MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United are sweating on the fitness of Marcus Rashford, Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof ahead of the trip to Bournemouth.

Rashford and Lindelof were forced off during the 2-1 Carabao Cup victory over Chelsea while Maguire was left hobbling at the end of the game at Stamford Bridge.

Paul Pogba, Luke Shaw, Nemanja Matic and Axel Tuanzebe are still sidelined and are unlikely to be fit before the international break.

"It's still early," Solskjaer told a news conference on Friday. "Hopefully we can get them back on the pitch [at Bournemouth].

"They had some treatment on Thursday, a little more treatment today [Friday], a light session and hopefully they're ready. I can't exactly tell you exactly now."

Rashford has scored four goals in four games as United have recovered from a disappointing start to the season to win three away games in a row.

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They face a Bournemouth side on Saturday who have not won since September and did not score at all in October as Solskjaer's men chase four away wins in 10 days.

"The confidence is getting better," Solskjaer said of his side. "Getting players back from injury helps.

"In football it's not very far from failure to success or other way round. Every game is a new opportunity to show what you can do and that's part of being here.

"I didn't play every game and every game I played was a chance to show the manager I should play the next one and hopefully these boys feel like that."

Before hitting his purple patch, Rashford had scored once in his previous nine games. His return to form has coincided with Anthony Martial's return from injury and Solskjaer has credited the France forward with helping to get the best out of his No.10.

"Since Anthony's come back Marcus has blossomed," the United boss said. "He's probably happier facing goal, being direct, driving at people, taking players on rather than [a] target man with [his] back to goal but Marcus wants to master all the skills."

Australia and Perth Scorchers bowler Andrew Tye is set to miss most of the summer after needing surgery to fix his injured elbow.

Tye was named in Australia's T20I squad for the six matches against Sri Lanka and Pakistan but was withdrawn prior to the first game in Adelaide after injuring his right elbow while throwing at training. He was replaced in the squad by Sean Abbott.

Scans revealed that Tye requires surgery and will miss three to four months of cricket, which includes the entire BBL.

Tye's injury is a blow to Australia's plans ahead of the T20 World Cup. His unique skills as a middle overs and death specialist make him a rare commodity in T20 cricket.

However, his loss will be felt most at the Perth Scorchers in the BBL. The Scorchers have already lost Jason Behrendorff for the tournament after he opted to have back surgery to fix recurring stress fractures in his lower back.

They are now without Tye as well, having also lost Nathan Coulter-Nile after he signed with the Melbourne Stars.

A change of heart at the ECB could see the County Championship - rather than the One-Day Cup - played at the same time as the Hundred from 2021.

Next summer the domestic one-day competition is scheduled to be played at the same time as the Hundred, meaning England's best limited-overs players will not be available for 50-over cricket. But Ashley Giles, the managing director of England men's cricket, has suggested that decision could be reviewed after the 2020 season.

While he insisted the 50-over competition would provide an opportunity for "young guys to get exposure" in 2020, he did admit that, ahead of the 2023 World Cup in India, the ECB may look to ensure the domestic competition is of as high a standard as possible and not hit by absences.

"It definitely will be 50-over alongside the Hundred next summer, but this will be consistently reviewed," Giles told The Cricketer in an interview in their November edition. "You could then move your 50-over back to the start of the year.

"Fifty-over cricket remains really important. But we have to prioritise slightly differently over the next few years. We have two T20 World Cups ahead of the 2023 50-over World Cup. We'll still play 50-over.

"Can I sit here and say it's the most important thing when it's being playing alongside the Hundred - no, I can't. You'd laugh at me. It's actually a really good competition for some young guys to get exposure. Then in 2021 we might have a look at the scheduling again."

One option likely to be discussed by the ECB cricket committee now chaired by Andrew Strauss is the possibility of staging Championship games - perhaps offering half the points of matches at other stages of the season when all players are available - during the window designed to accommodate the Hundred. That will not be a universally popular option and may lead to suggestions that the ECB is compromising the integrity of the first-class game and, as a consequence, the development of the Test side.

But Giles feels the benefits, not least playing more first-class in the prime weeks of the summer when conditions should encourage spin bowling, are worth further consideration.

"People will say the integrity of the Championship would be in question," Giles said. "But you could view it slightly differently: play with a points system, and have a healthy mix of senior players who are not in the Hundred, alongside some 19 and 20-years-olds.

"You could have four rounds of Championship cricket at the height of summer, on good pitches that might spin. A lot of county members like seeing the young players, at outgrounds. That would be great."

Anushka Sharma, the film actor and Virat Kohli's wife, and MSK Prasad, India's chief selector, have both taken strong exception to former India wicketkeeper-batsman Farokh Engineer's statement, where he said he saw one of the selectors "getting Anushka Sharma cups of tea" during a World Cup match earlier this year. Sharma issued a statement against what she called "false & fabricated news and stories", while Prasad said Engineer was "deriving sadistic pleasure out of indulging in petty talk".

"I didn't even know one of the selectors during the World Cup and I asked him who the hell he was, because he was wearing the India blazer and he said he was one of the selectors. All they were doing was getting Anushka Sharma cups of tea," Engineer was quoted as saying by The Times of India on Thursday.

Later in the day, after Sharma's statement in response to Engineer's words in particular and criticism about her presence at official team functions or at India matches in general, the 81-year-old Engineer clarified that the comment had been made in jest. "I just said it in jest and it's being made a mountain out of a molehill," Engineer told Republic TV. "Poor Anushka has been dragged into it, she is a lovely girl. Virat Kohli is a brilliant captain and coach Ravi Shastri is extremely good. The entire matter is being blown up unnecessarily."

In her statement, issued through social media, Sharma listed the instances where she felt she "was being blamed for the performance of my then boyfriend, now husband Virat and continue to take the blame for the most baseless things involving Indian cricket".

She referred to:

• Stories claiming she was part of close-door team meetings and influenced selection processes

• Stories saying she had received preferential treatment or had overstayed her authorised time with her husband on foreign tours

• Stories implying "the board was being bothered for my tickets or security, etc"

• The story about her presence in an official group photo at the residence of the Indian High Commissioner to the UK in 2018 during India's Test tour. "I was asked to stand in a group photo by the High Commissioner's wife despite my hesitation to be in it, and a huge issue was created over this blaming me for intentionally wanting to be part of it and the said event, even though I was invited for it"

• Regarding Engineer's statement, she said she had attended one game during the World Cup and sat in the family box, not the selectors' box as Engineer had said

Prasad, the head of the selection panel that also includes Sarandeep Singh, Devang Gandhi, Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjape, was equally displeased with Engineer's allegation.

"I feel sad for someone deriving sadistic pleasure out of indulging in petty talk, thereby demeaning and disrespecting the selectors and wife of Indian captain through false and frivolous allegations," Prasad told PTI. "Someone at the age of 82 [81] should reflect maturity and enjoy the progress of Indian cricket from his time to the current day."

India C 366 for 3 (Gill 143, Agarwal 120, Yadav 72*) beat India A 134 (Padikkal 31, Merai 30, Saxena 7-41, Porel 2-12) by 232 runs

Shubman Gill made his List A best of 143, Mayank Agarwal carried his red-ball form to the 50-over format in making 120, Suryakumar Yadav provided belated Diwali fireworks in making a 29-ball 72 not out, and Jalaj Saxena recorded figures of 7 for 41, all of it adding up to India C crushing India A by 232 runs to qualify for the Deodhar Trophy final in Ranchi.

In a batting template very similar to India B's against India A on Thursday, India C started cautiously but picked up pace along the way, with Gill and Agarwal putting together 226 for the first wicket in 38.3 overs. Agarwal was the more aggressive of the two early on, but Gill caught up, hitting ten fours and six sixes to Agarwal's 15 fours and a six.

The opening stand set the tone for more fireworks. Once Agarwal and No. 3 Priyam Garg fell, Yadav walked in and immediately brought in a touch of the unorthdox, scooping, paddling and sweeping his way to a half-century in a jiffy. The last three overs alone went for 61 as he shellacked seven fours and four sixes, including a sequence of 4, 6, 6, 4 off Siddarth Kaul to finish the innings. Left-arm medium pacer Jaydev Unadkat was the most expensive bowler, conceding 82 off ten wicketless overs.

India A needed a win to stay in contention but were rocked early when they lost Vishnu Vinod and Abhishek Raman in the first two overs. After getting his Bengal mate Raman with one that swung away to get a leading edge to point, Ishan Porel had Hanuma Vihari nicking behind a bouncer to leave them tottering at 17 for 3. The only semblance of a partnership came in the form of Devdutt Padikkal and Bhargav Merai's 59-run stand, before the innings unravelled again, with Saxena deceiving Merai in flight to castle him.

That was the start of a joyride for Saxena, in which he exhibited tremendous control and guile even as India A seemed to be in implosion mode, playing one rash shot after another to fold without a fight. Saxena scythed through the lower order in no time as it took India C only 29.5 overs to complete the formalities.

The next game is between India B and India C on Saturday, but with both teams having qualified for the final - on Monday - that will only serve to provide the players a bit more time in the middle and, from their point of view, a chance to rack up good numbers.

Rory McIlroy made five birdies and an eagle in his second round at the WGC-HSBC Champions, but it was a bogey that was arguably his best score of the day.

Playing a 3-wood at the par-4 16th, McIlroy wildly hooked his tee shot into the left trees, flinging his club during the follow-through.

McIlroy re-teed, hitting his provisional with a 6-iron. He managed to find his original ball, but opted to declare an unplayable lie and went back to the tee for a third time ... and still saved bogey.

That dropped him to 8 under par for the tournament, three strokes off the lead. But McIlroy eagled the par-5 18th to finish one back.