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DELHI THE HINDU 20 SPORT SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Kohli’s half-century keeps India going Karun holds fort for India Red Green bowled out for 440; off spinner Wakhare scalps fi ve Mayank steadies the innings initially with a fi fty, after the fall of Rahul and Pujara DULEEP TROPHY INDIA IN WI Holder was getting the bounce and movement and Shreedutta Chidananda Press Trust of India Cornwall made the Indians Bengaluru Kingston toil for runs with his tight off spin bowling. Karun Nair remained in India recovered to reach 157 India was 36 for one in 13 sparkling form in the Duleep for three at tea on the open overs at the drinks break. Trophy, scoring an unbeaten ing day under testing condi Pujara, who came after 77 for India Red on the se tions in the second World Rahul’s departure in the se cond day of its clash with In Test Championship match venth over, struggled again dia Green at the Alur against the West Indies here as he took 15 deliveries to grounds here. on Saturday. open his account and was fi The Karnataka batsman Skipper Virat Kohli stood nally out for 6 which came had made scores of 99 and fi rm with an unbeaten 52 from 25 balls. 166 n.o. in the previous with deputy Ajinkya Rahane game — scoring a First Class giving him company on 20. Easy catch hundred after nearly two Mayank Agarwal came good The bounce extracted by 26 years — and on Friday he for the fi rst time in the series yearold off spinner Corn picked up from where he with a timely halfcentury, wall, who stands at 6ft and 5 had left off . before being dismissed in inch and weighs more than Karun’s assured halfcen the second session. 140kg, brought about Puja tury, which featured some Earlier the visitors la ra’s downfall as he hit attacking strokeplay against boured their way to 72 for straight to the hands of Sha spin, led India Red to 140 for two after opener K.L. Rahul marh Brooks. two at stumps on the second and No. 3 Cheteshwar Pujara India was 46 for two in the day. It came after Green had were dismissed cheaply in 17th over at the fall of Pujara been bowled out for 440, the fi rst session. Rahul and but Kohli and Mayank en with off spinner Akshay Pujara were out for 13 and 6 sured that the visiting side Wakhare taking fi ve for 103. respectively. did not lose any further wick In the morning, the over et until lunch. night pair of Priyam Garg
Cautious start DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and Akshay Wadkar In good touch: Karun Nair’s assured knock helped India Red After West Indies captain Ja DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD emerged unscathed from make a strong reply to India Green’s huge total. * FILE PHOTO son Holder opted to fi eld, Ra B Debutant Rahkeem the fi rst hour of play. hul and Mayank negotiated Cornwall was involved in all fi ve wickets for 35 runs as an one drop after Abhimanyu the fi rst half an hour without the three dismissals Soft dismissal extended fi rst session came Easwaran had retired hurt taking any risk on a tricky DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD But Garg was dismissed in to a close. with a gluteal strain, then pitch. soft fashion after having “The pitch is quite fl at took control. The Karnataka Opening bowlers Kemar SCOREBOARD done the hard work. On 53, and slow; we should have man was initially troubled Roach and Shannon Gabriel, he drove leftarm spinner got around 550,” Jadeja ad by Ishan Porel, but he came however, could not get much INDIA — 1ST INNINGS Sarvate to short extracover mitted later. into his own steadily. movement from the pitch. K.L. Rahul c Cornwall b Holder where Priyank Panchal held 13 (26b, 2x4), Mayank Agarwal He took the spinners on, Holder introduced him a good, low catch. Surprised by the bounce c Cornwall b Holder 55 (127b, as is his wont, striking 14 self in the seventh over and 7x4), Cheteshwar Pujara c Dharmendrasinh Jadeja The leftarm spinner boundaries in all. Karun had immediately got the break Brooks b Cornwall 6 (25b), Virat walked out to bat and blazed claimed both the Red wick Mahipal Lomror (22 batting) through by having the wicket Kohli (batting) 52 (125b, 7x4), a few boundaries, as he and ets to fall on the day. Pan for company at the close, as of Rahul to break the 32run Ajinkya Rahane (batting) 20 Akshay Wadkar added 51 for chal, who made a patient 31, the players walked off for (51b, 3x4) opening stand. ; Extras (b4, lb7): 11; the sixth wicket. But Wak was surprised by a delivery bad light. There is still work Total (for three wkts. in 59 ov hare claimed the Saurashtra that bounced higher than to be done. Peach of a delivery ers at tea): 157. man for 37 (54b, 5x4), the normal, and the ball lobbed It was a peach of a delivery FALL OF WICKETS lefthander also fi nding Pan off his glove to fi rst slip. The scores: India Green 440 in which jagged away from 132 (Rahul, 6.5 overs), 246 chal with an uppish drive. Ankit Kalsi, who was im 131.3 overs (Akshath Reddy (Pujara, 16.5), 3115 (Mayank, 146, Dhruv Shorey 44, Siddhesh middle stump with Rahul It triggered a collapse, pressive in the previous fi x 40.5). Lad 64, Priyam Garg 53, Akshay edging it to debutant Rah WEST INDIES BOWLING with Sandeep Warrier get ture, slashed at a Jadeja de Wadkar 44, Dharmendrasinh keem Cornwall at fi rst slip Roach 114220, Gabriel 90 ting rid of Rahul Chahar and livery and was caught on the Jadeja 37, Akshay Wakhare fi ve for a comfortable catch. Ra 440, Holder 156262, Corn Ankit Rajpoot in quick suc second attempt by Dhruv for 103) vs India Red 140 for hul hit two fours in his 26 wall 175411, Chase 73130. Coming good: Mayank Agarwal made use of the the extended chance given to him by scoring cession. Shorey at slip. two in 45 overs (Priyank Pan ball innings. TOSS: West Indies a useful 50. * AFP India Green lost its last Karun, who walked out at chal 31, Karun Nair 77 batting). Anderson ruled out of Outofform Dhawan Titans fall short against Paltan Health scare Ashes, Overton in to play for IndiaA for Richards PKL Press Trust of India ANI Injured Vijay Shankar out of series Kingston London Anant Kaur NEW DELHI Sir Vivian Richards fell ill Pacer James Anderson has Press Trust of India while he was on air doing a been ruled out from the re New Delhi Puneri Paltan thwarted the pregame analysis but re maining Ashes as England Outofform senior opener Telugu Titans with an all covered in quick time to re Cricket Board (ECB) on Fri Shikhar Dhawan has been round performance to win turn to commentary in the day announced a 13mem included in the IndiaA side 3427 on the last day of the postlunch session of the ber squad for the fourth Test for the last two unoffi cial ProKabaddi League Delhi second World Champion match. one dayers against South leg at the Thyagaraj Sports ship Test between India As Anderson was bowling AfricaA to get back some Complex here on Friday. and West Indies here. in his ninth over in Lancash form after a poor tour of the Although Titans dis The 67yearold com ire’s second XI fourday West Indies. played the art of perfect de plained of uneasiness and friendly against Durham, he The veteran lefthander, fence with a recordsetting left the ground with the became aware of right calf who made a comeback from seven super tackles, it was help of two volunteers. pain. a hand fracture sustained not enough to win the He suff ered from dehy He immediately sought a during World Cup, totalled match. Super raider: Manjeet of Puneri Paltan fi ghts past the Telugu dration due to excessive medical assessment from Craig Overton. * AFP 65 runs across fi ve interna A successful raid by Pal Titans defence. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR humid conditions.
Lancashire and was with tional games, including Shikhar Dhawan. * AFP tan’s Nitin Tomar took out Later, he returned to be drawn from the remainder He will be looking to add three T20s and two ODIs. Abozar Mighani and Amit which ended 1714 in favour Bhardwaj, Farhad Milagh a part of the commentary of the game. Further review to his three Test caps. Over He had scores of 1, 23 and release. Kumar, which helped the of the Pune side. ardhan and C. Arun. Man team in the second session with the ECB medical team ton has taken 32 wickets at 3 in the T20 Internationals, However, it was another team race to a fi vepoint Siddharth Desai was in no jeet and Nitin Tomar took of the match. “To all the confi rmed his unavailability an average of 21.34 from while he made 2 and 36 in setback for Tamil Nadu all lead just four minutes into mood to let Pune dominate care of Paltan’s raiding du fans around the world, I for the remaining two Test eight Country Champion the two completed ODIs. rounder Vijay Shankar, who the game. him and started the second ties. want to say I have reco matches. ship matches this season. “The allIndia Senior Se is now out of the ‘A’ series Titans produced fi ve Sup half positively, picking four In the process, Nitin To vered. I am OK and I have The squad: Joe Root (Capt.), Somerset seamer Craig lection Committee on Fri with a thumb injury. er Tackles in the fi rst half as points in his fi rst four raids. mar registered 400 raid returned (to do commen Rory Burns, Jason Roy, Joe Overton has been added to Denly, Jonny Bairstow, Jos day decided to add Mr. Shik “Vijay Shankar has been Vishal Bhardwaj raced to a Desai also reached a perso points in the PKL. Paltan tary),” Richards said on air. the team. Buttler, Ben Stokes, Sam Cur har Dhawan to IndiaA ruled out of the series owing high5, but the defensive nal milestone of 300 points took a healthy lead before “No bowler in the world Overton has returned to ran, Chris Woakes, Jofra Arch squad for the fourth and to an injury to his right masterclass was not enough in PKL. the fi nish line despite a late could do it to me, that was the Test squad for the fi rst er, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, fi fth oneday against South thumb,” the press release to prevent an allout in the A super raid by Paltan's challenge from the Telugu done by nature. We have to time since March 2018. Craig Overton. AfricaA,” the BCCI said in a stated. fi nal minute of the half Manjeet took out Vishal side. respect nature,” he added. Federer and Barty sweep into the fourth round with thumping wins Pliskova also progresses but end of the road for Nishikori and Halep; Zverev stretched again; Kyrgios in a hurry US OPEN leigh Barty swept into the IMPORTANT RESULTS last 16 with a 75, 63 victory Reuters over Greek 30th seed Maria Sakkari. Czech third seed Ka Men: Third round: 3Roger Fe 36, 62, 26, 63; Aljaz Bedene Putintseva (Kaz) bt 9Aryna NEW YORK derer (Sui) bt Dan Evans (GBr) (Slo) bt 29Benoit Paire (Fra) Sabalenka (Blr) 63, 76(3); 23 rolina Pliskova was tested by 62, 62, 61; Alex de Minaur 46, 67(3), 62, 75, 76(4); 14 Donna Vekic (Cro) bt Kaia Kanepi After slow starts in his fi rst Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur before (Aus) bt 7Kei Nishikori (Jpn) John Isner (USA) bt JanLennard (Est) 75, 63; 26Julia Goerges matches, Roger Federer took winning 61, 46, 64. 62, 62, 26, 63. Second Struff (Ger) 63, 76(4), 76 (5); (Ger) bt Francesca di Lorenzo his game up a notch with a Meanwhile on Thursday, round: 22Marin Cilic (Cro) bt 2Rafael Nadal (Esp) w/o (USA) 75, 60; 7Kiki Bertens stressfree 62, 62, 61 win Wimbledon champion Simo CedrikMarcel Stebe (Ger) 46, Thanasi Kokkinakis (Aus). (Ned) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchen over Briton Daniel Evans to na Halep and Petra Kvitova 63, 75, 63; Chung Hyeon Doubles: Casper Ruud (Nor) & kova (Rus) 75, 64; Taylor reach the fourth round, suff ered surprise defeats in (Kor) bt 32Fernando Verdasco Miomir Kecmanovic (Srb) bt Townsend (USA) bt 4Simona while Alex de Minaur beat Ja second round action, while (Esp) 16, 26, 75, 63, 76(3); Leander Paes (Ind) & Guillermo Halep (Rou) 26, 63, 76(4); 15 panese seventh seed Kei holder Naomi Osaka cruised Denis Kudla (USA) bt 27Dusan Duran (Arg) 75, 62; Federico Bianca Andreescu (Can) bt Nishikori 62, 62, 26, 63 on through to the last 32. Lajovic (Srb) 75, 75, 06, 63; Delbonis (Arg) & Roberto Car Kirsten Flipkens (Bel) 63, 75; Friday. American qualifi er Taylor 23Stan Wawrinka (Sui) bt balles Baena (Esp) bt Divij 25Elise Mertens (Bel) bt Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 64, 63, 6 Sharan (Ind) & Hugo Nys (Mon) Kristyna Pliskova (Cze) 62, 62; The Swiss great, seeded Townsend came back from a 7(3), 63; 17Nikoloz Basilashvili 64, 64. 20Sofia Kenin (USA) bt Laura third, was brimming with set down to beat fourth seed (Geo) bt Jenson Brooksby (USA) Women: Third round: 2Ash Siegemund (Ger) 76(4), 60; confi dence from the start, Halep 26, 63, 76(4) to con 36, 76(3), 75, 62; 5Daniil leigh Barty (Aus) bt 30Maria 16Johanna Konta (GBr) bt Mar taking advantage of the spee sign the Romanian to a third Medvedev (Rus) bt Hugo Dellien Sakkari (Gre) 75, 63; 3Karo garita Gasparyan (Rus) 61, 60; dy hardcourts under the straight early exit . (Bol) 63, 75, 57, 63; Daniel lina Pliskova (Cze) bt Ons Jabeur 33Zhang Shuai (Chn) bt Ekater open roof at Arthur Ashe Sta Czech sixth seed Kvitova, Evans (GBr) bt 25Lucas Pouille (Tun) 61, 46, 64; 22Petra ina Alexandrova (Rus) 76(5), dium on a warm and sunny who has been struggling with (Fra) 64, 63, 67(4), 64; Alex Martic (Cro) bt 12Anastasija 46, 63; Karolina Muchova day. a forearm injury this season, De Minaur (Aus) bt 31Christian Sevastova (Lat) 64, 63. (Cze) bt 29SuWei Hsieh (Tpe) Garin (Chi) 63, 75, 63; 28 Second round: 19Caroline 61, 46, 76(2); 22Petra Martic Federer, seeking his sixth was far from her best in a Big scalp: Taylor Townsend rallied to oust Simona Halep. * AP U.S. Open title, rifl ed 48 win 64, 64 defeat by German Nick Kyrgios (Aus) bt Antoine Wozniacki (Den) bt Danielle (Cro) bt Ana Bogdan (Rou) 62, Hoang (Fra) 64, 62, 64; 24 Rose Collins (USA) 46, 63, 64; 12Anastasija Sevastova ners and 10 aces to see off the Andrea Petkovic. Tiafoe 63, 36, 62, 26, 63. In men’s doubles, Indians Australian Nick Kyrgios let Matteo Berrettini (Ita) bt Jordan 64; 1Naomi Osaka (Jpn) bt (Lat) bt Iga Swiatek (Pol) 36, overmatched Evans, who is The men’s sixth seed Alex Threetime champion Rafael Divij Sharan and Leander his racquet do the talking as Thompson (Aus) 75, 76(5), Magda Linette (Pol) 62, 64; 61, 63; 18Qiang Wang (Chn) now 03 lifetime against the ander Zverev was taken to a Nadal got a walkover after Paes made a fi rst round exit he fi red 24 aces in a convinc 46, 61; 13Gael Monfils (Fra) 21Anett Kontaveit (Est) bt Ajla bt Alison Van Uytvanck (Bel) 38yearold. deciding fi fth set for a second Australian wildcard Thanasi while playing alongside Mo ing 64, 62, 64 win over un bt Marius Copil (Rou) 63, 62, Tomljanovic (Aus) 46, 75, 62; 75, 64; 30Maria Sakkari (Gre) In the women’s section, consecutive match as he Kokkinakis withdrew with an naco’s Hugo Nys and Argenti seeded Frenchman Antoine 62; 6Alexander Zverev (Ger) 13Belinda Bencic (Sui) bt Alize bt Shuai Peng (Chn) 67(5), 64, French Open champion Ash overcame American Frances injury. na’s Guillermo Duran. Hoang. bt Frances Tiafoe (USA) 63, Cornet (Fra) 64, 16, 62; Yulia 62.
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