GGOLFOLF | Page 5 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 7 Woods ready to Barca stay in return, commits touch with Real to play in and send down Memorial Espanyol Friday, July 10, 2020 CYCLING Dhul-Qa’da 19, 1441 AH Froome to leave GULF TIMES Team Ineos at the end of the season SPORT Page 6 CRICKET / ENG VS WI, 1ST TEST HORSE RACING Perfect debut for Qatar Racing’s Holder, Gabriel put Darain at Newbury Agencies to pull clear with apparent ease. Newbury, United Kingdom Brillant Life fi nished second with Winter Reprise a further half-a- length behind in third. t was a perfect debut for the “I’m really pleased with Darain Windies in control regally-bred Darain in the tonight. We didn’t go very fast Oakley Coachbuilders Su- early as they are inexperienced Holder takes six wickets as England are bowled out for 204; WI 57 for 1 at stumps per Sport Novice Stakes (Div horses and so we didn’t really III) at Newbury on Wednesday start racing until in the straight. Reuters evening. Darain went through the gears Southampton, United Kingdom Scorecard The colt, owned by Qatar Rac- well and really galloped through ing Limited in partnership with the line. I’m really pleased with ENGLAND 1st inn (o/n: 35/1) the breeders Watership Down him. I think he has an exciting est Indies captain R. Burns lbw b Gabriel 30 Stud, has one of the best pedi- future,” Murphy commented af- Jason Holder post- D. Sibley b Gabriel 0grees imaginable — by world- ter the race. ed career-best Test class sire Dubawi out of the ex- Darain was purchased Qatar b Gabriel bowling fi gures J. Denly 18 traordinary mare Dar Re Mi. Racing manager David Redvers Wwith six wickets as his side dom- Z. Crawley lbw b Holder 10 Starting joint-favourite, the at the Tattersalls October Year- inated the second day of the fi rst B. Stokes c Dowrich b Holder 43 John Gosden-trained three- ling Sale – Book 1 in 2018. Test against England yesterday. c Dowrich b Holder year-old won the race by four His dam, Dar Re Mi, was her- Making full use of the murky O. Pope 12 lengths and three quarters. self a champion race mare for conditions, all-rounder Holder J. Buttler c Dowrich b Holder 35 Running over 2,000m, on a Watership Down Stud, winning took six for 42 and paceman D. Bess not out 31 ground that was declared good three Group 1 races (the Pretty Shannon Gabriel claimed four to soft, the bay colt was smartly Polly Stakes, the Yorkshire Oaks, J. Archer lbw b Holder 0 wickets as England were dis- away on the outside under jockey the Sheema Classic). She has al- missed for 204. M. Wood c Hope b Holder 5 Oisin Murphy. The duo sat up on ready produced four top-class Ben Stokes, captaining Eng- J. Anderson b Gabriel 10 the lead to the outside of Win- horses from six foals including land for the fi rst time in the ab- ter Reprise and maintained an the extraordinary Too Darn Hot, Extras (lb6, nb2, w2) 10 sence of Joe Root, top-scored easy pace until the long home Lah Ti Dar and So Mi Dar; all are with 43 but might be regretting Total (all out, 67.3 ov) 204 straight. Murphy sat quietly also by Dubawi. Darain has set his decision to bat fi rst having FoW: 1-0 (Sibley), 2-48 until inside the fi nal 600m, just off on the right path to follow the won the toss. (Denly), 3-51 (Burns), 4-71 keeping pace with his rivals. footsteps of his elder siblings and West Indies showed great (Crawley), 5-87 (Pope), 6-154 Once he asked Darain to go on, he looks to have an extremely ex- discipline and rode their luck at (Stokes), 7-157 (Buttler), 8-157 the colt lengthened impressively citing future. times in reply as they reached (Archer), 9-174 (Wood), 10-204 57-1 to put themselves in a de- (Anderson) cent position going into the third Bowling: Roach 19-6-41-0; day at the Ageas Bowl when an Gabriel 15.3-3-62-4 (1nb, 1w); improving weather forecast Joseph 13-4-53-0 (1w); Holder should make batting easier. West Indies’ Jason Holder (third from left) appeals successfully for the wicket of England’s Jofra Archer 20-6-42-6 (1nb) James Anderson removed (second from right) on the second day of the first Test in Southampton, United Kingdom, yesterday. (AFP) opener John Campbell for 28 but Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai hour having removed Dom Sib- Holder’s decision to review as Buttler got a thick edge to a WEST INDIES 1st inn Hope survived some express ley on day one. proved correct. peach of a delivery and Dowrich K. Brathwaite not out 20 pace from Mark Wood before In the sixth over he got a Ollie Pope looked good in took a diving catch to leave Eng- lbw b Anderson bad light ended the day’s play. 90mph delivery to nip back and reaching 12 before edging Holder land on 157-7. Holder trapped J. Campbell 28 England are hosting the fi rst splatter Joe Denly’s off stump to wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich. Jofra Archer lbw for a duck and S. Hope not out 3 international cricket-match af- and in his next over the 32-year- Stokes got lucky before lunch grabbed his sixth wicket when Extras (lb6) 6 ter a 117-day absence because of old trapped Rory Burns (30) in when he was dropped at long leg Wood was caught at gully by Total (1 wkt, 19.3 ov) 57 the Covid-19 pandemic. front of his stumps with a full by Kemar Roach, hooking Al- Hope. The three-match series is delivery that was given lbw on zarri Joseph, as he and Jos But- Dom Bess’s 31-run cameo FoW: 1-43 (Campbell) Oisin Murphy rides Darain to Oakley Coachbuilders Super Sport Novice being played without fans in a review. tler launched a 67-run counter- helped England past 200 before Bowling: Anderson 8-4-17-1; Stakes (Div II) win at Newbury on Wednesday. (Francesca Altoft) “bio-secure environment” with Stokes started confi dently, attack. Gabriel bowled Anderson. Archer 6-0-20-0; Wood 3.3-1- daily health checks, home um- pulling Gabriel to the boundary, The series has been touted as West Indies opener Campbell 8-0; Stokes 2-1-6-0 pires and a ban on shining the but Zak Crawley struggled to 10 a battle of the world’s best two was twice reprieved off a frus- SPOTLIGHT ball with saliva. before Holder claimed his fi rst all-rounders and Holder drew trated Anderson — making it fi ve England began the day on wicket, angling one back in to fi rst blood when he induced a successful reviews out of fi ve for ther inroads, though, and West 35 for one after 17 overs were strike the pad. nick behind from Stokes to dis- the visitors, before his luck fi - Indies were much the happier completed on Wednesday, but Again the on-fi eld umpire miss him on 43. nally ran out. side when bad light stopped China rules out hosting Gabriel struck twice in the fi rst turned down the appeal, but There was more joy for Holder England could make no fur- play. most international FORMULA 1 sport in 2020 AFP endar has been badly disrupted Beijing, China by the pandemic, with the Tokyo Mercedes and Red Bull duel for supremacy 2020 Olympics and Euro 2020 football pushed back to next AFP our highest priority,” admitted Lewis, but it is what it is. We hina will not hold most summer. Spielberg, Austria Wolff . can’t change it so now I’m look- international sporting China was earmarked to host But stung by the daily protests ing forward hopefully to a more events for the rest of a number of tennis tourna- from Red Bull, he warned rival positive weekend.” 2020 as part of measures ments later this year in a revised ercedes team chief team chief Christian Horner Horner felt aggrieved by Cto stop the spread of coronavirus, schedule. That includes the Toto Wolff may and his team: “It’s serious now. Verstappen’s misfortune and the government said yesterday, WTA Wuhan Open in October — have seen his world Gloves off . No more nice stuff — by Albon’s late clash with six- dealing a potential blow to the the central city was the original champion team we are in a real fi ght to win. time world champion Hamil- likes of Formula One and tennis. epicentre of the pandemic and Mclaim victory in the season- “So, in a short and intense ton, which cost the Mercedes Shanghai’s sports authority staging the annual tournament opening Austrian Grand Prix, season like this, with a yet to be driver a podium fi nish, as he was recently said that it had been of- would be hugely symbolic. but he still insists the “gloves are determined number of races, given a fi ve-second penalty, but fered two Formula One races this The fate of the Wuhan Open off ” when the duel for suprem- every point is going to count.” knocked the Thai driver out of year, while several tournaments and season-ending WTA Finals acy with rivals Red Bull resumes The second race of the season contention. in China are on the revised tennis has now been thrown into grave on Sunday.