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Rooney to make England farewell against USA Barty claims Elite Trophy AFP | London AFP | Zhuhai, China ayne Rooney is to Wcome out of England ustralia’s Ashleigh Barty retirement for a final one- won the WTA Elite Tro- It’s been a truly off appearance against the Aphy in China yesterday, phenomenal year. United States in an inter- beating home favourite Wang My goal is to stay national friendly at Wemb- Qiang 6-3, 6-4. top 20 and try and ley this month, the Football The ninth seed imposed her- Association announced yes- self early in the match in Zhuhai, consolidate as best I terday. winning the first four games on can. We’ve been able Rooney, a record goalscor- her way to taking the first set to do that and come er for both Manchester comfortably. away with a couple of United and England, has not Wang, the 11th seed, fought titles as well, and still played international foot- back in the second, but failed to being very successful ball for nearly two years. capitalise on two break points in in doubles But the 33-year-old, now the fourth game. based in the United States Barty, however, took her ASHLEIGH BARTY where he plays for Major chance to break in the sev - League Soccer side DC Unit- enth game and finished off the that happy. ed in Washington, will wear 83-minute victory with a flam- “However, I’m leaving today the Three Lions shirt one boyant backhand smash. so I can go on my vacation fi- last time for the Wembley The 22-year-old champion nally.” fixture on November 15. clenched her fists in celebration Ashleigh Barty of Australia hits a return against Wang Qiang of China Barty lost her first round-rob- The match will be called before hugging her opponent in match against Aryna Sa - The Wayne Rooney Foun- over the net. ing to see a repeat performance a late call-up following an injury tion for the two unexpected balenka 6-4, 6-4, but a 6-3, 6-4 dation International in sup- With her colourful hair braids, of Saturday night’s semi-final to Madison Keys and cruised to matches, Wang said: “Well, I’m win over Caroline Garcia was port of the striker’s charity China’s number one Wang was when the 26-year-old crushed victory over double grand slam not prepared. enough for her to qualify to aiding disadvantaged chil- the crowd’s favourite at the Garbine Muguruza 6-2, 6-0. winner Muguruza. “I was just called upon yester- semi-final on Saturday, when dren, with England manag- Hengqin International Tennis Wang did not initially qualify Asked in her post-match press day and I won yesterday. I was she beat defending champion er Gareth Southgate naming Center, and fans had been hop- for the tie, but took advantage of conference about her prepara- very happy. Today, I lost. I’m not Julia Goerges 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. the 33-year-old in his squad.

Barca include Messi S Africa thrash ‘careless’ Chatara, Raza put in squad to face on top in first Bangladesh Test Inter Milan Australia by six AFP | Barcelona ionel Messi has been AFP | Perth, Australia Lincluded in Barcelona’s travelling squad to face In- outh Africa hammered a ter Milan in the Champions Scareless Australia by six League on Tuesday. wickets in the first one-day in- Messi broke his arm dur- ternational in Perth yesterday, ing Barca’s win over Sevilla with a Dale Steyn-led pace on- on October 20, with the club slaught exposing their batting predicting he would be out frailties. for three weeks. Set 153 to win, Proteas’ open- The striker has not yet ers Quinton de Kock (47) and been declared fit by Barce- Reeza Hendricks (44) helped Bangladesh’s Nazmul Hossain Shanto (C) takes a catch to dismiss Zimbabwe’s lona’s medical team but he secure victory with 124 balls Regis Chakabva (L) as Bangladeshi teammate Mushfiqur Rahim (R) looks on will travel with the squad to spare, leaving Australia with Pat Cummins of Australia is run out by David Miller of South Africa to the San Siro. plenty to ponder ahead of the AFP | Sylhet, Bangladesh ing an unbeaten 41 runs while “Leo Messi travels to Mi- second of the three-game series Carey (33) the only ones to offer ter-punching at the end, but a wicketkeeper-batsman Mush- lan without the medical all- in Adelaide on Friday. any resistance. Veteran Steyn good day at the office overall,” ace bowler fiqur Rahim made 31. clear,” the club posted on The hosts came into the clash took 2-18 off seven overs while he said. Pand spinner Mushfiqur helped Bangla- their Twitter account. having lost 16 of their past 18 Andile Phehlukwayo picked up “All the bowlers today were claimed three wickets each to desh recover briefly from 19-4 Messi had trained the ODIs and with the reverbera- 3-33 off six overs. great. It’s great as a put Zimbabwe on top in the before he fell to , same day, along with oth- tions of a ball-tampering scan- “We didn’t play anywhere to have such X-factor in the first Test against Bangladesh who claimed 2-28 to play his er players not involved in dal this year still hanging over near our potential,” said skipper bowling attack and they made in Sylhet yesterday. part in the demolition act. Saturday’s 3-2 victory over them. Aaron Finch. sure to take advantage of the Chatara claimed 3-19 and Zimbabwe gained the upper Rayo Vallecano. Coach Justin Langer was “We were a bit careless at conditions.” Raza grabbed 3-35 as Zimba- hand early on when in-form hoping they could put a smile times in the first innings. We The Proteas won the toss and bwe bowled out the hosts for opener Imrul Kayes dragged back on the faces of fans in their were off the mark slowly. after opting for a four-pronged 143 runs after left-arm spinner a Chatara onto his first game on home soil since “If you’re defending 152, then pace attack chose to bowl, with Taijul Islam took 6-108 to end stumps for five in the fourth Gray booked for the cheating row boiled over nothing can go wrong with the Steyn getting two early break- the visitors’ first innings on over of the innings. in March. ball. Unfortunately for us, Quin- throughs. 282 in the morning. The hosts then lost three tribute to late But without the banned Steve ton and Reeza got off to a flier, Travis Head got a thick edge Zimbabwe, who pocketed a wickets in nine balls. Leicester owner Smith and David Warner, their and there was little we could do to de Kock off the veteran for 139-run first innings lead, were Opener Liton Das followed batsmen were exposed once from there.” just one and then D’Arcy Short, 0-1 at stumps on the second Imrul on nine, giving a catch to Reuters | London again in a stadium full of empty His opposite number Faf Du in the side for Shaun Marsh day at the Sylhet International wicketkeeper Regis Chakabva seats. Plessis praised his team as “ex- who needs minor surgery on Stadium. before Zimbabwe successfully eferee Lee Probert’s They were bowled out for ceptional” with the ball and in an abscess, followed him back Debutant Ariful Haque was reviewed a caught behind ap- Rdecision to book De - just 152 in 38.1 overs with Na- the field. to the pavilion for a duck two the only Bangladesh batsman peal against Nazmul Hossain marai Gray for taking his than Coulter-Nile (34) and Alex “There was some coun - balls later. to offer some resistance, scor- (five) off fast bowler Chatara. shirt off in celebrating his Premier League winner for Leicester City against Car- diff City provoked a storm of criticism on social media Marquez wins Malaysian MotoGP after Rossi crash yesterday. The occasion was charged AFP | Sepang, Malaysia the 16th lap and losing the lead place and was slowly closing the with emotion following the to Marquez, who was crowned gap on Rossi, 39, when the Ital- death of Leicester owner Vi- orld champion Marc world champion last month in ian fell off his bike as he leaned chai Srivaddhanaprabha in WMarquez won the Ma - Japan. into a corner. a helicopter crash immedi- laysian MotoGP yesterday de- Nine-time world champi- He got up and continued but ately after the club’s match spite starting in seventh posi- on Rossi, second on the grid, by that point victory had already last Saturday. tion after being hit with a grid looked to be heading for his slipped out of his grasp. Before kickoff a wreath penalty, surging past Valentino first win in Malaysia since Marquez, 25, was dominant in was laid and Leicester’s Rossi who crashed out when 2010 as he dominated the early the final stages of the race and team linked arms for an leading. stages. opened up a big gap to the rest immaculately observed a Suzuki’s Alex Rins came in However Marquez, who qual- of the field. minute’s silence when a second after overtaking Yamaha ified in pole position but was “The start was not perfect but huge tribute banner was rider Johann Zarco, who fin- hit with a six-place grid penal- then I started to take out the rid- unfurled among the 3,000 ished third, in the final stage of ty for impeding another rider, ers step-by-step,” said Marquez. visiting supporters. the race at Sepang. slowly worked his way through “I started to feel better and The game turned on Italian star Rossi finished 18th the pack. better, and I started to see I was Gray’s 55th-minute goal, after tumbling off his bike on Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez celebrates winning the Malaysia MotoGP The Spaniard reached second catching (Rossi).” which sparked wild scenes.