SPORT 21 No, No, There Is Clarity, but Certain Things Cannot Be Said BCCI President S Ganguly FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Tries to Clear the Air on the on Public Platform
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SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 2019 SPORT 21 No, no, there is clarity, but certain things cannot be said BCCI President S Ganguly FOOTBALL FOOTBALL tries to clear the air on the on public platform. There is Premier League Premier League future of MS Dhoni. absolute clarity on MS Dhoni Norvich vs Arsenal Leicester vs Everton and you’ll find out in time. ACTION Wolves vs Sheffield Utd Man United vs Aston Villa TODAY’S Test cricket’s highest run scorers Australia’s batsman David Warner All-time high Test cricket scores by batsmen after Australia’s David Warner en- celebrates reaching his triple century tered the top 10 with an unbeaten 335 against Pakistan in Adelaide yesterday. (300 runs) during day two of the second Test match between Australia 400* - Brian Lara (WIS), and Pakistan in Adelaide yesterday. West Indies v England, St John’s, 2004 380 - Matthew Hayden (AUS), Australia v Zimbabwe, Perth, 2003 375 - Brian Lara (WIS), West Indies v England, St John’s, 1994 374 - DPMD Jayawardene (SRI), Sri Lanka v South Africa, Colombo, 2006 365* - Gary Sobers (WIS), West Indies v Pakistan, Kingston, 1958 364 - Len Hutton (ENG), England v Australia, The Oval, 1938 340 - Sanath Jayasuriya (SRI), Sri Lanka v India, Colombo, 1997 337 - Hanif Mohammad (PAK), Pakistan v West Indies, Bridgetown, 1958 NOT OUT 336 - Wally Hammond (ENG), 335 England v New Zealand, Auckland, 1933 335* - David Warner (AUS), Australia v Pakistan, Adelaide, 2019 * Signifies not out Warner shatters record as SCOREBOARD New Zealand (I innings) 5-191, 6-315, 7-330, 8-357, 9-375, 10-375 J Raval c Root b Broad ..........................5 Bowling: Broad 28-7-73-4, Archer 28-8- T Latham b Broad .............................105 75-1, Woakes 31-6-83-3, Curran 23 1-7- Pakistan suffer in Adelaide K Williamson c Root b Woakes ...........4 63-2, Root 3-0-14-0, Stokes 13-5-36-0, R Taylor c Root b Woakes ..................53 Denly 3-0-13-0 AFP SCOREBOARD his 81st Test, he reached 200 H Nicholls c Broad b Curran ...............16 England (I innings) ADELAIDE with a single from Afridi, having B Watling c Burns b Broad ................55 R Burns (batting) .................................24 Australia (I innings) Pakistan (I innings) clattered 23 fours along the way. D Mitchell c Archer b Broad ............... 73 D Sibley lbw Southee ........................... 4 An irrepressible David Warner J Burns c Rizwan b Afridi .....................4 S Masood c Paine b Hazlewood ........19 Pakistan thought they finally smashed an unbeaten 335 D Warner (batting) ............................335 Imam-ul-Haq c Warner b Starc ............2 had him out on 226 when he was M Santner c Woakes b Archer ........... 23 J Denly c Watling b Henry .....................4 yesterday while Steve Smith M Labuschagne b Afridi ...................162 A Ali c Smith b Cummins ......................9 caught in the gully off debutant T Southee c Pope b Woakes .............. 18 J Root (batting) .....................................6 became the fastest man to 7,000 S Smith c Rizwan b Afridi ...................36 A Shafiq c Paine b Starc .......................9 Musa, only for their heads to M Henry (not out) ..................................5 Extras: (LB1)........................................... 1 Test runs as Australia took M Wade (batting) ...............................38 B Azam (not out) ................................43 drop when it was called a N Wagner c Sibley b Curran................. 0 Total: (two wkts) ......................... 39 control of the day-night second no-ball. Extras: (B15, LB3) ...............................18 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-24 Test against Pakistan. Extras (LB6, NB7, W1) .......................14 I Ahmed c Paine b Starc .....................10 Warner made them pay, Total: (all out; 129 1 overs) ........375 Bowling: Southee, 8-1-24-1, Henry 7-3- Skipper Tim Paine waved his Total (3 wkts dec;) ....................589 M Rizwan c Paine b Starc .....................0 passing his previous highest Test players back into the pavilion at Fall of wickets: 1-8 , 2-369, 3-490 Y Shah (not out) .....................................4 score of 253, set in Perth in 2015, Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-39, 3-155, 4-182, 10-1, Wagner 2-0-3-0,Mitchell 1-0-1-0 589 for three ahead of the second Did not bat: Travis Head, Tim Paine, Pat Extras .....................................................0 before reaching a triple century day’s dinner break with Warner Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Total (six wickets; 35 overs) ................96 off 389 balls to join an elite club. on the 10th highest Test score Josh Hazlewood Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-22, 3-38, 4-69, He raced to 335, one more ever, also a personal best. than former captain Mark Tay- The decision to declare Bowling: Abbas 29-7-100-0, Afridi 30-5- 5-89, 6-89 lor’s epic 334 against Pakistan in deprived him of a crack at Brian 88-3, Musa 20-1-114-0, Yasir 32-1-197-0, Bowling: Starc 13-5-22-4, Hazlewood 1998 and Donald Bradman’s 334 Lara’s all-time high 400 not out, Ahmed 15-0-75-0, Azhar 1-0-9-0 8-2-29-1, Cummins 14-1-45-1 against England in 1930, before but it proved to be the right one Paine decided to unleash his with the Australian bowlers -- who had a rare failure in the got a breakthrough. bowlers, conscious that periodic England’s quickly tearing through Paki- first Test at Brisbane -- shattered Skipper Azhar Ali took the rain is forecast for the next two batsman Joe stan’s hapless top order under a record that had stood since new ball and Afridi clean- days. Root fails to the Adelaide Oval lights. 1946. bowled Labuschagne as he Exhausted, Warner was play a shot on They finished in deep trouble He took a single off attempted a drive, just as he and given a standing ovation with his day two of the at 96 for six with Mitchell Starc Muhammad Musa to reach 7,000 Warner appeared set for another knock the second best score ever second cricket grabbing four of them. runs in his 126th innings, taking long day at the crease. by an Australian after Matthew Test match Babar Azam was not out 43 possession of a mark held for 73 The 25-year-old, who has Hayden’s 380 against Zimbabwe between and Yasir Shah was on four. years by English great Wally come of age during the series, in 2003. Matthew Wade England and The visitors, who have lost Hammond who reached the trudged back to the pavilion to remained unbeaten on 38. New Zealand 13 consecutive Tests in Australia, milestone in his 131st innings. a standing ovation after a classy Facing a tough last session at Seddon Park enjoyed little success in a long Smith also moved past leg- 162, his second century in a row. under lights, Pakistan’s batsmen in Hamilton day in the field as they look to endary countryman Donald Their marathon 361-run quickly caved in. Starc removed yesterday. avoid a 2-0 series defeat. Bradman’s 6,996 Test runs to partnership was a record Imam-ul-Haq, who got a thick But they did remove Marnus become Australia’s 11th highest second-wicket stand for Aus- edge to Warner on two, before Labuschagne for 162 in the scorer. tralia against Pakistan and the Pat Cummins had Azhar caught opening session and also bagged The home team resumed the highest ever in a pink-ball Test. for nine. Smith, caught behind by day at 302 for one with Warner Just minutes later, the Josh Hazlewood accounted Mohammad Rizwan off Shaheen on 166 and Labuschagne 126, explosive Warner completed for Shan Masood before Starc Afridi for 36. with the pair putting on another only the second Test double nabbed Asad Shafiq, Iftikhar In making his runs, Smith 67 runs before Pakistan finally century of his career. Playing in Ahmed and Rizwan cheaply. If the boundaries were a little bit shorter, I might have taken them on a bit more. Wade kept on saying to me at England in early trouble after NZ post 375 the other end, let’s not run too hard and run ourselves AFP four, not long after he ducked into a Tim in the fourth over after play resumed. out. (There was) poor form in England. But to come back HAMILTON Southee delivery and was hit on the helmet. New Zealand’s last four wickets added here in Australia, put some back-to-back performances on the board, Joe Denly was also out for four, caught off a further 60 runs, with Broad finishing with have that consistency and start the summer well for our team, that’s England lost two early wickets in reply to Matt Henry while Rory Burns made it to figures of four for 73 and Chris Woakes what I was more proud of myself for.” David Warner says he was New Zealand’s 375 as their hopes of saving stumps unbeaten on 24 after being dropped three for 83. thinking about Brian Lara’s record of 400 as he went past 300. the series faded after another Black Caps twice. Joe Root, who has been out of form All-rounder Mitchell, the son of former defining partnership involving BJ Watling in the series, was not out six. All Blacks coach and now England assistant HIGHEST TEST SCORES FOR AUSTRALIA in Hamilton yesterday. While Southee and Henry had England rugby coach John Mitchell, was unruffled When New Zealand had the wobbles, under pressure the tourists had struggled in his maiden Test performance. He brought 380 Matthew Hayden their first-Test hero partnered debutant to exert the same dominance while in the up his 50 pulling Ben Stokes through mid- vs Zimbabwe at WACA Ground, Perth, Australia.