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Abbott picked up three wickets as Stoinis’ half-century went in vain

AAP06-Jan-2023English import James Vince fell short of a century but delivered at the top of the order to steer the Sydney Sixers to a six-wicket win over Melbourne Stars.Marcus Stoinis blasted 52 off 28 balls to lift the Stars to a competitive 5 for 173 at the MCG on Friday. But Sixers reached their target with just one ball to spare on the back of Vince’s unbeaten 91 from 59 deliveries and some late hitting from Jordan Silk.Silk belted a six from the third ball of Luke Wood’s dramatic final over and was controversially given out caught behind before Dan Christian hit the winning runs.The result was the Sixers’ ninth consecutive win over the Stars – a record BBL period of dominance by one club over another.It left the Stars languishing in last place, while the Sixers are level on wins at the top with the Scorchers and Thunder.The Sixers required 36 off the final three overs when Vince belted back-to-back sixes off Trent Boult (1 for 39).A further 11 runs were required off the last over and Vince should have been run-out looking for two off the first ball, but fellow Englishman Joe Clarke missed his first swipe at the stumps with the batter short his ground.The massive six from Silk (15 off 10) tilted the match the Sixers’ way but he was judged to have nicked Wood’s next ball behind and was given his marching orders. Christian hit his only ball faced off Wood for four, steering the Sixers to 4-176.Vince’s season-high innings included nine fours and two sixes as he fell narrowly short of becoming the first player in Sixers history to score a century.Earlier, Stoinis showcased his value as one of the BBL’s great entertainers in his first match since announcing a deal to play in the ILT20.The Stars’ premier power hitter was travelling at run-a-ball for his first 12 deliveries faced and exploded with 38 off the next 12, bringing the home crowd to life.Stoinis blasted seven fours and two sixes, playing the lead role as the Stars took 34 runs off Chris Jordan and Hayden Kerr during the power surge.Stars opener Tom Rogers, signed as a replacement for injured skipper Glenn Maxwell, rode his luck at times and cashed in with a career-best knock of 48 from 33 deliveries.But he was denied a maiden half-century at BBL level when he fell to a brilliant diving catch by Jordan in the outfield.Sean Abbott (3-31) was the game’s only multiple wicket-taker.The Stars lost Campbell Kellaway to a cut hand after he was hurt taking a catch to dismiss Daniel Hughes (28).

Birmingham City are reportedly eyeing a move for former striker and Torino star Che Adams as the Blues prepare for life in the Championship.

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According to journalist Tom Collomosse, Birmingham are mulling over a move for Scotland forward Adams for next season. The 28-year-old joined Torino on a three-year deal last summer and has scored 10 goals in all competitions, so if he does re-join the Blues it may not be on the cheap.

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Birmingham made history late last month when they recorded the highest points tally in a single professional season. They have already been crowned League One champions and now they are seeking to finish the campaign with a record 111 points. It is clear the West Midlands outfit, where NFL legend Brady is a minority owner, want to secure back-to-back promotions and reach the Premier League in 2026 and signings like Adams may make that possible.

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Adams spent three seasons with then-Championship side Birmingham (2016-19), scoring 38 goals in 123 games in all competitions. He then moved to Southampton, where he netted 49 goals in 191 matches.

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Na ausência de Fagner, que completou um mês sem atuar pelo Corinthians, Gustavo Mantuan vem se tornando opção confiável para Vítor Pereira na lateral ou ala-direita da equipe.

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Na vitória por 1 a 0 contra o Atlético-GO, pela nona rodada do Brasileirão, o camisa 31 voltou a atuar na primeira linha de defesa, como lateral-direito. O garoto deu conta do recado na defesa e apareceu bem dentro da área para fazer o gol da vitória corintiana.

Após a partida, o polivalente jogador disse pensar apenas em ajudar a equipe, independente da posição ou função que tenha que desempenhar.

-Vitória sofrida, de Corinthians, a gente sofreu até o final. Em relação ao posicionamento, a gente está aqui para ajudar o Mister, o Corinthians, sempre dando nosso melhor. Feliz com a vitória, os três pontos e a liderança – afirmou o atacante.

Ele jogou 20 dos últimos 22 jogos da equipe, quase sempre na ponta, ala ou lateral à direita. Com volume no corredor, ele ajuda ofensivamente e está trabalhando para evoluir defensivamente.

-Sou atacante, meia-atacante, mas a gente é profissional, quer sempre ajudar o clube, principalmente o professor. Ele deposita muita confiança em mim e isto é importante para a minha carreira – disse o camisa 31 durante o intervalo da partida contra o Dragão.

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O garoto definitivamente deixou para trás a grave lesão no joelho esquerdo, sofrida em outubro de 2020, e que o tirou dos gramados durante cerca de um ano. Elejá havia rompido o ligamento cruzado do joelho direito em 2018 e ficou nove meses fora de combate.

Ele marcou o seu terceiro gol na temporada, se igualando a Adson, Gustavo Mosquito e Renato Augusto na artilharia do clube alvinegro no ano. O garoto destacou o entrosamento com Piton no momento do cruzamento para o gol.

– Faro de artilheiro. Todos sabem que eu sou atacante, a gente sabe os caminhos. Piton, desde muito tempo, já sabia o cruzamento que ele ia fazer. Fui feliz de estar no lugar certo e poder ter ajudado a equipe com os três pontos – concluiu o atleta.

Com Fagner ainda dúvida para o duelo de terça-feira (7), às 21h30 contra o Cuiabá, na Arena Pantanal, pela décima rodada do Brasileirão, não seria surpresa se Mantuan fosse escalado fora de sua posição de origem.

Tottenham Hotspur and technical director Johan Lange remain on the hunt for Ange Postecoglou’s first outfield deal of the January window, with the Lilywhites now contemplating whether to open talks for a new transfer target.

Spurs targeting new forward for Postecoglou in January

Summer signing Dominic Solanke, who has been one of Postecoglou’s best players this season, is set to be sidelined for six weeks after he picked up a knee problem in training – adding to Spurs’ plethora of injury woes.

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Solanke twisted his knee after attempting a shot and missing the ball, which just about sums up Tottenham’s serious bad luck with injuries right now. The England international joins Guglielmo Vicario, Destiny Udogie, Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner, Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Wilson Odobert on the long list of players who are certain to miss their clash against Leicester City on Sunday (Premier Injuries).

Tottenham’s next five Premier League fixtures

Date

Leicester City (home)

January 26

Brentford (away)

February 2

Man United (home)

February 16

Ipswich Town (home)

February 22

Man City (home)

February 26

Djed Spence and Pape Matar Sarr are also doubts after picking up knocks, while Postecoglou is hopeful that Yves Bissouma can return against Leicester pending a late fitness test.

Tottenham’s extra matches, due to their participation in Europe, exacerbate the need for reinforcements before January deadline day on February 3rd – with this player selection nightmare exposing Postecoglou’s real lack of squad depth.

Spurs are reliably believed to be in the market for a forward this month, and did attempt to lure PSG outcast Randal Kolo Muani to north London before Juventus eventually won the race for his signature on a straight loan deal (Fabrizio Romano).

Postecoglou, speaking ahead of their Tottenham Hotspur Stadium match versus Leicester, sent another subtle message to the club’s hierarchy that he could do with a quality reinforcement or two.

“It depends on the player, it depends on how they fit in to what we do,” said Postecoglou on January transfers.

“It’s not just about bringing in another body, but yeah, there is still no doubt we need to help these players because we’ve still got some significant games in the next two or three weeks before we get players back.”

Tottenham debating whether to open "surprise" talks for Santiago Gimenez

As per GiveMeSport, Feyenoord star Santiago Gimenez is a player they’re seriously looking at before the window shuts.

It is believed Tottenham are “threatening to make a surprise move” for Gimenez, despite AC Milan attempting to close a deal for the Mexico international, with Spurs considering whether to “rush into negotiations” for his signing over the coming days.

While Feyenoord could look to demand £40 million for his services, this is a serious drop from his rumoured £84 million price tag last year. Gimenez, called “amazing” by journalist Graeme Bailey, is also in great form with 15 goals from his last 18 matches in all competitions so far.

Their renewed interest in Gimenez is described as a “major twist” by the news outlet, but with Milan trying to strike a full agreement for the centre-forward, they’ll have to act quickly.

Essex’s Championship challenge foundered at The Kia Oval a few days ago and as spectators gathered again at Chelmsford, the air was thick with inquests. It was thick with humidity, too, which is about as close as it has got to raining in these parts this summer, and in that atmosphere, Nick Browne reminded everyone of his worth with his second hundred of the season.Somerset, who find themselves part of a West Country bottom two, had imagined they were catching Essex at a good time with their title ambitions over – although an even better time would have been with Simon Harmer absent with South Africa for the upcoming Test series against England. As it was, Browne supervised a successful Essex day, batting the entire day for 129 out of 281 for 3.Chelmsford remains parched. It gets roughly half the annual rain that falls upon the likes of Manchester and Cardiff in an average summer. The outfield at the River End of the ground is in a terrible state, worn and bumpy with drainage ditches clearly visible. Field in this area at your peril.Centuries have tended to come this season from Essex’s more celebrated opener, Alastair Cook, who has made four of their 10 in the Championship this season. Browne, a big, lumbering sort, often guarded in his strokeplay, is not really designed to wrest attention, but he is the most wholehearted of cricketers. They remain an opening partnership to be reckoned with and he played well.Browne told blithely how he and Cook used to keep a tally over the season about who got out first before it was abandoned for his own good. “It is always hard to get out after him,” he said. “We used to have a little competition but I always seemed to lose it because he is too good.”How many England players as distinguished as Cook will remain true to county cricket in the future? Nearly four years have passed since he bowed out of Test cricket against India at The Oval, but he appears to have settled back into Championship life with equanimity and he looked untroubled in making 44 before Peter Siddle cut one back to have him lbw, the third time he has dismissed him in the Championship this season.The extension of Marcus Trescothick’s career in county cricket with Somerset felt like a prolonged farewell tour with the Taunton crowd outpouring its gratitude for every extra season, almost every extra run. Trescothick’s presence at Somerset was heartfelt, of course, because of the mental health issues that had ended his England career prematurely. Essex’s ties with Cook, while just as strong, are perhaps more understated; less emotional. Both, though, might be figures from a different age.Related

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With England now pulling around 30 players out of county cricket from an early age to feed a never-ending international schedule, and with the future county fixture list once again awash with uncertainty, it invites questions whether club loyalties of the best players can possibly remain as strong in a changing landscape. Then you think of Joe Root and imagining him settling back with Yorkshire many years from hence and maybe for some it remains perfectly possible. Perhaps it is not the nature of the competition, but the nature of the man.Essex’s opening pair are easy to tell apart: Cook, willowy and contemplative, accumulating quietly, rarely drawing attention to himself; Browne, more hunched and thick-set and capable of occasional moments of pugnacity, his speciality the sort of punched drive through extra cover, off Siddle that brought him a most diligent hundred. He had sweated it out for 13 balls on 99, including a play-and-miss against Kasey Aldridge, one of the few times his outside edge was beaten. Siddle, who has also played at Essex awarded it a fist-bump of respect.During the morning, Somerset had an injury scare for Craig Overton, who has been released by England to play in this match. He limped away from an over after having problems with the footholes, and also missed part of the morning session after jarring his shoulder in the field.All Somerset’s wickets on an unresponsive pitch came in the afternoon session. Tom Westley drove at Overton, back with no long-term damage, to be caught at slip, and Dan Lawrence slumped in disbelief when he cut the last ball of the afternoon session, a wide long-hop from Matt Renshaw, an occasional offspinner, to slip. Renshaw finished off a wearying day by bowling Browne a bouncer off a few paces which he duly ducked underneath.Paul Walter had his aggressive moments for an unbeaten 57, never more so than when he lofted Jack Leach for a straight six during 27 unrewarding overs for England’s premier spin bowler. Few anticipate that Harmer will be as unproductive as the game progresses.

أعرب محسن صالح، رئيس لجنة التخطيط السابق بالنادي الأهلي، عن ثقته الكاملة في قدرات المدير الفني عماد النحاس، مشيدًا بمواصفاته الشخصية والفنية، كما تحدث بإعجاب عن الإمكانيات الكبيرة التي يمتلكها لاعب الأهلي، مطالبًا إياه بالتركيز والتعاون مع زملائه لتحقيق الأفضل للفريق.

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وقال صالح في تصريحات تلفزيونية بفضائية “الأهلي”: “أثق في قدرات عماد النحاس، هو يمتلك مواصفات تجعله مؤهلاً لتحمل المسؤولية في أي وقت، شخصية قوية جدًا، ملتزم ومخلص ويفهم كرة القدم بشكل جيد، كما يتمتع بخبرات عالية اكتسبها من مشواره كلاعب ومدرب”.

وأضاف: “لم أشعر بأي قلق من توليه المهمة في هذا التوقيت الصعب، لأنني أعرف جيدًا مدى إيمانه بالمسؤولية وقدرته على التعامل مع اللاعبين في غرفة الملابس، وقيادة الفريق فنيًا ونفسيًا”.

وواصل مشيدًا بلاعب الأهلي إمام عاشور: “لاعب مبدع بكل ما تحمله الكلمة من معنى، يملك كل مواصفات لاعب كرة القدم العصري، فهو مقاتل حين يريد، ومهاري حين يحب، وهداف عندما يتوقف عن العناد”.

وتابع موضحًا: “ما يميز إمام عاشور أيضًا هو طموحه الكبير، فهو يريد أن يصبح هداف الأهلي، ويسعى دائمًا للظهور بأفضل مستوى، لكن عليه أن يتحلى بالذكاء داخل الملعب، وألا يعاند الكرة أو يسعى للتسجيل في كل لحظة على حساب التمرير لزملائه، عليه أن يسجل في التوقيت والمكان المناسب، ويتعاون عندما يتطلب الأمر ذلك”.

وأتم رئيس لجنة التخطيط السابق حديثه بالتأكيد على أن الأهلي يملك عناصر مميزة تحتاج فقط إلى توجيه ذكي وتعاون من الجميع، خاصة في المرحلة الحاسمة من الموسم التي تتطلب تركيزًا وانضباطًا داخل وخارج الملعب.

واختتم: “الدفع بعلي معلول؟ لا أعتقد أن الوضع سيكون أسوأ مما مضى، فمعلول يمتلك القدرة على تقديم الإضافة في أي وقت يشارك فيه، لديه لمسة فنية مميزة، وفكر كروي ناضج، وخبرة كبيرة، كما يتمتع بحساسية عالية تجاه الكرة، ويعرف كيف يرسلها في التوقيت المناسب، إنه لاعب مبدع بكل ما تحمله الكلمة من معنى، وقد شعرت بحزن كبير عند إصابته، كانت خسارة واضحة للأهلي”.

Rob Key and Mark Wood excited by prospect of Durham bowler making England debut

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Midway through Matthew Potts’ nets session on Thursday morning, Eoin Morgan walked over to shake his hand to congratulate him on his first call-up to a full England squad. With England only picked 13 players to cover the first two Tests against New Zealand, Potts is almost certain to make his debut at some stage during the series and has a strong chance of playing at Lord’s in two weeks’ time.Sensibly, he decided to sit out this week’s Championship fixture against Middlesex, having bowled 233.5 overs in six back-to-back games at the start of the season – 20 more than any other seamer in the country this year. Instead, he was put through his paces by Neil Killeen, Durham’s bowling coach, before soaking up the atmosphere of a four-day game at Lord’s for the first time (his only career appearance there came in the Hundred last summer).Potts has been the beneficiary of an England injury crisis, with swathes of more-experienced seamers ruled out of the first Test, and has emerged from left field on the back of a stunning start to the Championship season: he took 35 wickets at 18.57 across the first half-dozen rounds, 11 more than the nearest contender.