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He became only the seventh bowler and the fourth pacer to the landmark

Sreshth Shah28-Jul-2020Courtney Walsh – March 2001 v South Africa, Port of SpainThe first man to reach 500 wickets, Walsh pinned Jacques Kallis lbw on the backfoot on the third day of the second Test. At the time of his dismissal, Kallis was displeased with the decision, suggesting an inside edge onto his pads; but Walsh didn’t care, and neither did the home fans. Walsh retired a month later, but not before adding a further 19 wickets to his tally.Shane Warne – March 2004 v Sri Lanka, GalleIn the spring of 2004, all eyes were on the two greatest spinners of the generation to see who would reach the 500-mark first. And it was the Australian who pipped Muttiah Muralitharan to the mark, when he forced Hashan Tillakaratne to top-edge a heave on the final day of the first Test with the visitors hunting for the win. Warne took 208 more wickets in the next three years to finish with 708 wickets, still the second-highest in the history of Test cricket.Muttiah Muralitharan – March 2004 v Australia, KandyWhile Warne got to 500 in the final innings of the first Test, Muralitharan got there in the first innings of the second Test, and that too at his home town. Fighting a stomach bug, Muralitharan took 4 for 48 in 15 overs, including the wicket of Michael Kasprowicz with an offbreak that bowled him through his defences. Although Warne’s match-winning performances dampened the Test match for Sri Lanka, Muralitharan reached the mark 21 Tests before the Australian. At the time, Muralitharan said that he wished to reach at least 650 wickets. He finished with 800, which is still 92 more than anyone else.Glenn McGrath – July 2005 v England, Lord’sMcGrath entered the iconic 2005 Ashes with 499 wickets, and the first English wicket – of Marcus Trescothick – helped the quick reach 500 when the opener edged one to Justin Langer at slip. It was a start Australia deperately needed, having been bowled out for 190 in the first innings. McGrath’s impetus helped them take a first-innings lead and even win the opening Test. Before the second game, however, McGrath injured his right ankle and the series turned on its head. Over the next 18 months, McGrath took 55 more wickets and at the time of his retirement, his tally of 563 was the most by a fast bowler.Anil Kumble – March 2006 v England, MohaliIn his 105th Test, Kumble became the second-fastest man to 500 when he trapped Steve Harmison lbw on the third day of the rain-hit second Test against England. It was his second wicket in two balls, with Kumble bowling Geraint Jones in the previous delivery with a wrong’un. He led through the game with nine wickets in a Player-of-the-Match performance. Kumble finished on 619 wickets, and remains the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket.James Anderson – September 2017 v West Indies, Lord’sLord’s became the first ground to witness two men getting to the hallowed figure when Anderson bowled opener Kraigg Brathwaite at the start of the second innings, ending an 11-year wait for a man to reach 500 Test scalps. In typical Anderson fashion, it was an inswinger that did Brathwaite, crashing into the batsman’s middle stump. The day got even better as Anderson took another six to wreck West Indies, finishing with 7 for 42 for the innings. Anderson is currently inching towards the 600-wicket mark, and if he gets there, will be the first pacer to do so in Test history.Stuart Broad – July 2020 v West Indies, Old TraffordBroad was on the field when Anderson got to 500, and Anderson accompanied him too when Broad got there three years later. The opponents were the same, and co-incidentally, so was the batsman. Kraigg Brathwaite, looking to defend off the back foot, was trapped lbw with a ball staying low and hitting him on his back leg on the final day of the final Test of West Indies’ tour. Broad got to the mark in his 140th Test, and is the slowest in terms of matches to get there.

Manchester City have announced that head coach Pep Guardiola will skip pre-match press duties ahead of a Premier League clash with Crystal Palace due to a "personal matter". Guardiola was due to face the assembled media on Friday, but his place in that hot seat will be filled by assistant manager Kolo Toure – with the Blues’ talismanic boss set to be back in the dugout at Selhurst Park.

Title challenge: Man City chasing down Arsenal

City are confident that the issue will not impact plans for a trip to South London. Guardiola is expected to take his place on the bench as usual after naming a team that he hopes can pick up three more points in an ongoing title bid.

A morale-boosting 2-1 victory over Real Madrid in midweek Champions League competition has helped to raise spirits in the City camp. They are now just two points adrift of table-topping Arsenal – who play host to rock bottom Wolves on Saturday evening.

Any slip up from the Gunners would leave the door open for City to climb to the summit, as they prepare to tackle high-flying Palace on Sunday. Guardiola heads into that game aware that his record against Eagles boss Oliver Glasner is not the best – with an FA Cup final defeat suffered against the Austrian tactician last season.

AdvertisementGettyWhy Toure is facing the press instead of Lijnders

Guardiola will, however, have City ready for another tough test in the English capital. That is despite being forced to miss a press conference due to issues in his private life. He has left matters in the capable hands of Toure.

Pep Lijnders, who once worked alongside Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, boasts more experience in the coaching department – and is accustomed to facing the media – but was also unavailable on Friday due to a scheduled day off.

Toure promotion: Guardiola freshened up backroom staff

Toure is speaking as the public face of City for the first time since being promoted to a first-team role over the summer. The 44-year-old represented the Blues and Arsenal – winning Premier League titles with both – in his playing days.

He began his coaching career as an assistant to ex-Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers at Celtic, before following him to Leicester. An unsuccessful spell was taken in as manager of Wigan Athletic during the 2022-23 campaign, with that stint lasting just nine games as no wins were picked up.

Former Ivory Coast international Toure – who played alongside his brother Yaya at City – returned to the Etihad Stadium as an assistant to U18s manager Oli Reiss in 2024. He was then allowed to bridge the gap between youth and first-team ranks in July 2025.

City’s academy director Thomas Krucken told the of that decision, as Guardiola freshened up his backroom staff: "Before the season starts, we sat together with Txiki [Begiristain], Hugo [Viana], the head of coaching, Kolo – he is a very important part now because he knows the players really well – and there are a core of four players training. The EDS train every day next to the first team so it's easy for us and the players Pep needs, he gets.

"The door to the first team is always open. I think we have a fantastic interface. Kolo is an important part but also Pep Lijnders has huge experience over a period of his seasons at Liverpool and before. He is an expert in working with young players. We have a regular meeting with Hugo, Pep Lijnders and Kolo, the head of coaching Jose [Luis Rueda] who is our head of Individual Player Development."

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GettyGuardiola at Man City: Win ratio and trophy wins

Former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Guardiola has been in charge of City since 2016. He has taken in 556 games at the game and boasts a win ratio of 70.5 per cent. The Catalan passed 1,000 matches as a manager this season.

He has overseen six Premier League title triumphs, with one of those – in 2022-23 – forming part of a historic Treble. In total, he has won 18 trophies with City and is tied to a contract through to the summer of 2027.

Manchester United are falling behind their rivals at academy level due to poor facilities and trouble recruiting staff, according to a new report. The club is renowned for developing young talent but that reputation is at risk amid a lack of players pushing for places in Ruben Amorim's first-team squad at the moment, while there is concern among staff about the direction the academy is heading in.

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  That's according to a report in which claims that the high level of turnover due to people leaving and Sir Jim Ratcliffe's redundancies is causing disruption. Nick Cox, the director of academy between 2019 and 2025 who oversaw the rise of Alejandro Garnacho among other graduates into the United first team, left in the summer to become Everton's technical director. Under-18 coach Adam Lawrence has gone to Newcastle to take charge of the Magpies' under-21s. Paul McShane, David Hughes and Simon Wiles have all left the academy lately, leading to concern about the club's ability to retain experienced and talented staff. 

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  Players using temporary facilities

  United spent £50m renovating the first team's training facility, which opened in August. However, there is concern that the investment in Ruben Amorim's side has come at the expense of the academy. Staff are working in prefabricated structures in the players’ car park, while a report in in October revealed that academy staff and first team analysts have to wash their own kit. A shortage of staff led to the under 13s not having enough socks and shorts for a match against Everton earlier this season, leading to the players having to wear Everton kit.

  Ratcliffe was less than complimentary about the academy in a recent interview with ' The Business podcast.  "The academy has really slipped at Manchester United," he said. "You need the academy to be producing talent all the time. It helps you financially. That’s not a light switch. You don’t solve the academy problem overnight. It takes time. We just recruited a new academy director."

  According to , those comments did not go down well with parents of young academy players. One of them told the newspaper: "Sir Jim’s comments don’t represent what parents think of the club. All it has done is unsettle some of the boys and their parents. He might even find that what he’s said means some families start to wonder if their child’s future would be best served at another club. His comments aren’t helpful and are confusing as most are happy at United. They have access to great pitches, the changing rooms are fantastic. They have opened a new parents’ lounge, and the boys can use the state-of-the-art facilities that the first team use for gym and rehab.

  "It’s quite the contrast from Sir Jim’s comments. The majority of the parents have said that Sir Jim seems to have his own agenda, which does not align with what is really happening. The coaches try to be upbeat and put a brave face on, but you can tell that Sir Jim’s comments have hurt them. They don’t understand what he’s talking about."

• Rooney comments split opinion among academy

  Wayne Rooney – whose eldest son Kai has played for the U18s, with 12-year-old Klay also in the club's academy system – has also aired his concerns about the club. He told the :  "The culture of that football club has gone. I see it on a daily basis. I see staff losing jobs, people walking out of jobs. I’ve got two kids at that football club and I really hope this doesn’t affect what they’re doing." 

  The report claims that Rooney's comments divided opinion. While senior staff were annoyed with United's all-time top scorer for publicly slamming the club, others felt his analysis was "shrewd" and were pleased he had spoken out.

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  Lacey next in line for senior debut

  Amorim is yet to give any academy players a first-team debut this season, having played Chido Obi, Tyler Fredericson and Harry Amass last term. He did call up 18-year-old Shea Lacey to the matchday squad against Everton, and the Liverpool-born winger – who participated in the post-season tour of Asia in May – is regarded as being the most likely player to make his competitive debut. The fact that United are not involved in European competition this season and exited the Carabao Cup at the first hurdle has reduced the number of chances for youngsters although more opportunities in the first team could arise when the Red Devils enter the FA Cup in January.

It is no surprise to anyone that Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has been in such dominant form this season. The Citizens number nine cannot stop scoring, and already has 19 goals to his name from just 16 games so far in 2025/26, chipping in with an assist, too.

His form in the Premier League has been largely unstoppable. Haaland has found the back of the net 14 times in the English top flight, coming in just 12 appearances. In two of those games, the 25-year-old didn’t score. His form has been as good as ever for City.

However, it is not just at club level where Haaland has been in fine goalscoring form. Norway are reaping the benefits, too.

Haaland’s form in the November international break

Despite only playing 48 games for his country, Haaland has 55 goals already. That makes him the top goalscorer in Norway’s history, 22 clear of anyone else. Captaining his nation in the November internationals, he added four more goals to that tally.

The first of two braces Haaland scored during the international break came at home to Estonia. Two second-half strikes, six minutes apart, helped Norway to a 4-1 win, pushing them closer to automatic World Cup qualification.

Next up was a tougher assignment against Italy. The City striker, however, helped to brush the our-time World Cup winners aside, securing another 4-1 win.

The strikes came within a minute of each other, the first an acrobatic effort in the penalty box and the second an easy goal from close range, with City teammate Gianluigi Donnarumma unable to stop Haaland from scoring.

The goals from Haaland this week will certainly please the Citizens faithful. The fact that their talismanic number nine is continuing his deadly form ahead of a huge festive period surely means they can expect to see similar results at club level.

Haaland, however, was not the only City striker who shone during the November international break.

Man City’s other in-form international striker

There is one question surrounding Haaland, and that is who City have as an alternative to the striker. There is no obvious understudy in the first team, despite the likes of Omar Marmoush being able to operate as a nine.

Well, Pep Guardiola could always turn to the academy if needs be, where the club might have the homegrown Haaland in the form of Reigan Heskey. The 17-year-old is the son of former England striker Emile and has been impressing for City’s academy for several years.

Heskey, who was born in Liverpool, can operate on either flank or as a striker. He shone for City’s under-18s last season in the U18s Premier League, a competition in which he bagged 18 goals in 19 games and assisted a further seven.

Guardiola is possibly the most important person who could take note of this impressive form of the teenager. Well, the Spaniard gave Heskey his first-team debut this season, a seven-minute Carabao Cup cameo against Huddersfield Town, along with his brother, Jaden.

It is not just his club form that has been superb, but his form for England under-17s.

Heskey has been a key member of the Three Lions U17 World Cup squad this month, with football scout Antonio Mango describing him as “unstoppable this international break.”

The 17-year-old attacker played five matches in the competition, finding the back of the net four times and assisting three. He also averaged 1.9 key passes and three successful dribbles per 90 minutes, showing just how much of a threat he is.

Goals and assists

1.4

7

Key passes

1.9

9

Big chances created

0.6

3

Dribbles completed

3

14

Tackles and interceptions

2.3

11

Heskey is certainly showing deadly form in front of goal, which Guardiola has already rewarded with minutes in the first team. If he continues on this upward trajectory, there is no reason to suggest he cannot break into the squad permanently a bit further down the line.

Haaland was not the only City striker in form for his country this month. Heskey has been on fire, and would love to keep this form going when he returns to club football.

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Dhruv Jurel scored his second first-class century on a day when all India A batters except captain Shreyas Iyer were among the runs against Australia A. The hosts ended day three on 403 for 4, still 129 runs behind the visitors’ first-innings total of 532. Apart from Jurel, who was batting on 113 at stumps, Devdutt Padikkal, B Sai Sudharsan and N Jagadeesan also went past fifty at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.India A started day three trailing Australia A by 416 runs, with nine wickets in hand, and Xavier Bartlett had Jagadeesan caught behind by Josh Phillipe for 64 in the sixth over of the day to end a second-wicket stand of 49. Padikkal then joined Sudharsan in a productive stand, but with their partnership nearing a hundred, Sudharsan missed an attempted reverse-sweep off Cooper Connolly and was trapped lbw for 73.Australia A struck again 3.2 overs later, with Iyer was trapped in front by Corey Rocchiccioli for 8. It was Iyer’s third successive low score in a first-class game, after he was dismissed for 25 and 12 against Central Zone in the semi-finals of the Duleep Trophy earlier this month.But Iyer’s wicket turned out to be the last for Australia A on Thursday, as Jurel and Padikkal rebuilt. India A were 310 behind when the two came together, and by the end of the day they had put on an unbroken 181 for the fifth wicket.Padikkal was more the patient of the two batters, taking his time in getting to his fifty off 117 balls. The aggressive Jurel reached the landmark in just 54 deliveries, getting there by smashing Rocchiccioli for two consecutive sixes and a four.Rocchiccioli was the most expensive of the Australia A bowlers, going for 128 runs in 24 overs at an economy rate of 5.33. Jurel especially took a liking to the offspinner, scoring 47 runs off him at just better than a run a ball, with three fours and three sixes.By the end of the day, Jurel had rattled along at a strike rate of 85.61 over 132 balls, and Padikkal at 48.31. The left-hand batter went to stumps batting on 86, in sight of a seventh first-class century. Their 181-run stand had come at nearly five runs an over.With only the final day’s play left, and with neither team having begun their second innings, the match seems headed towards a draw.

استأنف الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي الزمالك تدريباته، اليوم الاثنين، على ملعب استاد الكلية الحربية، ضمن الاستعدادات لمواجهة زيسكو الزامبي في الجولة الأولى لمباريات دور المجموعات لبطولة كأس الكونفدرالية الأفريقية.

ومن المقرر أن يلتقي الزمالك مع زيسكو الزامبي، في التاسعة مساء يوم الأحد الموافق 23 نوفمبر الجاري على استاد القاهرة الدولي. عودة آدم كايد للتدريبات الجماعية

انتظم اللاعب الفلسطيني آدم كايد في التدريبات الجماعية للفريق، بعدما تماثل للشفاء من الإصابة في عضلة السمانة التي أبعدته عن المشاركة خلال الفترة الماضية.

وأكد الجهاز الطبي للزمالك جاهزية اللاعب قبل عودته للمشاركة مع الفريق في التدريبات الجماعية.

طالع أيضًا | طلعت يوسف: وضع الزمالك لا يسمح بالمنافسة على الدوري.. واستمرار عبد الرؤوف قرار صحيح أحمد ربيع يؤدي تدريبات تأهيلية

واصل أحمد ربيع لاعب وسط الفريق أداء تدريباته التأهيلية، بعد إصابته في العضلة الضامة خلال تواجده مع منتخب مصر في بطولة كأس العرب.

ويعمل الجهاز الطبي على تجهيز ربيع للمشاركة في التدريبات الجماعية خلال الأيام المقبلة. تصعيد حارس شباب جديد للفريق الأول

قرر الجهاز الفني بقيادة أحمد عبد الرؤوف تصعيد محمد عبد الفتاح حارس مرمى فريق الشباب مواليد 2005 لتدريبات الفريق الأول، في ظل غياب محمد صبحي مع المنتخب الأول ومحمد عواد مع منتخب مصر في كأس العرب.

وشارك عبد الفتاح في تدريبات الحراس تحت قيادة فيتور بيريرا، إلى جانب كل من المهدي سليمان ومحمود الشناوي. فقرة بدنية

خصص الجهاز الفني فقرة بدنية للاعبين، وتولى البرتغالي نونو كوستا روبيرو مدرب الأحمال قيادة هذه الفقرة، التي تضمنت تدريبات بدنية متنوعة بجانب فقرة خفيفة بالكرة.

وبعد انتهاء الفقرة البدنية، ركز الجهاز الفني على تطبيق بعض الجوانب الخططية، وحرص أحمد عبد الرؤوف على توجيه اللاعبين باستمرار، قبل خوض تقسيمة فنية في ختام المران.

Cummins’ 6 for 28 is also the best figures by a captain at Lord’s

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‘Once the ball gets older, Cummins puts his hand up’

Australia captain Pat Cummins became the eighth from his country to 300 Test wickets as his 6 for 28, the best by a captain at Lord’s, dismantled South Africa on the second day of the World Test Championship (WTC) final.It meant that, for the first time in Test history, a bowling attack had three players with 300 or more wickets: Cummins joined Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon in the group. Josh Hazlewood sits on 280.”It’s great, and I’ve got some family here, which is nice,” Cummins told the host broadcast at the innings break. “It’s way, more than I could have asked for. For any fast bowler 300 is a big number, means you’ve battled a few injuries and niggles, got through it and played well in different conditions.”Related

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Speaking again after the day’s play, Cummins reflected on his journey, which saw him miss six years of Test cricket after a memorable debut against South Africa in 2011.Carefully nursed through the intervening period by the Cricket Australia medical team, he has been almost ever-present since returning in 2017. Cummins missed a couple of Tests against Pakistan in 2018 owing to a back injury, one against West Indies in 2022 with a quad strain, and may have missed the Sri Lanka series earlier this year with an ankle problem if he hadn’t already been on paternity leave.”I’ve had a really good run the last half-a-dozen years or so of not missing too many games,” he said. “For the first few years, I didn’t know where my second Test was coming, so I still feel like I’ve got lots of miles in the legs.2:38

Cummins: Reaching 300 wickets a sign of durability and resilience

“Back in the day, 300 [wickets] felt like you’re close to the end. [Starc], he’s almost [at] 400. So hopefully I don’t feel like I’m going to end any time soon. The medical staff, I really need to thank, the way they looked after me in the early years and continually to get through a Test match, the way they manage the fast bowlers, a lot of that is a nod to them as well.”Cummins, who had removed Wiaan Mulder on the first evening, claimed all five South Africa wickets to fall to bowlers on the second day, the other being the run out of Keshav Maharaj. He broke South Africa’s fightback in the morning session when Temba Bavuma drove to cover. After lunch, he was magnificent in a spell that finished 4.1-1-4-4.There was the lbw to remove Kyle Verreynne after the pair clattered mid-pitch, a leading edge gathered off Marco Jansen, the outside edge off David Bedingham, and finally, Kagiso Rabada brilliant caught at deep square-leg to bring up the 300th.At that moment, he held the fourth-best strike rate for a bowler with 300 Test wickets, behind Rabada, Dale Steyn and Waqar Younis. Overall, it gave him 79 wickets at 23.03 for this WTC cycle.

The step up from the Championship to the Premier League was always going to be a challenging one for Leeds United after they won the second tier title in the 2024/25 campaign.

In the last two seasons, all six of the newly-promoted teams have been instantly relegated from the Premier League after coming up from the Championship, which illustrates how big the gap between the two divisions is.

Daniel Farke and the board knew that the squad would have to undergo some changes during the summer transfer window to give the club a fighting chance of avoiding relegation.

With a haul of eight points after seven matches, it is fair to say that it currently looks like the 49ers did good work in the window by signing the likes of Anton Stach, Sean Longstaff, Gabriel Gudmundsson, and Noah Okafor, among others.

Because of the step up in quality and physicality in the Premier League, some of the players who were instrumental for Farke in the Championship have found themselves falling down the pecking order.

One example of that is central midfielder Ao Tanaka, who is currently out of the starting XI and does not look like breaking into it any time soon.

Why Ao Tanaka is not a starter for Leeds

The Japan international was a star for the West Yorkshire outfit in the Championship in the 2024/25 campaign after his permanent move from Fortuna Düsseldorf in the summer of 2024.

Tanaka nailed down a place in the middle of the park, next to Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rothwell, or Ilia Gruev, to end the campaign with 37 starts in 43 appearances, per Sofascore.

The 27-year-old star was a midfield metronome for the Whites. He ranked within the top 2% of central midfielders in the league for pass accuracy (89.2%) and the top 7% for progressive passes per 90 (7.03), per FBref, which shows that he was incredibly reliable and progressive in possession.

Unfortunately, though, the step up in physicality in the Premier League appears to have been too much for the midfielder to deal with, as he has struggled physically and defensively this season.

25/26 Premier League

Ao Tanaka

Percentile rank vs CMs

Tackles

1

Bottom 4%

Duels won

5

Bottom 6%

Duel success rate

23.8%

Bottom 3%

Fouls committed

2

Bottom 24%

Ball recoveries

10

Bottom 32%

Dribbled past

6x

Bottom 10%

Stats via FotMob

As you can see in the table above, Tanaka ranks among the worst midfielders in the division in a host of physical and defensive statistics, losing a whopping 76.2% of his duels.

Per Capology, though, the Japanese whiz is the third-lowest earner in the senior squad on £25k-per-week, which suggests that the Whites can afford to keep him as a back-up option.

Tanaka, who has started two matches in the Premier League this season, may have to settle for being a rotation player for Farke due to his lack of physicality, but his low wages suggest that the club should not be in a rush to move him on from Elland Road.

Meanwhile, there is a Leeds flop who earns more than the Japan international, despite playing fewer minutes, and should be on borrowed time in West Yorkshire.

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Illan Meslier has not played a single minute of competitive football in the 2025/26 campaign, and could be on his way out of the club in the not-too-distant future.

Why Leeds need to move on from Illan Meslier

Whilst Tanaka has, at least, started two league games and played in five league matches, the French goalkeeper has not made a single appearance for the club in any competition this season.

Per Capology, Meslier earns £30k-per-week at Elland Road. That is as much as Karl Darlow and Jayden Bogle, and more than Tanaka (£25k-per-week) and Ilia Gruev (£15k-per-week).

The left-footed goalkeeper, per Capology, has earned roughly £7m in wages in his Leeds career, which is due to soar to around £8.5m by the end of the current campaign, on top of the £5m fee that the Whites paid Lorient for his services.

This means that the Leeds flop, who was once dubbed a “massive liability” by journalist David Kent, has rinsed the club for £12m to date, and up to £13.5m by next summer.

The 25-year-old dud was the number one between the sticks for four seasons at Elland Road, including three in the Premier League and one in the Championship, but his underlying data shows that the situation was always heading to where it is now.

Illan Meslier’s shot-stopping form before 2024/25

Season

Goals conceded

Post-shot xG minus goals conceded

23/24 (Championship)

40

-3.1

22/23 (Premier League)

67

-12.4

21/22 (Premier League)

79

-16.2

20/21 (Premier League)

52

-3.4

Stats via FBref

Meslier consistently underperformed as a shot-stopper for the Whites and it finally cost him when Farke dropped him from the side at the end of the 2024/25 campaign to make Darlow the new number one.

The Wales international started the last seven games of the Championship season, after Meslier made three errors that led to goals (Sofascore), and Leeds won promotion to the Premier League with him in net.

The summer transfer window, as aforementioned, provided the club with an opportunity to bolster their squad and they brought Lucas Perri in from Lyon to start between the sticks.

This meant that Meslier started the current season as the third-choice goalkeeper at Elland Road. Although he is currently on the bench behind Darlow, whilst Perri is injured.

The 25-year-old is in no man’s land in West Yorkshire because Farke has clearly decided, by the signing of Perri and his use of Darlow, that the Frenchman is not a part of his plans moving forward.

That is why Meslier, who has already rinsed the club for £12m during his time at Elland Road to date, is on borrowed time at Leeds and should be moved on during the January transfer window.

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Tim David lasted just five balls against SRH•BCCI

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) batter Tim David picked up an injury while fielding in RCB’s 42-run loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), although he did come out to bat later.While stand-in captain Jitesh Sharma did not have details on David’s fitness immediately after the game, RCB will hope it’s nothing major with the playoffs only five days away.David was fielding at the boundary on the leg side in the last over of the SRH innings when Ishan Kishan swiped a Yash Dayal full toss behind square and David sprinted towards the fine leg boundary. David succeeded in keeping the ball inside the field of play and the batters to just one run, but was seen hobbling off soon after. Jacob Bethell replaced him for the remaining five balls of the over.David batted at No. 8 in the chase of 232 and scored just 1 in five balls before he holed out to long-on in the 18th over as RCB were bowled out for 189 in 19.5 overs.Related

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RCB are already fretting about injuries to a number of their key players. Their regular captain Rajat Patidar is recovering from a hand injury and was only fit to bat on Friday. Phil Salt was also not fit until recently, although he returned to action against SRH, and Devdutt Padikkal was ruled out of the tournament earlier this month, to be replaced by Mayank Agarwal.Going forward, RCB will also lose Bethell because of national commitments (ODIs against West Indies) but he will be replaced by New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert before the playoffs.RCB are also expected to have their ace fast bowler Josh Hazlewood back for the playoffs, after a period of rehab on a shoulder niggle in Australia. Hazlewood had flown back home when the IPL was briefly suspended earlier this month but hasn’t returned since because of the injury.RCB slipped to third place after their loss to SRH, which also dented their net run rate. They must win their last league game and hope for some other results to go in their favour to finish in the top two.

يخوض فريق الكرة بـ الأهلي مباراة هامة أمام منافسه الاتحاد السكندري، في المواجهة التي تجمع بينهما ضمن لقاءات الدوري المصري.

وتقام المباراة بين الأهلي والاتحاد السكندري، على أرضية القاهرة في إطار مواجهات الجولة الـ11 من الدوري.

وتعد مباراة الاتحاد السكندري هي الظهور الأول لـ ييس توروب المدير الفني لـ الأهلي محليًا بعد قيادته للفريق خلال مباراة إيجل نوار بطل بوروندي الأخيرة بدوري أبطال إفريقيا.

ومن جهته يطمح الاتحاد السكندري إلى قلب الطاولة أمام الأهلي، واستغلال المباراة كفرصة لتحقيق نتيجة إيجابية تعيد له الزخم، رغم معاناته في ترتيب المسابقة حتى الآن.

ويأمل جمهور الأهلي في الفوز وحصد النقاط الثلاثة من أجل تعزيز موقف الفريق في مواصلة مشواره نحو التتويج بلقب الدوري المصري عن الموسم الجاري.

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ويتواجد الأهلي في المركز الرابع بجدول ترتيب الدوري المصري، ويمتلك 18 نقطة في رصيده بعدما فاز بـ5 مباريات وتعادل 3 مرات وتلقى هزيمة وحيدة.

بينما يحتل الاتحاد السكندري المركز السابع عشر في ترتيب الدوري المصري، برصيد 8 نقاط من الفوز بمباراتين والتعادل بمثلهما وتلقى 5 هزائم.