Written underneath the statue of Johan Cruyff outside Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium is the phrase "Salid y disfrutad" ("go out and enjoy"). It's what Cruyff told his Barcelona side as manager ahead of their victorious 1992 European Cup final against Sampdoria, the triumph that earned them the title of "The Dream Team."

Cruyff died five years ago on March 24, 2016, following a lengthy battle with cancer, and that statue in Barcelona is just the first hint at a legacy stretching far beyond a single club. He lives on through his Foundation, which benefits over 200,000 children worldwide. Then there are the educational hubs: five Cruyff Institutes, three Cruyff Academies and four Cruyff Colleges across Mexico, Peru, Spain and the Netherlands. There's also the successful Cruyff clothing and shoe range as well as Cruyff Football, a coaching portal focused on spreading and teaching his philosophy of how to play soccer. In short, it's a footballing religion.

Watch the top teams in Europe these days and you'll see elements of Cruyff's philosophy continuing to flourish. The flowing football of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City -- still on course for a quadruple in England and Europe -- is an evolved version of what he played under Cruyff at Barcelona. There are elements of Cruyffism in how Jurgen Klopp's high press works at Liverpool. Bayern Munich's Joshua Kimmich is your archetypal Cruyff player, with his ability to effortlessly change positions. For all the debates about style vs. substance, about playing beautiful vs. playing to win, Cruyff married success and style in a way that most elite teams aspire to emulate.

His DNA and ideas course through the legendary Dutch club Ajax, too -- he helped the club reboot their academy in 2012, which helped nurture stars like Juventus defender Matthijs de Ligt and Barcelona midfielder Frenkie De Jong -- as well as Spain's golden generation of 2008 to 2014, in which they won the 2010 World Cup in between a remarkable two European Championships, the only national team to repeat as continental champions. He also played a profound role in influencing some of the world's best coaches like Pep Guardiola (Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester City) and Arsenal's longest-serving manager, Arsene Wenger.

"Johan Cruyff painted the chapel," Guardiola said. "And Barcelona coaches since merely restore or improve it."

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Cruyff is to soccer what John Wooden is to basketball, or Bill Walsh is to American football. Perhaps a modern-day incarnation is Bill Belichick's dynasty at the New England Patriots. "The influence of Johan Cruyff was huge," Guardiola said. "He changed the mentality of Ajax and Barcelona. His influence is not comparable. He is the most influential person in the world of football in the last of 50, 60 years. Nobody can compare with him."

Mention "Cruyff," "Cruyffism" or the "Cruyff philosophy" to Barcelona fans, and they associate it with winning. He brought success as a player and returned as manager to bring silverware (four straight La Liga titles and that European Cup win), hone a style of ruthless attack and establish a clear pathway for homegrown young players to follow from the academy through to the first-team. Staunch Cruyffistas are unapologetic in their championing of him, and his ideals have led to boardroom splits, presidents overturned, and managers hired and fired.

In 2021, Barcelona are doing all they can to use Cruyff's inspiration to return to the top of European football. Their returning president, Joan Laporta, was close friends with Cruyff, and the foundation of his election manifesto was to restore Cruyff's ideas to the core of a club in search of an identity.

Without him, there would be no Barcelona talent factory at La Masia, arguably no Guardiola, nor Lionel Messi and not the Barcelona we know now. On the fifth anniversary of his death, the Cruyffian philosophy and legacy is still incredibly important to Barcelona, and to the game.

Cruyff the player: "He was a rebel for the board of directors"

Johan's son, Jordi, is talking over Zoom from China, where he's managing Chinese Super League side Shenzhen. He knows the power of his surname and the doors it can unlock, but is forging his own path in football. But there's no nepotism as he describes Johan as one of football's "immortals."

"He is one of the special ones, he really put his stamp on football as a player and coach in a revolutionary way," Jordi tells ESPN. "He had a different mindset. When everybody went to the right, he'd go to the left."

Cruyff's legacy is mainly split between those who remember him for how he revolutionised Dutch football in the 1970s, and those who cherish the memories of his success at Barcelona as a manager from 1988-1996.

Johan pioneered the Netherlands' golden decade in the 1970s. Though Cruyff's mentor, Rinus Michels, (voted FIFA's Coach of the Century in 1999, he guided Ajax to four Eredivisie titles in the 1960s and the Netherlands to the 1988 European Championship) was the brains behind the game-changing style of "Total Football," Cruyff personified it. In a sport previously defined by rigid positioning and man-marking, the Dutch turned the tactical view of the game on its head.

They lined up in a 4-3-3 instead of the typical 3-5-2, with positional fluidity for all 10 outfield players. They would seamlessly cover each other's roles in mid-game to confuse opponents; if a midfielder charged forward to attack, the defender behind him would step up. They also favoured aggressive pressing on the ball and possession, but above all, they were told to entertain.

"For me, football is emotional," Cruyff wrote in his post-humous autobiography, "My Turn." "I have always said that football should be played beautifully, in an attacking way. It must be a spectacle. Football is a game you play with your brains. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late."

As its enigmatic playmaker, Cruyff and the Dutch team reached the final of the 1974 World Cup and though they lost to Franz Beckenbauer's Germany 1-0, they are still regarded as one of the world's greatest-ever sides.

He also had a signature move, the "Cruyff Turn" -- now a staple of the game -- spotlighted when, in the 1974 World Cup group stage, he was being pressed by Sweden defender Jan Olsson, but evaded him by dragging the ball back past his standing leg to make a 180-degree turn. "For me, the most important thing is what he did with the ball," ex-Netherlands international Ronald de Boer tells ESPN. "It was something new that a lot of people didn't see prior to him doing it: the acceleration, the Cruyff turn, his way of playing, his on-field demand of his teammates and the relentless pressing football."

"I used to provoke him a lot," says Jordi. "I'd say 'Papa, you didn't win the final. You got all the compliments but not the gold medal," Jordi says. "And he would respond, never changing his answer, 'but you know what, from 1974 people remember the losing team, that's how much of an impact we made. Nobody remembers the winner, but the revolution we made and that is a bigger prize, bigger than the colour of the medal: that is legacy."

The Netherlands national side still hold his famous number 14 shirt in the same awe as Argentina look to Diego Maradona's number 10, or Brazil to Pele's 10.

"My father came through in the 1970s in the Netherlands where life was changing a little bit," Jordi tells ESPN. "The hippie, the gold chains and the long hair and all that, it was a different moment, and my father was at the front. His philosophy was to entertain, he saw it as not only 'win' or 'lose', but to entertain.

"He had a convincing power, and charisma that people followed. He was a rebel for the board of directors. He would have said it otherwise, but he was a real pain in the ass for them. I don't think he had many friends [at the club's executive level], but he stood up for his principles, always for the security of the players."

With the Netherlands, he also confronted the established order by helping usher in player insurance and image rights: adidas made him a special kit for the 1974 World Cup with two stripes instead of the brand's three-stripe design due to his contract with Puma.

"He was a kind of James Dean of football at that time you know," ex-Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger said in 2017. "I've seen him in Strasbourg an hour before kick-off eating a sandwich, go on the pitch and be the best player. He was that kind of expression of freedom in the way he behaved."

Cruyff carried this freedom into his coaching career. When he returned to Ajax as their manager in 1984, he didn't have the necessary qualifications to formally coach, so he created the role of "technical director" to circumnavigate the rules. After Cruyff's death in 2016, Ajax renamed their stadium the Johan Cruyff Arena in spite of his complicated relationship with his boyhood club.

When Cruyff left Ajax for the first time in 1973, they agreed to sell him to Real Madrid. He refused that move and instead signed for Barcelona -- the message was that he controlled his destiny, not a club. In 2010, he wrote a scathing article in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, criticising Ajax after they had lost 2-0 to Real Madrid. His essay kickstarted the "Velvet Revolution" at Ajax, whereby Cruyff and some other former players returned to the club, overthrowing those in charge and vowing to return them to the top of European football. Cruyff himself would focus on the renovations of Ajax's youth academy, known as "De Toekomst" (Dutch for "the Future").

"Johan ruffled some feathers; I think that was his life," Ajax CEO Edwin van der Sar tells ESPN. "He was outspoken. He had a big influence in 2010 and that started the emphasis on better, younger players."

"He was independent," Jordi says. "He could just say what he wanted to say, he didn't care if people liked it or not; he wouldn't go to hurt anybody's feelings, but he would just say what he really thought."

The Barcelona legacy: "Barcelona are missing the Cruyff DNA"

"Cruyff is the most important person in the success of FC Barcelona, without any doubt," Barcelona legend Xavi told ESPN.

"I think Johan would not be happy with what's happened there in the past few years: too many signings, a lot of money spent and the few youngsters coming through," said De Boer, who played for Ajax and Barcelona in the 1999-00 season. "The youth academy should be more closely involved. Barcelona are missing the Cruyff DNA."

The Dutchman took Barcelona's coaching reins in 1988 and in his eight-year spell, he oversaw an era of unparalleled success as they won four straight La Liga titles at the start of the 90s and the 1992 Champions League.

The Barcelona team Cruyff inherited in 1988 was in disarray, similar to how Barcelona find themselves in 2021. They were in debt, attendances were in decline, they'd won one La Liga title since 1974 and the players were feuding with club president Josep Lluis Nunez. When Cruyff took over, all but 10 players were shipped out and in their place came a bunch of players who would help shape Barcelona on and off the pitch over the next 30 years: namely Ernesto Valverde (who'd go on to coach Barca to two league titles), Txiki Begiristain (who is now shaping Manchester City's dominant era) and Eusebio. By 1989, Cruyff had signed Ronald Koeman (now Barca's manager) and shifted him from defensive midfield to centre-back; a year later, he promoted Guardiola to their first team.

Guardiola's promotion symbolised the sea-change Cruyff had instigated in Barcelona. Under previous coaches, Guardiola would have most likely been cast aside as he fell under their minimum height requirement of 1.80m. Cruyff scoffed at those principles, arguing a smaller, more technical player can be as effective as his more physical counterparts. While La Masia, Barca's youth academy, was re-shaped in the late 1970s with a fresh focus on recruiting youngsters living close to Barcelona, it bore fruit under Cruyff.

"When he arrived at Barcelona, all the youth teams of the club started to play like the first team, so when we came into the first team we were used to his style and it was much easier to play for him," Oscar Garcia, who graduated from the academy to the first team in 1993, tells ESPN.

After other managers took the club on post-Cruyff, Guardiola was appointed B Team coach in 2007 and took over the top job in 2008. Like Cruyff did in 1988, Guardiola wiped the slate clean at Barcelona and like his mentor did, he backed the talent emerging from La Masia: his team was based around graduates Xavi, Carles Puyol, Pedro, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique, Victor Valdes, Andres Iniesta and Messi. The club experienced incredible success, winning three straight La Liga titles, including their historic treble in 2009 which saw them crowned Barcelona's second 'Dream Team" era.

"Cruyff has had the biggest influence on football coaching as we know it now," Greece manager and ex-Ajax player John van't Schip tells ESPN. He points to his various tactical choices ahead of the curve: Cruyff's use of Stanley Menzo as a 'sweeper keeper' at Ajax, how he used interchangeable wingers to allow them to cut inside or stay on the outside to cross with their strongest foot. He argues 'gegenpressing', a system used by Jurgen Klopp and Ralf Rangnick, had similarities in the 1974 'Total Football' style as that Dutch side relentlessly pressured opponents into giving up the ball.

"It's probably not a coincidence that so many players that played under my father have actually become coaches. There are a lot of disciples [in management]," Jordi says. "They have their own football view -- they are not copying my father -- but they found an inspiration with many of my father's ideas. They go their own path, but they all share the same language as my father's footballing philosophy."

"For me, Guardiola was Cruyff's most prominent disciple," Van t'Schip says.

"Without him I wouldn't be here," Guardiola said in 2016. "I know for sure this is why I am, right now, the manager of Manchester City and before that Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Before he came we didn't have a cathedral of football, this beautiful church, at Barcelona. We needed something new. And now it is something that has lasted. It was built by one man, by Johan Cruyff, stone by stone. That's why he was special."

While the La Masia production line had dried up in recent seasons, there are signs that the Barca academy is again gaining prominence. Ansu Fati, Oscar Mingueza, Riqui Puig, Ilaix Moriba and Konrad de la Fuente are all in and around the first-team, while Alex Balde is pencilled in as a possible left-back option for next season. Pedri is another youngster in the first-team, though developed at Las Palmas, while Ronald Araujo had two seasons in the B-Team, having joined from Uruguay's Boston River.

All three presidential candidates that ran in 2021 -- Joan Laporta, Victor Font and Toni Freixa -- had the rejuvenation of La Masia as a priority in their manifestos. As the winner of that race, Laporta, embarks on his second stint as Barca president, Cruyff was clearly central to Laporta's vision. "Cruyff was a genius. I completely identify with his way of seeing football and we will have him present in our thoughts when it comes to making decisions," Laporta said in January 2021. "I will dedicate every game that we play spectacularly in to him, just as he liked to play."

Yet it's one thing to pay lip service to Cruyff, and another to implement his ideas.

"If you want to impress somebody, you say 'we're going to do the Johan Cruyff style of football'," De Boer says. "It was all sun, the way they played football. But it's a political, tactically smart way of using his name."

The future: "Johan this is from everyone, not only us"

Perhaps the truest embodiment of Cruyff's values, five years after his passing, is found in his Institute and Foundation. Jordi says the Cruyff Foundation was like another child to his late father and the inspiration behind both organizations came from Johan's own experiences. Johan never finished school, but he was adamant that his children and others would not make the same decision.

"He even took me out of football at the age of 15 or 16 for a month and would not let me go back until my studies improved," Jordi says. "I was a youth player at Barcelona at the time, and I would say to him 'why are you pushing me to study when you didn't study yourself?" He said: 'It is not about what I did, you need to be prepared for the day after football'."

The Institute has five postgraduate centres the world over alongside three academies and two colleges. The Foundation, which has helped thousands of children through sport, came from Johan's belief that sport can help heal society. Jordi remembers when, in America, they lived next door to a boy called John-John, who had Down's syndrome. John-John wanted to play football with the other children on the street but was left out. So Johan started to "train on the street, only with John-John," Jordi says. "When he came back from two away games, he saw the other children now playing football with John-John. He made the foundation after that.

"A lot of things always come from happenings that he had in his own life, and he did things because there was like a scar inside of him - something had made an impact, and he reacted on that."

Cruyff Football -- another arm of the "World of Johan Cruyff" body that brings it all together -- is focused on teaching his football methods and is run by ex-Barcelona academy coach Albert Capellas. Then there is Volendam -- the second-division Dutch side where former Ajax players Wim Jonk and Ruben Jongkind took charge in April 2019 -- still living and breathing Cruyff's philosophy in life, society and football.

Jongkind is one of Cruyff's most evangelical disciples and was close to Johan through to his death from lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain in early 2016.

"He said to me a few weeks before he died, 'Well if they don't want it [Cruyff Plan] at Ajax, they will want it somewhere else'," Jongkind says. "I think he would have said 'Okay we will do what we did at Ajax, but even better, without resistance at Barcelona and La Masia. We will create a La Masia 2.0.' He wanted to bring back the culture and Catalan energy to Barcelona."

Cruyff's legacy still permeates through football and remains both the philosophy and culture Barcelona fans still pine after.

"A lot of players that were in his charts, hands, his mind, in his passion... most of them now are coaches," said Guardiola. "And his tribute... we can never re-pay what he has done for us. Never."

When Johan died on March 24, 2016, his family held a private funeral while Barcelona put together a memorial for their supporters, which saw thousands flock through paying their tributes to the man who made Barcelona the club we know today.

"I remember giving a press conference at the Barcelona stadium just after he passed, and wow... no matter how many times you try to prepare yourself, you know all things you have in your head, but when you speak, you don't remember," Jordi says. "I put down some notes, but in the end, all I could think of was 'Johan, this is from everyone, not only us [the family]. That's why we had to open up the funeral so everyone could say goodbye.

"We could not close the door and say, 'no Johan Cruyff is our father' -- no, he is everyone's. And that is probably the biggest truth I have said about my father in a long time, and the best way to summarise who Johan Cruyff was."

Barcelona face a defining year. Laporta knows Cruyff and his legacy will not be far from their thoughts, nor the supporters' expectations, as they attempt to keep Lionel Messi with the only club he's ever known while building another winning team around him.

"There is a very thin line between being crazy, or a genius," Jordi says. "At Barcelona he created a winning mentality and turned pessimism into a winners' club. People still remember that moment of change and awakening. As a son, I can only be proud of his legacy.

"There are not many people who have statues at Ajax and Barcelona, and to have two stadiums in his name. That's something for the special ones, and he's one of them."

Alphonso Davies is on course to be one of football's biggest stars of the decade. At 20, the Canada international is already a Champions League winner with Bayern Munich and rated as one of the best defenders in the world, but it is his backstory, as a child born in a refugee camp to parents who fled from war in Liberia, which makes his journey to the top so remarkable.

Davies spent the first five years of his life as a refugee in Ghana before being re-settled with his family in Edmonton, Canada, where he learned to play football with Free Footie, an organisation which provided facilities, equipment and transport for children unable to afford kit to play.

But by the age of 17, Davies had earned a move to Bayern after making the breakthrough with the Vancouver Whitecaps becoming, at 16, the second-youngest player to appear in MLS after Freddy Adu.

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Now, having become a global star with Bayern, Davies was appointed on Wednesday as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the United Nations' Refugee Agency, saying: "I want people to know about the importance of helping refugees, wherever they are, in camps or cities, as they need our support to survive, but also access to education and sports, so they can fulfil their potential and truly thrive."

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said Davies "personifies the power of sport," with the player determined to use his story to inspire those enduring the same difficulties he experienced as a child, but also lead the way in helping to eradicate the stigma felt by many refugees.

ESPN caught up with Davies in a round-table Zoom interview arranged by UNHCR to discuss his new role, in which he spoke candidly about his journey from troubled beginnings to being able to use his platform as a globally-recognised footballer to shine a light on the difficulties still being experienced by refugees across the world.

Q. What was the message from your parents about your start in life?

A. From what my parents told me, it was a tough road. It wasn't easy for them to leave a war-torn country in Liberia and then go to a refugee camp. There were struggles to find food, find water, and then having a kid as well, but they fought through it. They were happy.

Q. It wasn't an easy choice for your parents, but an important one?

A. The story my dad told is how it was during the war in Liberia. You knew there were only two opportunities: you either become part of the war or try to get out. I'm happy they chose to get out because my parents had no intention of carrying guns, shooting guns. That's not who they are. Everything in the refugee camp was a battle, it wasn't easy, but they were alive. I can just visualise the smile on their faces knowing we were going to have a better life once we got accepted in the resettlement program to go to Canada. They were so excited, it was an amazing relief.

Q. How do you balance being an activist with football?

A. I believe my personal story can help make a difference in people's lives. It makes me work harder and I'll never forget where I come from. Being a refugee is part of my story and I'm happy to share everything about it. It motivates me each and every day to be who I am, to reach out to people, to tell them that there's hope and help others be aware of what the situation is. I want to be a role model to other refugees as well. For them to look at me and see there's hope. To let them know if we believe in ourselves, we can make it. I really want to raise awareness and open people's eyes to the situation that is going on around the world.

Q. There are many refugee crises ongoing right now, in countries such as Syria, Myanmar and DR Congo, so how can you use your experiences to inspire children in those situations?

A. I want use my story to motivate people, to give them a little bit of hope that they can be what they want to be. There are lot of situations going on around the world, in a lot of countries, which are sad. I want to share my story, give my support and obviously make people aware of these situations as well. That's what I want to use my platform for. That's what I want to do and will do.

Q. Can you help remove the stigma around refugees? There remains a lot of racism and negativity towards them.

A. It's really important. Even though I'm a footballer, I still encounter racism. And even when it's not about the colour of your skin, you are looked at differently when you have been resettled. It's a tough situation to be in. We have to raise awareness, making sure people understand that we're all human beings, we're all in this world together and we should have respect and love for one another. But, I mean, it's tough stuff. There's people out there that really don't care. They say whatever they want to say and those are the people that we're trying to change, trying to open their eyes to see that no matter where you come from, we can help each other as much as possible.

Q. How did growing up in Canada help shape your football career?

A. When I moved to Canada, football helped me make friends. Football helped me express myself. Football did a lot for me. Playing the game in Canada -- it was amazing. That's where I made a lot of friends. That's where I became myself. It's amazing, that feeling you have playing each and every day with your friends. I was a shy guy in school, but once I started playing football that's when I started making more and more friends. It shows you who you are as well. I mean, football is not just running around playing a game. It's a lot of other factors involved. Joining the Whitecaps, it was when I was with my team Edmonton Strikers, we went to Vancouver for a showcase and I think one of the coaches, or one of the scouts, saw me and contacted my coach at the time and told them they wanted me to come in for a chat.

So I went down, obviously. They liked what they saw and my mom wasn't really too fond of the situation -- going to Vancouver myself at 14 years of age. For my parents, schooling is a big one for them, they wanted me to have a strong education to be able to have something to fall back on. And I'm glad it all worked out. I promised my parents that I'd stay the same, I wouldn't change so they let me go. Everything worked out well at the end.

Q. You are now the most recognisable Canadian athlete, fans buy Bayern Munich shirts with your name on, so how important is it to use your voice and profile?

A. I am just using my platform to raise awareness of situations going on around the world. I am very grateful that people are wearing my jersey, looking up to me. It's amazing. Even now, I still look up to big athletes and listen to what they say, so I'm happy that I can use my platform and my voice to motivate young people raise awareness for situation around the world.

Q. How do you discuss your role with teammates or opponents? Do you try to convince other players to follow your lead?

A. There are a lot of other people there doing the same as me. For me, talking to my teammates, I think they know I'm now an UNHCR ambassador, but I haven't had the chance to talk to them yet. I'm still fairly new to it, but the opportunities will come where I can sit down with them, talk to them and share opinions about the situation.

Q. Does your refugee past have an influence on your career?

A. Yeah, looking back on my story, for me it is my story and people see it as motivation. I believe my story can push others, young refugees or young footballers, to make it. All I want to do is give them hope and excitement to say that, if he can do it, I can do it. That's the message I want to give out to them. For me, every time I look back on my story, it helps me work harder every day. I know where I came from and where I am now and that is the motivation that I have in me.

Q. You haven't forgotten your roots, but who helps keep your feet on the ground?

A. I have quite a small circle around me and everyone within that circle wants the best for me. I think the main ones are my family -- knowing their story, where we came from, that keeps my feet on the ground. My mom always tells me to be a good boy, as she calls it. My friends too, they help me keep grounded, and my manager too -- he just tells me to remember where I came from. The support around me is amazing and everyone has their best interest in mind for me.

Q. Do you have any plans to go back to Ghana?

A: I haven't been back since I left, but that's definitely on my list. I want to go back to see where I grew up, where my family grew up and where I was for the first five years of my life. I'm excited that I'll be getting the chance to go back, although it's not possible right now with everything that is going on (with the COVID-19 pandemic). But in the future, I would love to go back and see the country.

Q. Finally, what is your message to all refugees?

A. I just want to say we support you and we're here. I am excited to join the programme to help spread the word and hopefully you guys can take my story as motivation in your own life. I am happy to be working with the UNHCR and excited to get things started.

Virat Kohli has moved up to No. 4 in the latest T20I rankings for batsmen following his unbeaten 80 in the final T20I against England in Ahmedabad, which helped India clinch the five-match series 3-2.

Kohli went past KL Rahul, and now has 762 rating points. Rahul, who had a horror run with the bat with scores of 1, 0, 0 and 14 in the series, has slipped to No. 5.

Despite England losing the series, Dawid Malan, who scored a 46-ball 68 in the last game, continued to top the table with 892 rating points. Aaron Finch (No. 2, 830 points) and Babar Azam (No. 3, 801 points) are the others in the top five.

In the ODI rankings, Jonny Bairstow climbed four places after his blazing 66-ball 94 in the first ODI against India in Pune. He is now in the seventh spot with 775 rating points.

Kohli continued to occupy the No. 1 spot among ODI batsmen, with Azam and Rohit Sharma battling for the second position. With 837 rating points, Azam is No. 2, and Sharma, with one point fewer, is at No. 3.

Among bowlers, Adil Rashid gained one spot to be at No. 4 in T20Is, where South Africa's Tabraiz Shamsi is at the pole position, with a lead of 14 points over No. 2 Rashid Khan.

New Zealand seamer Matt Henry is now ranked eighth among ODI bowlers, having gained three places since the last update, while Trent Boult continued to head the list.

Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of the remaining two England ODIs after hurting his left shoulder in the field during the series opener on Tuesday night in Pune. ESPNcricinfo understands Iyer, who dislocated his shoulder, is set to miss the first half of the IPL where he is the captain of the Delhi Capitals.

On Tuesday Iyer was taken for scans immediately after he walked off the field during the eighth over of England's chase. In a flash medical update at the time the BCCI said Iyer had "subluxated" (partially dislocated) his left shoulder. Although the BCCI is yet to announce Iyer's exit from the England series, it is understood that the injury will take several weeks to heal, putting in doubt Iyer's return for the IPL. It is understood that Iyer is likely to undergo surgery on the left shoulder which he has injured thrice since the 2020 IPL. In case Iyer does undergo surgery, his recovery period could stretch to a few months.

Iyer's absence is unlikely to hurt India's gameplans for the remaining two matches in the ODI series considering there is more than one option on bench in Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill.

It is the Capitals who will feel the pain of Iyer's injury considering he is not only their leader but also a key batsman in the top order. It is likely that Rishabh Pant, who is the vice-captain, will lead the Capitals until Iyer returns.

This is the second time in the last six months that Iyer has suffered a shoulder injury, having picked one during the white-ball segment of the Australia tour. Before joining the India squad for the limited-overs series against England, Iyer had played in just four of the eight 50-overs matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy for Mumbai, in which he scored two centuries.

The timing of his injury will also concern Lancashire, who had signed Iyer for the Royal London Cup (50-overs tournament) in the summer. Iyer was meant to join Lancashire from July 15.

Iyer had a prolific IPL season in 2020 and led the Capitals to the final, in which they lost to the Mumbai Indians. Iyer was the fourth-highest run-scorer then, and second-highest for the Capitals, with a tally of 519 runs behind KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner.

The Capitals' first game is on the second day of the 2021 IPL, against the Chennai Super Kings in Mumbai.

NFL owners hope to resume in-person offseason workouts this spring, sources tell ESPN's Chris Mortensen, but the NFL Players Association is continuing to advocate for another fully virtual program.

The sides have begun a complex set of negotiations to determine the parameters of offseason work as vaccinations against COVID-19 become widely available. NFLPA president JC Tretter said in December that the virtual 2020 offseason should be made permanent, citing the reduced wear on players' bodies, and the talks are also connected to owners' looming vote on expanding the regular season to 17 games and cutting the preseason to three games.

Owners are expected to approve the 17-game season during virtual meetings next week, a decision the NFLPA maintains would trigger a revision of offseason workout terms in the sides' collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

If owners demand in-person workouts, the sources said, the NFLPA will ask the league to conduct daily COVID-19 testing. Owners believe daily testing will not be necessary by the time training camps open in July because most players will be vaccinated by then. The league spent more than $100 million in 2020 on COVID-19 protocols, with daily testing representing one of the largest line-item expenses.

In 2020, players met with coaches via video conference and followed prescribed training regimens at home or in nearby gyms. The arrangement was deemed by both sides to be suitable in a pandemic, but coaches have long advocated for more, not less, offseason workouts. Tretter, however, said the 2020 season demonstrated that in-person workouts were not needed.

"The argument in favor of these offseason practices is based on the assumption that players need reps during OTAs to develop and learn while teams need the practices to gel," Tretter wrote in a December blog post on the NFLPA web site. "Yet, the lack of OTAs this year demonstrated that those theories aren't substantiated. New and first-year head coaches had success. Newly assembled teams had success. Rookies stepped in and played at a high level all across the league.

"... We do not need to be brought in during April-June to practice against each other -- it's simply unnecessary."

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Veteran running back James White has agreed to a one-year deal to remain with the New England Patriots, a league source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler.

White, 29, has spent the first seven years of his career with the Patriots, who selected him in the fourth round of the 2014 draft out of Wisconsin.

A three-time Super Bowl champion, he is viewed as a top "passing back," coming on to the field in obvious passing situations and those in which he might be more apt to block a blitzing linebacker.

He totaled 49 receptions in 2020, the second highest of any Patriots player, and has 269 regular-season receptions in his career. He has added 59 receptions in the postseason, with his signature performance coming in a Super Bowl LI victory over the Atlanta Falcons when he had a record 14 catches and scored three touchdowns, including the game winner in overtime.

A soft-spoken three-time Patriots captain, White has earned widespread respect and admiration across the NFL, with many rallying around him in September after his father, Tyrone, was killed in a car crash that also injured his mother, Lisa.

White's return bolsters the Patriots' running back position, which returns top option Damien Harris, along with 2018 first-round pick Sony Michel, second-year player J.J. Taylor and core special teamer Brandon Bolden.

"I can't even put into words how much you can learn from a guy like James White. I really look up to him a lot," Harris said in December. "James White is definitely a guy you can say, 'Yeah, I want to be like James White when I grow up.'"

Referee Tim Peel will not work another game in the NHL after getting caught saying he "wanted to give" the Nashville Predators a penalty in their win over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.

NHL senior executive vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell made the announcement Wednesday morning, saying that Peel would "no longer be working NHL games now or in the future."

Peel, 53, was due to retire after this season. He has been an NHL on-ice official since October 1999 and had refereed 1,334 games entering this season.

"Nothing is more important than ensuring the integrity of our game," Campbell said. "Tim Peel's conduct is in direct contradiction to the adherence to that cornerstone principle that we demand of our officials and that our fans, players, coaches and all those associated with our game expect and deserve. There is no justification for his comments, no matter the context or his intention, and the National Hockey League will take any and all steps necessary to protect the integrity of our game."

With 15:04 left in the second period, Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson was called for tripping Red Wings defenseman Jon Merrill in the offensive zone, even though replays showed that Merrill embellished his fall to help draw the call. Peel made the penalty call from around center ice.

With 12:42 remaining in the second period, the Nashville broadcast captured audio from Peel saying "it wasn't much, but I wanted to get a f---ing penalty against Nashville early."

The NHL told ESPN after the game that it had opened an investigation into Peel's comments.

Nashville won the game 2-0. Both teams were whistled for three penalties, and the Predators took a fourth for putting the puck over the glass in the third period.

Nashville coach John Hynes was asked about the hot mic after the game. "I think the situation is what it is," he said. "I think from our perspective, it probably doesn't matter how I feel about it in general, but the referees are employees of the league, and rather than me comment, I think it's an issue that the league will have to take care of."

Hynes said that "you always want to have things that are fair for your players and for your team" but that there are no excuses. "We have to find a way to kill the penalty and control what we can control."

Peel has been one of the NHL's most maligned officials, with fans using social media to critique his calls through the years. In 2015, Peel was removed from officiating a New Jersey Devils home game after being photographed at a bar drinking with a reporter. [Editor's note: The reporter was ESPN's Greg Wyshynski, the writer of this piece.]

The Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers continued their busy offseason Wednesday, agreeing to a two-year, $31.8 million contract extension with offensive tackle Donovan Smith while finalizing a one-year, $10 million deal to bring back defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Smith's extension runs through 2023 and includes $30 million guaranteed over the next two seasons, sources told ESPN.

The move helped the Bucs create more room under the salary cap for this season while still maintaining continuity on the offensive line to protect quarterback Tom Brady.

Had Smith played under his current deal, he would have counted $14.25 million against the salary cap in 2021. In that scenario, the Bucs would have had just $1.55 million in salary cap space heading into Wednesday morning, according to Roster Management. Instead, a source told ESPN that he'll count roughly $3.6 million against the cap in 2021, freeing up an additional $10.65 million.

As far as Suh's cap number, a source told ESPN that's still being worked out because there will be voidable years in his contract, something the Bucs have used extensively this free agency period to account for the NFL's 8% salary cap decrease, which allows them to be cap compliant.

Smith has had somewhat of an up-and-down career, although he has displayed remarkable durability, missing just two regular-season games in six seasons, third best in the NFL. He struggled midway through the 2021 season with Brady, but he was at his best in the final four games of the regular season and the postseason, surrendering just one sack.

Suh has spent the past two seasons on one-year deals with the Bucs, playing an integral role in their transition from a 4-3 to a 3-4 defense and helping mentor 2018 first-round draft pick Vita Vea after the departure of Gerald McCoy.

In 2019, his first year with defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, Suh had 2.5 sacks and four fumble recoveries -- two of which were returned for touchdowns. Suh finished the 2020 regular season with 6 sacks, 1 forced fumble and 44 tackles. His 330 plays against double-teams was second only to the Los Angeles Rams' Aaron Donald, who was named the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year.

Bowles credited Suh for not allowing Patrick Mahomes to properly step into his throws in Super Bowl LV, during which Suh registered 1.5 sacks. Coach Bruce Arians credited Suh for the impact he has had on younger players and for helping them overcome the loss of Vea during the regular season.

Suh, who turned 34 in January, was the Detroit Lions' pick at No. 2 in the 2010 draft, has been selected to five Pro Bowls and is a three-time first-team All-Pro. In 11 seasons with the Lions, Miami Dolphins, Rams and Buccaneers, he has 64.5 sacks and 563 tackles.

The moves are the latest in what has been a busy offseason for the Bucs, who have now extended the deals of Brady and Smith, placed the franchise tag on receiver Chris Godwin and signed Suh, linebacker Shaq Barrett, linebacker Lavonte David, tight end Rob Gronkowski and kicker Ryan Succop to new deals.

The Bucs likely aren't done, either. They have continued to talk to representatives for wide receiver Antonio Brown and running back Leonard Fournette, and they are considering more moves to free up cap space. They also have to address their backup quarterback situation, as neither Blaine Gabbert nor Ryan Griffin are under contract for 2021.

Florida Gators sophomore Tre Mann has decided to declare for the 2021 NBA draft and will forgo his remaining college eligibility.

"After much consideration, I have decided to take the next step in my basketball career and will declare for the 2021 NBA draft," Mann told ESPN. "To Gator nation, your love and support will always hold a special place in my heart. I will be hiring an agent to help guide me through this process."

Mann, the No. 15 prospect in the ESPN 100 NBA draft rankings, is coming off the best stretch of his college career, averaging 21 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists per game in the SEC and NCAA tournaments over the past two weeks, elevating his standing significantly in the eyes of NBA talent evaluators.

"My season at Florida was filled with a lot of individual growth with the significant increase of playing time and emphasis on fulfilling my role," Mann said. "However, this year was filled with adversity in [the form of] COVID and the loss of Keyontae [Johnson]. While we didn't reach our goal as a team in the NCAA tournament, it was a great experience nonetheless."

Growing to 6-foot-5 over the course of his college career, Mann is considered one of the most talented ball handlers and shot creators in this draft class, featuring NBA range on his jump shot and impressive shiftiness changing speeds out of the pick-and-roll.

"I think that NBA teams were able to see my ability to play on and off the ball as well as my improved stats across the board," Mann said. "I was able to showcase my leadership skills, efficiency shooting the ball, defensive versatility and ability to rebound."

Mann, a McDonald's All American coming out of high school, averaged 16.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game for Florida, also shooting 40% from beyond the arc, and earned All-Southeastern Conference honors.

"During the pre-draft process, I am eager to show NBA teams my athleticism and true length/size," Mann said. "I am looking forward to showcasing my extended shooting range and my ability to run an offense while getting others involved."

The NBA has yet to announce when the 2021 draft will be held, and significant uncertainty exists about what the pre-draft process will look like in terms of private workouts or a combine. Neither the NBA nor the NCAA has announced a deadline to enter or withdraw from the draft, but Mann's college career is likely over, and he thanked his teammates in a statement he sent to ESPN.

"I would like to thank Coach White and his staff at the University of Florida for believing in me and helping to shape me into the man and player I am today," he said. "Thank you to all my teammates who shared the Gator uniform with me for the last two seasons. Thank you to my family for always providing me with love and support. No words can ever describe how grateful I am to you."

In an attempt to crack down on the use of foreign substances on baseballs for the upcoming season, Major League Baseball will inspect balls taken out of play, analyze spin rate data and increase monitoring of dugouts and clubhouses.

The new policies, outlined in a memo obtained by ESPN on Wednesday and sent to all 30 teams, are ultimately meant to help level the playing field for hitters, which should increase balls in play, a source told ESPN.

Substances on baseballs, like pine tar, can increase spin rate, which leads to more strikeouts and less action on the field.

If a pitcher's "normal" spin rate, measured in revolutions per minute, increases significantly, the league may investigate whether the player is doctoring balls. Baseballs taken out of play -- both randomly and prioritized, if they exhibit signs of foreign substances -- will be inspected by a third-party lab, according to the memo. Balls will be tracked back to whomever was pitching when they were taken out of play.

Finally, game-day compliance officers will monitor dugouts, batting cages and bullpens for violations of the foreign substance rules while filing daily reports of their observations with the league office.

While there has long been a rule against using foreign substances on baseballs, enforcement has been sporadic. The memo states that on-field, in-game monitoring by umpires will not change, but postgame analysis could lead to punishment. The new enhanced monitoring measures will provide a "separate evidentiary basis to support a finding that a player has violated the foreign substance rules," according to the memo.

Club personnel are also being reminded they are prohibited from assisting players in the doctoring of baseballs and are subject to punishment as well.