MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 SPORTS

Umar Akmal returns to Pakistan one-day squad

KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday recalled tional is in Sharjah on Friday, followed dashing batsman Umar Akmal to their by another at the same venue on one-day squad for the upcoming October 2 and one in Abu Dhabi on series against West Indies after he was October 5. They will also play three sidelined for 18 months over discipli- Tests after the limited-over series. nary problems. The 26-year-old There were also ODI recalls for bats- played the last of his 111 one-day man Asad Shafiq and pacemen Sohail internationals in March during the Khan and Rahat Ali. Shafiq and Khan 2015 World Cup in Australia and New have not played since last year while Zealand. Negative comments about Rahat was part of the team on the Akmal’s behaviour by former head New Zealand tour in January. Pakistan coach Waqar Younis and ex-manager lost their last one-day series in Intikhab Alam almost derailed his England 4-1 and are currently ninth in career. He was recalled to the the one-day rankings. squad earlier this month Squad: Azhar Ali (), Sharjeel after being passed over for five Khan, Babar Azam, Asad Shafiq, Shoaib months. Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Pakistan lead the current three- Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad match Twenty20 series against the Nawaz, Imad Wasim, Yasir Shah, Rahat West Indies 2-0, with the final game Ali, Mohammad Amir, Wahab Riaz, on Tuesday. The first one-day interna- Hasan Ali, Sohail Khan.— AFP Bavuma stars on debut as South Africa rout Ireland

BENONI: Temba Bavuma made a century suffered a head injury. on his one-day international debut to set They will play Australia at the same up a comfortable 206-run win for South venue on Tuesday before South Africa Africa in a one-off one-day international meet Australia in five one-day internation- against Ireland at Willowmoore Park yes- als, starting at Centurion on Friday. terday. The South African team included three Bavuma hit 113 in a total of 354 for five new caps. Bavuma, established as a mid- KANPUR: India’s Cheteshwar Pujara, centre, shouts as Virat Kohli, right, fields on the fourth day of their first test match against New after South Africa were sent in to bat. dle order batsman in the Test side, was Zealand at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, India, yesterday. — AP Ireland were bowled out for 148 in reply. given his chance as an opener in the Ireland captain Will Porterfield’s gam- absence of Hashim Amla. ble did not pay off as Bavuma and All-rounders Andile Phehlukwayo and Quinton de Kock (82) punished the Irish Dwaine Pretorius were newcomers to New Zealand on the ropes, in an opening partnership of 159. international cricket. Porterfield described his team’s per- “It was a good outing,” said South formance as “disappointing” and African captain Faf du Plessis, “and all India close in on big win bemoaned early chances which went three debutants got into the game.” astray. Bavuma, who was dropped on one JP Duminy and Farhaan Behardien both when he edged Peter Chase to Kevin KANPUR: India set New Zealand an improba- SODHI the contest. Sharma, who made 35 in the first hit rapid half-centuries to take South O’Brien at second slip, took advantage of ble 434-run victory target and then blew away Left-arm spinner Santner trapped Murali Vijay innings, remained unbeaten on 68. Jadeja, who Africa to a total that always looked likely the let-off with a composed innings, the visitors’ top order in yesterday’s final ses- lbw for 76, ending the right-hander’s second scored 42 in the first innings and to be well beyond Ireland’s reach. reaching his fifty off 54 balls and his cen- sion to close in on a resounding win in the first century-plus stand of the match with claimed five with his left-arm spin, con- Porterfield was out to Kagiso Rabada tury off 110 deliveries. He was out 13 balls test. Cheteshwar Pujara (78). Kohli fell to off-spinner tinued to have a good match. without scoring to the second ball of the later after hitting 13 fours and a six. Resuming day four on 159 for one, India’s Mark Craig and Ish Sodhi struck the next blow The left-hander clobbered three sixes en Ireland innings and the visitors crumbled On a slow pitch, South Africa strug- positive batting over two sessions yielded 218 with a beauty of a delivery that spun from out- route to his second test fifty before breaking despite good innings of 40 by gled to increase their scoring rate in the runs before home captain Virat Kohli declared side leg, took the outside edge of Pujara’s bat into a bat-twirling celebration. “Still six wickets and 41 by Kevin O’Brien. middle overs but Duminy (52 not out) on 377 for five at Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium. and nestled into Taylor’s waiting hands at slip. to go,” New Zealand bowling coach Shane Off-spinner Duminy completed a good and Behardien (50) gave the innings Needing to pull off the biggest successful Ajinkya Rahane (40) missed his fifty but Rohit Jurgensen said. “If you get a partnership you can all-round day by taking a career-best four impetus with a fifth stand of 87 off chase in the history of for an unlike- Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja smashed unbeaten score at a decent rate. More importantly, you for 16. Ireland were without experienced 40 balls before Behardien was caught on ly win, New Zealand wobbled early and were half-centuries and featured in an unbroken cen- can bat for time. That’s our goal, to fight for as batsman Niall O’Brien, who slipped in his the boundary off the last ball of the reeling at 93 for four at stumps, still trailing the tury stand to virtually bat New Zealand out of long as we can.” — Reuters hotel bathroom yesterday morning and innings. — AFP massive target by 341. Luke Ronchi (38) and SCOREBOARD (eight) will return on Monday hoping to resist SCOREBOARD or at least delay India’s victory march in the first BENONI, South Africa: Scores in a one-off, one-day international between South match of the three-test series. KANPUR, India: Scoreboard yesterday at stumps of first test between India and New Zealand at Africa and Ireland at Willowmoore Park yesterday. Ravichandran Ashwin (3-68), who dismissed Green Park Stadium: four frontline Kiwi batsmen in the first innings, South Africa J. Anderson c Rabada b Parnell 5 proved once again why he is considered India’s India 1st Innings: 318 32.2-11-79-2, Mark Craig 23-3-80-1, Neil Q. de Kock b O’Brien 82 G. Wilson c De Kock b Pretorius 3 premier spinner. New Zealand 1st Innings: 262 Wagner 16-5-52-0, Ish Sodhi 20-2-99-0, Martin T. Bavuma c Poynter b Young 113 K. O’Brien c Parnell b Duminy 41 The off-spinner had caught at India 2nd Innings Guptill 4-0-17-0, 3-0-7-0. F. du Plessis c Porterfield b Young 21 S. Terry c Bavuma b Parnell 16 silly point for a duck with the first ball of his Overnight 159-1 New Zealand 2nd innings J. Duminy not out 52 S. Poynter c Phangiso b Duminy 8 Lokesh Rahul c Taylor b Sodhi 38 lbw b Ashwin 2 D. Miller c Wilson b O’Brien 14 G. Dockrell b Phangiso 16 second over and trapped Tom Latham (two) leg before with the fifth. Ashwin claimed his 200th Murali Vijay lbw b Santner 76 Martin Guptill c Vijay b Ashwin 0 F. Behardien c Porterfield b Young 50 T. Murtagh not out 13 Cheteshwar Pujara C Taylor b Sodhi 78 Kane Williamson lbw b Ashwin 25 Extras (lb9, nb1, w12) 22 C. Young b Duminy 0 test wicket when he dismissed New Zealand Total (5 wkts, 50 overs) 354 P. Chase c Miller b Duminy 0 skipper Kane Williamson (25) leg before. Virat Kohli c Sodhi b Craig 18 run out Yadav 17 Fall of wickets: 1-159 (De Kock), 2-221 (Du Extras (w6) 6 Ross Taylor (17) then ran himself out to com- Ajinkya Rahane c Taylor b Santner 40 Luke Ronchi not out 38 Plessis), 3-227 (Bavuma), 4-267 Total (30.5 overs) 148 pound the tourists’ misery. “The game’s not Rohit Sharma not out 68 Mitchell Santner not out 8 (Miller), 5-354 (Behardien) Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Porterfield), 2-26 over yet,” Ashwin told reporters after becoming Ravindra Jadeja not out 50 Extras: (2lb, 1nb) 3 Bowling: Young 10-0-81-3 (3w), Chase 10-0- (Anderson), 3-41 (Wilson), 4-77 the second fastest bowler to take 200 wickets, Extras: (1b, 8lb) 9 TOTAL: (for four wickets) 93 86-0 (1nb, 4w), Murtagh 10-0-56-0, Dockrell (Stirling) , 5-101 (Terry), 6-115 (Poynter), 7- achieving the feat in his 37th test. Total: (for five wickets declared) 377 Overs: 37. Batting time: 146 minutes. 10-0-55-0 (1w), O’Brien 10-0-66-2 (3w) 122 (O’Brien), 8-147 (Dockrell), Overs: 107.2. Batting time: 449 minutes. Still to bat: BJ Watling, Mark Craig, Neil Did not bat: D. Pretorius, W. Parnell, A. 9-148 (Young) Former Australia spinner Clarrie Grimmett took one test fewer to reach the mark. “We Did not bat: Ravichandran Ashwin, Wagner, , Ish Sodhi. Phehlukwayo, K. Rabada, A. Bowling: Rabada 4-1-22-1 (3w), Parnell 6-1- Wriddhiman Saha, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-3, 3-43, 4-56. Phangiso. 36-2 (2w), Pretorius 5-0-19-1, Phehlukwayo should have got them five or six down today 4-0-22-0, Phangiso 7-0-33-2, Duminy 4.5-0- itself. I’m bit disappointed,” Ashwin added. Yadav. Bowling: Mohammed Shami 4-2-6-0, Ireland 16-4 (1w) Earlier in the morning, Williamson attacked Fall of wickets: 1-52, 2-185, 3-214, 4-228, 5-277. Ravichandran Ashwin 16-1-68-3, Ravindra W. Porterfield lbw b Rabada 0 Result: South Africa won by 206 runs. with spin from both ends and his slow bowlers Bowling: Trent Boult 9-0-34-0, Mitchell Santner Jadeja 14-10-8-0, Umesh Yadav 3-0-9-0. P. Stirling lbw b Phangiso 40 did not let him down. Bangladesh win thriller against Afghanistan

DHAKA: Paceman Taskin Ahmed tiative. Tamim struck nine fours in his made a brilliant comeback to interna- 80 off 98 balls and in the process tional cricket as he claimed four wick- became the first Bangladeshi crick- ets to steer Bangladesh to pull off a eter to score 9,000 runs in interna- thrilling seven-run win in the first tional cricket. one-day international against He put on 83 with Imrul Kayes (37) Afghanistan in Dhaka yesterday. for the second wicket and then Replying to Bangladesh’s 265 runs, another 79 with Mahmudullah for the Afghanistan looked to be well in con- third wicket before being removed by trol when Hashmatullah (72) and Mirwais Ashraf. Rahmat Shah (71) put on a solid 144 Mahmudullah smashed 62 off 74 runs for the third wicket partnership. balls and looked poised for a big (2-26) broke the innings after reaching his half-century stand before the hosts clawed their with a boundary off Dawlat. way back to dismiss Afghanistan for Off-spinner Mohammad Nabi 258 runs in the last ball of the final removed Mahmudullah, who also over. Bangladesh now lead the three- struck five fours in his innings, in his match series 1-0 lead. next over when Ashraf took a fine Taskin, who was cleared to bowl in catch diving forward at backward international cricket just two days square leg. ago, held his nerve in the final over, Afghanistan made something of a when Afghanistan needed 13 runs, comeback when Mushfiqur Rahim but the visitors, who lost their last six (six) and Sabbir Rahman (two) fell wickets for 28 runs, could mange just cheaply. But Shakib ensured five. Shakib’s exploit enabled him Bangladesh did not lose their way overtake Abdur Razzak as with 48 off 40 balls. Bangladesh’s leading wicket taker in “Last three months we were work- one-day internationals (ODIs) with ing hard, but the way we played we 208 scalps. were not up to the mark. We could “We knew this game was going to have scored 280-plus, but the set be tricky,” said Shakib, who won the batsmen got out,” said Bangladesh man-of-the-match award for his all- skipper Mortaza. round performance. “We are playing Dawlat claimed four wickets for 73 ODIs after almost a year. We were while Nabi and spinner Rashid Khan careful and short by 20 runs,” he said. grabbed two wickets each for Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah Afghanistan. Riyad earlier struck half-centuries to Afghanistan skipper Stanikzai guide Bangladesh to a respectable hailed the performance of total after skipper Mortaza won the Bangladeshi bowlers. toss and elected to bat first. “Congratulations Bangladesh. Their The home side, playing their first bowlers bowled very well, that’s why ODI in 11 months, suffered a blow in they won the match,” Stanikzai said. the first over when Dawlat Zadran dis- The second and third match will be missed Soumya Sarkar for a duck, but held at the same venue on September DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, on ground, dives to stop the ball during the first one-day international cricket match against Afghanistan in the top order soon regained the ini- 28 and October 1. — AFP Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. — AP