p16_Layout 1 12/1/14 9:02 PM Page 1 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2014 SPORTS B’desh’s Taijul grabs hat-trick on debut DHAKA: Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam nine wickets for 33 runs and were dis- became the first cricketer to claim a hat- missed for 128 in 30 overs. trick on his debut in a one-day internation- Leg-spinner Jubair Hossain shared in the al as he set up a five-wicket victory for demolition, taking 2-41. Hamilton Bangladesh over Zimbabwe yesterday. Masakadza top-scored for Zimbabwe with The win in Dhaka gave Bangladesh a 52 and shared a 79-run second-wicket clean sweep in the five-match ODI series stand with Vusimuzi Sibanda (37) — the against their fellow cricketing minnows. only high point in Zimbabwe’s innings. The whitewash came after the hosts Panyangara and Chatara, who shared recorded a 3-0 win against the visitors in the five Bangladeshi wickets that fell, the preceding Test series. briefly raised the visitors’ hopes. But Taijul bowled Tinashe Panyangara in the Mahmudullah kept his composure to score last ball of his sixth over and returned to an unbeaten 51, guiding Bangladesh to trap John Nyumbu leg before and bowl 130-5 in 24.3 overs. Tendai Chatara in the first two balls of his The 28-year old middle-order batsman next over to complete the hat-trick. hit two fours off successive balls from Taijul, who finished with 4-11, is only the seamer Solomon Mire to seal the rout and fourth Bangladeshi to claim a hat-trick in an bring up his 11th fifty in the process. ODI after Shahadat Hossain, Abdur Razzak Sabbir Rahman, 13 not out, supported and Rubel Hossain. Mahmudullah after Bangladesh lost their Shakib Al Hasan took the last wicket to fifth wicket with the score on 93. Chatara return figures of 3-30 as Zimbabwe col- finished with 3-44 while Panyangara lapsed after a fine start. They lost their last claimed 2-49. —AFP SCOREBOARD DHAKA: Scoreboard of the fifth one-day international between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe at the Sher- e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday: Zimbabwe innings (w1), Shakib 7-1-30-3 (w1), Taijul 7-2-11-4, Jubair H. Masakadza b Jubair 52 8-0-41-2 S. Raza c Rahim b Mortaza 9 V. Sibanda c Mortaza b Shakib 37 Bangladesh innings B. Taylor b Shakib 9 Tamim Iqbal c Mire b Panyangara 10 S. Mire lbw b Taijul 9 Anamul Haque c Masakadza b Chatara 8 T. Maruma b Jubair 1 Soumya Sarkar c Raza b Chatara 20 ALBERTA: Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud (centre) celebrates his win on the podium with second place finisher Austria’s Matthias Mayer left)( and third E. Chigumbura not out 3 Mahmudullah not out 51 place finisher Italy’s Dominik Paris following his run at the menís World Cup Super-G ski race. —AP T. Panyangara b Taijul 0 Shakib Al Hasan c Masakadza b Panyangara 0 John Nyumbu lbw b Taijul 3 Mushfiqur Rahim c Taylor b Chatara 11 T. Chatara b Taijul 0 Sabbir Rahman not out 13 T. Kamungozi c Mahmudullah b Shakib 2 Extras (lb6, w10, nb1) 17 Norway leads way without Svindal Extras (w3) 3 Total (for five wickets; 24.3 overs) 130 Total (all out; 30 overs) 128 Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Tamim) 2-28 (Anamul), 3-47 Fall of wickets: 1-16 ( Raza) , 2-95 (Masakadza), 3- (Soumya), 4-58 (Shakib), 5-93 (Rahim) Bowling: LAKE LOUISE: Kjetil Jansrud is quietly taking in Saturday’s downhill. the equipment. Our styles are different but 108 (Taylor), 4-109 ( Sibanda), 5-112 (Maruma) 6- Panyangara 10-1-49-2 (w3, nb1), Chatara 10-0-44- over as the leader of Norwegian skiing. Jansrud The two wins, Jansrud’s first in the World we’re both looking for the ideal line,” he said. 120 (Mire), 7-120 (Panyangara) 8-124 (Nyumbu), 9- 3 (w6), Kamungozi 4-0-21-0, Mire 0.3-0-10-0 (w1) won both weekend races at Lake Louise as the Cup outside his home country, added to com- Svindal tore his Achilles tendon playing foot- 124 (Chatara), 10-128 (Kamungozi) Result: Bangladesh won by five wickets to take absence of Norway’s flag-bearer Aksel Lund patriot Henrik Kristofferson’s astounding slalom ball in training days before the season opener Bowling: Mortaza 5-1-23-1 (w1), Abul 3-1-23-0 the five-match series 5-0. Svindal, injured before the start of the alpine victory in the Finnish resort of Levi earlier this in Soleden in October. His absence had seemed skiing season, has gone almost unnoticed as his month. “I don’t think I have a secret for how I to pave the way for a fourth successive big team-mates have won three of four men’s races skied this weekend and I never expected a dou- globe for Hirscher, but Jansrud might have a so far. ble win as it’s something you very rarely see in say as well even if he insists he has no such “So far Lake Louise has always been Aksel’s skiing so I am kind of surprised,” Jansrud said. plans. hill and not mine but hopefully it’s turning into But his Lake Louise double made him on par “With Marcel around, the overall is always mine as well,” said the versatile 29-year-old with former skiing greats like Austria’s Stefan difficult. It’s not an objective as such but if I Jansrud, who now leads the World Cup stand- Eberharter, American Bode Miller or Svindal, keep my downhill and Super-G form, maybe ings over three-times defending champion who achieved the same feat two seasons ago. we’ll think about it in the end of season,” he Marcel Hirscher of Austria. While stealing the limelight off his compatri- said. The men now leaving Lake Louise to the Jansrud beat Olympic downhill champion ot, Jansrud insisted he missed him. “It’s harder women and move to Beaver Creek, a crucial Matthias Mayer by 0.29 seconds after upstaging without Aksel because we have the same ski test as the Colorado resort will host the next local favourite Manuel Osborne-Paradis by 0.14 maker and we can share useful information on world championships in February. —Reuters Nicole grabs World Cup win ASPEN: Austrian veteran Nicole Hosp upset the younger slalom favorites, including world and Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin, to take her first World Cup skiing victory since 2008 on Sunday. Revived by this year’s Sochi Olympics, where she won a silver and a bronze after years fighting injury, the 2007 overall World Cup winner won in a combined time of one minute and 44.90 sec- onds. The 31-year-old beat Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter by 0.19 seconds and compatriot Kathrin Zettel, who seized the overall World Cup lead, by 0.95. Since making her return from two knee injuries in 2009, the Austrian all-rounder has shone more in speed events and took her Sochi medals in the combined and Super-G. Her last World Cup win before Sunday was in a slalom in Maribor, Slovenia, in January 2008. “The last time I won a slalom was in 2008. It’s like another lifetime,” she said. “To win today is a bit like scoring my first victory. It means a lot when you’ve gone through all these troubled years. “I cannot say I’d stopped believing in my chances because I felt in training I was not fin- ished. I thought a top five was possible, maybe a ASPEN: Nicole Hosp, of Austria, speeds down the course during the women’s World Cup slalom DHAKA: Bangladeshi Taijul Islam (back) jumps into the arms of Mahmudullah (left) podium. But in slalom, with all these young girls ski race. —AP coming up, I didn’t think I still had my place.” as they celebrate with Mushfiqur Rahim the dismissal of Zimbabwe’s Tendai Chatara “It’s hard when you ski great in training and I lost a bit of confidence,” she said. “I knew I during the fifth One-Day International cricket match. —AP The young generation, personified by Shiffrin, were not in their best shape on the then in the race nothing goes according to plan,” needed to do something special in the second Aspen course. The 19-year-old American clocked said Shiffrin, who finished 5th, 1:08 behind Hosp. run today but that little extra something the fastest morning time but faltered in the Despite the disappointment, it was an wasn’t there.” The women’s circuit moves to afternoon, perhaps weakened by a stomach bug improvement from 11th in her previous race in Lake Louise next weekend for a downhill and a Pakistan coach satisfied that had been bothering her all week. the Finnish resort of Levi this month. “After Levi Super-G.—Reuters despite final Test defeat Australia and India Test dates moved SHARJAH: Pakistan cricket coach Waqar ment broke our team’s rhythm,” said Waqar Younis yesterday termed his team’s per- of Thursday’s play abandoned after the SYDNEY: The first cricket Test between Australia head by a short-pitched delivery during a Sunday, will be held in his hometown of formance over five Tests as “extremely news of Hughes death came from and India will now take place in Adelaide after a domestic first-class match. Macksville in northern New South Wales. good” as they beat Australia 2-0 and lev- Australia.