Georgia Elwiss, Danni Wyatt left out of squad for ODI section of multi-format series against India

Valkerie Baynes22-Jun-2021Sophia Dunkley is in line to make her ODI debut after being named in England’s 50-over squad as part of the multi-format series with India.Dunkley, who scored an unbeaten 74 last week when she became the first black woman to play Test cricket for England in the drawn one-off Test in Bristol, could return to international action as soon as Sunday, when the three-match ODI section of the series starts, also in Bristol. Dunkley has played 15 T20Is for England, most recently in New Zealand in March.Seamer Freya Davies and legspinner Sarah Glenn, who were released from an extended 17-member Test squad to re-join their regional teams for last weekend’s round of Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy fixtures, return to a 16-strong ODI squad. Emily Arlott, Tash Farrant, Mady Villiers and Fran Wilson, who remained with the Test squad but did not play in the match, were also retained for the ODIs.Related

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Georgia Elwiss, the allrounder who scored 5 playing as a batter in the Test – she only came on to bowl in the last 20 minutes or so of the match – was left out of the one-day squad.There was also no place for Danni Wyatt – who played all six matches on the winter tour of New Zealand, with a highest score of 17 from the three ODIs and 33 from three T20Is. Wyatt has scored three half-centuries from four matches in the 50-over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy since that tour. Lauren Winfield-Hill, who batted in the middle-order in New Zealand but scored 35 opening with Tammy Beaumont in the Test, could retain her place as opener for the one-day matches.The three ODIs against India will be followed by three T20Is with each match worth two points for a win in the multi-format series. The sides shared the four available points, two apiece, after drawing the Test.Lisa Keightley, the England Women’s head coach, said: “We’re looking forward to playing ODI cricket again after a hugely enjoyable and hard-fought Test match.England have named their ODI squad to face India in their multi-format series•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

“The competition for places across all formats is growing every time we meet to select a squad. The options available to us are the strongest we’ve had since I’ve been in the role and we feel this group gives us a great opportunity for success in the ODI element of the series.”There’s no space on this occasion for Danni Wyatt and Georgia Elwiss, and while I know they’re both disappointed to miss out, it’s important that they’re given the opportunity to play cricket at a regional level ahead of the Vitality IT20 series. We have to balance the needs of the squad and the need of the individual and we’ll always be keen to get people playing competitive cricket where we can.”Royal London Series:

Sunday June 27: 1st ODI, Bristol County Ground

Wednesday June 30: 2nd ODI, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton
Saturday July 3: 3rd ODI, New Road, Worcester

Real Madrid airbrushed Kylian Mbappe out of photos promoting their latest clothing range as controversy around the forward grows.

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Real Madrid promoting new clothing lineMbappe part of original castLater removed in final cut of promoFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

The French star was conspicuously removed from a promotional image released by Real Madrid as part of the club's "Artist Pack" collection, which is intended to showcase the club's charitable foundation that supports sporting and social projects for underprivileged communities.

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However, the omission would have likely gone unnoticed if it weren’t for a post by teammate Jude Bellingham. The 21-year-old shared an unedited version of the image on his Instagram, which featured Mbappe. The post was swiftly taken down by the English midfielder, but not before eagle-eyed fans noticed the alteration.

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Reports from suggest the decision to exclude Mbappe stemmed from a clash between competing sponsorship deals. As a Nike ambassador, Mbappe was removed due to the campaign’s association with adidas, Real Madrid's official kit sponsor. Despite Mbappe's omission, Eduardo Camavinga, another Nike-sponsored player, was featured in the campaign, raising further questions about the rationale behind the decision.

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Mbappe is expected to feature in Real Madrid’s upcoming fixture against Celta Vigo this Saturday after brushing off an injury scare that forced him to withdraw from France’s national team squad for the latest international break. However, if the forward fails to win the race against time, he might be reintegrated into the squad for the midweek Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund three days later.

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da blaze casino： Em busca de reforços, o Vasco anunciou, nesta quinta-feira, a sua quinta contratação para a próxima temporada 2022. Trata-se do zagueiro Anderson Conceição, de 32 anos, que rescindiu com o Cuiabá, onde atuou nos últimos três anos, e chega com contrato atéo final de 2022.

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da winzada777： O defensor tinha mais um ano de contrato com o clube do Mato Grosso, mas disputou apenas três partidas como titular na última edição do Campeonato Brasileiro. Ele rescindiu com o Dourado, que agradeceu pelos serviços prestados, e chega ao Gigante da Colina para um setor que foi o calcanhar de Aquiles do time na temporada.

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Anderson Conceição é natural de Caravelas, na Bahia e se profissionalizou pelo Mogi Mirim (SP). Ele acumula passagens por equipes como Bahia, América Mineiro, Joinville, Figueirense, Criciúma e CRB. No exterior, o novo zagueiro cruz-maltino defendeu as cores de Mallorca (ESP), Desportivo Chaves (POR), Philadelphia Union (EUA) e Umm-Salal (CAT).

Em 2019, voltou ao Brasil para atuar pelo Cuiabá e se firmou entre os titulares. Nesse mesmo ano,o experiente defensor assumiu a braçadeira de capitão e liderou o Dourado na campanha que resultou no acesso para a Série A. Em três anos no clube mato-grossense, o zagueiro disputou mais de 100 partidas e conquistou dois títulos, a Copa Verde de 2019 e o Campeonato Mato-Grossense de 2021.

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Nome completo: Anderson Conceição Benedito
Apelido: Anderson Conceição
Data de Nascimento: 24/10/1989 (32 anos)
Local de Nascimento: Caravelas (BA)
Altura: 1,88 m
Posição: Zagueiro
Clubes: Mogi Mirim (SP), Resende (RJ), Tombense (MG), Criciúma (SC), Figueirense (SC), Mallorca (ESP), Atlético (GO), Bahia, Joinville (SC), América (MG), São Bernardo (SP), Philadelphia Union (EUA), Chaves (POR), CRB (AL), Umm-Salal (CAT), Cuiabá (MT) e VASCO DA GAMA

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If Chelsea’s draw against Arsenal showed them at their best, the last week of results has shown them at their worst.

Enzo Maresca’s side were just six points off the Premier League leaders after their match against them, but a defeat away to Leeds United and a draw away to Bournemouth now sees them eight points adrift and in fifth place.

It’s been a frustrating week for the Blues and one that has shown that, for all their talent, they are still vulnerable and have more than a few week links.

In fact, one of those weak links could be Chelsea’s biggest liability since Tiémoué Bakayoko.

Tiémoué Bakayoko's Chelsea career

In the 16/17 season, AS Moncao shocked the world by mounting a surprising and successful title charge, their first to end in glory for well over a decade.

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That side was full of incredible players who’d go on to have glittering careers, like Kylian Mbappé, Bernardo Silva and Fabinho.

However, instead of signing any of them, Chelsea opted to splash north of £40m on Bakayoko, who, to be fair to the club, did look like a star in the making at the time.

Unfortunately, once he arrived in England, it was clear that he was anything but.

The Frenchman made 43 appearances across the 17/18 season, but very rarely, if ever, looked convincing, be that in possession or out of it.

The midfielder’s most notable performance in Blue just so happened to also be his worst, when, against Watford in February 2018, he was sent off just 30 minutes into the game.

In all, while he was once a hugely promising midfielder, Bakayoko is now known as a flop in England.

Following a slew of loans, he joined Lorient in 2023 before moving to PAOK last summer, and is now without a club at just 31 years old.

Unfortunately for Maresca, he might now have Chelsea’s biggest liability since the Frenchman in his current squad.

Chelsea's biggest liability since Bakayoko

Now, there are a few players Chelsea need to sell as soon as possible, but if you were to ask fans who in the first team needs to go first, most would likely land on Tosin Adarabioyo.

The Blues signed the Englishman for free after his contract with Fulham expired last summer, and while he has been a useful stand-in at times, it has become increasingly clear this season that he’s a problem.

For example, in the last five games he has started, the West Londoners have conceded 11 goals and won just two, drawing one and losing the other two.

Moreover, while the entire backline should be held to account for some of those goals, the 28-year-old has made some high-profile and almost comical mistakes.

Against Leeds United, for example, Dominic Calvert-Lewin only scored his goal because the Englishman lost control of the ball within the Blues’ penalty area.

It was a mistake Chelsea fan and content creator Tom Overend branded “utterly embarrassing”, and while that might sound harsh, it’s hard to dispute.

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It’s not just the eye-test where the defender fails, either: according to FBref, he ranks in the top 43% of centre-backs in Europe’s top five leagues for tackles won and in the bottom 4% of dribblers tackled, all per 90.

In other words, he’s not proactive enough at the back, and even when he is, he isn’t very effective.

Ultimately, it’s clear that Tosin is not good enough to play for Chelsea, and therefore, the club should look to move him on as soon as possible, for everyone’s sake.

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Management pleased with outgoing captain’s bond with his successor, Kraigg Brathwaite, and hope it yields dividends

Matt Roller13-Mar-2021West Indies’ lead selector Roger Harper has insisted that Jason Holder remains an “integral part” of the Test side despite losing the captaincy after five-and-a-half years in the role.Kraigg Brathwaite, who led the side to a 2-0 series win in Bangladesh last month after Holder opted out of the tour due to fatigue and concerns about the Covid-19 protocols in place, was unveiled as full-time captain on Thursday ahead of the series against Sri Lanka, which starts on March 21.While Holder won widespread praise for his leadership off the field and navigated West Indies’ Test side through some choppy waters, he had lost four Tests in a row as captain – two in England, two in New Zealand – and Harper said that the series win in Bangladesh had offered a clear blueprint as to how the team could move forward.”We must appreciate what Jason has done as captain,” Harper said. “He came in at a very young age, took the captaincy at a time when the team was a little unsettled, and he grew with the job and performed creditably. He’s had his moments of success and he has grown as a player as well to become the leading allrounder in the world.”I really think that Jason is a very integral part of the Test team and West Indies cricket going forwards. He plays all three formats and I think it’s an opportunity for him to really focus on taking his game to higher levels. I think that with him at his best and with Kraigg given the captaincy, it’s an opportunity for the team to move forwards.”I look forward to him performing exceptionally well in his role as a player and still as a leader as one of the senior players in this team. It was great to hear him say that he’s committed to giving Kraigg all the support needed and hearing the new captain saying that they have a very close relationship. I think that augurs very well for West Indies cricket going forward.”Brathwaite had been replaced as vice-captain by Roston Chase in November ahead of the series in New Zealand, with Harper asking him to focus on his batting, but he explained that Brathwaite’s form in Bangladesh had given the selectors belief that he was back to his best.”Sometimes a few months can be a very long time,” Harper said. “Bangladesh really opened our eyes to a number of things. What we saw was a team playing with passion, playing with determination, rallying around each other, great teamwork, and showing a great desire to succeed. Kraigg played a major part in that.”We also saw Kraigg’s batting returning to the sort of form that we expect and look forward to. He handled the responsibility very well and I expect big scores to come from Kraigg in the very near future. [In] areas where we thought there was a need for improvement, we saw exactly the sort of effort and spirit and the birth of a culture that we would really like to see go forward and develop and be instilled. “Brathwaite himself said that he saw the captaincy as an opportunity to continue leading from the front, and that having first led Barbados in first-class cricket at the age of 21, he was ready to embrace the challenge of the Test role.”Captaining Barbados for the first time at a young age was a challenge and I look forward to challenges,” he said. “As an opener, I always see myself as a leader. When I go out to bat I’m a batsman not a captain, but I will continue to lead. It will help me to dig deeper.”It’s just a continuing of what we did in Bangladesh. I thought the attitude we showed in practice sessions and on the field was key so for me as a leader, I want to lead from the front and for us to keep the same attitude.”Harper also explained that the omission of Chase and Shimron Hetmyer from the squad owed much to the success of Nkrumah Bonner and Kyle Mayers in the middle order during the series in Bangladesh.”All players are considered and we had a lot of discussion around Roston Chase,” he said. “When we looked at the performances of the team and the players in Bangladesh, some of those players performed exceptionally well and more or less grabbed the spots that they had and grabbed a place in the squad for this series. Players had to miss out, and Roston Chase was one of them.”I really think that Shimron has the ability to be one of the best batsmen in the world in all formats of the game. As far as Test cricket is concerned, he’s been absent for a while and hasn’t played regional four-day cricket for a while, so he needs to get some matches under his belt and show what he can do. He’s still in the forefront of our minds but we’re waiting for him to display the sort of passion and the sort of consistent performance that we’re looking for.”

Leeds United have now reportedly sent scouts to watch a standout European winger, who’s also attracted the interest of Manchester United.

Farke prepared for "top class" Liverpool

When the fixtures were released, this would been a week that many Leeds fans dreaded. By the end of this weekend, the Whites will have faced Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool in consecutive games in the most difficult run of games they’ve had so far this season. But what began as a nightmare may yet leave Leeds in dreamland.

Daniel Farke’s side were minutes away from securing a point from behind at the Etihad against Man City and then eased past Chelsea in shocking fashion on Wednesday. Now, they have the chance to compile the misery on a frail Liverpool side at Elland Road – making it six points from a possible nine.

It’s the greatest opportunity that Leeds will get to beat the Premier League champions, but Farke was quick to point out that Liverpool are still a “top class” side in his pre-match press conference.

Those in Yorkshire may have to get used to competing against the top six on and off the pitch, having also reportedly joined the race to sign Manchester United target Nilson Angulo.

Leeds join race to sign Nilson Angulo

According to TeamTalk, Leeds have now joined the race to sign Angulo after their scouts were spotted watching the Anderlecht winger in action. The Whites are joined by United, Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion and Brentford in what is set to be a frantic Premier League battle.

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Dubbed one of Europe’s standout wingers by TeamTalk, the interest in Angulo should come as no surprise. The 22-year-old has taken his game to new levels in Belgium this season and looks destined for English football.

As scout Jacek Kulig pointed out, it was a “fantastic” start from Angulo this season and a start which has since seen him take his total to four goals and eight assists in all competitions.

It would be a major coup if Leeds managed to fend off competition from their rivals and sign the talented winger.

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Lack of preparation and individual errors leave West Indies facing seven-session defeat

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Seales: West Indies lacking consistency in first Test

Inevitable. Even West Indies wouldn’t mind if that’s the general conclusion drawn from the manner in which they have all but surrendered the first Test to England. They are lucky that the denouement is deferred to the third morning.You don’t need to be in West Indies’ dressing room now to know how they must feel: dejected and defeated. Barely half an hour after the close of play, Jayden Seales, who took four first-innings wickets, sat with his head bowed before the media briefing started.His first answer summed up the sombre mood in the visiting camp: Seales said it was “frustrating looking up at the scoreboard” on Friday evening with England four wickets away from an innings victory. Seales blamed West Indies’ batters for failing on Thursday.Unfortunately, those batters failed on all fronts for second successive day. Once again, wickets fell in quick succession without any meaningful partnerships. In fact, the highest stand for the visitors in the match was the 44-run stand on Thursday between Mikyle Louis and Alick Athanaze. In contrast, England had three 50-plus stands that frustrated West Indies bowlers.Unlike the overcast first day, Friday was wonderfully sunny with Lord’s festively dressed in red to mark ‘Red for Ruth Day’. Harry Brook and Joe Root looked set for a big score each, but each was defeated by the mastery of the bowler. Brook went for a premeditated pull, but Alzarri Joseph had banged in a short-of-a-length delivery on the fifth-stump line that climbed fast to gain a top edge while Gudakesh Motie, coming from around the wicket, bowled an arm ball disguised as inswinger which landed on the side of the seam to deviate naturally by that little bit, enough to push back Root’s off stump.Motie has already bowled another wondrous delivery (this time from over the wicket), which pitched in the rough outside Ben Stokes’ off stump, coughed up dust, turned big, and rushed past the inside edge to uproot the middle stump, leaving the England captain wide-eyed and gaping with astonishment.Ben Stokes was bowled by a beauty from Gudakesh Motie•Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesThen there was the amazing runout by Louis who charged in from deep point to pick up a miscue from Jamie Smith which landed in no-man’s-land before darting at bullseye and uprooting the stump to run out a hapless Shoaib Bashir.Yet, those positives could not offset the mistakes of the batters. Virtually every visiting batter would look back at his dismissal today and acknowledge that he could have avoided that one action that proved fatal.One learning for West Indies’ batters will be not getting stuck without scoring for long pockets of time, something that forced them to commit an error. Of course, the pressure created by a disciplined England bowling attack, which improved their lines quickly from the first innings, and focussed on sticking to good length and short-of-length was immense.But as Holder briefly showed, you can pick the odd bad ball and cover up as long as you are not forcing the issue. Unfortunately, he failed to successfully duck a short delivery from Atkinson which came nearly a minute before the scheduled close.Related

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England’s batters never found themselves under such an incessant scrutiny. When they look at the numbers, West Indies bowlers will notice there were 111 full-pitched deliveries (as recorded by ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball data) off which England looted 131 runs while losing just one wicket.While West Indies attempted to fire in the short ball to, as Seales said, force an error, the majority of those deliveries lacked the bluntness barring the one that got Brook. Instead, off 24 short deliveries, England picked 30 runs.There are some individual learnings, too. One young man England fans were keen to watch was Shamar Joseph, the 24-year-old speed demon from the remote Guyanese village of Baracara. His heroics at the Gabba this January to stun Australia on an injured foot made him a compelling story.On his first day at Lord’s, three days before the Test, Joseph said he and his team would look to “ruin” Anderson’s farewell. Not just that, he was confident about putting his name on the Honours Board, which eluded even Brian Lara. Joseph was not being cocky, having delivered on similar desire in the only two Tests he played – in Adelaide where he bagged a wicket on his first ball on debut and a five-for and then a seven-wicket haul in Brisbane.James Anderson got Kraigg Brathwaite for the eighth time in Tests•Getty ImagesAt Lord’s, though, we will remember Joseph mainly for lying flat twice on his back, suffering cramps and stiffness in his leg and eventually walking off. Joseph had missed the warm-up match in Beckenham last week due to Hurricane Beryl disrupting flights from the Caribbean. He had not played any red-ball cricket since January 29, when the Gabba Test finished and since then was just playing or training in a T20 environment – in IPL and then in the World Cup.Test cricket, Joseph will know now, is ruthless. You can’t just turn up and hit the straps. The hard yards are necessary: he can look at Atkinson, who opted out of the playing at Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL to focus on playing first-class cricket because the ECB had set England-after-Anderson in motion. The best example is Anderson himself – 40,000-plus deliveries in Test cricket, but never did he forget to be ready.Fitness, temperament, patience, consistency and relentless discipline: these are the factors that underpin Anderson’s longevity and unparalleled success. The same applies to Stokes.A Test defeat in just over two days is embarrassing, no doubt. Unfortunately for West Indies, this is the second time this year they find themselves in that position. This January, they lost the first Test of the Australia series in Adelaide inside three days. A week later, they turned up for the pink-ball Test in Brisbane and created history by winning a Test match in Australia for the first time since 1997.But expecting a miracle like the one Joseph performed is wishful. The turnaround in this three-match Test series is fast so West Indies have the disadvantage of not having any time to switch off. Nor do they have the luxury of another warm-up: they have to do things on the run.

Coleen Rooney has revealed how son Kai responds to being asked “are you as good as your dad?”, as he follows in Wayne’s Manchester United footsteps.

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• Wayne is United's all-time leading scorer
• Son could follow in his footsteps
• Considers himself to be a different player

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  At 14 years of age, the oldest child in the Rooney clan is showing plenty of promise within the Red Devils’ academy system. He has already won trophies at youth level, while also boasting a prolific strike rate – with finishing ability seemingly being inherited from his famous father.

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  There is a long way to go before he can claim to have stepped out of the shadow cast by Wayne – who is United’s all-time leading goalscorer – with Kai eager to avoid comparisons for now. Coleen has told : “We’ve never pressured them into even playing football. We’ve always just let them decide what they want to do. My eight-year-old was playing and doing really well but then decided he didn’t want to, and that’s OK.

  “I think they sometimes get pressure off other people, you know. People approach them now and then if we’re out, they do say, ‘Are you are as good as your dad?’. Kai says ‘I’m a different type of player.’ You’ve got to let them know that you don’t have to follow and to be your own person.”

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  Rooney has four sons with wife Coleen – Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass – with no pressure put on any of them to tread the same career path that he once took. Coleen added: “They’re very sporty but my younger two enjoy music. One is learning guitar, the other piano and both of them drums. The two older ones are football-mad and my eldest loves speaking Spanish at the minute and is into this Spanish rap. So he’s doing that all over the house. The house is even noisier.”

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  Wayne Rooney does not have to contend with that on an everyday basis, as he is currently based in Devon – 260 miles away from his family home. That is because the ex-England international is looking to rebuild his reputation in coaching circles with Championship side Plymouth.

Devon Conway has entered the top five among T20I batsmen after playing just 13 matches, while in ODIs, Ben Stokes has moved up to No. 2 among allrounders. Matt Henry is up to third and Bhuvneshwar Kumar up at No. 11 in the list of bowlers.In white-ball cricket, performances in the last two games of the three-match ODI series between India and England, which India won 2-1, the final ODI of New Zealand’s 3-0 sweep of Bangladesh and their first two T20Is were considered in the latest ICC rankings, which saw a raft of changes.Related

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Stokes, apart from moving up in the allrounders’ list – he is at 295 points, well behind Shakib Al Hasan, who has 408 – also got to 24th, a rise of four spots, among batsmen after scoring 99 and 35 in his last two innings in India. Jonny Bairstow’s 124 in the second ODI helped him stay at No. 7 among batsmen, while KL Rahul moved up four places to 27th after hitting 108 in the second ODI, and Hardik Pandya reached a career-best 42nd position after hitting 35 and 64. Rishabh Pant, still relatively new to the 50-over format, scored 77 and 78 in the two matches in question, and entered the top 100 as a result, at No. 91.Virat Kohli, Babar Azam and Rohit Sharma held on to their positions at one, two and three for ODI batsmen.In that series, the returning Kumar was one of the star performers, and his 1 for 63 and 3 for 42 helped him gain nine spots in the bowlers’ table, which is headed by Trent Boult.Ben Stokes is the second-best ODI allrounder at the moment, behind Shakib Al Hasan•Getty Images

New Zealand had things go their way for the best part of the home ODI series against Bangladesh, and following their 164-run win in the final ODI, Henry has moved up five slots to a career-best third position among bowlers after returning 4 for 27.The first two T20Is have both gone New Zealand’s way – the second after a fair bit of drama – and Conway played a big part in the first win, hitting 92* in 52 balls in a 66-run win. As a result, he has advanced five positions to No. 4, behind Dawid Malan, Aaron Finch and Azam. Glenn Phillips, Player of the Match in the second win, has also reached a career-best 26th position after scoring 24* and 58*.Tim Southee’s 1 for 34 and 2 for 21 have lifted him two places to seventh, not far from his career-best sixth position in February this year.And following the first Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, which ended in a draw, Niroshan Dickwella and Nkrumah Bonner made big gains.Dickwella scored his 17th Test half-century – a record for a batsman without a century – and moved up ten places to 29th, while Bonner’s maiden Test century, in only his third Test, put him in the top 50 for the first time, at No. 44. Jason Holder (up three spots to eighth) and Kemar Roach (up from 14th to 12th) were the other West Indians to gain in the rankings.

da bet sport： Rangers are already in pole position to complete their fourth signing of the summer window, according to an update from reliable journalist Chris Jack.

Rangers making key signings quickly this summer

da bet7： The Gers fell agonisingly short of multiple trophy triumphs this season, winning the Scottish League Cup but failing to clinch Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup glory. Philippe Clement's side just needed that bit of extra quality and experience in the end, highlighting the need to make the squad even more formidable next term.

Rangers have certainly acted fast so far this summer, not messing around when it comes to reinforcements, with Clinton Nsiala becoming the third signing already, completing a move from AC Milan. The 20-year-old defender will officially join the club on July 1st, having signed a pre-contract agreement to follow Jefte and Oscar Cortes through the door.

Nils Koppen, who is the Gers' Director of Recruitment, has hailed the most recent signing, saying: "We are excited to add a talented young player in Clinton to the squad. He joins as an exciting talent who we believe can develop and take his next steps under our manager, Philippe Clement, and his staff. We look forward to welcoming Clinton to Glasgow as we continue to shape the squad ahead of the 2024/25 campaign."

It looks as though as though a fourth addition is now on the horizon, following a fresh claim this week.

Rangers in "pole position" to complete fourth signing

Taking to X, The Rangers Review claimed that Rangers are in "pole position" to sign Yusuf Kabadayi this summer, sharing reliable journalist Chris Jack's update on the situation: "Clinton Nsiala has become the third signing of the summer as Philippe Clement reshapes his squad. Bayern Munich forward Yusuf Kabadayi could be the fourth arrival. Rangers are in pole position to land the forward."

Kabadayi has been linked with a move to Rangers numerous times recently, with an update over the weekend reporting that a fee has been agreed for the Bayern Munich youngster, so it appears as though the transfer will be sealed sooner rather than later for between £1m-£1.5m.

The 20-year-old forward could be such an exciting addition to Clement's attack, having already represented both Germany and Turkey across five different youth teams at international level.

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Kabadayi could jump at the opportunity to enjoy more regular football for Rangers compared to at Bayern, where his progress is being stunted by some big names ahead of him in the attacking pecking order, whether it be Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sane or Serge Gnabry.

Clement could feel that he could turn him into a top-quality player over time, assuming the deal is a permanent one, and his past pedigree for Germany and Turkey, not to mention being described by scout/writer Antonio Mango as "extremely prolific" at youth level for Bayern, can only bode well for the Gers.