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7NEWS
9 minutes ago
- 7NEWS
Cricket greats Jimmy Anderson and David Warner questioned after Hundred debuts fall flat
He opened the bowling for the Manchester Originals on his Hundred debut — but at the grand old age of 43, James Anderson just couldn't turn back the clock to his glory days at Old Trafford. England's all-time leading Test wicket taker was hit for 38 off his wicketless 20-ball stint on Wednesday as the Originals went down to a dramatic one-wicket defeat to Southern Brave on the penultimate ball. Tymal Mills proved the star with bat and ball after his late partnership with Craig Overton saw the Brave home. At 43 years and seven days, Anderson became the second-oldest player ever to take part in the 100-ball-a-side competition, behind only South African Imran Tahir, who was 43 years 149 days when he played for Birmingham Phoenix back in 2022. The Originals batted first, with England white-ball stars Jos Buttler and Phil Salt dominating with a 48-run partnership which was only ended by Mills, who grabbed the key wicket of Buttler for 22 before he claimed another prize scalp of South African big hitter Heinrich Klaasen. Mills finished with 3-22 after ending Salt's entertaining knock of 60 from 41 deliveries, while Mark Chapman (22) and Lewis Gregory (6) finished unbeaten as the hosts made 4-131. Anderson bowled the first 10 balls of the innings for 10 runs but it was Sonny Baker who found a quick breakthrough to snare captain James Vince for six. Former England opener Jason Roy was particularly hard on Anderson's bowling, smashing him for four fours and a six off his final 10 balls. After all the hype ahead of the tournament, it was an embarrassing debut for the ageing great a fans wondered why he was even playing. 'James Anderson too old for the Hundred sadly!' a fan blasted on X (formerly Twitter). 'Nothing personal against James Anderson but is it right to play in the Hundred and take a place of deserving youngster?' another fan said. And another: 'Jimmy Anderson didn't bowl well ... I wouldn't play him in this format. County T20 he is OK.' And another: 'Jimmy Anderson in and it's game over.' Roy eventually sliced onto the stumps from a teasing Baker delivery for 30 while Scott Currie continued to keep the Originals in the hunt with his excellent 4-28, featuring the wickets of Leus du Plooy, Laurie Evans, Chris Jordan and Michael Bracewell. But a last-gasp effort from Mills and Craig Overton featured the pair smashing 25 from 11 deliveries. Mills eventually fell, slogging out to Currie off Gregory, but new batter Reece Topley coolly smashed a boundary to seal a tight win with one delivery remaining. David Warner's Hundred debut falls flat as Spirit are downed David Warner's debut in England's Hundred competition has fallen flat, the Australian opener dismissed for a ten-ball nine and his London Spirit side thrashed by their capital rivals Oval Invincibles at Lord's. It was his first appearance at the self-styled Home of Cricket since the Test match two years ago in which he was abused in the Long Room by members after Alex Carey controversially ran out Jonny Bairstow. The former Australia Test opener spiced up his bow by criticising England hero Joe Root's batting, suggesting he 'take the surfboard off his front leg', if he was to finally make an Ashes hundred Down Under. But there was no obvious antagonism from the crowd when he ran out to open through a cloud of firework smoke as Spirit batted first. Warner is one of the big names lured by higher paydays to add lustre to the competition, with Steve Smith and Marcus Stoinis also involved. The 38-year-old is picking up Stg 100,000 ($A205,000) and the other two Stg 120,000 ($A246,000). His high profile in England is clear from the event using his image in social media to promote the competition. However, Warner was unable to follow the example set by his compatriots Grace Harris and Meg Lanning, who made 89 not out and 85 respectively in the preceding women's match in the double-header. He saw little of the strike early on as Spirit struggled to adapt to a slow pitch that took spin, and hit one four before his dismissal, caught at long-on trying to whack Jordan Clark's slower ball. That left Spirit 3-26 from 31 balls and it didn't get any better, being dismissed for 80, the second lowest men's score in the competition's five years,. Invincibles, the defending champions, cruised to victory with six wickets and 31 balls to spare, hitting the night's only six to win it Ashton Turner was Spirit's top scorer with 21 but the Australian who did best was Invincibles' Jason Behrendorff who took 17-1 in his 20 balls, taking the wicket of Spirit captain Kane Williamson. Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan was the star turn, taking 3-11 in 20 balls while Sam Curran claimed 3-18. It wasn't just a London derby, there was also a West Australian coaching clash in which Tom Moody came out well on top against Justin Langer, though as the latter observed, he's barely had 48 hours to work with the team. The coaching test will be where they are at when these teams meet again at the end of the league on August 25. Langer clearly has a lot more work on his hands than Moody, who's aiming for a three-peat with Invincibles. - With Glenn Moore Australian men in The Hundred David Warner, Ashton Turner *Dan Worrell (London Spirit), Jason Behrendorff, *Nathan Sowter (Oval Invincibles), Hilton Cartwright (Southern Brave), Marcus Stoinis (Trent Rockets), Steve Smith, Riley Meredith, Chris Green (Welsh Fire).
New York Post
2 hours ago
- New York Post
The truth about Bill Clinton's cozy friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and his ‘lovely girls'
When Bill Clinton looked out of the private plane window as it came to land in Africa, he likely had no idea how much the 2002 trip would change his life. The tour was to launch his new nonprofit AIDS initiative, taking in five countries and even spending the day with former South African president Nelson Mandela. But those aspects of the trip have long been forgotten as the ex-president, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker and others were flying as guests of Jeffrey Epstein about the infamous jet later to be known as The Lolita Express. 11 Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell enjoyed a tour of the White House in 1993. William J. Clinton Presidential Library Devious Epstein, later exposed as a pedophile, had staffed the jet with young girls — one of the tactics he is said to have employed to impress and coerce powerful people. 'I felt Epstein put the President at risk with those young girls on board,' said Spacey in an interview with Piers Morgan last year. 'It was disturbing. There were young girls on those flights. I didn't understand at the time who they were or why they were there.' An eyebrow raising photo which later surfaced from that trip shows Clinton, then 56, reclining in an airport lounge in a yellow shirt while Chauntae Davies, a 22-year-old massage therapist in Epstein's employ, rubs his shoulders. 11 Bill Clinton got a massage while waiting for a refuel in Portugal while flying on the 2002 humanitarian trip to Africa on Epstein's Lolita Express. MEGA This week Clinton and his wife, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were subpoenaed to testify before the House Oversight Committee about Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The Committee's letter to Hillary Clinton described a potential 'close relationship' between her family and Epstein and Maxwell, according to reports. By the time of the 2002 trip, Clinton had been linked to mysterious Manhattan financier Epstein for at least a decade. 11 Jeffrey Epstein owned a sprawling compound on Little Saint James in the Caribbean where sex slave Virginia Giuffre wrote that she remembered seeing Bill Clinton with two 'lovely' young women. Shutterstock for NY Post 11 Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell posing together as they prepared to board the Lolita Express in an undate photograph. The ex-president is said to have flown on Epstein's jet 26 times. MEGA 11 Jeffrey Epstein's so-called 'Lolita Express' is now rusting in a Georgia plane graveyard. MB / MEGA Epstein donated $1,000 to Clinton's election campaign in 1992, and later gave his wife $20,000 for her US Senate campaign in 1999, according to public records. In between, both Epstein and Maxwell visited the White House 17 times during Clinton's two terms in office, starting in 1993. Epstein also later visited Clinton at the Harlem office of the Clinton Foundation in 2002, according to reports. 11 Both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been subpoenaed in a House of Representatives probe into Jeffrey Epstein. Getty Images The African trip was the second of Clinton's estimated 26 trips on Epstein's 'Lolita Express,' on which he occasionally traveled without the Secret Service, according to flight logs — a breach of presidential protection protocol. Now federal lawmakers are re-examining those trips and the former president's relationship with Epstein amid a widening probe into the financier. The move comes after the Justice Department interviewed Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for her and Epstein to abuse. She is said to have given her lawyers 100 names associated with Epstein. After the September 2002 Africa trip, Clinton's former close aide Doug Band claimed to Vanity Fair that he tried for years to keep Epstein at a distance, but Clinton just couldn't stay away. Band said in early 2003, the former president visited Epstein's private Caribbean retreat, Little St. James — now known as 'Pedophile Island.' The Clinton camp has many times insisted the former president never set foot on the island. However, according to late Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Clinton was spotted sitting across the dinner table with 'two lovely girls' on Epstein's private Caribbean Island. 11 Bill Clinton poses with two members of Jeffrey Epstein's household staff at his lavish Upper East Side mansion. Facebook 11 Jeffrey Epstein with Bill Clinton in an undated photo. The pair were first associated in 1992, but Clinton claims he was never aware of Epstein's prosecutions or charges and he cut off his 11 Bill Clinton with his arm around Chauntae Davies in another photo from the archive. MEGA Giuffre, who also said she was parceled out as a sex slave to Prince Andrew, made the claim in a fictionalized 'memoir' she wrote that was included in a legal complaint against Maxwell, who she sued for defamation in 2015. 'Teasing the girls on either side of him with playful pokes and brassy comments, there was no modesty between any of them,' Giuffre wrote in the never-published manuscript, 'The Billionaire's Playboy Club.' 'We all finished our meals and scattered in our own different directions. Strolling into the darkness with two beautiful girls around either arm, Bill seemed content to retire for the evening.' Clinton has sought to downplay his relationship with Epstein over the years, saying that he cut off their friendship well before either of his arrests — in 2007 and 2019 — and he was unaware of his crimes. In 2019, a spokesman for Clinton said he 'knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.' A representative for Clinton did not return a request for comment Wednesday and Clinton has not been accused of any sexual misconduct regarding Epstein's victims. 11 Epstein had a bizarre painting of Bill Clinton, wearing a blue dress, in his Upper East Side mansion. Petrina Ryan-Kleid 11 Ghislaine Maxwell, circled in red, at Chelsea Clinton's wedding, with Bill Clinton walking her down the aisle. AP Spencer Kuvin, a Florida lawyer who represented some of the first victims of Epstein to come forward in 2007, said during his investigations he didn't find any evidence of Clinton engaging in 'inappropriate behavior' but said that he had 'a pattern of socializing' with Epstein. 'He was seeking influence from all sides,' said Kuvin, referring to Epstein. 'He wanted to befriend as many high-profile people and have them in his orbit. If they were stuck on a plane with him for a long time, they had to speak to him and he could build a relationship that way.' While Bill sought to distance himself from Epstein, the financier liked to remind his acquaintances of the association. A reporter who met Epstein a year before he died noted how he kept a picture of himself with Clinton on display. After his death, when the FBI raided his mansion, they uncovered a large painting of Clinton in a brightly colored blue dress — resembling the one worn by Monica Lewinsky, whom Clinton was embroiled in his own sex scandal with — from the property. Although Bill Clinton distanced himself from Epstein, the family remained in contact with Ghislaine, who attended daughter Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding. Congressional questioning will begin August 18 with former Attorney General William Barr appearing before the House committee. Hillary Clinton has been asked to give a deposition on Oct. 9, while her husband's has been scheduled for Oct. 14.
West Australian
3 hours ago
- West Australian
Blow for Jimmy: veteran struggles on Hundred debut
He opened the bowling for the Manchester Originals on his Hundred bow -- but at the grand old age of 43, James Anderson just couldn't turn back the clock to his glory days at Old Trafford. England's all-time leading Test wicket taker was hit for 38 off his wicketless 20-ball stint on Wednesday as the Originals went down to a dramatic one-wicket defeat to Southern Brave on the penultimate ball. Tymal Mills proved the star with bat and ball after his late partnership with Craig Overton saw the Brave home. At 43 years and seven days, Anderson became the second-oldest player ever to take part in the 100-ball-a-side competition, behind only South African Imran Tahir, who was 43 years 149 days when he played for Birmingham Phoenix back in 2022. The Originals batted first, with England white-ball stars Jos Buttler and Phil Salt dominating with a 48-run partnership which was only ended by Mills, who grabbed the key wicket of Buttler for 22 before he claimed another prize scalp of South African big hitter Heinrich Klaasen. Mills finished with 3-22 after ending Salt's entertaining knock of 60 from 41 deliveries, while Mark Chapman (22) and Lewis Gregory (6) finished unbeaten as the hosts made 4-131. Anderson bowled the first 10 balls of the innings for 10 runs but it was Sonny Baker who found a quick breakthrough to snare captain James Vince for six. Former England opener Jason Roy was particularly hard on Anderson's bowling, smashing him for four fours and a six off his final 10 balls. Roy eventually sliced onto the stumps from a teasing Baker delivery for 30 while Scott Currie continued to keep the Originals in the hunt with his excellent 4-28, featuring the wickets of Leus du Plooy, Laurie Evans, Chris Jordan and Michael Bracewell. But a last-gasp effort from Mills and Craig Overton featured the pair smashing 25 from 11 deliveries. Mills eventually fell, slogging out to Currie off Gregory, but new batter Reece Topley coolly smashed a boundary to seal a tight win with one delivery remaining.
