write a report on a interesting football match
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Our school played a brilliant football match on Tuesday 1st October in the first match of the season.
Our coach and manager have a great array of players to choose from, as talent is ripe in the squad this season. This match was a six a-side game because one of Linacre’s players could not make it, so the poor goalkeepers only had 2 defenders. For all but three of St Philips’ players, this was their debut. Matthew and Charlie (Y5) both scored one goal each and were captains for the game. Nathan (y5) was the only player to score more than one goal – he scored two, one just at the start of his second spell in the game. Lewis (yr6) also got a fabulous goal. Linacre put up a good fight in the second half, but their display was not good enough to beat the defence of St Philips.
At the end of the match Linacre gave the winning team a huge cheer and St Philips roared back at them! The team already hopes that they will win the league. They left school with their heads held high!
Player of the week goes to Matthew in Y5 – Well Done!
Our next match is scheduled to be on Tuesday 8th October.
By Joel Thornton
Gautam Gambhir (About this soundpronunciation (help·info); born 14 October 1981) is a former Indian cricketer, who played all formats of the game. He is a left-handed opening batsman who played domestic cricket for Delhi, and captained Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Bangladesh in 2003, and played his first Test the following year against Australia. He captained the Indian team in six ODIs from late-2010 to late-2011 with India winning all six matches. He played an integral part in India's wins in the finals of both the 2007 World Twenty20 (75 runs from 54 balls) and the 2011 Cricket World Cup (97 from 122).
Gambhir is the only Indian and one of four international cricketers to have scored hundreds in five consecutive Test matches.[1] He is the only Indian batsman to have scored more than 300 runs in four consecutive Test series. As of April 2018, he is the sixth highest run-scorer for India in Twenty20 Internationals.[2] Under Gambhir's captaincy, the Kolkata Knight Riders won their IPL title in 2012 and again in 2014.
He was conferred the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award, in the year 2008 by the President of India.[3] In 2009, he was the number one ranked batsman in ICC Test rankings.[4][5] The same year, he was the recipient of the ICC Test Player of the Year award. He has received the Padma Shri from the Government of India, the fourth highest civilian award in India this year.[6][7]
In October 2018, during the quarter-finals of the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, he scored his 10,000th run in List A cricket.[8] In December 2018, he announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.[9]
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Early and personal life
Gambhir was born in New Delhi to Deepak Gambhir, who manages a textiles business, and Seema Gambhir, a housewife. Gambhir has a sister, Ekta, who is two years younger to him.[10] Gambhir was adopted by his grandparents eighteen days after his birth and lived with them ever since.[11] Gambhir started playing cricket at the age of 10. He received his schooling from Modern School, New Delhi and graduated from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He stayed at his maternal uncle Pawan Gulati's residence in the '90s. Gambhir considers Gulati to be his mentor and would often call him up before important matches. Gambhir was coached by Sanjay Bharadwaj of Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy in Delhi, and Raju Tandon.[10] Gambhir was selected for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore in 2000.[12]
In October 2011, Gambhir married Natasha Jain, who belongs to a prominent business family.[13] He currently resides in Delhi's Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood.[10]
Domestic career
2008 started well for Gambhir. At home, he scored an unbeaten 130 in the Ranji Trophy final to help Delhi beat Uttar Pradesh by nine wickets just two days before the team for the ODI tournament in Australia was to be announced.
Indian Premier League
Gambhir was picked up by the Delhi Daredevils franchise in the first player auction of the Indian Premier League for a price of US$725,000 a year. He became the second highest run-scorer of the inaugural season with 534 runs from 14 matches.[14] He was promoted to the post of Captain of the Delhi Daredevils for IPL Season 2010.[15] At the end of the tournament he became the only player from Delhi Daredevils to score more than 1000 runs in the IPL.
In the 2011 IPL player auction, Gambhir was the most sought after player, fetching a bid of $2.4 million from The Kolkata Knight Riders, making him the highest paid cricketer in the history of IPL. He was then appointed as the skipper of the team.[16] Under Gambhir's captaincy, the Kolkata Knight Riders qualified for the IPL playoffs and also made it to top run scorer, with 227 at an average of 37.83, including three half-centuries which included a crucial 75 runs off 54 balls against Pakistan in the final.[24]
Golden form
Gambhir in 2008
In 2008, Gambhir was forced to miss the Test series in Australia due to a shoulder injury. In the 2007–08 CB Series, he scored an unbeaten 102 at the Gabba against Sri Lanka in a match washed out due to rain. Three weeks later at Sydney, he scored a career-best 113 off 119 balls against Australia, in a high scoring match which India lost by 18 runs. He finished the CB series as the leading run-scorer with 440 runs.
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