SYDNEY Rob Havenstein Rams Jersey , Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Australian cricket team coach, Darren Lehmann, has been fined 20 percent of his match fee by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for calling England's fast bowler Stuart Broad a cheat in a radio interview broadcast, local media reported on Friday.
Lehmann was found to have breached the ICC's code of conduct and was fined 20 percent of his match fee for the fifth Test, which equates to around 3 Tyler Higbee Rams Jersey ,000 AU dollars (2,700 U.S dollars), for publicly criticizing and making inappropriate comments about Broad in relation to his non-walking incident in the first Test at Trent Bridge.
Lehmann told Australia radio station Triple M in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that he hoped the Australian fans would send Stuart Broad home in tears from the return series, which starts in November in Australia.
"Certainly our players haven't forgotten, they're calling him everything under the sun as they go past. That was just blatant cheating Jared Goff Rams Jersey ," Lehmann told Triple M.
"From my point of view I just hope the Australian public give it to him right from the word go for the whole summer (during the return series in Australia starting in November) and I hope he cries and he goes home," Lehmann added.
"I just hope everyone gets stuck into him because the way he's carried on and the way he's commented in public about it is ridiculous."
ICC chief executive David Richardson said Lehmann's comments were inappropriate for an international coach.
"Whilst noting the context and nature of the comments made, showing mutual respect for one's fellow professionals - including for coaches, players and match officials - is a cornerstone of how we play the game," Richardson said in a statement.
TIANJIN Samson Ebukam Rams Jersey , Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Despite a worse start, Tan Zongliang of Shandong managed to surpass the world record in the men's 10m air pistol final with 242.3 points at the 13th Chinese National Games here on Wednesday.
Ranking fifth after the qualifier, Tan started the final with a disappointing 8.7-point shot, but managed to rule the final after 10 shots.
It was the third gold for the 45-year-old shooter who had his seventh outing to the Chinese National Games since 1993. Tan nailed two golds from the 7th and 10th Games respectively, and ranked second at the 12th Games in the same event.
It seemed to be a coincidence that Tan seized a shooting gold every 12 years at the National Games John Johnson Rams Jersey , dubbed the mini-Olympics by the Chinese.
"The gold was unexpected but reasonable, because I did focus on every shot without any thoughts of the result," said the veteran. "It's an honour to make the final for a shooter."
The current world record of 241.6 points was set by Christian Reitz of Germany on March 10, 2017 at the European Shooting Championship in Maribor of Slovenia.
Ji Xiaojing of Qinghai claimed gold with 35 hits in women's 25m pistol event, bouncing back from a 6th place in the qualifier. Xiong Yaxuan of Jiangxi also came from behind in 8th place of the qualifier to a silver medal with 32 hits. Zhang Jingjing from Fujian Cooper Kupp Rams Jersey , currently ranking world No.1, won the bronze with 28 hits.
Rio Olympic champion Zhang Mengxue missed the second series, and only finished sixth in the women's 25m pistol final.
Scoring 251.2 points in the final, Li Jiahong of Heilongjiang pocketed the gold in the men's 50m rifle prone for an advantage of 0.3 points over the silver medalist, Liu Yukun of Shaanxi. Kang Hongwei from Zhejiang won the bronze with 228.8 points.
Li Aaron Donald Rams Jersey , runner-up of the event at 12th Games, said the gold was perfect for him.
"It is my first national games, and any result is acceptable," said the 20-year-old Liu, who ranked sixth in the men's 10m air rifle final on Tuesday.
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CHINESE Olympic champion He Zi has reluctantly retired aged 26, citing a nagging foot injury and her joy at expecting to become a mother this year.
He, who won gold in the synchronized 3-meter springboard competition at the 2012 London Olympics Jamon Brown Youth Jersey , said she had taken an 11-month break after the 2016 Rio Games.
But she said on her Weibo microblogging account that her injury returned recently after a three-hour walk and she could not even step on the floor barefoot after staying home for five days.
“Sometimes when I could not sleep at night I was always thinking about continuing training, but how? (The injury) relapses even when I walk. How can I continue a large amount of diving every day?” she wrote.
“Don’t ask me why I choose to leave this early under such good condition, or whether I would regret or feel pity, my only regret is that I have not fully demonstrated my value.”
The diver earned a silver medal in Rio, but the moment is best remembered by the marriage proposal made by fellow Olympic medalist Qin Kai Josh Reynolds Youth Jersey , also a diver, who got down on one knee just after she stepped off the podium.
“I have fought for this diving career for 20 years and I should start fighting for my own small family from now on. Last year I was an athlete but this year I am a wife and going to be a mother,” He wrote on Weibo.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic State (IS) militants executed 40 people in the group's last major stonghold of Mosul on Sunday, a security source said.