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Kylian Mbappe scored a penalty while Lucas Hernandez also found the net in a comfortable 2-0 win against Nantes for Paris Saint-Germain.

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The two sides combined for a forgettable first half, with a disallowed Nantes goal on the stroke of half time serving as the only real action. Hernandez opened the scoring in the second half with a fine zipping effort that rocketed into the top corner from outside the box. Then, Mbappe was brought off the bench just after the hour mark and converted a penalty 15 minutes later to seal the win.

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Hernandez has been searching for his signature moment in a PSG shirt for a while at this point. The former Bayern man has failed to impress for Luis Enrique, often exploited in one-on-ones and not offering much going forward. This was hardly an earth-shattering performance at both ends from the France international, but his goal was a thing of beauty.

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There is hefty competition in this PSG side. For those not named Mbappe, every performance counts. And Bradley Barcola didn't do himself too many favours tonight. The winger, just four days removed from turning in a mesmerising Champions League showing, was markedly off colour, and deservedly hooked at half time. He is still young – and will surely develop – but this was one to forget.

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The Parisians now have a healthy lead atop Ligue 1, and will look to stretch it in the coming weeks. Their next contest is against Rennes next Sunday, and a fixture with Monaco follows. All eyes will surely be on March 5, though, for the second leg of their last-16 tie with Real Sociedad.

Tom Curran returned to the old stamping ground of his father Kevin as he made good use of a rain-wrecked affair at Wantage Road

ECB/PA20-May-2015Surrey 155-3 trail Northamptonshire 309 (Newton 95, Peters 82) by 154 runs
ScorecardTom Curran returned to the stamping ground of his father Kevin•Getty ImagesTom Curran, at 20, made a maiden first-class appearance on the Wantage Road ground where his father Kevin played for eight seasons in Northamptonshire colours during the 1990s – and he made good use of it in a bedraggled match heading for a draw.Curran’s skiddy approach, bearing some similarity in action to his father, dismissed the industrious Stephen Peters and Rob Keogh before lunch in a match that had lost 164 overs to rain on the first two days.Peters, 64 not out, had missed his century and so too did Rob Newton. He begun brightly – dismissing Curran down the ground effortlessly off the second ball of the day – but rode his luck, too, driving over the slip cordon and skying a hook in between fielders.His fifty – the third in the Championship – came off 67 balls, but he fell five runs short of three figures, fifteen minutes after lunch.When Adam Rossington and Josh Cobb added 50 for the sixth wicket, serenity was restored but carnage was soon to descend in the most unthreatening of circumstances after Cobb drove to Batty from Ansari’s left arm spin. David Willey was bowled the very next ball while Steven Crook fell at deep mid-wicket in the following over from Batty, without adding a run himself.With Olly Stone dismissed cheaply too, Rossington could be forgiven for feeling bemused at the other end. He reached 50 off 69 balls and took out his frustrations with a huge blow for 6 down the ground off Ansari which almost took out the windows on the top tier of the Spencer Pavilion.When Rossington chipped back to Ansari for 58, Northamptonshire had lost their last five wickets for 21 and their last seven for 96 – and could only blame themselves.Ansari and Rory Burns showed how the placid pitch was really playing when they opened the Surrey innings and guided them to an uneventful 89 without loss. But Ansari’s edge produced an athletic catch from behind the stumps from Rossington off Mohammed Azharullah and two further wickets quickly followed.The accumulation of bonus points seems likely to be the only meaningful activity on the final day with a draw all but certain.

There was rain and Alex Hales in Hobart but no result was achieved as inclement weather allowed just 36 deliveries to be bowled

Alex Malcolm22-Dec-2013
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ScorecardThere was rain and Alex Hales in Hobart but no result was achieved as inclement weather allowed just 36 deliveries to be bowled. It was enough time, however, for the Englishman and his opening partner, Michael Klinger, to provide some spectacular highlights in the gloomy conditions.After a 96-minute delay, the game was reduced to eight overs-a-side. There were two tosses that ended in one win apiece, as Strikers captain Johan Botha kindly offered to redo the first after the coin slipped out of the young mascot’s hand.Alex Hales hit nine fours and a six in his 19-ball 49•Getty ImagesBotha was regretting that when George Bailey won the toss the second time and inserted Adelaide in to bat, but Klinger pulled the first ball of the innings powerfully for four to appease any frustration.The Strikers took 15 from Joe Mennie’s first over before finding the pace and angle of Doug Bollinger harder to get at. The greasy ball was a nightmare for spinner Xavier Doherty to grip in the third over and Klinger cashed in, lofting the bowler inside-out over wide long-off for six and thrashing a knee-high full toss through point.Then Hales swung violently at Bollinger in the fourth over and top-edged three times over the wicketkeeper’s head for two frustrating fours and a two.There were no edges thereafter, as Hales took down Evan Gulbis, striking four boundaries and a six in an over, hitting all corners of the Bellerive Oval with crisp blows on both sides of the pitch. Gulbis got his revenge with a missile throw from the fence to run Hales out for 49. Klinger faced just one more delivery before rain had the final say and the points were shared.

After failing to chase 211 last night, they overcame three difficult phases in their pursuit of a target of similar proportion, to win a series they had led 2-0 but almost let slip out of their grasp

The Report by George Binoy08-Dec-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsNasir Hossain is mobbed by team-mates after he hit the winning runs•AFPBangladesh’s batsmen held it together, but only just. After failing to chase 211 last night, they overcame three difficult phases in their pursuit of a target of similar proportion, to win a series they had led 2-0 but almost let slip out of their grasp. Twenty-four hours after their fans exited Shere Bangla in despair, the stadium was a venue of riotous celebration, as Nasir Hossain carved the winning boundary to drag his team to a two-wicket victory and claim the series against West Indies 3-2.There was chaos at the finish. With one run needed, Nasir smashed the ball over cover and raised his arms in triumph as he completed the winning run. His partner, the No. 10 Elias Sunny, however, did not make it to the other end because he thought the ball had gone for four. The fielder in the deep returned it and Kieran Powell uprooted a stump amid the celebrations. Darren Sammy’s protests that a run had not been completed prompted the umpires to check. No run had indeed been completed; nobody had been run out either. Everyone took their positions again and Nasir’s slashing bat sparked off another round of celebrations.The confusion in those final moments was in contrast to the calm with which Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah and Nasir steered a tense chase, after Bangladesh’s bowlers had recovered admirably from a Kieron Pollard battering.Chasing 217, Bangladesh were 30 for 3 in the ninth over, the top order unable to withstand Kemar Roach’s pace and bounce. The previous evening, the collapse had ended only when the hosts were shot out for 136, but not in this deciding contest.The shift in momentum was immediate; Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah scored 29 runs off the 11 balls following Jahurul’s dismissal. West Indies’ bowling was poor: their lengths were too short and their lines were scattered outside off and down leg side, resulting in 18 wides. They had conceded 26 extras in each of the previous three ODIs; they gave away 27 today.Sammy, who excelled with bat and ball in the fourth match, leaked 16 runs in the tenth over. He conceded six runs in wides, bowled a long-hop that Mahmudullah pulled for four and a half-volley that was driven to the cover boundary. The change bowlers also struggled. Andre Russell pitched short and wide and was cut twice by Mushfiqur to the boundary. Sunil Narine bowled five tight balls in his first over before the sixth was loose and punished. Roach returned for his second spell in the 19th over and he too conceded two boundaries.Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah ran hard between the wickets, and cut and pulled forcefully. Only when they had added 91 at better than a run a ball did West Indies have any respite. Both batsmen were bowled by Narine in their 40s and Bangladesh were in front no more.After 30 overs in the first innings, West Indies had been 145 for 3. Bangladesh, at the same stage of their chase, were 148 for 5. West Indies had collapsed thereafter, though, while Bangladesh did not.Nasir, in the company of rookie Mominul Haque, added 53 for the sixth wicket. They consolidated at first, and,once the batting Powerplay was taken in the 36th over, they attacked. Nasir slogged Veerasammy Permaul over the midwicket boundary to bring the runs required to fewer than 40. And when Mominul was dismissed with Bangladesh close, Sohag Gazi took then closer with quick boundaries. He too fell, but Nasir stayed the course.That Bangladesh were not chasing a target closer to 250 was because their spinners took a clutch of wickets on either side of a 132-run stand between Pollard and Darren Bravo. They kept West Indies scoreless for 34 deliveries, between overs 2.6 and 8.4, and dismissed Marlon Samuels and Chris Gayle during that period to leave the visitors on 17 for 3.The repair job was up to Bravo and Pollard, who had failed in three matches after saying he would smash the ball into another city. Pollard didn’t hit any into Khulna, but he hit eight balls for six between midwicket and long-off, punishing Sunny in particular.Mushfiqur needed to call on a fifth spinner to dismiss Pollard; Mominul got one to keep low and sneak past the bat to hit off stump to dismiss him for 84 for 74 balls. A real scrap was in progress as West Indies began the last ten overs on 188 for 5 and Mahmudullah struck twice in the 41st over; his first wicket was of Bravo for 51.West Indies were dismissed in 48 overs, and in a game of small margins, 12 unused deliveries and 27 runs concedes in extras was the largesse Bangladesh needed to achieve a momentous result. The victory took Bangladesh to No. 8 in the ICC’s ODI rankings, ahead of New Zealand.

Jesse Ryder, who had taken an indefinite break from cricket to resolve personal issues, will play for his IPL franchise Pune Warriors in the fifth season of the league

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Mar-2012Jesse Ryder, the New Zealand batsman who had taken an indefinite break from cricket to resolve personal issues, will play for his IPL franchise Pune Warriors in the fifth season of the league, beginning on April 4. Ryder will be supported in India by his manager Aaron Klee and clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo.”Jesse has been making steady progress over the past few weeks. While the IPL has clear challenges, and is a big step, I believe he’s ready to take it,” Nimmo said. “Cricket is Jesse’s job and what he’s good at, so I was keen to see him return to the game as soon as practical, but only with the right structures in place.”Klee said Ryder was going to significant extents and expense to overcome his issues, and that their planning of his recovery was thorough. “Karen is travelling to India the day after Jesse and will continue her work with him there while I’ll be going over a little later to carry that work on,” Klee said. “The franchise has been wonderful and Jesse is desperate to perform on and off the field, and get his career back on track.”We are also very grateful for the support of New Zealand Cricket [NZC] and Cricket Wellington for their assistance and support. Also, Heath Mills [New Zealand Cricket Players Association chief] has been incredible in his support as always.”NZC chief executive David White was supportive of the move. “It’s really positive that Jesse has reached the point where here is ready to play competitive cricket again,” he said. “He has clear expectations from NZC in terms of what is required from him to make a return to international cricket and playing in the IPL is a good first step. We are proud of the progress he has made and we will continue to support him through what has been a tough time.”On March 8, Klee had issued a statement saying Ryder had pulled out of Wellington’s squad for their Plunket Shield match against Northern Districts and had not decided when he would make himself available again. The announcement came a week after Ryder was dropped from the New Zealand squad for the third ODI against South Africa for breaking team protocol, and then left out of the Test series as well.After the defeat in the second ODI against South Africa, Ryder, along with Doug Bracewell, went to a hotel and became involved in an argument with a patron. “Team protocols dictate that players who are rehabilitating from injury should not consume alcohol and unfortunately both players went to a Napier hotel following the conclusion of the match,” NZC had said in a release. “Also, while at the hotel both players verbally reacted to taunts from a member for the public.”The incident was the latest of Ryder’s several indiscretions. In August 2010, Ryder was fined for “intoxicated and rowdy” behaviour at a hotel during an indoor cricket tournament and he said he had feared for his career while NZC was investigating the incident. The most serious of Ryder’s indiscretions was in 2008, when he put his right hand through a glass window during a late-night session at a Christchurch bar. In January 2009, NZC said Ryder had given up alcohol after another incident, which resulted in him missing an ODI against West Indies.Edited by George Binoy

New Zealand blasted through to the semi-finals and knocked West Indies out of the tournament in a dramatic finale to their quarter-final in Townsville

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Aug-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsIt was joy unbridled for New Zealand, after they took the 18 they needed off the last over•ICC/GettyNew Zealand blasted through to the semi-finals and knocked West Indies out of the tournament in a dramatic finale to their quarter-final in Townsville, where New Zealand needed four runs from the last ball of their chase and Ish Sodhi struck the winning boundary. New Zealand had to find 18 runs from the 50th over and at seven wickets down, West Indies were clear favourites to progress.But Sodhi managed a boundary and a single from the medium pace of Justin Greaves, and his partner Jacob Duffy picked up a leg bye to leave 12 runs required from three balls. Sodhi struck a six, a two and a four to complete the dramatic win as New Zealand overhauled the West Indies total of 237 and moved into the final four of the competition, along with India, Australia and South Africa.The day had started reasonably well for West Indies, who were sent in, as their openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Sunil Ambris put on 48 for the opening wicket. Brathwaite (53) and Akeal Hosain (54) both contributed half-centuries and despite three wickets to Matthew Quinn, West Indies were able to bat out their overs and posted a challenging 237 when the last batsman was run out from the final ball of the 50th over.Ronsford Beaton picked up two early wickets in the chase but Ben Horne steadied New Zealand with 59, and Robert O’Donnell (42) and Cam Fletcher (49) kept them in the contest through the middle of the innings. But with ten overs remaining, New Zealand still needed 89 runs, and it was only through the striking of Sodhi at the very end that they triumphed.

Misbah-ul-Haq has stepped down as Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain

ESPNcricinfo staff10-May-2012Misbah-ul-Haq has stepped down* as Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain and Mohammad Hafeez has been named his successor for the Sri Lanka series in June.Pakistan Twenty20 squad

Khalid Latif, Ahmed Shahzad, Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Shakeel Ansar (wk), Shahid Afridi, Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Raza Hasan, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Sami, Hammad Azam, Nasir Jamshed
In: Mohammad Sami, Shakeel Ansar, Haris Sohail, Raza Hasan

Misbah had captained Pakistan in eight games. His last Twenty20 assignment was the three-match series against England in the UAE in February, which England won 2-1. Misbah scored 67 runs there, with a strike-rate of just over 80.Hafeez said he was looking forward to the additonal responsibility. “Representing Pakistan is always an honour and captaining it is more than that. Now being a captain, I don’t see any added pressure,” Hafeez said. “The strategy might be different but while implementing them I will take my coaches and the PCB on board to get the best results for the team.”Fast bowler Mohammad Sami, who last played for Pakistan in 2010, made a comeback. Sami had taken only one wicket in five matches for Karachi Dophins in the domestic Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup in March, but had finished as the joint leading wicket-taker in the Bangladesh Premier League for Duronto Rajshahi. He was particularly successful against Dhaka Gladiators, claiming a hat-trick and then figures of 5 for 6 against them in two league games.The new faces in the squad include Sialkot Stallions batsmen Shakeel Ansar, who came into the limelight with his maiden Twenty20 hundred against Peshawar Panthers in March in the Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup, and Haris Sohail who went through that tournament scoring 173 runs in four matches without being dismissed. Left-arm spinner Raza Hasan, who claimed 12 wickets in five games in the Super Eight T20 Cup for Sialkot, also made it to the squad.Pakistan will play two Twenty20s, five ODIs and three Tests between June 1 and July 12 in Sri Lanka.*This story has been updated to reflect that Misbah-ul-Haq has not announced an official retirement from Twenty20 cricket

A round-up of the second day’s play of Group B’s fifth round matches from the Ranji Trophy

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Nov-2013
ScorecardYusuf Pathan smashed a 101-ball 104•Cricket KenyaYusuf Pathan scored his eighth first-class century on a day when 15 wickets went down, to set Baroda on course for their first victory of the season, over Madhya Pradesh in Vadodara. 14 of those wickets were taken by spinners.Offspinner Jalaj Saxena ran rampant on the Baroda batting-line up, accounting for seven scalps and recording his best innings-haul in first-class cricket. Six Baroda batsmen were dismissed for single figures and Saxena took credit for four of them, finishing with 7 for 82. Yusuf, however, proved the decisive factor. Coming in at No. 6, he laced five sixes and six fours during his 101-ball 104. The next best contribution was 28, by opener Aditya Wagmode, as Baroda made 244, securing a lead of 336 runs.Madhya Pradesh’s chase began slowly, as they lost Saxena in the fourth over and their progress was regularly stalled by wickets. Left-arm spinner Bhargav Bhatt was the pick of the Baroda bowlers, finishing with 3 for 25, while Ketul Patel chipped in with a couple of wickets as the visitors ended day two staring at a deficit of 279, with only 5 wickets in hand.
ScorecardUttar Pradesh seamer Amit Mishra recorded his maiden five-wicket haul to help his side gain the ascendancy in their match against Rajasthan in Jaipur.Opener Siddharth Saraf endeavoured to provide a semblance of stability to Rajasthan as he battled for 191 balls. His patient 56 included 10 fours, as he partnered with captain Hrishikesh Kanitkar to add 70 runs for the third wicket. Their hard work was undone as Mishra claimed six of the top seven batsmen. Ramesh Powar provided a useful cameo, scoring 32, but Mishra and Ali Murtaza bundled Rajasthan out for 185.Uttar Pradesh lost their openers inside eight overs, but Mohammad Kaif, the captain, and Prashant Gupta remained unbeaten at the crease, with the score at 42.
ScorecardSaurashtra chased leather for the second day in succession, on a pitch that had flattened out considerably at Chepauk. Abhinav Mukund occupied the crease for a marathon 240 and, along with Dinesh Karthik, who scored a brisk 133, took Tamil Nadu to their second first-innings score in excess of 500 this season.Read the full report here.
ScorecardAllrounder Saurasish Lahiri made full use of a lifeless track, scoring a century which propelled Bengal to a respectable first innings score of 431 in 166.2 overs against Services, in the Group B encounter in Palam.Read the full report here.

Tim May, the outgoing FICA chief, said it was disappointing to not see major improvements in the governance of cricket in the 16 years of his role as a players representative, but he hoped FICA is able to continue to push for change

Brydon Coverdale05-Jun-2013
How much of a factor in your decision to quit was the way you lost your position on the ICC cricket committee?
“It was probably just confirmation of one of the reasons I wanted to leave. To take it back a step, at the 2012 annual meeting of FICA, which was held in September in Colombo, I actually advised the FICA board that I would be resigning some time in 2013. It was going to be more towards the third quarter of 2013 but we had a meeting here in Austin, Texas in late May and I just decided that the time was right. I had lost confidence in the ability of our sport to govern itself.”Will it be an even greater challenge for your successor without that voice?
“It won’t be any tougher, it will be the same old same old. It needs someone who has a full tank of energy and passion to attack these issues, and push for change, especially in the governance structure at the ICC, which has been called upon by the Woolf Report. That was the ICC’s own commissioned report and it rejected it flatly, basically. After you do this for about 16 years you tend to run out of gas. There are significant problems and issues that should be easily resolved in any other walk of life that tend to take a significant amount of time in this game. After a while it just weighs you down.”Do you think the recent issues around allegations of IPL spot-fixing and the upheaval within the BCCI could be the spark cricket needs to instigate change?
“I think it certainly shows that there are people out there who share a belief that the governance in our game – albeit we’re talking just about the BCCI here – is not what it should be. That engenders hope in you that there are people with good principles around who will push for change. Fingers crossed, because they desperately need that on the ICC board. It’s about time they governed according to what’s best for the global game rather than one or two boards.”Is there another worldwide sport that sets the bar in terms of its governance?
“That’s a good question. Sport administration is a progression from sport to business and I don’t think the majority of sports have really found the right balance in the personnel and governance structures. I know it’s Australian and not worldwide, but I do like how the Australian Football League is run. It has a commission, it has independence, it has got a good, strong CEO who I respect very highly. They have their share of problems … but I think that is an exceptionally well-governed sport.”How disappointing is it to have been involved in player associations for 16 years without seeing cricket’s governance improve significantly?
“I don’t know if it’s a disappointment or just sheer frustration. It’s not up to us to execute that change. It’s the ICC itself. We are there as watchdogs, to question, to make them accountable and it’s been frustrating that we haven’t had the success in ensuring that the game is governed correctly. That is frustrating. But there are some strong principled people on the ICC executive board who will perhaps have a look around at the landscape and what has been happening in the last few weeks, to see what dangerous path we may well be going down now, and that it may be time to re-examine that Woolf Report and get in a nice, solid structure of governance. Because you need your governance from the top down. That’s not just for sport, that’s for any business. And you need to police all your principles.”What are you proudest of having achieved in your time with FICA?
“Despite significant opposition from a number of boards, we’ve managed to build the number of player associations from basically one in 1997, to now seven effective player associations in the ten Test-playing nations. Not only assisting to construct those player associations but also maintaining them under significant opposition from member boards who don’t particularly want player associations in their territory, because they don’t seem to want to be accountable.”Where to now for FICA, given that you personally have been such a driving force behind it?
“It’s certainly going to survive without me. I’m merely an employee passing through. The strength of FICA is the player associations that lay under its umbrella. They are strong player associations; they have got good people with good principles. FICA will be around for a long while yet.”And what’s next for you?
“Next for me is a period of rest. I’m free from worrying about if I’m going to get Player A’s money so he can afford his mortgage, or whatever, and just the continuing issues that we face. I can now leave them to someone else and wake up and spend a bit of family time for the next few months.”

England bowler Tim Bresnan will travel to the USA shortly for a second operation on his troublesome elbow, which ruled him out of the tour to New Zealand

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Feb-2013Tim Bresnan, the England bowler, will travel to the USA shortly for a second operation on his troublesome elbow, which ruled him out of the tour to New Zealand.When he was left out of the squads for New Zealand, the national selector, Geoff Miller, said that further surgery might be required. Bresnan underwent his first operation late in 2011 and has struggled to regain top form since, finishing 2012 with two wicketless Tests in India following a lean series against South Africa, and has often appeared down on pace.Andrew Gale, Bresnan’s captain at Yorkshire, confirmed the latest development: “He’s going out to America in the next week or so, and he’ll be there for a week or two to have an operation and then some rehab on his elbow,” he told the .Bresnan’s most recent appearance for England was successful, when he took 4 for 45 in the final ODI against India, and Gale was hopeful he would be back to full fitness early in the season. There is an outside chance of him featuring on Yorkshire’s pre-season tour of Barbados.Bresnan will have his eyes set on being available for the New Zealand series at home, which starts in late May, but a more realistic aim could be the Champions Trophy where England are keen for him to take the No. 7 slot in the one-day side to enable them to play five frontline bowlers in home conditions.In his absence, Chris Woakes has a chance to establish his credentials in New Zealand. Woakes is part of all three squads for the tour, but will have to move ahead of Stuart Broad and Graham Onions to earn a Test place.