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FF11 | Page 2 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 7 Vettel shines Guardiola in the rain urges Man to give City to extend Ferrari hope mastery Saturday, July 18, 2020 SPOTLIGHT Dhul-Qa’da 27, 1441 AH IOC chief Bach GULF TIMES announces bid for re-election SPORT Page 5 RACING SPOTLIGHT Shaqab’s Qous, son of mighty 72 NFL Treve, wins at Chantilly players Agencies Chantilly, France have virus ous, who is the fi rst product AFP training camp recommendation of the mighty Treve, opened Los Angeles from a joint NFL-NFLPA com- Qhis scorecard at Chantilly in mittee in favour of a 23-day ses- France yesterday on his second out- sion before the fi rst of two pre- ing. eventy-two NFL play- season games, down from four The Al Shaqab Racing’s homebred ers have tested positive in prior years. However Tretter bay colt ran patiently in the back of Sfor Covid-19, the league’s said league chiefs were risking the field in the Prix du Mont Alta and players union confi rmed on the entire season if they failed to showed a very nice turn of foot to Thursday. fully address concerns over the beat more experienced horses. In the fi rst major announce- virus. “Every decision this year The son of Dubawi is trained by Andre ment of coronavirus results that prioritizes normalcy over Fabre and was ridden by Vincent concerning the NFL, the NFL innovation, custom over science Cheminaud to a short-head win in the Players Association said dozens or even football over health, sig- 2,100m Class2 run for three-year-olds. of players had tested positive as nifi cantly reduces our chances L’aigle, trained by S. Nigge and ridden of July 10. of completing the full season,” by Mickael Barzalona, was the runner- The tally was revealed in a da- Tretter said. “We don’t want to up. Dge Of Victory was a further short tabase described as a “one-stop merely return to work and have head behind in third. He is trained by shop of information” for play- the season shut down before we JC Rouget and was ridden by Cristian ers. It was unclear, however, how even get started,” he added. Demuro. many of the league’s roughly The sense of uncertainty was Rupert Pritchard-Gordon, Al Shaqab 2,900 rostered players had been underscored on Thursday by Racing’s representative, said : “He did tested or how often. Houston Texans star J J Watt, not have an easy trip for his debut. The test results come as the who said players remained in He has progressed since. He is a NFL and NFLPA are locked in the dark over several key details very nice horse, very relaxed, and negotiations over the terms and concerning Covid-19’s impact he showed a nice turn of foot today. conditions of pre-season train- on the upcoming season. André Fabre will decide for his next ing and exhibition games. “We don’t know if there are start. He is not very precocious and Players have requested more pre-season games or not, we I think he is good enough to win a time to address fi tness concerns don’t know if there will be daily Listed race.” and want no pre-season games testing, semi-daily testing etc,” Treve, the two-time winner of the in August. Watt wrote on Twitter. Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in NFLPA president J C Tret- “We don’t how a potential 2013 and 2014, also has a two-year-old ter, a centre for the Cleveland positive COVID test would af- filly by Shalaa, named Paris, a yearling Browns, accused the NFL last fect contracts, roster spots, etc.” filly by Siyouni and a filly foal by Sea week of failing to prioritise Watt added that he had also The Stars, and has been covered by Vincent Cheminaud (foreground) rides Al Shaqab Racing’s Qous to Prix du Mont Alta victory at Chantilly in France yesterday. (Scoop- player safety in the face of the not seen an infectious disease Kingman. dyga) pandemic. emergency response plan from The league rejected a 48-day either the NFL or any team. CRICKET Stokes puts England on top Sibley’s ton was one of the slowest in Tests by an England batsman, taking nearly eight hours with only 5 fours AFP Manchester MANCHESTER SCORECARD England 1st Innings (overnight: (1nb); Chase 44-3-172-5; Brathwaite en Stokes’ impressive 176 207-3) 3.5-0-9-0; took England to an imposing R. Burns lbw b Chase 15 fi rst-innings score of 469-9 D. Sibley c Roach b Chase 120 West Indies 1st Innings declared in the second Test Z. Crawley c Holder b Chase 0 K. Brathwaite not out 6 Bagainst the West Indies at Old Traff ord J. Root c Holder b Joseph 23 J. Campbell lbw b Curran 12 yesterday. B. Stokes c Dowrich b Roach 176 A. Joseph not out 14 The tourists, faced with a tricky O. Pope lbw b Chase 7 Extras 0 hour to bat until stumps on the second J. Buttler c Joseph b Holder 40 Total (1 wkt, 14 overs, 59 mins) 32 day, lost John Campbell to the recalled C. Woakes c Hope b Roach 0 To bat: S Hope, S Brooks, R Chase, Sam Curran and were 32-1 at the close. S. Curran c Brathwaite b Chase 17 J Blackwood, J Holder, S Dowrich, K They could have lost nightwatch- D. Bess not out 31 Roach, S Gabriel man Alzarri Joseph to the penultimate S. Broad not out 11 Fall of wickets: 1-16 (Campbell) ball of the day but the hosts, looking to Extras (b4, lb7, nb8, w10) 29 Bowling: Broad 5-1-14-0; Woakes 4-3-2- level the series, opted against review- Total (9 wkts dec, 162 overs, 715 0; Curran 3-1-8-1; Bess 2-0-8-0 ing a Curran lbw shout. mins) 469 Earlier, Dom Sibley made a pains- Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Burns), 2-29 Match position: West Indies are 437 taking 120 and put on 260 with Stokes (Crawley), 3-81 (Root), 4-341 (Sibley), runs behind with nine first-innings after England had been in trouble at 5-352 (Pope), 6-395 (Stokes), 7-395 wickets standing 81-3 on Thursday following the loss of (Woakes), 8-426 (Buttler), 9-427 (Cur- returning captain Joe Root. ran) Toss: West Indies England had been forced into a late Bowling: Roach 33-9-58-2 (1w, 3nb); Umpires: Michael Gough (ENG), change to their pace attack after fast Gabriel 26-2-79-0 (5w, 4nb); Joseph Richard Illingworth (ENG) bowler Jofra Archer was dramatically England’s Ben Stokes celebrates his 23.1-5-70-1 (1nb); Holder 32-10-70-1 TV umpire: Richard Kettleborough omitted Thursday for breaching the century as Dom Sibley looks on in bio-secure bubble by making an un- Manchester yesterday. authorised trip home to Brighton after from the front bat, even though he had six over midwicket off Joseph. the West Indies’ four-wicket win in handed back the captaincy to Root, Having batted for over nine hours last week’s fi rst Test at Southampton. even though this match was taking drey at Edgbaston in 1957. And he made normally reliable West who missed last week’s match to at- Sibley holed out to deep midwicket off But left-arm paceman Curran, who place at the Lancashire home ground Sibley’s hundred was one of the Indies captain Jason Holder pay for tend the birth of his second child. Chase. might not have played if Archer had of England’s all-time leading wicket- slowest in Tests by an England bats- dropping him in the slips on 68. England resumed on 207-3, with Kemar Roach checked England’s been retained, made the breakthrough taker, with Chris Woakes recalled in man, the opener batting for 471 min- Run-scoring was diffi cult against a Sibley 86 not out and Stokes, unbeaten progress when he struck for the fi rst when an inswinger had Campbell lbw place of Mark Wood after he too was utes — nearly eight hours — to com- swinging ball and on a sluggish out- on 59. time this series with two wickets in on review to leave West Indies 16-1. given a breather. plete a 312-ball century featuring a fi eld, with even the usually fl uent Stokes, 99 not out at lunch, went to two balls. England came into this match al- But the day was about Sibley and mere fi ve fours. Stokes taking nearly six hours and 285 three fi gures with a cheeky reverse- In his 71st over of the campaign the ready planning to revamp their pace Stokes, whose partnership was the But the 24-year-old Warwickshire balls to complete his 10th Test century. swept four against off -spinner Roston persevering paceman had Stokes, at- attack, with Stuart Broad — angry at second-highest for the fourth-wicket right-hander’s second hundred in his But Stokes’ third fi fty came off just Chase. tempting an ambitious reverse sweep, being rested for the series opener — by England against the West Indies, eight Tests, following his 133 not out 46 balls and, having given Sibley a The left-handed batsman then caught behind to end a 356-ball in- back in action. behind the celebrated stand of 411 against South Africa at Cape Town in “head start” of 31.2 overs, he over- upped the tempo against the new ball, nings featuring 17 fours and two sixes James Anderson, was rested in turn, shared by Peter May and Colin Cow- January, was a valuable innings.