CRICKET | Page 5 TENNIS | Page 10 Confi dent Wawrinka To Advertise here Bangladesh advances Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 aim for win while Murray against Pak bows out Wednesday, March 16, 2016 FOOTBALL Jumada II 7, 1437 AH Bayern want GULF TIMES no repeat of Turin fi ghtback SPORT Page 2 CRICKET Kiwi web of spin chokes India in World T20 shock The spin trio of Santner, McCullum and Sodhi combine forces to keep New Zealand’s unbeaten record against India intact AFP SCORECARD Nagpur New Zealand M. Guptill lbw b Ashwin .................................... 6 ew Zealand’s spinners be- K. Williamson st Dhoni b Raina ................8 came unlikely heroes yes- C. Munro c Pandya b Nehra ........................7 terday, leading their side to a C. Anderson b Bumrah ..................................34 stunning 47-run victory over R. Taylor run out (Raina) ...............................10 Nfavourites India in the World Twen- M. Santner c Dhoni b Jadeja..................... 18 ty20 opening group match in Nagpur. G. Elliott run out (Dhawan) ............................9 The Kiwis stumbled to 126 for sev- L. Ronchi not out ...................................................21 en after electing to bat fi rst, but their N. McCullum not out ............................................0 slow bowlers bamboozled India who Extras (b4, lb3, w6) ............................................ 13 could manage just 79 runs in 18.1 Total (7 wkts, 20 overs) ................................ 126 overs—their lowest ever score in T20 Did not bat: A. Milne, I. Sodhi cricket on home soil. Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Guptill), 2-13 Their previous lowest score at home (Munro), 3-35 (Williamson), 4-61 (Tay- was 92 against South Africa in Cuttack lor), 5-89 (Anderson), 6-98 (Santner), last year. 7-114 (Elliott) The spin trio of Mitchell Santner, Bowling: Ashwin 4-0-32-1, Nehra Nathan McCullum and Ish Sodhi com- 3-1-20-1, Bumrah 4-0-15-1, Raina 4-0-16-1, bined forces to keep New Zealand’s Jadeja 4-0-26-1, Pandya 1-0-10-0 unbeaten T20 record against India India intact—the Kiwis have now won fi ve R. Sharma st Ronchi b Santner................. 5 T20s in six meetings. S. Dhawan lbw b McCullum ........................... 1 Man of the match Santner (4-11) V. Kohli c Ronchi b Sodhi............................. 23 bowled exceptionally well on a slow S. Raina c Guptill b Santner ............................ 1 track to register the best bowling fi g- Y. Singh c&b McCullum ....................................4 ures by a New Zealander in T20 cricket. MS Dhoni c McCullum b Santner...... 30 “There was a bit of spin out there, H. Pandya lbw b Santner ....................................1 they bowled well to keep us to 120, that R. Jadeja c&b Sodhi .............................................0 was below par, but we got stuck in and R. Ashwin st Ronchi b Sodhi ..................... 10 I’m delighted with the win,” said Sant- A. Nehra b Milne ...................................................... 0 ner. J. Bumrah not out ..................................................0 India, who have been fi rm favour- Extras (w3, nb1) .......................................................4 ites to win the title, were never in the New Zealand bowler Mitchell Santner celebrates with teammates after claiming the wicket of India’s Suresh Raina at The Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Total (all out, 18.1 overs) ................................79 chase after losing their openers early Nagpur yesterday. Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Dhawan), 2-10 and, with the exception of Virat Kohli (Sharma), 3-12 (Raina), 4-26 (Singh), (23), none of the Indian batsmen could the writing clearly on the wall. A dramatic fi rst over from off -spin- Kane Williamson also departing for some clean fielding that included 5-39 (Kohli), 6-42 (Pandya), 7-43 come up with any answers to the in- Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni then ner Ravichandran Ashwin saw Martin single fi gures. Anderson, whose 42- two run outs. In the end, Luke Ron- (Jadeja), 8-73 (Ashwin) 9-79 (Dhoni) spired Kiwi bowling attack. tried hard to dig India out of their hole Guptill smash a six on the very fi rst ball stay included just three bounda- chi’s unbeaten 11-ball 21 gave some Bowling: McCullum 3-0-15-2, Anderson Kohli, during his 27-ball stay, of- but his valiant run-a-ball 30 made lit- ball of the match only to lose his wick- ries, then stuck around with Ross Tay- respect to the total, which in the end 3-0-18-0, Santner 4-0-11-4, Elliott 2-0-9- fered some resistence on a slow track, tle diff erence in the end. et on the next, setting the tone for an lor and Santner to counter the Indian proved enough to make an opening 0, Milne 2.1-0-8-1, Sodhi 4-0-18-3 but the introduction of Sodhi spelt the Earlier, hard-hitting Corey Ander- exciting T20 extravaganza. bowlers. impression in the sixth edition of the Result: New Zealand win by 47 runs end for the star batsman. son hit an uncharacteristically slow The spin-fast combination of Ash- India, determined to become the tournament. Pakistan face Bangla- Toss: New Zealand Chasing a wildish leg-spinner, 34-run knock to help New Zealand win and Ashish Nehra deployed by first team to win the World T20 title desh at Kolkata while England meet Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SRI), Kohli was caught behind as the packed improve their plight after being re- Dhoni worked in India’s favour as the twice, didn’t put a foot wrong and West Indies at Mumbai in today’s Richard Illingworth (ENG) stadium was stunned into silence with duced to 61 for four. Kiwis were left stuttering with skipper backed their bowlers’ effort with matches. FOOTBALL El Jaish, Lekhwiya look for win in Asian CL AFC Berdiev, who welcomes back midfi eld- important because there isn’t a big dif- Doha er Erkin Baydullaev from suspension. ference between the two teams. I hope “We will have to remain focused that we can fi nish on top of the group throughout the entire 90 minutes as in order to qualify as the fi rst team in El Jaish have several attacking players the knockout stage.” ith Al Rayyan ending who only need half a chance to score. Lekhwiya, the former Qatar Stars El Jaish’s faint hopes of “Even though we are facing strong League champions who recently lost winning the Qatar Stars opponents, we’ve prepared very well their domestic crown to Al Rayyan, League title, the unde- for this match. We want to get a posi- picked up their fi rst point of the con- Wfeated Group D leaders have declared tive result here as our ambition is to tinental campaign with a 0-0 draw their focus is on AFC Champions qualify from the group.” against Zob Ahan on Matchday Two League ahead of today’s meeting with Meanwhile, in Group B, Al Nassr after losing their opening meeting Uzbekistan’s Nasaf. coach Raul Caneda is looking for a re- with Bunyodkor, but Djamal Belma- Al Rayyan wrapped up the Qatar ti- peat of his side’s performance against di’s team sit at the bottom of the early tle with fi ve matches to spare, leaving Bunyodkor when the Saudi Arabian standings. El Jaish third following Friday’s 2-0 club take on Qatar’s Lekhwiya in Riy- However, they go into the game bu- defeat by Al Arabi. adh. oyed by a 2-0 win over Al Khor in the But after back-to-back 2-1 wins The Riyadh side sealed a 1-0 win QSL last Friday that moved them back against Al Ain of the United Arab over the Uzbeks two weeks ago and sit up to second in the domestic stand- Emirates, El Jaish have a perfect on four points, level with Iran’s Zob ings. record in the AFC Champions League Ahan at the top of the group after two “We are ready for the match against and Sabri Lamouchi’s side sit alone at rounds of games. Al Nassr and the players are focused the top of Group D, three points clear “The strength of Al Nassr showed in on getting the three points from this of both Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli and Na- the previous match against Bunyodkor match,” said the former Qatar national saf. El Jaish coach Sabri Lamouchi (third from left) speaks to the media ahead of his team’s AFC Champions League match and we will try to follow the same ap- team coach. “After Al Rayyan sealed the league against Uzbekistan’s Nasaf proach against Lekhwiya,” said former “I know that Al Nassr are having a title, our concentration now is on the Al Ittihad coach Caneda, who saw diffi cult time but this doesn’t mean that AFC Champions League and we are but that doesn’t mean we have secured After losing 2-1 at Al Ahli in their their opening league matches. his team lose 2-0 in the Saudi league we will be playing against a weak side. aiming to go as far as we can in the our qualifi cation. opening match, Nasaf bounced back to “This will be a hard match against against local rivals Al Hilal on Thurs- “We will approach the match very competition,” Lamouchi said at his “Nasaf are an organised side and win by the same scoreline against the a side that won their opening two day. cautiously and hopefully we can go pre-match press conference yesterday. they’ve shown some good perform- same opponents a week later in Uz- matches and who have several excel- “We will try our best to fi x the mis- back home with a positive result.