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P16sp 2:Layout 1 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016 SPORTS Records tumble in English county one-day game NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: The record books were sharing a record one-day partnership in England of Their total of 425 gave Nottinghamshire victory record in England of 318 by Sourav Ganguly and rewritten twice in an astonishing run spree at 342 from 39.2 overs. by 20 runs in a game which saw an unprecedented Rahul Dravid for India against Sri Lanka at Taunton in Nottinghamshire’s Trent Bridge ground on Monday Wessels eventually departed for a career-best 870 runs scored in the day, three more than Surrey the 1999 World Cup. which saw a record English one-day partnership and 146, from 97 balls, while Lumb went on to make 184, and Glamorgan managed in 2002. Lumb and Wessels’ English record is the third- the most aggregate runs scored in a List A match. also his best and a record for the county, as Afterwards Lumb joked: “It was a bit twitchy. highest partnership in List A games, behind the 372 By the close in the Royal London One-Day Cup Nottinghamshire posted 445 for 8, the second high- What a great game of cricket. Never in doubt. which Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels took off game between Notts and Northamptonshire, statis- est score for a List A match in the world. “I was surprised they took it that deep but it’s Zimbabwe in the 2015 World Cup. ticians were checking to see if there had ever been a The runs continued to flow when credit to them. Rory Kleinveldt was unbelievable. It The record for the highest team total is held by day like it anywhere in the world. Northamptonshire chased down what would have was an unbelievable game. I don’t think we could do Surrey, who made 496-4 against Gloucestershire The big hitting began from the start with been another record for a team batting second. But too much more. I’m proud of all the boys.” in 2007. List A matches are played over 40-60 Nottinghamshire’s Riki Wessels and Michael Lumb they fell short despite 128 from Rory Kleinveldt. The Nottinghamshire stand beat the previous overs. — Reuters ‘Like punching a mountain’, Gillespie stumps Indian recalls Ali bouts sponsors with MUMBAI: Former Indian amateur boxer vegan stance Haroon Khan bubbles with excitement and bravado as he recalls his two bouts with his hero, the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, LONDON: Yorkshire’s Australian coach blinkers on. We treat animals like s**t, three decades ago. Jason Gillespie has risked the wrath of we really do - and in my opinion there’s Khan, now 72, went along to a charity fight his English county’s sponsors by claim- no justification for that. night in India’s Mumbai in January 1980 hoping ing the “disgusting” dairy industry “It’s cruel and it’s speciesism at its merely to catch a glimpse of ‘The Greatest’ in should be shut down. very worst and I don’t want to be action. Yorkshire are sponsored by part of it. Instead, he got closer to his idol than he could Wensleydale Creamery, but that hasn’t “I hope one day the dairy industry ever have imagined, going blow for blow with dissuaded Gillespie, who is a vegan, can be shut down. “I think it’s disgust- ex-heavyweight champion Ali in the ring for from revealing his opposition to the ing and wrong on so many levels.” three rounds of three minutes each. business. As for Yorkshire’s shirt deal, he “Beforehand my dad and I were just joking The 41-year-old former Australia added: “It’s out of my control, just like but he said, ‘If you get the chance then box pace bowler, who has led his team to the fact that cricket balls are made of him,’” Khan told AFP, his eyes wide and grinning two County Championship titles, made leather. “I’ll have it out with people, I at the memory. it clear he is prepared to stand by his don’t care. There’s nothing wrong with “Then during the event Ali shouted out to the opinions in an interview with the standing up for what you believe in.” audience and said, ‘Is there anybody who will box Yorkshire Post on Tuesday. Responding to Gillespie’s remarks, a with me in India?’ “Nobody was standing up. So I Asked about any possible conflict spokesman for Wensleydale Creamery stood up, put my hand in the air and said, ‘I will with the company whose logo appears said: “That’s a very bold statement, and accept the challenge, I will box you.’” on Yorkshire’s shirts, he said: “Yes, they I need to understand a bit more about Khan, a national bantamweight champion are a sponsor. But it doesn’t mean I what he’s actually trying to say there. in 1964, had always been a massive fan of Ali, agree with what they do. “We are very proud sponsors. who died on Friday aged 74 after health prob- “My wife and I often talk about it, Our milk comes from over 40 local lems complicated by a long battle with because she’s vegan as well. “I feel like farms with very high standards of Parkinson’s disease. I’m looking through eyes without welfare.” — AFP In his tiny south Mumbai flat, Khan removes a photo album from a plastic bag that he says holds his “treasure”-photographs and newspaper reports documenting that first bout with Ali. Broad has no problems ‘AREN’T YOU SCARED OF ME?’ “When I put my hand up Ali kept saying, ‘You facing Pakistan’s Amir want to box with me? You want to box with me? Aren’t you scared of me?, Aren’t you scared of LONDON: Stuart Broad has insisted he “It swung round corners for him.” me?” Khan explains. won’t have any issues playing against However, citing the reaction of spectators “I said, ‘No, I’m scared of Allah but I’m not Mohammad Amir should the convicted at Lord’s to England all-rounder Ben scared of you. I’m Haroon Khan, I’m from India. spot-fixer make his Test return at Lord’s Stokes’ controversial dismissal for obstruct- You’re a boxer, I’m a boxer, so let’s box.” next month. ing the field in a one-day international “Ali was fooling with me. He asked, ‘What do Lord’s was the venue six years ago against Australia last year, Broad said spec- you box, oranges or bananas? I replied that I box when left-arm quick bowler Amir and two tators at the ‘home of cricket’ may not wel- boxers and I’m ready to box you.” Pakistan team-mates were involved in the come Amir back with open arms. Khan, who now coaches youngsters and deliberate bowling of no-balls as part of a “The crowd might be a different story. keeps fit with a punchbag in his home, newspaper ‘sting’ operation to demon- “There was a lively reaction to Ben remembers thinking that because he was an strate the trio’s willingness to take part in Stokes’ dismissal last year to Mitchell amateur and Ali was a professional he must be MUMBAI: In this photograph taken on June 6, 2016, former Indian boxer Haroon Younis Khan, spot-fixing. Starc, and it looked like a nasty atmos- on his game. 72, who fought twice with his idol and boxing legend Muhammad Ali, strikes a pose like Ali A teenager at the time and one of phere for a while.” ‘ “I felt I couldn’t just joke around so I fought a after a practice session in Mumbai. Former Indian amateur boxer Haroon Khan bubbles with world cricket’s undoubted rising stars, serious fight. Ali was surprised by how good I excitement and bravado as he recalls his two bouts with his hero, the late boxing legend Amir was sent to jail by an English court RESULT DEVALUED’ was but when I punched him it felt like I was hit- Muhammad Ali, three decades ago. — AFP and banned from all cricket worldwide for As for his 2010 hundred-which sur- ting a mountain.” five years. passed the highest Test score achieved by “Nothing happened. He didn’t move at all. He ous. He was so fast. He started jabbing me and Two years later Khan saw a newspaper advert He has now served that ban and, unlike his father Chris, a former England opening just kept grinning. I wondered what sort of man within a minute-and-a-half a whole side of my saying that Ali would be the star guest at an 2010 Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fel- batsman-Broad does not feel it was tainted is this? How much power does he have to take face was swelling,” explains Khan, mimicking exhibition fight in the United Arab Emirates so low paceman Mohammad Asif, Amir has by the spot-fixing furore. these punches?” Ali’s moves. he went along seeking a second bout. now been included in the squad for a four- “I do look back at it, and I’m very proud Ali, a three-time heavyweight world champi- Khan said he approached Ali at a press con- Test series starting at Lord’s on July 14. of scoring a hundred at Lord’s-and beating on, was past his prime by 1980 but was still a HEARTBROKEN ference and he agreed to another three-round Team officials are optimistic the 24- my dad’s highest score.” year away from retirement.
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