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January 31, 2018 SPORT Wednesday 31 January 2018 PAGE | 31 PAGE | 32-33 PAGE | 34 Lorenzo breaks Man City sign French Day clinches Sepang defender Aymeric Torrey Pines lap record Laporte title in play-off Al Kass Cup: Sneijder, Amado on target as Aspire Football Dreams finish Al Gharafa reach group stage fifth in Doha THE PENINSULA CHINTHANA WASALA After a quick break from the THE PENINSULA Egyptian winger Hussein El DOHA: Aspire Football Dreams (AFD) Shahat. The new winter signing ran out deserving 3-1 winners against DOHA: Dutch star Wesley Snei- squared for Berg who finished Real Madrid in an engrossing clash jder earned Al Gharafa the with his left. finish in the fifth spot of Al Kass Cup perfect start as Qatar giants Only eight minutes later, Al 2018 yesterday. stormed into the group stage of Ain sealed the win when Bandar Both sides were unlucky to have the AFC Champions League Al Ahbabi crossed for Caio who had their progress curtailed at the (ACL) with a convincing 2-1 win pulled a powerful header to quarter-final stage, with Football against Uzbekistan’s Pakhtakor double his side’s lead. Dreams going out on penalties to PSG, Tashkent yesterday. Al Ain join 2017 AFC Cham- and Real falling victim to the now- Al Gharafa Stadium yester- pions League runners-up, familiar smash-and-grab tactics of day, the team’s newest member, Saudia Arabia’s Al Hilal, Iranian Kashiwa Reysol. Sneijder converted a penalty side Esteghlal and Qatar’s Al Aspire were soon in the ascend- with a right footed shot to the Rayyan in Group D of the ancy, and took a deserved lead in the bottom right corner in the 21st competition. 25th minute. In the 55th minute, Juan minute to give them the much In Fuladshahr, Iran, hosts Latasa struck an equaliser when his needed lead. Zob Ahan squeezed through to fierce cross-shot squirmed under Diogo Amado, assisted by the group stage with a 3-1 vic- Kubi’s body and crept over the line. Mehdi Taremi, doubled the lead tory over Indian champions The Spanish striker had looked mar- just seven minutes later with a Aizawl FC. ginally offside as he latched on to the brilliant right footed shot from Al Gharafa’s Dutch captain Wesley Sneijder celebrates In Shanghai, China, Yu Hai through ball, but the goal stood. outside the box to the bottom after scoring against Uzbekistan’s Pakhtakor during scored the only goal of the game AFD’s second arrived ten minutes left corner as the home team AFC Champions League 2018 qualifying play-off match as Shanghai SIPG secured their later. Aspire’s forwards worked the took a comfortable 2-0 lead third successive appearance in ball across the edge of Real’s area from played in Doha yesterday. before going into half time the AFC Champions League fol- right to left, and Isaac Nuhu arrived break. lowing a 1-0 victory over late to stroke a splendid first-time Both teams failed to find the goalkeeper in the third minute Al Jazira, Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli Hashim Isa’s chip was Thailand’s Chiangrai United. curler into the far corner from 18 back of the net by the of injury time. Khakimov’s left and Iran’s Tractorsasi. denied by goalkeeper Khalid Two headed goals either side yards. Aspire held firm in the face of 90-minute mark, buy Tashkent footed shot from very close Elsewhere, Nahrain’s Al Eisa, and a header from Isa Al of the half-time break laid the intense waves of pressure, and added tried to fight back strongly in the range to the centre of the goal. Malkiya put in a spirited per- Bari missed the net. foundation for an emphatic 5-1 a third with five minutes remaining, final minutes of the game. Despite their efforts, Shne- formance at Hazza Bin Zayed Al Ain took the lead eight victory for Nasaf Qarshi over Al when Umar Lutalo rose highest – and Eventually, Jasurbek Khak- ijder’s Al Gharafa made it to the Stadium to defeat Al Ain, UAE minutes after the break through Faisaly as the Uzbek side booked unchallenged – to head home a cor- imov beat the Al Gharafa Group Stage and will join UAE’s 2-0. Swedish striker Markus Berg. their place in the group stage. ner from the left. 30 SPORT WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY 2018 Sri Lanka banking on Herath: Chandimal AFP each against England and Australia in their last Test SA, India CHITTAGONG, BANGLA- encounters at home. DESH: Sri Lanka will bank on “I think it will have a bit of the guile of record-breaking He is a wily old fox. spin on this pitch. Our batsmen battle for left-arm spinner Rangana He can do what he have to take the responsibility, Herath as they try to extend wants to do. He is as also our bowlers,” said stand- top spot their recent winning streak to in Bangladeshi captain the two-Test series against a big asset in our Mahmudullah Riyad. Bangladesh, captain Dinesh team, says Sri Lankan “We have to do the basics again Chandimal said yesterday. captain Chandimal right, pick up wickets early if After a dismal last few we bowl first or put together AFP months, Sri Lanka appeared to partnerships so that we can get have turned the tide by win- for both teams,” Chandimal a big score,” he said. DURBAN-CORBIÈRES, ning the recent tri-nation told reporters, citing the expe- Mahmudullah took over FRANCE: South Africa and tournament with an emphatic rience of Rangana Herath and the captaincy of the Test team India will vie for the world 79-run victory against Bangla- Dilruwan Perera. after newly-appointed captain number one ranking again desh in the final one-dayer. Chandimal especially Shakib Al Hasan was ruled out when they meet in a six- The win has put the spring hailed the 39-year-old Herath, of the first Test with a finger match one-day international back in the steps of Chandi- who is the most successful left- injury. series, starting at Kingsmead mal’s men ahead of the first arm spinner in Test history “It is a big loss,” Mah- on Thursday. Test beginning in the port city with 406 wickets after passing mudullah said of Shakib, who The one-day games start of Chittagong today. Daniel Vettori’s tally of 362 Test is also the hosts’ most experi- just five days after India The two teams drew their wickets last year. enced spinner. retained their top ranking in Test series 1-1 in Sri Lanka last “He is a wily old fox. He “But you have to go ahead Tests, although second- year. The hosts won the first can do what he wants to do. He accepting all the challenges. I placed South Africa closed the Test in Galle by a huge margin is a big asset in our team,” he think if we can execute our points gap by winning the Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath gestures before Bangladesh levelled the said. Bangladesh were decisions positively, we will series 2-1. as he leaves the Galle International Cricket series with a win in their 100th expected to offer Sri Lanka a have a good game.” South Africa are on top of Stadium in this file picture. Test in Colombo. turning wicket of the kind that The second Test is in the International Cricket “This will be a great series helped them win one Test Dhaka, starting on February 8. Council one-day rankings by a slender one point from India. With the points adjusted Melbourne after each match, there is the potential for the number one India trounce Pakistan to position to change from to host finals match to match. But South African coach of 2020 Ottis Gibson is less concerned about the rankings than the World T20 reach U-19 World Cup final long-term goal of winning the 2019 Cricket World Cup in AFP England. REUTERS India’s Shubman Gill celebrates his century during the South Africa picked a big CHRISTCHURCH, NEW Under-19 World Cup semi-final match against Pakistan squad of 15 for the first three MELBOURNE: Melbourne ZEALAND: India crushed arch- at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, yesterday. games and Gibson said there Cricket Ground will host the rival Pakistan by 203 runs in was a possibility other play- final of both the men’s and their Under-19 World Cup semi- ers could be considered for women’s World Twenty20 final in Christchurch yesterday the last three. when the tournaments come to set up a tournament decider “We’re the number one to Australia in 2020, organ- against Australia. team at the moment but that isers announced yesterday. An unbeaten century from doesn’t mean a lot leading up The women’s tourna- Shubman Gill helped India set a to a World Cup,” said ment, made up of 10 teams, competitive total of 272, which Gibson. will be held from February 21 Pakistan never looked like “Winning isn’t the be-all to March 8 before 16 men’s reaching as they were skittled and end-all at this stage. teams play from October 18 for 69 with more than 20 overs There is a fine line and we to November 15. remaining. will try and ensure that what- Hobart and Geelong will Ishan Porel was India’s hero ever team we pick has an host six pool stage matches with the ball, taking four for 17 equal chance of winning but in the men’s tournament in a match the tournament we have a goal and a vision before the country’s six main favourites utterly dominated.
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