Sports Monday, February 4, 2019 19 Khawaja Azam’s fiery 90 Rayudu lifts India to back in form, smacks ton goes in vain AFP 4-1 ODI series win CANBERRA South Africa halt Pakistan’s T20 USMAN Khawaja finallyseries winning streak Visiting bowlers help inflict a crushing 35-run defeat on the home team found form again to stroke a fine century Sunday and steer AFP REUTERS Australia into a massive lead JOHANNESBURG WELLINGTON over Sri Lanka as the tourists battle to stay in the second BABAR Azam hit a majestic 90 AMBATI Rayudu struck a Test at Canberra. but Pakistan’s long streak of se- sparkling 90 in tough condi- At stumps, the visitors ries wins came to an end in the tions to help India overcome were 17 without loss, chasing a second Twenty20 international the loss of four early wickets huge 516 to win with two days against South Africa at the and beat New Zealand by 35 remaining after Tim Paine de- Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. runs in the final one-day in- clared Australia’s second in- South Africa took a winning ternational in Wellington on nings at 196 for three. 2-0 lead in the three-match se- Sunday, sealing a 4-1 series Dimuth Karunaratne and ries with a dramatic seven-run victory. Lahiru Thirimanne were both win. Pakistan had not lost a T20 With the series already unbeaten on eight, weathering series since they were eliminat- safe, stand-in skipper Rohit some 30 minutes before bad ed from the World T20 in India Pakistan’s Babar Azam during his Sharma sent his men in to light stopped play slightly early. in March 2016. knock of 90 in Johannesburg. bat on a moist surface and Sri Lanka had resumed the Pakistan were on track to the tourists found themselves third day at 123 for three and overhaul South Africa’s 188 for “We were too short and too struggling on 18 for four. in a hostile morning session three until Azam was out off wide but the bowlers pulled it Matt Henry did the early lost four wickets and Kusal the first ball of the 17th over. It back.” damage, uprooting Sharma’s Perera, who retired after being started a collapse in which six Although neither took a off-stump with the batsman hit on the head by a bouncer. wickets fell for 34 runs in four wicket, Miller praised left-arm on two, before Trent Boult Their resistence folded in overs. spinner Tabraiz Shamsi and enticed Shikhar Dhawan (6) the second over after lunch, The contrast between the new fast bowler Lutho Sipamla to play a loose shot that was with Mitchell Starc taking five two innings was stark. South Af- for economical bowling in the taken by Henry at third man. wickets to leave them trailing rica started slowly but stand-in middle overs before the late- Shubman Gill (7) was India celebrate their ODI series victory following the fifth one-day international (ODI) cricket match against by 319 after Australia’s first in- captain David Miller plundered innings collapse. the next player sent back New Zealand in Wellington on Sunday. (AFP) nings 534 for five declared. an unbeaten 65 off 29 balls as Miller, captaining South by Henry, poking a routine Paine opted against the the hosts scored 127 runs off the Africa for the first time because catch to Mitchell Santner at Nicholls (8) early on, while follow-on in Australia’s last last ten overs, including 29 off Faf du Plessis was rested for the square cover, before Boult his strike partner Colin Mun- SCOREBOARD Test batting opportunity be- the final over bowled by Usman last two matches of the series, rattled MS Dhoni’s off- ro (24) lasted 19 balls, with INDIA: NEW ZEALAND: fore the Ashes tour to England Shinwari. hit five sixes and four fours in stump to claim a prized scalp Mohammed Shami account- R. Sharma b Henry 2 C. Munro b Shami 24 later this year. Pakistan scored rapidly at an explosive innings, which fol- S. Dhawan c Henry b Boult 6 H. Nicholls c Jadhav b Shami 8 for a single run. ing for both openers. S. Gill c Santner b Henry 7 K. Williamson c Dhawan b Jadhav 39 Khawaja padded up know- the start of their innings, with lowed a similarly aggressive 45 It was left to Rayudu to Ross Taylor was the next A. Rayudu c Munro b Henry 90 R. Taylor lbw Pandya 1 ing his place in that squad Azam hitting the first three balls off 27 balls by Rassie van der mount a salvage mission, to go after Pandya trapped M. Dhoni b Boult 1 T. Latham lbw Chahal 37 was in doubt after managing a off Beuran Hendricks for four. Dussen, who hit four sixes. which the right-hander duly him leg before on one. Re- V. Shankar run out (Neesham/Munro) 45 J. Neesham run out (Dhoni) 44 high-score of just 72 across six It was 70 for one at the end of South Africa made a rela- K. Jadhav b Henry 34 C. de Grandhomme lbw Chahal 11 did, staying at the crease for plays showed the ball would H. Pandya c Boult b Neesham 45 M. Santner c Shami b Pandya 22 Tests in a lacklustre summer. the six-over power play -- 26 tively sedate start on an unu- 113 deliveries and being abet- have gone over the stumps, B . Kumar c Taylor b Boult 6 T. Astle lbw Chahal 10 He responded in emphatic runs ahead of South Africa’s to- sually slow, dry Wanderers ted by Vijay Shankar (45). but Taylor did not review on M. Shami run out (Boult) 1 M. Henry not out 17 fashion, smashing his eighth tal at the same stage. pitch. Left-arm spinner Imad “After we lost four wick- the advice of skipper Kane Y. Chahal not out 0 T. Boult c Shami b Kumar 1 Test ton off 134 balls. Azam and Hussain Talat Wasim, who opened the bowl- Extras (b 5, lb 7, wd 2 nb1) 15 Extras: (wd 3) 3 ets, all we needed was some- Williamson at the other end. Total (for all out; 49.5 overs) 252 Total (all out; 44.1 overs) 217 “Obviously getting a hun- (59) put on 102 off 75 balls for ing, took one for nine in four body to show application. Williamson took 72 balls Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Sharma), 2-12 (Dhawan), 3-17 Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Nicholls), 2-37 (Munro), 3-38 dred and setting up another the second wicket. overs. He bowled a maiden to The partnership between to get to 39, but he was (Gill), 4-18 (Dhoni), 5-116 (Shankar), 6-190 (Rayudu), (Taylor), 4-105 (Williamson), 5-119 (Latham), 6-135 game that we can hopefully “We had the game but we new opening batsman Janne- Rayudu and Vijay Shankar caught by Dhawan at deep 7-203 (Jadhav), 8-248 (Pandya), 9-252 (Kumar), (de Grandhomme), 7-176 (Neesham), 8-194 (Astle), win, that’s the ultimate feeling couldn’t finish it,” said Pakistan man Malan, who had an oth- 10-252 (Shami) 9-204 (Santner), 10-217 (Boult) turned the game for us,” mid-wicket off a Jadhav de- Bowling: Henry 10-1-35-4 (1nb), Boult 9.5-2-39-3 Bowling: Kumar 7.1-0-38-1, Shami 8-0-35-2 (1w), for the team and for myself,” captain Shoaib Malik. erwise promising innings of 33 Sharma said. livery to leave New Zealand (2w), Neesham 5-0-33-1, de Grandhomme 7-0-33-0, Pandya 8-1-50-2 (1w), Shankar 4-0-19-0, Chahal said Khawaja, who admitted it The tempo of the game off 31 balls. Kedar Jadhav (34) kept on 105 for four. Munro 10-0-47-0, Santner 3-0-18-0, Astle 5-0-35-0. 10-0-41-3, Jadhav 7-0-34-1 (1w). had been a tough few months changed when Azam pulled a Left-arm fast bowler Shin- the scoreboard ticking over Tom Latham and James on and off the field. slower ball from Beuran Hen- wari conceded 63 runs off his and all-rounder Hardik Pan- Neesham mounted a fight- dricks to deep midwicket after four overs. dya (45) cut loose at the end back before Yuzvendra Cha- out by Dhoni who, spotting That broke New Zea- BRIEF SCORES hitting 13 fours and a six in a with five sixes and two fours hal struck twice in succession the batsman out of his crease land’s spirit and Pandya, Sri Lanka 215 (Karunaratne 59, Starc 5-54) 58-ball innings. BRIEF SCORES to set the Kiwis a 253-run to remove Latham (37) and following an appeal for Chahal and Bhuvneshwar and 0 for 17 need 499 more runs to beat “We didn’t start too well South Africa 188 for 3 (Miller 65*, van der Dussen victory target. Colin de Grandhomme (11). lbw, picked up the ball and Kumar cleaned up the tail Australia 5 for 534 dec and 3 for 196 dec with the ball,” said Miller, who 45, Imad 1-9) beat Pakistan 181 for 7 (Babar 90, New Zealand lost Henry Neesham (44) was run knocked off the bails. and secured victory. (Khawaja 101*, Head 59*) was named man of the match. Talat 55, Phelukwayo 3-36) by seven runs QCA HonoUrs SHiraZ Taskin ruled Shan fires CBQ to 40-run win over Galfar out of New TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Riding Titu’ all-round performance, DOHA Bangladesh Seniors crushed Al Rayyan Zealand tour Club by 102 runs in another match.