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P16 Layout 1 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015 SPORTS Kiwis take aim at 30-year drought against untested Aussies BRISBANE: Highly-rated New Zealand swing pair That might be easier said than done however as ‘Sense of excitement’ a sense of excitement around the group, especially Tim Southee and Trent Boult will look to put the Australia reign supreme at the Brisbane ground While Australia have a strong new-ball attack of since we’ve arrived in Brisbane,” Southee said. hosts’ new-look batting lineup to the sword at the where they have not lost a Test match since 1988, to Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc and either Josh “Everyone is looking forward to getting amongst Gabba from tomorrow as the tourists chase their Viv Richards’ mighty West Indies. Hazlewood or Peter Siddle, much will come down it. I think we’ve still got to know it’s going to be a first series win in Australia for 30 years. The Black Caps have lost six and drawn one of to whether the home side score the runs to put tough challenge. We know it’s going to be a hard- Without a series triumph in Australia since the the seven Tests in Queensland since their last win at pressure on the Kiwis. “The young blokes haven’t fought series. “If we do our things right, it goes a halcyon days of Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe the Gabba in 1985 when they went on to take the been grabbing their opportunities recently and that long way to us doing what we came over here to in 1985, the Black Caps clearly sense a weakness in series 2-1. is why we have had all these 30-year-olds (Voges) achieve.” Steve Smith’s untested team following a raft of But the Kiwis are much-improved under the pos- making their debut,” former Test skipper Ian retirements. The post-Ashes departures of former itive leadership of Brendon McCullum and have lost Chappell said. Teams (from): skipper Michael Clarke along with stalwarts Shane just three of their last 17 Tests, beating England by “But because of the retirements now they’ve got Australia - David Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Watson, Chris Rogers, Brad Haddin and Ryan Harris 199 runs at Headingley to square their series last to start choosing some young blokes, it is up to Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Adam Voges, Mitchell have forced selectors to redraft Australia’s batting, June. Key to the Black Caps’ improvement has been them, they have to make the most of it. “In some Marsh, Peter Nevill, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, but there are questions over the replacements. the twin pace attack of Southee and Boult. ways it (retirements) may be a good thing-the Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Peter Siddle. Apart from Smith and his deputy David Warner, Southee has taken 144 wickets in 41 Tests at young blokes are forced to do it.” New Zealand - Brendon McCullum (capt), Tom the rest of Australia’s batsmen can muster only a 31.63, while left-armer Boult has 123 wickets from Also part of the selectors’ thinking in choosing Latham, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Ross combined 29 Test appearances between Joe Burns 32 Tests at 27.12. Burns and Khawaja is that both play regularly on Taylor, Jimmy Neesham, BJ Watling, Mark Craig, Tim (two), Usman Khawaja (nine), Adam Voges (seven), The Black Caps can also call on seamer Doug the Gabba pitch, something the Kiwi batsmen will Southee, Doug Bracewell, Matt Henry, Trent Boult. Peter Nevill (four) and Mitchell Marsh (seven). Bracewell, who captured a match-winning six for 40 have to master. Umpires: Nigel Llong (ENG) Richard Illingworth That makes the Australians vulnerable, particu- in New Zealand’s thrilling seven-run win over the Southee, who took four for 63 in the first innings (ENG) larly if speedsters Southee and Boult get their act Australians at their last Test meeting in Hobart at the Gabba seven years ago, said the Black Caps TV umpire: Sundaram Ravi (IND) together on the bouncy, seaming Gabba pitch. almost four years ago. were ready for a tough challenge. “There’s certainly Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (SRI). — AFP Dominant S Africa seek India’s Test scalp MOHALI: Buoyant South Africa will look to the one-day series where he scored just 89 continue their amazing nine-year unbeaten runs at an average of 17.80. run in away Test series when they begin a Amla, one of the finest batsmen of our four-match contest against Virat Kohli’s India times, has in the past enjoyed playing in India in Mohali from tomorrow. The Proteas, the where in six previous Tests he scored 823 runs world’s top-ranked Test side, have not lost a at an average of 102.87 with four centuries. series away from home since Ashwell Prince’s Meanwhile, India return to the comforting team suffered a 2-0 defeat in Sri Lanka in environs of a home Test for the first time in 2006. two years after being battered in England, They lived up to their reputation of being South Africa, Australia and New Zealand on good travellers on bilateral tours by winning recent tours. India enjoy an impressive record both the Twenty20 and one-day series on the on home soil where they have won 12 of the current 10-week sojourn through India. South last 17 series and lost just one-against Alastair Africa go into the Tests seeking their first Cook’s England in 2012. Kohli’s men carved series win on Indian soil in 15 years, having out a credible 2-1 win in Sri Lanka in August drawn 1-1 on their last two tours in 2008 and after losing the first Test, but South Africa will 2010. Star batsman AB de Villiers, who hit be a tougher proposition. With three spinners three centuries in the one-day series and fol- in their ranks and pace spearhead Ishant lowed that with 112 in a practice match in Sharma serving a one-Test ban for bad behav- Mumbai ahead of the first Test, was excited at iour during the last match in Sri Lanka, India the contests ahead. hope to get a turning wicket in Mohali. “We are very hungry for success, hungry to The Indian team management was create history,” he said. “We love travelling annoyed at being presented with a run-laden abroad and that’s where our team spirit kicks pitch for the deciding one-dayer in Mumbai in and plays a role. “It was an incredible last month, where South Africa won by 214 achievement by us to win both the limited- runs after piling up a massive 438-4. overs series and there is no reason we can’t India’s chief grounds inspector Daljit win the Test series. But we know a lot of hard Singh, asked about the likely nature of pitches work lies ahead. for the Tests, responded: “We are working on “India will want to come back harder and result-oriented wickets with the element of stronger, and we know they have the ability home advantage.” to do that, but we will be up for it.” South India (from): Virat Kohli (capt), Murali Vijay, Africa will rely on de Villiers and Test skipper Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Hashim Amla to score heavily on dry wickets Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, that are expected to be tailor-made for India’s Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar spinners. De Villiers and Amla have scored 44 Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, SHARJAH: Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez (R) and Younis Khan run between wickets during the third day of the third Test match between Test centuries between them-more than the Lokesh Rahul, Stuart Binny, Varun Aaron. entire young Indian team under Kohli has South Africa (from): Hashim Amla (capt), Pakistan and England in the Gulf Emirate of Sharjah yesterday. — AFP managed in their short careers so far. AB de Villiers, Temba Bavuma, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, Simon Harmer, Imran Home comforts Tahir, Morne Morkel, Vernon Philander, Dane Hafeez leads Pakistan’s While de Villiers is in stupendous form, Piedt, Kagiso Rabada, Dale Steyn, Stiaan van Amla will seek to overcome a lean streak in Zyl, Dane Vilas. — AFP fightback in final Test SHARJAH: Opener Mohammad Hafeez notched a brilliant 97 under pressure to help Pakistan stage a comeback in the third and final Test SCOREBOARD against England in Sharjah yesterday. The 35- year-old was just three runs away from his ninth SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates: Scoreboard yesterday at stumps on the third day of the third Test hundred as he took Pakistan to 146-3 at the test between Pakistan and England at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. close on the third day at Sharjah stadium, leading by 74 runs with seven wickets intact. Pakistan 1st Innings: 234 36-3-99-3, Wahab Riaz 20-5-33-0 (3nb), Nightwatchman Rahat Ali was the other not England 1st Innings(Overnight 222-4) Zulfiqar Babar 37-6-80-1, Shoaib Malik 9.5-3- out batsman on nought as Pakistan lost the key Alastair Cook c Azhar Ali b Shah 49 33-4, Azhar Ali 2-0-7-0. wicket of Younis Khan for 14, trapped leg-before Moeen Ali c Younis Khan b Malik 14 by fast bowler Stuart Broad with just two overs to Ian Bell st Ahmed b Shah 40 Pakistan 2nd Innings go in the day. But Hafeez held the innings Joe Root c Ahmed b Rahat Ali 4 Mohammad Hafeez not out 97 together well, smashing nine boundaries and James Taylor c Ahmed b Rahat Ali 76 Azhar Ali run out 34 three sixes during his aggressive 155-ball knock Jonny Bairstow b Babar 43 Shoaib Malik lbw b Anderson 0 as Pakistan seek to avoid squandering a 1-0 lead Samit Patel b Shah 42 Younis Khan lbw b Broad 14 in the three-match series.
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