da doce： O confronto deste domingo (14) entre São Paulo e Flamengo marca um reencontro importante para o treinador Rogério Ceni. Agora no Tricolor, o técnico enfrenta pela primeira vez o seu ex-time desde que deixou o Rubro-negro, em julho deste ano.
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da betway： Rogério Ceni iniciou sua carreira de treinador no São Paulo, em 2017, mas, após desempenho insatisfatório, deixou a equipe e foi para o Fortaleza, onde se tornou ídolo, conquistando a Série B de 2018 e a Copa do Nordeste em 2019.
Ainda em 2019, o treinador chegou a trabalhar no Cruzeiro, mas ficou pouco tempo no clube e voltou ao Leão do Pici, onde terminou a temporada com a permanência na Série A.
Em novembro de 2020, Ceni assumiu o comando do Flamengo e, apesar de críticas e eliminação precoce na Libertadores, conquistou o Brasileirão. A taça foi levantada justamente no Morumbi, diante do São Paulo, um dos rivais na briga pelo título.
De volta ao palco onde conquistou seu maior título como treinador e onde fez história como jogador, Rogério Ceni novamente defende o São Paulo, mas enfrenta o Flamengo pela primeira vez desde que saiu do time carioca.
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Os contextos das equipes são bem diferentes. O Tricolor é o atual 14º colocado do campeonato, com 38 pontos e trava luta conta o Z4. O Rubro-Negro, por sua vez, é o vice-líder da competição, mas vem de sequência turbulenta, embora foque na final da Libertadores, no dia 27 de novembro.
Para a partida, o São Paulo não conta com Rodrigo Nestor, Gabriel Sara e Welington, suspensos, além de não ter Luan, William e Galeano, lesionados, e Arboleda, convocado para a seleção equatoriana.
A bola rola neste domingo (14), às 16h, no Morumbi, em partida válida pela 32ª rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro.
da 888： Celtic booked their place in the final of the League Cup on Sunday after they beat their Glasgow rivals 3-1 after extra time at Hampden Park.
da spicy bet： Martin O’Neill was in the dugout for the second time as he continues to manage the side until the club can find a permanent replacement for Brendan Rodgers, who resigned last week.
The Northern Irish head coach moved on from Parkhead after winning four trophies in just over two seasons in his second spell with the Scottish Premiership giants.
Rodgers decided to tender his resignation after successive league losses to Dundee and Hearts, which left Celtic eight points adrift of first place in the league at the time.
It is hard to deny that the former Leicester City boss had a successful return to Parkhead on the whole, given that he won four trophies in two full seasons, but it was far from a perfect spell.
In fact, there are several players within the current first-team squad, and possibly out on loan, who may benefit from his departure from Celtic.
The players who may benefit most from Rodgers leaving Celtic
Luis Palma and Maik Nawrocki were both sent out on loan this summer, having been signed in Rodgers’ first transfer window in the summer of 2023, after rarely featuring last season.
Celtic forward Luis Palma.
The duo combined for four starts in the Premiership in the 2024/25 campaign, per WhoScored, and may wonder if they now have a future at Parkhead when they return from their loan moves.
Palma, for example, has four goals and three assists in ten league games for Lech Poznan on loan, per Sofascore, and could provide Celtic’s attack with an injection of quality next year.
Meanwhile, in the current squad, Paulo Bernardo is one player who may benefit from a clean slate under the next head coach, after falling out of favour under Rodgers.
Paulo Bernardo (Premiership)
24/25
25/26
Appearances
28
2
Starts
13
1
Goals
2
0
Big chances created
5
0
Key passes
31
0
Ground duel success rate
58%
33%
Aerial duel success rate
54%
0%
Stats via Sofascore
As you can see in the table above, the Portugal U21 international has barely featured after showing promise last term, which is why the change in management may benefit him.
The Celtic player who has benefitted the most from Rodgers’ departure, though, appears to be Callum Osmand, who did not play a single minute under the Northern Irishman.
O’Neill has brought him off the bench in the last two games, against Falkirk and Rangers, and he scored his first goal for the club in the League Cup semi-final.
The 19-year-old centre-forward may also be pleased to hear who the Scottish giants are looking to appoint, as they are keen on a boss who could be perfect for him.
Celtic considering move for £5m manager
According to Football Insider, Celtic are considering a move to appoint Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna as their replacement for Rodgers.
The report claims that the Northern Irish head coach has emerged as one of the club’s key targets, alongside the likes of Kjetil Knutsen and Craig Bellamy.
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However, he has a £5m release clause in his contract with the Tractor Boys, which has left the Hoops to consider their options for now.
Speaking to Football Insider about the prospect of Celtic landing McKenna, reporter Pete O’Rourke said: “He is one of the most highly regarded young managers in the country as well.
“He would fit all of the criteria that Celtic are looking for in that respect. It’d be a huge coup if Celtic were to land Kieran McKenna.”
Why Kieran McKenna would be perfect for Callum Osmand
Swooping for the Ipswich manager to replace Rodgers in the coming days or weeks could be great news for emerging Celtic star Osmand, for several reasons.
McKenna has an impressive history in youth coaching. Per Transfermarkt, he worked as a youth coach for Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur before stepping into first-team management with the Tractor Boys.
This suggests that he wants to develop and work with young players, which is great news for a 19-year-old prospect like Osmand, who could be identified as a player with big potential by the boss.
As you can see in the clip above, Osmand grabbed his first senior goal for the Hoops on Sunday with brilliant movement to get ahead of the defenders to slide a cross from Kieran Tierney into the back of the net.
McKenna’s style of play at Ipswich has revolved around left-back Leif Davis providing creativity with his deliveries into the box from the left flank, which would provide Osmand with plenty of similar opportunities to score.
McKenna’s two promotion-winning seasons
Leif Davis
22/23 League One
23/24 Championship
Appearances
43
43
Big chances created
12
15
xA
N/A
10.54
Key passes per game
3.1
2.9
Assists
14
18
Stats via Sofascore
Davis, as shown in the statistics above, was an incredibly creative force down the left flank for Ipswich in their two promotion-winning seasons under McKenna, assisting an eye-catching 32 goals in 86 matches.
This suggests that the Northern Irish head coach would build his attack around Marcelo Saracchi or Kieran Tierney’s creativity, which may not be a bad way to go, given Tierney has already delivered four assists in all competitions this season, per Sofascore.
That would ensure that Celtic have a constant supply of creativity down that side, with crosses coming into the box for strikers to attack, which could provide Osmand or Johnny Kenny with chances to score more goals.
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Therefore, McKenna could be the perfect appointment for a player like Osmand, after his breakthrough goal, because of his coaching background and the way his team creates chances to score goals.
Precautionary omission from Australia tour party likely to be temporary setback in rapid ascent
Cameron Ponsonby21-Apr-2023When WACA teammates Aaron Hardie and Hilton Cartwright were asked to describe the qualities of their fast-bowling friend Lance Morris, Hardie said that Morris “bowls as fast as anyone I’ve seen or faced”. Whilst Cartwright, possibly deliberately misunderstanding the question, simply went for, “He’s such a good-looking man”.”I don’t know how to comment on that!” Morris laughs when asked if Cartwright’s assessment is one he agrees with. “I try and give him [Cartwright] the fast-bowler stare but it doesn’t work. I think it’s turned into something romantic.”Cartwright isn’t alone in his affection for Morris, whose 2022-23 season was the type of breakout summer that elevated him from your favourite unknown band, to a player you have to remind your mates that you actually knew before it was cool. Sure, his stuff at the MCG is great, but I actually preferred his earlier work at the Karen Rolton Oval.”It was a proper whirlwind,” Morris says, reflecting on his rapid ascent. “The moment I came off after a Shield Game at The Gabba – and that was before our Christmas break where we split off into BBL – I remember talking to my bowling coach, literally as soon as we came off and he was saying, ‘All right, let’s get a white ball in your hand and work on some yorkers’. And then 10 minutes later, Adam Voges [WA head coach] came up and said, ‘You’re going to get a phone call. And I think you probably want to answer it because it’s going to be a pretty good one.”Starting the season with just 13 first-class appearances to his name, Morris, now 25, took 31 wickets at an average of 19 in WA’s victorious Sheffield Shield campaign and nine wickets at 15.22 in Perth Scorchers Big Bash win. A set of figures that saw him earn a maiden Test squad berth against West Indies, a place on the bench for Australia’s tour of India and a first central contract that was announced earlier this month. An ascent to the Test team and a place in the squad for the Ashes seemed an inevitability, before a back scan showed a stress spot and Morris was forced to swap his champagne glass for an ice pack.”He’s having a bit of a de-load period,” Australia’s chief selector George Bailey said, “which I think is about four to six weeks, and then he will start to start to build after that. Conservatively, we’ll probably look to rebuild Lance and hopefully have a really big crack at the summer.”Lance Morris’ pace almost conjured a remarkable victory•Getty ImagesThe frustration for Morris, however, is that he feels absolutely fine. He had been due to join Northamptonshire on a three-match county deal for the month of May with the view of readying himself for the Ashes, only for the routine scan to show a flare-up, and in the name of caution and having previously suffered from stress fractures, he pulled out of the deal. It was another example of why some bowlers are known to avoid scans at all costs, with the results often coming as a complete surprise. However, as the famous thought experiment Schrödinger’s stress fracture has long proven, a fast bowler can be both fully fit and dead all at the same time.Furthermore, much like politely declaring yourself full only to discover there’s pudding, Morris then got a call from the Mumbai Indians asking if he fancied a run around (and loads of cash) to play in the IPL. But having turned down Northants, and in order be fully fit for Australia, he waved away the tiramisu with a tear in his eye.”It was a tough one,” Morris said. “All in and commit or do a genuine rest.”The excitement and demand surrounding Morris is merited by a player who is increasingly adding precision to raw pace. Widely considered to be the fastest bowler in Australia, the numbers from CricViz fail to crown him undisputedly as such, but do show a player with a consistency of speed that mixes him with the usual Australian suspects in Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, with over half of his deliveries across the last two years north of 140kph. Objectively, he’s as quick as Australia’s quickest; and subjectively, he’s considered even faster. It’s a fine combination to boast.”It’s a pretty tough bowling attack to break into,” Morris says of the challenge facing him to dislodge Australia’s holy trinity. “I just have to be there and be ready for an opportunity.”I understand I’m not a starter in the line-up at the moment. So I need to find a way to stay ready and co-exist with those guys and learn off them at the same time.Related
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“Bowling at pace means you can always play a role wherever you go. [Even] India, there’s that reverse-swing element and then if you go to a fast flat track then you can also make an impact there.”Make no mistake, had Morris been picked for The Ashes, he would – and could – have been ready for action, with his omission due to injury a polite way for the selectors to call a spade a stressy and not publicly drop a player for whom they have the highest of hopes. Morris’ challenge now is to maintain a workload over the next six months that will allow him to return at full strength, with research from the ECB showing that bowling too little puts a fast bowler at risk of back injury as much as bowling too much, with time away leading to bowlers losing the bone density in their back that prevents injury. Only time will tell if Australia’s pro-active rotation policy is a masterstroke or merely a well-intended tea-leaf reading.Nevertheless, all things being equal, a Test debut should be an inevitability and the longest form of the game will be ready to welcome another superstar quick to its shores. In a previous interview, Morris stated plainly that: “There’s no point parking it and bowling 130kph, because that’s not going to get me a game. I need to be that intimidating fast bowler.”And if Aaron Hardie’s and, in particular, Hilton Cartwright’s assessments are anything to go by – that’s something for us all to look forward to.
Suryakumar Yadav’s astonishing death-overs hitting launched India to a commanding 186 for 5 – Suryakumar’s share being 61 not out off 25. India’s quicks then shut the game down quickly, reducing Zimbabwe to 28 for 3 by the end of the powerplay, then 36 for 5 soon after.There were patches of Zimbabwe resistance. In India’s innings, Sean Williams and Sikandar Raza combined to take a wicket in each of the 12th, 13th and 14th overs. Then Raza and Ryan Burl put on 60 off 35 for the sixth wicket, though Zimbabwe’s run rate never really caught up to the requirement.But otherwise, India crushed it. KL Rahul hit his second successive fifty, making 51 off 35. Virat Kohli reclaimed his spot atop the tournament run-getters list with his 26 off 25.Then Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar used swing beautifully to take a wicket in each of their first overs, before Mohammed Shami and Hardik Pandya also got among the wickets. R Ashwin finished things off, taking 3 for 22 from his four overs. The result was a 71-run victory.Suryakumar’s spectacular fine-leg hits Where do you bowl to Suryakumar? England will now have to try to figure this out before their semi-final on Thursday.There was a gorgeous six over extra cover off Tendai Chatara to close out the 18th over, but the more impressive shots came over fine leg. Zimbabwe stacked the off side and tried to go full and wide to Suryakumar. The batter, though, kept throwing his front leg away to the offside, sometimes as far as the wide markers on the crease. Then he swept two of those balls with such immense power as to almost defy physics, all the way over the fine-leg boundary.Last ball of the innings was another wide full toss, but because fine leg was back for this, Suryakumar went with more of a scoop, shovelling it over his left shoulder, the ball carrying just over the rope once again.Rahul gets India humming It had been Rahul who did most to give Suryakumar the platform, though. Having batted out a maiden against Richard Ngarava first up, he hit a six way over deep square leg midway through Ngarava’s next over, and seemed in good touch from then on.There were two more sixes, both down the ground, the second of which brought up his half-century. But in between, plenty of smart running, particularly in the company of Virat Kohli.Ryan Burl and Sikandar Raza added 60 off 35 balls for the sixth wicket but never really threatened•Getty Images
Zimbabwe’s brief squeeze Despite Rahul’s fifty, Zimbabwe did launch a fightback, between the 12th and 15th overs. Williams first got Kohli out, having him caught at long-off. Next over, Raza dismissed Rahul, slowing the ball up, and having him give a high catch to long-off again, when Rahul had tried to repeat the six that had taken him past fifty, previous ball.The third wicket was down to an outstanding running catch from Burl, who was at long-on to left-hander Rishabh Pant. Pant nailed one flat and hard off the bowling of Williams, but Burl sprinted full tilt along the boundary to get both hands to it, completing the catch with a dive.India’s quicks blast out Zimbabwe’s top order After India had hit 83 runs off the last six overs of their innings, India’s seamers made a Zimbabwe win all but impossible inside the powerplay. A late-swinging Bhuvneshwar delivery was almost middled by Wessly Madhevere, but not far away from Kohli at short cover, who took a sharp catch diving low to his right.Next over, Arshdeep swung one through the defences of Regis Chakabva. Then late in the powerplay, Williams slashed one to deep third. When Hardik Pandya had Craig Ervine caught and bowled in the seventh over, and Shami nailed Tony Munyonga in front the over after that, the road was too steep.Even Burl and Raza’s excellent stand never really threatened.
Netherlands batter Stephan Myburgh has announced his retirement from international cricket, in order to spend more time with his family. He, however, is still weighing up his future at the club level.The announcement comes a day after Netherlands stunned South Africa to knock them out of the T20 World Cup, in Adelaide. Myburgh made a 30-ball 37 from the top of the order which helped Netherlands defend a total of 158.”Hanging up the boots….,” he wrote in a post on Instagram on Monday. “To God be the glory!!! Blessed to have made my first class debut 17 seasons ago and international debut 12 seasons ago. Never in my dreams would I have imagined finishing my career at the World Cup with a win against @cricket_south_africa_ my blood will always be green. As much as a sportsman always want to win I had a tear for my beloved country. I am thankful for @kncbcricket and the Netherlands that’s now my home and have too many people to thank for my career. Jesus, @tineke.myburgh , friends and family, sponsors and all the supporters out there I can only say thanks!!! #GodIsGood #Blessed can’t wait to see my girls (sic).”
Myburgh, 38, made his international debut in 2011 and played 22 ODIs and 45 T20Is. Born in Pretoria, he started his career at Northerns in the SAA Provincial Challenge in 2006, playing alongside the likes of Neil Wagner and Paul Harris.Myburgh retired from ODIs earlier this year following the series against New Zealand. He has ended his T20I career with 915 runs at an average of 21.78 and a strike rate of 114.51. He is the third-highest run-getter for Netherlands in T20Is, behind Max O’Dowd and Ben Cooper.One of his best knocks in the format came in the 2014 T20 World Cup when he notched up a 17-ball fifty against Ireland, which at that time was the second-fastest in T20Is. He finished on 63 off 23 to help Netherlands chase down 190 in 13.5 overs to progress to Super 10s.In the ongoing T20 World Cup, he made 51 runs in three matches. Netherlands beat Namibia and UAE in the first round to qualify for the Super 12s, where they finished fourth on the Group 2 table with two wins in five games.
علق وائل جمعة لاعب الأهلي السابق، على تقدم فريق الكرة الأول بالنادي الأهلي، بهدفين في مرمى فريق شبيبة القبائل الجزائري، ضمن منافسات دور المجموعات من بطولة دوري أبطال إفريقيا.
ويلتقي الأهلي مع شبيبة القبائل، في الجولة الأولى من دور المجموعات من بطولة دوري أبطال إفريقيا، على ملعب استاد القاهرة الدولي، وانتهى الشوط 2-0 للأهلي.
طالع| فيديو | في 3 دقائق.. تريزيجيه وشريف يسجلان هدفين لـ الأهلي أمام شبيبة القبائل
وقال وائل جمعة لقناة بي إن سبورتس: “شوط جيد من الأهلي حتى بغض النظر عن الهدفين، كنت سعيداً بالأداء، سيطرة واستحواذ وخطورة، ولكن العيب الوحيد قبل الهدفين هو الرعونة”.
وتابع: “الفريق يصل لمرمى المنافس ويضغط بقوة ويخلق فرصًا، والتحركات على الأطراف ممتازة، تريزيجيه وبن شرقي ممتازان في الاختراقات، وأكثر من يعجبني هو زيزو، توقيت الركض والتحرك واستغلال التحرك بحرية”.
واختتم: “العيب الوحيد فقط هي الرعونة التي من الممكن أن تؤذيك فيما بعد، وما زال الرباعي الدفاعي يقف بشكل خاطئ، تجد واحدًا دائمًا يغطي التسلل، هنا لا بد أن يكون هناك قائد للخط الخلفي، وتنظيم وتفاهم بين ياسر إبراهيم وياسين مرعي وتوجيه التعليمات للاعبين”.
Tottenham were once prepared to splash the cash on a new attacker earlier this summer, specifically Morgan Gibbs-White, and chairman Daniel Levy is displaying similar ambition weeks on from that botched deal.
Spurs were on the verge of welcoming the England international to N17 in a £60 million move, going as far as to book a medical for Gibbs-White this time last month (BBC).
Tottenham’s best-performing regulars in the Premier League – 2024/2025
Average match rating
Son Heung-min
7.00
James Maddison
6.98
Pedro Porro
6.95
Dominic Solanke
6.84
Dejan Kulusevski
6.83
via WhoScored
However, after Evangelos Marinakis blocked the transfer, sent a letter to Tottenham threatening legal action and somehow convinced Gibbs-White to pen a new £150,000-per-week deal – this time with no release clause – Levy was forced to re-enter the market for a playmaker.
It’s truly astounding how quickly the tide can turn in football.
Tottenham were about to welcome both Mohammed Kudus and Gibbs-White in a statement £115 million double deal just a few weeks ago, but since then, Spurs have lost James Maddison to an ACL rupture and their squad looks even weaker than last season.
If Thomas Frank is to make a success of his first full season in charge, the Dane is in absolutely dire need of reinforcements before this summer’s transfer deadline on September 1 – particularly in attack.
Son Heung-min recently waved an emotional goodbye to Spurs after 10 years in north London, signing a two-year contract at Los Angeles FC in the MLS, with Dejan Kulusevski also still out for a “long time” after sustaining a serious knee injury last season.
Many high-profile attackers have been linked in the past few days alone, and one of them is AC Milan’s star man Rafael Leao.
The Portugal international was offered to Spurs by intermediaries recently, according to journalist Graeme Bailey, in the aftermath of Maddison’s injury and Son’s exit.
AC Milan's RafaelLeaoreacts
Even though Leao’s preference is to stay at the San Siro right now, another report has claimed that hasn’t stopped Levy from planning a mammoth offer for him.
Tottenham working on "ambitious" £86m bid for AC Milan forward Rafael Leao
According to reports from Spain, Tottenham are working on an “ambitious” £86m bid for Leao, who’s now their priority going forward.
The 26-year-old bagged 12 goals and 13 assists in all competitions for Milan last season, mainly as a left-winger in Son’s position, but did feature as a No.10 in their 1-0 defeat to Bologna in the Coppa Italia final.
AC Milan's RafaelLeaocelebrates scoring their first goal
Frank needs an elite, proven attacking player who can provide goals, assists and an end product, not to mention one who can cover multiple positions, so in this aspect, Leao appears to fit the bill.
Barcelona have also been linked with a move for the ex-Sporting CP sensation, but their well-documented financial problems could mean that Spurs hold an advantage over Hansi Flick’s side.
“Leao, he’s a strong player, he has extraordinary qualities,” said Rossoneri boss Massimiliano Allegri in a recent press conference.
“I think he’s growing, he’s at the right age to have a strong season.”
Worcestershire bowled out for 143 before Keaton Jennings, Liam Livingstone steer comfortable chase
ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay13-Jun-2025Lancashire Lightning continued their strong start to the Vitality Blast with a convincing seven-wicket victory over Worcestershire Rapids at Visit Worcestershire New Road.Rapids, having chosen to bat, were bowled out for 143 in 19.1 overs. Only Gareth Roderick (35 from 28 balls) resisted for long as the innings failed to recover from early damage inflicted by James Anderson and Luke Wood.Lightning reeled in the target with 15 balls to spare, reaching 146 for 3 thanks to a solid top-order effort headed by Keaton Jennings (42 off 37) and Liam Livingstone (41 not out off 22).Rapids won the toss but lost both openers in the first seven balls. Brett D’Oliveira edged his first ball, from Anderson, to slip and Wood struck with his first ball when he trapped Ed Pollock lbw.Jake Libby pulled Anderson for six and almost did the same to Wood only to be denied by a stunning one-handed catch by Jack Blatherwick just inside the long leg rope. Wood’s third wicket followed when Ethan Brookes pulled to midwicket and when, next ball, Adam Hose edged Tom Aspinwall to wicketkeeper Matty Hurst, the Rapids were 46 for 5, one ball out of the powerplay.Roderick and Ben Dwarhuis arrested the slide with a stand of 46 in 29 balls before the latter pulled Aspinwall to deep midwicket. Lancashire’s catching was top-drawer and when Matthew Waite sought six over fine leg off Blatherwick, Michael Jones judged the catch perfectly despite the pressure of knowing one backward step would take him over the rope.Roderick’s defiance ended when he sliced Anderson to third. That left Rapids’ last two wickets with 27 balls at their disposal. Jacob Duffy heaved Wood to the foot of the chestnut tree in a violent unbeaten 24 off 12 to at least give him something to bowl at but Rapids were well short.The home side desperately needed early wickets but took only one in the powerplay, Luke Wells, who edged Tom Taylor to wicketkeeper Roderick. Jennings and Matty Hurst added 63 in 46 balls and when Hurst was well-caught at long leg by Duffy, his belligerent cameo had, with Jennings, left Lancashire well in charge of the chase.Jennings bottom-edged a pull at Waite to the keeper but Livingstone smote D’Oliveira’s first two balls into the D’Oliveira Stand to reassert Lightning’s momentum. Despite fast-fading light, vastly experienced pair Livingstone and Ashton Turner saw their side comfortably home. They added an unbroken stand of 62 in 33 balls, Livingstone sealing the win with a pull into the aforementioned chestnut tree.
Somerset 379 (Banton 84, Abbas 3-59) and 238 for 4 drew with Nottinghamshire 509 (Haynes 157, Slater 124, Kishan 77, James 66, Leach 6-121)Somerset’s Tom Kohler-Cadmore defied Nottinghamshire with a match-saving final day century as the Rothesay County Championship Division One match at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton, ended in a draw.The visitors had realistic hopes of victory when reducing their opponents to 28 for three, still needing 102 to avoid an innings defeat. But Kohler-Cadmore hit an unbeaten 147, off 196 balls, with 11 fours and six sixes, sharing stands of 96 with James Rew and 114 with Tom Abell, to see Somerset to 238 for four by the time the players shook hands at 4.50pm.Left-arm spinner Liam Patterson-White bowled 29 overs unchanged from the River End either side of lunch and finished with four for 104 from 33, but no other Notts bowler could make a significant impression with the Kookaburra ball on a pitch offering only occasional turn and no assistance for the seamers. Somerset took 11 points from the game and Notts 12.The home side set out at four for one, having lost nightwatchman Matt Henry to the only over bowled the previous evening. Soon it was 18 for two as Sean Dickson was rapped on the back pad by a ball from Patterson-White that turned and departed lbw for six.Worse was to follow for Somerset when Tom Lammonby, on seven, pulled a short ball from Patterson-White and picked out the only fielder on the leg side, Farhan Ahmed at deep square, who pouched a comfortable catch.Kohler-Cadmore went on the counter-attack, launching three big sixes back over the head of off-spinner Ahmed, each sending the ball further than the one before and the last pitching on top of the Marcus Trescothick stand.But the most impressive aspect of the former Yorkshire player’s innings was the respect he showed the other bowlers having spread the field, content to pick up ones and twos as he and Rew laid the first foundations for avoiding defeat.Left-hander Rew was equally intelligent in his shot selection, nullifying the effect of Patterson-White, who displayed the same control of line and length that his Somerset counterpart Jack Leach had shown on day three.By lunch the scoreboard read 112 for three and the Notts lead was down to 18 runs. Patterson-White had bowled throughout the morning, sending down 15 overs for 46 runs and two wickets. Somerset could feel some relief, but there was still work to be done, especially when Rew fell for 43 early in the afternoon session, top-edging a sweep off Patterson-White to Joe Clarke at short fine leg.The reassuring figure of Abell took his place and batted through the rest of the session with Kohler-Cadmore, who blasted his fourth six over wide long-on off Patterson-White and then clipped a four through the leg side off Ahmed to reach a fine hundred off 138 balls.It was Kohler-Cadmore’s third Championship century since joining the Cider county for the start of the 2023 season, two of them coming in the last two matches. Cloudless skies did not aid the Notts bowlers and by tea, with the Somerset total advanced to 197 for four, the draw looked inevitable.The final session saw Kohler-Cadmore strike another straight six, this time onto the roof of the Lord Ian Botham Stand off Patterson-White, before moving past his previous best Somerset score of 130, made against Northamptonshire at Taunton in 2023.By then the outcome was all but settled. Abell had contributed just 21 when his stand with Kohler-Cadmore reached the century mark, but it was a typically solid knock that extinguished any lingering notions of a Notts victory.When Notts wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan entered the attack to bowl what proved the last over of the game it was a tame end to an often compelling contest.
In the end, Mumbai Indians’ (MI) 203 was not even enough to take the Punjab Kings (PBKS) chase into the last over. And that could well have been because of a couple of errors in judgment on the part of Hardik Pandya and the MI think tank in crunch moments in the IPL 2025 Qualifier 2. Why didn’t Hardik himself bowl more than the two overs he did? Why did Mitchell Santner bowl just two overs? Why did Reece Topley bowl the 13th over?All this is in hindsight, of course, and while Santner being kept away because spin-destroyer Shreyas Iyer was batting might make sense, Hardik not bowling after the tenth was a puzzle.”First of all, Hardik, Santner and [Jasprit] Bumrah were going to be the three main bowlers, who had to bowl 12 overs together,” Varun Aaron said on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out show. “But Hardik and Santner have just bowled two overs each. I don’t know why Hardik didn’t bowl four overs in this game. This wicket, he has bowled so much on this wicket playing for GT, he had to bowl four overs.”Related
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Hardik bowled the eighth over, giving away just two runs and picking up the wicket of the big-hitting Josh Inglis. The tenth went for 17. Nothing Hardik bowled was further up than a length, and five of the 12 balls he bowled were pace-off. He seemed to be doing the right things even if Iyer and Nehal Wadhera got runs off him in that second over.”He looked very difficult to get away, especially in his first over,” Aaron said. “Yeah, he went for a few in his second, but he should have still persevered because his plans were right, and he executed them really well: back of length, bouncers, slower bouncers…”Tom Moody, Aaron’s fellow panelist, felt that Trent Boult dropping Wadhera off the last ball of what turned out to be Hardik’s spell might have forced a change of plan.”Hardik should have had a two-for. That second over, that catch that you’d expect Trent Boult to take 99 times out of 100. He fresh-aired it. Not even a firm glove on it,” Moody said. “He should have bowled. He was executing what was required on that surface. And that was an opportunity that was missed. He should have had a two-for, and I agree, he should have come back and grabbed the bull by the horns, and said, ‘right, okay, I’m going to bowl in here’.”1:26
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If Hardik had bowled more, Topley, playing his first game of the season after two months of bowling in the nets, might not have come on for a third over – the 13th – and been carted for 19 runs, mainly by Iyer.”Topley looked like a bowler that was conditioned for nets but way off the mark for real, high-pressure, competitive cricket,” Moody said. “That’s what he was missing. It’s very hard to come from being on top of your game, feeling you’ve got rhythm, bowling good areas in the nets, to suddenly transferring that to a pressure-game situation.”It might have been the over that turned the game, Iyer’s hat-trick of sixes bringing the required run rate from 11.87 after the 12th to 10.85 after the 13th.
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“I mean, you can look at it in different ways. I think Hardik looked at it because we knew that there were a couple of match-ups against Nehal and he didn’t want to get the game away from him,” Mahela Jayawardene, the MI head coach, said at the press conference after the game. “Then after that just the game went away from him because they had those two big overs [the 14th, from Boult, went for 14 runs]. After that he was a bit hesitant to bring Mitch back again.”There’s lots of ifs and buts – we could have done this, we could have done that – but I think when we executed those things in the past, it has worked for us and gone our way and today it didn’t. So I think the game is such that you have to make some decisions and sometimes it goes, sometimes it doesn’t, so we will reflect on that, have a debrief.”It wasn’t just Wadhera. Iyer was perceived as a danger for Santner too, Moody suggested.”[Hardik] needed to back Santner. I felt that he didn’t back Santner because of Shreyas’ presence at the crease. Because he is such a good player of spin, [Hardik] felt that Shreyas may take to him,” Moody said. “But I’d be backing the bowler. Santner is a very crafty bowler. International pedigree. He’s been there and done that in those moments. Back him!”