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Pakistan’s captain Babar Azam did not hold back on the criticism of his players following the team’s eight-wicket loss to Afghanistan.Babar said he was particularly disappointed by his bowlers’ inability to pick up wickets in the middle overs, and his fielders not being focused and proactive.Batting first, Pakistan posted 282 for 7 – a total Afghanistan chased down with ease, with an over to spare. Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran gave them a positive start of 130, before Rahmat Shah and Hashmatullah Shahidi took Afghanistan home with an unbroken 96-run stand. It was the first time Pakistan failed to defend a 275-plus target at the World Cup.”Yes, the defeat has hurt us a lot,” Babar said after the game. “We wanted to put up a total of around 280-290. After we achieved that, we were not up to the mark with our bowling and fielding. The spinners didn’t bowl the way we wanted them to in the middle overs.Related
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“We started well in the middle overs, but we needed wickets. The pitch was helping the spinners even in the second innings. But we, especially our spinners, didn’t hit our lengths. Every over we conceded a boundary, so there was no pressure on their batsmen.”On a Chennai pitch where the Afghanistan spin quartet of Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Mohammad Nabi and Noor Ahmad picked up 4 for 176 from their combined 38 overs, Pakistan’s spinners – Shadab Khan, Usama Mir and Iftikhar Ahmed – returned none for 131 from 21.According to Babar, the Pakistan bowlers had their plans in place but failed in execution and, therefore, could not create pressure. He also said the team was lacking in the fielding department.”We are not able to click in all departments at the same time,” Babar said. “When we do well in bowling, we don’t do well in batting. When we do well in batting, we don’t do as well in fielding.”Fielding is all about attitude. And I don’t see any attitude from the team. You need to put in extra effort and be fit. You should focus on the ball, not on other thoughts and when the ball comes to you, you have to be proactive as a fielder. I think we are lacking that a little bit as a fielding unit.Babar admitted that his bowlers have not been able to execute their plans properly•ICC/Getty Images
“In the bowling, we have not been able to execute our plans. When you are not able to hit the length you want to and end up conceding boundaries, your focus shifts to stopping runs. In that, you keep making mistakes, and that puts you under pressure.”Here, the margin of error for bowlers is very low. If you bowl a little bit away from the stumps, you get hit. So, we are lacking there a little bit. We are not able to bowl within the stumps.”The same goes for the spinners. We bowl four good balls and then there are two balls that go for boundaries or runs, because the margin is very small. If you bowl consistently at one place, then there will be pressure. So that thing is missing.”Even though Babar scored 74 on Monday, his form with the bat in the World Cup hasn’t been great. In five innings, he has 157 runs at an average of 31.40, which pales in comparison to his career average of 56.79. When asked if captaincy was affecting his batting, Babar said that wasn’t the case.”As far as captaincy is concerned, there is not much pressure on me or on my batting. I always try to give my best, my 100% during batting. During fielding, I think about captaincy and during batting I just think about the batting. How I should score runs for the team.”
أعلنت رابطة الأندية المصرية المحترفة، مواعيد مباريات الأهلي في الموسم الجديد من بطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز 2025-2026.
وأسفرت القرعة عن مواجهات قوية لـ الأهلي في مستهل مشواره للحفاظ على اللقب، حيث يبدأ الفريق مبارياته بمواجهة مودرن سبورت على استاد القاهرة.
ويسعى الأهلي، بقيادة المدير الفني البرتغالي خوسيه ريبيرو، إلى مواصلة الهيمنة المحلية بعد التتويج بلقب الدوري الموسم الماضي 2024-2025 للمرة الـ45 في تاريخه، عقب صراع قوي مع بيراميدز امتد حتى الجولة الأخيرة.
ويقام الموسم الجديد بنظام معدل، يشمل مرحلة أولى من دور واحد تضم 21 فريقًا، يعقبها تقسيم الفرق إلى مجموعتين: الأولى تضم الأندية السبعة الأوائل للمنافسة على اللقب، والثانية تضم 14 فريقًا يتصارعون لتفادي الهبوط.
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ومن المقرر هبوط أربعة أندية مع نهاية الموسم، مقابل صعود ثلاثة فرق من القسم الثاني.
ومن المقرر أن تنطلق النسخة الجديدة من الدوري يوم 8 أغسطس 2025، وتستمر حتى نهاية مايو 2026، وسط ترقب جماهيري كبير لموسم يُتوقع أن يكون استثنائيًا من الناحيتين الفنية والتنظيمية. مواعيد مباريات الأهلي في الدور الأول للدوري المصري 2025-2026
مودرن سبورت ضد الأهلي – يوم السبت 9 أغسطس – 09:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد فاركو – يوم الجمعة 15 أغسطس – 09:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
بدون مواجهات.
غزل المحلة ضد الأهلي – يوم الإثنين 25 أغسطس – 06:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد بيراميدز – يوم السبت 30 أغسطس – 09:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
إنبي ضد الأهلي – يوم الأحد 14 سبتمبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد سيراميكا كليوباترا – يوم الجمعة 19 سبتمبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
حرس الحدود ضد الأهلي – يوم الثلاثاء 23 سبتمبر – 05:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد الزمالك – يوم الإثنين 29 سبتمبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
كهرباء الإسماعيلية ضد الأهلي – يوم الأحد 5 أكتوبر – 05:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد الاتحاد السكندري – يوم الثلاثاء 21 أكتوبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
بتروجيت ضد الأهلي – يوم الأربعاء 29 أكتوبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد المصري – يوم الأحد 2 نوفمبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد الإسماعيلي – يوم الثلاثاء 25 نوفمبر – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
طلائع الجيش ضد الأهلي – يوم الإثنين 19 يناير 2026 – 05:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد وادي دجلة – يوم الثلاثاء 27 يناير 2026 – 05:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
البنك الأهلي ضد الأهلي – يوم الثلاثاء 3 فبراير 2026 – 08:00 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد الجونة – يوم الخميس 19 فبراير 2026 – 09:30 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
سموحة ضد الأهلي – يوم الإثنين 23 فبراير 2026 – 09:30 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
الأهلي ضد زد – يوم السبت 28 فبراير 2026 – 09:30 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
المقاولون العرب ضد الأهلي – يوم الخميس 5 مارس 2026 – 09:30 مساءً بتوقيت مصر والسعودية
Sri Lanka’s seamers did plenty of early damage, and in the chase Sadeera Samarawickrama made sure he coolly got the job done
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An unbeaten 91 from Sadeera Samarawickrama shepherded home a tricky chase as Sri Lanka overcame a resilient Dutch outfit and finally got points on the board. The result means Sri Lanka join Afghanistan, Netherlands, Bangladesh and England on two points after four games; they did however go past Afghanistan on net run rate – before England plummeted later in the evening – to move off the very bottom of the table.*Set a target of 263, the chase was built around key partnerships – the first a counter-attacking 30-ball 34 between Kusal Mendis and Pathum Nissanka, to recover from the early loss of Kusal Perera, followed by more substantial stands of 52, 77 and 76 – with Samarawickrama a key cog throughout.Related
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On a surface that offered something for the spinners, Aryan Dutt was the pick of the Dutch bowlers ending with figures of 3 for 44, while for Sri Lanka it was the seamers – utilising some early movement – that did the damage; Kasun Rajitha and Dilshan Madushanka both grabbed four apiece.That the Dutch even got as much as they did was down to a record seventh-wicket stand of 130 between Sybrand Engelbrecht and Logan van Beek, which had dug them out of the considerable hole they found themselves in courtesy Sri Lanka’s seamers.Indeed, for the second game running the Netherlands lower order were called in for a rescue job and for the second game running they delivered. And this time it was arguably more impressive than the one against South Africa, as they managed it without any significant input from talismanic captain Scott Edwards, who had dragged one on from Maheesh Theekshana early in his innings.At that point Sri Lanka might have felt the danger man was back in the pavilion, but Engelbrecht and van Beek took centre stage as they took their side from 91 for 6 to 221 for 7.Engelbrecht eventually fell looking to play a premeditated, though probably ill-advised, paddle against a Dilshan Madushanka yorker that homed in on the base of middle stump, but van Beek hung around for a while longer to take the total to a competitive if not matchwinning 262.But in between the wickets of Edwards and Engelbrecht was where Netherlands showcased a masterclass in rebuilding and consolidation.With scarcely any margin for error after early bursts from Kasun Rajitha and Madushanka had removed their top order, Engelbrecht and van Beek were content to keep risks to an absolute minimum. Between the 10th and 30th over not a single boundary was scored, while the run rate hovered around four an over.Even when they sought to up the scoring it was incremental rather than explosive, with boundaries never paired in a single over, instead spread out between overs that were largely littered with ones and twos.Indeed following the scale of the top order collapse, for the Dutch batting out the full 50 overs was the primary goal, with the end total a byproduct of that singular focus. Even so, getting to as competitive a total as they did was no mean feat considering the malaise they had found themselves in with less than half the innings played.Dilshan Madushanka ended the big seventh-wicket stand•AFP/Getty Images
The trouble began in the fourth over, when Rajitha trapped Vikramjit Singh leg before with one that pitched on middle and tailed in. It was the first ball Rajitha had bowled to the left-hander, but the wicket itself was a just reward for the nagging lines and lengths both he and Madushanka had exploited in the early overs.Despite this early loss though, the pair of Max O’Dowd and Colin Ackermann looked to be working their way into the game with a stand of 41 before Rajitha struck for a second time, as O’Dowd dragged a full and wide outswinger onto his stumps. Two overs later Rajitha would have his third, with Ackermann nicking through a loose cut.Suddenly the Dutch were on the ropes, as the scoring slowed down to a crawl. Kusal Mendis decided to press home the advantage at this point keeping Rajitha for an extended seven-over opening spell and delaying the introduction of Theekshana until the 16th over.After a couple of Chamika Karunaratne overs had afforded Madushanka a rest, the left-arm seamer was brought back in the 17th and would strike almost immediately, as de Leede ramped a short one to Kusal Perera at third man. Then in his next over he would have half the Netherlands side back in the pavilion, trapping Teja Nidamanuru leg before on referral.Edwards in his brief stay was his industrious self picking up five twos in a run-a-ball 16 but Theekshana sent him packing. Sri Lanka would have no more joy after that until the death, but by then Netherlands had done enough to make a game of it.Samarawickrama played the crucial hand in the chase to ensure Sri Lanka did not fall apart as they had so devastatingly done against Australia. Entering at the fall of Mendis’s wicket – the Sri Lankan captain falling foul of Dutt with a top edged slog sweep – Sadeera and Nissanka set about in a controlled pursuit.Nissanka fell after picking up his third successive fifty, but Sadeera continued in the same vein with Charith Asalanka. And when Asalanka fell, going for an unnecessary slog sweep in Dutt’s final over, Sadeera repeated the feat with another solid stand alongside Dhananjaya de Silva.Dhananjaya would perish with single digits required, but by then the game was done. Dushan Hemantha heaved a four over long-on to register the winning runs and kickstart Sri Lanka’s campaign.
Real Madrid legend Toni Kroos has issued a warning to Barcelona sensation Lamine Yamal over what it takes to enjoy longevity at the highest level. Kroos briefly played against Yamal in club football as well as at Euro 2024, where Spain eliminated Germany from the quarter-finals, thus bringing the curtain down on the midfielder's illustrious career.
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While Kroos heaped praise on Yamal for his exceptional performances for Barcelona and Spain, despite being only a teenager, the German midfielder also warned the player over maintaining consistency over a longer period of time, which will ultimately determine his legacy in the sport.
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Speaking to , the Germany icon said: "I also made the Bayern first team at 17, but I wasn’t at his level, which is spectacular. I’ve never seen anything like it at that age. I’m talking about the consistency of his performances, because the natural talent is obvious.
"What makes me think that this boy is special is his constant search for prominence on the pitch: in difficult moments, he always steps up, and at 17 years of age, that is not normal. He was the protagonist of two excellent seasons, the last one even spectacular; I have never seen a kid like him."
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Kroos added: "I always say that a career is not a sprint, but a marathon, so we will see what happens in the next 5-10 seasons, if he continues to grow and how he reacts to everything that comes into football from outside. Success doesn’t only depend on the pitch; it depends on what happens outside. It has a big impact, and you have to know how to handle different aspects of life."
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Yamal will lead Barcelona's frontline again next season alongside Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha as they aim to defend their domestic crowns and win a sixth Champions League title. With the 2026 World Cup also looming, the pressure and spotlight will only grow for the Spanish wonderkid.
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Após cumprir suspensão na última rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro, o atacante Pedro Henrique está de volta ao time do Internacional.Se no início da semana havia dúvidas para saber quem jogaria com Alemão, o técnico Mano Menezes começa a desvendar o mistério.
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Com a escalação encaminhada, o Internacional volta a campo no domingo, quando encara o Coritiba pelo Brasileirão. Com 60 pontos, o Colorado é o vice-líder da competição, oito pontos atrás do Palmeiras.
Teams likely to have a purse of INR 100 crore to build their squads for next season
Nagraj Gollapudi26-Oct-2023The IPL player auction ahead of the 2024 season will be held on December 19 in Dubai; it is the first time the auction will be held overseas.The event will coincide with the second ODI of India’s tour of South Africa, which is scheduled for December 19 in Gqeberha.The ten IPL teams have until November 15 to submit the lists of players they are retaining and releasing, after which the auction pool will be finalised by early December.Each team will have a purse of INR 100 crore (USD 12.02 million approximately) to build their squad for the 2024 season, a INR 5 crore increase from last season’s purse of INR 95 crore. How much each team has to spend on auction day depends on the value of players they release, in addition to their unspent purse from the 2023 auction.Punjab Kings have the largest purse at present – INR 12.20 crore (USD 1.47million) – while Mumbai Indians have the smallest at INR 0.05 crore (USD 0.006 million). Of the remaining teams Sunrisers Hyderabad have INR 6.55 crore (USD 0.79 million); Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals both have INR 4.45 crore (USD 0.54 million); Lucknow Super Giants have INR 3.55 crore (USD 0.43 million); Rajasthan Royals have USD 3.35 crore (USD 0.40 million); Royal Challengers Bangalore have INR 1.75 crore (USD 0.21 million); Kolkata Knight Riders have INR 1.65 crore (USD 0.2 million); and defending champions Chennai Super Kings have INR 1.5 crore (USD 0.18 million).Despite being only a day-long event – compared to the two-day mega auction once every four years – mini auctions have produced some of the most expensive buys, especially in the overseas players category. Ahead of the 2023 season, Sam Curran became the most expensive player in IPL history when he was bought by Punjab for INR 18.5 crore in December last year.Several prominent overseas players are likely to enter the upcoming auction, including Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc who recently said he was “definitely” heading back to the IPL after an eight-year hiatus. Pat Cummins is also likely to put his name up for bidding, having skipped the IPL last year. Some of the other key players franchises expect to see at the auction are Travis Head, Chris Woakes, Alex Hales, Sam Billings, and Gerald Coetzee.
Real Madrid superstar Jude Bellingham has come in for criticism from fans after an angry exchange during the Club World Cup win over Juventus.
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Manchester United duo Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes have been granted extended leave on compassionate grounds following the tragic death of their Portugal team-mate and Liverpool star Diogo Jota. The 28-year-old forward and his brother Andre Silva died in a devastating car crash in Cernadilla, Spain in the early hours of Thursday, July 3.
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The United pair attended Jota and his brother's funeral in Portugal on Saturday and remain in mourning. This has prompted the Red Devils to give their Portuguese players an extra week of leave, according to . United stars were supposed to report back to their Carrington training ground this week for pre-season.
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Liverpool also delayed their return, which was due to be last Friday. Instead, they will now regroup on Monday. The Merseyside club are scheduled to play their first pre-season match on Sunday, July 13, against Preston at Deepdale.
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A source told : "Bruno and Diogo are heartbroken and in shock after attending the funeral. United’s players have rallied around them. They’ve been offered a week’s extended leave and counselling or support. The pair played with Jota for ten years in the national side and won the Nations League together only a few weeks ago."
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Ruben Amorim's side will head to Stockholm later this month to play their first pre-season friendly against Leeds United on July 19. They are then scheduled to travel to the U.S. for the second part of their pre-season plans.
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O Corinthians está escalado para encarar o Flamengo na Neo Química Arena, nesta quarta-feira (12), às 21h45, pela partida de ida da final da Copa do Brasil. Vítor Pereira levará a campo: Cássio; Fagner, Gil, Balbuena e Fábio Santos; Fausto Vera, Du Queiroz e Renato Augusto; Adson, Yuri Alberto e Róger Guedes.
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A partida terá transmissão pela Rede Globo, Sportv, Premiere e Amazon Prime.
Para chegar até a decisão, o Timão eliminou a Portuguesa-RJ, Santos, Atlético-GO e Fluminense, respectivamente.
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No banco de reservas, Vítor Pereira tem as seguintes opções: Carlos Miguel, Rafael Ramos, Lucas Piton, Raul Gustavo, Robert Renan, Cantillo, Maycon, Ramiro, Giuliano, Mosquito, Mateus Vital e Giovane.
Os desfalques do Corinthians são: Bruno Méndez (já disputou a Copa do Brasil por outra equipe) e Paulinho (ligamento cruzado anterior do joelho).
CORINTHIANS X FLAMENGO
COPA DO BRASIL – FINAL – IDA
Local: Neo Química Arena, São Paulo (SP)
Data e hora: 12 de outubro de 2022, às 21h45
Árbitro: Braulio da Silva Machado (FIFA) [SC]
Assistentes: Kleber Lucio Gil (FIFA) [SC] e Guilherme Dias Camilo (FIFA) [MG]
Árbitro de vídeo: Rodrigo D’Alonso Ferreira (SC)
Onde assistir: Globo, Sportv, Premiere, Amazon Prime, tempo real do L! e em áudio na parceira LANCE!/Voz do Esporte
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