Kusal Mednis will come into the Sri Lankan T20I squad in place of the injured Kusal Perera
Andrew Fidel Fernando13-Feb-2018
Kusal Mendis scored a century on his 23rd birthday•Associated Press
Kusal Perera has been ruled out of the T20 internationals against Bangladesh, and has been replaced in the squad by Kusal Mendis. Perera had suffered a side strain while batting in Sri Lanka’s third ODI of the tri-nation series that preceded the Tests, and had returned home for treatment. Although he was named in the T20 squad, he has not traveled with the team to Bangladesh.”According to medical advice, Perera needs more time to recover from the side strain,” an SLC release said. This is Perera’s second injury over the past year. In June he had pulled a hamstring while batting in the Champions Trophy, and was out of competitive cricket until November.Mendis, his replacement, has been in excellent Test form, but does not have an enviable T20I record. From eight international innings in the format, Mendis has a high score of 22, and a strike rate of 123. It is possible he will not play in the top order, with Danushka Gunathilaka, Upul Tharanga, Niroshan Dickwella and Dinesh Chandimal all jostling for positions. Mendis last played a T20I in February last year.The first of two games will be played in Mirpur on Thursday, before the action moves to Sylhet for Sunday.
أكد الحسيني أبو قمر نائب رئيس النادي المصري، مشاركة الفريق البورسعيدي في بطولة الكونفدرالية الإفريقية الموسم المقبل، مشيراً إلى أنه سوف يوجد تدعيم قوي للمصري البورسعيدي الفترة القادمة.
وقال الحسيني أبو قمر في تصريحات عبر قناة “إم بي سي مصر 2” عن تأهل المصري للكونفدرالية: “هذا طبقًا للنتائج الدور الاول، المصري سيشارك في الكونفدرالية الموسم المقبل، هذا حق أصيل لنا”.
وأكد: “كنا على تواصل مع الاتحاد الإفريقي ونعلم أننا مشاركين في بطولة الكونفدرالية”.
طالع أيضاً.. المصري يعلن انتهاء أزمة لاعبه السابق وتفادي إيقاف القيد من فيفا
وأتم: “توجد لجنة مسؤولة عن التعاقدات ونعد الجماهير بالتعاقد مع ما يرضيهم من صفقات وسيكون هناك أفضل أداء وتدعيم قوي للمصري في الموسم المقبل”.
Glasgow Rangers manager Michael Beale has signed a total of ten players on permanent deals since taking over from Giovanni van Bronckhorst back in November 2022.
Todd Cantwell and Nicolas Raskin arrived during the January transfer window, while this summer has seen a mass clear out of players from the first team squad.
Club stalwarts such as Allan McGregor, Ryan Kent, Scott Arfield and Alfredo Morelos all departed the Ibrox side following the expiration of their contracts, while Beale managed to lure eight players to Glasgow, spending a total of €16.2m (£13.9m) in the process.
Having failed to win a trophy during the 2022/23 season, losing out to Celtic for the Premiership title for the second year in a row, it’s clear that the 43-year-old will need to work his magic this term in order to claim glory of some sort.
With Europa League football guaranteed up to Christmas, the club will be playing twice a week over the next few months and this will mean Beale has to utilise his squad well.
Some of his signings have yet to settle while others have hit the ground running, but its evident that the Light Blues have struck gold on a midfielder who looks like he will continue to get better in the coming months.
How much did Rangers sign Todd Cantwell for?
Having enjoyed a good start to his Gers managerial career, Beale saw the January window as a chance to bring in a few players who could potentially make an instant impact at the club while helping to narrow the gap to Celtic.
Rabbi Matondo and Todd Cantwell
Raskin was a player the club had been tracking for a while and he arrived from Standard Liege on deadline day, yet it was a move for Cantwell which turned out to be a wonderful piece of business.
When he was at Norwich City in the summer of 2021, Aston Villa were showing interest in the Englishman and the Championship side valued Cantwell at a staggering £40m.
His former youth coach Gary Cockaday previously lauded him when discussing his talents, saying: “At one point, two of them had Todd up against the line and you could see them thinking, ‘Gotcha!’
“Todd looked at one of them in the eye, put his toe under the ball, flicked it back over his head, turned and he was gone. All without looking at the ball.
“He did things every week that were just special. It was God-given. No one taught it. I always believed if you had someone like that, don’t change them or make them conform.”
Just 18 months later, following a run of poor form at Norwich, the Light Blues managed to secure his signature for a bargain fee of £1.5m and this has already represented a wonderful bargain.
What is Todd Cantwell’s market value now?
Having been at the club for nine months, Cantwell has already seen his market value increase due to several impressive performances.
Todd Cantwell
According to Football transfers, the midfielder is now currently valued at €3.3m (£2.8m) and this represents a rise of 87% from the £1.5m that the club spent on him at the start of the year.
There is no doubt this value could still rise and Beale has hit the jackpot on the former Norwich starlet.
Why is Todd Cantwell worth this?
During the first half of the 2022/23 season, the 25-year-old played 19 times for the second tier side, yet failed to score or assist, and his performances weren’t up to the required standard.
It looked as though a fresh start was the best thing for him in order to rediscover the form which had led him to be valued at £40m and win two Championship titles with the club, even netting six goals in the Premier League across just 45 appearances.
The move to the Gers came at precisely the right time, and he hasn’t looked back since moving North of the border.
Across 20 games for the club, Cantwell scored six goals and registered five assists, emerging as one of their finest players after the festive period, made even more remarkable considering he had just joined the team.
Indeed, he finished the season ranked third across the squad for overall Sofascore rating, while also ranking sixth for big chances created, eighth for key passes per game and fourth for successful dribbles per game, demonstrating his attacking talents right from the word go.
His performances got better as the season went on, and his defining display came against Celtic during the final Old Firm clash of the season at Ibrox in May.
The 5 foot 10 starlet netted his first derby goal while making three interceptions, three tackles and having two shots on target throughout as he proved to be a general nuisance to the Celtic defence.
Rangers midfielder Todd Cantwell.
Journalist Josh Bunting was full of praise for him during the match, saying: “Todd Cantwell outstanding in that first half for Rangers, turning out and away from tight spaces very neatly indeed and controlling the game in the middle of the park. Rangers the intensity has been so high and Celtic have been poor slow and ineffective which is very rare.”
The midfielder has yet to continue his rich vein of form from the end of last term into the current campaign, grabbing just one assist over nine games in all competitions.
The season is still young however and Beale has yet to find the system which will work best with the current players at his disposal.
Cantwell has thus played in four positions already during these games, yet to find a settled spot from which to express his creative talents.
There is no doubt signing the Englishman has been a stroke of genius by the manager however and considering how effective he was during his first six months means that as time goes on, he will just keep getting better and better.
The international break has arrived at just the right time for the club as they have endured a poor start to the 2023/23 campaign, yet the rest will hopefully do them the world of good and will give Cantwell the chance to come backfiring.
O ex-jogador Zico, eterno ídolo do Flamengo, lamentou a morte do amigo e companheiro dos tempos de atleta, Silva Batuta, que morreu nesta quarta-feira, no Rio de Janeiro. O ex-atacante, de 80 anos, estava internado em um hospital da Zona Sul da capital fluminense há cerca de dez dias. A causa da do falecimento ainda não foi revelada.
Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O'Hara has explained that Spurs have really missed out on signing a "fantastic" player for Ange Postecoglou.
Who have Tottenham signed in 2023?
Over the 2023 summer transfer window, Spurs chairman Daniel Levy moved to seal seven major signings in an effort to kickstart Postecoglou's era at the club.
Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, young centre-back Ashley Phillips, defender Micky van de Ven, midfielder James Maddison, winger Manor Solomon, striker Alejo Veliz and forward Brennan Johnson all put pen to paper on moves to north London before deadline day – giving them some real depth.
However, the Lilywhites were eventually forced to sell star striker Harry Kane, who put pen to paper on a move to German champions Bayern Munich.
Joining Kane out the exit door, either on permanent deals or temporary ones, Sergio Reguilon, Joe Rodon, Djed Spence, Harry Winks, Alfie Devine, Troy Parrott, Dane Scarlett, Davinson Sanchez and Tanguy Ndombele sealed moves elsewhere.
Despite losing their superstar player, Spurs have started this new season with real aplomb and head into Sunday's north London derby on a serious hot streak.
Indeed, Postecoglou's men have won four out of their opening five Premier League matches and are yet to lose a game so far. Only high-flying Brighton and European champions Man City have scored more goals than them; highlighting Tottenham's exceptional form under their new manager.
What's the latest Spurs transfer news?
Now, ahead of the January window, it is believed the likes of OGC Nice midfielder Khephren Thuram are emerging as transfer targets – while Spurs could go back in for Bournemouth defender Lloyd Kelly after late summer interest.
Despite their impressive start to 2023/2024, though, talkSPORT pundit Jamie O'Hara has claimed that Tottenham really missed out on one player this summer.
Indeed, the ex-Spurs midfielder claims his former side really should've moved for West Ham star James Ward-Prowse – who has since gone on to dazzle as one of the signings of the summer.
The Englishman has two goals and three assists to his name in the league so far, and practically won West Ham their Europa League opener against Backa Topola in midweek.
Ward-Prowse's two fairly late assists for Mohammed Kudus and Tomas Soucek played a heavy hand in ensuring they weren't shocked at home by the Serbian minnows.
Speaking to talkSPORT, O'Hara says he wished Tottenham put pen to paper on his transfer.
“I think he’s fantastic, I really do. I wish Tottenham had signed him." said the pundit.
O'Hara added that Ward-Prowse is "so much more" than a dead-ball specialist.
"He’s so much more than that as a player, he gets labelled as a set-piece specialist, but genuinely, he’s got so much more to his game than people think.”
The 28-year-old has also been lavished with praise by fellow pundit Micah Richards, who told The Rest is Football podcast this week that Ward-Prowse needs more credit.
“I’ve banged on about Ward-Prowse now for so long and nobody was taking me seriously," Richards said (via TBR).
"I was literally saying, he’s in a struggling team that don’t have a style of play and once he goes somewhere where he can express himself more, he’s got more than just taking free-kicks. He’s a comfortable footballer.
“When he’s played for England he’s not really took his chance so everyone sort of questions is he good enough for the highest level. But he is. He’s an amazing player. And he works hard, he can sit deep, also play further forward. I just love him. He’s been my signing of the season so far."
Rashid Khan endured a difficult captaincy debut, getting out for a first-ball duck and conceding 68 in nine overs as Scotland chased down 256 with 16 balls to spare
ESPNcricinfo staff04-Mar-2018IDI/Getty Images
It only took one match to affirm the wide-open nature of the World Cup Qualifier. In a spectacular opening-day heist, Scotland downed Afghanistan by seven wickets, with Calum MacLeod scoring his sixth ODI hundred and subjecting Rashid Khan, the world’s No. 1 ODI bowler, to one of his worst days as an international cricketer.Chasing 256, Scotland got there with 16 balls to spare, with MacLeod scoring an unbeaten 157 off 146 balls. He scored 108 off 118 against Afghanistan’s other bowlers, and 49 off 31 against Rashid’s legspin, off which he hit eight of his 24 boundaries. Rashid finished with figures of 1 for 68 in nine overs – this was the first time he had ended up with an economy rate of above 7 in his 38-match ODI career. He also scored a first-ball duck. All this happened on a day when, at 19 years and 165 days, he became the youngest man to captain an ODI side.MacLeod came in with Scotland 16 for 1; they lost their other opener two overs later to slip to 21 for 2. Both wickets had fallen to the mystery spin of Mujeeb Ur Rahman. It was here that Richie Berrington joined MacLeod. The two proceeded to add 208 in 223 balls, with MacLeod by far the dominant partner, Berrington scoring 67 off 95 balls before falling lbw to Rashid in the 43rd over of Scotland’s innings. By then, they only needed 27 off 44 balls, a task MacLeod and George Munsey completed with ease.Sent in to bat, Afghanistan made a plodding start, losing three wickets – two to Berrington’s medium-pace – while only scoring 49 in their first 15 overs. Berrington picked up his third wicket in the 19th over, getting Mohammad Shahzad out for an uncharacteristic 30 off 54 balls, leaving Afghanistan 71 for 4.Afghanistan needed to stop losing wickets, but they also needed some urgency. Mohammad Nabi and Najibullah Zadran achieved both, putting on 149 for the fifth wicket in 136 balls. At the end of the 41st over, Afghanistan were 219 for 4, and a total in the 280-300 range seemed within reach. But both set batsmen fell off successive balls, Najibullah for 67 off 69 balls and then Nabi – run out – for 92 off 82.The back-to-back wickets were a body blow to Afghanistan’s innings, their lower order collapsing in a heap to Safyaan Sharif and Brad Wheal. In all, the last six wickets fell while adding only 35 runs in 51 balls, leaving Scotland a far smaller target than they might have envisioned chasing at one point.
Em encontro com o prefeito da cidade de Santos, Paulo Alexandre Barbosa (PSDB), o presidente do Peixe, Orlando Rollo, solicitou ao Município uma área para construção de um novo Centro de Treinamentos para as categorias de base, o que será avaliado pelo poder público para que algo de interesse de ambas as partes seja realizado.
O encontro realizado nesta quinta-feira (08) contou, além da presença de Rollo, com a participação dos membros do Comitê Gestor: Eduardo Filetti, Luiz Fernando Cardoso, Mariza Brígido Mendes e Mário Badures, além do gerente de patrimônio Valdir de Souza e do conselheiro e assessor do Comitê, Diego Turato.
Da parte da prefeitura de Santos, também esteve presente o Secretário de Cultura da cidade, Rafael Leal.
Outros assuntos também foram abordados na reunião, como a reurbanização do entorno da Vila Belmiro e a construção de um Boulevard na Rua Tiradentes, que contempla o estádio, para realizações de ações de entretenimento nos dias de partidas do Peixe.
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NBB e Copa SP em Santos
Dois assuntos também levantados durante o encontro foi a possibilidade da cidade receber partidas do “Novo Basquete Brasil” e Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior.
Através do ex-jogador do Alvinegro, Paulo Jamelli, e o Departamento de Esportes Olímpicos do Alvinegro o Santos poderá disputar o campeonato brasileiro de basquete, solicitando à Arena Santos, ginásio de domínio público municipal, como local para recepção os jogos.
Além disso, a diretoria santista tem o interesse de sediar na cidade a primeira fase da Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior de 2021, tendo já feito a solicitação ao presidente da Federação Paulista de Futebol, Reinaldo Carneiro Bastos. O clube não recebe em casa os jogos da Copinha desde 2014.
Pelé
O Rei do Futebol também foi pauta do encontro, inclusive com Paulo Alexandre Barbosa recebendo uma camisa comemorativa dos 80 anos de Pelé, que serão completados em outubro.
Foi conversado sobre o projeto “Rei 80”, que se estenderia no mês de novembro, que marca 51 anos do milésimo gol do Atleta do Século, além do comprometimento por parte do Santos para conseguir um espaço no Museu Pelé à Associação dos Pesquisadores e Historiadores do Santos Futebol Clube, para uma exposição permanente do acervo dos seus membros.
سلط نادي ليفربول الإنجليزي الضوء على أداء لاعبيه مع منتخبات بلادهم خلال فترة التوقف الجارية، بما في ذلك المصري محمد صلاح.
وشارك محمد صلاح مع منتخب مصر في مباراة الفريق أمام بوركينا فاسو في التصفيات المؤهلة لكأس العالم.
وأشار ليفربول عبر موقعه الرسمي إلى مشاركة محمد صلاح في مباراة مصر وبوركينا فاسو.
اقرأ أيضًا | “صفقة مميزة”.. ليفربول يقترب من التعاقد مع بديل محمد صلاح
وكتب ليفربول: “لعب صلاح دورًا رئيسيًا في فوز مصر 2-1 على بوركينا فاسو، محمد صلاح صاحب القميص رقم 11 مع ليفربول، أرسل كرة داخل منطقة الجزاء ليصنع الهدف الأول الذي سجله محمود تريزيجيه في المباراة، وسجل تريزيجيه هدفين”.
وحقق منتخب مصر الفوز على بوركينا فاسو بهدفين مقابل هدف، في إطار التصفيات المؤهلة لكأس العالم.
كما علّق ليفربول على مشاركة قائده فيرجيل فان دايك في فوز هولندا أمام كندا 4-0 وديًا، ومشاركة يان جرافينبرخ لـ 85 دقيقة، وتواجد كودي جاكبو بديل.
Wolverhampton Wanderers have now been handed a prime opportunity to sign an "incredible" striker in the January transfer window, according to a report.
Do Wolves need to sign a striker?
Wolves completed the move for Atletico Madrid's Matheus Cunha in the last transfer window, following his initial loan spell from Atletico Madrid, but they had an otherwise quiet summer, only shelling out fees for four other new arrivals.
It is still very early days, but Cunha has not been particularly prolific in the opening stages of the Premier League game, having scored just one goal in his first five games, although the Old Gold have faced tough opposition in Manchester United, Brighton and Liverpool.
However, Hwang Hee-chan has made a flying start to the campaign, having already found the back of the net three times in the top flight, so it is unclear whether Gary O'Neil will need to pursue a new forward in the January transfer window.
That said, if the manager decides he wants to refresh his attacking options, then he may have now been handed a prime opportunity to do so, with Sport Witness relaying reports from Italy, linking Wolves with a new approach for Boulaye Dia.
Dia was targeted by the Old Gold during the latter stages of the summer transfer window, with the Premier League side making a loan offer with an obligation to buy, though their approach was knocked back by Salernitana.
After seeing the move fall through, the Salernitana striker made it clear he was not happy, and he hasn't featured for the Serie A side ever since, initially refusing to travel back to Salerno after the international break, citing personal reasons.
The 26-year-old has now returned to his club, but his long-term future is seemingly in doubt, with Sky Italia reporting he is "unmotivated" in training, and there is a real risk he will not feature for Salernitana before the January transfer window.
As such, Wolves may have a renewed opportunity to sign their summer transfer target this winter, and he could be available at a lower price.
How good is Boulaye Dia?
It is not a great sign that the Senegalese attacker has downed tools in training, simply because he did not get the summer move he wanted, but there are indications he could be a solid signing for Wolves this January.
The France-born striker has now proven himself in three of Europe's top leagues, scoring 14 goals in 36 Ligue 1 games for Reims in the 2020/21 campaign, before going on to amass ten goal contributions in 25 games for Villarreal the following year.
However, the former Reims man has looked most impressive in Serie A, averaging just under one goal every two games for Salernitana in the Italian top flight last season, netting 16 times in 33 outings.
Lauded as "incredible" by journalist Josh Bunting, Dia is a proven goalscorer at a very high level, and if Hwang's form dries up before the January transfer window, then it will definitely be worth Wolves making a renewed approach.