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India Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- India Today
Throw it in the bin: How Shreyas Iyer, PBKS overcame RCB qualifier 1 loss
PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer explained how he and his side were able to forget the Qualifier 1 loss to RCB to secure their place in the final with a win over MI on Sunday, June 1. Punjab were hammered by Bengaluru in Qualifier 1 but they bounced back brilliantly against Mumbai. Chasing a target of 204 runs, Shreyas led from the front as PBKS crossed the finish line with 5 wickets remained unbeaten on 87 and was adjudged as the Player Of The Match for his efforts. Speaking at the post-match presentation, the PBKS skipper said that the aim was to throw the imagination and recovery in the bin after the loss to RCB and keep the belief that one match couldn't define vs MI Qualifier 2: Highlights | Scorecard "Just throw the imagination and 'recovery' out in the bin. Throughout the season, we have played well. One match can't define us," said asked about getting ready for the final, Shreyas said he isn't thinking a lot about the upcoming match against RCB and feels that the job is only half done at the moment."I am just staying in the moment, cherishing the situation, going to the dressing room and celebrating with teammates getting into the final. I personally think that the job is only half done. So, I don't want to think too much about the final. Just go recover, get a massage and get ready for the game," said Shreyas.'I love the big occasions'advertisementShreyas became the first skipper to lead three different teams to an IPL final and his knock on the day consisted of five boundaries and eight sixes. When asked about how he was able to perform well in the high-pressure chase, Shreyas said that he loves the big occasions and said he was just focused on his breathing."I don't know, to be honest. I love such big occasions. I always say to myself and my colleagues that the bigger the occasion, the calmer you are and the better the results. I was focusing on my breathing rather than sweating out there in the middle," said and RCB will face off in the IPL 2025 final on June updated on IPL 2025 with India Today! Get match schedules, team squads, live score, and the latest IPL points table for CSK, MI, RCB, KKR, SRH, LSG, DC, GT, PBKS, and RR. Plus, keep track of the top contenders for the IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap. Don't miss a moment!Tune InTrending Reel IN THIS STORY#IPL 2025
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Allen unsure on Muratti future after Guernsey win
Guernsey captain Ross Allen says he has yet to decide if he will play in a Muratti Vase 38-year-old scored two goals in the 3-1 win over Jersey to end their rival's eight-year grip on the annual title. Veteran striker Allen won the Player of the Match award for a record fourth time - 14 years after first winning the Ossie Eloury Trophy - as he once again became the thorn in Jersey's side."If that is the last one it is a pretty special one," Allen, who captained Guernsey for the first time, told BBC Radio Guernsey."I'll just enjoy the moment and see how the body's feeling."I'm definitely going to play next season for Guensey FC. Whether I carry on from a Muratti point of view it's going to be how the body feels and who's pushing for a place in the squad."Sometimes you've got to step away to allow the next guy to come through."There will be a day very soon where that happens, so I'm not saying either way, but I just want to enjoy the day with such an amazing group of lads and friends."Having scored 311 goals in 356 games for Guernsey FC, Allen has been a stalwart of island football for the best part of two decades. He helped Guernsey qualify to represent England at the Uefa Regions' Cup in 2010 and helped the Sarnians to a 2015 Island Games gold medal. He now manages the Guernsey FA academy and says he is looking forward to seeing the young players he is helping to develop."I'm just so excited about the next crop coming through, and for them to get this feeling of winning, early on, and trying to get that regularly with Guernsey FC as well, it's going to be massive going forward."I'm really excited about what the future brings, even if that's not with me out there playing."
The Guardian
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘I don't know why I got the trophy': football's unusual player-of-the-match awards
'The Inter keeper Yann Sommer was named player of the match against Barcelona despite conceding three goals. He made some great saves so it wasn't undeserved, but I wondered if there were other unusual PotM awards,' says John Barrow. This season's Champions League tie between Real Madrid and Atlético will be remembered for Julián Alvarez's two-touch penalty being ruled out. Before that Alvarez had inspired Atlético to a 1-0 victory on the night that took the tie to a penalty shootout; he was Uefa's player of the match. Nick Berry could have written a song about it. In the modern era players are usually made to pose with their award regardless of the context. Hence the memetastic pictures of Kai Havertz and Alexandra Popp after Germany were eliminated at the group stage of the 2022 and 2023 World Cups, respectively. Both attempted to ascertain whether looks can kill a camera, never mind human beings. Kevin De Bruyne was almost as unimpressed when he was anointed after Belgium's scruffy 1-0 win over Canada at Qatar 2022. Online votes were used to decide the player of the match at the tournament, which led to a few eyebrow-raising winners. 'I don't think I played a great game,' said De Bruyne. 'I don't know why I got the trophy, maybe it's because of the name.' Christian Eriksen was named player of the match as a symbolic gesture after suffering a cardiac arrest during the match against Finland at Euro 2020. Denmark lost that game 1-0, and Eriksen joined a surprisingly long list of players who have been named player of the match at a major tournament despite their team losing. The Danes were involved in another such example 19 years earlier when they ended France's miserable, goalless World Cup defence with a 2-0 victory in Incheon. France had rushed back a half-fit Zinedine Zidane in the hope of a miracle; you can probably guess who took the award. Zidane didn't play particular badly, but according to Sofascore's World Cup performance archive – which we think comes from the Opta database – he was the joint-11th best player on the field that day. A week earlier Rivaldo was the man of the match, as it was called then, after making one and scoring one in Brazil's 2-1 victory over Turkey. So far, so fair. But that game is remembered solely for his risible playacting in injury time to get Hakan Unsal sent off. Presumably the MotM decision had already been taken and it didn't occur to anyone that it could be changed, or at least be renamed the Foul Play Award. We should stress that most of these awards are unusual rather than undeserved. In the Women's FA Cup final of 2020, Everton keeper Sandy MacIver performed heroically to take the match against Manchester City to extra-time. City's class eventually told in a 3-1 win but MacIver was player of the match. Here's that longer list of individual award-winning players on the losing side at major tournaments. Goalkeepers are in italics, and you'll probably spot a pattern: Euro 96 final Czech Republic 1-2 Germany (PotM: Karel Poborsky) Euro 2000 Netherlands 1-0 Czech Republic (Pavel Nedved); Italy 2-1 Sweden (Henrik Larsson); France 2-1 Italy (Francesco Totti*) * At least according to this Uefa page. The official technical report of the tournament gives it to Thierry Henry. Anyone got any correction fluid? World Cup 2002 Denmark 2-0 France (Zinedine Zidane); Germany 1-0 USA (Claudio Reyna) World Cup 2006 England 0-0 Portugal (1-3 pens, Owen Hargreaves) World Cup 2014 Italy 0-1 Uruguay (Gianluigi Buffon); Belgium 2-1 USA (Tim Howard); Netherlands 2-1 Mexico (Guillermo Ochoa); Netherlands 0-0 Costa Rica (4-3 pens, Keylor Navas) World Cup 2018 Croatia 1-1 Denmark (3-2 pens, Kasper Schmeichel) World Cup 2019 England 1-0 Argentina (Vanina Correa); Netherlands 2-1 Canada (Christine Sinclair); USA 3-0 Chile (Christiane Endler) Euro 2020 Denmark 0-1 Finland (Christian Eriksen) The Keylor Navas award in 2014 is especially interesting because the match is remembered for another goalkeeper – Tim Krul, who was brought on specifically before the penalty shootout and became the hero. Finally, Ollie Watkins only played nine minutes (plus added time) against the Netherlands in last year's European Championship semi-final but his dramatic late winner made him an irresistible choice for player of the match. 'Sporting Kansas City became the first team in MLS history to win a match without a shot on goal,' writes George Jones. 'They defeated the defending champion Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 thanks to a first-half own goal. Has this happened in other leagues, then. Many examples?' It's worth reiterating that Sporting Kansas City didn't have a single shot at goal, never mind on target, which is extraordinary. One-nil wins in which the victors had no efforts on target are more common; thanks to all of you who sent in the below examples. Premier League 2003-04 Manchester City 0-1 Middlesbrough (Sun Jihai og) Premier League 2005-06 West Brom 0-1 Sunderland (Steve Watson og) Serie A 2021-22 Napoli 0-1 Spezia (Juan Jesus og) Brasileiro Serie A 2023 Cruzeiro 1-0 São Paulo (Rafinha og) Euro 2024 playoff Wales 0-0 Poland (4-5 pens) WSL 2024-25 Tottenham 1-0 Leicester (Janina Leitzig og) 'Has a player ever scored a hat-trick for a title-winning club but not received a winners' medal due to lack of appearances?' asks Masai Graham. We can think of at least one example. Ronnie Rosenthal arrived at Anfield in March 1990 with Liverpool locked in an arm-wrestle for the title with Aston Villa. Rosenthal scored a jaw-dropping hat-trick on his full debut, a 4-0 win at Charlton, and added four more goals at Anfield as Liverpool accelerated to the title. The lateness of his arrival – until 2002-03 the transfer deadline was in March – meant he was unable to play the 10 games required for an official medal in those days. He had to settle for a key role in Liverpool's last title of the 20th century: eight games, seven goals. And we're pretty sure somebody will have given him a medal. 'I remember watching MotD about 30 or more years ago, when there was a technical hitch and the pictures from the match ended abruptly,' recalled Bill Wilson in 2007. 'The camera instantly defaulted to a relaxed Jimmy Hill in the studio with his feet on a desk, smoking a pipe, reading a broadsheet. He obviously wasn't expecting it! Can you or anybody remember the game/date/etc. And does any video exist of the event?' 'At last ... someone else who remembers the Jimmy Hill pipe incident,' enthuses Gareth Morgan. 'It was hilarious, although didn't happen quite as Bill describes: the show in question was not MotD but Nationwide. At the end of Friday evening's edition, Jimmy Hill used to host a 10-minute slot called Sportswide, where he previewed the weekend's sport. One time, the clip from some highlights ended abruptly and Jimmy suddenly returned to the screen still sat at his desk but smoking his pipe and chatting to someone off-camera; he turned to look at the camera, realised he was back live, gave a stupid grin, muttered something like 'oh we're back' and put his pipe under the desk and carried on with the show. I'm not sure of the exact date, but it would have been in 1976 or 1977.' We couldn't find the video in question, but here's Jimmy and his pipe in the MotD studio. 'Leyton Orient's Charlie Kelman was four yards offside when he scored against Stockport in the playoffs,' begins Jessica Hibbert. 'What's the furthest a player has been indisputably offside before going on to score?' 'Venezuelan footballer Darwin Machís has been relegated four seasons in a row, all from La Liga: with Granada in 2022; Real Vallodolid in 2023, Cádiz in 2024 (he was on loan), and again with Real Valladolid this year,' notes Derek Robertson. 'Surely nobody can top this?' 'In terms of aggregate league position, will Tottenham v Manchester United be the worst European final ever?' asks Phil Taylor (and dozens of others). 'Brian Graham has just scored his 100th goal for Partick Thistle at the age of 37 having not joined the club until the age of 32. Has anyone ever reached a century after joining so late in their career?' writes Calum Stewart. 'Barcelona joined Roma (2018) in losing a Champions League semi-final despite scoring six goals,' notes Dan Almond. 'Has a team ever scored more across two legs of a major semi-final and still been beaten?' Mail us with your questions and answers.
NDTV
01-05-2025
- Sport
- NDTV
Sanjay Manjrekar's 'Individual Brilliance' Retort Amid Virat Kohli Strike Rate Row
Former Indian cricket team batter Sanjay Manjrekar pointed out that Royal Challengers Bengaluru's success in the ongoing IPL 2025 can be attributed to teamwork and not any individual brilliance. In his column for Hindustan Times, Manjrekar wrote that RCB had six different Player Of The Match winners in the seven wins - a fact that proves that they have clicked as a team. In the past, RCB have been overly dependent on massive names like Virat Kohli, AB De Villiers and Chris Gayle. However, even with Virat performing brilliantly this year, Manjrekar wrote that their teamwork is a great sign. "For starters, in the seven wins so far, RCB have had six different players as Player-of-the-Match with Krunal Pandya receiving this honour twice. Basically, RCB have had many different heroes through the season and this is always a great sign to look for in a team; a team that's not dependent on a couple of players to win matches," Manjrekar wrote in the column. "Individual brilliance can win you some matches but to win consistently you need multiple infusions of brilliance through different sources. Like it's in other formats, it's the bowling attack that sets a team apart; yes, batting is important, but this time around RCB's bowling unit has been in top form," he added. Manjrekar found himself in a bit of controversy for his comments on Virat's strike rate and that resulted in Virat's brother - Vikas - taking a dig at him on social media. The former India star doubled down on his analysis and said that although media tends to praise batters, RCB bowlers have been the real heroes. "Our media tends to focus on the batter a lot, but this is another case in point where the batters are in the spotlight but it's the bowlers who get the points. Krunal Pandya has been Player-of-the-Match twice for RCB this season, but how many times has he really made the headlines or basked in the limelight?" Listen to the latest songs, only on
