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Chinese football club overtakes Milan, Inter in club rankings
London: Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande is ranked above two Italian Serie A powerhouses, Inter Milan and AC Milan, in the world football club rankings, according to the latest release from footballdatabase.com, a specialised statistics website.
As the top ranked club in Asian leagues and 2014 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League winners, Evergrande slipped one place to 63 in the overall rankings from last edition, but remain in front of Inter’s 64 and AC Milan’s 69, as per reports.
Spanish club FC Barcelona still leads the world rankings, followed by its La Liga arch-rivals Real Madrid with the German Bundesliga record champions Bayern Munich in third place.
In the Asian rankings, Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal and South Korea’s Jeonbuk FC exchanged positions as Al Hilal moved up to the second place, beating South Korea’s K-League champions to third.
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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.