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Neste domingo, o Palmeiras venceu o Goiás por 5 a 0 com direito à quebra de jejum de gols de Dudu, que finalmente balançou a rede em 2023. O feito foi celebrado por todos os jogadores e pela comissão técnica que, em nome de Abel Ferreira, teve uma participação no fim dessa zica. Isso porque, em outra ocasião, possivelmente o camisa 7 seria substituído em um processo de controle de desgaste, que agora pode ser um problema.

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Em entrevista coletiva após a partida em Goiânia, Abel falou da “sorte” por ter mantido o atacante em campo até o apito final. Segundo o técnico, ele sabia do desejo de seu jogador e optou pela manutenção em campo. No entanto, atentou para as consequências disso daqui para frente.

– Hoje deu sorte que eu não o tirei, porque ele joga numa posição que eu chamo de acelerador de jogo. Hoje acabei por deixá-lo até o fim, porque sabia que ele queria muito fazer esse gol, mas depois isso vai ter consequências à frente. Isso é com todos, nós temos pouco tempo para recuperar e quando eu tiro os aceleradores de jogo, é pensar um pouquinho à frente. Eu sei que às vezes eles ficam chateados, porque todos querem jogar até o fim, vocês viram o Menino “agora que o jogo está bom, vai me tirar?”.

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De acordo com Abel Ferreira, esse pensamento à frente faz parte das funções do treinador, mas não deixou de comemorar o presente pelo feito de Dudu. Ainda em cima do gol, o técnico português fez questão de destacar a comemoração do grupo pela bola na rede.

– A função do treinador é ver à frente, é ver o que o torcedor não vê, é ver o que os jogadores não veem, é ver o que a diretoria não vê, por isso somos treinadores. Eu particularmente hoje deixei ele e o Artur ficarem até o fim para ver se essa zica saía. Felizmente deu certo para ele para nós. Gostei, mais do que o gol, da forma com que nós festejamos o gol.

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+ Dudu quebra jejum pelo Palmeiras em 2023 e fala em gol ‘choradinho’ contra o Goiás

Além do que aconteceu em campo, Abel Ferreira explicou todo o processo que possibilitou esse gol de Dudu. Segundo Abel, o camisa 7 tem pedido para ficar mais tempo no treino para aperfeiçoar finalizações. Por fim, o treinador descreveu a dinâmica do ataque do Verdão.

– Nós temos uma dinâmica diferente na direita e na esquerda. Na esquerda temos um estrutura mais fixa e na direita uma estrutura mais móvel. Dudu não está sempre por fora nem sempre para dentro. O Piquerez está por fora ou está por dentro, quando o Dudu está por fora, o Piquerez está por dentro. O Dudu, além de de ser um finalizador, é um assistente, tem muita assistência, não é um finalizador nato. É um jogador que em uma temporada normal tem que fazer dez a 15 gols, um jogador do nível dele tem que fazer, ele sabe, ele se cobra, ele pede para ficar mais para aprimorar o gesto técnico – disse Abel antes de completar:

+ ATUAÇÕES: Piquerez participa de três gols, e Dudu espanta seca em goleada

– Não é por falta de ocasiões que ele tem tido, é pelo futebol, que a zica às vezes não sai, eu não acho, é tudo no tempo de Deus. Eu estou aqui para ajudar os jogadores, a minha missão é essa, é ajudar, é corrigir, é educar, se for preciso, para quando chegar dentro de campo façam o máximo esforço a serviço do Palmeiras – finalizou Abel.

O Palmeiras agora é o vice-líder do Brasileirão com dez pontos em quatro rodadas. O próximo compromisso do time no campeonato é nesta quarta-feira, às 21h30, no Allianz Parque, quando recebe o Grêmio, pela quinta rodada da competição.

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Chelsea are growing frustrated with a member of Enzo Maresca’s side for one key reason, with their Premier League rivals now weighing up a surprise move for him this summer.

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The west Londoners are showcasing major ambition again this window.

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The Blues are expected to part company with a host of players over the coming weeks, following their agreed exit deals for Kepa Arrizabalaga, Basir Humphreys and Marcus Bettinelli, who brought in around £19 million worth of transfer fees to the Stamford Bridge coffers.

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Lesley Ugochukwu, João Félix, Renato Veiga, Ben Chilwell, David Datro Fofana, Armando Broja and Axel Disasi are all up for sale (The Athletic), given they’re out of Maresca’s long-term plans, while matchday regulars like Christopher Nkunku, Noni Maduke and Nicolas Jackson have also been linked with the exit door in recent weeks.

The latter two players have even been described as almost certain to leave, amid reported interest from Arsenal.

There is also the ongoing matter of Raheem Sterling and his next club. The £50m England international is back from a lacklustre loan spell at Arsenal, and his £325,000-per-week wages are poised to be a major stumbling block in Chelsea’s attempts to offload the ex-Man City star.

Reports last week of Sterling’s advanced talks to join Besiktas appear wide of the mark, but journalist Simon Phillips now reports that west London rivals Fulham could take the 30-year-old off Maresca’s hands instead.

Fulham weigh surprise move to sign Raheem Sterling from Chelsea

Writing via his Substack, Phillips reports that Fulham are weighing up a surprise move for Sterling, with Chelsea growing frustrated by the winger’s exit stance.

“SPTC sources are still hearing that he ideally does not want to move away from his family in London and wants to stay there, vastly reducing his options and making it frustrating for all involved,” said the reporter.

“If Sterling truly does only want to stay in London, then he is going to need to lower his wage demands, which he may well do.

“After having spent last season on loan with Arsenal, Sterling is once again looking for a new club to join. We understand that Fulham have been alerted by his availability this summer and are weighing up whether they can make a move. However, his wages put them off at the moment and will need to go down if they are to land him. But they like the player and there is interest from them this summer.

“Sterling’s agents will reach out to other London clubs as well to offer the player around, but at the moment, we have heard that Sterling is not chasing a pay day in Saudi or even the States. His priority is to stay in London close to all of his family.”

With James Trafford already on his way, Sky Sports reporter Keith Downie reports Newcastle United may soon complete another deal to sign a £60m reinforcement and finally kickstart their summer.

James Trafford set to join Newcastle

While the narrative around Newcastle’s transfer window has so far been failure, that could be about to change. The Magpies are reportedly closing in on a deal to sign long-term target Trafford in what could be the start of their summer finally turning around.

After Trafford, those at St James’ Park are likely to shift their focus back towards their frontline. Although their need for a striker has been somewhat eased by the fact that Callum Wilson has put pen to paper on a new deal, they’ve still got their sights set on signing a new right-winger.

Just who that will be is the question. Already this summer, Newcastle have been rejected by Bryan Mbeumo and then by Joao Pedro, who now looks set to join Premier League rivals Chelsea. It’s rejection that they will be frustrated by given their Champions League place, but rejection that they must move on from.

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Alternatives mentioned so far includes Liverpool’s Harvey Elliott. The 22-year-old enjoyed an excellent U21 Euros tournament – winning Player of the Tournament as England won the competition for a second time under Lee Carsley. Now available for around £50m, Newcastle could make their move.

If not Elliott, however, then it could still be one long-term target who one reporter now expects to complete a move to St James’ Park this summer.

Keith Downie now expects Elanga to join Newcastle

As reported on his YouTube channel, Sky Sports’ Keith Downie now expects Newcastle’s deal to sign Elanga “will get done” this summer with the Swede happy to swap Nottingham Forest for Tyneside.

Downie said on his YouTube channel: “All the noises are that Elanga is the number one choice. Of course, that was Bryan Mbeumo, but it’s now been moved to Elanga, and I can see him being perfect for Eddie Howe’s style.

“I feel that deal will get done. Newcastle aren’t in competition with anyone and they know that they are close in terms of the fee. I think the player would be happy to move here from what I’m being told. And it’s a case of Newcastle coming up with the numbers.”

“They offered £45m last week but Forest want £60m. I feel if Newcastle split the difference and offered £52-53m, they’d get the deal done, and I’d hope there will be some movement on that in the next few days. I expect Newcastle to come back in with an improved bid if they haven’t already.”

After missing out on Mbeumo and then Pedro, signing Elanga would be seen as a huge success for Newcastle who would be turning their fortunes around on the transfer front with the addition of both the Forest star and Trafford.

Mahmudul was the only Bangladesh A batter to show fight as the rest of the unit crumbled

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Aug-2024Fast bowlers Naseem Shah and Mir Hamza picked three wickets apiece as Pakistan A bowled out Bangladesh A for just 122 in 44.3 overs on the opening day of the first four-day clash in Islamabad on Monday.After the start was delayed by a wet outfield, Bangladesh A won the toss and elected to bat. But, they had no answers to Naseem and Hamza who tore through the top order. Only opener Mahmudul Hasan Joy thwarted the Pakistan attack to an extent by scoring 65 as the others crumbled around him on a pitch offering help to the fast bowlers.Naseem returned to the red-ball format after a while having suffered an injury during last year’s Asia Cup. He returned figures of 3 for 24 in 8.3 overs while his new ball partner, left-arm fast bowler Hamza took 3 for 33 in 11. While Naseem picked up the wickets of captain Anamul Haque, Mominul Haque and Rejaur Rahman Raja, Hamza nabbed Zakir Hasan, Shahadat Hossain and Nayeem Hasan.Bangladesh A were reduced to 53 for 3 before a brief partnership ensued. The fourth wicket fell on 91 following which the visitors suffered a collapse which saw them slip to 110 for 9 and eventually be bowled out for 122. Along with Naseem and Hamza, fast bowler Mohammad Rameez also chipped in with two wickets while allrounder Umar Amin picked the key wicket of Mahmudul.Pakistan A could only bat for two overs before bad light forced an early end to the already reduced day’s play. They ended on 2 for no loss with Saim Ayub and Muhammad Huraira at the crease.Bangladesh A and Pakistan A will play two four-day games and three one-day games in the course of the month. The senior teams will also clash for a two-Test series which gets underway on August 21 in Rawalpindi.

Scott Parker certainly lived up to his label as a serial promotion winner out of the Championship this season at the Burnley helm.

Securing second spot for the Clarets on a mighty 100 points means Parker has now won promotion three times up to the Premier League as a boss, with the uphill battle of attempting to keep the Lancashire underdogs afloat in the taxing division now the tough goal.

It’s been a less-than-ideal summer so far for the newly promoted side unfortunately, as CJ Egan-Riley nears ever closer to a sad Clarets exit, whilst Josh Brownhill’s future at the club is reportedly up in the air having attracted interest from West Ham.

But, it doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom as the Clarets anxiously count down the days until the Premier League returns to Turf Moor.

How might the Clarets look in the Premier League? We’ve laid out their dream XI in the top-flight right here…

1 GK – James Trafford

Much like Egan-Riley, Burnley’s number one goalkeeper James Trafford has reportedly been the subject of interest from Newcastle.

But, Parker and Co will just aim to keep swatting away interested parties, knowing full well that Trafford is Premier League capable, having kept a ridiculous 29 clean sheets last season.

2 RB – Connor Roberts

Connor Roberts is also likely to retain his place as Burnley’s starting right-back in top-flight action.

He was another steady presence in the Clarets’ formidable defence last campaign, whilst also being able to boast a season of Premier League experience already with the Lancashire outfit.

3 CB – Victor Nelsson

The first brand-new purchase could see Burnley take a punt on 26-year-old centre-back Victor Nelsson in a bid to immediately fill the Egan-Riley void.

Previously linked with a €10m (£8m) move for Nelsson in January, the 6 foot 1 Dane has shown across his career to date his ability to shine in some top divisions.

Before falling out of favour at Galatasaray and heading to AS Roma on loan, Nelsson would pick up a hefty 11 clean sheets in Super Lig action across the 2023/24 season, finishing too with an imposing average of 5.3 duels won per contest.

With his spell at Roma not going to plan either, the Scandinavian could well fancy leaving Turkey behind for good which is where Burnley might capitalise.

4 CB – Maxime Esteve

Whilst the news of Egan-Riley’s expected exit will sting, Burnley being able to keep a firm grip on his usual centre-back partner in Maxime Esteve could at least come as some source of comfort.

The Frenchman has been linked with a switch away to Crystal Palace, but if the Clarets are serious about their survival hopes, they must keep Esteve around.

The 23-year-old already looks ready-made for the Premier League, with the ex-Montpellier enforcer both confident on the ball with a 91% pass accuracy averaged last season in league action, but also assured when launching into many a tackle.

5 LB – Josip Juranovic

Whilst normally a right-back by trade, Burnley’s lack of a main left-back option could see the Clarets swoop in for reported target Josip Juranovic for help.

The “immense” Croat, as he’s been previously lauded by European football expert Zach Lowy, has been a goal-and-assist machine wherever he’s gone across his nomadic career.

That’s seen in his career tally of 43 goal contributions – but it’s ability to slot in as a right-back, left-back or even as a centre-back with ease that will have piqued Burnley’s interest.

6 CM – Josh Brownhill

Much like Esteve, it would be a complete disaster if Burnley were to lose Josh Brownhill after his sublime promotion heroics.

But, with his contract running down, it could well be a sticky situation to solve.

Still, if they can get their exciting captain to say, it would make the world of difference to the Clarets’ survival odds, considering the wanted star fired home 18 strikes last season as Burnley’s top scorer.

7 CM – Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall

Burnley-linked Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall might soon form a healthy working relationship with Josh Brownhill if the ex-Leicester City man is finally freed from his Stamford Bridge ordeal.

Whilst his time in West London has been rocky after a £30m switch last summer, he showed more than enough for the Foxes for Parker to consider a move, boasting 17 goals and 20 assists in total across his memorable King Power Stadium stay.

8 RM – Marcus Edwards

Now officially a permanent member of the Burnley camp, Marcus Edwards will be raring to go in the Premier League next campaign.

After all, he was once a heavily fancied kid off the block at Tottenham Hotspur, but he would never go on to make a top-flight appearance on the periphery in North London.

Now, after collecting a goal and an assist from 14 Turf Moor clashes, his opportunity finally awaits.

9 CAM – Hannibal Mejbri

Hannibal Mejbri is very much in the same camp as Edwards in attempting to show he belongs at the intimidating level.

He certainly showed he was worthy of competing at the top end of the Championship with Parker’s men, as seen in his respectable tally of one goal and five assists from the number ten spot. Therefore, he could come back to haunt his ex-employers, Manchester United.

10 LM – Jaidon Anthony

Jaidon Anthony will also be bursting with excitement about reentering the Premier League with the Clarets after penning a permanent deal at Turf Moor.

Whilst his team’s stern defence just stole most of the deserved plaudits, Anthony’s high haul of eight goals and seven assists from 43 league clashes went somewhat under the radar.

With Premier League experience also already under his belt with AFC Bournemouth, the 25-year-old could soon cause even more havoc down the left flank for Parker’s men.

Osman Samiuddin pays tribute to the arch-diplomat who oversaw the best of times at the PCB

Osman Samiuddin24-Mar-2024One way to reflect on Shaharyar Khan’s legacy in his two stints as chairman PCB is to digest the period in between, when he wasn’t chairman. It began with a doping scandal in late 2006; swiftly escalated to the death of their coach, which, for a time, was treated as suspicious with his own side among the suspects; plummeted with a terrorist attack on a touring team in 2009 which took the game away from Pakistan; it ended a few years later with the clownish toing and froing between Zaka Ashraf and Najam Sethi (no, not last year’s japes but those from 2013-14).In other words, the time in between was the worst of times and that was it, there were no other times.Either side, in two three-year phases of Khan, Pakistan cricket was a more serene place, a place that made more sense. And I’ll be damned if his naturally avuncular demeanour didn’t make the place seem safer, more nurturing and wholesome. And let’s not forget, a place of results. Pakistan were arguably the second-best Test side in the world for a brief period in 2005-06; they were officially the number one Test side in the world in 2016.At least that is how it seems right now, in the immediate aftermath of his passing. It’s probably too simplistic a perspective, mired in the impulse to seek out and credit the strongman, that individual authority who runs everything, be it an institution, a political party, a government or, in this case, a cricket board. He benefitted from a team of seasoned officials around him. On-field results were the results of on-field actors. The politics of the game, but also of the country, when he operated were more stable.Plus, he was hardly a strongman by nature. Indeed, one of his strengths was that he was able to work with strong executive personnel, whether it was Ramiz Raja, Saleem Altaf or Sethi. A genuine strongman would never have tolerated power residing anywhere else but within him.Inzamam-ul-Haq and Shaharyar Khan at a press conference•Getty ImagesSo, simplistic yes. But not misplaced because the bottom line is, he did preside over two periods this century which now, over six years after his last tenure ended, live in the mind undeniably like some good ol’ days.He was the kind of man – refined, gentle, erudite, careful with his words – about whom we might sigh that they don’t make them like that anymore. We might, were it not such a truism: it is precisely how time works, that as each day passes the world changes, and as it changes, the men it makes must necessarily be different and not like they used to be.Consequently, they don’t make cricket administrators like that anymore either. His love for the game was that of an older generation’s. Pristine white kits, red ball, high-elbow cover-driving, the spirit of cricket, gentlemen all round, cricket as a thing of manners.But there’s no room for romanticism in diplomacy so, for instance, although he didn’t much care for the shortest format, he knew it was the coming thing and was not one to stand in the way of progress. When the time came for Pakistan to jump in, in 2005, he didn’t hold back, enabling the birth of the suitably razzmatazz ABN-AMRO Twenty20 Cup. Back in the day, pre-IPL, it was one of the great T20 events.That’s what was beneath the cuddly old-man exterior, the hard-nosed pragmatism. He was a democrat but worked as chairman of an ad-hoc board in his first stint under the military dictatorship of the late Pervez Musharraf. He was fully committed to drawing up a long-delayed constitution for the PCB. But despite being unable to do so ultimately, he didn’t let the pursuit paralyse him from actually getting stuff done.When he returned to the PCB in 2014, he did so to a new global order run by the Big Three. He publicly opposed it but accepted that his board had signed up for it (before he took charge) and would be faithful to it. Until Shashank Manohar came along and an opportunity arose to dismantle it.He was in his element in those boardrooms of the ICC, mingling with and mediating between contemporaries from across the world, on matters that mattered. This was, after all, one of the brighter lights of his country’s foreign service, a man who had been a UN representative in Rwanda post-genocide, and written a book about it – one of six he authored. When Shaharyar Khan made a case for international cricket to return to Pakistan, people couldn’t help but listen. Dealing with player tantrums, such as the one Younis Khan once threw on the other hand, could hardly have engaged him the same way. Perhaps this perspective is why he never clung to the board job like so many of his predecessors and successors. Life, he understood, was more.Related

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Still, sometimes you wished he would have been more autocratic. In curbing the power Inzamam ul Haq accrued as captain in his first stint for example. Or being more forceful in the moments that led up to the Oval Test forfeit (It’s remarkable, by the way, to think that the culmination of that forfeit and Younis’s resignation is what compelled him to leave that first stint in late 2006. These days that constitutes a few funny tweets and memes, and that’s it.) Or in asserting greater authority over Sethi in his second stint, when the administration in Pakistan was being pulled in two different directions.But these are minor quibbles really, because ultimately, only a wariness to recency bias prevents him from being remembered as one of Pakistan’s finest cricket heads. Were AH Kardar and Nur Khan (both, incidentally, archetypal strongmen) more transformative? Maybe, though the counter as you pick through Khan’s tenures – the introduction of T20s in Pakistan and central contracts for players (now reaching down to a pool of 70 U19 female cricketers), the return of international cricket, the launch of the PSL – is that we’re not nearly done weighing the effects of the transformations wrought under his leadership.

Record-breaking Bears have piled on 200 in seven of their 14 Blast innings this season

Matt Roller06-Jul-2022After four-and-a-bit days of Bazball at Edgbaston, Bearsball is back. England may have spent the last month tearing up the record books under Brendon McCullum in Test cricket but in the T20 Blast, Warwickshire have not been far behind in their Birmingham Bears guise this season.In the first 19 years of T20 cricket, only one team worldwide (Somerset in 2018) had ever made 200-plus five times in a single season. But in the group stages of this year’s Blast, the Bears have broken that barrier seven times in 14 games – including a competition-record 261 for 2 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.They have scored at 9.92 runs per over to date, the second-highest rate by a team in any given season in T20 history. They finished top of the North Group for the first time since 2015 (when McCullum was their overseas star) and their reward is an Edgbaston quarter-final against Hampshire on Thursday night, in theory the first of three home knockout games on the way to a first title since 2014.At the heart of this remarkable batting form has been a middle-order engine room comprising of Sam Hain, Adam Hose and Chris Benjamin, who started the season at No. 4, 5 and 6 but have shifted up to No. 3, 4 and 5 since Dan Mousley replaced Jacob Bethell in the XI. All three have averaged 40-plus while scoring at a shade under 10 runs per over but Hose has been the standout: his 541 runs put him third in the country, averaging 60.11 with a strike rate of 165.44.Adam Hose and Chris Benjamin celebrate victory against Northants•Getty Images”It probably reflects the mindset shift that we’ve taken into this season,” Hose tells ESPNcricinfo. “We’ve managed to stay clear with our intent, freedom and clarity of mind, which we’ve taken into each game. Although you want to take responsibility as a batter, you look down our line-up and you know that if it’s not your night, it’s going to be someone else’s.”There have been testing moments, none more so than against Yorkshire when they were bundled out for 101. “It was important to remember that the brand of cricket we’re trying to play isn’t necessarily conducive to consistency,” Hose says. “We haven’t carried any baggage from those poor performances into the following game.”He credits Carlos Brathwaite, their captain, as a key figure in creating a culture of trust and belief in a deep line-up – one which sees Brathwaite himself carded to bat as low as No. 7. “We’ve been in pretty tricky situations at times, three or four down early doors, but we’ve still continued with that intent.”Related

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Hose explains his own form as the product of a renewed focus on his mental wellbeing, after a quiet 2021 season where he became “outcome-focused… I was worrying about the end result without thinking about how I was going to get there”. He meditates daily, does yoga twice a week and has resolved to “approach each day with a smile on my face”.”It’s been really fun,” he says. “I had a bit of a lightbulb moment after last summer where I felt like something had to change. I stripped it right back through the winter and wanted to get back to playing with freedom and a smile on my face. Fortunately, I’ve found myself in that position this year.”I don’t just want to be Adam the sportsman, or Adam the cricketer. I want to be a well-rounded person and individual. I’ve focused on mental routines to keep me focused in the middle and have tried to strip everything back to enjoying myself, playing good cricket with my mates. It’s still a journey, but that stuff has been huge for me.”Hose has been empowered to play shots that he had previously reserved for the nets, too. “I’ve always had reverse-sweeps and scoops in the locker, but haven’t had that confidence to execute them. The main part of my game is still focused around good, strong, solid shots but at certain points in the game, why can’t I use them?”Hose launches Dane Paterson for six during the Bears’ record total of 261 for 2•PA Images/GettyHe has been rewarded with an England Lions call-up for next week’s 50-over games against South Africa, where he will be reunited with his ex-Somerset team-mates Tom Abell and Tom Banton, and will play for Northern Superchargers in the Hundred after missing out on last year’s competition through injury.He remains frustrated by a lack of red-ball opportunities – he last played a first-class game in 2019 – and contract talks with Warwickshire are ongoing, with his deal up at the end of the year. “I don’t want to say too much but what I want to make clear is that I’m desperate to be the best cricketer I can be in all formats,” he says. “There’s a lot to decide over the next few months but for the time being, I’m focused on getting us to Finals Day.”Hampshire are the team standing in the way, buoyed by James Vince’s stellar form and a run of nine wins in their last 10. Not that Hose thinks the Bears’ attack – Olly Stone and Henry Brookes’ pace, Jake Lintott and Danny Briggs’ complementary left-arm spin and Brathwaite’s change-ups – will be daunted.”We’ve been good at focusing on ourselves. We analyse the opposition and where they can be dangerous but without forgetting how dangerous we can be as an opponent. They’ll be looking at our bowling line-up expecting a good challenge. If we get Vincey and [Ben] McDermott out early, hopefully we can set up a good game from there.”

While the likes of Pollard and Russell enjoyed fruitful tournaments, others struggled on turning tracks

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Dwayne Bravo (Trinbago Knight Riders): He will turn 37 next month, but he reminded the world that he’s still one of the most reliable death bowlers going around. While Bravo didn’t pick up a bucketful of wickets – he took only nine at an economy rate of 7.50 – he smothered the opposition with his slower dippers and yorkers at the death en route to becoming the first player to 500 wickets in T20 cricket. Bravo, though, wasn’t available to bowl in the final on Thursday because of a knee complaint.Mitchell Santner (Barbados Tridents): In his first CPL, the New Zealand spin-bowling allrounder stood out amid the Tridents’ rubble, proving once again that fingerspinners can be as effective as wristspinners in white-ball cricket. He claimed six wickets in nine matches – he missed one game because of a niggle – at an economy rate of 5.59. Santner also doubled up as the Tridents’ finisher, hitting nine fours and five sixes down the order across eight innings.Imran Tahir (Guyana Amazon Warriors): Despite being the highest wicket-taker in IPL 2019 it remains to be seen if Tahir starts for the Super Kings this season, considering the wealth of slower bowlers at MS Dhoni’s disposal. However, the 41-year old made a strong case for retaining his overseas slot by collecting 15 wickets at an economy rate of 5.82 in Guyana Amazon Warriors’ run to the semi-finals in CPL 2020. Only Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Scott Kuggeleijn took more wickets than him.

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Kieron Pollard (Trinbago Knight Riders): He had a bumper tournament with the bat, taking pitches and opposition attacks out of the equation with his six-hitting. Pollard was also “bang on” with his tactics as captain, according to his coach Brendon McCullum, and he even contributed with the ball, bagging 4 for 30 when the title was on the line against the St Lucia Zouks. He will join defending IPL champions Mumbai Indians on the back of a player-of-the-tournament award in the CPL and his 14th T20 title overall.Chris Lynn (St Kitts & Nevis Patriots): The Australian opener was at sea against quality spin bowling on sluggish surfaces, and if the UAE pitches offer as much turn as the ones in the Caribbean did, Lynn could be in for a tough time there as well. In the nine innings Lynn batted in this CPL, he only managed 73 runs off 85 balls against the spinners at a strike rate of just over 85, while being dismissed by spin six times.Sherfane Rutherford (Guyana Amazon Warriors): Much like Lynn, Rutherford struggled to adapt to the slow, low pitches both at the Queen’s Park Oval and the Brian Lara Cricket Academy. All told, he scored a mere 39 runs in seven innings at a strike rate of under 80, but his Amazon Warriors captain Chris Green has backed him to return to form in the IPL and other future tournaments.Mitchell Santner and Rashid Khan’s performances in the CPL will please their respective IPL franchises•Randy Brooks – CPL T20 / Getty

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Mohammad Nabi (St Lucia Zouks): In the absence of Chris Gayle, Nabi became the Zouks’ go-to man, delivering with both ball and bat and guiding the team to their maiden CPL final. His captain Daren Sammy matched up his offspin with left-handers, and in all he picked up 12 wickets in as many matches at an economy rate of 5.10. Along with fellow offspin-bowling allrounder Roston Chase, Nabi fronted up to bowl at the death as well.Rashid Khan (Barbados Tridents): The 21-year-old legspinner passed 300 T20 wickets during this season, but most sides chose simply to play out his four overs. Khan came away with 11 wickets in 10 matches while conceding 6.85 runs an over. He had his moments with the bat, too, although he was dismissed for a golden duck in his last CPL innings, while promoted to No. 3.Fabian Allen (St Kitts & Nevis Patriots): The power-hitting allrounder missed his flight from Jamaica to Barbados, and was subsequently ruled out of the league. His unavailability coincided with the Patriots’ sharp decline. He has, however, already linked up with the Sunrisers in the UAE.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Sunil Narine (Trinbago Knight Riders): The spinner and opening batsman missed seven matches for TKR this year because of kidney stones and injury. However, he did start the tournament in grand fashion with back-to-back half-centuries at the top, and also spun the ball both ways with a reworked action, hiding the ball behind his back during his run-up.Andre Russell (Jamaica Tallawahs): A knee flare-up limited Russell’s bowling, but it didn’t seem to affect his power-hitting. He stuck three half-centuries in the tournament, including a 28-ball 54 from No.4 against the 2019 champions Barbados Tridents. In all, Russell cracked 222 runs in eight innings at a strike rate of 141.40.Chris Green (Guyana Amazon Warriors): In the absence of Shoaib Malik, Green took charge of the Amazon Warriors and led them to the semi-finals. He came into the tournament with a reworked action, but was his usual thrifty self, particularly with the new ball, giving up runs at only 5.68. His control came to the fore during a stellar spell of 4-2-3-1 against the Tridents, and he said he was confident with his new action and rhythm heading into his first IPL season.Nicholas Pooran gets under a catch•Randy Brooks – CPL T20 / Getty

Delhi Capitals

Shimron Hetmyer (Guyana Amazon Warriors): He blew hot and cold in the Amazon Warriors’ middle order, but was still their best batsman with 267 runs in 11 innings at an average of 33.37 and strike rate of 125.94.Sandeep Lamichhane (Jamaica Tallawahs): The Nepal legspinner pinned down the opposition in the middle overs; his overall economy rate of 5.27 was the fourth-best among bowlers who had bowled at least 20 overs this season behind Narine, Chase and Nabi.Keemo Paul (Guyana Amazon Warriors): The pitches in Trinidad weren’t conducive to pace, but Paul and Kesrick Williams were among the few West Indies seamers who did fairly well. Paul picked up nine wickets in ten matches at an economy rate of 7.32, with his 4 for 19 against Patriots being the third-best figures this season.

Kings XI Punjab

Sheldon Cottrell (St Kitts & Nevis Patriots): Like most West Indies quicks, Cottrell didn’t pose enough wicket-taking threat and managed just five strikes in seven games as the Patriots fell away swiftly. He also conceded more than eight an over.Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Jamaica Tallawahs): No.2 on the ICC T20I rankings, No.2 on the CPL wicket charts. The Afghanistan spinner performed the dual role of striking in the Powerplay and outside of the first six overs. He and Lamichanne were central to Tallawahs making the semi-finals despite their batting meltdowns.Nicholas Pooran (Guyana Amazon Warriors): In a tournament dominated by spin and slower bowlers, Pooran produced the only hundred, which came off a mere 45 balls at a strike rate of 222.22. This was Pooran’s maiden T20 hundred and it had his mentor and TKR captain Kieron Pollard posting this on Instagram: “keep aiming for the stars and continue on that journey @nicholaspooran . Many more to come in this format an also the other TWO formats.”

Rajasthan Royals

Oshane Thomas (Jamaica Tallawahs): The West Indies quick sprayed the ball around and was taken for 78 runs in seven overs. He played just three matches and warmed the bench for eight.No Royal Challengers Bangalore player was part of CPL 2020.

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Companheiros de Seleção Brasileira, Vini Jr. e Endrick atuarão juntos também no Real Madrid, da Espanha. Em breve, o atacante do Palmeiras vai se transferir para o clube merengue, e o atacante ex-Flamengo está empolgado com o futuro.

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Segundo Vinicius, Endrick é seu amigo pessoal e isso o deixou ainda mais feliz pela partida do colega. O atacante também revelou que o atleta de 17 anos sempre busca ouvir os jogadores mais velhos.

– Muito emocionado, é a realização de um sonho de criança jogar pela Seleção. Tão novo e pode fazer o gol. Fico muito feliz por ele, daqui a pouco vai jogar com a gente. É uma alegria tremenda, porque além de meu companheiro é um amigo que eu tenho. Ele sempre tenta escutar os mais velhos, todos os jogadores. Isso é importante para ele – disse Vini Jr., sobre Endrick, após vitória da Seleção Brasileira sobre a Inglaterra.

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Em 2017, Vinicius Junior também acabou negociado com o gigante espanhol. A transferência girou em torno de 45 milhões de euros (R$ 164 milhões, na cotação da época).

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A man has pleaded guilty to stalking Liverpool star Marie Hobinger after sending her inappropriate and sexualised messages. Mangal Dalal, from London, sent the midfielder a string of messages via Instagram, which included his mobile number and postcode, as well as asking her to visit him. The 42-year-old was also charged with stalking as a result of the electronic communications between January and February this year.

Liverpool star fears for her safety

According to the Crime Prosecution Service, Dalal sent messages to Hobinger between January 27 and February 16, 2025. The messages were 'often sexually explicit,' and he also implied he would come to football games to see her. The Austrian became 'increasingly concerned' and blocked him on the social media platform before telling her club. Despite that, the Hyde Park Gardens resident travelled to the Reds' clash at Manchester City's Joie Stadium on February 16, where the 24-year-old played the whole game. A safety officer travelled to the match, which City won 4-0, and after they discovered that Dalal was waiting for her pitchside, action was taken, with the Westminster local later being questioned by police. 

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The report adds that when he was questioned by police, Dalal owned up to what he had done but said he was mentally unwell at the time. The CPS authorised a charge of stalking and last Thursday (December 4), he plead guilty at Liverpool Magistrates' Court. He will be sentenced on January 20, 2026, at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

'Dalal’s behaviour was criminal'

At the magistrates' court, senior crown prosecutor Sarah McInerney said Dalal treated Hobinger "as an object" he could use to "air his fantasies". She added that his actions were "totally inappropriate" and his behaviour was "criminal".

She told the court: "Marie Hobinger is a talented professional sportswoman at the top of her game. Mangal Dalal targeted her and treated her as an object that he could use to air his fantasies. His messaging was intense, continual, and totally inappropriate. It had a serious impact on the player who was simply trying to play to the best of her ability in a sport and team that she loves. Dalal’s behaviour was criminal and will not be tolerated in a fair and equal society. We would like to thank Ms Hobinger and Liverpool FC for their help in bringing Dalal to justice."

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The former FC Zurich player, who joined Liverpool in 2023 and has since gone on to play 59 times for the Women's Super League side, is currently out with an anterior cruciate ligament injury. She has been doing her rehab since sustaining the setback in October.