TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 SPORTS

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DHAKA: ’s plays a shot on the first day of the second Test match against New Zealand. —AP Tamim misses ton as Kiwis halt Bangladesh

DHAKA: missed out on a cen- and 67 with (41) for the sec- tury as New Zealand restricted Bangladesh ond. to 228-5 on the first day of the second Test Trent Boult gave New Zealand their first in Dhaka yesterday, before rain ended play when (seven) mis- early. cued a pull shot and Williamson took the The dismissals of Tamim for 95 and catch. for 20 just before the tea Ayub looked solid until Wagner, who break put the Black Caps on top, with bad replaced left-arm spinner Bruce Martin in weather preventing play in the final ses- New Zealand’s line-up from the drawn first sion. Test, bowled him. Filip Polc perfoms at the Red Bull Mountain Rage at Akbulak in Almaty, Kazakhstan .—www.redbull.com “Yes, the momentum was with us, but The right-handed Ayub struck six we can’t control the weather,” said New boundaries in his 62-ball innings. “It would Zealand batsman Ross Taylor. “[The match] have been better if I was still at the crease,” is probably still pretty evenly poised and Ayub told reporters after play. “Runs were the rain has given our fast bowlers an extra there for the taking. Simpson wins first break. “We were scoring freely. They were “When we do come out tomorrow attacking us with deliveries bowled in the hopefully, weather permitting, we can trajectory of the off-stump,” he said. Corey strike early and get them seven, if not Anderson ended Mominul’s innings by hav- eight, down before the second new ball,” he ing him caught behind. Las Vegas jackpot said. Tamim edged Neil Wagner to Kane Tamim prospered after surviving two Williamson at slip, before leg-spinner Ish dropped catches at the start of his innings. Sodhi trapped Shakib Al Hasan leg-before. Wicketkeeper Bradley-John Watling LAS VEGAS: Former US Open Before the twin blows, Bangladesh had dropped the left-hander on five before champion Webb Simpson hit the made steady progress after skipper skipper Brendon McCullum let him off at jackpot in Las Vegas on Sunday, Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss and elected second slip at 10. Doug Bracewell was the cruising to his fourth career victory to bat in overcast conditions at the Sher-e- unlucky bowler on both occasions. on the PGA Tour by a commanding Bangla National Stadium. Bangladesh made one change to their six shots at the Shriners Hospitals Tamim, who smashed 17 fours in his team that drew the first Test in , for Children Open. entertaining 153-ball knock, put on 76 with bringing in uncapped paceman Al Amin Four ahead of the chasing pack (47) for the third wicket Hossain for injured Robiul Islam. —AFP at the start of play, Simpson did not allow his challengers to get any closer than three strokes before SCOREBOARD tightening his grip on the title with three birdies in the last six holes at DHAKA: Scores at stumps on the first day of the second Test between Bangladesh and New the TPC Summerlin. Zealand at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Monday On another calm and sunny day Bangladesh first innings Total (for five , 54.4 overs) 228 of ideal scoring conditions in the Tamim Iqbal c Williamson b Wagner 95 Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Anamul), 2-90 (Marshall), high Nevada desert, Simpson Anamul Haque c Williamson b Boult 7 3-166 (Mominul) 4-208 (Tamim), 5-228 ( closed with a five-under-par 66 to Marshall Ayub b Wagner 41 post a 24-under total of 260 in the Shakib) Mominul Haque c Watling b Anderson 47 second event of the PGA Tour’s Shakib Al Hasan lbw b Sodhi 20 Bowling: Boult 13-1-50-1, Bracewell 10-0-51-0 2013-14 season. Mushfiqur Rahim 14 (w1), Wagner 13-3-42-2, Sodhi 11.4-2-38-1, “It means the world,” Simpson Extras (b2,lb1, w1) 4 Williamson 4-0-30-0, Anderson 3-0-14-1. told Golf Channel after sinking a curling 25-footer for par at the last to earn the winner’s cheque for $1,080,000 and his first victory on De Villiers wary of the US circuit since the 2012 US Open. “This year, I feel like I have Pakistan seamers gotten better, I just hadn’t gotten the win. I was close at Hilton Head DUBAI: The Pakistan seamers damaged mindsets, win this test match and not lose the but we were working hard and it’s South Africa’s top order in the first series,” de Villiers said. “We haven’t lost a series just nice to finish the year off with a Test, according to batsman AB de Villiers, and in a very long time ... to go in there and try to ‘W’.” Simpson, who was embraced LAS VEGAS: Webb Simpson holds up the championship trophy after winning in the final round of the STPC the Proteas have to adapt quickly for the sec- adapt to the conditions as quickly as possible by his wife Dowd as he walked off Summerlin tournament. —AP ond and final Test starting tomorrow. “They and get momentum on our side.” the 18th green, lost out in a playoff (seamers) got some really big wickets in the But to get that momentum back, South with Northern Irishman Graeme victory since June last year, he range to bogey the par-four 12th nice to birdie 13, and then made a first and second innings and we have to work Africa might not have the luxury of star bats- McDowell for the RBC Heritage at made a fast start with two early for his lead to be briefly cut to three couple more birdies coming in, on it,” de Villiers said Monday after his team’s man Hashim Amla, who has returned home Hilton Head in April. birdies, draining a 16-footer at the shots over Bohn. which was a good feeling.” net session at the ICC Academy in Dubai. to be with his expecting wife. Amla gave Fellow American Jason Bohn par-four second and a 15-footer at However, he immediately Simpson struck a brilliant tee Lanky pacer Mohammad Irfan and Junaid South Africa some respectability in the first bogeyed the last for a 66 to share the par-four third to stretch his lead rebounded with a birdie at the par- shot to just four feet at the par- Khan had reduced South Africa to 43-3 and innings with his superb 118, but he might not second place at 18 under with to six shots. Though Luke Guthrie five 13th, where he sank an eight- three 14th but lipped out with his then removed Alviro Petersen and Jacques be in time for the second test. Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa (65), with briefly trimmed that advantage to footer, to regain a four-stroke cush- birdie attempt before picking up Kallis cheaply in the second innings as In Amla’s place, lefthanded , another American, Charley five with his seventh birdie of the ion. “I was playing good, solid golf,” another shot at the par-four 15th Pakistan went 1-0 up in the series with a sev- who has scored 192 runs in six test matches, Hoffman, a further stroke back in day at the 15th, Simpson coolly Simpson said of his form on Sunday where he pitched to within two en-wicket victory last week. is expected to be drafted in to fill the big fourth after firing a joint best-of- sank a 14-foot birdie putt at the before his unexpected slipup at the feet of the cup from in front of the South Africa has not lost an away test shoes of world’s top-ranked test batsman. the-day 64. par-five ninth to reach the turn at 12th. “I didn’t look at the leader- green. Another birdie followed at series since 2006 when it was beaten by Sri “It’s definitely a big test for him (Elgar),” de But it was Simpson who once 22 under, six ahead. boards all day but the course was the par-five 16th, where he reached Lanka 2-0, but the task to protect their seven- Villiers said. “He hasn’t played a test match for again commanded the spotlight, Simpson had played rock-solid drying out and I knew it was play- the green in two and comfortably year unbeaten run will be tougher with a while so ... that’s probably the area where he having led the tournament since golf since starting the round and it ing tough. two-putted, and he parred the last another slow wicket expected to welcome will feel a little bit doubt.” Friday’s second round. came as something of a surprise “That three-putt there kind of two holes to wrap up a command- them. De Villiers said ideally it would have suited In pursuit of his first PGA Tour when he three-putted from long set me back a little bit but it was ing win. —Reuters “It’s a must-win game for us and we’re South Africa to play a test series before com- going in there with that attitude to win that ing to the United Arab Emirates as its last game,” de Villiers said. “We’re still the No. 1 series was in February when it routed team in the world and we are going to play Pakistan 3-0 at home. The Proteas also had like it.” only one three-day warm-up game against Ethiopia’s first marathon draws While Pakistan seamers got rid of the top Pakistan “A” where against the second string order, South Africa had only watched some bowlers , de Villiers, Petersen video footage of 34-year-old leftarm spinner and Amla all scored half centuries. crowds to the ‘land of runners’ Zulfiqar Babar before the test match as the “We would have loved a series before this left-armer impressed with five wickets on his or a few more warm-up games,” de Villiers HAWASSA: The sun had barely risen but the hosts several runs throughout the year, includ- Annie Delp, 38, who came from the US to run debut. said. “It just wasn’t possible and that’s where cool morning air was buzzing with excitement: ing the annual Great Ethiopian Run, which last the half-marathon following a ten-day tour of “We haven’t faced him (Babar) before, the best teams in the world normally believe 350 participants had gathered in Ethiopia, the year drew close to 40,000 people. northern Ethiopia, said the event is a chance to maybe that factor played into the hands and that they are ready no matter what. land of runners, for the country’s first interna- Today he has his own training centre, Yaya open foreign eyes to Ethiopia, a country better- they used it quite well,” de Villiers said. “But we couldn’t get right this time around tional marathon organised by athletics legend Village, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa and last known as a nation plagued with famine and While Pakistan fast bowlers pitched up to and it’s disappointing. We wanted to play Haile Gebrselassie. year, 5,000 and 10,000 world record holder unrest in the 1980s. the Proteas batsmen, South Africa’s plot of more cricket beforehand but it was just not Sunday’s race, which drew 150 elite Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele opened a running centre with “It would change everything because people shaking the opponents with short deliveries possible, going into the second test match athletes and about 150 foreign “fun runners”, one of the country’s only professional-rate run- don’t know how beautiful Ethiopia is, how sweet didn’t work. They will be looking to bowl to hopefully we will play better.” De Villiers rated promises to boost professionalism in a country ning tracks. the people are and how awesome the food is, fuller lengths like they showed briefly when South Africa’s performance very low on scale that has produced scores of world-class runners, With its high altitude and consis ently sunny there’s just so much,” said Delp, who came first in Pakistan stuttered to 7-3 in their small run- of 10 keeping in mind that the Proteas had many of whom started running barefoot along weather-the country is often dubbed the land of the women’s half marathon. chase of 40 at Abu Dhabi. not lost its previous 15 test matches before dusty country roads. “13 months of sunshine”-Ethiopia has long been For some, the race was also a chance to run “It’s important for us to go with fresh losing in Abu Dhabi.—AP “Believe me, we can produce more big heralded as one of the best places in Africa for alongside Ethiopia’s future long distance stars names, we can produce more marathon runners, long distance training, rivalled only by neighbor- and meet Gebrselassie, a global running hero. more Olympic champions, world champion and ing Kenya. Simon Newton, 35, did a “running tour” of world record holders,” said Gebrselassie, two- Sunday’s marathon winner, Gudissa Ethiopia before doing Sunday’s marathon, which time marathon record-breaker and 10,000 Shentema,said the race was a historical victory he described as “fantastic.” Second-placed Olympic champion. for him as he had never run a competitive Newton has run around 40 marathons before Race organisers sought to draw Ethiopia’s top marathon on home soil, and that it has encour- but said the Haile Gebrselassie race was the athletes to the race in Hawassa, 275 kilometres aged him to train harder. “most enjoyable” he has run. (170 miles) south of Ethiopia’s capital, by offering “I’ve been competing in different countries As he tired around 35 kilometres, a group of the largest cash prize in Ethiopian racing history- but this one gives me a lot of motivation to con- children ran alongside him for motivation and at close to $5,300 (3,855 euros) each for the top tinue,” he said, forehead glistening with sweat one point he had to dodge a monkey sitting on man and woman competitors. after his 42 kilometre-run. the road. The marathon is part of an overall boost to Gebrselassie said he hopes to draw casual Gebrselassie said that while this year’s race Ethiopian athletics, which in the past two years runners from abroad too, in order to promote a drew only modest crowds, he hopes the event has been bolstered by new world-class training running culture and give foreigners a chance to will grow in the future, perhaps to gain global centres and a series of competitive races that tour Ethiopia. standing and rival the New York or London have drawn crowds from around the world. “It’s a very good opportunity to bring tourists marathon. “Of course, you cannot predict what “Two years ago there was nothing here, ath- to see Ethiopia,” he said, adding that the interna- will be in the future... now with this marathon, if letes they wanted to come to Ethiopia to train tional exposure is crucial for changing Ethiopia’s people know about it, you never know,” he said AB de Villiers there was no facility,” said Gebrselassie, who image. with his characteristic wide grin. —AFP