. You’ve got to accept that it’s going to be a grind sometimes, and you have got to be up for it and embrace that challenge. I think, coming here to India, a lot of the talk is around big spinning wickets, mainly fast [-moving] Test matches, but it’s not always the case.”You need to get into the grind at times, and that role as a fast bowler might be bowling plenty of overs for not a heap of reward but doing a job for the team. I really enjoyed that aspect of that last tour.”

“We have got plenty of bowling options here – fingerspin, wristspin, left-arm [spin], and Starcy [Mitchell Starc] when he comes back”Pat Cummins is relying on the variety of his attack to pick 20 wickets

The second thing that made that Ranchi display so remarkable was that on a track that was slow, low and utterly lifeless when any of Australia’s other bowlers tried their luck on it, Cummins threatened to run through India. By means of searing pace, conventional swing with the second new ball, reverse with the old one, and offcutter-bouncers that reared at the gloves, he had, at one stage, taken four wickets to leave India six down and trailing Australia’s first-innings total by 123.Cheteshwar Pujara and Wriddhiman Saha turned the match around thereafter, putting India in control with a 199-run seventh-wicket stand, but Cummins had shown Australia how he had both the stamina and the sting to be a threat on subcontinental pitches.Australia recognise that pace could play as crucial a role as spin in their push for a first Test-series win in India since 2004 – their two best bowlers in that series were Jason Gillespie (20 wickets at 16.15) and Glenn McGrath (14 at 25.42) – and the attacks that led them to victories in Bengaluru and Nagpur featured three quicks and one spinner.While a lot of the pre-series talk this time has revolved around who among Ashton Agar, Mitchell Swepson and Todd Murphy will partner Lyon in Australia’s spin attack, Cummins suggested that three quicks and one spinner could be an option too.”I wouldn’t say [two spinners is] a given,” he said. “Obviously it’s very conditions-dependent, particularly in the first Test. Once we get to Nagpur, we will see. But yeah, I think sometimes talking about a couple of spinners, you forget how good a lot of our fast bowlers have been in all conditions.Pat Cummins picked up eight wickets in the Lahore Test last year to help Australia win the series•AFP/Getty Images”You know, even some of the SCG wickets, [there hasn’t] been a lot in it for the quick bowlers, but the quick bowlers have found a way. So yeah, we’ve got plenty of bowling options here – fingerspin, wristspin, left-arm [spin], and Starcy [Mitchell Starc] when he comes back down the line. So yeah, we’ve obviously picked the bowlers that we think can take 20 wickets. How we are going to split that up, we are not 100% sure yet.”Australia’s most recent Test match, against South Africa in January, came on one of the SCG pitches Cummins referenced flat and slow. Rain dashed Australia’s hopes of forcing a win, but Cummins put them in a position to push for that result, summoning every weapon at his disposal, including bouncers from around the wicket with a leg-theory field, to dismiss three of South Africa’s top six and force them to follow on.Cummins had bowled with similar hostility in Lahore last year, picking up five wickets in the first innings and three in the second as Australia wrapped up a series victory their bowlers had worked tirelessly for on some of the flattest Test pitches of recent times.Cummins wasn’t just tireless, though. In a series where the next-best Australia bowler averaged 34.12, he took 12 wickets at 22.50. On pitches designed to blunt his wicket-taking threat, he was both tireless and incisive.Over the next six weeks or so, there will likely be as much – or more – chatter about the pitches in Nagpur, Delhi, Dharamsala and Ahmedabad as there is about the superstars who will bowl and bat on them. No matter how the pitches behave, though, Cummins – as he showed six years ago in Ranchi – will be a threat, quite likely the foremost threat in India’s minds.

He hasn’t excelled in the IPL this year, and now finds himself out of favour in the India set-up. He still has his talent but his mindset might need some work

Aakash Chopra05-Nov-2020Rishabh Pant is the only Indian wicketkeeper to score Test centuries in Australia and England. He was the second-highest run scorer in the IPL in 2018. He’s young, he’s dynamic, and his style of play is refreshingly liberating. His early exploits in Test match cricket ensured that he would get a long run in the India side, and his style of play almost guaranteed a place in limited-overs cricket as and when the opportunity arose. It felt like the world was at his feet.But though the new blue-eyed boy of Indian cricket seemed to quickly get everything he might have desired, it didn’t last long. Pant is no longer in India’s white-ball squads, and he is second in line after Wriddhiman Saha in the Test team. His successes in ODI cricket for India were sporadic, and the modes of his dismissals converted some of his fans into critics. Who goes for a glory shot when you need less than a run a ball to take the team home? Or how do you justify a high-risk shot first ball when the team has just lost a wicket?Pant’s Test and IPL returns suggested he had cracked the longest and shortest formats but simply didn’t understand the rhythm of the 50-over game. Is that possible?We’ve seen it in the past. Virender Sehwag bossed Tests but was below average in ODIs. We make attempts at understanding the anomaly to make sense of it, but we are far from deciphering it completely. However, we must keep trying, and here I too will make an attempt.ALSO READ: Why Rishabh Pant is perhaps India’s first T20 batsman with a T20 attitudePant burst onto the international scene after his exploits in the IPL. There were no expectations of him to play a certain kind of cricket and he played in the fashion he knew best. That’s how a lot of young cricketers start their careers: see the ball and react. He did just that in Test cricket. It didn’t always work but that can be said about any method one might employ. Nothing is foolproof, but the success of a method is in the percentages. And when your preferred method stops yielding an acceptable success rate, you ought to reinvent. Is it the case that Pant does not know his methods of play completely?Scoring runs and knowing how to score runs aren’t the same thing. Lots of players score a lot of runs to merit selection but few know the art of scoring runs. Confused? Let me elaborate.The ability to react to a ball that’s coming your way is built over years, decades even. The more you play, the more you learn about eliminating errors, and that, in turn, enables you to score runs. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have understood your game inside-out. While you know that you react differently to different situations, you don’t really fully know how and why you react to a particular situation in a certain manner, and what your best response should be – if it isn’t the one you’re presenting. You know you have played a bad shot and got out, but you don’t remember what mindset you were in, because of which you played that bad shot. Unless you know the state of mind and the thoughts that led to that false shot, you won’t see the red flags in time the next time and will repeat the mistake.Awareness about your own play and what makes you behave differently in different situations isn’t acquired overnight. I scored over 5000 first-class runs before I made my India debut, and to be honest, I didn’t understand my game even after I was dropped from the side in 2004. That understanding developed only in the summer of 2007, while playing league cricket in England.Going back to Pant – he comes across as someone who is confused about his role and his responsibilities towards his own game. I’m not talking about what the team or the situation demands of him but just his comfort with his own style of play. His last couple of Test matches and this edition of the IPL have brought that uncertainty to the fore. He is blessed with the ability to hit the ball long and hard, but it seems that he is unsure of the right time to do so.2:45

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There have been instances in this IPL where left-arm spinners have come and gone unscathed. The bowlers he wouldn’t allow to settle down in the past have kept him quiet this season because he chose to let the moment pass and wait for a better, more opportune moment. Pant was Pant because he could change the tide, but now he’s trying to swim with it and by the time he thinks about changing it, it’s a little too late.There’s a theory doing the rounds that since he is batting slightly lower down the order, he has been asked by his franchise to play a different role. While data suggests that he has been at his best when he has had more overs to bat through in T20 cricket, and so that there is merit in the argument that this new role isn’t doing him any favours, the fact is that batting lower down the order should give him the license to go berserk quicker. That is when he is at his best, right?Wrong. Once you’ve tasted some success at the top and have been dropped thereafter, your overriding thought is about making it back into the side. Now your best game is no longer the game that got you the India cap in the first place but the one that you think is likely to help you regain it.It’s time for Pant to clear the cobwebs and spend more time with his own game, understanding its nuances. He is the same player who everyone thought had the X-Factor, he is the same player who was seen as a natural successor to Dhoni, and he is the same player who produced consistent performances at high strike rates in T20 cricket. He is the same player because you don’t lose these skills overnight.Temperament is the combination of knowing the demands of the situation and the best response based on your own strengths and weaknesses. Some of us are born with exceptional hand-eye coordination and the ability to pick the length and line a fraction earlier, but temperament has to be acquired.Pant has entered the second stage of his career. This phase is about understanding and acquiring. The sooner he does that, the better for him and for Indian cricket.

San Francisco Giants reporter Justice delos Santos of the in San Francisco certainly got his steps in to pay off a bet with Chicago Cubs reporter Jordan Bastian.

During Wednesday night's game, Santos told Bastian that he would run a mile for every run scored in the matchup between the Giants and the Cubs. The two teams picked a good night to score 15 combined runs in a contest the Giants won 12-3.

Here's the hilarious clip of Santos discussing the bet that he would have to pay off.

By the way, he did it.

Safe to say he might think twice before making that bet next time!

Thomas Tuchel has explained why England’s substitutes could be left in the dressing room during certain fixtures at the 2026 World Cup. The Three Lions are preparing to discover their group stage opponents at that event, with the draw taking place in Washington DC on Friday. Tuchel is aware that testing conditions are likely to be faced in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

• Sweltering heat: Tough conditions at 2026 World Cup

  With FIFA’s flagship event taking place at the height of summer, daytime temperatures are expected to soar. Any teams taking to the field in early kick-offs will have to contend with heat that could rise to 40 degrees Celsius.

  England have tried to replicate those conditions by training in special heated tents, allowing players to get a taste of what is to come. International coaches are, however, prepared to take alternative action in a bid to keep players fresh.

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  Tuchel's plan to leave subs in the dressing room

  Tuchel is already piecing together his plans, with the former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss revealing that he is prepared to let those on his bench stay behind the scenes – in the relative cool of changing areas – until they are required to step onto the pitch.

  Tuchel said while in the States for draw duty: “If this is what helps us later in the match, when they come on, we consider that as a possibility. Nobody likes it, as I want the players to be out here and feel the energy and give the energy from the bench onto the field, but I know (the benefit). I saw teams doing this and players doing this at the Club World Cup. Hopefully we can avoid it. It is always better if they can be with us.”

• Bellingham poser: Will Real Madrid star be selected?

  Questions continue to be asked of who Tuchel will name in his squad. Real Madrid superstar Jude Bellingham has seen some of his behaviour criticised, with the 22-year-old reacting angrily to being replaced by Morgan Rogers during a qualification clash with Albania in November.

  Tuchel said at the time: “That is a bad impression. It should be about the collective. What we did in camp is all about the collective. I have to then review it – I was happy about the goal. I had a quick talk with Morgan Rogers and I was sure that everyone celebrated together. I will have a look at it. That is not the image we want to transport. We feel everyone is committed and that everyone accepts tough decisions, be it before the match or in the match."

  The German added: “He [Bellingham] has to accept it, he has to accept it. We should not make more out of it than it is. Rogers was not happy when he couldn't start today because he deserves to play, and he wants to play all the time. We gave him a bit of a rest because he came with a lot of minutes playing at club [level] and played for us against Serbia. I also don't want to make more out of it. I stick to my words – behaviour is key. Decisions are made, and you have to accept it as a player.”

  Pressed on that issue again, Tuchel said of his focus being elsewhere for now: “It’s pretty clear what happened and I didn’t see it during the match. I think you understand that I’m in Washington now for the World Cup draw, so the subject is not for now.”

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  Trophy target: Can England end 60 years of hurt?

  Bellingham is expected to make the cut, with Tuchel needing the very best players at his disposal to help aid a quest to bring 60 years of pain to a close for England’s men’s national team.

  He said of trying to land a first major international trophy since the 1966 World Cup: “If the players bring that (desire) then I think anything is possible. We will be brave enough to dream about it, we will be brave enough to try it.

  “Everyone knows that we cannot promise that we win it, but they want to see a team, team spirit, a team that gives everything, fights for each other. We are getting closer. I think we are getting stronger and this is the main point. The emphasis will be on the squad and team spirit, and hopefully we get the momentum and we get the energy around the team right so that no-one else wants to play us.”

  England enjoyed faultless progress through their qualification campaign, picking up maximum points from eight fixtures while conceding no goals. They are among the favourites to capture a global crown next summer.

يستعد الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي ريال مدريد لاستكمال مبارياته في الموسم الحالي 2025/2026 بعد الفوز على أولمبياكوس 4-3 ضمن منافسات دوري أبطال أوروبا.

وحل ريال مدريد ضيفًا على أولمبياكوس في اليونان، في المباراة التي تجمعهما ضمن مباريات الجولة الخامسة لمرحلة الدوري، دوري أبطال أوروبا 2025-2026، على ملعب “جورجيوس كارايسكاكيس”.

ودخل ريال مدريد مباراته أمام أولمبياكوس بعدما تعادل مع إلتشي في الدوري الإسباني بنتيجة 2/2 وقدم أداءً باهتًا للغاية على المستويين الدفاعي والهجومي.

ونجح كيليان مبابي في تسجيل ثلاثة أهداف “هاتريك” بقميص ريال مدريد أمام أولمبياكوس ضمن منافسات دوري أبطال أوروبا لقلب تأخر فريقه بهدف إلى التقدم بثلاثة أهداف.

اقرأ أيضًا | يقترب من صلاح.. مبابي يحقق رقمًا قياسيًا بعد تسجيله هاتريك أمام أولمبياكوس

واستطاع مبابي تسجيل أربعة أهداف “سوبر هاتريك”، وحقق رقمًا مميزًا حيث أصبح يمتلك ثاني أسرع هاتريك في دوري أبطال أوروبا في 6 دقائق و42 ثانية.

بتلك النتيجة، رفع ريال مدريد رصيده إلى 12 نقطة بالمركز الخامس في جدول ترتيب دوري أبطال أوروبا. موعد مباراة ريال مدريد وجيرونا في الدوري الإسباني

ومن المقرر أن يواجه الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي ريال مدريد نظيره جيرونا يوم الأحد المقبل في الجولة الثالثة عشر من بطولة الدوري الإسباني.

ويحل ريال مدريد ضيفًا على جيرونا مساء يوم الأحد الموافق 30 من شهر نوفمبر الجاري في تمام الساعة العاشرة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، الحادية عشر بتوقيت مكة المكرمة.

Deepti Sharma’s fifty kept India in the contest but they fell short in the final equation

S Sudarshanan20-Sep-20251:42

Mooney: ‘There’s no ceiling for this group’

Australia 412 (Mooney 138, Voll 81, Perry 68, Reddy 3-86) beat India 369 (Mandhana 125, Deepti 72, Harmanpreet 52, Garth 3-69) by 43 runsCricket was played at a breakneck speed in Delhi on Saturday with close to 800 runs scored at a rate of over eight per over. Australia’s 412 was fuelled by what was then the second-fastest ODI century from Beth Mooney. India – and in particular Smriti Mandhana – came out hunting for both those targets. They got one – Mandhana is now the second-fastest centurion – but India fell just 43 short in the series decider.In the end, Australia protected a proud record of never losing a bilateral ODI series in India as they prepare to defend their crown in exactly these conditions.India fined for slow over rate

India were fined 10% of their match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate. They were ruled to be two overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration. In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC code of conduct, players are fined 5% of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time.

With just ten days to go for the Women’s World Cup 2025, a world record chase was attempted for a second day in a row after Pakistan almost chased down 313 in Lahore on Friday. Faced with a mountainous target of 413, India galloped at a high speed to be placed 204 for 2 in just 20 overs. But Australia gave a reminder of why they are the defending world champions by keeping at it, and striking regularly, to win the series 2-1Riding on a 57-ball century from Mooney and aided with misfields aplenty from India, Australia equalled their highest total. Strange as it may sound, their final total seemed to fall short of what they were likely to score before a late collapse of 6 for 34 ended their innings in 47.5 overs.India’s turbo-charged response was led by vice-captain Mandhana. She added 121 in just 69 balls with captain Harmanpreet Kaur, as Australia searched for ways to plug the flow of runs. It inadvertently came through Harmanpreet’s knee injury break, after which India lost three wickets in 19 balls.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Deepti Sharma, batting at No. 5 in Jemimah Rodrigues’ absence, continued to keep India’s hopes alive with a counter-attacking half-century. She scored a 58-ball 72, and her strike rate of 124.13 was her quickest for a knock above 20 runs. She added 65 off 54 balls for the eighth wicket with Sneh Rana to take India closer to the target. But with 59 needed off 46 balls, she holed out to deep midwicket to dash India’s hopes of a miracle.Mandhana started from where she left off in New Chandigarh, hitting Megan Schutt for three successive fours in the third over. She also greeted her nemesis Ashleigh Gardner with a six and four, before smashing Kim Garth for two fours and a six in the space of five balls. Earlier in the evening, Australia had scored 77 for 1 at the end of the first powerplay – a score India easily surpassed in seven overs. They were 96 for 2 in ten overs, which is the second-highest total in the first powerplay in women’s ODIs.Mandhana showed no signs of slowing down, getting to her half-century in 23 balls, before reaching her hundred in just 50 balls. She bettered her own mark of 77 balls from a few days ago, and also relegated Mooney’s 57-ball effort from earlier in the game to joint third-fastest. At the other end, Harmanpreet showed her silken touch as well as brute force on her way to a 32-ball fifty. But once Harmanpreet and Mandhana fell in consecutive overs, India’s challenge fizzled out.But for India’s fielding missteps earlier in the afternoon, which cost them 26 off 11 balls as per ESPNcricinfo’s logs, the result might have been different. Fielding has been one of the focal points under head coach Amol Muzumdar’s regime, and India looked to have turned a page with a clinical show in England. However, after dropping four catches in the first ODI, India grassed three chances on Saturday.Getty Images

Georgia Voll was the beneficiary of all three – first, when Richa Ghosh was wrongfooted and couldn’t hang on to the outside edge in the seventh over, and then twice by Radha Yadav. First on 23 when Radha only got her fingertips to a powerful swipe at square leg, and then on 36 when Radha misjudged the pace of Voll’s flick and was late on the jump at midwicket. Voll scored 81 before top-edging a sweep to substitute Uma Chetry at short fine leg.The tone was set early by captain Alyssa Healy, who wanted India to “run around in the heat”, and opted to bat. She attacked India’s new-ball bowlers and Australia managed to hit two fours in each of the first five overs. Kranti Goud then dismissed her for the third time in three games but Voll kept attacking, with Ellyse Perry offering stability during a fluent innings of her own.After Voll’s fall in the 22nd over, Mooney came in and never let the momentum shift. She found gaps at will, used the crease well to access empty parts of the field, and got to her fourth ODI century. The highlight of her innings was how she kept going in the hot and humid conditions, and scoring at a high rate while taking minimum risks. She added 106 from 72 balls with Perry, and then 82 off 46 with Gardner, to set the platform for Australia to post the highest total in women’s ODIs against India.It was only the seventh time a team crossed the 400-mark in women’s ODIs. That India responded with a strong challenge and posted the highest total in a chase in this format will give them solace with a World Cup on the horizon.

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A cadeira mais alta da CBF se tornou palco de mais uma confusão. O último presidente da entidade, Ednaldo Rodrigues, foi destituído do cargo na quinta-feira (7), por meio de decisão judicial. O motivo seria a ilegitimidade das eleições que o possibilitaram chegar à presidência. Mas Ednaldo é apenas mais um de uma longa lista de ex-mandatários da CBF envolvidos em polêmicas.

EDNALDO RODRIGUES

No caso mais recente da CBF, Ednaldo foi deposto do cargo de presidente da entidade após decisão da 21ª Câmara de Direito Privado do Tribunal de Justiça do Rio de Janeiro. De acordo com os desembargadores, o TAC, Termo de Acordo de Conduta, feito entre o Ministério Público (MP) e a CBF é ilegal, pelo fato de o MP não ter legitimidade para atuar em assuntos internos da confederação. O órgão público não poderia interferir no tema por se tratar de uma entidade privada, segundo a decisão.

O processo corre na Justiça há mais de um ano e diz respeito ao TAC. O documento foi um facilitador para a eleição que permitiu Ednaldo Rodrigues chegar ao cargo de presidente da confederação. Mas alguns vices da gestão anterior questionam a legitimidade do acordo.

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RICARDO TEIXEIRA

O nome mais antigo dessa lista é Ricardo Teixeira, ex-presidente da CBF e ex-membro do Comitê Executivo da Fifa, foi investigado e condenado por suborno. A pena para o dirigente foi o banimento de qualquer atividade relacionada ao futebol, a nível nacional e internacional.

Teixeira foi presidente da CBF de 1989 a 2012, mas os casos investigados se referem ao período entre 2006 e 2012. O então presidente possuía papel importante na negociação de contratos de direitos de mídia e marketing relacionados a torneios da CBF, Concacaf e Conmebol.

JOSÉ MARIA MARÍN

José Maria Marin foi condenado na Justiça americana por seis crimes relacionados a sua gestão à frente da CBF. Em 2015, o ex-presidente da entidade foi detido em um hotel de Zurique (SUI) e extraditado meses depois para os Estados Unidos, onde cumpriu prisão domiciliar até o julgamento, em dezembro de 2017. Marin foi considerado culpado pelos crimes de organização criminosa, fraude bancária (3x) e lavagem de dinheiro (2x).

A condenação veio apenas em agosto de 2018, quando José Maria Marin recebeu a pena de quatros de prisão, pelos crimes cometidos entre 2012 e 2015 – período em que esteve como presidente da CBF.

Os crimes cometidos pelo ex-mandatário tinham relação com a negociação de contratos comerciais da Copa Libertadores da América e Copa América. O ex-dirigente foi absolvido das acusações sobre corrupção nos contratos da Copa do Brasil.

MARCO POLO DEL NERO

A punição de Marco Polo Del Nero segue a mesma linha do seu antecessor no cargo, José Maria Marin. Na investigação que levou à prisão de Marin, o seu sucessor também foi citado pelo recebimento de propina em contratos relacionados a competições sul-americanas. No entanto, a investigação ocorreu nos Estados Unidos e desde que foi mencionado, o ex-presidente da entidade não deixou mais o Brasil – onde não é investigado.

A investigação norte-americana dá conta de que o ex-presidente da entidade recebeu suborno de US$ 6,5 milhões em troca de beneficiar empresas de marketing esportivo. As primeiras punições para Marco Polo foram duas suspensões por 45 e 90 dias. Na sequência, o ex-dirigente foi banido de todas as atividades relacionadas ao futebol.

ROGÉRIO CABOCLO

O último presidente antes de Ednaldo Rodrigues assumir, Rogério Caboclo foi afastado de suas atividades relacionadas a CBF após ser acusado de assédio sexual. Duas ex-funcionárias da entidade acusaram formalmente o então presidente de assédio moral e sexual.

As denúncias aconteceram em 2021 e Caboclo foi suspenso pela Comissão de Ética por 21 meses – medida confirmada pela Assembleia Geral da CBF. No início de 2022, Caboclo foi afastado definitivamente da entidade e Ednaldo Rodrigues assumiu o cargo.

CINCO PRESIDENTES ENVOLVIDOS EM POLÊMICAS

Os últimos cinco representantes do posto mais alto da Confederação Brasileira de Futebol estão envolvidos em polêmicas. Entre condenações e afastamentos, o cargo se mostra como alvo de disputa política dentro da própria entidade. Mas é válido ressaltar que Ednaldo Rodrigues ainda pode recorrer da situação e provar a legitimidade de sua eleição.

Newcastle United have now discovered the extent of Tino Livramento’s injury and whether he suffered an ACL blow ahead of a spell on the sidelines.

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Nick Woltemade has enjoyed an excellent start to life in Tyneside and, as such, questions have arrived for Bayern Munich. The Bundesliga giants failed to secure the German’s signature in the summer, allowing Newcastle to swoop ahead and finally sign the striker they needed, but those in Bavaria have insisted that they wouldn’t have paid as much as £69m.

Ex-chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge even told reporters: “I can only congratulate those in Stuttgart for finding – I’ll use quotation marks here – an idiot who paid that much money. Because we certainly wouldn’t have done that in Munich!”

It’s strangely-timed criticism of a deal that is quite clearly working out for all parties so far and Eddie Howe reiterated that he’s pleased with Woltemade’s early goalscoring form.

The towering forward was once again at the top of his game against Union Saint-Gilloise in the Champions League, opening the scoring for the Magpies with his third strike in six games before they went on to seal a comfortable 4-0 victory.

It’s a week that needed to include a positive note following Arsenal’s late victory at St James’ Park on Sunday and, ultimately, one that also delivered some fairly positive news on Livramento.

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As reported by Sky Sports’ Keith Downie, Tino Livramento has avoided an ACL rupture and will now miss the next 6-8 weeks for Newcastle. After seeking a second opinion, the news will come as a huge relief for the Magpies, given that there were initial fears that the England international had suffered the second ACL injury of his career.

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Whilst this still means that Livramento will likely miss the next 10 Newcastle games, an ACL rupture would have ended his season altogether and all but ended his chances of returning to full fitness in time to make Thomas Tuchel’s 2026 England World Cup squad.

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Missing three Champions League games and seven in the Premier League, Livramento is likely to return around the end of November when Newcastle travel to the Hill Dickinson for the first time to face Everton.

Everton left it late but secured a dramatic 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon thanks to Jack Grealish’s stoppage-time strike.

The win ended Palace’s remarkable 19-match unbeaten run, dating back to April, and kept momentum building under David Moyes.

However, while the result lifted the Toffees into eighth place on 11 points, the performance was far from convincing, with two summer signings failing to impose themselves on the game.

For long stretches, Everton were second best, trailing at the break after Daniel Muñoz’s first-half finish.

David Moyes’ side lacked tempo and fluency in possession, forcing the manager into half-time changes.

The introduction of Carlos Alcaraz and Beto injected fresh energy, but it was Grealish who ultimately delivered the decisive blow, scoring in the 93rd minute to cap off a memorable turnaround.

Everton can take confidence from their resilience, but questions remain over two new faces who were hauled off at the interval.

Barry’s subdued performance against Palace

Much was expected of Thierno Barry following his £27.6m summer move from Villarreal.

The France U21 international had impressed in Spain, scoring 11 goals and supplying four assists last season.

At 6 foot 5, his aerial dominance stood out. Barry’s physical profile drew comparisons to Dušan Vlahović and Ollie Watkins, offering Everton a forward capable of stretching defences and leading the line.

But against Palace, those strengths were nowhere to be seen.

Barry touched the ball just 19 times, completed only four of his eight passes, and failed to register a shot.

His attempts to dribble past opponents – two in total – both ended unsuccessfully, while he surrendered possession ten times.

Barry vs Crystal Palace
Minutes	45
Shots	0
Passing Accuracy	50%
Ground Duels Lost	4
Possession Lost	10
Source: Sofascore

Substituted at half-time for Beto, it was a sobering reminder that he will need time to adapt to the physicality and tempo of the Premier League.

Moyes himself has acknowledged Barry will require a bedding-in period, but with expectations high and Everton looking to sustain their push for Europe, patience may wear thin if his output doesn’t improve soon.

Everton star was as bad as Barry

While Barry’s struggles were evident, he was not the only Everton player to falter.

Tyler Dibling, the club’s marquee £42m summer signing from Southampton, also endured a frustrating evening.

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Much was expected of the 19-year-old England U21 international, who arrived after interest from Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham, and Bayern Munich.

Everton had pursued him for months, and his signing was viewed as a statement of intent.

Dibling’s pedigree is clear. Last season, he made 33 Premier League appearances for Southampton, scoring twice and assisting once across 1,874 minutes.

His statistical profile stood out – ranking in the 92nd percentile for fouls drawn (2.49 per 90), 98th percentile for penalty kicks won (0.10 per 90), and 81st percentile for successful take-ons (2.16 per 90).

He also impressed defensively, sitting in the 88th percentile for tackles in the middle third (0.86 per 90) and 98th percentile for percentage of dribblers tackled (61.5%).

In short, he is a winger capable of carrying the ball and working hard out of possession.

But his Palace display told a different story. Dibling managed only 19 touches and completed six of his seven passes. He attempted three dribbles without success, lost possession eight times, won 30% of his duels and failed to register a single shot.

Withdrawn for Alcaraz at the break, it was a day to forget for a teenager still adjusting to his new surroundings.

Everton’s investment in Dibling reflected a determination to strengthen the right-hand side following the departures of Jack Harrison and Jesper Lindstrøm.

Moyes wants a winger who can combine industry with end product, and Dibling has the tools to be that player.

But against Palace, he struggled to impact the game in either half of the pitch.

With matches against Manchester City and a packed festive schedule looming, Everton will need more from their high-profile recruit or he can expect to find himself dropped to the bench again.

The raw talent is undeniable, but his first few weeks in blue have shown that even the most promising prospects can take time to settle.

Elsewhere, Palace may point to fatigue following their midweek Europa League trip to Dynamo Kyiv, but Everton will be encouraged by their fighting spirit.

Grealish’s winner showed the difference a match-winner can make – a lesson both Barry and Dibling will be eager to learn as they adapt to life under Moyes.

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