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44 Friday Sports Friday, October 5, 2018 Young gun’s debut century puts India on top in WI Test India’s second-youngest century maker after Sachin Tendulkar RAJKOT: Teenager Prithvi Shaw became the is the seventh-youngest international batsman to youngest Indian to score a century on Test debut as score his first Test century. He is also the third bats- the hosts took opening day honors in the first match man after Shikhar Dhawan (85 balls) and Dwayne against the West Indies yesterday. Shaw, 18, also be- Smith (93) to hit his debut ton in under 100 balls. came India’s second-youngest century maker after Pujara also played an uncharacteristically quick Sachin Tendulkar as he blasted his way to a century knock as he brought up fifty off 67 deliveries, but in 99 deliveries in Rajkot. missed out on his hundred after being caught be- India were 364 for four at stumps after electing hind off debutant paceman Sherman Lewis. Kraigg to bat first in Rajkot. Skipper Virat Kohli, on 72, and Brathwaite, standing in as captain after Jason wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, on 17, were Holder suffered a last-minute ankle injury, juggled batting at close of play. But the day belonged to his bowlers but the absence of the experienced Shaw, a diminutive right-handed opener and Indian Kemar Roach and Holder was painfully evident. Premier League star for the Delhi Daredevils, as he Roach is back in Barbados to attend the funeral of and Cheteshwar Pujara put on a 206-run second his grandmother. wicket partnership. He led India’s fightback after Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane, who made 41, took they lost opener Lokesh Rahul for nought in the very over from Shaw with a patient 105-run partnership first over off Shannon Gabriel. despite West Indies bowlers keeping a tidy line and Shaw was finally caught and bowled by leg-spin- length to check the flow of runs in the final session ner Devendra Bishoo for 134 in the last over before of play. India, who had raced to 232-3 at tea, man- tea. His knock came in 154 balls with 19 boundaries. aged another 132 runs in 38 overs of the evening The now-retired Tendulkar, India’s most successful session with Kohli and Rahane batting cautiously. batsman, was aged 17 when he scored 119 not out Kohli, who is the world’s number one Test batsman, against England in 1990, but that was in his ninth got to his half-century against Bishoo and was get- Test match. ting dangerous with each passing ball. Indian vice- Shaw reached the landmark with two runs off captain Rahane though lost his cool against paceman Keemo Paul, punching his fist in the air as off-spinner Roston Chase to get caught behind in RAJKOT: India’s Prithvi Shaw celebrates after scoring a century (100 runs) during the ﬁrst Test cricket match the home crowd gave him a standing ovation. Shaw the final few overs of the day. —AFP between India and West Indies at the Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium. —AFP “Therefore, the IOC reiterates its clear IOC warns position that if the governance issues are not properly addressed to the satisfaction stature and baby-faced and have spent their boxing could of the IOC at the forthcoming AIBA Con- Shaw’s debut ton formative years toiling on the pitches in Mum- gress, the existence of boxing on the bai, known as the breeding ground for produc- Olympic programme and even the recog- ing future India cricketers. The similarities do be thrown out nition of AIBA as an International Feder- underlines child not end there. Shaw scored a hundred in his ation recognised by the IOC are under first-class debut in a Ranji Trophy semi-final threat.” The IOC warned in July that box- for Mumbai in 2017 and then became the of Olympics prodigy status youngest player to score a century on his ing could still be axed from the 2020 LOS ANGELES: Boxing risks being Tokyo Olympics if the AIBA did not put RAJKOT: India’s Prithvi Shaw has been com- Duleep Trophy debut, a record previously held by Tendulkar. thrown out of the Olympics unless the its house in order. In February the IOC pared to batting great Sachin Tendulkar since said they were worried by the nomination he was a 14-year-old schoolboy and the lofty sport’s ruling body addresses “grave” parallels will intensify after the teenage prodigy Shaw’s chance concerns regarding its governance, the of Uzbek businessman Gafur Rakhimov made a sparkling hundred on his test debut yes- Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan opened for International Olympic Committee execu- for the AIBA’s interim presidency. How- terday. At 18 years and 329 days, Shaw became India at the start of the recent five-test series in tive board said on Wednesday. A ever Rakhimov, who has been linked to the youngest Indian and fourth-youngest over- England but both were overlooked after the 4-1 strongly worded IOC statement warned organized crime by the US Treasury De- all to score a ton on his test debut during a defeat, handing a chance to Shaw, who was a partment, is now the only candidate for non-playing squad member for the final two that the International Boxing Association knock of 134 off 154 balls against West Indies (AIBA) must tackle governance issues at the presidency to be voted on at the AIBA in Rajkot. His breezy knock received praise from England tests. He could not have been more impressive in its upcoming congress or it could face congress in Moscow in November. Tendulkar, who was also known for dominating sanctions. In attempting to force change at the opposition bowlers as a young batsman. his maiden test knock, scoring his first runs with a punch off the back foot through covers off his “The Executive Board of the IOC today AIBA this year, the IOC had already sus- “Lovely to see such an attacking knock in pended financial contributions from the your first innings, @prithvishaw! Continue second delivery, reminding everyone why he had expressed its ongoing extreme concern batting fearlessly,” Tendulkar wrote on Twit- been tipped for a bright future in national colors. with the grave situation within the Inter- IOC to the AIBA. Even though the IOC ter. Like compatriot Tendulkar, Shaw shot to Shaw, who hit 19 fours, was often a tad flashy for national Boxing Association (AIBA) and believes sweeping change is needed at prominence from inter-school cricket when he an opening batsman with his shot selection but its current governance,” the board said in the AIBA, the governing body voiced smashed 546 off 330 balls for Rizvi Spring- showed stunning fluency in scoring on both a statement. “These include the circum- support for boxers themselves. “At the field in a minors’ cricket competition in Mum- sides of the wicket. stances of the establishment of the elec- same time we would like to reassure the bai in 2013. He hit 85 fours and five sixes “First I was a bit nervous but when I got in tion list and the misleading athletes that the IOC will — as it has al- during that knock. I was quite comfortable and I was just trying communication within the AIBA member- ways done in such situations and is cur- For his part, Tendulkar, who went on to be- to play my natural game, what I do in first- ship regarding the IOC’s position.” The rently doing at the Youth Olympic Games class cricket and in India A, and I just kept on come the most prolific run-scorer in an inter- executive board, meeting in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 2018 — do its utmost to national career spanning 24 years, once held going,” Shaw told broadcaster Star Sports. “I ensure that the athletes do not have to the record for the highest partnership of 664 in was not thinking about it as my first game, I where the Youth Olympic Games begin on suffer under these circumstances and school cricket with former India batsman Vinod was just thinking that it’s another game and it Saturday, said the troubles in the AIBA Kambli. Both Tendulkar and Shaw are short in just happened.” —Reuters affect “not just the reputation of AIBA that we will protect their Olympic and boxing but of sport in general”. dream.” —AFP.

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