SPORTS Saturday, December 30, 2017 21 Australia’s Will Smith plays a shot Chris Morris (file pic) South Africa get Morris back from Rain frustrates injury Cape Town his hamstring in the Boxing ace bowler Chris Morris Day test and was unable to has been restored to South keep wicket in Zimbabwe’s two Africa’sP squad for the first test innings. England against India next week after South Africa won by an Melbourne the wickets of Cameron of anyone carrying his bat recovering from a groin injury, innings and 120 runs inside two ain hampered England’s Bancroft and Usman Khawaja – the rare feat of batting Cricket South Africa said days at St George’s Park in Port bid for victory on the to send early jitters through throughout the innings – in BRIEF SCORE yesterday. Elizabeth and now meet India fourthR day of the fourth Ashes the home side. Test cricket, bettering New Morris replaces Duanne over three tests in January. Test yesterday, with David Bancroft hit four fours Zealand’s Glenn Turner’s Australia 327 and 2 for 103 Olivier in the 15-man squad Squad: Faf du Plessis Warner and Steve Smith also before he chopped Chris 223 not out against the West (Warner 40*, Smith 25*) for the test at Newlands in Cape (captain), Hashim Amla, keeping the tourists at bay. Woakes on to his stumps Indies in Kingston in 1972. trail England 491 Town, which starts next Friday. Temba Bavuma, Quinton de The umpires called off play on 27, while Khawaja was The last Englishman to (Cook 244*, Root 61, Broad 56, Captain Faf du Plessis and Kock, Theunis de Bruyn, AB at 5:20 pm (0620 GMT) after caught behind off James carry his bat in Tests was Cummins 4-117) bowler Dale Steyn, who were de Villiers, Dean Elgar, Keshav persistent rain with Australia Anderson for 11. Mike Atherton, who scored by 61 runs both laid low by flu this week Maharaj, Aiden Markram, 103 for two and trailing the England, pressing for their 94 in New Zealand in 1997, and missed the one-off test Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, tourists by 61 runs after first victory in the already- while Geoff Boycott was the Cook’s fifth double- against Zimbabwe, are also Andile Phehlukwayo, Vernon England’s first innings ended decided Ashes series, were last in an Ashes innings with century also catapulted him included. There is also a return Philander, Kagiso Rabada, Dale on the first ball of the day all out on their overnight his unbeaten 99 in Perth in above West Indian Brian for Quinton de Kock, who hurt Steyn. (Reuters) at the Melbourne Cricket total of 491 on the first ball 1979. Lara to become the sixth Ground. of the day. Cook set a number of highest run-getter in Test European Handball Championship 2018 Nikola When play was abandoned Anderson was caught records on Thursday’s third cricket with 11,956. Croatia hosts the tournament, aiming Karabatić for the day, Warner was on 40 by Bancroft at bat-pad off day, when he surpassed the England have four to improve on a third-place finish in France 2016, as France targets a fourth title Reigning World with skipper Smith not out 25. Pat Cummins for a duck to highest score by a visiting sessions left in Melbourne to Champions The tourists, with all the end the innings. Cummins batsman in a Melbourne secure their first win of the momentum after Alastair finished with four for 117. Test, bettering the 208 Ashes series, after going an Varazdin Cook’s record-breaking It meant that Cook by West Indian great Viv irretrievable 3-0 down in the Varazdin Arena innings of 244 not out, snared achieved the highest score Richards in 1984. first three Tests. (AFP) 5,400 Zagreb Arena Zagreb Hussain offers advice to Joe Root 15,000 Melbourne Porec Zatika ngland captain Joe Root has to be “harder on himself” Sport Centre according to former skipper Nasser Hussain. 3,700 EThe Yorkshireman’s highest score during the Ashes has been the 67 he racked up in Adelaide. Australia captain Steve Smith meanwhile made a whopping 239 at the WACA in Perth and has been a constant thorn in the tourists’ side. PRELIMINARY ROUND Split After notching another half-century Melbourne, 26-year- January 12-17 Spaladium old Root has now hit 34 fifties and 13 hundreds from 64 Top three in each group Arena Tests. In comparison, Smith has registered 21 fifties and qualify for Main Round 12,000 22 centuries. A Split B Porec C Zagreb D Varazdin And Hussain thinks Root may need to tweak his own Croatia France Germany Spain mentality to improve his conversion rate and become as Sweden Belarus Macedonia Denmark good as his opposite number in the Australian team. Serbia Norway Montenegro Czech Rep. “The greatest batsmen – guys like Virat Kohli and Iceland Austria Slovenia Hungary Steve Smith – have excellent conversion rates,” the former MAIN ROUND: Top two in each group qualify for semi-finals captain wrote in the Daily Mail. I Zagreb II Varazdin “They grasp the simple fact that you don’t win Tests with Jan 18 A3 - B2 A2 - B3 Jan 19 C3 - D2 C2 - D3 pretty 50s and 60s: you win them with big hundreds or even Jan 20 A1 - B1 A2 - B2 Jan 21 C1 - D1 C2 - D2 doubles. Jan 22 A3 - B1 A1 - B3 Jan 23 C3 - D1 C1 - D3 Jan 24 A1 - B2 A2 - B1 A3 - B3 Jan 24 C1 - D2 C2 - D1 C3 - D3 “At some point, Root is going to have to sit down and ask himself whether he’s working out those percentages FIFTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF Zagreb SEMI-FINALS Zagreb properly. Jan 26 3rd place I - 3rd place II Jan 26 Winner I - Runner-up II Winner II - Runner-up I “He’s got all the shots in the world. But if he wants to be remembered as one of the greats – and he has the talent – THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF Zagreb FINAL Zagreb Joe Root (file pic) then he’ll need to be harder on himself.” (givemesport) Jan 28 Loser SF1 - Loser SF2 Jan 28 Winner SF1 - Winner SF2 Source: EHF Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS.