THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013 SPORTS SA down Pakistan to take series lead

ABU DHABI: Leg-spinner Imran Tahir took four while Jean- Paul Duminy and Faf du Plessis scored half-centuries to help beat Pakistan by 68 runs in the third day-night international in Dubai yesterday. Tahir wrecked Pakistan’s middle order with figures of 4-53 to bowl them out for 191 in 44.3 overs after they were set a challenging 260-run target at Sheikh Zayed Stadium. DHAKA: cricketers pose for a photograph with the One-Day The emphatic win gives South International (ODI) trophy following their victory in the three-match ODI series at an Africa a 2-1 lead in the five-match award ceremony at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday. —AFP series. Both teams will meet again at the same venue on Friday before the series is rounded off in Sharjah NZ end Bangladesh tour on Monday. South Africa won the first match in Sharjah by one run while with victory Pakistan won the second match in Dubai by 66 runs. Tahir, who con- DHAKA: and Anton Devcich took a brilliant return catch in the next over ceded 18 in his first two overs, hit half-centuries and grabbed to dismiss Nasir for 28 off 20 balls. returned for a second spell, trigger- three wickets as New Zealand ended their Munro, a 26-year old left-hander, hit ing a collapse which saw Bangladesh tour with a 15-run victory in three fours and five sixes for the Black Caps, Pakistan lose five wickets for 30 the Twenty20 match in Dhaka yesterday. as he built on the 10 boundaries and a six runs. Munro remained unbeaten on 73 off 39 hit by Devcich. Tahir trapped Misbah-ul Haq balls after debutant Devcich had smashed “I think in the first innings we batted (19), caught and bowled Umar 59 off 31 balls to lift the Black Caps to 204- very well,” said , who led the Akmal (seven) and Asad Shafiq (11) 5, their second-highest total in Twenty20 tourists in the absence of the injured caught at cover to leave Pakistan cricket behind the 214-6 against Australia Brendon McCullum. struggling at 116-7. in 2010. The tourists, beaten in all three “Our opening with Devcich really took ABU DHABI: South African AB de Villiers plays a shot during the third day-night international in , who top-scored Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium. —AFP one-day internationals after a drawn two- the game by the scruff of the neck, and with 33, added 61 for the eighth Test series, restricted Bangladesh to 189-9 then (28) and Munro crafted with Sohail Tanvie (31) but it adding 77 for the second wicket series due to post-concussion after while De Kock crossed the bound- in front of some 35,000 disappointed home beautiful innings. only delayed the inevitable. with who made being hit on the head by a bouncer ary five times. Paceman fans at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. “If you put a decent total on the board Pakistan had raced to 50 by 40 from 57 balls. was in the second Test in Dubai-Colin Mohammad Irfan finished with 3- Set a target of more than 10 runs an over, like 200, you’re reasonably confident at the eighth over as Ahmed Shehzad, dismissed for ten in the fifth over. Ingram and Wayne Parnell were left 45 in his 10 overs. When South Bangladesh made a shaky start when they half-way mark.” Bangladesh were left to rue who hit half-centuries in the first South Africa were forced to out. Africa looked set for a big total with lost three wickets in the first two overs for shoddy catching after debutant Al-Amin two games, hit three boundaries off make three changes from the side Leg-spinner (2-40) Duminy and Miller at the crease, 19 runs. Hossain dropped Devcich, who was then Lonwabo Tsotsobe in the fourth which lost the second match by 66 derailed the innings by dismissing off-spinner Saeed Ajmal (2-38) dis- Southee, who finished with three for 38, on six, in Mashrafe Mortaza’s first over. over and then added two more off runs in Dubai, bringing in Amla, De Kock and Du Plessis in quick missed Miller before Tanvir had dismissed both openers Shamsur Rahman “We lost the match because we could Morne Morkel in the next. Steyn and De Kock. succession, both . Duminy caught at mid-wicket off a and Ziaur Rahman in the first over before not bowl according to our plans, especially But spearhead Dale Steyn, who Graeme Smith-ruled out of the Du Plessis hit eight boundaries misjudged pull. —AFP Mitchell McClenaghan removed Mominul in the powerplay overs,” said Mushfiqur. missed the first two matches to rest Haque in the second. “We gave 20 extra runs and that cost us at home, struck in his second over, Skipper Mushfiqur Rahim and Nasir the game. If we could have restricted them removing Shehzad caught in the SCOREBOARD Hossain retrieved the situation, but their to 180-185 runs it could have been a differ- slip with a sharp outgoing . dismissals in successive overs sent ent ball game.” Al-Amin made amends by Two runs later, Mohammad Hafeez Bangladesh reeling. grabbing two wickets in the final over to ABU DHABI: Scoreboard of the third day-night international between Pakistan and South Africa at Sheikh Zayed Stadium played Morkel (2-35) straight into yesterday. Mushfiqur fell to Corey Anderson after finish with 2-31 in his four overs. the hands of point after making 15. making 50 off 29 balls, his maiden New Zealand now travel to for Misbah and Umar Amin (13) South Africa: Pakistan: Twenty20 half-, which contained three one-dayers and two Twenty20 inter- attacked Tahir with four boundaries Hashim Amla b Irfan 10 Mohammad Hafeez c du Plessis b Morkel 15 seven fours and a six. Nathan McCullum nationals starting on November 10. —AFP Q. de Kock st Umar b Afridi 40 Ahmed Shehzad c Amla b Steyn 32 in his first two overs but the leg- Umar Amin c de Kock b Tsotsobe 13 spinner had the last laugh, taking F. du Plessis st Umar b Afridi 55 JP. Duminy c Misbah b Tanvir 64 Misbah-ul-Haq lbw b Tahir 19 SCOREBOARD three wickets in the space of 31 Asad Shafiq c du Plessis b Tahir 11 runs. AB de Villiers c Hafeez b Ajmal 34 Umar Akmal c and b Tahir 7 D. Miller b Ajmal 34 Shahid Afridi lbw b McLaren 6 DHAKA: Scoreboard of the between Bangladesh and New Zealand at the Sher- It was Jean-Paul Duminy (64) R. McLaren lbw b Irfan 13 Sohail Tanvir c Amla b McLaren 31 e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday: and Faf du Plessis (55) who anchored the South African total D. Steyn c Shehzad b Irfan 2 Wahab Riaz c de Kock b Morkel 33 New Zealand: Mominul Haque c Mills b McClenaghan 9 after they won the toss and batted. M. Morkel 0 Saeed Ajmal lbw b Tahir 1 A. Devcich c Shamsur b Razzak 59 Mushfiqur Rahim c Taylor b Anderson 50 Duminy hit three boundaraies L. Tsotsobe not out 0 Mohammad Irfan not out 4 H. Rutherford c Nasir b Sohag 17 c Southee b Mills 18 Extras: (b1, lb2, w 4) 7 Extras (b 5, lb 2, w 12) 19 R. Taylor c Naeem b Ziaur 28 off 89 balls and gave the innings Total (all out; 44.3 overs) 191 Nasir Hossain c & b McCullum 28 the much needed impetus with a Total: (eight wicket; 50 overs) 259 C. Munro not out 73 c Taylor b Anderson 34 Fall of wickets 1-20 (Amla), 2-97 (De Kock), 3-112 (Du Fall of wickets 1-50 (Shehzad), 2-52 (Hafeez), 3-86 (Amin), 4- C. Anderson b Al-Amin 18 66-run fifth wicket stand with David 89 (Misbah), 5-106 (Umar), 6-114 (Shafiq), 7-116 (Afridi), 8- Sohag Gazi 24 Plessis), 4-182 (de Villiers), 5-243 (Miller), 6-245 (Duminy), L. Ronchi c & b Al-Amin 0 Mashrafe Mortaza not out 7 Miller (34), adding 65 in the last ten 177 (Riaz), 9-182 (Ajmal) : Morkel 9-1-35-2 (2w), 7-248 (Steyn), 8-258 (McLaren) Bowling: Irfan 10-0-46-3 Tsotsobe 10-2-34-1 (1w), Steyn 8-0-31-1 (1w), Tahir 10-1-53- N. McCullum not out 0 b Southee 0 overs. Extras (lb2 w7) 9 (1w), Tanvir 8-0-47-1 (1w), Hafeez 6-0-45-0, Ajmal 10-1-38-2, 4 (6w), McLaren 7.3-0-31-2 (2w). Al-Amin Hossain not out 5 Du Plessis had steadied the Total (five wickets, 20 overs) 204 Riaz 6-0-40-0 (1w), Afridi 10-0-40-2 (1w) Result: South Africa won by 68 runs Extras (lb3, w1) 4 innings during his 60-ball knock, Fall of wickets: 1-73 (Rutherford), 2-83 (Devcich) 3-176 (Taylor) 4-200 (Anderson), 5-200 (Ronchi) Total (nine wickets; 20 overs) 189 Bowling: Mashrafe 4-0-46-0 (w1), Sohag 3-0-30-1 Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Shamsur) 2-11 (Ziaur) 3-19 (w1), Al-Amin 4-0-31-2 (w1), Nasir 1-0-16-0, (Mominul) 4-62 (Naeem) 5-116 (Mushfiqur) 6-120 Mahmudullah 4-0-34-0(w2), Razzak 2-0-19-1, (Nasir), 7-177 (Sohag), 8-177 (Mahmudullah) 9- Ziaur 2-0-26-1(w2) 183(Razzak). Riess wins WSOP title, $8.4 million Bowling: Southee 4-0-38-3 (w1), McClenaghan 3- Bangladesh: 0-45-1, Mills 4-0-32-1, McCullum 2-0-18-1, LAS VEGAS: A 23-year-old poker pro from Shamsur c McClenaghan b Southee 4 Devcich 3-0-32-0, Anderson 4-0-21-2. Michigan won the World Series of Poker main Ziaur Rahman b Southee 6 New Zealand won by 15 runs event late Tuesday, claiming the $8.4 million title after pushing past his last opponent in a brief, dramatic match. Cook, Carberry in huge Ryan Riess started out behind on Tuesday, but used cleverly varied play to seize and unbeaten opening stand maintain a lead amid the unpredictability of no-limit Texas Hold ‘em. HOBART: Skipper and order as he averages 40 with two centuries On the last hand, 29-year-old Las Vegas put England in a com- from just 11 matches. club promoter Jay Farber went all-in with a manding position with unbeaten centuries Cook, also criticised by Warne as a nega- Queen-Five. Riess, dealt an Ace-King, rightly on the opening day of their tour match tive and unimaginative captain, showed suspected his opponent wasn’t holding much against Australia A yesterday. glimpses of his best form in the 2010-11 and called instantly. At the close, England had batted all day Ashes in Australia, when he scored an Riess backed into the stands to watch the and were 318 without loss after winning unbeaten 235 and two other centuries. cards turn, and won the championship with the toss, with Cook unbeaten on 154 and England had an easy time against the the arms of his girlfriend around his shoul- Carberry, preferred as opener to , thin Australia A bowling attack under sun- ders. on 153. It is already the highest opening ny skies with just two recognised seamers Moments later, he kissed the diamond- partnership at Hobart’s Bellerive ground, in Trent Copeland and Ben Cutting, along encrusted championship bracelet he’s been and not since Graham Thorpe and Mark with allrounder and captain Moises chasing since he was 14 years old. After tear- Ramprakash put on 377 against South Henriques. It was a deliberate tactic by fully thanking his friends and family, he told Australia on the 1998/1999 tour have an Australia not to pick bowlers in Ashes con- reporters, “I just think I’m the best player in England pair batted together for an entire tention for the Hobart match, however the the world.” day. A dominant Cook conjured memories plan might have backfired, with England’s of his last triumphant Ashes tour of openers given an armchair ride into the Riess came out sparring as the night began LAS VEGAS: Ryan Riess holds up two bricks of $100 bills after winning the World Series of Australia three years ago with another big coming Test series. at the 1,600-seat theater at the Rio All-Suite innings off 272 balls. “Yeah possibly (a bowler short). We only Hotel & Casino off the Las Vegas Strip. Rubber- Poker Final Table on Tuesday. Riess defeated runner-up Jay Farber for an $8.4 million pay- Carberry all but played his way into the had the five bowling options and with banded stacks of hundred dollar bills repre- out —AP Test team for the Ashes series opener Moises being back from a long trip to senting the grand prize sat on the table like a ing both days of play. Riess’ side’s only retort makes in a lifetime. The publicity will be good against Australia in Brisbane on November ... he didn’t bowl as much as he would have third player. was that pandas are delicious. for business, he said. 21 with his patient 288-ball innings, which liked to,” Australia A wicketkeeper Tim Farber started 19 million chips ahead with Both sides watched with fists pressed to An amateur with no bankroll, Farber sold included 22 boundaries and two sixes. The Paine said. 105 million, but Riess soon brought the score light lips as Farber’s fortunes plummeted. stakes in his championship bid. His investors 33-year-old Hampshire left-hander was giv- “We didn’t use the new ball as we could virtually even. The tide turned definitively With just 14 million in chips to Riess’ 176 stand to win half a million dollars for every en his chance to open with Cook after Root have ... we were a fraction short.” Cook, about two hours in, when Riess took a $58.5 million, Farber made his stand with a Queen thousand they put in. was bumped down to number five in the batsman Kevin Pietersen, spinner Graeme million pot with pocket Jacks. and five of spades. He went all-in before any The tournament began in July with 6,352 for the Hobart game. Swann and paceman Stuart Broad were Riess then brought out a more aggressive community cards were revealed, only to run entrants and was whittled to nine over seven Carberry followed up his 78 in last week- selected for their first outings on tour after style he hadn’t yet shown at the final table, into Riess’ Ace and King of hearts when the days of play. Those finalists played for nine end’s drawn opening tour game against all missed the Perth match. forcing Farber to fight- too often with the younger player called. hours Monday night until only two remained. the WA Chairman’s XI in Perth with another Gary Ballance was included again after weaker hand. It didn’t look promising, but Farber still had Riess seemed like an underdog at times, impressive audition for a Test spot. his first-ball in Perth as he bids to win “I just decided to turn the pace up and a chance - that is until the first three commu- despite his chip advantage, as ESPN commen- He made his only Test appearance the number six batting spot in the opening drive him down,” Riess said. His fans, a collec- nity cards came four-Jack-10. That meant a tators and Twitter pundits gushed about his against Bangladesh in in 2010, Ashes Test. —AFP tion of clean-cut men in white “Riess the Queen would now make a straight for Riess, opponent’s unconventional backstory and where he put on 72 and 65 batting with so only one of the three remaining fives in the possible ability to usher in a new golden age Cook at the top of the order. beast” T-shirts, chanted and stomped each Root appears to have paid the price for SCOREBOARD time the boyish player with a mop of straw- deck could boost Farber. Neither the fourth of poker. England’s brittleness in the top order dur- berry blonde hair used his chip advantage to nor the fifth community cards brought any They began calling Farber the second com- go after Farber. help, and Riess was champion. ing of Chris Moneymaker, referring to the ing the July-August Ashes series, when the HOBART, Australia: Scoreboard at close of play home side failed to pass 400 in any of their Riess spent most of the night hunched Riess said he knew Farber was bluffing amateur who famously won poker’s richest on the opening day of the four-day tour match because he repeated a gesture from earlier in tournament in 2004, catapulting the champi- innings. between Australia A and England at Hobart’s over his chips, tracing small circles on the On six occasions, England were three Bellerive Oval yesterday: green felt and giving Farber occasional wan the night, when Farber took a huge pot hold- onship into the mainstream and convincing down for less than 65 runs and, aside from smiles. ing nothing but six-high. every computer nerd with a pair of mirrored a big 180 at Lord’s, Root struggled against England 1st innings Had the event been a trash-talking contest, “I was picking up on his body language sunglasses that he could take on the pros. Australian quicks and Peter Alastair Cook not out 154 Farber’s side would have won hands down. and facial tells. When everybody was scream- Riess is the sixth consecutive professional Siddle, who are likely to again have the Michael Carberry not out 153 His fans- stylish club kids with tight T-shirts ing then, he did the exact same thing,” Riess to win the title. But he also sees his victory as new ball in Brisbane. Extras (b4, lb4, w1, nb2) 11 and slick hair under fuzzy panda hats- taunted said. a win for the Moneymaker legacy. Australian leg-spin great Total (0 wkt; 93 overs) 318 Riess about his gangly height, his need for a Farber said the championship was a great “Ever since I saw Chris Moneymaker win said on Monday that Root would be “cruci- Bowling: Cutting 21-4-56-0, Copeland 25-7-68- haircut, the poor fortunes of Detroit, and the experience, but he plans to keep his day job this event in 2003, I knew it was something I fied” if he was picked to open in the Tests, 0 (1nb), Henriques 9-2-34-0 (1nb, 1w), Holland performance of Detroit Lions wide receiver as a club promoter despite taking home $5.2 wanted to experience too,” he said. “ I’m sur- 12-0-66-0, Maxwell 24-3-80-0, Khawaja 2-0-6-0. and he is likely to find a place lower in the Calvin Johnson, whose jersey Riess wore dur- million, more than an average American prised it came so quickly.” —AP