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Kerber Crushes Halep, Keys Downs Cibulkova at WTA Finals Kerber Entered the Match Trailing Halep, Who Thrashed Keys in Her Opener, 4-3 in Their Head-To-Head Meetings FOOTBALL | Page 3 NFL | Page 6 Leipzig No sweet To Advertise here emerge homecoming Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 Bayern’s to Mile High challengers for Osweiler Wednesday, October 26, 2016 TENNIS Muharram 25, 1438 AH Kerber GULF TIMES crushes Halep at WTA Finals SPORT Page 5 CRICKET Yasir spins Pakistan to series-clinching win ‘It’s a good win. The pitch was not helping the spinners so it SCOREBOARD was tough to get West Indies out even on a fifth day pitch, Pakistan (1st innings) ................................. 452 S Hope c Khan b Babar ......................................................................... 41 but we have match-winners like Shah who bowled very well’ West Indies (1st innings) ........................... 224 J Holder lbw Shah ........................................................................................ 16 Pakistan (2nd innings) .............................. 227-2 decl. D Bishoo c Misbah b Babar ............................................................... 26 West Indies (2nd innings; overnight 171-4) M Cummins b Shah ................................................................................... 0 K Brathwaite lbw Nawaz ....................................................................... 67 S Gabriel (not out) ........................................................................................ 7 L Johnson b Shah ........................................................................................ 9 Extras (b-4, lb-1) ........................................................ 5 D Bravo c Nawaz b Ali ............................................................................. 13 Total (all out, 108 overs) ........................................ 322 M Samuels c&b Shah ............................................................................... 23 Fall of wkts: 1-28, 2-63, 3-112, 4-124, 5-187, 6-244, 7-266, 8-311, 9-312 J Blackwood b Shah .................................................................................. 95 Bowling: S Khan 14-3-44-0; R Ali 23-2-69-1; Y Shah 39- R Chase c Ahmed b Shah ................................................................... 20 5-124-6; Z Babar 22-5-51-2; M Nawaz 10-0-29-1 Yasir Shah took 6 for 124 to help Pakistan win the second Test against the West Indies by 133 runs in Abu Dhabi and take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. (AFP) AFP 41. Hope and Devendra Bishoo fought Jason Holder was pleased with his Abu Dhabi for 45 runs during their eighth-wicket team’s fi ght despite the defeat. “We’ve stand before left-arm spinner Zulfi qar showed signs of improvement,” said Babar (2-51) had Hope and Bishoo (26) Holder who has now lost eight of his eg-spinner Yasir Shah took six caught to fi nish the match. 11 Tests as captain. “Unfortunately we second-innings wickets in Pa- In between Babar’s wickets, Shah weren’t able to start the game the way kistan’s crushing 133-run sec- had Miguel Cummins bowled for we like. They scored too many runs on ond Test win over West Indies nought to fi nish the match with fi gures the fi rst day, we didn’t bat well in the Lin Abu Dhabi yesterday as they took of 10-210, having taken 4-86 in the fi rst innings. Pleased with the guys like an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three- fi rst innings. Blackwood, the way they showed ap- match series. Pakistan won the fi rst Test by 56 plication.” The wily spinner fi nished with runs in Dubai, leaving the third and fi - Blackwood defi ed Pakistan’s spin- 6-124 to secure his second 10-wicket nal Test in Sharjah starting from Sun- cum-pace attack in the fi rst session by haul in Test cricket after claiming four day inconsequential. adding 63 for the fi fth wicket with Ros- wickets in the fi rst innings as West In- Captain Misbah-ul-Haq showed de- ton Chase (20) and another 57 with Hope dies were bowled out for 322 before tea light at the series win. “It’s a good win for the sixth to counter the weary pitch. on a weary fi fth and fi nal day pitch at and I am very happy,” said Misbah, who When it seemed Blackwood would Sheikh Zayed Stadium. equalled Imran Khan’s record of most complete his second Test hundred, Shah had deprived West Indian matches as Pakistan captain with 48. Shah produced a beautiful delivery batsman Jermaine Blackwood his sec- But this is Misbah’s 23rd victory while which kept straight and hit the bats- ond Test hundred when he bowled him Imran had only 14. “The pitch was not man’s pad, dislodging the stumps. for 95 in the pre-lunch session. helping the spinners so it was tough to Blackwood hit 11 boundaries during his West Indies, set a mammoth 456- get West Indies out even on a fi fth day enterprising 127-ball stay. run target for an unlikely victory, still pitch but we have match-winners like Shah then trapped Jason Holder fought hard and batted for 108 overs Shah who bowled very well.” leg-before for 16 to complete his fi ve- with Shai Hope also scoring a fi ghting Meanwhile, West Indian captain wicket haul, the second in the series. Gulf Times 2 Wednesday, October 26, 2016 CRICKET FALL OF THE MIGHTY Misbah disappointed at West Indian downfall AFP pieces at the moment. They will be- Pakistan are now number two in the Abu Dhabi come a good side but at the moment Test rankings behind India, while West Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq (left) and they are lacking experience. Everyone Indies are eighth, ahead only of Bangla- veteran batsman Younis Khan return to the wants to see a strong West Indies side desh and Zimbabwe. pavilion after winning the second Test against kipper Misbah-ul-Haq showed like we had in the past. Right now it’s Jason Holder has now faced eight West Indies in Abu Dhabi yesterday. (AFP) disappointment over the down- really a big disappointing factor for all defeats in 11 Tests as captain but he fall of once-mighty West Indies of their fans.” feels there are signs of improvement. after Pakistan achieved a series- West Indies now face the prospect “It is a young and inexperienced Sclinching win in the second Test in Abu of a whitewash in the Tests, with the squad so it will take time to get the re- Dhabi yesterday. third and fi nal match starting in Shar- sults we have been looking for. We have Pakistan thumped West Indies by jah from Sunday. They were also routed been in the position of inconsistency 133 runs on the fi fth and fi nal day to 3-0 in both the Twenty20 and one-day for the last number of years so I don’t take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the international series which were played feel any pressure,” said Holder, who three-match series. The defeat is West before the Tests. was appointed captain last year. Indies’ 19th in their last 29 Tests since Misbah, who equalled the legen- “I am here to do a job and I am try- November 2013, having won only four dary Imran Khan’s record of most Tests ing to do as best as possible. It’s almost and drawn the remaining six. as captain with 48, is understandably a decade since we have been struggling. It is in total contrast to the West happy with his own team’s progress. We are in a situation where we are try- Indies team of the 1980s, when under “It’s a matter of happiness to equal ing to get things right. It will take some Clive Lloyd’s captaincy they were an Imran’s record but I think I am more time for these boys to get nourished indomitable force at international level, happy because we won the match,” said and developed and we have to give going undefeated in 27 Tests from Janu- Misbah, who now has 23 wins to Im- them that opportunity to do so. If you ary 1982 to December 1984. ran’s 14. have watched our cricket for the last “That’s bit disappointing and if However, he agreed the Sheikh Za- couple of months then we have shown you see their strength in international yed Stadium pitch was unresponsive signs of improvement.” cricket they were always a force but to bowlers. “It was a tough pitch to get West Indies lost the fi rst Test by 56 now they are having a downfall,” said bastmen out but at the end it is satis- runs in Dubai, but still fought hard in Misbah after Pakistan’s victory. factory. I think wins help in the devel- both the matches, batting for 109 and “They are a young side with some opment of the team and its rise in the 108 overs respectively in the fourth in- players performing well in bits and rankings.” nings of the two Tests. FOCUS Bangladesh cricket board bans Sabbir’s ‘raunchy’ ad angladesh cricket have board off icial said on condition pulled a raunchy advert of anonymity. “It does not fit Bstarring new Test star with the image of Bangladesh Australia Test stars Sabbir Rahman and a model cricket.” The advert has drawn following social media outrage sharp reaction online, mostly in the religiously conservative from those opposed to 34-year- country, an industry off icial old model Naila Nayem whose said yesterday. The advert has previous promotion of breast been airing on television since cancer screenings was seen by August but drew fresh attention some as sexually suggestive. this week after Sabbir’s superb “Absolute nonsense! I wonder have point to prove batting brought the nation why would Sabbir act in such a agonisingly close to its first-ever sexually tickling ad with Naila!” victory over England. The advert said Facebook user Rahat Khan. ‘Results haven’t gone our way in the last couple of months but that’s the game shows Sabbir holed up inside his Bangladeshi cricketers are house drinking a non-alcoholic feted like rockstars by millions of cricket sometimes.
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