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MOTORCYCLING | Page 3 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 5 Spain’s Mourinho Marquez off to a winning storms to pole start with in Germany Man United Sunday, July 17, 2016 CRICKET Shawwal 12, 1437 AH Frustrated Amir GULF TIMES badly let down by fumbling fi elders SPORT Page 2 CYCLING Cavendish streaks home again to excel on comeback AFP same as the jury,” complained Kittel, Villars-les-Dombes, France 28. The German took fi fth with Nor- way’s Alexander Kristoff in second and ark Cavendish’s revival Peter Sagan of Slovakia third. was complete yesterday Kristoff had no complaints about as the Briton won his 30th the result. Tour de France stage in a “Cavendish is really aero and fast, so Mhigh-speed sprint fi nish. I knew that he would be diffi cult to beat The 31-year-old Briton took the 14th today,” he said. stage from Montelimar to Parc des Oi- “I’m happy to fi nish second but for seaux in a dominant performance for sure I was hoping to win. Cavendish is his fourth stage victory at this Tour just faster right now.” alone. Briton Chris Froome maintained the And while many have suggested it race leader’s yellow jersey after fi nish- has been track training ahead of next ing safely in the pack ahead of Sunday’s month’s Olympics that has been be- mountainous stage. England’s Chris Woakes celebrates taking the wicket of Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed at Lord’s yesterday. He has taken 11 wickets in the match so far. hind his return to form, Cavendish Dutchman Bauke Mollema remains points out greater maturity as the main second at 1min 47sec with another CRICKET diff erence. Brit, Adam Yates, third at 2:45. “I’ve been refreshed by riding on the Many people believed Cavend- track again but the key point is that I’m ish’s best years were behind him after more patient than last year,” he said. he won just three Tour stages over the “We’ve seen it today: following my previous three years, having tasted instinct, I would have jumped earlier victory 23 times in the fi ve years prior but when I saw Marcel Kittel taking to that. the lead with only four guys two kilo- Kittel and fellow German Andre metres before the end, I understood it Greipel had been the dominant sprint- Pak in command would kill him ultimately. ers at the Tour from 2012 to last year, “I just had to wait for him to lose Griepel winning four stages last year some speed.” and three in 2012. Step by step, the Manx Missile is But Cavendish showed once again creeping up on Belgian legend Eddy that even after being written off , he Merckx and the all-time record of 34 still remains the man to beat. stage wins. A four-man breakaway got go- But for a man who was written off in ing 30km into the stage but the riders despite Woakes’ many quarters after seeing chief Ger- themselves rode like they knew their man rival Kittel eclipse him, Cavendish eff orts would be doomed to failure. proved perhaps once and for all that he In one sense, it was merely an exer- is the greatest sprinter of all time. cise in trying to put Friday’s mournful The long, straight fi nish at the bird atmosphere behind them following the sanctuary at Villars-les-Dombes Nice terror attack that killed at least 84 seemed tailor-made for the big, pow- people. erful Kittel, a winner of four stages at The four had a lead of 4min 30sec at bowling heroics both the 2013 and 2014 editions of the one point but the peloton kept them on Tour. a tight leash. Yet Cavendish darted out from be- But once the gap dropped to under a Misbah goes for duck in second innings; Yasir belts unbeaten 30 hind Kittel’s wheel and streaked past minute, the peloton eased up a touch, him to take a clear win. mindful of not catching the escapees He swerved a touch at the end and too soon and encouraging a counter- AFP Sarfraz Ahmed (45) and Shah frus- wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow, going four high over deep square leg. Kittel sat up shaking his fi st in frus- attack out of the bunch. London trated England in a seventh-wicket to his right, to drop the chance as the “I apologised to him (Finn), be- tration, but in truth he had been well American Alex Howes was fi rst to stand of 40. ball hit his wrist. cause I came on and picked up a cou- beaten. drop from the front four, followed by Both batsmen were dropped off the Fortunately for England, it was ple of cheap ones (wickets) — and The race jury deliberated for a short Cesare Benedetti of Italy. asir Shah made a useful un- luckless Steven Finn as the fast bowl- not too costly a miss with Woakes he’d bowled really well and deserved time, but then decided Cavendish had Frenchman Jeremy Roy and Martin beaten 30 after starring with er went wicketless on his Middlesex producing even simpler chances a couple if not more,” said Woakes. done nothing wrong. Elmiger of Switzerland held on until the ball to leave Pakistan home ground. that Bairstow held to get rid of both Pakistan were 40 for one at lunch “His action infl uenced the result. 3.5km to go, sharing a handshake when well-placed come stumps on Shah was on two when he chipped the gritty Ahmed and Wahab Riaz but they lost opener Shan Masood Whatever I think is fair cannot be the the game was up. Ythe third day of an intriguing fi rst Test Finn and a diving Stuart Broad just (nought). soon afterwards when the left- against England at Lord’s yesterday. failed to cling on to a tough low But Finn knew it wasn’t his day hander, once more fallible outside off Pakistan were 214 for eight in their chance at mid-off . when Shah, promoted from his stump, fl at-footedly edged Woakes second innings at the close, a lead of Ahmed should have been out for 36 first-innings spot of No 11, went to England captain Alastair Cook at Cavendish celebrates his 281 runs, after leg-spinner Shah took when Finn took the outside only for down on one knee to hoist him for fi rst slip. victory in the 14th stage of the six for 72 in England’s fi rst innings Azhar Ali (23) then fell lbw to a Tour de France yesterday. 272. desperately tight umpire’s call as But at stumps he was shaking SCOREBOARD Woakes reduced Pakistan to 59 for hands with Chris Woakes after the three. Warwickshire all-rounder had taken Pakistan 1st Innings 339: Pakistan 2nd Innings: Misbah, in his maiden Test knock fi ve for 31 to follow the his Test-best (Misbah-ul-Haq114, Asad Shafiq 73; Mohamed Hafeez c Root b Broad 0 at Lord’s, had made 114 in Pakistan’s haul of six for 70 in Pakistan’s fi rst in- C Woakes 6-70, S Broad 3-71) Shan Masood c Cook b Woakes 24 fi rst innings. nings 339. England 1st Innings: (overnight: 253-7) Azhar Ali lbw b Woakes 23 But yesterday, he fell for nought Woakes, only recalled to Test duty A. Cook b Mohamed Amir 81 Younis Khan b Ali 25 when he heaved off -spinner Moeen after fellow all-rounder Ben Stokes A. Hales c Azhar Ali b Rahat Ali 6 Misbah-ul-Haq c Hales b Ali 0 Ali legside and Alex Hales, running was injured during the preceding Sri J. Root c Hafeez b Yasir Shah 48 Asad Shafiq b Woakes 49 round to the mid-wicket rope, held a Lanka series, now had an overall re- J. Vince lbw b Yasir Shah 16 Sarfraz Ahmed c Bstow b Woakes 45 good catch. turn of 11 for 101 — the fi rst time he G. Ballance lbw b Yasir Shah 6 Yasir Shah not out 30 Pakistan had never previously lost had taken at least 10 wickets in a Test J. Bairstow b Yasir Shah 29 Wahab Riaz c Bairstow b Woakes 0 a Test when Misbah had made a hun- match. M. Ali lbw b Yasir Shah 23 Mohamed Amir not out 0 dred and never won one when he had It also made him the fi rst England C. Woakes not out 35 Extras: (b6, lb11, nb1) 18 made a duck but one of those records bowler to take fi ve wickets in each in- S. Broad b Wahab Riaz 17 Total: (8 wkts, 77 overs, 343 mins) 214 was now under threat. nings of a Lord’s Test since all-round S. Finn lbw b Yasir Shah 5 Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Hafeez), 2-44 The unsettled Younis Khan played great Ian Botham did so against New J. Ball run out (Shan Masood/ (Masood), 3-59 (Azhar) 4-60 (Misbah), on to Ali for 25 two balls after driving Zealand in 1978. Wahab Riaz) 4 5-129 (Younis), 6-168 (Shafiq), 7-208 him for four. England now need to at least equal Extras: (nb2) 2 (Ahmed), 8-214 (Riaz) Asad Shafi q struck a well-made their record fourth-inning score to Total: (all out, 79.1 overs, 358 mins) 272 Bowling: Broad 18-6-38-1; Ball 16-7-37-0; 49 before,in sight of his second fi fty win a Test at Lord’s of 282 for three Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Hales), 2-118 (Root), Finn 13-4-42-0; Woakes 17-6-31-5; Ali 13-3- of the match, he was bowled by a against New Zealand in 2004 if they 3-139 (Vince), 4-147 (Ballance), 5-173 49-2 (1nb) Woakes ‘trimmer’.