O Palmeiras empatou em 1 a 1 com o Santos na Vila Belmiro, em partida válida pela quinta rodada do Brasileirão Feminino, na última segunda-feira (27). Foi o primeiro jogo da meia Bárbara Timbó com a camisa do Verdão, que comemorou sua estreia e falou sobre a ansiedade de jogar diante da torcida.
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Com o resultado, o Palmeiras ficou na quarta colocação, com 11 pontos somados. Até aqui, o time conta com três vitórias e dois empates no campeonato. No próximo sábado, 1, as Palestrinas recebem o Ceará, no Allianz Parque, às 16h.
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– Foi um jogo difícil, sabemos que jogar clássico não é fácil, mas não faltou vontade de nossa parte.Ansiedade estava a mil, estava esperando a hora de estrear com a camisa do Palmeiras. Quando o professor me chamou, passou um sentimento de nervosismo misturado com uma vontade grande de entrar lá. Eu sabia o quanto eu estava preparada – disse a meia.
– Pensar que vamos ter os torcedores ali aumenta 100% a vontade de defender o escudo do Palmeiras, jogar com raça e amor. Quero dar orgulho para eles, sugar toda a positividade que eles levam pra nós.
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A meia chegou ao Alviverde para essa temporada como uma das principais apostas do clube. Revelada pelo Fortaleza, a jogadora de 20 anos chegou com grandes expectativas e pode estrear justamente em umClássico da Saudade. A atleta também falou sobre a sua participação no duelo.
– Acredito que ajudei a ganhar mais aquelas segunda bolas do meio, que a gente estava perdendo muito ali. Também ajudei a tentar buscar mais contra-ataques, achando as atacantes – concluiu Bárbara.
Palmeiras e Bolívar (BOL) se enfrentam nesta quarta-feira (05), às 21h30, no Estádio Hernando Siles, em La Paz, em jogo válido pela primeira rodada da fase de grupos da Libertadores. Além da equipe boliviana, o Verdão está no grupo C ao lado de Barcelona (EQU) e Cerro Porteño (PAR). O Alviverde vai em busca de se tornar o primeiro tetracampeão brasileiro da competição continental.
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Como já noticiado pelo LANCE!, o confronto será transmitido pela Globo (TV aberta), ESPN (TV por assinatura) e Star+ (streaming).Além dos meios citados, os torcedores poderão acompanhar o confronto por meio do tempo real do LANCE!.
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As equipes já se enfrentaram apenas quatro vezes na história. O retrospecto palmeirense é melhor, já que o Verdão soma três vitórias contra apenas uma do Bolívar. O último confronto ocorreu no dia 30 de setembro de 2020, também pela Libertadores, em que o Palmeiras venceu por 5 a 0.
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Local:Estádio Hernando Siles, em La Paz Data e hora:5/4/2023, às 21h30 (de Brasília) Árbitro:Alexis Herrera (VEN) VAR:Juan Soto (VEN) Onde assistir:Globo, ESPN, Star+ e em tempo real no LANCE!
Luís Castro vive um momento de extrema instabilidade no comando do Botafogo depois das recentes atuações da equipe alvinegra em 2023. O treinador acredita que está ficando cada vez mais dependente dos resultados e revelou os caminhos necessários para se montar um clube vitorioso.
– As coisas se misturam muito. Neste momento, olho para mim como cada vez mais um treinador dependente dos resultados, fruto da cultura do Brasil, e menos parte integrante do Botafogo no seu futuro médio/longo prazo. Claramente essa cultura de resultados está instalada e nós treinadores temos que aceitar, porque é o contexto e nós temos que nos adaptar – declarou Luís Castro, ao “Canal 11”, de Portugal.
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– O Botafogo quer muito ganhar e as pessoas estão ávidas por ganhar. Eu também e qualquer pessoa está. O clube quer muito esse mais, mais e mais. Mas é impossível passar de um ponto para outro sem fazer uma transição. Tem que fazer uma ponte para chegar ao outro lado. Para chegar nos primeiros lugares da tabela, disputando finais, andando perto de ganhar títulos. Tem que haver um conjunto de coisas como infraestrutura, elenco, base e desenvolvimento – completou.
The visitors remained a long way behind Tasmania’s big first-innings total
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Queensland’s Sheffield Shield final hopes were hanging by a thread midway through their match against Tasmania in Hobart after another poor day for the visitors.They ended the second day on 6 for 180, still 299 runs in arrears of the hosts. Queensland need to at least match Victoria’s result in Western Australia, with bonus points the deciding factor should both sides finish equal second.Max Bryant remained Queensland’s last hope of not only getting close to Tasmania total, but earning sufficient first-innings batting points. He ended the day on 62 not out, hitting nine boundaries in his 64-ball innings.Related
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Having earlier made an unbeaten 168, Beau Webster cemented Tasmania’s control with two middle order wickets having Jack Wildermuth lbw and Jimmy Peirson caught at pointDoubt remains about fast bowler Mark Steketee’s ability to bat after he was deemed “unlikely” to bowl again during the match after being forced off with a hip injury on day one.Steketee’s injury compounded a woeful few days for Queensland in Hobart, with fellow strike bowler Michael Neser ruled out of the match with an ankle injury suffered during the warm-up.Queensland’s poor run continued at the start of their innings with the visitors slipping to 2 for 13. The only other major contributors with the bat were opener Bryce Street (34) and Jack Clayton (40).Batting seemed much easier earlier in the day at Bellerive Oval as Tasmania added 154 runs in three hours to their overnight 6 for 325.Webster was the backbone of Tasmania’s innings hitting 168 not out for his maiden century of the season and eighth Shield ton.Spinner Jarrod Freeman was the other major contributor with a career-best 63 not out, putting on an unbroken stand of 122 for the eighth wicket in partnership with Webster.
India’s vice-captain and opener Smriti Mandhana is set to return to action against West Indies, after being ruled out of the team’s T20 World Cup opener against Pakistan on Sunday with a finger injury. India’s bowling coach Troy Cooley is hopeful that Mandhana will be fit to play against West Indies on Wednesday.”I think, yeah, she [Mandhana] has been working very hard,” Cooley said. “And I think from today, it’ll obviously be assessed after today, but she did everything she was needed to be done today. And I think, yeah, from us, we look at how she pulls up. But we’re pretty confident that she got through the session today and did everything she needed to do.”Related
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Mandhana had also missed India’s second warm-up game, but stand-in coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar confirmed that there was no fracture.Despite the absence of Mandhana, India kicked off their World Cup campaign with a successful chase against Pakistan. Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh helped them chase down 150, with an over to spare, after early hiccups. India are currently placed second on the Group 2 points behind, behind England, who have won both their matches so far.A day after India beat Pakistan, Mandhana got the biggest bid at the inaugural Women’s Premier League auction in Mumbai, going to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 3.4 crore (USD 415,000 approx).
Troy Cooley backs ‘exceptional’ Deepti Sharma
Meanwhile, Cooley also backed India’s “key player” Deepti Sharma, who had an off day against Pakistan, conceding 39 runs in her four overs for just one wicket.”Well, as you know, she [Deepti] is an exceptional player and she bowled three overs in the powerplay, one at the death with three fielders out. So, we know that those are high-pressure times, but you know, who better to give the ball to than someone like Deepti? The conversations are really, you know, did you bowl the ball you want? Did you have the field you wanted? And away you go. So, you know, we let things go as much as we can, but the girls are very good at reviewing their own performances.”We have some good conversations with them. If we find something that we need to add, we will add it. And they’re very open to input. So a lot of growth in the girls, of course, but Deepti is one of the key players and she’s going to go for a few runs some days. That’s just the nature of this T20 game. But she bowled in the high-pressure situations and we believe she did a good job.”
Lamine Yamal is reportedly set to wear the iconic no. 10 shirt at Barcelona next season after signing his new contract with Catalan side this summer.
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To say that Yamal has been in top form this season would be undermining exactly how good the 17-year-old has performed for Barcelona, as he has been a major part of the Catalan side's domestic treble. The La Masia graduate came up through the ranks at Barcelona as a 15-year-old under Xavi Hernandez, and under Hansi Flick has transformed himself into one of the best players in the world, who could even be a front-runner for the 2025 Ballon d'Or.
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Yamal has been considered the heir to eight-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi over the course of the last 18 months. As per Memorabilia1899.co, Barcelona are now reportedly set to hand the teenager the Argentine legend's famed No. 10 jersey, which is currently worn by Ansu Fati. The Guinea-Bissau-born star was termed as the original heir to Messi, however, his untimely injuries have meant that he has fallen far down the pecking order at the Catalan club and may now be set to leave the club this summer.
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Barcelona are also set to hand Yamal a new contract once he turns 18 to tie him down to the club on a lengthy contract. The Catalan side, led by Joan Laporta, want to avoid any sort of funny transfer business, similar to what happened with Neymar Jr. in 2017, and are hence going to add a release clause of €1 billion (£840m/1.1b).
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Yamal is currently wearing the No. 19 jersey at Barcelona, which was also the number worn by Messi at the Catalan club, prior to being handed the famed No. 10 shirt in 2008.
Lahiru Kumara and Chamika Karunaratne return to Test squad as well, while Prabath Jayasuriya is the lone frontline spinner
Madushka Balasuriya24-Feb-2023The uncapped pair of Nishan Madushka and Milan Rathnayake will be part of the 17-man Sri Lanka Test squad that is set to tour New Zealand for two Tests in March. Also returning to the squad are Lahiru Kumara and Chamika Karunaratne, the latter having played his only Test back in 2019.Madushka, 23, has seemingly forced his way into the selectors’ minds following a string of impressive performances against the England Lions earlier this year. Turning out for Sri Lanka A, he produced innings of 241 and 100, while he also hit 150 against the same opposition while representing a Board President’s XI.His inclusion means Pathum Nissanka finds himself the odd man out. Nissanka had made an impressive start to his Test career, scoring 537 runs across 15 innings, and was a mainstay in the Lankan top order until mid 2022. Thereafter, a sub-par showing against Australia at home, where he scored just 43 runs in three innings – combined with a bout of Covid-19 – saw him omitted for Sri Lanka’s next two Tests against Pakistan. He has since made his mark in the white-ball format, but Madushka’s recent form has proved tough to ignore.Sri Lanka’s 17-member squad for the away Tests in New Zealand•ESPNcricinfo LtdAlongside Nissanka, also out are Maheesh Theekshana, Lakshitha Manasinghe, Jeffrey Vandersay, Dunith Wellalage and Dilshan Madushanka. Aside from Nissanka and seamer Madushanka, the rest are all spin bowlers with only Wellalage offering something with the bat. With New Zealand conditions expected to favour seam and bounce, Sri Lanka have understandably sought to forego spin in favour of pace.Rathnayake’s inclusion is a little more straightforward. The 26-year old had been the pick of the seam bowlers against England Lions, and while he’s unlikely to be called into the playing XI, he will provide adequate backup to Sri Lanka’s five other seam-bowling options – Kasun Rajitha, Asitha Fernando, Vishwa Fernando, and the returning pair of Kumara and Karunaratne, who is also a capable lower-order batter.Slow left-armer Prabath Jayasuriya will be the lone frontline spinner, though the part-time off spin of Ramesh Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis can also be called upon, if required.Related
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On the batting front, Sri Lanka boast a relatively settled unit, led by the captain Dimuth Karunaratne. Oshada Fernando is capable of batting anywhere at the top of the order, though it is his position that might be under threat by Madushka. Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal will offer middle-order experience in spades, while In Kusal Mendis, Sri Lanka have a man in red-hot form – albeit in white-ball cricket. Dhananjaya, Kamindu and Niroshan Dickwella round off the list.Sri Lanka recently completed a training session in Radella – some 4000 feet above sea level – to simulate conditions that are close to New Zealand. The first Test is in Christchurch, starting March 9.
The Senegal striker's red card against Newcastle kickstarted a pile-on, but he is not the only guilty party in the chaos of the BlueCo regime
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You have to be clever and cunning to get away with football's 'dark arts'. It's not only a matter of being snide, but deceitful and dastardly like a cartoon villain. Think about Jose Mourinho in Tottenham's documentary telling his new players they must behave like 'intelligent c*nts'.
Well, there was nothing intelligent about Nicolas Jackson's elbow square to the jaw of poor Sven Botman during Chelsea's trip to Newcastle on Sunday, one which ended with his dismissal and the Blues losing 2-0 in what was effectively a six-pointer in the race to secure Champions League qualification. There was no attempt to hide Jackson's contempt, staring down the defender long before the high ball from goalkeeper Robert Sanchez had returned to Earth, before planting his pointed forearm straight into the Dutchman's unsuspecting face. And he would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for that meddling VAR.
The knives were quickly out for Jackson, which was a fair reaction and reflection having acted so daftly rather than deftly in Chelsea's biggest game of the season so far. Defeat at St James' Park has left them just about in the Premier League's top five, only leading sixth-place Aston Villa on goal difference with two matches remaining. The club are desperate to secure a lucrative return to the Champions League, but blame cannot be solely or directly pointed at Jackson if they fall short now – this is a downfall of Chelsea's own making.
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During his two seasons at Chelsea, Jackson has accumulated 18 yellow cards. That in itself is a shocking streak of ill-discipline, but given most of these were awarded for dissent or needless fouls without rhyme or reason, it's an indictment on the striker's inability to control himself.
Four yellows into the 2023-24 campaign – all picked up by – then-manager Mauricio Pochettino said: "We were talking about it today because we were in a meeting with him and Enzo [Fernandez]. I told him for a striker to get four yellow cards only for protesting or talking to the referee, it's so easy, so cheap, getting yellow cards like that. Sometimes you need to get a yellow card in different actions, but not because of that. If it keeps happening and he gets suspended, he is going to put the team in a very difficult situation. He needs to be clever and not to protest to the referees in this way, but he understood. Jackson is 21 also and he's young. He needs to learn, needs to improve, needs to settle himself."
Yet Jackson was booked in his very next game to earn a suspension only six matches into the campaign. Here we are nearly two years later and he is scarcely any wiser, besides improving on a rate of seeing yellow five games in every six.
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After overcoming a pretty poor first impression, Jackson eventually won over the match-going faithful last year for his improved form in front of goal and evident desire to win at all costs. The relationship took a step back last summer, however, when he got into it with club legend John Obi Mikel – one of a select few alumni to have a banner in his honour at Stamford Bridge – on social media.
It stemmed from Mikel's public desire for Chelsea to add a more proven scorer to their ranks. "You need a striker who knows how to hit a ball in the back of the net and that's what we don't have," the Nigerian said. "I know I talk so much about [Jackson] and sometimes I sound like I disrespect him. I don't disrespect him. I think at Chelsea Football Club we need a top striker who can get us a goal."
In rebuttal, Jackson took to Instagram and wrote: "Shut your mouth, don't talk sh*t, we are killing ourself for Africa." Since then, Mikel promised to lay off the Senegal international if he backed up his words with action, but midway through a run of 12 Premier League games without a goal this season, the ex-midfielder reignited the feud.
"We've talked about getting another top, top striker who can win us these kind of games, difficult games where if Nicolas Jackson is not firing on all cylinders you can give him a rest and then get someone else to come into the team and try to win us games and score goals," Mikel said in January. "We are not clinical enough, he is not scoring enough goals. He puts himself in the right positions, but then he’s not finishing, he's not scoring enough.
"He's not a striker who’s going to get us to the top four or win us the Premier League title. He's not that striker. I don't think he can get us over the line in terms of winning trophies. For me, he's a player who can link up play, he's good on the ball but he's not scoring enough goals. If we had Victor Osimhen or the guy from Sporting, Viktor Gyokeres, trust me, we'd still be competing for the Premier League. Nicolas is not scoring enough, the finishing, he needs to find a way. For me it’s a bit of a worry because we’re not scoring enough."
Mikel going back for seconds is not necessarily Jackson's fault, but it shouldn't have been a point of contention to begin with, both from a scoring perspective and acknowledging criticism from a fan-favourite so aggressively.
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This is the string that when you pull at it, the whole Chelsea project unravels. The club have made no secret of their desire to almost completely rebrand as a premier destination for the world's top talent. In essence, they want to be a bigger version of Brighton, yet keep away from the spotlight of scrutiny and play the long game for return on investment.
Without any tangible leadership to guide them though, the Blues' top talents are being failed. Young footballers can't just be thrown together and asked to figure life out for themselves. It didn't help that the top brass decided to do away with Pochettino, someone with a proven track record of helping youthful squads mature and blossom, with an inexperienced head coach in Enzo Maresca.
Jackson, who had nine Premier League goals by Christmas but will end the campaign with only 10, has seen his growth stunted because the club have not put enough measures in place to keep him on the straight and narrow. The same can be said of all of their stars, with Cole Palmer even struggling without an older head to lean on. A free signing from Fulham, Tosin Adarabioyo has been cast as one of the leaders in the dressing room. No disrespect to a decent-level centre-back, but this is Chelsea Football Club we're talking about here.
The past few transfer windows, there have been so many noises out of west London about the hierarchy's happiness in the direction they are heading in, that this is a long-term vision which will take some time to fully see and realise. There are so many different distractions at Chelsea that it's easy to get swept up in any of them even before you reach what's happening with the men's team. It should be no surprise this culture of chaos has extended to the pitch given how much neglect has gone into the assembly of the squad, one of promise but without the tools to improve.
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There are plenty of Chelsea supporters who are already running out of patience with Maresca. Midway through the season, the Blues looked like title contenders, but a mandate to forcefully play that notion down must have played a part in their waning form through the second half of the campaign.
Similarities have also been spotted between this year and Maresca's 2023-24 season with Leicester City. Boasting by far the strongest squad in the Championship, the Foxes steamrolled their way into first place for the first two-thirds of the campaign, but when they were effectively figured out by the rest of the division, they nearly squandered their shot at automatic promotion. In the end, quality on the pitch was decisive and they still finished in first place in spite of this wobble.
Such eerie parallels shouldn't be unexpected given how relatively young himself Maresca is in this industry. The lack of any sort of stability at Chelsea has only made his job harder, to boot. He has depended on a small core of players including Jackson, Palmer, Fernandez and Moises Caicedo, but everyone else has been interchangeable to his and the team's detriment.
When it emerged recently that Chelsea were thinking of making an offer to Virgil van Dijk before he signed a contract extension at Liverpool, it was clear the club saw this as an opportunity to fast-track an acquisition of experience, perhaps a belated replacement for the veteran Thiago Silva after losing his presence in 2024. This attempt failed, but that shouldn't stop them from continuing to look at this sort of profile.
The kids can't do it all alone, and nor can Maresca at this stage of his own career – there are so many decision-makers at Chelsea and yet the head coach is the only one being held accountable for the club's actions.
Three members of the management committee – Tanvir Ahmed, Gul Zada and Shakil Sheikh – are at the centre of the conflict worry
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The PCB has played down concerns of conflict of interest in the ongoing regional electoral process, at the end of which the board’s directors will be appointed. The concerns are about officials from the interim setup, who are currently tasked with overseeing the PCB’s restructuring but are also taking part in the elections.A 12-member management committee, headed by Najam Sethi, was handed interim charge of the board last December and given 120 days to bring back the 2014 PCB constitution in place of the version from 2019 it had been operating under. That timeline was this week formally extended by two months to the end of June. One of the key processes in that is conducting elections in over 100 districts, from which 16 regions will be formed. Four of the heads of those 16 regional associations will eventually sit on the PCB’s board of governors (BoG).Three members of the management committee – Tanvir Ahmed, who has been elected president of Larkana region; Gul Zada, from Peshawar region; and Shakil Sheikh, who is in the running in the Islamabad region election – working from PCB headquarters currently are at the centre of the conflict concern. As members of the committee, they were given executive powers when they took charge to restore the departmental cricket structure, the formation of a BoG, and election of a board chairman.Responding to a query from ESPNcricinfo, the PCB explained that its constitution stipulates that no employee of the board shall be eligible to contest any election of the board or any election under the aegis of the board. But when asked if there was a potential conflict of interest in a member of the management committee overseeing the electoral process as well as running in it, the PCB said, “As far as members of the MC [management committee] are concerned they are not employees of the Board, hence, there is no bar in the PCB Constitution or any Election Bylaws refraining them from contesting elections of RCAs/DCAs.””The elections of Regional Cricket Associations and District Cricket Associations are being held in line with the PCB Constitution and applicable PCB Election Bylaws,” the PCB added. “The Election Regulations under which the District and Regional elections have been/are being conducted have not been modified or amended by the MC, therefore, there is also no risk of a potential conflict of interest.”Related
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To restore the 2014 constitution, the PCB needs to form a BoG comprising ten members: four regional representatives (top teams from the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy), four representatives of services organisations (top departmental teams), and the two members directly nominated by the PCB patron, which is the country’s prime minister. The federal secretary of the inter-provincial coordination ministry (or an officer nominated by them) shall be an ex-officio, non-voting 11th member. The term of each member of the BoG is three years – equivalent to one term of the chairman.There are over 100 districts in the country across all provinces and a cluster of districts are represented by one region. For example, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Narowal and Gujarat fall under Sialkot region. Similarly, every region has several districts to represent the larger portion of the area.”The elections themselves have been conducted/supervised by the Election Commissioner appointed by the Patron,” the PCB said. “It is the PCB election commissioner who has the power and responsibility for holding and monitoring fair, free and transparent elections under the PCB Constitution including those of Chairman, Regional, District, and other Cricket Associations as well as Service Organizations or Departments, whether Full or Associate Members. It is important to note that EC and electoral processes are independent of the Board.”Some time ago, to avoid a potential conflict of interest, Haroon Rasheed had resigned from the management committee to take up the role of chief selector. PCB announced it at a press conference but clarified that it was determined there “existed no cavil” in Rasheed carrying on as chief selector as well as a management committee member, so ultimately he didn’t step down.”It was agreed that when matters pertaining to the performance of the selection committee are discussed and debated at an MC meeting, Haroon Rasheed will recuse himself and leave the room till such time that the agenda point has not been conclusively addressed,” PCB said.
Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan became the third cricketer in ODIs to reach 7000 runs and 300 wickets. He joined Sanath Jayasuriya and Shahid Afridi in the list when he reached 24 runs in the first ODI against Ireland in Sylhet. He is the second-highest run-scorer in the format for Bangladesh behind Tamim Iqbal, who has 8146 runs.In the 20th over of the Bangladesh innings, Shakib took a single off Curtis Campher to reach the landmark.During Bangladesh’s previous ODI, against England earlier this month, Shakib reached 300 wickets with his four-wicket haul. He got to the landmark with the wicket of Rehan Ahmed in the third ODI in Chattogram. It made him the third left-arm spinner, after Jayasuriya and Daniel Vettori, to reach the milestone.Shakib is also Bangladesh’s highest wicket-taker in Tests and T20Is with 231 and 128 wickets respectively. Shakib is also currently the fifth-highest wicket-taker in T20s with 443 wickets. He is one of only two players – Dwayne Bravo being the other one – to have achieved the feat of 6000 runs, 400 wickets and 50 catches in T20s.