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'It's not going to be easy for IPL Eliminator: Momentum with SRH but RCB has the fire power Mumbai in playoffs' NEW DELHI, NOV has come under the scan- 05:With momentum on ner. NEW DELHI, NOV 5: seas fast bowlers, and Indian their side, a confident Sun- Kohli and AB de Villiers Former India cricketer San- spinners, that is a good mix risers Hyderabad would need to take responsibility jay Bangar said it is not go- of experience, pace, youth look for another complete in the big match for RCB, ing to be easy for Mumbai and then if there's one team performance to continue which also features the likes Indians when they take on that can challenge Mumbai their forward march in the of Chris Morris, Shivam Delhi Capitals in the playoff Indians, its Delhi Capitals. IPL when they face a strug- Dube and Washington Sun- clash. So, be aware Mumbai Indi- gling Royal Challengers dar and bats quite deep. Talking about the 'good' ans, it's not going to be easy," Bangalore in the Eliminator, , who was combination that Delhi Cap- he added. in Abu Dhabi, on Friday. rested in the last match af- itals have, Bangar said the The league stage of the In- Pushed to the wall after a ter he suffered a split web- Shreyas Iyer-led side is the dian Premier League (IPL) slow start to the tourna- bing, is expected to return only team that can challenge 2020 concluded on Tuesday ment, SRH produced a lion- to partner Mohammed Mumbai Indians. with Mumbai Indians, Delhi hearted effort in the second Siraj, and "Let me tell you one thing, Capitals, Sunrisers Hyder- leg and peaked at the right Morris.The spin depart- when it goes to the Playoffs, abad (SRH), and Royal time to qualify for the play- against MI. On the other hand, know- ment will be under the no matter what has hap- Challengers Bangalore offs by finishing third in the While Warner has led ing very well that another wings of Sundar and pened in the past, it's on the they have undergone this good match to qualify for (RCB) reaching the playoffs. league standings, just ahead SRH from the front, scoring blunder could send them . day which team plays better season is very critical," Ban- and play in the second spot. I Mumbai Indians will lock of RCB. 529 runs from 14 games to packing, the Kohli-led RCB Squads: . Delhi Capitals, I gar said. believe that the kind of com- horns with Delhi Capitals on It has been contrasting re- occupy the second spot in have a lot to ponder over. Sunrisers Hyderabad: agree might not have the ex- "Success early on, failures bination they have of good, Thursday while RCB will sults for the two teams in the the scorers' list, Saha (184 Coming into the match Kane Williamson, David perience of playing a lot of were in the latter half of the young, experienced Indian compete against SRH on business end of the tourna- runs from 3 matches) has with four consecutive Warner (c), Jonny Bairstow Playoff matches, but what tournament, and then a very batsmen, a battery of over- Friday. ment. proved that the SRH team losses, RCB's confidence (wk), Manish Pandey, Mo- While RCB suffered four management has erred in would be rock-bottom. hammad Nabi, Priyam consecutive defeats to finish benching him for 11 ties. But skipper Kohli under- Garg, Wriddhiman Saha the league stage at the Such has been Warner stands it is not the time to (wk), Virat Singh, Bhu- Nadal survives Lopez scare in fourth spot, SRH registered and Saha's performance think about past results and vneshwar Kumar, Basil a hat-trick of wins to edge that the likes of Manish what matters from here on Thampi, Abhishek Sharma, past 's men in the Pandey, Kane Williamson, is three wins on the trot to Billy Stanlake, Sandeep standings. Priyam Garg and Jason lift the IPL title.But it would Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Paris to claim 1,000th win SRH made a remarkable Holder were hardly both- be easier said than done as Shreevats Goswami, Sid- NEW DELHI, NOV you are under a lot of pres- turnaround in their final ered. RCB seem to have lost some darth Kaul, K Khaleel 05: Top seed Rafael Nadal sure for the whole match,” three games -- defeating On the bowling front, of their steam. Ahmed, T Natarajan, was handed an opening Nadal added.With both Delhi Capitals, RCB and SRH has found the right In their last match Mitchell Marsh, Bavanaka night fright by his good players evenly matched, the table-toppers Mumbai Indi- combination in Sandeep against DC, RCB's batting- Sandeep, Fabian Allen, Ab- friend Feliciano Lopez at second set stayed on serve ans to book their last-fourth Sharma, Jason Holder, heavy top-order failed to dul Samad, Sanjay Yadav, the Paris Masters on before Nadal edged a berth. Shahbaz Nadeem, T live up to expectations. Rashid Khan Wednesday, but rallied to tiebreak to send the contest And come Friday, SRH Natarajan and Rashid Khan , who has Royal Challengers Banga- beat his fellow Spaniard 4- to a decider. would be brimming with and is expected to stick with been brought in place of lore: Virat Kohli (c), AB de 6 7-6(5) 6-4 and claim his Nadal broke Lopez in his confidence, especially after them. , has looked Villiers, (wk), 1,000th ATP Tour win. first service game of the their 10-wicket win over MI While Sandeep has been good in patches but hasn't Aaron Finch, Josh Philippe, Nadal becomes just the third set and then showed in the last must-win game. sensational in the power- been able to convert his Chris Morris, Moeen Ali, fourth man to achieve 1,000 his usual levels of laser-like The credit for SRH's suc- plays, Natarajan has done starts and in all likelihood, , Shahbaz singles victories in the Open focus to close out the match. cess in the past few matches the job in the the death Kohli might be tempted to Ahmed, Devdutt Padikkal, Era, behind Jimmy Con- right. terms with Lopez’s blister- Next up for the 20-times goes to the opening pair of overs. bring back Finch on Friday. Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep nors (1,274), Roger Federer “I’m proud of a lot of ing serve. Grand Slam champion is a Warner and Wriddhiman Rashid has been consis- Young Devdutt Padikkal, Saini, , Pawan (1,242) and Ivan Lendl things, but I faced some Lopez, 39, won a scarcely meeting with Australia’s Saha. tent in the middle overs, but who scored his fifth fifty of Negi, Isuru Udana, Shivam (1,068). challenges in my career in believable 93% of his first Jordan Thompson in the The duo has clicked up- certainly the inclusion of the event in their last game, Dube, Umesh Yadav, Gur- “One negative thing terms of injuries ... It’s a big serve points and also sent last 16. front and has so far shared Holder and Nadeem has has been consistent at the keerat Singh Mann, Wash- about 1,000 wins is you are achievement to be playing down eight aces as he Elsewhere, fourth seed two century stands -- 107 provided balance to the top but Kohli needs to step ington Sundar, Pavan Desh- very old because to win at the age of 34.” wrapped up the opening set Alexander Zverev beat Ser- against DC and then 151 team. up as of late, his strike rate pande, . 1,000 matches you need to Nadal, who was handed a in style. bia’s Miomir Kecmanovic have a very long career, but I bye in the first round, got off “It was a very tough 6-2 6-2 to set up a meeting am super happy,” Nadal to a terrible start, losing his match, and I started the with France’s Adrian Man- said in courtside. “It means opening service game and worst way possible with the narino for a place in the Champions League PIX: Barca I’ve done a lot of things quarter-finals. never really coming to break against him because get third win; PSG stunned Women's T20 Challenge: Harmanpreet NEW DELHI, NOV a second yellow card and 05: Barcelona earned a far sent off in the 40th minute, from convincing 2-1 win at after a long VAR check, looking to improve despite win home to a depleted Dy- when the ball ricocheted namo Kyiv on Wednesday from his calf to his arm, as Lionel Messi scored a having earned his first cau- penalty for the third Cham- tion for tripping Werner in pions League game in a row the box after 10 minutes. with the Spaniards main- Werner converted both taining their winning start spot-kicks emphatically, to the group stage. taking the role of Chelsea’s The Argentine, who had penalty-taker from also scored spot-kicks in Jorginho who missed two wins over Group G oppo- earlier this season. nents Ferencvaros and Ju- “I am happy, I am happy than in any other game so Dynamo should have lev- ventus, tucked away a Jorginho is cool with it. It is far, we need to improve a elled before halftime when penalty in the fifth minute another point that speaks lot when we don’t have the Vitaliy Buyalskyi powered a while Gerard Pique netted for our team, we are not ball,” said the Dutchman. header at goal but was de- in the second half, glancing selfish. We all go in one di- “I’m happy with the re- nied by the strong hand of in a fine cross from Ansu rection which is good,” sult but not with certain as- Ter Stegen, who was mak- Fati.Dynamo, who were Werner told BT Sport. pects of our game and luck- ing his first appearance of missing six players due to Abraham made it 3-0 five ily we had Ter Stegen the season after recovering COVID-19 positives, which minutes into the second around.“I think we started from knee surgery. also afflicted five members well and got the goal early “The opponents had too half with a short-range fin- of staff, gave a decent ac- and had some clear chances many clear chances and we ish after an inch-perfect count of themselves and but after that we lost con- need to improve in that re- cross by Reece James. spurned a couple of trol and they created a lot of spect. We need to talk about The comfortable victory chances to equalise as well danger. Thanks to Marc, that,” said Ter Stegen. left Chelsea top of Group E, as having a goal from a cor- who was phenomenal, we His opposite number ahead of Sevilla of Spain on ner ruled out due to the ball held on.” Ruslan Neshcheret, 18, pro- goal difference, with three NEW DELHI, NOV "In our last four batting important. Losing Danny pressure, said she did not going out of play. Barca went into the duced an even more im- of the six games played. 05: Supernovas' skipper overs, we didn't utilise Wyatt was big because find the slow conditions They deservedly pulled a match after a disappointing pressive display, pulling off It also represented a fifth Harmanpreet Kaur said or- (them) well. Even a single she's a main player, and a much challenging. late goal back in the 75th 1-1 draw at Alaves, the an outstanding save from a clean sheet in a row for the dinary performance by per ball would have been bit nervous too. But Veda "It was quite difficult minute when Viktor Tsy- fourth game in a row in La Messi free kick while also Blues who appear to have both batters and bowlers good enough but we didn't played well, with Sushma that we needed 62 in 42 gankov slid the ball into the Liga which they had failed keeping out later efforts fixed the defensive frailties during the slog overs re- get that. Playing after a and Sune too," she said. when I walked in. They net, pouncing on a rebound to win, but got off to an from Ousmane Dembele sulted in her team's five- long time, it's not easy, but Mithali said the were bowling well. Sushma after Barca keeper Marc- that dogged them last sea- ideal start at an empty and Sergi Roberto. wicket defeat against Ve- if you keep winning, only Women's T20 Challenge rotated the strike well with Andre ter Stegen could only son and in the opening Camp Nou when Messi Chelsea eased to a 3-0 locity, here on Wednesday. then can you survive in this was a good platform to me. I didn't find the surface parry a shot from Benjamin games of this campaign. converted from the spot af- win over 10-man Rennes in Supernovas could not tournament," she said. help "our younger players". too difficult at all. It was Verbic. “We had a very good ter being hauled down. the Champions League defend their modest 126 "We need to come back "They can see Harman- coming onto the bat. Cou- The victory put Barca on game today,” Werner said. The Catalans made a blis- Group E, thanks to two for eight in the opening with a positive approach. preet, Smriti and so on and ple of sixes from the girls the verge of a place in the “Also good for me is we had tering start and almost im- first-half penalties ham- match of the Women's T20 There was a bit of dew in prepare with them." was a testament to how knockout stages, leaving one more player on the mediately built on their ad- mered home by striker Challenge. the end but it's part of the They next play Trailblaz- good the wicket was," she them top on nine points af- pitch and could control it vantage when teenager Timo Werner and a tap-in "To win games you need conditions. Felt we simply ers on Thursday. insisted. ter three games, with Ju- from behind.” Pedri clanged the crossbar. by Tammy Abraham. to keep bowling well. did not bowl well in the last "Back to back games can "The pitch played the ventus second on six and Chelsea goalkeeper Antoine Griezmann then The match swung the way Whatever we thought, in couple of overs," she said. be difficult, because we same both innings, it de- Dynamo and Ferencvaros Edouard Mendy, bought bungled a simple chance to of the Londoners with the the last couple of overs, we Winning captain Mithali aren't getting time to re- pends more on your style with a point each. from Rennes in September score a tap-in, inexplicably two penalty decisions didn't bowl according to Raj said she was expecting a cover, but that is what it is. of cricket. This is such a Barca coach Ronald Koe- to replace the out-of-form finding the side netting which both went against plan. They batted really total in the range of 120- When we wake up, we'll be great opportunity to be man was visibly anxious on Kepa Arrizabalaga, had little when the ball bounced into Rennes defender Dalbert well… got to appreciate 130 in the first innings. preparing again." here, in these crazy times. the sidelines and did not at- his path from close range Henrique, on loan from In- to do against his former that," said Harmanpreet at "Wish we had a decent Sune Luus, who was ad- It's extremely great to be tempt to gloss over the after Fati saw his shot par- ter Milan. team mates until the 84th the post-match presenta- opening start, because in judged player of the match playing again. Really en- sloppy performance. ried. The Brazilian was shown minute when he parried a tion ceremony. low scoring games that's for her 37-run knock under joying it." “We suffered more today shot by Clement Grenier.