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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2019 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU South Africa outplay Afghanistan by Indian men's recurve team settles nine wickets for first win in World Cup CARDIFF, June 16: massive role if you win those for silver in Archery World C'ships games. So we need Hashim to DEN BOSCH (THE Asian Games individual silver with a score of 51 with Rai slipping Leggie Imran Tahir starred in score runs for us, hence he need- NETHERLANDS), June 16: medallist, said. to the outer 7-circle to trail 1-3 at South Africa's impressive bowl- ed a not-out innings today." The men's recurve team, who the midway stage. ing performance over Sent into bat, Afghanistan The Indian men's recurve team had slumped to number 17 in rank- Needing a 10 to seal the issue Afghanistan, leading the Proteas were slow and steady to reach 69 cracked under pressure against ings from being number one in in the third set, Ding narrowly to their first win of the World Cup for two at the end of the 20th over China to settle for a silver in the May 2011, had also surprised missed the inner ring for a 56-56 here and keeping them alive in when rain came for the second Archery World Championships everyone by sealing the Olympic draw that kept India's hopes alive. the tournament. time and when play resumed after here today. quota place ahead of the fancied India needed a win in the Tahir (4/29) triggered a one-hour break, they lost four Seeking a maiden gold in the women's team. fourth set to take the match into the Afghanistan's dramatic batting quick wickets for the addition of World Championships, India led This was also for the first time shoot-off but the nerves got on to collapse which saw them being just eight runs. 27-26 midway into the first set but since 2014 that the Indian men's them as the trio ended with three bundled out for 125 in 34.1 overs They were reduced to 77 for the trio of Tarundeep Rai, Atanu team made the final of a world 8s, while the Chinese shot three from 56 for one in the 16th over. seven in the 26th over, losing five Das and Pravin Jadhav let the event. India had ended up with a 10s to take the fourth set 57-52 and South Africa, in another rain wickets in the space of 4.4 overs. opportunity slip later in the sum- silver at the Wroclaw Stage IV seal the gold by a distance. affected tie that was reduced to 48 The Afghanistan innings was mit clash. World Cup in 2014 with Rai being The silver and two bronze at overs a side after the second inter- also halted for 25 minutes in the The Chinese team of Ding a member of the team, alongside the 2019 World Championships ruption, chased down the paltry sixth over due to rain. After the Yiliang, Wei Shaoxuan and Feng Das and Jayanta Talukdar. took India's overall count to eight target in 28.1 overs with openers second rain interruption, the Hao produced a solid and consis- Describing this as a break- medals in the premier biennial Quinton de Kock (68) and match was reduced to a 48-over tent performance as they capi- through moment for Indian men's competition. Hashim Amla (41 not out) shar- side with South Africa set a talised from the second set to seal recurve team, the 35-year-old The Indian women's recurve Kuldeep Yadav celebrates with teammates after taking wicket of Pakistani player Babar Azam during ing a 104-run stand. revised-target of 127. a 6-2 win. Army archer further said: "We team of Chekrovolu Swuro, World Cup 2019 match at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester on Sunday. (UNI) It was a much needed win for Morris chipped in with three India thus ended their cam- have struggled a lot since last four- Laishram Bombayla Devi and South Africa who had lost their first wickets while his pace colleagues paign with one silver and two five years. Putting us in question Deepika Kumari had won a silver three games before they shared a Andile Phehlukwayo and Kagiso bronze medals won in the mark can we win medals. in Turin 2011. Rohit, Kuldeep ensure India maintain point with the West Indies follow- Rabada took two and one wicket women's compound team and "This time we could proved At Copenhagen 2015, India ing a washout. For Afghanistan, it respectively as the Afghans hard- individual events. them wrong and hope in future our had a memorable outing bagging was their fourth loss in as many ly put up any fight against the The men's recurve team was archers will come to win medals two silver medals -- one individual clean slate against Pakistan in World Cup games after another disappointing Proteas. featuring in the final of World and not just for participation." by Rajat Chauhan (men's com- Championships after a gap of 14 Up against the fifth seed China pound) and another in team by the MANCHESTER, June 16: Duckworth Lewis method. Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz batting performance. Phehlukwayo removed a South Africa captain Faf du struggling Hashmatullah Shahidi years. This was India's sixth silver who had upset top seed Korea in women's trio of Laxmirani Majhi, If Rohit pummelled a pedes- Ahmed erred in his decision mak- at the World Championships the semifinals, the Indian trio lost Rimil Buriuly and Deepika Rohit Sharma produced an trian Pakistan attack with a bril- ing throughout, first with team Plessis listed out the positives (8 off 22 balls) in the fourth ball from the game on Saturday. after the long rain interruption where the country is yet to win a the first set by a point as the scores Kumari. elegant hundred before Kuldeep liant 140 off 113 balls in India's selection and then by opting to gold medal. were levelled at 53-all. Two years ago in Mexico, the Yadav flummoxed the Pakistani 336 for five, Chinaman Yadav fieldf. The defensive approach "Morris (Chris) and Tahir before Tahir took two wickets in were fantastic in the middle overs the next over, dismissing well-set "Feeling good and also bad. It The young Chinese team spear- women's compound team of batsmen as India inflicted a (2/32) broke the rival batting spine throughout the game, also did not was a big chance for us. We have headed by 23-year-old Yiliang were Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Lily humiliating 89-run defeat on their by removing set batsmen Fakhar help his side. as they got wickets. He (Tahir) Noor Ali Zadran (32 off 58 balls) and Asghar Afghan (0) in the won so many silver medals (at at its best in the second set where Chanu Paonam and Trisha Deb arch-rivals in a much-hyped Zaman (62) and Babar Azam (48) Knowing that rain could play has single handedly made us a space of five deliveries. World Championships) but we they shot four perfect 10s to score had a bagged a silver. (PTI) World Cup match, which eventu- in successive overs. spoilsport, they never took the strong team in the last two years Phehlukwayo then had have never won a gold. This time 58 out of 60 while India wobbled ally turned to be a lop-sided affair. The Indian vice-captain Duckworth-Lewis par score into with his ability to take wickets in Mohammad Nabi (1) in the next too, we could not able to convert Chasing a stiff 337-run target, scored his 24th ODI hundred - 140 account, letting India bowlers dic- the middle overs. Naturally over before Tahir got his third this into a gold," rued Rai, who Pakistan were already down and off 113 balls while KL Rahul (57) tate the terms. Quinton plays quite freely but it was important for him to see off wicket of the day in the 26th over was also a member the men's out when rain stopped play after played the perfect second fiddle in It was a match where two wrists in the form of captain Gulbadin recurve team that last won a silver 35 overs. They had managed just an opening partnership of 137 -- Rohit's supple wrists and the new ball," he said. "It was important for Amla to Naib (5) to leave Afghanistan at Madrid 2005. 166 runs for loss of six wickets , runs. Kuldeep's power -- won it for India. innings in disarray. Rai, along with Jayanta nowhere near the DLS par-score Skipper Virat Kohli switched The old adage ‘Revenge is a get amongst the runs, he will be important for us in the upcoming It was number nine and top- Talukdar and Gautam Singh, had of 252. gears effortlessly during his 77 off dish best served cold' couldn't have scorer Rashid Khan who delayed lost to Korea 232-244 in the final When play resumed, the 65 balls and also became the been more apt in cold and wet games. In the next four games, net run rate is not going to play a the end of Afghanistan innings of World Championship in Madrid match was reduced to 40 overs quickest to 11,000 ODI runs, Manchester evening as 'Men In with a 25-ball 35. 2005. with a revised target of 302, which eclipsing a 17-year record held by Blue' exacted the revenge of the Indian men's junior He stitched a 34-run stand "But we have learnt so many meant that Pakistan required 136 iconic Sachin Tendulkar.