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Rajasthan Royals’ big three batters failed to fire, managing only a combined 38 off 37 balls. Their lack of batting depth was sorely tested – Trent Boult, a lifelong No. 11, walked in at No. 8 with 27 balls left in the innings. They went through a 43-ball stretch without hitting a single boundary.But Riyan Parag, the 20-year-old whom they re-signed at this year’s auction despite his having gone through a horror 2021 season, repaid their faith with an unbeaten 31-ball 56 that dragged them to a total of 144.It was still a small total; the lowest total defended before today in IPL 2022 was 156, by Gujarat Titans against Kolkata Knight Riders. Royals’ bowlers – who had already pulled off five successful defences in six attempts this season – didn’t just better that effort; they were in control right through, as Royal Challengers Bangalore’s chase fizzled out almost before it had begun.Virat Kohli followed up two successive first-ball ducks with a scratchy, chancy 9 off 10 balls; Glenn Maxwell fell to a first-baller; and Dinesh Karthik was run out in tragicomic manner. There was no let-up at any point from Royals’ bowlers. All of them performed their roles perfectly on a two-paced pitch that also took turn as the match progressed, and the two big wicket-hauls in the end went to the pacy Kuldeep Sen, and the evergreen R Ashwin, who followed up a cameo at No. 3 with a three-wicket haul that took him past 150 wickets in the IPL.Royals promote Ashwin again
Sent in, Royals lost Devdutt Padikkal in the second over of the match, and in walked Ashwin, batting at one drop for the second time this season.Was he a pinch-hitter or – given Royals’ lack of batting depth – a pinch-blocker, sent out to ensure more valuable batters aren’t dismissed in the powerplay?Ashwin’s intent suggested it was the former, and there was some logic to the move. While he might lack the raw power to find the boundary regularly later in the innings, he is a free-scoring timer of the ball in longer-format cricket, capable of finding the gaps while the field is up.He did just this with four boundaries in two overs off Mohammed Siraj, before being dismissed while looking for a big hit – 17 off 9, job done.2:55

Bishop: I am a Samson fan but he is wasting good form

Buttler, Samson, Hetmyer
Jos Buttler was out the very next ball, miscuing Josh Hazlewood to mid-on. After three hundreds in his first seven games of the season, a low score was due at some point.Almost as soon as Sanju Samson walked in, Faf du Plessis brought on Wanindu Hasaranga. The legspinner had troubled Samson incessantly when a second-string India team toured Sri Lanka for a white-ball series last year. Before today, Samson had been dismissed four times by Hasaranga in all T20 cricket while scoring just eight runs in 15 balls.Their contest threatened to veer away from script early on, as Samson punched and lofted Hasaranga for a four and a six in his first over, the sixth of Royals’ innings. Then he hit a pair of sixes off Shahbaz Ahmed’s left-arm spin, but just when he was looking ominous, Hasaranga came back for the 10th over. Samson attempted two reverse-sweeps, missed both, and was bowled on the second attempt.Daryl Mitchell, brought into Royals’ XI as their latest middle-order batter/sixth bowler option, struggled to time the ball, and kept muscling singles to deep fielders until holing out in the 15th over for 16 off 24. Royals were in a bit of a quagmire at 99 for 5, but this was a good entry point for Shimron Hetmyer, who had until today managed a strike rate in the 170s without once being dismissed for below 25. Law of averages was bound to catch up on him, though, and he miscued a slog-sweep off a Hasaranga wrong’un and was out for 3.Riyan Parag repaid the Royals faith with a timely half-century•BCCI

Parag plays on his own pitch
From 69 for 4 at the halfway mark, Royals added a further 75 runs to their score. Of those, Parag made 55 off 28 balls, while hitting three fours and four sixes. The other end and extras contributed 20 off 32, and zero boundaries, between them.The conditions – the ball was sticking and occasionally kicking up from the back-of-a-length area – the bowling, and Royals’ situation combined to keep Parag relatively quiet through the middle part of his innings, but he showed, either side of it, why Royals have placed so much faith in him.First up, in the 11th over, he attacked Shahbaz fearlessly when he overpitched, showing genuine clarity of intent even though he’d only just come to the crease, hitting him for a six and a four down the ground.Then, with only the tail for company, he went after Hazlewood and Harshal Patel in the last two overs, doing the bulk of the damage as Royals ransacked 30 off those 12 balls. There were three sixes and two fours in that time, the pick of them a front-foot loft over extra-cover off Hazlewood and a last-ball short-arm pull off Harshal.What’s worse that a first-ball duck?
First-ball dismissals, like Kohli’s in his last two knocks, can happen to anyone any time – you get a good ball, or your first mistake ends up being your last one. You can’t read too much into them.Kohli’s innings against Royals, however, left more room for interpretation. He was almost out for a third-ball duck, only for his uppish flick to fall short of square leg. Then he flicked Trent Boult for four, and sent two inside-edges running past his stumps. Then he edged Prasidh Krishna into his pads, and four balls later took on the hook, only to edge the ball into his helmet, from where it bounced into the hands of Parag running in from backward point.The resigned smile we’ve seen so often in recent weeks appeared again on Kohli’s face as he trudged off, not waiting for the umpire to give him out.2:48

Bishop: Kuldeep’s pace against Maxwell was brilliant

Sen-sational
du Plessis hit a boundary each in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth overs, and RCB ended the powerplay going at just above a run a ball.Sen came into the attack at this point, and with his second and third balls picked up two vital wickets, off balls banged into the short-of-good-length region. The first stopped on du Plessis, and he slapped the ball straight to extra-cover. The second gained extra bounce, and Maxwell, steered it straight to the fielder who’d just been brought in at slip. RCB were 37 for 3.Royals complete the job
With Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal set to control the middle overs, RCB had an uphill task ahead of them, and so it proved. Just one boundary came off the first four post-powerplay overs, and Ashwin ended that mini-phase by bowling another right-hander with a carrom ball delivered from wide of the crease, Rajat Patidar his victim this time.That brought Karthik to the crease, and a firm sweep for four off Chahal in the 13th over suggested RCB weren’t out of it just yet. But two balls later, a mix-up with Shahbaz left him mid-pitch when the ball was lobbed into Chahal’s hands. Chahal dropped the ball, but managed to drag it into the stumps and almost unintentionally break the wicket with Karthik, not spotting the fumble early enough, too slow to regain his crease.At 72 for 6, with 73 needed off the last 44 balls, the game was almost done. RCB dragged it all the way into the final over before it ended in most fitting manner, with Parag taking his fourth catch of the innings to give Sen his fourth wicket.

Santos president Marcelo Teixeira has offered an update on Neymar’s future amid talk of interest from Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

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• Brazilian superstar signed short-term deal
• Return to Europe being speculated on
• Santos still hoping to agree an extension

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  After seeing his contract at Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal terminated – on the back of much-publicised injury issues – Neymar took the decision to return to his roots on a short-term contract. He is back in Brazil to work on his form and fitness.

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  The 33-year-old forward has been among the goals, while continuing to carefully manage his schedule, and intends to grace the World Cup finals in 2026. It remains to be seen where he will be playing his club football by the time that tournament rolls around.

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  There has been talk of the former Paris Saint-Germain star – who moved to France in a record-breaking €222 million (£186m/$242m) transfer during the summer of 2017 – heading back to Europe for a second spell at Barca or a stint alongside Harry Kane and Co in Munich.

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  WHAT SANTOS PRESIDENT SAID

  Santos, though, remain hopeful that an extension to Neymar’s six-month deal can be agreed, with Teixeira telling : “The hardest part is already done, which was having him here. We'll see the club's technical response and results; we're working on sponsorships… he's already shown he's not worried about the financial aspect. The entire technical committee supported him in his matches; everyone supports Santos, and the entire country does. And that will influence the possibility of him staying here in the near future. The national team has called him back.”

The delayed Women’s ODI World Cup will go ahead as scheduled across the original six venues in New Zealand, starting March 4 even as the hosts’ bilateral series for the rest of the season have moved to a condensed list of grounds in the wake of a community outbreak of the Omicron variant that put the nation under enhanced Covid-19 restrictions on Sunday.The affirmation on the World Cup sticking to the original schedule came from Andrea Nelson, the CEO of the event, 35 days out from the start of the tournament. “We did look at multiple contingency plans over the last 12 months as you can well imagine. But the plan is to retain the schedule as it is with the six venues,” Nelson said at a virtual media roundtable organised by the ICC on Friday.”The contingency measures we’re putting in place relate to kind of partaking the travel between those venues as much as possible. One of the factors [of hosting a multi-team cricket event] in New Zealand is that our venues are very different to, for example, some of the venues in the subcontinent or the UK. For those that have watched cricket in New Zealand, we’ve got grass-bank stadiums, [and] smaller stadiums that don’t have hotels built into them. So it’s a very different environment to how some of it have been staged recently.”Related

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The eight-team, 31-match tournament is slated to be played at Mount Maunganui, Dunedin, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch. Though domestic and bilateral international cricket in the country is now set to be played behind closed doors, the Women’s ODI World Cup organising committee is keeping “all options open” for fans.New Zealand moved into the ‘red’ setting of a traffic-light system late on Sunday after cases emerged on both North and South Island. Though the measures introduced in its wake don’t amount to a lockdown, there is a limit of 100 vaccinated people at any event. The country’s border arrangements require all overseas arrivals to stay in the government’s Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities for a mandatory ten days, with the World Cup teams all having had their stints approved before a recent pause to the system. India, who arrived in New Zealand on January 26, became the first participating team at the World Cup to enter the MIQ.The Women’s World Cup was originally scheduled for February-March 2021, but was pushed back by a year•International Cricket Council

“In terms of the delivery of the event for the players, it has not brought about any changes because we had been planning alongside the ICC for the safest possible tournament,” Nelson added. “So there are no significant changes to the way we deliver it for the players. Predominantly, the changes are related to the spectators inside the stadium.”New Zealand has moved to a traffic-light system… And broadly speaking, that puts at the moment attendance [which] can be only in groups of 100. So the work we’re undertaking at the moment is how many groups of 100 can we fit within each stadium. And we’re working through a bit of detail on all that … But really, the message is: we set out to kind of create a fantastic platform for these athletes to perform on, and we remain fully committed to doing that.”The Women’s ODI World Cup was originally scheduled for February-March 2021, but was pushed back a year owing to the pandemic. Asked if she deemed any circumstances at present for the tournament to be postponed a second time, Nelson said all plans were on track: “The first team is on the ground already. The next team arrives next week. Plans have well advanced. There’s no information [on a potential postponement] we have at the moment.”On Thursday, the NZC made several changes concerning venues for its upcoming international season to reduce risks of exposure to the Omicron variant. All of India Women’s six limited-overs matches were moved to the John Davies Oval in Queenstown. Earlier, McLean Park in Napier was to hold the one-off T20I and the opening ODI, the Saxton Oval in Nelson was slated to stage the second and third ODIs on February 14 and 16, and the final two ODIs were to be played in Queenstown on February 22 and 24.South Africa men’s upcoming visit for two Tests was also limited to Christchurch after they were originally scheduled to play one Test there and the other in Wellington. All three men’s T20Is against Australia will now be restricted to Napier, and Netherlands’ visit for a men’s white-ball tour will be split between Mount Maunganui, which will be hosting the one-off T20I and an ODI, and Hamilton, where the remaining two ODIs will be played.

The ex-Brighton striker was the match-winner on Sunday as Marc Skinner's side kept the pressure up on leaders Chelsea

Manchester United remain in the hunt for a first Women's Super League title after Elisabeth Terland inspired them to a 3-1 win over bottom side Crystal Palace on Sunday.

The Red Devils enjoyed a perfect start as Terland fired the hosts ahead after just nine minutes. Palace goalkeeper Milla-Maj Majasaari was guilty of a poor clearance that was pounced on by Grace Clinton and fed to Terland by Hinata Miyazawa. Terland then produced a neat turn and finish to roll the ball into the far corner.

United's No.19 ought to have had a second five minutes later, as Leah Galton’s cross in from the left was prodded goalwards by the striker and beat Majasaar, only for it to hit the far post and rebound to safety.

It looked like being a costly miss too, as Palace stunned the hosts seven minutes before half-time by equalising with a well-worked move that ended with Lily Woodham dinking a ball over the top for Mille Gejl to run onto and fire past Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

United pressed after half-time but lacked quality going forwards and needed another piece of good fortune to go ahead. Clinton’s pass was deflected into the path of Terland, who managed to round the goalkeeper and roll the ball home with a rather scuffed finish.

More chances followed for both sides, with Ella Toone seeing a goal-bound shot blocked, substitute Celin Bezit heading past the far post from close range and Maya Le Tissier denying Palace an equaliser in an entertaining second half.

Yet Marc Skinner's side finally wrapped up the win late on when Toone swung in an inviting free-kick for Clinton to head home and secure all three points.

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  Phallon Tullis-Joyce (5/10):

  A shaky display from the United shot-stopper. Seemed to dive out of the way of Palace's equaliser and flapped at a Riley cross that almost led to an equaliser.

  Jayde Riviere (5/10):

  Hit the woodwork with one delivery from the right, but caught out for Palace's goal.

  Millie Turner (5/10):

  Guilty of a few aimless balls forward and a mix-up with Tullis-Joyce almost gifted Palace a goal for 2-2.

  Maya Le Tissier (7/10):

  Solid showing and came up with a vital goal-saving block to prevent Palace equalising late on.

  Gabby George (6/10):

  Offered very little, and it wasn't a huge surprise to see her hooked on the hour.

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  Dominique Janssen (6/10):

  Back in the starting XI and did a solid job alongside Miyazawa.

  Hinata Miyazawa (7/10):

  Easily United's best midfielder. Set up the first goal and always wanted the ball. A little surprising to see her taken off.

  Ella Toone (7/10):

  Went close with an effort that was blocked on the line and set up the third goal that killed off Palace with a brilliant free-kick.

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  Grace Clinton (6/10):

  Not a convincing showing by any means as United lacked quality and inspiration in attack, but did come up with a good header for the third goal.

  Elisabeth Terland (8/10):

  United's match-winner and could have had a hat-trick, but was denied by the woodwork.

  Leah Galton (5/10):

  Some moments of danger down the flank but could not provide the quality delivery needed.

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  Anna Sandberg (7/10):

  Made an impact after replacing George and teed up a fine chance for Bezit.

  Celin Bezit (6/10):

  Also looked lively after coming on and should have made it 3-1 to seal the win, but put a header wide.

  Aoife Mannion (N/A):

  Only on for the last few minutes.

  Marc Skinner (6/10):

  Made changes to his team but United looked unbalanced and lacked quality and pace in attack for long stretches of the game. His substitutions helped, but his side certainly made hard work of it.

Stars’ batters are going to be given the backing to be as aggressive as they want

Alex Malcolm02-Dec-2021Melbourne Stars coach David Hussey believes he learned more from the failure of last season’s BBL than the success of the season before and hopes to implement some of the strategies that he and Brendon McCullum used to turn Kolkata Knight Riders around in this year’s IPL.Hussey’s first season as Stars coach in 2019-20, having taken the reins from Stephen Fleming, went like a dream until they fell at the last hurdle against Sydney Sixers in a rain-affected final in Sydney.But his second campaign did not go as smoothly as the side battled to win just five games and lost their last three to miss out on the finals.”I actually learned more about [the job] last year when we’re not playing as well than the first year when everything was going smoothly,” Hussey told ESPNcricinfo. “A lot of man management, a lot of strategy meetings, and sometimes your strategy is not always correct.”Related

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Hussey appreciates the role of the assistant coach having spent a couple of seasons alongside McCullum at KKR. As a result, he is going to put a lot of trust in new Stars assistants Ben Rohrer and Clint McKay to help run the team. “You should get more and more ideas and a lot of trust in the assistant coaches,” he said.But he also wants to implement some of the things that worked so well at Kolkata this year. When the IPL was postponed due to a Covid-19 outbreak in India, KKR sat seventh on the table with just two wins. On returning in the UAE later in the year they were a completely different side, unshackled, unburdened, and playing an exhilarating brand of cricket. They stormed to the playoffs and made the final only to be beaten by Chennai Super Kings.Hussey wants to recreate the KKR environment for his Stars players in order to get the best out of them.”Be firm but fair,” Hussey said. “Have the honest constructive conversations with all the batters and the bowlers. A lot of one-on-one time. But also have them believing. Cricket at the moment is so highly pressurised, every ball that’s bowled or faced is so important a game of T20 cricket. Try and remove all the pressure from that situation you possibly can. If they’re nice and relaxed, they generally play their best.”Like with KKR, Hussey wants his batters to be bold. Stars missed out on a big-name recruit but have added uncapped Englishman Joe Clarke to keep wicket and bat at the top of the order alongside Marcus Stoinis. Joe Burns and Beau Webster add a lot of flexibility in the middle-order alongside captain Glenn Maxwell, Nick Larkin, and Hilton Cartwright.He may also sometimes utilise Nathan Coulter-Nile’s power-hitting earlier in the innings after he conceded Stars “got surge yips last year” trying to work how to best exploit the BBL’s Power Surge playing condition with two powerplay overs saved for the second half of the innings.Marcus Stoinis will be back at the top of the order after his finisher role for Australia•Getty ImagesHussey admitted his batting philosophy has changed, particularly around six-hitting and strike rotation, and will encourage players in certain situations to turn down singles if they feel a match-up is right for them to try and hit multiple sixes in an over.”Old school T20 batting is hit a six and a one,” Hussey said. “But new school batting is hit a six then another six. Put the bowler under as much pressure as possible. So my thinking has changed. But if you go in with negative thoughts as a batter and pass it on, they start doubting themselves so it’s all about giving them as much confidence as they possibly can and if they want to hit six sixes in the over, they’ve got our blessing.”Stars have recruited Qais Ahmad to work in combination with Adam Zampa after having success with two legspinners at the MCG two years ago. They do have some injury concerns in the pace bowling ranks. Billy Stanlake is unlikely to play a part in the tournament due to a back injury while Liam Hatcher will also miss the early part of the BBL due to his back issue. They lost tearaway quick Lance Morris who has signed with Perth Scorchers.Victorian youngsters Brody Couch and Sam Elliott, son of former Australia Test opener Matthew Elliott, could well get an opportunity.”We might have to rejig the strategy there and maybe open the bowling with Sam Elliot and a spin option to try and spread out our best bowlers to bowl in the middle,” Hussey said.

The retention window for the eight older franchises is from November 1 to 30, while the window for the two new ones is from December 1 to 25

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Oct-2021The salary purse for the IPL 2022 auction has been set at INR 90 crore per team, an increase from the IPL 2021 auction purse of 85 crore. As reported by ESPNcricinfo, each of the eight older franchises will be allowed to retain up to four players, with the IPL governing council setting different salary slabs for the number of players retained.The two new franchises – Lucknow and Ahmedabad – will be allowed to acquire up to three players each from the player pool after the original eight teams have made their retention picks. The retention window for the eight older franchises is from November 1 to November 30, while the window for the two new ones is from December 1 to December 25. The IPL 2022 auction is likely to take place in January 2022.Retention slabs before IPL 2022 auction•ESPNcricinfo LtdIf one of the eight older franchises retains four players, they will be debited INR 16 crore for the first, INR 12 crore for the second, INR 8 crore for the third and INR 6 crore for the fourth – making for a total deduction of INR 42 crore.For all ten franchises, the amounts for retaining either three, two or one player are the same.If they retain three players then their slabs are: INR 15 crore, INR 11 crore and INR 7 crore, for a total of INR 33 crore.If two players are retained, then the slabs are INR 14 crore and INR 10 crore, for a total of INR 24 crore.For only one player, INR 14 crore will be deducted from a franchise’s auction purse.For uncapped retained players, the amount deducted will be INR 4 crore, whether he is the only retained player or among a few.While the IPL has set out the salary slabs for retention, franchises are free to pay players whatever sum they mutually agree on. What will be deducted from a franchise’s auction purse is whichever amount is higher. If a franchise pays a player less than his retention slab, they will lose the retention slab amount. If a franchise pays a player more than the amount ascribed to a retention slab, then that higher amount will be deducted from the franchise’s auction purse. That applies to the two new franchises too.For example, ahead of the mega auction in 2018, Royal Challengers Bangalore paid Virat Kohli INR 17 crore as their retention fee, and lost that amount from their purse, though the slab had been set at INR 15 crore for the first player’s retention.As reported by ESPNcricinfo, the eight old franchises can retain up to a maximum of three Indian players, capped or uncapped. They can’t retain more than two overseas players either, and neither can they retain more than two uncapped Indian players.The retention rules for the two new franchises are: not more than two Indian players – capped or uncapped, not more than one overseas player, and not more than one uncapped player.It is likely that the two new franchises will have a separate draft for their retentions. There is a 25-day window for the new franchises since their retentions will also involve negotiations with the players they want to pick.

حسم فريق باريس سان جيرمان مباراته أمام ليل بفوز عريض برباعية مقابل هدف، في إطار مباريات الدوري الفرنسي لموسم 2024-2025.

والتقى الفريقان على ملعب “حديقة الأمراء” معقل باريس سان جيرمان في الجولة الرابعة والعشرين للدوري الفرنسي.

وتقدم باريس سان جيرمان بهدف مبكر سجله برادلي باركولا في الدقيقة السادسة من عمر اللقاء.

وتوالت أهداف باريس سان جيرمان، حيث أحرز ماركينيوس الهدف الثاني في الدقيقة 22.

عقب 6 دقائق، سجل عثمان ديمبلي الهدف الثالث في الدقيقة 28، ثم سجل ديزيري دوي الهدف الرابع في الدقيقة 37.

في شوط المباراة الثاني، سجل ليل هدفًا عن طريق جوناثان ديفيد في الدقيقة 80، وحسمت المباراة بفوز باريس سان جيرمان بنتيجة 4-1.

وعزز باريس سان جيرمان صدارته للدوري الفرنسي بـ62 نقطة، وتجمد رصيد ليل عند النقطة 41 في المركز الخامس.

ويأتي فوز باريس سان جيرمان قبل مباراته المرتقبة أمام ليفربول الإنجليزي في دوري أبطال أوروبا.

ويلتقي باريس سان جيرمان وليفربول يوم الأربعاء القادم على ملعب “حديقة الأمراء” في ذهاب دور الـ 16 لدوري أبطال أوروبا.

وكان لويس إنريكي مدرب باريس سان جيرمان صرح قبل المباراة أن ليل يشبه ليفربول، ومواجهته أفضل تدريب قبل صدام الفريق الإنجليزي (طالع تصريحاته من خلال الرابط). أهداف مباراة باريس سان جيرمان وليل اليوم