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The 2022 World Cup champions have worn some classic kits over the years

Argentina’s World Cup victory this year wasn’t just a historic occasion for the country and for Lionel Messi. It was also a triumph of two of the tournament’s best kits over their less-deserving rivals. While both of the 2022 kits – particularly the away shirt – were strong designs, they fit in with some other legendary Argentina kits over the years. So with that in mind, and to celebrate the Argentinian victory, here are the nation’s 10 best-ever World Cup kits.

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Classic Football ShirtsCult KitseBayFFF StoreSports DirectVintage Football ShirtsWith that in mind, here are the 10 best World Cup shirts Argentina have ever worn.Getty Images102006 Away

While Argentina have stuck to their dark blue away shirt for almost their entire history, they haven’t been afraid of experimenting with new detailing across the design. In 2006, adidas added white and light blue sections to the shirt, while the adidas Three Stripe branding alternated between the two colours. The whole shirt was finished with some thin gold sections, perfect for a Messi to make his World Cup debut (a 6-0 win against Serbia and Montenegro, if you’re interested).

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While it’s the 2014 away kit that was associated with Argentina and Messi’s near-miss in 2014, the final was the only time they wore the shirt. For the rest of the tournament, they opted for their classic stripes. That year’s design featured the addition of a black trim – for the first time since the 2006 World Cup – as well as a slight gradient effect on each of the light blue stripes and subtle diagonal stripe detailing across the centre.

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Argentina’s 1998 home kit was a simple masterclass – all thick blue stripes and a smart black collar – but it's that year’s away shirt that will go down in history. It was in the dark blue change kit, complete with a huge light blue V neck and stripes down each side, that Argentina took on England. By the end of the match, Michael Owen had cemented himself as a great in the making, David Beckham had been sent off and Argentina had won on penalties.

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Whatever you think of the 2022 home kit – a solid if unspectacular design – it will forever be the shirt in which Lionel Messi won the World Cup. As if that isn’t enough, there are some design touches that help to elevate it beyond just the classic Albiceleste colours, including the two thinner lines on the back and the gold sun on the back of the neck. In the end, it was a worthy companion for Messi’s coronation.

Manchester United splurged on a 30-minute private jet flight back home following a shocking performance against Newcastle on Sunday.

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Travel hassle on the way to NewcastleMan Utd forced to hit the roadReturned via a private jet in 30 minutes!WHAT HAPPENED?

The Red Devils were in a spot of bother after the club's chartered jet, scheduled for the morning flight to Newcastle, was grounded in Humberside. Fortunately, the travel department had a contingency plan, deploying two coaches to transport the squad and support staff to the match. Nonetheless, it took them more than three hours to reach the venue which had sapped considerable energy before taking the field.

They struggled to find the rhythm throughout the match and were outplayed by Eddie Howe's troops before succumbing to a 1-0 loss, their 10th defeat in the season.

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However, United's return to Manchester went more smoothly. After the match, a replacement plane was secured, reducing the travel time to 30 minutes, a significant improvement from the three-hour coach trip earlier in the day.

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The club has previously acknowledged the environmental concerns associated with flying to distant domestic games like Newcastle. However, like many other Premier League clubs, they continue to use private jets, and the travel department consistently prepares contingency plans for potential technical issues or airport closures due to adverse weather conditions.

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There is unlikely to be any travel hassle in the near future as United will host Chelsea at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Wednesday evening, before welcoming Bournemouth and Bayern Munich on December 9 and 13 respectively.

Gotham FC were invited to the Empire State building to celebrate their NWSL championship, with the landmark being lit up in the Bats turquoise colors.

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Gotham FC celebrates NWSL championship in NYCGiven tour of Empire State BuildingLandmark lit up to commemorate titleGetty ImagesWHAT HAPPENED?

Following their 2023 NWSL championship victory over OL Reign, the famous building on the island of Manhattan announced that it would light up in the colors of the NWSL side to commemorate the victory. On top of that, the squad was invited to tour the building while posing for photos on its rooftop!

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The team being invited to once of the most iconic buildings in the entire United States, and seeing them commemorating women's soccer in the process, is a huge moment for the NWSL. It demonstrates the progress the league is making and is a special moment of recognition for Gotham FC. Indeed, posting about the win on social media only adds to the growth of women's soccer and promotes NY/NJ's historic win.

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The Empire State building first lit up in 1964, with colored lighting being introduced in 1976.

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The NY/NJ side will likely be celebrating their championship win for the entirety of the offseason, before preparing for the 2024 campaign come January. Up next for Gotham, though, will be the 2024 NWSL Draft, Free Agency and the expansion draft featuring newcomers Bay FC.

Hours after Shaharyar Khan said the PCB would appeal the ban on Saeed Ajmal, the board has backtracked from that position and said it was “contemplating its future course of action and weighing all options”

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Sep-2014Hours after the PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said the board would appeal the ban on Saeed Ajmal to an ICC-appointed Bowling Review Group (BRG), the PCB has backtracked from that position and said it was “contemplating its future course of action and weighing all options.””The PCB has referred the matter to its recently-formed Illegal Bowling Action Committee, which will consider the matter and revert with their views and/or recommendations and the Board shall thereafter decide what action to take”, Shaharyar said in a PCB statement.The ICC rules allow the PCB 14 days from the receipt of the report on Ajmal’s action to file an appeal. The BRG shall comprise the following persons: a current member of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission (in the Chair and with the casting vote only), a current ICC referee, an ex-international player, an ex-international umpire and a human movement specialist. The ICC General Manager – Cricket shall be an ex-officio member of the BRG.Earlier today, soon after Ajmal was banned from bowling in international cricket after an independent analysis at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane found all his deliveries to be illegal, the PCB had seemed more certain of its intention to appeal.Though the PCB was aware that an unsuccessful appeal could lead to Ajmal being banned from bowling in international cricket for a period of time, it said at the time, that it would appeal in order to understand the angles from which Ajmal’s action had been analysed. It is understood that the board maintained Ajmal had a medical condition following an accident that affected the movement of his elbow and that had been accepted by the ICC when his action was cleared previously.”Our experts understood that it is the doosra that may be suspected but that proved wrong because his entire action was called illegal,” Shaharyar had said at a press conference earlier in the day. “So that’s a concern for us but we are going to appeal because we want to understand if the ICC has covered all the angles or not. An appeal obviously will benefit us because there is the chance that he may be cleared and get back straight away.”Otherwise if the appeal is unsuccessful we are wary of the one-year ban imposed on him, but then again he can remodel his action within the period and return to cricket. We have two weeks to lodge an appeal. We have to face this with courage and go through it without panicking. We have bowlers who can fill in for Ajmal and won’t let the team miss him.”This was the second instance of Ajmal being reported for a suspect action. In April 2009, the bowler had been reported while bowling the doosra, and was cleared the following month.1330 GMT The story was updated after the PCB issued a release that said it was mulling all courses of action with regard to Saeed Ajmal’s ban

Steven Smith’s 133 put him in elite company, for prior to him only Monty Noble, Clem Hill, Lindsay Hassett and Greg Chappell had reached triple figures in their first innings as Test captain

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Forty-five men have captained Australia in Tests. Nine have scored centuries in their first match in charge. Five have done it in the first innings. Steven Smith’s 133 put him in elite company, for prior to him only Monty Noble, Clem Hill, Lindsay Hassett and Greg Chappell had reached triple figures in their first innings as Test captain. It is some sort of statement.”I said in the press conference before the Test that I wanted to lead from the front with my performances,” Smith said after the third day’s play. “Hopefully I’ve done that so far this game and hopefully it continues for me as well.”Smith and Mitchell Johnson delivered Australia from a precarious 6 for 247 to a much healthier 7 for 395 and further runs from Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood pushed Australia to 505. Their 97-run first-innings lead seemed preposterous given the situation when Smith and Johnson came together, but Smith said India had no way to curb the aggression of Johnson in his innings of 88.”He came out and was positive from ball one,” Smith said. “That was his mindset. They tried to be quite aggressive with him, bowling short, and trying to get stuck into him. I think that played into his favour. He took them on and they didn’t really have an answer for him, to be honest. It was great the way he came out and just took them on from ball one.Centuries in first Test as Australia captain

Billy Murdoch – 153* v England, The Oval, 1880

Harry Trott – 143 v England, Lord’s, 1896

Monty Noble – 133 v England, Sydney, 1903

Clem Hill – 191 v South Africa, Sydney, 1910

Warwick Armstrong – 158 v England, Sydney, 1920

Lindsay Hassett – 112 v South Africa, Johannesburg, 1949

Greg Chappell – 123 & 109* v West Indies, Brisbane, 1975

Graham Yallop – 102 v England, Brisbane, 1978

Steven Smith – 133 v India, Brisbane, 2014

“We said this morning that we wanted a few big partnerships and we managed to do that. That’s all you need to do on this kind of wicket. If you get yourself in it’s one of the best places to bat in the world. Credit to our tail the way they played and came out and took the bowlers on was fantastic. I’m really happy with all the boys’ performance.”Smith and Johnson had come together after the loss of Brad Haddin, who collected an equal Australian Test record six dismissals in the first innings but is in a rut with the bat. Since his outstanding performance in last year’s Ashes clean sweep, Haddin has batted 12 times in Tests for scores of 0, 9, 1, 13, 3*, 22, 0, 10, 13, 0, 14* and 6.”I think his spot is completely safe,” Smith said of his vice-captain Haddin. “He’s a quality performer and he’s gloving the ball unbelievably at the moment. I’m sure the runs that he’s after are just around the corner.”Haddin’s batting form is one of several concerns for the Australians, who on the first day lost three bowlers to injuries in the challenging Brisbane heat. Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc were able to return to bowl again but Mitchell Marsh’s hamstring injury will prevent him bowling again in the game, and Smith said the first day had been a serious challenge.”That first day wasn’t quite what I expected,” Smith said. “It was one of the toughest days I’ve faced in captaining any team, to be honest. But I’ve really enjoyed the last couple of days. The boys have supported me really well. We just need to come out in the morning and take a few early wickets to make sure we stay in the game.”Australia might have had more chance of some wickets late on day three had they got through a few more overs – not for the first time in the match the over rate was very slow, not helped by the extra drinks breaks allowed in the heat. Most ridiculous was the fact that four minutes before stumps, drinks were ferried onto the field for players from both teams, perhaps costing an extra over.”Hopefully we can get our over rate back a little bit,” Smith said. “There’s obviously been a few distractions with people walking behind the sight screen and drinks and the weather is quite hot and humid, so it’s quite tough. Hopefully they find a way to give me a few minutes back there.”Smith fielded without apparent discomfort during India’s second innings after having his left thigh strapped by the physio late in his innings of 133. Smith said the injury was from being hit by a ball and was not serious.

India did not adapt well in their first match against New Zealand, but since then they have put in performances that batsman Virat Kohli has cherished and hopes would continue against Australia in a knockout clash

Sidharth Monga in Mohali26-Mar-2016India came to Mohali in November under threat of having a dud home season, having lost the T20I series and ODI series to South Africa. In Mohali, they found home comforts that took them to the No. 1 Test ranking, and gave this team in transition the reassurance that they are good enough. They come back to Mohali unsure again.This has been a World T20 where India have been cagey perhaps because of – or despite – their favoured conditions. They have stayed alive, which is definitely credit to them, against some really good bowling in two of their three matches, but they haven’t been able to play with the freedom they are known for.This is not too dissimilar to what happened in the World Cup in 2011, where they started as the favourites, slipped up against South Africa, got away with a tie against England, but turned it on when it really mattered. They did just enough, but they won the World Cup. They have been doing just enough here too, and they can still win this World T20. In 2011, just like now, India’s match against Australia started a string of three must-win matchesVirat Kohli recognises that India have been made to work hard, and cherishes the fight shown by his team to stay alive. “It is very difficult to be very consistent as a team in this format,” he said. “I think you need to come to terms with that. Sometimes you need character from a few people to get you over the line and that’s exactly what happened in the last game. Spinners bowled beautifully, then Hardik [Pandya] holding his nerve in the end was brilliant for us. All the things we needed to do in the end, we did, pulling the game back. That’s a big positive for us.”India also recognise a global tournament would tax them more than the Asia Cup and the earlier T20 matches since the start of 2016. “The World Cup is a very big tournament,” Kohli said. “Every team that plays, its skill levels are different from the other teams. In the Asia Cup, you need to focus only on three or four teams. In the World Cup, there are so many teams against whom you can play at any time, against whom you haven’t played the entire year. I think that is a challenge, how you adapt on the spot. Adaptability is very important.

If we had relied only on our reputation and our confidence, we may not have been able to win those two games [against Pakistan and Bangladesh]. We have looked at it as a humbling experienceIndia batsman Virat Kohli

“What we did in the first game, our adaptability was not to the standards we have set, but in the last two games we have adapted very well. We could have been bowled out for 125 against Bangladesh, but we fought and put up a fighting total,” Kohli added. “Obviously teams will test you, this is international cricket. It is not the kind of cricket where, because you have the reputation and the players, you are guaranteed of success. Anyone can upset anyone else and we have respected that in the last two games, and that’s why we were able to pull those games back.”If we had relied only on our reputation and our confidence, we may not have been able to win those two games. We have looked at it as a humbling experience and the endeavour is to do the same things that we have been doing throughout the season, but you can’t execute [your plans] all the time. At that stage, you have to use your experience and accept the game as it is flowing and adjust accordingly, which as a team we try to do each single time.”There will be home comforts, though. The pitch might not be a raging turner, but it would be slow considering the square in Mohali has been used quite a bit over the last two weeks. Additionally, Sunday is the only the second double-header at the same venue during the Super 10s. The men will play on the same surface the Indian and West Indian women will get for their evening game in Mohali.Australia are not the most comfortable on used and slow pitches. They are also the team whom India whitewashed in a three-match T20I series not long ago. “If you look at how we have played this season, that [series] sort of was the catalyst for our consistent performances in this Twenty20 season so far,” Kohli said. “So obviously we can focus on the positive things that we did there against Australia, but we cannot take anything for granted. It’s a virtual quarter-final for us. We all know that, and it’s very important to stay in the moment, stay focussed on what we have to do. Why we were able to beat them in Australia is very important to remember. It’s not so much, ‘We have beaten them, so we can go out and do it again.’ It’s how we did it that we need to focus on.”Memories have been refreshed, questions about sledging and respect have been answered, final mistakes have been made. As they did in 2011, India need to find ways to win three matches; and they have maintained they don’t always need to win pretty. “If you hit a six 60 metres or 90 metres, you still get a six,” Kohli said.

As per reports, Manchester City missed a major trick in the sale of academy graduate Cole Palmer to Chelsea despite the £42.5 million price tag.

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Manchester City sold Palmer for £42.5 millionDid not include a sell-on clauseChelsea happy with lack of clauseGettyWHAT HAPPENED?

Palmer's skyrocketing transfer value will benefit Chelsea financially, according to The Daily Mail, as Manchester City failed to include a sell-on clause when approving the winger's summer move to Stamford Bridge.

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Considering Palmer had only made three Premier League starts prior to arriving at Stamford Bridge, City considered a £40 million guaranteed payout from Chelsea to be a decent bargain. However, the club may now start to regret the decision considering the player's form in the league for the Blues.

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There have been tens of millions of pounds that City has obtained in recent years from moves involving former players like Jadon Sancho, Pedro Porro, and Romeo Lavia.

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The 21-year-old will now be in action for Chelsea when they take on Newcastle United on Saturday, November 25.

Brenden Aaronson's late missed header proved costly as Union Berlin fell to Braga in stoppage-time.

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Aaronson comes on in 81'Misses golden chanceBraga win in stoppage-timeGetty ImagesWHAT HAPPENED?

Braga came out on top in a wild 3-2 victory over Union Berlin. The Bundesliga side's Sheraldo Becker notched a brace, but a stoppage-time winner from Braga's Andre Castro stole the show.

Becker scored twice in minutes 30' and 37' to put the home side up 2-0 up, but Braga capitalized on a defensive mistake four minutes after the double to get one back before the break. Portuguese winger Bruma equalized just after half-time and then set up Castro at the death to take home the glory.

USMNT midfielder Aaronson was subbed on in the 81st minute, but failed to leave a lasting impact on the match, spurning a headed chance late on. The miss proved costly, as Union lost their second group-stage match of the campaign.

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Aaronson's loan has been nothing but disappointing so far, and Tuesday was just an amplification of that. He was benched for the second-straight match and for the second time this UCL campaign. He was their last substitute used in the match and only played a total of 14 minutes, and it appears his confidence is drained.

He had a great opportunity to put the German side ahead minutes after entering the match, but missed a point-blank header.

For Union Berlin, it's a second-successive heartbreaking loss in stoppage-time loss in the Champions League. On matchday one, the Bundesliga side fell to Real Madrid 1-0 due to a 94th-minute winner from Jude Bellingham.

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Aaronson not starting nor getting regular minutes for Union Berlin has to be a worry for Gregg Berhalter and the USMNT.

With upcoming October friendlies against both Ghana and Germany on the horizon, it's important that the 22-year-old finds both his confidence and his shooting boots as the two matches ahead are their toughest international opponents yet.

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Despite coming on late in the 81st minute, Aaronson nearly set up a goal immediately and then missed a point-blank header late; one would argue he has to score in that moment.

Sam Robson put aside a poor run of form to notch a much-needed century in tame draw

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ScorecardSam Robson scored a much-need half-century as the match petered out to a draw•Getty ImagesAs the opening salvos of another Ashes battle were being fired in Cardiff, you would be surprised if it had not crossed the mind of Sam Robson that had things gone somewhat differently last year then he could have been striding out to the middle alongside Alastair Cook to take his Australian brothers as an established England batsman.The Sydney-born batsman, having thought long and hard before committing his international future to England, was rewarded for his decision last summer but fell out of favour almost as rapidly as he had gained it. After scoring a composed hundred in only his second Test, against Sri Lanka at Headingley, he followed up with 59 in the opening match against India at Trent Bridge only for his fortunes to decline.In his next six Test innings, he had a top score of 37 and was ultimately perceived as one of the few batsmen not to cash in against a mediocre Indian attack, and moreover with a weakness outside off stump, which saw him caught in the slip cordon five times. He has not been selected since.This season his form has been patchy. He made 178 against Durham at Lord’s in early May but take that out and his average going into this match was below 20. Therefore, the unbeaten 77 which ensured that Middlesex left a damp and chilly Trent Bridge with a draw was a hint that better is to come. He was dropped on eight – a routine chance, it has to be said, spilled at slip by Steven Mullaney in not the first dropped catch of the game by Nottinghamshire – but otherwise looked solid and in control.”I’m playing quite well but I need to put more scores on the board consistently,” he said afterwards. “It was good to get a few hours out in the middle today and hopefully I can take that forward.”He admits he was left disappointed by losing his England place after the India series but denies that he looks back with any sense that his chance to forge an international career has gone.”I don’t look back on my England experience last summer as a failure,” he said. “To come out of my seven Tests with a hundred and a fifty, I feel like I know what I have to do at that level and it is just a case of doing it more consistently.”If I do get another chance I will be a better player when it comes up. I was disappointed when I got left out but there’s no point in feeling sorry for yourself.”I have worked hard on what I need to do in terms of improving areas of weakness. Hopefully I can continue to improve each year as I have in each of the last six or seven years.”I was not particularly thinking about what was happening in Cardiff when I went out this morning. But every time there is a Test match on and you have played at that level it just drives you on and makes you more hungry to get back there again.”The fate of this match was probably cast long before the fourth day began but if it were not a drizzly, dank morning in which only 20 minutes play were possible made the draw inevitable.The only wicket to fall was that of James Harris, who had been sent in to open as nightwatchman on Tuesday evening and played pretty soundly before he was leg before to Harry Gurney, playing back when he should have been forward. He escaped a censure from umpires Russell Evans and Ben Debenham despite gesturing angrily towards Debenham when he was given out, clearly feeling he had hit the ball.A reprimand would have soured an otherwise fine match for the 25-year-old Welshman, who seems close to recovering the standing among fast bowlers he enjoyed a couple of years ago, before England encouraged him to tinker with his action in a quest to find extra pace.Like Robson, he is driven by an ambition to prove himself at the highest level. James Franklin, the Middlesex captain, believes he might yet get there.”He is still pretty young,” Franklin said. “He is already on 52 Championship wickets with still six games to go so there is a real possibility he could end up with 70 to 80 Championship wickets, which would be an amazing season.”Combine that with the runs he is scoring and his name has to be up there in lights in front of the selectors.”There are still bits and bobs where he does not quite click with his bowling action which I guess is down to the last couple of years of him trying to change it.”This year he has gone back to what he used to do and he is getting results again. The full cycle has yet to be completed but there is much more good than bad in what he is doing.”Franklin conceded that Yorkshire will take some catching in the Championship table, in which Middlesex are now second with the points they take from this match, but does not believe the contest is decided.”At some stage you would hope they could be pegged back a bit and hopefully other teams can take points off them while others gain momentum elsewhere,” he said.”Sure, Yorkshire have got the ball in their court at the moment but there is still a heck of a lot of cricket to play, six or seven rounds, so that’s potentially 120 points out there for any team if they want it.”

The World Cup could finally begin for James Faulkner at the WACA on Wednesday. His availability for Australia’s fourth group match against Afghanistan in Perth will hinge on how he pulls up after bowling in the side’s optional training session on Monday a

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The World Cup could finally begin for James Faulkner at the WACA on Wednesday. His availability for Australia’s fourth group match against Afghanistan in Perth will hinge on how he pulls up after bowling in the side’s optional training session on Monday afternoon. He has been out since suffering a side strain during the tri-series final against England on the same ground on February 1.”I am going to have a bowl today, half a dozen overs in the nets and hopefully I am available for selection, and hopefully I get picked,” Faulkner said. “If I get through today I will be available for selection.”Last week I bowled a couple of overs pretty much pretty close [to full tilt]. The difference is in the intensity of an ODI. I will look to have a solid day today and hopefully recover well and be ready on Wednesday afternoon.”Cummins to be monitored

Fast bowler Pat Cummins’ availability for Australia’s World Cup group games against Afghanistan and Sri Lanka will be monitored by medical staff over the next few days. Cummins felt a niggle in his left side following the team’s previous game against New Zealand. A team spokesperson said that precautionary scans had shown there was “nothing serious”.

Even as he gradually builds his bowling workload, Faulkner said that there had been little let-up in his batting practice due to the injury. “I have been batting since five-six days after the injury to be brutally honest and although they told me to ease back on in the first two weeks I was pretty much going 100% in the nets which is a good thing. I think I was lucky being a left-hand bowler and a right-hand batsman, it was not the same side.”Faulkner admitted that it had not been easy watching the action from the sidelines as his team-mates faced England and New Zealand, either side of the washout against Bangladesh, but chose to look at the positive side of the forced break.”Hopefully it does not have much of an impact at all. Three or four weeks, you look at it different ways. It has given me some time to freshen up and get my body feeling good again and hopefully it holds me in good shape come the back end of the tournament.”I’d be lying if I said I was not frustrated at the start. Any time you get injured is a shocking feeling and to do it at the time it happened, the same like last time before the World T20, was obviously quite hard to take at the start. I could not do much about that except continuing my rehab and I have been in good hands with the physios and team doctors to get me back in this position. Hopefully it all pays off.”When I have had an injury, my knee and my side, they have not been little niggles that are one or two-weekers. Having said that, I have not been injured that much in my career, and you have to always try and look at the positives all the time, as hard as it is to swallow. The positive is that I am back sooner rather than later.”