HOCKEY | Page 8 MMOTOGPOTOGP | Page 11 India set Dovizioso up title grabs pole in To Advertise here clash with Malaysia as Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 Pakistan Rossi lurks Sunday, October 30, 2016 CRICKET Muharram 29, 1438 AH Mishra spins GULF TIMES India to series win over New Zealand SPORT Page 9 RALLYING Qatar’s Adel storms to victory in Portugal By Our Correspondent afterwards. Bellini then snatched the disqualified, it means that I will be Portalegre, Portugal lead and fought a fascinating tussle FIA T2 champion this season. Even if with Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Saleh I don’t win, to finish second and win and Adel Hussein for the win over the a couple of events is a great achieve- issan’s Adel Hussein Ab- closing kilometres. ment for a rookie on his first time in dulla wrapped up his The outcome of the FIA T2 title the championship. maiden FIA World Cup will now be decided by the sport’s “I would like to thank Nissan Mid- Ncampaign in the T2 cat- governing body, the FIA, after Adel dle East, Nissan Qatar and the QMMF egory for Series Production Cross- Hussein’s TOK Sport team protested for their support from the begin- Country vehicles by claiming a stun- the legality of his main rival’s car at ning of the season until now. I have ning victory from Italy’s Alessandro the recent round of the series in Mo- learned a lot of things and look for- Trivini Bellini at the 30th Baja Por- rocco. ward to next season.” talegre 500 yesterday afternoon. “Everything now depends upon the Adel Hussein had followed up Running with support from Nis- outcome of the protest we have made with his third quickest time in Friday san Middle East, Nissan Qatar and against our rival’s car after Morocco,” morning’s super special stage with the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Fed- said Adel Hussein. “All the odds were the fastest time and the outright T2 eration (QMMF), the Qatari produced against me here in Portugal. It was a category lead after the second section one of his best performances of the very tough event with a lot of cars, of 83.94km. The Nissan Patrol driv- season against one of the largest T2 Adel Hussein Abdulla in action bikes and quads and that makes the er was in fine form and reached the fields of the year to reach the finish in Portugal yesterday. terrain very difficult. I drove beyond night halt with a lead of 1min 26sec on the top of the podium in his Nis- my ability, perhaps, and was clever. I over César Sequeira. san Patrol. kept my foot on the ground and was Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Saleh held Partnered by French navigator Sé- focusing on my event. third place, but Adel Hussein’s main bastien Delaunay, the Doha-based “I forget what happened in Mo- title rival Yasir Saeidan rolled his car driver held third after the opening rocco and I kept pushing and push- on Friday and began the final day super special stage and then hit the ing. Now we wait for the outcome without the front screen in situ. En- front only to be pegged back by local of the FIA protest with the techni- gine damage eventually sidelined the driver César Sequeira, until the latter cal scrutineers. This will tell us if Saudi on the road section after the was penalised and then retired soon Yasir’s (Saeidan) car is legal. If he is first stage yesterday. FOOTBALL Sadd held by Gharafa in 6-goal thriller Al Rayyan beat Kharaitiyat for second win in 5 games By Sports Reporter Doha l Gharafa and Al Sadd shared six goals in a scintillating 3-3 draw yesterday while Al ARayyan notched up their fi rst win under new coach Michael Laudrup in the Qatar Stars League. Al Gharafa raced to a two goal lead before Al Sadd scored three in a row to go up 3-2. Pedro Caxina’s side, how- ever, left it late to fi nd the equaliser thanks to Ghanaian central defender Rashid Sumaila. In a thrilling match, it didn’t take long Al Gharafa to score the fi rst goal as Hungarian international Krisztián Németh found the net in the sixth minute. The ball came in as a cross from the left but Al Sadd goalkeeper Saad al-Dosari made a hash of the save, allowing Németh to take advan- tage and drive it home. In the 25th minute, Othman al-Yahri doubled the Cheetahs’ advantage. The Al Sadd’s Abdelkarim Hassan is congratulated by teammates after he scored Qatari midfi elder made a diagonal run against Al Gharafa. beating the Al Sadd off side trap and found himself on the end of an inci- goal. Baghdad Bounedjah picked out minutes left to play. Ghanian defender sive pass with all the Al Sadd defend- the Spanish superstar’s run behind Rashid Sumaila powerfully headed in ers behind him. The 23-year-old ran the far post and made a clever pass. from an incoming corner to give Pedro with the ball into the box, skipped past Xavi then slotted it into the net from a Caxinia’s men a deserved share of the the keeper and guided the ball home to tight angle to make it two all in the 35th spoils. make it 2-0. minute. Meanwhile, Al Rayyan recorded Just a minute later Al Sadd got a goal Towards the end of the fi rst half, Ab- only their second victory this season, of their own to mount their spectacu- delkarim Hassan scored a spectacular bouncing back from an early defi cit to lar comeback. goal to give the Wolves the lead. The beat Al Kharaitiyat 3-1. Summer signing Jugurtha Hamroun young Qatari international nutmeged Defending champs Al Rayyan have reduced the lead, heading the ball into Al Gharafa’s Mustafa Abdulla before made a lacklustre start to the tourna- the goal after it had rebounded off the sending a powerful shot into the far ment, having drawn three of their fi ve cross bar following a thundering Ali corner to give Al Sadd the lead going games, but yesterday’s win helped Asad shot. into half time. them leapfrog Al Shahania into fourth Al Sadd’s captain fantastic Xavi also Credit goes to Al Gharafa as they place. Lekhwiya top the table on goal found the net in this game as he lev- pushed hard for an equaliser and the diff erence, while El Jaish are second elled the score line with his well taken Cheetahs found their mark with three and Al Sadd third. Gulf Times 2 Sunday, October 30, 2016 FOOTBALL LA LIGA LIGUE 1 Cavani thunder strike blasts PSG past Lille Ronaldo hat-trick AFP none more so than when You- Paris nousse Sankhare missed from point blank range on 82 minutes when the ball came to him from thunderous second- an Eder cross right on the goal- half strike from Edin- line. PSG captain Thiago Silva son Cavani gave Paris was forced into a panicked over- A Saint Germain a 1-0 head clearance from his own six extends Real lead win over Lille on Friday as the yard box shortly afterwards. French champions were made to Yesterday, 10-man Lyon sur- ‘We are always going to demand goals from Cristiano, but he was good in all fi ght all night. vived a late onslaught to earn The result sees Unai Em- a 2-1 away win at high-fl ying aspects. We knew how to suff er because the first half and the start of the second ery’s PSG climb to second on Toulouse with Alexandre Laca- 23 points behind Ligue 1 leaders zette scoring both goals. It was weren’t comfortable or easy. But playing like this... we know what we can do’ Nice who have 26 ahead of host- just Lyon’s fi fth win in 11 league ing Nantes today. Third placed outings this season, after coach Monaco, on 22 points, travel to Brunio Genesio was handed an AFP St Etienne yesterday. ultimatum last week by club Madrid It was a real moment of magic owner Jean-Michel Aulas to from 29-year-old Cavani as the notch up 31 points before the Uruguayan controlled Angel winter break or face the chop. ristiano Ronaldo returned to di Maria’s pass with his chest, Last year’s runners-up now goalscoring form with his fi rst swivelled and unleashed an have 16 points with eight games hat-trick of the season and also unstoppable shot for his 10th still to come before Christmas. missed a penalty as Real Madrid league goal of the campaign on Lyon star striker Lacazette Cextended their lead at the top of La Liga 64 minutes. opened the scoring with a nerv- with a 4-1 win at Alaves yesterday. The fi rst half was marked ously struck spot-kick on 15 Ronaldo’s wayward form in recent by a duel between di Maria and minutes against the run of play. weeks had come under the spotlight — he Lille’s Nigerian international Toulouse’s central defender was booed by Real fans after missing one goalkeeper Victor Enyeama, Christopher Jullien then pro- chance recently — but he turned the game who saved twice from close duced a towering header, rising around after Deyverson had put Alaves range. The Argentine also had a above the Lyon back four to meet into a shock early lead.