30 Sunday, November 8, 2015 SPORTS India spin S. Africa to defeat Mohali ndia’s spinners tied South Africa’s batsmen in knots to SCOREBOARD giveI the hosts a 108-run victory India 1st innings: 201 (M. (Pujara), 5-164 (Rahane), 6-178 in the bowler-dominated first Vijay 75, R. Jadeja 38, D. (Jadeja), 7-182 (Mishra), 8-185 Test in Mohali yesterday. Elgar 4-22) (Ashwin), 9-188 (Yadav), 10-200 Left-arm spinner Ravindra South Africa 1st innings: (Saha). Jadeja grabbed five 184 (AB de Villiers 63, H. and off-spinner Ravichandran Amla 43, R. Ashwin 5-51) South Africa 2nd innings: Ashwin took three as the D. Elgar c Kohli b Aaron 16 Proteas, set a victory target of India 2nd innings V. Philander lbw b Jadeja 1 218, were shot out for 109 after (overnight 125-2): du Plessis c Rahane b Ashwin 1 tea on the third day. Vijay c sub (Bavuma) b Tahir 47 H. Amla b Jadeja 0 AB de Villiers b Mishra 16 Both bowlers finished with Dhawan c de Villiers b Philander 0 C. Pujara c Amla b Tahir 77 van Zyl c Rahane b Ashwin 36 eight wickets in the low-scoring V. Kohli c Vilas b van Zyl 29 D. Vilas b Jadeja 7 match played on a dusty, dry Rahane c sub (Bavuma) b Harmer 2 Harmer c Rahane b Jadeja 11 pitch at the I.S. Bindra stadium, India’s Virat Kohli (right) tosses a stump as Indian cricketers celebrate victory W. Saha c Vilas b Tahir 20 D. Steyn c Vijay b Ashwin 2 with the Indian spinners on November 14. ‘No demons in pitch’ dismissals” by his batsmen. R. Jadeja lbw b Harmer 8 K. Rabada 1 claiming 19 of the 20 South Indian captain Virat Kohli Kohli said it was wrong “200 was a chaseable total, Mishra c du Plessis b Harmer 2 Imran Tahir lbw b Jadeja 4 African scalps. The Proteas said he was delighted to win to criticise the pitch which although probably 150 would R. Ashwin c Amla b Tahir 3 Extras: (b8, lb5, w1) 14 were reduced to 60-6 before his first Test on home soil as produced a three-day Test. have been more realistic and U. Yadav b Harmer 1 Total (all out, 39.5 overs) 109 Stiaan van Zyl, who top-scored captain. “This was a special “I don’t think there were any a challenge on a deteriorating V. Aaron not out 1 Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Philander), with 36, and Simon Harmer occasion for me,” said Kohli, demons in the ,” he said. wicket,” he said. Extras: (b9, lb1) 10 Total (all out, 75.3 overs) 200 2-9 (du Plessis), 3-10 (Amla), (11) got together to put on 42 who turned 27 on the first day “The ball did not turn square “There were some soft 4-32 (de Villiers), 5-45 (Edgar), for the seventh wicket. of the match. at any stage. Batsmen had to dismissals. We were in the Bowling: Philander 12-3-23- 6-60 (Vilas), 7-102 (Harmer), Seven batsmen failed to “Ours is a young team and apply themselves since it was a game till we lost four or five 1, Harmer 24-5-61-4, Elgar 8-102 (van Zyl), 9-105 (Steyn), reach double figures, leaving we are trying to build a strong bowler’s game.” wickets and put pressure on 7-1-34-0, Tahir 16.3-1-48-4, 10-109 (Tahir) the top-ranked South Africans team together. A lot of credit South African skipper the lower order guys. Stiaan Rabada 12-7-19-0, van Zyl Bowling: Ashwin 14-5-39- a lot to ponder ahead of the to the boys for bouncing back Hashim Amla refused to showed you could get runs if 4-1-5-1. 3, Jadeja 11.5-4-21-5, Mishra second Test in the four-match after the loss in the limited- blame the defeat on the pitch, you hung in there. Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Dhawan), 8-0-26-1, Aaron 3-0-3-1 (w1), series which starts in Bangalore overs series.” saying there were a few “soft (AFP) 2-95 (Vijay), 3-161 (Kohli), 4-164 Yadav 3-0-7-0

Williams crushes Vinci to reach final Shakib, Rahim star in Bangla win Dhaka Rahim hit 107 off 109 balls Hong Kong 47th career title at last month’s hakib Al Hasan grabbed to help the hosts recover from op seed Venus Williams Wuhan Open, in what has been his maiden five-wicket haul a shaky start to post 273-9 stormed past US Open a fruitful end-of-year swing for Sand hit a fine before Shakib’s 5-47 restricted finalistT Roberta Vinci 6-2, the veteran. century as Bangladesh crushed Zimbabwe to a paltry 128 in 36.1 6-2 in the WTA Elite Trophy Today’s final will be the Zimbabwe by 145 runs in the overs on a slow wicket at the semis yesterday in an ominous first career meeting between first one-day international in Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. display as she seeks her third 11th-ranked Williams and Dhaka yesterday. Set a daunting target, Zimbabwe title of the year. Pliskova, the 23-year-old world were never up to the task after The seven-time Grand Slam- number 13 who won her fourth Shakib claimed three wickets in winner did not hang around career title in Prague this year. his opening spell to leave the at the purpose built arena in Williams has not collected visitors struggling at 65-4. Zhuhai, southern China with three titles in a season since Skipper Elton Chigumbura six breaks of serve as she 2008, the year she last won a made 41 runs, the most of any wrapped it up in 65 minutes. Grand Slam tournament when Zimbabwean, before he was the In today’s final, Williams she triumphed for a fifth time ninth batsman dismissed having will face Czech third seed Venus Williams at Wimbledon. been judged leg-before to Nasir Karolina Pliskova, who beat The WTA Elite Trophy is Hossain. Ukraine’s Elina Svitoloina 6-3, Sjogren’s Syndrome, collected younger sister Serena, whose a new event with a field of Zimbabwe’s last man 6-1 to reach her sixth final of her 40th main draw win of the shock defeat to Vinci in the US 12 and intended as a second- Richmond Mutumbami was the year. season -- her highest tally since Open semis halted her bid for a tier version of the eight-player unable to bat after he hurt his Earlier Williams, 35, who is 2008. rare calendar-year Grand Slam. WTA Finals, which was ankle while wicket-keeping resurgent after a long battle The victory will also have Williams also beat Vinci in won last week by Agnieszka in the opening innings of the with auto-immune disease been cheered by Williams’ the semi-finals en route to her Radwanska. Shakib Al Hasan game. Jorge Lorenzo claims Valencia pole in record time Valencia leader Valentino Rossi forced to motorcycling. so well. It was perfect. orge Lorenzo stormed to pole start from the back of the grid as Lorenzo trails Rossi by just “I am very happy, above all position in a circuit record time punishment for kicking Marquez seven points in the championship because it puts us in a good Jfor Sunday’s decisive Valencia off his bike at the Malaysian standings meaning the Italian will position for tomorrow. It is Grand Prix to boost his chances Grand Prix two weeks ago. need to finish second to deny important to make a good start of claiming a third MotoGP However, despite not needing his Yahama teammate if Lorenzo and try to get away from the world championship. to register a qualifying time, Rossi wins the race. Hondas.” Lorenzo smashed defending still endured a tough session as he And Lorenzo hailed his Marquez had posted the best world champion Marc Marquez’s came flying off his bike into the qualifying lap as the best of his time of the weekend on his first previous track record by over two gravel track. career as he attempts to add to qualifying lap despite, by his own tenths of a second to claim his Thankfully, the nine-time the titles he won in 2010 and admission, committing a minor fifth pole of the season in 1min world champion was able to 2012. error. 30.011sec. walk away from the crash as “Without doubt the best lap However, he acknowledged Marquez and his Honda he prepares for an assault on a of my life,” he said. that it would have been hard to teammate Dani Pedrosa complete record-equalling eighth title “I could try to repeat it 20, 25, deny Lorenzo even with a perfect the front row with championship in the premier category of or 30 times and it wouldn’t go lap. Lorenzo rides