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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

Pakistan march on with UAE victory

NAPIER: continued their revival in the World Cup with a professional and bowl- ing performance in a 129- win against in Napier yesterday. Opener fell seven short of his maiden World Cup hundred while (70) and skipper Misbah-ul-Haq chipped in with 65 which helped Pakistan to post a big 339-6 on a flat McLean Park pitch. They then restricted the UAE to 210-8 in their 50 overs with continuing his brilliant form SCOREBOARD with the bat by scoring 62. The win gives Pakistan four points in as many NAPIER, New Zealand: Complete scoreboard in the World Cup Pool B match between Pakistan and games as they continued their fight for a place in United Arab Emirates at McLean Park, Napier yesterday. the quarter-finals. The top four teams from each Pakistan A. Berenger c Akmal b 2 of the two pools of seven will reach the quarter- c Khan b Guruge 4 K. Chandran c Akmal b Khan 0 finals. Ahmed Shehzad run out 93 c Riaz b Maqsood 43 “That was a much needed win for us. We won Haris Sohail c Anwar b Naveed 70 Shaiman Anwar c Jamshed b 62 by a margin so we can relax now. We have a c Mustafa b Guruge 45 Misbah-ul-Haq c Mustafa b Guruge 65 S. Patil b Riaz 36 good net run rate now also,” said Misbah. UAE c Ali b Guruge 19 c Shehzad b Afridi 0 admitted chasing 21 c Khan b Riaz 40 such a huge score was always going to be not out 6 not out 0 beyond them. Extras: (lb3, nb1, w12) 16 Mohammed Tauqir not out 0 “340 was a big total for us, but we batted 50 Total: (for six wkts; 50 overs) 339 Extras: (lb1, w112) 13 overs and we are happy with this effort. Anwar is Did not bat: , Fall of : 1-10 (Jamshed), 2-170 (Sohail), 3- Total: (for eight wkts; 50 overs) 210 very confident and in great form,” said Tauqir. 176 (Shehzad), 4-251 (Maqsood), 5-312 (Akmal), Did not bat: M. Guruge A required rate of six-plus an over was always 6-312 (Misbah) Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Ali), 2-19 (Berenger), 3-25 beyond UAE’s reach but after losing their first : Naveed 10-0-50-1 (1nb, 1w), Guruge 8- (Chandran), 4-108 (Khan), 5-140 (Anwar), 6-140 three wickets with just 25 on the board-two to 0-56-4 (2w), Javed 9-0-76-0 (2w), Tauqir 10-0-52-0 (Mustafa), 7-208 (Javed), 8-210 (Patil) paceman Sohail Khan-Anwar and Khurram Khan (1w), Khan 3-0-21-0, Chandran 8-0-58-0, Mustafa Bowling: Irfan 3-1-2-0, Khan 9-2-54-2 (3w), Rahat 2-0-23-0 (6w) took the fight to the Pakistan bowlers adding 83 10-0-30-1 (2w), Riaz 10-1-54-2 (3w), Afridi 10-1-35- for the fourth . UAE 2 (3w), Maqsood 5-0-16-1 (1w), Sohail 3-0-18-0. Anwar hit four boundaries and two sixes dur- b 14 Result: Pakistan win by 129 runs. ing his 88-ball knock and with 270 runs in four matches became the top run-getter in the tour- nament. World Cup results and standings Khan hit three fours and a six off 54 deliveries. Pakistan’s bowling was hampered by the Pool A absence of spearhead Mohammad Irfan who At Perth hurt his hip during a fall in the field and could 417-6 ( 178, 95, Glenn Maxwell 88) v Afghanistan 142 all out bowl only three overs. The team said Irfan’s Australia won by 275 runs injury was not serious and he was held back as precaution. Pool B Wahab Riaz, Khan and Shahid Afridi took two At Napier wickets apiece. Shehzad and Sohail restored Pakistan 339-6 (Ahmed Shehzad 93, Haris Sohail 70, Misbah-ul-Haq 65) v UAE 210-8 Pakistan during their second wicket stand of 160 (Shaiman Anwar 62) after they lost out of form Nasir Jamshed for four Pakistan won by 129 runs in the fourth over. Guruge could have had Shehzad in his fourth Played won lost tied no result points run rate over but Khurram dropped a sharp chance when Pool A the batsman was on eight and three runs later New Zealand 4 4 0 0 0 8 +3.589 Shehzad got another life off Mohammad 4 3 1 0 0 6 +0.128 Naveed. Australia 4 2 1 0 1 5 +1.804 Shehzad hit eight boundaries and a six off 3 1 1 0 1 3 +0.130 105 balls but ran himself out while taking a 4 1 3 0 0 2 -1.201 sharp single. Sohail clubbed five boundaries and Afghanistan 4 1 3 0 0 2 -1.953 a six. Scotland 3 0 3 0 0 0 -1.735 Maqsood helped Misbah add another rapid 75 for the fourth wicket, hitting four boundaries Pool B and two towering sixes during his 31-ball 45. 3 3 0 0 0 6 +2.630 Misbah reached his 41st ODI half- off 4 3 1 0 0 6 +1.950 just 39 balls. He hit four boundaries and two six- West Indies 4 2 2 0 0 4 -0.313 es before holing out off Guruge. NAPIER: Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq plays a shot during the Pool B match Pakistan 4 2 2 0 0 4 -0.385 Shahid Afridi hit two sixes and a four in his between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan at McLean Park. —AFP Ireland 3 2 1 0 0 4 -1.137 seven-ball 21 not out and when on two became 4 1 3 0 0 2 -0.723 the fourth Pakistani, and 27th batsman, in the the other Pakistan players to make 8,000 ODI in Auckland (March 7) and Ireland in Adelaide UAE 4 0 4 0 0 0 -1.691 world to cross 8,000 runs. runs. (March 15) while UAE face South Africa in Note: Top four in each group qualify for quarter-finals. This was Afridi’s 395th match. Inzamam-ul- Guruge was the pick of UAE bowlers with a Wellington (March 12) and the West Indies in Haq, Mohammad Yousuf and are career best 4-56. Pakistan next play South Africa Napier (March 15).—AFP Afridi joins 8,000 ODI run club

NAPIER: Swashbuckling Pakistani allrounder Shahid Afridi joined the 8,000 one-day run club during his 21 not out against the United Arab Emirates in the World Cup at Napier yesterday. The 35-year-old became the fourth Pakistani after Inzamam-ul Haq, Mohammad Yousuf and Saeed Anwar to make 8,000 one-day runs and the 27th of all time. Afridi, who also took 2-35 in the 129-run win, needs five more wickets to complete 400 one-day wickets. If he takes those five wickets, he will become the only allrounder to score more than 8,000 runs and take 400 wickets. Batsmen who have scored 8,000 or more runs in one-day international cricket. Player country runs S. Tendulkar India 18,426 K. Sangakkara Sri Lanka 13,961 R. Ponting Australia 13,704 S. Jayasuriya Sri Lanka 13,430 M. Jayawardene Sri Lanka 12,625 Inzamam-ul Haq Pakistan 11,739 J. Kallis South Africa 11,579 S. Ganguly India 11,363 R. Dravid India 10,889 B. Lara West Indies 10,405 Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan 9720 T. Dilsha Sri Lanka 9620 A. Gilchrist Australia 9619 Mohammad Azharuddin India 9378 A. de Silva Sri Lanka 9284 C. Gayle West Indies 9139 Saeed Anwar Pakistan 8824 S. Chanderpaul West Indies 8778 D. Haynes West Indies 8648 M. Atapattu Sri Lanka 8529 M. Waugh Australia 8500 Y. Singh India 8329 M. Dhoni India 8298 V. Sehwag India 8273 H. Gibbs South Africa 8094 S. Fleming New Zealand 8037 PERTH: Fans wave flags during the 2015 Cricket World Cup Pool A match between Australia and Afghanistan in Perth. —AFP Shahid Afridi Pakistan 8019. —AFP From Bradford to Napier, all for the love of Pakistan

NAPIER: Haider Israr has three loves-wife we can be proud of and all my hopes are added to my disappointment,” said Haider, field. “Every other day we get news of a new them back,” said Haider. Shazira, his adopted home of Bradford in the with cricket to promote my country.” Haider, who went on to see Pakistan lose to the West chairman of the which “They sold themselves for peanuts. When I north of England and cricket. Well, Pakistan who hails from Gujjar Khan in the Punjab Indies by 150 runs in the second match in destabilises the game and now I am hearing go to watch cricket at Lord’s or Leeds the cricket in particular. province, migrated to the United Kingdom Christchurch. that they are bringing back players who locals chant ‘for how much will you sell this The 49-year-old travels the world support- after his fiancee sponsored his visit and they Angry at that defeat, Haider and his wife stained Pakistan’s image,” said Haider of shirt?’ But I tell them that those players are ing Pakistan, leaving his fast food business in were soon married. flew to Australia’s Gold coast to ease the pain , Mohammad Asif and out of cricket now,” said Haider. “I hope my Bradford in the hands of others. “I was born “I was married before, to cricket,” he joked. before flying back to New Zealand and Mohammad Aamer. The trio were banned for country gets over all its problems because it and educated in Pakistan, so my identity is “I have been to many international matches Wednesday’s game in Napier. five years and jailed in 2011 over a spot-fix- is a great country, full of nice people and Pakistani and I feel that we can only project but since my marriage I have taken my wife “I get texts from my friends in the UK to ing case in England a year earlier. places.” Shazira said she has started to devel- our country as a civilised nation through to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for the 2011 say I am wasting my time on this Pakistan Aamer is due to play his first match on op a deep interest in cricket. cricket,” Haider told AFP as he watched World Cup, 2012 World (Sri Lanka) team, but I am sure Pakistan will go to the March 9 after the International Cricket “I didn’t like cricket initially but I have now Wednesday’s World Cup clash against the and 2014 World Twenty20 (Bangladesh),” said final and I have a ticket for that match,” said Council relaxed certain conditions of his ban developed a good interest and by going on UAE at McLean Park in Napier. Haider. But his World Cup tour of Australia Haider, of the March 29 title decider in last year, allowing him to play domestic crick- tours it gives me an opportunity to see the “Unfortunately Pakistan is mainly known and New Zealand started on the wrong note. Melbourne. et six months before his suspension expires. world,” said Shazira. “It’s two enjoyments in for the wrong reasons,” said Haider of the ter- “I couldn’t get a ticket for the all-impor- Haider also hoped that Pakistan cricket “England gave us a home series and three one ticket and above all, my husband is hap- ror-hit country. “So cricket is the only thing tant match against India and the defeat becomes more stable-both on and off the players spoiled our image but people want py and we promote our country.”—AFP