SPORT 17 Pakistan Captain We Played Good Cricket but TODAY’S ACTION Sarfaraz Ahmed Haven’T Qualified
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SATURDAY 6 JULY 2019 SPORT 17 Pakistan captain We played good cricket but TODAY’S ACTION Sarfaraz Ahmed haven’t qualified. That one game Sri Lanka vs India Australia vs South Africa After narrowly missing against West Indies cost us the Match No: 44 Match No: 45 tournament. out on the semi-finals. Yorkshire Cricket Ground, Leeds Old Trafford, Manchester 12.30pm Qatar time 3.30pm Qatar time Marquez eyes magnificent seven in Germany AFP MOTOGP WORLD Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez rides during the second free practice session SACHSENRING, GERMANY CHAMPIONSHIP ahead of the Moto GP Grand Prix Germany at the Sachsenring Circuit in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Marquez STANDINGS eastern Germany, yesterday. Marc Marquez heads into this weekend’s German MotoGP 1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 160pts quickest aiming for a little bit of history 2. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 116 as he looks to rack up his seventh successive MotoGP win 3. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati) 108 in practice 4. Alex Rins (ESP/Suzuki) 101 at Sachsenring. AFP The 26-year-old Spaniard, 5. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 72 SACHSENRING who leads the championship 6. Fabio Quartararo (FRA/Yamaha- standings by 44 points, took SRT) 67 Championship leader Marc Marquez pole and won in Germany in his again showed his mastery of the Sach- 7. Maverick Vinales (ESP/Yamaha) 65 first season in MotoGP back in senring circuit to clock the quickest 2013 and he has done the 8. Jack Miller (AUS/Ducati-Pramac) 60 time in yesterday’s practice ahead of double in every edition since. 9. Pol Espargaro (ESP/KTM) 52 tomorrow’s German Grand Prix. “We now arrive at one of my 10. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda- The Spaniard, who has won every favourite tracks,” Marquez told LCR) 51 edition of this race since 2013, ran his Honda team website. second behind Frenchman Fabio His remarkable record at Quartararo during the morning session the circuit actually stretches we have to keep working hard.” In his place comes test rider Maverick Vinales who cruised “The good thing is that now but turned things around in the back even further since when Marquez has won four of the Stefan Bradl. The 29-year-old to a comfortable win in Assen. we go straight to the Sach- afternoon. he has also won once in 125cc eight rounds so far in the cham- German rider has already raced Yamaha have some con- senring and we can immediately Marquez almost crashed his (2010) and twice in Moto2 (2011, pionship as he goes in search of once this year, in Jerez where cerns, however, over the form work on another GP weekend.” Honda on his first lap but after coming 2012). A win on Sunday would a sixth world title in seven years he finished 10th, and has twice of seven-time champion Val- Ducati also announced on out of the pits on soft rear tyres, he give him the perfect 10. - he missed out to his then finished in the top five at the entino Rossi who has crashed Thursday that Petrucci had went on to post a fastest time of 1min “Everyone says I am the Yamaha team-mate Jorge Sachsenring while riding a out of the last three races. extended his deal with the 20.705sec. That left him 0.341 seconds favourite because I won in the Lorenzo in 2015. Honda in 2012 and 2013. “This is not a positive time Italians until the end of next ahead of Suzuki’s Alex Rins who was past few years, but this sport is The pair are now spear- The Hondas can expect a for us,” said the 40-year-old season. marginally quicker than a disap- unpredictable and everyone heading the Honda challenge serious challenge from the Rossi. “In this first half of the pointed and disgruntled Quartararo. said the same in Austin (US but Lorenzo will be missing Ducatis of Andrea Dovizioso “The end to the race in season we were able to progres- The 20-year-old, who took pole Grand Prix) and I crashed,” said from Sachsenring after frac- and Danilo Petrucci, who are Assen was a real shame because sively increase our competi- in Assen last weekend, was impeded Marquez. turing a vertabrae during second and third respectively I felt good after the warm-up. I tiveness, taking two podiums by his own Yamaha teammate Franco “Past results don’t mean a practice ahead of last weekend’s in the championship standings, was fast but instead ended up and an unforgettable win,” said Morbidelli as he looked set to improve lot once we start on Friday so Dutch GP in Assen. as well as the Yamaha of with another zero. the 28-year-old. on Rins’ time. Tour de France: New generation ready to deliver AP BRUSSELS Yellow jersey No matter who wins, this year’s Tour de France will see celebrates a changing of the guard. And if the names of Wout 100 years Van Aert, Kasper Asgreen, Enric Mas or Caleb Ewan REUTERS don’t ring a bell for now, they BRUSSELS Scott Piercy reacts after a putt might soon be on everybody’s during the first round of the lips. Winning any Tour de France stage is a 3M Open. In the absence of many milestone in any cyclist’s career but to do stalwart riders who have so on the opening day of the annual three- stamped their mark on week trek comes with a very special bonus Piercy fires cycling’s marquee event in - the yellow jersey. recent years, new faces will Today’s Grand Depart in Brussels feels 62 to grab 3M emerge this summer. special enough anyway, coming 50 years There is a long list of top after the city’s most favourite sporting son Open lead riders missing the Tour, Eddie Merckx won the first of his five which starts today from Tours and 61 years after the race last AFP Brussels with a 194.5km stage started in the Belgian capital. BLAINE, UNITED STATES through Flanders and back to But when the top sprinters power the Belgian capital, including towards the city’s iconic Atomium at the American Scott Piercy caught four-time champion Chris end of the 194.5 km stage around Flanders The defending Tour de France champion, team INEOS rider Geraint fire on the back nine en route to Froome, who is missing out appearance to show off their they will do so knowing the overall maillot Thomas of Britain rides on a podium during the teams presentation, a nine-under 62 and a two-shot for the first time since 2011, skills and challenge the jaune is up for grabs. lead in the first round of the PGA 2018 runner-up Tom supremacy of their elders - at the Grand Place in Brussels ahead of the 106th edition of the race While it is the 106th edition of the Tour Tour’s 3M Open on Thursday. Dumoulin, Primoz Roglic, a starting today. which begins today. de France, this year marks the 100th anni- Piercy, who hasn’t won in 14 fourth-place finisher last The opening stage fea- versary of the what has become arguably months, finished his bogey-free year, former world champion tures two short climbs usually the most recognisable and fought-over round with a six-foot birdie putt Philippe Gilbert, ace sprinters taken during the one-day garment in sport. on the par-five 18th to pull Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel classic Ronde van Vlaanderen £ N It has been worn by the overall race ahead of Canada’s Adam and Fernando Gaviria. and a stretch of cobblestones leader since Henri Desgrange, editor of Hadwin and Hideki Matsuyama The generational change and also passes through Mer- !"#$%!&'(" )*+##,'$-'*(.$/+'00"-1'(#'+ L’Auto magazine, the publication that of Japan. is likely to be the most visible ckx’s childhood home. The ' ! 234 thought up the Tour, decided in July 1919 Hadwin and Matsuyama in the fight for the race day’s main difficulties come to act after complaints that the leader did both shot 64. leader’s yellow jersey, as too early to have a real impact : not stand out in the peloton. Piercy rolled in six birdies 22-year-old Egan Bernal on the final result, though, Inspired by a chat he had with sports & 5 4 ! over his final eight holes after seems ready to take over from and the stage is likely to end director Alphonse Bauge he went for a making the turn at the TPC Twin his leader at team Ineos, in a bunch sprint that could :; yellow jersey, similar to the colour of his Cities course in three-under. He defending champion Geraint award the first yellow jersey publication, and during a rest day in Gre- !6. 4"# also had a 30-foot putt for birdie Thomas. to a Tour debutant. noble Eugene Christophe, who had been on the par-four 16th. In the wake of an already The 24-year-old Ewan, ; in the lead since stage four, became the Hadwin birdied four straight successful season during who rides for Belgian outfit first rider to slip it on. 8 4$ holes among his final nine. He which he won the Paris-Nice Lotto-Soudal, is among an He was given half a dozen so that his made two putts from between and Tour de Suisse weeklong exciting group of competitors < support team could also wear them, 20 and 25 feet in his round. races, Bernal has been ele- that will try to derail three- helping him locate them, especially in the Brian Harman, Im Sung-jae, vated to a co-leader status time world champion Peter 1 9* 94 ! dark.