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Tottenham Hotspur are in contact with a former Bayern Munich boss to potentially replace under-pressure head coach Ange Postecoglou, according to reports, with the clock seemingly ticking on his stay in N17.

Tottenham likely to part ways with Ange Postecoglou

The prospect of Postecoglou’s departure from north London is gaining more and more traction.

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This week, The Telegraph reported that Tottenham could relieve Postecoglou of his duties, regardless of whether the Lilywhites end their 17-year wait for a major trophy by winning the Europa League.

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Even an historic night in Bilbao may not be enough to save the Australian, with Spurs on course for their worst ever Premier League season to date. They’re just one loss away from equalling their record for most defeats in a single domestic season, and it is highly likely Postecoglou is bestowed with that dismal record as champions elect, Liverpool, await them next at Anfield.

The 59-year-old has faced an uphill battle all season long, having lost a plethora of key players to injury for extended periods on a consistent basis, but 16th in the table is arguably still nowhere near good enough – even when factoring in their serious bad luck.

Attention is already turning to who could succeed Postecoglou, and there is no shortage of candidates linked to the potentially vacant role.

Mauricio Pochettino would privately love a return to Tottenham, according to reports, while the likes of Andoni Iraola (Bournemouth), Marco Silva (Fulham), Oliver Glasner (Crystal Palace), Thomas Frank (Brentford) and Scott Parker (Burnley) have all been linked recently.

Now, a new name in the form of ex-Croatia captain and former Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovač has emerged as a managerial target.

Tottenham make contact with Borussia Dortmund boss Niko Kovač

The 53-year-old was appointed by Borussia Dortmund on an 18-month deal to replace the sacked Nuri Şahin, and he’s since done a solid job, as Kovac attempts to spearhead European qualification after a previously disappointing campaign for the Bundesliga heavyweights.

The tactician, who’s previously won a German title with Bayern and two German cups – one with the Bavarians and one at Eintracht Frankfurt – has now turned heads at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

According to newspaper Bild, via Sport Witness, Tottenham have made contact with Kovac, via an intermediary but not directly with the club, as chairman Daniel Levy casts his net to Europe in search of a new head coach.

Spurs are said to view him as a good fit due to his intense and aggressive style of play, but as things stand, he doesn’t have an interest in leaving Dortmund. If this stance changes, Kovac’s reputation as a true leader appears to be exactly what Tottenham are crying out for.

“He [Kovac] has experience, he was a very good player and was the captain of the Croatia national team,” said Bayern legend Lothar Matthäus.

“He has charisma, he has passion, he knows about football. He was a leader as a player and is showing this as a coach too.”

Their captain looked underdone with the ball, and their fielding was patchy, as Australia had another bad day in Perth

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McDonald: ‘Second new ball could be our entry point back’

Mitchell Starc has never had a great poker face. Frustration was writ large all over it after Usman Khawaja was unable to grasp a rare low edge offered by Yashasvi Jaiswal at first slip.India were 104 without loss, leading by 150, on the same surface they had been bowled out on for 150 just 24 hours earlier. The same pitch which Australia had been bowled out for 104 on earlier in the day.It was the same exasperated look Starc had cut before tea when he was bowling around the wicket to Jaiswal with four men in the deep with a 22-over old ball.It was the same exasperation he had shown the night before in the post-day press conference, when he bristled at the idea that the pitch was too spicy to bat on.”The bowlers are allowed to bowl good balls,” Starc said. “There’s a lot spoken about when there’s a lot of runs, it’s like, the bowlers bowled badly. When there’s wickets, the [pitches] are tough. You’re allowed to bowl good balls. Maybe credit should go to both teams’ bowlers.”Despite 20 wickets falling in four sessions, the pitch was now deemed so flat that Starc was replaced by a batter to bowl bouncers with a 24-over old ball that still had a decent shine and Kookaburra’s gold lettering on it. The seam movement had diminished quite a bit in the middle session of day two, as the warm Perth sun and several extra rolls had helped settle the surface. But it hadn’t diminished so much as to warrant Pat Cummins abandoning all plans of standing the seam up on a good length and using Marnus Labuschagne to bowl bouncers after 24 overs.Australia had a bad day. They’ve had two bad days in a row. By the close, India’s lead had swelled to 218 and the opening partnership remained unbroken on 172. It was such a bad day that coach Andrew McDonald did the post-play press conference in a sure sign that things had gone rapidly awry after six months of careful planning.Starc was entitled to be frustrated by it all given he has been one of their standout performers over two poor days with both bat and ball. He had survived nearly the same number of deliveries as Australia’s entire top six combined while batting on this pitch.But it is rare to see this Australian unit so frazzled. Calm and consistent is their mantra. They have been anything but. They will never say it publicly, but there is no doubt Starc and his fellow bowlers were frustrated at the batting unit. These types of tensions happen all the time in cricket teams all over the world. It was clearly there today, exacerbated by the wonderfully controlled partnership between Jaiswal and KL Rahul who deserve an enormous amount of credit for grinding some excellent bowling down over a long period with outstanding decision-making and execution.But truthfully, Starc and Josh Hazlewood aside, Australia’s side have not looked particularly sharp overall.Related

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Cummins has epitomised that lack of sharpness. He came in deliberately undercooked. He was the only one of the three fast bowlers not to play a Sheffield Shield game before the Test series. He said before the Test that he prefers to be underdone ahead of a big series.It has shown across two days. He has been the most expensive of the quicks and the least threatening.The opposing captain, Jasprit Bumrah, had hardly overpitched in 18.2 overs of flawless bowling to tear through Australia’s batting line-up. Cummins’ lengths were nowhere near as precise by comparison. He is one of the few bowlers in the game to have been driven down the ground on multiple occasions.He dropped Rishabh Pant on 26 on the first day and failed to take a review that would have dismissed Nitish Kumar Reddy on 11, having burnt two reviews earlier on frivolous appeals.He bowled a bouncer late on the second afternoon that went for five wides. It is rare to see Cummins perform so far below his high benchmark.The pressure mounted on Pat Cummins and Australia on day two in Perth•Getty ImagesAustralia’s fielding has not been flawless either. Khawaja has dropped two chances across two days. One cost very little, the cost of the other is still counting.Just after his miss, Steven Smith had a run-out chance following a mix-up between Jaiswal and Rahul. But Smith’s throw to the non-striker’s was wide and wild, giving Nathan Lyon no chance of gathering cleanly.McDonald presented a picture of calmness, despite how his team had performed.”Morale is always good,” McDonald said. “It’s a pretty level team, whether it’s a good day or a bad day. We’ve got some problems to solve ahead of us. There’s no doubt we’re clearly well behind the game at this stage.”McDonald showed sterner defence than his batter’s had the day before, dead-batting questions around his team’s body language and the fact that his bowling coach, Daniel Vettori, was on the other side of the world preparing for the IPL auction with another employer after the bowlers had gone wicketless through 57 overs.”In terms of the way that we bowled, I don’t think was too dissimilar [to yesterday],” McDonald said. “Potentially, early on, we may have been a fraction short if I was to be critical, but I thought they went about their work well.”Beneath that calm exterior, it is clear though that the change in pitch conditions have flummoxed a team that is meticulous in its planning, with the ball-tracking data they base a lot of their plans around suggesting the swing and seam movement had all but disappeared by the end of day two.”The surface looked considerably drier today, it dried out fairly quickly,” McDonald said. “We thought there may have been a little bit more there. I suppose, if you want to say that we’re a little bit surprised, yeah, there wasn’t as much seam movement or swing, and I think the bowlers were presenting the same in a similar fashion to the way they were yesterday.”Australia have three days to avoid exasperation turning to despair and there is a lot of cricket left in this series to fight their way back.But cracks are appearing in Perth. Just not the kind they were hoping for.

Morgan scored a majestic 87* off 35 against Warriors, while Pollard made a seven-ball 26 against Bulls

Aadam Patel01-Dec-2022In terms of making statements, two wins in less than 24 hours is some way to go about business and that is exactly what New York Strikers have done at the Abu Dhabi T10.Since losing their first game on opening night, Kieron Pollard’s side have won five on the trot and after Eoin Morgan’s majestic 87* off 35 deliveries on Wednesday night against Northern Warriors, it was the turn of Pollard for some last over heroics against Delhi Bulls.With 22 runs needed off the last over in the first game of Thursday’s triple-header, Pollard stepped up to the plate and hit Dwayne Bravo for two sixes and then two fours to seal yet another victory. Morgan may have done it on the last ball. Pollard ensured there was none of that drama and did it with two to spare.In truth, a target of 113 should not have posed a serious challenge, especially the day after Strikers had chased down 144 and scored the highest total of the tournament thus far.After winning the toss, Tom Banton’s 46 off 23 allowed the Bulls reach three figures in a game where Rashid Khan made his eagerly-awaited debut for the Strikers franchise and without taking a wicket, showed his class with a tight couple of overs.Morgan’s heroics the night before meant that Strikers opted for the rather experienced if not unusual pairing of himself and Paul Stirling to open the batting. It was a strange sight for a man regarded in his prime as one of the great finishers but this is T10 and anything goes. The former England captain was in the runs again but failed to accelerate and when he was dismissed for 32, his side was still up against it, requiring 40 from 15.Step forward Azam Khan and Pollard. The floating powerplay in the penultimate over went for 16 and it came down to the heavyweight contest between Pollard and Bravo and a battle of two men who know each other so well.Bravo’s first delivery was a slower ball and Pollard landed the first punch and when Bravo’s second ball went the distance as well, the game was as good as done. By now, Bravo had lost his composure and his full toss was sent to the ropes, before Pollard finished the job with another boundary.It was a knockout blow that was celebrated with a clenched fist and a welcome knock for the skipper after a barren run in the competition, despite the form of his side. Since scoring 45* on opening night in a losing cause, Pollard had managed just one run in three innings but Thursday night in Abu Dhabi offered a reminder of his ruthless finishing ability and why he is still feared by bowlers around the world. That knack of hitting sixes at will sets him apart and if he carries on over the next few days, then there is every chance that the Strikers strike gold at the first time of asking.And while the Strikers seem to be hitting form at the right time, Team Abu Dhabi are also hitting the correct notes. It was the second successive night they restricted their opposition to a total of under 75 and again, they chased it down with relative ease.Once the in-form Iftikhar Ahmed was dismissed for two, Bangla Tigers struggled to get going and eventually ended on 74 for five. Chris Lynn’s unbeaten 34 navigated his side to the end before Brandon King hit the winning runs by sweeping Jake Lintott for six.Friday night’s last group game between the Strikers and Team Abu Dhabi is set to be a clash between two sides that are getting better and better as the tournament goes on and it would hardly be a surprise if the two teams were to meet again on finals weekend.

And is Joe Root’s 5 for 8 the best bowling performance by an England captain?

Steven Lynch02-Mar-2021Was last week’s two-day Test at Ahmedabad the shortest of all? asked Baskar Raghavan from India
The third Test in Ahmedabad lasted just 140.2 overs – or 842 balls – in all. That puts it seventh on the list of the briefest completed Test matches: it’s the shortest since 1934-35, when England beat West Indies on a rain-affected pitch in Bridgetown, in a match that lasted only 112 overs (672 balls).Three years earlier, on a similarly spiteful track in Melbourne, Australia beat South Africa in the shortest completed Test of all. It lasted just 109.2 overs (656 balls): South Africa were bowled out for 36 (left-arm spinner Bert Ironmonger, who was two months short of his 50th birthday, took 5 for 6) and 45 (Ironmonger 6 for 18).For the list of the shortest Tests of all, click here. (Note that this table includes drawn games; to see the shortest matches with a positive result, look down the fifth column to see the winners.)Overall, as this list shows, the Ahmedabad Test was the 22nd to be finished inside two days. A lot of those were early matches played on uncovered pitches – there have been only eight two-day finishes in more than 2000 Tests since 1946. The last time England lost inside two days was almost 100 years ago, in May 1921, when Australia won by ten wickets at Trent Bridge.Axar Patel took a wicket with the first ball he bowled in both innings of the third Test. Has anyone ever done this before? asked Mithun Pandey from India
Rather surprisingly perhaps, that feat by India’s Axar Patel, who took a wicket with his first delivery in both innings of the recent two-day Test in Ahmedabad, appears to have happened only once before (full details are not available for all Tests, but there don’t seem to be many other candidates). The other man known to have done it was also an Indian left-arm bowler: Zaheer Khan dismissed the Bangladesh opener Javed Omar for a king pair in Mirpur in May 2007, striking with the first ball of both the first innings and the follow-on.Gubby Allen’s 7 for 80 against India at The Oval in 1936 remain the best figures by an England captain•Getty ImagesAxar Patel has 18 wickets after two Tests. What’s the record? And with another Test at Ahmedabad coming up, what’s the best for three? asked Jeremy King from England
Axar Patel is one of five bowlers who took 18 wickets in their first two Tests: the others were John Ferris and Clarrie Grimmett of Australia, Alf Valentine of West Indies, and Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka. Five others took more: Sydney Barnes of England and Bangladesh’s Mehidy Hasan had 19, Bob Massie of Australia 21 and England’s Alec Bedser 22, while the Indian legspinner Narendra Hirwani led the way with 24 wickets after two Tests.The number for Patel to shoot at in the final Test is 31, by Hirwani again – so he needs the little matter of 14 wickets to beat that. Charles “Terror” Turner of Australia had 29 wickets after three Tests, and a more recent Aussie, Rodney Hogg, had 27. Then come Mendis and Australian legspinner Herbert “Ranji” Hordern with 26, and Bedser, Ferris, the South African seamer Vernon Philander, and England’s Fred Trueman with 24.Where does Joe Root’s 5 for 8 rank on the list of best bowling figures by an England captain? asked John Lynch from Vanuatu
There have been only three statistically better bowling analyses by England captains in Tests than Joe Root’s 5 for 8 in Ahmedabad last week. Bob Willis claimed 6 for 101 against India at Lord’s in 1982, while Sussex’s Arthur Gilligan had phenomenal figures of 6 for 7 as South Africa were bowled out for 30 at Edgbaston in 1924. But the best bowling figures of all by an England captain remain Gubby Allen’s 7 for 80 against India at The Oval in 1936.It’s an indication of the scarcity of bowling captains, especially for England, that there have been only 15 five-fors by their skippers in Tests.Ishant Sharma hit the first six of his career in his 100th Test. Has anyone taken longer to hit their first six? asked Sanjit Srivastava from Canada
There is only one player who waited longer for his first Test six than Ishant Sharma, who celebrated his 100th cap in Ahmedabad by finally clearing the ropes: Glenn McGrath of Australia collected his first (and only) six in his 102nd Test. The most matches in a complete career without a single six is 86, by England’s Derek Underwood, and the most Test runs without one is 3835, by another England player, Jonathan Trott. For that list, click here.Use our feedback form, or the Ask Steven Facebook page to ask your stats and trivia questions

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Experiente e com duas Copas do Mundo no currículo, o lateral Danilo assumiu o posto de capitão da Seleção Brasileira, na vitória contra a Inglaterra, na tarde deste sábado (23), em Londres. O jogador valorizou o triunfo brasileiro e o considerou simbólico, dado o número de jovens em campo.

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– Uma vitória que dá confiança para o seguimento do trabalho, dá um pouco mais de tranquilidade para implementar as ideias, para tirar aquela imagem construída nesse último ano. Precisamos vencer e trabalhar muito mais. É uma vitória que dá tranquilidade para trabalhar -, disse o capitão.

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Após enfrentar a Inglaterra, a Seleção Brasileira faz amistoso contra a Espanha, na terça-feira (26). A partida acontecerá no Santiago Bernabéu, às 17h30 (de Brasília).

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Pickford; Walker (Konsa), Maguire (Dunk), Stones e Chiwell (Joe Gomez); Rice, Gallagher (Mainoo) e Bellingham (Bowen); Gordon (Rashford), Watkins e Foden. Técnico:Southgate.

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Bento; Danilo, Fabrício Bruno, Beraldo e Wendell (Bremer); João Gomes, Bruno Guimarães (Douglas Luiz) e Lucas Paquetá (Andreas Pereira); Raphinha, Rodrygo (Endrick) e Vini Jr (Pablo Maia). Técnico:Dorival Júnior.

The allrounder fell just short of a century but added eight more overs to his match tally

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Cameron Green is shaping up nicely for the first Test•Getty Images

Queensland 390 and 187 for 8 (Clayton 54, Renshaw 51, Rocchiccioli 4-41) lead Western Australia 322 for 7 dec (Green 94, Bancroft 76, Hardie 55*) by 255 runsHe fell in the nervous 90s, but Cameron Green gave his Ashes hopes an almighty boost with a determined knock during Western Australia’s Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland at the WACA Ground.In reply to Queensland’s 390, WA started day three at a somewhat shaky 210 for 5 but with Green unbeaten on 49 and holding the key.Green drove spinner Mitch Swepson for four on the first ball on Thursday to bring up his half-century and looked set for a ton before being trapped leg before on 94 by Michael Neser just after lunch.Related

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WA, who are bottom of the table, declared at 322 for 7 immediately following Green’s dismissal, with Aaron Hardie the other notable scorer of the day.Queensland went to stumps at 187 for 7 in their second innings, a lead of 255 and with everything to play for on Friday.Opener Matt Renshaw, who narrowly missed selection in Australia’s Ashes squad, made 51 off 73 balls while battling a knee complaint, and Jack Clayton scored 54.The in-form Marnus Labuschagne was dismissed for 11 when he was bowled by Brody Couch.WA spinner Corey Rocchiccioli was the chief destroyer, snaring 4 for 41, with all four of those wickets coming across two of his overs late in the day as Queensland crumpled from 183 for 4 to 184 for 8.The performances of both Green and Rocchiccioli gave WA a shot at victory on what shapes to be an intriguing final day.Green’s 172-ball innings featured eight fours and one six, but more importantly plenty of patience when the occasion called for it.The impressive knock came after he had returned the economical figures of 1 for 13 from eight overs in his most significant bowling stint since undergoing spinal surgery a year ago. He followed that up with none for 17 off eight overs in Queensland’s second innings mean he has hit the target met by selection chair George Bailey.Australian selectors are yet to reveal whether they will unleash both Green and Beau Webster in the first Ashes Test in Perth, starting on November 21.But if they only opt for just one allrounder, Green’s performances with both bat and ball are certain to see him earn the nod.WA’s start to the day wasn’t great with Green’s attempt to come back for a second run resulting in Rocchiccioli’s run out on the third over of the morning.His runs dried up when Queensland took the new ball a short time later, with the 26-year-old forced to work hard against the swinging ball. Green was on 63 when he survived a confident lbw appeal from Neser, and he was on 74 when Gurinder Sandhu’s lbw shout fell on deaf ears.Queensland’s pace attack tried their best to put the squeeze on, but Green managed to survive the tough period to push closer to his century. He was finally undone when Neser’s delivery cut back and struck him flush on the pads.