(1) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(2) Montreal also took advantage of the power play, as Tomas Vanek (again, another necessary scorer) grabbed one with the man advantage near the end of the second period to make it 3-0.
(3) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(4) League Two’s top scorer, Matt Tubbs of Portsmouth, features alongside his team-mate Jed Wallace in the PFA’s team of that division.
(5) Supplier turned scorer when De Bruyne added City’s fourth, even if his initial intention was to record a hat-trick of assists.
(6) When compared to four experienced human scorers on randomly selected records, the program agreed as well with the human scorers as they agreed with each other, and it approached the level of agreement of these observers with themselves when they were asked to rescore the same records blindly four to six weeks later.
(7) Atlético were missing their leading scorer, Diego Costa, playmaker Arda Turan and centre-back Diego Godín, all through suspension, which meant that David Villa, recently dropped from the Spain squad for the 1-0 friendly win against Italy, got the nod up front.
(8) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
(9) The overall results coupled with prior findings tentatively support the appropriateness of an unstructured leader role for internal scores and a structured leader role for external scorers.
(10) Thirty-one normal and abnormal, 3-minute, 8-channel clinical EEG recordings containing drowsiness were scored by 5 expert scorers.
(11) Chelsea could at least draw encouragement from Eden Hazard's winner, the team's leading scorer fed by Ashley Cole's pass to dart inside Jordi Amat and skim a shot goalwards, which Tremmel might have saved had Ashley Williams not dived across his eye-line.
(12) THe German striker still needs one more goal to overtake Ronaldo and become the all-time highest World Cup scorer with 16 goals.
(13) Scorer won £580,000 for a man who had suffered abuse as a child, one of the highest payouts in an English court.
(14) The Labour party says it will set a firm 2030 decarbonisation target, establish an Energy Security Board and give borrowing powers to the Green Investment Bank, but Scorer says much more will need to be done to ensure consumers are protected from rising bills.
(15) Carter the leading scorer for the Kings in these playoffs so that bears watching.
(16) He has also urged Mario Balotelli, who created the last-gasp, championship-clinching winner against Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, and Edin Dzeko, the scorer of the equaliser, to stay at City.
(17) 3 Creighton’s Doug McDermott might not get a lot of talk as a prospect, despite Sports Illustrated’s ridiculous decision to have him pose like Larry Bird , but it’s hard not to think that the league’s highest scorer won’t be a difference maker.
(18) The interview ratings also discriminated high from low scorers on the initial questionnaire.
(19) The Cherries secured the biggest victory of their short Premier League tenure and Afobe, who joined Bournemouth for a reported £11m from Wolves this month, was among the scorers after he opened his account with 15 minutes remaining.
(20) Ighalo has 26 to his name during this calender year, making him the top scorer across the whole of English football in 2015, with the one he secured for Watford in their 1-0 victory over Sunderland on 12 December taking his tally to 10 in his debut campaign in the Premier League.
Wicket
Definition:
(n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.
(n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
(n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
(n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.
(n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
(n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
Example Sentences:
(1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
(2) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(3) 1.59pm BST 32nd over: Sri Lanka 89-2 (Jayawardene 11, Sangakkara 22) A jaffa from Plunkett from round the wicket beats Sangakkara all ends up – it was angled in on middle stump, then seamed away to beat the outside edge.
(4) He drove beautifully, picked off the short balls square of the wicket, clipped off his toes and scarcely put a foot wrong.
(5) The scoring, of singles at least, has quickened since Prior arrived at the wicket - I wonder whether, if, the rate is still roughly four, with 20 to go and with these two still in, they too might start to wonder.
(6) The 21-year-old England Lions seamer took 11 wickets in a match for the first time and also contributed 81 with the bat to give his side victory by 95 runs after less than two hours' play on the third morning.
(7) Patel decided this match with a fine spell of left-arm spin, which claimed three important wickets for 21 runs from seven overs.
(8) New Zealand 38-3 Styris c Dravid b Nehra 15 An important wicket this.
(9) Broad lbw b Herath 0 (England 228-9) Herath comes round the wicket to Broad in an attempt to stop him padding up.
(10) Neil Carter grabbed the last wicket of Coles to give the rejuvenated South African five for 60 in Kent's second innings, but Chris Woakes was the Bears' match-winner with match figures of 11 for 97 from 29 overs, in addition to two crucial contributions with the bat.
(11) He batted rather well, too, scoring only 19 but playing a sensible supporting role to allow Paul Franks, Andre Adams and Luke Fletcher to throw the bat as Notts added 84 for their last three wickets after Steven Mullaney had gone in the first over to Liam Plunkett.
(12) Start talking wickets to them and, well, you'll hear crickets.
(13) 4.07pm BST 56th over: Sri Lanka 187-5 (Sangakkara 71, Chandimal 11) Jordan in Chandimal, who gets very square in defence - perfect for a Headingley dismissal, caught behind the wicket.
(14) Warwickshire have beaten Kent, but only after a last-wicket stand of 67 between Martin van Jaarsveld and Matthew Coles that may have had a few Bears buttocks clenching.
(15) This pattern is most prominent in early drowsiness, and may change to rhythmical spiky discharges in light NREM sleep ("wicket spikes").
(16) Having bowled out England in their second innings for 123, West Indies were required to make 192 to win the match and square the series and the expectation was that it would be a tough call for them, given the capricious nature of the pitch on the first two days, not least a second day in which 18 wickets fell, which is unprecedented for a Test match in Barbados.
(17) From an analysis of the electroencephalograms of 4,458 patients who underwent recording during both wakefulness ans sleep, through the years 1969 to 1975, wicket spikes-- recorded in 39 patients-- may be described as follows: They were found during both wakefulness ans sleep, almost exclusively in adults.
(18) "I'm fed up with all this bad mouthing of Uxbridge," writes Adrian Martins, batting on a sticky wicket.
(19) England did take three wickets, beginning with Rogers, who having made 54, patted a Tim Bresnan loosener to point in a particularly English manner.
(20) Sidebottom has taken 47 wickets at an average of less than 20, Patterson 45 at 24, Plunkett 36 at 28 and Brooks 34 at less than 23.