SUNDAY 14 JANUARY 2018 SPORT 21 The focus is trying to win each TODAY’S Football Cricket Kane Williamson game. The guys were smart ACTION EPL Test match New Zealand skipper after today and that’s something we winning the ODI series against Chelsea vs India vs pride ourselves on. Pakistan. Leicester City South Africa Root lines up India strike late to bounce back for first IPL AFP SCOREBOARD auction South Africa (I innings) CENTURION, SOUTH AFRICA: D Elgar c Vijay b Ashwin ..................................................31 AFP Two run-outs and the bowling A Markram c Patel b Ashwin ........................................94 of Ravichandran Ashwin gave H Amla run out (Pandya) ...............................................82 NEW DELHI: England Test India the edge on the first day of A de Villiers b I Sharma ................................................20 skipper and star batsman Joe F du Plessis (batting) .....................................................24 the second Test against South Q de Kock c Kohli b Ashwin ............................................0 Root is among 282 foreign Africa at SuperSport Park V Philander run out (Patel) ............................................0 players looking to play in this yesterday. K Maharaj (batting) ........................................................10 year’s big-paying Indian South Africa finished on 269 Extras (LB7, NB1) ............................................................. 8 Premier League, the cricket for six. They had been cruising Total (6 wkts) ..............................................269 board announced yesterday. at 246 for three and seemed set Fall of wickets: 1-85, 2-148, 3-199, 4-246, 5-250, 6-251 The player auction for the for a big total after winning the Bowling: Bumrah 18-4-57-0 (1nb), Mohammed Shami 11th IPL Twenty20 tournament toss and batting on an easy- 11-2-46-0, I Sharma 16-3-32-1, Pandya 14-4-37-0, Ash- is set for January 27-28 in Ban- win 31-8-90-3 paced pitch. galore, the Board of Control for To bat: K Rabada, M Morkel, L Ngidi Aiden Markram (94) and India: V Kohli, M Vijay, L Rahul, C Pujara, R Sharma, P Patel, H Cricket in India (BCCI) said. Hashim Amla (82) were mainly Pandya, R Ashwin, I Sharma, Mohammed Shami, J Bumrah. Some 1,122 players will be responsible for getting South on the auction block for the Africa into a strong position eight teams to bid for. despite some good bowling by to Patel when he glanced Ishant “The list that has been sent off-spinner Ashwin, who took Sharma to the wicketkeeper’s out to the eight IPL franchises three for 90 in 31 overs. left with his score on 30, but then has 281 capped players, 838 The day changed dramati- played with authority. uncapped players, including cally with an outstanding piece Indian bowler Ravichandran Ashwin (centre) celebrates the dismissal of South African batsman Dean Patel was playing in place of 778 Indians and three players of fielding by Hardik Pandya, Elgar (not in picture) during the first day of the second Test match against South Africa at Supersport Wriddhiman Saha, who had a from the associate nations,” who ran out Amla for 82. Two cricket ground yesterday. hamstring injury. said a BCCI release. more wickets fell in the next 14 India made two other It predicted “a fierce bid- balls. but Indian captain Virat Kohli first spell before coming back to Markram and a struggling changes. Lokesh Rahul replaced ding war” for Indian stars Amla, who looked set for a persisted with Ashwin and was bowl another lengthy spell. Dean Elgar (31) put on 85 for Shikhar Dhawan as an opening Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj century to end a poor run of form rewarded when De Kock edged Markram, playing in his fifth the first wicket before Elgar batsman and fast bowler Ishant Singh, with spinners Ravi- which had brought scores of 5, Ashwin to Kohli at slip to be out Test, looked set for a third cen- went down the wicket and Sharma came in for Bhuv- chandran Ashwin, Harbhajan 3 and 4 in his previous three Test first ball. tury to go with hundreds he was caught by Murali Vijay at neshwar Kumar. Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Kul- innings, played a ball from It got worse for South Africa made against the modest oppo- silly mid-off, checking a drive South Africa again opted for deep Yadav and openers Pandya to the on-side and was when Vernon Philander set off sition of Bangladesh and Zim- when Ashwin bowled the ball a four-pronged pace attack, Lokesh Rahul and Murali called for a sharp single by South for a suicidal run and found him- babwe. He struck the ball with a bit shorter so that Elgar picking new cap Lungi Ngidi in Vijay also going under the African captain Faf du Plessis. self at the same end as Du Plessis authority, particularly off the could not reach the pitch of place of the injured Dale Steyn. hammer. Amla, on his back foot, was to be run out without scoring. back foot, before he tried to the ball. Ngidi, 21, played in three Foreign stars will include slow to start and Pandya raced Contrary to expectations, guide a ball from Ashwin Hashim Amla made his 82 off Twenty20 internationals last Root, Ben Stokes, Chris Gayle, to pick up the ball, turned and there was no assistance for the towards third man and was 153 balls with 14 fours. He sur- season but has played in only Chris Lynn, Eoin Morgan and threw down the stumps at the fast bowlers and Ashwin carried caught behind by Parthiv Patel. vived a half-chance to Hardik nine first-class matches, taking Australian pace bowlers bowler’s end. the bowling attack, taking two Markram made 94 off 150 Pandya at short midwicket off 31 wickets at an average of Mitchell Starc and Pat The second new ball was due for 53 in an unchanged 17-over balls and hit 15 fours. Ashwin on 14 and a diving catch 20.45. Cummins. Five-star Boult helps NZ crush Pakistan AFP SCOREBOARD was very satisfying.” Williamson disappointing, a tough loss,” he said the target now was to said. “Our bowlers bowled very DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: A New Zealand Pakistan remain unbeaten. well but the problems continue withering spell by Trent Boult M Guptill run out (Sarfraz/Shadab) ....................45 Azhar Ali c Taylor b Boult ......................................... 0 “That’s the focus. The focus with the batting which again saw New Zealand destroy Paki- C Munro c Sarfraz b Faheem ...................................8 Fakhar Zaman b Boult .............................................2 is trying to win each game. The flopped. The problem is (facing) K Williamson c Hafeez b Rumman .....................73 Babar Azam run out (Santner/Latham) .............. 8 stan by 183 runs in the third R Taylor lbw Shadab ...............................................52 Mohammad Hafeez c Taylor b Boult ....................0 guys were smart today and that’s the new ball.” one-day international in T Latham c Shoaib b Rumman .............................35 Shoaib Malik c Taylor b Ferguson ...........................3 something we pride ourselves Boult removed Azhar Ali, Dunedin yesterday to comfort- H Nicholls c&b Shadab .............................................0 Sarfraz Ahmed (not out) ........................................14 on,” he said. Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad ably wrap up the series in M Santner b Hasan ....................................................6 Shadab Khan b Munro ..............................................0 “It was a fantastic perform- Hafeez in the space of five balls Dunedin. T Astle c Fakhar b Rumman ....................................5 Faheem Ashraf c Astle b Ferguson .....................10 ance all round. Trent was out- to put Pakistan in a hole they New Zealand have won all T Southee b Hasan .....................................................6 Hasan Ali c Williamson b Munro .............................1 standing getting five. were never going to get out of. three matches so far and captain L Ferguson (not out) .................................................6 Mohammad Amir b Boult .....................................14 Pakistan had slumped to After 10 overs, the tourists T Boult b Hasan ........................................................13 Rumman Raees b Boult .........................................16 Kane Williamson said the target Extras: (LB2, W4, NB2) ......................................... 8 Extras: (W6) .............................................................6 eight for 32 in the 19th over and were three down for just nine is a clean sweep of all five ODIs. Total: (all out) ........................................257 Total: (all out) ..........................................74 threatened two unwanted runs and while they struggled to Boult rocked Pakistan with Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-84, 3-158, 4-209, 5-209, Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-13, 5-15, 6-16, 7-30, records -- the lowest ODI score stay afloat, Babar Azam was three wickets in five balls to take 6-226, 7-226, 8-233, 9-239, 10-257 8-32, 9-52, 10-74 of 35, held by Zimbabwe, and unnecessarily run out. Part-time out the cream of their top order Bowling: Amir 8-1-34-0 (2w, 1nb), Faheem 6-1-29-1, Bowling: Southee 7-3-19-0 (1w), Boult 7.2-1-17-5 (1w), Pakistan’s own lowest score of bowler Colin Munro, with career New Zealand’s Trent Boult (right) on his way to figures of five for Rumman 10-0-51-3 (1w, 1nb), Hasan 10-0-59-3 (1w), Munro 7-1-10-2, Ferguson 6-0-28-2 (3w) 43. Sarfraz Ahmed (14 not out), figures of one for 203 before this celebrates with team-mate Shadab 10-0-51-2, Shoaib 6-0-31-0 Result: New Zealand won by 183 runs. 17. After New Zealand made 257 Mohammad Amir (14) and match bowled Shadab Khan Mitchell Santner after bowling batting first,boosted by 11 in the Rumman Raees (16) added 42 for without scoring and had Hasan Pakistan’s Rumman Raees during final over before Boult was dis- “It was a big game for us. We “To score only 250 on the the last two wickets but Sarfraz Ali spectacularly caught by Wil- the third ODI match at University missed on the last ball, Pakistan wanted to get the series done,” board we knew we had to fight saw serious problems with the liamson for one to return figures Oval in Dunedin, yesterday.