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Al Gharafa Exit After Home Defeat FOOTBALL | Page 4 BBASEBALLASEBALL | Page 5 Gattuso says Astros stroll Milan derby past Orioles regaining in home signifi cance opener Wednesday, April 4, 2018 CRICKET Rajab 18, 1439 AH Philander grabs GULF TIMES 6-21 as South Africa thrash Australia SPORT Page 2 FOOTBALL/ASIAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GOLF/THE MASTERS Al Gharafa Tiger paired with Leishman, Fleetwood AFP Justin Thomas, who won his fi rst major title in last year’s Augusta PGA Championship, and US Amateur champion Doc Red- man. A trio of major winners follows the traditional Mas- exit aft er ters-amateur champions pairing with two-time Masters iger Woods makes his much-anticipated return to winner Bubba Watson joined by Sweden’s Henrik Stenson the Masters alongside Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood and Aussie Jason Day. and Australian Marc Leishman tomorrow in the Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and Justin Topening round of the 82nd Masters, according to Rose highlight the four fi nal groups of the opening round. tee times released yesterday. Three-time Masters winner and fi ve-time major cham- Augusta National Golf Club will send off the 14-time pion Mickelson tees off fourth-from-last at 1:27pm Thurs- major winner, a four-time Masters champion who has day alongside fellow Americans Rickie Fowler and Matt home defeat missed the past two years battling back injuries, and his Kuchar. playing partners off the fi rst tee at 10:42am (1442 GMT). McIlroy, trying to complete a career Grand Slam by win- Al Duhail beat Zobahan to record fifth win in a row Excitement has swirled around Woods this week after ning his fi rst green jacket, follows at 1:38 alongside Spain’s strong Masters tuneup eff orts, including shares of sec- third-ranked Jon Rahm and Aussie Adam Scott, the 2013 ond at the Valspar Championship and fi fth at Bay Hill last Masters winner. month. England’s Fleetwood defended his crown at Abu Spieth, the 2015 Masters winner, goes off at 1:49 along- Dhabi this year while Leishman last won at the 2017 BMW side South African Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010 British Championship. Each seeks his fi rst major title. Open winner, and Sweden’s Alex Noren. The Woods trio is scheduled to tee off at 1:27pm (1727 And the fi nal Thursday trio includes world number one GMT) in Friday’s second round. Dustin Johnson — who missed last year’s Masters after fall- Defending champion Sergio Garcia of Spain is in the trio ing down a staircase on the eve of the fi rst round — plus just behind the Woods group along with world number two England’s Rose and Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello. A tense moment from the Al Gharafa-Al Jazira match in the Asian Champions League yesterday. By Sports Reporter Al Jazira instantly took advantage Doha and grabbed the winner with virtu- ally the last kick of the game. Mab- khout broke free and rounded the l Gharafa’s bid to qualify for goalkeeper before applying a calm the last 16 phase of the Asian fi nish to earn his side their second Champions League came win of the campaign. unstuck as they fell to a 2-3 Meanwhile, Qatar’s Al Duhail Adefeat against the UAE’s Al Jazira in racked up a fi fth straight victory af- Doha yesterday. ter Ismail Mohamed’s late strike gave The result confi rmed the Emi- them a 1-0 win over Islamic Republic rati side’s spot in the knockouts from of Iran’s Zobahan in Isfahan. Group A where they join Saudi giants Having already booked a place in Al Ahli who defeated Iran’s Tractor- the Round of 16, Al Duhail rested the sazi 2-0 in Jeddah. star front duo of Youssef Msakni and Al Ahli have 11 points from fi ve Youssef El Arabi for the trip to Isfa- matches, while Al Jazira have eight han. Despite their absence, Al Duhail and Al Gharafa and Iran’s Tractorsazi managed to hold their own against a fi ve and two, respectively. Zobahan side that desperately need- Two teams each of the eight groups ed a win. qualify for the last 16 knockout phase Chances were far and few in be- of the prestigious continental tour- tween during the fi rst half with nei- nament. ther side managing to pose any real Al Gharafa were aiming for revenge danger for their opponents. Things yesterday after they were beaten improved after the break, with Zoba- by an identical scoreline when they han coming close to scoring on mul- clashed with Al Jazira in Abu Dhabi tiple occasions. earlier in the tournament, but a brace Kiros could have put Zobahan in from Ali Mabkhout, which included Al Gharafa’s Portuguese midfielder the lead in the 52nd minute. How- a goal in the fourth minute of sec- Diogo Carlos Amado (R) and Ahmed ever, his shot from inside the box was ond half injury time, put paid to their Alaaeldin celebrate after the latter saved by Al Duhail keeper Amine Le- hopes. scored against Al Jazira yesterday. comte. In the 76th minute, Morteza The visitors took an early lead in- Tabrizi set up Milad Fakhreddini side 14 minutes when Mabkhout ing half when Portuguese defender with a cross, but once again, Lecomte dribbled past Al Gharafa defender Diogo Amado controlled Sneijder’s showed fi ne refl exes to keep the eff ort Tameem al-Muhaiza in a narrow in-swinging corner kick and fi red be- out. space inside the box. tween Khaseif’s legs from close range Then, out of the blue, Al Duhail fi - Mabkhout then unleashed a pow- to take his side into the dressing room nally broke the deadlock in the 84th erful strike that rattled the crossbar with a valuable 2-1 half-time lead. minute with their fi rst shot on tar- which fell for Romarinho who was Twenty minutes from time, Ro- get, when Mohammad tapped into left with a simple header from point- marinho returned the favour for an empty goal following Sultan Al blank range into the empty net. Mabkhout, supplying a through pass Brake’s precise pass from the left. Ahmed Alaaeldin restored parity in for the number 7 who struck through Al Duhail sealed top spot in Group the 28th minute after he beat Al Jazira the legs of goalkeeper Qasem Burhan A with a perfect record after fi ve goalkeeper Ali Khaseif at his near from a narrow angle to equalise for Al games and will now host Al Wahda post to stab home Abdelaziz Hatem’s Jazira. in their fi nal group game. Zobahan, cross from the left wing following a Al Gharafa were reduced to 10 men on the other hand, will look to defeat Wesley Sneijder free-kick. in added time as Assim Madibo re- PFC Lokomotiv in Tashkent to se- Al Gharafa’s comeback was com- ceived his second yellow card for a cure their own place in the knockout pleted in the last minute of the open- late challenge on Salim Ali. stage. Gulf Times 2 Wednesday, April 4, 2018 CRICKET SA VS AUS, DAY 5, 4TH TEST PAK VS WI, 3RD T20I South Africa’s Vernon Philander celebrates the wicket of Pakistan complete Australia’s Chad Sayers on Day 5 of the fourth Test in Johannesburg yesterday. (Reuters) series whitewash Philander over West Indies bowls SA to record win over Pakistan’s Hussain Talat (left) and Asif Ali celebrate their victory in the third T20 match against West Indies in Karachi yesterday. (AFP) AFP who scored a 25-ball 31 with two Karachi sixes and as many boundaries. Denesh Ramdin cracked a fi ery 18-ball 42 not out with four Australia akistan produced anoth- boundaries and three sixes — er imperious perform- two in the last over from Usman ance to beat the West In- Shinwari — as the West Indies Paceman’s career-best 6-21 helps bundle out dies by eight wickets in scored 57 in the last fi ve overs. Pthe third and fi nal Twenty20 in- Leg-spinner Shadab Khan fi n- visitors for 119 as hosts win by 492 runs ternational in Karachi yesterday, ished with 2-27 while Mohamd completing a 3-0 clean sweep of Nawaz, Shinwari and Faheem the series. Ashraf took a wicket each. The West Indies fared better Two players made their T20 with the bat compared with the debuts on Tuesday — teenage fi rst two matches, reaching 153- paceman Shaheen Afridi for Pa- 6 in their 20 overs after winning kistan and Andre McCarthy for the toss. Opener Andre Fletcher the West Indies. scored a 43-ball 52 — his team’s Pakistan won the fi rst match only half-century on this tour. by 143 runs and the second by It was not enough, howev- 82 runs. Karachi hosted all three er, as Pakistan got to the total T20s, the fi rst international comfortably, with opener Babar matches in the city in nine years. Azam scoring a rapid 40-ball 51. The series is the latest in a The hosts raced to 61 in the number of steps taken recently to Reuters appointed with the way we handled it,” cidents in this series, but after each day sixth over with left-handed help revive international cricket Johannesburg new captain Tim Paine told reporters. 10 heaviest Test I would sit in the dressing-room and opener Fakhar Zaman smashing in Pakistan, which was suspend- “This group had a chance to show sense that there was a calmness to our two sixes and six boundaries in ed for years after a 2009 militant some fi ght and determination today defeats by runs emotions and we were really just fo- his 17-ball 40.
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