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PHT Morning Skate: Why does Team USA keep falling short at the Worlds? NBCSports.com Team USA was dominant during the preliminary portion of the World Hockey Championship, but they dropped their first knockout game to Team Finland on Thursday afternoon. The Score breaks down the main reasons why Team USA fails to play for gold ...

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With rain almost playing spoilsport, the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders went until the wee hours of Thursday morning. The cut-off rulethat allowed the game to be played till 1:30 amwas lambasted by Nathan Coulter-Nile, the star for the KKR side.

KKR pacer Coulter-Nile brought it to light thata nasty concussion sidelined him for the latter stages of the regular season in the IPL, after the player-of-the-match performance in the eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

In the match against Rising Pune Supergiant, Coulter-Nile was welcomed to the crease with an icky blow on the grillfrom a Dan Christian short ball and did not play the following three games as he was diagnosed with a concussion.

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Speaking of the match going on till late, he said: I think there is so much time, rules probably need to be looked at, I mean its 2 am, you cant be playing cricket at 2 oclock.

When asked about how things went for him post that game, he said, "It was a tough one, I'd never had a concussion before so I didn't know what to expect or what was going on."

"I was just really tired, headaches, I got a bit sick but there wasn't rehab or anything like that, I just had to lay in bed and wait to get right. I wasn't playing this morning, but I woke up and felt pretty good so I put my hand up for selection and the coaching staff went with me.

Coulter-Nile has been through an injury-plagued few years, the concussion being the latest intrusion. In his first IPL match this season against Daredevils, his figures were 3-22, which was his first spirited performance in almost a year.

The fast bowler had not been able to cement himself in Australias playing XI when they toured Sri Lanka and was mostly confined to training tracks during the Tests. He was sent home during the ODI series of the same tour as he was diagnosed with what was a bone stress fracture.

Against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, Coulter-Nile picked up three wickets, restricting them to 128, which after rain, revised KKRs target to 48 off six overs.

Coulter-Niles appearance for KKR in the eliminator was his first since theirloss to RPS in early May. It was a timely return for the pacer, who came back making a statement, taking 3-20.

He bagged the wickets of crucial players, Kane Williamson and Vijay Shankar. Not only was he handy with the ball but also showed how good an athlete he was by taking a stunning diving catch in his follow-through dismissing Chris Jordan.

He considers himself a tad bit lucky for he claims most of the credit for the wickets he grabbed goes to the pitch since the wicket wasntone where batsman could hit freely.

After outperforming the Sunrisers in the Eliminator, the Knight Riders will be facing the Mumbai Indians in the 2nd Qualifier at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on the 19th of May. Coulter-Nile will be the aggressor with the ball for KKR and will be hoping to continue in the supreme form that he is in at present.

It indeed has been abumpy year or so for Coulter-Nile. However, his return has been exemplaryand he will be hoping the rough patch has passed him by. The KKR skipper, Gautam Gambhir and the team management including Coulter-Nile in the playing XI after he said he was well and up for the tie hours before the game commencedonly goes to show how much they needed the talented bowler for the knockout game.

Considering his present form, a clinical performance is expected from the speedster in the game(s) ahead for the Knight Riders.

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Rising Pune Supergiant and Kings XI Punjab will square-off in a winner takes all knockout game for the fourth and final play-off berth in an Indian Premier League encounter in Pune on Sunday, PTI reported.

Supergiant are currently on 16 points from 13 games with a net run-rate -0.083 while Kings XI Punjab are on 14 points from equal number of matches but have a comparatively better run-rate of +0.296.

When the two teams square off on Sunday, the equation is pretty simple for Glenn Maxwells team. A win is all that they need to qualify as it will take them to 16 points with a superior net run rate. The Punjab outfit doesnt have to look at any other results.

For Pune, it will be a challenge facing KXIP, whose campaign gained momentum during the business end of the tournament.

Time: 4 pm Venue: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune TV: Sony Max, Sony Six, Sony ESPN and their HD Channels Head-to-head since 2016Played: 3 RPS: 1 Kings XI: 2

I stayed relaxed throughout the first phase of the tournament. I have enjoyed a lot. Now, we are on a winning run and have the chance to finish in the top-two. The best thing is that we are not dependent on one or two guys. Majority of our players have performed.

- Steve Smith, Rising Pune Supergiant.

Squad: Steve Smith (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ashok Dinda, Mayank Agarwal, Faf du Plessis, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Dan Christian, Lockie Ferguson, Imran Tahir, Jaskaran Singh, Usman Khawaja, Saurabh Kumar, Ben Stokes, Washington Sundar, Milind Tandon, Manoj Tiwary, Adam Zampa, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishwar Pandey, Rahul Tripathi, Shardul Thakur.

In the last three games, whatever we were doing batting/fielding, the target was the attitude should be of nothing to lose, execute in batting, bowling and fielding, play the natural game, then we will see what happens, we have defeated KKR and MI (and) we will try to play against Pune as we played in these two games.

- Wriddhiman Saha, Kings XI Punjab.

Squad: Glenn Maxwell (c), David Miller, Manan Vohra, Hashim Amla, Shaun Marsh, Armaan Jaffer, Martin Guptill, Eoin Morgan, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Arman Jaffer, Anureet Singh, Mohit Sharma, KC Cariappa, Pradeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, T Natrajan, Matt Henry, Varun Aaron, Axar Patel, Marcus Stoinis, Gurkeerat Mann, Rahul Tewatia, Darren Sammy, Wriddhiman Saha, Nikhil Naik, Ishant Sharma.

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In shutting out the Ligue 1 leaders at the Stade Louis II on Wednesday, Juve made it five European clean sheets in a row

GONZALO HIGUAIN scored twice against Monaco on Wednesday night as Juventus put one foot in the Champions League final.

Away from home, the Argentinian netted two goals at the Stade Louis II to almost certainly set-up a heavyweight showdown with Real Madrid in Cardiff.

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However, in shutting out Monaco, Juventus became only the fourth team in Champions League history to keep five consecutive, knockout stage clean sheets in a season.

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The 2004-05 AC Milan team who were stunned by Liverpool in the final that year in what became known as the Miracle of Istanbul managed the feat.

Their back four that season boasted one of the greatest of all time, with Cafu, Jaap Stam, Alesssandro Nesta and Paolo Maldini in the starting XI with Dida in goal.

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The only other team prior to Juve to accomplish the feat was the Arsenal side of 2005-06 - who reached the final, only to be beaten 2-1 by Barcelona.

The Gunners' back four that season was often the fearsome quartet of Emmanuel Eboue, Kolo Toure, Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole, with Jens Lehmann between the sticks.

In fact, that Arsenal XI managed to go SIX knockout games without conceding - with Juventus hoping to equal that feat in the second leg at home to Monaco.

May 3 - Monaco (A) - 2-0 Apr 19 - Barcelona (A) - 0-0 Apr 11 - Barcelona (H) - 3-0 Mar 14 - Porto (H) - 1-0 Feb 22 - Porto (A) - 2-0

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The only other team to go five games were Manchester United in 2007-08 - when they beat Chelsea in the final on penalties.

The talented back-line that season saw Edwin van der Sar in goal, with Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic joined by Patrice Evra and Wes Brown.

All in all, the Turin outfit have kept six clean sheets in a row in the tournament, if you include their final group stage game against Dinamo Zagreb - winning that one 2-0.

AC Milan - 2004-05 Arsenal - 2005-06 Man United - 2007-08 Juventus - 2016-17

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In fact, the last time Juventus conceded in the competition was all the way back on November 22, 2016 - when they beat Sevilla 3-1 away.

Incredibly, Massimiliano Allegri's men have shipped just TWO goals all tournament.

The defensive line consists ofDani Alves, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli Giorgio Chiellini and Alex Sandro - with the ever-brilliant Gianluigi Buffon in goal.

The only question remaining now is, can Juventus match Arsenal's incredible record... or even beat it?

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