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Spurs’ League Cup tie postponed due to virus Smith helps Royals down Chennai in IPL feast of sixes beat by 16 runs in their first match of the season

Sanju Samson and Steve• Smith’s 121-run partnership was the Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho (C) attends a team training session highlight of the match

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ottenham’s League Cup BETTER Ttie at Leyton Orient was kipper cracked called off yesterday after sev- a match-winning 69 in Ra- eral of their League Two op- KNOW Sjasthan Royal’s opening ponents tested positive for the game coronavirus. yesterday that produced a re- Just two hours before Jose cord-equalling 33 sixes in the Mourinho’s side were due to Just two hours before tournament. play the third round match Tottenham were due Smith, who faced concussion at the Breyer Group Stadium, to play the third round fears coming into the IPL, put the English Football League match against Leyton on a key 121-run second- announced it had been post- Orient, the English partnership with , poned. who smashed 74, to guide Roy- Football League an- Sanju Samson (L) and Steve Smith run between Orient had already shut nounced it had been als to 216 for seven and a 16-run down their training ground as win over Chennai Super Kings hitting nine of them in his 32- after missing three one-day a result of the virus outbreak in postponed in Sharjah. ball blitz. matches in England following a their first-team squad. conducting a thorough review South African veteran Faf du “Absolute pleasure to bat hit on the helmet during prac- “Tonight’s Carabao Cup of the club’s Covid-19 secure Plessis made a valiant 72 off with him. He is the world’s best tice. The much-delayed IPL, match between Leyton Orient procedures with the view to 37 balls with seven sixes but batsman,” said Samson, who 33 which was originally scheduled and Tottenham Hotspur is not reopening the stadium and Chennai, led by Mahendra Sin- brought up his 50 in just 19 balls sixes were hit by Rajasthan to start in March, moved out of taking place this evening as training ground as soon as gh Dhoni, ended on 200 for six and hit nine sixes in his knock. Royal during the match India due to the coronavirus scheduled,” an Orient state- possible.” in 20 overs. “And when he goes out and to equal a record Chennai pandemic and is being played ment said. Reports said Tottenham Chennai were involved in bats 20 overs, it becomes easy Super Kings achieved behind closed doors. “Discussions are ongoing could be awarded a bye into another six-hitting fest against for the others coming in.” against Royal Challengers But Jay Shah, secretary of the between the relevant stake- the fourth round against Chel- Royal Challengers Bangalore in Smith got four hits over the Bangalore in the 2018 Board of Control for in holders in regards to the im- sea or Barnsley under League the 2018 edition that also saw fence and smacked edition India, said the popular league plications of the fixture not Cup rules. 33 sixes. four in the final over to help had the highest ever opening taking place tonight and a fur- Orient are keen for the tie Australian Smith opened the Royals get 30 runs off South Dhoni, who remained unbeaten day viewership for any sporting ther update will be provided in to be rearranged, but with the innings for Royals, inaugural African quick Lungi Ngidi. on 29, said after the loss. league across the globe when due course. next round scheduled for next IPL winners in 2008, and after “They batted really well. Ste- Smith passed a concussion 200 million people tuned to “Leyton Orient, the EFL and week there is little room to the loss of the first wicket it ve and Sanju. You have to give test in the United Arab Emirates watch Chennai beat Mumbai the relevant authorities are fit it in. was raining sixes with Samson credit to their bowlers too,” when he joined his IPL team Indians on September 19.

Suarez language exam for Italian Quick turnaround helped me get citizenship rigged, say prosecutors past US Open shock: Djokovic Reuters | Rome sity yesterday looking for fur- taking the B1 exam on the same Reuters | Rome ther evidence, Cantone said in a day in Rome, had to also com- talian prosecutors said yes- statement, while Italian news- plete a written paper lasting talian Open champion Novak Iterday they had evidence paper la Repubblica reported two-and-a-half hours. IDjokovic said getting back that the language exam taken that five university employees Suarez’s mooted transfer to on court for a tournament so by Barcelona’s Uruguay striker had been put under investiga- Juve now looks unlikely, as the quickly after being disqualified Luis Suarez to obtain Italian tion, including the rector. Serie A champions have moved at the US Open for striking a line citizenship ahead of a possible Suarez himself is not cited to sign striker Alvaro Morata judge with a ball helped him move to Juventus was rigged. among those under investiga- from Atletico Madrid, while the move on from the incident. Suarez, whose wife is of Ital- tion. Uruguayan international The world number one came ian descent, passed the exam La Repubblica pub- seems set to take Morata’s in for heavy criticism at Flush- last Thursday at the University lished alleged conver- place at Atletico. ing Meadows earlier this month for Foreigners in Perugia. sations tapped by police Suarez has had a con- and the Serb said he spent sev- It cleared the way for a fast- during their probe, in troversial career includ- eral days processing what had track citizenship approval which a tutor preparing ing being banned for happened. which would mean Juventus Suarez for the exam told four months for He returned to tournament could sign him without exceed- a colleague “he biting Italy de- play in Rome last week and ing its permitted quota of non- can’t speak a fender Geor- captured his 36th ATP Mas- EU players, but suspicions were word,” and de- gio Chiellini ters crown in Monday’s final Serbia’s Novak Djokovic kisses his trophy quickly raised in the media that scribed him at the 2014 by beating Argentine Diego he was given preferential treat- as an abso- World Cup Schwartzman 7-5 6-3. best tennis to be honest, I don’t ment. lute be- finals in Bra- “I did experience mentally want to sound arrogant here. I Perugia chief prosecutor Raf- ginner zil. some ups and downs in the first am very satisfied and pleased to faele Cantone said his investi- in Ital- He also bit four-five days after that hap- Obviously I was in win a title. I know I still have a gations showed the questions ian. an opponent pened,” Djokovic told reporters. shock... but I moved couple of gears,” he added. had been agreed with Suarez Suarez, while playing “Obviously I was in shock... “Hopefully I’ll be able to raise ahead of the exam and it had al- 33, obtained the in - for his former but I moved on, I’ve never had on, I’ve never had that level for the French Open ready been decided what mark termediate B1 quali- clubs Ajax an issue in my life to move on an issue in my life to because that’s going to be nec- to give him, despite his scarce fication required for Amsterdam in regardless of how difficult it is. move on regardless essary if I want to go deep in the knowledge of Italian. citizenship in just 15 2010 and Liv- “Obviously having a tourna- of how difficult it is tournament.” The university denied any minutes, his examin- erpool in 2013, ment a week after helped a lot NOVAK DJOKOVIC Defending Roland Garros wrongdoing, saying in a state- er said after the test, which were because I really wanted to get champion Rafa Nadal was ment it had acted with “correct- and was only re - punished on the court and get whatever stunned by Schwartzman in ness and transparency” and was quired to do the oral with seven trace of that out of the way.” further to challenge for the title the Rome quarter-finals, but confident this would emerge at part of the exam. and 10-match Djokovic, who has won 31 of at the French Open, which be- Djokovic expected the Spaniard the end of the probe. Other citizen- bans respec- his 32 matches this year, said gins on Sunday. to be firing on all cylinders in Police searched the univer- ship applicants tively. he would have to raise his game “I don’t think I played my Paris. Luis Suarez

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