ICC Awards: Ashwin nominated for 'Test Player of the Year', these legends will have to be beaten

From Morocco, Egypt and Algeria Get to know the most prominent Arab stars in the Turkish Football League

With the remarkable presence of North African countries, many Arab players, especially from Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, star in the Turkish Super League clubs. Thus, these players write new success stories for Arab professionals present in Turkish stadiums.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, and with the cultural and sports rapprochement between Turkey and the Arab countries, Turkey's stadiums have attracted bright and eye-catching Arab talents, and many Arab players have become famous and Turkish fans sing about them in various football clubs.

The Turkish Super League is characterized by fierce competition, and the identity of its champion is usually decided only in the last rounds, and Turkish stadiums are characterized by high-quality infrastructure, thanks to the tireless government efforts to support the youth and sports sectors in the country.

Turkish clubs also spend huge amounts of money and investments to develop the first mass game in the world, and are making efforts to attract distinguished players to put their teams in the ranks of European and international clubs around the world.

This comes in addition to the fact that the Turkish League is the focus of attention of many major European clubs that aim to obtain the services of talented emerging players.

A distinctive presence of the Atlas Lions

In recent years, Moroccan stars have acquired the lion's share of the number of Arab professional players in the Turkish league, and many names that Turkish fans have attached to and cheered for years have emerged.

In the forefront of these players, Yunus Belhanda, who played for four years for one of the most prominent Turkish clubs, "Galatasaray", before moving during the last summer Mercato to the ranks of "Adana Demirspor", signing a new contract that extends for 3 years.

This is followed by Mehdi Benatia, the former captain of the "Atlas Lions" team, who signed the "Fateh Qara Customs" team with a two-year contract. In addition to many other Moroccan talents who shine in the green rectangle in Turkey, such as the protector of the "Atlas Lions", Mounir Al-Mohammadi and his compatriot Ayoub Al-Kaabi, both players of the "Hatay Sport" club, as well as Faisal Fajer, the player of the "Sivasspor" club.

The Pharaohs unforgettable names for the masses

The dean of the Egyptian falcon players, Ahmed Hassan, is at the forefront of the most immortal Egyptian and Arab players in the minds and hearts of the Turkish fans. Hassan played for eight years in various Turkish clubs, starting with “Kocaelispor”, “Denizlispor”, passing through “Gençlar Berligi”. And "Besiktas", to start from its last stop in Turkey to one of the major European clubs, "Anderlecht".

Hassan’s brilliance in Turkish stadiums encouraged other Egyptian players to sign deals over the years, such as Abdel Zaher El-Sakka, who played in the “Ankaraspor”, “Konyaspor” and “Denizlispor” shirts, in addition to Ayman Abdel Aziz, who obtained Turkish citizenship after a long career with him. Trabzonspor, Diyarbakirspor, and Antalyaspor.

And in recent years, the name of the Egyptian national team’s flying wing has emerged, Mahmoud Hassan “Trezeguet”, who starred with Kassem Pasha Club for two seasons, after which he moved to “Aston Villa”, one of the oldest clubs in the English Premier League, “Premier League”, as well as his compatriot and former colleague Karim Hafez, who is still wearing a shirt Qasim Pasha Club itself. The other Egyptian pharaoh, Mustafa Muhammad, is also currently shining in the colors of the "Galatasaray" shirt for the second consecutive season, during which he led his team's attack, achieving great popularity among the fans of one of the most popular clubs in Turkey.

Desert Warriors and Carthage Eagles

The "Galatasaray" team itself includes one of the most prominent players in the Algerian national team, midfielder Sofiane Feghouli, who joined the Turkish team from the English club "West Ham". Turkish league championship for 22 times. The other desert warrior, Hossam El Din Ghasha, is also wearing the center of the attacking wing of the "Antalyaspor" team.

As for the Carthage Eagles, Tunisian left-back Qassem Pasha is currently in the ranks of Mortada Ben Ounass, an international player who also played for his country's national team. In addition to Osama El Haddadi, another Tunisian midfielder who recently joined the Turkish club Yeni Malatyaspor.

SA vs IND: Mohammed Shami scored a 'double' century, becoming only the 5th Indian fast bowler to do so

SA vs IND: In the Centurion Test match, Mohammed Shami has done a special job in Test cricket.

In the Centurion Test match, Mohammed Shami   bowled wonderfully and took 5 wickets till this news was written. In doing so, Shami joined a special club. Shami has completed 200 wickets in his Test career. Mohammed Shami has become the fifth Indian fast bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests. Before Shami, such feats were done by Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Javagal Srinath in Tests. Let us tell you that Shami is the 11th bowler to take the most wickets in Tests from India. Talking about fast bowlers, Kapil Dev has taken 434 wickets in his career, Ishant Sharma has taken 311 wickets so far. Apart from this, Zaheer Khan took 311 wickets in his Test career. There itself. Srinath was successful in taking 236 wickets in his Test career.

In the Centurion Test, Shami did an amazing job of getting Rabada out and hauling 5 wickets. African batsmen were seen kneeling against Shami's bowling.

South African innings was reduced to 197 runs,

Indian bowlers bowled amazingly and South Africa's innings was bundled out for 197 runs. By doing this, India has taken a lead of 128 runs over South Africa. For India, Shami took 5 and Jasprit Bumrah took 2 wickets. Apart from this, Shardul Thakur also forced the African batsmen to kneel by taking 2 wickets. At the same time, 1 wicket came in Siraj's account. Let us tell you that India had scored 327 runs in the first innings.

ICC Awards: Ashwin nominated for 'Test Player of the Year', these legends will have to be beaten

ICC Awards: ICC has nominated India's legendary spinner Ashwin for the Best Player of the Year (Test Player of the Year 2021).

 ICC has nominated India's legendary spinner Ashwin for the Best Player of the Year (Test Player of the Year 2021). In the year 2021, Ashwin rocked his spin and has managed to take a total of 52 wickets. At the same time, with his batting, Ashwin has scored 337 runs with an average of 28.08. In which he also scored a century. In the same year, Ashwin played a brilliant innings of 106 runs in the Test match against England in Chennai. Apart from Ashwin, the ICC has also nominated England captain Joe Root and New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson and Sri Lanka's Dimuth Karunaratne in this category.

Let us tell you that in the year 2021, Root also did wonders with his batting and has managed to score a total of 1708 runs in 15 Tests. This year Root has done wonders of scoring 6 centuries in Tests with his bat. In the year 2021, Root has also made a special record in his name by batting in a bang style. Root has become the third batsman in the world to score the most runs in a calendar year. Only Mohammad Yusuf and Sir Vivian Richards are ahead of him.

On the other hand, this year has been great for New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson as well. He took a total of 27 wickets in 5 Tests. In the year 2021, Jamieson troubled the opposing batsmen a lot with his fast bowling and wrote the saga of victory for New Zealand by taking wickets in important matches. Due to Jamieson's excellent performance, New Zealand's team was successful in winning the first title of the World Test Championship.

Although the bowling of Trent Boult and Tim Southee was also amazing. Jamieson was a star performer at Southampton, taking seven wickets and contributing 21 runs in the first innings, earning him the player of the match award for his performance.

Apart from this, Dimuth Karunaratne of Sri Lanka has also been nominated by the ICC for the Test Player of the Year. On the one hand, where the dominance of Sri Lankan cricket is being lost in world cricket, but this player has tried his best to keep Sri Lanka in world cricket with his performance.

This year Karunaratne scored 902 runs in 7 matches which included 4 centuries. A brilliant century against South Africa at Johannesburg, two centuries against Bangladesh in two matches at Pallekele, including a double century. Apart from this, this Sri Lankan batsman had created a ruckus by scoring a brilliant century against West Indies in Galle.