WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU India eye series-saving win over Australia Manu, Heena fizzle out in Men’s Cricket U-23 One Day Tournament BENGALURU, Feb 26: remains to be seen if Dhawan is unbeaten 29 off 37 balls as India J&K drubs TN by 5 wkts brought back into the side to open managed 126 for seven in Vizag. qualifications; Anish finishes 5th The focus remains firmly on alongside Rohit Sharma or the He was able to silence his crit- NEW DELHI, Feb 26: women's 10am air pistol ahead it became an uphill task for him via VJD Method the World Cup but India would team retains the opening combi- ics with a solid showing in of Taipei's Chia Ying Wu (238.4) from thereon. Excelsior Sports Correspondent and Abhishant Bakshi claimed also be desperate to ensure that a nation which featured in Vizag. Australia and New Zealand but Anish Bhanwala could not and Korean Bomi Kim (218.3). The 16-year-old survived a one wicket each. home series does not slip out of "Anything is possible now. We his rather slow innings on Sunday make up for Manu Bhaker and In the day's other event, the shoot-off with France's Clement JAMMU, Feb 26: All-round- In reply, J&K managed to their grip when they take on want to give game time to Rahul has got the tongues wagging Heena Sidhu's failure to reach women's 50m rifle positions, Bessaguet, but a 3 in the next er Abid Mushtaq and skipper score 181/5 in 37.2 overs in a Australia in the second and final and Pant to figure out what we again over his waning finishing the women's 10m air pistol final, India's Nityanadam was 36th series was not enough to keep Sahil Lotra slammed magnifi- rain-hit match and the match T20 International here on tomor- need to do in the World Cup," abilities. finishing fifth in his event on a with 1163, while Chauhan was him in the hunt. cent half-centuries as Jammu was decided by VJD Method, row. Kohli said after the first T20. Debutant leg-spinner Mayank lacklustre day for India in the 49th with 1156. The two Olympic quota and Kashmir defeated Tamil wherein J&K won by 5 wickets. India are 0-1 down after an Markande (0/31 in ISSF World Cup here today. Nina Christen, from places went to Switzerland and Nadu by 5 wickets via VJD Abid Mushtaq scored splendid inexplicably poor batting per- four overs) did not Anish, who was placed fifth Switzerland, won the 50m rifle 3 the China. Method in a rain-hit match of unbeaten 59 runs off 53 balls, formance led to a three-wicket pick up a wicket but in the qualification too, shot a positions event with a score of With Wednesday's mixed the ongoing Men's Cricket studded with 7 fours, while loss in the lung-opener in bowled well according total of 14 to finish outside the 457.1 points, beating silver events not offering Olympic Under-23 Boys One Day Sahil Lotra scored magnificent Visakhapatnam. to Kohli. The 21-year- podium in the six-man final of medallist Shi Mengyao of China, quota places, hosts India will Tournament at KL Saini 51 runs off 41 balls, with the The below-par 126 with the old might get another the men's 25m rapid fire pistol and Kazakhstan's bronze winner have to be content with only one Stadium, Jaipur in Rajasthan. help of 4 fours and one six. bat on Sunday denied bowlers a game. competition. The event started Yelizaveta Korol. 2020 Tokyo Games berth from Earlier, winning the toss and Nipun Verma and Paras Sahrma decent shot at securing a win even Australia, on the 20 minutes late due to a technical In the day's last final, men's the tournament. batting first, Tamil Nadu scored contributed 28 and 25 runs to the though the Jasprit Bumrah-led other hand, will be fan- snag in one of the targets. 25m rapid fire pistol, Olympic They will now have to wait a modest total of 192 runs in total respectively. attack did all it could to keep the cying a rare series win The International Shooting champion Christian Reitz of until the next World Cup to 48.2 overs. Nidhish Rajagopal From Tamil Nadu, home team in the game till the against India in recent Federation (ISSF) has offered to Germany claimed the gold medal secure quotas. top scored with 55 runs, while S Mohanprasanth took 2 wickets, final over of the match. times, especially after reimburse all the expenses of the with 35, shooting a perfect 5 four When asked what went Lokeshwar and K Mukunth con- while Ashwath, Ajith Kumar India skipper Virat Kohli has losing the Test and ODI winner and runners-up in this times out of the six series. wrong, Heena said she got too tributed 42 and 40 runs to the and M Sidharth shared one already said that his squad compo- While Bumrah showed his series at home to Kohli's team. event since its Olympic quota China's world champion and engrossed with the tournament total respectively.From Jmamu wicket each. sition for the World Cup in May- class after coming back from a They would be happy with status was withdrawn after world number one Junmin Lin since it was being held at home. and Kashmir, Abid Mushtaq, With this win J&K earned 4 July is "more or less sorted" but break, the other pacer in Umesh their bowling on a slow surface in Pakistani shooters were denied claimed the silver after scoring "I think last one and half Sahil Lotra and Irfan Haq took 2 points, while Tamil Nadu failed has not ruled out rewarding stand- Yadav leaked runs and was not the first game but made a mess of visa in the wake of the Pulwama 31, while the bronze went to months we have been thinking so wickets each, while Auqib Nabi to secure any point. out performances over the course able to defend 14 in the final over. the 127-run target after cruising at terror attack. Korea's Junhong Kim (22). much about this match, I think of two T20s and five ODIs. India could replace Umesh one stage. Gaayathri Nityanadam and Anish, the youngest Indian to most of the people got too emo- Senior Women’s T20 League Considering the captain's cur- with Siddharth Kaul or bring in Squads: Sunidhi Chauhan also failed to win a Commonwealth Games tionally involved. It played on rent frame of mind, both K L all-rounder Vijay Shankar to beef- India: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit qualify for the final in the 50m gold, started with 3 each in the our minds," Heena said. Rahul and Rishabh Pant are likely up the batting department. Sharma, K.L. Rahul, Shikhar rifle 3 positions at the Dr Karni first two series before hitting all "I got too engrossed while Karnataka crushes J&K by 48 runs to feature in most of the games The hosts played with a long Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Singh Shooting Range. the targets in the third series. trying too hard instead of just Excelsior Sports Correspondent wicket each. against Australia. tail in Vizag and that impacted Karthik, M.S. Dhoni (wk), Hoping to make up for her However, four misses in the sticking to the process," she In reply, J&K managed to India rested opener Shikhar their final total following an inex- Krunal Pandya, Vijay Shankar, meltdown in the 25m pistol final, next series pulled him down and explained. (PTI) JAMMU, Feb 26: Karnataka score 22 runs in 7 overs for the Dhawan to give game time to plicable batting collapse from 69 Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit the 17-year-old Bhaker was in thrashed Jammu and Kashmir by loss of 6 wickets, thus lost the Rahul, who grabbed the opportu- for one in the ninth over. Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Sidharth for more disappointment, finish- Manishi's fifer hands India control 48 runs in rain-hit 7 overs-a-side match by 48 runs. None of the nity with both hands by smashing Pant, a strong contender for a Kaul, Mayank Markande. ing a lowly 14th with 573 in the match of the ongoing Senior batswomen could cross the dou- 50 off 36 balls in his comeback World Cup berth, will be itching Australia: Aaron Finch (c), qualifications. over SA in 1st day of Youth Test Women's T20 League at MBB ble figure mark. Sarla Devi (7) game. to perform after getting out cheap- D'Arcy Short, Pat Cummins, Alex The more experienced Heena Stadium, Agartala. and Bismah Hassan (6) were the He had a disastrous Test tour ly on Sunday, and so will be Carey, Jason Behrendorff, Nathan Sidhu suffered a similar fate and THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Rex Singh to leave South Africa Earlier, put into bat, Tamil main contributors. From Feb 26: reeling at 62 for 3 and Manishi of Australia before he and Hardik Dinesh Karthik, who is left with Coulter-Nile, Peter Handscomb, was placed 25th with 571. Nadu scored 70/4 in 7 overs. Karnataka, C Prathyusha took 2 Left-arm spinner Manishi struck again six runs later when Pandya were provisionally sus- just one game to make a com- Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Shooting in her maiden Vanitha top scored with 44 runs, wickets, while Chandu V claimed scalped five wickets as India he bowled Bonga Makhakha for pended for their loose talk on pelling contribution before the Glenn Maxwell, Jhye World Cup, Anuradha, employed while skipper Rakshita K con- one wicket.