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Guptills monster hitMartin Guptill has a thing for hitting roofs. Tony Kemp Jersey . His sixes have twice hit the roof at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington and once at Aucklands Eden Park. Stepping out of his crease to Hardik Pandya, he hit the first ball of the fourth over of the match for a humongous six that would have exited the PCA Stadium had he aimed towards the single-tier stands behind wide long-on. Instead, he launched the ball over the bowlers head, and ended up pinging the front wall of the third tier of the stand behind the straight boundary.Those Dhoni handsAmit Mishra had just dismissed Ross Taylor with a superlative bit of flight, slowing the ball down to bring the batsman forward, getting it to dip to make him stretch and drag his back foot out of the crease, and turning it past his outside edge. MS Dhoni, as he so often does, wasted no time in getting the bails off. Dhonis task was just a little harder in Mishras next over, though, when he spun another legbreak past a groping batsman. This time, though, Luke Ronchis foot did not slide as far out of his crease as Taylors had done, and the ball turned from a little wider outside off, which meant Dhoni had a greater distance to cover between collecting the ball and stumping Ronchi, with less time at his disposal. But in his inimitable, non-textbook manner, he collected the ball without drawing his gloves back an inch, and whipped the bails off before Ronchi even knew what had happened.The spillIndia lost Ajinkya Rahane in the third over of their chase. Virat Kohli, new at the crease, had just shown what kind of form he was in, driving Matt Henry to the cover point boundary off the third ball of the fifth over. The next ball was shorter, and Kohli went on the back foot, looking for a dab to third man. He had not accounted for the presence of a catching fielder at wide slip, however, set for precisely that kind of shot. The ball went low to Taylor, one of the better catchers in world cricket. He fell to his right, got both hands to the ball a couple of inches off the turf, and dropped it.Those Kohli wristsRight through Indias chase, the only trouble their batsmen encountered from a flat Mohali pitch was the occasional tendency for the ball to stop on them. Rahane and Dhoni were both out caught at short cover, playing too early and having to check on-the-up drives. In the 33rd over, James Neesham got a shortish ball, angled into Kohlis body, to stop on him. Kohli adjusted brilliantly, standing still for an instant to let the ball get to him before whipping it off his hips to the midwicket boundary, nearly getting it to carry all the way over the rope. Bob Dernier Jersey . -- The Magic have their first victory of the new year. Custom Ernie Banks Jersey . But what about the officials? Every sport has officials and they also have stories about hard work and sacrifice but their accomplishments are seldom recognized by anyone outside their inner circle. http://www.customcubsjersey.com/custom-j...large-710n.html . - Derek Wolfe says hes finally healthy after suffering a seizure in November that doctors now believe was related to the spinal cord injury he suffered in the preseason. TORONTO -- Mike Babcock scoffs at the notion that he simply shows up to coach the Canadians and they keep winning best-on-best games, a streak that has run to 14.I think thats what you guys think, he bristled at reporters.Whatever anyone things, Babcock has helped Canada win gold at the last two Olympics and he has the team rolling into the best-of-three World Cup of Hockey finals against Team Europe, with Game 1 on Tuesday night.His counterpart, meanwhile, is simply happy to have a shot to coach hockey again. Ralph Krueger wasnt sure if he would have another chance to be behind a bench after being fired a few years ago by the Edmonton Oilers via Skype while sitting on his daughters bed. He was let go after the Oilers went 19-22-7 during the lockout-shortened season.While still reeling from the blow, he got an opportunity to bounce back -- from Babcock. He asked Krueger to help the team as a consultant at the Sochi Games and they became friends, attending non-hockey events at the 2014 Olympics and swapping water skiing stories in recent years.Mike called me 12 hours later to ask me to come to the Olympic Games with Canada, so thats Mike Babcock, said Krueger, a Canadian who has known Babcock since 2004.Now, theyre matching wits as competitors in a tournament in which Canada seems to have everything to lose as a heavy favorite and Team Europe has everything to gain. Europes surprising performance has some wondering if the next time an NHL team has an opening, Kruger might get another call.You should never say never about anything in life, Krueger said. Circumstances change, but I definitely did not take this job hunting for a job.Krueger is chairman of Southampton , a Premier League soccer club. He ended up there by following an unusual path.When he became a coach in the Austrian Hockey League in 1994, Kruger was looking for another line of work.I was so frightened about the future and being unstable in coaching so I started doing motivational speaking and that took me into the corporate world, he recalled. I was then invited by the founder of the World Economic Forum to be one of thhe members of the leadership council. Custom Ron Santo Jersey. . I was the only non-academic. There were 50 academics and me.That role led to his job with Southampton. When Team Europe was looking for a coach, its search started and ended with Krueger because of the relative success he has had in best-on-best tournaments.Kruger coached the Swiss at three Olympics, including in 2006 when he helped them to a sixth-place finish -- one spot ahead of Canada, a team they beat 2-0 -- and a fourth-place showing at the 1998 World Championships.Team Europe forward Frans Nielsen said he wouldnt be surprised if NHL teams start showing interest in Krueger.I think he has shown in this tournament how smart of a hockey brain he is, Nielsen said.He will be trying to figure out Canada this time, a team that hasnt lost a best-on-best game that counted under Babcock since the U.S. stunned the Canadians in the preliminary round of the Vancouver Games six years ago.I get up every morning, and I do the best I can, and work as hard as I can to prepare my team the best I can, Babcock said. Try to love the guys the best I can, try to make them feel good and make them better players. And I go home and love my family and I come here and do it the next day and over time things have worked out good.Babcock is the only coach to win gold at the Olympics and World Championships along with a Stanley Cup, which he helped the Detroit Red Wings hoist in 2008. He also led Anaheim to the Stanley Cup finals in 2003. His current team, the Maple Leafs, are in a rebuilding phase.Even though Babcock oozes with confidence these days, he acknowledged accomplishing the things he has were beyond his wildest dreams while he was growing up and climbing the coaching ladder.You grow up in Saskatoon or youre a coach at Red Deer College, you probably dont think youre going to coach Canadas Olympic team, he said.---Follow Larry Lage at www.twitter.com/larrylage and follow his work at www.bigstory.ap.org/content/larry-lage ' ' '