DENVER -- Jonathan dos Santos said he would be delighted to see his brother Giovani play for Liga MX giant Club America, with reports suggesting the Mexico City club is interested in the former LA Galaxy forward.

Giovani dos Santos is currently looking for a new club after the Galaxy exercised their option to buy out the contract of the Mexico international on March 1.

The 30-year-old's father had a successful career at Club America and Jonathan believes it would be an ideal move for his brother, who stressed Giovani has "a lot of offers."

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"I don't know anything, but hopefully," said Jonathan after Mexico's 3-1 win over Canada in Denver. "I've always said that we are America fans from the cradle and hopefully [Giovani's move to America] happens.

"We are life-long America fans, for us it is the best team in the world and what is better than going there?"

Giovani has previously been linked with Monterrey and Brazilian clubs, but has been silent about his future.

America allowed striker Oribe Peralta to leave for bitter rival Chivas this week and Las Aguilas coach Miguel Herrera confirmed the club would look for a replacement that wouldn't be like-for-like.

"Giovani is a possibility like any other player you mention," Herrera told reporters in Mexico City's international airport on Wednesday. "Any player of that level would be good, he's focused, but that doesn't mean he has to come to America.

"He's a free agent and he's Mexican, he'd fit in any team in Mexican football, not just America."

New Juventus boss Maurizio Sarri said moving to Juventus is a "step forward" in his coaching career after a year with Chelsea, and said he can understand the scepticism surrounding his appointment because it has been the same at every club he has been at.

Sarri was presented on Thursday after signing a three-year contract with the club that has won Serie A for the last eight seasons.

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Sarri called the Juventus job the "crowning achievement of a long and difficult career."

"I've taken a long road to get here, from Serie C2 to B, A, Premier League and now Juventus. It's special to be here. It's the best squad in Italy," Sarri said. "I'm coming from Chelsea, which has an inferior history to that of Juventus. It's another step forward for me.

"Coaching Ronaldo is also an escalation. I coached great players at Chelsea but with him it's the best in the world. He already holds all of the records you can have in world football but I would like help him break some more records."

Sarri signed a three-year contract with the club that has won Serie A for the last eight seasons.

Sarri's appointment has been greeted with mixed feelings among Bianconeri fans. He held up his middle finger a group of Juventus supporters when arriving as coach of their arch-rivals Napoli in 2018, where he spent three seasons before joining Chelsea last summer.

"I am used to scepticism," he said at a news conference in Turin where he was presented as Juve manager. "When I arrived in Serie C, everybody was sceptical, and it was the same to begin with at Empoli, at Napoli and when I got to Chelsea, they were all sceptical.

"Now here at Juventus, I think there could be a bit less scepticism, but that comes from my history. I only know one way of taking scepticism away and that is by winning and convincing."

Sarri spent the past 12 months in England, where he won the Europa League -- the first trophy of his career -- with Chelsea, but said Serie A was a better league tactically. However, he added Italian football still has a long way to go to match the Premier League off the pitch.

"I think we have a long path ahead of us," he said. "Going around English stadiums, you realise how inadequate our arenas are. There needs to be a cultural shift, as you turn behind you on the bench and are surrounded by children.

"I think in terms of club organisation and tactically on the field, we still have the upper hand compared to England."

At Juve, Sarri will find Gonzalo Higuain, who he managed at both Napoli and Chelsea. There are reports the Argentine is likely to leave this summer, but Sarri refused to commit to a decision either way.

"I have not spoken to Gonzalo since the Europa League victory," Sarri said. "I needed to get an idea of what Juve and my new surroundings are about.

"When he returns, we will have the chance to talk. Gonzalo has the capability of playing with anybody and I can't see any problems with him. I really like Higuain, but it's only right that I listen to the management on the players they already have in the squad here and they know better than me.

"I am obliged to trust them on the players they know better and when we have a clearer idea of our main system of play, then we can start to talk."

Sarri's season at Chelsea yielded a third-place finish in the Premier League and the first trophy of his coaching career with triumph in the Europa League, but in spite of these achievements he had difficulty imposing his style of football and encountered open hostility from many supporters.

"What changes are the characteristics of the players," he said. "Napoli had team players, who were totally at the disposal of the team and moved the ball at a decisively quicker pace.

"Chelsea are made up of probably technically superior players, but with different individual characteristics."

Juventus have also been linked with Paul Pogba and Adrien Rabiot this summer and sporting director Fabio Paratici acknowledged both players would be welcome in Turin.

"Pogba and Rabiot are two great players," he said. "Pogba is a Manchester United player, though.

"He gave us a lot and we have a lot of affection for him. Rabiot is a great player and we're in the hunt with other clubs. We'll make the right decisions to build a side based around what the coach requests and what we want."

Sarri is expected to summon his players for preseason training at the start of July, at the club's Continassa training centre. The squad will then fly to Asia, where they will face Tottenham Hotspur on July 21 and Antonio Conte's Inter Milan on July 24, both in Singapore, before returning to Europe to face Atletico Madrid in Stockholm, as part of the International Champions Cup.

The start of the Serie A season is foreseen for the weekend of August 24 and 25, with the fixtures due to be announced at the end of July.

Information from ESPN FC's Chelsea correspondent Liam Twomey and the Associated Press was used in this report.

It sure seemed like everything changed in August 2017, didn't it?

Before then, there was an established food chain in soccer's transfer market: Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top, and then everyone else. Those two clubs were as rich as anyone and for the most part, it seemed like it was every elite soccer player's goal to end up in the Spanish capital or Catalonia. Once you got there, you only left when you weren't needed anymore.

In this century, the only star who left either club in his prime while still a key starter was Luis Figo...and he moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid. Other than that transaction, the two Spanish giants paid the record transfer fees; they never received them.

That is, until two summers ago, when Paris Saint-Germain triggered Neymar's release clause and bought the Brazilian superstar for $253.8 million. It was more than double the previous record -- paid by Manchester United to Juventus for Paul Pogba the previous summer -- but more importantly, it seemed like it would reset the world soccer hierarchy.

At 25, Neymar was the presumptive Next Best Player in the World to his teammate Lionel Messi, and he left Barcelona to spend his prime playing for the team against which he'd just masterminded a 4-0 comeback in the Champions League. This wasn't Kevin Durant going to the Golden State Warriors; it was Stephen Curry signing with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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In case Neymar wasn't enough, PSG also went out and signed Kylian Mbappe for the second-highest transfer fee ever, $203m, that same summer. At the time, Mbappe was just 19 and could claim the same number of Ligue 1 starts as years spent on this earth. If the move for Neymar was a massive exclamation point written in the sky for everyone to see, the Mbappe transfer was a bolt of lightning shot out of that same cloud.

With perhaps the two best under-30 soccer players on the planet suddenly both on a team that was not Real Madrid or Barcelona, the weather would never be the same. The prices teams pay for world-class players would forever be distorted, the transfer market would be ruined, and if the sport wasn't already tilted in favor of the mega-rich, the moves for Neymar and Mbappe ensured the gap would continue to increase and PSG would ascend to be the dominant club in Europe.

Except two years later, not much has changed, PSG might be ready to move on from Neymar, only one player has sold for north of $80m (Eden Hazard to Real Madrid this summer), directors of football and transfer committees have invested more time and money in scouting than transfer fees, and the fundamentals of the sport still look a lot like they used to.

The only thing that looks different is PSG.

The texture of the European soccer season allows teams to define success in all kinds of ways. Perhaps avoiding relegation is your goal, or maybe you want to qualify for the Europa League. Win a domestic cup? That's an option, too. Make a run at a Champions League place, try to win the league or even take a shot at the European Cup. There's a wide variety of potential objectives to pin to your vision board before Matchday 1.

However, since the Qataris took over the club back in 2011, PSG have really only had one goal. Starting in 2012, they've won every Ligue 1 title except for that in the year before Neymar and Mbappe arrived. Domestic trophies have become a fait accompli. As club chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi told The New York Times in 2016, "Our aim is to make the club an institution respected around the world. If we are going to make that happen, we have to win the Champions League."

Here's the problem with that: Everyone is way less likely to win the Champions League than they are to fall short. Based on the implied probability from the betting odds, the current favorites for next season's European Cup, Manchester City, have about a 17% chance of lifting the trophy. City just posted back-to-back seasons with the first- and second-highest point totals in the Premier League era. They're an incredible, historically successful team and it's hard to imagine PSG ever building a squad with significantly better odds than Pep Guardiola's current side.

More to the point, how do you build a team that's built solely for a competition comprised of 13 games at most anyway, many of which are elimination games that can swing wildly based on things like away goals?

PSG's approach has pretty clearly been to stack superstars, rather than to build depth with multiple capable contributors at every position. It's basically what Real Madrid did, and with their lack of domestic success (two titles in 10 years) but consistent continental titles (four in six years), they're the team the Parisians are trying to emulate.

Top-heavy teams tend to have higher ceilings because they have multiple superstars who can decide games with moments that live outside the flow of the match, but they also have lower floors because if those same stars have an off day or get hurt, there aren't as many other options to pick up the slack. Madrid's volatility makes this clear: In the two seasons they didn't win the Champions League since 2014, they fired three managers.

PSG have hit their floor in each of the past two seasons. They've been eliminated in the Round of 16 both times and Neymar missed three of those four knockout matches. They bought him so they could win the Champions League and he's only played in 25% of those games that truly mattered in 2017 and 2018. At the same time, PSG have played some breathtaking soccer in the Champions League. Two years ago, they won a group that included Bayern Munich. This year, under new manager Thomas Tuchel, they topped a group with Liverpool, who went on to win the whole thing.

PSG's European failure, especially this season's 3-1 loss to Manchester United thanks to a last-minute VAR penalty, makes clear what Real Madrid's recent run served to obscure: In order to win the Champions League, you need a lot of luck.

The shockwaves of both the Neymar and Mbappe transfers haven't even had much of an impact outside of Paris, either. Real Madrid won a third-straight Champions League in the first season of the Neymar-in-France era. The same team keeps winning domestic titles every year. The only two transfer fees that were clearly inflated by the Neymar deal were the two that Barcelona made in the immediate aftermath and in response to his exit: They shelled out the third-highest fee ever for Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool and the fourth-highest ever for Ousmane Dembele from Borussia Dortmund.

The Neymar money presented Barcelona with an opportunity to transform and fortify the club for the tail end of Messi's career. Instead, Coutinho was booed by Barca fans multiple times this season and Dembele has only been healthy enough to start 32 La Liga games over the past two seasons combined.

The most significant impact of the summer of 2017 might be that the Coutinho money (which was really the Neymar money) ultimately helped finance the two deals, first for central defender Virgil van Dijk and then for keeper Alisson, that helped turn Liverpool into Champions League winners. Where one club spent massively and gaudily in the hopes of dominating, those teams enriched by PSG's money down the line have used it smartly to win instead.

As Klopp & Co. try to figure out how to protect their title, PSG seem lost as to how to find their own.

The club's main transfer target is another expensive superstar: the 19-year-old Dutch man-child Matthijs de Ligt. Mbappe himself suggested at the Ligue 1 award ceremony last month that he might be willing to leave the club. He has, improbably, surpassed Neymar as the club's best player and led everyone in Europe's top five leagues in non-penalty goals+assists per 90 minutes this past season. Meanwhile, Neymar is being investigated after being accused of rape and Al-Khelaifi has openly questioned his commitment to the club, saying, "Nobody forced Neymar to sign for us. Nobody pushed him here. He knowingly signed up for this project."

Sources tell ESPN that PSG are open to selling Neymar, but given how they acquired him, they've basically created a market in which they're the only club in the world who can afford him. Plus, among the clubs who could conceivably swing a cheaper deal, Real Madrid have already spent a ton on attacking talent this window, Manchester City have never bought a player like him and Manchester United probably can't attract a player like him. That leaves Barcelona, who, according to a recent ESPN report, are at least looking into the possibility of reacquiring Neymar.

Maybe that's the most fitting end to all of the upheaval and attempted disruption. If Neymar ends up back in Spain, it'll be like none of this ever happened.

Yuvraj Singh, who recently announced his retirement from international cricket and the IPL, has been signed up by the Toronto Nationals for the 2019 season of Global T20 Canada.

During his retirement announcement, Yuvraj had indicated his desire to play in overseas T20 leagues, and said that he would seek the BCCI's permission in order to do so.

ESPNcricinfo understands Yuvraj has written to the BCCI asking for permission. The board is yet to respond, but since Yuvraj has retired, he is not bound in any way by the BCCI.

The 2019 season, the tournament's second edition, will be played in Brampton from July 26 to August 11. Five franchise teams - Vancouver Knights, Winnipeg Hawks, Edmondton Royals, Montreal Tigers and Toronto Nationals - took part in the 2018 season alongside a West Indies B team. This time, a sixth franchise team, Brampton Wolves, has replaced West Indies B.

Other new big-name signings for the 2019 season include Kane Williamson (Edmondton), Brendon McCullum (Toronto), Chris Lynn (Winnipeg), Shoaib Malik (Vancouver), Faf du Plessis (Edmondton), Shakib Al Hasan (Brampton) and Colin Munro (Brampton).

Players retained from last season include Chris Gayle (Vancouver), Dwayne Bravo (Winnipeg), Andre Russell (Vancouver), Kieron Pollard (Toronto), Thisara Perera (Montreal) and Sunil Narine (Montreal).

There are a few high-profile names among the six coaches too: Stephen Fleming (Edmondton), Tom Moody (Montreal), Phil Simmons (Brampton), Geoff Lawson (Toronto), Lalchand Rajput (Winnipeg), and Donovan Miller (Vancouver).

So far in this World Cup, Sri Lanka have been following the English blueprint. Unfortunately, it is not the one that has made the host nation one of the favourites to lift the trophy; rather, they appear to have channelled the spirit of various England campaigns between 1996 and 2015, in which last-minute changes to captaincy and personnel paved the way for predictably underwhelming results.

At the last two tournaments, England's defeats to Sri Lanka were particularly symbolic. In 2011, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga raced each other to hundreds and, almost as a pleasing byproduct, knocked England out at the quarter-final stage. Four years later, Joe Root's first World Cup century was upstaged by one apiece from Kumar Sangakkara and Lahiru Thirimanne delivering a similar punchlines in a nine-wicket win.

Sri Lanka have, in fact, won four of their last five World Cup encounters against England. At Faisalabad in 1996, Sanath Jayasuriya's 44-ball 82 signposted how the game had changed - but now it is England who are bending the white-ball game into new shapes, having just broken their own world record for the number of sixes in an ODI while crashing their way to 397 against Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Asked how his side planned to tackle England's ebullient batting line-up, Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne suggested they had come up with some plans that involved "thinking out of the box". He said the initial target was to try and limit England to less than 300, a score they have surpassed in eight of their last nine innings.

"England are a good side, they have a good batting line-up," he said. "We have to give them less than 300, so we have a couple of plans against the batters. Those are the things were are trying to do. In [our] batting line-up, the middle part have to take some responsibility, if they have scored more than 300 then we have to go for that. Those are the key things we discussed before the match.

"If we don't have pace, we have to think out of the box. That's what we did the last few days, [work on] what we have to do with England's batsmen. We played a home series before against them, so we have a couple of ideas."

Only six of the 16 players who took on England in October stand a chance of being involved at Headingley - a marker of how turbulent Sri Lanka's build-up to the World Cup has been - but the strength of their batting has become a common talking point. As well as describing each member of the England line-up as "dangerous… explosive batsmen", Karunaratne called them best players of spin in the world.

The precise nature of Sri Lanka's tactics to counter them - inventing a new kind of delivery? Moonwalking to the bowling crease? - remains under wraps, but the sight of Nuwan Pradeep practising his slower-ball variations during training may have been instructive. Lack of pace is one of Lasith Malinga's deadliest weapons, while Isuru Udana enjoyed some success by mixing things up at the death against Australia.

"If we don't have pace, we have to think out of the box. That's what we did the last few days, [work on] what we have to do with England's batsmen." Dimuth Karunaratne

With one win from five games (albeit two of them being washouts), Sri Lanka face a difficult route to the last four. Although they had a decent crack at chasing 335 in their last match, Karunaratne leading the way with an ODI-best 97, once again they struggled for contributions from the middle order. According to the captain, a change of mindset is what is required from the likes of Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews.

"We have to mentally prepare," he said. "They have lots of talent, they only do good things for Sri Lanka in the past. The only thing we need to come up with is a good mindset, that's a key area if you're playing against a good team. No point talking about the past matches, we know what happened and what are the key areas. There are four games left and we have to play positive cricket with a good mindset.

"The middle order has lots of experience, they have proven enough for Sri Lanka and did well. The only thing is unfortunately everyone couldn't get a start. If you take the middle order, they couldn't get a start in the matches we played. That's why they struggled and don't have confidence. So that's why I told them, forget about the last four games we have another four games to go so they have to put their hands up and play a big role here. Make sure they have a good mindset, go and enjoy the game, that's it."

Karunaratne also clarified the role of Dhananjaya de Silva, who has batted everywhere from No. 1 to No. 9 in Sri Lanka's ODI side. Against Australia, he dropped down to No. 8 and also delivered eight overs with the ball, while Milinda Siriwardana came in to provide greater firepower in the batting.

"Dhananjaya is playing as a bowler right now in the side," Karunaratne said. "Milinda is playing as an allrounder, he's a much harder hitter, that's why we brought him in. If someone can't bowl the ten overs, then he can cover [as well]. We were trying things, we want to make sure we give everyone a chance."

Women's T20 cricket is set to be part of the Commonwealth Games in 2022 after the bid for its inclusion was approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation. A final decision, however, depends on a vote by the 71 member associations and will be made public sometime in the next six weeks.

The ICC, in collaboration with the England and Wales Cricket Board had submitted their bid a day after the 2018 Women's World T20 concluded, and received full support from the MCC World Cricket Committee during its annual meeting in Bengaluru in March, 2019. Australia legend Shane Warne, who was attending the meeting had urged the inclusion of cricket in multi-sport competitions, as had the likes of former New Zealand captain Suzie Bates and and committee chairman Mike Gatting.

ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney echoed the thoughts of his predecessor David Richardson - in position when the bid was submitted - welcoming the move. "We are absolutely delighted that women's cricket has been nominated for inclusion in Birmingham 2022," he said. "I'd like to thank everyone at the CGF and Birmingham 2022 for the nomination and it would be a real honour to become part of the Commonwealth Games family.

"We are committed to accelerating the growth of the women's game and breaking down barriers and gender stereotypes along the way. We share our ambition to deliver greater equality, fairness and opportunity in sport with the Commonwealth Games Federation.

"The platform of Birmingham 2022 will provide a springboard for women's cricket and will inspire and engage young girls around the world to be part of this wonderful and inclusive sport."

ECB Chief Executive Officer, Tom Harrison called it a landmark moment in the development of the women's game.

"The inclusion of women's cricket in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games would be a landmark moment in the development of the sport," he said. "It would present us with a wonderful opportunity to capitalise on the global reach of these Games to showcase the very best of women's cricket and in doing so inspire a new generation of women and girls from around the world to start playing the game.

If the nomination is passed by the member associations, it will be cricket's second appearance at the Commonwealth Games, and its first since 1998, when the men took part with South Africa pipping Australia for Gold.

The CGF also nominated beach volleyball and Para table-tennis to be part of the Games, while shooting and archery missed the cut.

Friendly competition to score the quickest centuries and hit the biggest sixes is driving England's batsmen during the World Cup, according to Moeen Ali.

Eoin Morgan set a new ODI record by hitting 17 sixes in his innings in Manchester last week. But while he may have hit the most, his team-mates left him in no doubt that theirs were bigger and that his 57-ball century was "a bit slow" by comparison to their own. Three men in England's top seven - Moeen, Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler - have hit quicker ODI centuries.

And that competition - combined with plenty of hard work - is rendering England "almost unstoppable" according to Moeen.

"We were a bit surprised by the numbers the other day," Moeen, who once made a 53-ball century against West Indies, said. "We were like 'that's a lot of sixes'. But I told him I hit the biggest. The first one off Rashid Khan was the biggest.

"When players go past 53 balls then I can always say 'yeah, it's a great knock but still a bit slow for my liking.' I'm always hoping they don't push me further down the list.

"We always talk about stuff like that. Jos came back after scoring 120 and I told him I'd hit the shot of the day. We have a bit of banter about it.

"We're just having a lot of fun and ripping each other all the time. We get stuck into each other about everything: about the football or about Fifa. Anything. It's all part of team bonding. It's all very natural."

While the team may good-naturedly compete for such accolades there is, according to Moeen, an acceptance that one man stands out.

"Buttler is the biggest hitter," Moeen says. "With ease. Some guys - like Jonny Bairstow - are brutal. Jason Roy is absolutely about power and Morgan does hit big sixes.

"In the nets, Joe Root hits the most sixes. He tries to take us down all the time. I think everyone is capable of hitting big sixes and I think I'm the best of all of them. But Jos is the one guy that everyone knows is out front. Jos is power with timing.

"But the serious side is that we work hard on it. You can't just rock up and start hitting sixes for fun, you have to practice it and work on it.

"As a team, once we get going, I'm sure everybody thinks that we're almost unstoppable. When Jos, Morgs, Jason… we have some many players, almost everybody in the top eight. Who can do it. Once they get going, it's almost unstoppable. That's the great thing about the team."

Australia 381 for 5 (Warner 166, Khawaja 89, Finch 53, Soumya 3-58) beat Bangladesh 333 (Mushfiqur 102*, Mahmudullah 69, Tamim 62) by 48 runs

Crowds of people left Trent Bridge. They think it's all over, and it probably is now. Australia battered Bangladesh with the bat and then squeezed them slowly but surely with the ball to complete a victory that more or less settled the top four places for the World Cup semi-finals, with near enough to three more weeks of qualifying games remaining.

Alongside England, India and New Zealand, Australia are firmly ensconced in the semi-final placings, seeing off a Bangladesh team who, by dint of their sparkling displays against South Africa and the West Indies, had been the last of the genuine challengers from outside the top quartet.

There was plenty to like about the day's cricket in Nottingham, from a powerful century by David Warner, nifty support from Aaron Finch and Usman Khawaja, a brief but spectacular display by Glenn Maxwell, and plenty of doughtiness about the chase for a distant target, earning Mushfiqur Rahim an unbeaten century and Bangladesh their highest ever ODI total. But there was not quite the sting in the finish of this match, nor now the tournament entire, that any global event should have.

This is not to say that Australia should feel bad about putting on their most consistent batting display of the Cup so far. Granted a strong batting platform, they went another step further in mid and late innings acceleration than they had managed in successive games against Pakistan and then Sri Lanka, although still with enough room for improvement to occupy the coach Justin Langer and his assistant Ricky Ponting.

Australia's fielding, too, was not always their sharpest, although the return of Marcus Stoinis from injury added balance to the bowling attack and agility in the field even though there were occasional signs that he is still not exactly 100% fit after a side strain.

Bangladesh will bemoan a couple of injury enforced changes on match morning, and then the early drop of Warner by Sabbir Rahman in the gully, the same place West Indies had picked him up on this ground earlier in the competition. On a friendly pitch and fast outfield they were left looking defenseless at times, but resolved in the afternoon to fight the contest out - much to the credit of Mushfiqur's rearguard. A gap in sixes hit - 10 for Australia, four for Bangladesh - formed part of the wider picture.

WATCH - David Warner's scintillating 166 on Hotstar (India only)

Finch was overdue to win a toss and this was a good one to get, the sun shining over Nottingham and the pitch looking slow and dry without undue moisture. With Stoinis, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Adam Zampa back in the side, balance looked a little more prevalent in Australia's combination, although Nathan Lyon must wonder whether it is time to start brandishing the red Dukes ball in training ahead of the Ashes.

Precious little seam or swing was on offer early for Bangladesh's seamers, and they were to rue spurning the only chance offered early, a Warner slice through the hands of gully. Anything dropping short or floating too full was pounced on by Finch and Warner - a lusty carve over cover by the captain and a hook shot by the left-hander reaping the first sixes of the morning.

If Warner was still struggling for his best timing, Finch did his best to dissuade his partner from too much frustration, an effort in terms of mid-pitch support that would reap handsome rewards later. Finch himself appeared eager to accelerate sooner rather than later, moving around on the crease and sizing up the shorter of Trent Bridge's boundaries, but just as he and Warner seemed ready to launch, Soumya got a shortish delivery to pop a fraction, causing Finch to bunt a catch to short third man.

His frustration at being dismissed was added to apparent confusion about who was to come in to bat next, as Khawaja rather than Smith or Maxwell walked to the middle. For a time, Khawaja and Warner left themselves open to criticism for hastening a little too slowly, but once Warner had his hundred and Khawaja his bearings, the runs grew from a stream to a flow and then a torrent. Warner mixed perseverance with brutality, while Khawaja's timing and placement were at times reminiscent of no less a left-hander than Brian Lara himself.

With 16 centuries, Warner is now level with Adam Gilchrist on Australia's all-time ODI list, and trailing only Mark Waugh (18) and Ponting (30). His role in this tournament has at times been difficult to decipher, given his evident struggles for timing and placement, but his determination to succeed cannot be doubted, nor the appreciation his run-making has drawn out of team-mates who had only recently been reacquainted with him.

The treatment was meted out evenly across the Bangladesh attack, leaving Mashrafe Mortaza with few safe options including himself. Warner's emulation of Finch in passing 150 at this tournament signalled further acceleration, and his exit after an innings that had been both platform and launch served only to bring Maxwell to the middle. Helped by a Rubel Hossain no-ball that allowed him a free-hit from which to unfurl an otherworldly back foot/front foot inside/outside drive over long off for six, Maxwell was rapidly in full destruction mode.

WATCH - Maxwell's blistering 32 on Hotstar (India only)

Momentarily anything looked possible, capping a seven-over stretch from 40 to 46 in which the Australians ransacked 109 runs. But Khawaja's acceptance then refusal of a quick single left Maxwell stranded in mid-pitch, and his evident anger at the manner of his run-out hastened a miniature collapse of 3 for 8 in seven balls, as Khawaja (caught behind, hooking) and Steven smith (lbw to a full toss) also exited. Rain delayed the final over for 23 minutes, but Stoinis found the boundary twice to lift Australia beyond 380.

If this seemed a lot, Bangladesh had the knowledge they had been on course to run down a target even loftier in their beating of West Indies in Taunton, and for a time while Tamim and Shakib were together, anything looked possible. Soumya's stay had been ended by a Finch direct hit when Bangladesh's openers also became mixed up between the wickets, but the Australians were starting to look a little apprehensive when Stoinis' off-break slower ball coaxed a front edge from Shakib and a simple catch for Warner at mid off.

Sensing blood, Finch brought Starc back and was rewarded when Tamim dragged a 146kph projectile onto his stumps, before Liton Das was welcomed with a bouncer that struck his helmet and forced a replacement. Another promising union between Mushfiqur and Liton was scuppered when Zampa fizzed a quicker ball through to pin the latter lbw on the crease, and though Mushfiqur kept grinding out the runs with the hard-hitting aid of Mahmudullah, the asking rate grew evermore prohibitive, and ultimately impossible.

Mashrafe's late blow took his men to a bigger tally than any Bangladesh team before them, a fitting marker for the fight they had shown, but there could be only one winner.

The NFL's Competition Committee finalized its new rule Thursday for reviewing pass interference, opting against several suggested tweaks and upholding the wording owners originally approved in March.

As a result, coaches will be able to challenge pass interference calls or no-calls up until the two-minute warning of either half. In the final two minutes of each half and in overtime, on-site replay officials will be responsible for stopping the game to review pass interference, as they are for all other reviewable plays.

The rule will cover the 2019 season, after which owners will decide whether to extend, tweak or eliminate it for 2020.

Committee members, concerned about excessive stoppages during the final moments of games, floated the idea of prohibiting replay officials from stopping the game to review pass interference. Instead, that responsibility would have remained with coaches. But a number of coaches pushed back on that idea, worried that it would impact their timeout strategy. (Challenges can be made only if a team has a timeout remaining.)

To address the concerns about stoppages, the committee has instructed replay officials to use a "stricter criteria" for stopping the game to review pass interference. In a video released on Twitter, the NFL said there must be "clear and obvious evidence" that a pass interference foul may or may not have occurred in order to stop the game for a review.

The @NFL Competition Committee today unanimously recommended the rule approved in March for instant replay of pass interference remain in effect for the 2019 season only. pic.twitter.com/fM9XK2kuFk

— NFL Football Operations (@NFLFootballOps) June 20, 2019

The committee will also allow Hail Mary plays to be reviewed, according to the video, as long as it is "consistent with the guidelines for officiating the play on the field." Such plays typically include heavy contact between receivers and defenders, but officials rarely penalize them for it. The expectation around the NFL is that replay officials will rarely, if ever, stop the game to review Hail Marys.