India performed brilliantly in the league stage and the team has won 9 out of 9 matches. Team India would like to continue its winning campaign when it faces New Zealand.
The first semi-final of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 will be played between India and New Zealand. This match is to be held at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In this match, the Indian team led by Rohit Sharma would like to not only avenge the 2019 World Cup semi-final defeat by defeating New Zealand but would also like to move one step closer to becoming the world champion. India performed brilliantly in the league stage and the team has won 9 out of 9 matches. Team India would like to continue its winning campaign when it faces New Zealand. In this match, Indian fans will also keep an eye on Rohit Sharma to see how he performs. Rohit Sharma can make many records in his name in the match against New Zealand.
Rohit can break many records simultaneously
Rohit Sharma can make many records in his name in this match. Rohit Sharma has scored 503 runs in 9 matches at an average of 55.88 in the current World Cup. During this period, one century and three half-centuries have come from his bat. If Rohit scores 76 more runs during the match against New Zealand, he will become the captain with the most runs in a single edition of the World Cup.
At the top of this list is Kane Williamson who scored 578 runs in the 2019 World Cup. Mahela Jayawardene (548) is at second place in the list of captains who have scored the most runs as a captain in one edition of the World Cup, while Ricky Ponting (539) is at third and Aaron Finch (507) is at fourth place.
Apart from this, Rohit Sharma is just 3 sixes away from becoming the batsman who has hit the most sixes in a single edition of the World Cup. The first place in this list is Chris Gayle, who hit 26 sixes in 2015. Rohit Sharma is at second place in this list. He has hit 24 sixes so far in the current tournament. Glenn Maxwell is at third place in this list and he has hit 22 sixes in the current tournament. Former England captain Eoin Morgan (2019) is at fourth place in this list with 22 sixes. Whereas Quinton de Kock has hit 21 sixes in the current tournament and he is fifth in the list of batsmen who have hit most sixes in a single edition of the World Cup.
Ferrari brings a special livery design for the Las Vegas GP
Jakarta - The Ferrari factory team will bring a special livery design to the Las Vegas Grand Prix which will take place on the Las Vegas Street Circuit this weekend.
Quoted from the official statement, Tuesday, Ferrari still carries its trademark red color on the SF-23 car which is combined with a few white design elements.
Apart from that, the racing suits and helmets worn by their two drivers, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, were also given the same design to celebrate Ferrari's appearance as it was in the 70s.
With Formula 1's return to Las Vegas fast approaching, the Italian team's design reflects the sport's first “golden age” in the United States, where Ferrari enjoyed some of the most memorable moments in its history.
Legendary racer Niki Lauda won two world titles at that time, in 1975 and 1977 to be precise. Apart from that, Clay Regazzoni also won in 1976, while Carlos Reutemann won in 1978. Further success followed in 1979 when Gilles Villeneuve scored two wins in Long Beach and Watkins Glen, United States.
Throughout the decade, there was a lot of white alongside Ferrari's signature red in its livery and the team decided to repeat that for this year's Las Vegas Grand Prix.
As well as Leclerc and Sainz's helmets and racing suits following the look, Ferrari partner Puma has also produced new team kit specifically for the race.
The exciting spectacle of the Las Vegas Grand Prix will present unique challenges for all F1 teams as they attempt to master a new track and a backdrop unlike any other.
The first practice will take place on Thursday (16/11) at 20.30 local time with qualifying starting at 00.00 local time on Saturday (18/11). Meanwhile, the main race will be held on Saturday night at 22.00 local time.
Euro 2024 qualifiers: Locatelli excluded from the Italy squad in two fateful matches
Italy will play its final two crucial matches in the European Cup 2024 qualifiers against North Macedonia and Ukraine on the 17th and 20th of this month without Manuel Locatelli, who withdrew from the squad.
The Italian national team coach, Luciano Spalletti, said in a press conference, “Locatelli has returned” to his team, without specifying the type of injury suffered by the Juventus midfielder, who has played 26 matches in the colors of the European champions so far.
Locatelli thus joined Milan captain Davide Calabria, Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret and Atalanta defender Rafael Tolui, who were also forced to withdraw from the national team squad after the twelfth stage of the local league.
Yesterday, Monday, Spalletti decided to use Lazio defender Manuel Lazzari (3 international matches) by including him in a squad whose number has now reached 26 players, after it was 29 last Friday when it was revealed.
Spalletti said that midfielder Jorginho, who returned to the national team for the first time since June, injured his head while participating last weekend with his team, Arsenal, in the English Premier League, and “we have to be careful, but we will need him.”
The Italian team, which occupies third place in Group C of the Euro 2024 qualifiers with 10 points, will host North Macedonia in the capital, Rome, on the 17th of this month, and three days later, Ukraine in the German city of Leverkusen.
Italy, which is 6 points behind leaders England and has secured its ticket to the finals, must score four points in its last two matches in order to obtain the second card in the group, otherwise it will be forced to enter the European Nations League playoff, for which three teams qualify.
Salah and the African stars begin a long journey to reach the 2026 World Cup match schedule and qualification system
Egyptian Mohamed Salah, the Moroccan national team, the fourth World Cup in Qatar, and the rest of the African continent’s stars this week begin a qualifying journey for the 2026 World Cup, through which nine teams will qualify directly to the World Cup.
The 54 teams (before Eritrea's withdrawal) were divided into nine groups of six teams, with the winner of each group qualifying directly to the expanded finals, which will include 48 teams instead of 32.
As for the four best teams that occupy second place in their group, the team that qualifies from them will compete in a continental play-off, with five teams in an international play-off to ensure a possible additional seat in the World Cup scheduled for the United States, Canada and Mexico.
If the African team secures this additional seat, the number of representatives of the African continent will increase to ten, compared to five in last year’s finals in Qatar.
The following is the program of matches for the first round of African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, GMT:
Wednesday 15 November
The first group
Ethiopia #Sierra Leone – 19:00
the second group
Democratic Republic of the Congo #Mauritania - 16:00
The third group
Rwanda #Zimbabwe - 13:00
Eighth group
Equatorial Guinea #Namibia - 13:00
Thursday 16 November
The first group
Egypt # Djibouti - 16:00
the second group
Sudan #Togo - 16:00
The third group
Nigeria #Lesotho - 16:00
Fourth group
Cape Verde #Angola - 19:00
Sixth group
Burundi #Gambia - 13:00
Gabon #Kenya -16:00
Seventh group
Botswana #Mozambique - 13:00
Algeria #Somalia - 16:00
Friday 17 November
The first group
Burkina Faso #Guinea Bissau - 19:00
Group Four
Eswatini #Libya - 13:00
Cameroon #Mauritius - 19:00
Group E
Zambia # Congo - 16:00
Morocco # Eritrea - canceled after Eritrea withdrew
Sixth group
Côte d'Ivoire #Seychelles - 19:00
Seventh group
Guinea #Uganda - 13:00
Eighth group
Liberia #Malawi - 16:00
Tunisia # Sao Tome and Principe - 19:00
Ninth group
Comoros #Central African Republic - 13:00
Ghana # Madagascar - 16:00
Mali #Chad - 19:00
Saturday 18 November
the second group
Senegal #South Sudan - 19:00,
third group
South Africa #Benin - 13:00
Fifth group
Niger#Tanzania - 16:00.