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It was a day for Indian batting royalty at the Wankhede, with the captain leading the charge

Osman Samiuddin15-Nov-20232:22

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Admit it. This is not the article you came to read. The one you came to read is here. That’s where you can celebrate the current king of Indian batting breaking the record of the last king of Indian batting, in front of the old king, in the old king’s home city no less, in the spiritual home of Indian cricket no less. It’s not so much a baton being passed, or even a coronation, as much as the Platinum Jubilee Celebration of Indian Batting Royalty (and here you were thinking this was a World Cup semi-final lol).This is the moment to ask yourself why you clicked here and chose to spend this bit of your life not in that celebration?Well, I’ll tell you why. Because Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer and the Mumbai School of Batting. For those readers too young to know (or care) about the Mumbai School of Batting, brief Cliffs Notes: solid defensive technique, meditative levels of concentration, preservation of wicket more important than scoring runs (). Also Cliffs Note: that school’s dead.Related

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It was dying when Rohit came through, though ghosts still lingered. He was spotted by Dilip Vengsarkar, an alumnus. He had – still has – the technique purists can sleep easy with. But in those early days they used to raise eyebrows over how he’d invariably give his wicket away with some carelessly attacking shot and those things were banned in that school. Those shots, they fretted, were the final nails in the coffin of that tradition of batsmanship.In one sense since, it could be argued that Rohit’s career has actually played out in a way that makes him a fitting graduate, the last one maybe. He has blossomed into a secure Test opener, scoring his first away hundred in cloudy, swingy, seamy England. Even his white-ball career carried the basic ethos of that tradition, not shedding the impulses entirely just smoothing their edges. Get through powerplays, protect wicket, build assiduously, then take off. Bat long, bat big, be greedy, be selfish.After which, finally, is the real point of this: that this late-career transformation for Rohit has not stopped feeling remarkable since it began. Think about this. A batter from the end of a tradition in which keeping your wicket intact is a non-negotiable, chided early for not doing so, becomes a fairly ruthless and calculated run glutton, before convincing himself nearly two decades later that everything he has learnt is wrong and has to be unlearnt; that self-preservation is over-rated and sub-optimal; that attacking intent percentages are >>> than control percentages.Look at his scores in this tournament. One hundred – not a daddy – a couple of 80s and four innings between 40 and 48. That’s a rolling troll of a campaign, of all those people who harp on about conversions, of turning starts into scores, runs into landmarks and landmarks into skyscrapers. It’s fair to assume Rohit was one of those guys until recently.Rohit Sharma set the tone in the powerplay once again•Getty ImagesAnd it’s been exhilarating to watch, arguably never more than at the Wankhede, when something very real was at stake, where the cost of failure, of getting out skewering a shot on 47 high into the sky before the powerplay had ended, was about as high as it can be. This innings, this entire tournament, Rohit has batted with the carefree energy of someone quitting a crappy job, of not having to pass an exam because they already got into college, walking away from an unhealthy marriage, or becoming a committed nudist – the energy released in shedding short-term toxicity for longer-term reward.It helps to be captain, who is expected to set the tone. It helps to have a coach who has been an enabler. Not least it helps to be Rohit Sharma, to be capable of batting like this. He’s the fifth-highest run-scorer for the tournament but has the highest strike rate of the top 10; the fifth-best average in his own batting order for this tournament but easily the most impactful.It’s even starker in the first powerplay, where his record reads 354 runs (266 balls, 42×4, 21×6, strike rate 133.1) and all other India batters in that phase are 300 runs (334 balls, 46×4, 7×6, strike rate 89.8). He has hit a boundary every four balls, the others every 6.3. A record that leads even a batter such as Shubman Gill to say that he’s happy to stand at the non-striker end and watch his captain do his thing.It’s moot whether it is Rohit’s batting that has allowed others to flourish, or their presence that has encouraged him to unleash himself, because the result is the World Cup Iyer has been having. Which is to say, a spectacular one.Iyer is also a Mumbaikar, but he is definitely not of school. In fact, he is not really of any school as much as he is another gleaming product off the assembly line of modern Indian batting; a batter for whom format is incidental, who sees no colour in a ball; for whom these are merely platforms to showcase his underlying skill; a batter who broke through in the Ranji Trophy the same year he did in the IPL.2:32

‘Shreyas’ strength and magical wrists make him a handful’

He’s one of those who, in a feisty press conference the other day, can say he plays shots comfortable in the knowledge that it can cost him his wicket yet, when it comes to the long form, has shown the ability and willingness to put a price on that wicket. One of those the world might see as the very manifestation of an idea whose time has come. Of course, India has produced Shreyas Iyer. What else should the game’s richest member, with the largest talent pool and the best resources at its disposal, be producing? One of those opponents look at and wonder about the unfairness of life and an order that already has Rohit, the guy about whom you should be reading, Gill and KL Rahul. In fact, all the time you were focused on that guy you should be reading about, with all the scrutiny on that record, Iyer slipped away to simply do his own thing.When India’s scoring rate fell below seven for the first time in the day – hardly an intractable problem admittedly – soon after Gill had retired, Iyer stepped out and lofted Rachin Ravindra beyond the sight screen, before slicing him past point for a boundary.That guy went past the old guy’s single-edition record of World Cup runs with a neat single, and the next ball Iyer put Glenn Phillips into the second tier. Mitchell Santner bowled a maiden, the next over Iyer hit 11 in a 17-run over. The record was finally broken with an energetic double, and five balls later Iyer didn’t fully get to the pitch of a Ravindra ball and still hit him over long-on for six.That guy got out and next ball Iyer… I don’t, by this stage, need to tell you what he did off another Ravindra ball. And just in case you didn’t notice it amid the adulation and feels, he did it again at the end of the over.After facing four more balls he reached his own hundred, a second in consecutive World Cup games, at his home ground, the ninth-fastest of all time by an Indian and it is only second billing on the day. Probably about time, if you haven’t already, you go and read about what was the main attraction.

Why the Australia captain represents an unusually evolved cricket leader for his age

Osman Samiuddin03-Mar-2022″To all past players, I want to say this: Just as you have always stuck up for your mates, I’m sticking up for mine.”As sign-offs go, this one on the Justin Langer saga is one heck of a finish.Not unlike, if you think about it, a Pat Cummins wicket. No frothing, no foaming. No energy wasted. All very concise, very precise. The flourish of the message lies in its economy and its devastating finality.Related

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Like that ball to Joe Root at Old Trafford in the 2019 Ashes. You may be England captain, the ball acknowledges, and this may be the Ashes, it adds, but I’m being delivered by Patrick Cummins, it warns, and I’ll sell you an inswinger, it promises, and I’ll land on a perfect length, it winks, and then I’ll straighten and hit the top of off, it laughs, as it casually drops that conversation dead.Read the entire statement all through to that payoff. It’s a Pat Cummins spell. Pacy: it takes just under two and half minutes to read. Lays out basic principles clearly: “I believe in respecting the sanctity of the change room and proper process” is making sure to hit the top of off stump, ball after ball. Occasionally, something’s thrown in to make sure you’re paying attention: “Justin has acknowledged that his style was intense. And it was”, is the one that beats either edge and needs replaying or re-reading a couple of times.Then the chef’s kiss.Another Root dismissal comes to mind, this one from the Gabba at the 2017-18 Ashes. Cummins has talked about that set-up, how, over nine balls, he’s gradually pulling Root’s front foot across with a fifth-stump line. He wants to drag him out, then trap him leg-before as he falls over with one that ducks in.Me and all my mates: Could Cummins be the conduit to a more enlightened Australian team?•Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesCummins’ control stats are stunning, and for most of those ten balls he hits that off-stump line impeccably. In between he slips one that comes back, but Root lets it go. For the tenth ball, having got that front foot where he wants it, Cummins bowls a sharp inswinger. He knows this carries risk, because there’s always the danger it will slip harmlessly down leg side, or be clipped for runs. This is Cummins, though, and it’s perfect. Root duly falls across and is leg-before: finish as you mean to set it up. Cummins does this all the time on the field. So regularly, in fact, that his genius runs the danger of becoming normalised.Like that inswinger, that statement also comes across as a risk, although it does also feel, undeniably, like a in modern Australian cricket.

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On Friday, Cummins will become the first Australian to lead his side in a Test on Pakistan soil in over 23 years. This is a moment too. There’s much to say about that absence, little of it complimentary of Cricket Australia, but now is not the time for it. Now is the time to reflect on the bigness of this moment.In some ways, this tour is similar to Australia’s tour to Pakistan in 1959-60, their first proper one here (they had played a solitary Test in Karachi three years previously). At the time this part of the world was thought to be neither especially attractive nor particularly important as a destination; in 1956 it was a pitstop on the way back from an Ashes series. But in 1959, Australia were touring the subcontinent during their own domestic season and though some players didn’t want to tour, they were told by the Australian board they had better, or else.Because it was the first real visit and because it took place at the height of the Cold War, the captain, Richie Benaud, contacted the Australian prime minister and met with a top diplomat to make sure he knew what was what before he got out there. Pakistan had just had its introduction to military dictatorship and the US president was scheduled to visit during the tour (and though he did end up watching, he wasn’t there to watch cricket but to firm up a Cold War ally). The tour needed delicate navigation and even now, nearly seven years after Benaud passed, over 60 years after the tour, it’s easy to imagine how well he would have steered through it, sharp on the field, sensitive and charming off it.On Australia’s first tour to Pakistan in 23 years, Cummins will have to juggle many hats•AFP/Getty ImagesYou’d think, 60 years on, no way the geopolitical sensitivities would be quite as heightened again but, well, perhaps you haven’t yet taken a casual doomscroll down a social media timeline. But Cummins has much to put right in Australian cricket, rather than worrying about broader political equilibriums. Repairing Australian cricket’s image within Pakistan for one, or, like Benaud, starting all over. But it’s also a little bit about righting Australian cricket’s pandemic-era withdrawal. It’s their first tour of Pakistan in 23 years, but it’s also their first Test tour other than England since 2019. So in an as-yet unspecified order, Cummins will be fast bowler, captain, leader and ambassador all tour.Australians have long intuited it, but to the outside world he has emerged recently as just the man for it, a captain who will not only make sure he does not say or do anything stupid but a leader who might actively say and do the right things.A word of caution: we can’t ever really know our public figures, no matter how much we claim we might. We pretend we do, by drawing profiles based on interviews that aim to condense a life into an hour, or through their autobiographies, or by ascribing them traits off the back of their on-field deeds. And in these divisive times, we readily reduce them to easy, binary caricatures.This applies to every public figure but is especially relevant considering the experiences of the last two Australian Test captains, built up as solid, all-round great guys until they were revealed to be – gasp! – simply guys. We think we know them. Time and again we learn that we don’t.All that we can know is that they must work off some inner peace or tumult, some unknowable urges or apathies exactly like the rest of us humans do; their lives propelled by the usual motivations and machinations of humans, except they operate inside glass houses where everyone’s looking in and at the ready with stones.In Cummins’ case, it feels doubly necessary to throw in the caveat of Sandpapergate and its implications for Australia’s attack that day. That still feels unresolved, until at least as long as the Loud, Baffling and Ongoing Silence of David Warner continues.Three captains, two expensive lessons in holding the captaincy to impossible standards•Getty ImagesThis, then, is proffered with the greatest trepidation: that Cummins represents an unusually evolved leader for cricket in this age. Not just placed against the missteps of Tim Paine or Steve Smith, but of most captains.Because just as you might watch Cummins best deliveries, listen to his thoughts on racism (or read them here). He’s not indulging in some groupthink, box-ticking here. There’s active self-education at play, as well as an understanding of how it ties in with historical issues at home – to do with Australia’s treatment of its indigenous population.Or read his column on the climate crisis. That awareness too comes from personal experience, spurred by the birth of his first child. He wants to leave the world in better shape for the people who come after him: it’s not so much a pose as basic manners.

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It’s tempting to see that statement on Langer as the full stop not only to his coaching tenure but that entire era; a full stop, that is, between Australia’s goldenest generation and all subsequent ones, who, by definition, cannot be as golden; those are your mates, these are mine.It’s more complicated than that, of course, and eras can never be so neatly demarcated. But if one of the consequences from this is that a more enlightened Australia team emerges, one less self-righteous, one less fussed about that wretched “line” and the ethos around it that its predecessors were so hung up on, then that is outright a good thing.But a more immediate consequence is that a fair bit is riding on this series, or any that Cummins is going to lead in for a while. A loss here and you can imagine some of those former cricketers waiting to wade in. Not far behind them, a wider commentariat too. Because the issues that Cummins has chosen to speak on are so polarising, not least in Australia, that he has already been cussed out in some quarters as a woke poster boy leading a merry team of snowflakes. He should concentrate only on cricket, this numbskull thinking goes, and not, you know, have thoughts about the planet he inhabits or the people who inhabit it around him.On such issues, we see time and again, the blowback can be intense and unpredictable. Which is the precarious thing about Cummins on this trip. For a man whose only career blemishes so far amount to the yearly moustache he grows (and for the good cause of Movember at that), stepping into Pakistan represents uncertain terrain not only literally, but figuratively.

After missing nearly four months, the Astros will gain designated hitter Yordan Alvarez back in the lineup on Tuesday vs. the Rockies, the reported. He last played on May 2.

What was supposed to be a short stint on the injured list turned into something much more for Alvarez. He suffered a "very small" right hand fracture instead of just a strain. After about two months of recovery, Alvarez faced a setback in his process, which has prolonged his return.

Alvarez returned to baseball a week ago when he began a rehab assignment at the Double A Corpus Christi Hooks. He went 7-for-15 in four games with the minor league team.

Before landing on the IL, the three-time All-Star was averaging .210/.306/.340 with three home runs and 18 RBIs in 29 games.

The Astros are gaining their designated hitter back at a crucial time in the season as Houston holds a 1.5-game lead above the Mariners in the AL West. The Astros have 31 games left in the regular season to compete for a playoff spot.

Readiness for floodlit challenge comes in for scrutiny after dropped catches dent tourists’ chances

Vithushan Ehantharajah05-Dec-20251:18

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Joe Root has defended England’s preparations ahead of the second Test after the tourists missed five chances on day two at the Gabba, four of which came in a final session under lights that allowed Australia to establish a crucial 44-run lead with four first-innings wickets remaining.Root’s first century on an Ashes tour had given England a workable total of 334. But they were unable to make it count through wayward bowling and an array of spurned chances. All but one came after sunset, when the pink ball becomes harder to see under the floodlights, allowing the hosts to close on 378 for 6.Travis Head, shifted up to open the batting, was missed badly by wicketkeeper Jamie Smith on 3, and went on to make 33. During the final session, Ben Duckett missed a pop-up at gully that would have removed Alex Carey for a golden duck, and could only palm Josh Inglis away at third slip on 19 – although Ben Stokes bowled Inglis three deliveries later for 21.Related

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Michael Neser was given a life on 6 after slapping Jofra Archer straight to Brydon Carse, who put down a simple effort at cover that split the webbing on his right thumb. Finally, Carey, on 25, slashed between Root (first slip) and Smith, who should have got to it. Carey and Neser eventually walked off together at the close, their unbeaten stand – 49 from 55 deliveries – putting Australia ahead in the match.England chose not to send any of their starters to Canberra for a two-day game against a Prime Minister’s XI that would have given them exposure to day-night conditions. Instead, they underwent a five-day training programme going into the Test, which included two sessions (Monday and Wednesday) under lights, both in the nets and on the outfield of the Gabba to practice fielding in the various scenarios they would come across in this match. Root believes this, unequivocally, was the right thing to do.”We worked as hard as we could in the lead up to this,” Root said. “We had five days of prep and we did a huge amount of catching and making sure we utilised those two sessions under lights well.”You could look at it like that [England could have played in Canberra] but you can’t replicate that surface [at the Gabba], the bounce, the way the nicks come. It’s never going to be exactly the same, it’s never going to be perfect. All you can do is give yourself the best possible chance and I think we’ve done that.”In the lead up to this game we’ve got used to conditions, we’ve got used to the heat, we got used to the surfaces. The nets were at 3mm [grass length], the same as the wicket. We faced our own bowlers, we’ve caught under lights, we’ve caught in daylight and tried to catch in twilight as well. Sometimes they don’t stick and you’re always looking for answers.”Sometimes they just don’t stick and you’ve got to keep applying yourself and wanting the ball so you’re ready when that next opportunity comes.”England did at least have sympathy from across the divide. Jake Weatherald, who struck 72 for a maiden half-century in his second Test, admitted to his own struggles in the field on the evening of day one.”It was definitely difficult,” he said. “We were probably lucky we didn’t get as many catches square of the wicket as them. It is really difficult.”It has been a hard thing to do and it was hard last week for me with the red ball, obviously against the crowds. This week has been another level hard, especially square of the wicket.”I feel for them, I understand how hard it is out there, especially when the ball is being hit hard and there is a bit of dew on the wicket as well. It comes flying at you and it’s not great visuals. It’s a different challenge.”

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Aston Villa have now joined the race to sign Abde Ezzalzouli, at Unai Emery’s request, and Real Betis’ asking price has been revealed.

Villa’s interest in signing a new forward comes amid doubts surrounding Harvey Elliott’s future, with widespread reports suggesting Liverpool could recall the attacking midfielder from his loan spell in the January transfer window.

Elliott has failed to establish himself as a first-team regular, featuring for just 97 minutes across four matches in the Premier League this season, and Fabrizio Romano has now provided an update on whether there is any way back for the Englishman.

The transfer expert said: “At the moment, it depends on his performances in training. The situation is still not changing and of course, Elliott is not happy.”

Should the 22-year-old exit Villa Park this winter, there may be room in the squad to bring in another attacker, and the Villans are now looking to sign a new winger…

Aston Villa join race to sign Abde Ezzalzouli at Unai Emery's request

According to a report from Spain, Aston Villa have now joined the race to sign Real Betis star Ezzalzouli, with the forward being monitored closely ahead of the January transfer window, although there could be competition for his signature from Crystal Palace.

The Betis board’s asking price is ‘significantly’ in excess of the Moroccan’s current value of €12m (£11m), with the Spanish club eager to retain one of their key players, and manager Manuel Pellegrini has made it clear he wants to keep hold of him.

The 23-year-old has been personally requested by Emery for January, with the manager setting out to sign a new winger in order to strengthen his side’s chances of winning the Europa League.

It is little wonder Pellegrini is keen to keep hold of the 25-time Morocco international, given that he has impressed at Real Betis for quite some time, with scout Ben Mattinson waxing lyrical about the left-winger during the 2024/25 campaign.

The former Osasuna man has also made a flying start to the season, chipping in with three goals and two assists in his opening eight games, which has helped propel his side to fifth in the La Liga table.

Emery strengthened his options at left-wing in the summer, signing Jadon Sancho, but the Manchester United loanee is yet to make an impact, failing to register a single goal or assist in his opening eight matches in all competitions.

As such, it would make sense to bring in a new winger in the January transfer window, and Ezzalzouli could be a fantastic long-term addition to the squad.

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A Federação Paulista de Futebol (FPF) divulgou os quatro grupos para a edição de 2024 da Série A1 do Paulistão. O torneio estadual começará no dia 21 de janeiro e vai até o dia 7 de abril. Corinthians, Palmeiras, Santos e São Paulo encabeçam suas respectivas chaves.

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A fórmula de disputa da competição será igual a dos anos anteriores. Os clubes disputam partidas contra times das outras chaves. No final de 12 rodadas, os dois melhores colocados de cada grupo passam para a fase mata-mata. Os dois piores da classificação geral descem para a A2 do Campeonato Paulista.

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Na fase mata-mata, os times jogam em partida única nas quartas e nas semis da competição. A grande final será definida em dois jogos, com o segundo duelo da decisão marcado para ocorrer na casa do clube que tiver a melhor campanha.

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GRUPO A

Santos
Ituano
Santo André
Portuguesa

GRUPO B

Palmeiras
Água Santa
Guarani
Ponte Preta

GRUPO C

Corinthians
Red Bull Bragantino
Mirassol
Inter de Limeira

GRUPO D

São Paulo
São Bernardo
Botafogo-SP
Grêmio Novorizontino

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O detentor do posto de vencedor do Paulistão é o Palmeiras que, apesar de perder o primeiro jogo por 2 a 1 para o Água Santa, triunfou na volta com uma goleada por 4 a 0.

خاض لاعبو منتخب مصر الأول لكرة القدم بقيادة حسام حسن تدريبات استشفائية استعدادًا لمواجهة منتخب أوزبكستان وديًا يوم 14 نوفمبر من الشهر الجاري.

ويواجه منتخب مصر الأول لكرة القدم، دورة ودية على هامش معسكر الإمارات أمام منتخبات أوزبكستان وكاب فيردي وإيران. 

طالع.. وزير الرياضة وهاني أبو ريدة يجتمعان بمنتخب مصر في معسكر الإمارات 

ويتقابل الفائز من مباراة مصر وأوزبكستان مع الفائز من مباراة كاب فيردي وإيران يوم 18 نوفمبر.

ويستعد منتخب مصر لخوض بطولة كأس الأمم الإفريقية في النسخة المقبلة في المغرب، في الفترة من 21 ديسمبر الجاري حتى شهر يناير 2026. 

جدير بالذكر أن منتخب مصر يقع في المجموعة الثانية في مجموعات أمم إفريقيا رفقة منتخبات أنجولا وجنوب إفريقيا وزيمبابوي.