SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 11 Messi lashes out at Barca over Suarez exit Shaw shines as Delhi inflict 44-run defeat on Chennai Sent into bat, Delhi Capitals made 175 for three and then restricted Chennai Super Kings to 131 for seven to keep their winning run intact Delhi registered their second• consecutive Lionel Messi (L) and Luis Suarez during a match (file photo) win in the Indian KNOW WHAT Premier League Reuters | Barcelona “You deserved a farewell be- fitting who you are: one of the ANI | Dubai Both teams wore arm- ionel Messi has launched most important players in the bands to honour crick- Lhis latest attack on Barce- history of the club, achieving lona’s hierarchy by criticising great things for the team and ll-round team perfor- eter-commentator Dean the way the club treated strike on an individual level,” Messi mance by Delhi Capitals Jones who died of a partner Luis Suarez, who left wrote on his official Instagram Aguided them to 44 runs cardiac arrest Thursday for La Liga rivals Atletico Ma- account yesterday. victory over Chennai Super at a Mumbai hotel drid this week. “You did not deserve for Kings (CSK) in the Indian Pre- Captain Messi, who threat- them to throw you out like mier League (IPL) here at the For Capitals, Rabada bagged ened to leave Barca last month they did. But the truth is that Dubai International Stadium three wickets while Nortje and recently hit out at club at this stage nothing surprises yesterday. Delhi Capitals’ Prithvi Shaw plays a shot scalped two wickets. president Josep Maria Bar- me anymore.” Chasing a moderate target of Earlier, Prithvi Shaw and tomeu’s leadership, said Uru- Suarez had paid tribute to 176, CSK openers Shane Watson ion after getting run out in the on the next ball, he was caught Rishabh Pant played knocks of guayan Suarez was harshly Messi in his farewell news con- and Murali Vijay played cau- 10th over. behind the stumps by Rishabh 64 and 37* respectively as Delhi treated. ference on Thursday, recalling tiously and had a 23-run part- Kedhar Jadhav and Faf built Pant. Capitals posted a total of 175/3. New coach Ronald Koeman that everyone had told him the nership. All-rounder Axar Patel the innings and stitched a 54- Kagiso Rabada scalped the Put in to bat first, Delhi Cap- called Suarez several days after Argentinian was difficult to get provided the first breakthrough run partnership for the fifth crucial wicket for Delhi Cap- itals got off to a good start as getting the job to inform the on with, but declaring they had as he bagged Watson (14) in the wicket. itals. Faf scored 43 runs off 35 openers Prithvi Shaw and Shi- striker, who had one year left become best friends as well as fifth over. Jadhav scored 26 runs off 21 balls. khar Dhawan put on 94 runs for on his contract, that he was no prolific strike partners. Faf du Plessis joined Vijay in balls before he was caught in Ravindra Jadeja and Dhoni the first wicket. The partner- longer wanted. “It will be strange to see the middle but the latter failed front of the wickets by Nortje then had a 17-run stand and the ship between both batsmen saw Bartomeu had left 33-year- you in another shirt and even to convert the start and was dis- in the 16th over. duo failed to put their side over Shaw bringing up his half-cen- old Suarez - the club’s stranger to come up against missed by pacer Anrich Nortje CSK skipper Dhoni joined Faf the line. Rabada got rid of Dhoni tury as well. third-highest scorer of all you on the pitch,” Messi in the last over of the powerplay. in the middle and had a brief in the last over. Dhoni scored CSK finally got the break - time - off a list of players he said. Vijay scored 10 runs off 15 15-run partnership. 15 runs. through in the 11th over as Dha- considered not for sale in the “I had already begun to im- balls. Ruturaj Gaikwad (5) came CSK required 65 runs in the Jadeja scored 12 before he wan (35) was adjudged leg-be- aftermath of the 8-2 defeat to agine it but today I went into in to bat at number four but last three overs to win the game. was picked by Nortje on the last fore wicket while trying to play Bayern Munich in the Cham- the dressing room and it truly failed to impress with the bat. In the 18th over Shimron ball of the match. Sam Curran a reverse sweep off the bowling pions League in August. dawned on me. He was sent back to the pavil- Hetmyer dropped Faf on 41 but remained unbeaten on 1 run. of Piyush Chawla. Bottas on top, Hamilton second in Sochi practice runs Ganna claims Italy’s first world AFP | Sochi time trial crown on home soil TDT | Manama altteri Bottas continued Vhis habit of being fastest ilipo Ganna became Italy’s yesterday when he topped the Ffirst time trial world cham- times for Mercedes in both pion yesterday by pipping Bel- opening practice sessions at the gium’s Wout Van Aert on home Russian Grand Prix. soil in Imola. The Finn clocked a best lap in Van Aert was 26 seconds one minute and 33.159 seconds behind the 24-year-old Team around the Olympic Park circuit Ineos rider with Switzerland’s Filipo Ganna to outpace his team-mate and Stefan Kueng trailing by 29 runaway championship leader seconds in third place. moved from Switzerland to Lewis Hamilton by two-tenths Former Tour de France Imola in Italy because of local of a second in the second ses- champion, and Ganna’s fellow Covid-19 restrictions. sion. Ineos rider, Geraint Thomas On Thursday, the US’ de- The two Mercedes men were was fourth with 2019 winner fending champion Chloe Dy- more than a second clear of Rohan Dennis in fifth. gert crashed out allowing the third-placed Daniel Ricciardo This year’s worlds have Netherlands’ Anna van der of Renault despite enduring a been shortened to four races Breggen to claim the women’s difficult day of off-track excur- from Thursday to Sunday and event. sions on the slippery track. Valtteri Bottas steers his car during practice Bottas, who is 55 points adrift of the six-time champion in this race, Carlos Sainz was fourth ing champion going 1.1 seconds year’s title race, knows he has to ahead of his McLaren team- quicker in 1:34.890 on mediums. take advantage of his opportuni- mate Lando Norris and Sergio As the field switched to soft ty at one of his favourite circuits Perez of Racing Point. compound runs, Mercedes con- to keep his challenge alive – The Russian race will be the tinued to set the pace, Hamil- while Hamilton is bidding to first major sports event to be ton improving to 1:33.786, one- equal Michael Schumacher’s run in front of a significant 6 tenth ahead of Bottas, before the record of 91 Grand Prix wins. crowd in the Covid-19 era. Friday practices in a row Briton locked up heavily under It was the sixth Friday in a row Max Verstappen was down in have seen Valtteri Bottas braking at Turn 13. that had seen Bottas topping the seventh for Red Bull ahead of topping the times It was clearly not an easy times – and at a track where Charles Leclerc in the leading day for anyone on the smooth he claimed his maiden win in Ferrari, Esteban Ocon of Re - and slippery surface, but Bot- 2017 and where Mercedes are nault and four-time champion tas avoided a similar fate and unbeaten, having won all six Sebastian Vettel in the second with an air temperature of 28 trimmed his time to 1:33.519 and events since the inaugural race Ferrari. degrees at the Black Sea resort go top by two-tenths. in 2014. Hamilton has won four Bottas had earlier topped the city as Romain Grosjean led the These difficulties continued times and former team-mate times in opening practice for way in his Haas. to challenge the leading drivers Nico Rosberg won in 2016 on his the sixth time in a row while Norris soon went fastest for with Verstappen spinning twice way to claiming the title. Hamilton, having damaged his McLaren before the Finn took and Hamilton, again, going off- In front of a meagre scattering tyres, was only 19th. over with 1:36.065 on his hard track at Turn 13 where he was of fans to witness practice, with The second session was run compounds before Hamilton followed by Bottas, who locked 30,000 due to attend Sunday’s in warm late summer sunshine took command – the defend- up, but recovered. Hon. 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