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Rohit’s dismissal puts on backfoot Hardik and Krunal Pandya after rookie attack restricts to 369 bereaved as father passes away , JANU- , JANU- lences to his family and dear ARY 16: 's ARY 16: India all-rounder ones at this tough time. indiscreet shot selection and his #rip,” tweeted Yusuf, who pegged India back after brother Krunal’s father Hi- also played for Baroda. rookie attack re- manshu has died. India skipper stricted Australia to 369 on a Krunal, who was leading and legendary Sachin Ten- rain-curtailed second day of Baroda in the Syed Mushtaq dulkar, led the cricketing the fourth Test on Saturday. Ali trophy, has left the bio- fraternity in condoling Hi- With heavy thunder- bubble created for the tour- manshu’s demise. showers preventing any nament to be with his fam- “Heartbroken to hear play in the post tea session, ily, association secretary Ajit about the demise of Hardik India ended the day at 62 Lele told PTI. and Krunal’s dad. Spoke to for two. Hardik is not playing the him a couple of times, Rohit was elegant as ever national T20 tournament as looked a joyful and full of life in his 44 off 74 balls before he is preparing for the white- person. May his soul rest in in his 100th ball series against England. peace. Stay strong you two. Test enticed him to come Himanshu had played a @hardikpandya7 @krunal- down the track but the half- key role in the success of his pandya24,” tweeted Kohli. chip-half-loft was safely cricketer sons. doled the death of Pandya @krunalpandya24 @hardik- “Really sorry to hear about pouched by Krunal scored a match- brothers’ father. pandya7,” said , the demise of your father in the deep. winning 76 in the opening “Remember meeting un- himself a former Baroda @krunalpandya24 & (second left) game against Uttarakhand cle for the first time at . @hardikpandya7. Condo- is congratulated by team- only helped that the Aus- forced to field a depleted scoring 350 in the first in- and has also taken four motibagh. He was so keen “A loved one passing away lences to your family and mates after taking a catch to tralian pace attack is a more side, won't mind an in- nings. in the first three for his sons to play good is never an easy moment for friends. May God give you dismiss Shubman Gill dur- well-built one with average clement weather which ef- Mayank Agarwal drops a games. . My condolences to anyone. I sincerely admire strength on these difficult ing play on day two of the speed being at least 6-7 fectively makes the home catch off the of Irfan Pathan and his You and family. May god the sacrifices uncle made for times,” wrote Tendulkar. fourth cricket Test on Sat- kmph more than their In- team more jittery as a draw Mitchell Starc of Australia brother Yusuf, both former give you strength to pass his sons @krunalpandya24 PTI urday. AP/PTI Photo dian counterparts. would be enough for during day two of the fourth India cricketers, also con- through this difficult time @hardikpandya7. Condo- India also lost Shubman Pujara, at the other end, Ajinkya Rahane to lift the Test match at . Gill (7) who edged one off was playing his usual Border-Gavaskar Trophy. AAP Image via REUTERS to Steve 'grinding out' game but it In the first session, In- Resuming at 274 for five, Smith. didn't look too arduous till dia's rookie bowling line-up (50) and Australian Open: 47 players quarantined (8) Rohit kept the scoreboard did put up a lion-hearted ef- Cameron Green (47) ex- and Ajinkya Rahane (2) ticking at the other end. fort, getting the last five tended their stand to 98 be- added only two runs in the It wouldn't be an over- wickets for 95 runs. fore the home team en- after COVID-19 cases on flights 6.1 overs before the break. statement to say that (3/94), countered a mini-collapse. , JAN- positive for the new coro- There were six bound- among all top-order bats- along with debutants Thakur bowled a fuller UARY 16: Forty-seven navirus, which he had pre- aries from Rohit but he did men across both sides, Rohit Washington Sundar (3/89) that shaped away players have been forced viously had, and world 13 not fiddle at deliveries in looked the most comfort- and Thangarasu Natarajan and Paine's lazy drive with- into two weeks of hotel doubles player Victoria and around the off-stump able and till his dismissal (3/78), got the break- out going to the pitch of the quarantine in Melbourne Azarenka of Belarus. channel even as Cummins never looked like being throughs while Mohammed delivery saw Rohit Sharma after three coronavirus in- "We are communicating and troubled by the four- Siraj (28-10-77-1) got one take a regulation catch at fections were reported on with everyone on this bowled a testing spell under pronged attack. on the opening day. the second slip. two chartered flights carry- flight, and particularly the overcast conditions. Washington Sundar (cen- For an attack as thin on Paine was just getting ing them to the year's first playing group whose con- The shot of the session tre) is congratulated by experience as India, the ef- into the groove with some grand slam, the tourna- ditions have now changed, was an on-drive off Cum- teammates after talking the fort in adverse times can good drives when Thakur ment organisers said on to ensure their needs are mins which came after a of Nathan Lyon dur- only be commended. India provided the breakthrough. Saturday. being catered to as much streaky through ing play on day two of the lost five main bowlers With the bro- Two dozen players who as possible," said tourna- the slips in the same over. fourth cricket Test. AP/PTI through the three Test ken, Green probably lost his arrived from Los Angeles ment director Craig Tiley. Another delightful stroke Photo matches and were forced to concentration as he played entered strict hotel quaran- rooms for 14 days and until Australia has agreed to Scottish former world was an off-drive off However, as has been his hand Test debuts to Natara- for the turn to an angle de- tine after an aircrew mem- they are medically cleared, accept about 1,200 players, number one Andy Murray Cameron Green as 49 runs wont, Rohit just before the jan and Washington. livery from Sundar which ber and Australian Open they said. officials and staff on 15 revealed he tested positive were added for the second tea break went after Lyon Nathan Lyon (24 off 22 straightened after pitching participant who is not a "They will not be eligible flights for the major sport- for COVID-19 last week wicket. when the situation de- balls) and Mitchell Starc and breached through his player tested positive for to practise." ing event that is due to be- but said he was in good Indian players celebrate manded that he could have (20 off 35 balls) counter-at- defences. the new coronavirus. The decision will trans- gin next month. health and still hoped to the dismissal of Pat Cum- played for session-end. tacked the inexperienced Pat Cummins (2) was ad- Later, another non- late into unequal prepara- Apart from Cuevas, Mexi- compete. American Madi- mins during play on day It was very similar to his Indian attack with a brisk judged leg before as he player passenger on a flight tion for the participants. can player Santiago Gonza- son Keys pulled out last two of the fourth cricket dismissal off at 39-run partnership to take yorked himself to a fuller from Abu Dhabi tested pos- Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas lez also confirmed being week after she tested posi- Test. AP/PTI Photo the stroke of tea during the Australia past 350-run delivery from Thakur as itive, prompting the organ- took to Twitter to express on that flight in a social tive. There wasn't much swing 2014 series and that was mark. Australia slumped from 311 isers to usher 23 players his feelings. media post. The inbound infections on offer but the pace off the also after being set in the Going by statistics, Aus- for five to 315 for eight be- into hotel quarantine. "From having 5 hours of Other players cited by lo- came as Australia recorded track has increased com- middle-order. tralia have never lost a Test fore the tail wagged once All three who tested posi- training in a bubble to cal media as likely to be on one locally acquired case, as pared to the first day and it India, who have been match at the Gabba after again to beef up the total. tive had been transferred to this...(strict quarantine x 15 the flight included Tennys states began to relax travel a health hotel, the organis- days). I will be showing you Sandgren, who was bans on signs an outbreak ers said in a statement. my workouts x Instagram granted special permission in the northern state of The players would not be (inside the room)," wrote to travel from Los Angeles Queensland had been con- No regret of playing that shot off Lyon, I will able to leave their hotel the world number 68. late last week after testing tained. keep playing such strokes: Rohit Sharma World Golf Championship BRISBANE, JANU- bit on the off-stump to ARY 16: Rohit Sharma un- make sure that I cover the derstands the criticism that line and don’t push my his untimely dismissal has hands outside the off- invited but the India vice- stump. That’s the little ad- moving from Mexico to Florida captain has “no regrets” justment that I did,” he ex- about going after Nathan plained. BRADENTON, JANU- Lyon, saying that’s his way During his two weeks of ARY 16: The World Golf of putting bowlers under hard quarantine, he Championship is moving pressure. watched the Australian pac- from Mexico City to the Gulf Rohit looked in good ers at work in and Coast of Florida this year, a touch during his 44 off 74 Melbourne and made a change driven by the COVID- balls but was dismissed try- mental note of how he 19 pandemic that has put re- ing to loft Lyon over mid- would approach their first strictions on travel and kept wicket, the kind of shots spells. away spectators. that has often brought “I was watching the first The PGA Tour sent a memo nowhere. It’s a shot that I of confidence in me. It’s just to players on Friday inform- about his dismissal even have played well in the past. that I have to do what the two Tests and saw the disci- during earlier Test pline that Aussie bowlers ing them of the relocation for That’s something that I team expects me to do and February 25-28. It will be matches. back myself to play and not worry about what hap- had and you have to try and “You always have a plan figure out ways to score played at The Concession Golf that’s the kind of role I play pens anywhere else or what Club in Bradenton, co-de- and I actually have no re- in this team. When it looks people talk about,” Rohit runs against these guys. gret of playing that shot. It They don’t give anything signed by Jack Nicklaus and like that, it looks bad, but I said. Tony Jacklin. is something that I always don’t think too much as my Rohit has had starts in all easy. like to do — put pressure on “What has really worked Still to be determined is the focus is to make it count three innings — 27 and 52 title sponsor for this year’s bowlers. Nathan Lyon is a once I am in,” he said. in apart from his 44 in the first half of my bat- smart bowler and he ting is getting closer to the event at The Concession, “Having said that, there is over here. which began in 1999 with a bowled into me, which a process I like to follow. He explained about the ball and try and leave any- made it difficult for me to thing outside the off-stump. history of moving around the Sometimes you get out and technical adjustments that world. The Concession will be which counts TV Azteca Valderrama in 1999 and Ireland (Mt. Juliet) and Eng- get some elevation,” Rohit sometimes it goes over the he made in Sydney and now And then once I am in, try said at the post-match vir- and play a few shots as well its ninth venue. among its many businesses, 2000, and originally it was al- land (The Grove). ropes. Unfortunate and sad in Brisbane as he has tack- The Tour said it plans to re- after the WGC event at been ternating between the US and Tiger Woods won the tual conference. dismissal in the end to be led the Australian pacers because that’s what you His shot selection invited want to do, score runs and turn to Mexico City in 2022. at Doral since 2007. Europe. championship six times, on honest. Like I said, those well. Along with travel being lim- The WGC-Mexico Cham- Previous American sites every course it was played ex- criticism from the com- are my shots and I will keep “In Sydney, there wasn’t see how they react when mentary box. India were 62 you score runs,” he said. ited between the United State pionship provided high-end were Bellerive (canceled by cept for Mexico, which he playing them,” the senior much bounce, so I was stay- and Mexico, not having spec- hotels and security to and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in played only once. for two at stumps when Ro- player was forthright about ing on leg stump of the ball On the match situation, hit could have gone for a big Rohit said although 369 at tators has severely cut into from Chapultepec Golf Club, 2001), Capital City Club north The Concession Club was his mind-set. and here I knew the line revenues for running events and the tournament attracted of Atlanta (2003) and Hard- named after the famous Ry- score after a good start. As he has always main- and lengths particulary of the Gabba was a very good Rohit understands the first innings score, and and caused each tournament a strong field. Dustin Johnson ing Park (2005) before a per- der Cup moment in 1969 tained, he doesn’t have the two right handers (Pat to get creative in trying to raise won in 2017 and 2018, while manent spot in Florida at Do- when Nicklaus conceded a disappointment but in his much time for his critics Cummins and Josh Hazle- there was no reason why In- defence would explain why dia — with two of their most money for its local charities, Phil Mickelson beat Justin ral. The tour was searching for short par putt to Jacklin for and would rather focus on wood), they try and test you which typically are funded by Thomas in a playoff in 2018 a new sponsor when Mexico the matches to end in a tie (the he went for that kind of a the role his team wants him outside the off-stump all seasoned campaigners at high-risk stroke. the crease — can’t match the net proceeds. and Patrick Reed won last stepped in. US retained the trophy). It to perform. the time. The tour signed an agree- year. In Europe, the WGC it was previously hosted the NCAA “It’s not that it is (that “The team has shown lot “So, here, I came a little the home team’s total on a shot) coming out of good batting track. ment with Grupo Salinas, The tournament began at held in Spain (Valderrama), championships in 2015.