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GIB partners with Saudi golf chase big total tournament TDT | Manama

Dimuth Karunaratne ulf International Bank • G(GIB) is the golf part- taken to hospital ner of the inaugural Sau - after suffering nasty KNOW WHAT di International powered head blow from Pat by SBIA. The tournament Cummins’ bouncer marks the first time the Eu- ropean Tour is being held in the Kingdom, where the Kurtis Patterson Australia’s batsmen • had managed just one third leg of the prestigious notches maiden Test century in the past 12 ‘Middle East Swing’ is being century as Australia months before arriving played. drive home advantage The Saudi Internation- in Canberra, where al powered is taking place (180), Travis from 31st January to 3rd • Sri Lanka trail by Head (161) and Patter- February at Royal Greens 411 runs with 7 son ended the drought Golf & Country Club in remaining in the innings in emphatic fashion to King Abdullah Economic stake their claims for City. The event has attract- ed some of the world’s fin- AFP | Canberra, Australia Ashes selection est golfers. This includes son was 114 and Paine four of the world’s top five pener Dimuth Karuna- on 45 at the declaration with golfers, eight players from ratne was rushed to hos- Vishwa Fernando the pick of the last year’s Ryder Cup and Opital after a frightening Sri Lankan bowlers with 3-126. no fewer than seven Major blow by a bouncer yesterday as After being dropped on his champions. Sri Lanka chased a massive Aus- falls to the floor after being struck on the head by a Pat Cummins bouncer first ball, Patterson, who earned The Saudi International tralian first innings total built on a debut in the first Test at Bris- powered by SBIA, with its the back of three centuries. weathered the new-ball attack his bat as Australian players ran It clearly unsettled bane after hitting 157 and 102 $3.5 million purse, is one In overcast conditions, the led by under-pressure Mitchell to assist. Thirimanne who fell to spinner for a Australia XI in a of six tournaments to be home team resumed day two Starc. A doctor and physio sprint- Nathan Lyon for 41 in the next warm-up against Sri Lanka, nev- played on the Arabian Pen- of the second Test in Canberra On a flat Manuka Oval ed onto the ground and called over, caught by Usman Khawaja er looked back. insula. on 384 for four and extended track Karunaratne and Lahi- for more medics and after some at slip. The New South Welshman their lead to a massive 534 for ru Thirimanne saw off some 10 minutes, he was put on a Cummins then clean-bowled shored up his credentials ahead five when skipper Tim Paine lightning quick deliveries and a stretcher and taken off the field for six and when of an Ashes tour to England lat- declared. bouncer barrage and had built on a golf buggy. Dinesh Chandimal er this year by bringing up his Sports Day meeting At stumps, Sri Lanka were 123 an 82-run stand before disaster Cricket Australia said he com- gloved a Starc ball to Paine be- maiden hundred with a drive to for three in reply with struck. plained of pain in the neck and hind the stumps for 15, the tour- mid-off for three after starting set for today on 11 and Playing in his 58th Test, tingling to the hands and was ists were in trouble. the day on 25. Dhananjaya de Silva Karunaratne was 46 not out ferried to hospital. “We lost a couple of wickets “It’s another nice milestone. TDT | Manama not out one. when a rising Pat Cum - Coach Chandika Hathurus- afterwards so it was definite- I’ve played that innings in my Paine’s declaration mins ball glanced off his ingha said later he was in “good ly a distraction.” admitted Ha- mind ever since I was a little he fourth meeting of looked premature giv- shoulder and onto his hel- spirits” and “in no danger”. thurusingha. boy,” said Patterson. Tthe organizing com- en the ease with which met, close to the neck area. “It hit on the back of the neck “More importantly, it just put mittee of the 2019 Bahrain Sri Lanka’s He slumped to the so he is being assessed,” he add- From drought to flood the team in a position to win Sports Day – scheduled for openers ground, dropping ed. The impressive Kurtis Patter- another Test match.” February 12 – is scheduled for today at the Regency Inter-Continental Hotel in Manama. A number of subjects on I want Bale to perform how he knows he can: Solari the meeting agenda will be discussed today, including AFP | Madrid widen further. “We have already won the the programmes and ac - Bale has just come back after Club World Cup and we come tivities to be organized by antiago So- three weeks out with a calf inju- into this period in good form, national sports federations Slari has chal- ry but his return to the starting I want him to with energy, with the whole during the event, as well lenged Gareth line-up is not guaranteed, given squad available, except (Jesus) as the plans of the North- Bale to hit top his team have won six out of perform how he Vallejo, who is about to come ern and Southern Gover- form ahead of their last seven matches. knows he can, like he back. norates, the media cover- what could prove “The spotlight is always on did in the Club World “We face this run of games age plan and any proposed a defining period in Gareth,” Solari said at a press Cup and against with absolute tranquility.” ideas from the committee Real Madrid’s sea- conference yesterday. “But I see Roma Madrid were thrashed 5-1 by members. son. him focused, connected, plugged SANTIAGO SOLARI Barcelona in their last outing With the countdown Madrid face a dou - in. at the Camp Nou in October, for the third edition of the ble-header against Bar- “I want him to perform how a match that led to Julen Lo - sports day already started, celona in the Copa del he knows he can, like he did in He insists, however, that Ma- petegui being sacked and Solari the organizing committee Rey semi-finals in the next the Club World Cup and against drid are used to big matches installed as his replacement. is putting the final touch- month, as well as two legs Roma. He is an important player coming thick and fast at this Asked how his team have es before the event takes against Ajax in the last 16 of for us and I think he is deter- stage of the season. progressed in the three months place at different parts of the Champions League. mined to do well.” “We are used to it, this team since, Solari said: “We are in a the kingdom, including the Gareth After Alaves today, they also Madrid meet Barcelona in the has experience of this at this very good moment. The players main sports village locat- Bale play city rivals Atletico Madrid first leg of the Copa del Rey on time of year,” Solari said. are training well, enthusiastic, it ed at Isa Sports City near in La Liga before a third Clasico Wednesday, three days after the “First, you have to reach this is down to them. the National Stadium in at the start of March. Madrid are game against Alaves, but Solari stage in all three competitions, “They are a family, they say it Riffa. 10 points adrift of Barca already was reluctant to divert focus to the aim is to keep all of them themselves, and I think they are and cannot afford to let the gap the contest at the Camp Nou. open. doing phenomenally well.” Sports management course concludes

Playgrounds initiative launched at Muharraq Governorate TDT | Manama

in a football game. group of sports rep - TDT | Manama Late on, Askar, along with the Aresentatives recently rest of the visiting members, completed a sports man- n initiative, aimed at pro- handed over footballs, donated agement course, organ- Amoting different sports by the Bahrain Olympic Com- ized by the Bahrain Olym- within Bahrain’s tradition- mittee, to the players, in an at- pic Committee’s ( BOC) al playgrounds, was officially tempt to encourage them to con- Bahrain Olympic Acad - launched at Muharraq Gover- tinue play their favourite sports emy at its premises in norate. during school free time. Juffair. This first-of-its-kind gesture, Al Dosari, the present coach The six-day course, titled ‘Al Firjan Playgrounds’, of the Bahrain junior team, ex- which got underway on is the brainchild of Shaikh pressed happiness to be part of January 26, saw represent- Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Al Firjan Playgrounds officials with young players this plan, an initiative which atives of national sports representative of His Majesty Attending the launching event rahman Askar. national football players Hamad reflects the dedication of Shaikh clubs and associations, the King for Charity Works and in Muharraq were Supreme He was joined by represent- Mohammed and Rashid Al Dos- Nasser and support to the Bah- youth centres and Univer- Youth Affairs, Supreme Council Council for Youth and Sports atives of BOC Mohammed Lori sary, who made a surprise visit raini youth, and it would con- sity of Bahrain’s physical for Youth and Sports Chairman, assistant secretary general and and Mohammed Al Remaili, to playgrounds in Al Hidd, Al tribute to the revival of Al Firjan education and physio - and Bahrain Olympic Commit- Bahrain Olympic Committee Bahrain Football Association’s Nuaim and Al Salata, and wit- playgrounds which almost dis- therapy department in the tee President. (BOC) secretary general Abdul- Hasan Ismail and former inter- nessed young athletes compete appeared In recent years. fray.