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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018 16 Shakib sinks Windies helps level T20 series against West Indies

Bangladesh: Bangladesh c Cottrell b Allen 15 • b Cottrell 60 blasted a 26-ball 42 and then c Brathwaite b Cottrell 32 took a career-best 5 for 21 Shakib Al Hasan 42 c Allen b Thomas 1 Bangladesh won by 36 Riyad not out 43 runs• in the second Extras (lb 4, w12, nb 2) 18 Total (four ; 20 overs) 211 International in West Indies: c Liton b Hider 1 AFP | Dhaka c Liton b Mehidy 36 c Tamim b Shakib 14 hakib Al Hasan starred with both c Saifuddin b Shakib 19 bat and ball as Bangladesh edged c Tamim b Mustafizur 50 SWest Indies by 36 runs in the sec- c Mustafizur b Shakib 2 ond to level the st Rahim b Shakib 7 three-match series in Dhaka yesterday. b Shakib 0 Sakib claimed 4-21, his maiden c Ariful b Mustafizur 29 five- haul in T20I, helping Bang- not out 3 ladesh bowl out West Indies for 175 b Mahmudullah 0 runs after his unbeaten 42 off 26 balls Extras (lb 6, w8) 14 played a hand in Bangladesh‘s record Total (all out; 19.2 overs) 175 score of 211-4. : Bangladesh win by 36 runs Rovman Powell hit highest 50 off 34 Man of the Match: Shakib Al Hasan balls but succumbed to the pressure of a huge asking rate as West Indies folded the same over before fellow paceman their in 19.2 overs -- despite a Oshane Thomas jolted Bangladesh with late cameo by Keemo Paul, who made the wicket of Mushfiqur Rahim in the next over. Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan plays a shot But Mahmudullah struck fours in the first three balls he faced and there was 29 off 16 balls. need to keep the momentum going, be in an unbroken fifth wicket stand after no looking back for Bangladesh. In-form Shai Hope gave West Indies it with the ball or bat. Luckily we got Bangladesh lost their fifth wicket for “We didn’t get it right in the first six KNOW WHAT a rollicking start, picking up 24 runs the momentum early and we continued 120 in 13 overs. overs, so we were always chasing, but from one over of with it to post in excess of 200 on that Das hit six fours and four sixes in his credit to Bangladesh for playing well,” before he was dismissed by off-spinner wicket,” Shakib said after the game. second Twenty20 fifty, giving Bangla- lamented West Indies captain Carlos for 36 off 19 balls. Opener Liton Das struck 60 off 43 desh a flying start when he notched 42 Brathwaite. Shakib bowled Fabien Shakib bowled Fabien Allen for seven balls while Sakib and Mahmudullah, runs with Tamim Iqbal in the opening Cottrell finished with 2-38 as the Allen for seven to com- to complete his five-wicket haul -- be- who remained unbeaten on 43 off 21 . most successful West Indies bowler. coming only the third Bangladeshi to balls, guided Bangladesh to their high- Allen removed Tamim for 15, but Das West Indies won the first match of plete his five-wicket haul achieve the feat -- before Mustafizur, est ever score in a Twenty20 interna- and Soumya Sarkar added 68 runs to the series eight wickets on Monday. -- becoming only the third who finished with 2-54, gave a decisive tional on home soil. maintain the tempo. The third and final match of the se- Bangladeshi to achieve blow by removing Powell and Paul. Shakib and his deputy Mahmudullah Sheldon Cottrell dismissed Sarkar, ries will be held at same ground on the feat “If you want to win a T20 game you Riyad shared 89 runs in just seven overs who made 32 off 22 balls, and Das in Saturday.

Solskjaer arrives at United’s training ground Azhar, Babar hit centuries as AFP | Manchester Pakistan batsmen show form AFP | Benoni, South Africa and three sixes during a 129- le Gunnar Solskjaer ball innings. arrived at Manchester zhar Ali and Opening batsman Fakhar OUnited’s training ground Ahit centuries on the sec- Zaman faced 40 balls and yesterday to begin his role as ond day of a three-day match scored 19 runs in a comeback caretaker manager after the against a South African In - innings following a knee in- sacking of Jose Mourinho. vitation XI at Willowmoore jury which he suffered in a United called time on Mour- Park yesterday in Pakistan’s limited-overs series after he inho’s two-and-a-half years at only warm-up match ahead made 94 and 66 on Test debut the club on Tuesday, with the of a Test series against South against Australia in Abu Dhabi club languishing sixth in the Africa. in October. Premier League, 19 points be- Azhar made exactly 100 and Fakhar was bowled by fast hind leaders Liverpool. Babar scored 104 not out be- bowler Thando Mnyaki, who Solskjaer will be at the helm fore the Pakistanis declared on took three for 45. Mnyaki at Old Trafford until the end of 306 for seven, 12 runs behind sparked the Pakistani mid- the season, when the club will the Invitation team’s first-in- dle-order collapse when he appoint a full-time successor. nings total. The Invitation XI bowled for 41 Tottenham head coach Mau- were 45 for one at the close, and had caught ricio Pochettino is the current an overall lead of 57. behind for four. front runner. The Pakistanis were strug- Left-arm fast bowler Mo- The appointment of Solskjaer, gling on 112 for five before hammad Amir, recalled to the who will take a break from his Azhar and Babar came togeth- Pakistan Test squad, struck job as manager of Norwegian er in a sixth-wicket partner- early in the second innings club Molde, was confirmed on ship of 155. when he bowled Josh Richards Wednesday, with Alex Fergu- Azhar survived a mini-col- for eight. Richards scored 98 in son’s former assistant Mike lapse in which three wickets the first innings. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer looks on during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Cardiff fell in the space of 19 balls and Mohammad Abbas, recov- City (file photo) played a solid innings, during ering from a shoulder injury, which he hit 12 fours and three again did not bowl in the sec- Manchester United Phelan also returning as first- spell as manager in 2014. his third campaign at the helm. sixes. Babar stroked 11 fours ond innings. team coach. “Manchester United is in Mourinho had made his frus- is in my heart and The pair link up at United my heart and it’s brilliant to be trations about the recruitment it’s brilliant to be with Michael Carrick and Kier- coming back in this role,” said of players and the club’s deci- coming back in an McKenna, who took training Solskjaer. “I’m really looking sions clear over recent months, this role. I’m really on Wednesday. forward to working with the but did not return to the sub- looking forward Solskjaer, 45, established his very talented squad we have, the jects in a statement released the to working with status as a club legend with his staff and everyone at the club.” day after his sacking. the very talented dramatic Champions League Mourinho won the Europa “I have been immensely proud winner in 1999 to seal the treble. League, League Cup and Com- to wear the badge of Manches- squad we have, the He cut his coaching teeth as munity Shield in his first year at ter United since the first day I staff and everyone reserve team boss. the club before United finished arrived, and I believe all Unit- at the club He will take charge of his first runners-up in both the league ed supporters recognise this,” OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER match on Saturday against Car- and FA Cup, but things unrav- Mourinho said in a statement Pakistani batsman Babar Azam (R) plays a shot as New Zealand wicketkeeper diff, where he spent an unhappy elled during the early months of to Britain’s Press Association. BJ Watling looks on (file photo)