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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 SPORTS Pakistan warned to brace for Australia backlash DUBAI: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has ourselves then results will come.” warned his team to beware a backlash from a wounded Australia in the second MORE INTENT and final Test in Abu Dhabi starting The 42-year-old coach can only have today. been buoyed by the performances of his Pakistan thrashed the Australians by rookie slow bowling duo of debutant 221 runs in Dubai on Sunday, with their legspinner Yasir Shah and left-armer spinners rattling through the visitors’ Zulfiqar Babar. batsmen on a slow pitch. The pair took 14 out of 20 wickets on The defeat cost the tourists their offer, including nine in the fourth innings chance of regaining the top test ranking as Australia were skittled for 216 when from South Africa, while giving a raw chasing 438. Pakistan outfit a timely dose of belief Australia coach Darren Lehmann after recent struggles. bemoaned his team’s inability to pick the Waqar, however, said he expected the deliveries that didn’t turn. Australian Abu Dhabi clash to be a true test of the media suggested number three batsman hosts’ mettle. “We have won the first test Alex Doolan’s spot might be vulnerable to but it’s a long way to go, the second test Phillip Hughes after his struggles in will be tough,” the former test paceman Dubai, but captain Michael Clarke said told reporters on Tuesday. the only change they would consider “We all know that Australia are very would be to bring a third paceman, positive about their cricket and they feel depending on the pitch. hurt, they will bounce back, I am sure, That would give a chance to either and we have to be prepared for that.” left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc or work- Pakistan can seal their first series win horse Ben Hilfenhaus to join Peter Siddle over Australia in 20 years, and also lift and Mitchell Johnson in the pace attack, their ranking from sixth to a respectable and mean no repeat for the two special- third. “To come into (the) top three is a ist spinners in Nathan Lyon and Steven DUBAI: Pakistani bowler Yasir Shah (top left) delivers the ball during day five of the First Test against Australia at Dubai International Stadium in big thing,” said Waqar, a member of the O’Keefe. Where Pakistan’s spinners plun- this file photo. — AP 1994 side that beat Australia at home. dered Australia, both Lyon and O’Keefe, “But besides coming into the top who made his test debut in Dubai, were three, consistency is more important for feasted upon by the hosts’ batsmen, and Royals rout Giants to me because we have always been unpre- neither would feel very secure about dictable, sometimes up and then down, holding their place. Clarke said Australia so we need to give consistent perform- would be go for broke for a win, even if it ances. “It’s necessary that if we give a meant risking another demoralising loss. good performance then we must have a “Drawing the second test against Force Game Seven follow through so that people have con- Pakistan is not an option for us,” Clarke fidence in us as a side. “We have proved wrote in a column published in News Ltd KANSAS CITY: The Kansas City Royals got an In contrast, San Francisco bats went quiet Alex Gordon with the game’s first run. in the first test that we have got the tal- media yesterday. “We’ll look to bat with inspired outing from pitcher Yordano Ventura with inspired Royals rookie Yordano Ventura Nori Aoki singled to left driving in a second ent and the potential. “So if we apply more intent this time around.” — Reuters and woke from their hitting slumber to rout pitching seven shutout innings. The 23-year- run and leaving the bases loaded to bring the San Francisco Giants 10-0 and send the old Dominican fireballer sported hand-written Peavy’s night to a quick end. The right-hander World Series to a decisive Game Seven on tributes on his cap, glove and shoes to honor surrendered five runs on six hits. Negro League museum Tuesday. compatriot Oscar Taveras, the St. Louis The pitching change did nothing to slow After a 162-game regular season and three Cardinals outfielder who was killed in a car down the rampaging Royals, Cain welcoming tells of segregation tale rounds of postseason, the Major League accident on Sunday. reliever Yusmeiro Petit with a bases-loaded Baseball championship will come down to The grieving Ventura was brilliant, allowing bloop to center field that scored two more KANSAS CITY: The San Francisco Giants white teams did not sign African- one game with the Giants chasing a third title just three hits in a game in which the Royals runs. Eric Hosmer added to the assault with a and the Kansas City Royals-who are bat- American talent. in five years and the Royals looking to end a faced possible elimination. “I want to thank high-hopping bouncer over the shortstop’s tling for this year’s World Series title-have Frustrated by the unofficial ban, black 29-year drought. the Lord for giving me this opportunity, and head that went for a two-run double before rosters featuring whites, blacks, Latinos players moved to form their own The Royals entered the contest trailing the this game was dedicated to Oscar Taveras, my Billy Butler capped off the big inning with a and Asians. leagues. The games attracted huge best-of-seven-series 3-2 and had not scored a good friend,” the 23-year-old Ventura, who booming RBI double to whip the capacity But multi-cultural squads were not crowds in their heyday. run in 15 innings. But Kansas City batters carried a Dominican flag into the interview crowd into a frenzy. always the norm. Just down the highway rediscovered their groove in the second room, said through a translator. “When you get an inning like that going in from where the Major League Baseball ‘WORLD-CLASS PLAYERS’ inning of Game Six, exploding for seven runs “It’s a little emotional for us.” Royals manag- front of your home crowd it’s pretty cool to be champion will be crowned this week, the Andrew “Rube” Foster pulled together on eight hits to chase Giants starter Jake er Ned Yost said it was a special effort. “You a part of,” Gordon said. “The dugout was rock- Negro Leagues Baseball Museum tells a the first all-black circuit during the Peavy after just 1-1/3 innings and set the got a 23-year-old kid in the biggest game this ing and the fans were, too.” different story-one of segregation and Roaring 20s in Kansas City, a major hub stage for a comprehensive rout. “Guys stadium has seen in 29 years and our backs The Royals, however, were not yet done. struggle. of the Negro Leagues into the early stepped up in a big way tonight. We felt we against the wall and he goes out there in Cain added an RBI double in the bottom of 1960s. League teams withstood the just had to get it done, find any way possible complete command of his emotions ... and the third, Alcides Escobar fired another run- Great Depression of the 1930s thanks to to get on base and drive in runs,” said Royals throws seven shutout innings,” Yost told scoring double in the fifth and Moustakas regional tours, at times playing in towns outfielder Lorenzo Cain, who contributed a reporters. cracked a solo home run in the seventh. in the American south and Midwest pair of hits and three RBIs to the Kansas cause. “You can’t get in a bigger stage then he Moustakas said the team got a definite where some people would not sell food Before the end of the third inning every was on tonight and to perform the way that boost from the home crowd. “Twenty-nine to blacks or refuel their buses. Players member of the Royals starting line up had at he did tonight was just special.” Moustakas years for these people has been a long time,” even had to pitch tents because they least one hit with Mike Moustakas leading the sparked the second inning burst with a dou- the third baseman said. “We’re excited to give were refused lodging. hit parade with a double and a home run. ble down the right field line that cashed in this city something to cheer about.” — Reuters Teams flourished again in the 1940s, when soldiers of all races fought side-by- side in World War II and helped drive cross-cultural understanding that would bring integration in US sports and, later, racial integration in US society. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum- located near jazz clubs where players relaxed after games-opened in 1997. Former star Buck O’Neil helped create the heritage display before his death in 2006 at age 94. “All the players I played against were world-class players,” O’Neil says in a museum video. “The level was as good as anyone was playing.” FIRST HOMER AT JINGU Negro League played at night using portable lights from 1930 — five years before the technology was first used by Major League teams. ATLANTA: In this April 8, 1999 file photo, And before US Major League All-Star baseball great Hank Aaron waves to the teams toured Japan in the 1930s, the crowd during a ceremony that unveiled Philadelphia Royal Giants traveled to the the Hank Aaron Award on the 25th country in 1927.

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