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Jason Roy went past team-mate Alex Hales to claim England’s record ODI score. Hales was among those who reacted on Twitter
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What a win and what a knock! Highest ever chase at the MCG and @JasonRoy20 breaking the England ODI highest score! Great start to the series #ENGvAUS
— Alex Hales (@AlexHales1) January 14, 2018
WOOOOHHOOOOO – @JasonRoy20!
YOU ABSOLUTE BEAUTY!
— KP (@KP24) January 14, 2018
Brilliant from @AaronFinch5 today but @JasonRoy20 has been a different class
— Michael Clarke (@MClarke23) January 14, 2018
Having played with @JasonRoy20 at Surrey and seeing what he could do out in the middle, doesn’t surprise me at all that he’s broken a couple of records tonight. Always looks a class above when he gets going. #gun
— Glenn Maxwell (@Gmaxi_32) January 14, 2018
England were outstanding!! This ODI team are a joy to watch, highly skillful, destructive and fearless! And Jason Roy well play boy!!! Class!! #AUSvENG
— James Taylor (@jamestaylor20) January 14, 2018
@JasonRoy20 what a pleasure watching that knock and backed up by @root66. Good start to the series onto Brisbane
— Liam plunkett (@Liam628) January 14, 2018
What an innings that was from @JasonRoy20 – would love to see him opening the batting in the Test team as well #AusVsEng
— Matt Prior (@MattPrior13) January 14, 2018
Magnificent batting masterclass from @surreycricket & @englandcricket very own @JasonRoy20
— Alec Stewart (@StewieCricket) January 14, 2018
What a win from the lads @JasonRoy20 was on fire, congrats to @josbuttler on his 100th cap you legends
— Adil Rashid (@AdilRashid03) January 14, 2018
Unbelievable knock from @JasonRoy20 ; Seriously special! @root66 awesome as well. Huge congrats to @josbuttler for the 100th cap. What a win!
— Sam Billings (@sambillings) January 14, 2018
What a start for @englandcricket in the ODI's…special innings from @JasonRoy20 great to watch,congrats to @josbuttler for his 100th cap
— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) January 14, 2018
Yeahhhhhh @JasonRoy20!! Love watching this fella bat
— Lauren Winfield (@lozwinfield) January 14, 2018
@englandcricket what a start @JasonRoy20 take a bow! #180
— Ben Duckett (@BenDuckett1) January 14, 2018
Awesome @JasonRoy20 ! https://t.co/TMc1FasKGb
— Stuart Broad (@StuartBroad8) January 14, 2018
Absolutely master class @JasonRoy20 well done mate.
— Azhar Mahmood (@AzharMahmood11) January 14, 2018
Special night! Well played @JasonRoy20 #ENGvAUS
— Isa Guha (@isaguha) January 14, 2018
YESSSS @JasonRoy20. What an achievement. Super proud and pleased for this man. #Rey #AUSvENG pic.twitter.com/5PzPbDvSQn
— Stuart Meaker (@SMeaker18) January 14, 2018
Great to see the @surreycricket boys on at the MCG today! @AaronFinch5 , @mitchmarsh235 50 & @JasonRoy20 #3Feathers
— Michael Di Venuto (@MjDiVa5) January 14, 2018
Spurs bagged a solid away win in Norway to set up a final against their Premier League rivals and keep their hopes of silverware alive
Tottenham secured their place in the Europa League final as Dominic Solanke and Pedro Porro scored in the second half of their return leg with Bodo/Glimt on Thursday night, setting up a Bilbao showdown with Premier League rivals Manchester United later this month.
Having established a 3-1 lead in the first leg of the semi-final, Tottenham knew a solid performance at the Aspmyra Stadion would seal their place in the final. They did their bit in an ordinary first half, keeping a spluttering Bodo/Glimt attack at arm's length without providing too much threat of their own. Brennan Johnson nearly got on the end of a low Destiny Udogie cross, but goalkeeper Nikita Haikin palmed it away to safety.
Guglielmo Vicario did have to make one eye-catching save from a swerving Patrick Berg free-kick, but the Norwegian side didn't do enough to reduce the deficit and entered the second half knowing a big effort would be needed to grab the convincing win they needed.
However, no discernible improvement arrived and instead Solanke provided the goal Spurs needed to put them out of sight with a three-goal aggregate lead. Mathys Tel's corner was met by Cristian Romero and the striker was on hand to prod the ball in from close range.
Not long later it was 2-0. Porro got the chance to cross but the ball instead flew over Haikin in freakish fashion, onto the back post and in, extinguishing any lingering hope for Bodo/Glimt.
Tottenham will now face United in the final in Bilbao on Wednesday 21 May with silverware and Champions League football next season at stake.
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“My body won’t allow me to continue bowling fast in red-ball cricket, so I have decided to quit”
Rajan Raj16-Feb-2024Varun Aaron has decided to make Jharkhand’s ongoing Ranji Trophy fixture against Rajasthan his final red-ball game. Aaron, 34, will continue playing white-ball cricket for the time being and will take a call on his future in those formats ahead of the next domestic season. For Jharkhand, who are out of the running for a spot in the quarter-finals, this will be the last game of the Ranji season.Aaron, one of India’s fastest bowlers at his prime, told ESPNcricinfo, “I have been playing red-ball cricket since 2008. Since I bowled fast, I picked up a number of injuries. I understand now that my body won’t allow me to continue bowling fast in red-ball cricket, so I have decided to quit.”This might be my last game in front of my family and the people of Jamshedpur, because we don’t often play white-ball games here [Keenan Stadium]. I had started my career here, so this is quite emotional for me.”He made his first-class debut in 2008 in a Ranji Trophy Plate League game against Jammu and Kashmir at home in Ranchi, and picked up two wickets in each innings. His pace attracted attention, and he soon made his international debut, in an ODI against England at the Wankhede Stadium in 2011. A month later, he made his Test debut too, against West Indies at the same venue.Overall, he played nine Tests (18 wickets at 52.61) and nine ODIs (11 wickets at 38.09) in an India career that ended in 2015. Injuries didn’t help Aaron, as he pointed out, with a series of stress fractures in the back and the legs putting him out of action periodically. In all, he played 65 first-class games, and picked up 168 wickets at 33.74.Internationally, he is perhaps best remembered – especially by Stuart Broad – for the bouncer he bowled to the England allrounder in the Old Trafford Test in 2014, which snuck through the grille of Broad’s helmet and fractured his nose. Not long after, Aaron got a chance to play for Durham in the English county circuit.”Pace is my favourite thing while bowling,” Aaron said. “Whenever I bowl, my only focus is to bowl as fast as I can. But you need to understand your body too.”Aaron, a product of the MRF Pace Foundation, is expected to return there and helm a project that will scout for fast bowlers around the country and work with them to bowl fast.”I am part of a project called ‘Pace bowler talent hunt’ at MRF. We will be working with young fast bowlers from around India,” Aaron said. “Approximately 1500 bowlers have taken part in this. We are travelling around the country looking for talent and 20 boys will be chosen for further training. I am also working at the high-performance centre at MRF. I hope to give India their next fast bowler from these programmes.”
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The pitch trays will be shipped from Australia to Florida then transported to the pop-up venue
Alex Malcolm19-Jan-2024Adelaide Oval head groundsman Damien Hough says the drop-in pitches that will be used at Eisenhower Park in New York for the Men’s T20 World Cup are a world first in terms of how they are prepared with some of the trays being built in Adelaide before being shipped to Florida and then transported to the new venue ahead of the tournament.Hough and his team at Adelaide Oval Turf Solutions have been hired by the ICC to oversee the delivery and preparation of the drop-in pitches at the pop-up stadium in New York given their expertise in growing and preparing drop-in pitches over the last decade.Related
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Hough explained that it has been a complicated process to prepare the pitches for the World Cup with a lot of logistical challenges involved.”It’s a bit tricky, we basically built six of the 10 trays here in Adelaide,” Hough told . “We made them modular. We’re really proud of them. We’ve got a couple out of the back that will probably come out here [on Adelaide Oval] next year.”We put them in a shipping container and send them really wherever we want around the world. But they’ve gone over to Florida. And I’ve just come back from a month of work over there putting the trays together, putting the soil in, compacting them and putting the grass on. So we’re in the grow-in phase.”We’ve got a business, a company over there called LandTek that are helping us with the grow-in phase. Then there’s a couple more strategic trips throughout the next six months to do some work on them and then transport them from Florida all the way up to New York where we’ll put them in and prepare them.”It’s a lot of work that’s gone into it so far. But the real work starts around the start of May. It’ll take two days to transport them up which is quite incredible. Never done that before. So there’s a lot of firsts. And then there’s getting them in the ground.”Four go into that venue, that pop-up stadium, 34,000-seat stadium. Eight games in 10 days. One of them is Pakistan and India which will be amazing. And then there’s six that go into the warm-up venue with so many teams rotating through and so much training.”Hough, who has also been dividing his time while also working on the Adelaide Oval pitch for the Test match between Australia and West Indies and Adelaide’s BBL pitches, said there is only likely to be one warm-up game at Eisenhower Park before the World Cup starts.”The first game is early June,” Hough said. “There’s probably going to be a warm-up game just to test the venue out in late May. But yeah, I pinch myself sometimes. For us, Adelaide Oval Turf Solutions, to have a little bit of involvement and assist with something that is quite historic in a World Cup in America for the first time.”
The regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket
Steven Lynch25-Sep-2005The regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket:
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Marcus Trescothick reached 5000 Test runs at Old Trafford, just over five years after his debut. Has anyone done it quicker? asked Adam Pushkin from England
You’re right, Marcus Trescothick reached 5000 runs during the second innings of the third Ashes Test at Old Trafford on August 14. He made his Test debut on August 3, 2000, against West Indies, also at Old Trafford. In terms of time taken, Trescothick was more than a year quicker than the next-fastest man to 5000, Rahul Dravid of India, who did it in about six years two months, a month quicker than Mark Taylor of Australia. Trescothick reached 5000 runs in his 121st innings in his 64th Test – a long way away from the record which, almost inevitably, is held by Australia’s Don Bradman. He reached 5000 in just 56 innings and 36 Tests.As a rather stunned Nottinghamshire supporter trying to celebrate our Championship victory I’ve just sat at the Rose Bowl and watched Hampshire score 714 against us. Is it their highest total ever? asked Ray Johnson from Radcliffe-on-Trent
I’m afraid it is! Hampshire’s previous-highest total came as long ago as 1899, when they made 672 for 7 declared against Somerset at Taunton. Their previous-best against Notts was much more recent, though – 641 for 4 declared at Trent Bridge in 2004 (maybe you had to sit through that one too!). John Crawley scored 301 not out in that game, and 311 not out this time. There have only been two other triple-centuries for Hampshire in first-class matches – Major Robert Poore’s 304 not out in that Taunton match in 1899, and the county-record 316 by Dick Moore against Warwickshire at Bournemouth in 1937.In last week’s Test against Zimbabwe India dropped a hat-trick of catches off successive balls from Zaheer Khan. Has this happened before in a Test? asked Ghulam Mohammad from Indore
That happened in the 31st over of Zimbabwe’s second innings at Harare last week, when Dhiraj Jadhav (a substitute), Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Karthik managed to grass chances off successive balls from Zaheer Khan to Andy Blignaut. This sort of thing isn’t accurately recorded, especially for long-ago Tests, but something similar did happen in the first Test between England and Australia at Old Trafford in 1972, when the Aussie opener Keith Stackpole was dropped twice off successive balls from Geoff Arnold, by Tony Greig and John Snow in the slips. They pinched a single after the second drop, and the next ball was snicked by Bruce Francis to Snow, who dropped it again (some charitable observers thought it fell just short of him, but Wisden says he should have caught it). Tony Greig remembered that Ray Illingworth, England’s captain, grumbled about the spilled catches almost all day, until he dropped one himself and started talking about what a terrible “seeing ground” Old Trafford was for the fieldsmen …Which Test cricketer was nicknamed “Kipper”? asked Brian Houghton from Carlisle
There may have been more than one, but the most famous “Kipper” was Colin Cowdrey, the former England captain who was the first man to appear in 100 Test matches. I’m not quite sure where the nickname came from, but it probably had something to do with an ability to drop off to sleep (for a quick “kip”) in the dressing-room during matches.Who is the most economical bowler in ODIs, over a substantial career? asked Dhani Singh from Trinidad
Given a qualification of 1000 balls bowled, the most economical bowler, by quite a margin, is the West Indian giant Joel Garner, who conceded only 3.09 runs per over in 98 matches, during which he took 146 wickets. Next is Australia’s Max Walker (3.25 runs per over), just ahead of Mike Hendrick of England (3.27). Modern fielding restrictions and the new “powerplays” have handicapped present-day bowlers a little, and the leading current performer is Shaun Pollock (3.76 runs per over), just ahead of Muttiah Muralitharan (3.77). For a full list of the most miserly one-day bowlers, click here.I recently saw on your list of unusual dismissals that Len Hutton was once dismissed “obstructing the field” in a Test. What actually happened? asked Tim Horpinitch from Australia
That was in the final Test between England and South Africa at The Oval in 1951. He top-edged a sweep at Athol Rowan, the South African offspinner, and the ball looped upwards. Worried that the ball would bounce onto his stumps, Hutton knocked it away, but in doing so prevented Russell Endean, the wicketkeeper, from making a catch, and was given out on appeal. In a weird coincidence Endean, who was making his Test debut at The Oval, was also involved in Test cricket’s next peculiar dismissal: he was out “handled the ball” against England at Cape Town in 1956-57.