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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A sweep for a sweep, Kiwis exact sweet revenge We didn’t deserve First blanking for India in a full ODI series in New Zealand; Rahul’s century goes in vain to win, says Kohli INDIA IN NZ Press Trust of India bowlers can be gauged from Mt. Maunganui the fact that the team’s pace Press Trust of India India captain Virat Kohli on spearhead Jasprit Bumrah Mt. Maunganui Tuesday berated his bow­ finished the series without a In a stunning reversal of for­ lers for their mediocre per­ wicket and the attack tunes, New Zealand inflicted formance as he tried to ex­ couldn’t dismiss the com­ an One­Day International se­ plain the team’s first ODI plete rival line­up even ries whitewash (3­0) on India series whitewash in over once. with a five­wicket victory in three decades, saying the Kohli lauded New Zea­ the third and final match on visitors lacked composure land for bouncing back after Tuesday. all through. the T20 hammering. “New The five­wicket defeat Zealand played with a lot Flying start here meant India lost the se­ more intensity,” he said. Henry Nicholls scored 80 off ries 0­3 to an injury­plagued He is looking forward to 103 balls and Martin Guptill New Zealand that had been the Test series, which be­ made 66 off 46 as the host deflated by a 0­5 whitewash gins on February 21. “I think scored 300 for five in 47.1 ov­ of its own in the T20 format. because of the Test Cham­ ers. Colin de Grandhomme pionship, every match has smacked 58 not out off 28 Missed chances that much more impor­ balls at the end to help seal “The games were not as bad tance. We have a really ba­ the win with 17 balls to spare. as the scoreline suggests. It lanced Test team and we Earlier, India had scored boils down to those chances feel we can win the series ,” 296 for seven after being put that we didn’t grab,” Kohli he said. in, thanks to K.L. Rahul’s (112) said. Kane Williamson, who fourth ODI hundred. “With the ball, we were missed the first two games New Zealand got off to a not able to make break­ due to injury, was lavish in flying start as Guptill and Ni­ throughs, we were not at all his praise for his team’s grit. cholls put on 50 off just 40 good on the field. We ha­ “An outstanding perfor­ balls. Overall, they scored ven’t played so badly but mance, very clinical. India 106 for the first wicket. when you don’t grab those put us under pressure, but Guptill smacked six 4s and chances, you don’t deserve the way the guys fought four 6s as the Indian new­ball to win,” he said. back with the ball and kept bowlers faced an onslaught. The ineffectiveness of the them to a par total,” he said. Shardul Thakur and Navdeep Saini struggled to find their rhythm and were taken for runs, while Jasprit Bumrah finished the series wicket­ The despatcher: Colin de Grandhomme’s onslaught sealed the match for New Zealand. * AFP less. Yuzvendra Chahal (3­47) provided the breakthrough, nine 4s and two 6s, and res­ ry off 52 balls, his third 50­ SCOREBOARD bowling Guptill in the 17th ov­ cued India from 62 for three. plus score in this series. But er. Nicholls scored a half­cen­ He put on 100 with he couldn’t carry on. (28b, 6x4, 3x6) Shreyas Iyer (62, 63b) for the INDIA 4-162 (Shreyas, 30.3), 5-269 (not out) 58 ; tury off 72 balls. Prithvi Shaw run out 40 (42b, (Rahul, 46.4), 6-269 (Pandey, Extras (b-1, lb-2, w-6, nb-2): 11. He added 53 runs with fourth wicket, and 107 with Onus on Rahul 3x4, 2x6), Mayank Agarwal b 46.5), 7-280 (Shardul, 48.2). Total (for 5 wkts. in 47.1 overs): Kane Williamson, but Chahal Manish Pandey (42, 48b) for It was down to Rahul then, Jamieson 1 (3b), Virat Kohli c NEW ZEALAND BOWLING 300. struck twice and Ravindra Ja­ the fifth. Hamish Bennett fin­ who crossed 50 off 66 balls. Jamieson b Bennett 9 (12b, Southee 9-0-59-0, Jamieson FALL OF WICKETS deja removed the in­form ished with four for 64. His stand with Pandey pro­ 1x6), Shreyas Iyer c de Grand- 10-0-53-1, Bennett 10-1-64-4, 1-106 (Guptill, 16.3), 2-159 Ross Taylor cheaply. New India made another poor gressed well as India reached homme b Neesham 62 (63b, de Grandhomme 3-0-10-0, (Williamson, 27.1), 3-186 Zealand was reduced to 189 start. Kyle Jamieson bowled 250 in the 45th over. 9x4), K.L. Rahul c Jamieson b Neesham 8-0-50-1, Santner (Taylor, 31.5), 4-189 (Nicholls, for four in the 33rd over. Mayank Agarwal, who has Rahul’s hundred came off Bennett 112 (113b, 9x4, 2x6), 10-0-59-0. 32.5), 5-220 (Neesham, 39.3). de Grandhomme then suffered a torrid tour thus far. 104 balls, and he perished in Manish Pandey c Santner b Ben- NEW ZEALAND INDIA BOWLING smashed a half­century off The big blow came when a bid to accelerate. This is nett 42 (48b, 2x4), Ravindra Martin Guptill b Chahal 66 Bumrah 10-0-50-0, Saini 8-0- Jadeja (not out) 8 (7b, 1x4), only 21 balls. His knock in­ Virat Kohli was out in the se­ where India’s innings fell (46b, 6x4, 4x6), Henry Nicholls 68-0, Chahal 10-1-47-3, Shardul Thakur c de Grand- (103b, Shardul 9.1-0-87-1, Jadeja 10- cluded six 4s and three 6s, as venth over. Prithvi Shaw pro­ apart, as Pandey also holed c Rahul b Shardul 80 homme b Bennett 7 (6b, 1x4), 9x4), Kane Williamson c Agar- 0-45-1. out off Bennett shortly his 31­run fifth­wicket part­ vided the initial flourish with Navdeep Saini (not out) 8 (6b, wal b Chahal 22 (31b, 2x4), Ross Toss: New Zealand. nership with Jimmy Neesham 40 off 42 balls, but he was afterwards. 2x4); Extras (b-1, w-6): 7. Total Taylor c Kohli b Jadeja 12 (18b, Man­of­the­Match: Nicholls; (19) came off only 31 balls. run­out going for a second Taylor was adjudged (for 7 wkts. in 50 overs): 296. 1x4), Tom Latham (not out) 32 Man­of­the­Series: Taylor. Earlier, Rahul’s first run in the 13th over. Player­of­the­Series for his FALL OF WICKETS (34b, 3x4), James Neesham c New Zealand won by five hundred at No. 5 helped an­ Shreyas then batted steadi­ 194 runs in three innings and 1-8 (Agarwal, 1.6 overs), 2-32 Kohli b Chahal 19 (25b, 1x4, wickets with 17 balls to spare Standing tall: Rahul’s century provided some consolation chor India’s innings. He hit ly and reached his half­centu­ being dismissed only once. (Kohli, 6.4), 3-62 (Shaw, 12.1), 1x6), Colin de Grandhomme and clinched series 3-0. on a day when nothing much went right for India. * AFP Stage set for enthralling final Nagal rolls over Jaziri India will be buoyed after beating Australia in previous game Poonacha posts biggest win of career, dumps Rosol TRI-SERIES preet, but the most wari Gayakwad producing BENGALURU OPEN heartening thing was that 16­ consistent performances. year­old Shafali Verma came The teams (from): Ashwin Achal Press Trust of India good in the last game against India: Harmanpreet Kaur Bengaluru Melbourne Australia. (Capt.), Shafali Verma, Smriti Indian players enjoyed a India will fancy its chances The home side posted 173 Mandhana, Jemimah Ro- good day at the office in the drigues, Veda Krishnamurthy, for five, but India overhauled $162,000 Bengaluru Open of claiming the women’s T20 Taniya Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Tri­series when it faces Aus­ the target in 19.4 overs, large­ Shikha Pandey, Pooja Vastrakar, ATP Tennis Challenger at tralia in the summit clash ly due to Shafali’s 49 off 28 Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Radha KSLTA Stadium here on here on Wednesday. balls and Smriti’s 55 off 48 Yadav, Richa Ghosh, Arundhati Tuesday. After failing to fire in un­ balls. Reddy, Harleen Deol, Nuzhat While Saketh Myneni and ison in its first three league Jemimah Rodrigues also Parween and Poonam Yadav. Niki Poonacha knocked out matches, India produced a contributed with a quickfire Australia: Alyssa Healy, Beth higher­ranker opponents, good batting show to record 19­ball 30 to help India chase Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Sumit Nagal underlined his Lanning (Capt.), Ellyse Perry, a seven­wicket win on Satur­ down the target. class with a comfortable Holding centrestage: Sumit Nagal had little trouble Rachael Haynes, Jess Jonassen, day, which took the Harman­ win. capitalising on Malek Jaziri’s errors. * SUDHAKARA JAIN Delissa Kimmince, Annabel Poonacha created a huge preet Kaur­led side into the Bowlers doing well Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, final. The Indian bowlers have Megan Schutt, Nicola Carey, So- stir, taking out favourite Lu­ Nagal ran around the ball Ilya Ivashka of Belarus. Smriti Mandhana conti­ been doing well in this tour­ phie Molineux, Erin Burns and kas Rosol 6­4, 2­6, 6­3 in the to get his forehand into play The results: Second round: Sa- nued to be the batting bul­ nament with the likes of Tayla Vlaeminck. Impact player: Shafali Verma, who is back in her groove, will second round. Rosol, who — a ploy that worked well. keth Myneni bt Evgeny Don- wark along with Harman­ Deepti Sharma and Rajesh­ Match starts at 8.10 a.m. IST. have a crucial role to play. * GETTY IMAGES famously upset Rafael Nadal “My forehand is my skoy (Rus) 6-3, 6-3; Sumit Na- in the second round of Wim­ strength. I’m not going to gal bt Malek Jaziri (Tun) 6-0, bledon 2012, struggled to get defeat anyone with a serve­ 6-4; Yuichi Sugita (Jpn) bt Va- going against Poonacha. and­volley game,” Nagal clav Safranek (Cze) 6-4, 6-3; Niki Poonacha bt Lucas Rosol For Poonacha, ranked 937 said. (Cze) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; Ilya Ivashka The 22­year­old Nagal, ho­ How India’s U-19s became the new glamour boys places below Rosol, this was (Blr) bt Sasikumar Mukund 7-5, the biggest victory of his ca­ wever, must be worried 6-3. ed and around whom fascinating ori­ Bangladesh’s victory was well­de­ punished now. To see a bunch of reer. “I received a wild­card about his weak serve, which First round: Benjamin Bonzi gin stories are written. Yashasvi Jais­ served, and it is good for the game teenagers behave in this manner on a for this tournament, and I conceded seven (Fra) bt Manish Sureshkumar wal, Player­of­the­Tournament and that a team lower down the pecking sports field is nauseating. wanted to make the most of double­faults. 6-2, 6-3; Stefano Travaglia (Ita) top­scorer at the recent World Cup in order in world cricket should stun fa­ The tension had been building up it. This win is a huge confi­ Jaziri, who reached a ca­ bt Filippo Baldi (Ita) 6-2, 6-1; South Africa, is, at 18, already a he­ vourites India who have won the title for a while. A big chunk of the res­ dence boost,” the 24­year­ reer­high world ranking of Abhinav Shanmugam bt Daniel roic figure. He slept in a tent for three four times. It is a win that can do a lot ponsibility, therefore, should rest on old Poonacha said. 42 only a year ago, made too Masur (Ger) 7-5, 6-3; Julian BETWEEN WICKETS years, and sold pani puri at the Azad for Bangladesh cricket, with many of the umpires who could have nipped As the crowd began to many unforced errors. Jaziri Ocleppo (Ita) bt Anirudh Chan- Maidan in Mumbai, all the while their heroes graduating to senior the trouble in the bud had they been swell in the evening session, was unhappy with a few line drashekar 6-2, 6-1. suresh menon keeping his long­term vision levels. more proactive and pulled up the Nagal took centrestage. calls, but his protests had lit­ Doubles (first round): Frederi- uncluttered. players during the course of the Armed with a crushing fore­ tle impact on the outcome of co Ferreira Silva (Por) & Nikola A few decades ago, Indian Universi­ Now he is on the fringes of the Na­ Bad taste in the mouth match. It is part of their job descrip­ hand, Nagal whipped Tuni­ the match. Milojevic (Srb) bt Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-7 ties were stepping stones to interna­ tional team, was bought by Rajasthan Yet, in the end, the tense day’s crick­ tion to keep things on an even keel sia’s Malek Jaziri 6­0, 6­4. Ja­ Myneni, meanwhile, re­ (1), 7-5, [10-8]; C. Hsieh (Tpe) & tional cricket. The Rohinton Baria Royals for ₹2.4 crore in the IPL. It is a et left a bad taste in the mouth be­ on the field of play; such unruly be­ ziri made the mistake of corded a 6­3, 6­3 win over D. Molchanov (Ukr) bt N. and Vizzy Trophies were hotly con­ heart­warming story. cause of player behaviour. Although haviour is seldom spontaneous and dropping too many short sixth­seeded Russian Evgeny Prashanth & Vishnu Vardhan tested, and players like Bishan Bedi, The cricket board’s handling of the Bangladesh captain said someth­ gathers steam over the day. That balls, which Nagal had little Donskoy. Sasikumar Mu­ 6-3, 7-6(6); Purav Raja & Ram- Sunil Gavaskar, Mohinder Amarnath, under­19 has, in recent years, proba­ ing that has been interpreted to should be clearer to the men in trouble dispatching for kund was the rare Indian to kumar Ramanathan bt Prajwal Kapil Dev, Dilip Vengsarkar, Aunshu­ bly been more professional, more mean he was apologising, I am not so charge than anyone sitting in the winners. disappoint, losing 5­7, 3­6 to Dev & Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 6-2. man Gaekwad, Sanjay Manjrekar compassionate than their handling sure. He did use the word “sorry”, stands or watching on television. emerged. of anything else. By putting Rahul but it could have been that he was That India had both the tourna­ Dravid in charge, and giving him a sorry that such a thing happened. In­ ment’s highest scorer and its highest New nursery largely free hand it showed the ternational captains at the Under­19 wicket­taker (Ravi Bishnoi) is a reflec­ Lalremsiami is FIH Rising Star of Year The new nursery of Indian cricket players both respect and concern. level, may not fully appreciate the tion of the depth in Indian cricket. has been the Under­19. Within six Dravid coordinated with the National nuances of the language; in any case Losing a final is no crime. What India Press Trust of India got 40% of all the votes cast. months of leading India to the world coaches Ravi Shastri and Anil Kum­ it was convenient to believe he was sometimes gets wrong is the injury­ Lausanne She got 47.7 % of her votes title in 2008, Virat Kohli played his ble, and the pipeline from the Un­ apologising and that only one side management and workload of the India forward Lalremsiami from among national asso­ first international for the senior der­19 to the senior level became free was to blame. under­19 players. has been named as the 2019 ciations, while the media, team. More players have come of the usual impediments to a Clearly the International Cricket FIH Women’s Rising Star of fans/players contributed through the Under­19 system — Viren­ smooth transition like quotas and Council thought otherwise and the A warning the Year, the International 28.4% and 36.4% der Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit politics and poor judgements. video footage did suggest that both One of the heroes of India’s 2018 Hockey Federation (FIH) respectively. Sharma, Cheteswar Pujara, Ravindra Dravid’s personality also meant teams were involved. By calling out World Cup win, the fast bowler Kam­ said on Tuesday. Lalremsiami first came in­ Jadeja, Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, that players were educated in much three Bangladeshi and two Indian lesh Nagarkotti’s words (in an inter­ The 19­year­old attacker to the wider hockey con­ Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant — than more than the forward defence or players, the ICC made that clear. view last year) are poignant. "At 19, I took the prize ahead of Ar­ sciousness at the Hockey through university cricket. the curling leg­break. He has reve­ You can see this as immature must be running in and bowling fast. gentina’s Julieta Jankunas Women’s World Cup in 2018 This indicates both the decline of rence for the game and what it players (in both age and experience) But here I am, not playing, not study­ and Frederique Matla of the when she was one of the university cricket and the planned means. It is doubtful if the fracas that reacting to victory or defeat, and the­ ing, out injured, away from home, all Netherlands, who finished stand­out players of the growth of the age­group system. followed the end of the World Cup fi­ refore let it go as “one of those by myself, and trying to get fit even as second and third respective­ tournament. Where the university stars were, nal on Sunday would have taken things.” But these players are one my friends are playing in the IPL and ly, the FIH said in a Since then she has been at at one time — the glamour boys — it is place had he been present at the step away from playing for the senior for India­A. It is tough.” statement. the heart of the rise of the In­ now the under­19 players who are fet­ venue. team, and such behaviour has to be That is a warning too. Lalremsiami. * GETTY IMAGES The player from Mizoram dian women’s hockey team.

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