After nearly 39 years, three batters from the same team have occupied the top three places in the Test rankings

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Jun-2023Australia have a one-two-three at the top of the ICC Test rankings for batters, with Travis Head moving three places to third spot, behind Marnus Labuschagne at No. 1 and the second-placed Steven Smith. The last time three batters from the same team occupied the top three places in the Test rankings was in December 1984, when Gordon Greenidge (810), Clive Lloyd (787), and Larry Gomes (773) from West Indies were at the top.Head top-scored with a match-defining 163 against India in the World Test Championship final at The Oval. He came in at 76 for 3 on the first day and lifted Australia to 469. Smith, who also scored a hundred in the first innings, and Head put on a 285-run stand for the fourth wicket to give Australia a strong total. India eventually fell short by 209 runs as Australia clinched their maiden WTC title.ESPNcricinfo LtdWicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey, who scored a valuable 48 and 66 not out down the order, gained 11 places to occupy the 36th position. India’s top-ranked batters from the current lot are Rohit Sharma at 12th and Virat Kohli at 13th, while Rishabh Pant is 10th.Among bowlers, offspinner Nathan Lyon’s five wickets in the match helped him move two places to joint-sixth, with England quick Ollie Robinson. Though Lyon bowled only four overs and picked up a wicket in the first innings, his 4 for 41 in the second innings helped bowl India out for 234. His team-mate Scott Boland moved up five places to 36th, four spots ahead of India’s Mohammed Siraj, who picked up five wickets in the final.R Ashwin, despite being left out of the XI, remains the No. 1 Test bowler. There were no changes in the top 10 of allrounder rankings where Ravindra Jadeja is on top and Ashwin second. The only other Indian in the top 10 is Axar Patel (fourth) and the two Australians in the top lot are Mitchell Starc (eighth) and Pat Cummins (10th).

كشف رئيس مجلس إدارة الاتحاد الكويتي لكرة القدم، الشيخ أحمد اليوسف، عن تطورات العرض المقدم من جانبهم، إلى الاتحاد المصري لاستضافة بطولة كأس السوبر المصري 2025.

بطولة كأس السوبر المصري، تقام منذ موسمين بشكل جديد، بمشاركة 4 أندية بدلاً من نظامه القديم بين بطلي الدوري والكأس فقط.

وكانت آخر بطولة لـ كأس السوبر المصري في الموسم الماضي أقيمت في دولة الإمارات، وحقق النادي الأهلي اللقب بالفوز في المباراة النهائية على الزمالك بركلات الترجيح.

طالع | اتحاد الكرة يوضح لـ”بطولات” حقيقة إقامة السوبر المصري في الإمارات

ويشارك في بطولة كأس السوبر المصري للموسم الحالي 2025-2026، الأهلي بطل الدوري والزمالك بطل كأس مصر وسيراميكا كليوباترا بطل كأس الرابطة المصرية، وسيتحدد فريق رابع بالتنسيق بين اللجنة المنظمة مع رابطة الأندية واتحاد الكرة ليكون صاحب الكارت الذهبي (من المتوقع أن يكون بيراميدز).

ووفقًا لصحيفة “الجريدة الكويتية”: “قال رئيس مجلس إدارة الاتحاد الكويتي لكرة القدم الشيخ أحمد اليوسف، أنه وصل إلى مرحلة متقدمة من المفاوضات مع الاتحاد المصري لتنظيم كأس السوبر بمشاركة الأهلي وسيراميكا وبيراميدز والزمالك”.

وأشارت الصحيفة إلى أن موعد إقامة بطولة كأس السوبر المصري، سيكون في شهر نوفمبر المقبل.

يذكر، أن الأهلي يعد هو صاحب الرقم القياسي في الفوز بكأس السوبر المصري بـ15 لقباً، يأتي في المركز الثاني نادي الزمالك بـ 4 ألقاب.

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O técnico do São Paulo, Rogério Ceni, aprovou o desempenho do time na vitória por 3 a 0 sobre o Red Bull Bragantino. O resultado encerrou uma sequência de seis jogos sem vencer no Campeonato Brasileiro.

Para o treinador tricolor, o São Paulo foi melhor principalmente no segundo tempo e nos duelos individuais.

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– Em especial, acho que o segundo tempo do time foi muito bom, mesmo depois das alterações do Bragantino, quando eles passaram a jogar num sistema de três zagueiros, empurrando os dois alas. Nós conseguimos ajeitar bem com o 9 centralizado, neutralizamos bem, jogamos um contra um e ganhamos muitos duelos – disse Ceni, após a vitória.

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Rogério Ceni afirmou também que a ideia era aproveitar o duelo para fazer alguns testes, como, por exemplo, Alisson e Colorado em campo, que retornaram agora.

– Hoje a gente queria fazer alguns testes, até para termos a real noção de como estão esses jogadores. O time competiu como sempre, foi mais feliz nas finalizações. Não temos que achar que a vitória apaga erros, mas acho que foi um resultado convincente – finalizou o comandante.

Após encerrar o incomodo jejum no Brasileirão, o Tricolor vira a chave e foca na Copa do Brasil, onde na próxima quinta-feira faz o jogo da volta contra o América-MG, em Belo Horizonte, para definir quem avança às semifinais da competição.

Marc-Andre ter Stegen is set to meet with Barcelona higher-up’s as he wants to continue at Barcelona despite Joan Garcia’s signing.

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Ter Stegen to meet Barcelona upper management Barcelona close in on signing Joan GarciaTer Stegen has a contract till 2028Follow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

According to Spanish outlet , Ter Stegen is set to meet with Joan Laporta and Hansi Flick to understand his future at the club.

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Ter Stegen, who missed a big chunk of the season through injury, would like to continue with the club as he has a contract until 2028. He feels that despite Barcelona being close to the signing of Joan Garcia from Espanyol, he still can continue as the number one choice after putting on an excellent display for Germany in the Nations League.

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Ter Stegen who left his boyhood club Borussia Monchengladbach in 2014/15, won the treble in his first season at the club under coach Luis Enrique.  

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Barcelona hope to strengthen their team after a stellar season under coach Flick with whom they won the domestic title and reached the Champions League semi-final. They will want to resolve their issue with Ter Stegen quickly.

GOAL looks at the top contenders for the Golden Boot at the CWC, with some of the biggest names worldwide in the mix

No one knows exactly what to expect from the Club World Cup. Will strongest lineups be deployed? What will the tempo be? The quality of the product is up in the air.

But one thing is certain: there will be goals. There can't be. Put some of the best strikers in the world in one tournament, ask them to play against a bunch of teams with slightly weaker defenses, and the result should be the ball hitting the back of the net. Often.

Who will actually win it? Certainly, Kylian Mbappe is the favorite – just by nature of showing up. But Erling Haaland, Harry Kane, Cole Palmer, and a few others will all be strutting their stuff in the States this summer. Talent in front of goal is not lacking .

GOAL US looks at the top contenders for the Golden Boot at the Club World Cup.

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  Harry Kane

  Kane missed time due to injury, strolled through a few games, and had a humming attack around him, and still managed to walk the Bundesliga golden boot race last year, averaging nearly a goal per game and beating second placed Patrik Schick by five goals. This is, of course, Harry Kane's thing: he scores you goals – it's up to you to do what you want with them.

  If these were any other Bundesliga games, you'd back Kane to win the whole thing. And he will certainly bang them in against the likes of Auckland City, Boca Juniors and Benfica. But he also has a pretty miserable record in big games, and has a knack of disappearing in knockout football. Odds are that he will be the tournament's top scorer at the end of the group stage. The key will be keeping it going after that.

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  Kylian Mbappe

  Did Mbappe's goals mean anything this season? Sure, the Frenchman finished as Europe's top scorer, bagged a hat-trick in the Clasico, and spent a lot of time looking very happy celebrating. But after Madrid went trophyless, it all looked like a man content to be celebrating alone, enjoying individual success rather than team-wide accomplishment.

  That, of course, has been the story of much of Mbappe's career. He is an immensely effective goalscorer, but he should have a more lush trophy cabinet. Few can refute that.

  And so that same player will arrive at the CWC, no doubt hungry for goals. It will make for captivating viewing. Odds are, Mbappe will score a fair few. The question is: can Madrid remain in the competition long enough for it to matter in his golden boot quest? If they win it, then Mbappe will have enough time to bag the goals he needs. If not, it's up in the air.

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  Erling Haaland

  Haaland endured something of a disappointing second season with Man City. He picked up a few knocks, Pep Guardiola's side lost their attacking flow, and the Norwegian didn't really know where he fit in among it all. There was talk that City are better off without him.

  That's nonsense. In a well-balanced system, he turns a very good team into an unstoppable force. Issue is, that takes tactical tweaks and, crucially, time.

  If City were in form, Haaland would be a lock here. Remember, this is the guy who broke the Premier League goalscoring record without really looking like he was trying in his debut campaign in England. Instead, this seems a lot like a team in transition, and a No. 9 still figuring out where he fits in.

  No one really knows what to expect from the Cityzens – which leaves Haaland's golden boot prospects equally uncertain.

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  Luis Suarez

  One last time, eh lads? For the memories, yeah? Get the Uruguayan a few goals, feed him consistently. Remind the world, for a wonderful final few handful of fixtures, that Luis Suarez is one of the best strikers to ever kick a ball.

  Issue is, Suarez can't really move anymore – but still tries to play like a younger version of himself. The Uruguayan hasn't adapted to MLS in the right way, which is ironic considering he found the net 20 times in his debut season in the league.

  This campaign, though, his age has shown. He has scored just five in 13 games, and even if the seven assists make for good reading, Suarez's legs are catching up to him. That said, this is tournament football, and a smarter Miami could offer a different system.

  A Suarez simply asked to function as a poacher could yet be deadly, and if Miami are to do anything, he will have to adapt his game. If he does, there could be some individual silverware as a reward.

The left-arm seamer is the only addition to the 14-member squad that won the Qualifier Playoff in Namibia in April

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Left-arm pace bowler Abhishek Paradkar has been brought in as the lone addition to a mostly-unchanged USA squad for next month’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe. Apart from Paradkar, USA have the same 14 players that helped them win the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Playoff at Namibia in April to secure a place for the tournament in Zimbabwe.Paradkar was included in part to serve as cover for fast bowler Ali Khan, who is set to miss USA’s first two matches of the tournament, against West Indies and Nepal, in order to serve a two-match ban he received after being reprimanded for his behaviour during USA’s victory over Jersey in their last match of the Qualifier Playoff. Khan took career-best figures of 7 for 32 in the win but was penalised by the ICC match referee after a series of animated exchanges with Jersey players.Getty Images

Paradkar, 22, took 4 for 26 on his ODI debut against Papua New Guinea in 2021 on the tour of Oman. However, he only played one more match on that tour, against Nepal, and has not been picked for USA since then.Medium-pace allrounder Ian Holland, who played a crucial role in USA’s journey throughout the three-year-long Cricket World Cup League 2 ODI tournament for Associates, is unavailable for the World Cup Qualifier due to his County commitments with Hampshire.USA squad: Monank Patel (capt & wk), Aaron Jones (vice-capt), Shayan Jahangir (wk), Nosthush Kenjige, Ali Khan, Sushant Modani, Sai Mukkamalla, Saurabh Netravalkar, Abhishek Paradkar, Nisarg Patel, Kyle Phillip, Usman Rafiq, Gajanand Singh, Jessy Singh, Steven Taylor

Things have turned around on the blue half of Merseyside – with plenty more changes on the horizon for resurgent Everton.

Bramley Moore awaits at the dawn of the 2025/26 season, the dawn of a new era, and it was only a few months ago those of a Toffees persuasion feared the new beginning would come not in the Premier League but England’s second tier.

But Sean Dyche is now gone, and in place, David Moyes takes the seat, pursued by new owners The Friedkin Group as the first port of call.

Even the most glass-half-empty Everton fans must now feel a page has been turned – and for the better. Leeds United’s chief executive, Angus Kinnear, has also been poached, and he will replace Kevin Thelwell at the end of the season when his contract expires.

TFG are enacting an overhaul and a much-needed one at that. One of Kinnear’s opening gambits will surely be to replenish Everton’s frontline – let’s take a look at how he might do it.

Everton's shift at centre-forward

Moyes orchestrated Everton’s mid-season revival, unleashing the beleaguered players and urging them toward better form, new-found confidence. After such vapid football, the Merseysiders are now riding a seven-match unbeaten streak.

Beto has been the attacking focal point throughout this run. With Iliman Ndiaye and Dominic Calvert-Lewin both injured, the 27-year-old has been reborn in England, hitting five goals from seven league appearances since the Scottish manager’s arrival.

With Calvert-Lewin back in the infirmary once more and heading toward the end of his contract, it’s increasingly likely he will be allowed to search for pastures new after 269 (currently) appearances in an Everton shirt.

With a paltry three-goal haul to his name, Calvert-Lewin has missed 13 big chances in the Premier League this year, whereas his Bissau-Guinean counterpart has only squandered seven big chances, having converted six strikes in total.

Calvert-Lewin has played a long span of his career at Goodison Park, but this feels like a natural end to his career, with the new era calling for something new to partner Beto.

Goals

0.63

0.17

Assists

0.00

0.06

Shots taken

3.06

2.63

Shot-creating actions

1.26

1.43

Touches (att pen)

5.06

4.69

Passes attempted

15.70

15.90

Progressive carries

1.05

1.26

Successful take-ons

1.37

0.57

Aerial duels won

5.69

4.75

Beto has outperformed his positional peer considerably, but if Calvert-Lewin does indeed leave, Kinnear and Moyes will need to make the right move to replace him.

Everton make contact for Calvert-Lewin replacement

Armando Broja is on loan from Chelsea and has a clause in the agreement that could see Everton purchase him for a fee in the region of £30m at the end of the season. With injuries laying waste to his campaign, this doesn’t seem likely.

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Especially with Everton’s interest piqued by another graduate from Chelsea’s Cobham talent factory: Tammy Abraham.

According to Caught Offside, TFG have already begun talks for the transfer of the rangy striker through his agents, though Newcastle United and West Ham United are thought to have the strongest interest right now.

Abraham has struggled to perform on loan at AC Milan this season but he’s a dynamic and proven goalscorer who could be the perfect foil for the revivified Beto.

What Tammy Abraham would bring to Bramley Moore

Aged 27, Abraham is a seasoned Premier League striker, with 89 appearances and 31 goal involvements to his name. Curious that it’s nearly been four years since he played in his homeland.

A Champions League winner with Chelsea, Abraham left for Roma in 2021 for a £34m fee, joining Jose Mourinho’s cause and going on to forge the most incredible campaign for himself.

Indeed, in 2021/22, Abraham was instrumental in I Giallorossi’s Conference League-winning campaign, scoring 27 goals across 53 appearances in all competitions. He hailed Mourinho for turning him into a “monster” and a more aggressive player.

Abraham’s former coach, Stephen Elliott, has described him as a “goal machine” in the past, and in the pleasant conditions at Everton right now, he could find the stability he needs, back in England, to prosper.

Though Abraham has scored eight times for Milan this term, only starting 13 matches across all competitions and adding four assists too.

The England international’s tactical efforts have actually seen Calvert-Lewin listed as one of his most comparable players by FBref, but this shouldn’t be regarded as a negative. Fans know just how brilliant the tall number nine can be when he’s fit, having been described as a “monster” himself by talent scout Jacek Kulig when in his heyday under Carlo Ancelotti.

At 6 foot 3, he’d be an able replacement, with creative and defensive qualities that suggest he would be perfect in Moyes’ system. Abraham ranks among the top 27% of forwards across Europe’s top five leagues over the past year for assists, the top 23% for aerial battles won and the top 9% for tackles per 90, illustrating his prowess across such areas.

Bringing Abraham over from Serie A could see Moyes get his own version of Beto, a forward he had signed himself. After plying such good and hard work with the powerful star, it could be a bold transfer to ensure Everton kickstart this new age, and rise toward the upper echelons of the Premier League hierarchy.

He may well be hungering for a place back in the English first division, and though he has suffered his share of injury problems over the past several years and struggled to nail down a regular starting berth across two Italian outfits, Abraham is still producing goals, invariably dangerous.

Conversely, DCL has indeed only netted three all season. They might share traits, but this would freshen up the ranks. It might even see Moyes repeat Thelwell’s trick in bringing Beto over from Italy to the Premier League.

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Josh Tongue would have spent the 2023 summer coaching but for a specialist diagnosing a nerve problem in his shoulder last year. Instead, he has made his England debut, played an Ashes Test and been sent memes depicting Steven Smith as his bunny.”I don’t think it’s really sunk in at the minute,” Tongue said. “Being out for so long with my shoulder, having two operations on it, not knowing what I was going to be doing and maybe retiring, then getting that call-up for the Ireland Test, words can’t really describe how I felt. Now, being in the Ashes squad, it just feels so surreal.”Tongue qualified as a Level 2 coach early in his career and, if the shoulder issue which kept him out of the game for 14 months between June 2021 and August 2022 had not been resolved, he would have quit the professional game and followed a different career path.Related

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“I would have gone into coaching,” he said. “I’d have kept doing my badges.” He suggested he would have tapped into “a few contacts” at his old school, King’s Worcester, or worked with the former Worcestershire batter Gavin Haynes, whose son Jack has played alongside Tongue at the county and for England Lions.”It’s a bit different: doing a bit of coaching or playing for England in an Ashes series. It’s very weird. I don’t think it’s really sunk in at the minute. It’s just crazy: where I was two years ago to now. Obviously as a young kid, I dreamed of being in an Ashes series. Now I’m in one, it’s just an amazing feeling.”Tongue grew up watching James Anderson and Stuart Broad bowling; now, he is in contention to replace one of them in the fifth Test at The Kia Oval, starting on Thursday. “It’s just amazing to be in the training, training with them and learning from them,” he said, speaking before the fourth Test at a #Funds4Runs session organised by LV= Insurance at Stockport Georgians Cricket Club.”The first couple of weeks in the squad, I was trying to find my feet, not asking too many questions as the new kid on the block. I feel like now I’m getting to know everyone, getting a bit more confidence with everyone in the squad, I can ask those questions.”It’s different when you’re in competition. There’s not much training between each Test match, so I try and take as much out of it as I can. Being on the pitch with Jimmy and Broady at Lord’s, them being at mid-on and mid-off, [I tried to] just tap into anything they can offer.”Josh Tongue at a #Funds4Runs session at Stockport Georgians Cricket Club•LV= Insurance/#Funds4Runs

Tongue finished the Lord’s Test with figures of 5 for 151 in the match, bowling a prolonged spell of bouncers on the fourth day and dismissing David Warner and Steven Smith in both innings. “I didn’t think I’d play at Lord’s and that first day, coming through the Long Room and hearing the national anthem, I thought, ‘Wow! I’m actually playing in the Ashes.'”Having earlier trapped him lbw in a County Championship game, Tongue has dismissed Smith in three innings out of three this summer. “I did see a little picture of him in the corner, me, and then a rabbit – something like that,” he said, laughing. “I have seen some funny stuff on Twitter.”The one at Worcester, I did a bit of analyst work against him and tried to mix up the angles. He does draw you in and goes off his stumps. I tried not to play to his strengths which is obviously when you try to bowl straight, he’ll clip you through the leg side.”I feel like bowling that fourth or fifth stump and trying to bore him and force him to do something wrong [is the way to go] and obviously that happened in the first innings. Then, in the second, he was bumped out. It’s just so good to bowl against him, really.”Tongue generally bowls in the mid-80s mph but has touched 90mph/145kph at times this summer, and has enjoyed the novelty of looking up at his speeds on big screens. “I was trying not to look too much but you naturally look sometimes and it was great to get up to that sort of speed,” he said.”It’s a nice feeling. Growing up as a kid, you want to bowl as fast as you can so getting up to 90mph is a nice little achievement. I’m a big rhythm bowler: when I’m bowling at my best, I don’t try too hard. My skills, my height, my bounce, my pace… when I don’t try to bowl too quick, and my attributes kind of sink in.”He has only played at The Oval once before, in a high-scoring draw in 2018, but fresh from a five-wicket haul in Worcestershire’s win against Leicestershire, Tongue is confident that he can make an impact there if selected this week. “From Lord’s, knowing I bowled nicely there, I’ll take confidence for maybe playing at The Oval.”Josh Tongue was speaking on behalf of LV= Insurance, title sponsors of this summer’s LV= Insurance Ashes Series. Head to https://www.lv.com/gi/cricket to find out more

The offspinner is confident of being fit for plenty of Sheffield Shield cricket before the Pakistan Test series after his calf injury

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Nathan Lyon has revealed how the fallout from Jonny Bairstow’s controversial stumping extended into the players’ lunchroom at Lord’s on the final day of the second Test.Bairstow was given out 15 minutes before the interval which led to tensions rising on and off the field with Australian players abused in the Long Room as they left the field.While players from the respective teams went into their own dressing rooms they came face-to-face again in the lunch queue with both sides sharing a dining area at Lord’s.Related

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“There were a few Australian guys and a few English guys in the lunchroom and I hobbled up on my crutches and stood in the middle of it and tried to calm things down a little bit.” Lyon, who by then had been sidelined with a calf injury, told the which is co-hosted by former Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin. “Jonny had a few words here or there. That’s all part of it, I’m all for it.”Lyon was also in no doubt about the dismissal. “I was in the change room and I just erupted. I was like ‘how good. Suck eggs. That’s out every day’,” he said.The abuse of the Australian players in the Long Room, which appeared to centre on Usman Khawaja and led to security being called, has resulted in three MCC members being provisionally suspended while the club investigates.Lyon said that “everyone was gobsmacked” by how the situation escalated following the dismissal and also talked through a first-hand account of a spectator from inside the pavilion approaching him outside in tears and apologising for the abuse the Australian players had received.”I actually had an older lady come up to me in tears, an English lady in tears from the main members’ area, and she said ‘I’ve got to go home. I just want to apologise to you Australian cricketers for the way everyone has reacted inside Lord’s”, Lyon said.”I just told her don’t worry about it, we’re all okay, we’re not worried about getting sledged. But it hit home for me that Ashes cricket can affect so many people in different ways and just the actions of people can hit so many different people as well. It was a nice moment but an awkward moment with the lady in genuine tears about it all.”Meanwhile, Lyon admitted he knew his Ashes tour was over the moment he suffered the injury on the second day although he was only officially ruled out after the match finished. “[Ben] Duckett played the pull shot, got a top edge and I went to take off and I just heard this little gun shot and just felt it go straight away. I knew straight away my series was done there and then,” he said.Nathan Lyon hobbles out to bat to a standing ovation•Getty Images

Lyon still hobbled out to bat in Australia’s second innings, adding 15 runs for the last wicket with Mitchell Starc, after he persuaded the medical team he was able to do it when they had initially told him it wasn’t an option. “I knew I was out for the next 10-12 weeks. So I took a couple of tablets, got strapped from my knee down, couldn’t move my foot at all and hobbled out, stood in the Long Room and waited to bat.”Despite what could be a three-month timeline for his recovery, Lyon is confident he will be able to get a substantial amount of Sheffield Shield cricket before Australia’s next Test series against Pakistan which starts in mid-December.”The positive thing about all this is I’ve got a lot of time,” he said. “The next Test match that Australia will [play] at home is mid-December against Pakistan. I’ve got plenty of time…to make sure we do the rehab and we do it properly so it’s not a reoccurring thing. I’ll definitely get some Shield in. I’m not going to say I’ll be right for game one. Ideally I’d like to play that but I’m not going to push it.”There are six rounds of Sheffield Shield before the Test summer begins, which is also when the tournament breaks for the BBL, with New South Wales’ opening match on October 4.Lyon admitted he had found it tough to watch the Ashes while sidelined back in Australia and only caught glimpses of the Headingley match.”I’ve had a lot of emotion around my first-ever injury and the timing of it in what was meant to be a pretty big milestone for myself,” he said. “So they boys are talking that I’ve only played 99.5 games in a row. Pretty shattered but the guys are in decent position. I find it hard to watch Test cricket now – I’ve figured that out – so we’ll see how we go.”

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Depois da derrota para o Bahia, o Vasco volta a campo nesta quarta, às 19h, para medir forças com o Guarani, em São Januário, pela 27ª rodada da Série B. Emílio Faro fez mudanças na equipe e decidiu escalar Eguinaldo na vaga de Raniel, que segue de fora, e Léo Matos na vaga de Matheus Ribeiro.

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Com 42 pontos, o Cruz-Maltino segue no G4 da competição, mas começa a ver os adversários se aproximarem. O Londrina venceu nesta terça e reduziu a diferença para apenas um ponto. Dessa forma, a equipe carioca precisa vencer o Bugre para aumentar essa distância e voltar a pontuar no campeonato.

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O adversário desta noite venceu o Tombense na última rodada, mas segue na zona de rebaixamento e tem apenas um triunfo como visitante nesta Série B, sobre o Novorizontino.

O Vasco vai a campo com a seguinte escalação:Thiago Rodrigues, Léo Matos, Quintero, Anderson Conceição, Edimar; Yuri, Andrey, Marlon Gomes, Nene, Alex Teixeira; Eguinaldo

+Vasco aposta na mística de São Januário para reencontrar o caminho das vitórias na Série B

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