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A day after masterminding the most unlikely title success in English football history, Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri was asked about his target for the next Premier League season.Would it be a top-four finish? Maybe even retaining the trophy?Not even close.We know very well, Ranieri said, we have to fight for 10th position.Never have titleholders ambitions appeared to be so low. These, though, are no normal champions.Leicester wrote a sporting underdog story for the ages by toppling the traditional heavyweights of England and winning the Premier League at pre-season odds of 5,000-1. A team widely tipped for relegation finished 10 points clear of second place.Now for the encore.But it wont be with the same cast.Ranieri has lost his midfield dynamo, NGolo Kante, to Chelsea for $40 million. Another significant departure came off the field, with Steve Walsh, the head of recruitment with a record of unearthing unheralded players and making them stars, joining Everton.Speculation has been swirling in the offseason around the future of two more of last seasons key players, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez. Vardy eventually signed a new deal but doubts remain about whether Mahrez will be at Leicester by the end of the transfer window on Aug. 31, with the winger heavily linked with Arsenal.For this season, Leicesters title odds with British bookmakers range between 20-1 and 33-1. Pre-season games have been against Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona rather than Lincoln and Burton, which was the case in 2015. And part of the warm-up for the new campaign was a trip to Wembley Stadium for the Community Shield against Manchester United, which Leicester lost 2-1 on Sunday.Everythings different now, Ranieri said. You imagine the big teams who didnt win, who didnt make the Champions League. They are going crazy now, they want to kill now.Proving that Leicester is operating at a completely new level, the team will be competing in the Champions League for the first time. Ranieri could rely on a core group of players last season -- with no European involvement along with early exits from the domestic cup competitions -- and was able to shed his Tinkerman tag.That may return, given he must juggle domestic and European competition, and Ranieri has been busy strengthening the depth of his squad in the offseason. Nampalys Mendy is tasked with filling the void left by Kante in central midfield, Nigeria forward Ahmed Musa joined from CSKA Moscow and has a similar profile to Vardy, while center back Luis Hernandez (from Sporting Gijon) and goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler (from Hannover) appear able back-ups.With their mostly unheralded players and reliance on the counter-attack, the Foxes brought an element of surprise to last season and opponents underestimated them until it was too late. Even when opposition teams altered tactics and sat back more, Leicester still found a way to get results and finished the season with only three losses.Why shouldnt they challenge for the title again? Taking into account the end of the 2014-15 season, when the team mounted a stunning escape from relegation under Nigel Pearson, Leicester has won 30 of its last 47 Premier League games and lost only four. The team spirit is strong, the King Power stadium is a tough place to visit, and Leicester has the perfect tactics for winning away games.Externally, there will be no pressure on Leicester to repeat its amazing exploits from the 2015-16 season and few are expecting it to. But this is a team that just loves defying the odds. It opens with a trip to Hull on Saturday.The close-knit brotherhood is unbelievable, Vardy says, and, for me, theres a lot of unfinished business here. Robby Anderson Womens Jersey . -- Stanford squashed Oregons national championship hopes again, schooling the Ducks in power football. LeVeon Bell Youth Jersey . Louis Blues. Shane Hnidy joins Brian Munz for the broadcast on TSN 1290 Radio at 7pm ct. http://www.authenticnyjetspro.com/Keyshawn-johnson-jets-jersey/ . -- Nate Robinson has played for seven teams, so beating one of them is no longer a rare occurrence. 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Somehow, he is still a relevant cricketer with his swagger intact. It never went away.His physique as a fast bowler never made sense. He looks thin enough to be blown away by a poke. But he is strong, as all Gujjars tend to be. His presence in the ground can easily be felt; he strides like he is walking a tightrope. On Saturday, the first day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, Asif was the last man to leave the dressing room for Water and Power Development Authoritys warm-up session before the toss, and walked straight to the pitch, which was topped with patches of green.By the end of the days play, he had figures of 18.1-4-29-4 as WAPDA bowled Habib Bank Limited out for 236. It took his seasons wicket haul to 19 in five matches, at an average of 18.63. Of the 127 overs he has bowled, 52 - or nearly 41% - have been maidens. He has made a massive impact on his team, leading a brittle attack, holding it together, winning games. Whether that is enough for Pakistan to pick him again remains to be seen; the selectors watched him keenly, but they retain a sense of reluctance about going back to him - given all his misdemeanours, their caution is probably reasonable.But Asifs bowling is capable of changing the most stubborn minds. He ripped through Habib Banks top order within no time, leaving them 19 for 3 by the time he had bowled three overs. In the seven overs of his opening spell, he conceded a mere eight runs. His second spell of five overs was wicketless, but he bowled three maidens and only conceded four runs. His rhythm was relentless.His run-up and follow-through were smooth as ever, stirring old memories of a master strategist. He didnt bowl at any great pace: he made Kamran Akmal stand up to the stumps even when he bowled with the new ball, but this was also because he wanted to push back Ahmed Shehzad, who was standing out of his crease in a bid to counter his movement.At one time, Habib Bank were reeling at 21 for 66, before Rameez Aziz and Fahim Ashraf rescued them with an 84-run stand for the seventh wicket.dddddddddddd A 99-run ninth-wicket partnership between Aziz and Abdur Rehman frustrated WAPDA further, before Asif returned to send back Aziz.I did well in previous games but since today was the final and it was also being live telecast, I was just enjoying, Asif said after the days play. I have a much-needed rhythm, and since it was a big match and only big player delivers on such occasions, I gave it all and am now hoping to make the second innings count as well.Asif posed a considerable threat in each of his four spells, and a powerful appeal against Aziz took you back to the past, low to the ground on bent knees with arms outstretched. There was no way to gauge his fitness, at 33, and say if he would be able to cope with international cricket, but he looked confident. I bowled seven straight overs with the new ball. In fact I bowled more overs than anyone else, 18.1 overs, he said. What else do you expect me to do to prove [my fitness]. If I wasnt fit I dont think I could have bowled those overs.I am doing what I am required to do; rest is in the hands of Allah and then the selectors. I am doing my best and I cant do more. So to me I am doing well. The basics are still the same, which I havent forgotten, and I am just applying myself with everything I have. I know I still have my space there and it is never taken by anyone and I am confident that I will soon be taking it back.Asif is playing his second day-night game with the pink ball. He wasnt too happy with the quality of the ball being used in the tournament, and said it becomes soft after about 15 overs and that dew was also an issue under lights.Its an experiment, but obviously we have to adopt it as this is the future for Test cricket, he said. The ball being used isnt the grade A quality and if you want bowlers to be groomed you need to have good balls.As a bowler its slightly difficult during the twilight because the ball is hard to spot against the background, especially when the sun is out along with the lights. So that transition period causes some problem for the fielders as well, especially for the catching positions or at some sharp fielding positions like point, where the ball is a little difficult to pick up. But its a learning curve for all of us and we are getting used to it. ' ' '