14 SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2019 sports Euro Bahrain edge Rebel II Aussies stumble in Sydney Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja ensure India’s dominance

Yadav said India’s fielding and Arslan - ACL Janardhan -Royals Prasanth - Indian Shakeel - Euro ’s catching practice was paying TDT | Manama (Jameel 36, Vishal 33, Balaji • off. 2/14) beat NDC Bahrain 102/10 woes returned on “I feel like we are the best side (Balaji 20, Vishal 3/15, Sukesh the third day of in the world now when it comes uro Bahrain defeated Re- 3/22) by 35 runs the fourth Test to fielding,” he said. Ebel II by 8 in a CBA Indian Delights 130/2 in Skipper Virat Kohli’s decla- Division C T-20 League match 20 overs (Shebeer 45, Anil Australia trail by ration left Khawaja and Harris Rebel II won the toss and 41) beat Lanterns XI 120/10 • to face 10 nervous overs before elected to bat first. Ajith (41) (Kashif 31, Nizar 3/14, Anu 386 runs with 4 wickets stumps on Friday, when they and Shahnawaz’s (41) partner- 3/28) by 10 runs remaining in the innings crawled to 24 without loss. ship helped Rebel II to score Karnataka Royals 218/8 in Khawaja was dropped on 152 at the end of 20 overs. 20 overs (Janardhan 65, Wil- AFP | Sydney nought but failed to make the Ashfaq took two wickets for lams 46, Basir 3/19) beat Bas- most of his second life. Euro. Chasing the target, Eu- sali Tigers 138/9 (Numair 40, ustralia blew a strong On a day when the Sydney ro’s opener Shakeel scored an Sagar 2/18) by 80 runs start with yet another Ground was a sea of unbeaten in 59 balls CBA Division B T-20 League Atop order batting col- pink to mark a breast cancer which includes 13 sixes and 3 Climax A 132/9 in 20 overs lapse in Sydney yesterday, leav- Rishabh Pant looks on as Marcus Harris plays onto his stumps awareness initiative, he was dis- boundaries that helped Euro (Usman 33, Rajan 29, Karthick ing themselves a mountain to missed for 27 after mistiming a Bahrain to reach the target in 4/34) beat Biyas Bahrain Indi- climb to stay in the fourth and Australia went to lunch at ing against the number one side shot off Yadav with Pujara tak- 18th overs. ans 105/10 (Praveen 36, Awad final Test against India. 122 for one but meekly surren- in the world, so it’s not like it’s ing an easy catch. Brief Score: Euro Bahrain 3/3, Mudassar 3/26) by 27 runs When play was abandoned dered soon afterwards, losing an easy thing to do.” At the other end the dimin- 153/2 in 17.2 overs (Shakeel Asgharali 125/6 in 18.1 overs half an hour early due to rain, three wickets for 24 runs, with Despite the task ahead, Harris utive Harris, who has shown 105, Faisal 19) beat Rebel II (Ubaid 34, Zohair 24, Sajjad they were 236 for six, still 386 spinners Ravindra Jadeja and remained optimistic. flashes of brilliance in his short 152/7 (Ajith 41, Shahnawaz 41, 2/19) beat Shifa Al Jazeera behind with Kuldeep Yadav doing the dam- “Obviously 600 is a big score four-Test career, quickly found Ashfaq 2/23) by 8 wickets 121/7 (Prasaad 23, Zohair 3/21) (28) and (25) age. to chase down or get a close a groove with some crisp shots. Other Match Scores by 4 wickets fighting a rearguard action af- Yadav ended with 3-71 and deficit, but I think the more ACL Red Mountain 172/6 in Indian Rising Star 129/7 in ter some soft dismissals plunged Jadeja 2-62. time we can occupy the crease, India first innings 622-7 declared (C. 20 overs (Arslan 59, Jan 44, 19 overs (Prashanth 56, Arun the hosts into deep trouble. While aggressive rookie you never know what can hap- Pujara 193, R. Pant 159 no, R Jadeja 81; Fahad 2/33) beat Young Star 27, Imran 3/24) beat Liaison opener Marcus Harris blazed pen.” N. Lyon 4-178) 151/9 (Hameed 42, Nasir 3/17, Combine 127/7 (Rizwan 53, a career-best 79, senior players India took a stranglehold on Australia 1st innings (overnight 24-0) Naeem 2/22) by 21 runs Joby 4/26) by 3 wickets , the match over the opening two M. Harris b Jadeja 79 BETTER LuLu 124/10 (Ajay 44, National Guard 157/3 in 17 and skipper all failed days, compiling a huge 622 for U. Khawaja c Pujara b K. Yadav 27 Shoaib 2/20) beat Smile Mart oves (Safdar 47, Asif 45, Guru to deliver when needed most. seven declared on the back of M. Labuschagne c Rahane b Shami 38 117/9 (Zeeshan 31, Ajeesh 2/7, 2/22) beat RKCT 155/6 (Guru “I got a start and a few of us centuries from irrepressible S. Marsh c Rahane b Jadeja 8 Twinkle 2/24) by 7 runs. 47, Jagan 46, Iqbal 2/25) by 7 KNOW got a start but none of us went Cheteshwar Pujara and livewire T. Head c & b K. Yadav 20 Rebel CC 137/7 in 20 overs wickets on to get a big score so it’s pretty Rishabh Pant. P. Handscomb not out 28 simple to work out what went They lead 2-1 after victories T. Paine b Yadav 5 India only need a draw to wrong,” said Harris. in Adelaide and Melbourne and P. Cummins not out 25 claim a first Test series “We’re a young group and are fast closing in on a historic Extras (b4, lb2) 6 win in Australia we’re trying to work it out and first-ever series win since they Total (6 wickets, 83.3 overs) 236 Sabalenka fights back against think on our feet but we’re play- first toured Australia in 1947-48. Riske to win Shenzhen open Anderson wins battle of giants with Pune ATP title AFP | Pune

orld number six WKevin Anderson of South Africa won the battle Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus hits a return during a match at Shenzhen Open of giants against 2.11 me - tres (6 feet 11 inches) tall AFP | Beijing she won titles at Wuhan and Ivo Karlovic to clinch the New Haven. Maharashtra Open title in op seed Aryna Sabalenka “It was a tough day for us, Pune yesterday. Twon the Shenzhen open especially to come back af - Anderson, who stands at yesterday after a nail-biting ter the first set. She (Riske) 2.03 m (6’8”), edged out the clash against three-time final- played unbelievable, an in- veteran Croat 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 in ist Alison Riske. credible match,” Sabalenka the tallest ATP final in the Sabalenka lost the first set said. Open Era. to her American opponent, “To start the season with a Anderson prevailed in the before coming back to win the title, it gives you more belief big serving duel despite the match 4-6, 7-6, 6-3. in yourself, and hopefully I 39-year-old Karlovic, the The Shenzhen open was the can do well at the Australian oldest ATP finalist in more Belarusian’s fifth WTA final in Open.” than four decades, hitting the last ten months and her A quarterfinalist on her de- 36 aces. first international trophy. The but in Shenzhen last year, Sa- The 32-year-old Ander- world number 13 had a break- balenka lost to eventual cham- son, who improved on his through season last year when pion Simona Halep. runners-up showing in the last edition to clinch his sixth tour-level title, praised his “inspirational” opponent. “Firstly want to congrat- ulate Ivo for a great week. What you are doing is tru- ly inspirational... Great to see you playing this kind of tennis,” Anderson said of Karlovic. “It was close, it could have gone either way. Obviously at Seef District too very, pleased to have gone one step further than last year,” added the two-time Um al Hassan +973 17728699 Seef District +973 17364999 Grand Slam finalist.