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Root expected to bat despite injured finger

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“Hopefully tomorrow he’ll turn up at the ground and be OK to hold a bat,” says James Anderson

Vithushan Ehantharajah04-Feb-2024Joe Root should be fit to bat in England’s fourth-innings chase of 399 in the second Test against India after spending most of day three off the field nursing a damaged finger.Root sustained a blow on his right little finger in the eighth over of the day, after an edge from Shreyas Iyer off the bowling of James Anderson bounced short of him. Root was immediately in pain and spent large periods of time off the field in the morning session. He did not emerge from the dressing room for the rest of India’s second innings.It meant, after bowling two overs to start the day’s play, England were short a bowling option. Nevertheless, they rallied to dismiss India for 255, with the inexperienced spin trio of Tom Hartley, Rehan Ahmed and Shoaib Bashir combining for eight wickets to limit England’s target to 399 to win in Visakhapatnam for an unlikely 2-0 lead in the series. They will resume their innings on day four on 67 for 1 after Ben Duckett fell to Ravichandran Ashwin.Related

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Anderson, who took 2 for 29, said Root’s absence from the field was precautionary. England’s medical team spent the day treating and icing Root’s finger. At the time of writing, they did not see a reason to send him for a scan.”His finger is not great,” said Anderson. “He took a blow in training this morning and again on the field. It’s just making sure that is as good as it can be for when he bats. Hopefully tomorrow he’ll turn up at the ground and be OK to hold a bat.”He was just making sure he could do everything he could to help us out in the second innings, just making sure it’s as good as possible for tomorrow. There’s a chance we will need him with the bat so it’s making sure he can hold a bat.”I don’t think there’s concerns. It’s making sure he’s as good as he can be. There’s no point risking it for an external blow, no point risking it further out in the middle, so it’s making sure he’s good enough to bat.”Given the injury is external, Root will be able to bat in his usual position at four – or five, as it is now, after Rehan was promoted up the order to bat three. At the close, Rehan was unbeaten on 9 and Zak Crawley was not out 29.

Bayern Munich make improved contract offer to Leroy Sane after positive agent meeting but Arsenal still eager to bring winger back to Premier League

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Leroy Sane has received a new contract offer from Bayern Munich but it's still uncertain whether he will renew as Arsenal monitor the situation.

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Sane out of contract this summerBayern make improved offerArsenal linked with free transferFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

According to , Bayern have submitted a new contract offer to Germany international Sane, whose current deal is due to expire this summer. His agent, Pini Zahavi, was spotted having dinner with sporting director Max Eberl this week and it looks like those discussions have been positive, with a final decision on the renewal now expected in the coming days.

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Sane's contract situation has seen Premier League sides like Arsenal and Tottenham be linked with free transfers during the summer window. The 29-year-old previously spent four seasons at Manchester City, though his final campaign was curtailed by an anterior cruciate ligament injury. He won two top-flight league titles in England as well as three Carabao Cups and an FA Cup.

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Sane bagged 12 goals in all competitions during the 2024-25 campaign, making it the fifth season in a row where he has hit double figures since he joined Bayern.

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Sane has a big decision to make in the coming days. Bayern are thought to want a resolution before they start their Club World Cup campaign next month, where they will take on Auckland City, Boca Juniors and Benfica during the group stages in the USA.

Rohit: 'It was not so easy to just move on' from World Cup final defeat

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“After the final, it was very hard to get back and start moving on, which is why I decided that I need to go somewhere and just get my mind out of this”

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Dec-2023Losing the ODI World Cup final to Australia hit India captain Rohit Sharma so hard that “it was very hard to get back and start moving on”. Speaking to fans helped him heal, he said in a social-media video on Wednesday.Twenty-four days after the final in Ahmedabad, which India lost after winning all ten of their games in the run-up to the title clash, Rohit put out the message on Instagram, saying, “I had no idea how to come back from this. The first few days I didn’t know what to do. You know, my family, my friends, kept me going, kept things pretty light around me, which was quite helpful.”It wasn’t easy to digest, but life moves on. You have to move on in life. But, honestly, it was tough. It was not so easy to just move on.Related

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“I have always grown up watching 50-over World Cup, and to me that was the ultimate prize. We have worked all these years for that World Cup… and it is disappointing, right? If you don’t get through it, and you don’t get what you want, what you’ve been looking for all this while, what you were dreaming of, you get disappointed, and you get frustrated as well at times.”Australia, now six-time ODI World Cup champions, had lost their first two games at the World Cup – one of them to India – before getting on a hot streak that culminated with them winning the trophy. In the final, on a pitch later rated “average” by the ICC where Australia brought their most ruthless game to the table, India put up a below-par 240, which was chased down with seven overs in hand for a six-wicket win.”I thought we did everything we could from our side. If someone will ask me, what went wrong… because we won ten games, and in that ten games, yes, we made mistakes, but that mistake happens in every game that you play. You cannot have a perfect game. You can have a near-perfect game. But you cannot have a perfect game,” Rohit said. “If I look on the other side of it, I’m really proud of the team as well. Because how we played was simply outstanding. You don’t get to perform like that every World Cup. And I am pretty sure I am, at least, how we played up until that final, it would have given people a lot of joy, a lot of pride watching the team play.”Rohit said that he had to get away from it all after the World Cup final to wrap his head around what had happened. And that his interactions with people he met helped him “heal”.

“After the final, it was very hard to get back and start moving on, which is why I decided that I need to go somewhere and just get my mind out of this,” he said. “But then, wherever I was, I realised that people were coming up to me and they were appreciating everyone’s effort, how well we played. I feel for all of them. They all, along with us, they were dreaming of lifting that World Cup, along with us.”Everywhere we went during this entire World Cup campaign, there was so much support from everyone, who came to the stadium firstly, and people who were watching it from home as well. I want to appreciate what the people have done for us, in that one-and-a-half months. But again, if I think more and more about that I feel quite disappointed that we were not able to go through all the way.”For me to see, you know, people coming up to me, telling me that they were proud of the team, you know made me feel really good to a certain extent. And along with them, I was healing as well. I felt, okay these are the kind of things you want to hear. When you meet people, when they understand what the player must be going through and when they know these kind of things… and not to bring out that frustration, that anger, it means a lot for us, for me definitely it meant a lot because there was no anger, it was just pure love from people that I met and it was wonderful to see that. So it gives you motivation to get back and start working again and look for another ultimate prize.”

Todd Murphy plays his role to perfection

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Youngster could help some of Australia’s modern greats tick their bucket lists

Matt Roller27-Jul-2023Moeen Ali was batting on one leg by the time he arched his bat and upper-cut Pat Cummins for four over Alex Carey’s head, and Australia seemed to have let their opportunity to take control of the fifth Test slip away.Cummins had finally won a toss, his first of the series, and asked England to bat first under thick cloud cover, with the floodlights turned on shortly after the lunch break. Australia had reduced England to 73 for 3 but dropped three catches and missed a run-out chance; Harry Brook and Moeen had brought up a 100-run stand in 17 overs.Enter Todd Murphy, long sleeves pulled up, top-button clasped and up-turned collar flopping down. At 22, Murphy is a boy in a team of men, the youngest player in this Australian XI by seven years. He has played as many Tests as Sheffield Shield games (six of each), and in most of those he has been Victoria’s second spinner.But here he was, standing at the Vauxhall End and trying to burgle a wicket for a group of team-mates at a completely different stage in life to him. This Australia team will undergo a near-total regeneration before its next tour here in four years’ time and these five days are about securing a legacy for most of them. Murphy is still making his way.Related

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His first ball was a fraction short, and Brook punched it away through point to get off strike. His second was even shorter. Moeen rocked back and pulled him away through midwicket for four. Cummins told short leg to move to midwicket, fearing that Murphy had already underlined the reason for his non-selection in Manchester last week.But Murphy’s next ball was a braver one: much fuller, drifting in with the around-the-wicket angle. It was quick (58mph/93kph) and hardly turned, but had enough drop on it to sneak underneath Moeen’s bat as he swung wildly, lining up a swipe into the leg side.Murphy hardly celebrated, wearing the expression of a bowler still annoyed at himself for the previous ball. Perhaps, too, he was conscious of what is to come: Moeen’s wicket brought Ben Stokes in at No. 6, the man who crashed him for five sixes at Headingley before eventually holing out to long-on.And yet Murphy fared well against Stokes, tossing the ball up and conceding only two singles from the 11 balls he bowled to him. He beat him on the cut, cramping him for room, and responded by dragging his length back when Stokes skipped out of his crease.He was whipped out of the attack after Stokes fell, losing his off stump to Mitchell Starc when looking to break the scoring pressure by turning him into the leg side, then returned for a token over before tea.After the interval, Murphy’s second ball was full and flighted, and scythed over point for four by Mark Wood. It was one of two boundaries he conceded, and just as he had after lunch, he responded by taking a wicket with his next ball: Wood cleared his front leg, and Murphy’s offbreak crashed into the top of his middle stump.There was a brief celebration this time, punching the air and roaring, “yeah! Come on!” before giving David Warner – 14 years his senior – a high-ten. Wood’s partnership with Chris Woakes was worth 49, the third-highest partnership of England’s innings; it was Murphy who broke two of the three substantial stands.He finished with 2 for 22 from his six overs – and it should have been three-for, but for a fluffed caught-and-bowled chance when Woakes chipped one back to him. Thrown into away tours in India and England, Murphy has 17 wickets at 24.94 in his first five-and-a-bit Tests.Moeen Ali was bowled by Todd Murphy for 34•Getty Images”Since he started in his Test career he’s been really good for us, through India,” Starc said. “He didn’t play a heap of a role at Headingley – [he was] used pretty sparingly there – but he’s come back and played a job today. He’s going to learn from those experiences, his first Ashes tour on the back of his first Indian tour.”Murphy has had a walk-on role in this series and it is clear that Cummins does not trust him to the same extent that he does Nathan Lyon. And how could he be expected to? Lyon is a veteran of 122 Tests; Murphy is playing the 14th first-class game of his career.”Obviously coming in and trying to fill Nathan’s boots is a big deal as it is,” Starc added. “Nathan has obviously bowled quite well here in the past; did in the Test final. Todd’s gone off the back of that and bowled some really good overs today with a couple of crucial wickets. We’ll look for him to play another part in the second innings.”Starc predicted that Murphy is “going to be a quality spinner for us for a long time,” and Australia will hope that he can be Lyon’s long-term successor. Whether that proves to be the case or not, he is fulfilling a role well enough that he could help some of Australia’s modern greats tick one final achievement off their bucket lists.

'We are witnessing a daylight robbery!' – Arsenal fans spit blood at Champions League semi-final referee as official makes series of controversial calls in PSG clash

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Arsenal fans have been going apoplectic over the refereeing decisions in their Champions League semi-final first leg against Paris Saint-Germain.

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    Tensions were running high at the Emirates Stadium and on social media, as the performance of Slavko Vincic was questioned by both sets of fans on X. Arsenal supporters felt hard done by after Bukayo Saka was deemed to have fouled Nuno Mendes for a gentle push in the back. Had the play continued the winger was through on goal. Saka was then booked for kicking the ball away. However, both sets of fans will feel they could have had a penalty. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia appeared to be impeded by Myles Lewis-Skelly in the Arsenal area, while Mikel Merino saw a goal-scoring opportunity denied by Joao Neves. A replay appeared to show the Portuguese got the ball before making contact with the Arsenal midfielder.

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    Vincic's performance was the main point of conversation on X. One user, Culturecams, posted: "Ref needs half time more than the players."

    Another supporter, BodegaaCat, added: "This ref has been shocking. Mendes fell over way before he was touched"

    Mabyllionaire wrote: "Arsenal fans booing the ref… these lot were calling themselves "Dark Arts FC" and now someone's doing it to them in a game that actually matters they can't hack it."

    FIFA Youtuber and Arsenal fan Nepenthez gave his two cents, writing: "This f*cking ref man. Blowing every time a PSG player gets breathed on."

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    Vincic did get some of his decisions spot on. Myles Lewis-Skelly was rightly shown a yellow card for a number of fouls on Desiree Doue. Even so, the attending Arsenal fans were vocal in their opinion of the Serbian's performance, showering the Emirates pitch with boos. Given the performance of both sets of players, their anger could only be directed at one man.

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    Arsenal face a difficult task in the second half as they fell behind to an smart finish by Ousmane Dembele in just the fourth minute. The curling effort was the result of a 27-pass move by Les Parisiens. Gianluigi Donnarumma was able to maintain the visitors' lead when he made a sharp save from a Saka effort a few minutes before the break.

Liverpool hold new contract talks with Ibrahima Konate in effort to fight off PSG interest in defender as £50m Dean Huijsen lined up as replacement

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Liverpool will hold new contract talks with Ibrahima Konate after learning of Paris Saint-Germain's desire to sign the defender this summer.

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    Konate’s contract at Anfield expires at the end of next season and, as they seek to extend his stay at the club beyond then, the Reds also hold an interest in Dean Huijsen as a potential replacement for the France centre-back.

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    reported that there has been no breakthrough in talks between Liverpool and Konate, with the decision made to focus on his contract in response to interest from PSG, who knocked the Reds out of the Champions League this season.

    If no resolution can be reached with Konate, then there could be motivation on Liverpool’s part to cash in and avoid losing him for free at the end of next season. Should that scenario play out, then a move for Huijsen may be on the cards. The Reds are interested in the Bournemouth defender, but are expected to have competition from Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle United.

  • HOW KONATE AND HUIJSEN COMPARE

    There’s reason to believe Liverpool would not be too upset at the thought of losing Konate, if they could indeed replace him with Huijsen, who has impressed significantly for Bournemouth this season and has contributed to seven clean sheets in the league this season. The Spain international has been on the pitch for 25 of the 40 league goals Bournemouth have conceded. Konate has seen 21 of Liverpool’s 31 goals conceded with him on the field.

    Huijsen has made more blocks (25 to 15), interceptions (49 to 11) and clearances (160 to 110) than Konate in the league this season despite playing the same amount of games (27). Konate has the edge in terms of aerial duels won (69 to 61) and tackles (36 to 33).

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    WHAT NEXT FOR KONATE AND HUIJSEN?

    Konate will hope to help Liverpool get over the line and clinch the Premier League title on Sunday, when the Reds will need just a point against Tottenham to win the league.

    Bournemouth host Manchester United earlier on the same day, with Huijsen likely to be key as they look to take a step towards European qualification.

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