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cooK IN FacTS: > Born Dec. 25, 1984, in Gloucester, England.> Scored an unbeaten 104 on test debut against India at Nagpur in 2006 and made his one-day international debut against Sri Lanka in the same year.> Scored 766 runs in seven innings during the 2010-11 Ashes tour to help England to their first series win in Australia for 24 years.> Scored 294 against India in 2011, his highest test score to date, and was named as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Test Cricketer of the Year.> Succeeded Andrew Strauss as ODI skipper in 2011 and as permanent test captain in 2012.> Scored his 23rd century in 2012, against India, to break the record for most test hundreds for England. Also became the youngest player to pass 7,000 test runs and was named as one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year.> Led England to the final of the 2013 Champions Trophy, losing to India. He lost the one-day captaincy and a place in the 2015 World Cup squad after a poor run of form.> Captained England to a 3-0 home Ashes win in 2013, but a 5-0 whitewash Down Under led to criticism of his captaincy.> Passed Graham Gooch’s 8,900-run tally during the 2015 series against New Zealand to become England’s most leading run scorer in tests.> Led England to a surprise 3-2 Ashes win in 2015 and was named as captain of the ICC’s test team of the year.> Captained England to a 2-1 test series win in South Africa in 2016 against a team then ranked No1 in the world.> Ended 2015 as the year’s third-highest test run scorer with 1,364 at an average of 54.56.> In May 2016 became the first English batsman and the 12th player from any country to score 10,000 runs in test matches.> Stepped down as England test captain in February 2017 after an embarrassing 4-0 series loss in India at the end of 2016.> Led England in 59 tests, more than any of his predecessors.> Cook is England’s most prolific test batsman with 11,057 runs in 140 tests.

Cook resigns as England Captain �AFP

LONDONAlastair Cook resigned as England Test captain after a record 59 matches in the role, saying Monday it was “a sad day” but the right de-cision for the team.

Cook, England’s lead-ing scorer in Tests with 11,057 runs, became cap-tain in August 2012 and led his country to Ashes glory on home soil in 2013 and 2015 as well as series wins in India and South Africa.

Yorkshire batsman Joe Root is the early favourite to take over with an an-nouncement expected in the next fortnight.

“It’s been a huge hon-our to be England captain and to lead the Test team over the past five years,” Cook, 32, said in a state-ment.

“Stepping down has been an incredibly hard decision, but I know this is the correct decision for me and at the right time for the team.”

Cook, who also led England in a record 69 one-day internationals

between 2010 and 2014, is the country’s most capped Test skipper and has scored more Test cen-turies than any previous captain.

He was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in

2012 and ICC World Test Captain in 2013.

He tendered his res-ignation to England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Colin Graves on Sunday, but in-tends to continue playing

Test cricket. “It’s a sad day person-

ally in many ways, but I want to thank everyone I’ve captained, all the coaches and support staff and, of course, the Eng-land supporters and the

Barmy Army who follow us home and away and have given us unwaver-ing support,” Cook add-ed.

“Playing for England really is a privilege and I hope to carry on as a Test

player, making a full con-tribution and helping the next England captain and the team however I can.”

Cook’s decision to stand down follows Eng-land’s 4-0 series defeat in India at the end of last year. The ECB said a “proper process” had started to appoint Eng-land’s next Test captain.

England’s director of cricket Andrew Strauss said Cook had made a “fantastic contribution” and “deserves to be seen as one of our country’s great captains”.

“We now move on with the process of appoint-ing the right successor,” Strauss said.

“There are a number of established players who are playing formal or in-formal leadership roles and whilst we’ve rightly not spoken to anyone in relation to the Test cap-taincy so far, we can now talk fully and openly within the team.

“We expect to be able to make an announcement before the team head to the West Indies on Feb-ruary 22.”

�NT NETWORK SALIGAOAssonora United Foot-ball Club managed to register a 2-1 win over Goa Velha Sports Club to move into the quarters of the XI Reira Soccer Cup, organised by Saligao Sporting Club, played at Saligao Sporting grounds

here on Monday.It was Goa Velha who

surprised their oppo-nents with a 25th min-

ute goal when a corner by Suresh Thapa sneaked past the legs of Assonora

keeper, 1-0.On crossing over, As-

sonora not only leveled terms in the 50th min-ute through Tushar Des-sai’s strike from outside the penalty box, but ten minutes later Rajesh Sal-gaonkar netted in the match winning goal through a 25-yard shot, 2-1

Assonora United scrape past Goa Velha

�NT NETWORK SOUTH GOAPlaying their best, Raitura SC hammered Mandopa SC 4-0 in the GFA Second Division football league match played at Navelim grounds on Monday.

Raitura SC made their in-tentions known right from the kick off as they started to play on an attacking note ,which saw two pow-erful shots by Grenvilia Soares and Melroy Dias miss the mark narrowly in the first twelve minutes.

As the match wore on, Raitura SC went into the lead in the 24th minute of play when Grenvillia Soares bulged the nets with an angular effort.He then completed his brace in the 68th minute.

Melroy Dias, who gave a good account of himself upfront, scored two goals for Raitura SC- finding the

mark in the 90th and 90+2 minutes of play. At Ambelim grounds: Sports and Welfare Club,Zaino,Velim defeated Maina S.C. 2-1 .

Sweeden Madeira gave Zaino the lead in the 15th minute but Maina SC lev-eled the score through

Clifton Barbosa in the 16th minute through a free kick which Agnez Vaz sent in right where Clifton Barbo-sa stood and the striker had no difficulty in scoring.

But, Sports and Welfare Club ,Zaino appeared to be a determined lot and car-ried the day in their favour when Jade Colaso scored a great goal in the 40th min-ute of play.At Cansaulim grounds: Young Humorist Club and Parish Youth Association,

Consua played a 1-1 draw to split points.

Seby Monteiro put Par-ish Youth,Consua in the lead in the 59th minute and then Young Humor-ist Club levelled the score through Sohil Kardi in the 77th minute of play. At Cuncolim grounds: Youth Club of Manora and Cuncolim Union were in-volved in a 1-1 draw .

Cuncolim Union went into the lead in the 17th minute of play through a goal scored by Flamingo Dias off a neat pass from Navil Pinto. Youth Club of Manora restored parity in the 58th minute when Ven-ito Miranda scored from the penalty spot.At Curtorim grounds: St.Rock’s Youth Club,Majorda and Fr.Agnelo Youth SC ,Paroda played out a goalless draw ,despite having some good chances to score.

Raitura SC ease past Mandopa SC

GFa’S u 18 LeaGue

�NT NETWORK DULERSesa Football Academy (SFA) proved to be too good as they drubbed Dunes Sports Club, Mandrem 4-0 in the GFA’s U 18 League played at Duler stadium, here on Monday.

Sesa FA continued to stay on top of the League table with 13 points from five matches, while Dunes has six points from five matches.

Sesa dominated right from the start but could open their account only in the 20th minute. A curling corner by Dylan Fernandes was brilliantly headed into the goal by Kunal Sal-gaonkar, 1-0.

Dunes had just one good attempt at the rival goal in the first session when Vidhesh Sawant collected a diagonal pass from Sa-hil Halarnkar and drilled

a low shot which was col-lected by Sesa keeper Roa-nal Gaonkar.

Sesa had two more chances to inflate their lead -in the 30th minute Kunal sent a defense split-ting pass to Vishnu Gosavi just inside the 6-yard box, but Dunes keeper came

with a breath taking save to block Vishnu’s shot from close.

In the very next minute, Kunal almost scored his second goal off a corner from Dylan, but his header ricocheted off the post.

On crossing over ,in the very 2nd minute, Kunal controlled a long ball from Lionel D’Souza and after covering some ground drilled a low shot into the far corner of the Dunes goal, 2-0.

The best chance for Dunes to pull a goal back was in the 58th minute when a 30-yard strike from Alrich D’Souza was swayed by Sesa keeper over the post.

As the match progressed Gavin Soares moved from the right flank and sent a perfect cross to well posi-tioned Kunal Salgaonkar who finished the ball into the goal past the help-less Dunes keeper Shrid-har Pujar, to complete his hat-trick. Sesa coach Ajay Acharya brought in Daniel Lobo from the bench re-placing Kunal Salgaonkar in the attack. It did not take long for Daniel to show his skills as he moved dan-gerously inside the Dunes penalty box and sent a deadly cross at the far end to unmarked Vishnu Gos-avi who slammed the ball into the goal, 4-0.

Sesa FA obliterate Dunes from Mandrem

GFa SecoND DIVISIoN

�UNI NEW DELHIThe International Cricket Council (ICC) has given nod for the usage of Deci-sion Review System (DRS) in all the three formats of cricket, which will be ef-fective from October this year.

In the two-day ICC’s Chief Executives Commit-tee meeting in Dubai, the proposal to implement uni-form DRS was approved yes-terday. It will also be the first time when the DRS will be utilised for the first time in the Women’s World T20 in the West Indies. It was also proposed that the ICC will bear the burden of the costs of using DRS to reduce the financial burden on mem-ber boards and would also enable the consistent use of the technology.

However, the ICC made it clear that the technol-

ogy service providers which would become a part of the DRS will need an approval from the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology (MIT) before it is used in interna-tional matches.

Earlier, in a statement the ICC had said, “The Chief Ex-ecutives’ Committee agreed to the principle of a con-sistent use of DRS technol-ogy across all international cricket. A full implementa-tion plan will be considered by the ICC Cricket Commit-tee in May before approval in June 2017 for roll-out from October 2017.” The commit-tee also gave approval for the use of DRS in T20 interna-tional matches for the first time and will be used in the Women’s World T20, to be played in the West Indies next year. There has been an outcry among some of the member boards, who have sought the use of DRS in bi-lateral T20 internationals.

DRS in all formats of cricket from Oct

� IANS MANCHESTERManchester United coach Jose Mourinho has said that clubs in the English Premier League football this season are more de-fensive and looking to counter attack.

He said this after win-ning 3-0 over defend-ing champions Leicester City.

“Look, my team is playing very well. For many years in my ca-reer, especially in this country, when my teams were ruthless, phenome-nal defensively and very good on the counter-at-tack, I listened week af-ter week that it was not enough, despite winning the title three times,” Mourinho told the club’s official website on Sun-day after his team’s win.

“It looks like this sea-son to be phenomenal defensively and good on the counter-attack is an art - it is a big change in England.”

The Portuguese said he doesn’t want his side to be creating a lot of chances but not scoring goals. United had Hen-rikh Mkhitaryan, Zlatan

Ibrahimovic and Juan Mata scoring the goals

that beat Leicester.“My Manchester Unit-

ed, I don’t want to change the profile of our play - this is the way we, the fans and the club want to play. But I don’t want to be the manager of a team that plays very well, cre-ates a lot of chances and does not win matches. We need to score goals and today we did.”

On his star Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahi-movic’s rich form, Mour-inho said, “Normally when strikers score goals we say ‘22 goals - 14 goals and eight penalties’, or ‘21 goals - 14 goals and seven penalties’. With Zlatan we need to re-mind ourselves it’s 20 goals - 19 and one pen-alty.”

Mourinho said there were many individual performances which im-pressed him.

“There were many good performances. The overall performance was very good and there were many good individual performances; obvious-ly Mkhitaryan with the goal and assist and some amazing actions come into the eye, but I could name many players with very good individual performances.”

Defensive mindset best for counter attacks, says MourinhoSuyesh to lead GoaPORVORIM: Suyesh Prabhudesai has been appointed captain of the Goa team for the PS Ramamohan Rao Trophy U25 one day limited over crickect tournament to be held in Vijaywada from februray 10 to 16. The team: Suyesh Prab-hudesai (Captain); Lakshay Garg ,Rajat Shet , Amey Dhamsekar , Prathamesh Gawas ,Abu Badgaonkar ,Anchit Shigwan ,Vijesh Prab-hudesai, Maliksab Shirur , Abhilash Raikar , Ma-hesh Rao (WK) , Anirudh Pokle, Vedant Naik ,An-vey Naik, Om Prakash Chauhan,Sankit Aryan and Ishan Gadekar.

Goa BRIeFS

FIXTuReS:>AIFF U-18 I League: Salgaocar FC V. Sporting Clube de Goa , Duler stadium, 3.45pm

>GFA Second Div (Mormugao): Mormugao United S C V. Cross Boys, Cansaulim, 4pm

>GFA Second Div (Ilhas): Dempo S C (Jrs) V. Santo Estevam S C, Goa Velha, 4pm

>GFA Under 14 (Play Off): Tilamola United S C V. Ave Maria Athletic & Walkers C, Curtorim, 4.15pm

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