Justin Langer has arrived in the IPL. It took just one game of tired old T20 cricket, and the consequent heavy defeat of course, for Lucknow Super Giants to burn that book of conservative T20 cricket and play with much higher intent. As a result they didn’t have the ideal players operating in the death overs of each innings, but they had done enough damage in the middle overs on both occasions to win by 21 runs.The 103 that LSG scored in the middle overs is the second-highest in their history; both the efforts featured Nicholas Pooran and Marcus Stoinis batting a higher number of balls unlike in the first match when they were held back for the death overs. With the ball, LSG unleashed Mayank Yadav’s extreme pace – highest being 155.8kmph – and awkward bounce to take five wickets for 84. As it turned out, they lost out on some runs in the final few overs and had to bowl Krunal Pandya in the 19th, but the game was over by then.The first step – either made easier by a quad strain or a huge tactical move considering how it is near-impossible to remove Indian captains – was to give the captaincy to Pooran, leaving KL Rahul with just batting responsibilities.

The enterprising start

It would be indulging in pop psychology to say if that meant Rahul batted with more intent because he had only one field to make an impact in, but the change was there for all to see. Having taken the dew on by batting first, LSG needed all the intent from everyone. Rahul began attacking from the fourth ball he faced, didn’t stop after hitting a six and a four in the next over, and Quinton de Kock batted the way he usually does.The intent might have resulted in two wickets but LSG managed 54 runs in the powerplay.

Pooran, and best-laid plans

The first two overs after the powerplay suggested it might be difficult to take down spin, but in the third, Stoinis, batting much earlier than in the last game, punished Rahul Chahar’s errors in length brutally with two sixes, and got out trying for a third six in the same over.The introduction of Pooran as early as in the ninth over meant Kings took off both their spinners despite Harpreet Brar’s four-run first over and a decent record against left-hand batters this IPL.Two overs in, it was plain why spin was taken off. Pooran slogged a wrong’un from Chahar over the longer boundary for a six followed by a cut for four in front of square and then just a nonchalant loft back over his head for another six.

The slightly slower finish

This kind of batting can, at times, result in wickets. LSG had played only three overseas players in the first XI so their choice of the fourth would be between Ashton Turner and Naveen-ul-Haq. When de Kock fell in the 14th over for 53, or when Pooran did in the 16th for 42, LSG didn’t make any panicked move, trusting Naveen over the limited marginal impact a batter could make over Krunal and Ayush Badoni.Krunal did his part of the job well by scoring 43 off 22. The last nine balls got LSG only 10 runs, but they had effectively decided the extra runs they could have got off such deliveries was not worth giving up middle-overs runs for.Jonny Bairstow and Shikhar Dhawan put on a 102-run opening partnership•BCCI

Kings set off running

Under the lights, a bit of dew, and nice medium pace to work with, Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow made a quick start to their chase, taking 61 in the first six overs. Dhawan got to a fifty off just 30 balls, the exact required rate to win the match. Like Stoinis did after the spin slowdown in the first innings, Bairstow broke the shackles with two sixes off Bishnoi in the ninth over.

Enter Mayank Yadav

Langer is not the only who “arrived” on Saturday night. Mayank is a 21-year-old fast bowler from Delhi who has had to struggle with injuries. LSG scouted him and looked after him while he was injured during the Ranji Trophy season. When they unleashed Mayank, Kings needed to go at pretty much the same asking rate as at the start of the innings and had all their wickets in hand.They weren’t quite prepared for the unerring pace of Mayank, though. He kept bowling uncomfortable lengths, went past 155kmph, and took out three batters, all three with the short ball, all three late on the shot. Bishnoi did his job at the other end, bowling the 11th over for just three. Mohsin Khan kept the pressure up. An injury to Liam Livingstone, which reduced him to hobbling between the wicket, didn’t help Kings.Dhawan went from 50 off 30 to caught on 70 off 50. He later acknowledged how he tried to use Mayank’s pace by moving around, and Mayank immediately started bowling yorkers at the stumps.LSG kept going for wickets, which is acknowledgement that even the best can get hit at the death so they are probably better off bowling in phases that have more correlation between quality and outcomes. By the time that they went to that one “weak” over, LSG had 48 to defend in the last two. Krunal conceded only seven.

San Diego FC star Hirving Lozano has revealed his admiration for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo while building his perfect footballer.

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In an exclusive interview with GOAL, Lozano was asked to build his 'GOAT' footballer covering seven different categories: left foot, right foot, speed, strength, skills, passing and soccer IQ. The former PSV and Napoli winger opted for Messi's left foot and Ronaldo's right, Paris Saint-Germain's Ousmane Dembele for speed, and Liverpool talisman Virgil van Dijk in the strength section.

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Lozano also chose Messi in the skills category, before putting ex-AC Milan and Juventus playmaker Andrea Pirlo in for passing. The Mexico international rounded off his selection by going for the soccer IQ of Real Madrid icon Zinedine Zidane.

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Messi and Ronaldo were fierce rivals at Barcelona and Real Madrid for the best part of a decade, but both men now ply their trade outside of Europe. Messi is competing against Lozano in MLS with Inter Miami, and Ronaldo is on the books of Saudi Arabian outfit Al-Nassr. Van Dijk, meanwhile, still forms part of a formidable Liverpool squad that is currently taking in a pre-season tour of Japan.

Both captain Pat Cummins and coach Andrew McDonald want the team to be more ruthless in the third innings

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Cummins: Green as sharp as I have seen him

Pat Cummins is adamant that Marnus Labuschagne is under no pressure for his place despite a lean run of form, but Australia’s batting order is facing increasing scrutiny after letting an opportunity slip to bury New Zealand at the Basin Reserve.Australia started their second innings 204 runs in front and even with the double failures of Labuschagne and Steven Smith on the second evening they led by 319 at one stage on day three with six wickets in hand.But a collapse saw them bowled out for just 164 and gave New Zealand a chance to chase 369. It was still 172 too many with Nathan Lyon taking six wickets, but the win does not paper over the disappointing batting display. Cameron Green’s first-innings 174 stood alone.Related

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Labuschagne’s form has become a point of focus. In his last three Tests, he has posted 10, 1*, 3, 5, 1 and 2. His career Test average has dropped below 50, having been above 60 in December 2022. But Cummins insisted there was no pressure on Labuschagne’s place at No.3.”Absolutely not,” Cummins said. “I think he’d be the first to admit he’d like to score some more runs. And it’s not through lack of trying in the nets. I think particularly that second innings was just one of those ones down leg. We’re very clear that these six guys are the six best batters in Australia and although at times they might not have clicked altogether at once the story of our team has been someone’s being able to stand up when they need to.”Australia only have one spare batter with the squad in New Zealand, Matt Renshaw, and were never likely to make a change unless there was an injury, regardless of the result in Wellington.Marnus Labuschagne’s thin pickings continued when he was caught down the leg side in the second innings•Getty Images

Australia coach Andrew McDonald also said there was no major alarm with Labuschagne’s form but he wanted to see more of the positive intent he showed in the second innings rather than what he produced in his 1 off 27 balls in the first.”I don’t think there’s any great concern from our point of view,” McDonald said. “We want the top six, seven batters to be performing as a collective. So I think while the rest are performing around that and you’re winning games of cricket, I think the concern levels are fractionally lower.”Can he perform better? No doubt about that. Does he know that? He knows that. Is he working on it? Yes.”Over time there’s going to be some ebbs and flows in your career. And I thought in the second innings, and this is really hard to sort of quantify, but I thought the intent and the energy he brought to the crease, and that was only two runs so I don’t want to get carried away with two runs, but that’s what we see when he’s at his best.”We saw that at Sydney [against Pakistan] in the second innings as well. We saw that in Manchester as well where he came out there and he had the intent to score and put it back onto the bowlers. So that’s when we think he’s at his best.”There is also growing pressure on Alex Carey. His Test average has dipped below 30 after twin failures in Wellington, although he did make an excellent half-century in his last Test against West Indies. McDonald admitted the manner of Carey’s dismissals at the Basin Reserve, where he holed out to cover twice, would be discussed.”They’re going on at the moment,” McDonald said. “He’s disappointed with that as a method to Glenn Phillips. He’s encouraged himself to play off the back foot. It’s an error in judgement. I think we’re not going to hang him on one innings or two innings. Over a period of time, we’ll see how that plays out.”Overall, McDonald noted that the batting group could improve as a collective, particularly when they were in front in the game.”We feel like we can be better,” McDonald said. “We feel as though at times we have underachieved with the bat which has left games open and it’s probably more particularly in the third innings of games.Alex Carey’s decision-making with the bat has been called into question•Getty Images

“I think if you go back across the last 12 months, we’ve had some chances in the third innings to really shut out the opponent and we’ve left the door ajar at times and potentially we’ve probably been in a hurry to get to the total that we think we should get to and then get the game moving forward.”In this game, we played some shots that were probably up tempo for what the surface was going to allow. But we encourage our players to expand and apply their own method. And then it’s just about reviewing that at the end of the game. So we left the door slightly open but as we saw there in the context of this game, the surface was offering plenty and it was difficult to bat.”Australia lost Tests in Delhi and Headingley last year with third-innings collapses when they were in front in the game. They also had third innings collapses at Lord’s and Melbourne but were able to steady and win the game as they did in Wellington. Cummins wanted his batters to be more ruthless.”I think it’s something we can get better at, the whole 11 batters, particularly around that third innings where the game seems to speed up a little bit,” he said. “I think when we’re at our best, especially at home, it’s [being] ruthless, setting them 600, 650. I think it’s something we can look at.”

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Giuliano foi um nome importante do Corinthians na temporada. Neste ano, foi o meio-campista com mais gols e um dos jogadores com mais jogos. Ao todo, esteve presente em 63 partidas, com sete tentos. Entretanto, foi o atleta mais utilizado como reserva. De todos os confrontos que esteve em campo, saiu do banco em 28 deles.

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Em relação ao número de disputas, Giuliano está atrás somente de Du Queiroz e Róger Guedes (com 66), e Cássio (com 64).

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O que mais chamou atenção quanto a Giuliano durante o ano foi o seu desempenho na Copa do Brasil. No mata-mata, o Corinthians chegou até a final – enfrentando o Flamengo. Porém, no Maracanã, não conseguiu vencer a disputa de pênaltis e encerrou a competição como vice.

O camisa 11, por sua vez, terminou o campeonato na artilharia, ao lado de Germán Cano, do Fluminense. Ao todo foram cinco gols em nove jogos, saindo do banco em cinco. E destas cinco vezes, saiu do banco e balançou as redes em duas – uma delas justamente na final contra o Flamengo, quando ficou em campo somente 23 minutos. Graças a este gol, o Corinthians conseguiu levar a decisão para os pênaltis.

Giuliano chegou ao Corinthians no segundo semestre de 2021, mas se firmou de fato sob o comando de Vítor Pereira neste ano. Seu vínculo com o Timão vai até o final de 2023 – desta forma, tem a chance de se firmar mais ainda e começar mais jogos como titular na próxima temporada.

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USMNT star Tim Weah is closing in on a move from Juventus to Marseille, with terms being agreed on a loan deal that includes an obligation to buy.

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  The United States international is ready to return to France after two years in Turin. He has previously represented Paris Saint-Germain and Lille in Ligue 1, while also spending time on loan at Scottish giants Celtic in 2019.

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  A new challenge is being sought after failing to nail down a starting berth at Juve. They have been open to offers across the summer transfer window, with an opportunity to join Nottingham Forest in the Premier League being passed up at one stage.

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  Weah is said to have made it clear that his preference was always to retrace steps to French football. The 25-year-old is about to get his wish as Marseille have an offer on the table that is considered acceptable by all concerned.

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Scotland Women’s captain hopes T20 World Cup coup can “be a big kick-starter for cricket” in her country

Valkerie Baynes08-May-2024The silence told the story… not so much that it was there but where it was coming from.Kathryn Bryce, Scotland’s captain, had just removed dangerous Ireland openers Amy Hunter and Gaby Lewis within the first five balls of the match and, by the time the favourites were five wickets down for just 25 runs at the start of the seventh over, Bryce had claimed four of them.It was a collapse from which Ireland would never fully recover and, needing just 111 to secure a first appearance for Scotland Women at any World Cup, opener Megan McColl and Bryce mowed down most of the target between them, the latter bringing up victory with a four – and making history.”There was probably a bit of silence almost and they can be quite vocal from the sidelines,” Bryce tells ESPNcricinfo’s Powerplay podcast in which she recalls the impact of taking those early Ireland wickets. “But we had a huge amount of support as well. When you get a couple of early wickets in a really important match like that, it can stun a team a little bit.”The way that Megan started off the second innings was absolutely incredible, so when I went out there to bat, it was literally just trying to finish off the game and I was just saying, ‘don’t think about what’s coming, don’t think about it, just score the runs’. So when we got those winning runs at the end, it was just, I think the relief and just hard to switch off from that emotion of trying to ignore what was coming and realising what we’d actually achieved.”