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"When I came to Hove last year, I wasn't sure what was on offer in the County Championship and how would I adapt to it. But after a few games now, I can definitely say Hove is my home away from home and Good Old Sussex by The Sea has my heart," Unadkat was quoted as saying in a release by the team.
"Everyone at Hove is very pleased and excited that Jaydev [Unadkat] has signed a two-year extension and will be returning to the Club for the next two seasons," Sussex head coach Paul Farbrace said.
"Jaydev's quality on the pitch has been so evident for everyone else to see, but just as importantly his qualities as a person make him one of the most popular and nicest guys any team could wish for."
Unadkat is currently leading Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy, which got underway on Friday.
Charlie Woodman has a long history with Gloucester's Kingsholm Stadium, even if she cannot quite remember it.
Her father is former England World Cup-winning prop Trevor Woodman who spent eight years playing at the club and is the forwards coach there today.
The winger was just seven years old when her father left the club in 2004 to play for Sale and says that time is a "distant memory". But the reminders are visible everywhere for her in the pictures from his playing days on the club's walls.
"It's cool to be able to say you can follow in his footsteps as such. I never planned to play at Gloucester because dad did, but the way it's come around is really nice and although dad won't admit it, he loves the fact that I'm here," Woodman told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
Woodman marked her debut for Gloucester-Hartpury last weekend with a try in their 57-29 win over Leicester Tigers on their first game of the new season, having signed this summer.
The 27-year-old spent the previous year playing in New Zealand for Super Rugby side Matatu Rugby and with Great Britain's sevens team.
Woodman moved to the other side of the world after leaving Exeter Chiefs at the end of 2022-23 after two seasons, somewhat disillusioned with the sport and unsure if she was going to play in the Premiership again.
"It sort of felt like at one point you were always fighting for something and not getting anything back for it," Woodman added.
"Going away, putting no pressure on yourself and enjoying the game, I was out there to do a bit of travelling as well. It just gave me a whole new perspective on the game and I've just come back and was loving it again.
"I wasn't sure if I was going to come back to a Prem club. But I honestly sort of re-found my love for the sport, I know it's corny to say."
Bowring was born in Neath and was a product of the Neath Grammar School.
He played a few games for the Neath senior side in the back row alongside his boyhood idol Dai Morris, the former Wales flanker.
Bowring spent nine years with London Welsh where he appeared in 268 games, captaining the club for three seasons and representing the Barbarians on three occasions.
A teacher by profession, Bowring hung up his boots at 32 when he took up a job at Clifton College.
His first taste of coaching had come as a 20-year-old when he worked with the Briton Ferry RFC youth squad.
Bowring became involved with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) set-up where he worked his way through the ranks, coaching the Sevens, under-21s and Wales B sides.
After initially being caretaker coach as Wales beat Fiji in November 1995, Bowring took permanent control and was in charge for 28 more games.
He was tasked with trying to help Wales cope with the move to professionalism and also integrating returning rugby league players back into the union set-up.
Bowring was seen as seen as one of the great thinkers of the early professional game and he wanted his national side to play in the traditional expansive way associated with Welsh rugby.
His reign as Wales coach ended after he resigned following a heavy 51-0 defeat by France in the 1998 Five Nations at Wembley.
After working as a lecturer in Cardiff Met university, Bowring was appointed to his RFU role.
McCall said new-look Sarries had room for improvement despite seeing off Exeter to remain the only unbeaten side in the division.
"The last performance we were more consistent throughout than we have been in the first couple of games," he said.
"Were happy with the energy, spirt and fight in the team. It's a good sign and a good characteristic to have in a new team, but there is plenty to improve in our rugby.
"When you have got some new folk at your club and trying to establish partnerships and new relationships, the longer they are together the better."
Samoan flanker Theo McFarland is not available after concussion at Exeter but Maro Itoje should start after training with England this week.
Tom Parton and Sam Spink remain a few weeks away but McCall said there was a chance Ollie Hartley could be back well before Christmas as his recovery from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury was ahead of schedule.
Carey and McSweeney hundreds deny New South Wales after Lyon's inroads
New South Wales 366 (Konstas 152, Philippe 56) and 282 for 6 dec (Konstas 105, Henriques 52) drew with South Australia 260 (Carey 90, Lyon 5-47) and 309 for 5 (McSweeney 127*, Carey 111, Lyon 3-94)
After posting a rapid-fire 90 in the first innings at Cricket Central, Carey pulled South Australia back from the brink with 111 from 158 deliveries in the second on day four. The two knocks combined to mark his most successful start to a Sheffield Shield season since his Test debut in 2021.
Carey's efforts came after he finished last summer with an unbeaten 98 against New Zealand, and will be reassuring for an Australian side preparing to lose Cameron Green for at least part of the summer through his back injury.
Lyon tickled the off-stump of Travis Head in the most significant of three early wickets, with nightwatchman Nathan McAndrew and Conor McInerney joining the superstar batter in the dugout courtesy of the spinner.
Carey struck a blow in his tit-for-tat with Lyon by sweeping the veteran past deep midwicket for his ninth four of the innings to reach his half-century, which guided South Australia into triple figures and relative stability.
Just after lunch, Carey brought up a seventh first-class century with a single to deep cover off Liam Hatcher.
Ollie Davies dropped Carey at point on 110 but he fell a run later when he glanced Tanveer Sangha to a deep leg slip.
Carey's ton returned serve to rival gloveman Josh Inglis, who hit a century of his own for Western Australia earlier this week after a white-ball tour of the UK during which the pair shared wicketkeeping duties.
McSweeney picked up where Carey left off but with their tail unlikely to wag, South Australia looked reluctant to take the game on late, despite having five wickets in hand.
Lyon could not repeat his early heroics as Moises Henriques threw batter Nic Maddinson the ball late on when it was clear no result would eventuate.
Can Bangladesh bid Mahmudullah farewell with a win?
Big picture: Bangladesh's last chance to salvage pride
After winning the Test series 2-0, India will be keen to stretch their dominance against Bangladesh to the absolute by carrying their T20I form from Gwalior and Delhi into Hyderabad, in the third T20I. It is the final match of a tour where Bangladesh have batted woefully, and bowled well only in certain periods. That was not good enough as India displayed their heightened T20 skills.
In the second T20I, the home side posted their highest total against Bangladesh even after losing three wickets in the powerplay. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Rinku Singh added 108 for the fourth wicket before Hardik Pandya and Riyan Parag struck meaty blows at the death. A target of 222 was overbearing on the visitors who could manage only 135 for 9. India now have the option to test the rest of the squad after going unchanged in the first two games.
The only solace for Bangladesh in the series so far has been that their seamers have performed satisfactorily. Taskin Ahmed took 2 for 16 in Delhi while Mustafizur Rahman was wily as usual and Tanzim Hasan Sakib showed his growing skills. The spinners, though, couldn't find their right lengths and let them down.
Bangladesh's top order, too, hasn't given them the best of starts. Litton Das and newcomer Parvez Hossain Emon went too hard at the bowling without the desired results, while captain Najmul Hossain Shanto looked good in patches before caving in quickly. Top order and spinners must get their act together for the visitors to have one last chance to at least threaten the hosts on this tour.
Form guide
India WWWWW (last five T20Is, most recent first)
Bangladesh LLLLL
In the spotlight: Nitish Kumar Reddy and Mahmudullah
Team news: India to test bench strength?
Ravi Bishnoi, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma and Harshit Rana warmed the bench in the first two T20Is but could get a run in Hyderabad, especially with the series already decided.
India (probable): 1 Sanju Samson (wk), 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 4 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 5 Rinku Singh, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Riyan Parag, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Varun Chakravarthy/Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Mayank Yadav/Harshit Rana
Bangladesh may bring in Mahedi Hasan in place of Jaker Ali.
Bangladesh (probable): 1 Parvez Hossain Emon, 2 Litton Das (wk), 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), 4 Towhid Hridoy, 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 7 Mahedi Hasan, 8 Rishad Hossain, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Tanzim Hasan Sakib, 11 Mustafizur Rahman
Pitch and conditions: Rain could interrupt play
In IPL 2024, the three sides who made 200-plus batting first at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium won the game. However, there's a forecast of rain in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Stats and trivia: India extends home domination
- India stretched their unbeaten run in the bilateral T20I series at home to 16 after beating Bangladesh by 86 runs in Delhi. In a streak that goes back to September 2019, they have won 14 series and drawn two.
- In IPL 2024, Abhishek Sharma struck 284 runs, including three fifties, at a strike rate of 249.12 in Hyderabad.
- In Delhi, India used seven bowlers and each took at least one wicket, making it the first such instance in T20Is.
- Bangladesh's spinners conceded 14.75 runs per over in Delhi, their most expensive collective performance in a T20I when they bowled a minimum of five overs.
Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo's Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84
Leach four-for consigns Pakistan to historic innings defeat
England 823 for 7 dec (Brook 317, Root 262, Duckett 84, Crawley 78) beat Pakistan 556 (Masood 151, Salman 104*, Shafique 102) and 220 (Salman 63, Jamal 55*, Leach 4-30) by an innings and 47 runs
Their fate had been effectively sealed when they slumped to 82 for 6 in blameless conditions on the fourth afternoon, any sense of fight crushed beneath the weight of England's 823 for 7 declared. Salman and Jamal did their best to salvage some pride, putting on 109 for the seventh wicket - but Pakistan were so far adrift, despite posting an imposing 556 in the first innings, that it was not enough to make England's batters put on their pads again.
Defeat extended a horror run for Pakistan under the captaincy of Shan Masood to six in a row, and twisted the knife into an abysmal home record that has seen them winless since February 2021.
It was set up by a record-breaking performance with the bat, Harry Brook's triple-hundred and 262 from Joe Root helping England to post the fourth-highest total in Tests. And while the pitch continued to play pretty well even into the fifth day, with just the occasional assistance from the widening cracks, Pakistan's initial collapse in the face of a 267-run deficit left the outcome a formality.
Resuming on 152 for 6, there was more gutsy resistance from Salman and Jamal. Memories of Salman's first-innings hundred, when he skipped along close to a run a ball as Pakistan's total mounted, had been eroded by the match situation but he showed an ability to apply himself in more straitened circumstances, a tickled boundary off Gus Atkinson taking him to fifty for the second time in the match.
At the other end, Jamal found himself in the crosshairs of Brydon Carse's short-ball attack. A blow to the helmet required a visit from the physio and a concussion test but he continued to front up, putting several bumpers away to the boundary on the way to a second Test fifty. Carse kept coming, with a gloved pull flying over the head of Jamie Smith, before Pope put down what should have been a regulation catch after Jamal top-edged to square leg.
In between, Leach had provided the breakthrough when he beat Salman's inside edge, the dismissal confirmed on review. Shaheen Afridi was in no mood to hang around, flat-batting his third ball, from Carse, down the ground. But Leach clung on to a sharp return chance and then Naseem Shah walked past one to be stumped, as England closed out one of their most remarkable wins - not just of the Bazball era, but of all time.
PCB restructures selection committee by picking Aleem Dar, Aaqib, Azhar
Australia A looms for in-form Harris but lifeless Junction decides opening Shield match
Victoria 428 for 9 dec & 120 for 2 dec (Harris 52, Chandrasinghe 44) drew with Tasmania 527 for 9 dec (Webster 113, Hope 111, Silk 84, Perry 3-79)
Harris made 52 off 70 balls in the second innings, after scoring 143 in the first, as Victoria cruised to 120 for 2 off 52 overs in their second innings on the fourth day after Tasmania had declared overnight with a 99-run lead. But given the surface had so little life in it, there was no prospect of Tasmania taking 10 wickets with time left to chase a target and the captains agreed to call the game off just before tea on the final day.
Harris played with similar fluency to his first innings, striking eight boundaries in his 52 before nicking a very full delivery from Kieran Elliott to potentially cost himself a chance at twin hundreds in the match.
Ash Chandrasinghe was challenged by left-arm orthodox of Matt Kuhnemann, who tried to extract something from the footmarks outside the left-hander's off stump. Chandrasinghe made 44 from 128 before Kuhnemann finally got one to bite from the dust to bowl him through the gate.
Campbell Kellaway and Peter Handscomb blunted the bowling thereafter to thwart any chance of a collapse. Jordan Silk even tried himself for an over before the game was called off.
Despite the flat nature of the pitch, player of the match Harris was pleased with his return. He had a brief conversation with Australia selector Tony Dodemaide on the ground after the match and revealed he looks set to play for Australia A against India A in a few weeks time.
"He asked if I wanted to bat six and bowl seam up in the Test side," Harris joked. "He was just talking about the Aussie A stuff. I think that'll come out the next few days."
"It probably wouldn't hurt if you made runs in it," Harris said. "I've been in the situation a few times now where I've played those games. It's not like it's going to be the first time I've ever played for Australia A before a Test series. There's obviously always a bit of attention around those games. Pressure wise, I'm not going to be trying to put the same pressure on myself as I had before. It will just be a great opportunity."
There was no blame placed on the curator at the Junction Oval given the weather in the lead-in, but Rogers did not sugarcoat the result.
"That's not great for cricket and anyone involved," he said. "We have a bit of a history here early on in the season of just having wickets that we we try different things, but we can't seem to get anything out of it. So it's frustrating."
Vaughan did not have an answer as to how to avoid these early season results, particularly in the two most southern states of Victoria and Tasmania.
"I'll feel for curators in that regards, because it is darn hard at this time of year to get high-quality result wickets," Vaughan said.
Alex Malcolm is an associate editor at ESPNcricinfo
49ers happy to 'stand tall' after run of late losses
SEATTLE -- Roughly nine minutes after the San Francisco 49ers pushed their lead to 20 points against the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night, linebacker Fred Warner was hit with an uncomfortable case of déjà vu.
Seattle had just rattled off 14 straight points to cut San Francisco's lead to six and was getting the ball back to open the fourth quarter.
For a Niners team that had blown double-digit fourth-quarter leads in losses to the Los Angeles Rams in Week 3 and the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, it was hard not to let doubt creep in that it was going to be an NFC West trifecta.
"[A] thousand percent," Warner said. "It sucks, but yes, it was something that felt familiar for sure. I'm like, 'Hey, we can go one of two ways right here. We can stand tall in a hostile environment and get the game that we got to get or we can settle for exactly how we've been playing the last couple losses."
This time, despite another rash of injuries and an unseen challenge replay that went against them, the Niners persevered to put away a 36-24 victory they badly needed.
During the week, the Niners proclaimed that Thursday's contest was the closest thing to a must-win game as you can get in Week 6 of the NFL. A loss would have dropped them to 2-4 overall, 0-3 in the division and 0-4 in the conference. They still would have had 11 games to get back in the mix, but the climb would have been significantly more arduous.
The flip side, of course, was that a victory would propel the Niners to 3-3 and into a tie with Seattle at the top of the division with an early leg up against the Seahawks in a potential head-to-head tiebreaker.
"I've talked about some hard losses are harder than others and when you feel like you have those won, especially division games, that's made us sick about it," coach Kyle Shanahan said. "We've been talking about how these two losses are a reminder of how the NFL works, and I think we got a little spoiled in that way of just human nature of sometimes feeling too relaxed and you can never feel too relaxed."
The mere idea of relaxation has been difficult for the Niners to grasp given all that they've dealt with on the injury front this season. Already without key players such as running back Christian McCaffrey (Achilles tendinitis), linebacker Dre Greenlaw (torn Achilles), defensive tackle Javon Hargrave (torn triceps) and safety Talanoa Hufanga (torn ligaments in his wrist), the Niners had more health woes Thursday night.
Cornerback Charvarius Ward went through a workout in hopes he could play through a knee bruise but was a pregame inactive. Rookie safety Malik Mustapha, starting in Hufanga's place, came up with an early interception and then departed with what Shanahan called a low ankle sprain. Perhaps most critical, running back Jordan Mason injured his left shoulder in the first half, returned for one carry to open the third quarter and then was only available in an emergency situation the rest of the game. He finished with 73 yards on nine carries and caught another pass for 9 yards.
Shanahan said Mason will have further testing Friday to determine the severity of the injury.
"He thought he was going to be all right," Shanahan said. "He went back in and it just hurt him too much, so he went out. ... We'll find out more tomorrow."
As if the injuries weren't enough, they were also on the wrong end of a replay in which a camera angle eventually showed fans at home that Seahawks punt returner Dee Williams touched a ball that the Niners would eventually recover at Seattle's 18. Shanahan said Brian Hampton, the 49ers vice president of football administration, alerted him to Williams touching the ball but when officials reviewed the play, they didn't have an angle that provided clear evidence. That caused the call to stand and set off frustration on San Francisco's sideline.
Mark Butterworth, the NFL's vice president of instant replay, said after the game that they did not see the clear replay where the ball was touched until it was too late to overturn the play.
"With it being 'Thursday Night Football,' I thought for sure they'd have a bunch of camera angles," Shanahan said. "We threw it thinking we'd get some better angles and then they just told me that he didn't. And then about two minutes later, I heard all the guys in the box start freaking out saying they saw another angle and it was a fumble."
As it turned out, that play didn't matter as the 49ers closed the game with help from rookies working in replacement roles.
Cornerback Renardo Green, playing more snaps because Ward was out, came up with his first career interception midway through the fourth quarter to set up what turned out to be the winning 9-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Brock Purdy to tight end George Kittle. Rookie Isaac Guerendo, in for Mason, followed suit by ripping off a 76-yard run that all but sealed the win with 1:39 to go.
"We've been in a lot of big games, we've won a lot of big games," Kittle said. "We've lost some big games, and so it's just we are experienced in the moment... When you have new guys out there and when they feel the confidence from all the guys who've been through there before, they feel like they fit right into it and they have that confidence as well. So, it's just our team's been in those situations and we've done pretty good with those, especially here on the road in Seattle."
While the 49ers get to enjoy Thursday's win for a few extra days, they won't take long to turn their attention to the next opponent on the schedule: the Kansas City Chiefs. The 49ers have never beaten Kansas City in a regular or postseason game since Shanahan took over in 2017, including, of course, a pair of Super Bowl losses.
Kansas City is 5-0 and will be even more rested than the Niners coming off their bye.
Suffice to say, nobody in San Francisco will call it a must win. But there's no denying that they want it.
"It's not like we can get payback for losing in the Super Bowl," Williams said. "That ship has sailed... Obviously, we know what type of team that is, one of the best teams in the league, all star quarterback, great coach. So, it's going to be a tough game regardless. We're going to take these three days off and regroup and come try to put a complete game together."
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