Heat sizzle Simon outlasts over16 Bulls Mahut18 in thriller THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013 Red Sox fans could enjoy long-awaited celebration Page 16 LONDON: Manchester United’s Mexican striker Javier Hernandez heads towards goal during the English League Cup fourth round football match between Manchester United and Norwich City at Old Trafford on Tuesday. — AFP Chelsea rejoice, United thrash Norwich LONDON: Jose Mourinho got the better of old West Ham United beat Burnley 2-0 away in onrushing goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski for the good teams,” Mata told Sky Sports. Stoke also had a 3-1 lead cancelled out. Goals adversary Arsene Wenger once again as Chelsea their tie with late penalties from Matt Taylor and opener. Manchester United pacher Hernandez under- from Oussama Assaidi, Peter Crouch and Marko showed their strength-in-depth by reaching the Jack Collison, while spot kicks were needed to Arsenal, who have testing fixtures against lined his value to David Moyes’s team with a goal Arnautovic had put them in command, but a late League Cup quarter-finals with a 2-0 win over separate Stoke City and Birmingham City. After Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund to come in the in each half as the Old Trafford club emphatically double from Peter Lovenkrands ensured their London rivals Arsenal on Tuesday. the match finished 3-3 and then 4-4 after extra next eight days, were off the pace and struggled booked their spot in the next round. match against Birmingham went to extra time. Both teams rang the changes but it was time, top flight Stoke came through 4-2 in the to conjure a chance with Welsh midfielder He opened his account from the penalty spot Kenwyne Jones put Stoke back in front, but Chelsea’s new-look side that gelled, restricting shootout. Ramsey firing their best effort wide just past the Leroy Fer was adjudjed to have brought down Olly Lee levelled again before Birmingham’s the hosts to a few sights of goal while consis- Arsenal and Chelsea reminded everyone of hour. Adnan Januzaj and then scored with a header at resistance was ended in the shootout. tently threatening on the break and finding the the League Cup’s standing in the list of priorities Arsenal’s Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil was the second attempt 10 minutes into the second West Ham toiled against Championship (sec- net through Spaniards Cesar Azpilicueta and by making 18 changes between them from their summoned from the bench to inject creativity in half. Defender Phil Jones rifled in a third after 88 ond division) leaders Burnley but took the lead in Juan Mata. teams that played in the league at the weekend. the second half but within seconds of his intro- minutes and fullback Fabio put the icing on the the 76th minute when Jason Shackell fouled It was a difficult night for Wenger, who Wenger fielded a strong midfield with Aaron duction Chelsea doubled their lead through cake when he controlled a lofted ball from Kevin Nolan in the area and Taylor fired home. enjoyed a simmering feud with the Chelsea boss Ramsey, Santi Cazorla and Jack Wilshere mar- Mata. Wayne Rooney and steered home in injury time. Keith Treacy was sent off for hosts Burnley for during the Portuguese’s first spell in the Premier shalling the centre circle, but they struggled to The mercurial Spaniard, who has been on the The match was soured by an injury to a stoppage-time foul on Collison who then got League with the West London side and has now make an impact as Chelsea sat back, soaked up fringes of Mourinho’s first-choice team all season, Norwich’s Scotland midfielder Robert Snodgrass up to score from the resulitng spot kick and wrap not beaten Mourinho in nine attempts. the pressure and looked to hit the hosts on the collected the ball on the edge of the area, con- who was taken to hospital after a clash of heads up the victory. Manchester United will also be in the draw for counter. trolled it neatly and then unleashed a rasping in the second half. Four-times League Cup winners Tottenham the last eight after overcoming Norwich City 4-0 Mourinho’s side got their reward after 25 min- right foot drive into the net. Fulham looked to have earned a reprieve Hotspur host Hull City late yesterday in a with two goals from Mexican Javier Hernandez, utes when a swift Chelsea break ended with “The win is very important for our confidence; against Leicester when Giorgos Karagounis repeat of their weekend Premier League fix- but there was an upset for Premier League Azpilicueta nipping in to intercept a poor header after beating Manchester City and now Arsenal made it 3-3 in the 87th minute but Lloyd Dyer ture and Newcastle United welcome Fulham who lost 4-3 at second tier Leicester City. back by Carl Jenkinson and poking the ball past this week, we feel strong because they are very slid in to win it two minutes later. Manchester City. — Reuters S Africa stun Pakistan SCOREBOARD Ghosal makes history for India SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates: Complete in squash World Championship SHARJAH: South Africa staged a remarkable come- scoreboard of the first day-night international back to turn what seemed certain defeat into a one- between Pakistan and South Africa at Sharjah sta- MANCHESTER: Saurav Ghosal on In particular he was able to make the run win over Pakistan in the first day-night interna- dium yesterday: Wednesday became the first Indian ball cling better and became tighter tional in Sharjah yesterday. South Africa: squash player to reach the quarter-finals with his drops, although it remained a Pakistan, chasing a modest 184 to win, were cruis- of the World Championships, overcom- well-contested match between two ing along nicely at 165-4 but lost their last six wickets C. Ingram c Umar b Irfan 0 G. Smith st Umar b Ajmal 20 ing a two-game deficit and considerable light-footed, nimble men whose ability for just 17 runs off 39 balls to be bowled out for 182 J. Duminy c Amin b Tanvir 20 pressure to achieve it. both to attack and defend well pro- in 46.3 overs. F. du Plessis lbw b Ajmal 12 The 27-year-old Kolkata-born, Leeds- duced some long and entertaining ral- It looked all over with Umar Amin (20) and Umar AB de Villiers c and b Ajmal 4 Akmal (18) at the crease but leg-spinner Imran Tahir D. Miller c and b Afridi 37 based world number 17 looked for half lies. (3-45) dismissed Umar, Shahid Afridi (nine) and R. McLaren c and b Afridi 8 an hour as though he was going to miss Ghosal finished the match with a Wahab Riaz (zero) in succsessive overs to leave W. Parnell c Shehzad b Ajmal 56 his great chance, playing with rare inhi- rush, taking eight points in a row from 3- Pakistan struggling for the last seven runs. M. Morkel lbw b Afridi 4 bition against Henrik Mustonen, an 2, three times creating clingers which L. Tsotsobe not out 16 unseeded Finn, and looking unable to forced Mustonen to hit down, and doing Last man Mohammad Irfan and Saeed Ajmal Imran Tahir c Riaz b Tanvir 1 added five runs before Morne Morkel (2-23) bowled Extras: (lb1, w 4) 5 throw off the emotional shackles. damage with boasts, angles and drops. Irfan to send his team into an unexpected but fren- Imran Tahir Total: (all out; 49.5 overs) 183 But when Ghosal did that, he showed When his final winner had been zied celebration, much to the dismay of the 15,000 When South Africa batted after winning the toss, Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Ingram), 2-38 (Duminy), 3-48 an ability to mix creative skills with a struck Ghosal did a mighty leap and crowd who came to see Pakistan win. they could never recover from the early loss of open- (Smith), 4-54 (du Plessis), 5-63 (De Villiers), 6-86 tight straight game which made it hard swung an uppercut punch in celebra- (McLaren), 7-125 (Miller), 8-129 (Morkel), It was man-of-the-match Wayne Parnell who er Colin Ingram, caught off Irfan’s second ball of the to attack him. He eventually controlled tion. “I had to dig in super, super, super starred with both bat and ball, hitting a career best 56 9-181 (Parnell) innings for nought. Bowling: Irfan 10-1-35-1 (3w), Tanvir 9.5-1-33-2, Ajmal the second half of the match during a 5- deep to grind that out,” he told the before taking 3-41 in his eight overs. Ajmal then rocked the South African batting, 10-2-30-4, Riaz 6-0-24-0 (w1), Hafeez 5-0-23-0, Afridi 9- 11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-4, 11-2 victory. crowd. For Pakistan off-spinner Ajmal (4-30) was well sup- dimissing Graeme Smith (20), Faf du Plessis (12) and 1-37-3 “Definitely in my head there was a lit- “I thought you dug deeper than that,” ported by leg-spinner Afridi (3-37) as South Africa skipper AB de Villiers (four) in his first spell of six overs. tle bit of pressure,” Ghosal admitted. quipped the master of ceremonies. were bowled out in the final over. The win gives Afridi then jolted South Africa further by taking Pakistan: “Thinking that if I win I would make his- Ghosal will be hard put to progress fur- South Africa a 1-0 lead in the five-match series with Ryan McLaren (eight), David Miller (37) and Morkel Nasir Jamshed c Miller b Morkel 0 Ahmed Shehzad c Smith b Parnell 58 tory.