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Manchester United are back in action in the Premier League this afternoon as they prepare to travel to London to take on Tottenham Hotspur.

The Red Devils are looking to push up the table to compete for a European place in the second half of the season and three points today will be another step in the right direction.

Ruben Amorim’s side took to the field in the FA Cup last time out, however, and secured a 2-1 win over fellow Premier League outfit Leicester City at Old Trafford, thanks to a last-minute goal from Harry Maguire.

It will be a different kind of game against Ange Postecoglou’s struggling Spurs team this afternoon, though, as they face another big club desperate to turn their fortunes around.

Tottenham were beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa in the FA Cup last weekend and they had been hammered 4-0 by Liverpool in the second leg of their League Cup semi-final in the previous midweek.

Spurs arranged that semi-final meeting with Arne Slot’s side, though, by beating Manchester United in the quarter-finals of the competition back in December.

Manchester United's last meeting with Tottenham Hotspur

The quarter-final clash was the last time the two teams met each other in any competition, as they played in North London on the 19th of December last year.

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It was the hosts who took the lead when Pedro Porro’s long-range effort was parried straight back out to Dominic Solanke, who made no mistake on the rebound.

Dejan Kulusevski made it 2-0 within a minute after the start of the second-half, converting from close-range, before Solanke beat Lisandro Martinez with ease and slotted in his second and Tottenham’s third in the 54th minute.

Joshua Zirkzee pulled one back when Bruno Fernandes’ ball across the box found the striker almost on the line to tap into an empty net to make it 3-1.

There was then a glimmer of hope for the Red Devils when Amad Diallo closed down Fraser Forster and found the back of the net by tackling the ball into the goal.

Their hopes of a comeback were dashed, however, when Heung-min Son scored directly from a corner in the 88th minute to make it 4-2 to the hosts, before Jonny Evans made it 4-3 in the 94th minute.

Amorim and his United side will now be looking for revenge against Spurs for that disappointing defeat, which cost them the chance to play against Liverpool in the semi-finals, and the Red Devils head coach could look to make some changes from the team that beat Leicester last time out.

Why Kobbie Mainoo has to be replaced

Kobbie Mainoo is set to miss the match through injury and this means that he will need to be replaced in the starting XI, after he played on the left wing against the Foxes.

The England international has made the majority (51/60) of his appearances for the first-team as either a defensive or central midfielder since he emerged from the academy.

His last two outings for the Red Devils, however, have been as a left-sided attacking midfielder against Leicester and as a centre-forward against Crystal Palace in the Premier League.

Mainoo had managed five goals and one assist in 51 matches as a central or defensive midfielder for United in all competitions, and Amorim has seemingly seen something in his game to suggest that he could thrive in an attacking role moving forward.

However, his performance on the left flank against Leicester and as a centre-forward against Palace suggest that the Portuguese manager should have dropped him from the team even if he were not injured.

Kobbie Mainoo

Vs Palace

Vs Leicester

Position

CF

LAM

Goals + assists

0

0

Shots on target

0

0

Dribbles completed

0/4

0/1

Key passes

1

0

Duels won

3/13

2/6

Stats via Sofascore

As you can see in the table above, Mainoo offered very little at the top end of the pitch in his two starts in those attacking positions, with zero shots on target and one key pass in the two games combined.

Amorim’s experiment has not gone to plan but he will now have to plan without the English dynamo for this clash with Spurs, as he is unavailable for selection.

This has opened up a space in the left-sided attacking midfield position for the former Sporting manager to bring Alejandro Garnacho, who could be a brilliant replacement, into the starting XI this afternoon.

Why Alejandro Garnacho should start

The Argentina international was initially on the bench for the 2-1 win over Leicester last time out in the FA Cup and was brought on at half-time to replace Patrick Dorgu.

Garnacho can be a frustrating player to watch at times, because his end product is not always up to scratch, but he always makes things happen and causes constant problems for opposition defenders, even if it does not always pay off.

His cameo against the Foxes is a prime example of that. The 20-year-old starlet registered four shots on goal and two shots on target, whilst also creating one chance, in just 45 minutes of football, yet did not record a goal or an assist.

Garnacho’s constant running and the threat of his pace in behind the Leicester defence did, though, force the opposition back and allow United to gain more control in their half in the match, eventually leading to the comeback.

The Argentine youngster, who was described as a “generational” talent by Statman Dave earlier this season, is always connected to the game and rarely goes missing from the action.

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Alejandro Garnacho

per 90

Percentile rank vs positional peers

Non-penalty xG

0.36

Top 13%

Non-penalty goals

0.18

Bottom 30%

Shots

3.79

Top 4%

Non-penalty xG + xAG

0.54

Top 12%

Shot-creating actions

3.82

Top 49%

Progressive carries

5.79

Top 8%

Stats via FBref

As you can see in the table above, Garnacho gets himself into great positions on a regular basis, hence why he ranks so highly among his peers for xG, shot-creating actions, and progressive carries.

However, he needs to improve the final action, as shown by his placement in the bottom 30% for non-penalty goals. At 20, the winger still has plenty of time left ahead of him to develop and improve that side of his game.

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In the immediate future, today, Amorim must hope that he can take a step in the right direction by delivering a goal contribution, or multiple, in a win over Spurs this afternoon, coming in to replace Mainoo in the starting line-up.

Record fourth-wicket stand sets up unassailable total as Pakistan implode in chase

Alan Gardner23-Sep-2022

Harry Brook and Ben Duckett put on a century stand•Getty Images

England landed all the telling blows in another pulsating contest in Karachi, riding on the back of a century stand between Harry Brook and Ben Duckett before a searing return to national colours from Mark Wood helped torpedo the Pakistan reply. A total of 221 for 3 was the highest conceded by Pakistan in T20Is, the 63-run margin of defeat their heaviest against England.Brook and Duckett both notched maiden T20I fifties during a record fourth-wicket stand for England in the format, the pair belying their relative inexperience at this level to add 139 from just 69 deliveries. Brook’s form was particularly scintillating, as he carved eight fours and five sixes to finish not out on 81 from just 35 deliveries – a strike rate of 231.42. Duckett produced his best innings in an England shirt with an unbeaten 70 from 42.Having reeled in 200 while barely breaking sweat the night before, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan were the key men for Pakistan as they attempted what would have been a record chase. But Wood and Reece Topley, two of England’s three changes to the XI, removed both openers for single-figure scores and Pakistan quickly careened out of contention at 28 for 4 in the final over of the powerplay.Shan Masood and Khushdil Shah put on 62 for the fifth wicket to prevent the scoreline becoming a rout, Masood going on to record a maiden T20I half-century of his own, but Adil Rashid struck twice and Wood finished with 3 for 24 as England regained the series lead with a thumping win.Wood fires the defence
Although England piled up the runs after being inserted, another raucous crowd watched on expectantly as Babar and Rizwan walked out together, barely 24 hours on from the record, unbroken 203-run opening stand that had levelled the series. But hopes of an encore were quickly scotched, as England’s reshaped attack ripped out the cream of Pakistan’s batting.The first cut was the deepest, as Wood immediately set about cranking up the pace to levels none of his compatriots can match. His fourth delivery was back of a length in the channel outside off, encouraging Babar to open up the shoulders – but with 147kph/91mph of heat on the ball, Pakistan’s batting bellwether could only manage a thick edge that soared down to deep third, where Topley calmly held a head-high catch. Silence descended on the National Stadium as Babar trudged off.Mark Wood bowled with extreme pace on his return to action•Getty Images

Topley then removed Rizwan in the next over with a slower delivery that pinged leg stump, and Wood had his second a ball later as Haider Ali spliced another rocket to square leg. Wood’s last senior appearance in any format came during the Antigua Test in March, his summer wrecked by two elbow operations; but any doubts that he could still be a potent weapon at the T20 World Cup were immediately dispelled by a spell in which he was clocked at 156.2kph/97mph, the value of his extra gas rarely more explicit.England’s new-look engine room
Coming into this series, it was far certain that both Brook and Duckett would play in the middle order. The latter is not in England’s T20 World Cup squad and hadn’t been capped in any format since 2019, while Brook benefited from the absence of Liam Livingstone and Ben Stokes in Pakistan to add to his four previous appearances. Both showed glimpses of what they were capable of in the first two T20Is, before kicking things up a notch here.They came together in the ninth over, after Will Jacks’ sparky debut innings of 40 off 22 ended with a catch in the deep. As in the second T20I, Duckett stuck closely to his brief of trying to take down spin during the middle overs, bringing out an assortment of sweeps and paddles – both orthodox and reverse – while Brook relied on a more textbook technique to produce an array of eye-catching shots.His fifth and seventh balls, bowled by Usman Qadir, were sent over the ropes, the first straight down the ground and the next over extra cover as the bowler tossed it up wide of the stumps. Haris Rauf, a sometime team-mate with Yorkshire and Lahore Qalanders, for whom Brook scored the second-fastest PSL hundred earlier this year, was hooked brusquely for six, as England began to track at ten an over with plenty of time left in the innings. Shahnawaz Dahani’s third over went for 16 as Brook raced to a 24-ball fifty.Duckett notched his own half-century, from 31 balls, in the next and Rauf briefly stopped Brook in his tracks with a bouncer that lodged in the grille of his helmet. But they were off again, as Duckett swatted Mohammad Hasnain over deep square leg and Brook showcased both power and precision, drilling Dahani for a straight six and then deftly steering a follow-up yorker wide of the keeper. Dahani finished with 0 for 62, the second most-expensive analysis by a Pakistan bowler in T20Is.Masood massages the margin
With Babar and Rizwan ensconced at the top of the order, Masood has had to take his chance wherever he can find a space. The 32-year-old made 7 off 7 batting at No. 4 on debut in the first T20I, and appeared ill-suited to the demands of trying to nail down a spot in Pakistan’s ever-changing middle-order roster, where the openers’ methodical run-plundering often requires those who come after to tee off straight away.It may have come in a lost cause, but Masood’s performance on this occasion suggested he has the wherewithal to survive. He played freely against England’s two spinners, twice dumping Rashid over the ropes and going to a 28-ball fifty with another six off Moeen Ali, outscoring both of his partners, Khushdil and Mohammad Nawaz, during consecutive 50-plus stands that lifted Pakistan away from ignominy. And perhaps his canniest move was making sure to only face three balls from Wood.

كشف أحمد سالم المتحدث باسم نادي الزمالك، عن آخر التطورات الخاصة بالأزمة الناشبة مع عبد الله السعيد لاعب فريق الكرة، موضحًا موقفهم من اللجوء للمحكمة الرياضية بشأن قرار لجنة التظلمات حول مباراة القمة أمام الأهلي.

وتوترت العلاقة بين نادي الزمالك وعبد الله السعيد لاعب فريق الكرة، قبل مواجهة بتروجيت في الدوري المصري، بسبب الخلاف على تجديد عقده مع القلعة البيضاء.

وقال أحمد سالم في تصريحات تلفزيونية عبر القناة الأولى: “عبد الله السعيد رمز كبير جدًا، ولن ننسى أنه اختار الزمالك بكامل إرادته، وقرر أن يكون موجودًا في النادي خلال هذه المرحلة من حياته”.

وتابع: “في الوقت نفسه، يتمسك الزمالك به لأنه قائد حقيقي داخل الملعب وخارجه، ولكن مراحل التفاوض دائمًا ما تحمل شائعات كثيرة وشدًّا وجذبًا، وعروضًا تُقدَّم وتُسحب، ونتمنى أن تنتهي الأمور على خير، وأن نتمسك ونتشرف باستمرار عبد الله السعيد معنا”.

وأضاف: “من الواضح أننا سنظل نزيد في عدد أندية الدوري، حتى نصل إلى 30 أو 40 ناديًا، لأن البداية لم تكن صحيحة، وعلاج الأزمة ليس في عدد الأندية، ولكن أندية الشركات هي التي دمرت الكرة المصرية، وحولت الدوري إلى دوري شركات”.

وأكمل: “أعتقد أن الموضوع يحتاج إلى علاج للأزمة نفسها وليس مجرد مسكنات كإلغاء الهبوط كل موسم، وليس من المفترض أن تكون هذه سياسة إدارة الكرة أو الهبوط أو غيره”.

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وبسؤاله عن حل أزمة القيد لنادي الزمالك، أوضح: “هو خبر سعيد أننا نحل مشاكل، وغير سعيد أننا نرمي أموالًا في غير محلها، والـ 6 ملايين دولار هذه كان يمكن للزمالك أن يستفيد بها في الصفقات والإنشاءات”.

واستطرد: “منذ عام ونصف ونحن نحل مشاكل بهذا الكم، غير مستحقات كانت متأخرة، وديون متراكمة في كل الألعاب، ووقف قيد في ألعاب كثيرة، الخروج من دوامة الديون خبر سعيد لكنه في نفس الوقت تكلفة باهظة ومرهقة جدًا نتمنى ألا تتكرر مرة أخرى”.

وبسؤاله هل هناك أي أزمات ما زالت مفتوحة؟، أجاب: “في الأجل القصير نتمنى أن نمر بموسم الانتقالات بدون أزمات، وإن شاء الله المتبقي (مقدور عليه)”.

وبشأن هل الزمالك يملك ما يكفي لشراء لاعبين جدد؟، أردف: “الكل يعمل بالتوازي، فمثلما توجد لجنة تخطيط، توجد لجنة لتنمية الموارد من أكبر العقول الاقتصادية في مصر، بعيدين عن الأمور الفنية والمشاكل الإدارية، واهتمامهم توفير الموارد المالية من كل الاتجاهات ويعملون بتركيز شديد”.

وواصل: “هم يعلمون أهمية موسم الانتقالات بالنسبة لجماهير الزمالك، والدليل أننا لم ندفع مليوني دولار ولا نعقد صفقات، والطبيعي أن ترفع القيد أملًا في التدعيم، وهناك جهات رقابية ولا يوجد مليم يدخل النادي أو يخرج منه إلا ويتم إدراجه في الميزانيات التي تقدم”.

وبسؤاله عن التصعيد للمحكمة الدولية فيما يخص أزمة القمة، أوضح: “جاري تجهيز الأوراق ومستمرون في التصعيد حتى يعود الحق كما كان، الأوراق ستجهز بأقصى سرعة، الموضوع بسيط وواضح، ويكفي اعتراف رئيس لجنة المسابقات بأن القرار الصحيح كان خصم الـ 3 نقاط”.

رئيس رابطة الأندية يوضح سبب عدم خصم نقاط من الأهلي بعد أزمة مباراة القمة

وأشار: “فكرة تحصين قرارات مجلس إدارة الرابطة التي تم الترويج لها أنها موجودة في دوريات أخرى ويقال الدوري الإماراتي، لكن في الدوريات الكبرى مثل الإنجليزي أو الإيطالي أو الفرنسي، لا يوجد موضوع التحصين منعًا لأي فتن أو شكوك، والمحكمة الرياضية ستكون صاحبة الفيصل في هذا الموضوع”.

وحول وجود ملف تضامني مع بيراميدز، أجاب: “لا، يوجد تضامن معنوي، لكن لا يوجد ملف مشترك، والحكم سيكون وفق ما تراه المحكمة”.

ويستعد الزمالك لخوض مباراة هامة أمام بتروجيت، وذلك السبت المقبل، ضمن منافسات الجولة الثامنة من مرحلة الحسم في مسابقة الدوري المصري الممتاز.

The six-team tournament begins in the UAE with Sri Lanka taking on Afghanistan on August 27

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Aug-2022

Fans in Dubai will get to watch India vs Pakistan again•AFP via Getty Images

India and Pakistan will play each other for the first time since the 2021 T20 World Cup when they face off in the Asia Cup on August 28 in Dubai, a day after the tournament begins with Sri Lanka taking on Afghanistan. Bangladesh open their campaign against Afghanistan on August 30 in Sharjah.The fixtures of the 2022 Asia Cup, which will be played in the T20 format ahead of the T20 World Cup in October, were announced on Tuesday. India, Pakistan and the team that wins the qualifying tournament comprise Group A, while Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are in Group B.All matches will start at 6pm local time, with ten games in Dubai and three in Sharjah.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

The qualifying round of matches to determine the sixth team will begin on August 20 in Oman. The teams competing for a place in Group A – along with India and Pakistan – are UAE, Kuwait, Singapore and Hong Kong.In the main draw, each team will play the other two in their group once, and the top two teams from each group will enter a Super 4 round that starts on September 3. The teams in the Super 4 round will play each other once, with the top two sides qualifying for the final on September 11.India are the defending champions of the Asia Cup, which was last played in 2018 in an ODI format. India had won the title by beating Bangladesh in a last-ball thriller in Dubai.This edition of the Asia Cup was supposed to be held in Sri Lanka but it was moved to the UAE last month because of the ongoing economic crisis in the island nation. SLC will continue to be the official hosts of the tournament, although it is being played in the UAE.”Considering the prevailing situation in Sri Lanka, the ACC after extensive deliberation has unanimously concluded that it would be appropriate to relocate the tournament from Sri Lanka to the UAE,” the ACC president Jay Shah had said. “Every effort was made to host the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka and the decision to shift the venue to the UAE was taken after much deliberation. The UAE will be the new venue while Sri Lanka will continue to retain hosting rights.”

The BCB is waiting for Tamim to give an update on his hiatus from T20Is and his availability for the T20 World Cup

Mohammad Isam07-Jul-2022

Shakib Al Hasan will not be part of the Zimbabwe tour•AFP/Getty Images

Shakib Al Hasan will skip Bangladesh’s white-ball tour of Zimbabwe, the BCB’s cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus has confirmed. Shakib is also reportedly out of the ODI series in the West Indies, which begins next week.Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim, the other three senior players, are available for the Zimbabwe tour. Bangladesh will play three T20Is and as many ODIs during their two-week trip, starting July 30. It was initially assumed that the board may send a second-string side because of the team’s busy schedule this year and the fact that the ODIs are not part of the World Cup Super League, but Yunus said otherwise.”Most of the senior players are available,” Yunus said. “They all want to play [in Zimbabwe]. Shakib informed us that he isn’t going. We have confirmed a team with the selectors. A full-strength team will go to Zimbabwe. It is an important series although [the World Cup Super League] points are not involved. But we want to do well there. Many people said it would be a second-string team but no, we want to send a strong Bangladesh side.”Tamim, though, will not be part of the T20I series. He had said earlier this year that he would take a six-month break from the format. Yunus said the board was waiting for an update from Tamim about his hiatus.”Tamim will let us know, maybe after this series or end of July,” Yunus said. “He had asked for time till July and he was supposed to inform us in August. At the end of July, or at the beginning of August, he will inform. We don’t have to give reminders. We have held plenty of meetings with him. So there is nothing to remind him of.”He didn’t even tell us if he is available for the [T20] World Cup. Forget the World Cup, whether or not he will play T20Is is important. We were always positive and we wanted him. The decision belongs to him, not us.”

Brighton & Hove Albion could renew their interest in an “excellent” centre-back this winter, with Fabian Hürzeler keen to strengthen his defence in a number of areas, according to Sky Sports.

Brighton going through a difficult patch

Life at the American Express Stadium could hardly have started much better for Hürzeler, and his side were flying high in the Premier League table after impressive back-to-back victories against Manchester City and AFC Bournemouth.

However, the Seagulls have been brought back down to earth over the past few weeks, now without a win in their last seven matches, and fans will be particularly disappointed by the 3-1 home defeat against rivals Crystal Palace.

Hürzeler’s side are still faring quite well in the Premier League, sitting inside the top half, but the manager is likely to be a little concerned by their defensive record, having kept just one clean sheet in their last 12 matches in all competitions.

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As such, Brighton could look at strengthening their defensive options in the January transfer window, and Sky Sports reporter Lyall Thomas has now dropped an update on some of the targets they have in mind.

Most notably, Thomas reports that the Seagulls could make a move for PSV Eindhoven’s Olivier Boscagli, who could be brought in as a long-term heir to Lewis Dunk.

“Brighton are looking to continue some ideas from the summer, mainly at right-back and also a new left-sided centre-back.

“The right-back issue is mainly born out of the fact both Tariq Lamptey and Joel Veltman are out of contract in the summer so can speak to foreign clubs from January 1.

“One player they looked at in the summer at right-back is Andrei Ratiu at Rayo Vallecano but a deal did not materialise. This is the profile of player they are after.

“PSV centre-back Olivier Boscagli was a target in the last window and they may look to revisit that path as they seek a long-term successor to 33-year-old captain Lewis Dunk.”

Boscagli showing promising signs at PSV

The Frenchman has impressed across a number of key metrics over the past year, ranking in the 91st percentile for interceptions per 90, and the 99th percentile for assists, when compared to his positional peers, highlighting his ability in both boxes.

Members of the Dutch media have lauded the 27-year-old as “excellent”, particularly in possession, which could make him a perfect fit for this Brighton side, given that such a heavy focus is put on retaining the ball.

However, the defender’s decision-making off the ball is called into question, indicating that he would have to improve in order to replace Dunk on a long-term basis.

The Brighton captain is now 33-years-old and arguably in the latter stages of his career, and it is important that Hürzeler brings in the right man to replace him, given how vital he has been for the Seagulls over the years.

Parkinson takes all three host wickets after Qadri’s six-wicket haul has Lancashire all out for 506

Paul Edwards15-Apr-2022The sensible folk who suggest that we shouldn’t play first-class cricket beyond the margins of summer will have to reckon with the April we are enjoying. When Phil Salt eased Jackson Bird’s first ball of the morning to deep square-leg for a single, only the barely leafed trees would have convinced a stranger that this game was not taking place in high summer.The sky was little more than wisped with cloud and you needed to be a belt-and-braces cove to wear a coat. Within ten minutes of the second day beginning at the Spitfire Ground, Steven Croft had taken both Bird and Matt Milnes for off-side boundaries and pragmatic Kent supporters became reconciled to the probability of their batsmen facing a tall score for the second successive game.Nothing to churn the bowels there, of course. Last week, Ollie Robinson’s batsmen piled up 581 for 9 declared in reply to Essex’s 514 in a game that was not only drawn but also hung and quartered. Such totals were not unusual in the first round of matches and nor were draws. Some in the crowd reckoned this match would have the same outcome when Kent’s openers put on 109 in reply to Lancashire’s 506, but the atmosphere changed in a last hour during which Matt Parkinson took three prime wickets, among them that of Zak Crawley for 54 lovely runs. Yet one wondered where those early-season, seaming pitches had gone, along with the 70mph bowlers salivating at the thought of them. Lancashire’s batsmen played Darren Stevens with a broomstick on the first day here, albeit a very straight one.The mileposts of acquisition came and went this morning, some more noticeable than others: Salt passed fifty in his first Lancashire innings; the century partnership came up; then the 400; then Croft’s 150. The batsmen walked many of their singles and felt the season’s young sun on their backs. On the other hand, the report of Salt’s square cut off Nathan Gilchrist would not have shamed a grouse moor. Lancashire’s bowlers relaxed in the pavilion and reflected that the best moment of the match was when Dane Vilas won the toss. Then Robinson switched Hamidullah Qadri to the Pavilion End and Croft edged his first ball to the Kent keeper behind the stumps. He departed for 155, which was one short of his career-best.Half an hour later, Salt lunched on 97, an arrangement which allowed the Lancastrian statisticians some 273 miles away to prepare a mighty array of statistics on the county’s debut centurions. Alack, they went unquoted. Qadri’s second ball of the afternoon was a squalid long-hop but Salt thrashed it straight to Daniel Bell-Drummond and thus became the first of four batsmen to be dismissed by the Afghanistan-born spinner in 16 balls. Hasan Ali was the last of these and his dismissal left Parkinson facing the hat-trick delivery, a situation which often makes the bowler favourite. But Bolton’s finest squirted the thing through gully and Lancashire had 500 up before Qadri knocked out Lamb’s middle peg to complete a career-best 6 for 129.Kent’s reply followed the pattern of the previous two days. The only change seemed to be that instead of wickets falling infrequently, they wouldn’t fall at all. Hasan’s first spell for Lancashire was more successful than his first innings and Crawley needed good judgement to let a few balls go. The Pakistani seamer has a whippy action and his left arm does so little work that a batsman might be disconcerted when the ball is delivered. But Crawley followed his checked drive off Tom Bailey in the third over with an even more conclusive stroke through mid-off when Lancashire’s new signing over-pitched. Later the opener would play a back-foot force through the covers off Danny Lamb and a brace of cuts off Luke Wood. These bowlers are not poor players; whatever Kevin Pietersen may say, they are entitled to professional careers. But they were mastered this Good Friday afternoon by a Test match cricketer.At the other end Ben Compton was batting with comparable assurance and offered further evidence of his determination to make the most of his chance at Canterbury. His century at Chelmsford has not sated his appetite. When Kent came in for tea on 51 without loss after 21 overs, Lancashire’s bowlers surely thought that a day or so of hard pounding for slight reward might lie ahead, even if they left such views unexpressed.As in the visitors’ innings, leg spin offered the greatest threat. Perhaps guided by Robinson’s late change, Vilas brought Parkinson on from the Pavilion End and Kent’s openers paid him due respects. Quite apart from his two wickets, Parkinson conceded only 39 runs off his 20 overs on this second day; like Liam Patterson-White, he is finding that the demise of spin bowling in April has been rather over-egged.His long spell was broken only by tea and his willingness to vary his flight while maintaining good lengths to batsmen of different heights was admirable. So it was pleasing when he gained his rewards in the final hour of play when what seemed to be a top spinner defeated Crawley’s only inelegant stroke of the day and wrecked his stumps.There was further grief for Kent when Bell-Drummond, having survived two full-throated lbw appeals from Hasan, was bowled by a lovely leg-spinner from Parkinson for 2. Four overs later, Tawanda Muyeye, having picked up Bailey for two assured leg-side fours was lbw to Parkinson when playing no shot. Lancashire thus collected their first point for bowling before Kent picked up theirs for batting. An hour earlier it had seemed a remote prospect.And still, it had been a day for light rollers and light hearts. You might have thought it a July evening and at least one spectator called it paradise. But then, he had sat in the Frank Woolley Stand and watched Crawley hit boundaries; he knew there were afternoons when poems write themselves.

Top-order runs and a ruthless new-ball bowling performance from Lahore Qalandars saw Shaheen Shah Afridi’s side coast to a eight-wicket victory over Quetta Gladiators. It began with the trademark Afridi first over which brought two wickets, including the prized scalp of Jason Roy. Before long, the Gladiators had slumped to 25 for 4, with the recovery only taking them to 141. It was never really a challenge for the home side, with fifties from Fakhar Zaman and Kamran Ghulam seeing them canter to victory with 2.3 overs to spare.Roy gloved the second ball of the game to Phil Salt behind the stumps, and the Gladiators once more began to look like the tepid, unimpressive side that managed just one win in four games without him. Fellow Englishman James Vince was cleaned up with a pearler, darting between bat and pad to clean up the stumps. The Gladiators’ penchant for errant running cost them dearly soon after, with the previous day’s Player of the Match Sarfaraz Ahmed run out off a direct hit cheaply. Rashid Khan, who bowled a glorious spell, conceding just 13 in four overs, bowled Ahsan Ali with a googly in his first over to leave the Gladiators reeling.The recovery came initially through another little cameo from Umar Akmal, and then a 51-run stand between Iftikhar Ahmed and Hassan Khan. Iftikhar scored a 39-ball 52 to ensure the Gladiators would have something to bowl at, but needed to bat through the innings to realistically give them a defendable total. Once he holed out in the 18th over, the innings petered out.There was little jeopardy in the second innings. The Qalandars didn’t go hard in the powerplay, but only because they didn’t especially need to. Ghulam Mudassar removed Abdullah Shafique early but Fakhar’s sensational stint in the PSL showed no signs of abating. The opener struck six boundaries during a 42-ball 53, and even when he top-edged one off Noor Ahmed to end his knock, his side required just 24 more in 27 balls.Mudassar and Mohammad Hafeez picked those off with little fuss as the Qalandars tightened their grip on second spot. They’re on the brink of making the playoff stages of a tournament that will now be played entirely at home for them. The side so accustomed to finishing bottom might have some home glory in store for them after all.

أبدى كيفين جونسون، المدرب السابق للنادي الأهلي، ثقته في أن مواجهة فريقه الأسبق أمام صن داونز في نصف نهائي دوري أبطال إفريقيا ستكون مواجهة تكتيكية ومختلفة عن اللقاءات السابقة بين الفريقين.

وسيعود الأهلي وصن داونز من جديد للمواجهة في المربع الذهبي وهي مباراة اعتاد عليها الجمهور المتابع للبطولة الإفريقية.

وستكون مباراة الذهاب في جنوب إفريقيا يوم 18 أبريل الجاري في حين الإياب سيكون يوم 25 أبريل بالقاهرة.

اقرأ أيضًا.. كاف: الأهلي الأكبر في إفريقيا.. ننظم البطولات بشفافية وتطورات جديدة بشأن الفار

وتواصل بطولات مع جونسون للحديث عن المواجهات المنتظرة بين الأهلي وصن داونز وكذلك مباراتي بيراميدز ضد أورلاندو بايريتس والتواجد الجنوب إفريقي القوي هذا الموسم.

كيف ترى تأهل الأهلي وصن داونز إلى نصف نهائي دوري أبطال إفريقيا؟ وهل ستكون المواجهة المقبلة مختلفة عن السابقة؟

كلا الفريقان واجها صعوبات في التأهل، وكانت المنافسة مختلفة تمامًا بينهما، المباراة القادمة ستكون كما يخطط لها المدربون، سواء ذهابًا أو إيابًا، ولا يمكن مقارنتها بالمواجهات السابقة.

أداء الأهلي هذا الموسم كان غير مستقر في أكثر من مباراة، وكذلك الحال بالنسبة لكاردوزو مع صن داونز، رغم تصدره الدوري المحلي.. هل سيؤثر هذا على المواجهتين القادمتين؟

“لا، دوري أبطال أفريقيا بطولة مختلفة تمامًا، وكلا المدربين يدركان ذلك جيدًا”.

هناك حضور قوي للأندية الجنوب إفريقية هذا الموسم في البطولات القارية، مثل صن داونز، أورلاندو بايرتس، وستيلينبوش، ما السبب في ذلك؟

“نعم، لدينا ثلاثة فرق، اثنان في دوري أبطال إفريقيا وواحد في الكونفدرالية، هذا يُظهر الكثير عن قوة الدوري المحلي لدينا، وقوة اللاعبين من حيث الذهنية، والمهارة، والتكتيك”.

ماذا تتوقع من مباراة الأهلي ضد صن داونز؟ وهل تتوقع نهائيًا مصريًا جنوب إفريقيًا، أم مصريًا خالصًا، أو جنوب إفريقيًا خالصًا، مع مواجهة بيراميدز ضد أورلاندو بايريتس؟

“الأهلي ضد صن داونز ستكون مباراة تكتيكية ومغلقة بلا شك، كذلك مواجهة بيراميدز وأورلاندو بايرتس ستكون قوية، فكل الفرق الأربعة لديها مدربون ولاعبون مميزون، وأنا أعرفهم جميعًا”.

“أعتقد أن المنافسة يجب أن تتوقف عند نصف النهائي (ضاحكًا)، ومن يصل إلى النهائي سيكون قد استحق ذلك فعلًا”.

كل هذا يحدث قبل مواجهة مصر وجنوب إفريقيا في كأس أمم إفريقيا نهاية العام في المغرب.. كيف ترى المشهد بشكل عام؟

“منتخب جنوب أفريقيا قوي، وكذلك منتخب مصر، أعتقد أن المباراة بينهما ستنتهي بالتعادل”.

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