يخوض فريق ريال مدريد مباراة في بطولة الدوري الإسباني “الليجا” لموسم 2025-2026، مساء اليوم الأحد، أمام خصمه رايو فاليكانو.
ويستقبل رايو فالكيانو خصمه ريال مدريد، في مباراة ضمن مباريات الجولة الثانية عشر للدوري الإسباني “الليجا”.
طالع | تشكيل ريال مدريد الرسمي أمام رايو فاليكانو في الدوري الإسباني.. مبابي يقود الهجوم
ويدخل ريال مدريد المباراة وهو في صدارة ترتيب الدوري الإسباني برصيد 30 نقطة، فيما يأتي رايو فاليكانو في المركز الحادي عشر بـ14 نقطة.
وشهدت قائمة ريال مدريد للمباراة أمام رايو فاليكانو، عودة النمساوي ديفيد ألابا، فيما يستمر غياب كل من أنطونيو روديجر وداني كارفاخال وماستانتونو وتشواميني للإصابة. تشكيل ريال مدريد أمام رايو فاليكانو
حراسة المرمى: تيبو كورتوا.
خط الدفاع: ترينت ألكسندر أرنولد، إيدير ميليتاو، دين هويسن، ألفارو كاريراس.
خط الوسط: فيدي فالفيردي، إداورد كامافينجا، جود بيلينجهام.
خط الهجوم: أردا جولر، كيليان مبابي، فينيسيوس جونيور.
ويُمكنكم متابعة أحداث مباريات اليوم لحظة بلحظة من مركز المباريات من هنـــا.
حقق منتخب مصر للناشئين تحت 17 سنة فوزًا هامًا على هايتي بنتيجة 4-1، في المباراة التي جمعت بينهما مساء اليوم ضمن لقاءات بطولة كأس العالم تحت 17 عامًا.
وأقيمت المباراة بين مصر وهايتي على أرضية استاد اسباير، في إطار مواجهات الجولة الأولى من مرحلة المجموعات لكأس العالم للناشئين.
وجاء الهدف الأول لـ منتخب مصر مبكرًا في الدقيقة الثالثة عن طريق بلال عطية، الذي أودع الكرة في الشباك بعد تمريرة عرضية متقنة من حمزة عبد الكريم، ليمنح الفراعنة الصغار بداية مثالية في المونديال.
وأضاف عبد العزيز الزغبي الهدف الثاني في الدقيقة 11 بتسديدة قوية من داخل منطقة الجزاء.
لكن منتخب هايتي نجح في تقليص الفارق سريعًا، بعدما سجل اللاعب بير نيكولاي هدفًا في الدقيقة 20 من تسديدة قوية سكنت شباك الحارس.
طالع | موعد مباراة مصر القادمة في كأس العالم تحت 17 عامًا بعد الفوز على هايتي
وأضاف حمزة عبد الكريم الهدف الثالث لصالح مصر في الدقيقة 27 من عمر اللقاء، بعد تصويبة صاروخية من داخل منطقة الجزاء سكنت المرمى مباشرة.
وسجل عمر كمال، هدف مصر الرابع أمام هايتي، في الدقيقة 73 من عمر اللقاء، برأسية من داخل منطقة الجزاء بعد كرة عرضية مرسلة من ركلة ركنية من الجانب الأيسر. أهداف فوز مصر على هايتي في كأس العالم تحت 17 عامًا
وبهذا الفوز يحصد منتخب مصر أول ثلاث نقاط له، ليبدأ مشواره في البطولة بانتصار يمنحه دفعة قوية قبل المواجهات المقبلة.
يُذكر أن منتخب مصر سيلتقي في مباراته القادمة مع منتخب فنزويلا في إطار منافسات نفس المجموعة.
Manchester City have been advised to prepare for a decision to finally be made on their 115 charges of alleged breaches of Premier League financial rules imminently. The Cityzens were first hit with the charges back in February 2023 and a legal expert has now spoken about the eagerly-anticipated verdict and claimed there is "no real excuse for a further delay."
Verdict on Man City case overdue
A verdict on Manchester City's 115 charges was initially expected earlier this year but is now expected shortly. There has been frustration at the length of time the whole process has taken but the club may not have too much longer to wait to discover their fate. Speculation has raged over possible punishments if City are found guilty, ranging from points deductions to titles being stripped, but the club are thought to be confident they will avoid the harshest sanctions and have maintained their innocence throughout the process.
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Man City told decision is imminent
Manchester City have been told to expect a decision soon. Legal expert Stefan Borson told talkSPORT: "It's very very simple. They have not had the decision of the panel as of yet. I do think now there's no real excuse for a further delay. Even if they were busy on other matters, and they would have been, then I think it would be really quite extraordinary that there's been no timetable set with them and no arrangement set with them in terms of the payment of their time over these last ten months to produce the decision.
"I think on any basis ten months is enough to produce even a very very detailed 400 or 500 page decision on this case, and I think it is imminent. I know I have said that before multiple times in this room but I did think that there was a very good chance that it would have come out for this international window. I think there's a very good chance it will come out in the next international window and I really can't see it going into 2026. I just cannot see it extending beyond the year. I think it is almost out."
Guardiola will accept decision
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has vowed to accept any decision that is handed down to his club when the verdict finally arrives. He told reporters last summer: "I am happy that it starts soon and hopefully it will finish soon, for the benefit of all of us, especially the club but also other Premier League clubs and all the people who don’t wait for the sentence. I wish, from the deep in my heart, go to the trial, the independent panel – and I say again, independent panel – and as soon as possible, release what happened and we will accept like always we have done."
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Man City & Haaland enjoying bright start
Manchester City are currently in the midst of a strong start to the season after a disappointing campaign last year. Guardiola's side sit just three points off top spot and have four points from their opening two Champions League matches. Star striker Erling Haaland has started the season in fine form, banging in 12 goals in nine Premier League and Champions League matches, and has been hailed as the top flight's greatest striker by Jamie Carragher.
He said: "I think we're watching the greatest goal-scorer to ever play in English football. I honestly can't remember Jimmy Greaves, Dixie Dean and all those players from years ago. But I think of Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Harry Kane and Ian Rush for my club Liverpool. There's a difference for me between a great centre-forward or striker and a goal-scorer. I think what we're witnessing now is something we've never seen before in our game and don't forget, this is a club where the goal-scorer beforehand was Sergio Aguero, one of the greatest we'll ever see. This is on a completely different level to Aguero. He's the best.”
Newcastle United haven’t made the best of starts to the 2025/26 season, but now that the elephant has been excavated from the room, Eddie Howe might feel a little more chipper about his side’s chances over the coming months.
Against Liverpool last month, Newcastle played with the passion and fervour and ability of an elite outfit. And that’s because the Magpies are of top class, so well coached and so well shaped by careful transfer business since Howe and PIF first arrived.
On the scoresheet at St. James’ Park that evening was Hugo Ekitike, who was billed as Alexander Isak’s potential replacement at Newcastle.
However, both ply their trade for Liverpool.
Why Newcastle wanted Hugo Ekitike
Ekitike has scored three goals and provided one assist since joining Liverpool from Eintracht Frankfurt in July, proving that he has the prolific nature to partner his wide-ranging skill set.
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Regarded by analyst Ben Mattinson to be “one of the best strikers out there” last season, Ekitike has proven that his qualities are transferable, and it’s clear to see why he was earmarked to play in Isak’s stead under Howe’s wing.
Like Isak, Ekitike is a stylish and creative forward, bearing a tall frame and endowed with a fierce athleticism that serves as the backbone of his quality as a top goalscorer.
Sadly, both now ply their trade for league rivals Liverpool, and Howe will need to bring Yoane Wissa up to scratch as swiftly as possible, with the summer signing from Brentford having scored 19 Premier League goals last season.
However, the 28-year-old doesn’t boast as high a ceiling as his new strike partner Nick Woltemade, who some consider a talent who could even outstrip superstars such as Isak.
How Woltemade compares to Isak and Ekitike
Woltemade joined Newcastle from Stuttgart in a club-record £69m deal last week, with a deal struck out of the blue and all but confirming Isak’s sale to Liverpool.
The 23-year-old is still coming into his own, but he scored 12 goals from 17 appearances in the Bundesliga last season and received a call-up to the German national team, having now earned two caps.
However, it’s the underlying data which has attracted Newcastle’s attention and money, with data-driven platform FBref revealing Woltemade ranks among the top 5% of forwards across Europe’s top five leagues over the past year for shot-creating actions and successful take-ons, the top 15% for progressive carries and the top 18% for ball recoveries per 90.
He might not be quite the same as Isak and Ekitike, but perhaps that is a positive, allowing Howe to land his next star-in-the-making without signing a mere mimic of the striker just sold.
League Stats 24/25 – Wissa vs Woltemade
Stats (*per game)
Woltemade
Matches (starts)
28 (17)
Goals
12
Assists
2
Shots (on target)*
1.8 (0.9)
Big chances missed
11
Pass completion
72%
Big chances created
8
Key passes*
1.3
Dribbles*
1.1
Ball recoveries*
1.9
Tackles + interceptions*
0.5
Duels (won)*
4.4
Data via Sofascore
But in any case, FBref’s number-crunching has revealed that both aforementioned strikers bear a likeness to Woltemade, each blessed with skills that stretch beyond what is expected of a number nine.
A strong presence in the final third allows the towering striker to guide balls to teammates, found through his eight big chances created in the Bundesliga.
Indeed, hailed for his “absolutely ridiculous” quality in the final third by European football expert Zach Lowy, Woltemade is so much more than just a goalscorer, with sharp link-up play and intelligence that rivals that of Isak, albeit applied in a different manner.
Lowy went on to suggest that his prowess as a technically proficient target man is reminiscent of bygone superstars such as Karim Benzema and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, owing to his balance and improvisation and resourcefulness.
Wissa is the more refined attacking signing at Newcastle right now, but Woltemade has the capacity to become something truly special under Howe’s wing, taking samples from Isak and Ekitike’s skill sets and fashioning himself into a unique and effective forward for the Toon.
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Birmingham City were agonisingly close to an opening-day win in the Championship.
If it wasn’t for George Hirst’s last-gasp penalty breaking Blues hearts, Chris Davies’ men would have secured a dream 1-0 victory. The second-tier newcomers won’t beat themselves up too much about this late collapse, though, as they try to clinch their first three points of the season away at Blackburn Rovers this coming Saturday instead.
The reigning League One champions will be backed by a sell-out away following at Ewood Park, with the expectant Birmingham masses also hopeful that Demarai Gray can put in some stellar performances moving forward to guide Davies and Co. up the league standings.
Gray's standout return to Birmingham
The 29-year-old winger has returned to home soil far wiser than his initial Blues spell and more well-versed in what it takes to be a success at the highest level.
Indeed, Gray has managed to forge a memorable career for himself at the pinnacle of English football, with the Jamaica international picking up a hefty 19 goals and 14 assists from 200 Premier League appearances, which even saw him lift the top-flight title aloft with Leicester City.
The concerns start to mount, however, when weighing up whether Gray can get back to these impressive levels once more, having struggled to get going on the books of his last employers in Al-Ettifaq.
An unremarkable tally of four goals and five assists would come his way plying his trade in the Middle East, with his final season in the Saudi Pro League seeing him pick him just one meagre assist for his troubles from 25 outings.
If he fails to roll back the years, the worry will be that it was just a rash waste of money, as the 29-year-old also failed to spark into life at St. Andrew’s against Ipswich Town when completing zero successful dribbles.
Davies and Co. could be about to land a far better signing than hoping Gray comes good, which is doused heavily in nostalgia.
Why £1.3m star would be a better signing than Gray
After all, the last thing Birmingham fans will want to see is Gray tarnish his legacy by failing to live up to his hype.
Instead of solely relying on the ageing forward to deliver moments of magic down either flank, therefore, Birmingham could look to sign Montpellier attacker Tanguy Coulibaly to enhance their options on both channels.
Unlike Gray, the 24-year-old – who is being tipped to potentially make the switch to St Andrew’s – has continued to show off his class in some top divisions over the past couple of seasons, having fired home three goals last campaign for Montpellier even as the sorrow of relegation struck Stade de la Mosson.
On top of that, the “very gifted” forward – as he was dubbed by Stuttgart sporting director Sven Mislintat during his stay in the Bundesliga – has six goals and three assists next to his name in the German top-flight for his former side.
24/25
25
3
23/24
16
2
22/23
14
4
21/22
21
2
20/21
31
3
He should be able to take to the harsh waters of the Championship well, therefore, having already shown some fortitude to bounce back from being discarded by Paris St. Germain as a youngster, to now be seen as an exciting, first-team option in both Germany and his native France.
On the contrary, Gray might well have had his moment in the spotlight, with the decline there for all to see based on his poor form in Saudi Arabia.
Coulibaly joining for just £1m, as per his Football Transfers valuation, could go down as a fantastic steal, on the other hand, particularly if the former Stuttgart attacker can spur Birmingham on to shine in the tougher division.
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It has been an alarming start to the brand new Premier League season for Aston Villa.
Unai Emery’s men remain without a win after their first three drab contests in the tough division, with zero goals tallied up, as their latest defeat at the hands of Crystal Palace sounded the alarm bells even more, considering the Eagles wiped the floor with the Villans on their own patch 3-0.
Still, Emery will know he can turn it around at the Villa Park helm, with a bumper 76 wins under his belt, managing the West Midlands outfit.
He will also be helped by some flashy new additions that entered the building on deadline day, as both Harvey Elliott and Jadon Sancho now try to boost a forlorn Villa side on loan.
Aston Villa's exciting deadline day additions
After all, Villa have won very recently when it comes to getting the very best out of a loanee from a Premier League rival, with Marcus Rashford linking up with Emery and Co. last season from Manchester United to pick up a hefty ten goal contributions from 17 appearances.
Sancho will be hoping he can have a similar positive impact on proceedings, donning his new claret and blue, having just come off a promising campaign at Chelsea when loaned away from Old Trafford, where he mustered up his own impressive tally of five strikes and ten assists from 42 clashes.
For a star that was once worth £73m when entering the Theatre of Dreams, it will all centre on him trying to salvage his faltering playing days even more under Emery’s wing, with his estimated valuation now sitting at a far lower £27m, as per Football Transfers.
For £8m more, Villa could well welcome Elliott permanently after his initial loan stint is up from Liverpool, with a £35m obligation to buy having been included as part of the deal. That is in line with his current market valuation of around £34m.
This doesn’t feel like an extortionate amount to fork out either, considering the two-time Premier League winner can boast 15 goal contributions in the challenging league, despite only making just 35 starts for the Reds in the division.
Away from the plethora of new buys arriving in the West Midlands, Emery will also know he has some individuals in his side already that can deliver on the big stage, irrespective of his team’s limp opening to the campaign.
The Aston Villa star worth more than Sancho & Elliott
The former Arsenal boss has been a transformative presence for many a Villans star since he arrived at the club in 2022.
Indeed, Morgan Rogers has been turned into a Premier League superstar under the Spaniard’s expertise, with a bumper 17 goals and 17 assists next to his name for the claret and blue half of Birmingham.
Subsequently, the recent PFA Young Player of the Year recipient has been touted to step away from Villa Park for a whopping £100m, amid interest from the likes of Arsenal, despite only joining at the start of 2024 for a meagre £8m.
Amazingly, Ollie Watkins also joined the Villans back in 2020 for a reasonable £28m, with the experienced attacker now a feared Premier League goal machine for Emery’s men when performing to the peak of his powers.
Watkins has never looked back since deserting Brentford, having now amassed a mammoth 75 Premier League strikes for Villa, which has led to the 5-foot-11 marksman being dubbed as “unbelievable” by ex-Villa player Stephen Warnock, on top of being heralded as a “machine” Brentford’s programme editor, Chris Deacon.
Watkins’ rising value
Season
Goals + Assists
Transfer value
24/25
17 +14
£55m
23/24
27 + 15
£44m
22/23
16 + 6
£43m
21/22
11 + 2
£29m
20/21
16 + 5
£29m
via Transfermarkt/Football Transfers
Off the back of being consistently red-hot in front of goal, as seen glancing at his blistering numbers above, Watkins’ own estimated valuation now comes in at a mammoth £55m, as per Football Transfers, making him a more pricey asset than his compatriots, Elliott and Sancho, despite their esteemed reputations.
The 29-year-old has fired some uncharacteristic blanks so far this season, but there is hope he can turn it around.
With both Elliott and Sancho through the door, Emery has some fresh, exciting attacking personnel to experiment with, alongside his attempts to get the very best out of the Villa old guard again.
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Sunderland have stormed back up to the Premier League in style.
The Black Cats had been absent from the top-flight since the 2016/17 season, with Jermain Defoe still leading the line for the Wearside outfit that campaign.
Now, however, they’re back, with a new batch of Defoe-like heroes instantly announcing themselves to the rest of the promised land in an emphatic 3-0 win on the opening day.
It is, of course, unrealistic to anticipate that Sunderland will wipe the floor with all their competition in the higher tier in this vibrant, free-flowing manner.
But it’s an extremely positive sign so early on that indicates they’re here to shine, rather than merely survive, as more new signings are expected to link up with Regis Le Bris and Co. before the transfer window shuts.
Sunderland submit £27m bid for attacker
The Black Cats have been forking out significant wads of cash all across the action-packed window to date.
At the time of writing, Sunderland have splashed in the region of £141.5m on 12 new assets, with Nordi Mukiele their latest addition from Paris St. Germain for a fee around the £12m mark.
Nordi Mukiele in action.
Don’t expect this spending to go hush anytime soon, either, with Jhon Lucumi now reportedly back on the Sunderland radar in the centre-back positions, as an official bid has even been placed.
Away from enhancing their defensive options, another bid has also allegedly been lodged by the ambitious Black Cats for the services of Leicester City attacker Abdu Fatawu, according to journalist Eduardo Burgos.
That bid, worth about £27m, has since been rejected according to Burgos, but Sunderland will hope they can still land the Foxes number seven, who will no doubt be desperate for a Premier League return after Leicester’s relegation.
Securing a deal for the entertaining Ghanaian to join the club could see the top-flight newcomers seal a Simon Adingra repeat, as another gung-ho forward potentially joins Le Bris’ ranks, ready to make survival look like a breeze.
How Fatawu can be an Adingra repeat
While he hasn’t been credited with an assist for Daniel Ballard’s bullet header on all major outlets, Adingra still played a vital role in that goal, sending the vast majority of the Stadium of Light into momentary pandemonium as his deflected cross ended up being inch-perfect for the ex-Arsenal defender to connect with.
Sunderland fans will hope there’s plenty more to come from their fresh £21m recruit, too, having shown flashes of his excellence for former employers Brighton and Hove Albion, before being discarded.
A promising 11 goals and assists came the Ivorian’s way during his up-and-down stay on the South Coast, with his final season under Fabian Hurzeler only seeing him collect two goals and two assists from 29 contests, as he started just 12 league matches all campaign long.
Now, he will hope he has the luxury of extended periods in the side, with Fatawu also hopeful he can spark into life even more on Wearside, after an injury-disrupted period last season with Leicester saw relegation heartbreakingly occur.
Games played
58
Games missed through injury
29
Goals scored
7
Assists
15
Promotions
1
Even with that nasty injury setback derailing him, Fatawu has still managed to show off his class regularly at the King Power Stadium, with a standout seven goals and 15 assists next to his name from 58 clashes in the East Midlands.
Two of those assists even came about for the silky 21-year-old in the Premier League last season, before a serious cruciate ligament injury stopped him in his tracks and left him with just 11 paltry appearances in the top division.
He will hope he’s handed an opportunity to shine in the elite league once more with Le Bris’ men, having once been dubbed “unplayable” on his day by scout Jacek Kulig when tearing up the EFL with the Foxes.
Adingra has also been spoken about in the same glowing manner before, with football analyst Ben Mattinson once heralding the Black Cats number 24 as “explosive”, as the attacking pair prepare to run rings around Premier League defences together to ensure survival is comfortably reached.
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Tournament form guide: South Africa and West Indies lost both their warm-up games in the lead-up to the tournament, although South Africa’s losses were more surprising. They were bowled out for 92 against New Zealand to lose by eight wickets and then couldn’t get close to their target of 145 against India. West Indies’ losses came against teams ranked much higher than them. They first lost to India by 20 runs and then to Australia by 35 runs, on both occasions struggling to chase down totals in the 140s.News brief: South Africa finished as the runners-up in the 2023 T20 World Cup and will be looking to carry their form into this tournament after a 2-1 away series win against Pakistan. Despite a poor 7-14 win-loss record against West Indies, South Africa have won three of their last four T20Is against them. West Indies, too, come on the back of a 2-1 series win in Sri Lanka, although that was back in June. South Africa could go spin heavy by picking 18-year-old legspinner Seshnie Naidu along with allrounders Chloe Tryon and Sune Luus. It’s expected to be a hot afternoon in Dubai, with the temperature around 37°C at the time of the toss. It won’t be much cooler even when the game ends.Player to watch: She last played a T20I in August 2022. Since then, she has played franchise cricket around the world, retired from international cricket, and returned. Deandra Dottin is a powerhouse of a figure, not just a batter. Her presence in the West Indies line-up will be a massive boost who need to start on a winning note if they are to make the semi-finals.0:57
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India vs New Zealand
Dubai, 6pm local timeIndia squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana (vice-capt), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, D Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajeevan SajanaNew Zealand squad: Sophie Devine (capt), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Isabella Gaze (wk), Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Fran Jonas, Leigh Kasperek, Jess Kerr, Amelia Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Molly Penfold, Georgia Plimmer, Hannah Rowe, Lea TahuhuTournament form guide: India won their two warm-up games with fairly convincing margins, by 20 runs against West Indies and 28 runs against South Africa. New Zealand, meanwhile, had a 50% success in the warm-ups. They beat South Africa by eight wickets and went down to England by five wickets.News brief: Two players were named in the India squad subject to fitness: allrounder Shreyanka Patil and wicketkeeper-batter Yastika Bhatia. Both played both warm-ups, which bodes well for India. Head coach Amol Muzumdar confirmed on match eve that captain Harmanpreet Kaur would bat at No. 3, as was the case in the two warm-ups. She has batted there only five times since the start of 2019. The last time was against Ireland in the 2023 T20 World Cup when India’s opening stand lasted 9.3 overs. New Zealand come into the tournament after a streak of ten straight losses in T20Is, most recently being blanked 3-0 by Australia, against whom they play their second game. Therefore, they would be desperate for a win on Friday to push for a semi-final spot. If India have made a late call about their No. 3, New Zealand have decided to move their power-hitting captain Sophie Devine to the middle order recently, with Georgia Plimmer and Suzie Bates to open. Both teams are expecting plenty of dew in this evening game, so toss could play a massive role.Player to watch: Shafali Verma has worked on her mental game, she has worked on her consistency, and she is trying to mature into a more complete batter. If she can strike a balance between her early ball-bashing mentality with consistent performances from the first game itself, she could play a vital role in giving India a start similar to her nickname in the dressing room for her batting style: (dashing).
Hosts wrap up their seventh victory of the season with a day to spare
ECB Reporters Network11-Sep-2024
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Sussex are closing in on a return to Division One of the Vitality County Championship after wrapping up their seventh win of the season with a day to spare against Glamorgan.Having established a first-innings lead of 305 they bowled Glamorgan out for 218 to win by an innings and 87 runs at Hove.The second division’s leading run-scorer Colin Ingram and Kiran Carlson scored half-centuries but Sussex’s relentless attack kept chipping away. There were three wickets each for Ollie Robinson, Henry Crocombe and off-spinner Jack Carson, the second division’s leading wicket-taker who took his tally to 45.Glamorgan had batted again after finally dismissing Sussex for 491 and Jaydev Unadkat made the breakthrough in his first over, Asa Tribe collecting a pair when he under-edged the Indian left-armer.Carson bowled just three overs after lunch before going off for treatment to a bad back and in his absence Robinson stepped up to bowl an excellent nine-over spell during which he had Ingram dropped at slip by Tom Alsop on 36.But it was Crocombe who struck in his third over when Billy Root, promoted to opener, played on and lost middle and off stumps.Ingram took his aggregate for the season to 1170 runs at an average of 97.5 and had moved onto 71 when Carson produced a fine delivery which turned and Ingram, aiming to drive down the ground, got a leading to cover.Glamorgan skipper Sam Northeast, coming in at No. 6 after spending time off the field with an elbow problem, became Crocombe’s second victim when he took on a well-directed short ball and picked out James Coles who didn’t have to move to take the catch at deep backward square.Carlson and Kellaway added 57 but Sussex were revived after a brief stoppage for rain. In the second over after the resumption Kellaway missed a reverse sweep and Carson struck again in his next over when Carlson, who had lodged his eighth fifty of the season, was caught at short leg propping forward to a ball which turned sharply.Carson bowled 16 overs in tandem with slow left-armer James Coles to get Sussex’s over-rate back down and, having done so, Robinson was summoned to sweep away the rest of Glamorgan’s resistance, pinning Chris Cooke with his second ball back and bowling James Harris and Andy Gorvin in the space of 17 balls before Crocombe wrapped things up when he plucked out Dan Douthwaite’s middle stump.Earlier, Tom Clark completed his third first-class hundred and first since May 2022 before Sussex were bowled out 40 minutes before lunch for 491.Clark and skipper John Simpson extended their sixth-wicket stand to 213 when Simpson, who’d added five runs to his overnight 112, missed a sweep at off-spinner Kellaway looking to accelerate the scoring rate.A sweep off Kellaway for his 11th boundary took Clark to a 220-ball hundred made in four-and-a-half hours and he finished unbeaten on 112 while Kellaway completed a maiden five-for in only his fourth first-class match when Robinson missed a paddle sweep.
Left-arm spinner’s 6 for 26 to skittle Durham for 108 in pursuit of 242
ECB Reporters Network31-Jul-2024England might not need Jack Leach but Somerset certainly do. The England slow left-armer took 6 for 26 to lead his county to a 133-run victory over Durham in Wednesday’s Metro-Bank One-Day Cup victory at the Riverside.No one played Leach with any comfort on a pitch that was receptive to spin throughout the match, and his bowling ensured that Somerset defended 241 in some comfort to collect their second win in this season’s competition.It also threw into sharp relief the value of Lewis Goldsworthy’s 93 in the visitors’ innings. Durham were eventually dismissed for 108 with Scott Borthwick’s 35 providing home spectators with scant comfort.Somerset’s innings began poorly when Andy Umeed was caught behind off Bas de Leede for nought in the second over and things would have been worse had Paul Coughlin not overstepped when he had George Thomas caught at slip for seven.But Thomas and Lewis Goldsworthy then brought some stability to the innings and then began to milk the home bowling very efficiently. Indeed, the second-wicket pair had put on 119 in 27 overs when Colin Ackermann struck twice in two balls.The off-spinner bowled Thomas for 48 when the 21-year-old attempted an uncharacteristically inelegant hoick to leg and he then bowled James Rew with a magnificent delivery that drifted in before straightening sharply to hit the left-hander’s off stump.Ackermann completed his ten-over spell with figures of 2 for 35, meaning that he and George Drissell had delivered their twenty overs of spin for only 79 runs. However, Sean Dickson joined Goldsworthy in a 65-run stand in a shade above 12 overs before Coughlin became the second home bowler to take wickets with successive deliveries.Having made 37, Dickson chopped the ball onto his stumps, and then Josh Thomas’s waft outside the off stump gave Mustard his second catch. Two overs later Coughlin took his third wicket when Goldsworthy pulled the seamer to Jonathan Bushnell at deep midwicket and the last six overs of the innings saw the usual trading of quick runs for wickets.Kacey Aldridge and Jack Davey both made twenties and Bushnell picked up two cheap wickets in the final over. Coughlin finished with 3 for 47, de Leede took 2 for 53 and Daniel Hogg bowled five overs for 19 runs on debut.Durham’s pursuit of 242 for victory began well when Alex Lees and Ben McKinney put on 40 in under eight overs but the loss of four wickets for eight runs ruined the good work. Having made 17, McKinney lofted Alfie Ogborne to Jack Leach at mid-on and a few moments later Lees was lbw to Davey for 18.Then Leach struck twice in his first over, first by having Ackermann caught behind for four and then bowling Michael Jones for a fourth-ball duck. A score of 48 for 4 allowed Dickson to give Charlie Cassell his first bowl for Somerset and the debutant sent down three tidy overs for nine runs before giving way to Goldsworthy’s left-arm spinners.Next over, the wheels finally became detached from Durham’s innings when de Leede was bowled by Leach for 12 and Bushnell was lbw for nought. At that stage, Leach’s figures were four for 11 from 3.3 overs and Durham were 70 for 6.The home side’s last realistic hope of victory disappeared with the score on a hundred when Borthwick smacked a short ball from the leg-spinner Umeed straight to Leach at midwicket and departed for 35. Leach completed his five-wicket haul when he had Coughlin caught by Rew for a single and took his sixth wicket when Haydon Mustard was dismissed for 12 in similar fashion.The game ended in the next over when Drissell was caught behind off Goldsworthy for a single.