Sport
Can India qualify for World Test Championship Final after New Zealand series defeat? 5 Points to know- The Week
New Zealand registered a historic Test series win in India on Saturday after Mitchell Santer produced his career-best performance at the Pune MCA Stadium. The 113-run defeat came after Rohit Sharma’s team was humbled by 8 wickets at Bengaluru by the Kiwis in the opening Test. While India were handed their first home defeat after 18 consecutive Test series victories, New Zealand celebrated their first-ever series win in the Asian country in nearly 70 years.
Surrendering the series also took a hit on India’s chances of making the World Test Championship (WTC) final. The final match against New Zealand and November’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy have now become very important for India’s journey ahead. The Kiwis’s victory, meanwhile, has given the likes of Sri Lanka, South Africa, and New Zealand besides Australia, a strong opportunity to qualify for the WTC25 Final next year.
In plain words, although all is not over for India, it will now take a string of impeccable performances to ensure that they reach the summit clash at the Lord’s. In the backdrop of the series loss against New Zealand, here are five things that Indian cricket fans need to know about the WTC Final qualification scenario:
1. The Pune defeat against New Zealand was India’s fourth loss in the current WTC cycle. However, India remain the leaders with 62.82 points compared to second-placed Australia’s 62.50.
2. As things stand, India need to win the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia to ensure their qualification to the final. Well, what if India win a Test and draws the rest? That won’t do the trick any more as Rohit Sharma’s men have to win four of the remaining six matches in the current cycle to be absolutely certain of a place in the final.
3. This scenario also elevates the status of the third and final Test against New Zealand from a dead rubber. India must win the final Test at Mumbai to keep their qualification hopes alive. In other words, there is plenty to fight for as the two sides meet again on November 1.
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4. Sri Lanka, who have a PCT of 55.56, occupy the third spot while Pakistan’s nine-wicket victory against England in the third Test in Rawalpindi has helped them climb to seventh place with 33.33 PCT. England, who have 40.79 PCT, are sixth.
5. Meanwhile, fifth-placed South Africa (47.62 PCT) can finish in the top-two if they manage to win their remaining five matches. After the second Test of the ongoing series against Bangladesh in Chattogram next week, South Africa will face Sri Lanka and Pakistan at home. The fact that Sri Lanka is not a formidable side away from home, and the unpredictability of Bangladesh gives the Proteas a real chance to turn the tables in their favour.
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Who is Taryn Kloth’s Olympic beach volleyball partner Kristen Nuss and how many tour titles have they won?
BEACH Volleyball stars Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are a dynamic duo known for their long reign of unbeatable play in world competitions.
The pair sadly experienced a massive loss at the Paris 2024 Olympics – but who is Kloth’s other beach volleyball half?
Who is Kristen Nuss?
Kristen Nuss is an American beach volleyball player who competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Taryn Kloth.
She has competed in various world-class volleyball competitions, including FIVB World Tour/Pro Beach tour.
She and Kloth are ranked No.2 in the world and are the first beach volleyball pair to ever go for Olympic gold without any connection to California.
Early Life
Born in December 1997, Nuss grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and is the youngest of four children.
Her parents are Audrey and George, and she has three older brothers, Pete, Jeffrey and Jordan.
Nuss has always been a massively talented athlete – even in her early life.
In high school, Nuss led Mount Carmel Academy to three indoor volleyball and two basketball state titles.
Nuss was also a LHSAA Division I MVP and Gatorade Player of the Year candidate for indoor volleyball.
Despite her successes in various sports, she knew she wanted to do beach volleyball.
In 2017 Nuss attended the notorious sports college Louisiana State University, where she quickly found her feet in the beach volleyball world with another freshman, Claire Coppola.
The dynamic duo accumulated nine wins over NCAA ranked teams – unbelievably including a whopping seven against the top 10 ranked teams.
In their freshman season, they even won 20 of 21 matches, ending with a 27-7 record.
For this, they got named to Volleyballmag.com’s All-America team.
After winning various championships and awards back-to-back over the years, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and Nuss began to train with Taryn Kloth.
Kloth was an indoor volleyball player for Creighton who has transferred over to LSU.
Together, the Olympians went on to finish with an unbelievable 36-0 record in 2021 – the second ever team to complete an undefeated season and the NCAA title.
Not only did Nuss finish college with record-breaking stats, she also graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology.
The star also ended her college career with 136 total victories, three CCSA Pair of the Year and AVCA All-American awards, two USA Volleyball Collegiate Beach Championships and Volleyballmag.com’s Player of the Year.
Paris 2024 Olympics
Upon Nuss and Kloth’s graduating in 2021, they immediately turned into professional beach volleyball players with the aspiration of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The pair opted to stay in New Orleans instead of doing what most players do and move to Southern California.
After various impressive Pro Tour wins, the pair qualified for the Olympics.
While initially having an unbeaten run, the pairs streak ended with a 21-19, 21-18 loss to Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson.
Pro Tour wins
Nuss has a total of 12 medals – seven of which are gold, three silver and two bronze.
After graduating from LSU, she and Kloth struggled to qualify for international tournaments before getting Gold in the 2022 BPT Coolangatta Futures.
Nuss and Kloth then gained momentum and beat the Tokyo Silver Medalists, Australians Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy and were on track to Gold at the 2022 BPT Kusadasi Challenge.
By 2023 the pair won two of their first four World Tournaments, impressively following those by achieving three medals in five tournaments during the European leg of the tour.
Soon Nuss and Cloth were sailing to win Gold at the World Tour Finals and were unbeatable – reaching the No.2 FIVB ranking and qualifying for the Olympics.
Kristen Nuss medal record
World Championships
World Tour Finals
World Tour
- 2022 Coolangatta – Gold
- 2022 Kusadasi – Gold
- 2023 La Paz – Gold
- 2023 Uberlandia – Gold
- 2024 Espinho – Gold
- 2024 Gstaad – Gold
- 2023 Hamburg – Silver
- 2023 Paris – Silver
- 2024 Brasilia – Silver
- 2023 Gstaad – Bronze
AVP Tour
- 2021 Atlanta – Gold
- 2022 Austin – Gold
- 2022 Chicago – Gold
- 2022 Phoenix – Gold
- 2023 Atlanta – Gold
- 2023 Chicago – Gold
- 2023 Huntington Beach – Gold
- 2022 New Orleans – Silver
- 2021 Chicago – Bronze
- 2023 New Orleans – Bronze
- 2023 Huntington Beach – Bronze
Sport
Rob Baxter: Exeter Chiefs have ‘lot of manning up to do’ as winless streak goes on
Exeter now have some respite from their league woes with the Premiership Rugby Cup taking over during the autumn international period.
With Chiefs missing just England’s Henry Slade and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, along with Wales’ Christ Tshiunza, Baxter says he will set to work trying to fix his side’s problems.
They face a trip to Championship side Cornish Pirates on Friday before hosting second-tier Hartpury the following week and then meeting Gloucester in their third pool game.
“This is like a mini pre-season for us,” Baxter said.
“We’ve got a lot of hard work to do and there’s going to be a lot of good, hard training sessions and there’s going to be lot of players getting good game minutes until we settle into a way of playing that we’re comfortable with.
“It’s very hard. I don’t like this. I don’t like seeing the players looking the way they’re having to look because of the levels of performance and the results.
“What do you do? Do you hide yourself away and run away from it or do you get on with it? Right here and now we’re going to get on with it.”
Sport
Noman Ali, Sajid Khan spin Pakistan to series win against England- The Week
Spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan suppressed England’s batting attack inside three days and earned Pakistan a long-awaited and series-clinching nine-wicket win in the third and final Test in Rawalpindi on Saturday.
The 38-year-old left-arm spinner Ali and off-spinner Khan, 31, had grabbed all 20 wickets on a recycled second Test pitch to level the series last week and yet again clipped the batters on an engineered dry surface by sharing 19 wickets as England were dismissed for 112 on Day 3.
It was England’s lowest innings total in Pakistan, eclipsing their previous score of 130 all out in Lahore in 1987.
Pakistan, who got a meaningful 77-run first innings lead, reached 37/1 at the stroke of lunch to notch their first home series win since 2021 when they beat South Africa 2-0.
Skipper Shan Masood (23 not out), who lost six successive Test matches as captain before England got beaten in the second Test, sealed the win with a six over long-off against Shoaib Bashir after smashing four successive boundaries off Jack Leach.
Leach grabbed the only wicket to fall when he successfully went for an lbw television referral against Saim Ayub, who made eight.
The win was a sweet revenge for the home team, which was knocked over by England 3-0 when it last toured Pakistan two years ago under the captaincy of Ben Stokes.
England’s batting folded meekly against the spin duo for the second time around as Ali followed his three wickets in the first innings with 6/42 on a wicket which was dried out by industrial-sized giant fans and outdoor heaters.
Khan grabbed 4/69 to add to his first innings six-wicket haul as England batters couldn’t negotiate the variable bounce and the turn Khan and Ali extracted of the pitch.
England won the first Test by an innings and 47 runs before Pakistan succeeded in their ploy to reuse the same surface in Multan to counter England’s aggressive batting and recalled both Ali and Khan for the remaining two Tests.
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“19 out of 20” drivers aligned on F1 racing guidelines changes
George Russell has suggested that “19 out of 20” drivers are aligned on what Formula 1’s racing guidelines should be and was pleased to see “unfair” racing manoeuvres penalised at the Mexican Grand Prix.
Russell, who serves as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, has been vocal on the need for the drivers, stewards and the FIA to discuss the current guidelines on racing in the wake of the US Grand Prix’s contentious battle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.
Speaking in Mexico, where the two championship contenders once again came under scrutiny for their on-track actions – Verstappen penalised 20 seconds for two violations – Russell said that he expected the stewards to continue to take a hard-line approach.
He revealed that all but one driver was happy for the stewards to change their approach with penalising certain incidents immediately after Austin, rather than wait until 2025 for new guidelines.
“I think the stewards are totally on board with what needs to change,” Russell said.
“Our view is…I think the biggest discussion is they wanted to wait until ’25, so it’s something consistent through this year. I would say 19 out of 20 drivers said, ‘well, if it’s incorrect, make the change today’.
“And I’m glad to see those incidents were punished and I suspect moving forward in Brazil what we saw today [Sunday] and what we saw last week [in Austin] you won’t be able to get away with.
“You presume [it should be easy to change if everyone agrees], but it sometimes seems more difficult than it has to be when things have to get approved and we’ve got to go to a vote app. But as I said, 19 out of 20, we’re all aligned on where it needs to be.”
George Russell, Mercedes F1 W15, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15
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Russell pointed to his own battle with team-mate Lewis Hamilton as “hard and fair” racing, in which the younger Briton held off his team-mate until the start of the 66th lap.
He also had his say on the Verstappen/Norris incident, stating that the Dutchman’s Turn 7 move – in which he carried significant overspeed into the corner and ran Norris off – was something he hadn’t seen since Verstappen’s move on Hamilton at Brazil in 2021.
“It was nice to have the battle and it’s always good when you fight with Lewis because it’s hard and fair,” Russell said.
“At the moment you’re seeing a number of manoeuvres that are just…it’s getting beyond entertaining or beyond sporting, it’s just almost unfair to a point now.
“You can argue the first one was maybe 60-40. The last one, I’ve not seen anything like that since probably Brazil [2021].”
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