“A team effort from first game to the last”: Sanjiv Goenka as Manches…

London [UK], August 17 (ANI): Manchester Super Giants (MSG) co-owner Sanjiv Goenka expressed his happiness at his team winning their maiden Men’s Hundred title, calling the campaign a “team effort from the first game to the last".

A bludgeoning half-century from Tim Seifert helped Manchester Super Giants (MSG) capture their maiden Men’s Hundred title, beating Trent Rockets by five wickets in the final at Lord’s on Sunday.

Posting on X, Goenka wrote, “Champions in our very first season! @ManchesterSG100 What a night it has been at Lord’s, a proud moment for all of us in the Super Giants family. This was a team effort from the first game to the last. Tim, what an innings. Noor, a brilliant spell with the ball and wickets at the times we needed them." ipl-cricket.in

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He also praised Jos Buttler’s leadership as a player and as a stand-in captain in place of Aiden Markram, and how the whole squad came together during the knockouts.

“Jos has led from the front all season, and the way the whole squad came together through the knockouts is what turned this season around. Congratulations to Jos and to every player who made this happen. And a special thank you to our supporters, you willed this team on all the way. This one is for you," he added.

Champions in our very first season! @ManchesterSG100

What a night it has been at Lord’s, a proud moment for all of us in the Super Giants family. This was a team effort from the first game to the last. Tim, what an innings. Noor, a brilliant spell with the ball and wickets at… pic.twitter.com/fNOO18Wpfe

— Dr. Sanjiv Goenka (@DrSanjivGoenka) August 16, 2026

Seifert had a memorable night, taking home the ‘Player of the Match’ and the ‘Player of the Tournament award as he effortlessly hit sixes to help his team chase down a modest total. In 10 innings, Seifert made 394 runs at an average of 49.25, with a strike rate of 168.37 and five fifties.

Winning the toss, MSG elected to field first, with Ben Duckett (31 in 24 balls, with three fours and a six) adding 48 runs for the first wicket with Finn Allen (15). Following that, the team crumbled to 95/5, with Noor Ahmed’s (3/33) spin web demolishing the Rockets’ batting line-up. Aneurin Donald (38 in 19 balls, with five fours and two sixes) looked good, but fell to Noor, sending half the side into the pavilion.

Cameos from Mitchell Santner (20 in 16 balls, with a four and a six) and Lewis Gregory (32 in 16 balls, with two fours and three sixes), who added 44 runs for the sixth wicket, took the Rockets to 158/8, with pacer Sonny Baker (2/34) and Josh Tongue (1/27) also causing considerable damage.

During the chase, Seifert and Paul Walter (22 in 14 balls, with two fours and a six) added 66-runs for the first wicket, while Buttler also played a quick cameo of 23 in 14 balls, with three sixes. Seifert was on a rampage, reaching his fifty in 23 balls and becoming the first player to make five fifties in a single edition of the tournament.

Seifert (72 in 38 balls, with four boundaries and seven sixes) and Leus du Plooy (27* in 18 balls, with four boundaries) took the team to the brink of victory. With three runs needed in three balls, Liam Dawson unleashed the winning six, chasing down the total with five wickets and two balls in hand.

Mohammad Amir (3/29) was the pick of the bowlers for Rockets. (ANI)

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Dhruv Jurel on Sunday said he was not under any “pressure” despite failing to notch up a fifty in his last seven innings, and thanked head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill for giving him confidence during the lean phase.

Jurel made a 68-ball 51 on the second day of the first Test, playing an important hand to lead India to a formidable 460 for nine against Sri Lanka here. “There was, honestly, no pressure. I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to represent India. That’s the only privilege that I play for,” Jurel said in the post-day press conference.

“So whenever I speak to the captain or head coach, they always tell me what to do, what the situation is. So, tell me to play accordingly. There is no personal milestone that I look for before batting. I just go there and do what the team needs,” he said.

Jurel had played at this same venue for India A in the lead-up to the Test series, and the middle-order batter said the experience stood him in good stead here. “We came here 10 days before. We practised in Colombo and before that played for India ‘A’, and we had four to five sessions. It’s all about batting on these kinds of surfaces as much as I can. It improves my batting, knowing the environment, and the situation. It’s really helpful,” he noted.

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It can be dangerous to read too much into one result, but Arsenal’s convincing victory over Manchester City in the Community Shield at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Sunday afternoon should serve as a warning sign, not just to the rest of the league but also to their beaten opponents.

For a decade, City had Pep Guardiola as the benchmark. In the 10 seasons that he spent in the English Premier League, he hoovered up 17 major trophies, including six league titles and the UEFA Champions League. That is without counting the Community Shield, which City won three times during his 10-year reign.

But with the Catalan maestro now gone and Enzo Maresca in charge, what does the future look like for the light-blue half of Manchester?

It is worth bearing in mind just how little experience Maresca has in top-flight football. His breakthrough came with Leicester City in the Championship, but he left after securing promotion. At Chelsea, he won nearly 60 per cent of his 92 games, including the Club World Cup last summer, but the team was often a soft touch in key matches in the league.

Chelsea struggled to break down teams that defended deep. There was a lot of sideways possession and not enough penetration. City fans saw just that in Cardiff.

City had over 58 per cent of the ball, but nearly half of their 12 shots came from outside the area. They could not conjure a single one-on-one situation with David Raya in the Arsenal goal. Raya did make a couple of exceptional saves from Phil Foden and Erling Haaland, but in general, the Arsenal defence, marshalled by Gabriel and missing his usual colleague William Saliba, held out with a degree of comfort.

The same could not be said of City, who were worryingly open, with mistakes all over the pitch at crucial moments. The opening goal came after a failure to clear their lines, compounded by some poor goalkeeping from Gianluigi Donnarumma. The second exposed further defensive uncertainty, while City were caught flat-footed for the third.

This was a performance littered with individual frailty. The injured Rodri didn’t play and is seemingly on his way to Barcelona, while Bernardo Silva has already left for Real Madrid. The leaders in the middle of the park are absent, and it remains to be seen who will take this City team by the scruff of the neck in times of strife.

Elliot Anderson had a tough baptism after his big-money signing from Nottingham Forest, while Arsenal would have been much happier with the way Bruno Guimarães announced himself following his move from Newcastle.

Arteta was once seen as Guardiola’s eager apprentice, helping the master plan his tactics ahead of games. But the lure of returning to Arsenal, where he had once worn the captain’s armband, proved too much. His hesitant beginning at the Emirates has long since been forgotten, and it was no surprise that it was Arteta’s Arsenal who pushed Guardiola to the limit during his final years at City.

Maresca also learned the managerial ropes under Guardiola but has nothing like the experience that Arteta has accumulated during his time in north London. City were very certain that Maresca was the man they wanted to succeed Guardiola. But there will be more than a few who ask whether he has the stature and strength of personality to pull it off.

There have been plenty of capable managers who succeeded legends and fell flat. David Moyes trying to follow Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United was a good example, as was Unai Emery succeeding Arsène Wenger at Arsenal.

No judgement should be made on Maresca after just 90 minutes, and that too against the champions of England. But there were enough worrying signs on Sunday.

With so much churn having gone on in managerial positions across the Premier League, this could shape up as one of the most competitive seasons ever. With the exception of Arsenal, no team looks settled enough to be guaranteed a place in the Champions League positions.

If Maresca and City hit trouble in the early weeks of the campaign, expect uncomfortable questions and headlines.

The Guardiola era is emphatically over. What happens next?

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