Sport TUESDAY 17 AuGUST 2021 Bowlers shine as India thrash England Super proud of the whole team, the way we stuck to our plans... being put in, our performance with the bat was outstanding. The pitch didn’t offer much for the first three days... but we thought with 60 overs to go (on the final day) we could have a crack, and they (the bowlers) were outstanding. Virat Kohli Sport | 14 CRICKET: India 364 (Rahul 129, Anderson 5-62) & 298 for 8 dec. (Rahane 61) beat England 391 (Root 180*, Siraj 4-94) & 120 (Siraj 4-32) Nine Super League rebel clubs retain ECA membership THE PENINSULA/AGENCIES – DOHA After an exhaustive process of football. The ECA can now The re-joining clubs have re-engagement by the clubs and proceed with renewed unity and already agreed to a financial set- The European Club Association re-assessment by ECA over recent solidarity to continue the tlement with UEFA, accepting (ECA), led by its Chairman months, the Association's Exec- important work needed to sta- fines as an acknowledgement of Nasser Ghanim Al Khelaifi utive Board took into consider- bilise and develop European club wrongdoing for trying to split (pictured), yesterday announced ation the clubs’ acknowledgement football – at a time when this is from existing competition struc- that it will accept requests made that the so-called European Super needed the most. tures. They made a combined by nine clubs to retain ECA League (ESL) project was not in Twelve founding Super League payment of €15m ($18m) and will membership, completing the the interests of the wider football clubs, including Real Madrid, Bar- give up 5% of revenue for one reintegration of the breakaway community and their publicly celona and Juventus quit the ECA season playing in Europe. clubs into European football for communicated decisions to in April when they reneged on pre- In a move to prevent them the 2019-2023 ECA membership abandon the Project vious commitments to UEFA to deploying the Super League threat cycle. completely. launch the League. again, the clubs have also agreed Six English clubs - Arsenal, The decision of the ECA and The nine clubs now reinte- to be fined €100m if they seek Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester its chairman Al Khelaifi marks the grated into the ECA collapsed the again to play in an unauthorised City, Manchester United and end of a regrettable and turbulent project when they abandoned the competition or €50m if they Tottenham - will be members of episode for European football and Super League amid a backlash breach any other commitments ECA again along with AC Milan, aligns with ECA’s relentless focus from governing bodies and sup- to UEFA as part of the Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid. to strengthen unity in European porters - particularly in England. settlement. Djokovic and Barty on top of tennis world rankings QNA – LONDON The new monthly ranking of tennis professionals, issued yesterday, did not witness any changes in the top ten, with Serbian Novak Djokovic still topping the rankings with 12,113 points. Djokovic is followed by Russian Daniil Medvedev with 10,620 points in the second place, Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas Khalil Ahmad Al Mohannadi, President of the Arab Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) and Qatar Table Tennis Association, posing for a photograph with the men's doubles third with 8350 points and champions of the Arab Table Tennis Championships, Qatar's Ahmed Khalil Al Muhannadi and Mohammed Abdul Wahab and their coach in Amman, Jordan, yesterday. Spain’s Rafael Nadal in fourth Ahmed and Mohammed defeated their Bahraini counterparts in straight sets yesterday. RIGHT: Qatari medallists with officials. position with 7,815 points. German Alexander Zverev is fifth with 7,263 points. The latest ranking saw Arab Table Tennis Championships: Medvedev enhance his position in the ATP world rankings after winning the fifth “Toronto” Canadian Masters title, at the expense of Qatar finish second with 19 medals American Riley Opelka. With regards to the rest of QNA/THE PENINSULA – AMMAN the players ranked in the top ten of the standings, Austrian Qatar’s teams made outstanding Dominic Thiem comes in sixth achievements at the Arab Table place with 7005 points, then Tennis Championships in Jordan, Russian Andrey Rublev is in winning 19 medals, including 4 gold seventh place with 6005 medals, to occupy the second place points, Italian Matteo Ber- in the overall standings. rettini is in eighth place with Egypt won the first place in the 5533 points, Swiss Roger tournament which witnessed strong Federer is in ninth place with competitions which took place amidst 4215 points and Canadian extraordinary circumstances due to Denis Shapovalov in tenth the COVID-19 pandemic. place with 3,625 points. Qatar's impressive show yes- Among the women, Aus- terday included a brilliant per- tralian Ashleigh Barty main- formance by Ahmed Khalil Al tained the top spot in the WTA Muhannadi and Mohammed Abdul rankings with 9,635 points, Wahab who emerged men's doubles followed by Japans Naomi champions after defeating their Bah- Osaka with 7,336 points and raini counterparts in straight sets Belarus Arina Sabalenka in (15-13, 11-6, 11-3). third spot with 6,845 points. In another final yesterday, Qatar's American Sofia Kenin is Sultan Al Kuwari and Ahmed Eid went ranked fourth with 5,640 down fighting in a thriller against points, while Ukrainian Elina Tunisia to earn a silver medal. Ahmed Svitolina advanced one rank. Jabbar and Abdullah Abdel Wahab She finished fifth with 5,035 were crowned with the silver medal of points. the U19 doubles while Maryam Ali and The ranking also saw Shawq Al Abdullah captured the bronze Czech Karolina Pliskova medal in the U-15 women’s doubles. Director of National Team for Age care of all age groups and players. advance to sixth place with The club competitions will kick Groups Khalid Ali Al Kuwari Khalil Ahmad Al Mohannadi, 4,850 points, Poland’s Iga off today with Al Sadd SC and Qatar expressed his delight with the accom- President of the Arab Table Tennis Qatar's Ahmed Khalil Al Muhannadi and Swiatek to seventh place with SC representing Qatar in the men’s plishments of Qatar’s paddlers during Federation and Qatar Table Tennis Mohammed Abdul Wahab in action against 4,550 points, while Canadian competitions, and Qatar Women club the Championships, indicating that Association also congratulated Qatari their Bahraini counterparts during the men's Bianca Andreescu fell to eighth i n t h e l a d i e s ’ the Qatari table tennis is moving in players on their outstanding doubles final, yesterday. place with 4,431 points. completions. the right direction as long as it takes performance. Vinales joins Aprilia after Yamaha fall-out REUTERS – SPIELBURG race winner had fallen out with the Jap- Vinales, who started out in 125cc with anese manufacturer already before that Aprilia, won the Moto3 championship in Spanish MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales already and was due to leave at the end 2013 with KTM. (pictured) will race for Aprilia next of the season after terminating his con- The Spaniard has signed a one- season after falling out with Yamaha, the tract a year early. year deal with an option to renew Italian team announced yesterday. He apologised on Sunday for actions and will partner compatriot Aleix The 26-year-old was suspended by he said were due to frustration. Espargaro at Aprilia, who are the Yamaha factory team last week and “We are extremely happy to racing as a full factory team from withdrawn from Sunday’s Austrian announce that we have signed Maverick 2022, in place of Italian Lorenzo Grand Prix for allegedly trying to Vinales, a very high-level rider and one Savadori. destroy his bike’s engine at the of the purest talents in the premier cat- Vinales and Espargaro were previous race. egory,” said Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo previously team-mates at Suzuki Novak Djokovic The nine-times MotoGP Rivola in a statement. in 2015-16. Sport TUESDAY 17 AUGUst 2021 14 Bowlers shine as India thrash England REUTERS – LONDON India’s pacemen produced a terrific display of swing bowling to crush England by 151 runs in the second Test at Lord’s yesterday, taking a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. England were bowled out for 120 in pursuit of a target of 272 on the final day, succumbing to the steady pressure built up by the Indian bowlers. Jasprit Bumrah (3-33) got India off to the perfect start by removing Rory Burns for a duck in the first over before Mohammed Shami (1-13) pro- duced an unplayable out-swinger to get the better of fellow opener Dom Sibley, also for naught. Bumrah got the big wicket of the in-form Joe Root (33) soon Indian players celebrate as Mohammed Shami takes the wicket of England’s Dom Sibley on the final SCOREBOARD after tea, the England skipper day of the second Test at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, Britain, yesterday. INDIA 1st Innings ...........................................364 ENGLAND 2nd innings edging to opposite number Virat ENGLAND 1st Innings ....................................391 Rory Burns c Siraj b Bumrah ..............................................0 Kohli at first slip. INDIA 2nd Innings Dominic Sibley c Pant b Shami .........................................0 Jos Buttler, who was dropped “The pitch didn’t offer much and Bumrah (34 not out) The England players cut a KL Rahul c Buttler b Wood..................................................5 Haseeb Hameed lbw I Sharma .........................................9 on two by Kohli, briefly for the first three days... but we thwarted the England attack frustrated figure, with Mark Rohit Sharma c Ali b Wood ...............................................21 Joe Root c Kohli b Jasprit Bumrah ..................................33 threatened to salvage a draw for thought with 60 overs to go (on with some gutsy strokeplay.