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TENNIS | Page 3 GOLF | Page 5 Osaka drawn Piercy grabs in tough group lead at CJ Cup in WTA Finals as Koepka debut makes charge Saturday, October 20, 2018 BOXING Safar 11, 1440 AH Making history, GULF TIMES paving path, bringing glory to Qatar SPORT Page 2 Warm welcome for Qatar’s Youth Olympic Games heroes Barrow and Abdelaziz Qatar’s Owaab Barrow (left) and Mohamed Abdelaziz are welcomed at Hamad International Airport in Doha on Thursday night after their successful trip to the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Abdelaziz and Barrow clinched gold medals in the 200m and 110m hurdles respectively. Qatar Athletics Federation president and Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) second vice-president Dr Thani al-Kuwari, and QOC secretary-general Jassim al-Buenain were among those who welcomed the Team Qatar’s delegation on their arrival in Doha. CRICKET / PAK VS AUS, DAY 4, 2ND TEST Abbas fl oors Australia for Pakistan’s series victory Medium pacer followed his 5-33 in the first innings with figures of 5-62 to wreck the Australian innings for 164 Scorecard PAKISTAN 1st innings 282 N. Lyon not out 6 AUSTRALIA 1st innings 145 J. Holland c Sohail b Yasir 3 PAKISTAN 2nd innings 400-9 dec U. Khawaja absent injured AUSTRALIA 2nd innings (o/n: 47/1) Extras (lb5) 5 A. Finch lbw b Abbas 31 Total (all out; 49.4 overs) 164 S. Marsh b Hamza 4Fall of wickets: 1-10 (S. Marsh), 2-71 (Head), 3-77 (M. Marsh), T. Head c sub (Rizwan) b Abbas 36 4-78 (Finch), 5-78 (Paine), 6-145 M. Marsh lbw b Abbas 5(Starc), 7-151 (Siddle), 8-155 (La- M Labuschagne c sub (Rizwan) b buschagne), 9-164 (Holland) Abbas 43 Bowling: Abbas 17-2-62-5, Hamza T. Paine b Abbas 06-0-40-1, Yasir 21.4-5-45-3, Asif M. Starc lbw b Yasir 28 5-2-12-0 P. Siddle lbw b Yasir 3RESULT: Pakistan win by 373 runs, take series 1-0 chance to win the match. “Obviously really disappoint- ing to have them fi ve for 57 on day one and we let that opportunity slip,” said Paine. “Abbas challenged our defence time and time again. There’s cer- tainly no sugar coating that we’ve got some real issues with our bat- ting.” Head and Finch put on 61 runs for the second wicket while Starc (28) and Labuschagne added 67 for the sixth wicket, but it only delayed the inevitable. Abbas had Mitchell Marsh (fi ve) and Finch (31) leg-before Pakistan’s Mohamed Abbas. (AFP) wicket and dismissed Tim Paine for nought — before Yasir Shah ‘YOUNGSTERS COMING removed Starc and Peter Siddle THROUGH’ for three. Sarfraz, who was hit on the hel- Australia had reached 155-7 at met by a rising Mitchell Starc de- lunch with the writing very much Pakistan cricket team celebrates with the winners’ trophy after they beat Australia in the second Test match in Abu Dhabi by 373 runs to win the series 1-0. (AFP) livery on Thursday, had gone for on the wall. a precautionary scan which came Pakistan made 282 in their AFP to wreck Australia for 164. 17 wickets in the series — becom- — since being forced to play their The fi rst Test ended in a draw back clear. fi rst innings and then bowled out Abu Dhabi The victory, after Australia ing the fi rst Pakistani fast bowler home matches in UAE since 2009 in Dubai last week. Sarfraz was full of praise for Australia for a paltry 145, gaining were set a 538-run target, al- to take ten wickets in a Test since attacks on the Sri Lankan team Australian opener Usman Abbas, the man of the match. a match winning 137-run lead. lowed Pakistan to wrap up the Mohamed Asif did so against Sri bus in Lahore. Khawaja could not bat after suf- “The way Abbas has bowled all The highlights of Pakistan’s edium pacer Mo- two-match series 1-0 after Aus- Lanka at Kandy in 2006. Australia’s batsmen had no an- fering a recurrence of a knee in- series is one of the biggest posi- batting in this match were 94 hamed Abbas took tralia fought back to draw the Abbas had jolted Australia swers to his accurate seam bowl- jury during practice on Thursday. tives for us,” said Sarfraz. and 66 from opener Fakhar Za- his maiden ten- fi rst Test in Dubai last week. with four wickets off just 23 balls ing under cloudy conditions as Abbas jolted the Australians “All the youngsters who have man in his fi rst Test while skipper wicket haul in a It was Australia’s heaviest de- while Yasir Shah fi nished with only Marnus Labuschagne (43), in the seventh over of the day come through in recent times Sarfraz returned to form with in- Mmatch to fi re Pakistan to a 373- feat against Pakistan, beating the 3-45 to give Pakistan their tenth Travis Head (36) and Aaron Finch when he removed a solid-looking have done well. We have to groom nings of 94 and 81. run win over Australia in the sec- 356-run hammering at this same series win on the neutral venues (31) off ered some resistance. Head, getting an edge to sub- them all to become a good Test Both the teams now play a ond Test in Abu Dhabi yesterday. venue four years ago. of United Arab Emirates. Yasir dismissed number ten stitute wicketkeeper Mohamed team,” said Sarfraz. series of three Twenty20 inter- Abbas followed his 5-33 in the It was Abbas, 28, who de- They have only lost one se- Jon Holland soon after lunch to Rizwan, deputising for Sarfraz Australian skipper Tim Paine nationals with the fi rst in Abu fi rst innings with fi gures of 5-62 stroyed Australia with a haul of ries — 2-0 to Sri Lanka last year hand Pakistan victory. Ahmed. said his side had thrown away a Dhabi on Wednesday. Gulf Times 2 Saturday, October 20, 2018 FEATURE BOXING Making history, paving a path, bringing glory to Qatar Qatar’s first pro boxer, Sheikh Fahad bin Khalid al-Thani, talks everything from Ali to Mayweather, from his stint in football to his initiation into boxing, from his motivations to larger goal By Mikhil Bhat really saw Muhammad Ali fi ght- Doha ing. But my mother admired him very much,” he says. “She kept telling me about utside the hustle and how she was worried about bustle of Doha, in a Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. residential compound When Frazier beat Ali the fi rst replete with the usual time (Fight of the Century in Osounds of kids playing, occa- March 1971 at Madison Square sional vehicle driving by, is the Garden in New York City), training home of Qatar’s fi rst pro everyone was at the edge of their boxer — Sheikh Fahad bin Khalid seats and were worried about al-Thani. Ali. Kids often try and get a peek “They felt attached to Ali, be- into the Franck Bohec Boxing cause of his Muslim background, and Training Gym through the because of how he was proud of tinted glass doors but when Islam, and his character. I think Sheikh Fahad is going through his character was actually big- his drill, the doors are under- ger than his boxing, because he standably locked. certainly aff ected me.” Inside though, Cuban salsa And so began Sheikh Fahad’s music sets the rhythm for the deep dive into the sport. “I was training session that’s helmed by amazed to say the least. He was legendary coach Ismael Salas. unique; a heavyweight mov- “It’s all about rhythm and ing like that,” he exclaims. “He movement,” the Cuban says, be- admired Sugar Ray Robinson, fore he breaks into a move that’s and so I started reading on him part dancing and part boxing. and he was a diff erent level. At Sheikh Fahad, 31, smiles looking the time they used fi ght almost at his 61-year-old coach show every other week, 15 rounds with some rhythm. 6 ounce gloves. It was really a Salas got his survival instincts diff erent time. I became a stu- from the rough streets of Guan- dent of the game.” tanamo, before “one of the best Later in the conversation, coaches” turned him around he talks about watching videos and channelled his energies into and reading about the likes of boxing. English former boxer Naseem After all those years, Salas has Hamed, former undisputed worked with 21 world champions world heavyweight champion across weight categories, in- Mike Tyson, and British former cluding the likes of multiple time boxer Chris Eubank. two-weight champion David He moved to the UK to study Haye, multiple time three- International Business, with weight champion Jorge Linares, a specialisation in Marketing former unifi ed featherweight and Finance. “That’s when I champion Yuriorkis Gamboa, met Franck Bohec. Training and and has twice been named as going for boxing classes at the the WBA trainer of the year, the time, I just fell in love with it,” second one as recent as last year. he lights up while talking about “I don’t think I could have had the time. a better coach than him,” Sheikh “I felt like I can really do Fahad, who fi ghts in welter- something.” Qatari professional boxer weight division, tells Gulf Times. Once back in Doha, he started Sheikh Fahad bin Khalid Around the time that Salas training with the Qatar national al-Thani (left) takes part was in Linares’ corner against team as an amateur boxer.