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Pakistan destroy Kiwis HAMILTON: Pakistan completed a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first Test over New Zealand inside three days after they had bowled the hosts out for just 110 in their second innings after the tea break. The visitors had been given a victory target of just 19 runs after they established a 92-run first innings lead earlier on Sunday before left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman was again the principle tormenter of New Zealand’s batsmen, taking three wickets for 24 runs and creating enormous pressure. Rehman, who was named man of the match, also combined magnificently with left-arm pace bowler Wahab Riaz, who ended with three for 38, while Umar Gul mopped up the tail to finish three for 28. Mohamam Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar then wrapped up the victory in just 3.4 overs to guide the visitors to 21-0 and a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. The second test begins in Wellington next Saturday. “We didn’t feel we would win today,” captain Misbahul-haq told reporters. “The wicket was a bit flat, a bit slow and it wasn’t easy to get the batsmen out but I think the bowlers did a fantastic job and they won the match today.” New Zealand had gone to tea at 33 for no loss, however they crumbled after the break, losing seven wickets for 35 runs. Tim McIntosh, who was dropped by Taufeeq at first slip off Umar Gul and sur vived two confident lbw appeals before tea, was the first to go when he danced down the wicket to Rehman only to see the ball slide past his outside edge and be stumped by Adnan Akmal for three. Brendon McCullum was next to go, though he could be considered unlucky when he was given out by umpire Rod Tucker for 35 caught by Akmal down the leg side off a Wahab delivery. Television replays, however, showed he had not hit the ball with the deliver y deflecting off his thigh pad. Coincidentally McCullum was given not out in the first innings when replays suggested the ball had brushed his gloves. The umpire review system is not being used in the series. New Zealand then collapsed with Martin Guptill (11), Jesse Ryder (0), Ross Taylor (8) and Kane Williamson (1), all being dismissed for the addition for a total of one run, while captain Daniel Vettori was out lbw for three to
10-wicket win
NEW ZEALAND: Pakistan cricketers celebrate the wicket of New Zealand captian Daniel Vettori during their Test match at Seddon Park in Hamilton.óAP reduce the hosts to 71 for seven. McIntosh was dismissed with the team score on 36. “I think we fought pretty hard this morning to give ourselves a chance to come back into the game,” Vettori said after they had dismissed Pakistan for 367. “I thought the three seam bowlers worked pretty hard
and did a good job throughout the game, particularly Tim Southee. “It was probably his best test match bowling performance I’ve seen from him ... but then to let it all slip with a familiar batting performance in the third innings, it just leaves a really sour taste.” — Reuters
Scoreboard at the end of the first test between Pakistan and New Zealand after the third day at Seddon Park on yesterday: New Zealand first innings (275) Pakistan first innings (overnight 235-4) M. Hafeez c McIntosh b Martin 0 T. Umar c Williamson b Arnel 54 A. Ali c Young b Martin 24 Y. Khan c & b Arnel 23 Misbah-ul-haq lbw b Arnel 62 A. Shafiq lbw b Southee 83 A. Akmal c Ryder b Southee 44 A. Rehman b Arnel 28 U. Gul lbw b Vettori 17 T. Ahmed c Southee b Martin 18 W. Riaz not out 0 Extras: (nb-3 w-1 lb-6 b-4) 14 Total: (all out, 122.1 overs) 367 Fall of wickets: 1-0 2-72 3-104 4-107 5-256 6-256 7332 8-332 9-365 10-367 Bowling: Martin 25.1-7-86-3 (w-1, nb-2), Southee 3210-82-2, Arnel 28-6-95-4, Vettori 29-12-48-1 (nb-1), Williamson 6-0-33-0, Guptill 2-0-13-0. New Zealand second innings T. McIntosh st Akmal b Rehman 3 B. McCullum c Akmal b Wahab 35 M. Guptill c Taufeeq b Rehman 11 R. Taylor run out 8 J. Ryder lbw b Wahab 0 K. Williamson c Hafeez b Wahab 1 R. Young c Azhar b Gul 12 D. Vettori lbw b Rehman 3 T. Southee c sub b Gul 17 B. Arnel not out 7 C. Martin c Misbah b Gul 8 Extras: (nb-5) 5 Total: (all out, 38.3 overs) 110 Fall of wickets: 1-36 2-44 3-60 4-60 5-61 6-61 7-71 890 9-96 10-110 Bowling: Gul 8.3-3-28-3 (nb-1), Tanvir 4-1-20-0 (nb-1), Rehman 15-6-24-3, Wahab 11-1-38-3 (nb-3). Pakistan second innings M. Hafeez not out 9 T. Umar not out 12 Total: (for no wickets, 3.4 overs) 21 Bowling: Martin 2-0-11-0, Southee 1.4-0-10-0. Result: Pakistan won by 10 wickets Man of the match: Abdul Rehman (Pakistan)
India win Twenty20
DURBAN: India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni holds the trophy after winning their Twenty20 cricket match against South Africa at the Moses Mabhida stadium. — AP
DURBAN: Late replacement Morne van Wyk upstaged the millionaires of the Indian Premier League but couldn’t stop India beating South Africa by 21 runs in a one-off Twenty20 international at the Moses Mabhida Stadium yesterday. Van Wyk hit the fastest half-century by a South African in a 20-overs international but when he was out for 67 his team-mates subsided on a low, slow pitch. India, spurred by an innings of 53 off 34 balls by Rohit Sharma, made 168 for six. South Africa, with black icon Makyaha Ntini playing his last international, could only manage 147 for nine. Van Wyk, 31, who played the most recent of his previous six one-day internationals and two T20 internationals three seasons ago, was called up when Test captain Graeme Smith was ruled out by a heel injury. On the weekend of the IPL auction, when the lowestpriced Indian player was signed up for 700,000 dollars and several of his South African teammates attracted substantial bids, Van Wyk was the only South African to master the pitch and the Indian bowlers. Van Wyk went to his half-century off 24 balls. He hit five sixes and five fours before being caught at deep square leg for 67, made off 39 deliveries. Van Wyk and AB de Villiers (14) put on 57 off 29 balls for the third wicket but it was always going to be an uphill struggle after De Villiers was run out by a direct hit from Suresh Raina. “When Morne and AB were going we were ahead of the rate,” said South African captain Johan Botha. “But for guys coming in it was difficult to keep up.” Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that conditions had suited India better than the hosts. “After winning the toss the aim was to put runs on the board. Rohit batted really well. On this wicket it was a very
good total to defend.” The match marked the last international appearance of South African fast bowler Ntini, who got a rousing reception from a crowd of about 47,000 but conceded 46 runs off four overs without taking a wicket. He had the consolation of holding a good catch on the long-on boundary to end
Sharma’s innings. Sharma, fresh from the news that he had been bought for two million dollars by IPL franchise Mumbai Indians, hit five fours and two sixes. Suresh Raina hit 41 off 23 deliveries before being caught off the last ball of the innings going for a big hit. — AFP
SCOREBOARD DURBAN, South Africa: Scores in a one-off Twenty20 international between South Africa and India at the Moses Mabhida Stadium yesterday: India 1 H. Amla b Nehra V. Kohli b Botha 28 C. Ingram c Kumar b Patel 2 14 M. Vijay c Van Wyk b Parnell A. de Villiers run out (Raina) 14 R. Sharma c Ntini b Duminy 53 J. Duminy lbw b Yuvraj 0 Yuvraj Singh run out (Miller) 12 D. Miller lbw b Pathan 10 Y. Pathan b Theron 6 J. Botha c Sharma b Nehra 25 S. Raina c Miller b Theron 41 R. Peterson c Kohli b Pathan 2 M. Dhoni not out 10 W. Parnell c Pathan b Ashwin 14 Extras (lb1, w3) 4 J. Theron not out 1 Total (6 wkts, 20 overs) 168 M. Ntini not out 1 Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Vijay), 2-67 (Kohli), 3-109 (Sharma), Extras (b4, lb3, w3) 10 4-110 (Yuvraj), 5-136 (Pathan), 6-168 (Raina) Total (9 wkts, 20 overs) 147 Bowling: Parnell 4-0-25-1 (w1), Ntini 4-0-46-0, Theron 4- Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Amla), 2-31 (Ingram), 3-88 (De 0-39-2 (w1), Villiers), 4-89 (Duminy), 5-93 (Van Wyk), 6-108 (Miller), 7Peterson 3-0-20-0 (w1), Botha 3-0-25-1, Duminy 2-0-12-1 120 (Peterson), 8-141 (Parnell), Did not bat: R. Ashwin, P. Kumar, A. Nehra, M. Patel. 9-144 (Botha) Bowling: Kumar 3-0-17-1 (w1), Nehra 4-0-22-2, Patel 2-0South Africa 26-1, Ashwin 4-0-33-1 (w2), Yuvraj 4-0-20-1, Pathan 3-0M. van Wyk c Nehra b Kumar 67 22-2
Kuwaiti shooters honored By Abdellatif Sharaa KUWAIT: The new season of Kuwait Shooting Club began with a fitting tournament named after the late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem AlSabah, whose family was on hand to give away the trophies and prizes to the winners. The late Sheikh Ali Al-Sabah’s family made sure that outstanding shooters be honored and awarded Kuwait’s shooters who won medals during the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. The closing ceremony was attended by Deputy Chairman of National Security Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem, President of Kuwait and Asian Shooting Federation and Vice-president of the ISSF Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Sheikh Sabah Bader Sabah Al Salem Al-Sabah, Sheikha Reem Ali Sabah Al-Salem, President of the Arab Shooting Federation and Deputy Chairman of KSSC Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi and KSSC board members.
Vice -president of Myanmar Shooting Federation Htet Nyi and President of Slovania Shooting Federation Igor Rakusa were in attendance. Sheikh Thamer Al-Sabah thanked Sheikh Salman and Engineer Duaij and the rest of the shooting community for their efforts. He hoped that this event will continue forever, and shooting is a noble sport. He said shooting has made new strides and deserved to be recognized as they are winning medals, and hoped this support continues to bring out a new generation of shooters to continue winning and keep Kuwait in the advanced places they already reached. “We also call upon the juniors who we just saw, who achieved record scores at the club level, and hope to honor them in future tournaments”. Meanwhile, Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah said “We are honored every year by organizing the
tournament of the late Sheikh Ali Sabah AlSalem, and this event has an important significance in preparing the shooting teams for the 2011 tournaments abroad which decides who will go to the London 2012 Olympic. “I thank the family of the late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem for their appreciation of the shooting achievements as evident in honoring the shooters who won gold and silver medals in Guangzhou, China”. Sheikh Salman said “You noticed the new shooters both male and female at the junior level, and they are very promising and will compete at the international level”. He thanked all those who worked and exerted their efforts at the shooting school, which brought out such an outstanding shooters. The tournament witnessed strong and heated competition as evident by many scores that had to be settled by shoot offs to decide the winners and placing.
Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem hands Zaid Al-Mutairi his first place trophy
Results of the tournament are as follows
Sheikha Reem Ali Sabah Al-Salem hands Mai Irzouki her first place trophy.
Skeet (Men) First: Zaid Dakheel Al-Mutairi 145/150 Second: Abdallah Al-Rashidi 145/150 Third: Salah Al-Mutairi 144/150
Skeet (Women) First: Afrah Abdelrahman 81/100 Second: Sheikhah Al-Rashidi 80/100 Third: Iman Al-Shamma’ 77/100
Air rifle (Women) First: Mariam Irzouqi 500/500 Second: Heba Irzouqi 491.2/500 Third: Ayesha Qasem 488.9/500
Trap (Men) First: Tami Al-Rashidi 138/150 Second: Nasser Al Miqlid 136/150 Third: Abdelrahman Al-Faihan 134/150
Air pistol (Men) First: Zaid Al-Thafiri 648.7/700 Second: Ali Al-Mutairi 642.5/700 Third: Mohammad Al-Ajmi 640.5/700
Archery (Men) First: Ali Al-Jassem 477 Second: Sami Al-Kandary 473 Third: Faleh Al-Askar 471
Double Tra (Men) First: Mishfi Al-Mutairi 186+2/200 Second: Hamad Al-Afasi 186+1/200 Third: Fuhaid Al-Daihani 18/200
Air rifle (Men) First: Khalid Al-Subaie 689.0/700 Second: Abdallah Al-Harbi 682.7/700 Third: Brislav Mazinjanin 681.6700
Archery (Women) First: Sanaa Al-Khudari 243 Second: Maali Al-Failakawi 130 Third: Noor Hassan 128
Trap (Women) First: Shahad Al-Hawl 84/100 Second: Sarah Al-Hawal 79/100 Third: Rasha Al-Fares 76/100
Air pistol (Women) First: Mai Irzouki 463.4/500 Second: Iman Boland 455.9/500 Third: Awatif Al-Qallaf 449.4/500