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ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 will begin from February 10, 2023. This year, the high-octane tournament is being hosted in South Africa. The eighth edition of women’s T20 World Cup will feature a total of 10 teams.

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Before the tournament starts, 10 warm-up games will be played. The 4th warm-up match of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 will see India women’s cricket team go up against Australia at the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town. The match will be very important to test preparations of both teams.

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Squads:

India Women Squad: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Shikha Pandey, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Devika Vaidya, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Renuka Thakur Singh, Anjali Sarvani, Yastika Bhatia

Australia Women Squad: Alyssa Healy(w), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning(c), Ellyse Perry, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Tahlia McGrath, Ashleigh Gardner, Alana King, Heather Graham, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Darcie Brown

REAL MADRID take on Egyptian giants Al-Ahly for a place in the Club World Cup final.

Los Blancos will be aiming to win the Club World Cup for the eighth time in their history and for the first time since 2018.

The Spanish champions aren’t in the best form and find themselves eight points behind Barcelona in the La Liga title race.

Al-Ahly competing in their eighth Club World Cup finished third in the past two editions but have never made the final.

They advanced past Auckland City in the first round with a comfortable 3-0 win.

The Egyptians set up a semi final with Real Madrid as they snatched a late win against MLS side Seattle Sounders in the second round as an 88th minute goal from Mohamed Magdy secured a 1-0 win.

When is Real Madrid vs Al-Ahly?

• Real Madrid vs Al-Ahly will take place on Wednesday, February 8th.
• The game will kick off at 7pm UK time.
• Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium will play host.

What channel is it and can it be live streamed?

• Real Madrid’s clash with Al-Ahly won’t be live on TV.
• It can be streamed on FIFA Plus.

Can I watch for FREE?

• Yes, it can be streamed for free on FIFA Plus and the Fifa Youtube channel.

Team news

Real Madrid are expected to be without first choice goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois who got injured in the warm up before their game against Mallorca last Weekend.

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Al Ahly have a fully fit squad to choose from.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Former Portugal and Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has worked at the last four World Cups and was hired on Monday by Qatar to aim for a fifth straight at the next edition hosted in North America.

The Qatar Football Association hired former Real Madrid coach Queiroz until 2026 to take charge of his seventh different national team.

As host of the 2022 World Cup , Qatar lost all three group-stage games on its tournament debut in November. This time it will try to advance through the qualifying program for the first time.

The 2026 edition in the United States, Canada and Mexico is the first 48-team finals tournament and Asia will have eight guaranteed qualifying places instead of the previous four.

Queiroz coached Iran at a third straight World Cup together since 2014 and again failed to advance to the round of 16. His team lost to England and the United States , though beat Wales, to place third in their group.

Queiroz, who turns 70 on March 1, coached his native Portugal at the 2010 World Cup and lost in the round of 16 to eventual winner Spain.

Qatar under Queiroz has two continental championships to play in the next year, first with an invitation to the CONCACAF Gold Cup in June. Qatar also hosts the Asian Cup in January.

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German resilience triumphs in high-quality World Cup

In a World Cup of high-quality hockey, the German “culture of resilience” triumphed, ending Belgium’s five-year reign as the most successful team, while hosts India’s nearly five-decade long wait for a medal continued.

The Germans made another stunning comeback from a two-goal deficit to beat defending champions Belgium 5-4 in a penalty shootout of a classic summit clash. The two sides were locked 3-3 in the regulation time of 60 minutes on Sunday.

This was the third time in the showpiece that Germany had won after trailing 0-2 and their fabled mental strength and never-say-die attitude came to the fore again. They had done so against England in the quarterfinals and against Australia in the semifinals.

Germany joined Australia and Netherlands to have clinched the World Cup title three times. Only Pakistan have won the World Cup four times. Germany’s earlier triumphs had come in 2002 and 2006. They were runners-up in 1982 and 2010 and finished sixth and fifth in the 2014 and 2018 editions respectively.

The triumph also took Germany to the top of FIH world rankings from the pre-tournament fourth place.

“This triumph is incredible, I don’t have any words to describe this feat,” German coach Andre Henning said after his side’s first title win since 2006.

“We came back from 0-2 down in the quarterfinals, semifinals and now in the final. You cannot now say it is luck, it is due to the quality in this team. We had the belief throughout that we can win this World Cup.”

Netherlands, who had finished runners-up in the last two editions, clinched their fourth straight medal after beating Australia 3-1 in the bronze play-off. They had also won a bronze in the 2010 edition.

For Australia, this was the first time they returned home without a medal after they finished fourth in the 1998 edition. They had won a bronze in the last edition.

German striker Niklas Wellen, who scored a last-minute goal against Australia in the semifinals and another one in the final, was fittingly named player of the tournament. He was also the joint third highest scorer with seven strikes, sharing the position with Netherlands captain Thierry Brinkman.

Australia’s Jeremy Hayward emerged as the tournament’s top scorer with nine goals in six matches while Tom Boon of Belgium, Victor Charlet of France and Jip Janssen of Netherlands were joint second with eight goals each.

Belgium had started their ‘incredible journey’ as the world’s best side by winning the 2018 World Cup at the same Kalinga Stadium where they were beaten by the Germans on Sunday.

The Belgians had won the Tokyo Olympics title after that. Their coach Michel van den Heuvel had actually used this term ‘German culture of resilience’ in the pre-final press conference and had warned his players of the enormous mental strength of their opponents but, in the end, they could not find a way to deal with it.

“It is disappointing not to have won this World Cup. But we are proud of this group which has done incredibly well in the last few years,” van den Heuvel said.

“Every opponent had been looking for an opportunity and ways to win against us in these years. Now, it is our turn to try and find an answer in the next one and half years,” he added, indicating that they will bounce back in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The next World Cup in 2026 will be co-hosted by Belgium and Netherlands and under tournament rules both the countries have already qualified for the showpiece.

Overall, it was a high-quality World Cup with no clear favourites. The four semifinalists and England, who lost to eventual champions Germany in a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals, could have beaten any side on their day.

For India, though, it was yet another disappointment in their second consecutive home World Cup as they made a shock exit before the quarterfinals stage.

If the Germans made it a habit of coming back from 0-2 down to win the World Cup, it was the opposite for India as the hosts, ranked sixth in the world, squandered a two-goal advantage to lose to New Zealand, six places below them in world rankings, in penalty shootout in their crossover match.

With crores of rupees being spent on training, exposure tours and support staff salaries, this team would have done better and at least reached the quarterfinals, if not the semifinals.

In the end, this was India’s fifth worst placing in all the 15th editions of the World Cup the country has participated in. India had finished below ninth on four occasions — in 1986 (12th), 1990 (10th), 2002 (10th) and 2006 (11th).

They had finished ninth in 1998 and 2014 also. India had crashed out in the quarterfinal in the home World Cup in 2018.

Two main reasons for India’s debacle were the abysmal rate of penalty corner conversion and the lack of finishing by the forwards. To this should be added the inconsistency in defending.

India, whose last World Cup medal came in 1975 when they won a gold in Kuala Lumpur, did beat Spain (2-0) and drew goalless with England but could only win with 4-2 margin against minnows Wales that cost the home team a top place finish in their pool, which would have taken them directly to the quarterfinals.

Head coach Graham Reid later admitted that a home World Cup brought extra pressure to the players which was sometimes difficult to process, and stressed the need for the team to have a mental conditioning coach.

This World Cup, participated by 16 teams, turned out to be the highest scoring one in all of the 15th editions with an average of 5.66 goals per match. The tournament saw 249 goals being scored in 44 matches. 143 were field goals, while 94 and 12 came from penalty corners and penalty strokes, respectively.

The 2010 World Cup in New Delhi, which was participated by 12 teams, had 199 goals from 38 matches, at an average of 5.24 per game.

The penalty corner conversion rate, though, went down drastically, with most of the teams defending the PCs much better than earlier.

On the organisational front, Odisha rolled out the best ever facilities in a World Cup, with the 21,000 capacity Birsa Munda Stadium in Rourkela being added as co-host venue along with the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

The Birsa Munda Stadium was declared by the word governing body FIH as the largest all-seater hockey specific venue in the world.

The concept of World Cup Village was introduced for the first time as all the participating teams were housed in a five-star level accommodation run by the Taj Group inside the Birsa Munda Stadium complex.

“This is one of the best World Cups ever, one of the best events in global hockey. It was a great experience for the local population and for the participating teams and athletes,” FIH chief Ikram Tayyab said.

Players and officials of participating teams were, however, more effusive than Tayyab in praise of the tournament organisers, saying that this World Cup has set a benchmark with the facilities it rolled out, which will be difficult to match in the future editions.

Indian men’s hockey team’s World Cup debacle claimed its first casualty on Monday in the form of chief coach Graham Reid, who resigned from his position following the host nation’s disastrous outing at the just-concluded showpiece.

Reid, who was appointed India coach in April 2019, led the team to a historic bronze medal finish at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

But following the below-par show in the World Cup, the 58-year-old Australian submitted his resignation to Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey, a day after the conclusion of the event in Bhubaneswar, where Germany beat Belgium in a penalty shoot-out to emerge as champions.

“It is now time for me to step aside and hand over the reigns to the next management,” Reid said, announcing his retirement.

Reid’s term was till next year’s Paris Olympics.

“It has been an honour and privilege to work with the team and Hockey India and I have enjoyed every moment of this epic journey. I wish the team all the very best,” he added.

Reid took the decision after HI chief Tirkey and secretary general Bholanath Singh met with the players and support staff to discuss the team’s performance and strategy going forward.

Besides Reid, the team’s analytical coach Greg Clark and scientific advisor Mitchell David Pemberton also tendered their resignations on Monday morning.

The trio will be serving a notice period of one month before relinquishing their duties.

Under Reid, India achieved a lot of success, including an Olympic medal after 41 years, a silver in last year’s Birmingham Commonwealth Games and a third-place finish in the FIH Hockey Pro League season in 2021-22.

Reid’s successful outings with India also includes the FIH Series Final title victory in 2019. The team made the Tokyo Games by winning the qualifiers in Bhubaneswar in the same year.

Tirkey accepted the trio’s resignations and said the country will always remain grateful for their services.

“India will always have gratitude towards Graham Reid and his team of support staff who have brought good results to the country, particularly the Olympic Games,” he said.

“As all journeys move to different phases, it is now time for us to move on towards a new approach for our team.”

Hosts India started the tournament as fifth in world rankings but failed to qualify for the quarter-finals.

India started their campaign with a 2-0 win over Spain but their goalless draw against England put them in second place in their pool, forcing them to play a crossover match against New Zealand for a place in the quarter-finals. But the hosts lost the game in penalty shoot-out after blowing a two-goal lead.

The home team, led by Harmanpreet Singh, eventually finished joint ninth along with Argentina after defeating Japan 8-0 and South Africa 5-2 in classification matches.

The ninth position was the lowest-ever finish by a host nation in the World Cup’s history.

Chopping and changing coaches after a poor show in a big tournament is not new in Indian hockey. The trend has been prevalent from the days of now-banned Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), led by KPS Gill.

Germany’s Gerhard Rach was the first foreigner to coach the Indian hockey team when he was roped in a few months before the 2004 Athens Olympics. Since then Australian Ric Charlesworth, Spaniard Jose Brasa, Australian Michael Nobbs and Terry Walsh, Netherland’s Paul van Ass, Roelant Oltmans and Sjoerd Marijne and finally Reid also had associations with the national team.

Among all of them Reid had a successful stint in India, leading the side to many titles, including a historic Olympic medal in Tokyo.