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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE shows Pakistan no mercy Sathiyan in last­16 Ramkumar begins proceedings with a double bagel; Nagal wraps it up with another easy win

he stretched Ramkumar to start, winning in quick time. DAVIS CUP two deuce points. The second match was a lit­ Agence France-Presse Nagal then earned his tle tighter and tough, though Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) first­ever Davis Cup win, it looked simple. Sumit kept beating Hufaiza Mohammed the level high and came Ruthless India raced to a 2­0 Rehman 6­0, 6­2 in the se­ through with flying colours,” lead in the Davis Cup tie for cond singles which lasted 64 he said. the loss of just two games as minutes. Veteran Leander Paes and Ramkumar Ramanathan and Pakistan badly missed its debutant Jeevan Nedunchez­ Sumit Nagal toyed with their top players who pulled out, hiyan will now look to seal Moving up: G. Sathiyan made the knockouts with an all­win teen rivals from Pakistan protesting against shifting of the tie when they clash with record in his group * COURTESY: ITTF WEBSITE here on Friday. the matches to a neutral Hufaiza and Shoaib in the venue. doubles on Saturday. wered past Denmark’s Jo­ “I gave my best on every ITTF WORLD CUP nathan Groth 11­3, 12­10, 7­11, point. We are happy with Paes’ record Sports Bureau 16­14, 8­11, 11­8 to finish atop 2­0 on the first day. Now we India has never lost a tie to Chengdu Group D. Groth, the 14th are looking forward to see Pakistan in six meetings. India’s G. Sathiyan pro­ seed, had lost his first match Jee ( Jeevan) and Leander A win on Saturday will gressed to the knockout stag­ against Gauzy. fire some bombs tomorrow. stretch Paes’ record for most es of the 2019 International Let’s get the job done,” said number of doubles wins in Table Tennis Federation To face Boll next Ramkumar, who also Davis Cup history. He is lead­ (ITTF) men’s World Cup, af­ Sathiyan will now face fifth thanked fans who had gath­ ing the chart with 43 wins. ter winning all his group seed Timo Boll in the round­ ered to support them. “It will be interesting to matches, here on Friday. of­16. Boll, a two­time World While the first match was Cup champion and former see how the Pakistan young­ The World No.30 started not even a contest, promis­ World no. 1, is appearing in sters cope with our world his campaign with a spirited ing youngster Hufaiza re­ the tournament for the 16th class players. comeback to defeat World sisted Nagal as much as pos­ time. “Let’s see how it goes,” No. 22 Simon Gauzy 11­13, 9­ sible by engaging the Indian Speaking to Sportstar, Day to remember: Sumit Nagal defeated Hufaiza Mohammed Rehman for his first­ever Davis said Rajpal. 11, 11­8, 14­12, 7­11, 11­5, 11­8. in long rallies. Twice he Cup win. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Sathiyan said: “The name is The winner of the tie will Sathiyan, who had lost to In a total mismatch, Ram­ pushed Nagal to deuce in the travel to Croatia for the enough. I am a huge fan of However, it just delayed the “We did not want to lose. but has a long way to go,” the 12th seed in three pre­ kumar double­bagelled 17­ second game of the second World Group qualifiers, to be him, but pressure is on him inevitable as Nagal wrapped They are juniors but they said Nagal. vious meetings, dropped the year­old Muhammed Shoaib set and finally put Pakistan held on March 6­7. to deliver. I will be playing in just 42 minutes in the on board by holding the up the match in the eighth played well and did whatever India’s non­playing cap­ first two games. He, howev­ against him in an interna­ The results: India leads Pakis- er, clinched four of the next opening singles. The only third game after squander­ game. they could. tain Rohit Rajpal was also tan 2-0 [Ramkumar Ramanath­ tional tournament for the five games to complete a suc­ time Shoaib made it look like ing four game­points. “I started decent and fin­ “The guy I played came up pleased with the perfor­ an bt Muhammed Shoaib 6­0, first time and I’m looking a match was in the sixth He returned and held ished it pretty strong. Both of with some really good shots. mance. “It is a fantastic day 6­0; Sumit Nagal bt Hufaiza cessful turnaround. forward to putting up a great game of the second set when again, staying close to Nagal. us had a lot of fire today. “He played to his potential for India. Ram gave us a nice Mohammed Rehman 6­0, 6­2]. Later in the day, he po­ show.”

Mithun in thrashes Haryana, enters final the news, for Clinical TN routs Rajasthan Sensational Mithun takes four off four balls and five in a brilliant last S. Dipak Ragav good and bad SURAT MUSHTAQ ALI Everything went right for Ta­ Sports Reporter mil Nadu, right from the S. Dipak Ragav Surat toss, as it produced a clinical Surat Within a span of 24 hours, all­round performance to Haryana was 192 for three in Abhimanyu Mithun found beat Rajasthan by seven 19 overs after being asked to himself in the news for two wickets in the second semifi­ bat by Karnataka in the first contrasting reasons. On nal of the Syed Mushtaq Ali semifinal of the Mushtaq Ali Thursday, he was sum­ Trophy at the Lalbhai Con­ Trophy here on Friday. moned by the Bengaluru tractor Stadium here on What followed was so­ police for questioning in Friday. mething sensational. Abhi­ connection with match­fix­ TN will meet Karnataka in manyu Mithun, who had gi­ ing allegations in the Kar­ a summit clash for the se­ ven away 37 in his first three nataka Premier League. cond time this year after the overs, came up with a bril­ But on Friday evening, two Southern powerhouses liant over, picking up five the former India pacer had met in the final of the Vi­ wickets, four off the first four found himself in the record jay Hazare Trophy last deliveries. He gave away on­ books after taking five month. Karnataka had out­ ly two runs, finishing with wickets, including a hat­ played then. 5/39. trick, in one over. Choosing to field, the Ta­ Mithun had picked up a mil Nadu bowlers restricted In the zone: Washington Sundar continued his good form

One­way traffic hat­trick in the Hazare Tro­ Rajasthan to 112 for nine. with the bat. * VIJAY SONEJI

From there, it was one­way Incredible: Mithun will forever remember his final over against Haryana. * VIJAY SONEJI phy final against Tamil Na­ traffic as du last month. Sai gets Chahar early the 30­run eighth­ dia off­spinner made a valua­ and K.L. Rahul thrashed the After being watchful for <> I knew we had to Rana (61) and Chaitanya He has now become the Deepak Chahar, who stand between Chandrapal ble 31 (33b, 4x4), adding 69 Haryana bowlers all over the two overs, Rahul went after pull it back in the Bishnoi (55) before Mithun first bowler to have a hat­ slammed an unbeaten 55 in Singh and Ravi Bishnoi. Vijay for the second wicket with park and the team crossed Ashish Hooda in the fourth last over and I muzzled them in that final trick in all three formats in the previous match, chose to Shankar scalped two wickets Washington Sundar. over. He began with a six ov­ over. the finish line in 15 overs backed myself to domestic . open the but per­ in the middle overs to tight­ The latter came good with eight wickets to spare. er long­on and three boun­ The scores: Haryana 194/8 in About the final over, ished cheaply. He was cas­ en the screws, while M. Sid­ deliver 20 overs (Himanshu Rana 61, again, remaining unbeaten The India opener daries square on the off­side Mithun said, “I just needed tled by left­arm spinner R. darth, T. Natarajan and R. Mithun Chaitanya Bishnoi 55, Harshal on 54 (46b, 3x4, 3x6). slammed 66 (31b, 4x4, 6x6) before Padikkal finished the to keep it one side of the Sai Kishore after hitting the Ashwin picked up one each. over with a four. Patel 34, Rahul Tewatia 32, Ab­ The scores: Rajasthan 112/9 in while Padikkal made a bril­ fiddle to Rahul before himanyu Mithun 5/39) lost to wicket because there was a bowler for a six earlier. Ashwin, promoted as 20 overs (Vijay Shankar 2/13) liant 87 (42b, 11x4, 4x6), the Padikkal’s first six scoring launching an onslaught. Karnataka 195/2 in 15 overs long boundary and I bow­ Rajasthan never strung to­ opener, lost partner C. Hari lost to Tamil Nadu 116/3 in 17.5 duo adding 125 in just 9.3 ov­ shots were boundaries and Earlier, Haryana rode on (Devdutt Padikkal 87, K.L. Ra­ led a lot of slower deliver­ gether any meaningful part­ Nishanth who was bowled overs (Washington Sundar 54 ers. he initially played second­ the shoulders of Himanshu hul 66). ies.” nership, the highest being by Chahar for a duck. The In­ n.o., R. Ashwin 31). Warner, Labuschagne at it again West Indies Robin saves Hyderabad’s blushes Latham scores cruises to unbeaten ton Hammer back­to­back hundreds to frustrate Pakistan His injury­time strike cancels out Chhetri’s second­minute goal victory Agence France-Presse PAK IN AUSTRALIA ISL Hamilton Sports Bureau Tom Latham’s unbeaten AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LUCKNOW V.V. SUBRAHMANYAM hundred and his century ADELAIDE It took West Indies a little HYDERABAD stand with Ross Taylor laid a solid foundation for New and Marnus more than an hour to seal a Hyderabad FC, down to 10 Zealand before rain Labuschagne both plun­ nine­wicket win over Af­ for most part of the second brought an early end to day dered back­to­back centu­ ghanistan in the one­off half, salvaged a draw against one of the second Test ries as Australia stamped its Test at the Ekana Stadium defending champion Benga­ against England here on authority on the opening on Friday. luru FC, thanks to an injury­ Friday. day of the day­night second time goal from substitute Ro­ Latham was on 101 when Test on Friday. SCOREBOARD bin Singh, in their Hero ISL the rain swept in, just three At close on a rain­inter­ match at the GMC Balayogi deliveries after the tea Afghanistan— 1st innings: rupted day, the home team Stadium here on Friday. break with New Zealand was a dominant 302 for one 187. It was the visitors who West Indies —1st innings: 277. 173 for three. with the pair building an shot into the lead in the se­ Afghanistan —2nd innings: England was left to re­ ominous 294­run partner­ Ibrahim Zadran lbw b Cornwall cond minute through their gret dropping the left­han­ ship, leaving Pakistan with a 23, Javed Ahmadi c Cornwall b star striker Sunil Chhetri. der on 66 and not meeting huge battle to stay in touch. Chase 62, Ihsanullah run out 1, expectations after winning Warner was unbeaten on Rahmat Shah c Brooks b Corn­ Brilliant effort the toss and first. 166 and Labuschagne on 126 wall 0, Asghar Afghan c Latching on to a lovely England toiled for little at stumps. The two had Brooks b Cornwall 0, Nasir through­ball in the midfield, reward, saw Taylor benefit Jamal b Chase 15, Amir Hamza scored 154 and 185 in the Chhetri sprinted down the from a dubious decision first Test at Brisbane. Their c Cornwall b Chase 1, Afsar Za­ centre. Though he was close­ zai c Dowrich b Holder 7, during a century partner­ Adelaide stand was the high­ ly marked by Gurtej Singh, c Dowrich b ship with Latham and lost est ever in a day­night Test. Holder 1, Yamin Ahmadzai b Chhetri hoodwinked the the use of Ben Stokes as a “It’s a bit surreal at the Holder 1, Zahir Khan () Hyderabad defender before bowling weapon. moment. It was just amazing 0; Extras (b­4, lb­4, nb­1) 9; showing great control to tap Latham and Taylor put to be out there with Davey Total (in 43.1 overs): 120. the ball past a diving goal­ on 116 for the third wicket and to just put on a really big On the double: Labuschagne and Warner were unstoppable. Fall of wickets: 1­53, 2­55, 3­ keeper Kamaljit Singh. when Taylor went for 53. partnership,” said Labus­ * AP 55, 4­59, 5­96, 6­98, 7­109, As the first half was near­ 8­111, 9­119. chagne. “Really happy. We ing its end, there were too In the nick of time: Robin Singh stunned Bengaluru FC SCOREBOARD were running hard, I love in place of Imran Khan while sa, but, like in the first Test West Indies bowling: Roach many rough tackles from 4­2­5­0, Holder 6.1­2­20­3, with an opportunistic goal. * K.V.S. GIRI New Zealand —1st innings: J. the intensity of the crease.” 16­year­old pace sensation at Brisbane, none of them both sides. Bengaluru had an Naseem Shah was rested. could tame Warner and La­ Warrican 12­3­31­0, Cornwall Raval c Root b Broad 5, T. Warner paid tribute to the 18­3­46­3, Chase 3­1­10­3. opportunity to make it 2­0 ra. But he lacked support equaliser. The alert Robin, Latham (batting) 101, K. Willi­ That handed a debut to buschagne, with the ball maturity of his partner, who West Indies —2nd innings: K. when Chhetri sent a superb from his teammates. realising that Bengaluru cus­ amson c Root b Woakes 4, R. hardly doing anything under is playing in only his 11th 19­year­old medium­fast Brathwaite c Afsar b Amir 8, J. backpass to the waiting Ra­ todian Gurpreet Singhu Taylor c Root b Woakes 53, H. Test. “Credit to Marnus for right­armer Muhammad Mu­ the lights to trouble them. Campbell (not out) 19, S. Hope phael Augusto. Sahil sees red Sandhu had failed to block a Nicholls (batting) 5; Extras the way he came out and (not out) 6; Total (for one wkt. However, the latter’s shot Soon, Hyderabad was down close­range shot from anoth­ (b­4, lb­1) 5; Total: (for three took the bowlers on again, SCOREBOARD in 6.2 overs): 33. was well anticipated and a player after defender Sahil er substitute Asish Rai, wkts. in 54.3 overs): 173. he picked up where he left Fall of wicket: 1­22. blocked by Kamaljit who was Panwar was sent off in the showed speed and skill to Fall of wickets: 1­16, 2­39, Australia — 1st innings: Joe Fall of wicket: 1­8. Afghanistan bowling: Yamin 3­155. off at ,” he said. solid under the bar this day. 57th minute for a dangerous bundle the ball home. Burns c Rizwan b Afridi 4, Pakistan bowling: Abbas 19­6­ 1­0­8­0, Javed 1­0­9­0, Amir England bowling: Broad 14­5­ Veteran seamer Moham­ David Warner (batting) 166, 56­0, Afridi 18­4­48­1, Musa 2.2­1­5­1, Rashid 2­0­11­0. After the break, Hydera­ tackle on Udanta, making The result: Hyderabad FC 1 33­1, Archer 13.3­3­31­0, mad Abbas, who tormented (batting) 13­1­71­0, Yasir 14­0­87­0, Man-of-the-Match: Rahkeem bad showed more enterprise things tougher for the hosts. (Robin 90+1) drew with Benga­ Woakes 14­1­41­2, Curran 9­ Australia when he took 17 126; Extras (lb­1, nb­4, w­1): 6; Iftikhar 8­0­30­0, Azhar 1­0­ Cornwall. and went on the attack, most Just when it looked like luru FC 1 (Chhetri 2). 2­38­0, Root 2­0­11­0, Stokes wickets in two Tests in the Total (for one wkt. in 73 overs): 9­0. (West Indies won by nine of its moves initiated by the Hyderabad was heading for Saturday’s match: ATK vs 2­0­14­0. UAE last October, returned 302. Toss: Australia. wickets) classy striker Marcelo Perei­ another defeat, it scored the Mumbai City FC. Toss: England

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