Oman 72 for 3 (Jatinder 48, Runsewe 1-4) beat Nigeria 71 (Ajekun 16, Kaleem 4-14, Bilal 3-7) by seven wickets

Thirty seven-year-old Aamir Kaleem took 4 for 14 in his four overs to shoot out Nigeria for 71 and set up Oman's third win in the T20 World Cup qualifier in the UAE.

Bilal Khan(3 for 7) was also among the wickets as Oman dismissed Nigeria in 19.5 overs. Opener Jatinder Singh then hit 48 off 22 balls, helping his side knock off the target in seven overs.

After batting first, Nigeria had a quiet start in the Powerplay, reaching 22 for 1. They moved to 34 for 1 in the eighth over before losing 9 for 37. Opener Daniel Ajekun was the only Nigeria batsman to pass 15; No. 3 Sulaimon Runsewe's 14 was the second-highest score in the first innings

In response, Jatinder cracked nine fours and six before he was dismissed in the last over of the Powerplay. At that point, Oman needed just six runs from 85 balls. Fittingly, it was Kaleem who was at the end, Oman winning by seven wickets and 78 balls to spare.

The Bangladesh players went on strike on October 21, 2019, deciding not to participate in any cricket related activity until the BCB met their demands. Here is how the saga has unfolded thus far.

October 23

News - Strike moves towards resolution, Mashrafe could mediate

October 22

News - BCB chief lashes out at players' strike, but says board is 'open for talks'

October 22

News - FICA head Tony Irish criticises Bangladesh players association for inaction

October 22

Analysis - A Bangladesh press conference two decades in the making

October 22

News - 'They'll come' - Sourav Ganguly confident Bangladesh tour of India will go ahead

October 22

News - BCB calls emergency meeting of directors; Mashrafe Mortaza backs players

October 21

News - Better contracts, no discrimination, open transfers: Bangladesh players' demands

October 21

News - Bangladesh players go on strike, India tour under threat

October 21

News - Top Bangladesh players likely to go on strike amid growing discontent with cricket board

Golden State Warriors All-Star Draymond Green said getting suspended last November after an altercation with Kevin Durant caused Green to question his standing with the franchise and his relationship with general manager Bob Myers.

"I started to tell myself in my mind, 'Wow, [Myers is] flipping on me,'" Green told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on The Woj Pod during a joint interview with Myers.

"And it just felt like, 'Wow, OK, is this not the guy I've known for all these years? Is he turning on me?' And I started to tell myself all of these things, and then and everybody's like, 'Oh my God, the Warriors sided with Kevin Durant.'

"That was the hardest thing for me, because a lot of people don't understand me. Bob does."

The Warriors suspended Green for one game without pay after an on-court disagreement with Durant following a loss to the LA Clippers extended into the locker room. Witnesses called it one of the most volatile episodes of the Warriors' dynastic run. Durant, whose pending free agency hung over the argument and its aftermath, left the Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets in July.

Myers said he was still unsure how Green felt almost a year later.

"Where are you now with that?" Myers asked Green during the podcast. "I don't even know."

Said Green: "I just had to accept the fact that I was wrong. And once I was able to get over my stubbornness and accept the fact that I was wrong, I was able to move on. I lost [Durant's] trust. How do I get that back? Not so we can win a championship or we can win some games ... but I actually loved this guy, like that's really my brother. And so not knowing what's next in our relationship bothered me more.

"Bob and [head coach Steve Kerr], they told me, like, 'You need to apologize to Kevin,' before I got suspended. And I said, 'No, I'm not apologizing because y'all telling me to apologize. I'm not gonna do that.' And I didn't. And I never apologized to him until I came to grips with myself. ... Not because of some games or the team ain't flowing right. But I can kind of see a look in my brother's face that I have not seen. He's hurt. How do I fix that? And that was what bothered me more than anything."

Myers opened up about the fallout from the incident too.

"The only way I can go to bed after that decision was I thought what we did was right," Myers said. "Sometimes in life you do the best you can. ... And could it have been handled differently? I think it could be handled differently preceding that. If I had to go back, it wouldn't have been after. It would have been before.

"What people don't know -- which is so hard to know, which requires time and energy -- is Kevin and Draymond probably will be the closest guys. They're going to be friends for their whole life like this ... In the aftermath when they spoke, they laid it out for each other and they're like, OK, I got ya. Like, now I know where you're coming from, from both sides. But that could have happened earlier and that would've prevented it."

Green also addressed Durant's recent comments to the Wall Street Journal in September that he never truly felt like one of the guys in Golden State.

"The thing that bothered me most was not that Kevin was mad or not that people were saying I was wrong or not that we lost that particular game and definitely not that Kevin decided to leave," Green said. "The thing that bothered me the most was that when, you know, when Kevin goes on his things he's doing in the media or stuff and he says, oh, I wasn't a part of that. Or, like, I was different than those guys. A part of it is like, no, he [was] one of us, and it pisses me off."

The Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid has been rescheduled for Dec. 18, the Royal Spanish Football Federation's (RFEF) Competition Committee has confirmed. The match was supposed to be played this weekend but was postponed due to the political unrest in Catalonia.

La Liga, which had initially suggested reversing the fixture and playing it at the Bernabeu instead of Camp Nou, is now expected to challenge the decision. It would prefer the game to be played on either Dec. 4 or Dec. 7.

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Following the postponement, the Competition Committee -- a panel consisting of three people, one from the RFEF, one from La Liga, one independent -- urged Barca and Madrid to agree on a new date. Both clubs put forward Wednesday, Dec. 18.

However, the league does not want its showcase fixture played on that day. It argues that it should not be scheduled on a day when there are Copa del Rey games featuring lower league sides. It would also prefer the game to be played over a weekend, rather than on a Wednesday, when it has more reach among global television audiences.

Dec. 7, therefore, would be the ideal date for La Liga. But that would require Barca and Madrid's games against Mallorca and Espanyol to be moved. Dec. 4, which is also a midweek date, is the league's second option.

The game had originally been scheduled for this weekend but was called off by the Competition Committee last week following the jailing of nine Catalan political leaders for their role in the region's push for independence in 2017.

Protests and demonstrations followed that ruling in Barcelona and the Competition Committee said the game would not go ahead as planned because of "exceptional circumstances beyond our control and demonstrated beyond doubt."

The protests saw Barcelona's airport blocked off last week, while there have been fires across the city and clashes between police and protesters. A further demonstration is planned for Oct. 26, the day when the Clasico was supposed to be played.

"Sack Zinedine Zidane!" Really? Sack him? Real Madrid should be preparing to promote him, and I'll tell you precisely why.

The brutal prospect of Los Blancos getting rid of the legend who won them three consecutive Champions League titles, as recently as 2018, can be confronted not only because he was asked about it in his Monday news conference but because stranger things have happened. But I fervently believe that what lies in front of club president Florentino Perez is not the brink of the abyss, with salvation lying in a sacrificial (Zidane-shaped) offering to the football gods, but instead a massive opportunity. That would include promotion, not dismissal, for this Frenchman who has been nothing short of talismanic for Perez since they first met in Monte Carlo nearly two decades ago and fluttered eyelashes seductively at one another.

If Perez is even beginning to think that he made a mistake in persuading Zidane to come back after his mega-triumphant 2½-year reign, then I've some counsel for him. To begin with, only Miguel Munoz has coached Real Madrid to more trophies than Zidane in the club's 117-year history. That wasn't a fluke. Next, the last time in charge, Zidane had a win percentage that only two managers who've coached Madrid for more than 50 games since 1960 can beat: Carlo Ancelotti and Jose Mourinho.

If things aren't working, Mr. President, try looking in the mirror -- not drawing up severance papers for your coach. The things that traditionally make a jumpy president dismiss his trusted coach include fan unrest, poor results, important competitions out of reach and the availability of fresh talent with which to replace the manager.

Not one of the trophies available to them, including the revamped Spanish Super Cup, is out of Madrid's reach. The results have been inconsistent, but there's been sufficient quality, fight and victories to suggest that better, not worse, things are coming.

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I think the Bernabeu faithful are restless, but you'd barely have known that when Madrid went 3-0 up the last time at home, against Granada, nor when James Rodriguez got the fourth goal to seal things at 4-2. They saw good football, some terrific goals and, I think, hunkered down in acceptance that until all the key players are fit, regularly, then Madrid will be inconsistent.

As to available talent, I don't think that this project would attract Massimiliano Allegri sufficiently to abandon his sabbatical -- particularly with Perez having such an itchy trigger finger in recent months. Mourinho? Well, that, sadly, remains a possibility. A retrograde step in my opinion, and one that would inevitably draw Madrid into the kind of polemic "admire my dark arts" furore from which The Special Once draws energy.

Perez, I am 100 percent certain, retains affection for and belief in Mourinho. And it's for that reason that Zidane was left admitting on Monday: "I've been here as player and coach for 18 years, and there's going to be pressure. It's the pressure that, here, there's always going to be talk about 'We've got to change coach!' I don't feel undervalued because the past is the past. Football forgets what you've achieved and that's just life.

"I'm not going to say it doesn't annoy me what people are saying, but I can't stop people having opinions. What I have to do is give my maximum. ... I want to be in charge of Real Madrid for a long time. We know the situation, ask that question to someone else."

The words of someone who knows that however unlikely it might seem, his future at Real Madrid is far from assured.

So, here's my advice to Perez: Stick with Zidane, at all costs, until the end of the season. During the winter break, short as it is, sit down with him and ask him, on bended knee if necessary, to accept a promotion next June to become Real Madrid's director of football.

Right now, the squad is unbalanced -- in terms of quality, age, experience, athleticism and hunger. There's enough quality to win a trophy or trophies this season, and there's loads of budding promise in the shape of Vinicius, Rodrygo, Brahim Diaz and, potentially, Ferland Mendy and Eder Militao. But the squad, which is too large, shows evidence of insufficient planning and execution -- the jobs a director of football excels at. The best planning Madrid have achieved in recent years was when Zidane was either officially the director of football or acting unofficially in that role.

It's time the club asked him to return to that position. In fact, it's time to make comparisons with Barcelona back in 2008.

The Frank Rijkaard era was patently ending and the Camp Nou board, with brilliant advice from Johan Cruyff and Txiki Begiristain, opted to be creative, daring and aggressive. They appointed Pep Guardiola who, for all his subsequent success, was neither the obvious choice -- in fact, he pipped Mourinho to the job -- nor heralded as a guaranteed success at the time. Many thought it to be a rather desperate move.

Right now, a part of the opportunity that is glaringly obvious in front of Perez is that he opts for Madrid's own Guardiola.

He has two clear candidates, neither of whom should be appointed before the end of the season, but each of whom should already have been monitored under a giant microscope for several months now. Those Guardiola-esque candidates are Xabi Alonso and Raul. Two club legends, both with months of youth coaching under their belts (Guardiola had had one season) and each man brims with personality, communicative powers, authority, club sentiment, youth and energy, and each is a stone-cold winner.

No, you're quite right, they won't be Guardiola Mk II, but they are equipped to replicate the effect he had at Camp Nou. What's required is a presidentially authorised but Zidane-directed clearout of certain players who, whatever their past, need to find new pastures to make way for urgent, modern, hungry and aggressive new players. "New" in terms of those on the fringes right now, and some brought in to compensate for specific areas that are currently lacking.

Raul's advantage is that he's in the club right now, which makes him easy to study intently, cost-free to promote, and he's still more of a club icon than Alonso.

Alonso's advantages include the fact that he's more widely experienced than Raul in terms of whom he's worked under, which football cultures he's worked in. I think it's to his benefit that he's vaulted up the ladder by moving out of Real Madrid to Real Sociedad in order to coach B-team football more quickly. And I strongly believe that Liverpool will be tempted to pit him against Steven Gerrard when, and if, Jurgen Klopp takes that football sabbatical to travel the world with his wife, of which he's talked about recently. Oh, and Alonso can bring the stunningly good Martin Odegaard back with him. That alone would be a massive boost for Madrid's hot-and-cold midfield.

All in all, it means that there's overwhelming evidence to ignore the siren voices suggesting that Zidane is on borrowed time. There's overwhelming evidence that, by June, Perez can have a brilliant director of football, maintaining Zidane as a resource at the club, and one of two young tyros as his Guardiola equivalent. That pair can then oversee a major overhaul of the squad that, if handled well, can net the club a profit. These are moves that can win them both fans and trophies.

Over to you, Mr. President.

South Australia 7 for 296 (Ferguson 91, Carey 79, Lehmann 54*) beat Queensland 9 for 295 (Labuschagne 135, Agar 5-69) by three wickets

A staggering cameo from legspinner Adam Zampa helped South Australia steal a three-wicket win over Queensland at the Gabba with just two balls to spare.

Zampa walked to the crease with the Redbacks needing 49 from 27 balls with just three wickets in hand and he clubbed 35 not out from 15 delivers in a dazzling, scarcely believable display of batting to completely overshadow Marnus Labuschagne's maiden List A century from earlier in the day.

Jake Lehmann made 54 not out from 64 balls but he was truly a support act to Zampa and had struggled to find the boundary throughout his innings.

Zampa launched the last ball off the 47th over from Billy Stanlake over long-on for six, but Michael Neser conceded just six runs from the 48th, leaving Zampa and Lehmann to score 27 off 12 balls to win the game. Zampa crunched Stanlake on the up wide of mid-off and then hooked him for six but Lehmann played and missed off the last ball of the penultimate over giving Neser 15 runs to defend off the last six balls.

He couldn't defend them in four. Zampa scooped the first ball for six over fine leg, cover drove an attempted wide yorked for four, pulled a short ball behind square to the boundary and crunched a straight drive to finish it with two balls to spare.

Zampa was named player of the match after earlier taking 2 for 66 with the ball, trumping Wes Agar's maiden five-wicket haul, Callum Ferguson's 91, Alex Carey's 79 and Labuschagne's magnificent century.

Just two days after steering Queensland home from a precarious position in a fourth-innings run chase in the Sheffield Shield against the Redbacks, Labuschagne conjured another superb counter-attack following a top-order collapse making a career-high 135 in Queensland's total of 9 for 295.

The Bulls slumped to 4 for 24 in the eighth over with Agar claiming all four wickets. Max Bryant was clean bowled playing across the line while Usman Khawaja and Joe Burns both chopped on. Matt Renshaw was hit on the toe and adjudged lbw first ball in between.

Labuschagne, having made 72 not out after the Bulls slumped to 5 for 54 in the Shield game, picked up where he left off playing with a dominance that belies his overall record. He put together a 110-run stand with Jimmy Peirson to dig his team out of trouble and then found further allies in Neser and Ben Cutting.

Labuschagne had failed to convert his nine previous List A half-centuries, and his last seven first-class half-centuries, into three figures but finally broke the drought launching a towering six off Zampa to go from 94 to 100 in style.

South Australia's chase started poorly with Jake Weatherald and Travis Head both falling in the opening five overs to Jack Wildermuth. Carey and Ferguson then resurrected the chase with a 117-run stand. Carey put on a masterclass scoring 79 of them as the Redbacks appeared on track but when he ran himself out trying to steal an unnecessary single to Bryant at cover the chase stumbled. The in-form Tom Cooper was cleaned bowled through the gate for 2 by Neser.

Ferguson and Lehmann rebuilt but the required run-rate began to climb. With 86 needed from 54 balls, Lehmann was dropped at long-off by Neser off Matt Kuhnemann. Two balls later Ferguson fell for 91, top-edging a sweep to short fine leg. All looked lost when Luke Robins and Cam Valente holed out. But Zampa stole the show.

Ramachandra Guha and Vikram Limaye, former members of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), have declined to receive payments for their services, as approved by the highest court on Tuesday. Guha even went as far as saying his "conscience" would never allow him to accept the money.

The CoA was formed in January 2017 to oversee administrative reforms in the BCCI as per the recommendations of the Lodha committee. Guha, an eminent historian, and Limaye, currently managing director and chief executive officer of National Stock Exchange, were part of a four-person panel also consisting of Vinod Rai (former Comptroller & Auditor General of India) and former India woman's captain Diana Edulji.

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On Tuesday, the court accepted the CoA's request to be discharged after it was understood that former India captain Sourav Ganguly would take charge as president of the new administration.

As per the compensation package approved for the members by the court, each CoA member would get INR 10 lakh per month (14,100 USD approx) in 2017, INR 11 lakh per month (15,500 USD) in 2018 and INR 12 lakh per month (16,900 USD) in 2019. The court also instructed the BCCI to release payments within two days of CoA demitting office.

Accordingly, Guha stood to earn INR 40 lakh (56,400 USD) for his four-month tenure while Limaye was to take home INR 70 lakh (98,600 USD) for his seven-month term that ended in July 2017. However, both Guha and Limaye had made it clear as early as the first CoA meeting that they would not take any money for their services.

"I had mentioned in the first meeting of CoA when it was formed that I would not be taking any compensation," Limaye told ESPNcricinfo.

Guha, though, was astonished to receive an email on Tuesday from BCCI's chief financial officer Santosh Rangnekar. "I must say I was surprised and even shocked by its contents," Guha said in his e-mail, accessed by ESPNcricinfo. "I absolutely refuse to accept this payment I have not asked for. My conscience cannot permit it."

It is understood that Edulji had mentioned during that first meeting that she would want to be paid. Therefore, Rai suggested that they be paid INR 1 lakh (1400 USD) per sitting subject to the court approval. As per the compensation package, both Rai and Edulji will now get INR 3.7 crore (521,000 USD) each.

Throughout its tenure, the CoA was mired with controversies. Four months into the job, in June 2017, Guha resigned citing "my thoughts and views are adjacent to, and sometimes at odds with, the direction the committee is taking as a whole."

In his resignation letter Guha was forthright, pointing out the pervasive conflict of interest culture in Indian cricket, the superstar culture afforded to players while ignoring the domestic cricketers who don't participate in the IPL.

A month later, in July, Limaye, too, stepped down from the CoA, as he was taking over the new role at NSE. The CoA functioned as a two-person panel until the court appointed Ravi Thodge, a retired lieutenant general of the Indian Army, as the third member this February. As per the compensation package, Thodge would earn INR 1.08 crores (152,000 USD).

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Rohit Sharma has broken into the top ten for Test batsmen in the ICC rankings after amassing 529 runs in his first four innings as Test opener. Rohit, who is placed tenth in Tests, second in ODIs, and joint-seventh in T20Is, is only the third Indian after Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir to be in the top ten across formats.

Kohli, who was No.1 in all three formats in the past, currently occupies second place (926) in the Test rankings led by Steven Smith (937 points). Rohit, who was ranked 44th before the start of the three-Test series at home against South Africa, vaulted 34 places up to tenth.

Rohit's contributions, including his maiden double-century, were central to India's 3-0 drubbing of South Africa. Rohit's tally is the most by an India opener in a Test series since Virender Sehwag's 544 against Pakistan in 2005.

Meanwhile, Ajinkya Rahane, who made 216 runs in four innings against South Africa, moved up four places to fifth while Cheteshwar Pujara (795) retained his fourth spot, claiming a 44-point lead over Rahane (751).

Fast bowlers Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav, who relentlessly attacked the stumps against South Africa, earned career best rating points.

Shami was ranked 15th (751) while Umesh (624) was slotted at 24th.. Jasprit Bumrah, who had been sidelined from the South Africa Tests with injury, dropped one place to fourth while Kagiso Rabada held onto his No.2 ranking, despite an underwhelming series in India, where he picked up only seven wickets in three games. Pat Cummins leads the Test bowling rankings with 908 points.

LOS ANGELES -- Kawhi Leonard's long-awaited Clippers debut began with Lakers fans booing his introduction and interrupting his pregame message thanking the fans in L.A. Once the game tipped off, he got off to a slow start.

By the time his first home game at Staples Center was over, though, Leonard made all the noise that mattered. After starting with two missed shots and two turnovers, Leonard buried seven straight baskets at one point in the first half. He scored 15 of his 30 points during that momentum-turning tear to help lead the Clippers to a 112-102 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.

"He talks with his game," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said of Leonard, who also had 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and a block. "I think that's the way it should be."

Los Angeles felt very much like the epicenter of the NBA on Tuesday night with both the Lakers and Clippers built to contend for a title this season. Anthony Davis made his Lakers' debut alongside LeBron James and the Clippers unveiled Leonard after years of planning and building toward this past summer that saw the team sign Leonard and trade for Paul George.

Lakers fans, though, tried to rain on the Clippers' night as Staples Center sounded like a Lakers' home game at times. When the lights went down for the Clippers' pregame hype video, Lakers fans booed loudly. They did the same when the Clippers announced their starting lineup with Leonard going last. And when Leonard stood on the court and thanked fans for coming to start off the season, Lakers faithful tried to boo the man who picked the Clippers over the Lakers in free agency.

Leonard paused at one point before talking louder into the microphone.

"I just heard a loud noise," Leonard said of the moment he talked into the microphone before the game. "I was just trying to be as loud as I can. I wasn't sure if people, the Clipper fans were being loud or if it was the Laker fans. I didn't pay attention to it too much. I was just trying to let the fans know the appreciation we have for them for coming out tonight."

Leonard missed his first two shots and the Lakers opened the game with a 13-2 lead. But with 59 seconds left in the first quarter, Leonard hit a 9-foot turnaround fadeaway shot. Leonard would hit seven straight shots, many coming on an array of contested midrange shots and pull-ups. The Clippers took an eight-point lead into the half as the only person who could stop Leonard during the second quarter was Rivers, who took his star out midway through the second quarter as he followed his plan of how he's going to play and sub the forward.

"Just made shots pretty much," Leonard said. "I felt like I got to my spots early, missed some little chippies but started making shots. That's what happens."

In the fourth, Leonard scored nine points, including 7 of 9 at the free throw line. He also helped the Clippers hold James and Davis to a combined 1-for-6 shooting in the fourth.

Leonard says the Clippers still have a long way to go as they continue to learn one another's tendencies and wait for George to return from surgeries on both of his shoulders. But like the Lakers did, the Clippers saw and felt just how focused and locked in Leonard can get.

"He was intense," Rivers said. "You could feel that. You could feel the intensity. There's no doubt about that. I think [assistant coach] Ty Lue said, 'Look at him at the jump ball circle,' where [everybody] was moving around and doing all their gestures, and Kawhi was just standing there. You could just see, he was like, 'Throw the ball up. Let's get this on.' Ty was right."