West Indies Gets Down to Business

West Indies Gets Down to Business

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE West Indies gets down to business Ganguly visits Sardar Patel Stadium Venue set to have a record capacity of 1.10 lakh Pollard at the forefront of a practice session at a venue where he made a mark a decade ago Shayan Acharya an elaborate discussion with ternational Cricket Council. Mumbai the officials of the State asso­ After commencing the WI IN INDIA The Board of Control for ciation. He had a look at the work in January 2017, the Cricket in India (BCCI) chief facilities,” one of the officials Gujarat Cricket Association V.V. SUBRAHMANYAM Sourav Ganguly and secre­ told Sportstar. officials are hopeful of finish­ HYDERABAD tary Jay Shah visited the new After razing down the old ing the work well in time. Kieron Pollard returns to the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ah­ structure at the Motera, Spread over 63 acres, the venue — the Rajiv Gandhi medabad on Tuesday. around ₹700 crore is being stadium will have a club­ Stadium here — where he an­ During his two­hour visit spent on building the new house with 50 rooms and a nounced himself as one of to the stadium — set to be the stadium, which is scheduled swimming pool. the most explosive batsmen world’s largest stadium with to be inaugurated in March “There will also be 73 cor­ in the T20 format when he a capacity to host 1.10 lakh next year. porate boxes and an indoor scored a spectacular 18­ball fans — Ganguly took a stock cricket academy along with 54 for Trinidad & Tobago of things, interacting with Friendly fixture likely practice grounds for the against New South Wales in the officials of the Gujarat There is a possibility of cricketers. The work is in the Champions League T20 Cricket Association and en­ World XI playing a friendly progress,” the official, who Championship a decade ago. quiring about the latest fixture with Asia XI as an in­ has been involved with the Pollard was at the fore­ developments. augural tie, but that is sub­ project since the beginning, front of a practice session on “He (Ganguly) had quite ject to the approval of the In­ said. Tuesday afternoon ahead of the West Indies’ opening game of the three­match T20I series against Virat Kohli­led India to be played here on December 6. Enjoying themselves The smiling visages of the West Indian cricketers was again a reminder that most of them continue to enjoy the game which they ob­ viously love so much. They Energetic bunch: The West Indians will want to prove that they can surprise the more accomplished Indian team in the T20I just joked around, had a few series beginning on December 6. * K.V.S. GIRI brief chats and shared thoughts. Pollard walked physical conditioning, the liaison officer Vikram Man HCA secretary R. Vijaya­ “The first priority will be across to the HCA curator players were off to a more Singh was the manager of nand said that every effort is to ensure a spectator­friend­ Y.L. Chandrasekhar, to get a serious business of training the West Indies team which being made to make the ly ambience inside the stadi­ feel of what kind of a pitch in the nets under the watch­ won the 2016 T20 World match a big success even as um. This is the first match would be in place for the big ful eyes of the head coach Cup in Kolkata and he overcast conditions pre­ for our new team of office­ game on Friday. Phil Simmons. shared those memories with vailed on Tuesday after the bearers led by Mohammad After a long warm­up ses­ Interestingly, Hyderabad members of that winning heavy rains on Monday Azharuddin. And, we want sion with the emphasis on Cricket Association media team. night. to make it truly memorable.” Aerial view: The Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, where construction is in full swing. * VIJAY SONEJI Williamson and Taylor score unbeaten centuries Pavitra’s waiting game succeeds Help the Kiwis pull off a draw in the second Test against England; hosts clinch series 1­0 Seethal Shaji downs Rutuja Devkar ENGLAND IN NZ off track when Ollie Pope and Joe Denly spilled simple DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Kumari (Raj) bt Aruna Koru­ Agence France-Presse chances from Williamson. BOXING konda (AP) RSC­1; Poonam B Pavitra is a former Asian Hamilton Kaithwas (Mah) bt D. Bhavya The New Zealand skipper Stan Rayan silver medallist (Kar) RSC; Divya Ganesh (Ker) Centuries from Kane Wil­ was on 39 when wicketkeep­ KANNUR liamson and Ross Taylor en­ er Pope put down a regula­ B She bided her time for bt Lakshmi Prathyusha Kola sured New Zealand drew the tion offering, much to bowler Heena Tokas opened with a openings before landing (Tel) RSC­1. rain­hit second Test against Ben Stokes’ annoyance, and wild flurry of punches and some strong punches on Light-welter (64kg): Aarti Ra­ continued that streak for a Heena wal (Del) bt Seema Kumari England here on Tuesday, on 62 Denly inexplicably DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD sealing a 1­0 series win. dropped an even easier major part of her light­ (Bih) 5­0; Heena Chaudhary chance. Williamson gently weight bout against Pavitra (Ker) bt V. Vinodhini (TN) 4­1; (J&K) bt Durga Devi (Pon) The weather turned sour of Railways in the fourth RSC. soon after lunch on the fifth chipped a slower delivery Feather (57kg): Y. Sandhyarani Elite National women’s box­ Devi (Pol) bt Prativa Jana Siwi (Har) bt Mallanathula day when New Zealand, hav­ from Jofra Archer straight to ing championship at the (Ben) RSC­1. Venkata Sai (AP) RSC; Lal­ ing taken advantage of some Denly at short midwicket and, as the bowler leapt in Mundayad indoor stadium Sonam Poonia (Raj) bt R. buatsaihi (Pol) bt Joshmy Jose sloppy fielding, was 241 for here on Tuesday. Divya (Kar) RSC­1; G. Prathiba (Ker) 5­0; Gajal Mariya (Kar) two in the second innings, celebration and Williamson But the seasoned Pavitra, (TN) bt Neha Kumari (Jha) bt Nilam Devi Laishram (Man) 140 ahead with Taylor on 105 made an apologetic gesture a former Asian silver medal­ RSC­1. 5­0. and Williamson on 104. to Taylor, the ball popped Roshni Subba (Sik) bt Uggi­ list who had been to the Middle (75kg): K.A. Indraja out of Denly’s hands. na Gnaneswari (AP) RSC­3; Worlds a few years ago, (Ker) bt Gitimoni Gogoi (Asm) Improves record Hema Danu (Utk) bt Laxmee Williamson had another waited patiently, waited for RSC; Nupur (Har) bt Shweta With the weather denying life when he should have Mehra (Mah) 4­1. (Raj) 5­0. openings and when they T.C. Lalremruati (Miz) bt England a second turn at bat, been run out on 97 but Sam came, she landed some E.S. Sanjana (Tel) RSC­2; Light-heavy (81kg): Seethal Curran’s shy at the stumps it ensured New Zealand’s se­ strong punches on Delhi’s Tongbram Premi Devi (Man) Shaji (Ker) bt Rutuja Devkar ries win after its innings vic­ Seasoned campaigners: Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor’s unbroken partnership kept England was so far off line that the former junior international bt R.K. Sinsha (Ker) 3­2. (Mah) RSC. tory in the first Test, and im­ at bay on the final day. * AP batsmen picked up an extra Heena. Light (60kg): Pavitra (Rly) bt Heavy (+81kg): M. Yamini (TN) proved its record to eight run. Heena Tokas (Del) 4­1; Suman bt Nayana (Kar) RSC. wins, a draw and one loss (to after lunch, while Taylor Two balls after Taylor had ough that chance had alrea­ Even without the rain, Better reach South Africa) in the past 10 reached century number 19 raised his bat and poked his dy been damaged by Root’s chances of pulling off The Railways boxer had a series. with a flourish in Root’s next tongue out in his signature dropped catches. New Zea­ victory seemed very remote better reach and could land Williamson brought up his over when he smacked a four celebration, the rain arrived land resumed at 96 for two as the England bowlers toiled punches that mattered and 21st Test century with a four and two sixes off consecutive to wash out England’s faint with England hunting early with an ageing ball on an un­ hold her guard when Hee­ off Joe Root in the third over balls. hope of forcing a result alth­ wickets, but its plans went responsive wicket. na’s hits came her way. “I felt the third round SCOREBOARD turned the bout in my fa­ vour,” said the 32­old Pavi­ New Zealand — 1st innings: tra after the 4­1 verdict. New Zealand wins Spirit of Cricket award 375. England — 1st innings: 476. “This is the first time I’m New Zealand — 2nd innings: T. fighting her.” IANS regarded as one of the sportsmanship that was sportsmanship and their Latham c Root b Woakes 18, J. Meanwhile, Kerala’s Melbourne most exciting ODI matches fitting for such a fantastic exemplary conduct Raval lbw b Curran 0, K. Willi­ Seethal Shaji, also tall and amson (not out) 104, R. Taylor wiry, appeared to struggle a The New Zealand cricket of all time — Kane final, and indeed towards opposition players Williamson’s team tournament.” throughout the (not out) 105; Extras (b­2, lb­3, bit early against Maharash­ team has been awarded w­3, nb­1, pen­5): 14; Total (for tra’s Rutuja Devkar in the displayed an exceptional “It is a testament to their tournament.

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