England End India's Unbeaten Run to Revive Semi-Final Hopes
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TENNIS | Page 4 MLB | Page 5 Djokovic, Yankees, Red Federer and Sox stage run Nadal primed to blitz as baseball strengthen grip makes history Monday, July 1, 2019 FORMULA 1 Shawwal 28, 1440 AH Verstappen cleared GULF TIMES as Austria winner aft er stewards’ probe SPORT Page 8 SHOWJUMPING Qatar’s Bassem second in Global Champions Tour thriller in Monaco Agencies he had to settle for second, but ville Z) here as fi rst horse but it Monaco was delighted nonetheless and happens sometimes. When I saw the Qatari rider said: “Gunder is Julien on the screen, I could bet always very good in the jump- on it that he should win; he went atar’s Bassem Mo- off and today he jumped really full out everywhere. I was just a hamed fi nished sec- amazing. With all these top rid- bit faster and I gave it everything ond with Gunder at ers it is never over until the end.” today. I had some nice forward the Global Champi- Bassem and Gunder pivoted distances and the horse really Qons Tour Grand Prix du Prince round the opening few roll- worked for me.” de Monaco on Saturday night. backs. The Qatari rider pushed The Dutchman, who becomes Maikel van der Vleuten won the every button and, accelerating the 10th rider to qualify for the event in a tight fi nish where the round the latter fences, the bril- GCT Super Grand Prix at the GC top four in the elite show jump- liant pair scorched home and into Prague Playoff s in November, ing event were separated by a lit- the lead, clear in 33.12, to appre- said: “A few times I’ve come very tle over a second. ciative cheers. close to qualifying, but that was The Dutchman and Beauville Z However, Maikel van der Vleu- really my goal to be one of the put in a fl awless performance in ten increased the pace further riders to take part in the Super the 10-way jump off and clocked still with the magnifi cent nine- Grand Prix this year, so now it’s in at 33.06 seconds, 0.06 seconds year-old Beauvuille Z and the done it feels good.” faster than Bassem and Gunder. pair clearly had the magic touch. There is no change at the top The lightning-quick combina- A breathtaking shot to the last of the leader board in the Cham- tion of Julien Epaillard and Usual rocketed them into the lead with pionship race, with Pieter De- Suspect d’Auge could only man- a clear in 33.06. vos still leading the way but Ben age a third place fi nish. A thrilled van der Vleuten said: Maher jumped ahead of Daniel Bassem had made history in “It’s incredible – this horse really Deusser and this win in Monaco Monaco in 2014 by taking Qatar’s fi ghts for me. I spoke with my dad pushed Maikel van der Vleuten fi rst ever GCT Grand Prix win earlier this week as to whether it up to fourth position with nine Runner-up Bassem Mohamed (left), winner Maikel van der Vleuten and third-placed Julien Epaillard pose on the podium after the Global with his horse Victoria. This year was too early to bring him (Beau- events left. Champions Tour Grand Prix du Prince de Monaco on Saturday. ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP England end India’s unbeaten run to revive semi-fi nal hopes Hosts leapfrog Pakistan to fourth place with 10 points from eight games, India remain second on 11 from seven matches Reuters Scorecard Birmingham, United Kingdom ENGLAND INDIA spirited England ended J. Roy c sub (Jadeja) b Yadav 66 KL Rahul c and b Woakes 0 India’s unbeaten run in J. Bairstow c Pant b Shami 111 R. Sharma c Buttler b Woakes 102 the Cricket World Cup with a 31-run victory J. Root c Pandya b Shami 44 V. Kohli c sub (Vince) b Plunkett 66 Ain a high-scoring group match to E. Morgan c Jadhav b Shami 1R. Pant c Wood b Plunkett 32 boost their semi-fi nal prospects B. Stokes c sub (Jadeja) b Bumrah 79 H. Pandya c sub (Vince) b Plunkett yesterday. J. Buttler c and b Shami 20 45 Jonny Bairstow smashed a bel- MS Dhoni not out 42 ligerent 111, Jason Roy returned C. Woakes c Sharma b Shami 7 from a hamstring injury to make L. Plunkett not out 1K. Jadhav not out 12 66 and Ben Stokes (79) provided J. Archer not out 0 Extras (lb1, w6) 7 the late burst in England’s com- Total (five wickets, 50 overs) 306 manding 337-7 after electing to Extras (b2, lb2, w4) 8 bat on an Edgbaston featherbed. Total (seven wickets, 50 overs) 337 Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Rahul), 2-146 Rohit Sharma smashed his (Kohli), 3-198 (Sharma), 4-226 Fall of wickets: 1-160 (Roy), (Pant), 5-267 (Pandya) third hundred of the tournament 2-205 (Bairstow), 3-207 (Morgan), and Virat Kohli his fi fth succes- 4-277 (Root), 5-310 (Buttler), Bowling: Woakes 10-3-58-2, sive half-century but India did 6-319 (Woakes), 7-336 (Stokes) Archer 10-0-45-0, Plunkett 10-0- 55-3 (4w), Wood 10-0-73-0 (1w), not get another signifi cant part- Bowling: Shami 10-1-69-5 (1w), nership and fi nished on 306-5. Rashid 6-0-40-0 (1w), Stokes Bumrah 10-1-44-1, Chahal 10-0- 4-0-34-0 England leapfrog Pakistan to 88-0 (2w), Pandya 10-0-60-0 fourth place with 10 points from (1w), Yadav 10-0-72-1 RESULT: England won by 31 runs eight games, while India remain second on 11 from seven matches. England, who came into this match on the back of successive Points table defeats by Sri Lanka and Aus- Team P W L NR Pts Team P W L NR Pts tralia, will be assured of a place 1. Australia (Q) 8 7 1 0 14 6. Bangladesh 7 3 3 1 7 in the last four if they beat New 2. India 7 5 1 1 11 7. Sri Lanka 7 2 3 2 6 Zealand in their last group match 3. New Zealand 8 5 2 1 11 8. South Africa 8 2 5 1 5 on Wednesday. 4. England 8 5 3 0 10 9. West Indies 7 1 5 1 3 India can reach the knockout 5. Pakistan 8 4 3 1 9 10. Afghanistan 8 0 8 0 0 phase by beating Bangladesh Note: Top four teams qualify for semi-finals. (Q) qualified when they return to Edgbaston tomorrow. “It’s been frustrating a little deeper crisis but Root, who made cameo but Mahendra Singh Dho- bit for the guys, we know how 44 with the bat, spilled Rohit, ni, who made 42 not out, failed well we can play,” Bairstow said then on four, at slip off Jofra to do justice to his reputation as after collecting his man-of-the- Archer. a ‘fi nisher’. match award. Rohit went on to stitch a 138- “Every team has lost a game or “But today we were pretty England’s Jonny Bairstow (right) hits a six on his way to a century during the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup match against India at Edgbaston in run partnership with Kohli, the two here and there. No-one likes good with bat, ball and in the Birmingham, United Kingdom, yesterday. (Reuters) duo frustrating the English at- to lose but we have to take it in fi eld. tack with their risk-free accu- our stride,” Kohli said. “It was the closest to a com- the tournament’s highest opening ated for a while before deciding ODI century off 90 balls, cel- Stokes clobbered three sixes mulation. “We have to accept it. We are plete performance we’ve had in stand with Bairstow and both sur- against reviewing the decision in ebrating by dropping his helmet, and six boundaries in his blister- Kohli duly brought up his half- still playing good cricket. The the competition but we also know vived some torrid moments before front of an anxious crowd of pre- stretching out his arms and soak- ing knock before Jasprit Bumrah century but once again fell short mood is the same in the changing we’ve got three must-win games tearing into the Indian attack dur- dominantly India fans. ing in the applause. dismissed him in the fi nal over. of a hundred, slicing Liam Plun- room. We will learn from it and in this World Cup up next.” ing their 160-run stand. England reached the 150 mark Mohamed Shami (5-69) re- India, clad in their away or- kett (3-55) to backward point. move forward.” The hosts missed opener Roy Bairstow nearly defl ected a in the 21st over and it took a stun- turned to end Bairstow’s 109- ange-and-blue jerseys, wobbled Rohit could not be denied his Asked about their slow fi nish particularly in their back-to- couple of inside edges on to the ning catch by substitute fi elder ball blitz which included six sixes early in their chase. 25th ODI century but he fell to with Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav in back defeats by Sri Lanka and stump and Roy got a caught- Ravindra Jadeja in the deep to and 10 boundaries. India man- Chris Woakes began with Woakes after making 102 which the middle, Kohli said, “It was Australia which had jeopardised behind reprieve on 21 when he send back Roy.