The bus carrying the Wales women's team at Euro 2025 has crashed, one day before their next group game against France.

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Team bus involved in collision in St GallenIncident occurred day before facing FranceNo injuries but players left shakenFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

The bus crashed into another vehicle while the team were on their way to the training session and press conference at the AFG Arena in St Gallen, ahead of their second game of the tournament in Switzerland. A statement from the Football Association of Wales said the players were all OK and that passengers in the other vehicle were also unharmed in the incident.

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The team's training session scheduled for Tuesday afternoon has been cancelled as a result of the crash although another session is set to be arranged to help the team prepare for the game against France. Wales lost their opening Euro 2025 match against Netherlands 3-0.

WHAT WILKINSON SAID

Wales coach Rhian Wilkinson told reporters: "Football is secondary and I think, yes we are shaken because we are away from the team right now knowing that they've had to experience that. But equally we have a great group and I have been assured that everyone is fine. We have practiced for the unexpected, that's what we can call this. We will check in with everyone and make sure they are all in a good spot and we can focus on the football again after that."

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DID YOU KNOW?Wilkinson and Wales captain Angharad James were travelling in a separate vehicle to the rest of the squad as they were travelling to the press conference. The squad was removed from the scene and returned to its training base.

The allrounder has had a taste of international cricket and on his current form more may not be far away

Alex Malcolm25-Oct-2023Moving house can be a pain. But for Matthew Short it was one of the best life decisions he ever made.The most in-form batter in Australian domestic cricket right now, who made his international T20I and ODI debut recently, and was one negative Travis Head scan result away from being drafted into Australia’s World Cup squad, admits that just 18 months ago he was nearing a cricketing abyss.In the winter of 2022, Short had been a professional cricketer for Victoria for eight years. Aged 26, he had played 62 first-class innings and scored just one hundred. It was against England in a tour game for a Cricket Australia XI in 2017 against an attack featuring Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali, but it was the fourth day of a tame draw where only 24 wickets had fallen in a true warm-up game in Townsville ahead of an Ashes series.Related

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He had zero Sheffield Shield centuries and was averaging just 30.38 in 55 innings. He had zero List A hundreds in 46 innings and zero T20 hundreds and just five fifties in 50 innings.But in 2023, he has scored six centuries across all formats: one in the BBL, two in the Marsh Cup and three in Sheffield Shield cricket. He was the BBL player of the tournament, played in the IPL, the Hundred and for Australia in white-ball cricket, all since moving closer to Victoria’s training facility at the Junction Oval in Melbourne.”I suppose probably 12-18 months ago, I was a little bit nowhere in terms of not putting as much effort into training,” Short said. “So I moved in closer to training and made a few sacrifices over the last few months. Really putting some emphasis on training and doing the extra stuff.”There was a bit more to it than that. But it is incredible that Short, now just shy of turning 28, after being a talented Australia Under-19, playing a youth World Cup, being selected in Cricket Australia development teams and consistently for Victoria, had not had that epiphany sooner.As a tall, powerful ball striker, with wonderful hand-eye coordination, a gifted catcher and very skillful offspin bowler, Short is almost the perfect package for the modern game. It is easy to see why he had so many games invested in him as a younger player without the pressure of having to perform for his place.But natural talent can only take you so far. His Victoria coach Chris Rogers has been a big proponent of asking his talented young players to “take the stairs and not the elevator” to get to the top echelon of Australian cricket. Short has done that through putting in more hours at training, but also coupling that with some better decision-making and mental skills out in the middle with the backing of both Rogers and his Adelaide Strikers coach Jason Gillespie.”Probably a lot of volume [training],” Short said. “Really trying to nail down on my game plan. But it’s more spending the extra time around recovery and stuff in the gym. Just really to get my body okay to play as much as I have over the last six to 12 months.”It’s [also] probably more the mental side of things. Both here at Victoria and the Strikers in Adelaide I’ve been given a lot of freedom from Bucky Rogers and Dizzy Gillespie. Just being able to bat my natural way. It’s pretty aggressive and I seem to be getting away with a bit now.”Extra responsibility has also helped. He has gone from an inconsistent rank-and-file member of both Victoria and Strikers to a senior player who is relied upon in both sides. At Strikers, his runscoring at the top of the order became vital in the absence of Alex Carey and Travis Head while he also had to bowl powerplay overs upfront.For Victoria last summer, Marcus Harris and Peter Handscomb’s absence due to Test duties and Nic Maddinson’s injury meant added responsibility. Short thrived with that on his shoulders. He then experienced the new challenge of being an overseas player at the top of the order for Punjab Kings in the IPL and Northern Superchargers in the Hundred.Matthew Short has been around the Australia camp in the last few months•Associated PressStepping back into Victoria colours last week after being away with Australia, including clubbing 66 off 30 balls in just his second T20I against South Africa, with his state side struggling early in the season, he was able to stand tall with back-to-back hundreds in Mackay against Queensland.”I think being an international player, albeit they were replacement player gigs, but to be that kind of player that teams rely on for scores or wickets or whatever it is, to have that kind of extra pressure on you, I think that’s been good to bring back to Victoria,” Short said. “I think the last few years we’ve relied heavily on one or two players, whether it be Marcus Harris or Pete Handscomb, Scotty Boland. It’s nice to be able to think of myself as someone that the team relies on to score runs and help set up some victories.”His bowling too has developed with the help of Victoria spin coach Craig Howard, who has been a vital part of Todd Murphy’s development into becoming a Test offspinner. Short suddenly looms as a triple-threat in all three forms.With Australia’s white-ball teams about to hit a transition phase, he is well aware his purple patch could not have come at a better time. But looking beyond that there are subcontinental Test tours that loom for Australia in Sri Lanka in early 2025 and India in early 2027 where Short’s skillset would make him an asset.”You never know,” Short said. “Based off my last six months I think anything can happen. If you keep putting performances on the board at the right time, this sort of time in Australian cricket, there might be a few changes coming up. I think it’s just all about timing. I’m not really thinking about it too much, whether it’s white-ball or red-ball, but if I can keep performing and trying to win games for Victoria then who knows what’ll happen.”His immediate task is to get past New South Wales and a returning Nathan Lyon at the MCG starting on Thursday as Victoria try to rebound after consecutive innings defeats in the Sheffield Shield to start the year. They look set to welcome back Will Pucovski who rested the trip to Queensland.”He seems in good spirits,” Short said. “I’m looking forward to playing with him.”

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Big pictureHello darkness, my old friend. I’m coming to talk with one of you again. But which one will it be?Will it be England, the reigning world champions across 50- and 20-overs, whose quest for a third global title in four years is in danger of dissolving in a bisque of self-doubt? Instead of cementing a legacy to rival the great Australian team of the turn of the millennium, their humiliating losses to New Zealand and Afghanistan are threatening to cast England’s narrative back into their World Cup dark ages of the 1990s and 2000s, to make that 2015-19 resurgence seem more like a mirage than a miracle.Or will it be South Africa… the calmest, most serene force in the competition for two heady performances, as a team seemingly without baggage cruised past Australia and Sri Lanka with scarcely a backwards glance, to give the impression that this… finally… could be their year.Related

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And then, out of a clear Himalayan sky, came”Growing up idolising a guy like Sachin [Tendulkar], the Wankhede was a stadium you always heard about. It’s another tick off my list as a cricketer. JP [Duminy], and Quinny have spoken about how it has been a batters’ paradise. If it is your day, you can fill your boots, and with it being a full ground, there is really something to enjoy.”

With two needed off the final ball, Muzarabani managed to get an inside edge that beat the wicketkeeper for a one-wicket win

Abhimanyu Bose07-Dec-2023Brilliant catches, dramatic shifts in momentum and a lucky inside edge – Zimbabwe’s last-ball win against Ireland had it all in a game that had you on the edge of the seat for the last few overs.Sikandar Raza put on a clinic with both bat and ball to lead Zimbabwe to victory in the first ever international match under lights at the Harare Sports Club and a 1-0 series lead against Ireland.The pace trio of Richard Ngarava, Blessing Muzarabani and debutant Trevor Gwandu would be hailed as equally important heroes in their dressing room, but not for what they did with the ball.Raza picked up three wickets to restrict Ireland to 147 before navigating the chase with a composed 42-ball 65 with wickets falling at the other end and some heated exchanges from Ireland fielders. He himself fell in the 19th over – thanks to a diving catch from Paul Stirling at cover – with Zimbabwe needing 11 off 9 and all the established batters back in the dugout.The equation went down to nine off the final over, and when Ngarava and Gwandu managed only three runs off the first three balls, Ireland seemed to have edged ahead. But Ngarava found a boundary with a leg-side swipe to make it two needed off two.Sounds simple? Well, not simple enough.The momentum shifted again when Mark Adair ran back from short third to hold on to a blinder, landing on his neck after a full sumersault in the process and walked off. That left Muzarabani on strike, with two runs needed off the last ball. But to Ireland’s dismay, the No. 11 got an inside edge that beat Lorcan Tucker to give Zimbabwe the two runs they needed to seal a dramatic win.Raza steers the chaseIreland dominated the powerplay with both bat and ball, but Raza was key in bringing Zimbabwe back in the game in both innings.Defending 147, Ireland started tightly with the ball and Tadiwanashe Marumani was out early, chipping Barry McCarthy to mid-on. Josh Little then had Sean Williams chopping on in next over to put Zimbabwe further under the pump.Raza helped inject some momentum into Zimbabwe’s innings with back-to-back boundaries to end the powerplay. When spin came on, Wessly Madhevere reverse-swept George Dockrell for four but was out after one ball, exposing his stumps and missing his scoop.Raza and Ryan Burl kept Zimbabwe ticking, and the momentum seemed to shift in the 12th over when Raza deposited Gareth Delany over midwicket and Burl powered a drive past long-on in a 13-run over.Josh Little kept Ireland in the game with an economical spell•Sportsfile via Getty ImagesBut Craig Young threw a spanner in the works with two wickets in two overs. He bounced Burl out, with the batter top-edging a pull shot for Tucker to grab. Young struck again when debutant Brian Bennett ended up hitting aerially towards mid-off and Harry Tector completed a stunning take running to his left and leaping to pluck the ball out one-handed.Raza seized control back, getting to his 12th T20I fifty before stepping it up. After top-edging Adair for four, he hit a six over fine leg off McCarthy to start off a productive 17th over. Clive Madande pulled McCarthy for a six and four to make it a 20-run over to put bring the asking rate down to run-a-ball.At that point, Zimbabwe looked set to see Ireland off without much trouble, but Little castled Madande before Adair dismissed Luke Jongwe and Raza in an excellent penultimate over.Balbirnie gets Ireland off to a flyerAndy Balbirnie got Ireland off to a rollicking start, hitting Ngarava for three fours – including two gorgeous cover drives – in the first over.He then took Muzarabani on, slapping him over point for a four and a six. Stirling then welcomed Gwandu to international cricket by hitting him for three back-to-back fours as Ireland raced to 38 for no loss in three overs.Muzarabani then slowed Ireland’s innings down with some off-pace deliveries. Ngarava reaped the benefit of the pressure created by the quiet over as he returned to trap Stirling in front with a low full toss.Spin squeeze from Raza and co.Raza brought himself on immediately after the powerplay and made instant impact by knocking Balbirnie over with a ball that spun in to beat his sweep shot and take his leg stump.Ireland struggled to keep the tempo up against spin as Williams got in the act. He beat the batters with two beauties in his first over – the tenth of the innings – and got in the wickets column in his next as he had Tucker caught at backward point. Raza then picked up his second wicket of the night by bowling Curtis Campher.Only 53 runs came off the eight consecutive overs of spin after the powerplay, and the pressure told as Muzarabani castled Dockrell with a clever offcutter to leave Ireland on 108 for 5 with five overs to go.Raza had his third when he trapped Tector in front with a sidearm delivery that pitched on leg stump, and looked to be sliding down, before straightening to pin him on the front pad. Adair was the next to go, trying to go for a big shot downtown off Ngarava only to pick out long-on.Muzarabani’s slower variations brought him another wicket off the next over with McCarthy offering a simple catch to point. Delany helped Ireland go past 140 with a 20-run final-over, which saw him hit two sixes down the ground – including one that hit the roof.

Viktor Gyokeres has escalated his transfer standoff with Sporting CP by not appearing for the club’s pre-season training, further fuelling speculation of an imminent move to Arsenal. The 27-year-old forward was expected to report to camp by 5pm local time on Saturday but failed to meet the deadline, prompting Sporting to consider disciplinary repercussions.

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• Gyokeres refused to report for pre-season
• Striker pushing for a move to Arsenal
• Sporting set to sanction disciplinary action

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  According to Sporting are now preparing to take internal action against their star striker. Club officials are awaiting any official explanation from Gyokeres that could justify his absence, such as a medical issue, an approved extension for personal leave, or an emergency family matter. In the absence of any valid reason, the Portuguese side is expected to impose a fine.

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  Arsenal reportedly tabled a bid of €65 (£56m/$76m) million with a further €15m (£13m/$17.5m) in performance-based add-ons, a package that failed to convince Sporting president Frederico Varandas. The official is holding firm, demanding a guaranteed €70m (£60m/$82m) plus an additional €10m (£8.5m/$12m) in bonuses. Arsenal’s hierarchy is believed to be weighing up their next move, knowing that the player’s growing frustration could work in their favour during negotiations.

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  Sporting are in no rush to sell. The club is currently enjoying both financial stability and consistent success on the pitch. Having secured three of the last five Primeira Liga titles after nearly two decades without a championship, the Lisbon side is also benefiting from the lucrative windfall of regular Champions League football. With next season’s budget already in place and no pressing financial gaps to fill, they are in a strong position to demand top dollar for one of their most important players.

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  WHAT NEXT FOR GYOKERES?

  Gyokeres is reportedly eager to finally test himself in the Premier League after previous stints in English football. Though once on the books at Brighton & Hove Albion, he never made a Premier League appearance for them. Instead, he found his form at Coventry City, where he scored 41 league goals in 110 games during a productive two-season spell. Having impressed in Portugal, the Swede now feels the time is right to return to England and showcase his talents on one of the biggest stages in world football.

IPL 2024 auction sold players

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approx)Daryl Mitchell (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to CSK for INR 14 crore (USD 1,687,000 approx)Chris Woakes (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to Punjab Kings for INR 4.2 crore (USD 506,000 approx)Tristan Stubbs (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 50 lakh (USD 60,000 approx)KS Bharat (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to KKR for INR 50 lakh (USD 60,000 approx)Chetan Sakariya (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to KKR for INR 50 lakh (USD 60,000 approx)Alzarri Joseph (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to RCB for 11.5 crore (USD 1,386,000 approx)Umesh Yadav (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to Gujarat Titans for 5.8 crore (USD 697,000 approx)Shivam Mavi (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to LSG for 6.4 crore (USD 771,000 approx)Mitchell Starc (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to KKR for 24.75 crore (USD 2,982,000 approx)Jaydev Unadkat (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 1.6 crore (USD 193,000 approx)Dilshan Madushanka (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 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Johnson (INR 50 lakh) sold to Gujarat Titans for INR 10 crore (USD 1,205,000 approx)Mustafizur Rahman (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to CSK for INR 2 crore (USD 241,000 approx)Jhye Richardson (Base price INR 1.5 crore) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 5 crore (USD 602,000 approx)Nuwan Thushara (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 4.8 crore (USD 578,300 approx)Naman Dhir (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Anshul Kamboj (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Sumit Kumar (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 1 crore (USD 120,000 approx)Ashutosh Sharma (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Punjab Kings for for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Vishwanath Singh (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Punjab Kings for for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Shashank Singh (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Punjab Kings for for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Tanay Thyagarajan (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Punjab Kings for for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Robin Minz (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Gujarat Titans for 3.6 crore (USD 433,800 approx)Prince Choudhary Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Punjab Kings for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Jhathavedh Subramanyan (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Manish Pandey (Base price INR 50 lakh) sold to KKR for INR 50 lakh (USD 60,200 approx)Rilee Rossouw (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to Punjab Kings for INR 8 crore (USD 936,900 approx)Lockie Ferguson (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to RCB for INR 2 crore (USD 241,000 approx)Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Base price INR 2 crore) sold to KKR for INR 2 crore (USD 241,000 approx)Mohammad Arshad Khan (Base price INR 20 lakh) sold to LSG for INR 20 lakh (USD 24,100 approx)Mohammad Nabi (Base price INR 1.5 crore) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 1.5 crore (USD 181,000 approx)Shai Hope (Base price INR 75 lakh) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 75 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