I was expecting a 3-0 whitewash, unfortunately it did not happen. Great batting by Surya Kumar and Malan. Again Kholi out for just 11 runs, his contribution as batter now days has been like this on any format of cricket. Now, his contribution as a fielder can also be questioned an easy catch was dropped by him. Still enjoyed the match thoroughly. The wicket was flat and any team batting first would have an upper edge. Spinners were in effective but I was expecting the Indian pacers to be strict.
After a dismal performance in the first two matches, England's victory in this match was very necessary. It would have been a shame for England if they had lost the series 3-0. We haven't seen a good innings from Virat Kohli in the entire series. I don't know how long the BCCI wait for Virat Kohli to return to form. But I personally think Kohli needs rest now. |
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I think so. It's more like giving it time to adapt and adjust. As long as Benzema is fit and Madrid have a new substitute it will be profitable. Madrid still has a great striker, and a successor, it will make the regeneration of players better. There is no pause too long to be able to emerge as a champion. So regeneration goes smoothly. Of course the fans will be happy because they are still in a good club.
Benzema is very professional and Real Madrid can use him and rely on his goals in 2 or 3 more seasons. Maybe after 2 or 3 seasons, they will get Mbappe or Haaland because I think one of these players will move if they don't get what they want in PSG and Manchester City, Champions League and Ballon d'Or. Benzema is very talented and experienced. The most important thing is that his fitness is excellent. And he can perform the entire season without getting injured. He is a regular scorer. And can change playing conditions in any season. For at least the next two seasons, Real Madrid will be able to rely on Benzema if Benzema's fitness is good. |
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I was happy if Kushal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne were able to score centuries. But they returned with 85 and 86 runs respectively. Now Sri Lanka's collection is 280/4. And Sri Lanka is behind by only 84 runs. Sri Lankan batsmen are batting very carefully. Probably they have a target to bat all day today. My guess is that if Sri Lanka bats all day today, there will be a draw in this match.
This match is heading towards a draw as it is already day 3 and srilanka still trails by 30 odd runs. They will try to utilize the whole day but will also try not to lose any wickets. They will also try to build a considerable lead but if Australian bowlers are able to take quick wickets then this match might not end in draw. The chances of this match being drawn are now 90%. At the end of the third day, Sri Lanka collected 431/6. Dinesh Chandimal is unbeaten on 118 runs. Sri Lanka will bat at least 20-30 overs today. Australia will then be able to stay at the crease for at least 5 seasons. However, the performance of Australian batsmen is irregular. They must bat responsibly. |
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I was happy if Kushal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne were able to score centuries. But they returned with 85 and 86 runs respectively. Now Sri Lanka's collection is 280/4. And Sri Lanka is behind by only 84 runs. Sri Lankan batsmen are batting very carefully. Probably they have a target to bat all day today. My guess is that if Sri Lanka bats all day today, there will be a draw in this match.
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I don't think Dembele would accept any discount. That's why we can see him in another team in the new season.
I would be happy if Dembele was not in Barcelona. He did not play well in the Barcelona team. Lots of his wages. I think it is a waste of money to keep Dembele in the team for Barcelona now. Because Barcelona is in financial crisis now. Now they should not waste money by keeping more players in the squad than they need. On the other hand, Barcelona will be able to buy Lewandowski by using the money from selling Dembele and De Jong. |
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Virat Kohli has to realize that if he wants to play further for the Indian cricket team and cement his place in the team this is his time. BCCI have tried a lot of players to replace Virat Kohli, however, none of those players have succeeded and have not shown a good enough performance.
Virat Kohli has been involved in a lot of dumb things like black lives matters and anti cracker movement. He was too politically motivated to do anything positive for the team or himself. This should be his cue to improve on his recent form and cement his position in the team again. And he has to realize that nepotism is not the way to get him anywhere or anyone else for that matter.
I don't see any encouraging signs coming from Virat. One thing that he could do is to play more domestic cricket, so that he will regain his form. But so far he has refused to do that. When was the last time he played for Delhi? If he believes that Indian domestic cricket is substandard, then he can always opt for county cricket in England. But he prefers to spend any free time he gets with family. I don't think that there is anything wrong in that, but then the question comes about how long the selectors need to persist with him in the playing XI. The last century scored by Virat Kohli was in 2019 against Bangladesh in a day and night test match. After that, he has been hovering around double figures only. It is time for him to either retire or BCCI should drop him permanently from test cricket. I have also not seen him performing well in ODI or in T20 cricket. Cricket legends have already started questioning his performance and it won't be that long that Indian selectors do the same. Virat Kohli has a lot of fans and at the same time he is now a legendary player in India. He is a very talented player. However, in the last 3 years, we have not seen any good performance from him. Despite having a lot of talented players in the BCCI, Virat Kohli is being given a chance in almost every match, but he is not playing well. If any players can't play well, it is difficult to get a chance in the Indian squad. Virat should be out of the squad now and prepare himself better for international matches. Otherwise, BCCI will be forced to drop Kohli from the team in a few days. |
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Barcelona needs a lot of players now. But Barcelona does not have enough money. In this case, they have to raise funds by selling their players. They need a decent fund. Barcelona could raise money by selling De Jong. Can sell players like Braithwaite and Umititi at the same time. On the other hand, Barcelona is still trying to get Lewandowski on the team. How Xavi will raise this money is not yet certain.
Yes barcelona must do everything possible to get additional funds in this summer window because otherwise it will hinder their movement in the transfer window. Manchester United know very well that Barcelona is going through a financial crisis, so they don't want to increase their bid for Barcelona. if it continues like this I think the point of agreement between manchester united and barcelona will not be reached at all because these two teams need the same thing, meaning that manchester united needs de jong and barcelona needs money. If Manchester United do not raise the bid, they will not be able to sign De Jong. Barcelona certainly needs a lot of money now. Because they need to strengthen their defence. At the same time, de Jong is an essential player for Barcelona to strengthen the midfield. If Barcelona had not been in a financial crisis, they would never have decided to sell de Jong. However, Manchester United will have to spend more money to get de Jong to the team. |
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Sebastian Haller is a really good signing for Dortmund now. Maybe it is very difficult for him to replace Erling Haaland but Dortmund wouldn't be in such expectation either. They must have just wanted to sign a trustworthy striker to be effective in attacking as always. They have made some moves for their defense too but I hope it can be enough for them. Because it is their weakest point to improve right now. Their weakness in their defense caused them to be out of the title race early.
It will be difficult for Dortmund to find a very energetic player like Erling Haaland, Although Sebastien Haller did very well at Ajax last season, I don't think he will be able to replace Haaland at Dortmund. But, back to your statement that it looks like Dortmund are not looking for a replacement for Haaland, they signed Haller only as a starting line-up for the main players. Overall, I also hope Haller can make a good performance with Dortmund. It would be unreasonable to expect anything like that from Sebastian Haller. If anything they are trying to make him one of the premier strikers. After that, they are going to sell him again like they always do for a substantial amount of money. And I think they obviously had problems with the defensive lineup. However, they also could not score enough goals as their main striker Erling Haaland was injured for quite a long time in the last season. I hope that this time they don’t have any problems like that and they will be able to play attacking football. |
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Sri lanka vs Australia
After a very easy win against Sri Lanka in the first Test, Australia entered the field in the second Test today. Australia won the toss and elected to bat. And they are playing well enough. However, he returned to the dressing room after collecting only 5 runs. However, Labuschange was able to collect 104 runs. Australia lost 3 wickets to collect 216 runs. My guess is Australia will collect more than 400 in the first innings.
It's 233 for 3. Steve Smith is still unbeaten on 70 runs and Travis Head is unbeaten on 9. Australia will bat about 19 more overs today. If the batting disaster does not happen, Australia will collect more than 300 runs today. The Australian batsmen are batting very carefully. Apart from Labuschange, no other batsman had a strike rate of more than 50. If the Sri Lankan bowlers can't get Smith out today, Australia will undoubtedly collect more than 500 and Sri Lanka will lose by a huge margin. |
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We might see Marcos Alonso in Barcelona's squad this summer. Barcelona and Chelsea are discussing about this deal for now. I have heard before that Chelsea would be likely to let Marcos Alonso go also. If this is real now then things can be easier for Barcelona. Despite their current financial condition they wouldn't have big difficulties in signing him as his value is not that much (around 12 million euros). They have quite many left-backs in the team actually but they might want to add another experienced one.
Barcelona has a lot of talented defenders. But the performance of the Barcelona defenders last season was not good. Barcelona's defense was weak. So often Barcelona had to concede goals against relatively weaker teams and they lost points in several matches. So it is a good decision for Xavi to take Marcos Alonso from Chelsea. If Marcos Alonso can adapt well to the Barcelona team, then Barcelona's defence will be stronger. Barcelona may not have too many problems to spend 12 million euros. Barcelona need a lot of players to be able to compete next season, now they have just got frank kessie and Andreas Christensen but unfortunately these two players have not been able to their register so far because of their financial problems, barcelona at least have to sell de jong to registered new players to the La liga authorities, indeed they currently need some players, both attacking and central midfielders players but I don't think they still have to get Alonso from Chelsea with the current situation moreover they already have Andreas Christensen in defence.. Barcelona needs a lot of players now. But Barcelona does not have enough money. In this case, they have to raise funds by selling their players. They need a decent fund. Barcelona could raise money by selling De Jong. Can sell players like Braithwaite and Umititi at the same time. On the other hand, Barcelona is still trying to get Lewandowski on the team. How Xavi will raise this money is not yet certain. |
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We might see Marcos Alonso in Barcelona's squad this summer. Barcelona and Chelsea are discussing about this deal for now. I have heard before that Chelsea would be likely to let Marcos Alonso go also. If this is real now then things can be easier for Barcelona. Despite their current financial condition they wouldn't have big difficulties in signing him as his value is not that much (around 12 million euros). They have quite many left-backs in the team actually but they might want to add another experienced one.
Barcelona has a lot of talented defenders. But the performance of the Barcelona defenders last season was not good. Barcelona's defense was weak. So often Barcelona had to concede goals against relatively weaker teams and they lost points in several matches. So it is a good decision for Xavi to take Marcos Alonso from Chelsea. If Marcos Alonso can adapt well to the Barcelona team, then Barcelona's defence will be stronger. Barcelona may not have too many problems to spend 12 million euros. |
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The Indian bowlers were quite effective in the first innings. But the performance of the Indian bowlers in the second innings was very poor. Only Bumrah was able to take two wickets. I was surprised to see such performance of Indian bowlers. Experienced bowlers like Jadeja, Shami and Mohammad Siraj did not perform well. However, the performance of England's batsmen is very commendable. They have been able to resist the experienced Indian bowlers very well.
Time has come to remove nepotism from team selection. Why players such as Hanuma Vihari and Mohammad Siraj were included in the test team? There are far better players available, and the selectors go back to these two everytime. Their test record is not good and yet they are being given so many chances. I would like to see emerging players such as T Natarajan and Mohsin Khan in the test team. Even bowlers such as Mukesh Choudhary and Prasidh Krishna deserves a chance to represent India in the longer format. I will not say that the Indian management made a mistake by giving Hanuma Vihar and Mohammad Siraj a chance in the squad. How will they become experienced if they don't get a chance to play? India has a lot of talented players. And they play well enough in the domestic league. If you want to experience them, you must give them a chance in international matches. Hanuma Vihar and Siraj will be given some more opportunities by the Board of India, in which case if they cannot prove their worth, then the Indian management will provide opportunities for new players. |
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Still, we have to praise England's effort after trailing by over 100+ runs they fight back and have their win with the help of Root and Bairstow both were in amazing touch and agreed here with the way of batting if India has 500+ runs then still this was achievable for them because both batsmen play amazing inning and Indian bowlers have no reply of their aggression.
The Indian bowlers were quite effective in the first innings. But the performance of the Indian bowlers in the second innings was very poor. Only Bumrah was able to take two wickets. I was surprised to see such performance of Indian bowlers. Experienced bowlers like Jadeja, Shami and Mohammad Siraj did not perform well. However, the performance of England's batsmen is very commendable. They have been able to resist the experienced Indian bowlers very well. |
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https://as.com/futbol/primera/cristiano-sobre-la-mesa-del-barcelona-n/?id_externo_rsoc=CM_ES_TWThis is really huge news but a rumour at the same time. AS claims that Barcelona president Laporta is thinking of making a move for Ronaldo to make him return to the La Liga after many years. Can you imagine this? I can't imagine Ronaldo playing for Barcelona honestly.  It sounds really awkward to me but it is hard to predict something right now. Ronaldo is willing to play in the Champions League so who knows. But I still think that it will stay as a rumour. If this is true then I would say it would be a betrayal for Barcelona fans and Messi fans. Koeman and Laporta did not keep Messi in Barcelona because he is older and his wages are too much. So why are they interested in taking 38-year-old Ronaldo to the team? At the same time Barcelona is now in financial crisis. I think this is just a rumour. Laporta never does that. But if this rumor turns out to be true. then this will really be surprising. And I think Cristiano Ronaldo is better not to be at Barcelona. because Barcelona fans will compare Cristiano Ronaldo with Messi. However, this rumor doesn't seem to be true. because remembering I also read the news a few days ago about a statement from Manchester United which, according to The Sun newspaper, stated that it would not sell Cristiano Ronaldo because so far Cristiano Ronaldo still has one more year contract at Old Trafford until 30 June 2023. Neither Manchester United nor Ten Hag are interested in selling Ronaldo. However, Ronaldo probably does not want to stay in the Manchester United squad because United did not qualify for the Champions League. Since Ronaldo's goal is the Champions League, I wouldn't be surprised if he decides to leave United now. However, the news that Barcelona is now interested in 38-year-old Ronaldo does not seem credible to me. |
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https://as.com/futbol/primera/cristiano-sobre-la-mesa-del-barcelona-n/?id_externo_rsoc=CM_ES_TWThis is really huge news but a rumour at the same time. AS claims that Barcelona president Laporta is thinking of making a move for Ronaldo to make him return to the La Liga after many years. Can you imagine this? I can't imagine Ronaldo playing for Barcelona honestly. It sounds really awkward to me but it is hard to predict something right now. Ronaldo is willing to play in the Champions League so who knows. But I still think that it will stay as a rumour. If this is true then I would say it would be a betrayal for Barcelona fans and Messi fans. Koeman and Laporta did not keep Messi in Barcelona because he is older and his wages are too much. So why are they interested in taking 38-year-old Ronaldo to the team? At the same time Barcelona is now in financial crisis. I think this is just a rumour. Laporta never does that. |
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With most of the peoples were feeling India will give 400 to 430 which is surely very handy target but poor batting from middle order and lower order give big shock and now just 378 is still good but not enough for all inform English batting lineup which is going to have their fourth win of this season and surely with this performance they are going to live unbeatable in this season.
India was leading by 132 runs in the first innings. So naturally, everyone expected India to be able to deliver at least 400 runs target but none of the other batsmen in the team was active in the crease except Pujara and Rishab Pant. However, the target of 378 runs was not an easy target for England. Indian bowlers have failed to control bowling. England is collecting 107 runs in the first wicket partnership. After losing 3 wickets for just 2 runs, Root and Bairstow's unbeaten batting helped England collect 259 runs. |
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Yes, in the end, Jesus officially became an Arsenal player next season, a deal that went tough and deserves appreciation for Arsenal success in getting Gabriel Jesus. he is a very potential striker and he will earn his place in the arsenal. Arsenal have now got two important players to strengthen their squad this summer they are Pablo Viera and Gabriel Jesus. i see arteta is still active in this tranfers window. Even Arsenal are interested in getting Raphinha autograph.
I'm sure Gabriel Jesus will turn out to be a very important player for Arsenal in whatever their ambition is for next season, i commend Gabriel for taking this bold step, i actually have a problem with players who are happy with little or no playing time, my philosophy remains that if you aren't getting the playing time you deserve, and you stick around and fight for a starting place in the team and it just isn't working, i prolly think it should be time the player left. Gabriel was obviously comfortable in City, winning multiple trophies and playing occasionally, but he wasn't still satisfied, he was also aware that the arrival of Erling would further reduce his playing time, thus he had to leave, he will play very regularly at the Emirates Stadium, and that is what he needs for the overall development of his career. Players who think that not getting enough play time is okay if they get paid well are either really old players who are on the verge of retiring, or they are players who do not have enough interest in actually playing the game. They just play the game for money and not to get better at the game. And that's why I really liked the decision of Gabriel Jesus because he chose to have good enough play time instead of just waiting and taking the money. He is going to be one of the most important players for Arsenal and he is going to be the backbone of attacking for Arsenal. |
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Can't wait to see the new season. With new players and the transfer market is still going on. if I'm not mistaken around August 13, the opening match between Osasuna vs Sevilla. Still a month or so. Of course there are still many opportunities to prepare the team. I heard Madrid will have the Soccer Champions Tour against Juventus in Los Angeles on 30 July. In this match they will also wear the latest away jersey. I read that this new jersey has the advantage of HEAT.RDY KEEP COOL is a technology to regulate the temperature of players during matches. Maybe you can see their away jersey here. But I'm curious about their home jersey. The new season is surely going to be interesting because I think this time it is again going to be a fight between Barcelona and Real Madrid till the last for the title. Now the problem is last time Barcelona did not start the season well at all. They actually started the season very poorly and if they can somehow start well this time they will be able to give Real Madrid a closer fight compared to the last season. I am also excited about the new Real Madrid Jersey. I hope it will fulfill my expectation if not exceed it. |
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Even though there is interruption due to rain, the scoring for the day is taking place without much difference. In a single day England started the innings at 85 runs and have reached 284 runs. Then India have begun it's innings and have scored 125 runs. Altogether 324 runs have been scored in a single day. This is good scoring in a single day. If this kind of scenario continues we'll get the result on this match. Both teams have got advantage out of the rain, lets wait what is gonna happen by the last two days.
Although the match was delayed due to rain, the match is not likely to be abandoned. I also checked the weather report. And so if England doesn't want to lose badly in this match, they have to play well. England is now 257 runs behind. The collection of India is 125 runs. If English bowlers can stop India within 250, then England will have a chance to win this match. But if India gives more than 400 runs target, this match will be under India's control. Batting against more than 400 runs on the fifth day is very difficult to win. |
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I think that the Serie A would be like a last resort for Ronaldo now. Because I think like he wouldn't even leave Juventus in the first place if he was so eager to continue playing there. Maybe his problems were only related to the team not the league but I still don't expect him to sign for Napoli or any other Italian team for now. But his decision could be much different if gets an offer from a team in the La Liga or the Premier League on the condition that the team are going to the CL.
Who can afford him and his wages is also a very big factor if he is to move away from Manchester United, and there are a very few teams that will be willing to go that far for a 36-year-old. But I believe Bayern Munich could be a good destination for him as replacement for Lewandowski should the latter decide to leave FC Bayern. No other team can afford Ronaldo without rich teams like Bayern Munich and Chelsea. I don't think Roma is suitable for Ronaldo. Ronaldo's wages are much higher. If Bayern Munich management is interested in Ronaldo, then Munich would be a good choice for Ronaldo. Lewandowski has since decided to leave Munich. So Bayern Munich should sell Lewandowski and take Ronaldo to the team. As Ronaldo is hardworking, he will be able to adapt well to the Bayern Munich team. He will also be able to play well in the Champions League in Bayern Munich's jersey. |
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