Personal terms agreed: Newcastle trump Chelsea as £60m star accepts salary

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Newcastle United have now moved ahead of Chelsea in the race to sign a £60 million star with a bid now being prepared and salary terms already agreed, according to a recent report.

Rashford among Newcastle targets as Howe seeks new forwards

The Magpies have added just one new player to their squad so far this summer, and that is winger Antonio Cordero, who joins the club on a free transfer at the start of July following the expiration of his contract at Malaga. Cordero is not expected to be the only arrival at St James’ Park, as the Magpies continue to be linked with several high-profile players.

Big upgrade on Burn: Newcastle open talks to sign "outstanding" £60m star

Newcastle are looking to overhaul their defence

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It was reported earlier this week that Newcastle made contact over signing defender Evan Ndicka from AS Roma. Newcastle are in the market for a new central defender, as they’ve been heavily linked with a move for Marc Guehi, but Ndicka is another option who could come at a cheaper price.

Meanwhile, they are also in the market for attacking reinforcements, and they have held internal talks over signing Mohammed Kudus from West Ham, as the forward is free to leave the Premier League side.

In fresh news, Newcastle are now also interested in signing Marcus Rashford on a season-long loan deal.

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The Englishman’s future at Old Trafford looks to be coming to an end but he has yet to receive any concrete offers to leave United. The Magpies are now weighing up making a loan bid, as they can offer Rashford Champions League football, but the Red Devils are more interested in selling Rashford this summer than loaning him out again.

Newcastle move ahead of Chelsea in Joao Pedro race

As such, a permanent move for Rashford may not be on the cards for the Magpies, as according to Brazilian outlet UOL Esporte, Newcastle are now preparing a bid to sign Joao Pedro from Brighton & Hove Albion.

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The report states that the Magpies have moved ahead of Premier League rivals Chelsea in the race to sign Pedro, as they have already agreed personal terms with the forward. However, Chelsea’s interest in Pedro has reportedly ‘shaken’ the player, and now both clubs are preparing to make an official offer.

It isn’t clear how much Newcastle would be willing to spend on Pedro, but it’s been previously reported that Brighton value the forward at around £60 million. The 23-year-old scored 10 goals in 27 league games during the 2024/25 season, but a falling out at the club means he is now likely to leave during this summer transfer window.

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Newcastle chasing Pedro may be seen as them looking to replace Alexander Isak, but Pedro being able to operate anywhere across the frontline as, well as a number 10, makes him a player who could be a perfect partner for the Swede.

The Brazilian has had back-to-back impressive campaigns in the Premier League now, and a move to Newcastle could accelerate his career further, as he will be able to play on the biggest stage of them all, the Champions League.

WATCH: Leaked video shows Myles Lewis-Skelly's excitement at Viktor Gyokeres' Arsenal transfer as England starlet copies striker's iconic celebration

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A leaked video appears to show Myles Lewis-Skelly reacting excitedly to Viktor Gyokeres' impending move to Arsenal.

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Just as Arsenal close in on a deal worth £54.8m (€63.1m/$74.2m) plus £8.6m (€9.9m/$11.7m) in add-ons for the Sporting CP star, Gunners left-back Lewis-Skelly has been caught on film imitating the Swede's iconic celebration. The England international can be seen showing a photo of Fabrizio Romano's 'Here We Go' tweet on Gyokeres and celebrating the news with gusto.

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Barring any last-minute hiccups, this is a statement signing from Arsenal. Gyokeres scored a remarkable 97 goals in 102 games for Sporting following his move from Championship side Coventry City in 2023 and is regarded as one of the world's best centre-forwards. Many have claimed that the Gunners need a top striker to finally help them end their 21-year Premier League title drought, and now they may have the final piece of the puzzle to make that possible.

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It may just be a matter of time before the 27-year-old Sweden international joins Arsenal this summer, with the ex-Brighton man expected to sign a long-term contract with Mikel Arteta's men until 2030.

Keep wickets in hand or go hard? A look at the first 25 years of ODI history

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A look at how ODI cricket before 2005 approached the question of risking wickets efficiently to score the highest possible total

Kartikeya Date07-Jun-2019Limited-overs cricket, in the form of the Gillette Cup in 1963, came about due to a perceived crisis in attendances for County Championship matches in England in the 1960s. By the end of the 1960s, international cricket was similarly in crisis. The D’Oliveira affair had led to the cancellation of South Africa’s 1970 tour to England. Apartheid South Africa were banned from the international game. Consequently, only six Tests were played worldwide in all of 1970. When the first three days of the Melbourne Ashes Test which began on the last day of 1970 were rained out, the authorities decided to abandon the Test and instead hold a single-innings match between England and Australia with 40 eight-ball overs per innings. This was the first one-day international.The four-innings game is one of control, where the bowlers try to dismiss batsmen who try to avoid being dismissed. Scoring rates and dismissal rates in that format have remained more or less stable over more than a century. Periods where teams have tried to score quickly have also been periods where wickets fall more quickly. The contest between bat and ball is optimally balanced in the four-innings contest.In contrast, the limited-overs game is a contest of efficiency. Given a certain number of deliveries, how efficiently can a batting side risk its wickets to score the highest possible total? Similarly, what kind of bowling attack is best equipped to restrict opponents to the smallest possible total, given a certain number of deliveries? Over the 48 years since 1971, different answers have been offered to these questions.The graph below shows the batting average, dismissal rate and economy rate in ODI cricket history, with increments of 200 matches as markers. ODI teams’ quest for efficiency has meant that while a wicket fell every 40 balls and roughly four runs were scored per over in the first 200 ODI games, in the most recent 200 ODI games, the corresponding figures are 35 balls and five runs per over. Broadly, ODI teams today are prepared to “spend” a wicket every six overs instead of one every seven overs in the early days, and to produce an extra run every over compared to the early days. Another way to think about this is that while batting teams spent between seven and eight wickets on average over the course of their allotted overs in the early days, today they spend between eight and nine wickets on average.These changes have not come about evenly. Nor have they been only a consequence of players learning to think differently. The ICC has, especially in recent years, updated the rules governing the ODI game several times to modify the incentives available (especially) to batsmen. The consequences of these rule changes are evident in the record. The history of limited-overs cricket has been the history of a continuing quest for an elusive equilibrium.Since its inception, and especially since administrators felt compelled to treat the game as a cash cow rather than as a sport that needs to produce an income in order to thrive, the ODI format has struggled with striking a balance between being a contest and being exciting. Creating a predetermined finite length for each team innings (be it 65, 60, 55, 50, 45, 40 or 20 overs) creates peculiar, often perverse, incentives for bowlers and batsmen. The imperative to provide excitement and entertainment meant that rational competitive choices made by batting and bowling sides in circumstances where there was too little time to provide the bowling side with the leverage to attack the batsmen produced stalemates – especially in the middle of the innings, when batsmen had an incentive to keep wickets in hand and bowlers had an incentive to keep the run-scoring in check with a ball that was no longer new. Ultimately, this stalemate is what led to the Powerplay era.Runs and balls per wicket and runs per over, through ODI history•Kartikeya Date/ESPNcricinfo LtdIn the early years, ODIs were considered secondary to the main event of Test cricket on international tours, and as a consequence, ODIs were infrequent. The 200th ODI was the opening game of the 1983 World Cup. The tournament marked the elevation of ODI cricket into a format on its own terms. The first 200 ODIs took just over 12 years. The next 200 took only three. By 1994, over a hundred ODIs were being played each year. The high point of ODI cricket was in the run-up to the 2007 World Cup, just before the emergence of T20.West Indies dominated limited-overs cricket in these early years. They had an outstanding attack and the best limited-overs batsman in the world by some distance. By the time Viv Richards played his final limited-overs game, in May 1991, he had compiled 6721 runs at an average of 47 and a scoring rate of 90. The average middle-order batsman scored at 70 runs per hundred balls during the first 20 years of ODI cricket. Richards was ahead of his time in a way no batsman has since approached. Every other top limited-overs middle-order batsman of his era scored at a rate between 65 and 78 runs per hundred balls faced. Saleem Malik and Zaheer Abbas were exceptional in that they scored at a rate in the mid-’80s. Kapil Dev scored at a run a ball, which he achieved at the cost of consistency, compared to Richards: he averaged 21 runs fewer than Richards per dismissal.ALSO READ: Is Kohli up there with Richards and Tendulkar as an ODI batsman?Openers tended to be even more cautious. They scored at a rate between 50 and 70 runs per hundred balls faced during those first 20 years. This was the orthodoxy of the time, borrowed from first-class and Test cricket, in which the new ball was respected and the role of the batsman early in an innings was to preserve their wicket so that the middle-order batsmen could make hay when the conditions were more favourable. This was the logic of control operating in a contest of efficiency. The operating question was not “How do we spend the ten wickets we have over 50 overs most efficiently to produce the highest possible total?” Rather, it was “How do we ensure that we preserve as many of our wickets for as long as possible?”The first great theorist of the international limited-overs game was Bobby Simpson. It is debatable how much of his reputation was due to Australia’s success in the 1987 World Cup and how much of expertise was the basis of that success. Simpson was Australia head coach for nearly a decade, a period that included three World Cups. In his book , published in 1996, Simpson laid out his three-point theory of ODI cricket:1. The team that scores at a run-a-ball wins nearly all its games.
2. Australia would target 100 from the first 25 overs, and a run a ball thereafter, including at least 60 in the final ten overs.
3. Wickets in hand were essential for the final 15 overs of the innings.As plans go, this was a succinct statement of the advanced orthodoxy of his day. Simpson also held that batting teams should target 100 singles in 300 balls, and bowling sides should try to keep this figure down to two figures. Keeping wickets in hand for the final 15 overs was a popular idea. The premise was that while a game could be lost in the first half of the innings, it could not be won.Imran Khan and Javed Miandad manned the Pakistan middle order in the middle overs to set the table for Saleem Malik and others (including, later, Inzamam-ul-Haq) to score quicker in the last few overs of the innings. Sachin Tendulkar reported that when Ajit Wadekar and Mohammad Azharuddin sent him up the order in New Zealand in 1994, Wadekar told him that he expected India to reach 100 by the 25th over.Simpson presented the thinking in his day in the form of an explicit plan. It allowed him to persuade his team to improve their ground fielding because this helped with keeping the number of singles down. It made thinking about efficiency possible by creating avenues for improvement.The big problem still lay with openers. This was the central tactical innovation of the 1990s.The graph below shows the scoring rates for openers and Nos. 3 and 4 through the history ODI cricket, with increments of 200 matches as markers. The scoring rate of openers began to catch up with that of the middle-order engine room by the mid-1990s. If considered by year, 1996 was the first year in which ODI openers scored quicker than the batsmen batting at three and four. The evident inefficiency in the 1980s approach to opening the batting (and the use of wickets as resources to be spent more generally) was addressed in three ways during the 1990s. Two of these were successful, the third was arguably not.Batting strike rate in ODIs through history•Kartikeya Date/ESPNcricinfo LtdThe first approach, which is arguably the best known, was to take advantage of the fielding restrictions imposed during the first 15 overs of the innings (a legacy of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket) by granting a licence to one or both openers to chance their arm. Romesh Kaluwitharana and Sanath Jayasuriya, a wicketkeeper and a spin-bowling lower-order batsman, did this most famously for Sri Lanka in the mid-’90s. Jayasuriya went on to become one of the outstanding limited-overs openers of all time.Martin Crowe’s New Zealand side of 1992 is often heralded as a path-breaking ODI team. They opened the bowling with the offspinner Dipak Patel and the batting with a pinch-hitter, Mark Greatbatch, who had a great World Cup in that role. He made 313 runs in seven innings at 88 runs per hundred balls faced. After the tournament his form fell away and he made only 909 further runs in his ODI career, at a strike rate of 65. Greatbatch’s World Cup success might be considered to owe as much to form in home conditions as to his approach. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, for instance, made 248 runs in seven innings at a strike rate of 83 during the 1987 World Cup, well above his career rate of 72 runs per hundred balls. During their brief purple patches at the top of the order, Srikkanth and Greatbatch demonstrated that it was possible for the opener to take advantage of the fielding restrictions.Pinch-hitting was not the only approach to exploiting inefficiencies in the first half of the innings. A second approach was based on the idea that, given an innings lasted only 50 overs, it made great sense to ensure that the best batsman in the side had the opportunity to face most of those overs, since he would exploit those 50 overs most efficiently more often than any other player. This meant that the best batsman in the side – typically the one who batted at three, four or five in the Test batting order – would open the batting in the limited-overs side. Inzamam and Brian Lara were sent up to open the batting under this theory, as were Mark Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar. Contra Simpson, the reasoning here was that given only 50 overs, there was no point in protecting the best batsman from the new ball, as one would in a Test match.The third, and most common approach, was the conventional one. It involved using the Test opener as the limited-overs opener. The majority of ODI openers in the 1990s were also Test openers. They had mixed success as Test and ODI openers, but played in both formats as openers.ALSO READ: The three phases of Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI battingTendulkar was the outstanding opener of this period. He was as far ahead of his contemporaries as Richards was in his day. No player could match the speed and certainty of his run production. Virender Sehwag, Jayasuriya, Adam Gilchrist and Shahid Afridi scored quicker than Tendulkar, but this cost them at least ten runs in batting average compared to him.To illustrate this, consider that Tendulkar’s average contribution as opener was 49 in 55 balls. The next best player was arguably Gilchrist, whose average contribution was 36 in 38 balls. If you prefer consistency to power, then the next best player was arguably Lara, whose average contribution was 47 in 63 balls.The chart below shows the records of Richards and Tendulkar relative to their contemporaries. Richards’ record spans a career of 167 matches. The first 15 years of Tendulkar’s record spans 241 matches.Kartikeya Date/ESPNcricinfo LtdThe table below lists all ODI openers who scored at least 1500 runs at the top of the batting order from 1990 to May 2005 (when the Powerplay era began). The pinch-hitting openers are in green, the best-player openers are in blue, and the conventional openers are on a white background.

The pursuit of efficiency was not limited to the batting side of things. Teams were considering how to squeeze out more runs from the batting order. This led to the keeper-batsman becoming an increasingly valued figure. India took this idea as far as it could go by relying on Rahul Dravid to keep wicket so that they could play the extra batsman.The bowler who could hit the ball hard also emerged during this period as a specialist limited-overs allrounder. Chris Harris, Abdul Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood, Lance Klusener, Nicky Boje, Ian Harvey, Brad Hogg, and Shahid Afridi built an identity as players of this sort, distinct from their success (or lack of it) in the Test team. Others like Shaun Pollock were world-class all-format allrounders.This tendency to look for players who could contribute with the bat, in addition to their primary skill as a bowler or wicketkeeper, had an important consequence. It created bowling attacks in which nearly half the bowlers were picked with one eye on their ability to bat. This meant that bowling attacks were no longer capable of challenging batsmen’s defences for most of the 50 overs. Teams would try to take wickets with the new ball if the conditions permitted, and then with a great spinner or first-change fast bowler (Allan Donald was the best example).But beyond that, the name of the game was restriction. Once the field-setting constraints were lifted after 15 overs, the game settled into a pattern where the batting side was content to milk the bowling and accept whatever uncontested runs might be offered by the spread-out field (unless the bowling was rank bad), and the bowling side was content to keep a lid on things. The bowlers would be accurate but generally non-threatening. (Kumar Dharmasena, now a distinguished Test umpire, was a great example of this type of bowler.) With resources saved up, batting sides would then attempt to explode during the last 10-15 overs of the innings.This stalemate came to be known as the “middle-overs problem”. In 2005, the ICC decided to change the rules to try and disturb the stalemate. Over ten years from 2005 to 2015, the rules were changed frequently in pursuit of the perfect formula that would sustain excitement.The first team that dominated ODI cricket had batsmen whose job was to bat and bowlers whose job was to take wickets. When opponents got to face Richards or Larry Gomes when batting against West Indies in an ODI innings, this was viewed as a respite from having to fight for survival. Absent such depth in bowling, teams decided to compromise. Specialist bowlers and batsmen gave way to allrounders. This produced a contest in which neither batsman nor bowler felt the need to look for more than that which was being offered by the opponent. The ICC’s efforts to tackle this will be the subject of the second part of this essay.

Ravindra hopes to do 'what's true to us' with odds stacked against New Zealand

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Rachin Ravindra, with his heroics at the 2023 ODI World Cup and experience at the IPL, will be expected to do well in India

Ashish Pant14-Oct-2024Rachin Ravindra admits that winning a Test series in India is an extremely difficult task, but is hopeful that his recent white-ball success in the country coupled with New Zealand’s experience of playing in the subcontinent recently could stand them in good stead in the three-Test series, starting in Bengaluru from October 16.Ravindra had a breakthrough 2023 ODI World Cup in India where he scored 578 runs in ten innings, which included three hundreds and two fifties. An IPL contract with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) followed, and Ravindra suddenly found himself in the thick of things.”Although it is different formats, it gives you confidence that you can perform in this part of the world, although conditions will most likely be different,” Ravindra said on Monday. “It’s more, I guess, managing the crowd and the expectations of the people because we know how passionate Indian people are about cricket.Related

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“It feels like if you’re able to do it a couple of times, hopefully you’ll be able to do it in a Test series and, look, I think it’s a different challenge entirely and it’s something I’m really looking forward to. It’s always special to come back to India and play. Those two tournaments [ODI World Cup and IPL] were amazing, the crowds and the passion and the hype and the buzz around them, so I’m excited to have a fully-fledged three-match Test series here.”After a bit of a false start to his Test career, Ravindra has had a fairly successful year in the longest format with 599 runs in six Tests in 2024 at 49.91, including a top score of 240 against South Africa.The same, however, can’t be said about New Zealand in general, whose World Test Championship (WTC) campaign has nosedived after the two wins at the start of the year against a second-string South Africa. They lost a home Test series to Australia before going down 2-0 in Sri Lanka. Spin has largely been New Zealand’s undoing in this WTC cycle, but Ravindra wants to take all the learnings and positives from the Sri Lanka series and is hopeful his side can come up with a better show in India.”India have always been a quality side, I guess the brand of cricket they play is very positive, especially in their own conditions, they know how to play,” Ravindra said. “They’ve grown up on these wickets and their players, the way they’ve evolved over the last few years has been amazing.”For us, it’s [about] playing our game and doing what’s true to us. I think we did some really good stuff during the Sri Lankan series as well, obviously came on the wrong end of the stick and the wrong side of the win-and-loss column there, but I think as a group there were times where we actually really pushed. That first Test was close and we played the way we wanted to in certain moments, but I think we’ve got to understand that we’ve got to do it for long periods of time because that’s what Test-match cricket is about.”As New Zealanders, we don’t necessarily try and look at the opposition too much; we know what a quality side they [India] are and what they bring to the table. But I think if we’re able to play our game and be consistent and put our best foot forward, hopefully that will result in a win, who knows?”While the pitches in India are unlikely to do New Zealand any favours, the weather in Bengaluru might help them feel at home. It’s been overcast and damp here over the last few days, and the forecast for the first Test suggests heavy cloud cover and rain. The pitch at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, too, has been under covers for a fair bit.Does that then bring New Zealand into the game a bit more?”I guess a bit of rain around, a bit of overcast conditions, looking at the wicket, it might not turn as much as what we might expect in Mumbai maybe, but I think the quality of the wicket, the quality of their bowlers, the quality of our bowlers, I think that will decide the make-up of the game,” Ravindra said. “Whether it turns, I don’t know, I guess we’ll only find out… it might not turn first, second day, we’ll only find out third, fourth, fifth day. It’s important for us as a group to play what’s in front of us and not come into this game with preconceived notions or ideas of what it looks like.”I think we did some really good stuff during the Sri Lankan series as well”•AFP/Getty Images

“We know what Test cricket in India is, but we know the quality of the Indian fast bowling set-up too, so it’s not like they’re just going to produce a rank turner, you know, they’re quality [fast] bowlers too.”It is a sort of homecoming for Ravindra. His father played a decent level of cricket in Bengaluru before settling down in New Zealand. Ravindra still has plenty of family in the city and expects them to turn up for the Test.”Yeah, it’s cool,” Ravindra said. “Obviously when I was here last, well I guess it was IPL and then before that it was the ODI World Cup, so two pretty cool experiences to have, part of two very good teams.”But I guess it’s something different about playing a Test match. You’re here for five days and it’s tradition, and I guess it makes it extra significant just because of the family connection. For me, I was born and brought up in Wellington, I’m a Kiwi all the way through. It’s amazing and I’m very proud of my Indian heritage and to be able to play where a lot of my family is based is something pretty special.”There’ll be a bunch of them in the crowd and I know Dad will be here watching, so those moments, you pinch yourself on the journey and for this, it’s definitely one of them.”

The five days that lifted Prithvi Shaw out of his rut

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After a poor IPL in 2020 and being dropped in Australia and for the England series, the Delhi Capitals opener went back to the drawing board with Pravin Amre

Nagraj Gollapudi15-Apr-2021Sunil Gavaskar was impressed with a shot Prithvi Shaw played during his explosive 72 last weekend, which got the Delhi Capitals off to a winning start in the 2021 IPL. It was a simple steer off Shardul Thakur, the Chennai Super Kings fast bowler, which went between the two fielders at short third man and backward point. “If he can control the bat speed like he did [on] this particular boundary, well, the sky is the limit,” Gavaskar said.Only last December, Gavaskar had been critical of 21-year-old Shaw, who had failed in both innings of the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and spent the rest of the series on the bench. “You can see he is pushing at deliveries,” Gavaskar said, going over Shaw’s dismissals leading up to and including that Adelaide Test for Channel 7 at the time. “He is playing with hard hands. Have a look where his bat ends up: there is a such a big gap between bat and pad.”The trick is to try and play as close to the pads as possible, which means your bat speed has to be minimal, minimal, at the start of the innings.”Related

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Before he got to Australia, Shaw had been dropped by the Capitals late in the second half of the last IPL after averaging under 18 over 13 games. Earlier this month, Ricky Ponting, the Capitals head coach, revealed Shaw did not want to train in the nets last season. “When he’s not scoring runs, he won’t bat [in the nets],” Ponting said.Shaw was dropped for the home series against England. Shubman Gill, who replaced him in Australia, had firmed up his position as Rohit Sharma’s opening partner for India in Tests. Shaw’s short Test career had already hit its first snag. He faced questions over not just his technique but also about his temperament and his physical fitness.In the first few weeks of March, Shaw made headlines again – for quite different reasons. Captaining Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, he shattered multiple records to help the domestic giants win the title. He became the first batsman in the tournament’s history to score over 800 runs in a season. Now he seems to have brought that form into the IPL.

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Pravin Amre has known Shaw since he was as tall as a bat.

The former Mumbai and India batsman was instrumental in Shaw getting a corporate scholarship from Air India, with whom Amre has been employed for more than two decades. When he was 13, Shaw scored a record 546 in a Mumbai schools cricket game, which earned him a hand-written letter from Gavaskar advising him to be “run-hungry always” and saying that a “century is just the first course”.Amre watched Shaw’s struggles last IPL as part of a rival franchise, the Mumbai Indians, with whom he was working as a talent scout at the time, having given up his assistant coach role at the Delhi Capitals to do so. When the Capitals came knocking again after the last season, offering Amre the role of deputy to Ponting, he joined them again.The franchise wanted Amre to work closely with their key players during the off season to ensure they were ready both technically and mentally for the IPL. It was the sort of thing Amre did last year with the likes of Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan for the Mumbai Indians.Pravin Amre: “I told [Shaw], if you can’t help yourself, then even God cannot help you” (file photo)•Santosh Harhare/Hindustan Times/Getty ImagesShaw turned out to be Amre’s first project back at the Capitals. “I understand what a player goes through when he is dropped,” Amre says. “We just wanted to let him know that we [Capitals] are here. We also wanted to know from him what he wants.” The two met in February in Mumbai and chalked out a plan for a five-day training course before Shaw left to play in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.After their chat, Shaw took a trip to Shirdi, a famous temple in Maharashtra, about 250km north-east of Mumbai, before getting down to brass tacks.”He agreed that he had to work on his batting,” Amre says. “He wanted to improve. I showed him the mirror. I told him: Where are you right now? You have been dropped from the Test team. You did not even have a par performance last IPL. You have just experienced failure, so how are you going to bounce back? The one thing that is in your [favour] is you are 21 years old.”Amre told Shaw plainly that this IPL was a make-or-break season for him, especially keeping the mega auction in 2022 in mind. “I told him simply that his talent will not be considered by the franchises, only his performance will help him to survive.”I told him, you are going to seek blessings [to Shirdi], but if you can’t help yourself, then even God cannot help you. You have to work hard on your game and the franchise will help you.” Amre also assured Shaw that he was not looking to temper the natural aggression that is the backbone of his batting.Shaw gets bowled in the Adelaide Test last year. Sunil Gavaskar and others noted how he was leaving a large space between bat and pad at the time•Getty ImagesFor the training sessions Amre picked the familiar surroundings of Shivaji Park, among the grounds in Mumbai where Shaw cut his teeth during his time in schools and age-group cricket. The first day Amre recorded Shaw’s batting from various angles.”There are a few things that are part of the batsman’s set-up when he is in form,” Amre says. “One is playing with a full bat face. And when you are not, the bat face becomes closed. He was convinced he was not playing with the full face, so we decided to focus on doing drills that would help him regain that.”Amre had closely studied Shaw’s batting in the 2020 season. “First thing I convinced him about was, there were very few deliveries [he faced] that were actually wicket-taking last IPL. There was an error in judgement. There was an error in shot execution. There was an error in feet position. Or there was an error in shot selection.”Hand position and footwork are the basics of batting set-up. Both influence the impact point. He was getting bowled or caught behind mostly due to that.”In the last IPL, Shaw was caught behind and caught in the field four times apiece, bowled and caught and bowled twice each, and stumped once. “I showed how he could have been in a better position at times,” Amre says, “what should be the impact point to avoid the caught-behind and how he could move his feet.”ESPNcricinfo LtdShaw’s high backlift had come into focus as his failures multiplied, but Amre pointed out that the problem was in the way the bat was coming down – there was a bit of a jerk as it descended. Amre worked with Shaw to help him bring the bat down like a golfer who hits the driver with a high backlift but in one smooth action. Back in his room, Shaw shadow-practised it, watching himself in the mirror as he did.”The bat-swing is always behind the batsman’s eyes,” Amre says. “He is looking at the bowler. He does not understand how the bat is coming down.”Unknowingly, [Shaw’s] bat-swing was coming down at an angle. So I brought that bat-swing slightly closer to his body, more straight. The backlift coming from the [direction of gully] was not the issue, it was how it was coming down.”The other issue was, Shaw was not moving his feet adequately, which meant there was no weight transfer. “While playing, his base was not stable,” Amre says. “I worked out drills where he started to move his feet quickly.”As the training proceeded, Shaw began to analyse his hand position, how close the bat was coming to his body, and whether he was moving his feet into the trigger position when the bowler was ready to deliver.On the final day of the five, Shaw hit his favourite stroke, the pull, with confidence. That was the shot that had let him down more than once last IPL. Given it is his release shot, his inability to play the pull confidently had bothered him. “For that shot you need two things: a fluent bat-swing and footwork,” Amre says.It’s not the backlift, silly: Amre says it was more about how Shaw’s bat came down in its swing rather than from where•Delhi CapitalsFrom the mental point of view, Amre set Shaw the challenge to bat a certain amount of time in each innings in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. “I told him: show me you can play 100 deliveries. I know he can easily blast a century. Psychologically he was down because everyone was pointing out he was not scoring runs. So I told him, I am not looking for runs. But if you do these things then runs are a by-product.”

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A day after the win against the Super Kings, Amre was content – not least that the likes of Gavaskar were talking about the improvements in Shaw’s technique. Amre says a few strokes highlighted the renewed confidence with which Shaw was batting. “Hitting [Ravindra] Jadeja over long-on [for a six] rather than going over midwicket. Then the shape he held in the punch past extra cover, where he showed a high elbow. That showed he was showing the full bat face. In the past he would hit it with a bit more of the inside of the bat.”According to Amre the steer that Gavaskar praised owed to Shaw’s improved footwork. “His initial movement was good, his impact point was closer to the ball and that is why he could guide the ball.”In the days preceding the match, Shaw and Amre had worked out a counter to the plan the Super Kings’ strike bowler Deepak Chahar usually deployed. Chahar would move the ball away from the off stump, and Shaw would attempt to fetch it without moving his feet. “Check the first four he hit [against Chahar, second ball of the Capitals’ innings],” Amre says. “He moved inside the line and flicked it for four. In the past, because he was not in position, he would play a similar ball towards the off side.”

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ESPNcricinfo LtdIn a video interview a few weeks ago, Shaw revealed he was unable to understand why various “small mistakes” had crept into his game in the second half of the last IPL. And they were small things, he pointed out, not his whole technique.He started asking questions of himself. “I get dropped [in Australia] and going back to the hotel, looking into the mirror: ‘What has happened to you? There is something wrong with your batting. This is not you, this is not how you play. You have played a lot of international bowlers,'” Shaw said to his interviewer, Tuhin Mishra, the co-founder of Baseline Ventures, his management agency.Shaw said he felt worthless with respect to his contributions on the Australia tour, where the likes of Gill and Rishabh Pant had helped India win the series. “Mentally I was that much distracted. I couldn’t do much over there.”Mishra asked how Shaw coped with being dropped for the England series. “It is better to see everything right now [including hard times] in this young age,” Shaw replied with a laugh.In a chat with the Capitals’ media after the win against the Super Kings, Shaw was asked to rate his own performance on a scale of ten. “I should have finished the job, so I will give myself two marks less, so eight out of ten.”

سلوت: لن يفوز ليفربول بلقب الدوري الإنجليزي إذا فعل شيئًا ما

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يرى المدير الفني لفريق ليفربول، آرني سلوت، أنهم لا يستطيعون التتويج بلقب الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز حال قيامهم بشيء محدد في المباريات التي يلعبونها.

ويستعد ليفربول لخوض مباراة مهمة مساء يوم الأحد ضد نظيره مانشستر يونايتد، في الجولة الثامنة من الدوري الإنجليزي على ملعب “الأنفيلد”.

وقال سلوت، في تصريحات نشرتها شبكة “ليفربول إيكو” الإنجليزية: “أعتقد أن أسلوب اللعب القائم على الكرات الطويلة والتمريرات الثانية ليس أسلوب لعب أي فريق فاز بالدوري في السنوات العشر أو الخمس عشرة أو العشرين الماضية”.

وأضاف: “إذا كنت تريد الفوز بالدوري، فلن تتمكن من ذلك بهذا الأسلوب، من وجهة نظري، لكنه حل عادل جدًا للعب ضد مانشستر سيتي، أو ليفربول، أو آرسنال، أو تشيلسي، أو كل هذه الفرق الكبرى بهذا الأسلوب”.

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وواصل: “ولكنني لا أرى ذلك الأسلوب في أي فريق أوروبي يفوز بالدوري، ليس بايرن ميونخ، ولا برشلونة، ولا ريال مدريد، ولا ليفربول، ولا مانشستر سيتي، لكنه أسلوب لعب تراه يحدث كثيرًا ضد مانشستر سيتي”.

وأردف: “ترى كرات طويلة، تكتل دفاعي، كرات طويلة أخرى ثم تراجع بعد نجاحهم، هذا ما نراه كثيرًا في الوقت الحالي ضدنا”.

واستمر: “طريقة التفوق على تلك الخطة هي لحظة مميزة، كما حدث كثيرًا في النصف الأول من الموسم الماضي، أو من خلال ركلات ثابتة مثلما حدث في النصف الثاني، لم نحقق كلا الأمرين بالقدر الذي تمنيته، ولكن مع ذلك نحن لا زلنا الفريق الذي صنع أكبر عدد من الأهداف من اللعب المفتوح”.

وشدد: “اللعب المفتوح أمر إيجابي، ولكن ما هو غير إيجابي هو أننا استقبلنا تسعة أهداف، أربعة منها من الكرات الثابتة”.

Sanderson battles for Northants as Robson, du Plooy build Middlesex lead

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Half-centuries from Sam Robson and Leus du Plooy gave Middlesex the upper hand on the second day of their Vitality County Championship game against Northamptonshire at Merchant Taylors’ School.Robson enhanced his impressive record at the Northwood venue, which includes four first-class centuries, by grinding out a vital 58 while Du Plooy hit an unbeaten 66 as the home side reached 250 for seven, a first-innings advantage of 43.However, Ben Sanderson kept Northamptonshire right in contention with figures of five for 58, regaining his status as Division Two’s leading wicket-taker after being briefly displaced by Middlesex captain Toby Roland-Jones.Northamptonshire were dismissed for 207, with Roland-Jones taking a season’s best of five for 49 – and the visitors’ hopes of restricting Middlesex to a lower total were not helped as Prithvi Shaw shelled a trio of slip catches.Sanderson and Lewis McManus, who had hauled Northamptonshire out of difficulties the previous evening, did enough to usher the visitors beyond the key landmark of 200 as they extended their partnership to 83.Sanderson unfurled a pair of classic drives to the boundary off Tom Helm and thoughts of a maiden first-class half-century must have entered the veteran seamer’s mind as he overtook McManus to reach 40.However, those thoughts were dashed when Henry Brookes bowled Sanderson around his legs and, although debutant Dom Leech cracked a cover boundary to raise the visitors’ 200, Roland-Jones quickly wrapped up the innings by capturing their last two wickets in three balls.In reply, Middlesex’s opening pair both survived close calls during the hour prior to lunch, although they made it to the interval unscathed on a surface with variable bounce and pace.With just a single to his name, Robson edged a rising delivery from Justin Broad through the slips, while Mark Stoneman offered a tricky slip chance off the same bowler and Shaw, going low to his left, was unable to hang on.Sanderson made the breakthrough soon after the resumption, getting the ball to swing and uprooting Stoneman’s off stump for 36, but Robson and Max Holden dug in for an afternoon of laborious progress.Robson cut the seamers with authority to keep the scoreboard moving and passed 50 from 118 balls with a sweet cover drive for four off leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, whose change of ends then bore immediate fruit as he trapped Holden leg before.Northamptonshire might have removed Robson as well in the next over, with Shaw – who had also put down Holden – fumbling another opportunity, but Sanderson made amends immediately after tea with two wickets in as many deliveries.With Robson lbw to one that kept low and Stephen Eskinazi succumbing in identical fashion, Middlesex were suddenly wobbling at 129 for four but a bristling partnership of 72 between Du Plooy and Fernandes was exactly what they needed.Leech eventually brought the stand to an end with his first Northamptonshire wicket, having Fernandes taken at second slip, but Du Plooy remained to nudge his side into the lead with a crisp off-driven boundary.However, Sanderson returned with the new ball and promptly claimed two more wickets in quick succession, completing his third five-for of the summer before Roland-Jones launched a late flurry of boundary-hitting.He took two fours from successive Sanderson deliveries and had just cracked Broad to the fence to earn Middlesex a batting bonus point when the deteriorating light brought play to a close.

Presidente do Galo reclama da arbitragem escalada para jogo contra o Bahia

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da betano casino： Neste domingo (13), às 11h, o Galo enfrenta o Bahia no Mineirão. Após o anúncio da equipe de arbitragem para a partida pela CBF, o presidente Sérgio Coelho protestou contra o nome de Sávio Pereira Sampaio.

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– Há 15 dias, fomos à CBF reclamar à comissão de arbitragem desse árbitro. Agora, eles escalam o irmão dele. Nos sentimos afrontados e lamentamos muito. O que posso esperar é que ele faça arbitragem isenta e imparcial – disse em áudio pela Rádio Itatiaia.

Sávio é irmão de Wilton Pereira Sampaio. No clássico contra o Coelho, também pelo Brasileirão, Wilton registrou ofensas de Hulk, Felipão e Rodrigo Caetano na súmula da partida. Depois desse episódio, o clima entre o clube e o árbitro não ficou nada agradável.

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– De lá para cá, ele tem feito arbitragens péssimas e sempre o Galo sendo prejudicado. Agora, indicam o irmão dele para apitar o jogo. Considerando que semana o senhor Wilton estava depondo no STJD contra Felipão, contra o Rodrigo Caetano e contra o próprio Galo. – disse ainda Sérgio Coelho.

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He's like Rodri: Celtic can sign bigger talent than Miller in £8m "anchor"

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Celtic’s pre-season plans are starting to take shape, but will they get any new signings over the line before then?

On Monday, the club announced a green and white hoops Clásico, facing Portuguese champions Sporting at Estádio Algarve on 16 July, before confirming they’ll also take on Queen’s Park at Lesser Hampden 12 days earlier.

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With trips to Cork, Como and now the Algarve already in the calendar for July, from a destination perspective, this is poised to be an exciting pre-season schedule for the Celtic support, but will they have a new midfielder to assess by then?

Celtic's continued interest in Lennon Miller

As has been widely reported, Celtic remain interested in midfielder Lennon Miller, with French outlet L’Équipe reporting that the 18 year old is valued at around £7.5m by Motherwell, amid interest from Ligue 1 side Strasbourg.

On Monday evening, Miller made his full-senior debut for Scotland, assisting Ché Adams’ second goal during the 4-0 demolition of Liechtenstein at Rheinpark Stadion, with his performance earning rave reviews.

Thomas Duncan of BBC Sport noted how the teenager exuded calmness while, speaking during the BBC’s coverage, Celtic legend Scott Brown said that “Lennon is really special…nothing fazes him”, adding that he undoubtedly has the quality to break into the Celts’ first team.

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However, with countless other clubs courting Miller this summer, should Celtic turn their attention to another midfield target instead?

Celtic's dream Miller alternative

As previously reported last week, Celtic have ‘already initiated’ talks to sign midfielder Demir Ege Tıknaz.

Demir Ege Tıknaz (Tiknaz)
Demir Ege Tıknaz (Tiknaz)

As Mustafa Akgün of Karabük Postası outlines, Tıknaz spent last season on loan at Rio Ave from Beşiktaş, but the Portuguese club have an obligation to buy for around £4.2m, planning to do just that before selling him for roughly double that amount.

The 20-year-old, who is currently with the Türkiye national team squad in America for friendlies against the United States and Mexico, is reportedly being courted by many big European clubs, including Celtic and Sporting CP, so the Scottish champions will need to act fast.

In an interview with the Athletic, Tıknaz compared himself stylistically to Sergio Busquets, stating “I always want to have possession… I’m kind of a playmaker”.

Meantime, Jacek Kulig of Football Talent Scout compares him to another Spaniard, namely Rodri, labelling him a midfield “anchor”, praising his “passing, vision and football IQ”.

Analyst Ben Mattinson agrees, stating that Tıknaz ‘reads the game well’, praising his ‘timing of tackles​​​​​​​’ and ability to ‘steal the ball’.

As a result, according to Aryan Suraj Chadha of Goal, he has become one of the most ‘sought-after talents across Europe’, making 33 appearances for Rio Ave of the Primeira Liga this season, scoring four goals and registering two assists.

Nevertheless, the key question remains. How does he compare to Miller? Well, let’s find out.

Appearances

33

39

Minutes

2,340

3,398

Goals

4

4

Assists

2

8

Big chances created

2

12

Tackles won (per 90)

2.1

1.8

Interceptions (per 90)

1.7

1.3

% of ground duels won

51.1%

57.9%

% of aerial diels won

53.1%

41.2%

Possession lost (per 90)

7.3

17.4

As the table outlines, while Miller is more of an all-rounder and an attacking threat, Tıknaz does come out on top for the vast majority of defensive metrics, namely tackles, interceptions and aerial duels, giving away possession significantly less frequently too.

So, while Miller is unquestionably a big talent, possibly to such an extent that Celtic will ultimately miss out on him, the Hoops should therefore make signing Tıknaz a priority.

Celtic set to sign 14-goal star who'd be Moussa Dembele 2.0 for Rodgers

Celtic are set to complete a deal for a young star who could be a repeat of Moussa Dembele.

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Adams and Taylor share six before Elwiss guide Vipers chase

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Defending champions keep pace at top of table as Storm stumble again

ECB Reporters Network30-Jun-2024Southern Vipers completed a comprehensive bonus point victory at the 1st Central County Ground to keep them well in the running for the semi-final places in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.Captain Georgia Adams claimed 3 for 17 from six overs, with seamer Mary Taylor also picking up three wickets, as Storm were bowled out for just 156 having been put into bat.A masterful 65 not out from Georgia Elwiss along with 49 from Ella McCaughan helped see the home side over the line within 30 overs.The visitors started slowly thanks to tidy bowling from Freyas Davies and Kemp, the former returning to bowl after building up her strength having suffered successive stress fractures, with the left-armer claiming her first wicket back in the fifth over.Storm skipper Sophie Luff steadied the ship with Emma Corney as they put on 40 runs before Taylor cleaned up the opener for 20 with a heatseeking top-of-off delivery.That brought Fran Wilson to the crease who kept the scoreboard ticking over but chipped a simple catch straight to Elwiss, with Luff trapped lbw by Charli Knott three overs later.Nat Wraith then looked to take the attack to Vipers, but couldn’t find anyone to stay with her as wickets tumbled at the other end.Amanda-Jade Wellington lasted just nine ball before she was rapped on the pads by Adams, with two wickets falling in the 32nd over as Niamh Holland was bowled for 8 and Alex Griffiths was involved in a horrible mix up in the middle which saw her run out without troubling the scorers.Wraith then chipped a catch to Linsey Smith for 31 and the Storm found themselves 148 for 8 at the end of the 34th over.The final two wickets fell in successive balls, as Chloe Skelton edged a wide delivery to Rhianna Southby before Mollie Robbins was castled by a pitch perfect yorker from Taylor – Storm all out for 156.Vipers started their reply positively, with 33 runs coming off the opening five overs, McCaughan and Knott ticking along at the same pace. But the Australian feathered an edge behind to Wraith off Wellington which saw her walk back to the pavilion in the eighth over.This brought Elwiss to the crease who, along with McCaughan, batted calmly in their 73-run stand for the second wicket.McCaughan pounced on anything wide and short, with five of her boundaries coming behind square of the wicket, while Elwiss in particular favoured the off side.With the score on 112 and Vipers needing just 45 for victory, McCaughan was trapped lbw by Wellington on 49, playing her first game in three weeks.Elwiss then upped the ante taking three boundaries off Griffiths and followed it up with another trio of fours off Wellington to take the home side within 15 runs of the win.Adams skied a catch straight to Griffiths to give Skelton her wicket, but a boundary from Kemp took the Vipers to single figures required with a single off the fourth ball of the 30th over sealing a bonus point win for the reigning champions.

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