!"#$%&' ( ' *+!'7 0 SMITH, WARNER BACK IN SHEFFIELD SHIELD Sydney: 0 ) 0 ".B& R ) H )* 9BC; ) ), ,- . R ( ) 9BC:H 9B9B 0 ormer India great VVS , ! ( Laxman feels Mayank FAgarwal’s “fearless” approach VIJENDER'S NEXT FIGHT ON NOV 22 $0. in batting resembles a lot with the New Delhi: 0 0 maverick Virender Sehwag, who * . <= has been the Karnataka opener’s ndia batsman Rohit Sharma, who idol. Ibecame the first player to score a cen- ) 99 H HH Agarwal had come into the tury in each innings of his maiden Test as <= ECCHB* D !6F limelight with twin half-centuries opener, on Monday jumped to a career-best 2 in his maiden Test tour of 17th position in the ICC Test Player ' CB$ (!" * Australia but maiden double hun- Rankings. ' 2 K . O dred (215) against South Africa Rohit, who now has five centuries from 0 has consolidated his position in 28 Tests, gained a whopping 36 slots after H H the national team, feels former his knocks of 176 and 127 in the first Test ( India spinner Harbhajan Singh. against South Africa in Visakhapatnam. -$ “He is a solid batsman and has The other opener Mayank Agarwal has approached this game like a also attained a career-best 25th position BARCA BEAT SEVILLA 4-0 IN LA LIGA domestic cricket match. Players after his first innings double-century lift- barcelona: $ 2 - usually change the way they play ed him 38 places. - O 2 in domestic and international Captain Virat Kohli, who retained his cricket, but he managed to main- second spot, has dropped below the 900- >HB - tain his style in both forms of point mark for the first time since January ( cricket. Mental toughness and 2018. He is now on 899 points, 38 behind H22 ) stability are his strengths and he top-ranked Steve Smith. - *0 < plays fearlessly just like his Among the bowlers, off-spinner 6 favourite, Virender Sehwag,” Star Ravichandran Ashwin has made a come- . * , Sports expert Laxman comment- back to the top 10 after his match haul of < ed on Agarwal’s performance on eight wickets, which included figures of ! . 'Cricket Live'. seven for 145 in the first innings. Harbhajan on his part felt that The formerly top-ranked bowler has years of grind in domestic circuit moved up four places from 14th position Shakib Al Hasan to take second position has paid dividends as Mayank is and also into the top five among all- among all-rounders. INDIA WIN BRONZE AT BRIDGE WORLDS aware of what is expected of him. rounders. For South Africa, centurions Quinton New Delhi: . O “Mayank uses his feet well Fast bowler Mohammad Shami has de Kock and Dean Elgar have progressed. 2& $ when he comes forward and hits reached a career-best 710 points that took De Kock is back into the top 10 after gain- >> $ and also executes the reverse him from 18th to 16th, two below his ing four places and moving to seventh sweep shots. He has a lot in store career-best 14th rank, while Ravindra while Elgar has moved five places and is $ 3 . >> $ and plays them when and where Jadeja has leap-frogged Bangladesh's in 14th position. needed. 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We handled the ball, with ing back to the newly-named 9B 0 & 2 DFrances Tiafoe 6-4, 6-2 at the Australian Open, but only won deserved to win.” Lautaro drilling past Gewiss Stadium with a 3-1 win * & >H9@ H Shanghai Masters on Monday, four games in the second round onzalo Higuain scored Sarri Wojciech Szczesny. over promoted Lecce that keeps 2 ?H?D K setting up a second-round at the Rome Masters. the winner as Juventus started with Dybala The hosts were hit with the Bergamo side third on 16 2 = K encounter with defending cham- “He’s beaten me twice so Ginflicted a first Serie A and Federico Bernardeschi Stefano Sensi going off points. & 2 C>;C: pion Novak Djokovic. there’s not much for me to lose, defeat of the season on Inter up front alongside injured with Sarri making a But Serie A runners-up F>(%> The first game of the match so I’ll just go out there and enjoy Milan with a 2-1 victory which Cristiano Ronaldo. double substitution after an Napoli are now six points behind stretched to 15 minutes before myself,” Shapovalov said. “I’ll go sent the defending champions Higuain — who also hour bringing on in-form Juventus in fourth following a Tiafoe held serve, but Shapovalov out there and give it all I have. top on Sunday. scored in Juventus’s 3-0 Higuain and Rodrigo Bentacur. goalless draw at Torino. eventually took control with “It’s going to be a tough one, Substitute Higuain slotted Champions League win over Ronaldo and Bentancur “We want to fight for the a break in the first set and but I have a great game and I home on 80 minutes after fellow Bayer Leverkusen dur- combined to send Higuain Scudetto, but our ranking makes two more in the second. think I have a chance to beat Argentine Paulo Dybala had ing the week — began through for the winner, with us cry a little,” said Napoli coach “The start of the him.” opened the scoring in the fourth on the bench. Szczesny doing well to deny Carlo Ancelotti. match was really important Fellow Canadian Vasek minute at the San Siro. The champions got Matias Vecino as Inter desper- Roma are fifth, a point and I was trying to step up Pospisil upset 14th-seeded Another Argentine forward off to a blistering start ately pushed forward for an behind Napoli, with their match from the first game,” Diego Schwartzman of Lautaro Martinez pulled Inter with Miralem Pjanic equaliser. against Cagliari at the Stadio Shapovalov said. Argentina 7-6 (2), Milan level from the spot on 18 setting up Dybala who “Juve showed their Olimpico finishing 1-1 after “I think the first 6-2 in another minutes, but coach Antonio took Inter goal- heavy artillery,” said Conte, Nikola Kalinic’s last-gasp goal for game helped me first-round Conte lost in his first meeting keeper Samir who coached the Turin giants the hosts was disallowed. find a rhythm on match. against his former club since Handanovic by to the first three of their They stay a point ahead of his serve.” The 10th- leaving Juve to take over the Italy surprise. current run of eight con- city rivals Lazio, who drew 2-2 at The 36th- seeded Fabio national team in 2014. Ronaldo rat- secutive titles. Bologna with Serie A top scorer ranked Fognini of Italy Juventus moved one point tled the crossbar “Congratulations to Ciro Immobile getting both goals Shapovalov faced little ahead of Inter after seven games and then had a them, we’ll roll up our for the visitors, to bring his tally played the top- resistance from as they target a ninth consecutive goal ruled out sleeves now,” added Conte to seven goals in as many games. ranked Djokovic American Sam title, and first under Maurizo when Dybala was whose side lost their mid- In Tuscany, Nikola on two previous Querrey in a 6-4, Sarri. in an offside posi- week Champions Milenkovic nodded in the only occasions, with both 6-2 victory.