José Mourinho sets his sights on European grand slam with Real Madrid

The 47-year-old admitted after Saturday's Champions League final win over Bayern Munich at the Bernabéu that he was likely to leave theNerazzurri, and he seems certain to switch his attention to adding the Spanish league title to those of Italy and England.

Speaking in an interview in today's Marca, which was billed as Mourinho's first as the new coach of Real Madrid, the Portuguese said: "No player or coach has won the three important leagues and I want to be the first to do it. Ancelotti, Capello, Van Nistelrooy, Beckham and others have won two, but not three. I would like to be the first to win the grand slam of the Spanish, Italian and English leagues."

Mourinho is confident he can help Madrid fulfil their ambition of winning a record 10th European Cup. Madrid had hoped to reach this season's Champions League final on home soil but, for the sixth campaign running, they were knocked out at the last-16 stage.

When asked if he felt he was able to make Madrid champions of Europe, Mourinho – who on Saturday became only the third coach to win the European Cup with two different clubs – said: "Yes, of course. At Chelsea I felt I was capable of winning the European Cup. I won a couple of leagues and several cups, but not the European Cup. At Inter I felt capable of winning the Scudetto and cups, and we also won the Champions League. You can never say what you are going to do."

Mourinho preferred not to talk about what he felt was missing from the Madrid's squad or prospective signings, saying only when asked about the reported summer targets Daniele De Rossi of Roma and Maicon of Inter: "I like all the good players, but now is not the moment to bring up the business of future signings."

However, Mourinho did comment on two of Madrid's big summer signings from last year, Kaká and Karim Benzema. Kaká, 28, was brought from Milan for £56m while the 22-year-old Benzema cost around £30m when he moved from Lyon. Neither player has particularly impressed in their first campaign in La Liga.

Mourinho is confident both will come good, though. "They are two top players," he said. "But to analyse this situation properly you need to be inside and I'm not. It's difficult to analyse from outside, I've not seen enough games of Real Madrid to make an opinion. In the case of these two players, I don't think one not-so-great season is a drama. It's not an impossible situation to change. I don't think for them it will be a problem returning to the top."

Regarding the plans of Florentino Pérez, who returned to the Madrid presidency last summer promising a "spectacular project" to restore the Spanish side to their former glories, Mourinho seems impressed. However, he pointed out that it is the coach and the players who are the only ones who can win silverware.

"It's an ambitious project. As president he has put in place the necessary means in the sporting structure; he has a fantastic training ground, has invested money to build a team and has given confidence to the professionals until the end.

"[But] the president isn't the one who wins, he isn't the one who plays, nor who decides what happens on the bench. From there the responsibility is with the professionals: the coach, the technical staff, and the players.

"Nowadays the coach doesn't arrive at nine and leave at 11. I think that the coach is a very important person in the whole structure as he must lead all the other departments that surround the first team. I arrived at Appiano Gentile [Inter's training ground] at 7.30am and I left at 5pm or later. Some days I've even slept there when we've had little time to analyse our opponents in preparation for a game."

Seamers set up comprehensive win for Sri Lanka

Nuwan Kulasekara found the perfect lines and lengths for the slow and low track that the USA has dished out, and ripped the heart out of New Zealand's batting with three wickets in his first over. Although Daniel Vettori and Nathan McCullum, the only New Zealanders to reach double figures, avoided the ignominy of the lowest total in Twenty20 internationals, 81 was never going to test Sri Lanka even on this pitch.

The win was set up by Kulasekara's first two overs, three wickets in the first and no runs in the second. He made the necessary adjustments from the first match: everything was stump to stump, slightly short of a length, and offcutters were bowled aplenty. That the innings started with Kumar Sangakkara standing up to the stumps, with no slip in sight, said a lot about the pitch. It didn't help New Zealand that their top-order batsmen were looking to play around their front pad, and the bowlers were hardly missing. There was no bounce in the pitch to take anything over the stumps either.

Aaron Redmond and Rob Nicol both fell to ones that Kulasekara got to jag in sharply. Brendon McCullum got a beauty in between those dismissals, this one holding its line. Ross Taylor, in the next over, played across the line to Angelo Mathews and paid the price. Gareth Hopkins, in to replace the injured Martin Guptill, went for an ill-advised single, and many dubious records were in sight.

Crisis man Vettori, though, found support from the older McCullum, and the two batted sensibly to add 45 for the sixth wicket. Neither of them looked to play across the line, both waited for the loose deliveries, which were rare. One of them was a full delivery from Mathews in the seventh over, which McCullum punched down the ground for the first boundary of the innings. Vettori hit two more boundaries, both cleverly played reverse-sweeps against Sanath Jayasuriya.

The partnership came to an end when Vettori swept at Ajantha Mendis, and the fielding side and the umpire took the noise emanating for an edge. Vettori, though, demonstrated the exact spot on the pitch his bat had hit, which created the incriminating sound.

When McCullum square-cut Thissara Perera through the fingers of Tillakaratne Dilshan in the 16th over, the only other boundary of the piece, the score moved to 76, two more than the lowest total by a major team. Even though McCullum kept New Zealand fighting, the lower order found full and straight bowling from Lasith Malinga too much, securing New Zealand's smallest total in the format.

In the chase, Sri Lanka were hardly under any pressure, especially after Mahela Jayawardene got them going with a 12-ball 17. During his stay in the middle, batting looked at its easiest on this pitch not conducive to attractive cricket. Perera was sent in at the first drop, and he did his job by hitting two fours and a six in his 25 even as Dilshan struggled for timing. Those two cameos were enough, though, to set the chase up, and Dilshan saw them through.

Spice Jet flight makes emergency landing at Delhi airport

A Spice Jet aircraft on a Delhi-Srinagar flight made an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Monday afternoon because of a tyre problem, officials said. All the 188 passengers were reported to be safe.

"A Delhi-Srinagar Spice Jet aircraft, which took off from the Delhi airport, had to make an emergency landing here at 2.40 p.m. today (Monday) after the Air Traffic Control informed the Spice Jet authorities that they noticed some tyre debris on the runway," told the airline official.

"Therefore, as a precautionary measure and keeping the safety of the passengers in mind, the flight made an emergency landing. All the passengers are safe and investigations are on in the matter," the official added.

Among the 188 passengers on board, two were infants.