Captain Chamari Athapaththu’s 102 off 63 balls helped Sri Lanka win the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier against Scotland in Abu Dhabi.As a result, Sri Lanka will slot into Group A alongside Australia, India, New Zealand and Pakistan, while Scotland will be part of Group B alongside South Africa, England, West Indies and Bangladesh in the World Cup proper in October.After Scotland asked Sri Lanka to bat, Athapaththu lost her opening partner Vishmi Gunaratne in the third over. Harshitha Samarawickrama was the next one to depart in the sixth over, after being pinned in front by Katherine Fraser. Kavisha Dilhari at No. 4 then contributed 15 off 13 balls before being stumped off Abtaha Maqsood.Athapaththu, meanwhile, continued to pile on the runs single-handedly, contributing 83 runs in her 106-run stand with Nilakshika Silva. She brought up her century in the 19th over, off 60 balls. Athapaththu hit 13 fours and four sixes in her 63-ball stay before falling to Rachel Slater with four balls remaining in Sri Lanka’s innings. A six by Silva off the penultimate ball then set Scotland a target of 170.In return, Scotland got off to a decent start in the chase, with openers Saskia Horley and Megan McColl hitting three fours between them before the collapse began. After Horley was run-out in the third over, left-arm medium pacer Udeshika Prabodhani produced a double-wicket maiden in the fourth.Sri Lanka’s spinners then took over, stifling Scotland in the middle overs. Priyanaz Chatterji fought hard with a 34-ball 30, but didn’t find much help at the other end, as Scotland eventually fell 68 runs short.Before they met on Tuesday, both Sri Lanka and Scotland had already booked their spot at the T20 World Cup proper, set to be played in Bangladesh later this year, after beating UAE and Ireland, respectively, on Friday.

نجح نادي الزمالك، في حسم صفقة جديدة من فريق سبورتنج، لتدعيم صفوف الفريق الأول لكرة السلة “رجال” في الموسم الجديد 2025-2026.

وأفاد مصدر لـ بطولات: “الزمالك أنهى الاتفاق مع سبورتنج لضم يوسف رفعت لاعب الفريق الأول لكرة السلة في صفقة تبادلية”.

وأشار إلى أن الزمالك تحمل 3.5 مليون جنيه قيمة صفقة رفعت، على أن ينضم لاعب الزمالك محمد أيمن إلى سبورتنج.

طالع | اتحاد السلة يعلن تفاصيل نظام الدوري الممتاز للموسم الجديد

وكان الزمالك، أعلن عن تعيين عصام عبد الحميد مديرًا فنيًا لفريق رجال كرة السلة، لقيادة الفريق خلال منافسات الموسم الجديد 2025-2026.

ومن المقرر أن ينطلق الموسم الجديد من دوري السلة، خلال منتصف شهر سبتمبر المقبل.

Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna has confirmed that Nathan Broadhead won't be allowed to leave the club this summer, despite strong interest from Wrexham. The Red Dragons, who secured their third successive promotion to reach the Championship this season, have been busy in the transfer market and were hoping to secure a club-record £7.5m deal of the striker.

• Ipswich refuse to sell Broadhead
• Wrexham plotted ambitious move
• McKenna won't allow star striker to leave

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Wrexham, who are on a spending spree this summer ahead of their journey in the Championship, were plotting an ambitious move to sign Ipswich forward Nathan Broadhead for a record £7.5 million ($9.9m) transfer fee. However, Tractor Boys boss McKenna has now ruled out the possibility of selling the Welshman.

Advertisement

• Getty Images Sport
  

  THE BIGGER PICTURE

  Broadhead has spent time previously at the Red Dragons in the club's academy before moving on to Everton and then Ipswich. He made 18 appearances last season in the Premier League for the Tractor Boys, scoring twice in a campaign that ultimately ended in relegation back to the Championship.

• WHAT MCKENNA SAID

  Speaking to reporters, the Ipswich boss said: "He's expressed his desire to look at another opportunity that's been presented to him. But at this moment with the position the club is in, it's not the right time or even a possible time for us to allow a good player to leave the building."

ENJOYED THIS STORY?

Add GOAL.com as a preferred source on Google to see more of our reporting

• Getty Images Sport
  

  WHAT NEXT FOR WREXHAM?

  Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's side will kick off the 2025-26 campaign on August 9 as they take on Southampton in their Championship opener. Ipswich, on the other hand, take on Birmingham in their opening game, a day before Wrexham's clash. 

The consensus among the TV commentators following the decision was that a mistake had been made

ESPNcricinfo staff22-May-20241:54

‘Karthik’s first-ball reprieve was a hasty decision’

The TV umpire Anil Chaudhary’s decision to overturn an lbw decision from out to not out in Dinesh Karthik’s favour came under heavy scrutiny during the Eliminator between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Ahmedabad.The incident took place in the 15th over of RCB’s innings. After Rajat Patidar had just been dismissed, Avesh Khan swung the ball into Karthik, and the batter was given out lbw by the on-field umpire KN Ananthapadmanabhan.Karthik did not immediately review the decision and only made the DRS signal after a chat with his partner Mahipal Lomror. The replays showed the bottom of the bat close to the front pad at the same time as the ball passing the bat, and striking the pad as Karthik came forward.The question was whether the spike on Ultra Edge was the ball hitting the inside edge of the bat or the bat hitting the pad. TV umpire Anil Chaudhary thought it was bat on ball and asked the on-field umpire to change his decision to not out, though it seemed like there wasn’t conclusive evidence to do so.The consensus among the TV commentators following the decision was that a mistake had been made and cameras showed the RR director of cricket Kumar Sangakkara unhappy while talking to the fourth umpire outside the boundary.Speaking at the press conference after the game, Avesh, however, was fine with Karthik getting the benefit of the doubt.”When you are bowling, the emotions are running quite high. If you look at any bowler, they always ask for reviews, they feel the batter is out [if it’s close],” he said. “But when they showed the replay on the screen, there was some doubt – I suppose DK got the benefit of the doubt. The decision the umpire took must have been the right one, the umpiring is always fair.”If Karthik had been given out, RCB would have been 122 for 6, but he went on to score 11 off 12 balls in a partnership of 32 off 24 balls with Lomror. Karthik was eventually dismissed in the 19th over, and RCB finished on 172 for 8 fore going down by four wickets to be eliminated from the tournament.

MatériaMais Notícias

O Palmeiras ainda não contratou reforços para 2023, mas começará o ano com um dos jogadores mais badalados do futebol brasileiro e mundial. Trata-se de Endrick, que novamente foi destaque na imprensa estrangeira. Desta vez, a joia alviverde entrou em um ranking dos 50 melhores jovens do mundo, marcando sua posição no Top 5 da lista publicada pela revista inglesa FourFourTwo.

> Veja classificação e simulador do Paulistão-2023 clicando aqui

Negociado com o Real Madrid, clube que defenderá a partir de julho de 2024, o atacante vinha sendo constantemente destacado pela mídia europeia, mas agora, depois de custar 72 milhões de euros (R$ 400 milhões) aos cofres dos espanhóis, sua fama parece que vai ficar ainda maior por lá.

continua após a publicidadeRelacionadasPalmeirasResponsáveis pelo gramado do Allianz Parque celebram ano histórico do Palmeiras no piso sintéticoPalmeiras05/01/2023PalmeirasLuis Guilherme é convocado para a Seleção sub-20, e Palmeiras perde mais um jogador na CopinhaPalmeiras04/01/2023PalmeirasPalmeiras reafirma foco na base com reapresentação ‘reforçada’ por jovensPalmeiras04/01/2023

Segundo a revista inglesa, Endrick é o quinto melhor jovem do mundo na atualidade, atrás de Gavi (Barcelona), Sesko (Red Bull Salzburg), Musiala (Bayern) e Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund). O palmeirense ficou à frente de outros nomes importantes como Elliott (Liverpool) e Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund). Marcos Leonardo, do Santos, aparece como o 35º colocado no ranking.

No texto publicado pela FourFourTwo, Endrick é altamente elogiado e comparado com grandes nomes do futebol mundial como Aguero e Suárez, além de ter citada a sua dominância na base alviverde.

-O poder é assustador. Ele é dominante no futebol juvenil e depois de anos com a América do Sul produzindo esses “9” explosivos como Luis Suarez e Sergio Aguero, o Brasil agora parece ter um igual. Não é apenas a velocidade de seus pés, mas suas reações relâmpago: ele já marca todos os tipos de gols – escreveu a revista ao descrever o atacante.

>Saiba por onde andam hoje os artilheiros das últimas dez Copinhas

Endrick vai iniciar a temporada 2023 como titular do Palmeiras. Depois de ser promovido com enorme expectativa no último ano, o jogador será um dos pilares da comissão técnica de Abel Ferreira para seguir buscando títulos. O início dessa busca será no dia 14 de janeiro, às 20h30, diante do São Bento, no Allianz Parque, pela primeira rodada da fase de grupos do Paulistão.

continua após a publicidade

Liverpool new boy Florian Wirtz insists his record-breaking £116 million ($154m) price tag “doesn’t matter” as he just wants to “play football”.

Most expensive player in British footballWill not be weighed down by price tagLooking forward to Premier League testFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

Germany international Wirtz has become the most expensive player in British football after completing a big-money transfer to Anfield from Bundesliga giants Bayer Leverkusen. The 22-year-old playmaker has a lot to live up to on Merseyside.

AdvertisementGetty ImagesTHE BIGGER PICTURE

An immediate impact will need to be made in order to avoid inevitable questions being asked of his value to the Reds cause, but Wirtz is adamant that he will not be wasting energy worrying about factors that are outside of his control.

WHAT WIRTZ SAID

Wirtz told when asked if a historic transfer fee will weigh heavy around his neck: “No, I don’t think about this. I just want to play football and how much money the clubs pay between each other, it doesn’t matter.

“The big challenge is to take the title again and it is the most difficult thing, so I try just to create chances and also work against the ball because I can also run a lot and I will try to bring this to the team. Then, with the ball, I hope I can make the team better and bring my team-mates into better situations.”

ENJOYED THIS STORY?

Add GOAL.com as a preferred source on Google to see more of our reporting

Imago ImagesDID YOU KNOW?

Wirtz accepts that he has much to learn in England, but added on facing those challenges head on: “I have not played a match in the Premier League, but I am looking forward to it and that is why I came.

“To be honest I don’t know [how it will be]. There will be some differences to the German league but I think that is also something I can learn and make me better so I am really looking forward to it. They tell me it’s more intense and more physical, every player is really strong, really fast. That is what everybody is telling me – and I’m aware of that.”

Lancashire make early running on truncated day before former star digs in for visitors

ECB Reporters Network24-May-2024

Three wickets from Lancashire’s Tom Bailey put the hosts in charge against Warwickshire after a truncated day at Emirates Old Trafford ended with the visitors 89 for three from 39 overs on day one of this Vitality County Championship Division One clash.Bailey, who has struggled for consistency so far this campaign, showed what the Red Rose had been missing, as he dismissed Rob Yates, Will Rhodes and Ed Barnard either side of tea to finish the day with three for 25 after the game had finally got underway at 2.10pm following overnight rain.Full of confidence following a fine performance in beating Durham at Blackpool, a win which has left them within striking distance of mid-table, Lancashire will be looking to move off the bottom with a similar result against the Bears, who are winless in six matches, their second defeat – added to four draws – coming on Monday against Essex at Chelmsford.Once the extensive mopping-up operation had finished, Warwickshire, having won the toss, began batting under typical overcast Manchester skies with Yates opening the batting with former Lancashire wicket keeper batter, Alex Davies.The opening pair had put on 38 when Yates badly misjudged a Bailey delivery which jagged back and removed his off bail in the 11th over as the left-hander departed for 19.Skipper Davies, meanwhile, was going along nicely against his ex-teammates, with some trademark cover drives and busy running, a painful reminder to the home crowd of his talents.But it was Bailey, who had the bit between his teeth and with a worn pitch, gloomy skies and Nathan Lyon at the other end in support, he produced a beauty to find Rhodes’ edge with the batter on 14 when keeper Matty Hurst took the catch.74 for two quickly became 82 for three when Barnard edged another excellent Bailey delivery to Hurst to depart for two.The score had progressed to 89 for three with Davies unbeaten on 47 and Dan Mousley one not out when the players left the field at 5.09pm due to a combination of drizzle and bad light.

Michael Pepper led the carnage with a hard-hitting century, spiced with six sixes, to get Essex’s Vitality Blast campaign up and running with a four-wicket victory over Middlesex at Chelmsford.Last year’s finalists had lost their opening two matches down in the West Country against Gloucestershire and Somerset, but bounced back with a vengeance as Essex’s batters feasted on a below-par Middlesex attack.Pepper came in at 14 for 1 and was finally out for 101 with just 15 runs required. He put on 83 with Dean Elgar (32) for the second wicket to spark the run chase into action. Jordan Cox hammered 22 from eight balls, Matt Critchley 16 from 11, but they were merely supporting players as Essex got home with 14 balls to spare.Middlesex’s innings was underpinned by an unbeaten 85 from 42 balls from Max Holden and set in motion by 49 from 31 balls by opener Martin Andersson. But they have now lost their first two games of the season.Middlesex, put in, overcame the loss of Stevie Eskinazi to the seventh ball of the innings when he feathered Aaron Beard to a flying leg-side catch by wicketkeeper Adam Rossington. A second-wicket stand of 65 in six overs between Andersson and Ryan Higgins set the platform for the visitors to post 203 for 7, a significant improvement on their 107 all out against Kent on Friday.Higgins survived a dropped catch by Pepper at point on 5 and had advanced to 27 from 23 balls when he misjudged one from Matt Critchley and was stumped.Andersson hit five fours and three sixes in almost doubling his previous highest T20 score of 25 to be third out with the score in 93. However, the ball after he had pulled Luc Benkenstein over midwicket for six, his attempt to cut the same bowler ended up in the hands of backward gully.Holden was also given a life on 10 when Beard rushed in from deep square leg and failed to hang on, and he made Simon Harmer pay with two sixes in an over lofted straight down the ground. A single cut off Walter took him to a 26-ball fifty.But he lost fourth-wicket partner Joe Cracknell after the pair had put on 62 runs. Cracknell had just scooped Beard for six over square leg when he was caught at the second attempt by Daniel Sams. Two balls later Josh de Caires was cleaned out swishing at a full-length ball from Paul Walter.Jack Davies followed soon after, lobbing the ball into the covers off Sams, who in his next over accounted for Luke Hollman, caught on the deep point boundary. But Holden remained and he hit the Australian for his fifth six and eighth four in the last over to take Middlesex past 200.In reply, Rossington eased Tom Helm over square leg for six, but then fell to a spectacular grab high to his right by Davies. That brought in Pepper, who smashed Blake Cullen for four blistered boundaries in an over and added two more off Helm in the next to accelerate the Essex scoring rate.Elgar could only watch and admire at the other end but joined the party with a swept six off Noah Cornwell to bring up 50 inside five overs, with the half-century stand taking just 22 balls. A second six from the South African cleared a sightscreen and Pepper deposited another into the Pavilion seating before another took him to his own fifty from 20 balls.The partnership was worth 83 when Elgar departed for 32 to a catch at deep extra cover off de Caires. It did not stop the agony for Middlesex as Cox’s brief innings included two sixes that sailed out of the ground, before he picked out an in-rushing deep midwicket to give Higgins a wicket.Pepper had not finished and ramped Higgins effortlessly over fine leg for another maximum and lofted Cullen for another into the Pavilion. A sixth over midwicket took him to a 43-ball century that ended next ball when he was lbw to Hollman.

Legendary former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was spotted catching up with David de Gea ahead of the new season.

• Fergie spotted with De Gea
• Former United goalkeeper now with Fiorentina
• New team visit Old Trafford on Saturday

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Fiorentina's official X account shared a set of pictures showing De Gea and Ferguson reuniting. The pair sat down together and appeared to engage in something of a trip down memory lane ahead of a pre-season friendly between the Serie A club and United this weekend.

Advertisement

• Getty Images
  

  THE BIGGER PICTURE

  De Gea was signed by Ferguson in 2011 and played 80 times under the legendary Scotsman. De Gea went on to spend over a decade at the club, making 545 appearances in goal for the club, and could fairly be termed an iconic figure himself.

• DID YOU KNOW?

  Under Ferguson's management, the Spaniard became a Premier League champion, although that was his only trophy during his reign. Afterwards, he won the FA Cup in 2016, the Carabao Cup in 2017 and 2023 and the Europa League in 2017.

ENJOYED THIS STORY?

Add GOAL.com as a preferred source on Google to see more of our reporting

• Getty Images Sport
  

  WHAT NEXT?

  De Gea is preparing for the season ahead. After their clash with United at Old Trafford, Fiorentina face a Conference League play-off against an opponent that is yet to be determined.

أعلن نادي فيتسلار الألماني لكرة اليد عن تعاقده مع الحارس المصري المخضرم كريم هنداوي من الزمالك في صفقة انتقال حر ووقع على عقد يمتد حتى نهاية الموسم الحالي.

وكان المدير الرياضي لنادي فيتسلار الألماني، ياسمين كامدزيتش، قد أكد بعد التعاقد مع هنداوي: “نعلم من تجاربنا السابقة أهمية تمتع حارس المرمى بالنضج والهدوء اللازمين للتعامل مع مثل هذه المواقف بكفاءة”.

وأضاف: “كريم حارس مرمى يتمتع بخبرة دولية واسعة وقد أثبت جدارته مع المنتخب المصري في العديد من البطولات الكبرى، سيشكل فريقاً مستقراً مع أنادين سولياكوفيتش لذا لدينا الآن حراس متكاملين في هذا المركز”.

اقرأ أيضاً.. فيتسلار الألماني عن ضم كريم هنداوي: يمتلك معيارين هامين

بينما قال كريم هنداوي بعد التوقيع لنادي فيتسلار: “إنه دائماً كان حلم شخصي بالنسبة لي للعب في البوندسليجا”.

وأضاف: “تلقيت عروضاً من ألمانيا سابقاً لكن لأسباب مختلفة لم تنجح، أنا سعيد جداً لأن الأمور سارت على ما يرام، وأصبح بإمكاني اللعب مع فيتسلار، آمل أن تحل الإجراءات بسرعة لأبدأ تدريباتي الجماعية قريباً”.

وشارك هنداوي في جميع بطولات كأس العالم مع المنتخب المصري لكرة اليد منذ عام 2011 كما تولى حراسة مرمى أبطال إفريقيا في ثلاث دورات أولمبية.