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SPORT SATURDAY 7 JANUARY 2017 21 Munro ton helps Kohli succeeds Dhoni as India's ODI skipper New Zealand Mumbai trophy-laden years, which alwaysalways be my captain @msd-@msd- clinch T20 series Reuters included two World Cups and honihoni Bhai (brother)," Kohli IndiaIndia squadssq a Champions Trophy. tweeted.tweeted. ODIODI Squad:Squa Virat Kohli (captain), irat Kohli has taken over Having taken over the test India's limited-overs Mt Maunganui MahendrMahendra Singh Dhoni (wicketkeeper), from Mahendra Singh captaincy from Dhoni in late stalwartstalwart Yuvraj Singh Reuters Lokesh RRahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Manish Dhoni as India's limited- 2014 and led the team to top returnedreturned to bothboth thethe V Pandey, KKedar Jadhav, Yuvraj Singh, overs captain, becoming his the top of the ICC rankings, the one-dayone-day and Twenty20Twenty20 olin Munro became the country's skipper in all three 28-year-old Kohli was a natu- squadssquads after his AAjinkyajinkya RRahane, Hardik Pandya, third New Zealand formats of the game, the Indian ral choice to skipper the impressiveimpressive formform in RRavichandranavichan Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Cplayer to score a cricket board (BCCI) said on limited-overs squads. domesticdomestic cricket.cricket. AAmitmit MMishra,ish Jaspreet Bumrah, Twenty20 international cen- Friday. "Virat was on Skype with Uncapped wick- BhBhuvneshwaruvnesh Kumar, Umesh Yadav. tury as his side secured a Dhoni has been named as us...and we chose the best pos- etkeeper-batsmanetkeeper-batsman 47-run victory and wrapped wicketkeeper in the squads for sible squad (for the England RishabhRishabh Pant was Twenty20Twenty2 squad: Virat Kohli (captain), up their three-match series three one-dayers and three series)," chief selector MSK namednamed in the Twenty20Twenty20 MahendrMahendra Singh Dhoni (wicketkeeper), against Bangladesh with a Twenty20 Internationals Prasad told reporters. squadsquad which also MandeeMandeepp Singh, Lokesh Rahul, Yuvraj game to spare yesterday. against England beginning on Kohli took to social media includesincludes 37-year-old SSingh,ingh, SSureshu Raina, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Munro blasted 101, join- Jan. 15. to join the outpouring of trib- fastfast bowlerbowler AshishAshish PanPandya,dya, RRavichandran Ashwin, Ravindra ing former captain Brendon The 35-year-old wicket- utes to Dhoni's captaincy. Nehra.Nehra. Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manish McCullum and Martin Gup- keeper-batsman relinquished "Thanks for always being PandPandey,e Jaspreet Bumrah, till as New Zealand's other the limited-overs captaincy on the leader a youngster wants BhBhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra. Twenty20 centurions, as the Wednesday after nine to have around him. You'll hosts scored 195 for seven in their 20 overs at Bay Oval in Mt Maunganui. The 29-year-old old also combined with Tom Bruce (59 not out) in a 123-run partnership in 11.1 overs to Aussies push for series clean threaten a total in excess of 200 before Bangladesh's bowlers pulled the run rate back towards the end of the innings. The visitors were well placed at 104-3 in the 11th sweep as Pakistan chase 465 over of their reply but once Soumya Sarkar (39) and Sab- bir Rahman (48) were Sydney tourists facing the herculean task dismissed, the momentum AFP of scoring 465 for victory. Pakistani batsman was sucked out of their run Usman Khawaja was left Younis Khan hits the chase and they were bowled ustralia were nine unbeaten on 79 off 98 balls and ball past Australian out for 148 in 18.1 overs. wickets away from a Peter Handscomb was on 40 off fielder Peter series clean sweep 25 balls. Handscomb finished Handscomb on the SCOREBOARD and Pakistan an with a series average of 114.66. fourth day of the improbable 410 runs Smith was out in a review third Test at the SCG, New Zealand: L Ronchi c M Hossain b M Mortaza ................0 fromA victory with one day left in after 'Hot Spot' detected a faint in Sydney yesterday. the third Test in Sydney edge off his glove and was caught K Williamson c Tamim Iqbal b S Al Hasan ..12 yesterday. behind off Yasir for 59 off 43 balls C Munro c Nurul Hasan b Rubel Hossain ...101 C Anderson b Mosaddek Hossain ...................4 Spinner Nathan Lyon grabbed to finish the series with 441 runs T Bruce (not out) ..............................................59 the wicket of debutant opener at 110.25. C de Grandhomme b Rubel Hossain ..............2 Sharjeel Khan for 40, caught at David Warner smashed the J Neesham b Rubel Hussain ............................5 mid-wicket, nearing stumps to second fastest 50 in Test history M Santner run out (Rubel) ..............................4 have Pakistan at 55 for one. to give Australia a flying start in B Wheeler (not out) ........................................ 0 At the close, Pakistan's lead- their chase for runs and a Extras (lb4, w3, nb1) ...................................... 8 ing series scorer Azhar Ali was not declaration. Total (7 wkts; 20 overs) .................195 out 11 with nightwatchman Yasir The explosive Warner Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-42, 3-46, 4-169, 5-171 Shah on three. smashed leg-spinner Yasir for six, , 6-190, 7-194 Skipper Steve Smith called a six, four, four in the fourth over Did not bat: I Sodhi, T Boult halt to Australia's second innings of the innings, and then clouted Bowling: Mashrafe 4-0-38-1, Rubel 4-0-37-3, at 241 for two with 16 overs left Imran Khan for four consecutive Mustafizur 4-0-30-0 (1w, 1nb), Shakib 4-0-32- on the fourth day and the boundaries in the seventh over. 1 (2w), Mosaddek 2-0-22-1, Mahmudullah 2-0-32-0 Bangladesh: SCOREBOARD Tamim Iqbal run out (Williamson) ..............13 Australia (I innings): 538 for 8 declared Australia (II innings): Imrul Kayes c Bruce b Santner ......................0 Pakistan (I innings): D Warner b Riaz............................................................... 55 Sabbir Rahman c Boult b Sodhi ..................48 A Ali run out (Starc) ..........................................................71 U Khawaja (not out) ........................................................79 His breathless half-century "We want to finish this Test yesterday. Yasir gave Smith his Shakib Al Hasan c Neesham b Wheeler .......1 S Khan c Renshaw b Hazlewood ...................................4 S Smith c Sarfraz b Yasir ................................................59 came off 23 balls with seven fours series on a good note. It will not ninth catch of the series when he Soumya Sarkar c Munro b Boult ..................39 B Azam lbw b Hazlewood ...............................................0 P Handscomb (not out) ...............................................40 and three sixes and was the sec- be easy because the fifth day old was picked up in the slips off Josh Mahmudullah c de Grandhomme b Sodhi 19 Y Khan (not out) ...........................................................175 Extras (b3, lb3, w1, nb1) ..................................................8 ond fastest in Test history after Test match and we play in Syd- Hazlewood for 10 before Imran M Hossain c Santner b Williamson ................1 M ul-Haq c sub (Bird) b Lyon ........................................18 Total (2 wkts/ dec.) .....................................241 Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq's ney and they have two spinners Khan was bowled two balls later Nurul Hasan c Boult b Williamson ..............10 A Shafiq c Smith b O'Keefe ..............................................4 Fall of wickets: 1-71, 2-174 21 balls against Australia in Abu and good fast bowlers as well," for a duck. Mashrafe c Boult b Sodhi ................................ 1 S Ahmed c sub (Bird) b Starc ........................................18 Bowling: Imran 6-2-43-0, Yasir 14-0-124-1, Riaz 7-0- Dhabi in 2014. Younis said. Younis remained unbeaten Rubul Hossain c Bruce b Wheeler .................1 M Amir c Warner b Lyon ..................................................4 28-1 (1nb 1w), Azhar 5-0-40-0 Mustafizur Rahman (not out) ....................... 0 W Riaz b Lyon ....................................................................8 Pakistan (II innings): But Warner perished when Younis was dropped on 141 off 334 balls with 17 fours and he missed in a lusty swing and by wicketkeeper Matthew Wade, three sixes, and was given a big Extras (lb5, w10) 15 Y Shah c Smith b Hazlewood ........................................10 A Ali (batting) ....................................................................11 Total (all out; 18.1) 148 I Khan b Hazlewood ..........................................................0 S Khan c Warner b Lyon ................................................40 was bowled by Wahab Riaz for who got his right glove to the ovation from the SCG crowd as Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-34, 3-36, 4-104, 5-118, Extras (B3) .........................................................................3 Y Shah (batting) ...............................................................3 55 off 27 balls. chance but could not cling on, he left the ground after his 34th 6-121, 7-144, 8-147, 9-147, 10-148 Total (all out) ...............................................315 Extras (NB1) ....................................................................... 1 Younis Khan was left uncon- much to bowler Mitchell Starc's Test century. Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-6, 3-152, 4-178, 5-197, 6-239, Total (1 wkt) .................................................. 55 Bowling: Santner 3-0-14-1 (1w), Boult 3-0-28- quered on 175 as Pakistan lost annoyance. The tourists on 315 finished 1 (1w), Wheeler 2.1-0-16-2 (2w), de Grandhom- 7-244,