Sports FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015 South Africa’s Elgar wrecks India in first Test MOHALI: Dean Elgar was the unlikely bowling the toss and gained the advantage of batting hero for South Africa as the tourists skittled India SCOREBOARD first on a pitch that is expected to deteriorate for 201 on the opening day of the first Test in further. The first wicket fell before a run had Mohali yesterday. The part-time left-arm spin- been scored when Shikhar Dhawan hung his Scoreboard at stumps on the first day in the first Test between India and South Africa yesterday ner, who had managed just six wickets in 17 pre- bat out to a swinging ball from Vernon in Chandigarh, India. vious Tests, grabbed four for 22 runs on the dry, Philander and edged a catch to Amla at first dusty pitch which he later described as not India 1st innings Jadeja, 9-201 U. Yadav, 10-201 V. Aaron. slip. Cheteshwar Pujara and Vijay retrieved the being good for cricket. South Africa were them- M. Vijay lbw b Harmer 75 Bowling: D. Steyn 11-3-30-0; V. Philander 15-5- situation with a 63-run partnership for the sec- selves reduced to 9-2 in reply before ending an S. Dhawan c Amla b Philander 0 38-2; S. Harmer 14-1-51-1; K. Rabada 10-0-30- ond wicket when Elgar stepped up with the ball eventful day’s play on 28 without further loss at C. Pujara lbw b Elgar 31 1(nb-3); D. Elgar 8-1-22-4; I. Tahir 10-3-23-2. and, an over later, with a low catch to make it the IS Bindra stadium. Off-spinner Ravichandran V. Kohli c Elgar b Rabada 1 65-3. Elgar trapped Pujara leg-before for 31 Ashwin claimed Stiaan van Zyl leg-before for A. Rahane c Amla b Elgar 15 South Africa 1st innings with his fourth delivery when he was sum- five and left-arm slow bowler Ravindra Jadeja W. Saha c Amla b Elgar 0 D. Elgar not out 13 moned by Amla to bowl the 22nd over. Four bowled Faf du Plessis for no score with his sec- R. Jadeja lbw b Philander 38 S. van Zyl lbw b Ashwin 5 balls later, Elgar dived in the covers to remove ond delivery. A. Mishra c Steyn b Elgar 6 F. du Plessis b Jadeja 0 Indian captain Virat Kohli for one on his 27th Elgar (13 not out) and skipper Hashim Amla R. Ashwin not out 20 H. Amla not out 9 birthday-also giving debutant fast bowler (nine not out) warded off the immediate threat U. Yadav b Tahir 5 Extras (lb-1) 1 Kagiso Rabada his first Test wicket. from the Indian spinners to ensure there were V. Aaron b Tahir 0 Total (for 2 wickets, 20 overs) 28 no further setbacks for the tourists. Opener Extras (b-6 lb-1 nb-3) 10 Fall of wickets: 1-9 S. van Zyl, 2-9 F. du Plessis Two in two for Elgar Murali Vijay was the lone top-order Indian bats- Total (all out, 68 overs) 201 To bat: A. de Villiers, D. Vilas, V. Philander, S. India, who went to lunch at 82-3, were set man to offer resistance, making 75 before he Fall of wickets: 1-0 S. Dhawan, 2-63 C. Pujara, Harmer, D. Steyn, K. Rabada, I. Tahir back once again by Elgar who took two wickets was sixth out, leg-before while trying to sweep 3-65 V. Kohli, 4-102 A. Rahane, 5-102 W. Saha, Bowling: R. Ashwin 7-3-4-1; U. Yadav 3-1-5-0; V. off successive deliveries spread over two overs off-spinner Simon Harmer. India were reduced 6-140 M. Vijay, 7-154 A. Mishra, 8-196 R. Aaron 3-1-4-0; R. Jadeja 5-0-7-1; A. Mishra 2-0-7-0. to reduce the hosts to 102-5. Both Ajinkya to 154-7 before Jadeja (38) and Ashwin (20 not Rahane (15) and Wriddhiman Saha (0) were out) lifted the total with a 42-run stand for the snapped up by Amla in the slips, but Ravindra eighth wicket. “We sorted of expected it to play like that he said was a “challenging” pitch. “I am not say- Jadeja denied Elgar a hat-trick by defending the but we didn’t expect it to crumble the way it ing it is a good wicket or a bad wicket, but it is a next ball. Elgar claimed his fourth wicket when ‘Not a good cricket pitch’ already has. “It was right up there with the challenging wicket where run-making is not so Amit Mishra holed out to Dale Steyn in the Elgar slammed the wicket as one that teams hardest ever Test cricket I’ve played. Lets hope easy,” said Bangar. “It may look that we have deep, soon after Vijay was dismissed. Leg-spin- would usually encounter on the fourth day of a that it can backfire (on India) and turn out to be only 201 on the board but it is worth much ner Imran Tahir, who was brought on as the Test despite recording his best-ever Test fig- a great victory for us.” more than that in these conditions.” South sixth bowler, bowled Umesh Yadav and last ures. “It is not a good cricket pitch but it is wick- Indian batting coach Sanjay Bangar said his Africa, the number one Test side, claimed three man Varun Aaron in the space of four balls to et that will produce a result either way,” he said. team’s total of 201 was not inadequate on what wickets in the morning session after India won terminate the innings. — AFP Warner, Khawaja tons as SCOREBOARD Aussies batter Black Caps Scoreboard at close of play on the fifth and final day in the third and final. Test between Pakistan and England yesterday in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. BRISBANE: David Warner backed up his feisty words with batsman just to come out here and do a good job.” Pakistan 1st innings 234 (Misbah-ul- A. Rashid b R. Ali 22 runs as he hit his 13th Test century and Usman Khawaja Warner was finally out to one of his few false strokes Haq 71; J. Anderson 4-17) S. Broad c Malik b Shah 20 claimed his maiden ton as Australia took an iron grip on of the day, but it took Ross Taylor’s marvelous one-hand- England 1st innings 306 (J. Taylor 76; B. Stokes st S. Ahmed b Shah 12 day one of the first Test against New Zealand yesterday. ed catch above his head at slip to snare the prized wicket S. Malik 4-33) J. Anderson not out 0 The outspoken Warner, who had derided the Kiwis as off James Neesham. The irrepressible left-hander “Mr. Nice Guys” and vowed an aggressive approach, lived smashed 22 fours and one six for his second-highest Test Pakistan 2nd innings 355 (M. Hafeez Extras (b-7 nb-1 w-1) 9 up to his promise with his second-highest Test score score, after his 180 against India in Perth almost three 151) Total (all out, 60.3 overs) 156 against an underwhelming New Zealand attack at the years ago. Only four Australian openers-Matt Hayden England 2nd innings (Overnight: 46-2; Fall of wickets: 1-34 M. Ali, 2-34 I. Bell, 3- Gabba. With Warner plundering 163 runs off 224 balls, (30), Mark Taylor (19), Justin Langer (16) and Michael Target: 284 runs) 48 J. Root, 4-57 J. Taylor, 5-58 J. the Australians pounded the ragged Black Caps to go to Slater (14) - have amassed more Test centuries than M. Ali lbw b Malik 22 Bairstow, 6-59 S. Patel, 7-108 A. Rashid, stumps at 389 for two-their highest first-day score at the Warner’s 13. Warner shared in two mammoth stands with A. Cook st S. Ahmed b Malik 63 8-138 S. Broad, 9-150 A. Cook, 10-156 B. Brisbane ground. Joe Burns (161) and Khawaja (150) to have the Australians I. Bell b Malik 0 Stokes Khawaja also cashed in, reaching his first Test century in full flow at a ground where they have not lost a Test J. Root lbw b Shah 6 Bowling: R. Ali 5-1-23-1; W. Riaz 5-0-25- just before the close and finishing the day unbeaten on match since 1988. J. Taylor c Y. Khan b Babar 2 0(nb-1 w-1); Z. Babar 18-5-31-2; S. Malik 102 with skipper Steve Smith not out on 41. Along the J. Bairstow lbw b Shah 0 15-4-26-3; Y. Shah 17.3-2-44-4. way Smith raised 1,000 Test runs in the calendar year as Stylish Khawaja S. Patel lbw b Babar 0 Result: Pakistan won by 127 runs Australia eased doubts about their new-look side after a Pakistan-born Khawaja deposited a huge down pay- host of retirements at the start of the three-match series. ment on a regular Test spot with a silky hundred after a “We knew if we could grind away and bring their strike stop-start career in his previous nine Tests since making bowlers back it’d make it a lot easier at the end of the day his debut against England in Sydney in 2011. The stylish Spinners give Pakistan a and I think the scoreboard reflects how well we actually Khawaja kept the runs flowing with his maiden Test ton played,” Warner said.