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14 Thursday, December 12, 2019 Sports stars to celebrate Qatar National Day in Doha

The List will hold a cricket match be- that the president will highlight QCA, MoI to host international tween international and Qatari the activities regarding the Qa- International players Qatar national team players national team players at the tar National Day during a press friendly match at Asia Town Rana Naveed-ul Haq (), Kamran Iqbal Hussain Chaudhry, Mohammed Asian Town Stadium at 3.30 conference on December 15 at Akmal (Pakistan), (Pakistan), Rizlan, Kamran Khan, Zaheeruddeen pm,” Kuwari said in a release. the Qatar Olympic Committee Tribune News Network dustrial Area, on December 18. (Pakistan), Ajantha Mendis Ibrahim, Faisal Khan, Muhammad Tanveer, “The ongoing Qatar T10 Headquarters at 10 am. DOHA The QCA and the Ministry (), (Pakistan), Dharmang Patel, Tamoor Sajjad, Gayan Cricket League players will not He also added that a sepa- of Interior will jointly organise Sompal Kami (), Satvir Singh (India) Budhika, Muhammad Nadeem, Noman only be witness to this grand rate seating system will be in International players will the match at 3.30 pm. and Khaliqdad Noori (Afghanistan). Inamul Sarwar, Imran Ashraf, Saqlian Arshad, event but some have gracious- place for families. Besides the again come and celebrate the Under the presidency of Haque is the coach while M Rawid Ejaz has Musawir Khan, Owais Ahmed, Khurram ly agreed to play in it also. match, there will be a plenty of Qatar National Day this year. Yousef Jeham al Kuwari, the been made the manager. Shahjad and Hossain. Like the previous years, we fun activities for fans. The Qatar Cricket Association QCA has been hosting cricket Qatar Cricket Association Presi- urge cricket fans to turn up in The Qatar national team (QCA) has planned to bring matches on the Qatar National dent Yousef Jeham al Kuwari. which will be celebrated across celebration, taking it far be- big numbers and support the was selected by Iqbal Hussain a host of stars from various Day, involving international the country on December 18. yond the borders of Qatar and match,” the QCA chief added. Chaudhry (), Moham- countries for a friendly match and local players. “We’re eters once again on our pres- “We are also privileged and making it an international af- Manzoor Ahmad, Opera- med Rizlan (vice-captain) and at the Asian Town Stadium, In- proud to field famous crick- tigious Qatar National Day, delighted to contribute to the fair. On this great occasion, we tions Manager, QCA, informed manager Gul Khan Jadoon. Shah shines Rizlan fires Falcon as Pakistan rule first day Hunters to beat in historic Desert Riders

Lanka Test Tribune News Network DOHA AFP Rawalpindi (Pakistan) Mohammad Rizlan’s 17- ball cameo set up an easy made its long- six- victory for Falcon awaited return to Pakistan Hunters against table toppers after a deadly attack in 2009, Desert Riders in the Qatar T10 with the home team led by Cricket League as the action fast bowler resumed after a day was lost dominating Sri Lanka on to rain. Wednesday. At the Asian Town Sta- Naseem, who is just 16, India players pose with trophy after winning the three-match T20I series against West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium in on Wednesday. (AFP) dium on Wednesday, Falcon grabbed 2-51 on the open- Hunters shackled the rivals ing day of the first Test which with tight in windy marked a momentous occa- and cold conditions. Though sion in Pakistan cricket at the they lost only two , Pindi Cricket Stadium. India launch six-fest, they could not go beyond 89 Sri Lanka won the toss in the stipulated overs. and batted and closed the day Falcon Hunters lost Mohammad Rizlan of Falcon at a precarious 202-5 after Hashim Amla (9) cheaply Hunters after being declared the bad light stopped play 20.5 but new man Kamran Khan man of the match against Dream overs early. clinch T20I series stimulated the chase with two Riders in the Qatar T10 League sixes and a four in his five-ball on Wednesday. 17. Rizlan put his foot on the Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul & skipper Kohli hit a total 16 sixes in the decider gas and hammered 35 in just 17 balls. Brief scores AFP Scoreboard be caught by Hayden Walsh Jr Rizlan’s knock contained Falcon Hunters beat Desert Riders by Mumbai off . four sixes and a boundary six wickets India: S. Hetmyer c Rahul b Yadav 41 Four balls later, Pollard before he was bowled by Ajay Desert Riders: 89 for two (Muhammad Skipper Virat Kohli led the R. Sharma c Walsh Jr b Williams 71 N. Pooran c Dube b Chahar 0 got wicketkeeper-batsman Lalcheta. He and skipper Sal- KL Rahul c Pooran b Cottrell 91 K. Pollard c sub (Jadeja) b Kumar 68 Tanveer 33 , Ramith Rambukwella sixes charge with seven hits R. Pant c Holder b Pollard 0 J. Holder c sub (Pandey) b Yadav 8 trudging back man Butt, who chose to play 22 not out; 1 / 4) over the fence to set up India’s V. Kohli not out 70 H. Walsh Jr b Shami 11 to the pavilion for nought to a waiting game, collected 41 Falcon Hunters: 90 for four in 8.1 overs series-clinching 67- win S. Iyer not out 0 K. Pierre c sub (Jadeja) b Chahar 6 check India’s surge but Rahul runs for the third wicket. (Mohammad Rizlan 35, Kamran Khan over the West Indies in the Extras (b1, lb2, w4, nb1) 8 K. Williams not out 13 remained firm. Falcon Hunters lost Total (3 wickets, 20 overs) 240 S. Cottrell not out 4 17, Salman Butt 16 not out, Ramith third international Did not bat: S. Dube, W. Sundar, D. Chahar, B. Kumar, Extras (lb5, w5) 10 Rahul, who completed his Amad Butt for seven but the Rambukwella 1/5) on Wednesday. K. Yadav, M. Shami Total (8 wickets, 20 overs) 173 third fifty in four T20I innings captain and Tamoor Sajjad Man of the match: Mohammad Rizlan Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul Fall of wickets: 1-135 (Sharma), 2-138 (Pant), 3-233 Did not bat: E. Lewis and hit four sixes in his 56-ball completed the big win with 11 (Falcon Hunters) and Kohli, who smashed an (Rahul) Fall of wickets: 1-12 (King), 2-17 (Simmons), 3-17 knock, then put on 95 runs balls to spare. Bowling: Cottrell 4-0-40-1 (w1), Holder 4-0-54-0 (w1), (Pooran), 4-91 (Hetmyer), 5-103 (Holder), 6-141 unbeaten 70 off 29 balls, com- Pierre 2-0-35-0 (w1), Williams 4-0-37-1, Walsh Jr 4-0- (Pollard), 7-152 (Walsh Jr), 8-169 (Pierre) with Kohli before getting out Earlier, led by Iqbal Hus- bined to hit 16 sixes between 38-0, Pollard 2-0-33-1 (w1, nb1). Bowling: Chahar 4-0-20-2 (w1), Kumar 4-0-41-2 in the last over. sain Chaudhry, who gave four leg byes, in the first over them as the hosts posted 240 (w1), Shami 4-0-25-2, Dube 3-0-32-0 (w1), Yadav West Indies also suf- away only five runs in his of Waqas Maqsood. But Fal- for three in Mumbai. West Indies (target 241) 4-0-45-2 (w1), Sundar 1-0-5-0 (w1). fered an injury blow after two overs, Falcon Hunt- con Hunters struck back and L. Simmons c Iyer b Shami 7 Toss: West Indies. Result: India won by 67 runs. The Indian bowlers then B King c Rahul b Kumar 5 Series: India won the three-match series 2-1. Evin Lewis hurt his right ers restricted Desert Riders controlled the proceedings kept the West Indies to 173 for knee while and did with tight line and superb by removing Hafeez. Mirza eight to win the three-match not return to bat with the fielding. Saad Bin Zafar con- could manage only six off 12 series 2-1. to do it out there in the middle maximums in the chase. team management saying the ceded only four runs in over balls later. Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Sharma, who hit 71, and to gain confidence from it. Pacemen Bhuvneshwar opening batsman has “soft and got a wicket, while Amad Muhammad Tanveer and (centre) in action on the first day Rahul, who top-scored with 91, “I think two guys in the Kumar, Mohammed Shami, tissue damage”. Butt’s two overs cost 14, Mu- Ramith Rambukwella then of the first Test against Sri Lanka put on 135 runs for the open- middle with clarity, the way and left-arm “There’s a lot of emerging rad Khan was hit for 13 in one forged an unbroken third- the Pindi Cricket Stadium in ing wicket to lay the platform Rahul and Rohit played today, wrist spinner players coming through. Yes, over and Sajjad got a wicket wicket of 48 runs. Rawalpindi on Wednesday. (AFP) for India’s imposing total. that is key. first (ear- claimed two wickets each. the bowling is a concern, but for 18 runs in his two overs. Tanveer hit two sixes and a Kohli, who was named lier), we’ve been too tight and “Hitman” Sharma led the we have a roster of guys com- Openers Mohammad Ha- four in his 33 not out off 22 Scoreboard man of the series for his 183 hesitant, should we go for it, batting onslaught with an at- ing through,” said Pollard. feez and Adnan Mirza helped balls, while Rambukwella runs and a career-best 94 not should we not.” tacking fifty that was brought “Those are the areas, but Dream Riders get 17 runs, made 22 in 16 balls. He also Sri Lanka (1st innings): out in the opening win, soon about with two sixes and we know success is a boring which included five byes and had two sixes and a boundary. D. Karunaratne lbw b Shaheen 59 joined the party to flay the Fireworks by ‘Hitman’ a boundary, delighting the thing, you need to do the right O. Fernando c Sohail b Naseem 40 K. Mendis c Rizwan b Shinwari 10 West Indies attack as he com- Kohli and Sharma will end the home crowd. things day in and day out. Yes, A. Mathews c Shafiq b Naseem 31 pleted his fifty in just 21 balls. year at the top of the batting Sharma became the first we lost 2-1, but we have three D. Chandimal b Abbas 2 “I had the opportunity to charts with 2,633 runs each in Indian batsman to hit over more games to look forward to D. de Silva not out 38 do something different, which all T20 cricket. 400 international sixes with in the ODIs.” Quick singles N. Dickwella not out 11 Extras: (b 5, lb 3, nb 3) 11 I don’t usually do,” Kohli said West Indies slipped to his first of five strikes over the The two teams will next Total: (for five wkts; 68.1 overs ) 202 of his slam-bang innings. 17-3 and were forever playing fence. West Indies’ Chris Gay- play three one-day inter- set to break record for most Still to bat: D. Perera, V. Fernando, K. Rajitha, L. “I told KL to stay on till the catch-up with the towering le leads the sixes show with nationals on December 15 Tests as an Kumara Fall of wickets: 1-96 (Karunaratne), 2-109 end, and said I’ll try and smash run-rate despite a valiant 39- 534 across all three formats. (), December 18 (Vi- (Fernando), 3-120 (Mendis), 4-127 (Chandimal), a few... I’m trying to be able to ball 68 from skipper Kieron He finally fell while at- sakhapatnam) and December London: Aleem Dar is set to break Steve Bucknor’s record of 5-189 (Mathews) play like this as well. You have Pollard who hit six off the 12 tempting another big heave to 22 (Cuttack). most Tests as an umpire in the first match of the series between Bowling: Abbas 20.1-7-50-1, Shaheen 16-6-37-1 Australia and New Zealand, which starts in Perth on Thursday. (nb3), Shinwari 14-4-47-1, Naseem 16-4-51-2, The 51-year-old, who took up umpiring after playing first-class Sohail 1-0-9-0, Masood 1-1-0-0. Pakistan: , , , Babar , is standing in his 129th Test match as an on- Azam, , , Mohammad field umpire. He stood in his first Test in Dhaka in 2003 during Rizwan, , Mohammad Abbas, England’s tour of . Starting his international career in Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi US captain Woods picks himself to Toss: Sri Lanka 2000 during Pakistan’s home ODI series against Sri Lanka, Dar has officiated in 207 ODIs and is only two matches shy of the record of 209 matches in that format held by of At close, Dhananjaya de lead off Presidents Cup defence South Africa. “This is one milestone I had never thought of when Silva was unbeaten on 38 and I began my umpiring career,” said Dar, who has also officiated in Niroshan Dickwella not out AFP said ahead of the draw that he 46 Twenty20 Internationals. (AFP) 11 as Sri Lanka spoiled a good Melbourne expected Woods would play 96-run start given by skipper at least three matches over Smith becomes acting director in CSA Dimuth Karunaratne (59) and Captain Tiger Woods will the four days of the biennial Oshada Fernando (40). lead from the front when matchplay showdown. Johannesburg: Former Test captain on Pakistan struggled for the United States begin their Woods has a record of 24 Wednesday agreed to become Cricket South Africa’s director of wickets in the first session Presidents Cup defence after wins, 15 losses and one half cricket - but only in an acting capacity. as Sri Lanka reached 89-0 Wednesday picking himself in matches at the Presidents In a brief statement, CSA said it had reached an agree- at lunch. and Justin Thomas for the US team captain Cup, second only to Phil Mick- ment with Smith for a three-month appointment until the start Shaheen Shah Afridi opening fourball match at Tiger Woods during a elson’s record of 26 wins. of the next season of the , which is trapped Sri Lankan skipper Royal Melbourne. practice round ahead Steve Stricker will be captain expected to start in March. The announcement came 15 days Karunaratne leg-before soon The 43-year-old Woods of the Presidents while he is on the course. Woods before the first of four Test matches against England, starting in after lunch to trigger a col- and world number four Thom- Cup golf tournament resisted any temptation to leave Centurion on December 26. (AFP) lapse which saw the visitors as will tee off first on Thurs- in Melbourne on Patrick Reed on the sidelines for lose four wickets within just 31 day against Australian Marc Wednesday. (AFP) the first day’s pairings after a runs in the post lunch session. Leishman and Chilean rookie row sparked by the two-stroke Injured Dhawan out of West Indies ODIs Karunaratne hit nine Joaquin Niemann for Ernie penalty for moving sand and boundaries in his 110-ball Els’ International team. and that’s who we’re rolling “It is quick and it has dried improving his lie in the Baha- New : India batsman Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled knock. “I think from our side, with,” said Woods. out and hopefully the forecast mas last week. But International out of the one-day internationals against the West Indies after Naseem then had Fer- we had a game plan, who we “I got a chance to play all will hold for each and every captain Els did omit Australian sustaining a “deep cut” to his left knee, a statement said on nando caught at slip for 40, an wanted to start out, and we of yesterday. Played a little bit day. The preparation is very Cameron Smith who became Wednesday. Opener Mayank Agarwal will replace Dhawan. India innings laced with six bounda- were committed to putting today. Just to try to get a feel simple.” embroiled in the squabble by will play three ODIs against the West Indies. (AFP) ries and a six. Justin and myself out there, for this golf course. Vice-captain Fred Couples calling Reed a cheat.