GUWAHATI: India thrashed South Africa by 16 runs in a high-scoring second T20I to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series here on Sunday. Sent in to bat, India rode on a solid batting performance in the top four, posting a mammoth total of 237 for three and then restricted the visitors to 221 for 3 in the allotted 20 overs.
Quinton de Kock (69 not out) and David Miller (106 not out) did a great job of scoring for the visitors.
KL Rahul (57) and Rohit Sharma (43) put on an opening partnership of 96 runs to lay the foundation for India at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium here.
Suryakumar Yadav (61) then took center stage as he hit five fours and as many sixes in his 102 off just 40 balls with Virat Kohli (49 not out).
After this Dinesh Karthik played an unbeaten 17 runs in seven balls.
Keshav Maharaj (2/23) was the most successful bowler for South Africa but it turned out to be a disastrous day for the rest of his bowling colleagues.
Arshdeep Singh (2/62) and Axar Patel (1/53) were the wicket-takers for India.
Brief Scores:
India: 237 for 3 in 20 overs (Suryakumar Yadav 61, KL Rahul 57, Virat Kohli 49 not out; Keshav Maharaj 2/23).
South Africa: 221 for 3 in 20 overs (David Miller 106 not out, Quinton de Kock 69 not out, Arshdeep Singh 2/62).
Indian javelin thrower Shivpal Singh has been suspended from competition until October 2025 due to a doping violation.
He later tested positive for the banned substance methandienone, a performance-enhancing steroid, according to Olympic.com.
As a result, the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) suspended Shivpal Singh for four years. The ban comes into effect from October 21, 2021, meaning the 27-year-old will be out of action until October 2025.
The athlete from Uttar Pradesh was a silver medalist at the 2019 Asian Championships, where he achieved his personal best throw of 86.23m. He also won the 2019 World Military Games.
Shivpal Singh is the fifth notable Indian athlete to be caught in a doping trap this year. Discus thrower Navjit Kaur Dhillon, runner Dhanalakshmi Sekar and quarter-miler MR Poovamma have all been banned from competitions due to violations. Tokyo Olympian Kamalpreet Kaur also failed the dope test.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has reportedly suspended funding for the third quarter to USA Cricket for its failures to provide a “Q2 financial report due at the end of June 2022”, along with the minutes of the “2021 AGM” .
A report by EmergingCricket.com said on Sunday that, in a letter from interim president Atul Rai, USA Cricket members were alerted to the “worrisome” current situation of the national governing body.
The report said Rai wrote the letter directly to members for the first time since taking over as interim president of USA Cricket in August.
The letter states that USA Cricket has not paid its staff or players for some time now, and has “over $200,000 pending invoices”.
In his letter, purportedly addressed to a USA Cricket member, Rai said, “It has been almost two months since the 2020 elections were finally completed and I have been appointed interim president of the USA Cricket Board. While I help bring about change.” Extremely important in the system, I am also trying to absorb the challenges that USA Cricket has thrown at me since taking on the new role.”
Detailing the financial issues facing USA Cricket, he said that when he took over he learned that the financial reports for the second quarter ending June 2022 had never been submitted.
“Soon after taking over, we were informed that the Q2 financial report due for the end of June 2022 had never been submitted! In addition, the audited financial report for 2021 which was also due on June 30, was due for several deadlines. The report also required the minutes of the 2021 AGM which was never held! You may recall that the 2020 AGM was held in May 2021!
Rai pointed out that the ICC had suspended funding for the third quarter due to non-compliance.
“As a result, the ICC has suspended our third quarter funding for non-compliance. I was surprised and disappointed to learn that USA Cricket has been missing the submission deadline for quite some time! USA Cricket’s current cash The flow situation is important because we have defaulted on staff salaries and US players’ salaries.
“In addition, there were over USD200K of pending invoices from past non-budgetary expenditures that were overdue, and we plan to pay them, having already paid a significant portion of it. Going forward, calendar and budget It will be published in January and there will be no expenditure outside the budget.”
Manchester United were back on top, restored to the pinnacle of the English game, reaching a historic high. When his financial results were released last week, his salary bill, £384.2m, was the biggest ever in the Premier League. As came their worst season since the 1980s, when they were 35 points behind their neighbors and as close to Watford as Man City, it showed that the cost of failure has never been higher.
United regained their title as big spenders in the summer; Given the increased fees, it may be wrong to say that they brought in £200m of players, but they paid £200m. Meanwhile, Manchester City made transfer-market profits and signed a striker at Erling Haaland, who now has 11 goals in his last six appearances.
The Manchester derby is still a money derby. It is a generalization to say that, after Alex Ferguson retired, both have spent a fortune, City Vale and United badly, but there is some truth to this. They won’t put up statues of Wilfred Boni or Eliakim Mangla outside the Etihad Stadium, but while United’s £1bn splashdown has arguably only been an unqualified success, in Bruno Fernandes, City’s annual nine-figure outlay has produced several, In which Kevin De Bruyne is on top. list. This summer, they were a far better seller than United.
But if the expense can be analyzed individually, and if so it is worth noting that Calvin Phillips’ 13 minutes of football means he has hardly given value for money so far, while Jack Grealish The £100m fee means they don’t even have extensive testing mass. City have had five Premier League titles since Ferguson’s retirement, United have none. City have won 11, since United’s last trophy, the 2017 Europa League.
The final verdict may be that, like Pep Guardiola before him, Erik ten Haag initially paid off to secure signs that would be transformative within the framework of his blueprint, or that United’s Skagen spending made a huge difference. The separate heir continued to cause problems. , It is too early to say that.
Instead, Sunday will be a barometer of progress, a test of the resurrection. United’s victories over Liverpool and Arsenal were flawed in the losers but still really encouraging.
The Etihad Stadium is a curious situation for United; They can win battles in enemy territory but, in one season, lose the battle. He has won four of the last six meetings on city soil and yet begins to trace Ferguson’s subsequent two reigns. David Moyes had a solitary defeat before the September 2013 visit. This proved particularly punishing for Marouane Fellaini, his lone recruit at the time, as United went down 4–0 in 50 minutes. United lost at home to West Bromwich six days later and Old Trafford’s invincibility began to blow.
Rewind to March and Ralph Rangnick traveled to Manchester with a more-than-respectable run of 26 points from 13 games. Another 4-1 defeat started another downward spiral. It reflects City’s justified fear of midfield domination. Cristiano Ronaldo was absent, injured and in Portugal, but he was dropped anyway as Rangnik made two false nines choices in Paul Pogba and Fernandes.
Ronaldo is part of the background. United’s salary bill would not have been that big if he had not been the highest paid player in the country. It’s been a little over a year since City’s original flirtation with him, which led to the delusional coup to re-sign the United legend; Such a long-term plan at Old Trafford could involve Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who had been luring his former Molde charge Haaland to be the future of United’s attack, but sacked a Norwegian long before he was picked for City. was done.
Coach Rahul Dravid on Sunday said that India is “hopeful” that injured pacer Jasprit Bumrah will make it to next month’s T20 World Cup despite being pulled out of the South Africa series.
Bumrah missed Wednesday’s opening win over the Proteas and is currently under medical supervision for a stress fracture of his back. News reports said the 28-year-old was certain to pull out of the Australia tournament, but coach Dravid said a final decision was yet to be taken.
Dravid told reporters on the eve of the second T20 match against South Africa to be played in Guwahati tonight. ” “Obviously until he is officially dropped, we will always be hopeful for Jasprit, not just as a team, but as an individual.” India will start their World Cup campaign in three weeks and Bumrah’s absence will be a blow to their chances at the showpiece event. ‘Not everything will be perfect’ Bumrah, who is undergoing rehab at the NCA, made a comeback in the last Australia series where he played two matches and traveled to Thiruvananthapuram for the first T20I against South Africa with the team, but this Already out. Play.
To some extent, we manage to get everything. Not everything will be perfect. It happens, it’s part and parcel of the game, we’re not the only team that suffers from injuries. “Obviously they can sabotage your plans a little bit if they happen closer to the big tournament. Everyone is doing their best to minimize injuries as much as possible,” Dravid defended his workload management. The former India captain said that injuries are normal and added that he works really hard with his sports science team to manage the workload of the players. “I don’t think there’s any team in the world that can say they don’t get hurt. It’s part of the game, you play the game a lot, you play it all the time, people will get injured, that’s the nature of the game, “They said.
Jemima Rodrigues played a promoter of perfection in T20Is with a career-best 76 to guide India to a 41-run win against Sri Lanka in their Women’s Asia Cup opening match in Sylhet, Bangladesh on Saturday. ,
Rodrigues put on a boundary-hitting exhibition as he smashed 11 fours and maximum in his 53-ball counter-innings to help India post 150 for six in a wicket where batsmen struggled due to low bounce.
Indian bowlers then bowled out Sri Lanka for 109 runs in 18.2 overs, striking at regular intervals. Indians were better than their Sri Lankan counterparts in all three departments.
India didn’t start well after being asked to bat. Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana (10) was dismissed first, while fellow opener Shafali Verma (6) continued to bat as spinner Oshadi Ranasinghe (3/32) became the first victim of the day. But Rodrigues, who is recovering from a wrist injury, kept the ball on time to perfection from the start.
Rodrigues completed his fifty in 38 balls and along with captain Harmanpreet Kaur took India past the 100-run mark.
After this the Sri Lankan bowlers came back with a flurry of wickets in the death overs. While Rodrigues continued to score at a decent pace, surpassing his previous career-best T20I score of 72, his innings soon ended with a slow and short delivery from Chamari Athapathuthu as the Indian bowled.
The spinners under Ranasinghe did a lot of work for Sri Lanka. Chasing 151, Sri Lanka went for a flier, conceding 13 runs in the first over bowled by fast bowler Renuka Singh (0/20). But Sri Lanka could not keep the momentum going as they lost wickets at regular intervals. With the required run rate rising, the Sri Lankans fell under the pressure.
