20 Wednesday, April 4, 2018 SPORTS CBA: Bahrain Indians crush Brownlee, Gentle to Bassali Tigers

representDT News Network forward to racing on Thursday, to nationsrace sprint distance, but I relay, she has won gold for Manama and potentially Saturday as will be doing my very best to at the 2017 Mixed xpect hard-charging racing well, in the Mixed Team Relay. defend my Commonwealth Relay World Championships from Bahrain Endurance It will be a much smaller field title.” and will be looking to improve onE opposite sides of the globe than usual which will mean With the Games held in upon the nation’s previous as Alistair Brownlee and there will be no room for any Gentle’s hometown, she feels bronze medal at the Games. Ashleigh Gentle represent mistakes. It will break up even especially proud to be racing. “Every race I do when I put on Jameel - Liaison Karthik - Bahrain Indians their respective nations at the though it isn’t a particularly She says, “It means everything the green and gold, I want to Commonwealth Games on demanding course, and it will to me to be able to represent do not just myself proud but the Gold Coast while Holly be fast.” my country in my hometown I really want to do Australia Lawrence and Jan Frodeno While he is the defending in front of family and friends, proud. I never want to quit or hit Ironman 70.3 Oceanside individual champion and and I will be putting it all never want to step off the track California and Ben Kanute was on the winning mixed on the line to stand on that if it gets hard because that’s not lines up at Ironman 70.3 Texas. team relay from the last podium.” the Australian way.” Brownlee will wear England’s Commonwealth Games in Gentle placed 9th Across the Pacific Ocean, colours, while Gentle dons the Scotland, Brownlee knows individually at the previous Lawrence and Frodeno kick green and gold for Australia. he still needs to turn up and Games but has significantly off their season in earnest at Both athletes have two shots deliver on race day. grown as an athlete since 2014. Ironman 70.3 Oceanside. Touseef - Mudabbar Xavier - Awali Bapco at taking home a medal in He says, “My preparation While this is her first Frodeno returns to Oceanside DT News Network Mudabbar 197/2 in 19 : the individual event hasn’t been perfect and it was Commonwealth Games as a two-time winner in 2014 Manama overs (Touseef 94, Waqas in the sprint distance, and always going to be a challenge mixed team and 2015, while Lawrence ahrain Indians beat 42) beat Awali Camels 196/6 the mixed team relay where from having hip surgery won this race last year in her Bassali Tigers by 7 wickets (Ahmed 71, Maresh 55, Nisar national teams of two male and last year, to racing first race wearing the Bahrain Bin the latest matches of the 3/26) by 8 wickets. two female athletes race across middle distance Endurance racing red. CBA Division C tournament. Liaison CC 249/5 in 25 the supersprint distance. in February Toss was won by Bassali overs (Jameel 79, Riaz 57, Brownlee says, “I am looking and then being Tigers and elected to bat Fakhar 47) beat Young Star ready first, a brilliant century from 120/7 (Imran 24, Riaz 3/12) Waqas helped them to put a by 129 runs. big total of 215 at the end of Lantern Z XI 105/10 25 overs. (Farhan 22, Suneer 4/21) Siva took two wickets for beat LuLu 85/10 (Nishad 14, Bahrain Indians. Farhan 3/8, Zaheer 3/17) by Chasing the big target, 20 runs. Bahrain Indians started well. Pak CC 73/1 in 7.2 overs Rafeeq scored a quick 41 (Noman 39, Shoaib 29) beat runs and Karthik scored an Mumbai riders 72/10 (Ali 11, unbeaten 118 runs in 63 balls Shoaib 4/18) by 9 wickets. helped them to reach the Knockout Q/Final result: target in 23.2 overs. RKCT 157/9 in 20 overs Other scores: (Shridhar 23, Arslan 3/27) Alghad Cargo 161/10 beat ACL 104/10 (Syed 15, (Sadakath 38, Azar 4/37) beat Suraj 3/11) by 53 runs. Unique CC 147/5 Vishnu 32, T20 Q/Finals result: Nizar 2/27) by 14 runs. Awali Bapco 171/2 in 14.2 Kerala XI 132/10 (Justin overs (Xavier 62, Irfan 41) 43, Ashfaq 5/11) beat Pristine beat Union Group 159/8 120/10 (Ashfaq 28, Vonid (Yousaf 44, Shabeer 2/26) by 2/25) by 12 runs. 8 wickets. hold on for Philander bowls SA to record victory draw to win series Johannesburg Christchurch ernon Philander grabbed six BRIEF SCORE ail-ender Ish Sodhi hit a gutsy half-century as Vwickets in a devastating spell TNew Zealand fought a defiant rearguard action of swing bowling as South Africa South Africa 488 (Markram 152, on a tense final day to hold on for a draw in the crushed Australia by a record 492 Bavuma 95*, de Villiers 69, Cummins second Test yesterday and secure a first series win runs to clinch the four-match 5-83, Lyon 3-182) and 344 for 6 dec over England since 1999. series 3-1 at the Wanderers (Du Plessis 120, Elgar 81, Cummins Winners of the first Test in Auckland by an innings yesterday. 4-58) beat Australia 221 (Paine 62, and 49 runs, New Zealand were 256 for eight when The scandal-hit tourists had Khawaja 53, Cummins 50, Philander the umpires offered Sodhi the light, still 126 runs in promised to fight for a draw on 3-30, Rabada 3-53, Maharaj 3-92) and arrears but with the all-important draw secure. the final day to end a controversial 119 (Burns 42, Philander 6-21) by England made the perfect start to the final day tour on a positive note but their 492 runs when Stuart Broad claimed wickets with the first two resistance lasted just 83 minutes deliveries but the tourists were unable to winkle out as Philander ripped through their first home series win over the the final few batsmen as the fading light cast long middle and lower order to finish demoralised visitors since 1970. shadows over Hagley Oval. with career-best figures of 6-21 South Africa’s Morne Morkel holds the trophy aloft (Pic courtesy: AFP) The Australian side have Opener Tom Latham scored 83 but it was spinner and move to 204 Test wickets. loss to South Africa in terms of South Africa completed been rocked by a ball-tampering Sodhi’s 168-ball 56 not out that most frustrated Australia were bowled out for a runs, their second biggest defeat their biggest victory over the scandal in which Steve Smith, England, who scored 307 in their first innings and paltry 119 in their second innings against any opponent and the Australians in Tests in terms of David Warner and Cameron 352/9 declared in the second after New Zealand’s first to succumb to their heaviest ever fourth biggest loss in Test cricket. runs, and also completed their Bancroftwere sent home. (Reuters) knock of 278. (Reuters)