Opener completes the task of securing draw after rain wrecked day three
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Ben Compton made a career-best 221 for Kent•Andrew Miller
Kent 445 for 8 (Compton 221, Finch 54*) drew with Leicestershire 471 (Rehan 119, Patel 85) The Rothesay County Championship match between Division Two leaders Leicestershire and Kent at Canterbury ended in a draw, after the hosts reached 445 for eight on day four, trailing by 24 when bad light stopped play.Ben Compton hit a career-best 221 and Harry Finch made 54 not out, while Rehan Ahmed three for 134, but the chances of a positive result were effectively neutered on day three, when a mere 9.5 overs were bowled.Leicestershire remain top of the table, while Kent stay bottom.Conditions were significantly better on Friday morning but as soon as Kent passed the follow-on target of 321 a draw seemed inevitable.The nightwatch, George Garrett, survived 67 balls spread across days two, three and four but he was the first man out when he edged Logan van Beek to Louis Kimber for 10.The first shot of Ben Dawkins’ first-class career was a stylish drive that might have gone for four but for the slope, but he was out for seven, inside-edging Ben Green behind.Compton, 111 not out overnight, reached 150 in the penultimate over of the session when he cut Tom Scriven for four and Kent eased to 307 for four at lunch.Scriven subsequently had Joey Evison caught behind for 38, but an elegant sweep off Rehan saw Compton to 200. He took a single off Patel to pass his previous highest score of 217 and was finally out when he came down the wicket to Rehan and was stumped.Rehan then had Matt Parkinson lbw for two and Kent were 429 for eight at tea, after which Finch cover-drove Rishi Patel to bring up his half-century, but play was suspended at 4.40pm and both sides looked as eager as the umpires to shake hands on the draw.
Titular do Santos no início de temporada, João Paulo mantém moral dentro do clube. Isso acontece apesar de algumas críticas da torcida, sofridas especialmente após o pênalti em Endrick, na final do Paulistão diante do Palmeiras. Porém, é provável que ele ganhe concorrência mais forte em breve.
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Segundo apuração do Lance!, por enquanto, o Peixe não está em uma busca profunda pela contratação de outro goleiro. O clube enxerga que tem dois bons atletas para a posição: o próprio João Paulo e Gabriel Brazão.
Escalado em todos os jogos do Santos, João Paulo foi eleito o melhor goleiro do Paulistão e figurou na seleção do campeonato da Federação Paulista de Futebol (FPF). Brazão chegou nesta temporada e, em razão de um transfer ban, ficou impedido de ser relacionado para algumas partidas.
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O técnico Fábio Carille conta com cerca de duas semanas para definir o time que disputará a Série B, após ter diversas amostras no Estadual. O Alvinegro estreia no torneio entre os dias 19 e 21 de abril, contra o Paysandu, na Vila Belmiro.
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Apesar de críticas de parte da torcida do Santos, pessoas próximas a João Paulo garantem que ele segue focado no clube. No início do ano, o principal desejo do goleiro foi de permanecer no Peixe, mesmo com a queda à Série B e interesse de clubes brasileiros em contratá-lo.
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Além disso, uma suposta procura do Alvinegro por outro jogador da posição não abala o atleta. Ainda em 2024, com João Paulo já garantido no elenco, o Santos tentou contratar Marcelo Grohe e Tadeu, antes de acertar com Gabriel Brazão.
Vitória e Bahia se enfrentaram neste domingo (21), pela terceira rodada do Brasileirão. Em jogo movimentado, a partida terminou empatada por 2 a 2, com gols de Matheusinho e Wagner Leonardo para o Vitória e Biel e Everaldo para o Bahia.
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Com o resultado, o Bahia segue na nona posição, com nove quatro pontos. A equipe tem uma vitória, uma derrota e um empate na competição. O Vitória, por outro lado, somou seu primeiro ponto no Brasileirão, mas tem um jogo a menos.
✅ FICHA TÉCNICA VITÓRIA X BAHIA 3ª RODADA – CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO 🗓️ Data e horário: domingo, 21 de abril de 2024, às 16h (de Brasília); 📍 Local: Barradão, em Salavdor (BA); 📺 Onde assistir: Globo e Premiere; 🟨 Árbitro: Raphael Claus (FIFA-SP); 🚩 Assistentes: Alex Ang Ribeiro (FIFA-SP) e Miguel Cataneo Ribeiro da Costa (SP); 🖥️ VAR: Rodrigo Guarizo Ferreira do Amaral (FIFA-SP).
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⚽ PROVÁVEIS ESCALAÇÕES:
VITÓRIA (Técnico: Léo Condé) Lucas Arcanjo, Zeca, Bruno Uvini, Wagner Leonardo e Lucas Esteves; Willian Oliveira, Léo Naldi, Rodrigo Andrade e Matheuzinho; Osvaldo e Alerrandro.
BAHIA (Técnico: Rogério Ceni) Marcos Felipe, Arias, Gabriel Xavier (Kanu), Cuesta e Luciano Juba (Rezende); Caio Alexandre, Jean Lucas, Everton Ribeiro e Cauly; Ademir (Biel) e Thaciano.
علّق المدير الفني لمنتخب بلجيكا، رودي جارسيا، على قرعة بطولة كأس العالم نسخة 2026، والتي تم سحبها مساء يوم الجمعة في مركز “جون كينيدي” في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
وتستضيف كل من الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، كندا والمكسيك نهائيات النسخة المقبلة من بطولة كأس العالم، في الفترة بين 11 يونيو و19 يوليو.
وتُعد تلك هي النسخة الأولى من بطولة كأس العالم، بعد استحداث نظامها، حيث سيشارك فيها 48 منتخبًا، سيتم تقسيمهم على 12 مجموعة، ويتأهل متصدر ووصيف كل مجموعة إلى دور الـ32، بالإضافة إلى أفضل 8 منتخبات في مركز ثالث.
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وحسبما كشفت القرعة، تواجدت بلجيكا في المجموعة السابعة والتي تضم كل من: مصر، إيران ونيوزيلندا.
وقال رودي جارسيا، في تصريحات نشرتها شبكة “sporza” البلجيكية: “كانت قرعة مثيرة للاهتمام، نحن نعرف مصر جيدًا كواحدة من أفضل المنتخبات الإفريقية، من الرائع مواجهة محمد صلاح، لأنني دربته في روما”.
وأضاف: “لم نلعب ضد المنتخبين الآخرين بعد، لذلك لا نعرفهما جيدًا، لكننا نعرف ما ينتظرنا، كأس العالم قد بدأت بالفعل الآن”.
وواصل: “سنبذل قصارى جهدنا لإنهاء المرحلة في المركز الأول، نريد حقًا ذلك لأن هذا هو السيناريو الأمثل لبقية البطولة، لم أدرس بقية البطولة جيدًا بعد، ولكن المتصدر سيلعب ضد فريق احتل المركز الثالث، سيكون ذلك مثيرًا للاهتمام”.
Jurgen Klopp has already delivered his verdict on completing a return to Liverpool, who endured yet another disastrous afternoon in the Premier League as Nottingham Forest secured a dominant victory.
It’s hard to believe that the Reds were Premier League champions in May, and impressive ones at that. Arne Slot arrived and quickly conquered to shock the rest of English football. It looked like Michael Edwards had performed another act of recruitment genius, but now uncomfortable questions are beginning to emerge.
Liverpool have lost five of their last eight games and now sit in the bottom-half after 12 league games, all but ending their title defence before January has even arrived. After breaking their transfer record twice to welcome Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak, it is a run of form that no one saw coming.
It’s now up to Slot to prove his credentials in a crisis. Victory over Real Madrid and Aston Villa proved that there is still plenty of quality in this Liverpool side, it’s just a question of when that quality will be on show.
Just how long Slot will have to turn things around is also a big question. Liverpool have never rushed managerial decisions and Slot has much more credit in the bank than others have done in the past, but the current run of results needs to end – especially if they come at Anfield.
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With the pressure building, Liverpool are set to play host to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Wednesday. Defeat there would certainly do further damage to the credit that Slot banked last season and perhaps send a timely reminder about Klopp’s answer about if he’d ever make a shock return.
Klopp's seven-word answer when asked if he was returning to Liverpool
Just before leaving the club, Klopp was asked if he’d ever make a return to the Anfield dugout if Liverpool needed him.
At the time and certainly for the entirety of last season, it was simply a throw-away answer and one that looked unlikely to rear its head again. Now, however, those at Anfield could do with their iconic manager’s energy more than ever.
They won’t and shouldn’t panic about Slot’s current run, but Liverpool should ensure that the Dutchman channels his very own version of Klopp. When Klopp’s sides were up against it, he had that unique ability to pull off what many still deem miracles to this day. He turned doubters to believers to champions. Slot must now remind his very own champions just who they are in similar fashion.
Meanwhile, if the manager’s run continues then Edwards could yet turn back towards one of the best managers in the club’s history for a stunning second stint.
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Glenn Maxwell had the cast removed off his fractured wrist on Wednesday and has started mobility work with the hope of potentionally playing in the last three T20Is against India
Alex Malcolm09-Oct-2025
Glenn Maxwell recently had surgery on his fractured wrist•Getty Images
Glenn Maxwell is optimistic he can still play a part in Australia’s upcoming T20I series against India despite having surgery on his fractured right wrist last week.Maxwell suffered the fracture when he was hit on the wrist by a powerfully struck shot from Mitchell Owen while bowling in the nets in the lead-up to the T20I series against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui.He was immediately sent home to see a specialist and opted to have surgery to try and hasten the recovery time down to four weeks to give himself a chance to play against India.Related
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Maxwell was not named in Australia’s squad for the first two T20Is on October 29 and 31 in Canberra and Melbourne, but speaking in Melbourne on Thursday, he hoped to be fit to play a part in the final three matches, with the third match of the series on November 2 in Hobart, the fourth on November 6 on the Gold Coast, and the final match in Brisbane on November 8.”I think having the surgery last week sort of gives me a little bit more hope of playing some part in that India series, if I can get myself right,” Maxwell said. “The only reason I had the surgery was the options they gave me were miss that series completely and no surgery, or have surgery and it gives me a slim chance to hopefully play a part. And if not, I’ll be ready earlier for the BBL, and I think it leaves me in good stead to get the rest of my body right.”Maxwell said he had a cast removed on Wednesday and will now wear a moulded plastic splint to protect it for a period of time, but he had been given the all-clear to start moving the wrist again. “I only met with a hand therapist yesterday,” Maxwell said. “He only gave me some really basic movements, things that look really boring, but I suppose they’re going to strengthen the wrist.”Returning early for the back-end of the India series is unlikely to come with any added risk in terms of further injury. Maxwell said the main concern will be pain management depending on how it feels when he bats.It is yet another freak injury to add to Maxwell’s bizarre catalogue, that includes a broken leg at a birthday party and a concussion from falling off a golf cart.”I was probably just a bit unlucky with the position that it hit me on the arm,” Maxwell said. “When it hit me, I thought I was lucky that it hit just bone and it wasn’t too much flesh, and it was going to be right.”But, yeah, another unlucky one.”The injury has made him rethink bowling in the nets to power hitters like Owen and some of his other team-mates. “I try to avoid bowling to those guys,” Maxwell said. “Guys like Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Mitch Owen and Cam Green, long levers, strong, it just comes back too quick. It’s not fun, But I should know better. I should know better to bowl into the hip and I’ll be doing that I think come BBL time.”Maxwell was frustrated to miss the series against New Zealand given he was in excellent form. In his last T20I innings in August against South Africa, he steered Australia home to a series win with a remarkable 62 not out from 36 balls in a nail-biting chase. Then in late September, despite retiring from ODI cricket earlier in the year, he played two Australian domestic One-Day Cup matches for Victoria to prepare for the New Zealand tour and smashed 107 off 82 balls against Queensland.Glenn Maxwell pulls behind square•Getty Images
He was asked whether he had a timeline on the end of his T20I career and if the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles were in his mind, but he said he had not thought past December.”I’m literally thinking about round one of the BBL at the moment,” Maxwell said. “Let’s just get there first. If I’m still enjoying my cricket by then… I’m not setting dates or anything.”Maxwell is excited about the upcoming BBL season where he hopes to help Melbourne Stars to an elusive BBL title, having been equal Player of the Tournament last season as they played the finals for the first time since losing the 2019-20 final under his captaincy in heartbreaking fashion to Melbourne Renegades.He said the arrival of former India spinner R Ashwin is going to supercharge the BBL season.”That’s really exciting,” Maxwell said. “It’s great for the competition. I think anytime you can get world-class superstars who have got the career that he has as a part of the BBL is a massive bonus for us. He’s been extremely successful. He’s got a hell of a lot of wisdom in the game. I think he’s going to give back a lot to the players in the BBL. I don’t think it’s just the Sydney Thunder, I think the guys that are playing against him will probably ask him a lot of questions, and he’s certainly going to bring in a lot of fans as well.”
مع اقتراب موعد قرعة كأس العالم 2026 في الولايات المتحدة والمكسيك وكندا، وصل ليونيل سكالوني مدرب منتخب الأرجنتين إلى واشنطن لحضورها وتحدث عن المنتخب الأرجنتيني بطل مونديال 2022 في قطر.
وأكد سكالوني بأن يركز فقط على أن يصل لاعبو المنتخب الأرجنتيني إلى كأس العالم بحالة جيدة، وعلق على موعد مباراة نهائي الفايناليسما أمام منتخب إسبانيا.
وقال سكالوني في تصريحات نشرتها “TYC SPORTS” الأرجنتينية: “بالمقارنة مع القرعة السابقة أشعر براحة أكبر، لم تكن جميع حساباتنا في مصلحتنا في كأس العالم الأخيرة”.
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وأضاف: “الأهم أن ندرك أنه إذا كنت تريد تحقيق أي شيء يجب مواجهة الأفضل وفي كأس العالم ستكون هناك العديد من المنتخبات الجيدة”.
وكان الاتحاد الدولي لكرة القدم قد قرر أن الفرق الأعلى تصنيفاً قبل القرعة ستتجنب مواجهة بعضها البعض في المراحل الأولى من البطولة ولذا لن تلتقي على سبيل المثال الأرجنتين ضد إسبانيا إلا في نهائي افتراضي بشرط أن يحتل كل منهما المركز الأول في مجموعته، ومع ذلك لم يهتم سكالوني لهذه الميزة: “هناك العديد من الفرق الجيدة، انها غير مقتصرة فقط على المنتخبات الأربعة الأولى، هناك الكثير من المنتخبات القادرة على المنافسة، من ربع النهائي فصاعداً سيكون هناك دائماً خصوم أقوياء”.
وواصل سكالوني عن حالة لاعبيه البدنية: “نحن بخير، إن كان علي أن أقول شيئاً يسعدني، هو أننا مازالنا نكافح كما لو أننا لم نحقق أي فوز بعد، الآن همي الوحيد أن يصل اللاعبون في حالة بدنية جيدة”.
وسئل سكالوني عن قرار ميسي بالمشاركة في كأس العالم 2026: “سيقرر، وسندعم أي قرار يتخذه، في الوقت الحالي كل شئ يسير على ما يرام ولكن لا يزال هناك وقت، على الرغم من أن الأمر أصبح قريباً، إلا أن ستة أشهر في عالم كرة القدم تعتبر فترة طويلة، نأمل أن يكون ميسي بصحة جيدة وأن يتخذ قراره الأمثل، هو يستحق حقه في اتخاذ القرار”.
وأعرب سكالوني عن أسفه لعدم إقامة نهائي الفايناليسما ضد منتخب إسبانيا حتى الآن :”كان من الممكن أن تقام في وقت مبكر، الآن ننتظر ولم نتلق أي اخبار، سافرت مع لويس دي لا فوينتي وهو صديقي والذي منحني دورة تدريبية، ليس لديه تأكيد حتى الآن أيضاً، لذا دعونا ننتظر ونرى”.
Presidente do Flamengo, Rodolfo Landim deu forte declaração sobre o poder dentro do clube e a responsabilidade financeira da diretoria. Em entrevista ao portal “ge”, o dirigente afirmou que o trabalho da diretoria poderia ser destruído em “três meses”, caso a pessoa a frente do Rubro-Negro não prudente com os gastos.
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– Eu ouço muitos jornalistas esportivos fazendo comentários interessantes. Falam de gestão de empresa e eu ouço: “O Flamengo do jeito que está estruturado, vai passar 10 anos com desempenho maravilhoso”. E eu digo para vocês: com três meses de má gestão dá para destruir o Flamengo. Não precisa de muito tempo. Com a minha caneta, dá para destruir o Flamengo. Tudo o que se construiu a gente destrói em três meses. Eu compro o Neymar, o Mbappé e mais um. Coloco 600 milhões de euros de dívidas no balanço do Flamengo – declarou Rodolfo Landim.
– É exato. Isso é uma grande verdade (a responsabilidade ser sempre do presidente). No fundo, quem tem a caneta e quem tem o poder de mudar é o presidente do clube. Eu tenho o poder de trocar quem eu quiser. Se alguma coisa foi feita errada, a culpa é minha. Se foi feita certa, a equipe é brilhante, boa e mereceu. Se deu errado, é minha. A vida é assim. A responsabilidade maior é minha. Eu continuo achando isso. Os problemas do Flamengo, quando tem problemas, sou eu o responsável. Se foi cometido o erro por alguém, foi alguém que eu coloquei lá e dei poder para ele tomar essa decisão que saiu errada. No fundo, é isso mesmo – completou o dirigente do Flamengo.
Prior to the international break Liverpool suffered a chastening 3-0 defeat at the hands of Manchester City.
Considering Pep Guardiola’s side are perennial title challengers, you can excuse that blemish on Arne Slot’s copybook.
However, as the Reds welcomed lowly Nottingham Forest to Anfield on Saturday, it was a wonderful opportunity to build some momentum and find some form ahead of a kinder run of fixtures.
How disastrous it has started. Slot’s job was brought under further scrutiny as his men were downed 3-0 in front of their own fans. Gulp, this was not what Liverpool needed.
Across their last 11 games, they have only won three games. This is certainly not the team that won the Premier League at a canter last term.
At the centre of their issues has been Ibrahima Konate.
Konate's performance vs Nottingham Forest
Last season, Trent Alexander-Arnold didn’t quite throw in the towel but his performances were abject as he pursued a move to Real Madrid.
This season, the same thing appears to be playing a factor in the performances of Konate who looks a shadow of his former self.
The Frenchman has been error-ridden this season and his display against Forest summed everything up.
Analyst Raj Chohan took to social media to exclaim that “every time he makes one error, he makes multiple.”
He was notably at fault for the controversial moment that Igor Jesus was involved in when his goal was disallowed for handball.
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The Brazilian completely caught out Liverpool’s underperforming centre-back as he threw himself to the floor and was fortunate that it was ruled out.
So poor was Konate’s display that he was dragged off on 55 minutes soon after Liverpool went 2-0 down. He left the pitch with a wry smile, hardly the attitude you want from someone who’s been linked with a move away so regularly, and to Madrid of all places too.
He was handed a 3/10 match rating by GOAL but didn’t leave the pitch as their worst performer.
Liverpool’s worst performer against Nottingham Forest
While Liverpool’s defence will come under the microscope of scrutiny for their failings against Sean Dyche’s men, their forward line is also not pulling up any trees either.
For a side that spent over £200m on Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz, far far more should be expected.
Wirtz did not start the game at Anfield on Saturday but Isak did. Fans, however, must be wishing he hadn’t.
Signed in a British record £125m deal over the summer, it has been a wretched first few months in Liverpool red for the Swede.
He has played nine times now and only has one goal, a strike in the Carabao Cup, to show for his efforts.
Since then, Isak has failed to score. He’s without a goal in five league games and all four of his Premier League starts have ended in defeat.
The nadir of his Anfield career so far came this weekend when he was anonymous against Forest. GOAL handed the striker a dismal 2/10 rating, writing that he ‘hardly had a kick’ and ‘wasn’t even close to breaking his duck here’.
As a result, he was subbed off for Federico Chiesa after 68 minutes and simply cannot be in the starting lineup for their Champions League clash in midweek.
Isak vs Forest
Minutes played
68
Touches
14
Accurate passes
5/7 (71%)
Key passes
1
Successful dribbles
0
Shots
1
Shots on target
0
Ground duels won
0
Aerial duels won
0
Stats via Sofascore.
While Hugo Ekitike has barely been in good form himself, Liverpool’s best displays in 2025/26 have come with their fellow summer signing in the team.
Isak’s display this time around was so anonymous that he had just 14 touches of the football. In the process, he gave possession away seven times. For every two touches of the ball, he was squandering possession.
Usually so technically secure and comfortable in possession, it’s a huge worry that he can’t even get himself into the action.
To compound the striker’s woes, he lost every single one of his duels and managed just one shot which wasn’t even on target.
For any new signing to be in such a desperate rut would be a concern, but when he’s the most expensive player in Premier League history, it only heightens the issue. He is paying the price for a lack of pre-season and it’s desperately hurting Liverpool’s season.
Perhaps they should have stuck with Ekitike after all.
Rahul made a composed half-century after India skittled West Indies for 162 on the opening day
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Chopra tries to make sense of WI’s decision to bat first
If there was any anxiety about India’s performance this home season, the first day’s play went some way to allaying them. Weakened they might be with the retirements of three legends, wounded they might be after losing the last series here 0-3, there is still plenty of fire. West Indies came under it and couldn’t really muster up a response. After choosing to bat, they were bowled out for 162 with time to spare for the tea break. At stumps, they were clinging on to a lead of 41.Mohammed Siraj picked up where he left off after his Iron Man efforts in England. He focused on pitching the ball up. He targeted the top of the stumps. He didn’t give the batter any easy reprieves and that was enough for him to pick up four of the first five wickets to fall. He thought he had a fifth – which would’ve been a landmark moment because he doesn’t have a five-for at home – but DRS took it away. Jasprit Bumrah, his new-ball partner, offered him a pat on the back when replays showed the lbw shout against Justin Greaves being struck down but didn’t seem to be so sympathetic when he started ripping out the tail with his yorkers. Eventually Siraj had to settle for figures of 4 for 40.A comfortable day’s play offered opportunity for India to make further gains, particularly their new man at No. 3. But Sai Sudharsan’s dismissal for 7 off 19 only served as a reminder that this team is still transitioning and that without Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, R Aswhin and Rishabh Pant, who is only injured, there are vulnerabilities. KL Rahul papered over them with a no-nonsense half-century. It feels like he knows how to match his output with his ability now. Something West Indies are struggling with.Their XI has nine centuries in it. Two of their top three have yet to contribute to that count. The other one has a double, but he was coming back to international cricket after a 20-month break. Tagenarine Chanderpaul would be sorely disappointed with his return – out for a duck, caught down the leg side. But there were others who had reasons to feel more guilty. Brandon King left a straight ball to knock down his middle stump.KL Rahul led India’s reply with a composed half-century•AFP/Getty Images
Alick Athanaze looked steady, especially after he got through a nervous first few deliveries where it seemed like he was too keen to feel bat on ball. The West Indian No. 3 was just starting to gain confidence in his defence when Siraj decided to prey on his inexperience. He had seen the batter settling in nicely and decided to tease him with a fuller delivery. Had the length been shorter, Athanaze might have been more circumspect with his shot. The fact that it was pitched up had his juices flowing. He went for a big booming drive and was caught at slip.Roston Chase and Shai Hope offered some resistance. Theirs was the longest partnership of the innings – 70 balls – and it pushed India to produce the two best balls of the day. Kuldeep Yadav, who had spent a five-match tour of England on the sidelines, struck with his eighth delivery back, creating gap between Hope’s bat and pad with his drift and surging through it with his dip and turn. It is ridiculous how often wristspinners make the stumps look like an easy target.Chase was the victim of Siraj’s a wobble-seam variation, although the real genius of the wicket lay in the steep angle that the fast bowler created into the right-hander. The West Indies captain was suckered into closing the face of his bat so early that he was caught by the wicketkeeper off the leading edge.India’s bowling wasn’t at its threatening best – there were seven fours in the first 10 overs – but they were better at the basics than their opposition. Bumrah did have one bit of the spectacular in him. At the Asia Cup, he was partly bowling his team to victory and partly testing his fitness out for these Test matches. Early indications were that his rhythm is on point. He spotted Greaves’ tendency to bat with a huge backlift, which also curved to the off side, and knew it would be vulnerable to his yorker and it proved so the very first time he tried.Bumrah now has 50 Test wickets in India and he got there in record time, a full 521 balls quicker than the previous mark set by Mohammed Shami.