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Ravens Stun Chargers, Titans Rip Redskins to Boost Playoff Hopes FOOTBALL | Page 3 Kane and Son shine as Spurs hit six past Everton Monday, December 24, 2018 CRICKET Rabia II 17, 1440 AH Ashwin doubt as GULF TIMES Shastri demands openers step up SPORT Page 2 SPOTLIGHT Qatar beat Jordan 2-0 Steyn has Pakistan in his sights as SA wickets record looms Qatar’s Almoez Ali (right) celebrates with a teammate after scoring against Jordan in a friendly match ahead of next month’s Asian Cup in the UAE. Qatar won 2-0 with Ahmed Aalaeldin also scoring. The match was played behind closed doors. Qatar have three more friendlies lined up before they head to the UAE for the continental tournament. Picture on right shows a glimpse of the action from yesterday’s match. FOOTBALL/ LIGUE 1 South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn. Reuters Pretoria Mbappe fi res PSG irebrand fast bowler Dale Steyn will seek to become South Africa’s greatest wicket-taker in Tests when they take on Pakistan in the fi rst match of a three-game series at Centurion FPark in Pretoria on Wednesday. Steyn is level with former all-rounder Shaun Pol- lock on 421 Test wickets and, having played only six Tests in the last three years due to injury, has been left past Nantes as tantalisingly close to capturing the outright top spot on the list for some time. With injuries to seamers Vernon Philander and Lungi Ngidi, Steyn is likely to be given the new ball against Pakistan along with Kagiso Rabada on what is expected to be a lively wicket in Pretoria. He will test the visiting batsman having returned to his express pace of old in recent limited-overs Monaco lose again contests, where he impressed against Australia last month. Captain Faf du Plessis told reporters this week that ‘I’M VERY HAPPY BECAUSE WE CAN SEE THE PROGRESS OF THE TEAM’ Steyn was the country’s greatest fast bowler and sug- gested that while the 2019 Cricket World Cup might AFP be his limited-overs swansong, he still had a good few Paris years of Test cricket in him. “Test matches are what really drive me to perform,” Steyn recently told South African online publication ylian Mbappe grabbed the winner Sport24. “If I can carry on playing Test cricket for as as Paris Saint-Germain beat Nantes long as possible that will be great. 1-0 to go into the winter break un- “There is a plenty of T20 cricket going on at the mo- beaten in Ligue 1, as Thierry Henry’s ment because that is where the money is at but I think KMonaco suff ered defeat by rock-bottom Gu- that people will always know that Test cricket is the ingamp yesterday. real deal. I love the red-ball game.” World Cup star Mbappe stole in at the far The loss of Philander in particular will add extra post in the 67th minute for his 13th league workload for Steyn, who is by far the most experienced goal of the season, making him France’s top seamer in the team, though the world’s leading Test scorer with Neymar away on holidays in Bra- bowler, Rabada, could be the main threat. zil. Coach Ottis Gibson and Du Plessis will have to de- PSG coach Thomas Tuchel can also go on cide whether to play three seamers, with Duanne Ol- holiday relaxed with his club on 47 points, as ivier in line for a sixth test appearance, and spinner second-placed Lille, 13 points adrift, lost 2-1 Keshav Maharaj, allowing them to fi eld an extra bats- at home to Toulouse. man, or hand a fi rst cap to Dane Paterson. “I’m very happy because we can see the The latter option would give the team a long tail progress of the team,” said Tuchel. “You can with Rabada having to bat at number seven, a role he feel the energy, it’s a good thing to build on has never played before. next year.” With Neymar away, Angel Di There was a welcome return to form for stalwart Maria was in the line-up and came closest to stroke-maker Hashim Amla in domestic four-day making it 2-0, forcing a fi ne save from Nantes cricket this week, with just a single half-century in his goalkeeper Ciprian Tatarusanu, who then last 12 test innings having raised some questions about watched the Argentine hit the crossbar from the future of the 35-year-old. the rebound. Paris Saint-Germain’s French forward Kylian His excellent record against Pakistan, with two Meanwhile, third-placed Lyon drew 1-1 Mbappe shows his joy after scoring against hundreds and eight half-centuries in 21 innings, at fourth-placed Montpellier after open- Nantes (FCN) at the Parc des Princes stadium should give him confi dence, as will his runs in Pretoria ing the scoring thanks to their captain Nabil in Paris. where he averages 75.58 after 18 visits to the crease. Fekir before a great header from Ruben Agui- Pakistan, who have won only one Test series out of lar gave the surprise-package southerners a 10 at home and away against South Africa, will have share of the spoils. been buoyed up by their three-day run-out against an Henry’s Monaco were dreadful and the Invitational XI in the build-up to the fi rst Test, where former Arsenal striker spat on the ground Azhar Ali and Babar Azam made hundreds. after Nolan Roux of Guingamp made fools of They have been well beaten on their previous two the Monaco defence to make it 2-0. only positive thing about this evening.” “Until tonight, I thought we didn’t need Strasbourg paid homage to the victims of visits to Pretoria though, losing by seven wickets in “I’m not going to have a good holiday,” be- Monaco were champions in 2017 but now new players, but we do,” Vasilyev told Ca- a terror attack that killed fi ve people on De- 2007 and an innings and 18 runs fi ve years ago. moaned Henry. “Now you have to work and have 13 points from 18 matches, just two nal+. “It’s diffi cult to analyse right now as cember 11 in their fi rst home game since as Leading fast bowler Mohamed Abbas has also been make do with what you have. more than Guingamp, and vice-president I’m upset like the supporters. I understand they won 2-0 against Nice. Meanwhile, Mar- rated as having only a 50 % chance of playing in the “It’s necessary to work and work. There are Vadim Vasilyev said the club needs to dip into the disappointment, it’s up to us to act and seille, in sixth, drew 1-1 at Angers and fi fth- Test as he recovers from a shoulder injury picked up still a lot of points to play for and that’s the the January transfer market. draw the right conclusions.” placed Saint-Etienne beat Dijon 3-0. in October. Gulf Times 2 Monday, December 24, 2018 CRICKET SPOTLIGHT FOCUS Ashwin doubt as Allrounder Jadeja fi t for Shastri demands third Test Reuters for the pain. “In the lead-up Melbourne to the Perth Test, the manage- ment and Jadeja were of the opinion that the intensity of his ndian all-rounder Ravin- bowling in the nets could have dra Jadeja will be available been higher. For this reason, he openers step up for the Boxing Day Test was not considered for selec- match against Australia af- tion,” the BCCI said. Iter recovering from a shoulder “Jadeja’s left shoulder has Ashwin was sidelined with an abdominal strain for the second Test in Perth and problem, the Board of Control continued to improve and he is for Cricket in India (BCCI) said now available for the third Test was sorely missed as Australia, led by off -spinner Nathan Lyon, won by 146 runs yesterday. of the series in Melbourne,” Jadeja missed the second Test BCCI said in a statement. in Perth after symptoms of an The visitors opted for a four- injury sustained during this prong pace attack in Perth and year’s one-day international suffered a 146-run loss that series against the West Indies levelled the four-match series returned during India’s tour 1-1. Virat Kohli-led India had match in Sydney last month won the opening Test in Ad- and he was given an injection elaide by 31 runs. West Indies captain Brathwaite rails at Bangladesh umpires Dhaka: West Indies Twenty20 a no-ball,” Brathwaite said skipper Carlos Brathwaite after the game. blasted the match umpires for Brathwaite went to the match giving “50-50 decisions” to referee after Thursday’s Bangladesh even though his 36-run defeat in the second side won the third Twenty20 match as he felt close deci- international to wrap up the sions throughout the series series. went against his side. West Indies, who won Sat- “I didn’t think the 50/50 urday’s match by 50 runs, decisions were going in our were victims of an erroneous favour. Those decisions went no-ball call that could not be for Bangladesh,” he said. overturned by review and “I never ever want to accuse Braithwaite was critical of the someone of cheating. I will umpiring throughout the tour stop short of that. They are though he insisted he was not professionals as well. alleging “cheating”. “I didn’t accuse them of In the fourth over of the cheating but I made my point Bangladesh innings, Bangla- clear to the match referee desh umpire Tanvir Ahmed that every 50-50 decision in called a no-ball against West the ODI series and T20 series Indies paceman Oshane Tho- up to that point went against mas when batsman Liton Das us.” spooned a catch to Shimron In the second match, the Hetmyer at mid-off .
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