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BOSTON: Mike Hoffman scored the game-winning RED WINGS 4, DUCKS 3 (OT) in the shootout as the Florida Panthers rallied from Dennis Cholowski scored at 2:04 of overtime as vis- four goals down in the third period to stun the host iting Detroit staged a late rally to edge Anaheim and Boston Bruins 5-4 Tuesday night. Keith Yandle tied the hand the Ducks their fourth straight loss. Cholowski score with 1:39 remaining in regulation, and Aaron wristed a shot over the shoulder of Ducks goalie Ryan Ekblad, Frank Vatrano and Hoffman also scored in the Miller off a pass from Robby Fabbri. Detroit’s Dylan third as the Panthers won their second straight in a Larkin scored in the final minute of regulation to tie the shootout. Sam Montembeault made 15 saves between game. Filip Hronek and Andreas Athanasiou also scored the third period and overtime after taking over for an for the Red Wings. Jonathan Bernier made 24 saves as ineffective Sergei Bobrovsky. Jonathan Huberdeau had Detroit won its third straight game. Jakob Silfverberg, three assists for Florida, and Yandle added two helpers. Josh Mahura and Cam Fowler scored for Anaheim. David Pastrnak, Joakim Nordstrom, Anders Bjork and Zdeno Chara scored in a 7:36 span in the second peri- CANADIENS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2 (SO) od for the Bruins, who lost their fourth straight (0-2-2). Jonathan Drouin scored the only goal in the shootout stopped 25 shots. as Montreal defeated visiting Columbus. Drouin slid in a backhander during the top of the second round for the CANUCKS 5, PREDATORS 3 game-deciding goal. Montreal goalie Carey Price Elias Pettersson scored twice on his 21st birthday as stuffed Cam Atkinson, Gustav Nyquist and Oliver host Vancouver defeated Nashville in a game that fea- Bjorkstrand in the extra session after making 33 saves in tured six goals in the final 14 minutes. Tanner Pearson regulation and the shootout. Brendan Gallagher and also scored twice for the Canucks, the last an empty-net Tomas Tatar tallied for Montreal, which moved to 6-1-1 goal the length of the ice with 6.9 seconds remaining, in their last eight. Eric Robinson and Zach Werenski and Adam Gaudette also tallied. Thatcher Demko made scored for the Blue Jackets in regulation. 34 saves as the Canucks snapped a four-game winless streak. Mikael Granlund, Filip Forsberg and Calle RANGERS 3, PENGUINS 2 (OT) Jarnkrok scored for Nashville. Pekka Rinne stopped 21 Rookie Kaapo Kakko scored twice, including the of 25 shots for the Predators, who are 1-3-2 in their past game-winning goal at 2:24 of overtime, as host New six games after a four-game winning streak. York survived squandering a two-goal lead and edged ANAHEIM: Dennis Cholowski #21 of the handles the puck past Adam Henrique #14 of the Pittsburgh. The Rangers improved to 6-2-1 in their past Anaheim Ducks during the third period of a game at Honda Center n Anaheim, California. — AFP AVALANCHE 4, JETS 0 nine games thanks to Kakko’s first career two-goal Nathan MacKinnon scored two goals and had two game. Kakko and Fox scored in the opening period for assists, and Adam Werner made 40 saves for a shutout the Rangers, who also got a 30-save performance from road victory over the Washington Capitals on Monday. Kassian added a goal for Edmonton, whose two-game in his first NHL game as Colorado shut out host Alexandar Georgiev. Artemi Panarin had an assist and Jaden Schwartz and Colton Parayko scored for St. Louis. winning streak ended. Winnipeg to extend its winning streak to three games. extended his points streak to nine games. Justin Schultz Jordan Binnington stopped 20 of 22 shots. MacKinnon scored twice in the third period and assist- scored, and Jared McCann tied the game with a power- KINGS 3, WILD 1 ed on goals from Cale Makar and Joonas Donskoi. It play goal that ended Pittsburgh’s 0-for-28 drought SHARKS 6, OILERS 3 Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter scored early goals, and was the seventh multi-point game of the season for with the man advantage. Matt Murray finished with 24 Brent Burns, Evander Kane and Patrick Marleau Jonathan Quick made 27 saves as Los Angeles ended a MacKinnon, who has three goals and five assists over saves for Pittsburgh, which played without Sidney scored first-period goals, and San Jose cruised to three-game losing streak with a win over visiting his past three games. Playing in relief after an early Crosby (lower-body injury). another win over Edmonton — the Sharks’ eighth in Minnesota. Sean Walker added an empty-net goal in the injury to starting goalie Pavel Francouz, Werner made their last nine vs. the Oilers. Martin Jones made 21 final minute as the Kings won at the start of a stretch in his unexpected debut a perfect one as the Avalanche COYOTES 3, BLUES 2 (SO) saves while Erik Karlsson collected three assists for which they’ll play seven of eight games at home after recorded their first team shutout of the season. A fifth- Conor Garland scored the game-tying goal and the the Sharks, who have won also four straight games. losing all three during a just-concluded trip to Toronto, round pick for the Avalanche in the 2016 NHL draft, shootout winner to lift visiting Arizona past St. Louis, end- Barclay Goodrow and Timo Meier each had a goal and Ottawa and Montreal. Matt Dumba scored for the Wild, Werner has a 5-4-0 record, a .908 save percentage ing the Blues’ seven-game winning streak. Clayton Keller an assist for the Sharks, who also got a goal from who went 2-2-0 on a West Coast trip. Minnesota, which and 2.88 goals-against average for the AHL’s Colorado also scored and Darcy Kuemper made 33 saves for the Tomas Hertl. Leon Draisaitl and Sam Gagner both reg- fell to 2-4-1 over its past seven games, got 32 saves Eagles this season. Coyotes, who stacked this victory on top of a 4-3 shootout istered a goal and an assist for the Oilers, and Zack from Devan Dubnyk. — Reuters

ing his 2014 tour of England when he man- Pooran banned Kohli hails aged just 134 runs from 10 innings with highest score of 39. “I have gone through a phase in my career where it was the end of for four T20 Maxwell for the world,” said Kohli. “In England 2014 I just didn’t know matches for taking mental what to do, what say to anyone, how to speak, how to communicate. “I could have said that I am not feeling great mentally health break and need to get away from the game. But you never know how that’s taken. INDORE: India skipper Virat Kohli yes- “These things should of great impor- NEW DELHI: West Indies batsman terday lauded Australian all-rounder Glenn Nicholas Pooran has been banned for four tance. If you think that the player is impor- Maxwell’s courage to take a break from tant enough for the team or for Indian T20 internationals for tampering with the ball because of mental health issues and in a one-day match against Afghanistan, cricket to go forward he should be looked said international players should be looked after.” Kohli said the team were excited cricket’s world body announced yesterday. after. Maxwell, one of the world’s best Pooran admitted to “changing the condi- about their first day-night Test, the second batsman in the shortest format, left match of the series starting November 22 tion of the ball” after video footage showed Australia’s Twenty20 squad last month dur- him scratching the surface of the white ball at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. ing a series against touring Sri Lanka. The Players have been getting used the pink with his thumbnail in Lucknow on Monday. move by the 31-year-old Maxwell was “He will now miss the next four T20I games ball during their net sessions in Indore. “The backed by his team and support staff with pink ball I played yesterday, I felt it swings a for the West Indies and will have five demerit Cricket Australia saying he was a “special points added to his record,” said an lot more as compared to the red ball LUCKNOW: File photo shows West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran plays a shot during the second player” and they hoped to see him back in International Cricket Council statement. because there’s extra lacquer on the ball (ODI) cricket match between Afghanistan and West Indies at the the summer. Pooran said that he wanted to “issue a sin- which doesn’t go away too fast,” he said. Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on November 9, 2019. — AFP Kohli praised Maxwell for putting his cere apology to my teammates, supporters “And the seam holds upright quite a bit. I health before the game. “I am absolutely and the Afghanistan team for what transpired think if the pitch has extra help for the for it,” Kohli said ahead of India’s first Test on the field of play on Monday in Lucknow”. stronger and wiser.” The 24-year-old will be wicketkeeper batsman. He was the man of bowlers then the bowlers will be in the “I recognise that I made an extreme error in forced to sit out the team’s three T20 matches the match in the second ODI for smashing against Bangladesh in Indore starting game, especially fast bowlers.” He rated judgement and I fully accept the ICC penal- against Afghanistan and the first game of their 67 off 50 balls. today. “I think what Glenn has done is India’s seam attack as the best in the world ty,” he added. subsequent three-match series against India. Born in Trinidad, Pooran has played 16 remarkable and has set the right example with , Umesh Yadav and “I want to assure everyone that this is an Pooran, who made 21 in a successful West ODI matches since his 50-over debut earlier for cricketers all over the world.” He Ishant Sharma in the 15-man squad. isolated incident and it will not be repeated. I Indies chase of 250 that led to a sweep of this year. He has represented West Indies in added: “I think these things should be Shami and Yadav shared 24 wickets promise to learn from this and come back the three-match ODI series, is a left-handed 14 T20 games. — AFP respected and not taken in a negative way.” during the recent South Africa series Discussion of stress-related problems is which India swept 3-0. “If you ask me, uncommon in the sub-continent, even we’re right at the top,” Kohli said. though players from other countries have “ was never an issue, spin was Struggling batsmen give quit tours because of mental health issues. never an issue. After Zak (Zaheer Khan) Shakib’s absence Jonathan Trott returned home from and all the stalwarts went away, we were Australia selection headache England’s tour of Australia in 2013 with a thinking how can we get back to the stress-related illness. England all-rounder top, have the ability and the firepower like losing 2 players MELBOURNE: Australia’s hopes of 16. His top order rival Usman Khawaja Andrew Flintoff admitted to dealing with to pick 20 wickets. resolving their batting problems in time poked around for six runs from 30 balls depression and speculated that it may have “Just seeing the way they’ve bowled, INDORE: Bangladesh Mominul Haque for the test series against Pakistan have before being caught behind. said yesterday the absence of banned all-rounder been behind his prolonged drinking bouts it’s the belief that stands out. “Any kind of proved forlorn, with a slew of candidates Opener Joe Burns, renowned for miss- as captain of a whitewashed England side the pitch, any kind of opposition, they Shakib Al Hasan will be like missing two players, as failing to stake their claim since the ing out on a place in the Ashes squad the team prepared for their two-Test series in during the 2006-07 tour of Australia. believe that they can get more out of the Ashes. despite scoring 180 in the previous test Kohli recounted his own inhibitions dur- pitch than the opposition.” — AFP India.Bangladesh arrived in India in shock after Selectors name the test squad on against Sri Lanka in February, blew his Shakib was handed a two-year ban, with one-year Thursday but will have to rely on their chance to make an impression when he suspended, for failing to declare illegal approaches gut rather than hard numbers when pick- was bowled for a duck by Imran Khan. by a bookmaker in 2018. The International Cricket ing an opening partner for Middle order hopeful Travis Head, Council (ICC) ban ruled Shakib out of the tour and and filling a middle order vacancy fol- also dropped during the Ashes, did little Perry said in an Instagram post using next year’s World T20 in Australia. lowing the drawn series in England. for his hopes of a recall with 13, while Katy Perry the Australian sporting chant. “Let’s The touring side is also missing prolific opener The Australia A tour game against much-hyped youngster Will Pucovski break some records - join me in Tamim Iqbal, who took a break due to family rea- Pakistan was to have offered an unofficial was out for five following his twin fail- to perform Melbourne on March 8, 2020 for the sons. “We are missing three players in two players. audition but all of the hopefuls fluffed ures for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. ICC @T20WorldCup Women’s Final. Shakib bhai (brother) is two players in one, and their lines on Tuesday barring Cameron Australia’s selectors have a far easier We’ll Roar in support of these awe- then you have Tamim bhai,” Mominul told Bancroft, who scored 49 as the hosts job picking the bowling contingent, with at women’s some women on International reporters on the eve of the first Test in Indore were bowled out for a paltry 122. pacemen Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Women’s Day!” starting today. Opener Bancroft, who was dropped James Pattinson and Pat Cummins fit for T20 final The International Cricket Council “It is challenging, but I also see it as a chance to mid-series in England after a string of the first test starting in Brisbane on Nov. said Perry would perform both before do well for the rest of the players.” Mominul, much failures, was only picked in the ‘A’ team 21 and certain to be included in the 12- and after the final in “what is antici- to his surprise, was named Test captain in place of after Nic Maddinson pulled out on men- man squad with spinner Nathan Lyon. SYDNEY: American popstar Katy pated to be the biggest women’s Shakib and the batsman feels the responsibility will tal health grounds and felt his chances of Picking which of the quicks misses out at Perry announced yesterday she will cricket match of all time.” It said it only make him a better player. “I will probably be a recall were dim. “Probably highly the Gabba will be a tougher call. For all be performing at the final of the was an opportunity to set a new playing like I have always played as a batsman,” unlikely, I would have thought,” the 26- his brilliance during the 50-over World Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in world attendance record at a said the left-hander. “The positive side of captaincy year-old told reporters. Cup, Starc was used in only one test in Melbourne next March before an women’s sporting fixture. The current is that your cricket gyan (knowledge) becomes bet- Incumbent opener Marcus Harris, who England and could be benched in favour expected record crowd on record crowd of 90,185 was set at the ter.” The 28-year-old added: “It is a huge opportu- averaged 9.66 against Joe Root’s of Pattinson, who is relishing a rare spell International Women’s Day. 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup final nity for me as one of the junior players. — AFP England in three tests during the Ashes, of fitness after three years blighted by “Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!” in Pasadena, California. — AFP failed to cement his place with a score of injury problems. — Reuters