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Win the toss by any meansThe toss seems to be worth more at Wankhede Stadium than other venues. The true pitch, the small boundaries and the dew are a nightmare for teams batting first. Among the active IPL venues, Wankhede offers chasing sides the best win-loss ratio in night games over the last five years: 1.8. This year only Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have defended successfully in a night game at Wankhede, scoring 221 and then just scraping home by 12 runs.What do you do if you lose the toss?MI are much more likely to overcome the toss disadvantage. They have the batting to keep hitting through the 20 overs and post a par-plus total. However, they haven’t yet been able to display how it can be done as they haven’t batted first and won a night game at Wankhede this year.They came close the one time they lost the toss, but that was on a seaming pitch. If they play on the same surface as they did against Gujarat Titans (GT), scoring just 155 and then taking the match to the last ball amid rain breaks, MI will back themselves because of a stronger pace attack. Especially given how DC are without Mitchell Starc, they might even want to play on the same track.DC will have a taller order if they have to bat first. They are coming off a match where KL Rahul scored a hundred in a total of 199, which turned out to be inadequate. On the usual flat Mumbai track, DC will have to bat out of their skins to post a challenging total.4:34

Are DC equipped to succeed without Starc?

Promote StubbsIt is not a question of just intent. DC made 56 boundary attempts as against GT’s 44 when they failed to defend 199. The conditions play a big role. The ball stops just a little when the pitch is fresh, but under lights it comes onto the bat beautifully. There are no match-ups or weak links for DC to exploit.The one tweak they could make is promote Tristan Stubbs to No. 3 if the first wicket doesn’t fall early. You can still have Abhishek Porel bat at 3 if the opportunity comes with a lot of powerplay deliveries left, but Stubbs has the highest ceiling among the DC batters after the openers. If DC find themselves batting first, it makes sense to give Stubbs as many deliveries as possible because what looks like a par score is never enough at Wankhede.The Surya-Tilak combinationDC are a rare team whose spinners have done well against Suryakumar Yadav. Axar Patel has gone at under a run a ball, and Kuldeep Yadav got him out the last time he came up against Suryakumar. However, Tilak Varma more than makes up for it with a strike rate of 178 against both of the spinners. We might just see MI promote Tilak if they get off to a good start or Axar bringing himself on should Surya and Rohit Sharma bat together. That is one pairing MI should look to avoid: both go at under a run a ball against Axar and aren’t great against Kuldeep either. Considering spin is DC’s strength, don’t bet against some flexibility in the order should Ryan Rickleton be the first batter dismissed.Target Deepak ChaharMI love to bowl a lot of Deepak Chahar in the powerplay so that they have Boult and Jasprit Bumrah for the death overs. Chahar has never got Rahul out. He has bowled just 11 balls to Faf du Plessis but has gone for 22 runs for no wicket. The best scenario for DC is to attack Chahar, force MI to take him off and make him come back late or make Hardik Pandya bowl those overs.

After years of seeing his name on scorecards, our correspondent watched him in action for the first time, and it was worth the wait

Shashank Kishore28-Jun-2023Going through Ranji Trophy scorecards can be exhausting. Especially if you’ve to look up the performances of players and teams you almost never get to watch. It can become an endless scroll of numbers next to names. This is why selectors and talent scouts often seek out match referees for detailed reviews of certain players on their radar.If you’re from Tripura, a team that has won a grand sum of nine Ranji Trophy games since it came into existence in 1985-86, you can pass under the radar more easily than most. But those who have pored over scorecards involving the team will be familiar with Manisankar Murasingh – Tripura’s highest wicket-taker and run-getter in first-class cricket.Related

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Murasingh, 30, like hundreds of others from the region, grind it out in anonymity, often in sub-par facilities. Adding to their woes is the weather in India’s Northeast, where it can rain non-stop for days together between June and October, a time when players would love to be tuning up for the season. That Murasingh has managed to hold it together for 14 seasons now speaks volumes of his resolve and skill.On Wednesday in Alur, I got to watch Murasingh in action for the first time, after years of seeing his name next to impressive numbers on scorecard after scorecard.Several questions gnaw at you at the top of his mark. How quick is he? What’s his action like? Is he a swing bowler or seam bowler? Is he skiddy? Can he hustle the batters? Over two sessions, blurry ideas formed through the perusal of all those scorecards come into focus, and you begin to see a picture of Murasingh the bowler.Murasingh bowls in the high 130s (kph), or so it seems. He bustles in gun-barrel straight, gets into his delivery stride with a small jump, and transfers his momentum into a smooth release and follow-through. He doesn’t swing the ball big. Or he didn’t, in his 20 overs on Wednesday. Instead, he relies on minute deviation off the deck. This is a skill he has learned over all his years in domestic cricket.Murasingh’s 5 for 42, his 13th five-for in first-class cricket, was one of the highlights of the opening day of the 2023 Duleep Trophy, which ushered in India’s new domestic season. In nondescript Alur, Murasingh quietly delivered as East Zone shot Central Zone out for 182 before they ended the day 32 for 2.In addition to his seam bowling, Murasingh is also an explosive lower-order batter•ESPNcricinfo LtdMurasingh’s wickets came in the classic modes: nicked off, caught and lbw. The one that gave him most satisfaction was his first, of the opener Vivek Singh, beating the batter with seam movement, getting the ball to nip away past his outside edge and hit off stump. It’s a delivery fast bowlers dream of. While whatever he did after that may not have matched the thrill of that wicket, his intensity hardly dropped. After the spell, he spoke of how he has kept himself match-ready through the off-season.”Unlike earlier, where I’d trial with IPL teams and get rejected for some reason after just one or two match simulations, I decided I had to train and play more in the summers,” Murasingh said. “Since 2015-16, I kept getting a few chances, but I didn’t go. After Covid, in 2021, I’ve been playing in the Minor Counties in England. In fact, until June 24, I was playing for Philadelphia Cricket Club in the Northeast Premier League in Durham. Bowling those long spells have been beneficial.”Murasingh doesn’t worry about the opportunities that haven’t come is way. He’s grateful for what he’s had. “Opportunities like these are gold dust for someone from the far east,” he says. “I don’t want to trade this experience for anything. I get that satisfaction from knowing many people from Tripura look up to me for inspiration.”Last September, when Murasingh was named in the India A squad for the one-dayers against New Zealand A at home, he was given a rousing reception by the Tripura chief minister, and hailed as a hero. “It’s very motivating, I look at it as reward for the hard work,” he says. “It’s been tough, but you can’t play for so many years without being dedicated.”Murasingh is a big fan of Yuvraj Singh, one of the reasons why he wanted to become an allrounder. His seam bowling is his biggest asset, but his explosive lower-order game has brought him 3308 first-class runs at an average of 26.67, with four centuries and 14 half-centuries. He has a T20 strike rate of 133.95. Shouldn’t he be a valuable proposition then?”I’ve never understood how all of it works,” he says. “I trialled with Mumbai Indians in 2019. This year, I went to trials organised by Gujarat Titans. It’s hard for me to see what traits they pick. If they gave me match-time, then I’d be in a better position to assess my shortcomings. But I’ve started putting a lot of work in during the off-season. Now, England stints have helped. Otherwise, I just do gym and running in the off-season. Club cricket has now started developing so there are chances to play. So that has made a bit of a difference. Otherwise, I play a bit of football.”Beyond the fun and games, Murasingh’s immediate goal is to bowl East Zone to the title. Then he’s hoping to be picked for the 50-overs Deodhar Trophy. “I’m due to fly back to England in early August to finish my commitments. I have six more games to play. Hopefully I can go there after Deodhar and come back for the [rest] of our domestic season with enough overs.”

Skerritt explains the bidding process and logic behind picking the hosts for the ICC tournaments from 2024 to 2031

Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi19-Nov-2021Fourteen hosting venues for eight men’s events in the next rights cycle. How big is that for the ICC and cricket?
There are three themes. One is to show the extent to which the ICC has committed to spread its major events geographically across the world. All the Full Members are involved in hosting in this next eight-year cycle from 2023-31 except Afghanistan, and three Associate members factored in, in some of the partnerships – Scotland, Namibia and USA. Remember, just not so long ago, when I became a member of the ICC board, there was this very strong perception that only three countries could host any events – the Big 3 (India, England and Australia). The Big 3 story was hammering the ICC by the media. So I would say that this venue allocation is a statement that’s very powerful in a new direction of inclusiveness.Related

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But the biggest story of that would be the West Indies partnership with USA for the obvious reasons and the multiplicity of strategic objectives that it would tick. So it’s about the balance and about the outreach to grow the game, and about the obvious, inevitable, I would say, move into the US and whether this is going to be a big step or a small step that depends a lot on how we all work together, including internal forces in the USA.What was the process to finalise the hosts?
There was an events hosting sub-committee put in place to review the bids. There were several bids that were basically expressions of interest with some depth of why me. That’s how it works generally. [The bidder says] I would like you to consider me and my board and my country, my venues, and here’s what we have, and here’s why we think that we can help you meet your various objectives by bringing a particular event in a particular year or particular time of the year. The bids were not final documents. Even with the present decisions, there’s still a period up until March next year [2022], when venue agreements will have to be sort of hammered out.What were the parameters used to determine the hosting country? We know India remains the commercial driver for world cricket. So you would want the marquee tournaments in India. But can you explain the process?
It is not by accident that in the eight years, India is involved with three events. But you see that two of the three events are in partnerships: India and Sri Lanka [2026 T20 World Cup] and India and Bangladesh [2031 ODI World Cup]. So economic returns on media rights and commercial investments was clearly one of the criteria. The four key objectives we used were: Geographic spread Alignment with the ICC strategic objectives, which includes growing the game Distribution of events in Asia Commercial outcomesOther considerations like time zones matter. The USA-Caribbean time zone is one of the weaker time zones, but geographic spread and strategic objectives would have overpowered that. You will note, for instance, that the Australia-New Zealand event and West Indies-USA event – we’ve sort of broken them into two four-year event cycles. These are the two weaker markets so to speak. So the two couldn’t be too close together in terms of the economic yield.

“I could tell you from the new leadership in Pakistan [at the PCB] and its neighbours, and from a cricket perspective, there’s a growing desire to support the sustainable return of international cricket in Pakistan”

When it comes to having the USA as a hosting venue, what were the factors considered? Did the Olympics play a role?
This move to actually bring USA Cricket and Cricket West Indies in a bid partnership is historic. It came about primarily because of the kind of attitude that we saw from the new leadership in the USA Cricket. The first time I met Paraag Marathe and Iain Higgins [USA Cricket chairman and then CEO respectively] was in England at the ICC meetings in July 2019. It was my first meeting at the ICC board as CWI president and so too theirs. We began to talk about how we could do some meaningful stuff together. Then, just before the pandemic hit, Johnny Grave [CWI CEO] and myself actually travelled to the USA to have some further discussions with USA Cricket. We all agreed that it was an opportunity to go after an [global] event. We were committed to doing something together. And you know, the rest is history.But the history has to be made now in the implementation and that is where we have to move speedily to put a more detailed structure and plan together in terms of how we are going to do this. We have a pretty good idea because we’ve already agreed on some principles. For instance, of the 55 matches, we have proposed that a third of the games will be in the USA, two-thirds will be in the Caribbean.How will organising the 2024 T20 World Cup in the USA have an impact on the ICC’s Olympics dream?
I’m not into any details of the Olympics, but the process is underway. It’s now about getting support from the International Olympic Committee. It is one step at a time. But it opens up the reality that there are two or three facilities right now available for cricket in the USA, and whether USA Cricket will be able to deliver some more cricket stadiums in advance of the Olympic Games. We have been told that there are three grounds that can be made ready for the T20 World Cup.All the men’s ICC events between 2024-2031•ESPNcricinfo LtdYour committee also finalised Pakistan as the host for the 2025 Champions Trophy. It is a major decision considering Pakistan has not hosted a global event since the 1996 World Cup and then the Asia Cup in 2008?
We fitted Pakistan in the most pragmatic spot in a way in which Pakistan can meet its own objectives while the ICC meets its own. We are aware of the special circumstances that have surrounded Pakistan, but I could tell you from the new leadership in Pakistan [at the PCB] and its neighbours, and from a cricket perspective, there’s a growing desire to support the sustainable return of international cricket in Pakistan.I can’t speak for either of them [the BCCI and the PCB], I could just tell you my observations. But when you bring past cricketers together in leadership positions, they have a lot of respect for each other, and they’re not going to undermine each other in ways that can derail these kinds of possibilities. So we’re very excited at our committee that we were able to achieve this because it was an objective that we put in place – that we want to spread the Asian component. India was going to be the No. 1 priority. I have no hesitation to say that India is the commercial backbone of cricket. And that will continue. But we wanted to spread that as much as we could in Asia.Was there any hesitation with respect to Pakistan at all?
Not in our committee. Not at all. Not at the ICC board as well. When we presented it, the board received it with great support. Let me put it this way, we were committed from day one, to spread ICC events in Asia. And getting Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh involved were key objectives of the committee. Remember, we had the mandate to take the received bids and rearrange them, with some discussions with the bidder, and to suggest the formation of partnerships where it could help the success of the bid. We were not too worried about who was competing against who. We were prepared to get partners together where necessary.

The Tigers can feel good as they near the final month of the 2025 MLB season. After sweeping the Astros this week and winning eight of their last 10 games, they seem to have come out of the slump they hit midway through the year.

Detroit was one of the hottest teams at the start of the season, but cooled off toward the All-Star break when they lost four games going into the break followed by eight of their first nine games after the Midsummer Classic.

That slump naturally brought out concerns from Tigers fans who initially thought their team was on track to contend for their first World Series title in over 40 years. Those worries don't bother manager A.J. Hinch though.

"I think we should just thank them for being passionate enough to care," Hinch said, via 97.1 The Ticket.

The Tigers not only have seemingly emerged from their slump, but regained their lead in the American League Central. Detroit holds a 9.5-game lead over the Royals and a 10.5-game lead over the Guardians, as well as the best record in the league. Hinch knows they can't slow down, but is glad to have the passion from Detroit as they head down the final stretch of the season.

"We’re still going to run the race, we still have a lot of games left, we’re still going to play our game, but I love the emotions that come with sports and respect them for loving us," said Hinch. "I don’t fault people for caring or being super passionate. That’s the kind of city that we want (to play in). But don’t forget to love on us a little bit when things are bad."

The Tigers have given reason for their fans to feel excited again, but they'll need to build off their momentum to keep them feeling confident as the postseason approaches.

Lionel Messi has been named Landon Donovan MLS MVP for the second straight season. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner produced 48 goal contributions – the second-highest total in league history – and carried Inter Miami to third place in the Eastern Conference. He is the first player to win the award in back-to-back years.

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  An all-time season…

  Messi capped his season by winning MLS Cup last weekend, delivering two assists and earning MLS Cup MVP as Inter Miami lifted the first league title in club history. That performance was the final chapter of a dominant year in which Messi also collected his second straight Landon Donovan MLS MVP award, becoming the first player in league history to win it in back-to-back seasons.

  Across the 2025 regular season, Messi produced 48 goal contributions (29 goals and 19 assists) in 28 matches, the second-highest total ever recorded, and averaged 1.78 goal involvements per 90 minutes, a mark only surpassed by his own 2.18 from 2024. He also became just the second player in league history to lead MLS in both goals and assists in the same season, matching Sebastian Giovinco’s 2015 feat.

  Messi set multiple league records during the campaign. He became the first MLS player to record 10 multi-goal games in one season and generated at least three goal contributions in nine different matches. He also scored multiple goals in five consecutive games from late May through mid-July, the longest multi-goal streak in MLS history.

  His dominance translated directly into awards. Along with MLS Cup MVP and MLS MVP, Messi won the MLS Golden Boot with 29 goals, earned three MLS Player of the Month honors, and was recognized six times as MLS Player of the Matchday. Over his MLS career, he now has two MVP awards, two Best XI selections, two All-Star selections, a Golden Boot, 12 Player of the Matchday honors, and five Player of the Month awards.

  Messi’s season resulted in a landslide MVP vote. He secured 70.43 percent of the total ballot, finishing comfortably ahead of Anders Dreyer, with Denis Bouanga, Evander, and Sam Surridge rounding out the top five.

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  The full MVP vote

  Name	Media Vote	Player Vote	Club Vote	Total Vote
  Lionel Messi – Inter Miami CF	83.05%	55.17%	73.08%	70.43%
  Anders Dreyer – San Diego FC	6.78%	18.97%	7.69%	11.15%
  Denis Bouanga – LAFC	3.39%	6.90%	11.54%	7.27%
  Evander – FC Cincinnati	2.26%	12.07%	0.00%	4.78%
  Sam Surridge – Nashville SC	1.69%	1.72%	3.85%	2.42%

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  In historic company

  Messi is only the second player in league history to win the award twice and the first to do so in back-to-back seasons. The only other two-time winner is former Kansas City Wizards midfielder Preki, who collected MVP honors in 1997 and 2003. Preki now serves as an assistant coach for the Seattle Sounders, the team that defeated Miami in the Leagues Cup final in August.

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  Converting it into team success

  Despite Messi’s brilliance, Miami’s season was anything but smooth. They were eliminated from the CONCACAF Champions Cup by Vancouver, lost to Seattle in the Leagues Cup final, and failed to defend their Supporters’ Shield title. But after navigating those setbacks, the Herons found form at the right time, surged through the postseason and ultimately won the first MLS Cup in club history.

Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany hailed Luis Diaz’s “chaotic creativity” after the winger helped his side return to winning ways with a 3-1 victory over St. Pauli on Saturday afternoon. The Colombia international scored deep into stoppage time as the German giants successfully put their midweek loss at Arsenal in the Champions League to bed.

• Diaz's late heroics inspire Bayern to victory over St. Pauli

  With the scoreline 1-1 heading into stoppage time at the Allianz Arena, Bayern looked on course to drop points against strugglers St. Pauli. The visitors took the lead after just six minutes when Burnley loanee Andreas Hountondji stunned the home supporters, before Diaz kick started his heroics with an incredible assist.

  The former Liverpool forward was on the ground when he somehow managed to flick the ball back to defender Raphael Guerreiro, who fired home to restore parity for Kompany’s men. And then after three minutes of additional time in the second half, Diaz headed home what looked to be the winner for Bayern, only for substitute Nicolas Jackson to make it 3-1 on 90+7.

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  The victory saw Bayern bounce back from their 3-1 loss against Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal in the Champions League on Wednesday. Tasting defeat for the first time in Europe’s elite club competition this season, the Bundesliga heavyweights fell to goals from Jurrien Timber, Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli after youngster Lennart Karl scored in the first half.

  Diaz was absent from Bayern’s trip to north London after being handed a three-game UEFA ban following a poor challenge on Paris Saint-Germain right-back Achraf Hakimi on 4 November. The 28-year-old will also miss the Bavarians’ next two Champions League games against Portuguese side Sporting CP and Belgian outfit Union Saint-Gilloise on 9 December and 21 January respectively.

• Bayern boss Kompany waxes lyrical over Diaz's superb assist

  But after inspiring Bayern to an all-important victory which saw them move eight points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, manager Kompany was full of praise for Diaz after the game.

  Describing Diaz’s remarkable assist for Guerreiro’s equaliser, Kompany said: “Lucho has got a kind of 'chaotic creativity'. He can always do something in chaos.

  “As a [former] defender, I always found it uncomfortable to play against such players because you never know whether you have the ball under control or he has it. He kept his head up while on the ground and played a great pass. He did the exact same move in training yesterday. That's a quality of his.”

  And hailing Bayern’s collective grit, Kompany added: “Such hard-fought wins are part of a season. That gives us confidence in the future that we can win in such situations. Compliments to the boys that they kept going and believed in themselves. We need that over the course of the season.”

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  Bundesliga giants' director of sport issues Kane update

  One player who did not find the back of the net against St. Pauli was Harry Kane, who has forged a brilliant relationship with Diaz in 2025-26. England captain Kane has scored 24 goals in just 20 games in all competitions for Bayern this season, while ex-Porto man Diaz has netted 12 times so far.

  However, while he was unable to add to his goal tally on Saturday, Kane was a topic of discussion after the game as Bayern director of sport Max Eberl issued a cryptic update on the striker’s future.

  When asked whether Bayern have entered into contract renewal discussions with Kane, whose current terms expire in 2027, Eberl told : “Harry knows exactly what he wants and we have plans for him. We would like to continue. We can very, very well imagine that, but we will basically discuss everything with Harry.”

  And when pressed on the future of defender Dayot Upamecano, whose contract expires next summer, Eberl added: “We definitely want it [a renewal]. I think we've communicated that clearly enough. I believe he feels very, very comfortable here.”

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O meia Zaracho avaliou bem a decisão da diretoria do Atlético-MG quanto as manutenções para 2024. O argentino é um dos maiks antigos em todo o elenco, e está indo para a sua quinta temporada junto ao Galo.

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O Atlético-MG apostou em poucos reforços para 2024, buscando fortalecer posições específicas. Até o momento, o único jogador anunciado foi Gustavo Scarpa. Zaracho elogiou a decisão da diretoria, e também a permanência de Felipão como técnico da equipe.

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– É muito importante, porque a gente se conhece, conhece o Felipão, é fundamental começar de uma boa maneira. Temos que trabalhar – comentou o argentino.

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Um dos principais objetivo de Zaracho para a temporada é se manter constante e sem lesões. Em 2023, o meia sofreu com uma séria lesão no tornozelo ao início do ano, e três problemas no músculo posterior da coxa direita entre julho e dezembro. Nos últimos dois anos, o argentino ficou fora de 17 jogos.

– Estou feliz de voltar. Estava com vontade de retornar e de fazer uma grande pré-temporada, de cumprir objetivos novos que vamos colocar – afirmou Zaracho sobre o retorno aos campos.

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Zaracho atuou pelo Galo 44 vezes, sendo 34 como titular. O argentino já balançou as redes três vezes, e deu duas assistências.

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O Vasco anunciou, nesta quinta-feira (21), a renovação do zagueiro Maicon para a temporada de 2024. O jogador foi crucial na reta final do Campeonato Brasileiro e deve ser importante para a sequência do trabalho de Ramón Díaz no ano que vem.

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O experiente zagueiro tem passagem na Europa e chegou ao Cruzmaltino em junho de 2023. A liderança e qualidade técnica do camisa 4 foram peças chave para a recuperação do time.

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O Vasco está acertando o elenco para o ano de 2024 e agora o comissão técnica já pode contar com a presença de Maicon no planejamento. O Gigante da Colina ainda trabalha em busca de contratações e outras renovações para construir um time competitivo para os próximos torneios.

يستضيف الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب، النجم البرتغالي كريستيانو رونالدو في البيت الأبيض اليوم الثلاثاء، قبل أشهر قليلة من انطلاق منافسات كأس العالم 2026.

وتستضيف الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية وكندا والمكسيك، منافسات بطولة كأس العالم 2026، والتي تنطلق في شهر يونيو المقبل.

وبحسب ما ورد في صحيفة “ميرور” البريطانية، من المرجح أن يتم مناقشة إقامة مباراة ودية بين البرتغال والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية قبل كأس العالم.

ويشير التقرير إلى أن ثلاثة مسؤولين في البيت الأبيض أكدوا زيارة رونالدو المخطط لها في نفس اليوم الذي يلتقي فيه ترامب بولي العهد السعودي الأمير محمد بن سلمان، ومن غير المعروف بعد ما إذا كانت هذه الاجتماعات مرتبطة ببعضها البعض، كون البرتغالي لاعبًا في صفوف النصر السعودي.

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وتأتي زيارة رونالدو للبيت الأبيض، بعد تصريحاته في مقابلة مع بيرس مورجان، أعلن خلالها رغبته في لقاء ترامب.

وصرح رونالدو: “إذا كان العالم ينعم بالسلام، فهذا هو هدفنا، إنه من الأشخاص القادرين على تغيير العالم أو المساعدة في تغييره، وهذا هو هدفي الرئيسي، لقاء ترامب والتحدث عن السلام العالمي، إذا استطعت تحقيق ذلك، فهو شخص أود حقًا الجلوس معه”.

وحسمت البرتغال تأهلها لكأس العالم 2026، بعدما تصدرت مجموعتها في مرحلة التصفيات الأوروبية المؤهلة للمونديال، وحققت فوزًا عريضًا بنتيجة 9-1 أمام أرمينيا في الجولة الأخيرة.

Luke Wells, Josh Bohannon and Ashton Turner all scored tons against Kent

ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay 24-Jun-2025Centuries by Luke Wells, Josh Bohannon and Ashton Turner on debut have given Lancashire a chance of defeating Kent on the final day of the Rothesay County Championship match at Blackpool and thereby securing their first red-ball victory of the season.Replying to the visitors’ 374, Lancashire were 639 for 9 at the close after a day in which their batters savaged Daniel Bell-Drummond’s attack.Wells made 152, Bohannon 124 and Turner a career-best 154 on a day when their county amassed the highest total in matches between the sides.Lancashire will go into the final day with a lead of 265 and the decision facing stand-in skipper James Anderson is whether to declare overnight or club a few more runs before trying to force a win on a docile surface. The latter seems unlikely.In a first session slightly curtailed by a light shower, Lancashire added 105 runs in 30.5 overs for the loss of nightwatcher Tom Bailey, who had made 25 untroubled runs before he was lbw on the front foot to Joey Evison.Otherwise, the highlight of the morning was Wells reaching his third first-class century for Lancashire against Kent when he reverse-swept Jack Leaning to the third boundary. The Red Rose opener had faced 195 balls and hit twelve fours and a six.However, the first session proved to be merely the prelude to an even more severe assault on the Kent bowling in the next two sessions. After taking 24 balls to get off the mark, Josh Bohannon reached his fifty off a further 78 deliveries with an on-drive off Evison. In the next over Wells lost the ball when he walloped Matt Parkinson for a six over the wall at the South End to bring up his own 150.Next ball, however, the former Lancashire leg-spinner applied to balm to his wounded pride when Wells tried to repeat his previous stroke and was well caught by Wes Agar at long off for 152. That dismissal ended the opener’s enterprising 136-run stand with Bohannon and it left his side still 71 runs shy of Kent’s first innings total.Despite having made his runs in a minute short of six hours during which he hit 17 fours and three sixes, Wells’ dejection at his dismissal clearly suggested he thought he had missed a big opportunity to make an even bigger contribution. The cricket that followed supported that judgement.Ashton Turner joined Bohannon and the pair put on a further 174 runs either side of tea, with Turner making an immediate impact in his first innings for Lancashire, reaching his hundred off 117 balls with six fours and four sixes.Bohannon had earlier reached his century off 191 balls with a square cut off his old team mate Parkinson, having hit nine fours and three sixes but he was eventually caught by Agar off Jack Leaning’s off-spin for 124, having hit ten fours and four sixes in his 210-ball innings.Late in the day, Matty Hurst was bowled for 21 by Evison, who took his third wicket and finished with 3 for 61 from 21 overs on a day when he had plainly been the pick of the Kent attack.Eight overs before the close Turner was caught at long off by Leaning off Parkinson and Michael Jones fell to the same combination for 41, leaving the leg-spinner with figures 3 for 188 from 35 overs. Jaydn Denly took two late wickets.The problem now for Anderson and his bowlers is that this Stanley Park pitch still looks very flat and it will take all of Anderson’s wiles and a shrewd rotation of his bowlers to take ten wickets in one day, given that only 19 have fallen in the first three, five of today’s dismissed batsmen perishing to catches in the deep.