Harry Kane showed off an outstanding no-look first touch as he gears up ahead of Bayern Munich's pre-season preparations. The German champions, who participated in the Club World Cup and were eliminated from the quarter-final by Paris Saint-Germain, are currently enjoying a well-earned break. The players will report back to Munich by next week.
Kane showed off no-look first touch
Preparing for pre-season with Bayern
Bayern face Lyon on August 2
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Ahead of linking up with his team-mates in Germany, Kane was spotted preparing for pre-season on his own as he promoted his new boots. As the Bayern star was answering in a Q&A, a ball came towards him and he comfortably received it from behind him without even looking at the pass.
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WHAT KANE SAID
Kane was asked to pick one team-mate of his who has the worst touch, to which the 31-year-old said: "Oof, the worst touch. There's probably a couple I can name. I don't know if I want to put them under the bus. But I'd probably say…."
That's when the ball suddenly came towards Kane and he stopped it with a brilliant no-look first touch, although he did not reveal any names.
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WHAT NEXT FOR BAYERN?
Vincent Kompany's side will play their first pre-season friendly on August 2 against Lyon at Allianz Arena. It remains to be seen whether Kane will be involved as he looks ahead to another prolific campaign.
The Pakistan Super League’s 2024 season opener will coincide with the final of the UAE’s ILT20, a scheduling clash which will provide complications for franchises in both leagues.The ninth edition of the PSL will launch on February 17 with a fixture between the league’s two most successful teams, defending champions Lahore Qalandars and Islamabad United, at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. The ILT20 final is due to take place in Dubai at the same time.There are five Pakistan players with ILT20 contracts whose availability for the final stages of the tournament is likely to be compromised as a result. Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan, Azam Khan, Mohammad Amir are all due to play for Desert Vipers, while Imad Wasim was recently unveiled as a new signing by Abu Dhabi Knight Riders.Related
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A number of overseas players are also due to feature in both leagues and may miss either the start of the PSL or the final stages of the ILT20, depending on the terms of their contracts and their franchises’ progress.The PCB unveiled fixtures for the PSL on Friday, with the tournament’s final scheduled for March 18. The knockout stages will be played in Karachi for the first time since 2020, which will host a total of 11 games. Lahore (nine games), Rawalpindi (nine) and Multan (five) will also stage fixtures, but neither Quetta nor Peshawar will.Zaka Ashraf, the chair of the PCB’s management committee, said: “The decision to host the marquee event across these cities is a testament to our commitment to bring top-notch cricket to fans across the country. We believe that hosting matches in these venues not only adds to the excitement for fans but also promotes cricket at the grassroots level.”The PCB recently agreed a new broadcast deal for the 2024 and 2025 editions of the PSL and reported a 113% increase in the value of live-streaming rights and a 45% increase in the value of broadcast rights. “It is an unprecedented moment as the prices for both of these rights are unmatched,” Ashraf said. “This is a testament to the growth of the HBL PSL brand.”The board also announced that the National Women’s T20 Tournament will start on Monday, January 15 and will feature six regional teams: Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta and Rawalpindi. The final will be staged on January 31, with the venue yet to be announced.The 16-player squads were selected by the national women’s selection committee. “The National Women’s T20 Tournament 2024 serves [as] a great opportunity for the players to stake a claim in the national team ahead of the busy international year,” the PCB said in a press release, with both the Asia Cup and T20 World Cup due to take place in September-October.
Ajax have laughed off Porto's bid for Kenneth Taylor and are demanding more than double to even consider parting ways with the midfielder.
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According to , the Dutch club dismissed an offer, citing it far below their valuation. Porto, now led by former Ajax boss Francesco Farioli, reportedly submitted a €15 million (£13m/$16m) offer with up to €2m available in bonuses. But Ajax have made it clear they won’t budge below €35m (£30m/$41m) for the 23-year-old midfielder.
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The Amsterdam club were reportedly unimpressed not only by the fee but also by the source. Memories are still fresh of Farioli’s exit, which they feel was orchestrated to avoid a €5m payout clause by waiting until July 1 to finalise his move to Porto. Now, with the Portuguese side returning for Taylor, Ajax are in no mood to compromise.
Meanwhile, another roadblock for Porto in signing Taylor may be the Netherlands international himself. The midfielder, who had a bounce-back campaign last season under Farioli, is not particularly enthusiastic about joining the Portugal club while the likes of Atletico Madrid and Napoli are showing interest.
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Taylor’s current price tag would make him only the seventh-most expensive signing in Porto’s history. Their highest fee paid was €32m for Samu Omorodion, while Hulk’s €19m move remains among their top transfer deals.
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Ajax are unlikely to negotiate further unless Porto return with a bid closer to their asking price. Meanwhile, the Dutch side are pressing ahead with their summer transfers. They recently completed the signing of winger Raul Moro from Real Valladolid and are now eyeing a creative midfielder in the transfer window. As for Taylor, unless a top European club steps in, it looks like he will be playing under John Heitinga next season.
No team has chased as many as 399 to win a Test in India, but memories of Edgbaston 2022 will fire England’s belief
Andrew Miller04-Feb-2024
Shubman Gill’s 104 came after 12 successive sub-50 scores in Tests•AFP via Getty Images
England 67 for 1 (Crawley 29*, Duckett 28) and 253 need another 332 runs to beat India 396 and 225 (Gill 104, Axar 45, Hartley 4-77, Rehan 3-88, Anderson 2-29)Ludicrous though it may sound, the chase is on. No team has ever hunted down a target of 399 to win a Test match in India, but no team has ever come out to play with quite such indefatigable optimism as this England team.By the close of another enthralling day in Visakhapatnam, England’s top order had already chewed 67 runs out of their requirement in 14 overs, for the loss of Ben Duckett, but with Rehan Ahmed’s promotion in the fabled “night-hawk” role reaffirming their determination to chase every scoring option going, and revive India’s recent memories of Edgbaston 2022, when this same side hurtled to a target of 378 with barely a break of sweat.Related
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That they were chasing so many was thanks almost entirely to Shubman Gill, whose third Test century, a gutsy 104 from 147 balls, was his first score of note in 13 increasingly under-pressure innings.Gill came through an extraordinary ordeal in the first half-hour of the day to underpin a second-innings total of 255 that, in any ordinary Test scenario, would be plenty given the lead India took into it. But in the wake of the Hyderabad miracle, and into the teeth of another hard-hitting half-century stand from England’s openers, nothing quite seems as safe for India as it ought to. Notwithstanding the strong likelihood that the magnificent Jasprit Bumrah has another huge contribution to come, Gill’s close-of-play suggestion that India were “70-30” favourites rather underlined their misgivings.That curious unease was present in every facet of India’s play, up to and including the cathartic roar that greeted R Ashwin’s dismissal of Duckett for 28 in his first over of the innings. But with Zak Crawley thumping his drives with front-foot dominance to reach 29 not out from 50 balls at the close, England closed the day as they had begun it – self-evidently up against it, but swinging their haymakers with ferocious conviction.James Anderson brought England roaring back in the morning with the wickets of India’s openers•BCCI
India had an overnight lead of 171 with ten wickets standing when their second innings resumed on a hazy morning, and the conditions could not have been more perfect for James Anderson to bring his peerless new-ball attributes to bear. Fresher than he might have been after just 56 overs of rest between innings, Anderson tore out both of India’s openers in the space of nine deliveries; Rohit Sharma, who played for the nipbacker and lost his off stump to an imperceptible hint of away movement, and Yashasvi Jaiswal, the first-innings hero, who chased an outswinger across his bows and snicked a low edge to Joe Root at first slip, for a combined addition of two runs.England’s day could scarcely have started better, yet it could and probably should have continued in an even more remarkable vein. For the first 17 runs of his innings, Gill was a catatonic bag of nerves – his footwork so frozen that even his first scoring shot, a freebie pull through a Tom Hartley long-hop, appeared to have been executed against his better survival instincts.One delivery later, even Gill himself thought he was stone-dead as Hartley thumped his planted front pad and extracted the on-field lbw verdict, but after consulting with Shreyas Iyer and deciding to roll the dice, his speculative review showed the slenderest of inside-edges. There would have been no such get-out had Marais Erasmus raised his finger six balls later, however. With the ball still on a string, Anderson jagged another nipbacker into that front pad, but this time Gill was saved by the on-field decision.Gill began to creep out of his shell once Anderson’s spell was done, and a languid launch for six off Shoaib Bashir seemed to suggest he was finding his feet. But there was another near-miss to come, as he snicked a palpable edge off Hartley, but Root was too wide at a lone slip to lay a hand on it.By degrees, however, the panic dissipated and the good vibes seeped back into India’s innings. With a diet of singles against the spinners, Gill and Iyer began to inflate that lead, on a surface that was notably more benign than it had been at a similar juncture of the second day’s play. The fifty stand had come up by the time Rehan entered the attack in the 23rd over with a licence to rip his legbreaks, but two drag-downs in his first over allowed Gill to rush towards his first half-century in 13 innings, which he duly reached with another pair of boundaries in Rehan’s third over of the day.Ben Stokes took a stunning catch to send back Shreyas Iyer•BCCI
By now, England’s problems had been exacerbated by a finger injury to Root, sustained after fielding a low edge off Iyer in the slip cordon, and with Anderson held back, it took all of Stokes’ ingenuity in the field to coax further breakthroughs from his greenhorn spin attack. And just as in Hyderabad, where his stunning run-out of Ravindra Jadeja had been a key moment of India’s second innings, so it was his own incredible running catch off Hartley that prised out Iyer for 29.Stokes’ springing of the trap was only part of the story, as he put his recent knee surgery to the ultimate test with a turn from mid-off and a full-tilt sprint towards the boundary, before diving at full-stretch to grab the over-the-shoulder chance. The opportunity had been created by his adjustments earlier in the over, as he brought up the boundary riders to tempt Iyer into the big stroke over the top, and duly lured him into a wild hack across the line.Though Rehan had been expensive, Stokes was not about to lose faith in his wicket-taking wiles, and three overs later, England had their fourth of the session, courtesy of another superb take from Ben Foakes, whose peerless glovework has been fully appreciated by his team-mates in this Test. Rajat Patidar’s eyes lit up as Rehan fired down an apparent long-hop, but the ball skidded through low to clip his inside-edge, and he was gone for 9.After lunch, Gill sensed it was time to spread his wings, especially once Anderson had come and gone without great impact. Rehan was launched for six and two fours in consecutive balls to propel him towards his third Test hundred, which he reached shortly after the drinks break with a calm nudge off the hips from Bashir. The look on his face was relief first, delight second, but the importance of his endurance would be all the more keenly felt by the close.Nevertheless, even with the lead pushing past 350, England still weren’t done in their relentless pursuit of wickets, and once again, it was Stokes’ tinkering that tampered with Gill’s poise. Bashir had endured arguably his least effective spell of the match, and might already have made way for Root’s offspin instead, when Stokes made a show of shoring up Gill’s leg-side field, and before the over was done, he’d attempted a reverse-sweep to open up new avenues, and gloved his shot straight up in the air for Foakes to earn the verdict on review.Eyes on the prize: KS Bharat moves to catch Ben Duckett off R Ashwin•Getty Images
The door to India’s lower-order had been opened, and Stokes had enough faith in his rookies to rush straight through it. Axar Patel had batted with poise in an unhurried knock of 45 from 84 balls, but played across the line as Hartley skidded another low-bouncing delivery into his front pad, before KS Bharat and Kuldeep Yadav came and went meekly, with a pair of miscued slogs after a period of resolute blocking.Only Ashwin found the gumption to get the scoreboard moving again, with a block-and-bash 29, and even he required a life at slip to do so, but after Bumrah’s 26-ball duck had ended with a fence to gully to give Hartley his fourth of the innings, Rehan wrapped up the innings with his own third wicket, courtesy of another super low take from Foakes.Where previous teams might have viewed an hour of batting against Bumrah with trepidation, England saw it as a chance to make a dent in their target – and a run-rate of 4.78 was precisely what Brendon McCullum had ordered, with Anderson later confirming that he’d told them to go for the win, even if they’d been chasing 600.Bumrah, inevitably, was a splice-hounding menace with the new ball as he beat Crawley’s edge repeatedly and even got one to scuttle on an off-stump line, but Mukesh Kumar’s poor match continued as each opener scalped a brace of boundaries in his two overs for 19. Kuldeep entered the attack to be planted over midwicket for six by Crawley, while Rehan lived up to his billing with two fours in the final three balls of the day, both streaky but effective slaps off Axar.All manner of records will have to tumble if England are to hunt this target down, but it perhaps won’t be lost on India that when they set the benchmark with their pursuit of 387 to beat England in Chennai in 2008, it was a certain Virender Sehwag who broke the back of the chase with his pulsating half-century on the fourth evening. If he was the original Bazballer, there’s a whole brigade of them charging over the brow now.
أدرك فريق كريستال بالاس التعادل أمام نظيره ليفربول، في المباراة التي تجمع الفريقين اليوم الأحد على ملعب “ويمبلي”.
ويلاقي ليفربول نظيره كريستال بالاس، في إطار منافسة كأس الدرع الخيرية، نسخة 2025، حيث يواجه بطل الدوري الإنجليزي، بطل كأس الاتحاد الإنجليزي.
وتحصل كريستال بالاس على ضربة جزاء بعد العودة لتقنية الفار، واتضح وجود خطأ على فيرجيل فان دايك مدافع ليفربول لتدخله على إسماعيلا سار لاعب كريستال بالاس.
وتوجه فيليب ماتيتا لتسديد ضربة جزاء كريستال بالاس، ونجح في التسجيل ليمنح فريقه هدف التعادل في الدقيقة 17 من عمر اللقاء.
وكان ليفربول تقدم في بداية المباراة بهدف مبكر عن طريق هوجو إيكيتيكي بعد تمريرة من فلوريان فيرتز في الدقيقة الخامسة من المواجهة. هدف تعادل كريستال بالاس أمام ليفربول
⚽️ نجا ليفربول من العثرة الأولى… فاحتُسِبت الثانية!
ماتيتا يعادل النتيجة لكريستال بالاس من ركلة جزاء 🔄#FACommunityShield pic.twitter.com/RaMhisEkok — beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS) August 10, 2025
The seamers had set it up for them by taking 19 of the 20 wickets
Sreshth Shah01-Mar-2024
Andy Balbirnie led the chase with a half-century•ACB Media
Ireland 263 (Stirling 52, Ur-Rahman 5-64) and 111 for 4 (Balbirnie 58*, Tucker 27*, Naveed 2-31) beat Afghanistan 155 (Ibrahim 53, Adair 5-39) and 218 (Shahidi 55, Young 3-24, McCarthy 3-48, Adair 3-56) by six wicketsSix years and seven Test defeats later, Ireland earned their first victory in cricket’s longest format on Friday, beating Afghanistan by six wickets on the third day of the one-off Test in Abu Dhabi.Set a small target of 111 for victory, Ireland found themselves in a slippery position at 13 for 3 in their fourth innings, but their captain Andy Balbirnie staved off the Afghan challenge with Lorcan Tucker for company to seal the historic win in front of a spattering of travelling Ireland fans. There were tears in the crowd among family members of the Irish contingent when Tucker scurried across for a single to complete the historic winning run in the 32nd over.While Balbirnie’s unbeaten 58 on a turning surface got Ireland back on track for the win, it was their pace bowlers who set the game up. The trio of Barry McCarthy, Mark Adair and Craig Young shared three Afghanistan wickets apiece in the third innings to make Afghanistan fold for only 218, having started the day at a comfortable 134 for 3. In all, Ireland’s pace bowlers shared 19 of the 20 wickets in the match, only the second time in eight Tests that the team took all 20. They bent their back in warm conditions at the Tolerance Oval to ensure Afghanistan could finish with a lead of only 110, a score that was, in the end, too low.
It was Adair who got the first breakthrough of day three by dismissing overnight batter Hashmatullah Shahidi on 55, trapping him lbw from around the wicket. McCarthy then got a length ball to shape in and rattle Nasir Jamal’s off stump. Young then pegged Afghanistan further back by getting Karim Janat caught at midwicket on 13 and then shattering the stumps of the dangerous-looking Rahmanullah Gurbaz for 46 in back-to-back overs.At the time, it appeared Afghanistan’s lead would not even cross three digits, but a stubborn lower-order effort from No. 8 Zia-Ur-Rahman and No. 9 Naveed Zadran dragged the team along. Their handy 32-run partnership for the eighth wicket was finally broken when left-arm spinner Theo van Woerkom got a ball to grip and turn, forcing Ur-Rahman to edge one to first slip.McCarthy then returned intending to close the Afghan innings out. He rattled No. 10 Nijat Masood’s stumps for a duck pair for the match, and the man replacing him, Young, ended Zadran’s stay by flattening his poles, all out for 218 and setting Ireland 111.The curse of Nelson appeared to be real when Zadran rattled the stumps of Ireland opener Peter Moor and Curtis Campher without either batter opening their account. Nijat then accounted for Harry Tector for 2 when he got a feather touch to the keeper, and Ireland appeared to be losing the plot. But Balbirnie steadied Ireland’s ship, first with Paul Stirling for company after tea, and after Stirling’s dismissal, with Tucker.Even though Tucker and Balbirnie offered a few nervous moments with their running between the wickets, their confidence grew as the target got closer. Eventually Afghanistan looked to have no answer as Balbirnie reached his fourth Test fifty with Ireland needing less than 20 to win. He remained unbeaten at the other end when the winning run was scored.Earlier in the match, Afghanistan had missed the chance of setting the tone in the Test after winning the toss and choosing to bat. They had folded for only 155, with Adair taking 5 for 39 in the first innings. Ireland then posted 263 on the back of some middle-order partnerships to take a healthy 108-run lead despite Ur-Rahman’s five-wicket haul. However, when Afghanistan finished day two on 134 for 3, it appeared the game’s balance had shifted, but they could not build on that, losing their sixth Test in nine outings in the process.
Paris-Saint Germain forward Desire Doue has claimed he is better than Barcelona wonderkid Lamine Yamal after being asked in a recent interview.
Doue claims he is better than YamalFrenchman recently led PSG to UCL titleYamal compared to Messi at BarcaFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
Doue and Yamal are part of the next generation of superstars in the world of football, but the PSG man believes he has the edge over Barcelona's wonderkid compared to Lionel Messi.
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Doue may not have been aware that his answer was being recorded, but his resume is incredibly impressive. Having won the Champions League last season, he also notched 32 goal contributions in 61 matches across all competitions. Alongside Yamal and team-mate Ousmane Dembele, he is one of the favourites to land the Ballon d'Or this year.
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Both young stars are preparing to go again for the 2025-26 campaign and really stake their claim to be considered as the best in the world. Barcelona are Spanish champions, thanks largely to the work of Yamal, while Doue also helped the French side to the Club World Cup final during the summer.
Worcestershire are considering a permanent move away from their home ground at New Road after it flooded seven times over the 2023-24 winter. They will stage their first two home fixtures of the County Championship season in nearby Kidderminster and chief executive Ashley Giles is actively exploring the club’s options.New Road is among the most iconic cricket venues in England, with its backdrop of Worcester cathedral, but it is built on a flood plain which relieves the River Severn. Giles, who took over as chief executive last year, said that the flooding problem is getting worse and fears that any further issues could affect their T20 Blast season.”I don’t think we can carry on like this,” Giles told BBC Hereford and Worcester. “It’s costing us a lot of money. We’re going to lose virtually two months of a six-month season. The ground is here to stage cricket, to be a venue for entertainment and hospitality. But conditions are seemingly getting worse.”I’m not sure how much longer this will continue if we keep having to put up with this. As chief executive here, I have to consider all options – and one of those options has to be looking if we move, where do we move, and how do we move? We have a good relationship with both the local councils, city and county.”And would we be building a version of New Road somewhere else? Or could we look at outside investment and build something that could have world-class facilities. That would take a lot of investment. But sport – and cricket – is interesting to investors right now, so maybe the timing is right to look at those sorts of things.”Related
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Worcestershire are not expecting to play at New Road until May 24, when they host Nottinghamshire in the County Championship, but Giles is anxious about the prospect of flooding ruining the start of their Blast season, with their first home fixture scheduled for May 31.”The weather over the next couple of weeks is important, but we are still sticking to the plan of a May 24 return,” he said. “But any extension of the timeline on a return to New Road would be pretty devastating. We’ve now suffered seven full floods this winter at New Road, the last of them over the Easter weekend, which is very late.”The water has now receded and we’re yet to assess quite how much damage has been done but first impressions are positive. It seems that the work done on the square has been retained and there is still good grass. But, if we push back any further we get into the T20 [Blast].”It would be very damaging if we had to move T20 games away from New Road. Kidderminster has been a very good partner to us and we will play two our first two home Championship games there but could they cope with a T20 game? I don’t know. We need to explore these things.”
Holder arrives for start of season
Worcestershire announced the signing of Jason Holder last week, who has arrived in the UK ahead of their opening Championship fixture against Warwickshire this week. Holder is due to play the first five games of the season, before flying home ahead of the T20 World Cup.Holder told ESPNcricinfo in December that he planned to win back his Test spot through domestic red-ball performances after opting out of West Indies’ tour to Australia in order to play in the ILT20, and made two first-class appearances for Barbados last month.”Jason arrived on Tuesday morning from the West Indies and he has already practised with us at Kidderminster,” Alan Richardson, Worcestershire’s coach, told the club website. “He was really keen to get out there and meet the players and the staff and that has been great.”Trying to find overseas players is probably a lot harder than 20-30 years ago with franchise cricket and this year we’ve got the added complication of a T20 World Cup. Jason was really keen. He has been playing for Barbados and played quite a lot of four-day cricket recently. He was keen to continue and then going into the World Cup with the West Indies.”
Both teams have four points from six games and need to pick up winning momentum as the league phase nears the half-way stage
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Should MI play Nuwan Thushara?
Match detailsPunjab Kings (eighth) vs Mumbai Indians (ninth) Mullanpur, 7:30pm IST (2pm GMT)Big picture – The contrast between Kings and MumbaiPunjab Kings have only one batter with more than 150 runs this season, but he’s going to miss Thursday’s game with a shoulder injury. Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, have three over 150 and those who have fewer runs are either middle and lower-order batters or haven’t played enough games in IPL 2024.Mumbai’s openers have given them a kickstart: the 308 runs between Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan is the second highest for the first wicket this year; they have been separated in single-digits in only two out of six innings, and have fifty-plus partnerships (including a hundred) in the other four. Their partnership runs have come at more than 11 runs an over.The Kings haven’t had such batting riches. Their regular openers – Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow – have totalled 168 runs at only 8.33. With Dhawan injured for their previous game against Royals, Kings opened with Bairstow and Atharva Taide but there was not much improvement.The contrast doesn’t end there. Mumbai have hit 67 sixes this season, the second highest, while Kings’ 44 is the second lowest. In the powerplay, Mumbai’s 23 sixes and Punjab’s four are at opposite ends of the spectrum.Though Mumbai’s batting is performing much better than Punjab’s, they are just below the Kings near the bottom of the table with four points from six games. And that may be down to the contrast between their bowling units this season.Despite Jasprit Bumrah’s genius (10 wickets at an average of 14.60 and economy of 6.08), Mumbai have one of the poorest performing attacks of the season: their collective average of 35.72 and economy of 10.04 is the third worst among the ten teams. Punjab, on the other hand, have the best bowling average (25.20) and the fourth best economy rate (8.87) this season.Their home venue might have something to do with it. Teams have struggled to start fast in Mullanpur: the powerplay run rate of 7.11 there is the lowest this season, which means Rohit and Ishan will be challenged to give Mumbai their customary quick start on Wednesday.Form guidePBKSLLWLL MI LWWLL2:04
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Team news and Impact Player strategyPunjab Kings Bairstow’s lean run, especially in Mullanpur where he has scores of 9, 0 and 15, could force Kings to consider playing the South African batter Rilee Rossouw. Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma have formed a potent threat with the bat lower down the order, so expect the Impact Player tactics to be the same: Ashutosh swapping in or out for Arshdeep Singh or Prabhsimran Singh.Probable XII: 1 Atharva Taide, 2 Jonny Bairstow/Rilee Rossouw, 3 Singh, 4 Sam Curran (capt), 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 7 Shashank Singh, 8 Harpreet Brar, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 , 12 Mumbai Indians Along with Bumrah, Gerald Coetzee is the only MI bowler to have a sub-ten economy rate in the death overs in IPL 2024. Mumbai have been the third-most expensive side in the phase. Given they have not used a lot of spin, could they be tempted to bring in the Sri Lankan fast bowler Nuwan Thushara for offspinning allrounder Mohammad Nabi?Probable XII: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), , 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Hardik Pandya (capt), 6 Tim David, 7 Romario Shepherd, 8 Mohammad Nabi/ Nuwan Thushara, 9 Shreyas Gopal, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Gerald Coetzee, Rohit Sharma is enjoying his best start to an IPL season•BCCIIn the spotlight: Kagiso Rabada and Rohit SharmaNot only has Kagiso Rabada been among the wickets this season for Kings, he has done so at an economy under eight – the first time he has conceded less than eight an over since IPL 2020. His nine wickets include seven right-handers and Mumbai have plenty of them. Rabada has been effective in the middle overs, where he has picked up four wickets with an economy of 7.33.Rohit Sharma has been superb for Mumbai this season. Without the burden of captaincy, he has blazed away in the powerplay and is enjoying his best start to an IPL. His tally of 261 is already the highest for him in the first six matches of a season. He has also never scored faster than his strike rate of 167.31 in IPL 2024. He has been good against pace (strike rate of 173.63) as well as spin (152.17) which has made him hard to contain for the opposition.Stats that matter Rohit will become only the second player after MS Dhoni to play 250 matches in the IPL Kishan has been dismissed three times in 12 balls by Arshdeep Singh in the IPL but has a strike rate of 208.3 against him. Against Rabada though, Kishan has 58 runs off 33 balls for one dismissal. Rohit has a strike rate of 148 against Rabada for two dismissals in the IPL, but in all T20s, he has been dismissed four times in 74 balls for just 89 runs. Against Harshal Patel in the IPL, his head-to-head reads: 27 runs, 23 balls, three dismissals. Rabada against Suryakumar Yadav could be the contest to watch: 94 runs off 52 balls with three dismissals.Pitch and conditionsTeams winning the toss have opted to chase in Mullanpur, and won two out of three games this season. The one time they lost, Kings fell only two runs short against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The pitches have largely been batting-friendly, and expect the trend to continue in the evening game on Thursday.Quote”I have known Hardik for a decade, and he is a very tough guy. Something like this is only going to motivate him. The way he is taking it so far is tremendous and very inspiring for all of us. Seeing it on a daily basis is not easy, but the guy is really strong.” “Brar has been our successful bowler if you look at his economy or wicket-taking ability. Last game, he bowled less dot balls but Livi [Liam Livingstone] has bowled more dot balls and taken more wickets. Brar will come back stronger, he plays his domestic cricket on the same ground. He will come back stronger.”
Após avançar nas negociações com o empresário de Lucas Piton, o Vasco formalizou uma proposta de compra pelo lateral-esquerdo, que foi entregue nesta segunda-feira ao Corinthians. O clube paulista gostou dos valores apresentados, que se aproximam de sondagens recebidas de times europeus.
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As partes adotam cautela sobre o acerto, mas o andamento nas negociações avançadas do Corinthians pelo lateral-esquerdo Matheus Bidufacilita a saída de Lucas Piton para o Vasco. O jogador é um dos ativos do Timão, que precisa negociar atletas para cumprir a meta orçamentária.
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O interesse do Vasco em Lucas Piton foi noticiado pelo LANCE! no último sábado. A lateral esquerda é uma das posições mais carentes do elenco, que conta apenas com o veterano Edimar, o jovem Riquelme, que se reucupera de lesão no joelho esquerdo, e Paulo Victor, que está emprestado até o meio do ano pelo Internacional, e não está nos planos.
Lucas Piton é cria do clube paulista e estreou no time profissional em 2019. Ao todo, soma 106 partidas, marcou dois gols e deu 11 assistências. O lateral-esquerdo disputou 52 jogos na última temporada, 39 como titular.