Sports Friday, December 20, 2019 13 Fares, other 150 weightlifters to compete in Qatar Cup 2019 fight back after collapse in second Test

AFP Scoreboard Pakistan (1st ): Qatar’s star lifter Fares Ibrahim Hassouna will be aiming to improve his records Pakistan fought back af- b Fernando 5 Abid Ali lbw b Kumara 38 in 96kg class in the sixth Qatar Cup, which begins at the Radisson Blu Hotel in ter being dismissed relatively b Fernando 0 Doha on Friday. Over 150 lifters from 42 nations have landed to compete in vari- cheaply on Thursday as bowl- Babar Azam st Dickwella b Embuldeniya 60 ous categories in the men and women’s sections. Hassouna will compete on the ers dominated the opening Asad Shafiq c Fernando b Kumara 63 third and penultimate day of the event. Last year, he claimed the gold in the same day of the second Test against Haris Sohail lbw b Embuldeniya 9 Mohammad Rizwan b Kumara 4 class, setting junior world records in the clean & jerk with 225 kg and total with in Karachi. Yasir Shah lbw b Kumara 0 397 kg. On Thursday evening, a verification meeting was held and it was chaired Lahiru Kumara and Lasith Mohammad Abbas c de Silva b Embuldeniya 0 by Dr Abdullah al Jarmal. Ursula, USA Weightlifting President, Mohamed Hassan Embuldeniya grabbed four Shaheen Shah Afridi c Mathews b Embuldeniya 5 Jaloud of Iraq, IWF General Secretary, and Makhmadov Shakhrelo, Uzbekistan each to dismiss Pa- Naseem Shah 1 Extras: (b 4, lb 2) 6 weightlifting General Secretary, are also members of the verification committee. It kistan for just 191 before the Total: (all out; 59.3 overs) 191 was followed by a technical committee meeting. On the first day, competition will home team had the visitors at Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Masood), 2-10 (Azhar), 3-65 be held in the women’s 49kg and 55kg classes, while men lifters will contest in 64-3 at stumps at the National (Abid), 4-127 (Azam), 5-167 (Sohail), 6-172 (Rizwan), the 61kg and 67kg. Stadium. 7-172 (Yasir), 8-179 (Abbas), 9-185 (Shafiq). : Fernando 13-3-31-2, Kumara 18-5-49-4, Karunaratne 1-0-11-0, Embuldeniya 20.3-3-71-4, Perera 7-0-23-0. Sri Lanka (1st innings): O. Fernando c Rizwan b Shaheen 4 D. Karunaratne b Abbas 25 K. Mendis c Haris b Abbas 13 A. Mathews not out 8 L. Embuldeniya not out 3 Cummins fetches record Extras: (lb 6, w5) 11 Total: (for three wkts; 19 overs) 64 Still to bat: D. Chandimal, D. de Silva, N.Dickwella, D. Perera, V. Fernando, L. Kumara Fall of wickets: 1-28 (Oshada), 2-39 (Karunaratne), 3-61 (Mendis) Bowling: Shaheen 6-2-18-1, Abbas 8-3-21-2, $2.17m at IPL auction Naseem 5-0-19-0 (w5). Toss: Pakistan. 2020 IPL Auction summary ($1.12m to current champions Mumbai Indians). disguised . Players sold: 62 (32 capped, 30 uncapped) West Indies batsman Shafiq hooked Kumara Absolutely pumped to be Overseas players sold: 29 Shimron Hetmyer ($1.08m to tentatively to deep square-leg, back on board ... Can’t Total money spent: INR 1,40,30,00,000 Delhi), England’s World Cup- Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Kumara, who ending Pakistan’s hopes of a wait to get over there. Teams with most players: KXIP, RR, SRH (25) winning skipper Eoin Morgan claimed 4-49, celebrates the big total in their bid to win the of Pakistan’s Yasir Shah at Team with least players: RCB (21) ($734,265 to Knight Riders) series after the firstT est ended - after being and Australia limited-overs the National Stadium in in a draw due to poor weather Biggest buy: Pat Cummins (Australia) — Kolkata, 15.5 Crore ($2.17m) picked up by Kolkata Aaron Finch ($619,303 Karachi on Thursday. (AFP) in Rawalpindi. Biggest uncapped buy: Varun Chararavarthy (4.00 INR cr by KKR) Knight Riders to Bangalore) were other nota- Shafiq admitted the Paki- Team which bought most players: RR (11) ble buys. Pacer Kumara took 4-49 stani batsmen were undone by AFP Maxwell improved from while left-arm spinner Em- the wicket. “It was unexpected Kolkata Big earners his base price set at 20 million buldeniya finished with 4-71 turn and seam on the first Pat Cummins (Australia) Kolkata 15.5 Crore ($2.17m) rupees to re-unite with his for- after Pakistan won the toss. day’s pitch,” said Shafiq, play- Australian players at- (Australia) Punjab 10.75 Crore ($1.51m) mer team. “He has the capac- But Pakistan staged a ing his 67th consecutive Test. tracted big prices in the Indian Christopher Morris (South Africa) Bangalore 10 Crore ($1.4m) ity to really blast through on a fightback with the wickets of “(But) If we bowl well we can Premier League auction on Sheldon Cottrell (West Indies) Punjab 8.5 Crore ($1.19m) good day,” Punjab chief execu- Oshada Fernando (four), Di- get them out in this total and Thursday with paceman Pat Nathan Coulter-Nile (Australia) Mumbai 8 Crore ($1.12m) tive Satish Menon said after muth Karunaratne (25) and then put up a winning score.” Cummins becoming the costli- Piyush Chawla (India) Chennai 6.75 Crore ($949,100 ) the big buy. (13) leaving Sri Kumara dismissed Mo- est overseas buy after he went “He is the only guy we see Lanka still 127 runs behind on hammad Rizwan for four Sam Curran (England) Chennai 5.5 Crore ($773,340) to Kolkata Knight Riders for as ‘X factor’ in the middle-or- the first innings. and Yasir Shah (nought) off $2.17 million. Eoin Morgan (England) Kolkata 5.25 Crore ($734,265) der which we lack very badly.” Lanky pacer Shaheen Shah successive deliveries in the Explosive all-rounder Aaron Finch (Australia) Bangalore 4.4 Crore ($619,303) Maxwell has scored 1,397 Afridi had Fernando first over after tea before Em- Glenn Maxwell joined Kings XI runs in the IPL at an average behind before Mohammad buldeniya removed the tail. Punjab for $1.51 million after of 22.9 at a rapid of Abbas removed Karunaratne Earlier, Sri Lanka left-arm recently returning to cricket upped the ante before Kolkata in 2015. 161.13. and Mendis. At stumps, An- pacer Vishwa Fernando dis- from a short break due to men- swooped in for their former Kolkata’s new coach and Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla gelo Mathews was eight not missed opener Shan Masood tal health issues. player, who has claimed 32 former New Zealand skipper was the highest Indian bid for out and nightwatchman Em- for five and skipper Azhar Ali In the annual IPL auction, wickets in 25 IPL matches. Brendon McCullum was elated $949,100 to Chennai Super buldeniya unbeaten on three. for a to rattle Pakistan at held before the start of each “Absolutely pumped to be to get “the best player of the auc- Kings who also got England Pakistan were well set at 10-2 in the morning. season, teams buy players who back on board ... Can’t wait to tion”, but insisted India’s Dinesh allrounder Sam Curran for 127-3 with Babar Azam (60) Fernando’s new-ball part- sign central contracts. get over there,” Cummins said Karthik will remain captain for $773,340. While most of In- and Asad Shafiq (63) involved ner Kumara dismissed first The players get around 75 in a video message posted on the two-time champions. dia’s big name players are al- in a 62- stand for the fourth Test centurion Abid Ali for 38 percent of the auction price – Kolkata’s official Twitter site. Other big foreign buys in- ready attached to franchises, wicket, but once Azam fell the to end a third-wicket partner- effectively their salary for the While it was a best for a for- cluded South Africa bowler several newcomers bagged lu- home side lost their last six ship of 55, which had lifted Pa- season – while the rest goes to Pat Cummins: Australian pace- eign player, the price paid for Chris Morris ($1.4m to Royal crative deals such as uncapped wickets for just 24 runs. kistan from a precarious 10 for their national board. man becomes the costliest buy Cummins is still short of the Challengers Bangalore), West batsman who Azam was shaping well two. Fernando thought he had Cummins initiated the by the Kolkata Knight Riders at 160 million rupees ($2.3 mil- Indies quick Sheldon Cottrell went up from his base price after scoring his 13th half- Azam leg-before on four, but biggest bidding war. Banga- the 2020 IPL auction in Kolkata lion) that Bangalore paid for ($1.19m to Punjab) and Aus- of $28,000 to fetch $267,000 before Embuldeniya TV referalls showed the ball lore and Delhi Capitals both on Thursday. Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh sie quick Nathan Coulter-Nile from . had him off a well- hit the bat first. QCA brings international touch Qatar SC, Wakrah win in QBF League to National Day 2019 festivities Sajjad named man of the match

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Qatar Stars Eleven edged International Stars Eleven in a frantic finish to win the cricket match by a wicket and double the joy fans on the Qatar Na- tional Day. Just like the previous year, the match was hosted by the Qatar Cricket Association at the Asian Town Stadium to cel- Qatar Sports ebrate the Qatar National Day. Club and Al A large gathering thoroughly Wakrah pulled enjoyed the proceedings as Qa- off victories in tar Stars Eleven pulled off the Qatar Stars Eleven players celebrate with the trophy after winning the QND cricket match. the QBF League victory off the final ball of the at the Al Gharafa 15-over-a-side match. Besides Sajjad, Awais Ma- very first ball and then picked als and trophy in presence of Club Indoor Hall first, International lik got two for 11, while Gayan a double before placing the ball Event Director Issa al Yacoub in Al Gharafa on Stars Eleven, led by Abdul Budhika, Mohammed Nadeem for the winning single to a mas- and other QCA officials.T he Thursday. Kevin Razzaq, made a modest 97 for and skipper Iqbal Hussain sive celebration by the team QCA head was delighted with Bracy, who col- eight, struggling against some Chaudhry shared three wickets. and fans. the event which added an in- lected 30 points tight bowling by the home In the cold and windy con- Zaheeruddeen chipped in ternational flavour to the Qatar and 10 rebounds, team, especially Tamoor Saj- ditions, Qatar Stars Eleven also with 18 in 15 balls with two four National Day celebration. led Qatar SC to jad, who grabbed three scalps faced many anxious moments. and a six. Mohammed Rizlan “The match was quite ex- a 92-86 triumph for just 10 runs in his three- Towards the end, they required added 19 in 24 balls with a four, citing and I am confident that against Al Arabi over quote. 16 runs to win with only two while captain Chaudhry fired a the participating and fans must Club, while Al Razzaq hit an 18-ball 19 overs and two wickets left. Ka- six and a to get 12, have enjoyed alike. The QCA is Wakrah were with a six and a four, while reem Sadiq picked a wicket for the same as Sajjad. proud to host this match on the inspired to a Salman Butt smashed three just one run in the first three All-rounder Sajjad was lat- great occasion of our National thrilling 64-63 boundaries and a six to collect balls to leave the rivals needing er named the man of the match Day. We want to thank the win over Al Khor 31 off 21 balls. Butt and Ajantha 10 off the final three deliveries. for his superb display. players, especially the interna- Club by Tevin Mendis gathered 44 runs for Newman Nadeem was de- QCA President Yousef Je- tional stars, who took part in Glass, who had the seventh wicket to take the termined to do something sur- ham Al Kuwari was the chief the match and made it truly a 24 points and score close three figures. prising. He blasted a six off the guest and presented the med- memorable event for all of us.” nine rebounds.