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O Santos venceu de virada a Inter de Limeira por 3 a 2 neste sábado (9), na Vila Belmiro, pela última rodada da fase de grupos do Campeonato Paulista. Os gols do Peixe foram marcados por Julio Furch (2x) e Cazares. Quirino (2x) anotou para os visitantes.

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Com o resultado, o Peixe assegurou a segunda melhor campanha na fase regular do torneio estadual e encara a Portuguesa nas quartas de final da competição. A equipe do interior, por sua vez, enfrenta o Bragantino, em Bragança Paulista.

⚽COMO FOI A PARTIDA?

O Santos encontrou dificuldades para criar oportunidades na primeira etapa e viu Quirino, atacante rival, abrir o placar. No lance seguinte, Furch marcou de cabeça e igualou o marcador. Bem na partida, a equipe visitante viu Quirino vencer o duelo contra a zaga do Peixe e marcar seu segundo gol no duelo.

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A segunda etapa foi de domínio total do time de Fábio Carille. Furch. De pênalti, Furch igualou o marcador, e Cazares, nos minutos finais, virou a partida.

✅O QUE VEM POR AÍ?

Nas quartas de final do Paulistão, o Santos encara a Portuguesa, no domingo (17), na Vila Belmiro.

✅ SANTOS 3 X 2 INTER DE LIMEIRA
Campeonato Paulista – Primeira fase – Décima Segunda Rodada

Data e horário: Sábado, 9 de Março de 2024, às 18h00 (de Brasília)
Local: Vila Belmiro, Santos (SP)
Árbitro: Matheus Delgado Candançan
Assistentes: Luiz Alberto Andrini Nogueira e Mauro Freitas

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SANTOS
João Paulo; Hayner, Joaquim, Gil e Felipe Jonatan; Nonato, Rincón e Cazares; Otero, Pedrinho e Furch. Técnico: Fábio Carille

INTER DE LIMEIRA
Max; JP Galvão, Jussani, Mancini e César; Émerson, Lima e Bochecha; João Felipe, Albano e Quirino. Técnico: Júnior Rocha

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ضمنت 5 أندية عدم مغادرة منافسات بطولة دوري أبطال أوروبا، موسم 2025/26، مبكرًا، وذلك بعد انتهاء الجولة السادسة من مرحلة الدوري.

وانتهت منافسات الجولة السادسة من مرحلة الدوري، دوري أبطال أوروبا، لذلك الموسم مساء الأربعاء، حيث شهدت الجولة فوز ليفربول على إنتر ميلان بهدف نظيف، وانتصار برشلونة على آينتراخت فرانكفورت بهدفين لهدف، وتخطي مانشستر سيتي خصمه ريال مدريد بهدفين مقابل هدف، كما واصل آرسنال سجله المميز وفاز على كلوب بروج بثلاثة أهداف دون رد.

ومن المعروف أن الفرق صاحبة المراكز من الأول إلى الثامن، تتأهل بشكل مباشر لدور الـ16 في هذا النظام، بينما تخوض الفرق صاحبة المراكز من 9 إلى 24، مرحلة الملحق.

وحسبما ذكر موقع “يويفا”، فإن هناك خمسة فرق ضمنت التأهل المباشر أو خوض مرحلة الملحق على الأقل، ومن ثم عدم مغادرتها منافسات البطولة بعد مرحلة الدوري على الفور.

وأوضح أن تلك الفرق هي: “آرسنال الإنجليزي، أتالانتا الإيطالي، بايرن ميونخ الألماني، مانشستر سيتي الإنجليزي وباريس سان جيرمان الفرنسي”.

ولا تزال العديد من الفرق الأخرى تتنافس على الوصول للمرحلة المقبلة من البطولة، مثل ريال مدريد صاحب المركز السابع وليفربول الذي يتواجد في المركز التاسع، في حين يحتل برشلونة المركز الخامس عشر.

وتتبقى جولتان في مرحلة الدوري من دوري أبطال أوروبا، سيُقاما في شهر يناير المقبل، ويمكن متابعة الترتيب الحالي من هنا.

Arsenal are flying at the moment.

Mikel Arteta’s thumping 4-1 win in the North London Derby on Sunday has seen them go six points clear of second-place Chelsea at the top of the Premier League table and seven points clear of Manchester City.

It was an incredible team performance from the North Londoners, but even so, Eberechi Eze stood out, scoring the first hat-trick in the competition since Alan Sunderland in 1978.

The former Crystal Palace star has been an excellent signing for Arsenal, and now the club are being linked with someone who’d be a dream teammate for him.

Arsenal target dream teammate for Eze

Arsenal may have spent big in the summer, but perhaps due to them being in a great position domestically and in Europe, they are already being linked with some huge players ahead of the winter window.

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Juventus’ sensationally talented Kenan Yıldız, for example, has been touted for an £88m move to the Emirates, as has the £120m Elliot Anderson.

However, the North Londoners are also looking at another goalscoring centre-forward, someone who’d be a dream signing for Eze.

At least, that is according to a recent report from Caught Offside, which claims Arsenal are one of several teams interested in Samu Aghehowa.

In fact, the report goes a step further, revealing that the Gunners are among the sides leading the race for his signature, even if Tottenham Hotspur are just marginally ahead.

However, on top of the competition, one of the hurdles the Premier League leaders will have to overcome to secure the Spaniard’s signature is the fact that it could take around €90m – £79m – to convince Porto to let him go.

Even so, given Samu’s ability, potential and goal record, this is a deal Arsenal should be fighting for, especially as he could be a dream signing for Eze.

Why Samu would be a dream signing for Eze

Now, while it is most certainly simplistic, it is also true that the primary reason Samu would be a dream signing for Eze, and by extension Arsenal, is the fact that he’s an output machine.

After all, whether he’s playing on the wing or in the ten, the former Crystal Palace star will want whoever is playing down the middle to be someone who can reliably score goals and even provide assists for him at times.

Fortunately, that sounds a lot like the Spaniard.

For example, in 44 appearances across all competitions last season, totalling 3,370 minutes, the 21-year-old racked up an impressive tally of 27 goals and three assists.

That comes out to a staggering average of a goal involvement every 1.46 games, or every 112.33 minutes.

Appearances

44

16

Minutes

3,370′

809′

Goals

27

6

Assists

3

1

Goal Involvements per Match

0.68

0.43

Minutes per Goal Involvement

112.33′

115.57′

He’s showing no signs of that being a hot streak either, as so far this season, the monstrous forward has chalked up six goals and one assist in 16 appearances, totalling 809 minutes.

In other words, he is currently averaging a goal involvement every 2.28 games, or more crucially, every 115.57 minutes.

On top of being a forward who’d be able to reliably finish the chances created for him, the former Atletico Madrid gem is also a battering ram of a player.

Standing at 6 foot 4, the four-capped international, whom journalist Zach Lowy described as “one of the best STs in Europe,” is not someone who’d struggle with the physical nature of the Premier League.

If anything, he’d thrive in it and be able to use his impressive stature to bully opposition defenders and create opportunities for himself and his teammates.

Finally, despite being such an imposing figure, he has demonstrated an impressive level of agility and movement through a few seriously impressive strikes.

Ultimately, while the fee is high, Samu is a goalscoring machine who would not only improve Arteta’s squad but also potentially help Eze’s goal and assist tallies explode.

Therefore, Arsenal should do what they can to sign him in January, before another side, like Spurs, gets to him first.

Forget Eze: Arsenal's "cult hero" is becoming Arteta's new Odegaard instead

The incredible Arsenal ace has been in fine form this season and is starting to become Arteta’s new Odegaard.

ByJack Salveson Holmes Nov 25, 2025

Trailing the San Francisco Giants by eight runs entering the bottom of the eighth, the Chicago Cubs threw in the towel in the form of letting catcher Reese McGuire stride out to the mound and lob some eephus pitches. Few things are more exciting in sports than watching non-pitchers lob pitches that would work in slow-pitch softball to the best hitters in the world and confound them into looking quite mortal.

McGuire did the job just fine, surrendering just one run in the frame and getting the game over quickly.

The catcher explored all the space above the strike zone before dropping moonshots in, including this 35-MPH job that Rafael Devers could only watch.

Beautiful stuff.

Now, the little ball icon would tell you this was very high. But that thing is calibrated for pitchers who are throwing very fast and not letting gravity do the work. It's entirely possible that this thing came from the sky and did cross part of the plate in the strike zone before finding the catcher's glove. Or the ump understandably just wanted to get things going.

Houston Astros pitcher Framber Valdez and his catcher, César Salazar, were involved in a wild moment in Tuesday night's loss to the Yankees that had one former MLB player saying he would have fought Valdez in the tunnel if he was his teammate

In case you missed it, Salazar tried to wave off Valdez before a pitch to Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham. Valdez ignored his catcher and delivered the pitch, which Grisham crushed for a grand slam home run.

Next up for the Yankees was Anthony Volpe and during that at-bat Valdez seemed to cross up his catcher and hit him in the chest with 93-MPH pitch.

Here's how that played out:

Valdez apologized for it after the game and said he didn't do it on purpose.

On Wednesday, former MLB player and current Red sox announcer Will Middlebrooks called out Valdez, calling it an "all-time scumbag move be a teammate" and saying he would have fought Valdez if he did that to him.

"The reaction to it [by Valdez] was everything I needed to know," Middlebrooks said to CBS Sports. "When I initially saw it I was thinking, O.K. it was a mistake. Then you watch the reaction by [Valdez]. No remorse. No my bad. No nothing. No reaction because your initial reaction any time you cross up a catcher is 'oh my god' because you could really hurt a guy. You squared him up in the sternum with 95 and you didn’t even react? I’m sorry, if he’s my teammate if I’m that catcher we’re going down the tunnel and you’re getting these hands either now or after the game, you can pick when you want them."

Here are Middlebrooks's full comments:

It will be interesting to see if the Astros do anything to Valdez for that move of if they'll just move on since he apologized for it.

Either way, that is a tough look for their star pitcher.

Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. just missed out on what would have been the second cycle in Major League Baseball postseason history Wednesday.

In Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the Mariners, Toronto's offense broke out when it was needed the most, partly in thanks to a four-hit night from Guerrero. He smacked a 406-foot home run to center field in the fifth inning, which moved him just a triple shy of the cycle with plenty of game left.

He was intentionally walked in the sixth, but saw an opportunity in the eighth to achieve the rare feat. Guerrero poked an 83-mph curveball in the middle of the zone to the right-field gap and dug for extra bases. He rounded first and booked it for second, but stopped on second base instead of pushing for the triple, which would've completed the cycle. He appeared to take too big of a step as he rounded first, which put him a bit off balance and may have halted his opportunity for a triple.

Once the 26-year-old first baseman stood up on second, he knew he missed an opportunity, but was happy with another extra-base hit. The Fox broadcast perfectly panned to some of his Blue Jays teammates in the dugout who looked disappointed that the cycle didn't come to fruition.

As the hardest piece of the cycle, you can't fault Guerrero for not reaching third on the play, but his eighth-inning hit may have been the best opportunity possible.

Guerrero was 4-for-4 with a walk on the night, recording his only RBI via a solo homer in the fifth. The Blue Jays' offense exploded at the right time, and it led the charge behind the 13–4 win against the Mariners in Wednesday's Game 3. Seattle still leads the series 2–1 with Game 4 slated for Thursday night at T-Mobile Park.

Who hit for the only cycle in MLB postseason history?

Red Sox utilityman Brock Holt hit for the only cycle in MLB postseason history, doing so in Game 3 of the AL Division Series against the Yankees in 2018. Holt's playoff cycle was part of Boston's 16–1 stomping of New York before they won the series in Game 4. He hit for the cycle three years earlier in the regular season against the Braves.

The Yankees' season ended in the 2025 ALDS against the Blue Jays last week, and the team didn't waste much time making some cuts to the coaching staff in the aftermath of their postseason exit.

On Tuesday, SNY's Andy Martino reported that longtime bullpen coach Mike Harkey and first base/infield coach Travis Chapman are not expected to return to the organization next season. Martino suggested other changes could also be on the horizon for New York in the offseason.

Harkey, 58, is in his second stint as the Yankees' bullpen coach, a role he's been in since 2016. He was previously the bullpen coach for the team from 2008 to '2013, too. As for Chapman, he'd been in his role since '22.

Additionally, Yankees hitting coach James Rowson permission to interview for the Twins' managerial vacancy. Minnesota parted ways with former skipper Rocco Baldelli after the 2025 season, and Rowson is seemingly on their radar.

The Yankees' bullpen struggled in 2025, and the team was not very sound defensively. The group had a 4.37 ERA in the regular season and a 6.15 ERA in the playoffs. Despite Brian Cashman being aggressive at the trade deadline, bringing in David Bednar, Camilo Doval and Jake Bird, late-innings pitching was still a weakness for the team throughout the season.

The coach-cum-mentor turned a talented but disparate bunch into a united force that almost went all the way

Shashank Kishore in Rajkot13-Mar-2020
It roughly translates to ‘dreams in our fist; hope in our pockets; our heartfelt desire is; to achieve something’.These powerful lines, part of a poem narrated by veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan, boomed through the walls of the Bengal team room a night before possibly the biggest day in the cricketing careers of many from the team. Their Ranji Trophy dream was alive, there was (hope) of breaking a 30-year drought and getting their hands around the elusive title they last had a shot at in 2006-07.On Friday morning, they saw that dream come crashing down in an hour, after an inspired Jaydev Unadkat picked up two wickets, then showed outstanding presence of mind to effect a freak run out, and celebrated with so much passion that you feared his nerves would pop.In the Bengal dressing room, there was stunned silence. No one moved from their seats. No one wanted to make eye contact. The expressions on their faces told you the story of pain and heartbreak. And just like that, it was a case of being so near, yet so far. The end margin for the first-innings lead was 44 runs, but it was a lot closer than that.As the team stood deflated behind the ropes to walk in for the second innings that had been reduced to a mere formality, Arun Lal, their head coach and mentor, called them into a team huddle. He spoke passionately, or so you could gather from afar. And then as they dispersed, he clapped and patted all the boys and members of his support staff on the back.To him, this was no ordinary team. He’d fought through opposition from several quarters to run the team the way he wanted to, and wven faced with their biggest heartbreak in recent memory, he wasn’t going to let his emotions flow or have words slip out in anger.”We are proud of how far we’ve come,” Lal said. “This has been an incredible run for us. To get to a Ranji Trophy final isn’t easy, and we did a bloody good job. They should walk with their heads held high. I’m mighty proud of the fight they have shown.”For Manoj Tiwary, the entire game has been emotional for many reasons. For starters, this was a final. Thirteen years ago, he had played in one against Mumbai, as a rookie seeking to impress the national selectors. He even squared off against Sunil Joshi, the current chief selector, and Sarandeep Singh, current member of the selection committee, that season.Here they were, now watching Tiwary, the big brother, being flanked by his team-mates to celebrate his 100th Ranji Trophy game for Bengal. They even had a celebratory dinner, with every member of the support staff and team signing a miniature bat for posterity. It reflected a kind of camaraderie very rarely seen in the Bengal team. And just like in the past, where no one made an effort to hide the mistrust or infighting, the spirit also shone through quite naturally, right from the captain to the reserves.”I saw tears in Lal ‘s eyes, when we came to this final,” Tiwary said. “He’s very inspirational, says a lot of inspiring things. He is emotional by heart but a very good man. That Amitabh Bachchan (poem), he used to play every day while we started our team meeting. Those words are pure, straight from the heart. It was as if Lal himself was reciting it to us. And prior to the game when it was played, he teared up. For him, this was a Ranji Trophy final to cherish, like it was for all of us. Seeing that, I also had tears in my eyes, but I am better off not showing it. Lal is an expressive person. I will always remember those lines.”For Lal, known to be a modest man, it was the team effort that brought him recognition. “Look, you all should forget Arun Lal. I genuinely believe it’s the team that has brought you guys to me. Had we not qualified, you guys wouldn’t even be talking to me. It’s about the boys, the players, our support staff,” Lal said. “They are the real heroes. I always believe a coach is as good as his team, and not the other way round.”

“He talks straight. He has kept players on their toes while still giving them security. He changed the way we train. Even in the rainy season, training wasn’t called off for a single day. Wet outfield or dry, if we had to do 20 laps, we had to do it. Fitness wasn’t in question, he wanted to make us mentally tough.”Manoj Tiwary on Arun Lal

As humble as Lal made himself sound, Tiwary was clear his efforts were by no means a “small thing.” Uniting a dressing room and getting them onto a common platform, after all, was a task. It helped that everyone looked at the common goal. When he joined them as mentor in 2018-19 – “I merely sat back and observed how things were run”, he said – the players drew inspiration from the very fact that Lal was here, having taken up the Bengal job under tough circumstances, personally, after fighting his way back from a rare form of cancer that affected his jaw.Four months after his surgery and chemotherapy sessions, Lal was back in the commentary box to call a CAB Super League final that was widely televised. The game is best remembered for being India’s pink-ball debut.”When you live through that [cancer], you learn to look at life differently,” Lal said. “What is a cricket match at the end of it? You win and lose. I’ve always instilled in the boys, fighting through pain and overcoming it gives you bigger satisfaction than anything else. Win or lose, it’s the effort that counts.”That pain and fighting spirit were seen all through the final. Tiwary hurt his finger in the semi-final while trying to evade a bouncer. He needed it to be iced and plastered coming into the game he wasn’t going to miss for anything. On the third day, with the highly skilled Unadkat reversing the ball in a magnificent spell, he fought there for close to three hours, shelving his flair in favour of the hard grind. Anustup Majumdar was off the field for a majority of the first day, after having a crack in his left thumb while attempting a slip catch. He needed pain killers to ease himself in, and when he finally got the chance to bat, he nearly bailed Bengal out by doing the unthinkable on the fourth day. He was the reason Bengal even dared to dream of a title going into the final day.Some of the senior Bengal cricketers at the SCA Stadium in Rajkot•ESPNcricinfo Ltd”He’s liked by everyone in the fraternity,” Tiwary said of Lal. “He is open, says it as it is, and talks straight. If he finds something wrong, he will tell you straight. Not send out a message through the press. He has instilled fighting mentality in this team. He has kept players on their toes while still giving them security. He changed the way we train. Even in the rainy season, training wasn’t called off for a single day. Wet outfield or dry, if we had to do 20 laps, we had to do it. Fitness wasn’t in question, he wanted to make us mentally tough.”Lal set four fitness tests for the teams to pass. Discipline was inculcated by the means of a fine of INR 2000 for bowling a no-ball in the nets. Senior players were told to step away from their comfort zone. “He told us seniors what he expects from us,” Tiwary says. “If you’re playing for 10-15 years, you don’t realise when you slip into a comfort zone sometimes, but for a person with good intentions from the outside, he can see it. It’s not something we do on purpose, but it can happen. So he set that straight first. You see this season, all senior players have done what you expect of them.”Lal says it’s his ability to stay detached from cricket, and lead a very simple life, away from the game that has helped him immensely. While in Kolkata, he spends time with his eight dogs at his farm and takes part in plantation drives. He is passionate about environment sustainability, loves taking off to bird parks, and hopes to even write a book about it one day.”It’s the other interests that are as important,” Lal says. “If you come to my house, you will not see a single trophy, photograph, frames with cricketers, autographed bats, books – nothing. When we won the Ranji Trophy in 1989-90, we all got replica trophies made of . I just gave away all of them: the trophies, photo frames, bats. I can’t say why, it’s not because I don’t love cricket. Maybe it’s just me, but that is the person I am.”Lal would’ve sure loved getting his hands on the winners’ trophy this time, but it’s the satisfaction of seeing this group fight that has him excited. He isn’t yet sure if he wants to be part of another season – “we’ll see how things go” – but for now, he can walk away and reflect on an inspirational journey, just like those words from Bachchan that he made his team listen to every day.

Does Dale Steyn make it? Is it even possible to leave him out with the numbers he has?

Saurabh Somani and Gaurav Sundararaman25-May-2020The Deccan Chargers and Sunrisers Hyderabad all-time XI•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Sunrisers Hyderabad/Deccan Chargers

We’re calling this the Sunrisers Hyderabad all-time XI, but we have considered players from Deccan Chargers too for selection. We debated this, and finally decided that since the playing group didn’t change when the management did, we would consider them one entity. It also gives players who did well for the Chargers a selection avenue. Two IPL titles and four straight years of qualifying for the play-offs since 2016 suggest some very good players and a very favourable success ratio. While that is true, there were still some challenges to picking an all-time XI, thanks to the bowling-heavy avatar that the franchise has had. In a sense, it is almost the anti-RCB, with a surfeit of bowling options, but a bit of a struggle to pick batsmen. That the franchise has two titles – beating RCB in both finals coincidentally – perhaps tells a tale of which discipline helps win tournaments.The picks
David Warner, Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were straightforward picks. Each of them have been almost synonymous with SRH’s success. With the inclusion of the Chargers’ players, Adam Gilchrist also makes it – forming a dream opening combination with Warner. Both men have led the franchise to titles, and Gilchrist’s win in 2009 came on the back of a wooden-spoon finish in 2008 – but we decided to give the captaincy reins to Warner, since Gilchrist will be keeping wickets too. Shikhar Dhawan may be with the other DC now – Delhi Capitals – but he’s still the top scorer for the two franchises combined, shading Warner by 466 runs. With both Warner and Gilchrist there though, Dhawan will bat at No. 3.The debate
The struggle to pick SRH sides involved filling up batting spots. At first, Dale Steyn was thought to be a walk-in selection. He has 71 wickets for the two franchises combined – second only to Bhuvneshwar – and his economy rate of 6.68 is outstanding. But picking Steyn would mean no more overseas slots available, since Warner, Gilchrist and Rashid already occupy three. And the fact of the matter is, that while there are decent pace options available (even if not Steyn quality), we struggled to pick Indian batsmen. Which meant Steyn had to be replaced by Kane Williamson. It was not an easy decision, but team dynamics demanded it.The paucity of batsmen is best reflected in the fact that for the role of the No. 6, we had to go back to Rohit Sharma. He had done an excellent job for the Chargers, before becoming the face of Mumbai Indians, and in fact is still the for the two franchises combined. Gilchrist is fourth, and both have played only three seasons – as telling a stat as any on the franchise’s batting troubles. Rohit in his 2008-2010 avatar was a middle-order batsman and a finisher, who occasionally rolled his arm over too. He is picked in that capacity for this side.The bowling line-up is potent though, with Amit Mishra, RP Singh and Pragyan Ojha added to the roster. Singh and Ojha were superb for Deccan, while Mishra straddled both franchises well. His legspin is distinct from Rashid’s and both in tandem would be a compelling sight. There was still one spot to fill, and with only five batsmen so far, it had to go to another batsman. That meant we had no room for a Siddarth Kaul or Sandeep Sharma, both of whom had done much better for the franchise in absolute terms than any batsman available for selection. The batting spot came down to Yuvraj Singh or Manish Pandey. While Yuvraj’s average (27.11) and strike rate (137.07) compare reasonably with Pandey’s (33.05 and 123.37), we went with Pandey because he showed a significant upward trend in the latter half of the last season and has sustained his numbers for more matches than Yuvraj.In terms of balance, the team has a top four who might all be more comfortable opening the batting, but that is down to how the franchise has built its squad over the years, and who have performed well. Rashid at No. 7 might feel one spot too high, but with the bowling attack this team has and the quality of the top order, going a bit light on batting might not matter.Incidentally, there are plenty of individual achievements in this side. Warner won the Orange Cap in 2015, 2017 and 2019, while Williamson did so in 2018. Singh and Ojha won the Purple Cap in 2009 and 2010, while Bhuvneshwar won it in 2016 and 2017.

Playing XI stats for SRH

1. David Warner
71 matches (2014-2019)
Runs 3271, Ave 55.44, SR 146.872. Adam Gilchrist
48 matches (2008-2010)
Runs 1289, Ave 27.42, SR 147.823. Shikhar Dhawan
120 matches (2011-2018)
Runs 3737, Ave 35.59, SR 126.204. Kane Williamson
41 matches (2015-19)
Runs 1302, Ave 38.29, SR 135.065. Manish Pandey
27 matches (2018-19)
Runs 628, Ave 33.05, SR 123.376. Rohit Sharma
47 matches (2008-10)
Runs 1219, Ave 30.47, SR 130.37
Wickets 14, Ave 25.14, ER 7.337. Rashid Khan
46 matches (2017-19)
Wickets 55, Ave 21.69, ER 6.558. B Kumar
86 matches (2014-2019)
Wickets 109, Ave 22.33, ER 7.419. Amit Mishra
61 matches (2011-2014)
Wickets 62, Ave 25.38, ER 7.2910. Pragyan Ojha
56 matches (2008-2011)
Wickets 62, Ave 22.19, ER 7.0811. RP Singh
44 matches (2008-2010)
Wickets 54, Ave 23.59, ER 7.91Want to pick your own DC/SRH all-time XI? Head over to our readers’ voting page here. all-time IPL XIs, .

19-year-old shared record 423-run stand with Jack Leaning

Interview by Sreshth Shah11-Aug-2020You started at Kent at age 10. What pushed you into cricket that young?My brother – he was a big influence on me playing cricket. My parents played semi-professional tennis so I’ve always had that gene, but my brother played for Kent from age 10 until he was 16 or 17, so I was always there whenever he wanted throw downs. That’s what got me into playing cricket. When my brother used to bowl at me, I was two or three years below, so obviously he was very quick for me. And I wanted to play with him quite a lot, so they would put me in the same team with him quite often. So in that sense, I’ve played in teams two years above my age category. I believe that it’s helped me.Is there anyone you would compare yourself to as a player?I’ve changed quite a lot over the years. I used to be more of an attacking player – I mean I still am, but I’m not as reckless as I used to be. Sam Billings was the person I’ve been looking up to since I was 10, but now playing with him is quite funny. I’d like to think I’m similar to how he plays – he’s quite attacking. Within the Kent environment, I’m probably close enough to him.ALSO READ: Stevens skewers Sussex after Cox-Leaning run bonanzaHe had a tough year after dislocating his collarbone, but scoring three hundreds in a row in the Championship was quite impressive. I talk to him quite a lot, and try to take a lot of information from him on how he goes about his business. I’ve tried to take bits from him and put it in my own; he’s so open, which is really good.What boxes did you tick on debut?I obviously wanted to play for Kent, that was my aspiration. I was playing in a Kent 2nds game at the time, a T20, and I was told, “Jordan, you’re opening for us against Hampshire, so see you tonight?” I drove up, and was pretty nervous on the ride up. I ended up playing because Zak Crawley was called up to the England Lions team, so I was happy being the next best batsman. I went out there, told myself ‘just have fun’, and if things don’t go too well, that’s unfortunate, but I went out there all guns blazing. I got 27, dismissed by a good ball. I was happy I started well.What’s been your favourite batting performance so far?My knock against Bangladesh Under-19s at Beckenham maybe. I was playing a T20 Blast game against Hampshire the day before and I was driving back home thinking, “I don’t have anything on tomorrow”, so I called [head coach] Jon Lewis and asked him: “do you mind if I play tomorrow?” And he said: “let me call you in a bit.” And he called back an hour later and he said: “Jordan, pack your bags. Your hotel is booked.”So I drove to the hotel at 10.30pm. But I was nervous going into the game: my highest score for the Under-19s was about 30, so I was thinking I really need to score some runs, but then I scored 122 not out that day. That was my best international performance so far.What kind of questions would you ask a top cricketer?I’ll give you an example. I was supposed to play against Yorkshire away when Stevo [Darren Stevens] got 240-odd. But I got dropped for Faf du Plessis, which I was upset about that game, because he came into the side for just that one game – but I guess that’s fair enough since he is the captain of South Africa.So I asked him: “if you’re in a bad run of form, what do you do? What are your two main things?” He said to me: “There are two things I make sure are right: my backlift and my head.” Anything else he doesn’t really bother about. It was something I hadn’t explored before. Talking to him about that, things became much more clear.”The ethos of the senior team is coming down to our junior sides”•ICC via GettyWho is the most challenging bowler you’ve faced?Probably Jofra Archer, at Hove in a T20 game. He bumped me and it was ridiculously quick. I ended up three strips behind me. I didn’t really enjoy it, but ended up getting my highest Blast score there. Tymal Mills and Rashid Khan were in that attack too, and Chris Jordan, so it was quite a challenging game all around. Their pace, and their change-ups were difficult. The first ball Mills bowled, thank god, was a full toss, so I cut it for four. It was only supposed to go for one so I could get off strike…The England team in the last five years has played very different white-ball cricket. Are you suited to it?Yes, I think so. I used to be really attacking. Now I’ve calmed it down just a bit, but I’m still hitting it at a strike rate of 100-120 most of the time. I feel like my strike rate will be up there or close enough to how England play. [In the Under-19s] it’s normally an aggressive top three, too. That doesn’t mean slogging every ball at all, don’t get me wrong: just putting away the bad balls, defending the good ones, trying to get off strike, trying to strike at 100 if you can. But if there’s some good balls and you need to block them, fair enough. Obviously the ethos of the senior team is coming down to our junior sides which is good because if we do break into the first team, we know what it’s all about.But do you like red-ball cricket? It doesn’t turn you off?I used to be like ‘white-ball cricket is gonna be my life’, but I’ve realised that if you want to make it as a cricketer in England, then red-ball cricket has to be the start for me. If I can play red-ball in England, I can play white-ball in England. That’s my thought process. So I really want to focus on my red-ball in 2020.