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Hull City star Jaden Philogene was cruelly denied one of the all-time great goals after a stunning Rabona strike against Rotherham.

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Hull beat Rotherham 2-1 in ChampionshipPhilogene pulls off incredible RabonaFootball League decides goal will not go down as his Getty ImagesWHAT HAPPENED?

The 22-year-old thought he'd scored the goal of the season when he nonchalantly nutmegged Rotherham's Oliver Rathbone and then tried an audacious Rabona chip over goalkeeper Viktor Johansson. After looking like he had produced something miraculous, it turned out his effort took a slight deflection off Cameron Humphreys' shoulder – meaning it was cruelly registered as an own goal by the Football League.

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That stupendous piece of skill from the former Aston Villa man drew Hull level with bottom of the table Championship side Rotherham, following Christ Tiehi's opener for the Millers. Then Liam Rosenior's men completed the comeback as Noah Ohio's goal secured the Tigers their first league double against the Yorkshire outfit for 40 years. Philogene's goal, that will have surely been a contender for the Puskas award, is undoubtedly one of the greatest rabona efforts ever seen, with Erik Lamela's strike for Tottenham against Arsenal – that won the Puskas award in 2021 – arguably at the top of the pile.

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Hull are back in Championship action on Sunday away to lowly Huddersfield Town, before two crunch games against third-placed Southampton three days later, and a home clash against fifth-positioned West Brom on February 24.

Glamorgan secured their first LV= County Championship win of the season with 30 overs to spare on Thursday despite a spirited effort from Essex’s batsmen in Cardiff.

ECB/PA21-May-2015Glamorgan 314 (Rudolph 82, Meschede 68) and 270 (Wallace 79) beat Essex 221 (Wagg 5-54) and 274 (ten Doeschate 74*) by 89 runs
ScorecardDaniel Lawrence regrets his choice of shot after falling to Andrew Salter•Getty ImagesGlamorgan secured their first LV= County Championship win of the season with 30 overs to spare on Thursday despite a spirited effort from Essex’s batsmen in Cardiff.After their disappointing first-innings performance, many expected the visitors to fold quickly, but to their credit they took the game into the final session and if any of the other batsman could have shared a substantial partnership with Ryan ten Doeschate they could have pulled off an unexpected win.On a pitch which helped the quicker bowlers, Glamorgan were without their fourth seamer David Lloyd for all but 4.2 overs of the game, but the others performed admirably – especially young offspinner Andrew Salter in his first Championship game of the campaign – as the hosts secured an 89-run triumph.Resuming on 51 for 2 in pursuit of a victory target of 364, Dan Lawrence and nightwatchman Jamie Porter defied the Glamorgan attack for 57 minutes before Salter had Lawrence caught at mid-wicket.Salter then then took a return catch to remove James Foster, but Porter faced 93 balls before he was finally bowled by Michael Hogan for 34. Ten Doeschate then had useful support from their younger brigade, namely Kishen Velani and Callum Taylor.Twenty-year-old Velani was unlucky to play on to Hogan before 17-year-old Taylor, who had added 44 with ten Doeschate, edged to first slip. With ten Doeschate and Graham Napier at the crease at the tea interval, Essex needed 110 more runs and Glamorgan three wickets.But as soon as Hogan and Craig Meschede took the new ball Essex lost their last three wickets for just five runs. Napier fell for 8, Adeel Malik 2, and David Masters without troubling the scorers as Essex were dismissed for 274.After drawing their first four games and winning the fifth, Glamorgan are now well placed at third position in Division Two and unbeaten in all competitions.Glamorgan coach Toby Radford said: “I’m very pleased with the all-round performance, especially today, when we were without David Lloyd, our fourth seamer.”Although there was some help for the quicker bowlers, there were times when the pitch became placid and it was hard work. It was also good to see Andrew Salter contribute so well in only his first championship game of the season.”Essex coach Paul Grayson said: “I’m disappointed overall, especially the way we collapsed in the first innings, but pleased by the character of the young lads today. If we show the same fight for the rest of the season, we will be alright.”

In Colin Munro, New Zealand will have one more allrounder in their armory as they look for victory in their one-off Twenty20 against Bangladesh on Wednesday

Mohammad Isam05-Nov-2013New Zealand may already have three capable allrounders in Corey Anderson, James Neesham and Grant Elliot, but Colin Munro’s performance on Sunday has given the team one more option to bank on, as they look for victory in their one-off Twenty20 against Bangladesh on Wednesday.Munro struck his second ODI half-century in Fatullah- an adventurous 85 which included plenty of reverse hits and blows down the ground. He dominated the 130-run fourth-wicket partnership with Ross Taylor, but eventually tried one reverse hit too many and was caught behind in the 44th over.”It is the way I play,” Munro said. “I have developed that [reverse] shot in the last two-three years. In the subcontinent where world-class bowlers are bowling at you and with the new rules they have backward point open, so it is a really good option.”It was an important innings for Munro because his previous ODI score was a first-ball duck against England in Nottingham in June this year. Although New Zealand had already lost the series going into this game, Munro said that he had a lot to play for.”Some guys said it is a dead rubber so go out there and play with freedom,” he said. “I got a duck in my last international match and so had a lot to prove yesterday. It was very pleasing to score runs in my first game here because I have been working on playing against spin.”Though New Zealand have also had good performances from allrounders Anderson, Neesham and Elliott at different times during this tour, the team hasn’t gelled as a whole. Munro, however, believes that the fight for places in the side could only be seen as a positive.”There’s a lot of competition and it is good for the team. I think the two best allrounders are Corey Anderson and Jimmy Neesham because they can bowl the full quota of overs and can contribute with the bat.”Grant Elliott and myself are more like part-timers in these conditions and at this stage of my career, I need to be realistic and work on areas that I am not good at. I have to keep doing what I am doing. I can’t rely on just one score.”Munro was praised by Taylor after their partnership, and the 26-year-old is now looking for an extended run in the team. “Ross said some good things at the end of the game. It was great batting with him as I think he absorbed the pressure in the middle period well yesterday,” he said. “Hopefully I have put my hand up and said I can play in the subcontinent, and play the first one-dayer in Sri Lanka.”Even Tim Southee viewed allrounders as New Zealand’s biggest strength, because of their ability to control the run-rate with ball, and “clear the fence”. Now New Zealand would be really hoping their strengths translate into a victory in the T20, so that they finish what has been a dismal Bangladesh tour on a high.Munro said the team hadn’t given up yet. “It would be silly of us to have our heads down halfway through a long tour [of the subcontinent]. We have a lot of cricket left, including the Twenty20 game here. If we can win that one and go to Sri Lanka, that would be great for the team.”

An opening stand of 154 between Chris Hartley and Usman Khawaja set Queensland on the path to a 30-run victory over New South Wales in Canberra

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An opening stand of 154 between the captain Chris Hartley and the opening batsman Usman Khawaja set Queensland on the path to a 30-run victory over New South Wales in the domestic limited overs match in Canberra.Hartley and Khawaja laid a platform for the Bulls’ eventual total of 6 for 292, its dimensions ultimately proving out of reach for the Blues despite a doughty rearguard from Ben Rohrer.NSW lost regular wickets in their pursuit as Cameron Gannon picked up a first five-wicket haul of his domestic limited overs career, before Rohrer added 81 with Josh Lalor in a mere 56 balls to give the Bulls a fright.The match was the last of the Australian domestic summer before the states break for the Twenty20 Big Bash League, which commences on December 7.

Chamara Silva, the Sri Lanka middle-order batsman, gave a timely reminder to the national selectors who that he is prime form

Sa'adi Thawfeeq at the SSC20-Mar-2012Chamara Silva, the Sri Lanka middle-order batsman, gave a timely reminder to the national selectors that he is prime form by hitting 163 off 180 balls for Sri Lanka Development XI on the opening day of the three-day practice match against the tourists at the SSC.Silva scored 1000 runs for Bloomfield in the domestic Premier League Tier A tournament but is unlikely to come under consideration for the first Test against England in Galle next week. The last of his 11 Tests came against West Indies, in Trinidad, during 2008 and with the emergence of Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews and Chamara Kapugedera, Silva has been pushed aside but made the most of a chance to impress.”This innings was no different to how I batted throughout the season. I didn’t do anything different and the runs came my way and I kept going,” he said. “The difference is that this was a Test bowling line-up and you don’t receive too many loose balls. The bowlers’ names don’t matter to me very much. Whoever bowls he bowls the same ball. If you play the correct stroke to every ball you will score runs.”Silva was slotted to go in at No. 3 and was already walking out to bat while the first over of the innings was in progress after opener Malinda Warnapura had fallen for a duck to the third ball.”Going out to bat in the first over was a big challenge for me,” Silva said. “I had to face the new ball but I was able to negotiate it because of the form I was in. I started to middle the ball from the very first delivery I faced. As much as England bowled well I also batted well.”Silva was especially aggressive against the spinners and Graeme Swann, England’s No.1 slow bowler, went wicketless while conceding over 100 runs. “I play spinners differently to others,” Silva said. “I won’t let a spinner dominate me I always try to make him do what I want.”England appeared rattled by the way Silva attacked their bowlers in very hot conditions by driving, cutting, pulling and hooking them to all parts of the field. “When wickets don’t fall the opposition sometimes gets rattled. England has a good world class bowling line up with some big names in it but if you do your part right it is not so difficult to score runs off them.”

James Franklin blasted 68 off 38 balls to take bottom-dwellers Wellington to a comfortable win over table-toppers Auckland at the Basin Reserve

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ScorecardJames Franklin blasted 68 off 38 balls to take bottom-dwellers Wellington to a comfortable win over table-toppers Auckland at the Basin Reserve. Franklin and Brendan Taylor, who made 53, helped the hosts chase Auckland’s middling total of 157 in just 18.3 overs, giving Wellington their first win of the tournament.Wellington lost a wicket in the first of their chase but Taylor, the Zimbabwe captain, scored quickly to give them a platform. When Taylor was dismissed in the 14th over, Wellington needed 51 to win off 39 balls. Franklin needed just 30; he hit three sixes and five fours in his knock to take Wellington home.Auckland’s innings had been hampered by a cluster of wickets falling at the start and then again in the end. Early strikes had left them 45 for 3 in the seventh over. They recovered to reach 150 for 5 in the 19th but five wickets fell in the last two overs, preventing a final surge. In between those spells Gareth Hopkins and Anaru Kitchen played important hands. Kitchen scored 39 off 27 balls while Hopkins hit seven fours in his 49 off 33 balls. Grant Elliott struck twice in the last over and there was also a run-out. The flurry of the wickets at the end cost Auckland a few runs and made the chase easier for Wellington.

Australia’s captain George Bailey has conceded it does not look good for his team to have slipped below Ireland in the ICC’s Twenty20 rankings ahead of the World T20 later this month

Brydon Coverdale08-Sep-2012Australia’s captain George Bailey has conceded it does not look good for his team to have slipped below Ireland in the ICC’s Twenty20 rankings ahead of the World T20 later this month. Australia dropped to tenth on the rankings after their Super Over loss to Pakistan in Dubai on Friday, and it was far from the ideal situation less than two weeks before their World T20 opener – against Ireland.However, the T20 rankings points are accumulated from such a small pool of matches that it is difficult to read too much into them. In the current rankings period, which began on August 1, 2010, Australia have won only four of their 13 games, which have all come against South Africa, Pakistan, England, India, Sri Lanka and West Indies.By comparison, Ireland have won eight of 11, but all of their victories have come against Associate nations: Kenya, Scotland, Canada, Netherlands and Afghanistan. The only matches they have played against full ICC members came during a three-match series against Bangladesh in July – and Ireland lost all three games. Similarly, six of the eight games Bangladesh (who are ranked eighth) have played in that time have been against Associates.”It doesn’t look very good,” Bailey told reporters in Dubai after Australia’s loss on Friday. “I’m still not sure how the rankings work. So Ireland go past us tonight. I’m not sure if we’ve ever played Ireland in a T20. Make of that what you will. If Ireland are a better side than us I guess they’ll show it in a couple of weeks in Sri Lanka.”Rankings aside, Australia have several things to work on ahead of the World T20, including settling on their best combination. Mitchell Starc was impressive in the second match having been left out of the first game and Bailey’s own T20 form with the bat took an encouraging turn with his brisk 42 from 27 balls, which nearly got the Australians home.David Warner and Shane Watson also provided a solid start with their 40-run opening stand from less than five overs, and similar efforts will be essential in Sri Lanka. Bailey said despite the loss there were plenty of positives for Australia to take from Friday’s game, especially after they were bowled out for 89 in the first match two days earlier.”I’m really pleased we performed much closer to what I think we’re capable of,” Bailey said. “I think we can take a lot of confidence out of it as a team, I think individually we’ll take a lot of confidence out of it. But to be so close and then to lose leaves a lot of questions in your head.”We’ve got a lot to get out of [the third game on Monday]. Full credit to Pakistan, I think they’ve played two excellent games and certainly deserve to have won the series. But we’ve got a lot to play for. It’s the bigger picture, we all know what’s coming up. As a group, individually I still think there’s plenty to play for.”

The ICC decided against allowing teams to keep referrals denied on an umpire’s call out of fear the game would be slowed down too much, the Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has revealed

Daniel Brettig11-Oct-2013The ICC decided against allowing teams to keep referrals that were denied on an umpire’s call out of fear the game would be slowed down too much, even as it approved the introduction of a DRS “top-up” after 80 overs, the Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has revealed. As he discussed the fall-out from the Nine Network’s decision not to employ Hot Spot during this summer’s Ashes series, Sutherland said the equity of umpire’s call verdicts had been debated “long and hard” by the chief executive’s committee at the most recent ICC meeting.While Hot Spot’s effectiveness and use has been a point of contention since the Ashes Tests in England earlier this year, the loss of referrals to tight decisions that have stayed with the umpire’s original verdict created a similar level of discussion among players, spectators and administrators. Sutherland said it was still possible that such reviews would be handed back to the players, but admitted there was hesitance based on the possibility that the number of reviews may increase substantially.”We debated umpire’s call long and hard, and what was eventually decided was that they wanted to leave that pending for a little while,” Sutherland said. “We agreed to the top-up after 80 overs. That will come back on the agenda, and it’s not a bad idea. The ICC assessment is that if you don’t lose a review for umpire’s call, you will increase the number of referrals by at least double, and that will change the game. Everyone likes the idea of the referral being really valuable, and you need to think really carefully about using it, because it all comes back to the howler.”Sutherland denied that CA needed to step in to the stand-off between Nine and Hot Spot’s ringmaster Warren Brennan, and rejected the notion that Australian cricket’s governing body did not provide financial support in the way of other nations. He said that CA’s rights fees factored in the broadcast costs of Nine, whereas other nations paid for production in-house and then charged at higher odds for the rights themselves. “Indirectly we’re paying for it,” he said.”The first use of Hot Spot was all about broadcast enhancement. And in Australia that’s been something Nine have sponsored and dealt with and had discussions with Warren Brennan and his company in the past, they’ve had arrangements that they’ve used successfully. We’ve never been involved with those discussions and never needed to be. That continues to be a commercial negotiation between those two.”I’ve spoken with [Nine chief] David Gyngell about it, I know and understand from Nine’s viewpoint they’re not walking away from that and see it as an ongoing discussion. They certainly have concerns about Hot Spot in various ways, both commercially and in an operational capacity, and it’s something they will work through. They’ve been able to sort it out in the past, so let’s see if they can sort it out. This is still six weeks out from the series, it’s not a unique circumstance where Nine and Hot Spot have had discussions about broadcast enhancements.”Debates about DRS have ranged from whether the system should be used at all to which technology is most reliable and which system makes the best use of it. Sutherland saw a tension around the issue of how much accuracy should be demanded from technology that will always have a certain margin of error, no matter how small.”The biggest problem is what is your satisfaction level about imperfection,” he said. “We can all say ‘we know it’s not perfect’, but someone’s acceptance of imperfect might be here and another’s is 99.9%. That area of grey in between those two extremes is where this system gets into trouble. Not saying this is true, but as an example, do you accept the fact that if 80% of the time a nick will show on Hot Spot, but you know that 20% of the time it won’t – do you accept that or not?”

A round-up of the Caribbean T20 matches played at Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad on January 8

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ScorecardCarlos Brathwaite and Ryan Hinds took seven wickets between them to help rout Jamaica for 72 at Queen’s Park Oval, and set up Barbados’ second victory of the Caribbean T20.After winning the toss, Jamaica’s openers added 38 in four overs before the collapse began. They then lost ten wickets for 34 runs and were dismissed in 17.3 overs. Only three batsmen made it past single figures, with Nkrumah Bonner’s 21 being the top score. Carlos Brathwaite’s 4 for 23 were his career-best figures.Barbados also had a shaky period in their small chase, when they lost four wickets for ten runs and slipped to 40 for 5. Opening batsman Justin Brathwaite had scored most of the runs, making 23 off 10 balls. Shane Dowrich and Kyle Mayers, however, ensured Barbados got home in 11.2 overs without further damage.
ScorecardIn another low-scoring game in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) earned their first victory of the tournament by beating Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) by seven wickets.T&T’s bowlers were economical and incisive after their captain Denesh Ramdin won the toss. Only four CCC batsmen made it into double figures but Chadwick Walton’s 19 was the top score. The slow bowlers Kevon Cooper and Sunil Narine took 3 for 17 and 2 for 14, while Dwayne Bravo had figures of 1 for 8 in his four-over spell. CCC managed only 94 for 8 in 20 overs.T&T did not hurry to victory, reaching the target in 17.2 overs. Dwayne Bravo was the top scorer, making an unbeaten 36 off 42 balls.

Two teenage Birmingham City fans were arrested for misogynistic chanting at referee Rebecca Welch in the club's win over Sheffield Wednesday.

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Referee Rebecca Welch target of abuseTwo teenagers arrestedClub condemns discriminationWHAT HAPPENED?

The 17-year-olds were detained after being overheard by officers directing abuse at Welch during Saturday's Championship fixture at St Andrew's. The arrests overshadowed Wayne Rooney's maiden win as Birmingham manager since his appointment last month.

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A statement from West Midlands Police said: “We have arrested two boys for misogynistic chanting at the female referee during Birmingham City’s home game at St Andrew’s today

“Our officers heard the chants being directed at the official and acted quickly to arrest the two, who are both 17.

“They are currently in custody on suspicion of a public order offence as we carry out enquiries. We don’t tolerate any form of hate and it is important hate crime is reported to us."

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Ahead of Saturday's fixture, Birmingham had reminded supporters about acceptable behaviour via its website and social media after Welch had received misogynistic abuse when she took charge of the club's defeat to Preston North End in January. That game marked the first occasion in which a female official had refereed an English second tier game. Welch went on to make further history by being appointed as fourth official for Fulham's defeat to Manchester United in the Premier League earlier this month.

On Sunday, Birmingham expressed their disappointment at the arrests, stating: "Birmingham City strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and will support the police with their enquiries."

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The history-making Welch will take charge of the Championship fixture between Hull City and Rotherham United on Tuesday. The game is her sixth appointment as a Championship referee