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Getty Images The defending Super Bowl champions have made clear their desire to retain as many of their free agents as possible. More recently, coach Bruce Arians has narrowed the objective, without naming names. As noted by JoeBucsFan.com, Arians has said on multiple occasions that the Bucs need to keep “ five out of six ” free agents in order to set the stage for a second Super Bowl run. “For us right now, it’s just keeping this team together,” Arians recently told WDAE radio. “And that’s probably going to eat up most of the salary cap if we can just keep or five or six guys that we want to keep on this football team, and keep the closeness and the accountability factor that we have in the locker room.” Via JoeBucsFan.com, there are eight free agents of significance: linebacker Shaq Barrett , linebacker Lavonte David , receiver Chris Godwin , tight end Rob Gronkowski , receiver Antonio Brown , running back Leonard Fournette , defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh … [Read more...] about Buccaneers are focused on six of their free agents, with the goal of keeping five

Pink-ball Tests are generally quick affairs - but not this quick! England slipped to a two-day defeat to India in Ahmedabad after being razed for 112 and 81 by the home side's spinners, with left-armer Axar Patel snaring match figures of 11-70. Joe Root's men are 2-1 down in the four match-series after successive defeats on spin-friendly surfaces - the tourists crushed by 317 runs in the second Test in Chennai. England crumble to 10-wicket defeat inside two days Third Test scorecard: India vs England Day two in Ahmedabad - as it happened Nasser Hussain joined Sky Sports Cricket colleagues Ian Ward, Rob Key and Michael Atherton on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast to reflect on the rapid game at Narendra Modi Stadium. Listen to the guys' full chat in the podcast player above or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also read on for some of Nasser's choice thoughts on the pink-ball Test, the pitch, England's team selection and rotation policy, some … [Read more...] about Nasser Hussain says England have lost batting rhythm after playing on two difficult surfaces in India

Getty Images In the immediate aftermath of Super Bowl LV, linebacker Shaq Barrett made it clear that he wants to stay with the Buccaneers . Four days later, Barrett added an objective that could prompt him to leave Tampa Bay. Barrett wants to get paid. “I’m most definitely looking forward to getting a long-term deal done,” Barrett told Adam Schein of SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio. (Barrett also appeared on The Dan Patrick Show . The video is attached.) “I feel like it’s time for me to break the bank now, and I most definitely want to do that to be able to set my family up better and most definitely going to keep producing so it’s not like anything is going to fall off. I still think I got a lot left in the tank. I’m still getting better, actually. I’m still learning like just still learning like week in, week out. And there’s like, as you can see as the season progressed like . . . I ended the season playing the way that I wanted to play. And you can see that I did progress … [Read more...] about Shaq Barrett is ready to “break the bank now”

Seemed like Ravichandran Ashwin started from where he left off in Chepauk – a week back – as he went on to become the fastest Indian to 400 Test wickets. He picked up seven wickets in the match as India went on to steamroll England by 10 wickets at Motera. Ashwin – who thinks a lot about his game – said that he watched a lot of his past videos during the COVID-19 lockdown and that helped him evolve as a player as he got to know more about himself. “The planning for me goes to a different level. In Australia, I watched eight hours of straight footage ahead of the Adelaide Test. I didn’t know why I started doing it but I didn’t want to leave any stone unturned. I used to watch a lot of footage before too. But the understanding of the game has gone one notch higher. What happened during the lockdown was that I was watching a lot of cricket from the past, especially Sachin’s hundred at Chepauk [against Pakistan in 1999],” said Ashwin here while doing an interview for bcci.tv. “I … [Read more...] about India vs England: Watching Past Footage Helped me Look at Myself Differently: Ravichandran Ashwin After Record 400 Test Wicket

Hussain said it's all about mentality now and the tourists need to find a way to draw the series, which will be a good result for them. England on Thursday (February 25) suffered a 10-wicket defeat in the third Test against India inside two days to hand India an unassailable 2-1 lead. Joe Root and his men struggled on the spin-friendly Motera pitch, managing 112 and 81 in their two innings respectively. "Especially on this pitch, where one spins prodigiously and the other skids on, you lose all kind of rhythm. That's what successive Test matches on these sorts of pitches do for your mindset," Hussain said on 'Sky Sports Cricket Podcast'. "England looked like startled rabbits in that second innings. I don't think it was an 81 all out pitch but this was a much tougher pitch than Chennai." India Vs England Pink Ball Test: Key Stats, milestones created as India beat England by 10 wickets Left-arm spinner Axar Patel, who was the destructor-in-chief, relentlessly hit the good … [Read more...] about India vs England, 3rd Test: Visitors looked like startled rabbits in second innings, says Nasser Hussain