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Mourinho says Pogba no longer Manchester United’s vice-captain PAGE 18 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 Asian Football Confederation chief Sheikh Salman to run for re-election PAGE 18 QNB STARS LEAGUE AL SADD VS QATAR SC ASIA CUP CRICKET Not Pakistan, but B’desh in final vs India AFP ABU DHABI SCOREBOARD BANGLADESH MUSHFIQUR Rahim scored Liton Das b Junaid .................................................6 a fighting 99 to guide Bang- Soumya Sarkar c Zaman b Junaid .........................0 Mominul Haque b Shaheen ...................................5 ladesh into the Asia Cup final Mushfiqur Rahim c Sarfraz b Shaheen ............... 99 with a convincing 37-run win Mohammad Mithun c and b Hasan ....................60 over Pakistan in Abu Dhabi Imrul Kayes lbw b Shadab .....................................9 on Wednesday. Mahmudullah Riyad b Junaid ............................. 25 Mehidy Hasan c sub (Masood) b Junaid ............ 12 The former skipper missed Mashrafe Mortaza c Zaman b Hasan ..................13 out a deserving century but Rubel Hossain run out ...........................................1 still lifted Bangladesh from a Mustafizur Rahman not out ....................................0 precarious 12-3 to 239 all out Extras: (lb8, w1) ....................................................9 TOTAL: (All out; 48.5 overs) .............................. 239 in 49.5 overs before they kept Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Sarkar), 2-12 (Mominul), 3-12 Al Duhail coach Nabil Maaloul (centre) addresses the media ahead of his team’s QNB Stars League Week 7 match against Al Ahli on Wednesday. Pakistan down to 202-9 in 50 (Das), 4-156 (Mithun), 5-167 (Kayes), 6-197 overs at Sheikh Zayed Stadium. (Rahim), 7-221 (Mehidy), 8-230 (Riyad), 9-239 Mashrafe Mortaza’s team (Rubel), 10-239 )Mortaza). Bowling: Junaid 9-1-19-4 (1w), Shaheen 10-1-47- will now face defending cham- 2, Hasan 9.5-0-60-2, Nawaz 8-0-39-0, Malik 2-0- pions India in the final in Du- 14-0, Shadab 10-0-52-1. bai on Friday, with an oppor- PAKISTAN Maaloul wants Duhail tuntiy to win the continental Fakhar Zaman c Rubel b Mehidy ...........................1 Imam-ul-Haq st Das b Mahmudullah ................. 83 title for the first time. Babar Azam lbw b Mustafiz ....................................1 Banglades’s victory will Sarfraz Ahmed c Rahim b Mustafiz ..................... 10 upset millions of fans around Shoaib Malik c Mortaza b Rubel .........................30 the world who wanted an- Shadab Khan c Das b Sarkar ................................4 Asif Ali st Das b Mehidy ......................................31 other Indo-Pak clash as the Mohammad Nawaz c sub (Nazim) b Mustafiz .......8 to tighten up defence two matches in the first and Hasan Ali c Mortaza b Mustafiz ..............................8 second round failed to live up Shaheen Shah not out ........................................14 to their billing, with India win- Junaid Khan not out ...............................................3 Extras: (b1, lb2, nb1, w5) .....................................9 Duhail is joint-top in the result against Al Ahli.” ginning, mainly in the form of ning both in one-sided affairs. TOTAL: (For nine wkts; 50 overs ) ..................... 202 Coach urges his league with Al Sadd on 13 points The Tunisian tactician obvi- injuries to players. But Bangladesh were wor- Fall of wickets: 1-2 Zaman), 2-3 (Azam), 3-18 but the Wolves have a better ously knows the form of rivals “The way they beat thy winners on Wednesday. (Sarfraz), 4-85 (Malik), 5-94 (Shadab), 6-165 (Asif), players not to goal difference, with 26 goals We do not have any Al Sadd and pointed that, “We Al Gharafa playing with 10- Bangladesh bowled with 7-167 (Imam), 8-186 (Hasan), 9-186 (Nawaz) problem in attack. We have Bowling: Mehidy 10-1-28-2, Mustafiz 10-2-43-4 concede a goal scored and only two conceded. respect our competitors and we men was amazing. It will be discipline with left-arm pacer (2w), Mortaza 7-1-33-0, Rubel 8-0-38-1 (2w), Riyad “All goals that we conced- outstanding players in the do not fear any team. The most very hard, but we hope we get Mustafizur Rahman leading 10-0-38-1 (1w), Sarkar 5-0-19-1. against Al Ahli ed so far were results of our midfield and frontline. The important thing is we have to full points,” said Macala. the pack with 4-43 as Paki- Toss: Bangladesh. own mistakes. We will try not problem is when we win all games if we are to be in Ahli will be without strik- stan yet again batted poorly Result: Bangladesh won by 37 runs. IKOLI VICTOR to concede any goal against strong contention for the QNB ers Meshaal Abdulla and with only opener Imam-ul- DOHA Al Ahli. I think winning by concede goals. We will try Stars League title.” Barro Siddiqi. While Meshaal Haq fighting hard through a laborious 105-ball 82. two goals without conceding to rectify the mistakes made Meanwhile, Al Ahli coach is not well, Barro reported for AL Duhail coach Nabil Maaloul any is better than winning by by our players. Milan Macala said the game training despite running high says the defending champions five goals and conceding two,” will be tough as expected. temperature on Tuesday. will try not to concede a goal Maaloul said during the pre- Al Duhail coach Nabil Maaloul Ahli have lost four of the “Even though Barro is a against Al Ahli ahead in their match press conference on six matches played so far and fast player, he has not played a QNB Stars League Week 7 Wednesday. Maaloul added that the another defeat will further match fully. I hope he regains match on Thursday. “We do not have any team had a short time to pre- push the Brigadiers into the his fitness soon. Duhail has thus far con- problem in attack. We have pare for the game after they relegation zone. The Czech coach added ceded four goals in their last outstanding players in the put in extra efforts in the pre- “Every game is tough. Our that he may resort to the two matches and scored six- midfield and frontline. The vious game against Al Gharafa preparations were difficult. Under-23 squad to replace teen, a concern that the former problem is when we concede after a red card to Murad Naji. We have to adapt our strategy the injured players, some of Tunisian World Cup coach ex- goals. We will try to rectify the “However, we will give from game to game. We had which he already fielded in pects the team to stop. mistakes made by our players.” our best to achieve a positive problems right from the be- previous games. AL KHOR SIGN FRENCH COACH BERNARD CASONI DOHA: QNB Stars League team Al Khor have signed French coach Bernard Casoni following the axing of Tunisian Adel Sellimi and hav- ing put Under-23 coach Omar Najhi in charge. Casoni signed the deal with Al Khor Sports Club President Hassan Juma al Mohannadi. Casoni began his coaching career in 1999 with Olympique Mar- seille. He was also at the helm of Club Africain and Etoile du Sahel in Tunisia. As a player, Casoni started off with French club Cannes in 1978. He has also represented clubs like Marseille and the French na- tional team. Al Khor will take on Umm Salal in Week 7 of the QNB Stars League at the Al Gharafa Stadium on Friday, September 28. They have only two points and are 11th in the standings. THE BIG ONE! Bangladesh’s Mohammad Mahmudullah celebrates Al Khor had drawn goalless with Qatar SC in the previous round dismisssing Pakistan batsman Imam-ul-Haq (not in the pic) at the Al Khor Sports Club President Hassan Juma al Mohannadi with coach Bernard Casoni. under caretaker coach Najhi. (QSL.COM) Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. (AFP) Afghanistan fire warning to 2019 cricket World Cup teams AFP Cup 2019, to be held in England UP & RISING: Afghanistan’s progress embodies a fairytale rise since will be in place to fulfill the our guys have played different DUBAI from May 30 to July 14 next dream of beating the bigger leagues and sharing dressing year. “We can hold our heads the Russian invasion of their country in 1978 forced millions to flee and teams. “I am just trying to make room with experienced inter- BEFORE the start of the Asia high and this performance lived in refugee camps outside Pakistan’s border city of Peshawar. It was in sure everything gets to the level national players has helped.” Cup Afghanistan captain gives us pride,” said Asghar Pakistan where they were exposed to cricket and, after learning the game, of the bigger nations,” said As- With the arrival of West In- Asghar Afghan had warned after the India game in Dubai. ghar, whose first major com- dian coach Phil Simmons this his team would not only “Remember, this is a warning started a continuous rise since 2009, featuring in the World Twenty20 petition was the 2010 World year, Afghanistan's batting has compete but would achieve for the World Cup teams.” a year later and playing their first World Cup in 2015. Twenty20 in the Caribbean. gone to next level. They posted something special. Afghanistan’s progress em- “We want to beat the bigger totals of 249, 255, 257, 246 and Despite not qualifying for bodies a fairytale rise since the teams, that’s how we improve. 252 in the tournament, with Friday's final the team from Russian invasion of their coun- At the end of the day, winning shrewd strategies. the warn-torn nation achieved try in 1978 forced millions to is important to me.” “Definitely, we have im- enough to sound warning bells flee and lived in refugee camps Exposure to Twenty20 proved in our batting," said for World Cup 2019 teams.