Cordero and Gomez Kodela retire as Pumas winners after thumping Uruguay
Cordero, 12 years after his test debut, came off the bench and scored a try just moments after tighthead prop Gomez Kodela walked off in his last professional match at age 41, the oldest to ever play for the Pumas.
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Inter Miami provides Lionel Messi injury update: How long will he be sidelined?
Lionel Messi is expected to miss some playing time with Inter Miami, but it's unclear how long he could be sidelined due to his upper, right-leg injury. Messi has "a minor muscle injury," Inter Miami announced on Aug. 3 in a statement. The announcement did not include a timetable for his return. Inter Miami's next match is in the 2025 Leagues Cup tournament – Aug. 6 against Pumas UNAM at Chase Stadium – with a prime opportunity to advance to the knockout stage. It's likely Inter Miami will play their next match without their eight-time Ballon d'Or winner and Argentine World Cup champion. Here's everything you need to know about Lionel Messi's latest injury, including Inter Miami's upcoming schedule and two matches Messi could play with Argentina in early September: Will Messi play in Inter Miami's next Leagues Cup match? Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano will have a press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 5, a day before their next match, where Messi's status for the Aug. 6 match could be announced. What injury does Lionel Messi have? Messi has an upper, right-leg injury – which Inter Miami described as a "minor muscle injury." When did Messi get injured? Messi was injured in the opening minutes of Inter Miami's Aug. 2 Leagues Cup match against Necaxa. Messi attempted to charge forward into the penalty area with possession, but was tripped up and fell to the pitch. Messi made the move in the 6th minute of the match, and was removed as a substitute in the 11th minute. He walked off on his own into Inter Miami's locker room after a trainer massaged his upper, right leg upon evaluation. How much time will Messi miss due to injury? It's unclear how long Messi will be out or how many matches he would miss due to this injury. Inter Miami has prime opportunity to advance in Leagues Cup Inter Miami is in third place – behind Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers – in the MLS side of the Leagues Cup table after the first two matches. Only the Top 4 clubs from MLS and LIGA MX will advance to the knockout stage. Simply put, Inter Miami would advance if they beat Pumas by any score. With five points in the standings, Inter Miami is ahead of six other MLS clubs with four points. A win to reach eight points would be enough to advance. Could Messi return if Inter Miami advances in Leagues Cup? The best-case scenario for Inter Miami is they advance to the knockout stage, and Messi returns to play in the Leagues Cup quarterfinals on either Aug. 19 or 20. But it's still too early to guess if Messi would recover in time. What is Inter Miami's upcoming schedule? After Inter Miami plays against Pumas, they will have two MLS regular-season matches before the Leagues Cup quarterfinals – if they qualify. Here's Inter Miami's upcoming schedule through August: Will Messi play with Argentina in September World Cup qualifiers? Argentina has already qualified for the 2026 World Cup, but still has two more qualifying matches to play: Sept. 4 vs. Venezuela and Sept. 9 vs. Ecuador. The Sept. 4 match is one to keep an eye on: It will be played in Argentina, and could possibly be Messi's last match in his home country.
Yahoo
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England v India: Three talking points
India will return home satisfied after levelling their five-Test series against England following a dramatic six-run win at the Oval as the home side rue a costly late collapse. The tourists came back from the dead in the deciding match, taking the last seven England wickets for just 66 runs to finish the series all-square at 2-2. India arguably won more sessions than they lost over the five Tests, though England were clinical in key moments before failing to press home their advantage in the final match. AFP Sport picks out three talking points from an enthralling series. Siraj steps up as India's main man Mohammed Siraj ultimately proved the difference-maker for India, taking three wickets for nine runs in a match-winning spell on the final morning at the Oval. The paceman was named player of the match for his figures of nine wickets for 190 runs. Over the course of the series, in which he played every game, Siraj bowled an energy-sapping 185.3 overs, finishing as the leading wicket-taker on either side, with 23 scalps. India made it clear before the series that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah would only play three Tests and stayed true to their word, leaving the world's top-ranked bowler out of the final game. But Siraj ultimately made sure the tourists did not miss him at the Oval. "When I woke up today (Monday), I thought I could do it. I downloaded a picture from Google saying 'believe'," said Siraj. Gill shines with the bat as he learns captaincy ropes Shubman Gill has just embarked on one of the toughest jobs in world sport -- leading a team that carries with it the hopes and dreams of 1.4 billion people. He has been mesmerising with the bat in England, falling just short of overhauling Sunil Gavaskar's long-standing Indian record tally of 774 runs in a series. India's player-of-the-series has also grown into his role as skipper and oversaw a victory in the final Test when all had seemed lost. The 25-year-old, who replaced Rohit Sharma as captain in May, arrived in England with a modest Test average of 35. But he has led from the front to make 754 runs, including four centuries, finishing just 20 runs behind Gavaskar's mark, set against the West Indies in 1971. Gill combines elegant, classical batting with an ability to go through the gears when necessary. This was most eye-catchingly showcased at Edgbaston, where he scored a majestic 269 in the first innings and a turbo-charged 161 in the second. Gill's batting in England will live long in the memory and his reign as captain is off to a solid start. Stokes still England's magic man Ben Stokes sat out the fifth Test victory with a shoulder injury but has again demonstrated emphatically the value of a genuine all-rounder in the modern game. The England skipper, 34, consistently looked the most dangerous of the home side's bowlers, taking 17 wickets at 25 in 140 overs -- the most he has ever bowled in a series. He also played a crucial role with the bat, scoring 141 in England's mammoth total of 669 in the drawn fourth Test at Old Trafford. England's bowling at times lacked penetration during the series but Stokes still possesses the rare ability to change a game in the blink of an eye. The skipper has battled a succession of injuries but England will be desperate to have him on the plane to Australia for the Ashes, which start in November. Express paceman Jofra Archer made a welcome return to the Test arena against India but played just two matches and his workload is being managed carefully. Mark Wood, another bowler with genuine pace, has not played Test cricket for nearly 12 months and had knee surgery earlier this year. jw/jdg/ea
New York Times
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Was this the best Test series since the Ashes in 2005? Breaking down England 2 India 2
One of the greatest modern Test series ended in the most extraordinary fashion at the Oval on Monday when Mohammed Siraj bowled Gus Atkinson to give India victory by just six runs and a 2-2 series draw with England. The final day dawned with England needing 35 more runs to reach 374 and complete the second-highest run chase in their history with four wickets in hand but effectively one man down with Chris Woakes nursing a dislocated shoulder. Advertisement What followed was 57 minutes of play, in front of a full house, that encapsulated everything that has been good and compelling about this series; a microcosm of 25 days of complete sporting drama. India were very much on top when Siraj dismissed a nervous-looking Jamie Smith and then won the narrowest of lbw decisions against Jamie Overton from umpire Kumar Dharmasena. When Prasidh Krishna bowled Josh Tongue, 17 were still needed and India were on the brink. But Atkinson smashed Siraj for six in company with Woakes, who had emerged from the Oval dressing room with his arm in a sling and clearly in pain. It needed one last effort from Siraj to conjure a yorker that dismissed Atkinson, with a win for both sides and only the third tie in Test history still possible, sending the large contingent of India fans at the Oval wild. Here, Paul Newman looks back at the highlights and memorable moments of an epic Test series. England's fabled Ashes victory of 20 years ago is generally considered one of their best Test series of all time, along with the 1981 classic Ian Botham and Bob Willis Ashes. But the 2-2 draw against India that finished in extraordinary drama at the Oval on Monday is the best for 20 years. It has had everything only a five-Test series played over the full 25 days can contain and ended with a seriously injured player with his arm in a sling desperately trying to see his side over the line. The 2-2 Ashes draw of 2019 is up there and featured the Ben Stokes miracle of Headingley. So, too, is the 2023 Ashes when England came from two down to draw 2-2. But this epic pips those two. That was an incredibly courageous effort from Woakes, who dislocated his left shoulder on the first day and was clearly grimacing with pain whenever he was required to run in a last-wicket stand with Atkinson that took England to within six runs of the second-highest successful run-chase in their Test history. Advertisement He became only the fourth player in Test cricket to bat one-handed following Lionel Tennyson, Colin Cowdrey, Paul Terry and Malcolm Marshall and was planning to bat in a left-handed stance if he had needed to face a ball. What bravery and how poignant that this could be the last we see of Woakes at Test level. The 36-year-old looks certain to miss the Ashes that starts in November through injury and may not have been picked anyway because age has started to catch up with him in this series. If this is the end for a popular and wholehearted character then Woakes gave us an indelible final image. It has been a series of players carrying on with serious injury, with Rishabh Pant batting with a broken foot at Old Trafford and Shoaib Bashir bowling England to victory at Lord's with a broken finger. But all that has done is reignite the debate over why cricket will not allow full substitutes, with former England captain Michael Vaughan being the strongest advocate in favour of replacements for serious injuries. One important voice against them remains England captain Stokes, even though the absence of Woakes played a big part in England's Oval defeat. 'I just don't see it being a thing,' said Stokes. 'I'm sorry to say this but if someone gets injured, tough s***. I'm still heavily against it but it's just sod's law that this happened the week after I said I was against subs.' Everyone expected Jasprit Bumrah to be India's main bowling weapon in this series but, incredibly, the best bowler in the world was absent for both of his side's victories and played in the two England wins and the draw in Manchester. Instead, it was Mohammed Siraj who became the most important bowling figure and the face of the series. Siraj was simply indefatigable in playing in all five Tests and bowling more than 180 overs, taking 23 wickets along the way. He was still running in on the final morning, hitting 90mph just before he bowled Atkinson with a perfect yorker and brought out one last Cristiano Ronaldo celebration. At Lord's, Siraj was inconsolable when Bashir bowled him to give England a narrow victory. Now, across the capital at the Oval, he was at the centre of wild Indian celebrations. Test series are usually well-behaved affairs these days, with match referees ready to pounce on any sign of indiscipline and players from around the world being much more familiar and friendly with each other because of the franchise circuit. Not this one. There has been a large dollop of spice ever since Zak Crawley was told to 'grow a pair of f****** balls' by India captain Shubman Gill when he and Ben Duckett somehow contrived to stop India bowling more than one over in the seven remaining minutes of the third day at Lord's. Advertisement Things reached a head when England wanted to end the fourth Test as it became clear the match was destined for a draw, but India batted on for Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar to complete centuries. That man Siraj had to be involved, too, losing 15 per cent of his match fee for screaming into the face of Ben Duckett at Lord's in the only incident to attract attention from the powers that be. Perhaps the most provocative moment of all came when Akash Deep put his arm round Duckett after he had dismissed him at the Oval. You just don't do that and Deep was lucky Duckett did not react in a more aggressive way. Bat very much dominated ball throughout, at least until the more bowler-friendly surface of the Oval, and this became the first five-Test series in which more than 7,000 runs were scored. Gill was in his first series as India captain and led the way with the bat, making an incredible 754 runs, the most by any India captain in any series. But Gill proved himself still very much a work in progress tactically and often leaned towards the defensive. Not least when he left every fielder on the boundary during England's last-wicket stand on Monday with only one ball of an over remaining, allowing Atkinson to shield Woakes from the strike. Still, Gill will return home a hero and a worthy successor to the big two previous captains in Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Talking of injuries, another indelible image of the series came at Old Trafford when Stokes continued to bowl in the face of India's defiance in holding out for a draw even though he had clearly seriously injured his own shoulder. He was subsequently ruled out of the final Test with a grade-three tear and was hugely missed at the Oval. Stokes was in the form of his life with the ball before his injury, bowling more overs — 140 — and taking more wickets — 17 — than ever before in a series. He made his first Test century for two years in Manchester, too, and is more important, at 34, than he has ever been for England. The man is simply irreplaceable and it is no exaggeration to say England's hopes of upsetting Australia and winning the Ashes this winter are almost totally dependent on their captain regaining full fitness before the first Test in Perth on November 21. It has to be the return of Jofra Archer after an absence of more than four years from first-class cricket to play in the third and fourth Tests. How he marked the moment, too, by taking the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal with his third ball at Lord's and remained a potent 90mph-plus force throughout the third Test. Advertisement Archer's speeds were a little down on the flattest pitch of them all at Old Trafford but he did enough to prove he remains an important Test weapon for England, particularly in Australia this winter. What credit Archer deserves for never giving up on playing Test cricket again throughout serious injury problems. He could easily have just taken the T20 franchise circuit dollar and earned himself more money for bowling fewer overs, but he has never stopped wanting to play Test cricket and the ultimate form of the game is all the better for his presence. There were 19 centuries in the series and the best of them belonged to Harry Brook in the second innings at the Oval when he showed touches of genius in making his 10th hundred in just his 30th Test. This was a performance reminiscent of Kevin Pietersen when he made a century on this same Oval ground to save a Test and win the Ashes for England 20 years ago but, like KP, there will always be debate over the ways Brook gets himself out. Take this game. Brook was totally on top of the Indian attack and England were romping towards their target of 374 when he danced down the wicket to Akash Deep, saw his bat fly out of his hand and the ball loop gently to Siraj at extra cover. Reckless? Irresponsible? Well, if Brook had not played in this audacious way in the first place, he would never have made 111 off 98 balls and left India seemingly down and out. We simply have to take the occasional rough with the smooth with Brook and England's Bazballers in general because the good very much outweighs the bad. It was in around 2010 that Graham Thorpe sat down with a group of journalists during a press briefing at Loughborough and told us England had a special batting talent in the making. His name was Joe Root, Thorpe told us, and he would go on to big things. How right he was and how special it was when Root took out one of the headbands that were made for this match to commemorate the late great Thorpe as he completed his 39th Test hundred. Thorpe was not only a great England batter but a hugely influential figure on Root, Stokes and many of this England team in his role as a coach. He was sorely missed on his home ground this week. Advertisement There is no question India deserved a share of the series. They were the better side throughout the bulk of the five matches and a 3-1 England victory would have flattered them, however heartbreaking it was for the hosts to fall six runs short at the end. It may be a cliche but cricket was the winner of a breathtaking series with the most fitting finale. That hour on the last day in front of another full house was as good as sport gets; certainly the best and most tense 60 minutes of any sport I have ever witnessed. And I'm pretty old. Test cricket is under threat like never before from the franchises, but this was why it remains the ultimate cricket format and the greatest of all games. 'It's been a pretty special series to be a part of,' said Stokes. 'It's been full of ups and downs and ebbs and flows. We want to constantly be promoting the game. This series has been great for that.' And so say all of us. Click here to follow cricket on The Athletic and see more stories like this.
