EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TV PICKS Bagan too good for TRAU NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD), Jalaj sends Delhi into a spin 6.30 a.m. rus kept the rival at bay even BWF World Tour Finals: I-LEAGUE as Ashutosh Mehta took up Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), 8.30 The offie’s six­for effort forces the visitors to follow­on Y.B. Sarangi multiple roles on the field. a.m. & 3.30 p.m. KOLKATA The host came close to Ranji Trophy: Star Sports 2 A. Vinod moving the former. Chande­ Mohun Bagan rode on Fran scoring on quite a few occa­ (SD & HD), 9.30 a.m. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Pakistan v Sri Lanka: 1st la was batting on 51 along Gonzalez’s brace to beat a sions. In the 19th minute, Ju­ Test, Sony ESPN (SD & HD), He has been Kerala’s bowling with Shorey (2) when stumps below par TRAU FC 4­0 and lien Colinas missed a sitter 10 a.m. trump card for sometime were drawn. record its first win of the after getting a pass from Australia v New Zealand: now. And, Jalaj Saxena did The scores: season in the I­League at the Nongdamba Norem inside 1st Test, Sony Six (SD & HD), not disappoint as his six­ Kerala — 1st innings: 529/9 Kalyani Stadium on the area. 10.30 a.m. wicket haul forced Delhi to decl. Wednesday. In the 38th minute, Bagan Hero I­League: DSport, 2 surrender a huge 383­run Delhi — 1st innings: Anuj Rawat Bagan’s victory helped it p.m. doubled the lead when Ash­ ISL: Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), first innings lead on the third b Jalaj 15, Kunal Chandela c Az­ jump from ninth to fourth, utosh, who received a sup­ 7.30 p.m. day of the Ranji Trophy haruddeen b Warrier 1, Dhruv providing relief to coach Ki­ erb long ball, crossed to Su­ Europa League: Sony Ten match, at the St. Xavier’s Sta­ Shorey c Uthappa b Jalaj 19, bu Vicuna. Bagan applied hair who made no mistake. Nitish Rana c Uthappa b Monish 1,2, 3, Six & ESPN (SD & HD), dium, Thumba, on pressure from the beginning Minutes after resump­ 25, Jonty Sidhu c Asif b Jalaj 3, 11.30 p.m. Wednesday. and found the target as early tion, Gonzalez scored again, With a day left, Delhi Lalit Yadav lbw b Jalaj 5, Shivam Sharma c Vinod b Joseph 11, as the fifth minute when his right­footer catching the IN BRIEF might have loosened the Pradeep Sangwan c Asif b Jalaj Gonzalez slotted home off a TRAU defence napping. stranglehold enjoyed by the 17, Vikas Mishra c Vinod b Jalaj goalmouth melee from a Jo­ Subha Ghosh completed the host a wee bit thanks to a 13, Navdeep Saini c Uthappa b seba Beitia corner from the tally in the 90th minute. fightback shaped by its open­ Joseph 25, Tejas Baroka (not left. TRAU hardly threatened ers in the final session of out) 1; Extras (lb­2, pen­5): 7. the opponent in the first half play, but still will have to bat Total (in 62.4 overs): 142. Energetic Suhair and missed two golden op­ through all the three ses­ Fall of wickets: 1­15, 2­17, 3­59, Bagan came up with some portunities in the second. sions on Thursday to stop 4­67, 5­73, 6­75, 7­101, 8­103, fine moves, thanks to the The result: Mohun Bagan 4 Kerala from registering a 9­140. energetic V.P. Suhair. Gur­ (Gonzalez 5 & 46, Suhair 38, win, if not by an innings. Wrecker­in­chief: Jalaj Saxena exploited the conditions to send the Delhi batsmen to their Kerala bowling: Warrier 10­3­ jinder Kumar and Daniel Cy­ Subha 90) bt TRAU FC 0. The visitors, following­on doom. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT 26­1, Asif 9­5­16­0, Jalaj 24­4­ Win keep Heat consequent to being shot out 63­6, Monish 14­4­23­1, Joseph perfect at home for 142, were at an identical the tie could well have an in­ Their exit marked a vir­ of six for 63, while Sijimon 5.4­3­7­2. LOS ANGELES score in their second essay teresting end. tual procession back to the Joseph had a haul of two for Delhi — 2nd innings: Anuj Ra­ Miami Heat rallied late to wat c Rahul b Baby 87, Kunal NEUFC­CFC match with nine wickets intact. The help from the slow­ pavilion as Jalaj scalped wick­ 7. Chandela (batting) 51, Dhruv beat the Atlanta Hawks turner was enough for Jalaj ets in quick succession. Forced to bat again, the 135­121 on Tuesday and Shorey (batting) 2; Extras 241 in arrears to put a seed of doubt in the The spinner completed sagging morale of the Delhi remain unbeaten at home (nb­2): 2; Total (for one wkt. in under a cloud To make Kerala bat again or minds of the rival batsmen his five­for well before lunch team was given a lift by open­ this NBA season. 38 overs): 142. force a draw, Delhi will be re­ after Delhi resumed at 23 for (taken at 107 for eight) before ers Anuj Rawat and Kunal a win by Jamshedpur FC in The results: Philadelphia 97 Fall of wicket: 1­130. ISL bt Denver 92; Miami 135 bt quired to wipe out the ar­ two. Dhruv Shorey, the Delhi returning to end the partner­ Chandela, who shared a 130­ Kerala bowling: Warrier 5­1­ the previous match — the Amitabha Das Sharma Atlanta 121 (OT); Portland 115 rears of 241 runs on a wicket captain, and his deputy Nit­ ship that developed between run stand, before the Kerala 10­0, Asif 3­0­22­0, Jalaj 16­0­ host had forced a 1­1 draw bt New York 87; Charlotte 114 which offered a bit more of ish Rana did their best to Vikas Mishra and Navdeep skipper Sachin Baby, trying 35­0, Monish 8­0­44­0, Uth­ GUWAHATI with an 89th­minute equal­ bt Washington 107. AFP spin on the third day than in plough back their side but in Saini. his luck with the ball, struck appa 2­0­10­0, Joseph 2­0­ The rising political violence iser — Chennaiyin FC will be the first two. If it gets worse, vain. Jalaj finished with figures with his third delivery by re­ 18­0, Baby 2­0­3­1. in the region has put the ISL searching for its first away It’s Formidables contest, scheduled between win of the season. vs Maharaja NorthEast United FC and NEUFC will miss the ser­ KOLKATA RANJI TROPHY SCORES, ROUND 1, DAY 3 Chennaiyin FC here on vices of Ghanaian World Former champion Thursday, under a cloud. Cupper Asamoah Gyan, Formidables from Delhi and GROUP A Singh 122, Anmol Malhotra 76, 0. garh 0. Bihar 0. The unrest saw the pre­ who aggravated an injury in city­based Maharaja on Andhra 211 & 100/2 in 37 Shubham Sharma 4/82). Karnataka 336 & 89/5 in 40 Haryana 401 vs Maharashtra Arunachal Pradesh 147 & 183 match media conference on the match against ATK. The Wednesday entered the final overs (C.R. Gnanesh­ GROUP B overs vs Tamil Nadu 307 in 247 in 96 overs (Naushad in 54.3 overs (Rahul Dalal 81, Wednesday afternoon get­ of the team event in the war 42 batting) vs Vid­ Mumbai 431 & 109.3 overs (Abhinav Mukund Shaikh 60, Harshal Patel 4/70) former Sunderland forward Gurinder Singh 6/50) lost to ting cancelled. Winter National bridge arbha 441 in 147.3 409/4 decl. in 66.2 47, Dinesh Karthik 113, K. & 61/5 in 19 overs. has reportedly left the coun­ Chandigarh 503/2 decl. Chand­ overs (Ganesh Satish overs (Prithvi Shaw Gowtham 6/110). Tripura 289 vs Jharkhand The ISL management has try for treatment. championships here. igarh 7, Arunachal Pradesh 0. The results (semifinals): 237, Mohit Kale 82, 202, Jay Bista 68, Railways 253 & 270 in 76.5 136 & 358/5 in 98 overs (Nazim preferred to watch the situa­ Chennaiyin, looking to Formidables bt Railways ‘A’ C.V. Stephen 5/110). Suryakumar Yadav overs (Dinesh Mor 102, Amit Siddiqui 40, Saurabh Tiwary 103 Sikkim 136 & 331/8 in 98 tion and wait for updates make a comeback under the 118­100; Maharaja bt Hyderabad 233 & 102 n.o.) vs Baroda Mishra 43 n.o., Yash Dayal 4/73, batting, Ishank Jaggi 105 retd. overs (Yashpal Singh 84, Iqbal from the local organiser be­ stewardship of new Scottish Rampage 163­107. 239/6 in 83 overs (Tan­ 307 in 70.1 overs Shivam Mavi 4/19) vs Uttar Pra­ hurt). Abdulla 99 batting) vs Goa fore deciding on the fate of coach Owen Coyle, will look may Agarwal 96, Ak­ (Kedar Devdhar 160 desh 175 & 23/0 in 4.4 overs. Jammu & Kashmir 182 & 304 436/6 decl. the match. to cash in on Gyan’s ab­ shath Reddy 45, B. n.o., Vishnu Solanki GROUP C bt Uttarakhand 84 & 149 in 46 Mizoram 65 & 290 lost to The host practised in the sence. The visitors will also Sandeep 41) vs Gujarat 48, Shams Mulani Services 124 & 279 in 94.1 overs (Dikshanshu Negi 55 n.o., For Panghal, Manipur 289 & 69/4 in 17.5 morning much before the 313 in 88 overs (Man­ 6/99) & 74/3 in 16.4 overs (Rajat Paliwal 89, Vikas Ram Dayal 5/58).