Tony Frost, the Warwickshire wicketkeeper, has announced he will retire at the end of the season. He made his first-class debut in 1997 and spent the first part of his career as understudy to Keith Piper.Frost, 30, enjoyed an impressive first half to the 2006 season with a run of three half-centuries in three matches against Kent, Durham and Lancashire; his 96 against Durham turned into a match-winning innings. However, he has been struggling with injury over the last few weeks and his place has been taken by Tim Ambrose.Frost said: “There comes a time when you have to listen to what your body is telling you. I have had a fantastic career at Warwickshire and played with some of the great players. I am keen to stay involved in cricket and am delighted that the club is willing to assist me in developing both my coaching and groundsmanship skills going forward”.Mark Greatbatch, Warwickshire’s director of cricket added: “Frosty has done exceptionally well this season, performing under pressure when we most needed him. Everyone at the club wishes to thank him for his career – long dedication to the Bears and would join me in wishing him well for the future”.Frost’s first-class record stands at 3178 runs from 92 matches at an average of 28.12. He has a career-best of 135 not out and claimed 225 catches and 16 stumpings.
England U-19 125 for 2 (Denly 45) beat Sri Lanka U-19 124 (Broad 4-33, Miller 3-16) by eight wickets ScorecardStuart Broad and Andrew Miller shared seven wickets between them as England’s Under-19 cricketers romped to an eight-wicket victory over their Sri Lankan counterparts, in the first one-day international at New Road.After winning the toss and bowling first in helpful conditions, England’s seamers were no match for the Sri Lankans, with Broad claiming all three of the first wickets to fall. Ben Harmison, Steve’s younger brother, then bowled Dilhan Cooray for 20, before Miller rampaged through the lower middle-order, taking three wickets for seven runs.Sri Lanka’s eventual total of 124 was no match for England, who wrapped up the game with 20 overs to spare. Joe Denly top-scored with 45, before Steven Davies and Harmison sealed the win with a third-wicket stand of 31.
Yuvraj SinghOn what he was thinking when India were 147 for 7 We had lost wickets and I was under a bit of pressure. I just wanted to stay till the end, till the last wicket fell. Irfan [Pathan] batted well and we were able to stay around at the wicket.On the fact that he might be dropped for the next Test, despite his century, when Ganguly returns I’m not concerned about that. All I want to do is perform and get runs in whatever cricket I get a chance to play. I don’t care about that [being left out].On the pitch There was a bit in the wicket for the bowlers. But we didn’t bat as well as we should have either. Still, we have got decent runs on the board and that gives us a chance to try and get them out.On the aggressive manner in which he batted I knew that I would get runs if I played my shots. There’s no point getting out, going back to the dressing-room and then wondering if you should have played more positively. I just wanted to play the bowling on merit. In Tests there’s more time to settle down, and I took time to do that. But in the end you have to play your natural game.On what this innings means to him This innings gave me a lot of confidence. I now have the confidence that I can do well in Test cricket also.On what he told Pathan when the two batted together I told him that he is a good batsman and that he should bat carefully. I told him to just watch the ball and play straight. He has done well in the past and I just wanted him to hang around with me.
Umar GulOn his top-order wickets today I didn’t really think about the batsmen I was bowling to. It wasn’t like I thought `I am bowling to Sachin [Tendulkar] or [Rahul] Dravid.’ I had the same feeling when I was bowling to all of them.On the advice he received from the team management Inzamam-ul-Haq and Javed Miandad have both worked very hard with me on my bowling. They stressed that I bowl a consistent wicket-to-wicket line and it paid dividends.On the pitch I knew it would be a seaming one and I thought I could do well on it. I didn’t really think that I would perform as well as I eventually did.On playing against India I wasn’t tense or nervous at all. Everyone in the squad had been told that there was a chance that they could be involved in the Test a couple of nights ago, so I prepared as if I would play. I only found out this morning that I was playing.On his absence from the field after his spell I am okay. I was just suffering from some cramps because I hadn’t been drinking enough water through my spell, but I am fine now.On his physical fitness It really changed on the tour to New Zealand [in 2003-04]. I played in the first Test there but sat out for the remaining games. But the team doctors made it a point to work very hard on the players who weren’t in the playing XI. They worked very hard on our physical training and strength and I have really benefited from that tour.
PORT ELIZABETH – A reversion to the old, annoying carelessness they had seemingly expunged cost West Indies a guaranteed place in the World Cup’s Super Six round yesterday and presented New Zealand with a lifeline to remain in the tournament.They were beaten by 20 runs by opponents whose spirit, intensity and athleticism they were unable to match or contain.The fervour of New Zealand’s effort was personified by an ebullient all-rounder who, but for his parents’ wanderlust, might have been on the West Indies side.Andre Adams, born in Auckland of a Vincentian father and Guyanese mother 27 years ago, thumped two sixes in an unbeaten 35 off 24 balls in a final flourish that brought New Zealand 53 decisive runs off 43 balls in partnership with wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum.It pushed their 50-overs total to 241 for seven after Carl Hooper sent them in, and it was always going to be enough once West Indies lost five wickets for 12 from 30 balls in half-hour of rank slackness that left them 46 for five.His batting mayhem over, Adams returned with his energetic medium-pace to share the new ball with the fiery Shane Bond and, after a pounding of three consecutive fours in his fourth over from Chris Gayle, claimed three of the wickets in the top-order meltdown.As Ramnaresh Sarwan, calm and collected, mounted a recovery from the despair of 46 for five in the 15th over, briefly with Ricardo Powell and then for 33.2 overs in a stand of 97 with the doughty Ridley Jacobs, Adams was one of the standouts in his team’s dazzling exhibition of fielding.Identified afterwards by captain Stephen Fleming as the difference between the teams, it accounted for the prized wicket of Brian Lara off his fourth ball and prevented a host of boundaries with acrobatic saves.The New Zealanders, their effort concentrated by the certainty of an exit ticket defeat would bring, never allowed Sarwan and Jacobs to convert their consolidation into acceleration.The game was up when Sarwan was bowled by left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori for 75 (seven fours, 98 balls) half-way through the 44th over with 63 still required.Jacobs followed 13 runs later, snared for 50 (one six, three fours, 73 balls) by Jacob Oram’s spectacular, diving catch at third man.Nixon McLean’s miserable return to international cricket was quickly ended by a farcical run out, and Adams appropriately completed New Zealand’s triumph with his fourth wicket, bowling Merv Dillon with the second ball of the final over.Beaten by Sri Lanka in their opening match and told, by their national board, to stay away from next week’s scheduled match against Kenya in Nairobi because of documented threats of terrorism, the New Zealanders would have been effectively eliminated by another loss.It would have ensured West Indies their passage without having the worry of a slip-up against any of the minor sides, Bangladesh, Canada and Kenya, or the more daunting Test against Sri Lanka."This is a huge relief," Fleming said afterwards."The tension and anxiety was visibly showing and it was very much a case of hanging tough."Hooper, as he would, rejected the notion of complacency as a factor in the loss. But there is a fine line between complacency and the wastefulness clearly evident in a crucial missed catch and in early batting.New Zealand’s total was an unsatisfactory 213 for seven in the 46th over when Adams hoisted Chris Gayle for a six over long-on one ball, and the next high to square-leg. Marlon Samuels, on as substitute for Dillon, approached the swirling catch in his typically casual way – and it spilled from both hands.The miss cost a further 28 as Adams and McCallum took 23 off Gayle’s final two overs. In the end, it amounted to the margin of defeat.It was no wonder Fleming credited the victory mainly to fielding.Nothing was more brilliant or critical than the run out of Lara.The linchpin of the West Indies batting, primed for commanding centre stage by his 116 in Sunday’s stunning win over South Africa, eased Adams off his legs towards the mid-wicket boundary and completed two to get off the mark.As he turned for a third, Lou Vincent slid, picked up the ball and, in a tactic diligently practiced by the New Zealanders, rapidly relayed it 20 yards away to Chris Cairns. His throw was fast and deadly accurate, shattering the one stump at which he had to aim with Lara a yard short of his crease.Minutes earlier, West Indies were getting into stride as Gayle and Wavell Hinds, the unlikely bowling champion earlier, put on 34 in 9.2 overs.Suddenly, Gayle slashed Adams to slip, Lara was run out, Hinds precisely picked out short extra-cover and Hooper, as he has so often down, hooked into long-leg’s lap, both off Adams.When Shivnarine Chanderpaul was lbw to the giant medium-pacer Jacob Oram four balls later, West Indies were 46 for five and, in spite of Sarwan’s calm orthodoxy and his partnership with Jacobs, the required rate gradually mounted to more than ten an over.But they were kept in check by the gravity of the situation, tight bowling and, above all, the sensational fielding.
* ICC gives ultimatum to Mukesh Gupta to turn approverThe International Cricket Council on Monday gave an ultimatum toIndian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta to become a formal approver by July 1.”The ICC has approved the report in full and will be implementing allthe 24 recommendations,” ICC President Malcolm Gray told reporters inLondon after the Executive Board meeting which unanimously approvedCondon’s findings.Condon, who heads the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of ICC, led a worldwide probe into match-fixing and his findings culminated in a 36-pagereport released last month. He told PTI that a two-member team of ACUwill travel to India later this week to serve the ultimatum on Guptawho claimed to have given money to a number of internationalcricketers and figured prominently in the CBI report on betting andmatch-fixing.Condon said he had met Gupta twice in March this year and the bookiehad verbally confirmed all his allegations he made to CBI. “But thatis not enough to move forward with disciplinary proceedings (againstthe players). We have to have evidence to bring some closure to allthis as otherwise it will be unfair to allow the cloud of suspicion tohang over the players’ heads,” he said.”I have given Gupta an ultimatum that it is necessary to let us knowby July 1 whether he is willing to cooperate with his evidence eitherin India or outside. If he fails to heed to the ultimatum, we mustassume that he is not prepared to cooperate further,” said Condon, whoadded that the ICC would guarantee Gupta his safety if he agreed totestify before the ACU.* Cricket betting racket bustedPolice in Bangalore have busted a cricket betting and gambling racket,involving lakhs of rupees, with the arrest of 13 people, a top policeofficial said on Monday. Acting on information, a police team raided abuilding complex on the Race Course road on Sunday and rounded up 13people who were allegedly involved in the racket.”Investigation is in progress. We will come to know if it has nationaland international ramifications only after the probe is over,” CityPolice Commissioner, T Madiyal, told PTI. According to police,Prasanna Kumar and Jagannatha were allegedly conducting the racket.While Prasanna Kumar has been taken into custody, Jagannatha isabsconding.Police seized 23 telephones, eight mobile phones, seven taperecorders, cassette, calculator and cash of Rs 1,64,910 during theraid. It was found that those conducting the racket were acceptingbets over phone and jotting them on their book. Preliminaryinvestigation reveled that at least Rs 15 lakh to Rs 16 lakh couldhave been invested in betting. Police are collecting information onthose who offered bets. Meanwhile, telecom authorities said they wereexamining suspension of telephones of those allegedly involvedfollowing the incident.* Prabhakar denies involvement with chit-fund companyFormer Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar on Monday denied that he wasin any way involved with the Uttar Pradesh based non-banking financecompany which is accused of duping investors to the tunes of crores ofrupees. The beleaguered cricketer, who had been untraceable ever sincethe UP police issued arrest warrant against him late last month, toldreporters in Lucknow that the NBFC Apace India had procured themarketing rights of the products of his cosmetics company which he hadestablished about five years ago.”My relationship with Apace was on company to company basis. Myassociation with Apace has been misunderstood,” he said, adding he wasnot involved with the company in any other way.The cricketer, already smarting under a five-year ban from playinginternational cricket for allegedly hob-nobbing with bookmakers, saidhe had cancelled the marketing rights given to Apace in April 1999.Flanked by his counsel Vinod Shahi and Anil Pratap Singh, Prabhakarhowever admitted that he had accompanied Apace officials to severalplaces in Uttaranchal during the launch of his company’s herbalproducts and had even played for the Apace cricket team.On being asked about his signatures on the receipts issued by Apace,he claimed he had signed those against purchase of his own company’sproducts at some places. In fact, he said, he had invested about Rs 25lakh in Apace and was now trying to recover his money.
Manchester United are now reportedly preparing a stunning blockbuster move worth over £150m to sign a Real Madrid superstar in 2026.
Man Utd preparing £150m+ offer to sign Real Madrid star
After splashing the cash in the summer transfer window to welcome the likes of Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha, INEOS still have plenty of work to do in 2026. Even if Ruben Amorim can very much consider his attacking problems solved after that summer spending, his midfield issues have certainly been laid bare in recent weeks.
With Bruno Fernandes out injured, Kobbie Mainoo out-of-favour and Manuel Ugarte struggling to win over the Old Trafford faithful, the Red Devils must act in the January transfer window.
To that end, several targets have seemingly entered United’s radar in recent weeks, including Ruben Neves. The Al-Hilal midfielder is reportedly ready to leave Saudi Arabia in favour of a move back into European football and Man United are among the clubs chasing his signature.
The same can be said about Adam Wharton and Carlos Baleba. The two Premier League stars are among the top Man United targets heading into 2026 and there’s no doubt that both would be perfect upgrades for Amorim.
Both are Premier League proven, but like Neves, aren’t the only options on Man United’s shortlist. Joining the three aforementioned names is reportedly Jude Bellingham.
Reports in Spain have even gone as far as to claim that Man United are preparing an offer to sign Bellingham from Real Madrid worth as much as €200m (£174m).
It’s the biggest move that INEOS could make and would almost mirror the impressive deals that the Red Devils of old used to secure.
£150m+ Bellingham would transform Man Utd
As far as transformative signings go, Bellingham would be the perfect addition. The England international is still just 22 years old and is the type of talent worthy of building around. He hasn’t just thrived at the Bernabeu since arriving, he has dominated La Liga at times – arguably becoming England’s greatest export.
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The midfielder has been handed endless praise over the last few years, including from Man United legend Rio Ferdinand, who said last year: “Jude’s over there somewhere, what he’s doing is something wild. I’ve spoken to a lot of former players, played for Real Madrid. Roberto Carlos, [Zinedine] Zidane and those guys, and they don’t even remember a player coming in and having the impact he’s had in the first season, at his age.
Man Utd can bin Bruno by signing £100m star who's "a bit of Keane & Scholes"
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“No one’s done this. He’s doing stuff that’s not been done before, scoring a ridiculous amount of goals in the Clasico, etcetera. Impacting games, impacting the squad. Taking the responsibility in the squad as he has, at that age, is just something we’ve never seen.”
It will be a tough pitch to sell, but INEOS should do everything to sign Bellingham next year.
Not a lot can be gleaned from a light training session only hours after the flight has touched down on a new tour, but one sight at Senwes Park in Potchefstroom gave England an immediate warm glow.It was the hulking presence of Ben Stokes, bowling pain-free again, continuing his rehabilitation from a collarbone injury in optimistic vein.Stokes’ departure from the field, clutching his displaced right shoulder, in in Sharjah six weeks ago invited the worst fears. Not only did it leave England a bowler short as Pakistan completed a 2-0 win in the series, it smacked of a long-term lay-off.But Stokes, according to England’s coach Trevor Bayliss, has been gradually stepping up his bowling for a few weeks now and confidence abounds that the two warm-up matches before the Boxing Day Test in Durban will be enough to get him back in trim.”I’m pretty confident he will be fine,” Bayliss said at England’s arrival media conference. “He is not as guy who complains too much. He has been bowling now for a few weeks so we just have to get a few overs out of him in competition and a few hours with his batting.”With Steven Finn also enhancing his prospects of a belated call-up to the Test tour of South Africa with a hostile three-wicket comeback performance for England Lions in Dubai, things are looking up for England.Bayliss sought to dampen down the excitement over Finn, who is recovering from a foot injury suffered in the UAE, careful not to encourage speculation that he might be summoned to the senior party sooner rather than later.”We are preparing for this tour by planning without him,” he said. “If he proves his fitness in the UAE and we do decide to bring him out here that will be an absolute bonus. There are one or two small hurdles but if he can get through and be bowling well I would expect to see him here at some stage.”That leaves the onus on Mark Footitt, Chris Jordan and Chris Woakes to contest the final pace bowling place.Add the potential fallout of South Africa’s recent trouncing in India and, if the Test series has shifted at all in the last few weeks, it has moved in England’s direction, even if South Africa remain strong favourites with the bookmakers.”To win away from home is very difficult,” Bayliss said. “The simple fact is we are playing the best team at home. We are under no illusions it will be a difficult tour.”Bayliss indicated that England are predisposed towards retaining Jonny Bairstow as Test wicketkeeper, despite the thrilling manner win which Jos Buttler put a demoralising run of form behind him when he recorded England’s fastest ODI century in the UAE, and that Alex Hales will make his Test debut at opener. Hales would become Cook’s eighth opening partner since Andrew Strauss’ retirementThat leaves Nick Compton and Gary Ballance to contest the No. 3 spot available because of the absence of Ian Bell. “I have a little bit of a thought who it might be but we have two practice matches before that first Test which could go a long way towards finalising that position, Bayliss said.
New Zealand’s six major associations have released their player contracts for 2007-08 with Andre Adams, Daryl Tuffey and James Marshall picking up deals after missing out on the national list. Each outfit named a 12-man squad and Adams and Tuffey were rewarded at the Auckland Aces while Marshall is at the Northern Knights.One major name missing was Hamish Marshall, who has moved to England to qualify as a local player on the county stage. Last month Marshall rejected a New Zealand contract, but he left open the possibility of returning home to the first-class game as an overseas player.Auckland Andre Adams, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Paul Hitchcock, David Houpapa, Richard Jones, Tim McIntosh, Rob Nicol, Mayu Pasupati, Lance Shaw, Daryl Tuffey, Reece Young.Canterbury Todd Astle, Hamish Bennett, Leighton Burtt, Andrew Ellis, Chris Harris, Brandon Hiini, Johann Myburgh, Ben Rae, Iain Robertson, Amandeep Singh, Shanan Stewart, Kruger Van Wyk.Central Geoff Barnett, Brendon Diamanti, Bevan Griggs, Greg Hay, Brent Hefford, Greg Hegglun, Peter Ingram, Tim Lythe, Dominic Rayner, Robbie Schaw, Ewen Thompson, Tim Weston.Northern Graeme Aldridge, Brent Arnel, Daniel Flynn, Nick Horsley, James Marshall, Bruce Martin, Peter McGlashan, Mark Orchard, Tim Southee, BJ Watling, Brad Wilson, Joseph Yovich.Otago Craig Cumming, Derek de Boorder, Neil Broom, Shaun Haig, Mathew Harvie, Nathan McCullum, James McMillan, Warren McSkimming, Aaron Redmond, Bradley Scott, Greg Todd, Nic Turner.Wellington Matthew Bell, Dewayne Bowden, Michael Burns, Jeremy Dean, Grant Elliott, Kevin Forde, Chris Nevin, Iain O’Brien, Michael Parlane, Neal Parlane, Jesse Ryder, Luke Woodcock.
Pakistan announced a 14-man squad for next month’s Champions Trophy in India, retaining Inzamam-ul Haq as captain. Inzamam is set to face an International Cricket Council (ICC) code of conduct hearing at the end of this month and faces a possible suspension.”We have proceeded as if Inzamam is available for selection,” Abbas Zaidi, director operations,PCB, told AFP.Inzamam faces two charges after Pakistan forfeited the fourth Test against England at The Oval last month – for ball tampering and also for bringing the game into disrepute after refusing to take the field once umpires Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove changed the ball on suspicions of ball tampering and awarded five penalty runs to England.”There are no reservations over Inzamam’s captaincy and the PCB chairman has assured he would continue and if any other situation arises we will cross the bridge when it comes,’ added Zaidi.If found guilty of ball tampering then Inzamam faces a fine of between 50 and 100 percent of his match fee and a one Test or two one-day international (ODI) ban. If found guilty on the second count he faces a ban of between two and four Test matches or four to eight ODI matches.Pakistan’s squad for the Champions Trophy contains few surprises and only two changes from the team currently playing the ODI series in England. Shahid Yousuf and Danish Kaneria have been dropped.Rao Iftikhar Anjum has been included in Pakistan’s final squad of 14 for the upcoming Champions Trophy. Anjum, the 25-year-old fast bowler, was in the original squad to tourEngland but left in the latter half of July owing to his father’s death.Pakistan take on a qualifier at Jaipur on October 17 and meet New Zealand and South Africa in later matches. The final will be held on Nov. 5.Pakistan squad1 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt) 2 Younis Khan, 3 Mohammad Yousuf, 4 Abdul Razzaq, 5 Shoaib Akhtar, 6 Shahid Afridi, 7 Shoaib Malik, 8 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 9 Kamran Akmal, 10 Imran Farhat, 11 Mohammad Asif, 12 Umar Gul, 13 Mohammad Hafeez, 14 Rao Iftikhar Anjum
The champagne might still be flowing in the Sri Lankan camp, after their resounding win in the final of the Paktel Cup, but the hangover time allotted was just three days. After strangling Pakistan’s run-chase with their masterful use of their part-time spinners, Sri Lanka get another shot at glory with the two-Test series beginning at Faisalabad tomorrow.Marvan Atapattu may be embroiled in a heated controversy with the selection committee, but he starts the series with a legacy to uphold. Arjuna Ranatunga’s men came back from the dead in 1995 to become the first team to win a series in Pakistan for nearly 15 years. That win triggered off a glittering period, with the 1996 World Cup triumph and victory in the one-off Test at The Oval in 1998 the highlights. Sri Lanka returned to Pakistan in 2000, this time under Sanath Jayasuriya, but the series result read just the same: 2-1 in their favour. Neither team has managed to win at home in the five series they have played over the last ten years. Home disadvantage will suit Sri Lanka just fine.But history and figures may not mean too much to Pakistan. Bob Woolmer will be in charge for the first time in a Test and there have been clear signs of revival in the one-day version. He expressed his disappointment over Saturday’s defeat when he spoke to a few journalists after practice. “It’s a shame to have lost in the final. It was very disappointing to see the team lose despite having the potential to turning the tide. In fact they should have won the tri-series.”More importantly, the scars of losing to India earlier in the year might not have healed and their batsmen will need to show more gumption than they did in March. Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami have shown the ability to produce shocks in bursts, but Woolmer would want the intensity sustained throughout the series. Pakistan are likely to open the batting with Yasir Hameed and Imran Farhat and both have a chance to show that promise, if persisted with, can deliver results when they matter.Sri Lanka will rely on their top four to get them the big scores, which would then enable the spinners to get stuck in. Thilan Samaraweera has managed to cross fifty just twice in his last 14 innings and Romesh Kaluwitharana can exhilarate and exasperate in a span of a few minutes. Either Thilina Kandamby or Jehan Mubarak are set to bat at No. 6. The bowling line-up, though, may not be as spin-dominated as earlier Sri Lankan teams, with Lasith Malinga and Dilhara Fernando, both capable of making top-quality batsmen hop, backing up the canny Chaminda Vaas.The second Test will be played at Karachi, which will host a Test for the first time after May 2002 when New Zealand abandoned their tour midway. Karachi remains a Pakistani fortress where they have lost just one Test, when England pulled off an astonishing run-chase in the twilight in 2000. But Sri Lanka will fancy their chances to go one-up at Faisalabad. After a gritty showing in Australia, they overcame South Africa in a home series and have tasted success in two one-day tournaments in the subcontinent.And if Sri Lanka are in need of inspiration, they will do well to remember the squad of 1995, who levelled the series at Faisalabad and went on to win it soon after.Pakistan (probable) 1 Yasir Hameed, 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Asim Kamal, 4 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 5 Yousuf Youhana, 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shoaib Malik, 8 Moin Khan (wk), 9 Shoaib Akhtar, 10 Mohammad Sami, 11 Danish Kaneria.Sri Lanka (probable) 1 Marvan Atapattu (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Thilan Samaraweera, 6 Jehan Mubarak, 7 Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), 8 Upul Chandana, 9 Chaminda Vaas, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Dilhara Fernando.