SATURDAY 6 JANUARY 2018 21 I’m feeling pretty good. I’m SPORT Australian tennis star hitting the ball well and I’m Today at 6.00pm. serving really well. So the first Nick Kyrgios after setting up a semi-final Men’s singles final two matches of the year, I’ve got against Grigor Dimitrov at the At Khalifa International Tennis through two tough three-setters. Brisbane International and Squash Complex Kohli earns record $2.7m Khawaja, Smith bat well after salary for 2018 IPL England post 346 at the SCG campaign AFP REUTERS our team so we don’t have to bowl at him,” Australia fast NEW DELHI: Batting star SYDNEY: Australia captain Steve bowler Pat Cummins said of his Virat Kohli will pick up the Smith continued to be England’s captain. Indian Premier League’s Ashes nemesis yesterday as he “You lose a couple of wickets largest-ever salary -- $2.7m passed 6,000 Test runs in an and he comes out to bat. He’s just -- in this year’s tournament, unbeaten knock of 44 to help his incredible, I think he’s been the with a host of big foreign team to 193 for two at close of real difference between the two names including Australian play on the second day of the sides.” captain Steve Smith also fifth Test. The tourists, 3-0 down in cashing in. The world’s top ranked the series with the urn already Kohli will stay with Royal batsman and Usman Khawaja relinquished, earlier posted a Challengers Bangalore along- batted through the final session competitive tally in the face of side South Africa’s AB de Vil- in a 107-run partnership after some fearsome pace bowling on liers, who will earn $1.7m in openers Cameron Bancroft and the back of a hard wagging tail the cash-rich event started by David Warner had departed ear- and some poor Australian the Indian cricket board in lier in Australia’s reply to Eng- catching. 2008. land’s 346. Australia came out after The Indian captain’s Khawaja notched a stylish 91 lunch to begin their innings in salary for the eight-team, not out on the same ground front of another packed house 20-over tournament spread where he made his test debut in only for Stuart Broad to clean over two months beats the the corresponding fixture seven bowl Bancroft for a duck in the $2.5m earned by allrounder years ago but it was the wicket second over. Australia’s captain Steve Smith celebrates with team Yuvraj Singh with Delhi in of Smith that England most des- Warner scored a measured mates after taking a catch to dismiss England’s Dawid 2015. perately wanted. 56 by his standards in a 85-run Malan during the second day of the fifth Ashes cricket Delhi Daredevils They were to be disap- stand with Khawaja before was Test match in Sydney. announced Ricky Ponting as pointed with only a couple of caught behind when James head coach for the 2018 half chances presenting them- Anderson got the ball to move season. selves as Smith sent a couple of away from him. SCOREBOARD hitting a confident 39 and Moeen The batting legend early edges fizzing through the Broad’s 31 had earlier been 30 before both fell victim to the coached Mumbai Indians to England (I innings) Bowling: Starc 21-6-80-2, Hazlewood 23-4-65-2, slips. integral to a bright morning for A Cook lbw b Hazlewood ...................................... 39 Cummins 24.3-5-80-4 (2w), Lyon 37-5-86-1, M Marsh pace of Cummins (4-80). the 2015 title during a two- The 28-year-old was soon the tourists after the hammer M Stoneman c Paine b Cummins ........................24 7-0-33-0 Broad braved the short year stint. looking comfortable and blow of losing two wickets in the J Vince c Paine b Cummins ....................................25 Australia (I innings) bowling almost until the sched- Australian batsmen Smith unfussily swatted a single to last couple of overs of day one. J Root c M Marsh b Starc ........................................83 C Bancroft b Broad ....................................................0 uled lunch break before and David Warner were also backward square to pass the Malan (62) lasted less than D Malan c Smith b Starc ........................................62 D Warner c Bairstow b Anderson ...................... 56 becoming spinner Lyon’s first retained by their teams for 6,000 career runs mark in his half an hour after they had J Bairstow c Paine b Hazlewood ............................5 U Khawaja (batting)................................................ 91 victim of the match and the $1.9m each, making them the 111th test innings. Only the great resumed on 233 for five, Mitchell M Ali c Paine b Cummins ......................................30 S Smith (batting) .....................................................44 innings ended in a mix-up that highest-paid foreign stars. T Curran c Bancroft b Cummins ...........................39 Extras (B1, NB1) ....................................................... 2 Donald Bradman reached the Starc eliciting an outside edge S Broad c Smith b Lyon .......................................... 31 Total (2 wkts) ........................................193 resulted in Mason Crane being Smith will play for the milestone in fewer knocks. which Smith caught brilliantly M Crane run out (M Marsh/Bancroft) ...................4 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-86 run-out for four in his maiden Rajasthan Royals, returning Having started the day with to make some amends for three J Anderson (not out) .................................................0 To bat: S Marsh, M Marsh, T Paine, M Starc, P Cummins, J test innings. from a two-year ban over a brilliant diving catch in the spills in his otherwise impec- Extras (LB2, W2) .....................................................4 Hazlewood, N Lyon The leg spinner later made a match-fixing, and Warner slips to dismiss Dawid Malan, cable series. Total (all out) ........................................ 346 Bowling: Anderson 14-4-25-1, Broad 10-2-28-1, Ali reasonably solid start to his test with Sunrisers Hyderabad. Smith walked off his home His fast bowlers then pro- Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-88, 3-95, 4-228, 5-233, 6-251, 17-3-51-0, Curran 8-2-26-0, Crane 17-0-58-0 (1nb), Root career with the ball, returning Chennai Super Kings, also ground in the brilliant afternoon ceeded to produce a couple of 7-294, 8-335, 9-346, 10-346 1-0-4-0 figures of 0-58. returning to IPL after a two- sunshine with 648 runs to his howlers with Cummins dropping “It’s awesome to be bowling year suspension, have former name in the series so far. Tom Curran on 21 off Nathan Hazlewood letting Moeen Ali off 22. England’s tail made the most to the best players in the world,” India captain Mahendra Singh “We’re stoked that he’s on Lyon and, in the next over, Josh the hook with the all-rounder on of the reprieves with Curran the 20-year-old said. Dhoni back on board. But Kohli -- who recently married Indian Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma -- remains the top draw for the extravaganza in April and Bowlers dominate in Cape Town May. Nicknamed King Kohli, the 29-year-old batsman is REUTERS to 28 for three at the close having already listed among the bowled out the hosts for 286 on world’s highest-paid athletes CAPE TOWN: South Africa a spicy wicket offering bounce after smashing numerous seamer Dale Steyn grabbed his and some sideways records in his career. first Test wicket after an injury movement. He recently became the absence of 14 months as the Cheteshwar Pujara (five) and first batsman to score six hosts fought back against a fired- Rohit Sharma (zero) will resume double Test centuries as a up India on an enthralling first on the second day as the tour- captain. day of cut-and-thrust cricket in ists, who trail by 258, seek an Each team was allowed the opening test at Newlands answer to the venom in the pitch to re-sign up to three of their yesterday. and the home seam attack. 2017 squad before the players Steyn took his career tally to Steyn, who had missed the are subject to bids from other 418 wickets, three behind South last 15 Tests with a career-threat- teams in the auctions slated African record-holder Shaun ening shoulder injury, caught and for January 27 and 28. Pollock, as India were reduced bowled dangerous opener Another star performer, Shikhar Dhawan for 16 with a Ben Stokes, will be looking to SCOREBOARD quick bouncer that suggested he re-enter the IPL fray in the had lost none of his pace. auctions after he was granted South Africa (I innings) India also lost Murali Vijay a “no objection” certificate by D Elgar c Saha b Kumar ...................................................0 for one, caught by Dean Elgar at the England and Wales A Markram lbw b Kumar .................................................5 H Amla c Saha b Kumar ..................................................3 gully off Vernon Philander, while Cricket Board. Morne Morkel claimed the The England allrounder, A de Villiers b Bumrah ...................................................65 South Africa batsman Keshav F du Plessis c Saha b Pandya ......................................62 wicket of visiting captain Virat who missed the ongoing Q de Kock c Saha b Kumar ...........................................43 Kohli, who played at a rising Maharaj to a bouncer from India’s Ashes after being suspended V Philander b Mohammed Shami ..............................23 delivery outside off-stump and bowler Jasprit Bumrah (not in for a pub brawl, was signed K Maharaj run out (Ashwin) .........................................35 was caught by wicketkeeper picture) on the first day of the for a record fee of $2.16m by K Rabada c Saha b Ashwin ..........................................26 Quinton de Kock for five.