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تحدث خوسيه ريبيرو، المدير الفني لفريق الأهلي، عن المشاركة في كأس العالم للأندية 2025 ومواجهة إنتر ميامي الأمريكي.

ويتواجد الأهلي في المجموعة الأولى ضمن منافسات كأس العالم للأندية، رفقة أندية إنتر ميامي الأمريكي وبورتو البرتغالي وبالميراس البرازيلي.

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وتفتتح بطولة كأس العالم للأندية بمواجهة الأهلي وإنتر ميامي، صباح الأحد 15 يونيو 2025، في الثالثة فجرًا بتوقيت مصر.

وقال ريبيرو في المؤتمر الصحفي قبل المباراة: “بدأنا العمل منذ وصولي للنادي الأهلي، أدرب نادي كبير، الأهلي ذو طبيعة خاصة، نواجه تحديًا كبيرًا، أشعر بأنني في مهمة تاريخية بمسيرتي التدريبية مع الأهلي في المونديال”.

وتابع: “الأهلي صاحب طبيعة خاصة ولدينا تحديات كبيرة خلال المشاركة في كاس العالم للأندية، الأهلي أفضل نادي في القارة، ولكن ستواجه أفضل الأندية في القارات”.

وأضاف: “هذه المجموعة تشمل نجومًا كبارًا ولاعبين ذوي خبرة ولديهم خلفية ضخمة فيما يتعلق بالألقاب، وتقريبًا قد فاوزا بكل مسابقة عبر الخمسة سنوات الماضية، علينا أن نعتبر أننا متواجدين في مجموعة رائعة، ولدينا مجموعة رائعة من اللاعبين الذين اعتادوا على الفوز، علينا أن نتتطلع للوصول إلى مرتبة متقدمة ومراحل متقدمة بالطبع، نحن مستعدون لبذل كل الجهود لتحسين فرصنا للفوز في الأسبوع القادم”.

وبسؤاله كيف ستواجه ميسي وإيقاف خطورته؟: “لن نقوم باكتشافه الآن، هو لاعب رائع للغاية وأعددنا جيدًا لإيقافه ومواجهته، لديه قدرات خارقة ولا تصدق، وعلى المستوى الفني نعرفه جيدًا ونعرف خطورته داخل الفريق، لاعبي إنتر ميامي رائعين، وميسي معروف للعالم بخطورته، نحن بصدد مواجهه خصم صعب”.

وعن لويس سوايز: “نحن لا نريد التركيز علي ميسي وسوايز، وننسى باقي لاعبي إنتر ميامي، هم لاعبون ذوي خبرة وخصوصًا خطورتهم أمام المرمى، هم يلعبون بشكل جماعي ونحن أيضًا”.

وأكمل: “نحاول دائمًا أن نمنح اللاعبين الثقة، لكي يشعرون بالقوة خلال هذه الأسابيع، ونضع خطة جيدة للمباراة، لكي يكون لديهم الثقة، لدينا العديد من التوقعات والطموحات حول الفريق الحالي للأهلي، والفريقين ممتلئين باللاعبين، وهما فريقان كبيران ولديهما العديد من اللاعبين الكبار والجماهير ستستمتع بالمباراة”.

واختتم: “أعتقد أن الأهلي قد شارك العديد من المرات ويمتلك خبرات في البطولة، ونحن نتطلع للمكسب في هذه المنافسة، ولا أشعر أن هناك ضغطًا يقع علي، أود أن أساعد اللاعبين كي يؤدون بشكل جيد، نحن نمثل القارة بأكملها، ونحاول أن نبذل قصارى جهدنا، والأهلي لا يعمل تحت ضغط”.

كشف مصطفى فتحي، لاعب فريق بيراميدز، عن دور المدير الفني يورتشيتش في تحفيز اللاعبين، مؤكدًا أن هذا الموسم هو الأفضل له مع الفريق، موضحًا رأيه في مواجهة الزمالك بنهائي كأس مصر.

ويستعد بيراميدز لمواجهة الزمالك مساء الخميس المقبل في مباراة نهائي كأس مصر للموسم الحالي 2024-2025.

وقال مصطفي فتحي في تصريحات تلفزيونية عبر قناة “إم بي سي مصر2”: “ما كان ينقص هذا الفريق هو الضغط، يورتشيتش كان ضاغط دائمًا اللاعبين في المباريات الرسمية والودية وممكن تفاصيل صغيرة ينفعل بسببها”.

وأكمل: “كان ينقصنا الدافع الذي يفعله يورتشيتش لأن لا يوجد لدينا جماهير، وهذا الموسم هو الأفضل لي مع بيراميدز”.

وبسؤاله هل شعرت أنك أخذت بثأرك من صن داونز؟، أوضح: “نعم رغم أنني لم ألعب في النهائي ولكن في النهاية حققت الفوز باللقب على حسابهم”.

وأضاف: “شخصية اللاعبين تغيرت تمامًا، لم نكن نعرف نكسب المباريات الكبيرة تمامًا، وصن داونز ليس فريقًا عاديًا ولكن أوقات نعطيه أكبر من حجمه، تعادلنا معهم في ملعبهم بهدف مقابل هدف”.

طالع | مصطفى فتحي يوضح أصعب محطات بيراميدز في مشوار الفوز بـ دوري أبطال إفريقيا

وواصل: “أصعب لحظة مرت علي في المباراة بعدما سجل صن داونز هدفًا في مرمانا، وستكون مواجهة صعبة أمام الزمالك في نهائي كأس مصر، الزمالك (هيموت نفسه) من أجل أن يفوز ببطولة، ونحن لدينا دافع بعد أن حصدنا بطولة إفريقيا”.

وبسؤاله هل الحكام يتعاملون معك وأنت في بيراميدز مثل ما كنت في الزمالك؟، أجاب: “الجمهور والإعلام له عامل ويؤثر، طريقة الكلام مع الحكام تختلف على حسب القميص الذي ارتديه، وعندما كنت ألعب في الزمالك، كان الحكم يعاملني بشكل مختلف”.

وزاد: “طريقة الكلام نفسها تتغير، وعلى سبيل المثال تحدثت مرة مع حكم -أرفض ذكر اسمه- فقال لي (لا تتكلم معي)، وفقلت له (أنا أناديك يا كابتن وأتحدث باحترام، فتحدث معي بأدب)، وقال (أنت ستعلمني الأدب؟)”.

واختتم: “من ناحية أخرى، يتحدث الحكم بطريقة مختلفة تمامًا ويهدئ من اللاعب، ولكن مع الزمالك، حيث يأخذ الجماهير في الاعتبار”.

Jake Lehmann made 73 for the home side but generally their batting struggled

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Jackson Bird and Peter Siddle wound back the clock to help Tasmania run through South Australia for 227 on the first day of their Sheffield Shield match.After the Redbacks won the toss, Bird claimed South Australia’s first four wickets in the morning session before Siddle cleaned up after lunch, with both bowlers finishing with 4 for 51.Only Jake Lehmann and debutant Ben Manenti offered any real resistance for the hosts, with the latter attacking Siddle late in his innings.Manenti’s first day in the Sheffield Shield then reached another high just before stumps, when his a one-handed screamer at second slip allowed Harry Conway to remove Caleb Jewel and leave Tasmania 1 for 17 in reply.That was a rare highlight for the Redbacks on a tough Sunday at Adelaide Oval. Bird in particular had the ball moving, with the 35-year-old beating openers Henry Hunt and Jake Weatherald off the seam to have them caught behind.Former Test skipper Tim Paine caught well behind the stumps in his second game back, diving to his left to remove Weatherald when Bird had squared up the left-hander.Bird claimed Travis Head’s wicket in his next over for five when the left-hander inside-edged a yorker onto his stumps. The former Test quick also trapped Jake Carder lbw for 13, leaving SA struggling at 4-59.About the only man who looked in against the seamer was Lehmann.  He brought up 50 just before tea when he pulled Bird for four amid three consecutive boundaries, after also taking a liking to Sam Rainbird earlier.The left-hander eventually fell victim to Siddle, who removed Lehmann and Wes Agar in successive balls in the final session. Siddle also got through Alex Carey’s bat and pad to bowl the Test wicketkeeper on 25, before gaining and edge from Conway to take his fourth victim.At that stage, it looked as though the Redbacks would likely be all out for less than 200, before Manenti got swinging later and hit Siddle for two powerful sixes over midwicket and mid-on.The son of Australia’s world champion men’s rugby sevens coach John Manenti, Ben helped the Redbacks put on 35 for the last wicket to give South Australia something to bowl at come Monday.

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da supremo： O Palmeiras venceu o Internacional por 2 a 1, no último domingo, e manteve sua vantagem na liderança do Brasileirão-2022, mesmo com o cansaço falando mais alto. No entanto, o time acaba de entrar em uma rara semana livre da temporada antes das partidas diante do Ceará, pelo campeonato nacional, e do Atlético-MG, pela Liberta.

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Para iniciar esse período peculiar, a comissão técnica deu dois dias de folga para o elenco do Verdão. Não é à toa, faz quase dois meses que a equipe não tem essa semana livre em seu calendário. A última delas foi entre o fim de maio e o começo de agosto, entre a oitava e a nona rodada do Brasileiro (jogos contra Santos e Atlético-MG). Assim, a ideia é usar da melhor forma possível esse descanso alviverde.

-Vou ficar maluco. Nem sei o que fazer, vai parecer um mês. Vamos descansar, precisamos descansar física e mentalmente por que é tudo muito desgastante. Voltamos na quarta-feira prontos para continuar a nossa caminhada. Vai ser dura, difícil. Há muitos candidatos à mesma cadeira, é procurar em cada treino nos preparar para os jogos seguintes – disse Abel Ferreira no último domingo.

O espaço nessa agenda apertada do Palmeiras se dá por conta de um raro fracasso do time na temporada, já que ficou fora das quartas de final da Copa do Brasil ao ser eliminado pelo São Paulo na fase anterior. Será essa competição a ser disputada durante esta semana, e isso permitirá com que o elenco palmeirense tenha esse fôlego.

Na próxima quarta-feira, às 11h, o Verdão volta a treinar na Academia de Futebol para se preparar para o duelo com o Ceará, no sábado, às 16h30, no Castelão. Serão mais dois dias de treino antes do duelo do fim de semana: um na quinta e outro na sexta, ambos às 11h. Logo após a última atividade da semana, a delegação viaja para Fortaleza.

Confira a programação completa do Palmeiras para esta semana:

DIA 25/7 – SEGUNDA-FEIRA
Livre

DIA 26/7 – TERÇA-FEIRA
Livre

DIA 27/7 – QUARTA-FEIRA
11h – Treino na Academia de Futebol [fechado para a imprensa]

DIA 28/7 – QUINTA-FEIRA
11h – Treino na Academia de Futebol [fechado para a imprensa]

DIA 29/7 – SEXTA-FEIRA
11h – Treino na Academia de Futebol [fechado para a imprensa]

DIA 30/7 – SÁBADO
16h30 – Ceará x Palmeiras, no Castelão, em Fortaleza (CE), pela 20ª rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro

DIA 31/7 – DOMINGO
11h – Treino na Academia de Futebol [fechado para a imprensa]

da bet7： Manchester United’s centre-back depth has been questioned over the past couple of seasons, and Ruben Amorim will need to assess who is at his disposal.

da apostebet： Despite adding Leny Yoro and Matthijs de Ligt to their options at the heart of the defence, it still feels like they do not quite have the quality or availability in their squad.

One of the newcomers, Yoro, is yet to play for the club, although De Ligt has performed well since making the move from Bayern Munich. Lisandro Martinez seems to have put his fitness issues behind him, Jonny Evans has been a good squad player over the past two seasons, and Victor Lindelof is only on the fringe of the first team now.

Another of their first-team centre-backs who might split opinion is Harry Maguire.

Maguire’s Man United career

England international Maguire joined the 13-time Premier League champions in 2019, signing from Leicester City for £80m, a fee that is still a world record for a defender. He has certainly had a mixed time of things at United.

In total, the former club captain has made 215 appearances for the club, scoring 12 goals and grabbing eight assists in that time, one of which came in the FA Cup semi-final last season, a trophy United went on to lift.

Maguire was superb under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and was made the captain just months into his Old Trafford career. However, upon the United legend’s sacking in 2021, he fell out of favour and has struggled to lock down a regular first-team spot.

This came to a head under former manager Erik ten Hag, with the Dutchman stripping the captaincy from United’s number five and giving it to Bruno Fernandes. Despite this setback, Maguire acted like a model professional and simply continued to work hard for a starting berth.

Sadly, the Englishman has struggled with injuries in recent times. Maguire has missed four games already this term, and last season was even more; he was sidelined for 17 games in a campaign where his fitness problems were frustrating.

It remains to be seen whether or not Maguire will remain at Old Trafford beyond the 2024/25 season. His contract expires in June, but United can trigger a one-year extension. With that in mind, new boss Amorim may well decide to cut his losses and sell the experienced defender, much like Ten Hag reportedly planned to do.

If that is the case, the Red Devils have a superb young replacement in the esteemed Carrington academy who could be ready to step into the fold in a few years.

United’s academy centre-back prodigy

The player in question here is Godwill Kukonki. At just 16 years of age, he is highly rated by many at Old Trafford, with his inclusion in first-team training described as “exciting” by Manchester Evening News journalist Steve Railston. He is, however, yet to make a senior appearance for the club.

Kukonki is a left-footed centre-back, who is exceptionally talented on the ball. He has played all of his football so far for the Red Devils under-18 side, both domestically and in the UEFA Youth League. However, he has featured on the bench once in the Premier League 2.

This term, the defender has featured eight times in the under-18s Premier League, and once in the UEFA Youth League. Not only has he proven to be an excellent defender, but can also chip in with goals, and has three goal involvements to his name this season.

An excellent example of the youngster’s talent came in the European fixture, away to Lithuanian side FK Zalgiris under-19s. Not only did he showcase versatility by starting at left-back, but Kukonki was composed on the ball, completing 90% of his passes and grabbing an assist, as per Sofascore.

Kukonki stats vs. FK Zalgiris

Stat

Number

Pass accuracy

90%

Touches

78

Passes completed

53/59

Dribbles completed

2

Ground duels won

2

Clearances

2

Assists

1

Stats from Sofascore

The first team could be a little too far out of reach yet for Kukonki. However, Amoirm is a manager who believes in academy players and gave 27 Sporting youth players their debut.

Combine that with United’s ethos of believing in the academy, and a debut for the youngster is not out of the question if he continues to thrive, thus putting Maguire’s status in the squad at further risk.

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da betway： Após vencer o Universidad Católica por 4 a 2 na quinta-feira (30/6) pelo duelo de ida das oitavas de final da Copa Sul-Americana, o São Paulo volta suas atenções para o Campeonato Brasileiro. A equipe enfrenta o Atlético-GO às 16h (de Brasília) deste domingo (3), fora de casa, e como vem sendo rotina, o técnico Rogério Ceni segue com sua filosofia de pensar jogo a jogo do Tricolor por conta dos problemas no elenco.

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Para esta partida, o Tricolor fará apenas um treino preparatório, neste sábado (2), no CT da Barra Funda, visto que o elenco desembarcou do Chile em São Paulo (SP) apenas na tarde de sexta-feira (1).

Nem tudo, contudo, deve ser desespero para Ceni no Tricolor. O treinador vive a expectativa da liberação de Nikão e Talles Costa pelo menos para se sentarem no banco de reservas em Goiânia (GO). Ambos estão na lista de nove contundidos do clube, mas já iniciaram a transição para o campo após recuperação no Reffis.

Além disso, Ceni também pode ter a liberação de Moreira, jogador que se recuperou da amigdalite sofrida enquanto estava na Europa defendendo a seleção portuguesa sub-18.

Seguem machucadosmachucados Sara (cirurgia no tornozelo direito), Alisson (entorse no joelho direito), Colorado (lesão no reto femoral direito), Arboleda (cirurgia no tornozelo esquerdo), Caio (cirurgia no joelho direito) e Luan (cirurgia no adutor esquerdo).

O jogo ante o Dragão rubro-negro também será visto com atenção pela comissão técnica já que dez atletas estão pendurados com dois cartões amarelos:Diego Costa, Reinaldo, Pablo Maia, André Anderson, Leo, Eder, Luciano, Nestor, Patrick e Gabriel Neves.

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da pixbet： Birmingham City fans won’t just be content with their side winning promotion at the end of the season, hopeful that the Blues could potentially take the Championship by storm after rising out of League One’s murky waters.

da bet esporte： Back-to-back promotions do happen, just ask Ipswich Town supporters, with Chris Davies wanting to be the manager to hopefully take Birmingham all the way back up to the Premier League one day, having been out of the big time since relegation at the end of the 2010/11 season.

When the Blues were routinely keeping their heads just above water in the second tier, before a disastrous relegation, they were also responsible for some top homegrown starlets rising up the ranks, with Demarai Gray one standout example.

Gray's time at Birmingham

Gray might not have quite reached the insane heights of Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham after he left the club, nor Nathan Redmond who went on to be a household Premier League name, but the tricky winger has had a career of note after exiting the Blues in 2016.

Gray would fire home eight goals from 78 appearances in the West Midlands, on top of picking up four assists, which would then alert Premier League suitors such as Leicester City to his services.

The Foxes splashed out £3.75m to get their desired target, with Gray going on to become a dependable first-teamer at the King Power Stadium over various campaigns, amassing 13 goals and 15 assists from 169 total clashes.

The 5 foot 11 attacker also found himself on the books of both Bayer Leverkusen and Everton briefly, before a move to Saudi Arabia came to fruition, where the Al-Ettifaq FC winger now earns a bumper £75k-per-week salary.

With Gray going on to make a name for himself away from his boyhood employers, many homegrown products back at St. Andrew’s must have looked to the winger for inspiration when attempting to cut their own teeth in the senior game, with the Blues prodigy even labelled as ‘another Demarai Gray’ back in 2015.

What happened to Birmingham's next Demarai Gray

It was an outlandish label to put above the player in question’s head nine years ago, but that pressure was still put on his shoulders by then Birmingham boss Gary Rowett, who will no doubt regret this suggestion now.

Viv Solomon-Otobar – who lined up for the Blues down the opposite flank to Gray – was the talent heralded as the second coming of the ex-Birmingham number 33, off the back of scoring his first-ever strike for the club in a 5-2 win versus Fulham.

Away from scoring a notable goal at Craven Cottage, Solomon-Otobar would only go on to score one more strike for the second-tier outfit, with just eight Championship appearances coming his way during his final campaign.

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Yet, Birmingham did want to keep Solomon-Otobar rooted at the club despite some up-and-down displays, even offering him a new contract after some loan spells away, but he opted to join Bulgarian titans CSKA Sofia instead in 2019 to begin his nomadic career post-Birmingham.

The former recipient of the Blues Young Player of the Season award has played in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Scotland since exiting, with a spell now out in faraway China seeing him shine.

Solomon-Otobar is now on the books of Chinese Super League side Cangzhou Mighty Lions, as the 28-year-old continues to try and rebuild his career after failing to live up to his top billing in England.

Solomon-Otobar’s league numbers for Cangzhou (2024)

Stat

Solomon-Otobar

Games played

29

Goals scored

6

Assists

4

Big chances missed

4

Big chances created

8

Stats by Sofascore

This year, in league action, Solomon-Otobar managed to amass an impressive ten goal contributions from 29 games, as the 28-year-old’s unusual career path goes on.

Rowett would never have anticipated the 5 foot 11 attacker’s playing days going this way, with Solomon-Otobar arguably now forgotten about at St. Andrew’s, rather than being remembered as another bright star from the club’s academy.

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أفادت تقارير صحفية، أن تشيزني استقر على موقفه من تجديد عقده مع برشلونة، بعد العرض الذي قدمه النادي الإسباني.

حارس المرمى البولندي البالغ من العمر 35 عامًا، ينتهي عقده في 30 يونيو ولديه عرض تجديد لمدة عام واحد، مع خيار التمديد لعام إضافي.

وبحسب ما ذكرت صحيفة “موندو ديبورتيفو” الإسبانية نقلاً عن تقارير بولندية، قرر تشيزني تجديد عقده مع برشلونة.

واتخذ تشيزني القرار بعد تفكير دام بضعة أيام مع عائلته، واستقر على توقيع عقد جديد مع برشلونة.

تشيزني سبق أن أعلن اعتزاله بعدما قرر ناديه السابق يوفنتوس عدم تجديد عقده، وحين تعرض الألماني مارك تير شتيجن للإصابة، قام برشلونة بالتفاوض مع الحارس البولندي.

اقرأ أيضًا | لاعب برشلونة يقرر الرحيل عن الفريق ويحدد وجهته المقبلة

وفي أكتوبر الماضي انضم تشيزني لبرشلونة واكتسب ثقة المدير الفني هانز فليك، وأصبح لاعبًا أساسيًا في الفريق الكتالوني.

وساهم تشيزني في تتويج برشلونة بالثلاثية، حيث توج الفريق بالدوري الإسباني وكأس ملك إسبانيا وكأس السوبر الإسباني.

وذكر التقرير أن تشيزني وافق على التجديد رغم معرفته بأن مشاركته قد تكون أقل، مع تعافي تير شتيجن.

Australia’s wicketkeeper is looking forward to seeing how their power matches up this time

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Oct-2022

As they prepare to face England as part of the T20 World Cup preparation, Matthew Wade has pinpointed Australia’s heavy defeat against them in last year’s tournament as the key moment in the transformation of their T20 fortunes.Though Australia started their campaign with victories over South Africa and Sri Lanka, the crushing nature of the loss to England – with 50 balls to spare – left them under run-rate pressure and was a “lightbulb” moment, according to Wade.Australia completed the group stage with a thrashing of Bangladesh and a very convincing chase against West Indies to book a semi-final spot. Wade and Marcus Stoinis were the heroes against Pakistan before David Warner and Mitchell Marsh carried them home in the final against New Zealand.Related

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“The World Cup game, they demolished us and that kind of changed the way we went about playing T20 from that point onward and we have been playing a different style of cricket,” Wade said as Australia arrived for their whistle-stop visit to Perth. “Think that was the real lightbulb moment, I suppose, for the team that we needed to change the way we wanted to play.”Having ditched the five-specialist-bowler strategy they had used for much of the build-up at the start of the World Cup, and was the preferred tactic of former head coach Justin Langer, they then reverted to that balance against England by recalling Ashton Agar only to crash to 21 for 4 from where they couldn’t recover. It was a change that lasted just one match.Like England, Australia now put huge stock in a deep batting order with Wade usually coming in at No. 7, backing four specialist bowlers and a collection of allrounders for the 20 overs in the field.”It will be good to match-up against them now,” Wade said. “We obviously go a little bit harder with the bat, we play seven batters, we know we can get a lot more runs and we know you need that against England, you need to be able to score 180-200.”I feel like from that point in the World Cup to now we’ve got a team together that can post big scores and chase down big scores. Really keen to see how we go against England, they’ve been the benchmark, to be fair, in T20 for a long time. I know they got knocked out of the World Cup but they were arguably the best team up until that point. So it will be good to test ourselves.”The one new face in the squad for this year’s World Cup from the last edition is Tim David who has added some fearsome power to the middle order as he showed against West Indies at the Gabba with 42 off 20 balls to follow the 54 off 27 he made against India in Hyderabad.”We knew what we were going to get with Timmy, but to do it the way he has straightaway at international level is really impressive,” Wade said. “The advantage he has got is he has played so much T20 cricket already and has played against a lot of these guys in other leagues so he has a little bit of experience that other players may not get. And with Mitch Marsh coming back and Stoinis, we are starting to get a really powerfully line-up.”

The new project is aiming to make the 130kph barrier in women’s cricket a realistic mark not just to breach, but to maintain

Andrew McGlashan20-Sep-2022

It is billed as one of the new frontiers for female cricket. Who will be the first bowler to break 130kph?There needs to be a few caveats here in that it might have already happened, but until reasonably recently, speed data in the women’s game had not been widely collated and is still not uniform across competitions.However, from currently available numbers, South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail, who is regarded as one of the quickest around, is reported as being clocked at 128kph and sent down a delivery at 126.7kph against Australia at the 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia.The former Australia quick Sharon Tredrea, who played in the 1970s and 1980s, is regarded as one of the fastest to have played the game and there are mentions of her saying she was clocked at 133kph/83mph although evidence is slim.Now Project130, a partnership between Cricket New South Wales and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), as part of their new Cricket Lab initiative which will see the NSW set-up work with the university on a number of collaborations, is aiming to make the 130kph barrier a realistic mark not just to breach, but then to maintain.Described as “designed to improve the potential of female fast bowlers, with the end game of moving from bowling an average of 115kmh to 130kmh” it will be “a world first research project to develop a formative set of data which predicts potential and physiology type to increase speed and reduce injury risk.”One of the key figures behind the work is CNSW head of sports science and sports medicine Patrick Farhart. He says the evidence currently suggests the gap between male and female fast-bowling speeds is wider than other areas of high-performance sport. But he believes by studying areas including biomechanics, strength and power of those who operate at high pace, the key ingredients can be found with specialist training then put in place. There is also a desire to look outside of cricket and find athletes currently in other disciplines who may have the raw attributes for the sport.”There are some bowlers who have gone close to that 130kph,” Farhart told ESPNcricinfo. “For me this is something I think is achievable..once we are able to profile what the correlations are with high speeds then we can start to look at setting in place more individualised and targeted programmes around getting bowlers to improve their speed.South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail is among the fastest bowlers in women’s cricket•Associated Press

“It’s very dependent on your action, it’s very specific to an individual at the moment. Males will tend to generate bowling speed through linear momentum, we think, and we think that a lot of females – not all – will generate bowling speed from upper body, trunk momentum.”However, I think we are seeing changes in the female game now where a lot of the girls are starting to bowl with techniques which males are using and this wasn’t happening anywhere near as much 10-12 years ago. Girls generating momentum through run-up speed, a braced front leg, that’s starting to happen a lot more now.”Tayla Vlaeminck, who is currently injured, and Darcie Brown – the latter clocked around 122-125kph in WBBL and international cricket – are among the fastest in Australia. Elsewhere in the world, England’s Issy Wong has made no secret of wanting to set a new bar for pace bowling and New Zealand’s Lea Tahuhu has been among the quickest for much of her career. New South Wales and Australia quick bowler Stella Campbell is another of the current generation who has been clocked over 120kph.”I think we aren’t far off [130kph] already looking at the crop of fast bowlers we have in the game,” Campbell said. “We are already pushing those speeds. It’s always out there and you are trying to get that competitive edge where you can.”Rachael Haynes, who announced her international and state retirement last week, highlighted pace bowling as one of the areas that had developed most during her career.”I think in the past there’s always probably been a handful of quick bowlers and you might not necessarily have to come up against them all the time,” she said. “I think it’s really exciting for the game as well. Their skill is pretty evident to see too, players who can swing the ball and bowl quick bouncers – it’s uncomfortable, but it’s exciting to watch. I hope that’s conveyed to the general public.”If this new project brings the desired results in years to come, a few more batters are likely to be hopping around.