Howard Webb says there is no way back for disgraced David Coote, claiming he would find it "really difficult" to return to elite refereeing.
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The seven-a-side tournament, which will offer a $5 million prize pot, is bringing its second edition to the United States
Lamine Yamal broke yet another La Liga record after scoring a controversial penalty in Barcelona's 1-1 draw against Rayo Vallecano in La Liga on Sunday. Yamal broke the deadlock for the Catalan giants shortly before the half-time whistle as he converted a spot-kick, which he earned after going down inside the Rayo box.
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The USMNT striker opened the scoring for the Sky Blues with a clever finish, and has five goals on the campaign
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Chelsea are reportedly pursuing USWNT star Lily Yohannes to join Catarina Macario and Mia Fishel in West London from Ajax.
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Dempsey want USMNT to show their class over the next year to fill stadiums with American fans ahead of the World Cup
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He has reached Bengaluru and will check in to a private hospital for further investigation
Shashank Kishore31-Jan-2024Mayank Agarwal, the Karnataka captain, has been discharged from an Agartala hospital on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted following a mid-flight medical emergency. He arrived in Bengaluru on Wednesday evening.He is believed to have been given some injections to keep him pain-free for the duration of his travel back to Bengaluru. It’s likely Agarwal will consult doctors at a private hospital in the city as precaution. This automatically rules him out of Karnataka’s upcoming fifth-round Ranji Trophy fixture against Railways, beginning on Friday.On Tuesday, Agarwal had developed a burning sensation in his throat and mouth en route to Surat after consuming liquid from a bottle he believed contained drinking water. Agarwal suffered a bout of vomiting after which he was deplaned and rushed to ILS Hospitals, where he was declared “clinically stable”.
A medical bulletin issued by the hospital on Tuesday evening said Agarwal was experiencing some “oral irritation” and “swelling on the lips”. Subsequently, the Karnataka team manager issued a written complaint on Agarwal’s behalf to the Tripura Police, requesting an investigation into the incident.”While sitting on a flight, he saw a pouch in front of him, and thinking of it as water, drank it,” K Kiran Kumar (SP, Tripura West) told PTI on Tuesday. “He had swelling and ulcers in his mouth. His condition is normal, and his vitals are stable. His manager has made a complaint. We are registering the complaint, and will investigate the matter.”On Tuesday evening, IndiGo, the airline Agarwal was on, confirmed that the flight had to return to Agartala due to a medical emergency on board. Their press statement read: “IndiGo flight 6E 5177 operating from Agartala to Delhi returned to origin due to a medical emergency onboard. The passenger was offloaded and was rushed to the hospital for further medical assistance. The aircraft took off again for its destination at 1620h.”In Agarwal’s absence, Karnataka will be led by Nikin Jose, the 23-year-old batter. Karnataka are currently placed second in Group C, with two wins, a loss and a draw in four matches.
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A disappointing World Cup has just got worse. Just when it seemed a World Cup semi- final couldn’t get any lower than the first one, it did
Sambit Bal in St Lucia25-Apr-2007A disappointing World Cup has just got worse. Just when it seemed a World Cup semi-final couldn’t get any lower than the first one, it did. Sri Lanka’s win over New Zealand contained a sublime first half and at lunch the prospect remained of an exciting finish. Today, the game was over as a contest in the first ten overs.The difference between Australia and the rest in this tournament has been even broader than Matthew Hayden’s bat, but they didn’t need to bring out their best today. South Africa beat themselves thoroughly. All the talk about calming the mind and playing with confidence and patience came to a sorry pass in the morning when they batted like wrecks.A positive mindset has been the hallmark of South Africa’s one-day game, but, faced with an opponent superior to them in skill and mind, their batting descended to mindless adventure. They seemed over-wrought and over-anxious, and fell to a succession of poor strokes. Their premier batsmen set the tone.Graeme Smith’s one-day batting is based on bludgeoning. Predominantly an onside player, Smith has, in recent times, acquired the ability to free his arms and hit over the top on the offside. He did so successfully and repeatedly in the second half of his innings against England. But after choosing to bat on a pitch unknown to them, he decided to give Nathan Bracken the charge in the third over. He had faced only four balls.But no dismissal was more symptomatic of a plan gone awry than that of Jacques Kallis. Even though he had been South Africa’s most prolific batsman, the pace of his batting had invited more than a few questions. When these teams met earlier in the tournament, Kallis’ 63-ball 48 was deemed to have terminally halted South Africa’s victory charge. And before this match, Ricky Ponting had launched his own psychological warfare by letting the world know that Kallis was the man Australia wanted to get to the crease early.Kallis did come in early, but obviously he had decided this was the day to change a reputation. The first seven balls fetched merely a single, but off he went with the eighth, stepping out and wide of the stumps to carve, of all people, Glenn McGrath between cover and point. Ditto the next ball. The difference: the ball was full, Kallis missed, and it hit off. “Their top order batted exactly the way we wanted them to,” Ponting said after the match.
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McGrath bowled as well as he always does, but the wickets were earned easily. Ashwell Prince, the other batsman expected to hang around in a crisis, played the daftest of strokes, slashing a wide one to make the score 27 for 4, and when Mark Boucher hung his bat out next ball, the match was up for South Africa. The innings ended fittingly when Charl Langeveldt swung wildly at a full delivery. Six overs remained, and at other end stood Justin Kemp, South Africa’s highest scorer, on 49.Of the Australian bowlers, Shaun Tait, who was drafted in as the strike bowler in Brett Lee’s absence, was the most impressive. He has been Australia’s most expensive bowler among the specialists, but with 23 wickets, he is their most successful behind McGrath, who has a World Cup record of 25. Tait bowled with pace and curved the ball into the right handers. One such ball squeezed between leg stump and the pads of Herschelle Gibbs, one of the two South African batsmen to play with any measure of poise.It was South Africa’s lowest one-day score in a World Cup and, inevitably, the “choking” question came up post-match. Smith was expecting it. “I wouldn’t say we choked,” he said. To him, choking meant blowing a winning situation. But what about freezing on the big stage?Once again, South Africa were not able to play their best game in a big match. Their top order combusted and eight of their batsmen got themselves out. It was a massive under-performance that added to the emptiness of the World Cup. Their reputation will persist.
Stats highlights from the fourth day’s play at Perth
S Rajesh17-Dec-2006
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Late wickets by the Australians allowed them to get back on top at Perth, but England had plenty of moments to savour, thanks to the knocks by Alastair Cook and Ian Bell. The most enthralling battle of the day was the one between Bell and Shane Warne, who had already dismissed him four times in Tests. In this innings, Bell tackled Warne quite superbly, using his feet, getting to the pitch of the ball, and scoring 50 from 59 balls off him. Warne, though, still had the last word, nailing him eventually for 87.The pitch-map graphic from Warne to Bell shows the tactics used by the bowler, and how Bell negotiated that. Warne clearly attempted to pitch plenty of deliveries around or outside leg, and spin it across the face of the bat, but Bell was equal to the task through most of the day: he scored off deliveries which were well pitched up or wide outside leg. To deliveries pitched just outside leg, he defended. Bell also used his feet well to get to the pitch of the ball, which allowed him to score his runs well in front of the wicket.
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Warne, though, finally got his man by inducing him to drive without getting to the pitch of the ball. The third graphic illustrates that perfectly: the white track shows the six that Bell hit off Warne in the 31st over, while the green one shows the delivery which dismissed him. The markers show where Bell was when he made contact with the ball – notice how close to the pitch he was when he hit the six.Other stats from the day170 – The partnership between Cook and Bell was England’s highest
second-wicket stand at Perth. The previous best was 95 between David Gower and Chris
Tavare in November 1982.
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24.62 – Bell’s average in 16 innings against Australia. Before the start of the
2006-07 Ashes, Bell averaged 17.10 against them. He’s passed 50 on five occasions
but hasn’t been able to convert them into hundreds. Today’s 87 was his highest score
against Australia.40 – Cook’s strike-rate during his 116 off 290 balls is the second slowest
for a fifty-plus score in the series. The slowest is Ian Bell’s 50 off 162 balls at
Brisbane.21 years and 357 days – Cook’s age when he scored his century. He is the
second youngest England player to score a century in Australia, the youngest being
Jack Hearne, who scored 114 at Melbourne in 1911-12 aged 20 years and 323 days265 for 5 – England’s effort is already the second-highest total in the fourth
innings by a visiting team at Perth. They are currently behind South Africa who
scored 287 for 5 to earn a draw in 2005.