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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014 SPORTS

Mura wins Skate Canada beat England great almost quit KELOWNA: Japan’s Takahito Mura won the Skate Canada International men’s title 16-12 in 4 Nations Champs NEW DELHI: Cricket great Sachin Tendulkar considered early retirement Saturday, landing two quadruple jumps and finishing with 255.81 points. Mura was after a string of losses while India’s , according to excerpts from the in tears and buried his head in a towel after his marks went up. “I was a little bit sur- MELBOURNE: Australia denied England a potentially match-winning try record-holding batsman’s upcoming autobiography. prised how well I was able to do, until now I was lacking a bit of confidence,” Mura in the final minute for a 16-12 win in rugby league’s Four Nations “I hated losing and as captain of the team I felt responsible for the string said through an interpreter. “While I was skating, I was thinking, ‘I’m doing really Championship yesterday, keeping alive its title defense. of miserable performances. More worryingly, I did not know how I could great. Very comfortable.’” Spain’s Javier Fernandez, the leader after the short program, Center Ryan Hall, who had already scored one of the two tries that turn it around, as I was already trying my absolute best,” Tendulkar wrote in dropped to second with 244.87 points. He had trouble on his three quad attempts, gave England a 12-4 halftime lead, hurled himself at a ball over the extracts of the book “Playing It My Way,” published by the Press Trust of falling on one of them. Australian goal line with time almost up, desperate to give his team its India yesterday. The 41-year-old made particular mention of his frustrations American Max Aaron was third at 231.77. Russia’s Anna Pogorilaya first win over the Kangaroos in 19 years. Though he got a finger to the ball on the 1997 tour of the West Indies, when India lost the third test at won the women’s title with 191.81 points. American Ashley Wagner as Australia fullback Greg Inglis tried to knock it dead, referees decided he Barbados from a comfortable position. Chasing 120, India was was second with 186.00, and Japan’s Satoko Miyahara third at did not have control and had not exerted downward pressure. bowled out for 81 with only makeshift opener VVS Laxman 181.75. Canadian stars and Kevin Reynolds England had led until the 64th minute, but late tries to Ben Hunt and reach double-figures with 19. skipped the event. Chan, a four-time winner in the event, is tak- Inglis saved Australia from elimination. If England had won, it would have India, which lost the five-test series 1-0, went on to lose ing the season off, and Reynolds withdrew a few days ago assured itself a place, probably opposite New Zealand, in the Nov. 15 final because of skate troubles. Canada’s Meaghan Duhamel and Eric a subsequent four-match ODI series 3-1 with a similar in Wellington. Instead it must now beat New Zealand to have any chance result in the third one-day game at St. Vincent when India Radford won the pairs title with 210.74 points. China’s Sui Wenjing of reaching the final, while Australia’s hopes rest on its last round-robin and Han Cong were second with 184.64, and Russia’s Evgenia lost despite needing only 47 runs off ten overs with six match against Samoa. New Zealand gained a probable place in the final Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov finished third at 175.45. in hand. “It was hurting me badly and it took me a Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won the ice dancing when it followed its 30-12 win over Australia in the first round with a long time to come to terms with these failures. I even con- with 171.10 points to lead a Canadian sweep of the top lucky 14-12 win over Samoa on Saturday. templated moving away from the sport completely, as it two spots. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier were second at England opened its tournament with a 32-26 win over Australia and seemed nothing was going my way,” Tendulkar has 152.60, and Americans Madison Hubbell and would have eliminated the Kangaroos from finals contention if it had held written in the book which is set to be released on Zachary Donohue finished third at 148.23. — AP on to win yesterday. —AP Thursday. —AP Kenyans Kipsang, Keitany win New York Marathon

NEW YORK: Kenyans Wilson Kipsang and York debut in 2012, when the race was Mary Keitany surged at the finish to win called off because of damage from yesterday’s New York City Marathon, Hurricane Sandy, making the triumph holding off rivals over the closing strides extra special. “I was really hoping to com- in Central Park for narrow triumphs. pete in this race,” Kipsang said. “I love Kipsang, making his New York debut, New York.” held off Lelisa Desisa to win in two hours, Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai, who won in 10 minutes and 59 seconds, defeating 2011 and 2013, was seeking his third title the Ethiopian by seven seconds with in a row but settled for sixth, foiled in his Ethiopia’s Gebre Gebremariam third in bid to match Alberto Salazar’s victory 2:12:13. streak from 1980-1982 and move one shy Kipsang looked Desisa in the eyes in of American Bill Rodgers, who won a the final stretch and then pulled away to record four in a row from 1976-1979. claim the $100,000 (80,000 euro) top Mutai, also sixth at the London prize and take the 2013-14 World Marathon won by Kipsang last April, was Marathon Majors bonus top prize of one spot behind Uganda’s Stephen $500,000 (400,000 euros). Kiprotich, the reigning world and “Towards the end, I saw Desisa was Olympic champion. American Meb very close to me and very strong,” Keflezighi, who won at Boston in April, Kipsang said. “I saved some energy for was fourth in 2:13:18. that final sprint. I knew in the final 100 Kipsang took the World Marathon ABU DHABI: Pakistani batsman Misbah Ul Haq jubilates after scoring a (100 runs) during the fourth day of the second match meters he couldn’t beat me.” Majors prize from Dennis Kimetto, who against Australia. — AFP Keitany, competing in her first won in September at Berlin in 2:02:57 to marathon since finishing fourth at the break Kipsang’s old world record by 26 2012 London Olympics while one month seconds. close on series pregnant with her second child, won in Desisa had won his marathon debut 2:25:07 with compatriot Jemima last year in Dubai and also won last year Sumgong three seconds back and in Boston while Gebremariam won the Portugal’s Sara Moreira third in 2:26:00. New York Marathon in 2010. Priscah win after Misbah’s blitz The winning margin matched the Jeptoo did not defend her New York closest women’s race in New York history, women’s title, pulling out last month due ABU DHABI: Pakistan were on the verge of their match, a blitz which overshadowed ’s feat Misbah took 74 minutes to reach the mark. established by Britain’s Paula Radcliffe in to a leg injury. first series win over Australia in 20 years and victory of 100 , making this only the second occa- Misbah cut loose after fell for 46, hit- her 2004 victory over Kenya’s Susan Keitany and Sumgong pulled away in the second Test after skipper Misbah-ul Haq sion in Test cricket’s history when two batsmen ting three sixes and a four off one Steven Smith over Chepkemei, the first of the English from the pack at the two-hour mark to rewrote the record books with his belligerent bat- scored a century in each innings in the same match. and then hit the spinner for his fourth six an over women’s three New York crowns. make the title fight a two-woman battle ting in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Australian brothers Ian and Greg Chappell scored later. In all he hit four boundaries and as many sixes In cold and cloudy conditions, runners over the final miles. Sumgong pulled a Misbah smashed a 56-ball hundred, equalling centuries in each innings against New Zealand at in his fifty. Misbah pushed Starc for three to com- battled headwinds or crosswinds over few strides ahead with a mile remaining West Indian legend Viv Richards’s record made Wellington in 1973. Misbah beat the previous record plete the fastest Test fifty ever which took only 24 most of the hilly 26.2-mile course but Keitany closed back on the leader’s against England at Antigua in 1986, minutes after of the fastest half-century held by South Africa’s minutes. The previous fastest fifty in terms of time through America’s largest city, creating left shoulder and then moved ahead at breaking the mark for the fastest fifty which he Jacques Kallis scored against Zimbabwe at Cape was held by Bangladesh’s Mohammad Ashraful who the slowest men’s winning time since the 26-mile mark and stayed in front to made off just 21 balls at Sheikh Zayed Stadium. Town in 2004. took 27 minutes for his fifty against India at Dhaka Mexico’s German Silva won in 2:11:00 in the end. Keitany, 32, had twice been Misbah’s stunning blitz set up Pakistan to declare Misbah hit two boundaries off paceman Mitchell in 2007. their second innings at 293-3, setting a daunting Starc to reach his hundred, punched the air in The previous fastest Test half-century by a 1995. It was the third victory in a row for third in New York while Sumgong, 29, 603-run target for Australia who suffered another delight and waved his bat to team-mates. Pakistani batsman was by who took 26 Kipsang, who captured the Berlin title was coming off a 2:20:41 personal best collapse before reaching 143-4 at stumps on This is also the second fastest hundred in terms balls to reach the mark, against India at Bangalore in last year and won last April in London. from her fourth-place finish in Boston the fourth day. Misbah said it was an honour to be of time, behind Australia’s Jack Gregory who 2005. previously held the record for the Kipsang had planned to make his New last April. — AFP bracketted with Richards. reached a hundred in 70 minutes against South fastest hundred by a Pakistani, scored off 74 balls “I think it’s the biggest honor for me,” said Africa at Johannesburg in 1921. against New Zealand in in 1976. — AFP Misbah. “I am nowhere near him (Richards) and scor- ing a hundred in as many deliveries as he did is something I will always remember in my life. “I didn’t SCOREBOARD know about the record of fastest hundred but someone from the team told me and I got to know it, it’s great to have this record.” Steven Smith (38) ABU DHABI: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the second Test between Pakistan and and Mitchell Marsh (26) were at the crease as Australia played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, yesterday: Australia still need another 460 runs for an unlikely win or bat out three sessions on the final day to Pakistan 1st innings 570-6 dec (Younis Khan 6-0-54-1, Marsh 4-1-15-0 avoid a 2-0 whitewash, their first series defeat 213, Azhar Ali 109, Misbah-ul against the Pakistanis since a 1-0 loss in Pakistan in Haq 101; M. Starc 2-86) Australia 2nd innings 1994. C. Rogers c Shafiq b Babar 2 Australia’s woes with the bat continued as left- Australia 1st innings 261 (M. Marsh 87; M. D. Warner c Shah b Hafeez 58 arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar (3-65) struck regular Clarke 47; 3-60) G. Maxwell lbw b Babar 4 blows by dismissing Chris Rogers (two), Glenn M. Clarke b Babar 5 Maxwell (four) and Michael Clarke (five) in 19 balls Pakistan 2nd innings (overnight 61-2) S. Smith not out 38 to leave Australia tottering at 43-3. b Johnson 14 M. Marsh not out 26 Clarke was beaten by a beautiful turner as the c Starc b Johnson 3 Extras: (b4, nb1, pen5) 10 Australian captain pushed on the backfoot only to Azhar Ali not out 100 Total: (for four wkts; 48 overs) 143 see his stumps disturbed. That summed up Clarke’s Younis Khan lbw b Smith 46 Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Rogers), 2-31 (Maxwell), miserable series with only 57 runs. Misbah-ul Haq not out 101 3-43 (Clarke), 4-101 (Warner) had held on end intact, reaching Extras: (b23, lb4, nb1, w1) 29 Bowling: Rahat 5-4-1-0, Khan 5-1-13-0, Hafeez his 13th half-century before miscuing a drive off Total: (for three wkts; 60.4 overs dec)293 12-1-33-1, Babar 17-1-65-3, Shah 8-0-21-0 Mohammad Hafeez and was caught for 58. Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Shehzad), 2-21 (Hafeez), (1nb), Ali 1-0-1-0 Earlier Misbah, notorious for his slow batting in 3-152 (Younis) Note: Pakistan were penalised five runs after one-day internationals, removed all doubts about Bowling: Johnson 7-1-45-2, Lyon 18-3-48-0, the ball hit the helmet placed behind the wick- his credentials. In all Misbah hit 11 boundaries and Starc 11.4-2-56-0 (1w), Siddle 14-4-48-0, Smith et-keeper. five sixes off 57 balls during his two centuries in the

NEW YORK: Mary Keitany of Kenya puts her hands together in gesture as she breaks the tape after winning the elite women’s division in the 44th annual New York City Marathon. — AP Abu Dhabi team clings on to Volvo Ocean Race lead

ALICANTE: Boats in the seven-strong Volvo Ocean Race fleet were skirting a group of South Atlantic ice- bergs yesterday with at least one crew feeling the cold more than most on the opening leg. Before the start of the race on Oct. 11, the Chinese crew of Dongfeng Race Team opted not to take their full quota of warm weather gear to save precious weight on their boat on the stage from Alicante, Spain to Cape Town. Unfortunately for them, the weather patterns have taken the fleet far further south in the Atlantic than anticipated, prompting race organizers to impose an ice-exclusion zone. The crews cannot cross the line designated by race director Jack Lloyd that is designed to keep them clear of some huge icebergs spotted on the race HQ satellite systems. It is becoming very cold for the teams as they head towards Cape Town, which they are expected to reach after the 6,847-nautical mile trip on Thursday. “The Dongfeng crew and their skipper Charles Caudrelier decided against packing all their warm weather kit just before leaving because they didn’t think they would need it,” explained race watch pro- ducer, Mark Covell. “That plan has not paid off and now it’s not far above freezing. They’ll have to work extra hard to stay warm.” Dongfeng are second, just five nau- tical miles behind long-term race leaders Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing with Team Vestas Wind (Denmark) and Team Brunel (Netherlands) within 50 nautical miles. A NEW YORK: Kurt Fearnely of Australia and Tatyana McFadden of the United States team from Spain, MAPFRE, and the all-women crew of SPAIN: Abu Dhabi Ocean racing Team yacht competes at the start of the Volvo Ocean Race in (first place finishers in the wheeler divisions) pose for a picture at the 2014 New York Team SCA (Sweden) are bringing up the rear, some 300 Alicante. Yachts set off on the first offshore leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 to Cape Town City Marathon. — AP and 450 miles adrift, respectively. —AP in the 12th running of this ocean marathon. — AP