SPORT 21 OCTOBER 2017 SATURDAY 21 Hasan shines as Pakistan crush Sri Lanka Sharjah SCOREBOARD This was Pakistan’s eighth Resurgent AFP consecutive win which also Sri Lanka included their Champions Tro- N. Dickwella c Zaman b Junaid 22 Zimbabwe face edium pacer U. Tharanga b Shinwari 0 phy triumph in England in June Hasan Ali D. Chandimal run out 16 while Sri Lanka succumbed to rising Windies grabbed three L. Thirimanne c Azam b Wasim 62 their 11th consecutive ODI wickets to cele- S. Samarawickrama b Wasim 0 defeat. The fifth and final match brate his rise to M. Siriwardana c Shinwari b Hasan 13 is also in Sharjah on Monday. Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Mthe top of the one-day rankings S. Prasanna b Shadab 5 “It was my childhood dream AFP as Pakistan downed Sri Lanka T. Perera c Azam b Shadab 0 to be world nunber one and it by seven wickets in the fourth A. Dananjaya c Ahmed b Hasan 18 was my goal when I started atsman Brendan Taylor day-night international in Shar- S. Lakmal not out 23 cricket so I am very happy that and fast bowler Kyle jah yesterday. L. Gamage b Hasan 1 this has come true,” said Hasan. Jarvis will make their Extras: (b4, lb1, w8) 13 B Hasan took 3-37 while spin- “It’s always my aim to take returns to international Total: (all out; 43.4 overs) 173 ners Shadab Khan (2-29) and Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-30, 3-59, 4-59, 5-91, 6-99, wickets and anchor the team’s cricket today when Zimba- Imad Wasim (2-13) also chipped 7-99, 8-142, 9-164 win so I am again happy to be bwe take on the West Indies in with useful wickets as Sri Bowling: Junaid 4-0-22-1, Shinwari 6.3-0-38-1 the main bowler,” added Hasan in the first of two Tests in Lanka were skittled out for 173 (6w), Wasim 7-0-13-2 (1w), Hafeez 9.3-1-29-0, Has- who now has 12 wickets in the Bulawayo. in 43.4 overs. an 8.4-0-37-3, Shadab 8-0-29-2 (1w) series. Jarvis has not played for Only Lahiru Thirimanne Pakistan Earlier, Sri Lanka got off to Zimbabwe since signing a resisted with a 94-ball 62 on a Imam-ul-Haq lbw b Gamage 2 a disastrous start when their in- Kolpak deal with English flat pitch at Sharjah stadium on Fakhar Zaman st Dickwella b Dananjaya 17 form skipper Upul Tharanga county side Lancashire in which Babar Azam scored a Babar Azam not out 69 was bowled by debutant left- 2013, while Taylor followed stroke filled 69 not out and Mohammad Hafeez c Gamage b Prasanna 9 arm pacer Usman Shinwari for suit in 2015 when he moved Shoaib Malik matched him, also Shoaib Malik not out 69 nought off his second delivery. to Nottinghamshire. Extras: (lb2, w9) 11 with an unbeaten 69, to help Shinwari was one of two However both players Total: (for three wkts; 39 overs) 177 Pakistan overhaul the low tar- Did not bat: Sarfraz Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Shadab changes Pakistan made from the have been lured back as part get in 39 overs. Khan, Hasan Ali, Usman Shinwari, Junaid Khan third one-dayer which they won of Zimbabwe Cricket’s Despite Pakistan losing Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-37, 3-58 by seven wickets in Abu Dhabi. attempts to revive the three early wickets, the target Bowling: Lakmal 7-0-25-0 (1w), Gamage 5-0-27-1 Also brought back was Wasim. national team, which last year was never out of reach as Azam (6w), Dananjaya 8-1-29-1 (1w), Prasanna 10-0-44-1, They replaced Fahim Ashraf and included hiring former Zim- and Malik shared an unbroken Perera 4-0-16-0, Siriwardana 5-0-34-0 (1w) Rumman Raees. babwe captains Tatenda 119 runs fourth-wicket stand. Result: Pakistan won by seven wickets Sri Lanka had made three Taibu and Heath Streak as Malik smashed Milinda Siri- changes, with Sadeera Samara- national selector and head wardana for a boundary and a wickrama making his debut. coach respectively. six to seal the victory. boundaries off 101 balls. Another left-armer Junaid Those appointments He hit three sixes in all and Pakistan lost Imam-ul-Haq Khan ended Niroshan Dickwel- appear to be bearing some Hasan Ali (right) of Pakistan celebrates with a team-mate after two boundaries in his 81-ball for two after his debut hundred la’s enterprising 16-ball 22, fruit -- in July, Zimbabwe knock while Azam, who had in the last match while Fakhar studded with three boundaries dismissing Sadeera Samarawickrama of Sri Lanka during the won their first one-day inter- scored successive hundreds in Zaman fell for 17 and Moham- and a six, while Dinesh Chandi- third one day international (ODI) match at Sharjah Cricket national series in Sri Lanka, the first two matches, had five mad Hafeez made nine. mal was run out for 16. Stadium in Sharjah yesterday. and nearly pulled off an upset in a one-off Test as well. The additions of Taylor, Jarvis and Solomon Mire, who was previously based in Australia, have given Kiwis out to tame India’s newest spin duo Zimbabwe the belief that they could cause an upset in their first home Test of Mumbai role in India’s recent 4-1 ODI the year. AFP series victory over Australia, tak- “I feel that we’ve proba- ing a hat-trick in the second bly got an even better team ew Zealand’s batsmen match at Eden Gardens in Kolk- now than we had in Sri know they will have to ata. He has been well supported Lanka,” Zimbabwe captain Nsubdue India’s spinners if by the 27-year-old Chahal, who Graeme Cremer said they are to have any chance of tormented the Australians with yesterday. winning their three-match One his deceptive leg spinners to bag “We’ll take that confi- Day International series starting six wickets in four matches. dence from Sri Lanka, but we tomorrow. “We obviously know that know we can perform even Left-arm wrist spinner Kul- they (Kuldeep and Chahal) are better than that.” deep Yadav and right-arm leg quality bowlers and they have The West Indies are break Yuzvendra Chahal have done really well in the previous undergoing something of a established themselves as India’s series,” Latham said. resurgence themselves. latest attacking combination, Latham has been in good Written off in the wake of keeping veterans Ravichandran form himself, compiling a quick- an innings and 209-run Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja out fire 108 in New Zealand’s 33-run thrashing by England at Edg- of the team. win over an Indian Board Pres- baston in August, they Kiwi batsman Tom Latham ident’s XI in the visitors’ second bounced back to win a pul- said the visitors were leaving no and final warm-up match in sating second Test at stone unturned in seeking a way Indian cricketers (from left) Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav and Mumbai. Headingley, proving what to counter the Indian pair, who New Zealand, ranked fifth in they are capable of. Yuzvendra Chahal warm up during a training session at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai come into the series in the best the world, have drafted in leg- “I think we’ve had a yesterday. form of their careers. spinner Ish Sodhi as a pretty reasonable year in “Our focus is big on spin replacement for Todd Astle, who terms of improvement. The here. We are focusing on facing told reporters in Mumbai. Kuldeep and Chahal’s recent best slow bowlers since taking has been ruled out of tomorrow’s guys have been getting more spin than seam here and The left-handed Latham said performances. four wickets in his Test debut match at Mumbai’s Wankhede attuned to Test cricket,” West finding ways to score, to hit gaps the Kane Williamson-led New Kuldeep, 22, has quickly against Australia in Dharamsala Stadium after picking up a groin Indies captain Jason Holder and find boundaries,” Latham Zealanders had taken note of emerged as one of the world’s in March. He also played a big injury in the warm-up game. said. QSL: Al Duhail aim to cement place at the top Armstrong Vas “Umm Salal are the only side, who which will bring down the curtains on at the moment is that we don’t have a The Peninsula managed to beat us last season. This Round 5 action. strong striker. Our scoring rate isn’t very fact demands that we stay focused Qatar SC coach Gabriel Calderon enough. We should do more,” said the l Duhail coach Djamel Belmadi on the match. We’ve assessed their repeated his philosophy that all Argentinian. has urged his players to remain strengths and weaknesses, and we matches were like a final while speak- Qatar SC have scored only five A‘focused’ in their Round 5 match know what it takes to win the match. ing ahead of their Round 5 match goals from four rounds. of the QNB Stars league against Umm They’ll have to do a lot on the pitch to against Al Ahli. On the other hand, Al Ahli’s Span- Salal at Al Gharafa Stadium. stop us.” “All matches are like a final to me. ish coach Joaquin Caparros sounded Al Duhail with an all-win record Belmadi said the match is crucial That’s my philosophy when I prepare desperate for a victory.