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England winning an Ashes Test Australia had all-but won or Sri Lanka’s marathon fourth-innings chase against a battling Zimbabwe?

ESPNcricinfo staff06-May-2025Update: This poll has ended. The ENG-AUS 2019 Leeds Test moves to the round of 16.

The greatest heist Stokes pulled – Leeds, 2019

Was it the ending, the unbroken 76-run stand for the last wicket between Ben Stokes and Jack Leach? Or the fact that one of the batters scored 74 (in 45 balls) and the other 1 (in 17 balls) in that partnership? Or that the winners had scored 67 in their first innings and then hit 362 for 9 in the chase in a Test where 246 was the next-best total?Maybe all of the above. But the drama of the Stokes-Leach partnership is what perhaps made it all so memorable.Australia won the first Test and the second was drawn, so England wanted to win this one at Headingley to stay in the contest, harbour dreams of winning the Ashes. But after Australia were bowled out for 179 in the first innings, all England could put up was 67, with Joe Denly top-scoring with 12. Back to Australia, and this time they put up 246.Was the pitch getting better for batting? It didn’t seem so when England were 15 for 2 in their chase of 359, and then 159 for 4 with Joe Root gone, and then 286 for 9. Stokes, the No. 5, was on 61 at the time. Off 174 balls. So 2-0 to Australia? But with last-man Leach for company, Stokes switched something on. He hit four fours and seven sixes from that point, keeping Leach away from the strike as much as possible, before finishing it off with a flay through the covers off Pat Cummins.

Sri Lanka pull off a record chase – Colombo (RPS), 2017

How difficult could Zimbabwe make it for Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka in a Test match?Very, as it turned out.Craig Ervine hit 160 in close to six hours after Zimbabwe had opted to bat. They scored 356. Sri Lanka had two half-centurions – Upul Tharanga and Dinesh Chandimal – as they fell ten runs short.Surely Zimbabwe couldn’t do it again against Rangana Herath and everyone else.Yes, they could.Even top it.This time Sikandar Raza was the star, with 127, again in just under six hours, and Sri Lanka had to chase 388. Only four times had a bigger target been chased down in a Test match at that point, and never in Asia.Again, there was no century-maker. Forget that, Sri Lanka were five down for 203, still 185 in arrears. But Niroshan Dickwella and Asela Gunaratne weren’t done yet. Both scored 80s – Dickwella 81 and Gunaratne 80 not out – and Zimbabwe’s fight eventually fizzled out.

كشف مصدر أن اتحاد الكرة حدد موعد إعلان قراره في أزمة الزمالك، ولاعب الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي الحالي، والأبيض السابق، أحمد سيد زيزو.

وكان زيزو قد حضر إلى مقر اتحاد الكرة، في جلسة استماع رسمية أمام اللجنة القانونية، منذ شهرين، على خلفية الشكاوى المقدمة ضده من الزمالك، بحجة توقيعه للأهلي في فترة غير قانونية.

وقدم دفاع اللاعب مستندات رسمية تؤكد أن توقيعه للأهلي جاء في فترة قانونية لا تخالف اللوائح، كما نفى تماما أحقية الزمالك في الحصول على أي نسب مالية من الإعلانات التي ظهر فيها اللاعب.

طالع.. خاص | كواليس ومفاجآت.. تفاصيل جلسة التحقيق مع زيزو في اتحاد الكرة

أما زيزو فقد قدم شكوى ضد الزمالك، كما حضر والده في الجلسة، وقدم أوراقًا تثبت أن مستحقات نجله المتأخرة لدى الزمالك تبلغ نحو 82.5 مليون جنيه، مطالبا بالحصول على المبلغ كاملًا.

وأكد مصدر باللجنة القانونية لاتحاد الكرة لـ بطولات: “ننتظر أن يقدم الزمالك مستنداته للرد على زيزو، وأعطيناه مهلة حتى يوم 30 نوفمبر المقبل”.

وتابع: “بعد 30 نوفمبر سنتخذ قرارنا، وسيكون لصالح زيزو ولكن لم يتحدد المبلغ الذي سنصدره له”.

واختتم: “موقف الزمالك ضعيف؛ ولكن ننتظر أولًا المستندات التي سيقدمها الزمالك قبل يوم 30 نوفمبر، ثم سنصدر حكمنا النهائي”.

Kellaway, Crane claim three wickets apiece as Lancashire’s slim hopes unravel

ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay01-Aug-2025 Glamorgan 261 and 348 for 7 dec (Northeast 132, Carlson 108) beat Lancashire 137 and 318 (Wells 102, Harris 61) by 154 runs Glamorgan extinguished any hope of a record-breaking run-chase from Lancashire as they wrapped up a vital 154-run victory at Emirates Old Trafford which keeps them on course for promotion from Rothesay County Championship Division Two.After a delay for rain, in which 20 overs were lost, the hosts were faced with scoring 247 runs with five wickets in hand off the 76 remaining overs but with Marcus Harris at the crease accompanied by nightwatchman Tom Bailey, the Red Rose still held ambitions that a win could be salvaged from a game in which they had been dismissed for 137 in their first innings.It took just 45 minutes before lunch for Glamorgan to make huge strides towards the victory with Bailey bowled by a brilliant Asitha Fernando inswinging yorker for 16 to make it 259 for 6, with all-rounder Chris Green following 18 balls later, top edging a sweep to Kiran Carlson off Ben Kellaway for 9 to leave the score 270 for 7.With Harris remaining, Lancashire still harboured a glimmer of a chance, and the Australian reached a battling half-century off 89 balls. But when Harris was out for 61, caught at short leg by Carlson off the impressive Mason Crane, the game was well and truly up, with Tom Hartley and George Balderson left with an almost impossible task.Hartley, who had scored his maiden first class century in the previous match, could not repeat his heroics and was out bowled Kellaway, who finished with 3 for 82, for 5, to leave skipper James Anderson joining Balderson in the middle.The England bowling great brought out a few trademark reverse sweeps to elongate proceedings with Balderson also swinging his bat to good effect as the last pair put on 25 for the final wicket.The final act came at around 2.20pm when Anderson missed a sweep to hand Crane his third wicket of innings to finish with match figures of 9 for 126 and leave Glamorgan celebrating a first win at Emirates Old Trafford since 1993.For Lancashire it is a defeat which sees them further adrift in the Division Two promotion race with the result leaving the Red Rose 38 points behind a gleeful Glamorgan with three games remaining.

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