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The Australian captain’s show in the Tests in Pakistan puts him alongside pantheon of greats

Osman Samiuddin26-Mar-2022Life is manifestly unfair; we know this. It is unfair in so many trivial ways, not to say anything of the more important ways, and then one day you open your eyes and Pat Cummins is bowling, and life? Jeez there’s no end to its unfairness.We’re living through a great pace age. Cummins bowls alongside Josh Hazlewood, who’s kinda Glenn McGrath, kinda Stuart Clark, better than the latter, forever evoking the former. He also bowls alongside Mitchell Starc, a rangier Mitchell Johnson who comes without the bad and the really bad days.In opposition, Jasprit Bumrah and Kagiso Rabada are magnificent, one like nobody else, the other with the latent electricity of Michael Holding. They are generational talents and will be all-time greats.James Anderson and Stuart Board are greats already and if Jofra Archer ever comes back, he’d be a shoo-in.Beyond them, there are Mohammad Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kemar Roach and Shaheen Shah Afridi – quality fast bowlers everywhere, in all shapes and sizes, some going, some coming.Related

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Don’t forget Southee, Boult, Jamieson or Wagner. Everyone does but this roll call comprises two of the top three greatest fast bowlers the country has produced, a rare, unique young talent and then Wagner, a man so permanently pumped he must even sleep aggressively.But all of them, when Cummins bowls like he has just done in Pakistan, or the Ashes before that, or the Border-Gavaskar Trophy before that, or the Trans-Tasman Trophy before that, or the Ashes before that – this could go on – they might look at him and wonder how and why it is that life is this unfair.Pat Cummins extracting reverse swing was a sight to behold•AFP/Getty ImagesBatters, of course, are plenty familiar with the unfairness of Cummins. If you are new to Cummins, like Abdullah Shafique was this series, you become familiar real quick. Shafique is young and assured and has looked very much at home in international cricket. In time, people will look at this series, see that he top-scored for Pakistan, see that Cummins got him only once in six innings and conclude that he won the battle.Except that had Australia’s cordon had a better series, Cummins may have dismissed him three more times and we’d be talking bunnies. The one dismissal also illustrated precisely why Shafique had won nothing – not the battle, not the war. He was well-set on 96 on the final day in Karachi, Cummins came back before lunch and dropped seamlessly into a groove, like a needle on to vinyl. He showed Shafique a slightly wider off-stump line for an over; then, as Shafique waited at the non-striker’s end the next over, showed that he was getting reverse both ways to Babar Azam. When Shafique faced up again he got suckered into driving a ball that was easily wide enough to leave, but one he couldn’t because he was unsure which way the ball would go and by how much.If you’re familiar, you may learn anew. Mohammad Rizwan reckons Hazlewood is the toughest bowler he has faced but after this series, he will re-assess. Because he is rarely looked as worked over as he was by Cummins in the first innings in Karachi. He was in more trouble in the seven balls he faced from Cummins that afternoon than he was through all 44 international matches combined last year; swing, seam, pace, bounce, it was an outrageous little flutter of Cummins’ skills.What it wasn’t, though, was especially different from his usual mode, which is also the most resounding endorsement of his bowling. He doesn’t need to drastically change what he does wherever he goes, even on pitches as unresponsive as these, because what he does is that good. However much Hazlewood evokes him, nothing is more truly McGrathian than this.Cummins – and Australia – found sustained reverse, for the first time since Sandpapergate. In any series with less diplomacy riding on it than this one, how they managed it would have been played up much more than it was. But a wholesome survey of Cummins’ work this series is clear as to the method deployed: park outside off, on a length, or just back of it and stay there. Nearly 60% of the 661 balls he bowled in the series were in this channel, not that different to the 55% from December 2020 to before this series. Maybe the off-stump line was a trifle tighter than it would’ve been on better surfaces. At least that is the inference from the fact that he made Pakistani batters play at more balls than he usually does. On average, they left just under one ball per over, whereas over the last 18 months or so, batters have usually left nearly two balls per each Cummins over.Destroy ’em! Pat Cummins flattening the batters’ stumps was a familiar sight•AFP/Getty ImagesFast bowlers fret and tinker when they travel, as is natural when the two most critical elements to their trade – the ball in their hands and the surface beneath their feet – change depending on where they are. On low, slow surfaces such as those in this series, they often go fuller and straighter, or use more cutters, or any other variations. Apart from bowling in shorter bursts, Cummins didn’t change anything.There’s a danger that all this come across a little, if not dull, then utilitarian; assembly-line bowling where no ball is distinguishable from the other. And it is true that because Cummins’ genius is on such consistent and abundant display, it can sometimes make it appear more matter of fact. But it’s not. You only have to recall the yorker to dismiss Rizwan on the final day in Lahore, or the one to Babar in Karachi that he somehow kept out, or that return catch off Azhar Ali (unfairness manifest because no, human beings, you cannot do that), to know how spectacular Cummins can make cricket look.And remember his pace because cricket is always a better look with real pace. Pace is where the game is at its most physical, its most athletic and dangerous and demanding, in what it asks of the deliverer of pace and the person tasked to keep it out. Cummins is genuinely quick, a man who hovers in the 140s kmph so comfortably you suspect he could go faster, only he is too polite because now that would make batters look really silly. It’s that kind of pace, the kind that works on any pitch. No contemporary combines those traits – the high pace with the extreme accuracy – like Cummins does.Only the very greatest ever have, which is the company he is keeping now – and everywhere you look numbers are putting him inexorably in the all-time category. He is mingling with the finest West Indian fast bowlers in terms of the best performances in Pakistan by any non-Pakistani fast bowler.Give or take a Dale Steyn, this has been one of the finest performances in the continent by a visiting fast bowler.Yes, life is unfair because nobody can be this good and then one day you open your eyes and Pat Cummins is bowling and actually, we’re just lucky to be around.

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No último domingo (12), Andrey Santos, ex-volante do Vasco, marcou nos acréscimos o gol que sacramentou a vitória do Strasbourg contra o Metz. Com isso, o volante brasileiro colocou o rival em situação complicada na liga, atualmente na 16ª posição, correndo ainda riscos de rebaixamento.

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Emprestado ao Strasbourg em fevereiro deste ano, no meio da temporada europeia, Andrey Santos não demorou para cair nas graças da torcida. Inclusive, após seu gol, o estádio La Meinau vibrou por vários minutos e os torcedores se encumbiram de fazer barulho como forma de celebrar o volante.

– Foi uma temporada de mudanças, grandes desafios e novos caminhos. Nunca deixei de trabalhar intensamente pra alcançar meus objetivos e corresponder à confiança daqueles que sempre me apoiaram – contou Andrey Santos. E completou:

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– Marcar meu primeiro gol pelo Strasbourg foi especial. Foram muitas horas de dedicação para que eu pudesse viver esse momento. Conquistei meu espaço aos poucos, sempre focado em apresentar o meu melhor e ajudar o clube. Acredito que este primeiro gol aqui reafirma esse compromisso profissional e pessoal.

– Me sinto bem aqui e sou grato ao clube, comissão técnica e à torcida, que me receberam muito bem. Espero que seja o primeiro de muitos gols na Europa.

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O capitão da Seleção Brasileira sub-23 já foi eleito a “Joia do Mês” de março na Ligue 1, por conta de suas boas atuações, contribuindo tanto defensivamente quanto na criação de jogadas para o grupo. Além disso, também foi eleito jogador do mês de abril pelo clube.

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Martin O’Neill signed off his second spell with Celtic in style with a 1-0 win over Dundee at Parkhead in the Scottish Premiership on Wednesday night.

The experienced interim won seven of his eight matches in charge of the club after Brendan Rodgers resigned at the end of October, and Wilfried Nancy will take on the role from Thursday.

Daizen Maeda scored the only goal of the game for O’Neill’s side as he bravely competed to head into the back of the net after Hyun-jun Yang’s effort was saved, which led to him wearing a bandage for the remainder of the night.

Ranking Celtic's best performers against Dundee

The Japan international was, of course, one of the top performers on the night for the Hoops because it was his goal that ultimately sealed all three points to send Celtic level on points with Hearts at the top of the table.

He was not the top performer on the night for the Scottish giants, though, as a couple of other players were ahead of him in that respect, because the striker also missed a ‘big chance’ and lost five of his six duels, per Sofascore.

Reo Hatate was one of those two players. The Japanese whiz created two ‘big chances’, including Yang’s initial shot before the goal, and won four of his seven duels, per Sofascore, in what was a masterful showing in the middle of the park.

1

Colby Donovan

2

Reo Hatate

3

Daizen Maeda

4

Hyun-jun Yang

5

Kasper Schmeichel

As you can see in the table above, Yang and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who pulled off three saves and three run-outs to keep his clean sheet intact, were also among the top performers on the pitch.

However, we have ranked Colby Donovan as the best performer on the night for the Scottish giants, as he provided a reminder of his quality after a shaky game against Hibernian.

Why Colby Donovan is undroppable for Wilfried Nancy

On Sunday, the Scottish full-back lost two of his three ground duels, per Sofascore, and was subbed off at half-time after being booked for a late challenge on Jordan Obita.

After that disappointing showing at the weekend, Donovan may have known that he needed to respond with a big performance against Dundee to ensure that the new manager does not drop him for the game against Hearts on Sunday.

Now, the Scotland U21 international is surely the first completely undroppable player for Nancy at Parkhead, because he was the best performer in the last game before his first match in charge.

Donovan won three of his four ground duels and three of his three aerial duels, winning 87% of his total battles, per Sofascore, whilst Maeda, for example, lost five of his six duels and struggled on that side of the game after scoring his goal.

Sofascore rating

8.3

1st

Duels won

6

1st

Aerial duels won

3

1st

Aerial duel success rate

100%

1st

Tackles won

2

1st

Touches

91

4th

Successful crosses

3

1st

Key passes

2

2nd

As you can see in the table above, the academy graduate also added creativity in possession to go along with his outstanding defensive work, as only Reo Hatate (five) made more key passes on the night, whilst no one completed more crosses.

Donovan showed Nancy, who was unveiled before the game kicked off, that he is capable of delivering a quality performance at both ends of the pitch from the right-back position, which is why he should already be undroppable.

With Alistair Johnston still sidelined with a hamstring injury, the Scottish youngster should be the first name on the teamsheet ahead of the clash with Hearts on Sunday.

That is also influenced by Anthony Ralston’s disappointing form. Pundit Chris Sutton described his play as “really shaky” when he came off the bench against Hibernian, whilst he was also caught out twice by Mikel Gogorza in the Europa League clash with Midtjylland.

Given Ralston’s lack of form and Donovan’s impressive showing on Wednesday night, the 19-year-old defender will surely already be undroppable for Nancy in the short term.

One European club is now ready to launch a move to sign a big-money Liverpool star in 2026, despite facing competition from the Saudi Pro League.

Slot expects "aggressive" Leeds vs Liverpool

Despite Wednesday night’s timid draw against Sunderland at Anfield, Arne Slot was in good spirits ahead of Liverpool’s next game against Leeds United this weekend. The Reds will be looking to stretch their mini-unbeaten run to three games in the same week, but must also get back to winning ways after Wednesday.

On paper, a trip to newly-promoted Leeds looks routine and once upon a time it was exactly that for the Reds. Those days, for the time being, are gone, however, and the Premier League champions are now set to square off against a side who could physically outmatch them once again.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Slot admitted that he expects to face an “aggressive” Leeds side: “Yesterday I looked at Leeds v Chelsea and I thought I saw a Liverpool game; Chelsea conceding a set-piece and for the third goal making a big, big error where they conceded a goal from. [It was] very difficult for them.

“Either Leeds went very aggressive to one-v-one or they went to a low block and it was really hard to create chances. It’s not only difficult for us, that playing style, it’s difficult for many teams – including us.”

It’s been the story of Liverpool’s season so far. Whenever they’ve encountered physicality, the Premier League champions have simply been bullied.

Something had to change and that has seen Mohamed Salah sacrificed. The struggling Egyptian has not started either of Liverpool’s last two games and reports suggest he could yet leave the club in 2026.

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Whether Liverpool are willing to sell Salah remains to be seen, though. The Anfield icon only signed a new two-year deal last season, which is set to expire in 2027, but they must ask themselves if he is now past the peak of his powers.

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Former centre-back, turned Sky Sports pundit, Jamie Carragher certainly believes that’s the case, recently saying: “The catalyst for Liverpool at the very start of the run in 2018 with Jürgen Klopp was Alisson, Van Dijk and Salah.

“Alisson’s injured a lot now, he doesn’t play so much. But you watch Van Dijk now, not the same player, and Mo Salah looks like his legs have gone.”

The 33-year-old will be desperate to prove Carragher wrong and make his £21m-a-year contract worthwhile even if that is to be from the bench following Slot’s recent ruthlessness.

Huge Gakpo upgrade: £70m "superstar" now keen to join Liverpool in January

Those of a Liverpool persuasion will feel battered and bruised after Arne Slot’s side’s staggering drop-off this season.

The slew of defeats have forced a retreat from their position at the top of the Premier League ladder, and as Alexis Mac Allister said after arresting the losing run at West Ham United on Sunday, the title is not on anyone’s mind; rather, finding a measure of consistency and fluency on the pitch is the incentive right now.

Liverpool might have spent a bucketload this summer, but they also parted with key players, with writer Eddie Gibbs saying, “Liverpool right now look like a side caught between three different ideas of themselves, with none taking root.”

A few tweaks are needed, to be sure. And Liverpool are considering a new wide forward to restore balance across the frontline.

Why Liverpool want a forward

When Liverpool capped off their summer spending spree with the British-record addition of Alexander Isak from Newcastle United, the Premier League was in concert: Liverpool had signed a host of elite players.

And while Isak scored his first Premier League goal for the club on Saturday, it’s been a testing start to the season, with injuries and a lack of fluency a by-product of Liverpool’s wider struggles.

Florian Wirtz, too, looks like he is starting to click into gear, but the Reds have been imbalanced in the final third, and adding width would open up a new dimension from which Slot could rebuild his side’s form.

Well, according to TEAMtalk, Liverpool are frontrunners in the race for Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo, who has been among the standout forwards in the Premier League this season.

The Ghana international, 25, has a £65m release clause which becomes active in January, and so Liverpool are not alone in their interest, with Manchester City and Tottenham also ready to lodge bids if the right opportunity presents itself.

In fact, Pep Guardiola’s side have initiated contact, so it’s time for Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes to roll up his sleeves.

Why Semenyo would be a better signing than Isak

Semenyo has only gone from strength to strength since joining Bournemouth from Bristol City in the Championship in January 2023. Andoni Iraola has taken that promising skillset and sculpted it into something special.

Now, Semenyo is considered to be “one of the best players in the league” by BBC writer Umir Irfan and it’s a sentiment many would agree with after a prolific start to the campaign, six goals and three assists posted in the Premier League already.

Two-footed and effortlessly dynamic, Semenyo has proved too tricky to handle for many Premier League defenders in recent memory, something of a monster in the duel and a fearsome, rip-roaring asset down the wing. He is a big-game player besides.

The thing is, Semenyo is conservative in his athletic application; he does not prance about with the force of an uncoiled spring. In this he echoes Luis Diaz, who brought a different flavour to Slot’s title-winning team and has not been directly replaced.

Perhaps Semenyo could be the signing that Liverpool need, one which would prove even more impactful than Isak, who has yet to prove he is worth the record sum, even when banked by such illustrious heights in black and white over the past several years.

League Stats 25/26 – Cody Gakpo vs Antoine Semenyo
Match Stats (* per game)	Gakpo	Semenyo
Matches (starts)	13 (11)	12 (12)
Goals	4	6
Assists	3	3
Touches*	43.5	49.6
Shots (on target)*	2.5 (0.5)	2.2 (1.2)
Accurate passes*	19.1 (79%)	19.9 (77%)
Chances created*	1.9	1.3
Dribbles*	1.2	1.8
Recoveries*	2.7	5.2
Tackles + interceptions*	0.9	1.8
Duels won*	5.2	6.3
Data via Sofascore

Gakpo has enjoyed a quietly effective season on the left so far for Liverpool, even against the current of their crisis. However, he is far less mobile than Semenyo, and he lacks the clarity and sparkle on the ball that Semenyo imbues the Cherries flanks with.

It really cannot be understated how unique Semenyo is. This is a winger who is making incremental gains, a winger who could now bloom into a true superstar not only in the Premier League but in Europe’s elite club competition too.

Liverpool have been imbalanced this season, and this is the profile that Liverpool need. It has the potential to be the best signing of the season for the Reds, albeit one which should have been completed back at the start of the campaign.

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It's spring training for everyone across baseball, including the censors.

The Cincinnati Reds had the bats going during their Cactus League game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, with Austin Hays leading the way in an 8–1 win. The 29-year-old outfielder, who totaled five home runs between the Baltimore Orioles and Philadelphia Phillies in 2024, went 3-for-3 with a pair of homers and six RBIs on the day.

His second big fly jumped off the bat, with a pop loud enough to make one fan sitting very close to a crowd microphone loudly exclaim something that doesn't usually make its way onto a family friendly broadcast.

Cincinnati fans hope that Hayes and the Reds can provide some more "oh s—" moments in the months to come.

Cincinnati finished a disappointing 77–85 in 2024, and hasn't made the playoffs since the abridged 2020 season. The Reds' last postseason trip in a full year was 2013, and they haven't won a playoff game since 2012 or series since 1995.

But that is the beauty of spring training—hope springs eternal for all 30 clubs.

As Miami Dolphins All-Pro wide receiver Tyreek Hill and three-time Olympic medalist and sprinter Noah Lyles bicker about who would win in a race, Cincinnati Reds star shortstop Elly De La Cruz has something to say.

De La Cruz took to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday night and injected himself into the debate between the two speedsters.

"They think they’re fast! I’ll beat them for sure," De La Cruz wrote.

The feud between Hill and Lyles all began back in August following the latter's bronze medal win in the men's 200m at the Paris Olympics, when Hill accused him of faking the effects of the COVID-19 virus following his somewhat disappointing showing. The Dolphins wideout then declared he would beat Lyles in a race. In response, Lyles pretended to forget Hill's name.

Hill then reignited the debate following Lyles's recent race against popular YouTube streamer IShowSpeed, who was narrowly bested by the American sprinter. Hill poked fun at Lyles, who later responded by saying he would defeat the Dolphins receiver in a race just as he did against iShowSpeed.

And while this debate seems to be squarely between the 4.29-speed of Hill and the American-record-breaking sprints of Lyles, don't discount De La Cruz.

Since his MLB debut in June of 2023, he has stolen 102 bases, including a league-leading 67 swipes in '24. De La Cruz ranked first in MLB in the Statcast metric Sprint Speed in '23 and third in the metric in '24. The Reds star was clocked running from home-to-home in under 15 seconds while hitting an inside-the-park home run back in April.

In short, he's fast.

Hopefully one day the sports world gets to see just how fast in comparison to the likes of Hill and Lyles.

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Quinta-feira (19) tem Tombense e Vila Nova em jogo importantíssimo para as equipes. A partida é válida pela 33ª rodada do Brasileirão Série B. A partida está marcada para às 19h (de Brasília), no Almeidão.

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Com 28 pontos, a Tombense é a 18ª colocada na tabela de classificação da Série B, tendo empatado com o Juventude na última rodada. A equipe mineira pode se colocar mais perto de sair da zona de rebaixamento em caso de vitória sobre o Vila Nova, que briga pelo G4.

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Querendo se aproximar do quatro primeiros, o Vila Nova tem 51 pontos, e está a cinco pontos do Juventude, último time dentro do G4. Nesta quinta, o Tigre quer ter a chance de encostar de vez nos gaúchos e acirrar a reta final. Na última partida, o Vila venceu o Botafogo-SP por 3 a 1.

TOMBENSE X VILA NOVA
33ª RODADA DO CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO DA SÉRIE B

Data: 19 de outubro de 2023.
Horário: 19h (de Brasília).
Local: Estádio Almeidão, em Tombos, Minas Gerais
Árbitro: Maguielson Lima Barbosa (DF)
Assistentes: Lucas Torquato Guerra (DF) e Luis Filipe Gonçalves Correa (PB)
VAR: Philip Georg Bennett (RJ)
Onde assistir: SporTV e Premiere

West Ham have been left with a major shortage of forwards, and could now go into the market to raid one of their Premier League rivals for a versatile striker in January.

West Ham short of strikers ahead of Brentford visit

With the slightly later slot of Monday night, the Hammers have some extra time to prepare ahead of Brentford’s visit to the London Stadium for a clash that could be pivotal during Nuno Espirito Santo’s early reign in charge.

Niclas Fullkrug is out with a torn thigh and is expected to be out for the foreseeable future, and the Portuguese boss has now hinted that youngster Callum Marshall may be set for a start as he vies with Callum Wilson for a place in the side.

Later, he expanded on Marshall and the potential striker competition, suggesting it will give West Ham’s options extra motivation to battle it out for a starting place.

Jarrod Bowen continues to be a central threat for West Ham, and the England winger could yet be used in a makeshift striker role once again after Fullkrug’s latest problem.

However, West Ham are in need of a natural striker, and have considered January loan moves.

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While that scenario has been evaluated, pace could be a defining factor behind any purchase, with the Hammers struggling to penetrate their opposition at the top end of the field.

After a return of six goals in their opening seven Premier League encounters, West Ham could now turn to one of their rivals to secure a much-needed injection of quality going forward.

West Ham could strike deal for Chelsea sensation Tyrique George

According to Keith Wyness, in conversation with Football Insider, West Ham are trying to land Chelsea forward Tyrique George and ‘sources’ suggest the 19-year-old could well move to the London Stadium in January.

The teenager, while traditionally a left-winger, can play as a centre-forward when required, as he has already done for Enzo Maresca this season on three separate occasions.

George bagged a goal and an assist in Chelsea’s narrow 2-1 win over Lincoln City in the Carabao Cup after being deployed as a striker — effectively winning the clash and sparing Maresca from a major embarrassment.

Now, West Ham are believed to be in for George, and Wyness says it makes perfect sense.

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Valued at around £26 million during the summer by Chelsea, George has registered four goals and six assists in 31 total appearances for the club.

Due to his limited minutes this season, West Ham may now have the perfect opportunity to offer regular exposure to senior football, though it isn’t clear whether he would arrive in East London permanently or on loan.