THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Kohli touches career-high Praneeth crashes Pant earns maiden call-up to Indian out; Subhankar, Test team, Rohit ignored again 911 points, sixth best ever Ruthvika progress SINGAPORE, July 18: LEEDS, July 18: be available for selection from the Test against West Indies A at DUBAI, July 18: Rashid (eighth) and Yuzvendra second Test onwards, the state- Taunton last week, helping his Chahal (10th). Defending champion B Sai Young wicketkeeper-batsman ment added. team pull off a five-wicket victo- India captain Virat Kohli England batsman Joe Root's Praneeth crashed out of the Rishabh Pant was today named in The sole fresh face in the ry and the series win. strengthened his position at the back-to-back centuries have Singapore Open after suffering the 18-member Indian squad for The hard-hitting left-hander, top of ICC ODI rankings for helped him vault into second a narrow three-game defeat the first three Tests against who has played four T20 batsmen by touching place in the against Japan's Yu Igarashi in England, but senior batsman Internationals, is currently play- a career-high 911 rankings list. the opening round of men's sin- Rohit Sharma was once again ing the one-off unofficial Test points, while Kuldeep Root has gles competition here today. ignored for the five-day format. against England Lions at Yadav broke into the leapfrogged Sixth seed Praneeth, who The 20-year-old Pant has been Worcester. top-10 of the bowlers' Babar Azam has been out of form of late, named as the specialist wicket- The other three members of chart at sixth today. (Pakistan), went down 21-16 16-21 18-21 keeper-batsman alongside Dinesh the Test squad -- opener Murali Their rise comes Rohit Sharma to Igarashi in a match that last- Karthik, who had played the Vijay, vice-captain Ajinkya despite India losing (India), David ed an hour and 11 minutes. team's last Test against Rahane and Karun Nair -- are the ODI series against Warner Meanwhile, Subhankar Dey, Afghanistan in the absence of an also part of the India A side play- India’s Salima Tete in action against Belgium during U-23 England 1-2 last night. (Australia) and Ross Taylor Ruthvika Shivani Gadde and injured Wriddhiman Saha. ing in Worcester. Six Nations Womens Hockey Tournament, in Antwerp Belgium, Kohli ended the series with (New Zealand) to a career-high former national champion Saha continues to be out nurs- Nair has managed to retain on Wednesday. scores 75, 45 and 71. He earned second position. Rituparna Das advanced to the ing a thumb injury sustained dur- his place in the team and so has just two points but those were Root had scores of three, 113 second round after notching up ing the IPL earlier this year. Shardul Thakur, who both did not Indian junior women's hockey team enough to take him to 911 not out and 100 not out, which contrasting wins in the opening Pacer Mohammad Shami, squad is Pant, who has finally make the playing eleven in the points, highest since Australia's earned him 34 points and have who was dropped from the one- been rewarded for his domestic round. Afghanistan Test. Dean Jones tally of 918 points in now put him 93 points behind off game against Afghanistan performances, including the IPL. While Subhankar saw off The Squads: beats Belgium in U-23 tourney March 1991. Kohli. Root had previously after failing the YoYo test, has The selectors, who picked the Canada's Jason Anthony Ho- India's squad: Virat Kohli ANTWERP (BELGIUM), remained unbeaten in the tour- Yadav has broken into the reached fourth in the batting Shue 14-21 21-14 21-16, regained full fitness and has made squad here today, had the option top-10 for the first time in his (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL July 18: nament. rankings in August 2016 and is Ruthvika prevailed over his way back for the five-match of bringing back an in-form career. The left-arm wrist-spin- Rahul, M Vijay, Cheteshwar After a goalless first and sec- now just one point below his Bulgaria's Linda Zetchiri 21-15 series starting August 1. Rohit into the side but they went ner took nine wickets in the However, there is uncertainly for infusing young blood instead. Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice- The Indian junior women's ond quarter, India were finally career-best points tally of 819, 17-21 21-16 and Rituparna series, including six for 25 at over the participation of key He averages 54.16 in 22 First- captain), Karun Nair, Dinesh hockey Team defeated Belgium able to breach the Belgian which he had achieved against emerged victories with Trent Bridge, which have been pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the Class games with a triple century Karthik (wicket-keeper), 2-0 to clinch its third consecu- defence in the third quarter with Australia earlier this year in rewarded with a rise of eight Switzerland's Sabrina Jaquet five-match series after he aggra- and India's fastest hundred at that Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), R tive victory at the Under-23 Six Sangita Kumari's goal in the Brisbane. retiring after trailing 3-5 in the vated a "lower back condition" level to his name. He was only 19 Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Nations Tournament here. 36th minute. places to a career-high sixth Jason Roy and Eoin Morgan position, the ICC said in a state- opening game. during the third ODI against when he amassed a stupendous Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Sangita Kumari (36th The 1-0 lead was doubled are the other batsmen to improve India's best mixed doubles England yesterday. 308 against Maharashtra in the Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Shami, minute) and Salima Tete (42nd when Salima Tete scored ment. their rankings in the latest table. Yadav is the second India pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra "His condition is being 2016-17 season. Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, minute) scored to give India the through a penalty corner in the Roy has moved up one place to and N Sikki Reddy beat assessed by the BCCI medical Adjusting to the English con- Shardul Thakur. bowler to feature in the top-10 win, Hockey India stated today. 42nd minute. 19th, while Morgan is now in Germany's Jones Ralfy Jansen team and a call on his inclusion in ditions won't be an issue for Pant BP XI for warm-up fixture In their first match, the India's defence held steady after number-one ranked Jasprit 22nd spot after rising two and Carla Nelte 21-19 16-21 the Test squad will be made as he has already been there with against South Africa 'A': Ishan Indian team had a convincing in the last quarter and ensured Bumrah and the fifth spinner to places. 21-12 to enter the second round. soon," said the BCCI in a state- the A team in England for a Kishan (C & WK), RR Sanjay, win against Ireland 4-1, fol- the team maintained the lead and find a place in the 10 highest- England pacer Liam However, it was curtains for ment. month. AR Eshwaran, Dhruv Shorey, lowed by a 1-0 triumph over eventually won the match 2-0. ranked bowlers. The other four Plunkett, has gained one place are Rashid Khan (second), former Commonwealth Games Pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who He had made an unbeaten 67 Anmolpreet Singh, Ricky Bhui, Great Britain. India will take on Canada in and is now 20th, Mark Wood is Imran Tahir (seventh), Adil bronze medallist RMV was unfit for the ODI series, will off 71 in the second unofficial Jalaj Saxena, Siddhesh Lad, Last night, the Preeti Dubey- their fourth match. (PTI) on a career-high 26th ranking Gurusaidutt and young Mihir Hirwani, DA Jadeja, led outfit put up a resilient per- after rising two places and Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka. Avesh Khan, Shivam Mavi, formance to ensure they David Willey has jumped 11 RCC Jammu drubs YCC Ghat Gurusaidutt's fight ended Ishaan Porel, Atith Seth. (PTI) places to claim 31st position. after he went down 14-21 19-21 There is no change in the top to China's Qiao Bin, while by 7 wkts in Gufran T20 five all-rounders, with Friends CC thrashes Vaishnavi lost 19-21 7-21 to Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan Excelsior Sports Correspondent ing 6 wickets in the process. Japan's Minatsu Mitani. (PTI) Azmat Wani top scored with 30 leading the field. (PTI) DODA, July 18: Rehmat runs, while Imran Hussain con- Bunasthan Club by 121 runs Cricket Club (RCC) Jammu out- tributed 20 runs to the total. Excelsior Sports Correspondent ed 20 overs, losing 6 wickets in Logistical nightmare on cards as played Youth Cricket Club For RCC Jammu, Ankush the process. Jaspreet top scored Nagar scalped 3 KISHTWAR, July 18: with 80 runs off 48 balls, stud- wickets while Riding on Jaspreet Singh's bril- ded with 4 fours and 6 sixes, BCCI schedule 2017 domestic games Nabi, Nitin and liant all-round display, Friends while Umar and Khalid con- NEW DELHI, July 18: Trophy from August 13 to 20. Sandy shared 1 Cricket Club defeated tributed unbeaten 59 and 36 The men's calender starts wicket each. Bunasthan Cricket Club by a runs to the total respectively. The inclusion of all North with Duleep Trophy (day/night In reply, RCC big margin of 121 runs in the For Bunasthan Cricket Club, Eastern states has forced BCCI in pink ball) from August 17 to Jammu managed to to schedule an unprecedented September 9.