Sports Thursday, July 25, 2019 15 ICT innovations at Al Janoub Stadium

SC.QA across the stadium to enable during the final. by Qatar’s Aspire Zone Foun- DOHA high-density connectivity for dation in partnership with fans and the operations team. Light and sound DELL Technologies to intro- The latest FIFA World Cup During the Amir Cup final, the Smart LED lights with- duce compact, scalable and Qatar 2022ä stadium to be peak bandwidth consumption in the stadium were pro- portable ICT infrastructure launched is one of the most reached 2GB and served more grammed for light show ef- deployment for on-the-field technologically advanced are- than 8,500 devices simultane- fects during the opening specific needs of the global nas of its type in the world. ously – more than twice the ceremony. The entire event sports industry. Al Janoub Stadium in Al overall wireless associations fully utilised the stadium Wakrah City was showcased recorded in similar stadiums sound system, which consists Integrated safety & se- for the first time when it host- around the world. More than of 42 loudspeaker systems, curity systems ed the 2019 Amir Cup final be- 2.2TB of data was transferred with no additional overlay More than 1,200 CCTV tween Al Duhail and Al Sadd over the Wi-Fi system during sound systems deployed. In- cameras are deployed within in May. the final. tegration between light and the stadium and its vicinity to The 40,000-capacity sound systems provided full support surveillance opera- venue, designed by legendary 5G connectivity synchronisation in real-time tions. 40 high megapixel cam- architect Zaha Hadid, boasts Al Janoub Stadium is one to produce stadium hype ef- eras provided full coverage of state-of-the-art information of the first stadiums in the fects, without the need for any the entire spectator area dur- technology and communica- world to be equipped with 5G pre-programming. ing the final. tions (ICT) features for the mobile communications sig- The stadium Specta- benefit of fans, players, offi- nals that cover the entire spec- Sports in a box tor Access Control System is cials and media. tator area. During the final, Innovative Sports in a Box equipped with 83 turnstiles Here are five key ICT inno- signal speeds in excess of 1GB infrastructure deployed to run with a total system capacity vations at the stadium... were recorded. The indoor the applications, servers and of 63,900 passages per hour. building solutions provided security infrastructure for the The peak passages per hour Wi-Fi services full strength mobile signals stadium with full redundancy. recorded during the final was Spectators enjoy the prestigious Amir Cup football final between winners Al Duhail and Al Sadd at the Al More than 1,000 Wi-Fi across the stadium, transfer- Sports in a Box is a tech- 20,000 – 31% of the total sys- Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah in May this year. access points are deployed ring more than 6TB of data nology concept being piloted tem capacity. Pattinson Murtagh’s sensational spell dares to Tamimi loses dream of floors England on day one Ashes return Ireland take QSF Open final Reuters command after MELBOURNE England The six years since James out for 85 Pattison last bowled against to Top seed Au England have been a soul- crushing treadmill of injuries, Reuters Tribune News Network rehab and dashed expecta- LONDON DOHA tions but the patched-up pace- man is again daring to dream Ireland enjoyed a fairytale Top seed and Asia runner- on the verge of the Ashes. opening day in their first-ever up Leo Au of Hong Kong beat In a career of cross-roads, Test match against England as home favourite Abdulla al the 29-year-old feared he had they bowled out the hosts for Tamimi in straight games 11- reached a dead end some 20 85 before building a healthy 5, 11-7, 13-11 to win the QSF months ago, when he suf- lead at sweltering Lord’s on Open title at the Khalifa Inter- fered a fourth back stress frac- Wednesday. national Tennis and Squash ture that ruled him out of the The euphoria of 10 days ago Complex court on Wednesday. 2017/18 series on home soil. after England’s nerve-jangling Playing the first final of As Steve Smith’s Australia World Cup final win over New the year, second seed Tamimi celebrated a 4-0 demolition of Zealand, turned to stunned had narrowly won the pair’s Joe Root’s England, 17-Test disbelief as Ireland bowler Tim two previous encounters. But Pattinson was laid up after a Murtagh caused mayhem. Ireland’s displays the ball after taking five England the Hong Kong player, on top surgical procedure that helped He took five for 13 from nine on the first day of the Test match at the Lord’s Cricket in the first two games, beat extend the career of New Zea- overs as England capitulated in Ground in London on Wednesday. (reuters) back some spirited resistance land’s injury-prone Shane 127 manic minutes, surviving from the Qatari player before Bond. only 23.4 overs -- their short- Scoreboard wrapping up the win in 35 Pattinson knows well not est completed ever in minutes and claiming his 10th to take anything for granted terms of balls faced. England (1st Innings): P. Stirling lbw b Broad 36 PSA title. but after three productive Ireland, playing only their R. Burns c Wilson b Murtagh 6 K. O’Brien 28 J. Roy c Stirling b Murtagh 5 G. Wilson c Root b Stone 0 Earlier, Tamimi raised months with English county third Test match, passed Eng- J. Denly lbw b Adair 23 S. Thompson b Broad 0 the home title hopes when he side Nottinghamshire, the land’s total before tea thanks J. Root lbw b Adair 2 M. Adair b Curran 3 got the better of third-seeded Melbourne man may be on the to a free-flowing partnership J. Bairstow b Murtagh 0 A. McBrine b Broad 11 M. Ali c Wilson b Murtagh 0 T. Murtagh c Burns b Stone 16 Indian Mahesh Mangaonkar verge of a remarkable come- between and Andy C. Woakes lbw b Murtagh 0 B. Rankin b Moeen Ali 7 11-9, 11-6, 3-11, 11-9 in 43 min- Qatar’s Abdulla al Tamimi lost the QSF Open final to Hong Kong’s Leo back that many would have Balbirnie. S. Curran c McCollum b Rankin 18 Extras (b10, lb6, w2) 18 utes. Au took a little over half Au in three games in Doha on Wednesday. hoped for but few would have A flurry of wickets threat- S. Broad c Wilson b Rankin 3 Total (all out, 58.2 overs, 279 mins) 207 an hour to beat Eyptian and believed. ened to undo their good work O. Stone b Adair 19 Fall of wickets: 1-32 (Porterfield), 2-45 (McCollum), fifth seed Youssef Ibrahim 11- Eight injury-blighted years as Ireland slumped from 132- J. Leach not out 1 3-132 (Stirling), 4-138 (Balbirnie), 5-138 (Wilson), QSF Open results Extras (lb5, nb2, w1) 8 6-141 (Thompson), 7-149 (Adair), 8-174 (McBrine), 6, 11-4, 11-9. on, Pattinson has a few lines 2 to 149-7. Yet Kevin O’Brien Total (all out, 23.4 overs, 127 mins) 85 9-195 (Murtagh), 10-207 (Rankin) Tamimi, after bowing out Final: Quarter-finals: creasing his brow and a re- hung around for 28 not out and Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Roy), 2-36 (Denly), 3-36 (Burns), Bowling: Broad 19-5-60-3; Woakes 10-2-34-0; Stone in the first round of the Tour- [1] Leo Au (HKG) v [2] Abdulla al Tamimi (QAT) 11-5, [1] Leo Au (HKG) bt [6] Victor Crouin (FRA) 11-8, 8-11, served manner in public but Murtagh (16) clobbered some 4-42 (Root), 5-42 (Bairstow), 6-42 (Woakes), 7-43 12-3-29-3; Curran 10-3-28-3 (2w); Leach 3-0-26-0; 11-7, 13-11 (35m) 12-10, 12-10 (51m) (Moeen), 8-58 (Broad), 9-67 (Curran), 10-85 (Stone) Ali 4.2-1-14-1. nament of Champions in the [5] Youssef Ibrahim (EGY) bt [4] Tayyab Aslam (PAK) no less determination to re- useful late runs as Ireland were Bowling: Murtagh 9-2-13-5; Adair 7.4-1-32-3 (1nb, USA in January, underwent Semi-finals: 11-7, 11-8, 11-9 (28m) alise the promise of an unful- all out for 207, a 122-run in- 1w); Thompson 4-1-30-0 (1nb); Rankin 3-1-5-2. England (2nd Innings): a surgery. He returned to the [1] Leo Au (HKG) bt [5] Youssef Ibrahim (EGY) 11-6, [3] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND) bt Sébastien Bonmalais filled career. nings lead. J. Leach not out 0 action in May during the Asia 11-4, 11-9 (32m) (FRA) 11-6, 11-2, 8-11, 6-11, 11-4 (53m) With fellow seamers England skipper Joe Root Ireland (1st Innings): R. Burns not out 0 [2] Abdulla al Tamimi (QAT) bt [3] Mahesh Mangaonkar [2] Abdulla al Tamimi (QAT) bt [7] Asim Khan (PAK) W. Porterfield c Leach b Curran 14 Total (0 wkts, 1 over, 5 mins) 0 championships, in which he (IND) 11-9, 11-6, 3-11, 11-9 (43m) 7-11, 11-6, 11-5, 8-11, 14-12 (58m) Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat, J. McCollum b Curran 19 Bowling: Murtagh 1-1-0-0 qualified for the quarter-finals. and Josh Hazlewood among handing Test debutant Jason A. Balbirnie b Stone 55 Toss: England After that he played two the first picked in the Test side Roy and Rory Burns the chance more events before figuring by Ibrahim. Au ended the In the bottom half of the in recent years, Pattinson may to lay down a marker for the in the home event – a first 15-match winning run of draw second-seeded and local yet be denied the romance of looming Ashes series. 37-year-old Middlesex stal- wickets for seven runs. round exit in the British Open France’s Victor Crouin – who star Tamimi prevailed 14-12 an Ashes comeback. Instead, a spot-on Ireland wart, took lethal advantage of White-ball specialist Roy, and second-round loss in the had won three tournaments in the fifth over Asim Khan, Just making the squad to attack ruthlessly exposed the his local knowledge on a green- superb throughout the World Montpellier Metropole Open in a row in Australia – in setting up a semi-final against be named on Friday would be cracks in England’s tinged Lord’s and some Cup, had a let-off when Mark in France. four close games. Fifth seed- Mangaonkar, who also need- a small triumph, however. as the hosts posted their low- bog-standard England batting. Adair had him plumb lbw off a The Top three seeds ed Ibrahim beat Pakistan’s ed all five games to get past “If my body holds up I est home total since scoring 77 When walked no ball. But in Murtagh’s sec- made it through to the semi- fourth seed Tayyab Aslam in Frenchman Sebastien Bon- think I can challenge them against Australia in 1997. out to bat with the hosts on 43 ond over Roy (5) edged to Stir- finals, where they were joined straight games. malias. over here.” Murtagh, the London-born for seven, England had lost six ling who took a low slip catch.

Lanka reduce Qatar’s Qasabi sisters extend victory march squad to 16 for Mubaraka wins doubles title Bangla ODIs in Amman junior tennis AFP Tribune News Network Colombo DOHA

Sri Lanka on Wednesday re- Qatar’s Mubaraka al Naimi duced their original 22-strong bagged the girls doubles title squad to 16 for the three- event at the Amman Interna- match one-day international tional Junior Tennis Tourna- series against Bangladesh in ment, which concluded re- Colombo. cently in Amman, Jordan. The first ODI will be played Naimi teamed up with on Friday, the second two days Mariana Ramirez Nieto of Co- later and the final match on July lombia to beat Semra Aksu of 31. All three games will be in the Turkey and Feriel Mahbouli of day-night format in Colombo. Tunisia in the final match. Malinga retires after the first Naimi finished runner-up ODI and will be replaced in the in another international jun- squad for the next two matches ior tournament held Amman Qatar’s Mubaraka al Naimi and Colombia’s Mariana Ramirez Nieto by . from July 8 to 12. pose after winning the doubles title at the Amman International Jun- A delighted Naimi com- ior Tennis Tournament in Amman, Jordan. : Dimuth Karunarathna (), , mented after the doubles , , , Lahiru Thirimane, , , victory, “I feel so happy af- achievement in my career and Naimi will also partici- Wanindu Hasaranga, , , Qatar’s Qasabi sisters – Lian and Rowdah – continued their winning streak in the Arab Chess Cup in Amman, ter winning the doubles ti- the victory will give me extra pate in Izmir Kulturpark ITF , Lahiru Kumara, , Jordan. On Tuesday, Lian defeated Iraq’s Al Zahra Abdo Ameer before beating Jordan’s Aisha Abass. She has tle in Amman International motivation for the upcoming Junior Cup, which began on and Kasun Rajitha. three points and is holding eighth place. Her sister Rowdah beat Iraq’s Retaj Saad Hassan. Tournament. It is the biggest events.” Wednesday.