Sports Wednesday, July 24, 2019 15 Inam-Ul-Haq, Chaudhry TOUR DE FRANCE Lotto Soudal rider Caleb Ewan of Australia celebrates after winning the Stage 16 in star in Qatar’s superb the Tour de France from Nimes to Nimes on Tuesday. (REUTERS) victory over Nepal triggered a collapse Nepal could not arrest it. Tamoor Sajjad, nine runs later, dismissed other open- er Gyanendra Malla with the help of Iqbal Chaudhry. Malla made 23 off 24 balls, hitting a six and two fours. After getting wickets regu- larly, Qatar tightened screws further and Nepal lost last six wickets for just 15 runs to post only 122 with three players being sent home in Iqbal Chaudhry’s fourth and final over. Besides Chaudhry, who got three 21, Sajjad and Qatar’s Inam-Ul-Haq receives his Man-of-the-Match award after his Noman Sarwar shared four. team beat Nepal by four wickets in the ICC T20 WC Asia Regional Sarwar removed the top-scor- Final match in Singapore on Tuesday. er Dipendra Singh Airee in the Ewan grabs his 2nd 19th over for 34, which had a TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK BRIEF SCORES sis and a four. DOHA Qatar got an early blow Qatar beat Nepal by four wickets as Faisal Javed was sent back QATAR bounced back with Nepal: 122 all out (P Khadka 28, G Malla 23, DS by experienced leg-spinner Tour stage win Airee 34; Inam-Ul-Haq 1/28, Tamoor Sajjad 2/14, a superb four-wicket victory Iqbal Chaudhry 3/21, Noman Sarwar 2/17) Sandeep Lamichhane. How- over Nepal in an ICC Twen- ever, Imam-Ul-Haq dug in at ty20 World Cup Asia Region- Qatar: 124 for six in 19.2 overs (Inam-Ul-Haq 41, the other end and let new man Alaphilppe retains the yellow jersey; Thomas survives third tumble al Final match in Singapore Kamran Khan, Noman Sarwar 15 not out; Sandeep Kamran Khan (22 with two Lamichhane 3/33) on Tuesday. Man-of-the-match: Inam-Ul-Haq (Qatar) sixes and as many fours) do AFP to Saint-Etienne on stage eight. “I rather like these con- finished one before.” All-rounder Iman-Ul-Haq the bulk of scoring to take the NÎMES (FRANCE) This time the 33-year-old ditions and to be honest I’m provided the crucial break- STANDINGS score to 38 from 13 for one. had no problem getting back to looking forward to the Alps. In Too much heat through, which enabled Qatar 2019 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Asia Region Final Lamichhane continued to CALEB Ewan sprinted to his the pack on a flat stage with no terms of altitude it’ll be like in Peter Sagan, who came TEAM M W L PT NRR to wrap the innings at 122. SIN 2 1 0 3 1.65 trouble the Qatari batsmen second victory on the Tour de wind to split the peloton. Colombia” he said. fourth on the day but is in the Then the opener smashed a MAL 1 1 0 2 2.1 but his three-wicket haul cost France on Tuesday as French- The popular 2018 Tour de “The day off really did me green sprint points jersey, said game-high 41 to set up the QAT 2 1 1 2 -0.658 him 33 runs and the rivals, man Julian Alaphilippe kept France champion was sweat- good, I feel great today.” it was too hot to race and that first triumph for his team in KUW 2 0 1 1 -2.1 boosted by Haq, managed to the overall lead after Stage 16, ing at the start line alongside Bernal said that Thomas something should be done to NEPAL 1 0 1 0 -0.314 two matches. cross the finish line with four where Geraint Thomas fell but the spectacular stone bullring was in good shape despite his protect riders. After electing to bat first, balls to spare. Haq, fifth play- finished with all the main con- known as the Arena in down- heavy fall. Dehydration was a major Nepal had an encouraging 28, pushing him to hole out er to be out at 97, struck half tenders. town Nimes. “I spoke to him just now issue as team cars were car- start as they raced to 49 in six to Noman Sarwar. Khadka hit a dozen fours in his 32-ball As France experienced a “I’m just concentrating on and he’s seen the doctor al- rying an average of 200 water overs. Haq dismissed opener a six and four boundaries in effort to seal the man-of-the- heatwave defending champion keeping fuelled and hydrated ready and he’s just got a cou- bottles, many of them with and skipper Paras Khadka for his 17-ball knock. This wicket match award. Thomas mis-timed a curb and and getting to the end of the ple of cuts, nothing serious” added minerals and saline with was left with a gash on his left race,” he said before embarking. said Bernal. riders expected to drink 15 of leg after hitting the tarmac hard “It was nothing out of this the half litre bidons each. on the 177km run around the world, there must have been Some fans stayed away due southern city of Nimes. something on the road.” the extreme afternoon heat on 5 Qatari teams to play in GCC After his third fall during Thomas remains 1min Alaphilippe has been huge- this southern French route, but this Tour, Team Ineos’ sports 35sec behind Alaphilippe ly active signing autographs the conditions failed to slow director Nicolas Portal said in the overall standings, with the French public the past the peloton as it sped past the Community 3x3 b’ball in Oman Thomas felt fine. with the following three two weeks, but went straight to celebrated regional vineyards “He’s OK, he needed anoth- riders all within 27sec- his team bus Tuesday and did and olive groves. TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK see two teams from Qatar in Doha and actively playing er bike. All his left side is a bit onds ahead of three chal- not reappear. One of the pre-race favour- DOHA premier league in action - Al in the Filipino community messed up but nothing serious,” lenging days in the Alps. Ewan meanwhile was fol- ites Jakob Fuglsang, the Crit- Shamal Club and Al Arabi here. he said. lowing up his victory on stage erium du Dauphine champion, FVE teams, including out- Club. Also included is a team The players for Alijarah “We have to refocus after 11 at Toulouse and with Ni- pulled out with 25km to go after fits from the Qatar premier from Qatar Basketball Fed- Team are Ronnie Cajayon, the rest day,” added Portal. Thomas in good shape mes melting under 35 degrees falling and hurting his hand. league and the Filipino com- eration (QBF) and the two Jay-Ar David, Richard Raa- Thomas remains 1min Thomas’s teammate the Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) the Wednesay’s 17th stage sees munity, will be competing in Filipino teams that qualified gas and Oliver Roxas. While 35sec behind Alaphilippe in the 22-year-old Colombian Egan Australian was favourite for a the Tour head north towards the GCC Community 3x3 bas- in the community 3x3 league the QSports Team will fea- overall standings, with the fol- Bernal, who is fifth 27 seconds repeat performance, this time its Alpine reckoning with a ketball competition to be held hosted by the QBF. ture Reynaldo Solomon, An- lowing three riders all within behind Thomas but 2min 02sec edging Italian Elia Viviani on 200km run from the Pont du as part of the Salalah Tourism It will be the first time drew Salud, Michael Aliparo 27seconds ahead of three chal- behind Alaphilippe was a pic- the line. Gard bridge in the Camargue Festival 2019 in Oman on Au- that teams from the Filipino and Denver Rote. The Qatar lenging days in the Alps. ture of serenity after the race. “I’ll look back on this Tour to Gap, where bonus seconds gust 2 to 3. community in Doha will be delegation sponsors are Ali- He also tumbled after flying “Okay it was hot but it and say it was a success,” said atop a climb 10km from the fin- The tournament is being proudly representing Qatar jarah Driving Company, QS- over a barrier in the wild atmos- wasn’t so bad,” said Bernal, the diminutive Ewan. “This is ish line ensure further drama organised by the Oman Bas- in the GCC basketball com- ports Company. The Salalah phere in Brussels on the open- who has the best under-25’s the furthest I have ever been ahead of the three much await- ketball Federation in part- petition for the communities. Tourism Festival 2019 began ing day, and again on the road white jersey. in a Grand Tour, I’ve never ed stages that follow it. nership with the Oman Zafar The two Filipino teams con- on July 11 and will be running Municipality. The event will sist of eight players working for 43 days. Roy, Stone to make debuts in Ireland Test REUTERS ENGLAND TEAM tralia starting on August 1. injury that forced him to re- LONDON “With Jason, we want him turn home from England’s England team v Ireland: to be himself, express himself tour of West Indies earlier OPENING batsman Jason Roy Joe Root (captain), Moeen Ali, Rory Burns, and trust his instincts as much this year. and fast bowler Olly Stone will Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, as possible,” England captain The 25-year-old edged out make their England Test de- Joe Denly, Jack Leach, Jason Roy, Olly Stone, Joe Root told a news confer- Somerset’s Lewis Gregory in buts in a one-off match against Chris Woakes.