An amateur football player in France has been banned for five years after biting an opponent's penis, while his victim has also received punishment.

Neither player involved in the incident could be named for legal reasons, which took place in November 2019.

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AnAS Soetrich player attacked an SC Terville opponent after he attempted to calm a scuffle during the match between the two sides.

The Soetrich player's action was so violent that the Terville man required emergency attention, which resulted in around 10 stitches and four days without work to start the recovery.

The Moselle region's disciplinary committee convened more than two months later to finally decide what action to take and opted for a five-year suspension for the offender.

"Witness accounts, in particular, were gathered in order to retrace the facts as accurately as possible," director general for the body Emmanuel Saling told Lorraine Actu. "All of that before returning the conclusions over to the disciplinary committee."

Soetrich themselves were also punished and received a €200 fine because of their player's brutal act.

However, incredibly, so too did the Terville player -- a ban until June 2020 for aggressive behaviour towards an opponent.

Terville were punished for their leaders' "lack of reaction" towards the incident with a €200 fine and a two point deduction in the league.

Saling added to Lorraine Actu that such violence is "rare" in amateur French football.

Atletico Madrid's players are angry after Jurgen Klopp accused them of play-acting and trying to get Sadio Mane sent off in Liverpool's 1-0 defeat at the Metropolitano, dressing room sources have told ESPN.

Klopp said that he substituted Mane at half time in the Champions League round of 16 first leg game to avoid the Senegal forward receiving a second yellow card.

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"It's part of football, I don't like it," Klopp said in his postmatch news conference. "The plan was to get Sadio out of the game with a yellow card.

"I was afraid that his opponent would go down if Sadio only took a deep breath. After 30 minutes, three Atletico players were on the ground, not even injured."

There was more criticism from Liverpool's players, with Andy Robertson having said the home side "started falling over and getting under the skin a bit" after Saul Niguez's fourth minute goal, while Virgil van Dijk said: "That is the way they play, that's Spanish football."

ESPN has been told that Atletico's players are surprised by the complaints, and said it is important to be "gracious" in defeat as well as in victory, and that Klopp should focus more on his own team's shortcomings, given that they "didn't get a shot on target in 90 minutes."

Klopp also suggested that the home side's players and fans had over-celebrated, with the second leg to come in three weeks' time.

"They got a result, the stadium wasn't here to see sensational football, they got the result and so they are happy," he said. "There are a lot of happy faces tonight from Atletico.

"It's only 1-0, we're not 5-0 down. We don't think it will be easy at our ground. For all Atletico fans who can get a ticket for the game, welcome to Anfield."

Atletico coach Simeone had been under huge pressure after a poor run of form going into the game saw them take just one win in seven matches, leaving them 13 points off the top of La Liga, and out of the Copa del Rey having been eliminated by third-tier Cultural Leonesa.

Sources close to the players told ESPN that they had never seen Simeone as unhappy as in the last month, but that the coach's mood -- and that of the dressing room -- have been transformed by Tuesday's result, while they accepted that "there is still the return leg to come" on a night when Anfield will be "a cauldron."

Later on Wednesday Atleti president Enrique Cerezo spoke at an event at the EFE news agency's headquarters in which he discussed Anfield.

He said: "Anfield is a great stadium, they have magnificent fans, but the last time we played there, I was president in that game too... if they had to pass a technical inspection here, they wouldn't do it in their lives. And they keep playing there. It's old."

MADRID -- How do you beat Liverpool? Just ask Diego Simeone, the coach who found a way to make Jurgen Klopp's Supermen look like a team of Clark Kents as Atletico Madrid claimed a 1-0 Champions League round-of-16 first-leg win at the Wanda Metropolitano on Tuesday.

Sometimes, old-school tenacity, organisation and a 4-4-2 -- that often-derided unimaginative formation -- can achieve what nothing else can. It all worked for Atleti, and their 1-0 win -- courtesy of Saul Niguez's fourth-minute goal -- has set up what promises to be a seismic second leg at Anfield next month.

Klopp had said in the build-up to this game that playing against Atletico is "one of the most difficult things as a footballer" and that "if you don't play at your very best, you have no chance." He was proved right, but if the Liverpool manager thought Atletico were tough to beat in this game, just wait until they turn up at Anfield with a lead to defend.

"I am fine," Klopp said after the game. "1-0 down at half-time, we have the longest half-time break and we will use that.

"Welcome to Anfield. It is not over yet."

Simeone and Atletico may not appeal to the purists, but there is still beauty in the way the team plays, if only for the rigid organisation and never-say-die spirit of the players in red and white stripes.

Sure, the final whistle in Madrid marked only the halfway point in this tie, and Liverpool will go into the return game as favourites to progress to the quarterfinals. But when Liverpool don't win a football match nowadays, it is big news, simply because they have become such an effective winning machine under Klopp.

Since lifting the European Cup for a sixth time, when beating Tottenham 2-0 at this stadium in last June's Champions League final, Liverpool have added the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup to their trophy cabinet. They have also built what is likely to be an unassailable 25-point lead at the top of the Premier League on the back of 25 wins in 26 games, drawing the other. But against Atletico, Liverpool ran into a wall of determination and defensive discipline -- as well as some typical Atleti belligerence -- and, all of a sudden, the best team in the world looked as human and vulnerable as everybody else.

Saul's goal, following Liverpool's failure to deal with an Atletico corner, was enough for the Spaniards, who went on to preserve Simeone's unbeaten home record in the Champions League by denying Klopp's men a single shot on target during the whole game. Just think about that. Not once did Liverpool, with the combined talents of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, force Atleti goalkeeper Jan Oblak into making a save.

It was such a frustrating night for Liverpool that Mane was substituted at half-time after being booked and escaping a red card for appearing to elbow defender Sime Vrsaljko. And then in the second half, Salah was taken off on 72 minutes after an anonymous performance.

But this wasn't simply Liverpool having an off night. This was an occasion when their opponents turned the screw so tightly that they could not find a way to cut loose and play their usual blistering attacking game.

And that was all down to Simeone and his players, who chased and tackled every Liverpool opponent, at times surrounding the likes of Mane and Salah with three defenders whenever they had the ball. They also made full-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson careless in possession and forced the pair into mistakes. Even Virgil van Dijk was made to look anything but flawless by the persistence of Argentine forward Angel Correa.

And it was all played out to a night of raucous noise, inside and outside the stadium, with Simeone conducting the crowd from the touchline and demanding more and more from his players as the game wore on. Klopp was quick to remind Atletico after the game that they must yet overcome the experience of playing at Anfield before thinking about winning this tie, but such is the mentality of Simeone and his players that it is difficult to envisage them collapsing in front of The Kop as the likes of Barcelona, Roma and Manchester City have in recent seasons.

Atletico will relish the opportunity to go there and spend 90 minutes resisting a Liverpool onslaught, throwing their bodies in the way of everything to get the result. They will break up play, commit technical fouls, hound Liverpool's players and make it an ugly encounter. They will pose a unique challenge to Liverpool, and the prospect of a fit-again Diego Costa offering Atletico an attacking outlet, as well as adding to the siege mentality, will make life only more difficult for Klopp's men.

As Klopp said, this tie is not over yet, but there is a distinct impression with Atletico that, rather than fear Anfield, they will actually be motivated by the prospect of dethroning the European champions there. Get set for another pulsating European night at Anfield, but the story might be a different one this time.

When it comes to evaluating coaches and managers, we lean heavily on clichés and stereotypes. It's impossible to avoid: We don't have access to the training room, and we aren't exposed to a lot of team- and personnel-specific dynamics. Therefore, we lean on things like "he's a poor man-manager" and "he's lost the locker room." We coin phrases like "third-year syndrome" to describe how a team stops listening to its manager over time.

These clichés get overused, but there's also a reason they become clichés: They're often true. Some certainly were as Tottenham Hotspur slowly unraveled from a once-dominant form under now-former manager Mauricio Pochettino.

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Granted, Pochettino suffered more from sixth-year syndrome -- he actually found his greatest rhythm during his third year in North London -- but over time, his team drastically lost touch with its original identity, and it appeared that effort and intensity had something to do with it. He lost the locker room, if you will. Spurs rose to among Europe's best with a manic, speedy, aggressive pressing style, but that had vanished almost completely by the time he was fired in November.

Let's compare some key stats from Spurs' final 23 league matches of the 2016-17 season to his final 23 league matches with the club. The former sample represents Pochettino's Tottenham peak -- Spurs earned 59 points in the final 23 games of that season (2.57 points per match, a nearly 100-point pace over a full season) -- while the latter sample represents his lowest point. They had just 25 points when he was fired (average: 1.09 per match).

It's like these teams were coached by two completely different managers, and in a way, Spurs ended up caught between identities. They deployed a reasonably high defensive line but rarely pressed effectively. They were playing a possession-based game that, without turnovers in the opponent's end, didn't really go anywhere. They became sloppy in the back as well, giving up more turnovers and scoring chances than they created. They had become very mediocre.

Pochettino had to fight injury issues, and Spurs' roster was perhaps a bit too stagnant at times. Still, considering how assertively they had played in the Champions League this fall -- it's a small sample, of course, but they managed 1.67 points per match, 11.2 chances and 9.8 chances allowed per 90, 3.2 possessions won in the attacking third -- you could deduce that effort and intensity were at least part of the problem in league play.

You could also deduce that those problems have been minimized since the appointment of Jose Mourinho as Pochettino's replacement.

Mourinho was a hired gun of sorts, a well-traveled coach -- Tottenham are his ninth club in 20 seasons -- and the man with whom "third-year syndrome" is most commonly tied. But he generally knows how to spruce up a room, and through three months in London, he has seemingly tied together an identity that knits the best parts of Spurs' roster and former identity (an active front line) with the pragmatism that has been his calling card. At this point in his career, Mourinho has forgone any sort of possession identity, instead crafting an attack based around caution in the back and explosive counter-attacks up the middle of the pitch.

There has been some experimentation to get to this point. You could say that we're watching the third phase of Mourinho's first Tottenham season, and that the fourth is right around the corner.

Phase 1, Nov. 20 to Jan. 1: All about structure

- 8 Premier League matches, 2.0 points per match (5 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses)
- 2 Champions League matches, 1.5 points per match (1 win, 1 loss)

After an over-reliance on Toby Alderweireld and Moussa Sissoko for ball control, Mourinho's first goal as manager appeared to be creating more even ball distribution and structure.

Compare these two touch maps from Opta. These maps show you the 11 players with the most minutes, along with their most common positioning. The larger the name, the more touches they had.

Here are Spurs' touches during Pochettino's time in 2019:

Here are the touches for Mourinho's first 10 matches:

A better structure, combined with the temporary upgrade in effort typically associated with a managerial change -- especially up front from striker Harry Kane and attacking midfielder Christian Eriksen -- allowed Spurs to pretty quickly become a solid attacking squad again, primarily against lesser teams. They beat West Ham United, Bournemouth, Burnley, Brighton, Wolves and, in Champions League play, Olympiakos. But they also lost to Manchester United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, and in these first 10 matches as Mourinho got to know his charges, they allowed an un-Mourinho-like two-plus goals six times.

Then Kane and Sissoko got hurt. Plus, near the end of the January transfer window, they finally sold Eriksen to Inter Milan after months of transfer-related drama.

Phase 2, Jan. 1 to Jan. 22: Injuries slow Spurs down

- 3 Premier League matches, 0.3 points per match (1 draw, 2 losses)

Kane's increased effort up front -- he went from averaging 0.4 possessions won in the attacking third per 90 minutes to 1.3 under Mourinho -- was helping to carry the team through the transition period, but he then suffered a significant hamstring injury. Sissoko injured his knee, too, and Spurs lost to Southampton and Liverpool by identical 1-0 scores before limping through a 0-0 draw with Watford.

Perhaps it was lucky that these injuries came about after the late-December crush of matches: Spurs played only three matches in the first 21 days of January, both preventing them from dropping points during this poor run of form and giving Mourinho more time to figure out some answers. It appears he's found some.

Phase 3, Jan. 22 to Feb. 18: The counter-attack is back

- 3 Premier League matches, 3.0 points per match (3 wins)
- 2 FA Cup matches (1 win, 1 draw)

The offense has returned. In the five matches beginning with Spurs' 2-1 win over Norwich on Jan. 22, they have scored 11 goals. They beat Southampton 3-2 in an FA Cup fourth-round replay, they upset Manchester City 2-0, and on Sunday, they survived an aggressive Aston Villa 3-2 with a late goal from newfound catalyst Son Heung-Min.

Son played only about 63% of minutes during the Phase 1 period above, but in these past five matches he has played in every second, scoring six of the team's 11 goals and providing a center of gravity that Spurs lacked in Kane's immediate absence.

Here are Spurs' touches from these five matches:

Son's pure pace has allowed Mourinho to play to his base instincts, keeping his players deep and creating space for counter-attacks. And with increased roles for active midfielders Harry Winks and Giovani Lo Celso, Spurs are attempting to dominate the middle of the field while ceding the wings.

Well, they were. On Tuesday, the club announced that Son had suffered a fractured arm against Villa, an injury that could see him miss the rest of the season, according to his manager.

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So now what? Does Mourinho attempt the same identity, only with veteran Erik Lamela or 22-year-old Steven Bergwijn on the wing instead of Son? Does he push attacking midfielder Dele Alli or Lo Celso -- about whom he said "I think now he can play everywhere" last week -- out wide? Does he try something completely different? He doesn't have much time to come up with a creative answer, as Champions League knockout play begins for Spurs on Wednesday.

It was pretty easy to see that the two main goals for Mourinho in 2019-20 would be (1) getting Spurs back in league position to qualify for next year's Champions League, and (2) continuing to advance in this year's Champions League.

As far as the former goes, they're up to fifth place in league play, just one point behind fourth-place Chelsea, and they've played all four games against the top two teams (Liverpool and Manchester City). Thanks to City's recent UEFA competition ban, Tottenham now have a 49% chance of qualifying for the Champions League, per FiveThirtyEight's club soccer ratings, up from 18% in mid-November. The 49% doesn't take Son's injury into account, but on the bright side, the 18% didn't account for Kane/Sissoko, either.

Those same ratings give them only a 34% chance of advancing past RB Leipzig in this year's round of 16, however. They're currently the 18th-ranked club overall, while Leipzig have climbed past Chelsea into seventh.

Wednesday's match in London will set the tone, and it's easy to see a cat-versus-mouse matchup unfolding. Even with Son, Spurs allowed relegation battlers Villa to control 55 percent of the possession in Sunday's match (60 percent in the first 60 minutes), and Leipzig have been one of the most possession-heavy teams in Champions League play this year.

Bayern enjoyed 70% of the possession in their mid-December matchup with Spurs, while Liverpool and Man City both had 67% possession against Mourinho & Co. in January. RBL aren't quite on that from a possession standpoint, but they're close. "Hunker down, then counter" seems like a pretty predictable Mourinho approach here.

That said, I'm curious about Leipzig's own approach. A particularly easy Champions League group helped to sculpt those high possession numbers, and in Bundesliga play their possession has been more in the 50-55% range. Meanwhile, in a 0-0 draw at Bayern last week -- a huge result that kept them neck-and-neck in the league race -- they elected to sit deep, play physically and counter-attack. Bayern had 70% of the possession in the first half and completed 341 passes to RBL's 103, while Leipzig committed seven fouls while attempting to soften Bayern up.

It was an approach that would have made Mourinho or Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone proud, and it nearly worked. Leipzig were lucky to be tied at halftime but took total control of the match for the first 20-25 minutes of the second half and were unlucky not to take the lead in the process, with leading goal scorer Timo Werner missing a couple of prime opportunities to put the Red Bulls ahead. (Werner has fallen into a mini-slump of sorts: He is scoreless in 13 shots in his past four matches.)

With speedy attacking midfielder Christopher Nkunku and the likes of Marcel Halstenberg and Marcel Sabitzer pushing forward, Leipzig are strong counter-attackers in their own right. Needing only a draw on the road to feel pretty good about their chances of advancing in the return match at home, they could attempt to draw Tottenham upfield to set up vertical opportunities for themselves instead of hoarding possession.

This could be one of the more tactically interesting matchups of the round of 16, but more than that, it will go a long way in determining how we end up judging Mourinho's first (two-thirds of a) season in North London.

Cheteshwar Pujara, the Indian top-order batsman, will play six County Championship fixtures for Gloucestershire this season after signing a short-term deal with the club.

Gloucestershire, who will be playing in Division One for the first time since 2005 after winning promotion last season, will be Pujara's fourth county, following spells at Derbyshire (2014), Yorkshire (2015 and 2018) and Nottinghamshire (2017).

Pujara is one of only two Test specialists in the contracted list of 27 Indian players not to feature in the IPL, making him available for the start of the English season.

His first game will be the season opener against Yorkshire at Headingley on April 12, and he will leave immediately before the T20 Blast starts at the end of May. Qais Ahmad, the Afghanistan legspinner, will play the final six Championship games as well as the whole of the Blast, while the club does not currently have an overseas player for the mid-season games against Somerset and Hampshire.

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Pujara will be the club's first Indian player since Javagal Srinath in 1995, who took 87 Championship wickets at 19.09 apiece after being recommended to the county by Courtney Walsh.

"I am really excited to get the opportunity to represent Gloucestershire this season," Pujara said. "The club has a rich cricketing history, and this is a great opportunity to be a part of it and contribute to its success.

"I am grateful to the club for giving me this opportunity and cannot wait to get to Bristol to meet my teammates and score some runs. I have really enjoyed the experience of coming over to the UK and playing county cricket over the last few years and I am looking forward to building on that whilst continuing to improve my game."

Pujara's record in County Championship cricket is surprisingly underwhelming. He averages 29.93 across 36 innings in the competition, including a six-game spell with Yorkshire in 2018 in which he failed to make a single half-century.

Richard Dawson, Gloucestershire head coach, said: "Cheteshwar is a player with great temperament who will add international experience to the squad. He is undoubtedly one of the best batsmen in world cricket and we are very fortunate to have him in our squad for the start of the County Championship campaign.

"Adding Pujara to a strong batting line-up gives me great confidence ahead of our opening County Championship matches."

Alyssa Healy will trust her instincts as she looks to put an end to the run of low scores that has brought two years of prolific returns to a juddering halt just before the T20 World Cup.

Healy made scores of 9, 1, 0, 1, 4 in the tri-series against England and India - the first time she has made five single-digit scores in a row in T20Is - and followed that with 9 against South Africa in Australia's final warm-up match before the tournament starts on Friday in Sydney when they face India.

The ragged start to her 2020 comes after two outstanding years . In 2018, she averaged 41.28 with a strike rate of 145.95, during which Australia won the previous T20 World Cup, and in 2019, where her average was 53.14 with a strike rate of 173.02, including the world record 148 not out against Sri Lanka.

Healy has been given the full backing to continue with a "high risk" style of play by coach Matthew Mott and captain Meg Lanning, who said she would be more worried if her opener started blocking, and Healy is confident the good times will return when it really matters.

"My mindset hasn't changed and the messaging I'm getting from Meg, the coaching staff and selectors is not to change and just go out there and enjoy my cricket," Healy said as the Australians arrived in Sydney on Wednesday ahead of the tournament opener. "It will come off at some point, and not at others. The last two years have been an unbelievable ride and hopefully I can maintain that.

"Honestly, I've been hitting the ball fine and haven't been out there long enough to lose any form. From my point of view, it's the fickle nature of cricket and especially the T20 format. I like to take the game on and sometimes you will get low scores. Hopefully come Friday I'll get a little bit of luck, get a score on the board and put the team in a good position."

Her spirit is intact, as she jokes that she isn't the type who likes to watch her successful innings when the going gets tough. "Personally I hate watching myself bat because all I ever wanted to bat like was Ricky Ponting and it doesn't look like him one bit," she said. "I won't go back and watch any footage, but I will run through mentally what was working for me then and prepare as well as I can."

And when Ash Gardner explained that her No. 3 role was largely tactical depending on who got out first but that she has enjoyed her extended run in the position, Healy interjected: "I'm maxmising Ash's deliveries at the minute, so you're all welcome."

Still, Healy's poor run has been part of an Australia batting line-up that hasn't really clicked in the build-up to the tournament. Beth Mooney has carried them at the top of the order - scoring 208 runs at 52.00 in the tri-series - with Gardner at No. 3 but they have needed a number of lower-order contributions. They stumbled to two defeats in the tri-series (one by a Super Over against England) before digging deep against India to take the final but there isn't much room for error in the T20 World Cup. A mis-step in the opening match could leave them needing three wins from three matches to progress.

"It's probably great that a lot of the sides are getting hits leading into the tournament," Healy said. "The beauty of T20 is you only need one batter at a time to potentially win a game and it's been a different person in each game over the last couple of weeks."

Not that they mind the scrutiny of their form. In fact they are pleased with it. "We remarked on this on the bus on the way over, the amount of interest in how the squad is tracking from a form point of view is almost a bit unprecedented," Ellyse Perry said. "I've been quite vocal about this, about pushing people to take more interest in how the team is playing and be more critical, analyse the game, because that shows they are interested and people care.

"I guess it's Midge's [Healy's] turn in the spotlight a little at the moment but she's been playing some really good cricket in the last 22 months and that just doesn't flip on its head in a couple of weeks.

One advantage for Healy is that she has a second role in the team and her glovework has been sharp over the last few weeks.

"Seems to be everyone outside the group is panicking more than us. Handling all that, I think it's fantastic that people are talking about us and the tournament. It means people care and want to see Australia do well. Of course, I'd like to make a few more runs but if I'm just contributing with the gloves then so be it."

Nisarg Patel, the USA allrounder, has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect after an independent assessment found his action to be illegal.

Patel, a left-arm spinner, was reported after his side's ODI against Oman on February 11 in Kathmandu. He bowled seven overs in the game, returning figures of 0 for 37.

An assessment was then carried out by an expert panel, as per clause 4.7 of the ICC's illegal bowling regulations, which concluded that Patel's bowling action was above the permitted 15-degree level. His suspension will remain in place until he undertakes a review of his action by the ICC's expert panel, or is cleared by an ICC testing centre.

It is possible that Patel will continue to be picked as a batsman alone. While he averages just 20.28 in ODIs, he made a maiden half-century in the game against Oman earlier in the month from only 32 balls, USA's fastest ODI fifty.

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said the upcoming three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe will be Mashrafe Mortaza's last assignment as Bangladesh captain. He said that a new captain will be named "within a month" as Bangladesh plan the road ahead for the 2023 World Cup.

Hassan also said that the board will be "lenient" on the 36-year old Mortaza's fitness levels in the lead-up to the ODI series against Zimbabwe, which begins with the first match in Sylhet on March 1. However, after the home series against Zimbabwe, Mortaza's place in the squad will depend upon his form and fitness, according to Hassan.

"We have started to stress on beep tests so Mashrafe may not pass the beep tests, so we can drop him if he doesn't pass it," he said. "We also have to keep it in mind that Mashrafe's leadership was vital in the turnaround in Bangladesh cricket. But, the time has come for him to decide how long he wants to play. I think Mashrafe will play the ODI series against Zimbabwe, pending fitness. We will be lenient about his fitness. But very soon, we have to decide on the team and captain for the next World Cup. We don't have much time. We will take our decision after this ODI series."

Hassan said that Mortaza had agreed on a retirement match at home during the 2019 World Cup, but the captain later changed his mind. Earlier in January this year, Mortaza had said that he will keep playing as long as he is enjoying the game, and not retiring just because the BCB president has said that they would throw a big party.

Before Bangladesh travel to Pakistan for a solitary ODI on April 3, the BCB is likely to name the new captain.

"Retirement depends on individual players," Hassan said. "We know that top players retire on their own will. We also wanted to give him a good send-off. He can play if he wants to, but I am more concerned about the captaincy. Once we declare on the captaincy, he can enter the team on his performance.

"When I spoke to him during the World Cup, we discussed that if we can arrange a home ODI, he will retire. After returning, he changed his mind. And then he also said that he doesn't want a send-off. He never told me. I saw it in the media. We have taken a month or a month and a half to decide our next ODI captain."

Hassan was also critical of the Test side, saying he wasn't hopeful of Bangladesh beating Zimbabwe in the one-off Test. After holding a meeting with the Test side on Wednesday, Hassan addressed the media.

"I have been seeing in the media in the last few days that things will be great after beating Zimbabwe. I don't see it happening," he said. "I have no hope. I told them, if you take them lightly, it will be a big disaster. Zimbabwe is where Zimbabwe was. We are not where we were. They have recently performed better than us.

"If someone asks me what was Bangladesh's worst performance at home, I'd say losing to Afghanistan. It was unacceptable. If we lose to Afghanistan, we can lose to Zimbabwe. We need to have a new mindset. Our seniors must take the major responsibilities, and it has to be a team game."

Hassan slammed the T20I side for losing 2-0 in Pakistan. He also called the Test captain Mominul Haque as "soft" and "shy", and someone who would need help from senior pros like Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim.

"I told them that it was unacceptable to lose to Pakistan in the T20Is," he said. "Nobody would say that we played poorly in India, but I told them that I didn't like their approach and mindset in the Pakistan T20I series. I spoke to them about these things, ones that I had mentioned in the media but I wasn't finding time to speak to the players. I reinforced that we are almost unbeatable at home, and we must beat at least four or five teams in their home conditions.

"I told them, 'don't take Zimbabwe lightly'. We must work in a planned way. Mominul is new, plus he is quite shy. Soft. I told Tamim and Mushfiq must be involved fully to charge up the team."

In a bizarre twist, Hassan also informed the media that he had ordered the Bangladesh players and management that they would have to inform him of the playing XI, down to the batting line-up, before the game.

"I want to know the game plan on the day before the game, and the playing XI," he said. "Why? It started from the World Cup and then the Afghanistan series, there is a total change; nothing has happened the way I expected. Those who had never played in the top order were given those roles. It was experimentation. In Pakistan too, what was told to me didn't happen.

"I have told them that they have to give me the batting sequence and cannot drop a player in one game and then pick him again. I understand that they want to try a few boys. Our coach, who is relatively new, wants to see the fast bowlers. But whatever happens, they have to let me know in advance."

Steven Smith plans to "smile and laugh and play along and have fun," with South African crowds over the next three weeks as returns to the scene of his ball-tampering offence. And he will have to start at the most hostile ground in the country.

Although the sandpaper gate had unfolded at Newlands, where Australia will play the last of the three T20s, the Wanderers in Johannesburg was where they lost the final Test in 2018, where Darren Lehmann resigned and the city out of which Smith was frogmarched by a police escort on his way home. It is also, as England have just experienced, where the crowd are unashamedly vocal against the opposition but Smith is prepared, and a little excited.

"They are hostile at the best of times here," Smith said. "It doesn't bother me too much. Like Justin (Langer) said we had the dress rehearsal in England where there was a fair bit going on but I honestly don't notice it, particularly when I am batting. I don't really hear anything that's going on and I block it all out. Maybe a little bit when I am fielding. But then again it's just words, it doesn't affect me. I think I will be doing some outfielding so I'm looking forward to it. I will smile and laugh and play along and have fun."

But, Smith cannot block out everything. He admitted that coming back to the same accommodation the team stayed at in 2018 brought back difficult memories. "Walking into the hotel in Sandton, initially I was like, last time I left here it wasn't pretty, it wasn't the best time in my life," he said. "But I've moved on from that and learned a lot over the last two years and I'm moving forward."

Since making his comeback, Smith has scored two centuries and a double-hundred in the Ashes, a hundred in his most recent ODI innings against India and two unbeaten fifties in his last three T20 innings. In that time, he has come across South Africa only once, in Manchester at the 2019 World Cup where their parting shot was beating Australia. He has been in contact with some South African players and exchanged, "a few text messages with AB and Faf here and there but caught up with all of them during the IPL last year and when we played South Africa in the World Cup," and found there were no hard feelings. "Everyone was pretty chilled. Everyone was just normal," Smith said.

So far, people in South Africa have reacted similarly. "I've been to a few of the restaurants where people have been lovely," Smith said. "Guys have come up and had a few photographs so that's been good. It's been pretty normal to when I have been here previously."

That may change when he steps onto the field but Smith's new attitude of "not taking things too seriously," means he is more concerned with how well he will hit the ball rather than how many words are directed his way. "We are at a place with altitude, so the ball just flies. You don't have to over-hit the ball. If you hit the middle of the bat, it will go a long way," he said, recalling a conversation from eight years ago about how to approach batting at the Wanderers.

"I remember playing in the Champions League T20 final here and talking to Michael Lumb. I said, 'What do you do here at the Wanderers?' And he said, 'Just get it in the atmosphere."

Much like how is going to treat whatever South African fans have to say to him.

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey reached 600 career wins in fewer games (700) than any other Division I men's or women's coach with the No. 2 Lady Bears' 77-62 victory over Texas Tech on Tuesday night in Lubbock, Texas.

Mulkey, 57, gathered her Baylor players for a quick chat before center Queen Egbo grabbed the coach around the waist and hoisted her in the air.

Mulkey, who has three national championships in her 20 seasons at Baylor, now has a 600-100 record and an average of 30 wins per season.

"Thirty wins, 20 years, I can't comprehend that,'' said Mulkey, the only women's coach to win national titles as a player -- with Louisiana Tech -- and coach. "I'm thinking about the next game. The next championship. To put it in perspective, I'm humbled. But coaches don't stop and smell the roses really until they retire. How much I have left in the old tank, I don't know. But I'm not on empty.''

The Lady Bears broke open a tie game by scoring the first seven points of the fourth quarter. They extended a pair of Big 12 records with their 54th consecutive league win and 43rd straight road victory in league play.

"That's a remarkable thing to do,'' guard Te'a Cooper said of her coach's milestone after scoring 11 points and adding seven assists. "I'm happy for her and everything she's done. It's just amazing to be a part of it.''

Adolph Rupp won four national championships and 876 games overall with the Kentucky men from 1930 to 1972. His 600th win came in his 704th game, in 1959.

After winning national championships as a player and an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech, Mulkey became Baylor's coach in 2000. The Lady Bears were national champions in 2005, 2012 and 2019.

UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma has won 11 national championships and 1,083 games in his 35 years with the Huskies. His 600th win came in his 716th game, in 2006.

Mulkey last week became a finalist in the coach category for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for the second time in three years. There are eight finalists for the 2020 class, which will be announced April 4.

"I know what being a player means to a coach,'' Mulkey said. "And these kids mean the world to me. And not just this team. And not just the championship teams. I go back to that very first team that I inherited and how hard they played, and we made the NCAA tournament for the first time in the first year.''

Mulkey couldn't help but notice that her noteworthy win came on a court once ruled by Marsha Sharp, who led the Lady Raiders to the 1993 national title with star Sheryl Swoopes. Texas Tech once ruled Baylor, as well. But with their 22 straight victories, the Lady Bears have evened the series between the schools at 47-all.

Baylor players wore hats and T-shirts commemorating Mulkey's 600th win.

"I wish and hope that our program can probably mail one to every player I've ever coached, because that's who needs to be wearing them,'' Mulkey said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.