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Glamorgan rack up their third-highest first-class score on soporific Oval surface

ECB Reporters Network22-Sep-2021Chris Cooke led from the front with a relentless captain’s innings of 205 not out as Glamorgan spent day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship second division match against Surrey constructing a mammoth total of 672 for 6 declared, the home side responding with 45 for no wicket in the final hour.It was the first double-hundred of 35-year-old Cooke’s 12-year first-class career, beating a previous best of 171 scored seven years ago, and also the highest individual innings by a Glamorgan wicketkeeper, eclipsing Eifion Jones’ unbeaten 146 against Sussex at Hove in 1968.Cooke was joined by Dan Douthwaite in a 51-over sixth wicket stand of 189, and that followed a slightly more urgent partnership of 140 in 37 overs with Kiran Carlson, who was on 45 overnight and reached 69 before being quite brilliantly caught by a diving Dan Moriarty at square leg as he swept hard at Will Jacks’ offbreak.Douthwaite was eventually caught at long-on by Jacks soon after tea, for a curiously restrained 146-ball 59 that contained only two fours, giving offspinner Amar Virdi a hard-won third wicket.Related

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On a soporific surface showing little sign of predicted turn, Glamorgan resumed on 379 for 4 and accumulated ruthlessly, if perhaps over-cautiously, in warm sunshine before declaring at what is the third highest first-class total in the Welsh county’s history. The highest remains 718 for 3 declared, against Sussex at Colwyn Bay in 2000, while their highest score against Surrey is still the 702 for 8 declared made at the Oval in 2009.The declaration, greeted by some ironic cheers, left Surrey 15 overs to bat before stumps, and openers Jamie Smith and Ryan Patel reached 23 and 22 not out respectively, although Smith could have been stumped on 13 in offspinner Andrew Salter’s first over if Cooke had gathered the ball cleanly behind the stumps.Cooke, who began the day on 44, batted for five minutes short of six hours, facing 299 balls and hitting a six and 18 fours. Five of his previous six Championship innings were single-figure scores but – strong particularly through square cover – Cooke looked largely untroubled throughout and closed Glamorgan’s 177-over batting marathon five minutes after he reached his double-century by slicing slow left-armer Moriarty just over mid-off for two, attempting on 199 to go past 200 in the grand manner.It was his eighth first-class score of 100 or more and, as Surrey manfully and quite successfully kept as tight a control as they could on Glamorgan’s scoring rate, Cooke added an unbeaten 54 for the seventh wicket with Callum Taylor, who swept Jacks for six and also in the same over cover drove and cut him for fours in a breezy 57-ball 38 not out.Glamorgan scored 87 in 34 overs before lunch, hitting just two boundaries in a turgid opening session, and then 145 in 32 overs between lunch and tea. It was unspectacular stuff though overall, especially given a flat pitch and summer-like conditions, but Cooke will argue the ends justify the means if Glamorgan can put Surrey under scoreboard pressure during the last two days of this second division match.

A stunning 69 from Chamara Kapugedara propelled Uthura Rudras to a compelling first victory, as they overhauled Basnahira Cricket Dundee’s score of 150 with four wickets and four balls remaining

The Report by Andrew Fernando21-Aug-2012
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Rilee Rossouw’s 44 for Basnahira Cricket Dundee was in vain•Shaun Roy/SPORTZPICS/SLPLA stunning 69 from Chamara Kapugedara propelled Uthura Rudras to a compelling first victory, as they overhauled Basnahira Cricket Dundee’s score of 150 with four wickets and four balls remaining. The chase seemed kaput when Dillon du Preez walked to the crease at 86 for 6 in 13.4 overs but he helped keep the Rudras’ heads above the rising run rate, until Kapugedara launched the winning offensive. Rudras’ win means the bottom four teams of the competition are all still statistical possibilities for a semi-final berth.Kapugedara has been one of the mighty disappointments for Sri Lanka on the international stage, having impressed and been selected for Sri Lanka at a young age, but never having translated talent into results. At the domestic level though, innings like Tuesday’s will make him difficult for the selectors to ignore for the World Twenty20. He had ambled to 21 from 22 balls, perhaps because of the clutter of wickets at the other end that left the Rudras with 64 to win from 6 overs and only four wickets in hand. But in the company of du Preez, Kapugedara built quickly to the deluge of boundaries that would win the match. The pair scrambled ones and twos in the 15th over, before Kapugedara smote a four from the 16thand a six over midwicket in the 17th. Still, with 37 required from the last three overs, victory was still a distance away for the Rudras.The surge to the finish came in the next eight balls. Du Preez crashed a four over extra cover, before giving the strike to Kapugedara, who whittled down a daunting demand to a simple saunter to victory in three mighty blows. The first six off Dammika Prasad flew high and straight. Thilan Thushara then missed his length in the first ball of the penultimate over and Kapugedara blasted it over cover. The charging six over midwicket to bring the rate down to a run a ball was filled with the kind of audacity he has rarely shown at the top level. If he is selected for the World Twenty20 squad, perhaps Kapugedara should take further confidence in the fact that both the bowlers he mauled to turn the game have played for Sri Lanka. The final six to win the game, with one run required off five, was almost obnoxious.Despite their poor overall record at the tournament, the Rudras’ bowling has largely been encouraging. Muttiah Muralitharan has missed the last two matches due to a family wedding in India, but as in the loss to Uva Next on Sunday, the young attack performed creditably in his absence. Madushanka Ekanayake recovered from a poor first over to remove Tillakaratne Dilshan, just as the batsman had greased his innings into motion with a scooped six. Chathuranga Peiris turned in four tight overs of his own, while du Preez was the most economical of the group, going at only 4.25 an over.Thushara, Rangana Herath and Prasad had bowled well to get their side into a winning position, but Cricket Dundee could not resist the Kapugedara onslaught that now sees them fighting to stay alive in a tournament they had been one of the favourites to win.

Sussex end day two at Hove a long way behind Warwickshire

David Hopps at Hove27-Apr-2012
ScorecardRikki Clarke’s innings was confirmation that Warwickshire have the longest batting line up in the country•Getty Images

Warwickshire’s attempts to grind their way to the championship title narrowly failed last season when they couldn’t take the seven Hampshire wickets they needed on the final day at West End. They have analysed their shortcomings, searched their soul and come up with a solution: they will grind once more, only this time they will grind even more severely.With 281 for 5 banked on the opening day, and grim weather forecast for Sunday, Jonathan Trott had vaguely floated the suggestion that in essence Warwickshire were left trying to win a three-day game. Trott has never been accused of being a reckless gambler, far from it, so it seemed that a dash to a lunchtime declaration might be in the offing. It was not to be the case. Instead, they batted on to 545, the highest total of a season where large scores have been few and far between.Warwickshire batted until tea, adding another 264 in 65.5 overs, achieving a rate of four an over with barely a care in the world. Trott, now confirmed as an international batsman of repute, advanced phlegmatically from 132 to 178, his superiority calmly reasserted, his only awkward moment coming when he survived an lbw appeal on the back foot against Monty Panesar.He fell at slip, on what proved to be the last ball before lunch, driving expansively at Chris Nash and edging to Mike Yardy so ending a stay of nearly seven hours in which he cemented Warwickshire’s place as championship leaders. On his first championship appearance of the season, he looked relaxed and contented, the only England batsman who has emerged from a difficult winter confident about the nuts and bolts of his game.Sussex had proudly announced their membership of the Crimestoppers’ Golden Handcuff Club, demonstrating their commitment to helping reduce crime in Sussex. To mark their involvement, the crime novelist Peter James handed over a pair of handcuffs at the ground. Had they managed to entice Trott over to take a look at them, they might have found a way to keep him in check.It all ended at tea on the second day when Jeetan Patel clubbed Nash to short midwicket. Until then, Warwickshire dipped their bread. Tim Ambrose, struck on the hand by James Anyon, an incident that raised false hopes that the second-day pitch might turn spiteful, batted nearly three hours for 75, Rikki Clarke more than two hours for 78 not out. Clarke at No. 9, even if he was a place lower than expected because of a nightwatchman, was a reminder that no county bats deeper. An air of resignation hung over the Sussex attack.The final session had the makings of an awkward one for Sussex. They have been second best throughout the game but they only lost two wickets and will reason that the weather will probably get them out of this one. Varun Chopra held a quick chance to his right at first slip as Keith Barker found Nash’s edge and also struck Ed Joyce on the helmet as he ducked into one. Patel’s off-spin had Ed Joyce lbw in his first over but Luke Wells and Murray Goodwin survived until the close. They need another 339 to avoid the follow-on. That or a torrential downpour.

R Vinay Kumar’s recovery from a forgettable opening day in Test cricket is an important factor in getting India on top of the tri-series table

Sidharth Monga18-Feb-2012

The day David Warner got stuck into him on his Test debut, at the WACA ground, R Vinay Kumar was badly ridiculed. Some said he was as quick as Sourav Ganguly, others compared his pace to Anil Kumble. Warner felt he was one of the courses of a buffet, and dealt with him accordingly. Vinay’s fourth ball in Test cricket was hit for a straight six, and another six off his bowling brought up the fastest century by an opener in Test cricket. The social media, a bit of an online pub representative of cricket fans’ opinions, had found another Indian player they wanted to retire.There is another side to Vinay, though. Inconspicuously he does his stuff in limited-overs cricket. And he also had the spirit to come back from that nightmare debut, and do well on the same tour. This is what Eric Simons, his bowling coach, has to say of him: “Vinay Kumar is one of the hardest-working cricketers I have worked with. You get guys with natural skill, you get guys who just do it through really hard work. He is one of those guys.”He has got a lot of skill, but he has got a great work ethic, and he has embraced that really tremendously in the sense of going out and doing the work he does. He is always doing his drills. You always see him working. He wants to grow as a cricketer. He wants to improve his batting, he wants to improve his fielding. He is just getting the rewards for his hard work.”That kind of Test debut can crush many. Simons talked of how coaches can look a player in the eye and see if he is up for the next match or not. Vinay has been up for it despite that debut, he was up for it even on the second day of his debut Test. That Vinay has been bowling is reward enough, that he is the joint leading wicket-taker in the tournament after the first half of it is over, that he is taking a wicket every four overs, that he has been an exceptional outfielder are all a bonus and a big part of the reason why India sit at the top of the table.”For me I don’t think about all those things [what people say],” Vinay said on the eve of the India’s fifth match in the ODI triangular. “For me, just going out there and giving my best is important. Whether you are playing for India or Karnataka. To keep it simple is really helping me. I don’t think much about what they say about me. I try to give my best, be it batting, bowling or fielding.”The India cap didn’t come easy for Vinay. For years he had been one of the top wicket-takers in the Ranji Trophy, only to see performers from the IPL – the newest big thing back then – overtake him. The IPL boys came and they went. His coach, LM Prakash, would tell Vinay, “See Vinay, your chance will definitely come, but the thing is, when it does come, you don’t want to just play one game and come back.”Vinay has not stopped at just one game. He is not quick, he doesn’t swing it like a banana, he will never be an intimidating presence, you won’t notice him most of the time, but Vinay brings something the captains and coaches like. To call him just as a hard-worker will be patronising. Mules work hard too. Vinay has surely brought some skill to his limited-overs cricket. He mixes the pace up well, he is not afraid of bowling the slower-ball bouncer, and he seems a confident bowler who knows what he is doing.”I really thank coach and bowling coach for backing me,” Vinay said. “When the senior players and captain and coach have trust in you, definitely you will do well.”Vinay has high standards for himself. “Pace is coming really well now,” he said. “I need to be more consistent. And definitely if I see the last four games I could have given 10 runs fewer every game. Even though I did well, there are many areas that I can really improve.”I bowled a few bad balls. When new batsmen came in, I bowled a few easy balls. They didn’t go for boundaries, so if you see from outside it looks okay. For me as a bowler I know I can control all those things. Ten runs fewer I could have given.”Vinay has been impressive in this tournament, but he has yet to bowl under the pressure of having to defend runs, a scenario that has been traumatic in this tournament. The one thing about Vinay, though, is he will never rest or take things for granted. He has to fight for each day of international cricket he gets, and he will keep doing that.

Rahul Dravid has called for cricket’s players and administrators to tackle the game’s challenges by taking decisions that would always “respect the fan.” He was delivering the annual Bradman Oration on Wednesday, the first cricketer from outside Australia invited to do so in the ten-year history of the event.The 40-minute speech, delivered at the Anzac Hall at the National War Memorial, Canberra, urged the game’s stakeholders to remember that “everything that has given cricket its power and influence in the world of sports has started from that fan in the stadium.”Dravid said players needed to think of the fans when they played the game, in terms of conduct, intensity and integrity. Administrators, he believed, needed to keep the viewing public in mind when they tried to handle the trickiest of the challenges, balancing the three formats in cricket.”They [the fans] deserve our respect and let us not take them for granted. Disrespecting fans is disrespecting the game. The fans have stood by our game through everything. When we play, we need to think of them. As players, the balance between competitiveness and fairness can be tough but it must be found.”Dravid said he had been surprised to see grounds half-full during the India v England ODI series in October which to him was an indicator that there had been a “change in temperature” in Indian cricket over the last two years. “Whatever the reasons are – maybe it is too much cricket or too little by way of comfort for spectators – the fan has sent us a message and we must listen…Let us not be so satisfied with the present, with deals and finances in hand that we get blindsided.”
The administrators’ biggest challenge in terms of retaining public interest and support of the game all over the world was, he said, to work out a sensible road-map for the game’s three formats. An alternate plan giving every game context and relevance would have to be worked out because, “the three formats cannot be played in equal numbers – that will only throw scheduling and the true development of players completely off gear. Cricket must find a middle path,” he said.”It must scale down this mad merry-go-round that teams and players find themselves in: heading off for two-Test tours and seven-match ODI series with a few Twenty20s thrown in.”Dravid described Test cricket as “the gold standard” and the form that the players most wanted to play, ODI cricket had kept the game’s revenues going for three decades while T20 was the format the fans wanted to see. Despite the popularity of T20, Dravid said, “Test cricket deserves to be protected, it is what the world’s best know they will be judged by”.”Where I come from, nation versus nation is what got people interested in cricket in the first place. When I hear the news that a country is playing without some of its best players, I always wonder, what do their fans think?”He said the popularity of Test cricket could be reflected not so much in packed grounds but how its most loyal fans followed the scores. “We may not fill 65,000 capacity stadiums for Test matches, but we must actively fight to get as many as we can in, to create a Test match environment that the players and the fans feed off. Anything but the sight of Tests played on empty grounds.It was where the administrators had to ensure that teams played, “Test cricket that people can watch,” and ensure that Tests, “fit into 21st century life, through timing, environments and the venues they are held in.” He supported discussions around day-night Tests and a Test championship, despite anxieties over its financial difficulties. He spoke of playing a day night first-class game for the MCC in Abu Dhabi which left him convinced, “day-night Tests is an idea seriously worth exploring. There may be some challenges in places where there is dew but the visibility and durability of the pink cricket ball was not an issue.”Dravid also said that a Test championship would encourage every team and player to deliver strong performances in every match, with context provided for every Test. At the moment, there is an ICC Test rankings table but the inaugural Test championship will not be held until 2017, when Dravid will be 44 years old. The ICC had hoped to bring the championship forward to 2013 and use it to replace the Champions Trophy, but commitments to the broadcaster and sponsors meant that could not be done. Dravid said he was against the idea of scrapping ODIs altogether but believed that events like the World Cup and the Champions Trophy should be the focus, with other ODIs contributing to rankings for those events.”Since about, I think 1985, people have been saying that there is too much meaningless one-day cricket,” he said. “Maybe it’s finally time to do something about it … Anything makes more sense than seven-match ODI series.” More context for matches might also help draw crowds back to the game. Dravid said he had been surprised to see the lack of spectators at an ODI series featuring India this year and he described the sight of empty stands as “alarming”.Dravid said that even if fans were watching on television, the experience was not the same. And that, he argued, could have consequences in the long term. “Whatever the reasons are – maybe it is too much cricket or too little by way of comfort for spectators. The fan has sent us a message and we must listen. This is not mere sentimentality. Empty stands do not make for good television. Bad television can lead to a fall in ratings, the fall in ratings will be felt by media planners and advertisers’ looking elsewhere.”If that happens, it is hard to see television rights around cricket being as sought after as they have always been in the last 15 years. And where does that leave everyone?”

Jonathan Trott, the England batsman, has been named the Cricketer of the Year for 2011, the ICC’s top accolade. He received the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy at the annual ceremony in London, after his team-mate Alastair Cook had won the Test Cricketer of the Year award.”It’s fantastic to be part of a successful team and I never envisaged winning this award. It’s a brilliant feeling to be recognised,” Trott said.In 12 Tests during the period under consideration, Trott scored 1042 runs at an average of 65.12, including four centuries and three half-centuries. He also played 24 ODIs, scoring 1064 runs at an average of 48.36 with two centuries and nine 50s. Trott was chosen for the award ahead of Cook, last-year’s winner Sachin Tendulkar and South Africa batsman Hashim Amla.Previous winners of the Cricketer of the Year award include Rahul Dravid (2004), Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis (joint winners in 2005), Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008), Mitchell Johnson (2009) and Sachin Tendulkar (2010).Cook, however, won the Test Cricketer award after having a prolific year in the format. Cook played 12 Tests, and in 18 innings he scored 1302 runs at an average of 76.58, including six centuries and four half-centuries. His 235 not out against Australia in Brisbane kick-started England’s first Ashes victory away from home since 1986-87.Kumar Sangakkara, the former Sri Lanka captain, was the only player to win two awards on the night. He was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year and also picked up the People’s Choice Award. Sangakkara scored 1049 runs at an average of 55.21 in 25 ODIs. He also had 26 catches and 10 stumpings as wicketkeeper and led Sri Lanka to the final of the 2011 World Cup.Though India spent most of the period under consideration at No. 1 in the Test rankings, and won the 2011 World Cup, their only award winner was the captain MS Dhoni, who was given the Spirit of Cricket accolade. Dhoni was not present at the ceremony despite being in England.The ICC chose West Indies legspinner Devendra Bishoo, ahead of other nominees Darren Bravo, Wahab Riaz and Azhar Ali, for the Emerging Player Award. Bishoo, 25, played five Tests in the voting period and took 21 wickets at an average of 35.42. He also picked up 19 wickets at 21.57 each in 11 ODIs.Ryan ten Doeschate, the Netherlands allrounder, was named the ICC Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year for the third time in four years, and for the second year running. ten Doeschate was chosen ahead of Afghanistan allrounder Hamid Hassan, and the Irish duo of Paul Stirling and Kevin O’Brien, both centurions in the 2011 World Cup.New Zealand seamer Tim Southee won the award for Twenty20 International Performance of the Year, for his spell of 5 for 18 against Pakistan in Auckland.Pakistan umpire Aleem Dar has won the David Shepherd trophy for the Umpire of the Year for the third consecutive time. He beat competition from Steve Davis, Ian Gould and five-time winner Simon Taufel.Stafanie Taylor, the West Indies women’s allrounder, was named the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year.

Sri Lanka’s interim coach, Stuart Law, says that the time for talking is over, as Sri Lanka seek to atone for their dreadful final-day display in Cardiff by bouncing back to form in Friday’s second Test at Lord’s. Despite being renowned as one of the best batting line-ups in world cricket, Sri Lanka proved powerless to resist as England rolled them aside for 82 to win the match by an innings and 14 runs, and Law admitted that embarrassment had been the over-riding emotion in the dressing-room after the match.”We didn’t really compete on that last day,” Law told reporters after Sri Lanka’s practice session at Lord’s. “It was obviously very disappointing but embarrassing as well, to get bowled out in 25 overs with some of the world’s best batsmen in our line-up. We sat down for a good 40 minutes after the day’s play and spoke about different aspects and ways of coming back. We didn’t dwell on the negatives. We batted well in first innings, we batted well in second innings in Derby [against England Lions], but in each game we haven’t batted well in both. That’s what we need to do in this Test.”The events of the final afternoon in Cardiff were quite extraordinary. A game that had been meandering to a soggy draw burst into life after a 3pm start, thanks to some outstanding bowling from Chris Tremlett and Graeme Swann, as well as an inhibited Sri Lankan line-up that baulked at the prospect of batting for 51 overs to secure the stalemate. With nothing apparently at stake, the players simply failed to switch on mentally, and were caught napping by an England team that has now secured six innings victory in the past 12 months of action.”It can’t be a skills issue because our boys are highly skilled players,” said Law. “It was a stop-start Test match with weather intervention, and we were not sure when we were going to start and always guessing when we’d be ready to go. We had a mental block coming into bat because we should have been able to bat for 51 overs easily, but suddenly you lose a few wickets and you’re under pressure. It’s amazing what pressure can do to you, it makes the mind think wrong decisions.”Having lost an unloseable Test in Cardiff, Sri Lanka are now back at a venue where, five years ago, they drew an undrawable one. At Lord’s in the first Test of the 2006 tour, England led by 359 runs on first innings with almost two-and-a-half days in which to close out the match. However, with Mahela Jayawardene leading the way with his second Lord’s century, Sri Lanka dug in for 199 overs to save the match with nine wickets down.”It’s a good thing we’ve come straight to Lord’s, it’s a good inspiration,” said Law. “The wicket will as always be even paced and even bounced, and it’s one of my favourite grounds to come and play, so hopefully that will inspire our boys to greater heights. The boys aren’t stupid, they know what’s expected, and there’s no-one more disappointed than the 11 guys who played that game in Cardiff. They are ready to go out and show they can compete at this level, because if things continue like that it won’t be much fun on the rest of this trip.”The bowling attack that awaits them, however, could be one of the most physically daunting line-ups in Test history, with Tremlett, Stuart Broad and Steven Finn – James Anderson’s likely replacement – all measuring between 6’6″ and 6’8″. The uncapped Jade Dernbach could yet be selected to provide variety to the pace attack, but he will not exactly provide respite, having picked up nine wickets in that Lions game in Derby.The challenge of replicating such a towering line of attack is a stiff one for Sri Lanka, none of whose bowlers come close to such heights, but Law appealed to his batsmen to rediscover the fighting qualities that went missing in the closing stages at Cardiff.”Whichever combo they play will be tough work, but we have to come up with better plans on how to attack and defend,” he said. “It’s difficult trying to get into the mindset of getting forward to a half-volley that’s hitting you in the chest, but that’s what we’ve got to face, and our players are skilled and talented enough to work it out.”Talk is cheap,” he added. “You can provide talk and words, but it’s a matter of the players absorbing that and putting it into action. The talking is finished. We can’t just keep talking a good game, we’ve got out to play a good game.”Despite lacking depth with the bat and a cutting edge with the ball during England’s only innings at Cardiff, Law insisted that Sri Lanka had no regrets about the balance of the side they put out for the first Test, and hinted they would persevere with five specialist batsmen in a bid to take the 20 wickets needed to get back into the series.”We’re 1-0 down, but we’re not here to lose,” said Law. “I don’t think the combination we played in Cardiff was wrong, we just didn’t play well for 25 overs. Sri Lankan cricket should never go into its shell. Our players should always think positive, because when they think positive they think clearly, and that’s half the battle won.”Law said that he expected Dilhara Fernando to be available once again after missing the first Test with a knee injury, and hinted that the spinner Ajantha Mendis would be regarded as a horses-for-courses pick after struggling on an unresponsive Cardiff surface. But one player he did not envisage calling upon at this stage is the veteran Chaminda Vaas, who claimed match figures of 10 for 82 in Northants’ innings victory over Glamorgan on Wednesday, and who has signalled a willingness to return to international cricket at the age of 37.”It’s good to see Vaasy going strong, and he looks after himself,” said Law. “But we’ve picked a squad, and settled on it, so to draft someone in to make up numbers wouldn’t be the right way to go about it. We’ve got to put faith in the players we’ve got in the squad now, and try to go forward, although if there’s an injury then we’ll consider.”But now we’ll be better for the knowledge on the England players, and how to bowl in Test match cricket in England. For this Test we’ll be better prepared.”

داخل ناديا ليفربول وبايرن ميونخ في صراع شرس على حسم صفقة جديدة لتدعيم خط وسط الفريق الأول لكرة القدم في كلًا منهما خلال فترة الانتقالات الشتوية الحالية.

ويبحث ليفربول عن التعاقد مع لاعب وسط في يناير، هناك اهتمام بضم ماتيوس نونيز من ولفرهامبتون ولكن هناك هدف آخر يدخل على رادار الريدز.

اقرأ أيضًا.. كاراجر يوجه تحذيرًا إلى كلوب: بيلينجهام لن يحل مشاكل ليفربول

وبحسب شبكة “سكاي سبورتس” ومتخصص سوق الانتقالات، فابرزيو رومانو، أن ليفربول يريد الحصول على خدمات لاعب وسط بوروسيا مونشنجلادباخ، كواديو كوني.

يبلغ كوني من العمر 21 عامًا وشارك في 14 من أصل 15 مباراة مع فريقه في الدوري الألماني.

لكن ما يصعب الصفقة وجود أندية أخرى مهتمة باللاعب الفرنسي وهي بايرن ميونخ، باريس سان جيرمان ونيوكاسل.

يذكر أن عقد كوني مع بوروسيا مونشنجلادباخ مستمر حتى يونيو 2025، لكن ليس هناك أي مانع من قبل النادي الألماني في الموافقة على بيع اللاعب إذا جاء عرضًا ماديًا كبيرًا.

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Steven Finn marked his first Ashes Test by claiming a career-best 6 for 125, which – as a 21-year-old with just eight months of international experience to his name – is no mean feat whatsoever

Andrew Miller at the Gabba27-Nov-2010Regardless of the toil that preceded his rewards, Steven Finn marked his first Ashes Test by claiming a career-best 6 for 125, which – as a 21-year-old with just eight months of international experience to his name – is no mean feat whatsoever. In so doing he emulated Bill Voce and John Snow as the only other Englishmen to collect such a haul at the Gabba, but afterwards he remained reassuringly downbeat about his achievement.As a man who models himself on Glenn McGrath and who has, in Angus Fraser, the perfect role-model for parsimonious seam bowling, Finn was well aware that his economy rate of 3.71 was England’s most expensive of the day, and at times during the 307-run stand between Brad Haddin and Michael Hussey he was powerless to restrict the run-flow. Nevertheless, having finally persuaded Hussey to hook to square leg for 195, he ran through the tail with an effectiveness that augurs well for future challenges, as Australia lost their last five wickets for 31 runs.”I picked up the wickets but I was the least consistent bowler and I’m aware of that,” he said. “Jimmy and Broady and Swanny at times bowled fantastically well, and when we work together as a unit that’s when we get our wickets. These wickets are for the unit, but personally, there are still a lot of areas I need to improve on and I’m well aware of that. I want to go for less runs, take more wickets and I’ve got a lot of work to do.”England’s day could well have gone a whole lot better, however, had Anderson been rewarded for a fine new-ball spell, in which Hussey survived two lbw appeals on 82 and 85, the first of which was overturned by the Umpire Decision Review System, before the second was left hanging as a plain not-out, after England had unsuccessfully used up their own appeals on day two.Finn admitted that the situation had been frustrating, especially after believing they had made such a key breakthrough in the third over of the day. But, he added, they had refused to let it derail them, despite how it might have appeared as they ended up going wicketless throughout the first two sessions.”It was a frustration that wasn’t going to affect our performance,” he said. “We realised we didn’t have any reviews left and so there was nothing we could do about it. We had to keep putting the ball in the right areas. When you’re in the huddle there and you think you’ve got the wicket, you’re over the moon and then it gets taken away. But if it gets you emotional then it takes you away from what you want to do and how you want to play the game.”It’s easy to look at things in retrospect, but we have to push forward,” he added. “We can only play what’s put in front of us. If those decisions had gone our way we’d be in a different position but it’s something we can’t look at. Those two guys played really well, they didn’t give us a chance, they rode their luck and survived the tough times, and that’s what it takes to score hundreds like that in Test cricket. That’s all we can look at.”Another distraction for England in the past three days has been the health of their coach, Andy Flower, who spent the day in hospital recovering from an operation to remove a cancerous melanoma from under his right eye. Finn, however, insisted that for the squad it had been business as usual, with Richard Halsall, the fielding coach, taking temporary charge.”I wouldn’t say it’s an upset,” he said. “Obviously we’re concerned about Andy, but he’s fine, he’s pulling through, but it hasn’t drawn anything away from what we’ve been doing as a team. We’ve got highly capable back-room staff who are filling in, and we’ve gelled together as a unit, and that helps us through times like this.”Despite the team’s predicament, Finn was sure that the two sides were far more evenly matched than the state of the game would suggest. “I think Test cricket ebbs and flows,” he said. “That’s the nature of the game and to say there is a gulf in class is grossly wrong because I think we’ve played some good, hard cricket these past few days. Australia are on top at the moment but the nature of the way we’ve played our cricket over the past 18 months will stand us in good stead in that dogfight.”