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GULF TIMES Retires from International Duty SPORT Page 2 FORMULA 1 | Page 5 OOLYMPICSLYMPICS | Page 7 Rosberg Bolt eyes tops Friday sprint ‘triple To Advertise here practice at triple’ at Rio Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 Hockenheim Olympics Saturday, July 30, 2016 FOOTBALL Shawwal 25, 1437 AH Schweinsteiger GULF TIMES retires from international duty SPORT Page 2 CRICKET / SL VS AUS, DAY 4, 1ST TEST Lankan spinners corner Aussies in tricky chase ‘It should be an interesting game if we get the full quota of 90 overs... We are still confident’ AFP the mace as the world’s number one Pallekele, Sri Lanka team on the eve of the match. Much of their hopes of victory will rest on the shoulders of the 38-year-old Her- ustralia faced an uphill strug- ath, who took four wickets in the fi rst in- gle to save the fi rst Test nings and has a reputation of cleaning up against Sri Lanka’s rampant on the last day in home Tests. spinners after losing three “Pleasingly, a few balls started to Aearly second innings wickets yesterday turn quite sharply before the players while trying to chase down a formida- came off for bad light,” said Sri Lanka’s ble target of 268. head coach Graham Ford. The tourists were precariously “Hoping tomorrow that a few things placed at 83 for three, with skipper will go our way, and we’ll be able to Steve Smith unbeaten on 26, when bad press home and hopefully fi nish off light forced an early end to play for the with a big victory,” he said. fourth day running in Pallekele. The world number one Test team still SCORECARD need another 185 runs for victory on the SRI LANKA 1st inns 117 all out fi nal day today, when Sri Lanka’s trio AUSTRALIA 1st inns 203 all out of spinners will expect to capitalise on SRI LANKA 2nd inns (o/n 282/6) their early inroads against the tourists. K. Perera lbw b Starc 4 The hosts’ leading left-arm spin- K. Silva lbw b O’Keefe 7 ner Rangana Herath struck in only the D. Karunaratne lbw b Starc 0 second over of the Australian innings K. Mendis c Nevill b Starc 176 when he bowled vice-captain David A. Mathews c Burns b Lyon 9 Warner for one. D. Chandimal lbw b Marsh 42 Usman Khawaja started positively D. de Silva c Khawaja b Lyon 36 with three fours but he was ruled leg D. Perera not out 12 before wicket to off -spinner Dilruwan R. Herath c Henriques b Hazlewood 35 Perera when he attempted a sweep shot L. Sandakan b Starc 9 after making 18, leaving Australia reel- N. Pradeep not out 10 ing at 33 for 2. Extras (b 1, lb 11) 13 Then the debutant Lakshan Sandakan Total (all out, 93.4 overs) 353 joined the party with a ball that turned Fall of wicket: 1-6 (Perera), 2-6 (Karu- sharply and bowled opener Joe Burns naratne), 3-45 (Silva), 4-86 (Mathews), who had looked well set on 29. 5-203 (Chandimal), 6-274 (de Silva), One run later, fi rst innings top scorer 7-290 (Mendis), 8-314 (Dilruwan Perera), Adam Voges was ruled lbw to Perera for 9-323 (Sandakan), 10-353 (Herath) no score, but the batsman reviewed the Bowling: Starc 19-4-84-4, Hazlewood decision successfully. 18.4-3-59-2, O’Keefe 16.2-3-42-1, Lyon With the ball turning alarmingly, 27-2-108-2, Warner 1-0-10-0, Voges 1.4-0- Smith and Voges then suppressed their 3-0, Marsh 9-1-33-1, Smith 1-0-1-0 urge to play attacking shots while keep- ing the scoreboard ticking over with AUSTRALIA 2nd innings some sharply run singles. Sri Lanka’s Kaushal Silva (left) attempts to field a ball hit by Australia’s captain Steven Smith (right) as wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal looks on during the fourth day’s J. Burns b Sandakan 29 “It should be an interesting game if we play in the opening Test in Pallekele yesterday. (AFP) D. Warner b Herath 1 get the full quota of 90 overs... We are U. Khawaja lbw b D Perera 18 still confi dent,” Australia batting coach tured any boundaries so far, while his a low-scoring Test. No other player on Starc was the pick of the Australian extra cover. S. Smith not out 26 Stuart Law told reporters. “We saw Sri partner Voges was batting in a similarly either side has passed 50. bowlers, fi nishing the innings with fi g- Sri Lanka, who were 282 for six over- A. Voges not out 9 Lankans sweeping a lot. Our guys being a steadfast mood, reaching nine at the After starting the day unbeaten on ures of four for 84. night, eventually managed to reach a Extras 0 bit taller, sweep shot is a bit diffi cult so we close of play off 25 deliveries. 169, Mendis only managed another Herath and Nuwan Pradeep added total of 353, 267 runs ahead of the Aus- Total (3 wkts; 27 overs) 83 try to use our feet,” Law said. Australia’s struggles against the Sri seven runs before he played away from 30 runs for the last wicket off 29 de- tralians. Fall of wicket: 1-2 (Warner), 2-33 (Kha- Lankan bowlers further underlined the his body to a full length delivery from liveries before the Sri Lanka innings It was a remarkable turnaround after waja), 3-63 (Burns) AUSSIE REARGUARD importance of Kusal Mendis’ superb Mitchell Starc to be caught behind by ended after substitute fielder Moises they conceded a fi rst innings lead of 86 Bowling: Pradeep 3-0-16-0, Herath 10-1- Smith’s 54-ball innings has not fea- maiden Test century in what has been wicketkeeper Peter Nevill. Henriques took a spectacular catch at to the tourists who were presented with 35-1, Perera 9-1-19-1, Sandakan 5-1-13-1 CRICKET / ZIM VS NZ, DAY 2, 1ST TEST Latham century helps New Zealand to sizeable lead Reuters off the leg-spin bowling of home The New Zealanders will look Bulawayo skipper Graeme Cremer. to bat through the third day The New Zealand captain after Williamson said his side had benefi ted from a conten- would seek time at the crease om Latham’s century tious decision from the televi- to prepare for tougher series in and 91 from Kane Wil- sion umpire when he looked to South Africa and India over the liamson put New Zea- have been caught at fi rst slip by next two months. land fi rmly in the driv- Sikandar Raza off Cremer when Ting seat with a 151-run lead over he was on 72. SCORECARD Zimbabwe on the second day of Williamson asked Raza to Zimbabwe 1st inns 164 all out the fi rst Test yesterday. confi rm he had taken the catch New Zealand 1st inns New Zealand closed on 315 and despite a positive response M. Guptill c Ervine b Chibhabha 40 for four in reply to Zimbabwe’s he spoke to the umpires who T. Latham not out 98 fi rst-innings 164. opted to get television evidence K. Williamson not out 61 Ross Taylor (38) and night- which could not prove the dis- Extras (b5, w2, nb8) 15 watchman Ish Sodhi (5) were not missal. Total (for 1 wkt, 67 overs) 214 out at the close. Opener Martin Guptill was Fall of wicket: 1-79 (Guptill) Latham reached his fourth dismissed in the fi rst session Bowling: Chinouya 13-2-36-0, Test century soon after tea be- for 40, was caught in the gully Tiripano 11-0-38-0, Masvaure fore being caught by stand-in to hand debutant Chamu Chib- 5-0-20-0, Cremer 20-2-55-0, wicketkeeper Brian Chairi off habha a fi rst Test wicket. Sikandar Raza 4-0-28-0, Chib- the part-time bowling of veter- Henry Nicholls was the fourth habha 10-0-22-1, Masakadza an Hamilton Masakadza for 105 wicket to fall, caught behind by 4-1-10-0 from 209 balls. Chairi from a full delivery by Latham and Williamson com- Donald Tiripano. New Zealand batsman Tom piled a second-wicket partner- Chairi was deputising for Latham in action on Day Two of ship of 156. Williamson fell nine Regis Chakabva who was con- the first Test against Zimbabwe runs short of his century after a fi ned to bed on Friday with a at Queens Sports Club in Bula- sharp catch at slip by Masakadza high temperature. wayo yesterday. (AFP) Gulf Times 2 Saturday, July 30, 2016 FOOTBALL SPOTLIGHT A LOOKBACK 2014 WC fi nal was Bastian’s fi nest hour Schweinsteiger AFP Berlin aving announced his international re- tirement yesterday, Germany’s midfield retires from Hgeneral Bastian Schwein- steiger walks away from die Mannschaft two years after his crowning moment in helping win the 2014 World Cup. Bloodied, but unbowed, Sch- weinsteiger was magnifi cent at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana international duty stadium in the fi nal, ensuring Germany controlled the midfi eld before Mario Goetze’s extra- ‘In 120 internationals, I have been allowed to run out for my country and experience time winning goal. After 12 years and 24 goals in moments which were indescribably beautiful and successful’ 120 international appearances, File photo of Germany’s Bastian ‘Schweini’ leaves having been a Schweinsteiger smiling during a key factor in Germany reaching press conference. at least the semi-fi nal stage of the last six major tournaments.
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