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West Brom could try and sort out a move for Kortney Hause this summer despite his injury issues, according to reliable journalist Darren Witcoop.

How many games has Kortney Hause played?

The 28-year-old has struggled in recent campaigns through injury and it's meant that gametime has been hard to come by for the defender. Having previously impressed for current club Aston Villa, he has spent the last three seasons largely absent and out of the first-team squad.

In 2022/23, he was sent out on a loan to Watford to try and get him some much needed minutes under his belt. However, he could manage only three Championship games during his time there – two of which were starts – and was then sidelined once more.

In fact, he managed just seven showings in the Premier League for the Villans in both campaigns before that. It means that in the last three years, he has only 17 league appearances in total.

It's a shame for Hause when you consider he caught the eye when he was a regular first-team member, with 18 showings for Villa as they avoided the drop in 2019/20 and several solid outings for Wolves during his time at Molineux. He's also played throughout the EFL, having begun his career with Wycombe in League Two at just 17-years-old.

Are West Brom signing Kortney Hause?

The 28-year-old could now be given a lifeline this summer. That's because the central defender is now on the radar of a number of Championship clubs according to reliable journalist Darren Witcoop, one of who is West Brom. The reporter states that the defender is on Carlos Corberan's wanted list this transfer window and that they are keeping an eye on the Englishman.

However, the player's injury struggles will no doubt affect things, with a deal to send him away from Villa Park this summer perhaps hinging on the medical rather than any financial matters between the clubs – and it could be a good chance for him to rejuvenate his career.

Hause's most consistent action came earlier on in his playing life, when he spent five seasons with Wolves. He was with the Black Country side when they were promoted back up to the Premier League, albeit he made just one league appearance, but had racked up 67 league outings by the time he departed the club.

It's been an up and down few years for Hause since then and the defender will no doubt be desperate to get back onto the field and playing regularly if he can. The most important thing is to ensure there is not a repeat of the 2022/23 season, when his loan spell in the second tier was hampered due to injury. If he can get himself fit and firing and prove it to potential suitors, then the Championship could come calling again for the Englishman, and a fit Hause could certainly be hugely beneficial to a Baggies outfit who want to try and bag promotion this time around.

West Ham United have "asked" about a deal to bring Juventus star Denis Zakaria back to the Premier League, according to reliable journalist Fabrizio Romano.

Who is Denis Zakaria?

Zakaria is a defensive midfielder who first arrived at the Allianz Stadium back in January 2022 from Borussia Monchengladbach, but having made just 15 senior appearances, he was sent out on a season-long loan to Chelsea.

The Switzerland international’s spell didn’t go as well as hoped however, having made just five top-flight starts, and there were numerous occasions that he was either an unused substitute or wasn’t named in the matchday squad altogether.

The Irons will know that they are likely to lose captain Declan Rice this summer with Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United all chasing him, so David Moyes could enter the market for replacements, and despite his unsuccessful period in England, the 26-year-old has been highlighted as a potential successor.

Are West Ham signing Zakaria?

Taking to Twitter, Romano revealed that West Ham have enquired about Zakaria to discover his availability as they weigh up whether to make an official offer ahead of the 2023/24 campaign. He wrote:

"Understand West Ham are among clubs interested in signing Denis Zakaria. He’s back to Juventus after Chelsea loan. #WHUFC West Ham asked for informations on conditions of the deal — but there are many clubs in the race. Zakaria is not in Juventus plan for next season."

Could Zakaria be a good addition for Moyes?

West Ham will not only know that Zakaria didn’t receive enough game time to prove himself at Chelsea but also that he’s much stronger in the defensive aspect of his play having scored just one goal in SW6, and whilst he’s not someone supporters will see romping forward and providing goals, he could be a risk worth taking.

Standing at 6 foot 3, the £52k-per-week colossus last season ranked in the 95th percentile for pass completion, which has seen him hailed “sharp” by journalist Josh Bunting, and the 89th percentile for most clearances, so his precision in possession and ability to get rid of the danger is hugely impressive.

Zakaria, who represented his nation at the 2022 World Cup, is a versatile operator having been deployed in four various positions since the start of his career, including at centre-back and slightly higher up in central midfield alongside his number six role, so he is an individual who could flourish more than you’d imagine under the leadership of Moyes.

Adam Milne has fully recovered from the injuries that forced him out of cricket for nearly a year, and is set to prove his fitness in the Plunket Shield

Andrew McGlashan24-Feb-2017Adam Milne can’t bear the thought of not being able to bowl quickly. The 24-year-old New Zealand fast bowler is coming to the end of his latest injury rehabilitation and is desperate to play a game of cricket: something he has been unable to do for nearly a year.Milne hasn’t played for New Zealand since the World T20 in India, and his last competitive outing was at last year’s IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore before a hamstring injury ruled him out of the tournament. That followed missing the 2015 IPL due to the heel problem which ended his World Cup at the quarter-final stage.The hamstring injury was followed by elbow surgery – the latter being the most concerning problem for Milne as it was the second time he had needed it operated on – and then he hurt his side while bowling in a New Zealand net session late last year.But after all that, he is almost ready to hurl the ball down again at upwards of 140kph. He doesn’t know any other way.”If I didn’t have that, I’d take a look at cricket. I’d still want to play, but it would be tough knowing that you can’t bowl quick. Once you have that you want to use it all the time. I still feel I can ramp it up when I want to,” he told ESPNcricinfo in Wellington after training with the New Zealand one-day squad. “It takes a while to get the rhythm and the feeling back, but I know if I want to turn it up, it’s in there.”Milne could have been forgiven for having doubts about his profession, but he has learned to love the hard graft that comes with having to bounce back from a string of injuries.”It’s been very frustrating, I’ve had a bit of a tough time of it so looking at coming out the end of it is pretty exciting. There’s always a little bit of doubt, but I actually enjoy the training, rehab and getting the strength back,” he said. “I take a lot of pride in my fitness levels so once I get into a plan of coming back I quite enjoy the process. I think if I didn’t have I would probably struggle quite a lot mentally.”Milne has worked his way from almost a standing start, a three-step run-up, and is now coming in off the full length. However, there is only so much you can prove in net sessions.His ODI record does not jump out – 31 wickets at 40.61 – but New Zealand want to make the most of someone with his raw pace. Mike Hesson, the New Zealand coach, said he remains in contention for the Champions Trophy although needs to find time in the middle.He was due to play for a New Zealand XI against the South Africans in their T20 warm-up match but that was washed out and now, with domestic one-day cricket having now finished for the season, he is targeting four-day Plunket Shield cricket before returning to the IPL.”It’s always good to be told you are in the frame. It’s been hard, I’ve been out of international cricket since the World T20, so I’m happy that they’d consider me going forward,” he said. “I know in myself that I have the confidence that I’ve played at this level over a few years.””Hopefully I’ll play a few of the four-day games, in what capacity in terms of overs I’m not sure but I definitely want to play. I don’t want to restrict myself and say I won’t play until the IPL because that is a bonus.”Milne has not played a first-class match since December 2015, but even in the midst of his run of injuries it has never crossed his mind to focus purely on white-ball cricket. He has hopes firmly set on earning a Test cap.”I can understand why players give up red-ball cricket, it is tough on the body, but I feel with my action and the way I bowl I could play a four-day game or a Test match and go through different gears. As a youngster, I’ve always wanted to play Test cricket and to be able to pull on a New Zealand Test cap would be a special moment for myself and my family.”For now, though, he’ll just look forward to playing a match of any sort again.

Vernon Philander said South Africa’s decision not to enforce the follow-on in Cape Town was in order to give their three-man pace attack a rest during back-to-back Tests

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‘Still a lot of wickets to be taken in my career’ – Philander

Giving South Africa’s three-pronged pack pack some time to put their feet up after a quick turnaround between the Boxing Day and New Year’s Tests was the main reason behind Faf du Plessis not enforcing the follow-on against Sri Lanka in Cape Town. Although the Port Elizabeth Test ended early on the fifth morning and Sri Lanka’s first innings at Newlands was only 43 overs long, with just two days between matches and winds blowing at over 45kph through the day, Vernon Philander said the attack would benefit from rest before being asked to finish the job.”We’ve taken a decision as to what’s the best chance for us to win this game,” Philander said. “We feel that setting the game up with the bat and giving the bowlers a break – these are back-to-back Tests and we had quite a busy workload in Port Elizabeth – is the best way going forward and the best way for us to win this game.”Their break may not last that long, though, because Philander predicted they would start thinking of closing shop as early as the end of the first session on day three. South Africa’s lead is already 317, with three days still available to play. “There’s a lot of time left in the Test,” he said. “It’s a bit early to go for a target. We’ve got to respect the opposition and start well again in the morning. Hopefully we can make a decision at lunchtime as to what’s a good target and how quickly we want to get there.”Whatever South Africa set Sri Lanka, Philander does not expect wickets to come as easily in the second innings. Much like the first 15 overs, when both he and Kyle Abbott beat the bat consistently, Philander expects the pacemen will have to “invest” by staying consistent and then waiting for the batsmen to make mistakes. “You know there’s going to come a time and you’re going to reap the rewards. We invested well with the new ball, myself and Kyle. That’s just how the game works. You don’t get the rewards initially but we invested well and the rewards came later.”The rewards were subsequently enjoyed by Kagiso Rabada, who Philander praised for a “very good” post-tea spell, sprinkled with good use of the short ball. “He has got those moments and spells in him,” Philander said. “There’s a lot of be seen of KG and hopefully he can keep taking wickets and set things up for us.”It was left to Philander to tear through the tail. In the process, he picked up his 150th Test wicket. After racing to 100 scalps in 19 matches, to become the fastest South African to the milestone, he then had to wait another 20 Tests to take the next 50. In the midst of that he also suffered an ankle injury that kept him out of the game for most of the 2015-16 summer and is now relishing being back to his best.”I cherish every moment just being back because I know what a frustration it was being out of the game,” Philander said. “I just want to go out there and perform at my best every time I get an opportunity. When you’re out of the game you really miss those moments and you start to feel what it’s like not being a part of it. There’s no better place to take my 150th wicket than Newlands, my home ground with my home support.”

Stuart Broad has not given up hope of playing in the third Test in Mohali despite suffering an injury to the tendons in his right foot in Visakhapatnam

George Dobell in Visakhapatnam20-Nov-2016Stuart Broad has not given up hope of playing in the third Test in Mohali despite suffering an injury to the tendons in his right foot in Visakhapatnam. The England seamer revealed that he will wear a protective “moon” boot to try and aid his recovery, with four days between the second and third Tests.Broad sustained the injury diving in the field in the opening moments of the match but still produced an impressive performance. He claimed four wickets in India’s second innings and then called upon England to “do something special” on the last day to try and salvage the second Test.”It’s been a pretty sore Test,” Broad said of his injury. “I dived for the ball and my toe slipped the wrong way and I’ve done some damage to my tendon, which has been a bit awkward. If you do that in the second over of a Test, you’ve only got one option and that’s to keep playing or you stuff the team a little bit.”There are plans is to get a moon boot on at the end of this game for a few days to try to offload the tendon. We’ve about 17 days before the fourth Test in Mumbai, which is quite a long time. But it’s less for the third Test in Mohali.”It’s annoying to miss any Test and I don’t know that I will miss it yet. But hopefully I’ll definitely be fit for Mumbai.”England could go to Mohali 1-0 down after being challenged to survive for a minimum of 150 overs if they were to save the match – which, on a deteriorating wicket, seemed an improbable scenario. But, having reached stumps on day four for the loss of only two wickets, Broad said the whole side had taken encouragement from the performance of their opening batsmen and still felt the draw was achievable.”Everyone believes it can be done,” Broad said. “When you watch the way we batted this evening: 60 overs for two wickets; we’ve only got another 90 to go. It shows you can bat on that pitch if you apply yourself.”If two or three batsmen get stuck in like the openers did today, we will save the Test. That’s quite exciting. You’ve a chance of doing something – I won’t say heroic, but doing something quite special. A bit different. It might not be 100 off 150 balls, but it might be 20 of 150 balls that helps your team get in a great position.”We’ve got the characters, the players and the depth of batting to do it. The key is breaking it down into small partnerships: whether it’s 15 minutes, whether it’s 15 balls, or five runs, these sort of things slow the game down for you so it doesn’t feel as if you’re climbing up a mountain.”England’s hopes took a substantial blow when Alastair Cook was trapped leg before to the last delivery of the day. But his partnership with Haseeb Hameed had defied India for 50 overs and, according to Broad, shown the rest of the team what was expected of them on the final day.”It’s always disappointing when you lose a wicket in the final over,” Broad said. “Especially someone as dogged and strong as Cook. But we batted 60 overs for two wickets. That gives us a lot of encouragement. We’ve still got wickets and a lot of batting to come in the changing room.”The way Cook goes about it… the calmness he shows. The courage he shows. He’s set a precedent, if that’s the word. You have to follow his lead.”Broad was equally effusive in praise of Hameed, who endured a testing spell of short-pitched bowling and was finally dismissed by an unplayable delivery that scuttled along the pitch.”He played a tough innings,” Broad said. “It reminded me of the Mike Atherton knock at Trent Bridge in 1998 when Allan Donald was charging in at him. Haseeb was hit first ball, which damaged his hand, but he didn’t show anything and calmly went about his business. He showed a huge amount of courage and didn’t let a bit of indifferent bounce change his movements.”He looks made for Test cricket. As a bowler in his team, he is an enjoyable man to see walk out to bat because you know he has a calm head on his shoulders. He just wants to bat for his team. Today runs weren’t on his agenda. He wanted to bat time to give England a chance to save this Test. It took a beauty of a ball to get rid of him. Not many batsmen are going to hit that, are they?”England’s openers kept India at bay for more than 50 overs•AFPDespite England’s unpromising match position, Broad felt the side could take “huge credit” from their fightback. After a poor session towards the end of day two, he suggested England had shown character.”We had a bad hour-and-a-half at the end of day two,” Broad said. “But since then we’ve shown a lot of character. To still be in this Test going into day five from the position we were in at the end of day two is a huge credit to us.”Even today, turning up to the ground 300 behind, it is very easy to throw the towel in. But we put a lot of pressure on India. We took early wickets. We didn’t let India control the scoring rate and didn’t let them declare. And that led us into a pretty solid batting display giving us a hope tomorrow.”A lot of Tests have been saved with teams going into the last day two wickets down. And that’s got to be out aim. In Auckland in 2013 we went into the last day with four wickets down and saved the game.”We’re very happy with today. We’ve given ourselves a great chance and if we can keep things quiet for the first 90 minutes, the pressure will only grow on the Indian bowlers.”Despite Broad’s injury, he delivered an impressive eight-over spell on the fourth day and claimed his best figures in a Test in India.”It felt like a decent time to bowl,” he said. “There was a little bit of indifferent bounce and reverse swing. It was nice to play on a pitch that was worn and there was a bit of variable bounce so I was able to use the legcutter a bit more which makes the reversing ball a bit more dangerous.”The batsman is looking for the cutter and then you can wrap them on the pad with a quicker inswinger. Zaheer Khan was very good at bowling off-pace and would then surprise you with a really quick inswinger. Jimmy Anderson and I talked about trying to get batsmen into a routine of facing a slower pace and then hitting them with a quicker ball coming into the stumps. He dismissed Pujara that way.”

Aston Villa are targeting Southampton defender Armel Bella-Kotchap after his relegation to the Championship, according to talkSPORT journalist Alex Crook.

Who could Villa sign this summer?

Unai Emery's side enjoyed a rip-roaring finish to the 2022/2023 Premier League season, winning 10 league games and losing just twice since early March.

Their exceptional form in the latter stages saw them finish seventh and qualify for the Europa Conference League, and it's now Villa's task to build upon that and back Emery in the summer transfer market.

According to recent rumours, Villa appear to be targeting central midfield signings, with Fulham's Joao Palhinha, Southampton star James Ward-Prowse and Leicester City's Youri Tielemans linked most recently.

The Villans want to strengthen in defence as well, with Villarreal star Pau Torres, a player who Emery knows well, being repeatedly mentioned by the press.

Arsenal's Kieran Tierney is another player garnering Villa's interest as they look to shore up their back line, with talkSPORT's Crook now saying they're targeting Bella-Kotchap from Southampton too.

Writing for talkSPORT, the journalist says Emery and co are eyeing a move for the German as he pushes for a move away from the south coast. Southampton are apparently bracing themselves for a bidding war over Bella-Kotchap, as clubs in Italy and Germany are in the mix as well.

It will apparently cost interested sides around £30 million to prise the centre-back away from St. Mary's, but little else is said on whether Villa believe this is a price worth paying.

Who is Armel Bella-Kotchap?

The 21-year-old, who has two caps at international level for Germany, arguably stood out as one of the Saints' shining lights last season during their relegation campaign.

As per WhoScored, he finished the season as Southampton's third-best performing player by average match rating – having made their second-highest rate of interceptions per 90 in that time.

Speaking last August, Saints legend Francis Benail raved over Bella-Kotchap's impact on BT Sport (via The Daily Mail).

"He is one of five or six players that have had an instant impact," said Benail.

"What we've been seeing is maturity beyond their years. He takes up great positions and recognizes danger."

Journalist Felix Keith has called the starlet defender "exceptional" for some of his performances last campaign, and for £30m, he'd come to Villa Park with plenty of potential at just 21.

This could be a move worth exploring for Emery.

Australia’s captain Steven Smith has conceded a radical shift in Test selection may be required in order to change the national side’s increasingly grim record in Asia, after their 229-run defeat in Galle

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Australia’s captain Steven Smith has conceded a radical shift in Test selection may be required in order to change the national side’s increasingly grim record in Asia, after he presided over a series-ending thrashing at the hands of Sri Lanka in Galle. It was Australia’s eighth consecutive loss in the region, following series clean sweeps by India and Pakistan in 2013 and 2014.The top six chosen for Pallekele and Galle was the same as that used through last summer in Australia and New Zealand, but Smith admitted it may now be time to think in terms of the players best-equipped to deal with spin bowling on helpful pitches, rather than the diet of pace on which most of his batting colleagues have been raised. Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja in particular have looked out of their depth despite strong returns last season, each innings looking more fraught than the last.Touring players will have the option of returning to Galle for training on what should have been the fourth day of the Test. The centre pitch on which the batsmen were so confused has been left unwatered in order to be used for additional practice. However Smith agreed that the composition of the team needed to be examined in view of the results collected here.”Yeah it certainly needs to be looked at,” Smith said following the 229-run defeat that handed Sri Lanka the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy for the first time since it was struck. “If there are guys that can play spin well in these conditions then it’s certainly got to be a chance. It’s been too long now – I think it’s been 15 or 16 [10] games since we’ve won a game in the subcontinent, so whatever we’re doing it’s not working. So yeah there might be a need for some changes.”Australia have chosen batsmen for subcontinent conditions in the past, the current coach and selector Darren Lehmann among them. He made his debut in India in 1998 then later played a useful role in series wins in Pakistan and India, while often being left out at home as others were thought to be more proficient against pace. Smith was himself a batsman picked for the conditions expected in India three years ago, a tour for which the selectors were believed to have also considered David Hussey before hesitating.The Australia A captain Peter Handscomb has been suggested as a player with the potential to perform more ably against spin than others, while the selection of specialist opening batsmen like Burns may also come into question. Shaun Marsh and Moises Henriques are the reserve batsmen on tour, and both should come into contention for the third Test in Colombo next week.”The guys are a bit down at the moment and fair enough too, it’s been a tough series so far, we have been outplayed in both Test matches, the mood’s not great at the moment. We are a bit disappointed, but we’ve still got plenty to play for in Colombo,” Smith said. “We have got to try and prove to ourselves and the public that we can play in these conditions.”I thought the first innings was very disappointing, I thought today we were a little bit more proactive, we saw some sweep shots, some reverse sweeps, the guys using their feet and to get around 180 I thought probably around 200 in the last innings of this game or every innings of this match was probably around par. So we saw a little bit of proactive thinking and innovative thinking today to find a way, we just haven’t been able to do it for long periods of time though.”They have got some quality bowlers in their team that get the ball to spin and then skid sharply as well. I guess when the ball does spin sharply it sort of plays on your mind that you might just play outside of one. We haven’t been good enough with it and we have to find ways to just cover that ball that doesn’t spin. The majority of the time if it spins it spins too far, we have to forget about the ball before essentially and if it comes and does spin, hopefully it spins past the stumps and the outside edge.”Smith also addressed the disparity in the performances of Australia’s spinners Nathan Lyon and Jon Holland against their Sri Lankan counterparts Rangana Herath, Dilruwan Perera and Lakshan Sandakan. “They didn’t get many wickets did they?” Smith said of Lyon and Holland. “We need to find ways to bowl differently to how we bowl our spin in Australia as well. You look at the Sri Lankan spinners, any of the subcontinent spinners, they bowl that side seam on the ball where they can go up and down with their speeds and trajectory. The ball reacts differently. One ball goes straight on and speeds up off the wicket, one ball spins and you don’t know which one is which.”I don’t think the bowlers actually know which one is which either. In Australia traditionally, we get taught to get over the top of the ball and in Australia I think you need to get that shape to try and do the batsman in drift and shape in the air. Whereas, I think it’s the exact opposite playing in the subcontinent. The ones with the side seam are extremely hard to face and our spin bowlers need to continue working on that. It’s bowling a completely different way to the way we bowl in Australia.”I thought all of the fast bowlers did a pretty good job for us in this game, but to be fair, it shouldn’t be them taking the wickets. It should be our spinners that are getting the job done. For Jon Holland in his first Test, he was obviously a little bit nervous and you can excuse that a little bit. The spinners have to find a way to get wickets and keep the runs dry on these surfaces. We’ve gone at over four an over for both Test matches, so we’ve got to find a way for the spinners to get wickets in these conditions.”

Former India team director Ravi Shastri has applied for the post of national head coach. Shastri, who worked with the team from August 2014 to April 2016, confirmed his application to on Monday. His contract as team director had ended with India’s exit from the World T20 in March.”Yes, I have applied for the chief coach’s post today morning. I have e-mailed all the requisite documents that were asked for in the advertisement,” Shastri said.Asked if he had prepared any presentation or roadmap, Shastri said: “Whatever is required by the BCCI, I have provided them. If you ask me whether I am confident or not, all I can say is that my job was to apply for the post and I have done that. I cannot comment on anything else.”Under Shastri, who had taken over as director in 2014, India made it to semi-finals of successive global events – the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World T20, and also climbed to No. 1 on the Test rankings for a period of eight weeks until Australia took over in February 2016. In this period, India also won their first limited-overs bilateral series in Australia, by whitewashing the hosts 3-0 in a T20 series.Apart from Shastri, current chairman of selectors and former India coach Sandeep Patil has also thrown his hat in the ring. Patil had earlier coached India back in 1996, taking over from Ajit Wadekar who stepped down after India’s semi-final loss to Sri Lanka in the 1996 World Cup semi-final. Patil’s tenure was a forgettable one; he was replaced within six months.However, Shastri’s team of support staff – Sanjay Bangar, R Sridhar and B Arun – have not yet applied as BCCI sources believe that they would like to continue in their earlier roles depending on the requirements of the board.

ScorecardChris Cooke top-scored for Glamorgan•Getty Images

Glamorgan made it successive victories in the Royal London One-Day Cup with a consummate 84-run victory over Sussex in Cardiff.Having scored 302 for 6, the Welsh county bowled and fielded with great accuracy to maintain their 100 per cent winning start to this season’s 50-over competition.Glamorgan, having won the toss, chose to bat on a Sophia Gardens wicket that provided precious little assistance to the visiting bowlers, from start to finish.That said, the host county took an age to establish themselves after Steve Magoffin claimed the wicket of David Lloyd (11) in the fifth over and captain Jacques Rudolph was forced to retire hurt, in the 12th over, after being struck a painful blow on the forearm. The South African was later taken to hospital for X-Rays.Having come to terms with the pace of the wicket, Will Bragg (42) and Colin Ingram (13) added 68 for the third wicket and 19-year-old Aneurin Donald and wicketkeeper batsman Chris Cooke 69 for the fourth. Donald, who came into the game with three fifties in his previous five innings, helped himself to another half century, off 55 balls.However, it was the arrival at the crease of 33-year-old Graham Wagg that changed the game in Glamorgan’s favour. Sussex, who dropped four catches, found themselves chasing the ball to all four corners of a sun-drenched SSE Swalec Stadium.Cooke, who punished anything off line, passed 50 off 54 balls and played his part in a 112-run stand for the fifth wicket.The impressive allrounder Wagg struck seven fours and a six in reaching his half century off just 37 balls, and was eventually fifth man out at 290, bowled by England seamer Chris Jordan. Cooke departed for 80, in the final over, leaving Glamorgan to defend a more than respectable total of 302 for 6.In reply, Sussex lost Chris Nash for 12, run out by Dean Cosker, before Ed Joyce pulled a short delivery from Craig Meschede to Wagg, at deep square leg with the score on 64.With the wicket becoming slower, but providing turn for the likes of Andrew Salter and Cosker, Sussex found runs hard to come by. However, as much as the slow bowlers applied the brakes, it was the medium pace of Meschede who picked up the key wicket of New Zealander Ross Taylor.A short ball appeared to be heading back over the bowler’s head when Meschede stuck out a hand and took an outstanding catch. Cosker weighed in with the wicket of Harry Finch (23), at 90 for 4, and from that juncture, the outcome was just about inevitable.Luke Wright and Ben Brown (31) provided some resistance, with 68 for the fifth wicket, but when the latter pulled a short ball from Wagg to Ingram at mid-on, Glamorgan must have felt they were home and dry.In the end, they were. Wright and Chris Jordan struck one or two lusty blows before the Sussex captain, who helped himself to six fours and two sixes in a 48-ball innings of 65, top edged Michael Hogan to mid on, where Ingram took a magnificent, tumbling, one-handed catch.Donald took an equally spectacular catch to dismiss Jordan (22), before Hogan sent back George Garton, Ajmal Shahzad and Magoffin as Sussex were bowled out for 218 in the 43rd over.

اعترف المدير الفني الجزائري، عادل عمروش، أنه لم يكن يرغب في مواجهة مصر وديًا استعدادًا لبطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2023.

ويواجه منتخب مصر منافسه تنزانيا يوم، الأحد 7 يناير، وهي المباراة الودية الوحيدة للفراعنة قبل السفر إلى كوت ديفوار.

وتنطلق البطولة يوم 13 يناير وتستمر حتى 11 فبراير المقبل، بمشاركة 24 منتخبًا.

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وتواصل “btolat.com” مع المدرب الجزائري للحديث عن تحضيراته للبطولة ومباراة مصر.

وقال عمروش: “لدينا خطة من أجل التحضير لمشاركتنا في بطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2023، تحت إشراف الاتحاد التنزاني الذي يوفر كل الإمكانات من أجل نجاحنا في كوت ديفوار”.

وواصل: “نمتلك لاعبين رائعين يساعدونا في مهمتنا، سنخوض مباراة ودية قوية أمام مصر في القاهرة قبل السفر إلى أبيدجان”.

وعن مباراة مصر: “لم تكن نيتنا إقامة المعسكر في القاهرة، لكننا غيرنا تلك الخطة بسبب الاتحاد، لم تكن مواجهة الفراعنة اختيارنا الأول، كانت هناك اختيارات أخرى”.

وتابع: “لكن ستكون مباراة جيدة للاعبينا من أجل الاستعداد لخوض بطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2023”.

وعن طموحه قبل البطولة: “اللاعبون يعرفونني جيدًا، لا أحب الخسارة على الإطلاق، يجب أن نقاتل ونبذل قصارى جهدنا من أجل تحقيق الفوز”.

ووجوده في مجموعة المغرب، زامبيا والكونغو الديمقراطية الصعبة: “نحن لن نذهب إلى نزهة، لدينا مهمة ونريد أن ننجح ونحقق الانتصارات من أجل الشعب التنزاني”.

واختتم: “احترم كل تلك الفرق، ولكننا تنزانيا لا نخاف أبدًا، في كرة القدم لا توجد أسماء كبيرة بل يجب أن يكون لديك روح وقتال من أجل أن تحترمك الخصوم، لن نذهب للحصول على سيلفي مع النجوم الكبيرة”.