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Karunaratne Ton Helps Sri Lanka Build Steadily 22 Saturday, October 7, 2017 SPORTS Dubai Destroyers Aidan Payne /DTNN lift T20 trophy [email protected] Manama ubai Destroyers won all Dseven of its matches to defeat Emirates Hurricane by HH Shaikh Khalid and other officials during the final match 48 runs in the final to win the first-ever Arabian Cricket Carnival T20 2017 ten-day event which concluded last night at the Bahrain National Stadium in Riffa. Batting first, Dubai Destroyers scored 169 for five in its 20 overs with Kolsawala (62) being the main scorer, while Sushi Khatri with three wickets Action from the match Highlight from the Arabian Cricket Carnival final match was the best of the Emirates Hurricane bowlers. semi-final, Dubai Destroyers wickets for Dubai Destroyers. by Bahrain Cricket Centre final match. the supporting companies. In reply, Emirates booked its place in the final Dubai Destroyers reached and KHK MMA Bahrain Around 3,000 cricket Six teams of 12 players Hurricane finished well short after a comfortable six-wicket the target and final in scoring under the patronage of HH enthusiasts were in from the GCC had competing of the target and could only victory over Oman Avengers. 177 for four in 19 overs thanks Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad attendance to witness in a round-robin format with manage 121 for nine in 20 Batting first, Oman to fine knocks by Haseeb Al Khalifa, First Deputy the final, along with four international players overs, with Kapil Yadav (46) Avengers posted a decent Amjad (66) and Usman Saeed President of the Supreme ambassadors and diplomats per team allowed, with the top scoring and Abdullah score of 175 for seven in 20 (48) with Rajesh Kumar Council for Youth and Sports from the countries of the top four advancing through Azhar picking up three overs with Raja Shakeel (46) claiming three wickets for and Honorary President of the participating players, a star- to the knockout stage with wickets. top scoring and Narendra Oman Avengers. Bahrain Sports Federation for studded cast of Bollywood the semi-finals, followed by Earlier in the second Kumar picking up four The event was organised Disabilities, who attended the stars and representatives of yesterday’s final. Markram, Elgar hit tons as SA leads Karunaratne ton helps ean Elgar and Aiden DMarkram, South Africa’s opening batsmen, hit centuries to Sri Lanka build steadily lead a dominating display by the home team in the second and imuth Karunaratne’s unbeaten 133 - final Test against Bangladesh at an innings defined by its smoothness Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein. andD control - ensured Sri Lanka’s first South Africa ended the first day brush with day-night Test cricket was a on 428 for 3 with Elgar making success. They moved to 254 for 3 by stumps, 113 while Markram hit 143. At after debutant Sadeera Samarawickrama stumps on Friday, Hashim Amla contributed a delectable 38, and Dinesh was batting on 89, in sight of his Chandimal progressed to the verge of second century of the series, while another cautious half-century. Earlier in Faf du Plessis, the South African the day, Kaushal Silva had hung around for captain, was on 62 not out. 27 off 71 balls as well. Markram’s maiden Test Pakistan had got themselves in the century came in his second game, match soon after the tea break, when eight days after he was run out Samarawickrama and Kusal Mendis fell for 97 in his debut innings during in quick succession. Though they had Sri the first match in Potchefstroom. Dean Elger celebrates (file pic) Lanka 136 for 3 at one stage, no further The batsman, who turned 23 on wickets would come in the second half Wednesday, admitted there was Test, Mushfiqur Rahim won But although the pitch had of the day. Their frustrations were Dimuth Karunaratne (file pic) “a bit of extra focus in the 90s”. the toss again, and sent South more pace and bounce than in the compounded in the last half an hour when varying rates around him, Karunaratne However, he got to his century in Africa in to bat again, only for previous match, it also contributed Mohammad Amir pulled up in the middle was Sri Lanka’s day one metronome. style, with back to back fours off his bowlers to be punished by to a faster scoring rate as the ball of 88th over and left the field clutching his Samarawickrama produced a boundary- Rubel Hossain. An over-pitched a massive opening partnership. came on to the bat better. Elgar thigh, prompting concerns over the state of filled cameo; Chandimal and Kaushal delivery was punched square The major difference was that and Markram’s partnership of 243 his hamstring. Sarfraz Ahmed also burned stonewalled, almost becoming completely on the off-side for four to take Bangladesh reshuffled its bowling exceeded the 196 they put on to their two reviews trying to dismiss the inert at times. Karunaratne, however, Markram to 97 and he hooked the attack, retaining only Mustafizur set up South Africa’s 333-run win irritating Chandimal. progressed evenly, never getting pinned next ball for another boundary. Rahman among the front-line in the opening match. (www.icc- Though the quicks gleaned good down, never pressing the attack for long. “Fortunately I hit the gaps and bowlers. cricket.com) movement with the new pink balls, it was (espncricinfo) the outfield was nice and quick,” Markram said, though, that he Yasir Shah who was the most menacing he said. “It hasn’t hit home yet but was less surprised by being asked bowler, getting faster and faster turn off the I am very happy to have got there, to bat than in the first Test. “There BRIEF SCORE Dubai pitch through the day. He bowled BRIEF SCORE especially after what happened was a bit more in the wicket and Stumps South Africa 428 for 3 29.3 overs and returned figures of 2 for last week.” although the scoring rate doesn’t (Markram 143, Elgar 113, Amla 89*, 90. Amir was the other bowler to make a Stumps Sri Lanka 254 for 3 (Karunaratne In what was almost an action show it, they were at us quite a Subhashis 2-85) v Bangladesh breakthrough - his first in the series. 133*, Chandimal 49*, Yasir 2-90) v Pakistan replay of the first day of the first bit,” he offered. While other batsmen advanced at .
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