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DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE New Zealand gallops to victory and series sweep India’s abject surrender is complete as hosts win by seven wickets captain fended into the cor­ INDIA IN NZ don, and then sent down the arms. He was held at deep the bowler’s head for a six. square­leg off Southee. S. Dinakar pacy off­cutter that account­ He then struck the left­ Christchurch ed for the attractive Tom armer cleanly past mid­on to Blundell (55), the Indian at­ Jadeja fires the ropes. The rout was complete. The tack did not appear It was left to Ravindra Jadeja, Indians had nowhere to hide But then, things have not threatening. that wonderful athlete, to at the Hagley Oval. Out­ been going right for India in The fluent left­hander, launch into the bowling. He played in both skill and stra­ did just that. the series. And sure enough, Tom Latham (52), was the a mix­up with Jadeja saw tegy by the New Zealanders, A natural striker of the the Indians seemed to be only other wicket to fall, well Bumrah being run out. caught by a leaping Rishabh ball, the left­hander waded looking for the earliest flight into Boult, striking a full­ The Indians had run out to catch home. Pant as he attempted to pull Umesh Yadav. length delivery straight over of gas too. Clinical approach Fine start New Zealand, clinical with SCOREBOARD its end­game skills and win­ New Zealand’s opening pair of Latham and Blundell ning the key moments of the INDIA — 1ST INNINGS: 242 NEW ZEALAND BOWLING played with the right blend game, won the second Test NEW ZEALAND — 1ST INNINGS: Southee 11­2­36­3, Boult 14­4­ of offence and defence un­ by a whopping seven wickets 235 28­4, Jamieson 8­4­18­0, der a cloud cover, with a stiff and swept the series 2­0 on INDIA — 2ND INNINGS Grandhomme 5­3­3­1, Wagner Monday, only the third day wind blowing across the Prithvi Shaw c Latham b 8­1­18­1. of the Test. ground. The duo’s 103­run Southee (14, 24b, 2x4), Mayank NEW ZEALAND — 2ND INNINGS The exciting Kyle Jamie­ opening partnership settled Agarwal lbw b Boult 3 (6b), Tom Latham c Pant b Umesh 52 son was Man­of­the­Match the issue. Cheteshwar Pujara b Boult 24 (74b, 10x4), Tom Blundell b Bumrah 55 (113b, 8x4, 1x6), and ace of swing Tim South­ Blundell crouches in his (88b, 2x4), Virat Kohli lbw b stance but if the ball is Grandhomme 14 (30b, 3x4), Kane Willamson c Rahane b ee Player­of­the­Series. Bumrah 5 (8b, 1x4), Ross Taylor pitched short, he can quick­ Ajinkya Rahane b Wagner 9 India added only 34 runs (not out) 5 (9b, 1x4), Henry ly stand tall and drive the (43b, 1x4), Umesh Yadav b Boult for its last four wickets in the 1 (12b), Hanuma Vihari c Watling Nicholls (not out) 5 (13b, 1x4);

sphere to the cover fence. A * morning — the late­order High­fliers: The New Zealanders have every reason to be pleased having comprehensively beaten India in the Test series.AP b Southee 9 (18b, 2x4), Rishabh Extras (b­1, lb­8, nb­1): 10; Total fightback remaining an illu­ fine back­foot player, he was Pant c Watling b Boult 12 (14b), (for three wkts. in 36 overs): sion — and a target of 132 was airborne as he punched collected runs with typical work and strokeplay are dic­ Trent Boult, who had left and come up with the Ravindra Jadeja (not out) 16 132. hardly going to stretch New Umesh through point and efficiency. He timed Bumrah tated by the length of the bowled magnificently in this ball. (22b, 1x4, 1x6), Mohammed FALL OF WICKETS Zealand. rose on his toes to strike Mo­ to the cover fence, the ball ball. innings with his left­armer’s Then Pant perished to a Shami c Blundell b Southee 5 1­103 (Latham, 27.6), 2­112 (Wil­ Kane Williamson’s men al­ hammed Shami between meeting the sweet spot in His back­lift is measured angle and precision in his tame push as Boult angled (11b), Jasprit Bumrah run out 4 liamson 30.6), 3­121 (Blundell, 32.5). so picked up 120 points from point and cover. the willow. and there are occasions swing, and Southee teamed one across the left­hander. (8b, 1x4); Extras (b­9, lb­12): 21. The opener with a rather After lunch, Latham when his boundaries are just up again. Picked more for the X­factor Total (in 46 overs): 124. INDIA BOWLING the series. New Zealand, in Bumrah 13­2­39­2, Umesh 14­3­ high backlift also on­drove pulled and hooked short­ an extension of a defensive in his batting than ’keeping FALL OF WICKETS all, has 180 points while In­ Wickets continued to tum­ 45­1, Shami 3­1­11­0, Jadeja 50­ Shami — who bowled despite pitched offerings from push. in the eleven, India needed 1­8 (Agarwal, 1.5), 2­26 (Shaw, dia stays on 360. ble. Hanuma Vihari was a 8.1), 3­51 (Kohli, 17.1), 4­72 (Ra­ 24­0, Kohli 1­0­4­0. a “batting impact injury” — Umesh. The Kiwi innings Pant to go after the bowling Save Jasprit Bumrah after In the morning, the In­ tad unlucky, though, at­ hane, 30.3), 5­84 (Pujara, 33.1), Man­of­the­Match: Jamieson. lunch, when he fired out and gloriously cover­drove was galloping along. dians had to build partner­ tempting to work Southee instead of coming up with 6­89 (Umesh, 35.1), 7­97 (Vi­ Man­of­the­Series: Southee. Kane Williamson with a Bumrah to the fence. Latham is a compact or­ ships, see through the first fine only to see ’keeper B­J. ‘nothing’ shots. hari, 38.4), 8­97 (Pant, 39.3), 9­ New Zealand won by seven mean lifter which the Kiwi At the other end, Latham ganised player whose foot­ hour. They didn’t. Watling fling himself to his Shami, at least, freed his 108 (Shami, 42.4). wickets to sweep series 2-0. Didn’t play to our potential, admits Kohli Williamson pleased at outplaying world’s best

S. Dinakar Kiwi skipper enthused by Jamieson’s rise as an all­rounder Christchurch Special Correspondent Virat Kohli’s demeanour re­ Christchurch flected his mood. Kane Williamson flashed a He was bitterly disappoint­ smile before getting down to ed at India’s capitulation. answering questions. He was There was no fight, no resis­ pleased by his team’s 2­0 tance as the Indians slumped sweep over the No. 1­ranked to yet another defeat on day Test team in the world. three here. This was New Zealand’s On India’s last tour of sixth straight Test series win South Africa, Kohli had spo­ at home and even in his mo­ ken passionately following ment of triumph, William­ India’s Test series defeat at son was measured and in­ Centurion. He had said: “To sightful with his views. No win Test series abroad you brave talk, just plain com­ got to keep thinking and mon sense. dreaming about it everyday.” Well played! Indians congratulate the New Zealanders at the end of the match.* AP Plainspeak Pragmatic we played in this series. take away from here is to not Kohli was not willing to It was a lot like his flowing But then, as he answered “Every challenge that shy away from things that blame any particular bat­ batting and smart captaincy. questions here on Monday, comes our way, we try to take have gone wrong. Instead, sman for getting stuck at the No fancy stuff; just hard sub­ Kohli appeared more prag­ it head­on. I feel like we were address them straight up, crease. “You take the hit col­ stance. The New Zealand matic. He had taken the hard completely outplayed in this and not be in denial. Accep­ lectively,” he said. captain said: “An outstand­ knocks as a batsman and cap­ series. There is no shame in tance is the first word.” ing performance. I don’t tain in the series. He was sob­ being outplayed at the inter­ The India skipper elabo­ On Pant think the result reflects how er; that fire you saw at Centu­ national level.” rated: “Because we do have a On Rishabh Pant not deliver­ competitive this match was. rion was missing. He added: “We obviously lot of cricket away from home ing despite being given Perhaps another 50 more Kohli said: “Obviously, didn’t play the kind of cricket coming this season. chances, he said, “You got to runs from the Indians would quite disappointed with how we do as a team. The thing to “It is something we are op­ strike a balance. have made it quite a ba­ timistic about, and looking “You cannot push a player lanced­looking game.” forward to. Things that have out too early. It can damage Williamson said his team were a massive factor. Even Queried on Trent Boult’s he looks to approach his in­ not gone right here, we his confidence.” had stepped up after the de­ if you do adapt quickly, you magnificent bowling, he nings. His runs were very va­ would like to be in similar sit­ Kohli said the team was bacle against Australia. “We may still have a good ball said: “He’s a fantastic bowler luable. As a bowler, it’s not uations and correct them.” not dependent on his batting all know how strong India with your name on it.” and when the ball is moving only his height and the Kohli admitted India had alone. “It’s not like that at all. are all around the world and On playing England, Aus­ he’s a great exponent of put­ bounce that he gets but he not been positive enough in If you take the Australia se­ there has been a lot of talk tralia and India in back­to­ ting it in the right areas from bowls a very, very good line the series. “We were not ries, Pujara made the biggest about their pace attack and back Test series, he said: that left­armer’s angle and to challenge guys around the brave enough in moments, contribution there.” they certainly showed their “Probably the three top Test getting that movement. fourth stump.” which we have done in the When asked by a local re­ quality in this series. A lot to teams in the world. Disap­ Whether in the nets or out in Although the toss was im­ past. Even though we lost, we porter about his alleged take from the series against pointing showing in Austra­ the middle.” portant, Williamson felt it still competed. Skills follow swear words against Kane the best team in the world at lia but then at the same time On Kyle Jamieson’s deve­ was not the only factor in the your mind­set. We needed to Williamson, Kohli snapped the moment.” it was important that we con­ lopment as an all­rounder, series. “The ball moved con­ have more clarity as bat­ back, “I have spoken to the About batting on seaming tinued to play the style of he said: “He is batting beau­ siderably throughout the smen. Perhaps we made too match referee. There is noth­ tracks with bounce, he ob­ cricket that wins us matches tifully and can truly bat in two games. So bowling first much of the conditions.” ing to it.” served: “The conditions at home.” terms of technique and how was not the game.”

Panghal gets Real ends six­year league Clasico drought top billing Beats Barcelona at the Bernabeu for the first time since 2014; Zapata is Atalanta’s hat­trick hero PRESS TRUST OF INDIA EURO LEAGUES Madrid’s fans also got to AMMAN (JORDAN) toast a league win over Barca Two­time World cham­ Agencies at the Santiago Bernabeu for pionships bronze medallist Madrid the first time since 2014. Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), Real Madrid beat Barcelona Asian championships gold 2­0 in Sunday’s top­of­the­ta­ Chastening defeats medallist Pooja Rani (75kg) ble ‘Clasico’, leapfrogging its Real swallowed chastening and Commonwealth rival at the LaLiga summit af­ defeats by Levante in LaLiga Games silver medallist Sat­ ter a week in which its pride and Manchester City in the ish Kumar (+91kg) were left had taken a beating at home Champions League in the one win away from qualify­ and in Europe. past week but in the second ing for the Tokyo Olympics half it overwhelmed Barca, as the draw for the Asia/ Brazilian teenager Vinici­ threatening on numerous oc­ Oceania Olympic quali­ us Jr scored the opener in the casions before breaking the fiers, scheduled to be held 71st minute with a strike that deadlock. in Amman (Jordan) from deflected off Gerard Pique, “We deserve our victory March 3 to 11, was an­ flummoxing goalkeeper for everything we did, in at­ win over lowly Lecce to (Savic 24­og) drew with Atleti­ nounced on Monday. Marc­Andre ter Stegen who tack and defence,” Zidane maintain its grip on the co Madrid 1 (Saul 47); Real Mal­ World championships had made some jaw­drop­ told reporters. “It has been a Champions League spots. lorca 0 lost to Getafe 1 (Maksi­ silver medallist Amit Pang­ ping saves, and substitute movic 67). complicated week for us and Breaking through: Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior celebrates after finding a way past Barcelona hal (52kg) and six­time Mariano added the second in we had the chance to turn goalkeeper Marc­Andre ter Stegen. * AFP Breathtaking second half Real Madrid 2 (Vinicius 71, World champion Mary injury time. things around and we did Eleven days after it thrashed Mariano 90+2) bt Barcelona 0. Kom (51kg) will be able to was confirmed by an unlikely rie A match with Hellas Vero­ said that the match had been Real’s victory means it that.” Valencia in its last match, Serie A: Lecce 2 (Saponara 29, make the trip to Tokyo if leads the standings on 56 Barcelona had bossed the source in forward Mariano, na has become the sixth rescheduled for May 13 Gian Piero Gasperini’s side Donati 40) lost to Atalanta 7 they win their first two points after 26 games, with first period and twice could who had only just come off match this week to be post­ alongside the five other showed why it is considered (Donati 17­og, Zapata 22, 54, bouts and reach the Barca static on 55, while Zi­ have taken the lead but its the bench to make his first poned, Italy’s top flight an­ games from this week’s one of the most exciting 62, Ilicic 47, Muriel 87, Malinov­ semifinals. nedine Zidane’s side also impotence was summed up league appearance of the nounced on Sunday as the round that had already been teams in Europe with a skyi 90+1). While Panghal is the top season. coronavirus outbreak plays shelved due to the spread of crucially has the better head­ when Lionel Messi raced to­ breathtaking second­half dis­ Cagliari 3 (Joao Pedro 28, seed, Mary Kom is seeded to­head record in the event wards goal but was easily havoc with the country’s the COVID­19 virus. play that blitzed its promot­ 89, Pereiro 75) lost to Roma 4 second. Lovlina and Pooja both sides finish level on tracked down by Marcelo. Postponed football calendar. Duvan Zapata’s hat­trick ed opponent. (Kalinic 29, 42, Kluivert 64, have been seeded second points. The long­awaited victory Meanwhile, Sampdoria’s Se­ In a statement, the league fired Atalanta to a huge 7­2 The results: La Liga: Espanyol 1 Mkhitaryan 81). and fourth.

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