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CCRICKETRICKET | Page 3 TTENNISENNIS | Page 4 Australia’s Federer and Cummins Nadal advance warns World to second round Cup rivals of Wimbledon Wednesday, July 3, 2019 MOTORSPORT Shawwal 30, 1440 AH Al-Attiyah aims to GULF TIMES win Silk Way Rally for the fi rst time SPORT Page 6 ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP Kohli all praise for ‘best’ man Sharma as India enter semis Gallant Bangladesh go down fighting as they fall short by 28 runs despite fifties from Shakib and Saifuddin AFP Jasprit Bumrah took four wick- “It was a good eff ort ... Mustafi - Birmingham ets and fellow paceman Hardik zur bowled well,” said Bangladesh SCORECARD Pandya three, including the prize captain Mashrafe Mortaza. “But if scalp of Shakib. one of the batsmen could have got INDIA INNINGS BANGLADESH INNINGS ndia captain Virat Koh- Kohli may be widely regarded as to 80 or 90, it might have been dif- KL Rahul c Mushfiqur b Rubel 77 Tamim Iqbal b Shami 22 li hailed Rohit Sharma as the best current batsman in all forms ferent. We were asking too much in R. Sharma c Liton b Soumya 104 S Sarkar c Kohli b Pandya 33 the “best one-day player of the game but the skipper was un- the end.” around” after the opener’s stinting in his praise of Sharma. “In The day belonged to Sharma, V. Kohli c Rubel b Mustafizur 26 S Al Hasan c Karthik b Pandya 66 Ifourth century of the tournament my opinion he is the best one-day whose attacking 92-ball innings, R. Pant c Mosaddek b Shakib 48 M Rahim c Shami b Chahal 24 saw the side book their place in player around, he is having the tour- featuring seven fours and fi ve H. Pandya c Soumya b Liton Das c Karthik b Pandya 22 the semi-fi nals of the World Cup nament of his life and when he plays sixes, was cheered on by another Mustafizur 0 with a 28-run win over Bangla- well everyone has so much confi - largely pro-India crowd in Bir- Mosaddek Hossain b Bumrah 3 desh at Edgbaston yesterday. dence,” said Kohli. mingham. M. Dhoni c Shakib b Mustafizur 35 Sabbir Rahman b Bumrah 36 Sharma’s attacking 104 laid the “When he plays well we know Sharma and opening partner D. Karthik c Mosaddek b Mohamed Saifuddin not out 51 foundation of India’s 314 for nine we are heading for a big score. He K L Rahul put on 180 — the high- Mustafizur 8 after Kohli elected to bat fi rst in gives everyone confi dence to go est stand for the fi rst wicket in the M Mortaza c Dhoni b Kumar 8 B. Kumar run out (Mushfiqur/ India’s penultimate match of the out and bat.” tournament — to get India off to a Mustafizur) 2 Rubel Hossain b Bumrah 9 league phase. Kohli added: “Bangladesh fl ying start. Mustafizur Rahman b Bumrah 0 Yet for the second match in a played some really good cricket But Sharma should have been M. Shami b Mustafizur 1 row Sharma — as happened during and deserve credit for the fi ght out for nine only for Tamim Iqbal J. Bumrah not out 0 Extras (b1, lb1, w10) 12 India’s 31-run defeat by England they put up. We had to work hard to drop a simple catch at deep Extras (lb6, nb1, w6) 13 Total (all out, 48 overs) 286 at Edgbaston on Sunday — was for the win and we are happy to midwicket following a mistimed Total (9 wickets, 50 overs) 314 Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Tamim), dropped in single fi gures before see a ‘Q’ (qualifi ed) in front of our pull off paceman Mustafi zur 2-74 (Soumya), 3-121 (Mushfiqur), making a hundred. name now.” Rahman. Did not bat: Y. Chahal 4-162 (Liton), 5-173 (Mosaddek), India’s bowlers then combined Defeat ended Bangladesh’s slim Sharma was fi nally was caught Fall of wickets: 1-180 (Sharma), 6-179 (Shakib), 7-245 (Sabbir), to dismiss Bangladesh for 286 with hopes of a place in the last four at extra cover by Liton Das off the 2-195 (Rahul), 3-237 (Kohli), 4-237 8-257 (Mashrafe), 9-286 (Rubel), two overs to spare after star bats- after they had impressed during bowling of Soumya Sarkar and Ra- (Pandya), 5-277 (Pant), 6-298 10-286 (Mustafizur) man Shakib Al Hasan top-scored wins over South Africa and the hul, who fi lled an opener’s slot fol- (Karthik), 7-311 (Dhoni), 8-314 with a valiant 66. West Indies. lowing an injury to Shikhar Dha- Bowling: Kumar 9-1-51-1 (3w); (Kumar), 9-314 (Shami) Bumrah 10-1-55-4 (2w); Shami Bowling: Mortaza 5-0-36-0 (1w); 9-0-68-1 (1w); Chahal 10-0-50-1 Saifuddin 7-0-59-0; Mustafizur (2w); Pandya 10-0-60-3 (2w) 10-1-59-5 (1nb, 2w); Shakib 10- Result: India won by 28 runs 0-41-1 (1w); Mosaddek 4-0-32-0 (1w); Rubel 8-0-48-1; Soumya Man-of-the-match: Rohit 6-0-33-1 (1w) Sharma (IND) wan, was caught behind off Rubel score that includes two hundreds Hossain for 77. to keep Bangladesh in hunt. Mustafi zur took fi ve wickets, in- But Pandya’s second spell saw cluding that of star batsman Kohli the all-rounder account for Liton for 26, to check India’s surge.. and Shakib to leave Bangladesh Rishabh Pant once again struggling at 179-6 in the 34th showed his worth at the number over. Shakib played well for his four position with a brisk 48, using 46th ODI fi fty but was undone by the short boundary at one side of a slower ball and caught at extra Edgbaston to his advantage. cover. MS Dhoni, who received fl ak Mohamed Saifuddin made an for his slow innings in India’s de- unbeaten 51 only to run out of feat by England on Sunday — their partners as Bumrah ended the only loss so far this tournament — match with wickets in successive chipped in with a 33-ball 35. deliveries. Paceman Mohamed Shami Bangladesh face Pakistan in struck early in Bangladesh’s re- their last group match at The ply when Tamim, who made 22, Lord’s on Friday. India meet India’s Rohit Sharma (R) celebrates his century with K L Rahul at chopped the ball onto his stumps. Sri Lanka on the fi nal day of the Edgbaston yesterday. Bangladesh supporters pose during the match against India at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday. Shakib hit his sixth fi fty-plus round-robin phase on Saturday. TENNIS ‘Only mutual respect’: Kyrgios sets tone for Nadal Wimbledon blockbuster AFP some people I don’t get along you idiot — I’m very educated. charismatic display on Court 3 London with. I understand you’re upset that on Tuesday. In a match where “We have a mutual respect, I beat your family,” Kyrgios hit he fi red 23 aces and 63 win- but that’s about it I think.” back in an interview. ners, the 24-year-old argued ick Kyrgios set the Nadal and Kyrgios have Kyrgios admitted he was with the umpire, slumped over tone for a Wimbledon been involved in a bitter war of excited about the chance to the net and played dead. blockbuster with bit- words this year since the Aus- prove himself against Nadal. He also hit an underarm ter rival Rafael Nadal tralian defeated the 18-time “I can’t wait. As soon as the serve on set point in the third Nby stating: “We have mutual major champion in a stormy draw came out, I was super set, shaped to imitate a for- respect, but that’s about it.” clash in Acapulco. happy that I saw him in my ward defensive cricket shot Kyrgios opened his Wimble- It was his third win over section. and celebrated a point by run- don campaign with a 7-6 (7/4), Nadal in six meetings. “When you’re a kid, you ning around madly in a circle. 3-6, 7-6 (12/10), 0-6, 6-1 win Nadal accused the Austral- want to play the best players After dropping the second over fellow Australian Jordan ian of “lacking respect” after in the world on I think it’s the set, he needed a medical time- Thompson. serving underarm while Kyr- best court in the world. out for a leg injury before at- However, all attention was gios described the Spaniard as “This is something that I tempting — and failing — to on a second round duel with “super salty”. can’t take for granted. There’s fi nish the third set with an un- Nadal after the two-time Kyrgios then became in- no guarantee I’m going to be derarm serve. champion got past Japanese volved in a slanging match here again in this position. He eventually took the set qualifi er Yuichi Sugita later with Toni Nadal, the world “Could have an injury or on an eighth set point before yesterday.. number two’s uncle and something like that. I’m go- conceding an 18-minute fourth “Not sure that me and Rafa former coach, who lambasted ing to grasp with both hands, set in which he collected just could go down to the Dog & the Australian for his on-court go out there, give it my best fi ve points. Australia’s Nick Kyrgios Fox and have a beer together.