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Gujarat Lions made it two wins in two in the 2016 IPL, winning the battle of the two new franchises, beating Rising Pune Supergiants by seven wickets in Rajkot. Set 164 to win, Gujarats devastating opening pair of Aaron Finch (50 off 36 balls) and Brendon McCullum (49 off 31) were just that, putting on 85 for the first wicket inside nine overs.Dwayne Bravo - who earlier took the key wicket of Kevin Pietersen (37 off 31) in Punes innings - blasted an unbeaten 22 from 10 deliveries to see the Lions win with 11 balls to spare.Pietersen had earlier put on 86 for the second wicket with Faf du Plessis - who smashed 69 from 43 - but Punes innings faltered after both fell. The Inside the IPL panel discuss the Gujarat Lions victory over the Rising Pune Supergiants Supergiants skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first, and Ajinkya Rahane (21 off 17) got the side off to a super start, smacking four boundaries in the first four overs before falling lbw to Pravin Tambe (2-33).Du Plessis and Pietersen countered, adding 38 runs in the next three, with Du Plessis smashing three sixes straight down the ground, and Pietersen pulling one over deep backward square leg.Bravo (1-43) was blasted for two of those sixes in a first over that cost 16, but bounced back with the wicket of Pietersen in the 14th over, to his trademark slower ball.Still well placed at 121-2 with five overs to go, Pune then managed only 22 runs from their next four, with Du Plessis falling - a ball after just smashing Tambe for a four and six off consecutive deliveries - as well as Australians Steve Smith and Mitchell Marsh, both out cheaply to Ravindra Jadeja (2-18).But just as it looked like Pune were well short of a par score, their captain Dhoni cracked 20 off former Chennai team-mate Bravos final over, hitting two fours and a six, taking the teams total to 163-5.Gujarats innings got off to an explosive start with McCullum clearing the ropes twice in RP Singhs third over, while Finch crunched four fours off Murugan Ashwin and tonked Rajat Bhatia for two sixes in the sixth and seventh.Finch fell soon after, three balls after bringing up his fifty, while McCullum departed one run shy of his half century in the 14th over.Lions skipper Suresh Raina added a run-a-ball 24 before being stumped by Dhoni to Murugan (2-31), but Bravos cameo - including three fours in a row off Ishant Sharma - saw the side home.Watch continued coverage of the IPL on Sky Sports, with the next live action seeing Delhi Daredevils facing Kings XI Punjab from 3pm on Sky Sports 2 on Friday. 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Haas said he "felt a lot of pain" in his right shoulder when he slammed his racket to the ground in frustration after losing his serve at 3-3 in the first set. ORLANDO, Fla. -- The NFL received a high grade for its racial hiring practices and a C+ for its gender hiring efforts in 2016, according to a diversity report released Wednesday.The annual report by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport gave the league its seventh consecutive A on racial hiring practices and a combined grade of B for hiring minorities and women. The second straight C+ indicates the NFL still has a long way to go in improving hiring opportunities for women, but it is a dramatic improvement from two years ago, when the numbers were abysmal.The NFLs greatest gains in both categories have come at the league office level, while the teams have been slow to become more diverse.The league itself is setting a kind of model for the teams that the teams havent fully followed and embraced, said Dr. Richard Lapchick, the report card author.Lapchick, who is the director of TIDES, said the NFL received a C+ in gender hiring again largely because of its continued efforts to improve the hiring of women in decision-making roles following the Ray Rice domestic case.The league took a lot of heat when Commissioner Roger Goodell initially suspended Rice for two games, then reversed direction and indefinitely suspended the former Baltimore Ravens running back after a video showed Rice delivering a punch that knocked out his fiancee in an Atlantic City elevator in 2014.I think the NFL has really paid attention to how much better they would be if they had more senior women to advise the league office and the commissioner, Lapchick said.The biggest gains for hiring women has come at the league level, where there are now 35 women at the vice president level, up from 31 last year and 21 in 2014. Cathy Lanier, the former police chief in Washington, D.C., was named the NFLs senior vice president for security in August.That was such an out-of-the-box hire, Lapchick said. That is a position that has historically been held by men in all off the leagues, so I think that was a real statement on the part of the (NFL).ddddddddddddhe number of people of color in the league office who serve at the vice president level or higher rose from 21 in 2015 to 24 this year. But at the team general manager level, it went from seven a year ago to five in 2016.For the second year in a row, the NFL has six men of color who are head coaches. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired Lovie Smith in the offseason, but the Cleveland Browns hired Hue Jackson, keeping the number the same. The all-time high came in 2011, when eight out of the 32 coaches were men of color.But there is some concern the numbers will not increase, as the percentage of assistant coaches of color dipped from 37.9 percent in 2015 to 31.9 percent in 2016. African-American coordinators dropped from 15 to 14 in a year. Coordinator-level jobs are normally where NFL teams look to find head coaches.In the last four years, 21 of the 22 first-time head coaching hires have gone to white men. New York Jets coach Todd Bowles is the only first-time minority coach to be hired during that span, which some say is an indication that the Rooney Rule is no longer giving minority coaches the opportunities it was intended to when implemented.While the league received an overall A for its racial hires, the lagging head coaching numbers along with the dip in the number of assistant coaches, coordinators and general managers is indication the NFL still has work to do.In the coaching ranks, the Buffalo Bills became the first team to hire a woman as a full-time coach when they named Kathryn Smith the quality control coach for special teams this year. The Bills last year also had Kim Pegula, an Asian-American woman, join the ownership group.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '