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Patrick Vieira has been rebuilding Crystal Palace by adding a number of young players into the squad since his arrival last summer and will surely be looking to continue his progression by recruiting further this summer.

However, the Frenchman could be set for his first howler with the latest transfer news at the club.

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According to reports, via the Daily Mail, Crystal Palace have joined Southampton in registering their interest in Tottenham Hotspur player, Harry Winks ahead of the summer transfer window.

After struggling to prove his worth at Spurs, the 26-year-old is now reportedly set for a move away at the end of the season, and Palace could be an option for him.

The report suggests that Vieira wants to add strength and depth to his current side for the 2022/23 season, with Winks now a target for the club.

Vieira set for howler

It’s safe to say that the Eagles boss has made all the right moves when it comes to transfers so far in his short tenure at Palace, signing up the likes of Jean-Philippe Mateta, Marc Guehi and Michael Olise in permanent deals, all of whom have become important first team players since they joined.

Signing Winks from Tottenham could easily become Vieira’s first howler in his rebuild, with the player failing to make a credible impact on Tottenham and often scathed for his performances at the London club.

Spurs insider John Wenham slammed the 26-year-old after Tottenham crashed out of the Europa Conference League earlier this season.

“Winks was so bad he was omitted from the West Ham squad completely when we can have nine substitutes.

“Winks was poor on the night and he’s been poor all season, so disappointing.

“He’s well down the pecking order. The fact he felt the need to go to the press is terrible.”

According to SofaScore, the £91k-per-week midfielder has failed to impress at Spurs with his performance statistics highlighting his mediocrity in his 14 Premier League appearances. He has made two errors leading to shots from the opposition, is only successful in 50% of his dribble attempts and aerial duels and is dribbled past 0.9 times on average per game.

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As a result, there is definitely time to look into better options for Crystal Palace going forward and Winks should not be made a priority signing for Vieira given his lack of impact on the Spurs team.

If the club wants to progress into consistent top half finishes in the Premier League they should be looking for more effective players who could become available in the summer.

In other news: Parish must finally axe “valuable” £80k-p/w CPFC dud, he doesn’t fit Vieira’s vision

Chetanya Nanda celebrates after bowling K Vasudevadas, one of his five wickets © Cricinfo Ltd

With one day of the league matches left, we finally know the teams that will be relegated: Bengal, for the first time since the introduction of the relegation system, and Himachal Pradesh, who were promoted last year.Delhi, Saurashtra and Uttar Pradesh seem likely to join Baroda in the semi-finals, though things may yet turn out otherwise. Saurashtra have frustrated Mumbai long enough to almost ensure the one point they need to make it to the semi-finals. Delhi are 95 short of an outright win, which will take them clear of Mumbai who can at best draw against Saurashtra. UP need eight Hyderabad wickets on the final day to end as Group B leaders. If they can get only three points from the match, they will be tied with Andhra at 17 points, but with a better quotient.
ScorecardDelhi shot out Tamil Nadu for 174 to lay the foundation of what should be an easy win to seal a semi-final place and possibly also take them to the top of Group A. Chetanya Nanda took his third five-wicket haul to hasten the end for Tamil Nadu after Pradeep Sangwan and Rajat Bhatia had removed the openers. It was a quick half-century from No. 8 R Ramkumar that took Tamil Nadu beyond 100 as Ramkumar and H Gopinath, from 61 for 6, added 82 for the seventh wicket.Delhi were 10 for 0 at stumps, chasing 105.
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Mohammad Kaif’s unbeaten century and three other half-centuries helped Uttar Pradesh set Hyderabad an improbable target and UP took two wickets before stumps, leaving Hyderabad needing another 383 on the final day. UP started the day at 28 for 0 and the opening stand between the Srivastavas – Tanmay and Rohit Prakash – continued for another 72 runs. After both of them got out for half-centuries, Kaif and Ravikant Shukla took over, scoring at a strike-rate of over 60 to enable UP declare 16 overs before stumps. This was Kaif’s second century of the season, making him UP’s leading run-getter so far.When Hyderabad came out to bat, Praveen Kumar struck in the third over with Abhinav Kumar’s wicket and in the last over Praveen Gupta accounted for Anoop Pai.
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With their fourth loss in six matches which yielded only eight points, Bengal have been relegated to the Plate League for the 2008-09 season. Andhra’s P Vijay Kumar and Y Gnaneshwara Rao took five wickets each to ensure a sixth successive batting failure for Bengal. Chasing 214 for a win that would have given them some chance of avoiding relegation, Bengal were shot out for 112, captain Laxmi Shukla being the top scorer with 39. Manoj Tiwary was the only other batsman to reach double figures; he scored 35.Resuming the day at 147 for 6, with a lead of 170, Andhra added 43 more, thanks to MSK Prasad who scored 54. Ranadeb Bose finished with 7 for 74.
ScorecardRajasthan turned the tables on Himachal Pradesh as they bowled them out for 122 in the second innings, knocked off the 185-run target easily, and won the relegation face-off even after having conceded a 62-run first-innings lead. Sumit Mathur was the chief destructor for Rajasthan as he took 7 for 49 to wreck the Himachal innings after they were 56 for 0 at one stage. With a healthy opening stand, and a first-innings lead already in the bag, Himachal looked on their way to avoid relegation, but they lost seven wickets for 31 runs to be reduced to 87 for 7 in a characteristic collapse. The last three wickets showed some resistance, but could take them to 122 only.Rajasthan then batted with intent, and riding on Vineet Saxena’s unbeaten century and Rajesh Bishnoi’s unbeaten 63, they chased the target down in 41.5 overs.Maharashtra 276 and 18 for 3 (Vinay Kumar 3-3) need another 251 runs to avoid an innings defeat against Karnataka 545 for 9 dec Chipli 135*, Goud 122)
Scorecard After Bharat Chipli and Yere Goud piled the runs on for Karnataka, R Vinay Kumar struck with a hat-trick to set up a depressing end to the season for Maharashtra after they led the Group A halfway into the Ranji Trophy. At the end of the third day, Maharashtra required 251 runs to make Karnataka bat again, with seven wickets in hand.Vinay Kumar’s hat-trick was the fourth in the last three rounds of Ranji Trophy and second against Maharashtra after Delhi medium-pacer Parvinder Awana had demolished Maharashtra with one in the fifth round.Earlier Chipli and Goud feasted on an inexperienced attack to score centuries and take the lead to 269 before they declared with seven overs to go in the day. Goud scored 122, while Chipli stayed unbeaten on 135. Thilak Naidu chipped in with a a half-century.
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A solid batting display by Amol Muzumdar and Ajinkya Rahane might not be enough to take them to the semi-finals as Mumbai ended the day 297 behind Saurashtra’s 484, with eight wickets in hand. Even if they manage to take a first-innings lead, they will have to hope Delhi don’t beat Tamil Nadu outright, which seems highly likely.To begin the day, Mumbai were frustrated by Shitanshu Kotak furthermore, as they took 11.2 overs to take the last Saurashtra wicket, No. 11 Sandip Maniar who partnered Kotak for 73 mintues out of his 796-minute stay at the wicket.Ajinkya Rahane and Amol Muzumdar scored unbeaten eighties, but with a run-rate of 2.46 per over to score 187 for 2 they were always operating against the clock.
ScorecardBaroda took the last seven Orissa wickets for 81 runs, but could not prevent them from taking a first-innings lead. Three points from this game would have ensure Baroda the top position in Group B. In the second innings, Baroda had scored 120 for 3 by stumps, sending the game down the draw path unless there is a dramatic collapse on the final day.Rajesh Pawar took five of the Orissa wickets to fall today to finish his 10th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.

England Under-19s have lost their captain for their tour of Malaysia which gets underway in three weeks. Rory Hamilton-Brown has failed to recover sufficiently from a shoulder operation in November.Greg Wood, the Yorkshire wicketkeeper, will replace him as captain. He has two Tests and seven one-dayers for the under-19s under his belt. The tour comprises two triangular one-day tournaments, the first between England, the hosts Malaysia, and Sri Lanka, and the second between England, Malaysia and India U19.Adam Lyth has been called in to bolster the squad.Surrey’s Hamilton-Brown, meanwhile, will continue to recuperate in Loughborough and train with the England A squad ahead of their tour of India. “I am obviously very disappointed to miss out,” he said. His next aim will now be to get fit for the county season in April.

Cricinfo received a considerable amount of feedback following Inzamam-ul-Haq’s reaction to his dismissal in the ODI at Peshawar – most of it critical of him and a large number mentioning Sachin Tendulkar’s run out in 1999. We publish here a selection.

Inzamam-ul-Haq makes his way off after being given out at Peshawar © AFP

The question of ethics itself is unethical. This is an India-Pakistan series. Nobody should ask for any quarters and none should be given. That applies to both teams. Wasim Akram was not wrong when he appealed for Sachin’s wicket. It was too important a wicket to ignore. Nor is Dravid. Let’s play, folks. BodhiI think Inzamam had every right to ask the umpires and even explain why he blocked the ball, which he did. This is because we all know the umpires get it wrong on simple catches sometimes and especially following the Faisalabad Test [against England] decision that went against him, Inzamam had to clarify things.Yasir ZiaThat Inzamam was not attempting a run is one argument and valid at that. To the extent he regained his crease and looked down to make sure he was in, is something any batsmen would do to guard against a subsequent run-out attempt. An equally important point to note is that, even if a run was being attempted, had he not put up his bat, or vanished into a magician’s hat for that matter, all the ball would have managed to hit would be the pitch dust. The ball was not even going towards the stumps. It was way out and on top of that, there wasn’t even anyone behind the stumps to collect it. The keeper and the first slip were still a few paces back, so there was no chance of a run-out which Inzamam was obstructing. Putting up his bat was a willful action, not a willful attempt to avoid a run-out since there wasn’t a possibility of it to begin with. MianIf you look at the replay, you will see that Inzamam started to turn back before the throw and then stuck out his bat when he saw the ball coming. But what follows is even more interesting. After `hitting’ the ball, Inzamam regained his crease and then looked down to see where he is relative to the crease. That is quite clearly an indication that he probably realised he was in trouble if an appeal had been made. It was, and he was given out. Ravi KumarIt seems that this time too Inzamam’s ghost writer has had the last say. It doesn’t sound like Inzamam to grumble too much about such decisions or take up so martial a stance about it. The gentle giant would more or less have forgotten about the incident in normal circumstances. Perhaps someone with poison in his pen has given the cricket world another unnecessary conflict to crow about. Patrick CThe only word I can find to describe india’s appeal is ‘disgusting’. No way Inzamam was going for a run and no way the ball was going towards the stumps. In fact Inzamam was just preventing the ball from hitting him. I agree with his statement that the appeal was unsporting and against the game’s spirit. SajidI fully agree with the comments of Osman Samiuddin. He is spot on! Moin Khan must also recall the Chennai Test in 1999 and the manner in which Ganguly was `caught’ by him. And, of course, we all know Tendulkar’s run out in the Kolkata Test. Moin needs to learn the meaning of the spirit of the game and Inzamam needs to learn the rules of the game. AdityaOf course the laws are there for all to see and read. And of course he was out, and there is no doubt about that. And yet, there is something about the spirit of the game and sportsmanship which seems lacking here. Osman draws comparison between the events in Peshawar to the Sachin Tendulkar run-out in the earlier series. The difference is, Tendulkar was out taking a run, there was the intent for the run and possibility of a run-out. In Inzamam’s case, he was not even attempting a run. He would have made it back to the crease if he had tried to – that is, there was no real chance of him being run out. If he had tried making his ground, the ball may have hit him. If Inzamam had tried to avoid the ball as he did in Faisalabad and found short, would he be out? Inzamam said as much, “if I leave the ball I am out, and if I stop the ball I am out.” The question is of intent. What was Inzamam’s intent? To prevent himself being run-out? No, it was to prevent the ball from hitting him. Azeez TalhaI saw the clip on Google. It is quite obvious that Inzamam was not attempting a run. Rather, continuing with his forward momentum he left his crease and was watching the ball. This ‘forward’ movement is made by most if not all batsmen in ODIs, and is very different to someone attempting a run. So the fact that he wasn’t taking a run the Indians should not have appealed against him irrespective of his action of stopping the ball with his bat which I think was more of an instinctive reaction rather than adeliberate attempt to protect his wicket. Needless to say, if you judge him in accordance with the laws of the game then he did obstruct, and the umpires had to give him out as an appeal was made. AleemNo doubt that Inzamam was out as per the rules of cricket. But Rahul Dravid and his men should talk to their own conscience. Perhaps, with Inzamam’s class and current form that was the only way that the `great’ Greg Chappell and the rest of India could have gotten rid of him. Deen SteenWell, I am not sure what makes you conclude that Inzamam’s actions were those of an irresponsible person. Both teams, India and Pakistan, when playing against each other would accept a win even if they have to go against the spirit of the game (such is the context). Let’s not get into the history, because Indians are sore losers and it has been widely accepted. Minor incidents do occur in the heat of the moment, and to any individual who watches the game to see Indians appealing was just ridiculous. As far as Tendulkar’s run out is concerned, the Indians should have protested or asked for a reconsideration of the decision instead of abiding by it. The Pakistanis weren’t the ones who gave the verdict. Like you mentioned, it was the umpires’ decision. SunnyEveryone seems to relate this to Tendulkar’s dismissal. But no one gives former Pakistan captain Imran Khan the credit during the 1989 series: the touring Indian captain Srikanth was adjudged lbw by the umpire and he showed his dissent. Imran then had him called back and he was clean bowled next ball – that is the spirit of the game. Hussnain BhalliI looked at the replay and believe that Inzamam was just protecting himself. He was just avoiding the ball as he did against England and that time too he was given out. I can understand Inzamam’s frustrations. I believe the rules of cricket shouldn’t be so complicated that a man who has played as many matches as Inzamam does not understand. This shows how desperate the Indians were for a wicket and how low they stooped to get it. I sympathize with Inzamam and hope this sort of thing does not repeat itself. BasilI am a big fan of Inzamam and thought he was harshly given out against England this winter. And in this case he was clearly out of the crease, made no attempt to get back and was definitely obstructing. Not sure what he can argue about – the law’s pretty clear and ignorance is no defence. Dan JamesInzamam – cop it sweet. You bring it upon yourself with your abysmal running between wickets. Sometimes I think you bait the opposition; for what purpose I don’t know – maybe for an overthrow, but you’d be too lazy to take advantage of it anyway. Roman FedrichUnsportsmanlike, Inzamam says, “deplorable” Moin Khan adds. Where was their good sense when they joined the entire Pakistan Team in unison and with full throated ease along with their captain Wasim Akram to appeal against Sachin Tendulkar in the ’99 Test at Calcutta when he collided with Shoaib in the second innings after grounding his bat. Sachin was not out then according to both the law and spirit of the game, whereas Inzamam was quite a few paces out of the crease and had a good chance of getting run out if he hadn’t patted the ball with his bat. Arindam BoseI am sorry to say Inzamam needs to go back to the school and start again about basics of the game. If he doesnot know a law that is not anybody problem. Sahil SaifHis act of sticking his bat out to prevent the ball from hitting the stumps is equally unsporting. If he had been attempting to regain his crease by grounding his bat and the ball hit the bat, an appeal in those circumstances could have been considered unsportsmanlike. But that was not the case; he was caught out of his ground, and he used his bat to prevent himself from being run out. MaheshLove the way Inzamam says it was unsporting for India to claim when he obstructed, wasn’t his action of obstructing the ball unsportsmanlike? Inzamam, please refer to the old adage, “don’t point a finger at anyone as there are three more pointing back at you”. Rory Hendricks

ScorecardEngland Women romped to a crushing win in their latest warm-up to the World Cup, as they completely dominated a Gauteng North West Women’s XI. Claire Taylor and Aaron Brindle hit rapid centuries, adding 219 in just 24 overs for second wicket as the home side wilted under the onslaught.Charlotte Edwards was no slouch, opening with 34 from 43 balls, but here dismissal opened the floodgates as Taylor and Brindle went on a run-rampage. Brindle smashed 131 from 127 balls, but Taylor was even more destructive, reaching 166 from just 102 balls. Clare Connor chipped in with a rapid 41, as England passed the 400-mark.The Gauteng North West Women’s reply was dismal, as England’s seamers showed great penetration, Kathrine Brunt taking tree top-order wickets before Clare Taylor and Beth Morgan mopped up the tail. The opposition did not put up much resistance and England will be aware that tougher challenges lie ahead.