Stumps South Africans 199 for 4 (Markram 100, Bavuma 55*, D Jadeja 2-52) v Board President's XI

Aiden Markram scored a quick century and Temba Bavuma a more sedate unbeaten half-century to take the South Africans to a strong 199 for 4 on another rain-hit day of their tour game against Board President's XI in Vizianagaram. The weather was too poor for any play to happen on the first day and only 50 overs were possible on the second.

This is the South Africans' only warm-up game before the first of three Tests against India, starting October 2, and it didn't start too well after Faf du Plessis won the toss and opted for first strike. Umesh Yadav, who has replaced the injured Jasprit Bumrah in the India Test squad, struck first by getting Dean Elgar out caught by Priyank Panchal for 6 in the seventh over. Shardul Thakur, the other new-ball bowler, didn't get lucky, but first-change Ishan Porel did, trapping Theunis de Bruyn lbw for 6 in the 13th over.

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That left the scoreboard reading 33 for 2, with Markram looking in fine form, and he put together 55 for the third wicket with Zubayr Hamza to put the innings on the rails.

Hamza, a highly-rated 24-year-old batsman who made his Test debut against Pakistan at home earlier this year, hit three fours and a six, but didn't last too long, becoming left-arm spinner Dharmendrasinh Jadeja's first victim in the 22nd over after scoring a 26-ball 22.

The most important partnership of the day came after that, when Markram and Bavuma lifted the total from 78 for 3. Markram, who came into the match on the back of an innings of 161 for South Africa A against India A in a four-dayer in Mysuru just over a week ago, got to his century with 18 fours and two sixes before retiring on a 118-ball 100.

Bavuma, however, carried on and got his half-century but lost his captain on the last ball of the day before bad light stopped play. Du Plessis, batting at No. 5, was Jadeja's second wicket on the day when he was also trapped lbw, sent back for 9 in 29 balls. Bavuma ended with 55 runs against his name.

Former South Africa allrounder Lance Klusener has been appointed Afghanistan's new head coach.

Andy Moles, who is part of Afghanistan's revamped selection set-up and is a former coach of the national team, had served as the team's interim head coach during the recent tour of Bangladesh after the exit of Phil Simmons' following the World Cup.

According to Afghanistan Cricket Board, over 50 candidates had applied for the vacant position, with Klusener emerging as the top pick.

Klusener played 49 Tests and 171 ODIs for South Africa between 1996 and 2004. Considered one of the best allrounders of his time, he collected 1906 runs and 80 wickets in Tests, as well as 3576 runs and 192 wickets in ODIs. He took up a coaching role with his domestic side Dolphins in 2012, before serving as the batting coach for Zimbabwe in 2016. In 2015, he was roped in by South Africa to tutor the lower order during their home series against England. He has also served as Mumbai Indians' bowling coach in the IPL. More recently, he served as South Africa's assistant batting coach for the T20I leg of their India tour.

"I am extremely excited and honoured to be given the opportunity to work with some of the best talent in world cricket," Klusener said in a statement. "Everyone knows the fearless brand of cricket Afghanistan play. I am very confident that with some hard work we can become one of the best sides in the world. I am really looking forward to working with the Afghanistan team and helping them take their cricket to the next level."

His first assignment with his new team will be the series of one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is against West Indies at 'home' in November-December.

Sourav Ganguly, the former India captain, has been re-elected president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). He will therefore continue in the post until July 2020, when he completes six years as an office-bearer, whereby he will enter a cooling-off period mandated by the BCCI's new constitution.

Ganguly and the four other office-bearers were elected unopposed, with no other group filing nominations. The decision became public at the end of the 85th annual general meeting of the CAB on Saturday.

This will be Ganguly's second term after he became CAB president in 2015, following the death of Jagmohan Dalmiya. Ganguly was first part of the CAB's working committee and was elected joint secretary in 2014.

Naresh Ojha is the CAB vice-president while Avishek Dalmiya, Jagmohan's son, is the CAB secretary. Debabrata Das fills the joint secretary's position, with Debasish Ganguly as treasurer.

We take a look at who could fill the top eight spots in each of the men’s events over the next 10 days

Here are our predictions for the men’s events at the IAAF World Championships in Doha. Generally, we have gone with the rankings and form book and if a Briton is ranked 20th, we won’t predict a medal even if we have a sneaking suspicion that he might do much better than the rankings suggest.

We list a possible top eight and what we think the winning mark might be.

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100m

Defending champion: Justin Gatlin (USA) 9.92
Olympic champion: Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.81
Though he has not raced since July, US and world indoor champion Christian Coleman is expected to go one better than in 2017. European champion Zharnel Hughes is an outside bet.
Prediction: 1 C Coleman (USA); 2 J Gatlin (USA); 3 A Simbine (RSA);4 Z Hughes (GBR); 5 A De Grasse (CAN); 6 Y Blake (JAM); 7 Xie Zhenye (CHN); 8 M Rodgers (USA). Winning mark: 9.74

200m

Defending champion: Ramil Guliyev (TUR) 20.09
Olympic champion: Usain Bolt (JAM) 19.78
Even though world and European champion Ramil Guliyev is in good form, it will be a surprise if he comes within three metres of US champion Noah Lyles, who averages 19.68 in his five finals in 2019! All three British runners are capable of medaling but may need a British record to do so.
Prediction: 1 N Lyles (USA); 2 R Guliyev (TUR); 3 A de Grasse (CAN); 4 C Coleman (USA); 5 A Gemili (GBR); 6 Xie Zhenye (CHN); 7 M Francis (GBR); 8 A Quinonez (ECU). Winning mark: 19.36

400m

Defending champion: Wayde Van Niekerk (RSA) 43.98
Olympic champion: Wayde Van Niekerk (RSA) 43.03
Fred Kerley surprisingly beat world leader and Diamond League winner Michael Norman in the US Championships but the latter starts favourite, having run 19.70 for 200m this season. The 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James could be back in the medals but Steven Gardiner looks the best non-US bet.
Prediction: 1 M Norman (USA); 2 F Kerley (USA); 3 S Gardiner (BAH); 4 K James (GRN); 5 A Bloomfield (JAM); 6 M Cedonio (TTO); 7 V Norwood (USA); 8 M Hudson-Smith (GBR). Winning time 43.44

800m

Defending champion: Pierre Ambroise-Bosse (FRA) 1:44.67
Olympic champion: David Rudisha (KEN) 1:42.15
World leader Nijel Amos has a poor World Champs record but starts favourite with his 1:41.89 clocking this summer. However, any one of 10 could win, with Emmanuel Korir and Donavan Brazier dangerous in a fast race and Adam Kszczot in a slow one.
Prediction: 1 N Amos (BOT); 2 E Korir (KEN); 3 A Kszczot (POL); 4 D Brazier (USA); 5 F Cheruiyot (KEN); 6 C Murphy (USA); 7 B McBride (CAN); 8 A Tuka (BIH). Winning mark: 1:43.55

1500m

Defending champion: Elijah Manangoi (KEN) 3:33.61
Olympic champion: Matt Centrowitz (USA) 3:50.00
The Diamond League winner Timothy Cheruiyot should easily improve on his London second place. It looks open for second with Roland Musagala and Jakob Ingebrigtsen the best of the rest but the latter might be vulnerable in a slow race to the likes of Marcin Lewandowski and even possibly one of the Brits.
Prediction: 1 T Cheruiyot (KEN); 2 J Ingebrigtsen (NOR); 3 M Lewandowski (POL) 4 A Souleiman (DJI); 5 R Musagala (UGA); 6 F Ingebrigtsen (NOR); 7 J Wightman (GBR); 8 G Manangoi (KEN). Winning mark: 3:35.35

5000m

Defending champion: Muktar Edris (ETH) 13:32.79
Olympic champion: Mo Farah (GBR) 13:03.30
Defending champion Muktar Edris was 18th in Lausanne, his one 5000m, but Ethiopia still have the fastest three on 2019 times. Telahun Haile, only fifth in the 2018 World Juniors, is the fastest but lacks championship guile and no one stands out as in the Farah era. The World Indoors runner-up Selemon Barega has been consistent and European champion Jakob Ingebritsen will be a danger though neither has won at 5000m this year.
Prediction: 1 J Ingebrigtsen (NOR); 2 S Barega (ETH); 3 H Gebrhiwet (ETH); 4 T Haile (ETH); 5 N Kimeli (KEN); 6 S McSweyn (AUS); 7 P Chelimo (USA); 8 M Ahmed (CAN). Winning mark: 13:11.45

10,000m

Defending champion: Mo Farah (GBR) 26:49.51
Olympic champion: Mo Farah (GBR) 27:05.17
With six sub-27 men to choose between, Ethiopia have the men in form with world indoor mile record-holder Yomif Kejelcha certain to be dangerous on the last lap. World junior champion Rhonex Kipruto is the fastest of the Kenyans while the 2017 runner-up Joshua Cheptegei is bound to be a factor.
Prediction: 1 Y Kejelcha (ETH); 2 J Cheptegei (UGA); 3 R Kipruto (KEN); 4 H Gebrhiwet (ETH); 5 L Lomong (USA); 6 A Belihu (ETH); 7 M Ahmed (CAN); 8 R Chumo (KEN). Winning mark: 27:34.65

Marathon

Defending champion: Geoffrey Kirui (KEN) 2:08:27
Olympic champion: Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 2:08:44
Unless Eliud Kipchoge is competing, championship marathons are hard to predict and even more so when most of the big names are missing and athletes are competing in 35 degree-plus temperatures. Based on his 2:02:55 Ethiopian record in London, Mosinet Geremew is the favourite if he copes with the heat but also in the field is London third-placer Mule Wasihun, who ran 2:03:16 there. Defending champion Geoffrey Kirui has not shown the same form this year but has past sub-27 10,000m pace to call upon. Callum Hawkins might be wary to attempt to place highly in the conditions after his Commonwealth DNF.
Prediction: 1 M Geremew (ETH); 2 G Kirui (KEN); 3 M Wasihun (ETH); 4 Y Kawauchi (JPN); 5 S Mokoka (RSA); 6 T Abraham (SUI); 7 P Lonyongata (KEN); 8 S Kiprotich (UGA). Winning mark: 2:15:45

3000m steeplechase

Defending champion: Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 8:14.12
Olympic champion: Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 8:03.28
The world and Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto has struggled with injury and dropped out of the African Games and Kenyan trials, but can’t be written off entirely. The 2017 runner-up Soufiane El Bakkali is marginal favourite but African Games winner Benjamin Kigen and Diamond league winner Getnet Wale are at around the same level.
Prediction: 1 S El Bakkali (MAR); 2 G Wale (ETH); 3 B Kigen (KEN); 4 C Kipruto (KEN); 5 A Kibiwot (KEN); 6 L Bett (KEN); 7 C Beyo (ETH); 8 F Carro (ESP). Winning mark: 8:11.35

110m hurdles

Defending champion: Omar McLeod (JAM) 13.04
Olympic champion: Omar McLeod (JAM) 13.05
Omar McLeod is another multi global champion yet to show his best this season but a Berlin win in 13.07 suggests he is hitting form. The Americans Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts top the rankings but this is their first major championships. More used to big events, Orlando Ortega and Sergey Shubenkov should also be in the medal mix.
Prediction: 1 O McLeod (JAM); 2 G Holloway (USA); 3 O Ortega (ESP); 4 D Roberts (USA); 5 S Shubenkov (ANA); 6 Xie Wenjun (CHN); 7 P Martinot-Lagarde (FRA); 8 R Levy (JAM). Winning mark: 12.97

400m hurdles

Defending champion: Karsten Warholm (NOR) 48.35
Olympic champion: Kerron Clement (USA) 47.73

This could be the race of the championships between the main contenders who make up three-quarters of history’s sub-47 performers. Defending champion Karsten Warholm is a far better athlete now than the one who won in London but he will have to be when up against local star Abderrahman Samba and US champion Rai Benjamin, who pushed him all the way in Zurich. It could take a world record to win.
Prediction: 1 K Warholm (NOR); 2 R Benjamin (USA); 3 A Samba (QAT); 4 K McMaster (IVB); 5 Y Copello (TUR);6 L Vaillant (FRA); 7 T Holmes (USA); 8 A dos Santos (BRA). Winning mark: 46.85

High jump

Defending champion: Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) 2.35
Olympic champion: Derek Drouin (CAN) 2.38
The 2017 winner Mutaz Essa Barshim will have huge home support but with a 2.27m season’s best and a 2.20m in his last competition, he does not appear to have the form. 22 athletes have jumped 2.30m this year and that distance could well medal. European runner-up Maksim Nedosekov, with a Diamond League victory in Zurich and a ranking-topping 2.35m, looks the marginal favourite.
Prediction: 1 M Nedosekov (BLR); 2 B Bondarenko (UKR); 3 M El Dein Ghazal (SYR); 4 I Ivanyuk (ANA); 5 M Przybylko (GER); 6 M Essa Barshim (QAT); 7 M Akimenko (ANA); 8 Wang Yu (CHN). Winning mark: 2.33m

Pole vault

Defending champion: Sam Kendricks (USA) 5.95m
Olympic champion: Thiago Braz Da Silva (BRA) 6.03m
The three six-metre jumpers this summer – defending champion Sam Kendricks, European winner Armand Duplantis and London runner-up Piotr Lisek – start as the likeliest contenders. However, the next three in the rankings are Olympic champion Thiago Braz da Silva, European indoor champion Pawel Wojciechowski and world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie in what should be a cracking quality event.
Prediction: 1 S Kendricks (USA); 2 P Lisek (POL); 3 A Duplantis (SWE); 4 R Lavillenie (FRA); 5 T Braz da Silva (BRA); 6 P Wojciechowski (POL); 7 R Holzdeppe (GER); 8 C Walsh (USA). Winning mark: 6.00m

Long jump

Defending champion: Luvo Manyonga (RSA) 8.48m
Olympic champion: Jeff Henderson (USA) 8.38m
The Diamond League winner Juan Miguel Echevarría has dominated 2019 thus far and should add a world outdoor title to his indoor one. The reigning champion Luvo Manyonga has not been in such convincing form this year but still should medal. Shontaro Shiroyama jumped 8.40m last month but has nothing to back up that form.
Prediction: 1 J Echevarria (CUB); 2 L Manyonga (RSA); 3 M Tentoglou (GRE); 4 T Gayle (JAM); 5 J Henderson (USA); 6 Y Hashioka (JPN); 7 R Samaai (RSA); 8 T Montler (SWE). Winning mark: 8.71m

Triple jump

Defending champion: Christian Taylor (USA) 17.68m
Olympic champion: Christian Taylor (USA) 17.86m
Christian Taylor has won five of the last six global outdoor championships and is cracking form but his great rival, the world indoor champion Will Claye, looks in even better shape with a pair of 18 metre jumps this summer. Claye has five global outdoor medals but not gold. Omar Craddock could make it a US sweep.
Prediction: 1 W Claye (USA); 2 C Taylor (USA); 3 O Craddock (USA); 4 P Pichardo (POR); 5 F Zango (BUR); 6 J Diaz (CUB); 7 D Scott (USA); 8 B Williams (GBR). Winning mark: 18.11m

Shot

Defending champion: Tom Walsh (NZL) 22.03m
Olympic champion: Ryan Crouser (USA) 22.52m
Eight athletes have thrown 22 metres this summer and a further seven 21.40m or better so a high-class competition looks guaranteed. Consistent defending champion Tomas Walsh has the best overall record but Olympic champion Ryan Crouser tops the rankings.
Prediction: 1 T Walsh (NZL); 2 R Crouser (USA); 3 M Haratyk (POL); 4 D Romani (BRA); 5 K Bukowiecki (POL); 6 D Hill (USA); 7 J Kovacs (USA); 8 J Gill (NZL). Winning mark: 22.16m

Discus

Defending champion: Andrius Gudzius (LTU) 69.21m
Olympic champion: Christophe Harting (GER) 68.37m
Daniel Stahl was runner-up in the World and European Championships but has been the man in form this summer. Commonwealth champion Fedrick Dacres looks likely to win his first global senior medal.
Prediction: 1 D Stahl (SWE); 2 F Dacres (JAM); 3 A Gudzius (LTU); 4 L Weisshaidinger (AUT); 5 P Malachowski (POL); 6 C Harting (GER); 7 O Isene (NOR); 8 T Smikle (JAM). Winning mark: 68.86m

Hammer

Defending champion: Pawel Fajdek (POL) 79.81m
Olympic champion: Dilshod Nazarov (TJK) 78.68m
This looks on paper to be a battle between the two Polish 80-metre throwers. Three-time world winner Pawel Fajdek has the better record but Wojciech Nowicki defeated him at the Europeans and has the longer marks this year.
Prediction: 1 P Fajdek (POL); 2 W Nowicki (POL); 3 B Halasz (HUN); 4 D Lukyanov (ANA); 5 N Miller (GBR); 6 J Cienfuegos (ESP): 7 E Henriksen (NOR); 8 D Nazarov (TJK). Winning mark: 80.44m

Javelin

Defending champion: Johannes Vetter (GER) 89.89m
Olympic champion: Thomas Rohler (GER) 90.30m
European bronze medallist Magnus Kirt has been the man in form with the best overall marks but defending champion Johannes Vetter beat him in The Match with a 90.03m throw. This is open and any one of the sixteen 85m throwers this year could come out on top.
Prediction: 1 J Vetter (GER); 2 M Kirt (EST); 3 C Chao-Tsun (TPE); 4 A Hofmann (GER); 5 J Yego (KEN); 6 T Rohler (GER); 7 A Peters (GRN); 8 E Matusevicius (LTU). Winning mark: 88.90m

Decathlon

Defending champion: Kevin Mayer (FRA) 8768
Olympic champion: Ashton Eaton (USA) 8893
Though he has not completed a decathlon this summer, defending champion and world record-holder Kevin Mayer will win if he avoids making an error as he did in the Europeans where he failed to get a long jump mark. Gotzis winner Damian Warner easily looks the best of the rest.
Prediction: 1 K Mayer (FRA); 2 D Warner (CAN); 3 L Victor (GRN); 4 K Kazmirek (GER); 5 N Kaul (GER); 6 P LaPage (CAN); 7 I Shkurenyov (ANA); 8 T Duckworth (GBR). Winning mark: 8876

20km walk

Defending champion: Eider Arévalo (COL) 1:18:53
Olympic champion: Wang Zhen (CHN) 1:19:14
Japan dominate the ranking lists and will be keen to lay down a marker before next year’s Olympics. Asian champion Toshikazu Yamanishi heads the rankings from Universiade winner Koki Ikedi.
Prediction: 1 T Yamanishi (JPN); 2 K Ikedi (JPN); 3 V Mizinov (ANA); 4 E Takahashi (JPN); 5 M Stano (ITA); 6 C Bonfim (BRA): 7 C Linke (GER); 8 P Karlstrom (FIN). Winning mark: 1:21:32

50km walk

Defending champion: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 3:33:12
Olympic champion: Matej Toth (SVK) 3:40:58
Defending champion Yohann Diniz will have to repel a strong Chinese challenge and survive the heat. Also in contention are Japan’s 20km world record-holder Yusuke Suzuki and Olympic winner Matej Toth, who has yet to complete a 50km walk this year.
Prediction: 1 Y Suzuki (JPN); 2 Y Diuniz (FRA); 3 M Toth (SVK); 4 Wang Qin (CHN); 5 Niu Wenbin (CHN); 6 T Noda (JPN); 7 Luo Yadong (CHN); 8 H Haukenes (NOR). Winning mark: 3:45:55

4x100m

Defending champion: GBR 37.47
Olympic champion: Jamaica 37.27
USA will have the fastest sprinters but will they be the best drilled? Britain won in London and will be in contention again if their best sprinters survive the 100m and 200m. On paper both Japan and China have sufficient quality performers to be well inside 38 seconds and are usually technically proficient. Jamaica, without Usain Bolt, don’t look the same force but will also be in the medal hunt.
Prediction: 1 USA; 2 JPN; 3 GBR; 4 CHN; 5 JAM; 6 BRA; 7 NED; 8 GER. Winning mark: 37.66

4x400m

Defending champion: TTO 2:58:12
Olympic champion: USA 2:57:30
If most of their best quartet run, USA will win very easily. Defending champions Trinidad and Jamaica should take the other medals. Britain could squeeze into the finals and even be a factor if Matthew Hudson-Smith is at his best.
Prediction: 1 USA; 2 TTO; 3 JAM; 4 BOT; 5 POL; 6 BEL; 7 GBR; 8 JPN. Winning mark: 2:56.32

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa — Two former USRA national champions, a past Iron Man Challenge titlist and a previous event winner were among the four drivers to visit victory lane Thursday night as the Hamilton County Speedway kicked off the sixth annual Summit USRA Nationals presented by MyRacePass.

Seven years after winning the USRA Modified national championship, Brandon Davis took another step toward securing his second crown with an impressive $1,000 Thursday night triumph.

Davis led all 20 laps while 2014 Summit USRA Nationals winner Rodney Sanders edged Lucas Schott for the second spot.

Dustin Sorensen was fourth at the checkered flag and track champion J.D. Auringer was fifth.

Eric Stanton won the Mensink Racing Products USRA Hobby Stock feature race Thursday to set himself up at a run for a second Summit USRA Nationals crown. The racer from Carlisle captured the win at the inaugural event in 2014.

The two-time defending track champion emerged on top after a furious 16-lap battle with runner-up Dustin Gulbrandson and Tyson Overton.

Despite falling back to third on the start, Stanton picked his way around Overton on lap four and then snuck by Gulbrandson three laps later but not before Overton overtook both of them to complete the seventh lap.

It only took Stanton two more laps to get back around Overton before pacing the last half of the race. While Stanton picked up the win, Gulbrandson narrowly edged out Overton for runner-up honors while Brandon Nielsen and Brady Link competed the top five.

In a repeat of a wheel-to-wheel battle here during the “Rumble By The River” in June, Kris Jackson bested a tough field of Out-Pace USRA B-Mods to capture the opening night win.

The defending Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series national champion tussled with track champ Ty Griffith after he led the first 13 laps, but once in front there was no catching Jackson-the current national points leader.

It was the 25th feature win of the year for Jackson, who holds a slim lead over 2017 national champion Ryan Gillmore.

Gillmore used a last-lap pass to snag the runner-up paycheck from Arnold Motor Supply Iron Man Challenge points leader Jared Boumeester on the final lap.

Griffith held on for fourth with two-time defending Iron Man champ Dan Hovden taking the fifth spot.

In American Racer USRA Stock Car action, 2016 Iron Man points champion Kyle Falck led wire to wire in claiming the victory over Dillon Anderson.

Lynn Panos came from eighth to claim the third spot while graphics great Stefan Sybesma clawed his way from 14th on the grid to fourth at the finish line.

Polesitter Jesse Brown rounded out the top five.

LOCUST GROVE, Ark. — After having the first two scheduled nights postponed due to rain, the third annual Race For Hope 71 got underway Thursday night at Batesville Motor Speedway.

Ninety-five of the best IMCA Modified drivers from across the country were checked in for action at the high-banked three-eighths mile oval.

Inaugural Race For Hope 71 champion, Ricky Thornton Jr. cruised to the 30-lap qualifying A-main feature win. Thornton started on the inside of row two and quickly moved by front row starters D.J. Shannon and Curtis Cook.

Once out front, Thornton distanced himself from the rest of the field.

“The car was really good. We were able to get into the lead on the first or second lap, then I just kind of rolled around the bottom,” said Thornton. “I looked at the track right before our feature and decided to make a few changes. I think that really helped us a bunch. We should be sitting on the front row for Saturday night, which I think will help us a lot.”

Thornton will indeed line up in the middle lane of the front row of Saturday’s 30-car, three-wide championship main event.

Perhaps the best battle on the track midway through the feature was the fight for second between David Stremme and Zane DeVilbiss.

Stremme and DeVilbiss raced hard for the runner-up spot for several consecutive laps. Both drivers fought for the bottom groove around the fast and tacky racing surface, but ninth-place starter, Stremme, was able to hold off DeVilbiss, who was charging his way forward from 13th.

Cook and Tanner Black rounded out the top five.

The finish:

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, [3]; 2. 35-David Stremme, [9]; 3. 18Z-Zane DeVilbiss, [13]; 4. 601-Curtis Cook, [2]; 5. 44T-Tanner Black, [4]; 6. 0-Jake O’Neil, [10]; 7. 2A-Casey Arneson, [23]; 8. 6M-Wendell Wallace, [26]; 9. 83-Kellen Chadwick, [11]; 10. 32-D.J. Shannon, [1]; 11. 01A-Drew Armstrong, [27]; 12. 777-Jared Landers, [6]; 13. 75-Terry Phillips, [25]; 14. 23-Brandon Smith, [8]; 15. 12T-Tyler Townsend, [29]; 16. 37-Randy Foote, [14]; 17. 5L-Cody Laney, [28]; 18. 21M-Tyler Madigan, [16]; 19. 77T-Tripp Gaylord, [17]; 20. 8C-Chad Andersen, [30]; 21. 19XX-Brandon Spanjer, [18]; 22. 117-Toby Herring, [24]; 23. (DNF) C5-Chris Carter, [21]; 24. (DNF) 7M-Peyton Taylor, [20]; 25. (DNF) 12-Jason Hughes, [12]; 26. (DNF) 2T-Tyler Stevens, [7]; 27. (DNF) 30G-Jordan Grabouski, [22]; 28. (DNF) 9S-Ken Schrader, [15]; 29. (DNF) 11-Richie Tosh, [19]; 30. (DNF) 8-Kyle Strickler, [5]

MANCHESTER, England -- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer does not expect Marcus Rashford or Anthony Martial to be fit for Manchester United's clash with Arsenal on Monday with Paul Pogba also a doubt.

Martial has missed five games with a thigh problem while Rashford sat out the Carabao Cup penalty shootout victory over Rochdale because of a groin injury.

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Pogba was not able to take a penalty against Rochdale or attend a team meal on Wednesday after aggravating an ankle injury and could miss Arsenal's visit to Old Trafford.

"I wouldn't put my life on it [having Martial and Rashford available]," Solskjaer told a news conference on Friday.

"It's part of the game, working with what you have.

"The situation [with Pogba] is he finished the game [against Rochdale] but he got a knock to his ankle which is very swollen so it was better for him not to go there [to the meal] with the team and he's in a race for Monday

"Luke [Shaw] is back in training [on Friday]. He's working really hard and we hope to see him before the international break. Maybe Monday."

Injuries to Martial and Rashford could mean a first Premier League start of the season for 17-year-old Mason Greenwood, who scored for the second consecutive game against Rochdale.

The teenager is the only fit striker in the squad and Solskjaer insists he would have no problem picking him to play Arsenal.

"He's proven when he's been on the pitch -- Astana and Rochdale -- when you get him in the box he's dangerous," Solskjaer said.

"What's pleased me about him is he doesn't turn down chances to finish.

"He's proved in those games he's ready for it. I'll have the weekend to think about it."

United will line up against Arsenal -- who have not won in the league at Old Trafford since 2006 -- eighth in the table after winning just two of their opening six games.

Goals have been a problem with United only scoring more than once in a game on one occasion so far this season.

United have scored eight league goals -- fewer than Norwich in 16th -- and failed to score more than once in 17 of their last 20 games in all competition.

"You can see how much we've improved defensively, that;'s where we put the big money in," Solskjaer said.

"We don't concede many chances, concede too many goals.

"The other way going forward is where we've struggled with injuries. We've had some bad luck in that respect, about building relationships, doesn't help when you lose players but sometimes the finishing could be better.

"I never said it was going to be easy this season. There are going to be ups and downs, highs and lows, and when we lose a game we have to trust ourselves and what we're doing."