SPORT 17 We Play Too Much with a 20-Team League (In France)
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SATURDAY 21 DECEMBER 2019 SPORT 17 We play too much with a 20-team league (in France). If we want to TODAY’STO ACTION have quality games with top Paris Saint Germanin MatchMa for third place players we should have more coach Thomas Tuchel MonterreyMo vs Al Hilal (17:30) possibilities to change players FinalFin from one game to another. LiverpoolLiv vs Flamengo (20:30) England add Second Test: Five-star Afridi leads cover to squad hit by Pakistan fightback against Sri Lanka illness in AFP KARACHI South Africa Lanky paceman Shaheen Shah REUTERS Afridi took a maiden five-wicket JOHANNESBURG haul to lead Pakistan’s fightback after Sri Lanka gained a crucial England added two bowlers to lead in the second Test in Karachi their squad yesterdayafter yesterday. illness struck the camp less than The 19-year-old paceman a week before the first Test took 5-77 and was ably supported against hosts South Africa, the by new-ball partner Mohammad England and Wales Cricket Abbas (4-55) to keep Sri Lanka Board said. down to 271 on a tricky National Seamer Craig Overton and Stadium pitch. off-spinner Dominic Bess will That gave the visitors a lead join the squad as cover ahead of 80 runs over Pakistan’s first- of the start of the four-Test innings total of 191. series, which begins on Boxing By the close of second day’s Day in Pretoria. play Pakistan had wiped off 57 of Bowlers Jofra Archer, Stuart the deficit for no loss but they still Broad and Jack Leach are trail by 23 runs with all 10 wickets among a host of squad in hand and three days to play. members hit by ‘flu-like’ Opener Abid Ali -- who symptoms sweeping through became the first batsman ever to the England camp. hit a debut hundred in both Test Batsmen Joe Denly and and one-day international in the fielding coach Carl Hopkinson first match in Rawalpindi -- was were also suffering, officials unbeaten on 32 and Shan Masood said. on 21 not out. Bess, 22, played two Tests The first Test in Rawalpindi against Pakistan in 2018 while ended in a draw due to bad 25-year-old Overton won the weather, leaving both teams to last of four caps in the Ashes in fight it out for the series win in September. The Somerset duo Karachi. are due to arrive in Johan- Pkistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi (centre) makes a successful caught behind catch appeal against Sri The series is part of the SCOREBOARD nesburg today. Lanka’s Oshada Fernando during their second Test cricket match at the National Cricket Stadium in ongoing World Test champi- The raft of sick players saw Karachi, yesterday. Pakistan 1st innings ............................191 onship with nine teams com- Sri Lanka 1st innings England request a downgrading peting. The top two teams will O. Fernando c Rizwan b Shaheen ........................4 of their three-match warm-up play the final in June 2021. have to get the runs they got, so I It were Abbas and Shaheen invaluable 36 for the ninth wicket D. Karunaratne b Abbas ...................................... 25 game against South Africa A at Sri Lanka fought through just try to play positive and it who rattled the Sri Lankan with Vishwa Fernando to increase K. Mendis c Sohail b Abbas .................................. 13 Willowmoore Park in Benoni, Dinesh Chandimal who made 74 helped. batting. Sri Lanka’s lead before Shaheen A. Mathews c Rizwan b Shaheen ........................ 13 which began yesterday with and Dilruwan Perera who made “I think if we get early wickets Abbas had nightwatchman took the last two wickets in three L. Embuldeniya c Shafiq b Abbas ........................13 England winning the toss and D. Chandimal c Masood b Sohail .......................74 a fighting 48 batting at number tomorrow and keep them down Lasith Embuldeniya caught in the balls. electing to bat. D. de Silva c Abbas b Shaheen ...........................32 nine. to below 250 then that will be a slip for 13 before left-armer Afridi Shahen’s previous best of N. Dickwella b Abbas ............................................ 21 The downgrading of the With his team wobbling at winning score.” dismissed Angelo Mathews, also 4-64 came in the Centurion Test D. Perera lbw b Shaheen .................................... 48 game offers the chance for the 80-5 in the morning, Chandimal Chandimal was finally dis- for 13. against South Africa earlier this V. Fernando not out .................................................5 sick trio to still get in some built partnerships of 67 with missed by part-time spinner De Silva, who scored a year. L. Kumara b Shaheen ............................................. 0 bowling practice over the Dhananjaya de Silva (32) for the Haris Sohail, caught at backward century in the first Test, batted Perera hit six boundaries and Extras: (b 4, lb 10, nb 3, w 6) ........................... 23 weekend before the start of the sixth wicket, 37 for the seventh point after he mistimed a cut. He with grit to frustrate Pakistan and a six in his 84-ball stay. Total: (all out; 85.5 overs) ......................271 first Test at Centurion next wicket with Niroshan Dickwella hit 10 boundaries in his 143-ball take Sri Lanka to 170-6 at lunch. The Test series -- part of the Fall of wickets: 1-28 (Oshada), 2-39 (Karu- Thursday. (21) and then another 51 with knock. Shaheen broke the stand by ongoing World Test champi- naratne), 3-61 (Mendis), 4-78 (Embuldeniya), 5-80 It is the last chance for the (Mathews), 6-147 (de Silva), 7-184 (Dickwella), Perera for the eighth. The extended two-and-a-half luring De Silva into hooking onship -- is the first in Pakistan 8-235 (Chandimal), 9-271 (Perera) likes of Archer and Broad, “It was not an easy pitch to hour first session belonged to straight into the hands of deep since a militant attack on the Sri Bowling: Shaheen 26.5-5-77-5 (1nb), Abbas 27-9- expected to start the first test, bat on,” Chandimal said. Pakistan who took three early square-leg fielder Abbas, who Lankan team bus in 2009 sus- 55-4 (1w), Naseem 16-1-71-0 (2nb, 5w), Yasir 13-0- to bowl after they missed a “At one time we were strug- wickets after Sri Lanka resumed held a running catch. pended international cricket in 43-0, Sohail 3-0-11-1 two-day warm-up game that gling at 80-5 and I knew first we at 64-3. Perera also added an the country. ended on Wednesday. Tokyo 2020 Olympics unveil final budget of $12.6bn Global sport doping cases AFP up 13% in 2017: WADA TOKYO AFP MONTREAL The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are expected to cost some ¥1.35trn Doping cases in international sport rose 13 percent in ($12.6bn), organisers said 2017 against the year before, the annual report of the yeseterday, unveiling a final budget World Anti-Doping Agency said on Thursday. showing increased revenue The Montreal-based agency reported 1,804 Anti- balancing out extra costs including Doping Rule Violations for 2017, a rise from 1,595 in countermeasures against heat. 2016. However, officials admitted the It said the cases in 2017 involved people from 114 budget does not yet include an esti- nationalities, across 93 sports. mated ¥2bn for moving the mar- Italy had the largest number of infractions, at 171, athon and race walk north to followed by France at 128 and the United States with Sapporo, as they wrangle with the 103. International Olympic Committee Brazil had 84 and Russia 82, said the report, issued (IOC) over who bears the cost. on the same day that Russia said it would contest its Revenues from domestic spon- ban from major sporting events over doping sorship and robust ticket sales have The National Stadium, venue for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 violations. increased income by ¥30bn, Olympic Games, is seen during a media tour following the The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on according to the fourth and final stadium’s completion in Tokyo in this December 15 file photo. December 10 banned Russia from major global events version of the Olympic budget. -- including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 This equals out a rise in forecast World Cup in Qatar -- for four years. expenditure for items such as explained Gakuji Ito, executive in the other direction, with some bid in 2013 and 2018 at ¥1.06trn, Widespread, state-sponsored doping in Russia, transport and security -- as well as director for planning and finance at sports voicing fears that the cuts nearly 10 times the budget. notably between 2011 and 2015, was revealed in an the heat-busting measures. Tokyo 2020. could harm the athletes’ experience Ito countered that this estimate independent report released three years ago by sports The overall ¥1.35trn budget for “We will go into it line-by-line plus the all-important “look” of the includes items not directly related lawyer Richard McLaren. the Games is unchanged since the and we will interact with the IOC on Games. to games operations. “The definition Russia’s athletics team was barred from the 2016 last version of the budget unveiled a daily basis,” he told reporters. The Tokyo 2020 budget is of Games-related costs is slightly Rio Olympics, London’s 2017 world championships and last year. Organisers have also unveiled a divided between the Organising different to ours,” he said. the 2018 Winter Olympics. There is also a 27-billion-yen series of countermeasures against Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Earlier this year, Los Angeles China, India, Belgium, Spain and South Africa com- “contingency” pot to deal with pos- the heat and humidity, including Government and the national gov- 2028 Olympics chiefs unveiled pleted the list of top 10 nations with doping violations sible emergencies such as natural water mist sprays and special heat- ernment, which is on the hook for details of a $6.9bn budget for the for the period covered by WADA’s report.