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Flamengo confirm Shakhtar friendly
Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian football club Flamengo will meet Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk in a friendly next month.
The match will be played at Brasilia’s Mane Garrincha stadium Jan 18, Flamengo said on their official website Friday, as per reported.
Shakhtar’s squad currently includes 13 Brazilians, including Luiz Adriano, the UEFA Champions League’s top scorer this term with nine goals.
Flamengo, who finished the 2014 Brazilian Serie A season in 10th place, will begin pre-season training Jan 7.
Shakhtar are currently second in Ukraine’s top-flight standings, five points behind .
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.