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Australia A 2 for 56 (Patterson 23*) beat India A 55 (Tremain 5-25, Worrall 4-26) by eight wicketsScorecard The fast bowling pair of Chris Tremain and Daniel Worrall picked up nine wickets between them as India A were handed an eight-wicket thumping in their Quadrangular series opener against Australia A in Townsville.India As innings lasted just 15.4 overs as they were bowled out for 55 after being sent in to bat. Only Axar Patel, batting at No. 8, managed to get into double digits, top scoring with 15. Tremain, playing in only his fifth List-A game, recorded his maiden five-wicket haul, while Worrall picked up four.Tremain triggered the meltdown when he struck thrice in the third over, removing Karun Nair, Mandeep Singh and Manish Pandey, all India internationals, in the space of four deliveries. He returned to dismiss Sanju Samson and opener Faiz Fazal in his next over, the fifth of the innings, to cap off a five-wicket haul.Worrall then sliced through the lower middle order, to finish with his best returns in eight List A games so far. Michael Neser, the third seamer, was the other wicket-taker for Australia A, dismissing Axar.Australia As chase was slow but relatively steady in the face of India As spin. India A managed to nip out two wickets courtesy Yuzvendra Chahal, the legspinner, and Axar, the left-arm spinner before Kurtis Patterson and Peter Handscomb saw the hosts home in the 18th over.Australia A next take on the National Performance Squad at the same venue on August 16, while India A will play their second game against South Africa A a day later. Nike Air Max Levně . 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There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has been lighting up the NFL since returning from his early-season suspension, emerging as a top MVP candidate despite missing four games.The 39-year-old Brady ranks first overall in Total QBR, and has helped cast the Patriots in the role of most likely Super Bowl champion, at 32 percent according to ESPNs Football Power Index. That said, the data says New England should be thinking very long and hard about looking elsewhere to fill the starting QB role next season.The Patriots, more than any other team, have made a habit of paying for likely future production and not past success. And though Bradys contract would make it difficult for them to merely part ways (more on that in a minute), at 39 years old they undoubtedly know whats coming for Brady.Two of the most dominant quarterbacks of the past 20 years -- Brett Favre and Peyton Manning -- are, in fact, useful examples to project Bradys performance in the next few seasons. Favre, Manning and Kurt Warner join Brady in a rare group of players that even make it to this stage. Average quarterbacks rarely get a chance to continue to play past their mid-30s; once they show signs of decline, theyre replaced. What remains are the Favres, Peytons and Warners (and even Warner stepped away at the age of 38) of the NFL, great quarterbacks who can continue to rely on their ability to run an offense and take advantage of defenses, even as their deep throws lose a little of their zip. But even the greats will eventually fall, as the numbers demonstrate.Bradys performance at age 38 and up to his current age of 39.5 mirrors that of Manning at the same age. Brady has posted an average QBR of 70 during those years -- Mannings was 69. After age 39.5, however, Mannings performance declined sharply. For all of his games after the age of 39.5, he posted an average QBR of 49. The decline was part of a broader, ominous trend for Brady and older QBs.ESPN senior analytics specialist Brian Burke detailed this drop-off in a study for Advanced Football Analytics.All QBs who played when tthey were 38 years old had QBRs above 70 in between 50 and 70 percent of their games.ddddddddddddBy age 40, their chance of posting a QBR above 70 drops to below 5 percent. This is the range Brady will be in at the start of the 2017 season.Availability becomes a major issue as well.Again, looking at the group of QBs who were playing at the ages of 39 and 39.5, this group has a 71 percent chance of playing at least 10 more games. Once they get past 40 (where Brady will be when the 2017 season starts), that percentage drops by half. Only 35 percent who are playing past the age of 39.5 will play 10 or more games.Given the Patriots history of shedding iconic players (Lawyer Milloy, Logan Mankins, Randy Moss and Richard Seymour, to name a few), it shouldnt be a surprise if Brady is next on the chopping block, though his contract could give New England some pause. The Patriots tend to release or trade players at or near the end of their contracts so there is minimal, if any, dead money on the salary cap. But remember that Brady signed a new contract during this past offseason that included a $28 million bonus. By NFL cap rules, if the Patriots cut Brady after this season, they would carry a cap charge of $27 million -- nearly twice the price tag for keeping him ($14 million).That reality means, should Bradys performance decline as the data nearly guarantees it will, Patriots coach Bill Belichick could find himself in the difficult position of benching Brady for a younger arm. While Belichick has never been accused of being overly emotional about his roster decisions, there should be little doubt that the notion of benching Brady would be an especially delicate situation for the organization and its fan base.Whatever they decide, there is no reason to believe that Brady has the ability to beat the overwhelming trend of aging QBs. Father Time, as they say, is undefeated.For more from ESPN Analytics, visit the ESPN Analytics Index.? ' ' '