A chartered Boeing 777 touched down at Sydney airport on Monday morning, delivering the California Golden Bears and team officials Down Under for their much-anticipated opening college football game of the season on Saturday against Hawaii.The 14-hour flight left San Francisco just after midnight Saturday night. The 100-plus players and coach Sonny Dykes, who were greeted by cheerleaders as they walked off the plane, missed the remainder of Sunday when they crossed the International Date Line in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.No worries, the Golden Bears will pick up that time when they return to the U.S. after the game, arriving back in California earlier in the day than their time of departure from Sydney, due to the 17-hour time difference in their favor.Organizers say Saturdays midday game -- prime time Friday night in the U.S. -- at Sydneys Olympic stadium is expected to attract a crowd of more than 65,000.Hawaii had less time in the air, 10-1/2 hours from Honolulu. Former Rainbow Warrior quarterback Nick Rolovich, making his debut as head coach, and his team arrived Sunday. It will be the seventh straight year that Hawaii has opened against a Pac-12 opponent, and Hawaii is 2-4 in that span.Hawaii has had six Australians on its roster in the past, and this years squad includes Sydney native and first-year defensive lineman Max Hendrie.Dykes planned to keep the players up Monday to get them used to the time difference, and what better way than to schedule a practice within three hours of their arrival.The rest of the week will include a public reception Tuesday at the Opera House and morning meetings followed by noon practices most days, leaving the players free time in the afternoon and evening. There will be a Cal team trip to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.This is my senior year and Im here to win a football game, quarterback Davis Webb said before the team left California. Thats the way Im approaching it. Ill walk around Sydney, see the culture and embrace it and maybe eat lamb because everybody talks about that.Webb, who Dykes has already named as starting quarterback, is one of the key Cal additions this year, replacing Jared Goff, the No. 1 overall NFL draft pick by the Los Angeles Rams.A graduate transfer from Texas Tech, Webb played in 23 games with 14 starts over three seasons, with career totals of 5,557 yards and 46 touchdowns. Hes enrolled in Cals public health masters program.Dykes says he and the team are embracing the trip. Some of the players had never left the U.S., so organizing passports was among the preparations needed for the season opener.When you have an opportunity as an 18-year-old to go across the world to a different continent, see a completely different culture, explore a place you might never have had an opportunity to explore, just the impact that can have on your life is great, Dykes said before leaving. The value of that, you cant determine that.The game, with Cal designated as the home team, will be the first college football game played in Sydney and the first significant American football game played in Australia since 1999. Then, the Denver Broncos beat the San Diego Chargers 20-17 on Jason Elams 30-yard field goal on the final play of the game in the preseason American Bowl. Also played at the Olympic stadium, that game attracted more than 73,000 spectators.It is the first college football game to be played in Australia since Brigham Young defeated Colorado State in 1987 in Melbourne. A crowd of 7,652 watched BYUs 30-26 win at the 32,000-seat Princes Park stadium, far less than the 20,000 organizers had hoped.---AP Sports Writer Josh Dubow contributed to this story from Berkeley, California. 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In taking its goal tally to 99 in all competitions already this season, City delivered another demonstration of its lethal firepower at Etihad Stadium to set up a fourth-round match at home to another second-tier team -- Watford. This was the day England needed.After the debacle in Dhaka, this was the day England needed to heal some wounds and settle some nerves. They havent just eased themselves into the series, they have given themselves a decent opportunity to start with a win.It takes nothing away from the England performance to acknowledge that they enjoyed several slices of fortune. Most crucially, they won a toss that may well prove to be disproportionately useful by the end of the game. They also benefited from some poor fielding - not least three dropped chances within the first 30 minutes - an umpiring call that could have gone the other way, and some injury trouble for Mohammed Shami.But little is easy in India. At present, the air is hard to breathe, the money hard to spend and the roads hard to navigate. And seizing the opportunity that fate presented required negating some fine bowling - the seamers were particularly impressive, though Shamis attack of cramp perhaps hinted at a conditioning issue - and some skilful and intelligent play against the spinners.Joe Root was especially impressive. Hungry to prove himself in these conditions - this was his first century in Asia and only his third outside England and Wales - and aware of his sides reliance upon him, he produced a wonderfully mature performance to help rescue them from a potentially perilous 102 for 3 at lunch. Had he fallen early, the scars of Dhaka may well have started to itch.Unlike his masterful double-century against Pakistan in Manchester, though, this was not an innings in which he avoided all risk. Determined to take the fight to the India spinners in particular, determined to unsettle them and knock them off their length, he used the crease in a manner of which Kumar Sangakkara would have been proud and, every so often, produced a sweep, too. Even Ravi Ashwin, the No. 1 rated bowler in Test cricket, was driven for successive fours at one stage as he struggled to find a length that would control Root, while a rattled Amit Mishra was trusted with only 10 overs.While Root allowed himself more freedom once he had reached his century - Ravi Jadeja was lofted for a straight six and Ashwin was reverse-swept for four - this was not an innings studded with boundaries. Indeed, there were only three fours in his second 50.But there was also only one maiden between lunch and tea. So proficient has Root become at manoeuvring the ball into gaps, at placement and pushes and turns and dabs, that he was able to score at nearly 70 runs per 100 balls without seeming to rush. It was the first Test century by an overseas batsman in India since Michael Clarke in 2013 (in other words, there have been 12 successive Tests without a visiting player making a century in India) and further evidence that, in Root, England have a gem.His approach was complemented by that of Moeen Ali. While Root used the crease, Moeen used his feet. Skipping down the pitch to the spinners, in defence and attack, he too refused to let the bowlers settle. He keeps them interested, for sure, but he also plays with beautifully soft hands and curbed his more aggressive instincts to ensure he made his good start pay. He resumes in the morning requiring one run for his third Test century in six months and his first away from home. Since May 20, he is averaging a fraction under 60 with the bat in Test cricket.I justt tried to be quite positive with my footwork, Root said.dddddddddddd. 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So to get big runs early on is really pleasing.The most encouraging aspect of all this is that the pitch will, almost certainly, deteriorate. Already there is some uneven bounce off the cracks and patchy surface. Already there is some assistance, albeit gentle, for the spinners. It would be a surprise if there was not substantially more as the game develops. First-innings runs are likely to be far easier to score than second.Nor will England have been discouraged by the ball reverse-swinging for Indias seamers. Ahead of the game, Stuart Broad had questioned whether the conditions - a relatively lush outfield, a relatively unused square and an SG ball that England use infrequently - would enable them to find such movement. If the ball reverses, Englands seamers will always be a challenge. If it doesnt, they face some long days in the field.It wasnt a perfect day. Alastair Cook, who played and missed at six of his first 13 balls and edged three more, looked horribly out of form and Ben Ducketts defensive prod - front foot well inside the line of the ball to allow him to free his arms, which resulted in an edge to slip - will have offspinners around the world salivating with delight.And there is much work to do. A total of 400 would probably be insufficient. England need to bat long into the second day, perhaps into the third if they can. They need to give India an opportunity to bat only when the pitch has started to deteriorate. If Kohli and co get started while it is still in this state, they are likely to enjoy it greatly.By the end of day two, three and into day four, the game will speed up drastically in my opinion, Root said. I might be completely wrong. 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