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SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2020 SPORTSPORT 17 RUGBY CRICKET You aim at improving your figures but the beauty of Test Cricket is that you don't always break records. Other team also comes to play and it SIX NATIONS: Ireland New Zealand vs India in was unlucky that the last man got run out but it's always a team game: vs Wales in Dublin, Auckland (2nd ODI) Pakistani paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi after taking four wickets Scotland vs England in Pakistan vs Bangladesh ACTION Edinburgh in Rawalpindi (1st Test) against Bangladesh on the opening day of the first Test in Rawalpindi TODAY’S 29th Qatar International Arabian Horse Show begins The team members of Amir Al Reeh, the winner of the 3 Years Old Colts (Class 3) event on the opening day of the 29th Qatar International Arabian Horse Show, posing for a photograph after the presentation ceremony at the Longines Arena at Al Shaqab, in Doha, yesterday. The two day event is organised by the Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club. Stone powers Bucks avenge earlier loss to 76ers Knights past REUTERS — MIAMI points and 10 assists to help host Panthers Portland stage a come-from- Giannis Antetokounmpo behind victory over San REUTERS — NEW YORK collected 36 points, 20 rebounds Antonio. and six assists as the host Carmelo Anthony had 20 Mark Stone scored two goals Milwaukee Bucks avenged a points and eight rebounds, and and added three assists, Christmas Day loss to the Phil- CJ McCollum added 19 points as leading the Vegas Golden adelphia 76ers with a 112-101 the Trail Blazers won for the Knights to a 7-2 win over the victory on Thursday. sixth time in eight games. Gary Florida Panthers on Thursday The reigning NBA MVP has Trent Jr. matched his career best night in Sunrise, Fla. recorded five consecutive of six 3-pointers for all 18 of his Max Pacioretty added two games of at least 30 points, 16 points, and Hassan Whiteside goals and one assist for Vegas. rebounds and six assists for the matched his season best of 23 Marc-Andre Fleury made Bucks, who improved to 17-2 rebounds to go with 17 points 23 saves to earn his 460th since dropping a 121-109 and four blocked shots. career win, passing Henrik decision to Philadelphia. It New Orleans Pelicans 125 Lundqvist of the New York marked Antetokounmpo’s first Chicago Bulls 119 Rangers for fifth place on the career game with at least 35 Rookie Zion Williamson NHL’s all-time list. points and 20 rebounds. scored 21 points, and JJ Redick Stone, who has 20 goals, Antetokounmpo struggled came off the bench to add 18 as leads the Knights in assists (33) mightily in the previous visiting New Orleans defeated and points (53). Nate Schmidt matchup against the 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) plays for the ball against Houston Rockets forward Chicago. and Shea Theodore added a shooting a season-worst 29.6 P.J. Tucker (17) during the second half of their NBA games at Staples Center on Thursday. All-Star forward Brandon goal and an assist apiece, and percent from the field (8 of 27) Ingram scored 15 points in 21 Jonathan Marchessault also and misfiring on all seven minutes before going to the scored for Vegas. 3-point attempts during his 41 points and Robert Covington Covington made a pair of from the Minnesota Timber- New Orleans bench for good Vincent Trocheck regis- 18-point performance. added 14 as Houston’s small- big 3-pointers in the last three wolves on Tuesday. midway through the third tered a goal and an assist, and Houston Rockets 121 Los ball lineup proved effective minutes while making his Portland Trail Blazers 125 quarter as a precaution after Mike Hoffman also had a goal Angeles Lakers 111 again in a road victory over Los Rockets debut after he was San Antonio Spurs 117 spraining his right ankle in the for the Panthers. Jonathan Russell Westbrook scored Angeles. acquired in a four-team trade Damian Lillard registered 26 second quarter. Huberdeau, Florida’s first-time All-Star this year, had two assists. The Panthers were without their captain, center Canada’s Taylor grabs Pebble Beach Pro-Am lead Aleksander Barkov, due to a lower-body injury. Barkov skated in practice on Thursday AFP — SAN FRANCISCO day. “So hit two great shots more than satisfied despite and may be ready to face the there (to) about four feet, I three bogeys. “I drove the Pittsburgh Penguins on Canada’s Nick Taylor made eagle, so it was a nice ball well. I had a lot of short Saturday. launched his round with an start. irons coming into the Brian Boyle (upper-body eagle and capped it with two “And then I think I greens,” he said. injury) and defenseman Mac- birdies to seize the first- almost hit every fairway “I played the par-5s good Kenzie Weegar (ill) were also round lead in the Pebble today, so I really had good on the front and then made out for Florida. Sergei Beach Pro-Am on Thursday numbers coming into a lot that bogey there on 14 and Bobrovsky, who saved 23 of with an eight-under par 63. of greens, had chances, got a little mud. But all in all, the 29 shots he faced, took the Taylor, chasing his made some nice putts in the played really well, made loss. He was removed with second US PGA Tour title, middle of my round to kind some putts, and I’m really 11:07 left in the game, imme- didn’t put a foot wrong on of keep it going and fin- happy with the start.” diately following the goal by the par-71 Shore Course at ished two great shots, a Seiffert had an eagle and Marchessault, who is a former Monterey Peninsula, one of five-iron and three-iron on four birdies in a bogey-free Panthers winger. Sam Mon- three in use over the first the last two holes to set up effort at Pebble Beach, tembeault entered and saved three rounds along with the two birdies there. where the tournament con- nine of 10 shots. The game was par-72 Pebble Beach Golf “So tee to green was cludes on Sunday. tied 1-1 after the first period. Nick Taylor of Canada plays his shot from the Links and par-72 Spyglass great and made some putts.” A group of eight players Stone rebounded his own shot sixth tee during the during the first round of Hill. Americans Patrick Cantlay on five-under included to give Vegas the lead at 2:15, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at Monterey “I drove it really nice and Chase Seiffert shared Charley Hoffman, who holed and Florida tied the score on Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, today,” Taylor said. “Obvi- second on six-under. out from the fairway for an a power-play goal by Hoffman California on Thursday. ously, playing 10 it’s a get- Cantlay had nine birdies eagle at the fourth hole at at 16:22, thanks to a brilliant table par-five to start the at Spyglass Hill and was Spyglass Hill. pass from Trocheck. Scotland and England in search of Calcutta Cup revival AFP — EDINBURGH England were denied the early Sometimes these things need to worst enemies yet again in a try that has been a hallmark of be learned.” 19-12 loss to Ireland in Dublin. Passion is guaranteed when many of their recent wins, New Zealand-born Heinz, New captain Stuart Hogg Scotland play England but it notably the impressive semi- who missed the World Cup final encapsulated their performance may take more than raw final victory over New Zealand, with a hamstring injury after when he inexplicably dropped emotion to secure a win in the by France in Paris. only making his Test debut the ball with a try at his mercy. latest edition of rugby union’s The French did rather more months earlier, finds himself, at Finn Russell, the inspiration oldest international match. than that, surging into a 17-0 33, preferred to Youngs, Eng- for Scotland’s 25-13 win over In the build-up to today’s lead and although England land’s most-capped England at Murrayfield in 2018 fixture at Murrayfield, the latest fought back through two Jonny scrum-half. and their stunning recovery chapter in a 149-year-old May tries, Les Bleus deservedly “You want to start well but from 31-0 down in a 38-38 rivalry, Scotland centre Sam won 24-17. equally so do the opposition,” draw at Twickenham last year, Johnson declared “no one likes England have lost five of Heinz said. “It’s about riding remains in the cold. England”, a sentiment the their last seven Six Nations through that and finding ways The fly-half was left out of Queensland-born player would away games and coach Eddie to get the momentum back.” the Ireland match following a have been familiar with Jones has responded by making Jones, perhaps influenced late-night drinking session. growing up in Australia. five changes to his starting side, by new forwards coach Matt Adam Hastings, the son of Meanwhile England flanker notably dropping experienced England’s prop Kyle Sinckler takes part in the captain’s run training Proudfoot, who was with Scotland great Gavin, continues Lewis Ludlam, who had never scrum-half Ben Youngs and session at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, yesterday. South Africa at the World Cup, at stand-off.