The Island, Monday 20th February, 2006 Sensational Ali stars in Pakistan’s thrilling win By Rex Clementine A sensational spell off seam bowling by SCOREBOARD right-arm fast bowler Anwer Ali helped Pakistan: India: Pakistan to pull of a memorable 38 run win Nasir Jamshed c Ahmed b Jadeja 18 Gaurav Dhiman b Jamshed 0 over arch-rivals India in the final of the ICC Ali Khan c Shah b Yomahesh 10 Cheteshwar Pujara lbw b Ali 0 Under-19 Cricket World Cup at the R. Mohammad Ibrahim lbw b Jadeja 0 Rohit Sharma b Ali 4 Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. Rameez Raja lbw b Sharma 25 Ravikant Shukla b Jamshed 1 Defending a meager total of 109 the Ali Asad b Chawla 2 Mayank Tehlan b Ali 0 Riaz Kail b Chawla 0 Pakistanis came up with a spirited display as Debabrata Das c and b Ali 0 Sarfraz Ahmed st Shah b Parmar 15 Ali and fellow seamers Jamshed Ahmed and Ravi Jadeja c Jamshed b Ali 6 Akthar Ayub helped the defending champi- Anwar Ali c Pujara b Jadeja 17 Imad Wasim st Shah b Chawla 1 Piyush Chawla not out 25 ons to bowl out India for 71 in 18.5 overs. Pinal Shah c Sarfraz b Ayub 16 Pakistan got rid of India’s top six batsmen Jamshed Ahmed not out 1 Akhtar Ayub b Chawla 1 Vijaykumar Yomahesh lbw b Ayub 3 with just nine runs on the board in 3.2 overs Extras (b3, lb4, nb5, w7) 19 Bipinbhai Parmar b Ayub 0 and at that staged it looked as if the Indians Total (overs 41.1) 109 Extras (b1, lb2, nb7, w6) 16 will be bowled out for the lowest score in a Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-25, 3-39, 4-49, 5-49, 6-78, Total (overs: 18.5) 71 World Cup game which is 27 by Scotland 7-93, 8-103, 9-103. Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-5, 3-8, 4-8, 5-8, 6-9, 7- against Australia. Bowling: Vijaykumar Yomahesh 8-0-32-1, 23, 8-62, 9-71. A mere day after he was released from prison on a Presidential order, UNP heavyweight and former Sports Minister, S.B. While Ali’s first two overs brought him four Gaurav Dhiman 1-0-5-0, Abu Ahmed 6-1-15-0, Bowling: Jamshed Ahmed 7-2-24-2, Anwar Dissanayake was “gifted” the top seat at the Track Masters Sports Club by his close aides. Here the former Sports Minister is wickets Ahmed struck twice in successive Ravi Jadeja 8-1-16-3, Piyush Chawla 8.1-3-8-4, Ali 9-0-35-5, Ahtar Ayub 2.5-0-9-3. seen with a hosts of athletes soon after his appointment to the top seat. Pic by Nihal Chandrakumara overs. Rohit Sharma 6-0-17-1, Bipinbhai Parmar 4-1-9-1. After danger man Gaurav Dhiman dragged the first ball of the innings by Ahmed the Match. Ali’s effort is also the best bowling they were bowled out for 109 in 41.1 overs. onto his stumps Ali struck thrice in the next performance in a World Cup final. The spin quartet of Ravindra Jadeda, Piyush over first by trapping opener Cheteshwar While Ahmed finished with two for 24 in Chawla, Rohit Sharma and Mohnish Parma Ton-up Yuvraj, Dhoni power India to Pujara for a duck in his first delivery and then seven overs right-arm-paceman Akthar Ayub shared nine wickets among them. by going through the defense of Rohit picked up the last three wickets to fall. Leg spinner Chawla in particular was Sharma and Mayank Tehlan with perfect in Pakistan only utilized three bowlers in the impressive as he claimed four for eight runs. another win over Pakistan swingers. win. Left arm leg spinner Ravindra Jadeja who KARACHI, AFP - Yuvraj Singh showed their professional- He ended with five for 35 bowling nine Earlier after winning the toss Pakistan came onto bowl as early as in the fifth over of and Mahendra Dhoni powered ism today and restricted SCOREBOARD overs at a stretch and was named the Man of collapsed sensationally against spin when the Pakistan innings claimed three for 16. India to another comfortable them to 286 and its a good Pakistan eight-wicket win over Pakistan in result for us. Kamran Akmal c Singh b Sreesanth 25 the fifth and final one-day inter- “We were confident Imran Farhat c and b Sreesanth 24 national here on Sunday to clinch that our batting was click- Shoaib Malik c Raina b Sreesanth 12 the series 4-1. ing and we could chase,” Mohammad Yousuf c Zaheer b Agarkar 67 Yuvraj hit an unbeaten 107 Dravid said. “The goal was Inzamam-ul Haq lbw b Powar 21 while Dhoni smashed a 46-ball 77 to win the series 4-1 and we Younis Khan not out 74 not out to help the tourists to are learning constantly Abdul Razzaq c Dravid b Singh 24 their fourth successive win. They about the way we are chas- Yasir Arafat b Zaheer 10 Mohammad Sami c Kaif b Sreesanth 2 successfully chased the 287-run ing targets and I think the Rao Iftikhar not out 6 target with 3.1 overs to spare. confidence was the key.” Extras: (lb5, nb2, w14) 21 Pakistan, beat India in the Pakistan captain Total: (for eight wickets) 286 preceding three-Test series 1-0 Inzamam-ul Haq said the Fall of wickets: 1-62, 2-71, 3-77, 4-115, 5-210, 6-239, 7- and won the first match at series had been demand- 261, 8-264. Peshawar by seven runs. ing. Bowling: Zaheer 10-0-64-1, Agarkar 10-1-60-1, Yuvraj, 24, added 72 runs for “It was a tough series Sreesanth 10-1-58-4, Singh 10-1-50-1, Powar 10-0-49-1 the second wicket with skipper for us. We were outclassed Overs: 50 Rahul Dravid (50) after India lost by India. We now need to Gautum Gambhir (38) to Rao learn from our mistakes India Iftikhar in the 15th over. quickly,” Inzamam said. G. Gambhir c Akmal b Iftikhar 38 R. Dravid c Malik b Sami 50 Dravid fell in the 31st over Pakistan’s total was Y. Singh not out 107 which allowed Dhoni to once built around Younis M. Dhoni not out 77 again demolish the hapless Khan’s unbeaten knock of Extras: (lb8, w7) 15 Pakistan attack during a breezy 74 and a fighting 67 by Total: (for two wickets) 287 146-run stand with Yuvraj which Mohammad Yousuf who Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-141. came off just 99 balls. shared a fifth wicket stand Bowling: Sami 8.5-0-65-1, Asif 9-0-48-0, Iftikhar 10-0-44- Yuvraj, who finished the of 95 after Dravid won his 1, Arafat 8-0-51-0, Malik 3-0-22-0, Razzaq 8-0-49-0 series as the top run-getter from third consecutive toss and Overs: 46.5 both sides with 344 runs in five put Pakistan in. Result: India won by eight wickets, take five-match series matches, hit 15 boundaries during Paceman Sri 4-1 his 93-ball knock and Dhoni con- Sreesanth, who finished tinued his liking for Pakistan with a career-best 4-58, removed spinning allrounder Ramesh attack, hitting four sixes and six the home team’s top order by dis- Powar trapped Inzamam in front fours. missing Imran Farhat (24), of the wicket for 21 to dampen Dhoni hit paceman Kamran Akmal (25) and Shoaib Pakistan’s hopes of a big total. Mohammad Sami for two tower- Malik (12) in his first five-over Yousuf and Younis then took ing sixes and then took a single to spell. Pakistan past the 200-mark before complete the win. The 24-year-old fast bowler Yousuf flicked paceman Ajit India rested their star bats- derailed Pakistan who got off to a Agarkar straight to deep fine-leg man Sachin Tendulkar and pace solid start of 62 by the 11th over after hitting six boundaries dur- spearhead Irfan Pathan. before losing three wickets in the ing his 85-ball knock. Dravid praised his team for space of just 15 runs. Abdul Razzaq hit a rapid 15- not letting up in the dead match. Mohammad Yousuf added 38 ball 24 with two boundaries and a “We had won the series before runs with skipper Inzamam-ul six as Pakistan managed 76 runs today’s match, but the boys Haq for the fifth wicket before off- in the last 10 overs. Inzi remains Isinbayeva misses out on new record captain despite BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb Edwards, who had served a one- 18, 2006 (AFP) - Olympic cham- and-a-half year ban for doping. India defeat pion Yelena Isinbayeva failed to The 2003 100m world champi- set a 20th world pole vault record ons finished fourth in the 60 KARACHI, Feb 19, 2006 (AFP) - at the Indoor Grand Prix meeting metres sprint behind Inzamam-ul Haq has been retained as here Saturday. Frenchwoman Christine Arron. Pakistan captain until the end of this year The Russian was looking to Isinbayeva’s day was typical of despite his team’s one-day series defeat better the mark of 4.91 metres a meeting which, for the first time against arch-rivals India, Pakistan Cricket which she set last Sunday in in six years, failed to produce a Board (PCB) announced Sunday.