Sport Wrap

26 November 2009 - 08:58

John Walland's morning sport wrap.

CRICKET

Test matches

1st Test: New Zealand v Pakistan
Pakistan trail by 123 runs with 2 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.

New Zealand 429; Pakistan 306/8
1st Test: Australia v West Indies at Brisbane, Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

Australia 285/4

2nd Test: India v Sri Lanka

Lunch - Sri Lanka trail by 504 runs with 5 wickets remaining in the 1st innings, India 642; Sri Lanka 138/5.
Australia who won the toss were 114 for one at lunch and are now 244-3 on the first day of the first test against the West Indies at the Gabba, Brisbane.

Shane Watson was dismissed without scoring by Jerome Taylor. Simon Katich was dismissed eight runs shy of this century, and Ricky Ponting added 55 runs to the total.
The big news is that Ramnaresh Sarwan was ruled out for the Windies, due to a back injury, while Adrian Barath and Ravi Rampaul are making their test debuts.

Not out batsmen:

Michael Hussey 56
Micheal Clarke 19

Other action:

Pakistan were 237 for five on the third day of the first test against New Zealand in Dunedin after dismissing New Zealand who added just 21 to their overnight score for 429runs shortly after the start of play.

Pakistan trail by 192 runs.

Shane Bond took 3/38 and Chris Martin 2/42.

Mohammad Asif 4/108.

More cricket:

India the upper hand in the second test against Sri Lanka in Kanpur.

India were all out for 642
Rahul Dravid 144

Rangana Herath's took five for 121, as India's last six wickets fell for 29 runs. Sri Lanka in reply are 121-4 and trail by 521 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings on day 3.

SUPERSPORT SERIES MATCHES: START AT 10

Nashua Cape Cobras v Chevrolet Warriors AT Boland Park in Paarl.

Diamond Eagles v Nashua Titans at the OUTsurance Oval in Bloemfontein.

Bizhub Lions v Nashua Dolphins.

FOOTBALL

ABSA PREMIERSHIP

Mamelodi Sundowns put together their best performance of the season beating rivals Orlando Pirates 2-0.

The floodlights went out at Loftus in the 53rd minute as SuperSport United all but ended Kaizer Chiefs' Premiership hopes by beating Amakhosi 2-0 at Loftus with two goals in the space of three minutes.

Other Absa Premiership Results

Maritzburg Utd 1 - 1 Bidvest Wits
Moroka Swallows 1 - 1 Black Aces
AmaZulu 2 - 1 Platinum Stars
Bloem Celtic 1 - 1 Santos
Ajax Cape Town 0 - 0 Free State Stars

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Chelsea has joined Arsenal in the last 16 of the Champions League as group winners, but Manchester United must wait.

The Blues' 1-0 win at Porto ensured top spot.
Sir Alex Ferguson's team, who were already through to the knockout phase, went down 1-0 at Old Trafford against Besiktas (pron: BESH-IK-TASS).

They now must get a result in Germany against Wolfsburg to win Group B.

REVIEW OF ACTION:

GROUP A

Bordeaux 2 - 0 Juventus

Bordeaux secured their place at the top of the group with a 2-0 home win over Italian side Juventus. The Serie A side will play Bayern Munich at home in their final group game and the German side will need to win after moving on to seven points after a 1-0 victory over Maccabi Haifa.

GROUP B

Man Utd 0 - 1 Besiktas

Manchester United has qualified for the knockout stages but, after being beaten 1-0 by Besiktas, they now need a point at Wolfsburg to make sure of top spot in Group B.
But Wolfsburg have their own agenda to work to after being beaten 2-1 at CSKA Mosow, leaving both the teams level on seven points.

CSKA travel to Besiktas in the final group game with the Turkish side needing a comprenhensive win over them to have a chance of overtaking the Russian side and stealing a Europa League place.

GROUP C

AC Milan 1 - 1 Marseille

Real Madrid, AC Milan and Marseille can each still qualify for the next round going into the final round of group games.

Real beat the group's bottom club FC Zurich 1-0 to go top on 10 points.

Cristiano Ronaldo made his first appearance in eight weeks following an ankle injury as a 70th minute substitute.

But AC Milan is on eight points and Marseille on seven after both fought out a 1-1 draw at the San Siro.

GROUP D

Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka scored as his side beat Porto 1-0 to confirm top spot in Group D while their beaten opponents will have to content themselves with the runners-up place.

Both knew they were going through to the knockout phase ahead of the game at Estadio do Dragao and the only thing to be resolved in Group D is who goes into the Europa League.

Apoel Nicosia 1 - 1 Atletico Madrid
CSKA Moscow 2 - 1 Wolfsburg

PSL:

Premier League strugglers Hull City stunned Everton 3-2 to pull away from the relegation zone as Fulham moved into the top 10 with an impressive 3-0 win over Blackburn Rovers.

The pressure is continuing in the buildup to a crucial weekend in the future of Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez.

Having crashed out of the Champions League, the Reds are 7th in the Premier League going into their derby with Everton.

Hull held off an Everton fightback to earn a 3- 2 win which moves them level with their struggling opponents.
Fulham recovered from a dire early spell to beat Blackburn 3-0.

RUGBY

Jean de Villiers sal vandag by die Springbok-span in Dublin aansluit.

De Villiers, wat in September vanjaar by die Ierse rugbyklub, Munster aangesluit het, is deur die Springbokke teruggeroep om Adi Jacobs te vervang.
Jacobs het ’n enkelbesering opgedoen en is daarom uit aanstaande naweek se wedstryd teen Ierland uitgesluit en keer vandag terug na Suid-Afrika.

Die volle Springbok-span wat Saterdag teen Ierland uitdraf, sal na verwagting vanmiddag bekendgemaak word.
If you ply your trade in Ireland seems you can be picked for Boks. CJ Van de Linde, BJ Botha and noe Jean de Villiers, who plays his rugby for Munster s, has been included in the team today to replace the injured Adrian Jacobs.

Jacobs is already on his way home.

De Villiers is the sixth player that has joined the squad since the beginning of the tour.

South Africa's other "Irish" Boks, CJ van der Linde (Leinster) en BJ Botha (Ulster), count as some of these players.

The Blue Bull centre, Wynand Olivier will take his place in the starting line up today, in Jacobs' place, for Saturday's test against Ireland.

De Villiers will find himself on the bench in the test against the Irish. Danie Rossouw appears set to replace Ryan Kankowski at eighthman.

TENNIS

Rafael Nadal became the first player to be knocked out of the ATP World Tour Finals. Five months after limping out of Wimbledon due to aching knees, slumped to a 6-1 7-6 defeat by Russia's Nikolay Davydenko.

Swede Robin Soderling became the first qualifier for the semifinals when he thrashed world number three Novak Djokovic 7-6 6-1 for his second major shock of the tournament.

Andy Murray needs a win today to guarantee his place in the last four as he faces Fernando Verdasco.
A loss wouldn't necessarily end the hopes of the British number one, though it would depend on Roger Federer losing to Juan Martin Del Potro.

Rafael Nadal was knocked out of the tournament last night, losing to Nikolay Davydenko.