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Tottenham Hotspur have now joined the race to sign an “incredible” Manchester City forward during the January transfer window.

Spurs looking to raid Man City this winter

Despite scoring the winning goal in the Europa League final last season, Brennan Johnson is now set to leave Tottenham and join Crystal Palace, as confirmed by Fabrizio Romano.

Consequently, Spurs will need to bring in a new forward this month, and several Man City players have now emerged as targets, with it being revealed they have been pushing to sign Omar Marmoush.

Savinho is also an option for the Lilywhites, and they are preparing a new offer for the Brazilian winger, having failed in their attempts to lure him to north London back in the summer.

Yet another City player has also emerged as an option, according to a report from TEAMtalk, which states Tottenham have been looking at signing a number of attackers, who could give them a boost in the second half of the season, including Oscar Bobb.

Spurs are ready for an active January transfer window, despite there being an awareness that deals done this month will be on the expensive side, and they have money available.

Bobb is one of many potential targets for the north Londoners, who are also looking at the likes of Juventus star Kenan Yildiz and RB Leipzig’s Yan Diomande, but there are indications the City ace could be an exciting addition to Thomas Frank’s squad…

"Incredible" Bobb could flourish at Tottenham

The Oslo-born winger has found it difficult to force his way into Pep Guardiola’s plans this season, but he has impressed at times since breaking into the first team, scoring against Al Ain in the Club World Cup back in the summer.

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Once lauded as “incredible” by Pep, the Norway international has also caught the eye when playing for his country, chipping in with an assist in a 4-1 victory against Italy back in November, while he has also scored two goals in 16 appearances.

At just 22-years-old, the winger is not as established as Marmoush, who made an impressive start to life at Man City after joining during the last January transfer window, picking up seven goals and two assists in 16 outings.

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However, Bobb clearly has a lot of potential, and needs to be playing regular football if he is going to develop even further, so a move to Tottenham this month could make sense, with a potential transfer fee of £30m recently being touted.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsBabar Hayat led the way with an unbeaten 65•HKCA/Bridget Rive

Unbeaten half-centuries from Babar Hayat and Mark Chapman helped Hong Kong to a comfortable eight-wicket win in the third T20 with Oman. The series had already been decided, however, with Oman winning the first two games.In the highest-scoring of their three encounters, Oman set a target of 150 to win, which Hong Kong achieved in the 19th over, Chapman finishing the game with his third six. Hayat and Chapman put on a unbroken stand of 127 to guide their side home after early wickets for Ajay Lalcheta and Mehran Khan had left Hong Kong on 28 for 2.Oman’s innings had got off to a fast start before congealing in the middle overs. Opener Zeeshan Maqsood struck five fours in 23 from 15 balls but he was third man out in the eighth over, with the score on 48. Oman also lost No. 3 Aaqib Sulehri to injury after facing just one ball.Adnan Ilyas and Aamir Kaleem put on 101 for the fourth wicket, both players opening their shoulders towards the end as 22 came off the 18th over, bowled by Haseeb Amjad. Another 15 came off the last over before Haseeb picked up his second wicket by having Ilyas lbw for 49 off the final ball.

The Pakistan board has decided to carry out dope tests on the 30 players in the provisional Twenty20 World Championship squad before the final 15-man side is announced next month.Nasim Ashraf, the PCB chairman, has instructed the board officials to get the tests carried out as soon as possible so that the results are received from a laboratory in Malaysia before the final squad is picked on August 10. The tournament takes place in September.”We will begin dope testing on the players as soon as possible,” said Ahsan Malik, PCB’s Communications Director. “It will take up to ten days to get the results of the tests, which is why the players’ urine samples will be obtained over the next few days.”Malik said that the board may take samples from some players in Lahore and the others in Karachi. Most of the players on Pakistan’s provisional squad are currently in Lahore but will move to Karachi later this week for the final phase of training before leaving for South Africa.Malik said he was confident all players would pass the tests but the board wants to be certain before announcing the final squad. He said it was the board’s policy to carry out internal dope tests ahead of major ICC events, a practice that would be continued.

AC Muthiah was the unanimous choice for the post of chairman © AFP

AC Muthiah, the former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has been appointed chairman of the six-member ICC Nomination Committee which will choose the next president of the ICC in 2007.The committee includes Bob Merriman, Mueen Afzal, John Blair, Stephen Camacho and Imran Khwaja. The deadline for filing the nominations for Percy Sonn’s successor as president has been fixed for January 1, 2007.Niranjan Shah, the BCCI secretary, confirmed Muttiah’s appointment and added that he was the unanimous choice for the post, once Blair proposed Muthiah’s name at the committee’s first meeting on August 31.”Muthiah has a stature,” Shah told reporters, “and is known to all permanent and other members of the ICC since he had been maintaining good rapport with them during his presidentship of BCCI.”Commenting on his appointment, Muttiah – who served two terms as the BCCI president between 1999 and 2001 – maintained that it was an honour.”I deem it a great honour done to Indian cricket as I have been known to administrators of the game in the world as president of the BCCI,” he said. “The other committee members and myself will surely adhere to the code of ethics in selecting the right candidate for the post of ICC president.”

Matthew Hayden: struggling for form © Getty Images

Steve Rixon, the former Australian wicketkeeper and New Zealand coach, has joined the call for Matthew Hayden’s exclusion from the Australian team for the fifth Ashes Test, which starts at The Oval on September 8. Hayden has struggled throughout the series, scoring only 180 runs in eight innings at an average of 22.50, and Rixon reckoned it was time for Simon Katich to move up the batting order as Justin Langer’s partner.”I’d be leaving Matthew Hayden out and letting Simon Katich open,” Rixon told . “I’ve no doubt Ricky [Ponting] will want him in the team, but it shouldn’t happen. I’m a fan of Matthew Hayden. He’s been sensational for Australia. But this is a one-off Test with everything – and I mean everything – at stake. It’s the biggest match Australia has played for as long as I can remember. Matthew is a frustrated batsman. Even he would have to admit he’s out of form. It’s been too long since he’s made a big score.” Hayden hasn’t scored a hundred in his last 15 Tests, and averages only 30.23 over that period.”He can come back for the next Test, but he shouldn’t be in this one,” Rixon continued. “I’ve never seen him play the way he is at the moment. Some of the balls he misses, he wouldn’t have hit it with two bats.”If Hayden plays, I hope he gets runs and proves me wrong. But we need batsmen to go out there and fight to save the series. Katich will do that. He was ready for the innings of the life before he was taken out through no fault of his own,” Rixon said, referring to Katich’s 183-ball 59 at Trent Bridge, an innings which was cut short by a dubious lbw decision. “Simon showed that’s it’s possible to bat for a long time against these bowlers when you get tough. The selectors need to be strong on this.”Meanwhile Jason Gillespie, another Australian who has been struggling throughout the tour, rejected suggestions that there will be wholesale changes to the Australian team after the current series. Gillespie was dropped from the fourth Test after taking just three wickets at 100 apiece in the first three.”I honestly don’t believe there is a feeling of a sea change within the team,” Gillespie told . “There is talk of this being an older team but you’re only as old as you feel. We all feel fresh, the batsmen are hitting the ball well, the bowlers are doing well, it’s business as usual.”So, I don’t know if I buy into that sort of talk. That sort of talk always happens when you’re not playing well. “We’ve played a couple of bad games, we haven’t played to our usual standards, and you have former players in the media having their bit to say, which is fine. We know we can do better, it’s time for us to fine-tune our skills and we’ll silence [the critics] when we win at The Oval.”

The second phase of the bidding process for the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies has begun. The Venue Assessment Team (VAT), the ICC and the World Cup organising committee began the tour yesterday and will visit all the countries bidding to host matches in the tournament.The VAT, comprising experts from various sports, began the tour with a two-day visit to Lauderhill in Broward County, Florida. They will then move on to Antigua (June 8 and 9), St Kitts (June 9 and 10), Jamaica (June 10 and 11) and Bermuda (June 11 and 12).The touring party had covered St Lucia, Grenada, St Vincent, Trinidad, Guyana, and Barbados in the first part of the tour from May 24 to 29. After the first leg, the VAT had held private meetings with local bid committees while the officials had discussed venue arrangements and related matters with the governments and cricket officials.Expressing satisfaction with the work done so far by the VAT on the verification tour, Chris Dehring, the managing director of the organising committee, said: “This tour is a critical phase in the venue selection process following which the VAT will prepare a technical report for submission to the CWC [Cricket World Cup] board who they will also fully brief on their findings.”The VAT will present their technical report on June 24 to the board who will make the decision on the venues and allocate matches. That will require an approval from the ICC, who will then announce the list of venues to host matches on July 4 and allocate matches on July 13.

Nathan Astle was in no doubt about the significance of New Zealand’s six-wicket win over Zimbabwe, although he insisted that his team still had little margin for error despite his match-winning century.The win lifted New Zealand into fourth place in the Super Six table, with gamesagainst the top two sides Australia and India to come.”It was a big game,” Astle said. “We knew we had to win two out of the three. We were probably chasing a little more than we would have liked in the end, but I just thought if it was a good wicket and the longer I stayed in there, it would get better if we could get a partnership going. Cairnsy provided that partnership and it worked out nicely.”Kiwi skipper Stephen Fleming, who himself hit a fluent 46, said: “In the end it was comfortable but at half-time it was 50-50. I was disappointed with the way we finished. Sixty from three overs is not ideal and we have got work on that.”On his own form he added: “It is going well. I would have liked to score a few more whilst batting so well but hopefully it will continue.”Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak, who had kept his side in the game with an unbeaten 72, conceded that they had been second best on the day.”We had a bit of a bad start,” he admitted. “We started slowly and lost a few wickets. We fought back an got a total that we tried to defend but we were probably 30 runs shy. In the end we didn’t have enough runs on the scoreboard. We were beaten by the better team on the day.”

Ashley Giles is still struggling with his Achilles tendon problem and may require surgery.Speaking to The Daily Mail Giles admitted: “It’s permanently inflamed and sore to touch. I’ve had this injury for a long time and I can’t say I’m 100% fit. I’m playing on with it, but there’s not a moment when I can forget it.”I’ve lost a lot of strength in my leg and it affects me a lot,” he continued. “It’s the kick-through leg in my bowling action and I just don’t seem to be pulling through all the time as I should be.”England are thought likely to play a spinner at Trent Bridge, with a fit Giles almost certain to play after his excellent tours of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. But the news that he is less than 100% fit may force a rethink from the selectors.Interestingly, in a CricInfo poll, Phil Tufnell has emerged as the fans’ favourite for a recall to the national team. The left-arm spinner and CricInfo diarist is in top form for Middlesex, with nearly 50 first-class wickets to date this season.It is worth remembering that Tufnell was man of the match when England last beat Australia at home, taking 11 wickets at The Oval.He’s keen to return to the Test team, commentating in his latest diary: “I keep on bowling and batsmen keep on getting out… I hope the selectors notice.”Robert Croft is another option for the selectors. He was in the squad for the First Test at Edgbaston and recently enjoyed a 10-wicket match against Northants, adding 93 runs in the first innings too.England need to win the Third npower Test to prevent Australia retaining the Ashes.

Tottenham Hotspur are now exploring a stunning move for an “unbelievable” Premier League forward, as an alternative to AFC Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo.

Spurs eyeing new forward as Semenyo alternative

Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Spurs are very keen on signing Semenyo, who has already scored eight league goals this season, with the transfer expert saying: “Tottenham have genuine and strong interest and are being very aggressive. But the final decision will depend on the player.”

However, it could be difficult to get a deal for the Ghanaian over the line, given that he is attracting interest from a number of top clubs, with Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal also being named as potential suitors.

Such is their level of interest, Tottenham have already held talks to sign the forward, but it remains to be seen whether they are able to lure him to north London, given that they are not enjoying the best of campaigns.

Following the 2-1 loss against Liverpool on Saturday, the north Londoners sit 13th in the Premier League table, which means the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium may not be the most attractive of destinations.

As such, alternatives to the Bournemouth star are now being identified, with a report from TEAMtalk revealing they are now exploring a stunning move for Manchester City’s Omar Marmoush, who arrived at the Etihad Stadium for £59m back in January.

Marmoush’s game time has been very limited this season, which means he could be open to a move away, although Pep Guardiola is hesitant to sanction a departure, as the manager is keen to have strength in depth, given the busy fixture list.

With Semenyo making a move to Spurs deemed ‘increasingly unlikely’, amid rival interest, Thomas Frank has started to scour the market for other forwards, and there are indications the City ace could be an excellent addition to the Dane’s squad…

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Posts 1 ByEmilio Galantini "Unbelievable" Marmoush could flourish at Tottenham

The 26-year-old has found it difficult to force his way into Guardiola’s plans, so it may be wise to move on this January, and his goal and assist record for Eintracht Frankfurt suggests he could flourish at Tottenham.

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The former Frankfurt man also put in some eye-catching performances during his first season with City, amassing seven goals and two assists in 16 Premier League outings.

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One of those goals was particularly impressive, with the Egyptian scooping up the Goal of the Season award courtesy of a remarkable strike against AFC Bournemouth.

Lauded as “unbelievable” by Guardiola, Marmoush could be a fantastic signing for Tottenham, and if they are unable to get their hands on Semenyo, they should definitely make a move for the Man City ace.

	Ten-wicket hero: Miller’s excellent haul helped Jamaica take the Carib Beer Challenge final © Stanford 20/20

Four days ago, Jamaican left-arm spinner Nikita Miller did not know what if felt like to take five wickets in an innings at the first-class level.Within three days of a one-sided Carib Beer Challenge final which saw Jamaica prevail over Trinidad and Tobago by nine wickets at Sabina Park, he has two five-wicket hauls, and ten in a match for the first time.”It’s been a long time coming, and I must say that I’m really, really elated,” Miller told the . “I’m really, really happy. I’ve been working really hard this season, and I’m very grateful.”He attributed his performances this season, which landed him 42 wickets, one more than T&T off-spinner Amit Jaggernauth, and the Bowler-of-the-Series accolade, to hard work and “a bit of luck”.”I love the game of cricket and I put in a lot of work for it, and maybe that’s what has worked for me this season,” Miller said.Like many of the region’s slower bowlers, he is sitting in wait to be noticed and acknowledged by the West Indies selectors. “It [being selected] would be on my mind, but the only thing I can do is to go on and perform to my best. If the coach or the selectors see it fit, then they will select me. I can’t say that I deserve a game or not. So I’ll just wait and see what they’ll do.”Tamar Lambert, Jamaica’s stand-in captain, also had high praise for Miller. “Nikita has been exceptional for us this season. And to get 42 wickets in just six games has been a good season for Nikita Miller. He just continues to bowl well year in, year out,” he said.