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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016 SPORTS Kohli, Rahane lead India’s dominance against N Zealand INDORE: Skipper Virat Kohli recorded his who started the day on 79. second double-century in Tests as he and Off-spinner Jeetan Patel finally broke Ajinkya Rahane helped India post a crush- the big stand by trapping a tired Kohli lbw ing 557 for five declared against New as he tried to whip away the turning ball Zealand at Indore yesterday. but missed the line completely. The visitors were 28 without loss at stumps on day two of the third and final STANDING OVATION Test, with Martin Guptill on 17 and Tom Kohli, 27, the only Indian captain to Latham on six, trailing by 529. The hosts, score two double hundreds, was given a who started the day on 267 for three, rode standing ovation by the capacity crowd at on the 365-run fourth-wicket partnership Indore’s Holkar Stadium, which is hosting between Kohli (211) and Rahane (188) to its first Test match. flatten the New Zealand bowling. Rahane continued to frustrate the New The partnership was India’s best for the Zealand bowlers, but finally ran out of fourth wicket, surpassing the 353-run stand steam and was caught behind off Trent between Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman Boult. He was also given a rousing send-off. against Australia at Sydney in 2004. “It was great to see Virat bat the way he “This partnership was really special. We did, learnt a lot of things. He’s improving as were 100 for three and from there getting a batsman and a leader,” said Rahane. 365 was really special. It will remain in our Rohit Sharma (51) and Ravindra Jadeja memory for a long time,” Rahane told (17) then added some quick runs with an reporters. Kohli, who scored his maiden unbeaten 53-run stand for the sixth wicket. 200 against the West Indies in July, regis- The in-form Sharma, who hit three fours tered his career-best Test score Sunday and two sixes during his 63-ball knock, with a dominating display. struck his third half-century of the series as The batsman, who resumed the day on India gained firm control of the match. 103 in his 48th Test, scored runs all around Jadeja though was guilty of giving away the park with 20 boundaries during his five runs after being penalised by the on- 366-ball stay at the crease. field umpires for straying onto the danger Overnight partner Rahane was also in area of the pitch while running between POET ELIZABERTH: Australia’s batsman Mitchell Marsh (R) plays a ball during the fourth One Day International (ODI) between South Africa and blazing form, posting a career-best score in the wickets. Jadeja was warned twice by Australia at the St. George’s Park cricket stadium yesterday in Port Elizabeth. — AFP his 29th match after completing his eighth the umpires before the officials took the Test century. Rahane had to face a barrage extreme step of crediting New Zealand of bouncers in the morning session from with five runs. the New Zealand quicks, with one of the Bowlers Boult and Patel shared two Australia fall to South short-pitched deliveries from Matt Henry wickets apiece after the visitors were put in hitting his helmet. to field by India on Saturday. “Very, very But the incident only appeared to high-quality batting. Took a very good strengthen his resolve and his marathon delivery to create half-chances... I think we Africa’s back-up bowlers knock included 18 fours and four sixes. The stuck to our plans well but we were worn batsman surpassed his previous best of 147 down,” said New Zealand coach Mike against Australia in 2015. Hesson. “I think Kohli in particular, I think PORT ELIZABETH: South Africa rested three of “It was tough out there, I was struggling he took 120 singles, killed us softly.” India their frontline bowlers but continued to domi- SCOREBOARD yesterday and I took my time. Today we have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three- nate Australia as they won the fourth one-day both decided to dominate the spinners match series but are looking to complete a international by six wickets at St George’s Park PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa: Final scores in the fourth one-day international between South Africa and after we got our hundreds,” said Rahane, whitewash against the tourists.— AFP yesterday. Australia at St George’s Park yesterday. Kyle Abbott led what was effectively South Australia Phehlukwayo 5-1-28-0 (1w), Phangiso 4.4-0-17-2, Africa’s back-up bowling attack as Australia were A. Finch b Abbott 2 Duminy 2-0-13-0 bowled out for 167, the lowest total of the series. D. Warner b Abbott 6 South African captain Faf du Plessis made 69 as S. Smith lbw b Shamsi 21 South Africa South Africa secured their fourth successive win G. Bailey lbw b Pretorius 1 H. Amla lbw b Tremain 4 with 14.3 overs to spare. M. Marsh c De Kock b Abbott 50 Q. de Kock c Zampa b Tremain 18 It left Australian captain Steve Smith having T. Head lbw b Shamsi 0 F. du Plessis c Head b Marsh 69 M. Wade lbw b Phangiso 52 J. Duminy c Marsh b Zampa 25 to contemplate the prospect of a 5-0 series J. Hastings lbw b Shamsi 4 R. Rossouw not out 33 defeat going into the final match in Cape Town A. Zampa b Abbott 5 F. Behardien not out 12 on Wednesday. “We don’t want a whitewash so C. Tremain not out 23 Extras (lb3, w4) 7 we?ll have to turn up and play,” he said. S. Boland lbw b Phangiso 0 Total (4 wkts, 35.3 overs) 168 Smith said he was disappointed with the bat- Extras (w3) 3 Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Amla), 2-29 (De Kock), 3-85 ting performance. Total (36.4 overs) 167 (Duminy), 4-140 (Du Plessis) “The wicket maybe wasn’t as good as the oth- Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Finch), 2-9 (Warner), 3-12 (Bailey), 4- Bowling: Tremain 10-0-48-2 (3w), Boland 10-2-36-0 (1w), ers but 250 was about par.” Having clinched the 49 (Smith), 5-49 (Head), 6-111 (Marsh), 7-116 (Hastings), Hastings 4-0-27-0, Zampa 6.3-0-32-1, Marsh 5-0-22-1 five-match series by winning the first three 8-121 (Zampa), 9-167 (Wade) Did not bat: D. Pretorius, A. Phehlukwayo, K. Abbott, A. Bowling: Abbott 8-0-40-4, Pretorius 7-1-33-1 (1w), Phangiso, T. Shamsi games, South Africa rested fast bowlers Dale Shamsi 10-1-36-3 (1w), Result: South Africa won by six wickets. Steyn and Kagiso Rabada and leading spin bowler Imran Tahir. They were replaced by Abbott and spinners Warner with the first ball of his second over. He series, gave South Africa some early worries by Tabraiz Shamsi and Aaron Phangiso. Man of the struck another crucial blow when he was dismissing both opening batsmen, Hashim Amla match Abbott admitted that he felt nervous brought back into the attack and had Mitchell and Quinton de Kock. With a strong wind blow- before the game, having not been part of the Marsh caught behind for 50, ending a 62-run ing across the field, Du Plessis survived a chance first three matches. sixth wicket partnership with Matthew Wade. on 16 when Adam Zampa misjudged a high But he bowled both Australian opening bats- George Bailey was leg before wicket to Dwaine catch off John Hastings at point. He shared half- men inside the first three overs and finished with Pretorius as Australia slumped to 12 for three. century partnerships with JP Duminy and Rilee four for 40. Unorthodox left-arm wrist spinner It became 49 for five when Shamsi deceived Rossouw before holing out to deep square leg Tabraiz Shamsi took three for 36 and orthodox Australian captain Steve Smith and Travis Head, off Marsh’s bowling. He hit eight fours in an 87- left-armer Phangiso picked up the last two wick- trapping them both leg before, in the space of ball innings. “4-0 sounds amazing,” said Du ets at a cost of 17 runs. three balls. Wade hit a defiant 52 off 58 deliver- Plessis. On a slow pitch, which offered some seam ies and found some support from number ten “We said before the game that if we put movement and uneven bounce, Abbott bowled batsman Chris Tremain, who made 23 not out Australia under pressure we should really ham- a full length and made the ball deviate in both and helped Wade add 46 for the ninth wicket. mer down. Abbo (Abbott) was outstanding with directions. He bowled Aaron Finch with the Tremain, who took some heavy punishment the new ball and Shamsi spun a web around third ball of the match and then bowled David in his first two matches for Australia earlier in the them.” — AFP Bangladesh humble England to level one-day series INDORE: Indian batsman Rohit Sharma, left, celebrates his half century with Ravindra Jadeja during the second day of the third test cricket match between India DHAKA: Bangladesh thumped England in a suffered a top order collapse. and New Zealand in Indore, India, yesterday. — AP bowler-dominated contest after home skip- Mahmudullah added 50 runs with per Mashrafe Mortaza’s all-round brilliance Mushfiqur Rahim (21) and raised 48 with secured their series-levelling 34-run victory in Mosaddek Hossain (29) but wickets kept tum- SCOREBOARD the second one-day international yesterday.