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Duminy, Elgar Centuries Put South Africa On SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016 SPORTS KIB’s cricket team wins match against Gulf Bank KUWAIT: In their first game of this over with 5 wickets spare. season of the Kuwait Banks Club (KBC) Furthermore, KIB’s Ali Merji was League, Kuwait International Bank’s named “Man of the Match” for his cricket team recently won their match impressive performance during the against Gulf Bank’s team by 5 wickets. game. Congratulating the team on After winning the toss, Gulf Bank their win, the Bank’s Management elected to bat first, but KIB’s team wished the Cricket team a successful kicked off the game with determina- season with plenty of more victories tion and skill. KIB’s bowlers exerted to follow. pressure from the very beginning and KIB is a keen advocate of enhanc- took wickets with regular intervals, ing interest in sports across the com- restricting the Gulf Bank team to only munity in Kuwait, starting with its 117 runs. The KIB team then opened own staff. The Bank’s leading social its innings with confidence and a responsibility program aims to raise fierce attitude, despite one of its play- awareness within the local community ers getting injured and having to of the importance of sports and physi- leave the game. cal activity in all its forms. The Bank With this victory, KIB scored a win firmly believes that regular exercise is in its first game of the 2016-2017 sea- an integral part of a modern, healthy son of Kuwait Banks Club (KBC) lifestyle, enhancing both physical and League, winning the match in 19th mental well-being. England’s Cook hails Anderson return for India Tests MUMBAI: Captain Alastair Cook yester- the numbers so that’s great for us. He day hailed top bowler Jimmy wants to make a difference in this Anderson’s surprise return from injury series,” Cook told a post-training press PERTH: Australian bowler Peter Siddle (R) grimaces as he attempts to stop a shot from South Africa’s Dean Elgar (L) on day three of the first Test as he insisted England would revel in conference. India are number one in cricket match between Australia and South Africa in Perth yesterday. — AFP their status as underdogs during their the world and have not lost a Test series tour of India. Cook said that Anderson, at home since left-handed batsman England’s all-time leading Test wicket- Cook expertly lead England to a 2-1 vic- Duminy, Elgar centuries taker with 463 scalps, had been given tory four years ago. England’s spin the all-clear following a shoulder prob- attack is weaker than it was back then lem and could arrive in India as early as when Graeme Swann and Monty Tuesday. Panesar excelled on Indian soil but put South Africa on top “It’s really good news. He’s ready to Cook is confident that his side can come so it’s just about trying to get him spring a surprise. PERTH: South Africa’s JP Duminy and Dean His career-best 127 came off 316 balls and he out to Rajkot as quick as we can,” Cook, Elgar both scored centuries in a third-wicket NERVOUS NINETIES had hit 17 fours and one six when Josh 31, told reporters in Mumbai. The first PRESSURE OFF ENGLAND partnership of 250 to drive the tourists to a 388- It was his first century in two years and his Hazlewood finally winkled him out after tea Test of the five-match series starts in “Unfortunately we haven’t quite got run lead over Australia at the end of the third third against Australia, just reward for a master- when he offered a tired shot and got an edge Rajkot, in western Gujarat state, on that experience of probably top quality day of the first test yesterday. class of calm control and shot-making. which Mitchell Starc took at gully. Wednesday as India seek revenge for a spinners. (But) Mo (Moeen Ali) has been Australia removed both centurions around The end came just as it looked like the pair of Starc should have caught Elgar on 81 when home series loss to England four years very successful against India in the the tea break, as well as Temba Bavuma and cap- left-handers would bat through to tea, Peter the batsman skied the ball to mid-off but he lost ago. The powerful Anderson will miss past. “Rash (Adil Rashid) has done very tain Faf du Plessis in the last hour, but by then Siddle benefiting from a DRS review when the the ball in the Perth sun, tripped himself over the opening Test but could be ready to well in One Day Cricket and we proba- the damage had been done and the Proteas will technology revealed a nick off the bat that car- trying to readjust his position and spilled it on lead England’s attack for the second bly haven’t seen the best of him in Test go into day four on 390 for six. ried through to wicketkeeper Peter Nevill. the turf, to the despair of bowler Nathan Lyon. match, which starts in Andhra Pradesh cricket yet. “(So) we’ve actually got Quinton de Kock, who was dropped by Adam Elgar did not have such a good experience on The left-arm paceman also accounted for Du state, on November 17, said Cook. more options in this squad than we did Voges on one, was at the crease unbeaten on 16 his previous visit to the WACA, having got a pair Plessis (32), a fine edge taken behind by Nevill, Anderson suffered a fractured shoul- in the last squad,” he said. Cook warned at the end of a long, hot day at the WACA, along when he made his test debut at the ground in while Hazlewood had Bavuma well caught by der blade last summer and had been critics not to write off his team even if with Vernon Philander, who had made 23 not 2012, albeit on the winning team. Usman Khawaja at deep square leg for eight but dogged by a recurrence of the injury they do lose in the opening Test recall- out. South African paceman Dale Steyn was Dogged and determined where Duminy was the collapse Australia needed never materi- but passed fitness tests back home on ing his side’s heroics the last time they ruled out of the rest of the series with a fractured fluent, the 29-year-old reached his fifth test cen- alised. After Perth, the series continues in Hobart Friday while the rest of the England toured India. “I remember sitting in a shoulder on Friday and will play no further part tury half an hour before tea after a prolonged before concluding with a day-night test at squad were already training in India. press conference after the first Test and in the match, reducing the number of wickets spell in the “nervous nineties”. Adelaide Oval. — Reuters “I was chatting to him yesterday and everyone was talking about how you’re Australia need to take. the second Test is a good possibility. going to stop India winning 4-0 and we Steyn was a member of the Proteas team that SCOREBOARD We’ll know when we see how his body managed to turn it around and win 2-1. chased down 414 to beat Australia at the WACA in 2008 but it was a debutant Duminy who reacts when he’s out here,” said the It shows that anything is possible.” scored the three runs off Mitchell Johnson that PERTH, Australia: Scoreboard at the end of the third day of the first cricket test between Australia and South Africa skipper. Anderson took more wickets England are looking to bounce back got the South Africans over the line. at the WACA ground yesterday. than any other pace bowler on either from a humiliating defeat to minnows Now 32, Duminy looks to have played a key South Africa 1st Innings: 242 Quinton de Kock not out 16 side when England won the 2012 series Bangladesh last week and Cook role in another Perth triumph after his brilliant in India and Cook believes the fired-up believes that being underdogs, rather Australia 1st Innings: 244 Vernon Philander not out 23 141 rammed home South Africa’s advantage South Africa 1st Innings (Overnight: 104-2) Extras (4b, 13lb, 12w, 1nb) 30 34-year-old could be the difference than favourites, will work in his side’s after they had skittled Australia for 244 in reply Stephen Cook c Shaun Marsh b Siddle 12 TOTAL: (6 wickets) 390 again. “He’s worked incredibly hard to favour. “We’re under no illusions about to their 242 on Friday. Dean Elgar c Starc b Hazlewood 127 Overs: 126 get back and has come back so much how hard it could be but being an Duminy faced 225 balls and hit 20 of them for Hashim Amla b Hazlewood 1 Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-45, 295, 4-324, 5-346, 6-352. quicker than we thought. “He’s up for it underdog takes a lot of pressure off us,” fours with another going for six, overhauling Jean-Paul Duminy c Nevill b Siddle 141 Bowling: Mitchell Starc 27-7-99-1 (1w), Josh Hazlewood 32- and is not just coming here to make up said Cook. — AFP partner Elgar before lunch and reaching his fifth Faf du Plessis c Nevill b Starc 32 10-97-2 (1nb), Peter Siddle 22-8-47-2, Mitchell Marsh 22-4- test century with two runs to deep cover soon Temba Bavuma c Khawaja b Marsh 8 52-1 (3w), Nathan Lyon 21-2-76-0, Adam Voges 2-1-2-0.
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