LONG POND, Pa. – Fresh off his first victory of the season last weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kevin Harvick kept the momentum going Saturday at Pocono Raceway.

Harvick took the top spot in Gander RV 400 qualifying aboard his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, circulating the 2.5-mile triangular speedway in 51.707 seconds at 174.058 mph. Harvick was the only driver to average more than 174 mph during his qualifying attempt.

The No. 4 team did not make a mock qualifying run in practice, so Harvick was unsure just how fast his Ford Mustang would be prior to qualifying Saturday afternoon.

“I want to thank Rodney Childers and Dax and Billy and everybody that works on this No. 4 Busch Beer Ford Mustang,” Harvick said after his fourth pole of the season. “We didn’t do a qualifying run because we were scrambling a little bit in race trim and trying to get our car right in race trim. Our teammates did some qualifying runs and we tried to match some of the things that they did and adapt and adjust from there.

“In the end sometimes it’s better to just wing it and these guys do a great job when you’re scrambling and winging it.”

Harvick will be joined on the front row by reigning series champion Joey Logano, who was .203 seconds behind Harvick. Harvick’s teammate Aric Almirola qualified third to give Ford a sweep of the top-three positions.

Erik Jones was the fastest Toyota, qualifying fourth. Austin Dillon qualified firth aboard his No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, William Byron, Kurt Busch and Daniel Suarez completed the top-10 in qualifying.

Qualifying results are unofficial until all cars clear pre-race inspection on Sunday morning prior to the Gander RV 400. Sunday’s Gander RV 400 is scheduled to begin shortly after 3 p.m. EST at Pocono Raceway.

Gander RV 400 Starting Lineup

1. Kevin Harvick
2. Joey Logano
3. Aric Almirola
4. Erik Jones
5. Austin Dillon
6. Jimmie Johnson
7. Kyle Busch
8. William Byron
9. Kurt Busch
10. Daniel Suarez
11. Martin Truex Jr.
12. Denny Hamlin
13. Matt DiBenedetto
14. Brad Keselowski
15. Alex Bowman
16. Clint Bowyer
17. Michael McDowell
18. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
19. David Ragan
20. Ryan Blaney
21. Paul Menard
22. Daniel Hemric
23. Chase Elliott
24. Ryan Newman
25. Ryan Preece
26. Bubba Wallace
27. Matt Tifft
28. Chris Buescher
29. Kyle Larson
30. Corey LaJoie
31. Landon Cassill
32. Ty Dillon
33. Josh Bilicki
34. B.J. McLeod
35. Ross Chastain
36. Reed Sorenson
37. Quin Houff
38. Austin Theriault

NEW YORK -- Jurgen Klopp doesn't remember the name of the street, but he recalls the staggering traffic that delayed his arrival in Manhattan for the meeting that started it all. He can't distinguish exactly which high-rise building where that meeting was held, given the scale of steel structures painting the New York skyline, but he reminisces about the exhilaration of walking into the interview that would shape his life and one of the world's biggest sporting institutions.

The street was Lexington Avenue. The skyscraper was the law offices of Shearman & Sterling. The date was Oct. 1, 2015, and Liverpool wanted to assess the long-term vision of the man they coveted to become manager of the club.

It took Klopp six hours after landing at Kennedy Airport to navigate through to New York's East Side due to the annual gathering of the United Nations General Assembly, which was coincidentally the same amount of time Klopp spent outlining his blueprint.

Liverpool principal owner John W. Henry, Fenway Sports Group president Mike Gordon, chairman Tom Werner and the club's former chief executive officer, Ian Ayre, were so impressed by the German's depth of detail that they began drafting an agreement with Klopp's agent, Marc Kosicke, just 60 minutes into the chat. Klopp did not care for playing small; he swung big in his meeting, insisting he would restore the Reds as a powerhouse. And the Champions League-winning manager has delivered.

Create a certifiable on-pitch identity? Check. Reawaken the fan base? Check. Return Liverpool to being a force domestically and on the Continent? Check.

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At the iconic Lotte New York Palace hotel, a 10-minute walk from where he first sketched his strategy for the club, Klopp reflects on the evolution of the team in the nearly four years since his appointment.

"To be honest, that day when we were here and spoke we were full of hope, full of dreams, full of optimism," he tells ESPN FC. "Why would I not be? I signed [on] to become manager because it's a wonderful club. I liked the squad, I loved the history, all that stuff.

"So I was very, very optimistic that we'd be successful. In my dreams in that moment, we were probably more successful during these [past] four years than we have been actually," Klopp says with a laugh, but the reality is while Liverpool's progress under his watch was underlined by lifting the Champions League in June, the first trophy of his tenure, it is not solely defined by it.

Long-serving staff at Melwood, the club's football headquarters, share their perspectives on a "world-class change in every respect" at Liverpool, from nutrition through to recruitment, from the quality of the backroom team through to the upgraded playing personnel. Securing a sixth European Cup by beating Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid and getting 97 points -- seven more than Arsenal's "Invincibles" and 21 better than Manchester United's treble-winning class of 1999 -- in the Premier League last season was no accident.

"We have made a lot of decisions and will make much more in future and not all of them may work out at the end," Klopp says. "You have to accept that you need luck in these situations as well, so it means you can fail. But you have to try and you don't have to change things just for changing sake; it is so you can improve, and improvement means if you have the same person doing the same job for another year, he becomes better at it with the time and experiences.

"At the moment, it's not about bringing in new people and stuff like that. It's really about all of us using the experience we've had for being better than before. That means all this experience, all these better people will throw their knowledge together and we will be stronger. It's as easy as that and that's the plan. It's how it is with footballers, but it is also how it is with the backroom staff: There is development.

"I'm not afraid of not having a 100% hit rate with decisions or invent some new things for football or whatever. We don't have to; we just have to use our knowledge."

Klopp watched his supremely talented Borussia Dortmund side get picked apart by the game's apex predators in the transfer market: Nuri Sahin departed for Real Madrid, Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski were successfully seduced by Bayern and Shinji Kagawa made the switch to Man United. He did not want a repeat at Liverpool, who have become more equipped to fend off interest in their superstars under his guidance.

With the exception of Philippe Coutinho's £142 million transfer to Barcelona in January 2018, the club have not ceded a key player since Klopp took charge, and even in that instance, the Brazil international was made to wait six months to complete his "dream move" for the third-highest fee ever. At the same time, Liverpool have locked down the majority of their roster with minimum fuss. Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino, Jordan Henderson, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson and Divock Origi have signed extended contracts with Liverpool over the past year. Virgil van Dijk wants to agree a new deal, James Milner is waiting on one and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is expected to be given fresh terms soon.

"That's actually our transfers, but nobody's interested in hearing that really because that's how it is," Klopp says.

"You have a player, he's good, you want to keep him, if he signs a new contract then for a few people, it means only that he will be more expensive when we sell him or whatever, or that it doesn't mean anything nowadays.

"In our case, these are our transfers. The new contracts and keeping these boys here is a strong, strong signal for the outside world. It's wonderful sign, to be honest. I like the fact that these boys are really at a good football age. They won the European Cup, which is good and helps of course because it increases your base."

Klopp preaches that the Champions League triumph would not have been possible without learning from the defeat to Real Madrid in the final a year earlier. In fact, all of Liverpool's "nearly moments" -- losing the 2016 League Cup final on penalties to Man City, the Europa League to Sevilla in the same season, and the heartbreaking scenes in Kiev, Ukraine, in May 2018 -- contributed to their eventual success.

Klopp explains how it played out.

"We are here, we are good. But are you a winner? People will question you and we are all influenced by the outside world, so if you don't win anything, you can't say, 'I'm actually a winner, but it just didn't work out yet.' So having the Cup helps each person, and on the other side, to go through the darker moments together is very, very important.

"You have to lose big to realise you are not a loser. You accept it has happened, yes, but that you can still be a winner. These are the things that made us all stronger and I'm happy that I have these boys, that I keep these boys together because they went through all these things.

"This group apart, the players that we signed last year went through a very dark Champions League defeat to a very bright moment at Madrid. And we lost against Real Madrid, but we won it in Madrid: It was like it was meant to be."

Leading up to that final, the manner in which Liverpool reacted to a undeserved 3-0 defeat to Barca in the semifinals of the competition at Camp Nou was flagged by Klopp as his standout moment. In the reverse fixture at Anfield, with Firmino, Salah, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita missing through injury before Robertson also had to be replaced at half-time, they pulled off a historic 4-0 comeback against all logic.

"I knew before that we can do all these things, but we are human beings so sometimes it works out that we come out on top and you can also have an off day," Klopp says. "But this was a perfect performance against Barcelona. Ali [Alisson] had to make a few good saves, but it was just a show of what's possible.

"Whatever we do, if we don't do it in a brave, big-balls way, then it doesn't work at the highest level. The way we played that day, that was the proof that, 'Wow, anything is possible.'

"'Each team is beatable on a specific day' is a phrase I used when I joined. We only have to make sure that they face the best us on the day. Having that experience as a football manager, being involved in this game, I don't feel pride a lot of time, but I was really proud of that moment. I really thought, 'Wow, that's special.'"

The sequence from that scarcely believable night that Klopp thinks and talks about most often is Alexander-Arnold's quick-thinking corner that caught everyone by surprise except Origi, who converted the set piece to send Liverpool to the final.

"When I tell people the story about Barcelona, you cannot not mention the corner," he says. "It's the smartest thing I ever saw footballwise. Then I tell people that the best thing is Trent is only 20. And even better, he's grown up like 200 yards from Melwood and I know how desperate the people are waiting constantly for these specific local figures. It could be sometimes too much pressure, but it's not for Trent."

A mural of Alexander-Arnold, commissioned and paid for by fan media outlet The Anfield Wrap, is currently being completed close to the stadium where the defining moment of the right-back's career transpired. Meanwhile Klopp, who has a wall painting in the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool, jokes that the defender's portrait "should be around a corner" before telling him to expect a flood of pictures with friends and family posing next to it.

"I hope it's big enough, that he likes it and he has enough friends and family in Liverpool, who will be so happy with it," Klopp says. "I hope they take their pictures in front of it, like what happens with my little drawing."

Klopp's genuine care for and close bond with his players goes a long way in explaining how so many on the fringes managed to contribute during a phenomenal season for Liverpool despite being frustrated by a lack of game time. Origi scored five of the club's most important goals in 2018-19 despite being afforded only 583 combined minutes in the league and Europe. Joel Matip, who was injured and began the campaign as the fourth-choice centre-back, ended it by being as influential as Van Dijk.

"Daniel Sturridge, [Xherdan] Shaqiri ..." Klopp continues. "There was nobody who didn't do the job and that was brilliant.

"I heard now from Vicky [Jepson], the manager of our women's team, that she calls her players 'starters, finishers and supporters.' I like that idea. The best decision ever, and I'm very critical of UEFA, FIFA and whoever when we talk about the schedule, was to allow all the players to be on the bench in the Champions League final. Twenty-three were allowed and that was great.

"To be honest, one of my personal highlights is the moment Alberto Moreno jumps on my back because I didn't know it was him. It's not important that he jumps on my back, it's important to see how much that meant to him. Alberto Moreno, I could not think higher about him. I wish him all the best, from the bottom of my heart. I sent him a long message after he left [at the end of his contract to join Villarreal].

"I would've loved to have helped him more, but I couldn't, that's how it is sometimes in football: a 50-50 thing. He would've loved to play more, but how he was around the team and in the celebrations was unbelievable. That shows everything about him. We decide for ourselves what it means to us and obviously it meant everything to him to be part of that team and to be a Liverpool legend that he is now forever. It was a sensational moment."

Klopp was delighted that Sturridge and Moreno could say their goodbyes to Liverpool on a high, as European champions during a trophy parade attended by over 700,000 people. On his third anniversary at Anfield, the 52-year-old predicted, "When we win something, the city will explode in the most positive way," but even he couldn't envisage the sea of red that greeted the team when they returned from Madrid.

"It was not like anything I could imagine. No one could imagine something like that. That's the only good thing with not winning anything for a long time: It's like, you collect all the desire and stuff and all the dreams all comes together and you wait until you can use it the day when you win something. And it will be difficult to surpass that in the future, it will be difficult because it was really intense and I would love if any scientists can explain to me how 700,000 people can keep a tone, constantly over four hours.

"I have no clue how that works. Unbelievable. The noise was unbelievable and how they kept that going was unbelievable. And the eye contact, the little moments with different people were just outstanding and we knew before what it means to people obviously, but it's really different to see it face to face. And that was a big day in all our lives."

Liverpool are kings of Europe for a sixth time, but Klopp wants more. He has put a pin in revisiting the final following the club's preseason tour of the United States, with preparations for the new season to intensify during a weeklong training camp in Evian, France.

During the introductory meeting on Lexington Avenue, Klopp insisted Liverpool's greatest competitor will always be itself. An increase in greed and collective growth is therefore "not a demand, but the law."

Charl Langeveldt, the former South Africa fast bowler, will take over as Bangladesh's new fast-bowling coach. He will join the team full-time on a two-year contract.

The BCB has also appointed Daniel Vettori, the former New Zealand left-arm spinner, as Bangladesh's spin-bowling coach, on a short-term basis. Vettori will be with the team for 100 working days - which will include the tour of India later this year, and the T20 World Cup next year in Australia - and also conduct spin-bowling camps in Dhaka.

Langeveldt and Vettori replace Courtney Walsh and Sunil Joshi, whose contracts were not renewed following Bangladesh's eighth-place finish at the World Cup.

The BCB made these appointments during its board meeting on Saturday, where it also decided to renew the contracts of senior selectors Minhajul Abedin and Habibul Bashar, and extend the tenure of the white-ball batting consultant Neil McKenzie until next year's T20 World Cup.

The role of head coach remains vacant, with the BCB having spoken to a number of candidates since it parted ways with Steve Rhodes after the World Cup. "We spoke to some coaches, and Andy Flower is one of them," Nazmul Hassan, the BCB president, told ESPNcricinfo. "But nothing has been finalised. We are still talking to the coaches."

ESPNcricinfo has learned that Flower, who had initially shown interest, has declined the role due to personal reasons.

The future of fielding coach Ryan Cook could be in doubt, with the BCB displeased by Bangladesh's fielding during Friday's first ODI against Sri Lanka in Colombo. "After what happened yesterday, we have to ask the fielding coach what's wrong," Hassan said. "After that we will decide if we need a new fielding coach."

Langeveldt has previously held the role of bowling coach with South Africa (2015-2017) and Afghanistan (a short-term role in 2018). Vettori has vast experience of coaching at the franchise level, having served spells at Royal Challengers Bangalore, Middlesex, Brisbane Heat and Rajshahi Kings. He is also the current assistant coach of Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred and head coach of Dublin Chiefs in the Euro T20 Slam.

"This is a team on the rise and there is so much experience and potential," Vettori said. "It will be a pleasure to work with the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam and the other up and coming youngsters which I am looking forward to with a lot of interest.

"Spin bowling has been a traditional strength for Bangladesh. I hope to share my knowledge as a player and coach of the demands of modern day spin bowling in all versions of the game and help the bowlers make good intelligent decisions so that they can maximise their talents and skills."

India A 312 (Dube 71, Saha 66, Cummins 4-40) and 97 for 4 (Bharat 28, Cornwall 2-18) beat West Indies A 228 (Cornwall 59, Blackwood 53, Nadeem 5-62) and 180 (Brooks 53, Nadeem 5-47) by six wickets

Wriddhiman Saha's back-to-the-wall 66 in his first first-class game since the Cape Town Test in 2018 and left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem's ten-wicket haul headlined India A's six-wicket win over West Indies A in the first four-dayer in North Sound.

Saha, who had been sidelined from the long format for over a year because of a spate of injuries, walked in to bat when India A were 134 for 4, 94 runs behind West Indies A's first-innings 228. He rallied the innings with 66 off 167 balls, batting for 207 minutes at a venue where he had contributed handsomely to the senior side's victory in 2016. Saha had followed his 40 off 88 balls with seven dismissals behind the stumps then.

In this game, Saha effected five dismissals to go with his half-century, and made his case to be the first-choice keeper for the senior team ahead of Rishabh Pant, who enjoyed a breakout tour of Australia in 2018-19. After fingerspinners Jomel Warrican and Rahkeem Cornwall made inroads for West Indies A, Saha put on 124 for the sixth wicket with Mumbai allrounder Shivam Dube - the highest partnership in the game. Fittingly, it was Saha and Dube who polished off India's chase of 97 before lunch on day four.

After opting to bat, West Indies A slid to 97 for 5, but fifties from Jermaine Blackwood and Cornwall propped up the hosts. Blackwood, who usually scores at a brisk clip even in the long format, ground out 53 off 116 balls while Cornwall made 59 off 100 balls. However, Blackwood's dismissal triggered another collapse as West Indies A went from 195 for 5 to 228 all out. Nadeem came away with first-innings figures of 5 for 62 in 22 overs.

In response, India A had a good start with Priyank Panchal and Abhimanyu Easwaran adding 61 for the first wicket. Warrican and Cornwall then accounted for both the openers and Shubman Gill to bring their team back into the game. KS Bharat, who is also on the radar of the national selectors, was dismissed for a golden duck.

Saha and Dube, though, revived the innings and handed India A an 84-run first-innings lead. By the time West Indies A wiped out the deficit, they were two down and middle order, too, folded against Nadeem and Mohammed Siraj. Captain Shamarh Brooks top-scored with 53 off 124 balls, but found little support from the other end as they were bowled out for 180. Barring Brooks, only opener Montcin Hodge passed 25 in West Indies A's second innings. Nadeem ended with match figures of 10 for 109.

Warrican and Cornwall once again made early inroads for the hosts, but Easwaran, Vihari and Bharat made small contributions to move India A close to their target before Saha and Dube wrapped up the chase with six wickets to spare.

Ashley Giles believes Ben Stokes' reinstatement as England vice-captain ahead of the Ashes is the logical next step in his development as a Test allrounder.

In announcing their 14-man squad for the first Test against Australia starting at Edgbaston August 1, the ECB also revealed chairman Colin Graves had approved Stokes' re-appointment on the recommendation of Ashley Giles and chief executive Tom Harrison.

Stokes had been stripped of the role during investigations into the fight outside a Bristol night club in 2017, over which he was ultimately found not guilty of affray. Stokes subsequently faced an ECB disciplinary hearing, which resulted in him being fined and banned for eight international matches in December 2018, a punishment that he had already served in missing five months of cricket, including the 2017-18 Ashes.

Giles, the managing director of England men's cricket, said Stokes was highly respected within the team environment.

"He is a natural leader and has a great understanding of the game," Giles said. "He will offer tremendous support to Joe Root as part of the senior playing group.

"Over the past 18 months, he has come a long way and has shown a great degree of maturity on and off the field.

"I have no doubts that the added responsibility will also help him to continue his rise as a world class all-rounder in the Test arena."

Stokes will take over the vice-captaincy from Jos Buttler.

Stokes scored in the 70s and 80s four times in his last five innings at the World Cup and was Player of the Match in the final at Lord's after guiding England's run-chase with an unbeaten 84 from 98 balls, as well as adding a crucial 8 from 3 in the decisive Super Over.

Jofra Archer, who is in line to make his Test debut after also being named in England's Ashes squad, credited Stokes with offering some calming words when he was chosen to bowl to New Zealand in their Super Over, with Stokes having been through a similar experience - although with a different outcome - when charged with bowling the final over of the 2016 T20 World Cup final against West Indies in Kolkata.

"If we had lost today, I don't know what I would have done tomorrow," Archer said at the time. "But Ben Stokes told me even before the over: 'Win or lose, today does not define you. Everyone believes in you.' He came to talk to me because of Kolkata. He probably went through the same emotions but was on the losing side."