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Italy ‘miracolo’ make cricket World Cup debut ITALY have won the football World Cup four times, but when it comes to cricket they are minnows making a historic debut among the game’s elite. The Italians play Scotland in the T20 World Cup at Kolkata’s famous Eden Gardens tomorrow (1.30pm Malaysian time) and will be the lowest-ranked team in the competition. once for appearance,” he said. “Passion and the Italian way of doing things make us the miracle that we are.” Italy beat Scotland in the qualifiers and facing them again tomorrow would be a “huge honour”, said skip per Wayne Madsen.

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sion of India’s top-order batters returning to the pavilion after a spectacular melt down of the world’s top-ranked T20 team. Opener Abhishek Sharma, the world’s No. 1 T20 batter, fell for a first-ball duck and in the final Powerplay over van Schalkwyk claimed three wickets in five deliveries to leave India reeling on 46-4. Ishan Kishan (20) and Tilak Varma (25) could not convert their starts while Shivam Dube departed for a golden duck in that over from van Schalkwyk. Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel also perished trying to swing their way out of trouble. But Suryakumar responded to the cri sis with a captain’s knock as he raced to a 36-ball fifty before plundering 21 runs from the final over bowled by Saurabh Netravalkar. Mohammed Siraj (3-29) vindicated his inclusion in the side with an early two wicket burst, while Arshdeep Singh also tasted success as they reduced the US to 31-3 in the Powerplay overs. Sanjay Krishnamurthi (37) and Milind Kumar (34) defied India with a 58-run stand but once the partnership ended, India were firmly in charge. “I thought our bowlers did a good job,” the US captain Patel said. “We dropped catches and that cost us. At one stage, felt we could restrict them for 130.” – Reuters Maggio said. Madsen will complete an unusual World Cup double tomorrow – playing in two different sports for two separate countries. He played at the field hockey World Cup for his native South Africa, but holds an Italian passport now through his ancestry. Former South Africa T20 interna tional JJ Smuts, who is now Italian through marriage, is also in the squad. “A lot of our players have deep Italian roots and others have found their connection to Italy through life and opportunity,” Madsen said. “What matters most isn’t where you were born, but how much it means to you to wear this badge.” – AFP last six holes to fire a bogey-free 65 and shared second with Hisatsune, American Maverick McNealy, who shot 65, and South Korean Kim Si-woo, who shot 66. “How special to play with Hideki,” Hisatsune said. “It’s still a really good oppor tunity for me.” World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, chasing a third Phoenix win, fired a 67 to stand on 205 after starting seven adrift. “I felt like I was really close to doing some thing special,” Scheffler said. “I’ve put myself behind the eight-ball but that doesn’t mean I’m out of the tournament necessarily.” Scheffler, who won the 2022 Phoenix Open despite trailing by nine after 36 holes, birdied the eighth, holed out from a green side bunker from 49 feet for birdie at the 10th and made a 16-foot birdie putt at 11. The four-time major winner made bogey at the 12th but answered with birdies at the 13th and 15th. “Overall two solid days,” Scheffler said. “Would have liked to have made a few more birdies coming in but I did what I could.” – AFP

“Captaining Italy is not something I take lightly,” the South Africa-born Madsen, 42, who has played English county cricket, told AFP . Italy are in Group C and also face England, the West Indies and Nepal. Players and fans in Italian cricket come from around the world. “We have Italians from Australia, Italians from South Africa, the Asian Italian community, Italians from Italy,”

“How did we get to the World Cup? In Italy we say ‘miracolo Italiano’, an ‘Italian miracle’,” said Riccardo Maggio, development officer with the Italian Cricket Federation. Maggio has spent a lifetime help ing cricket grow on the fringes of the football-obsessed nation. “We’re coming to the World Cup, and believe me, we’re not coming just

Suryakumar leads charge

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… as India down US in T20 World Cup I NDIA CAPTAIN Suryakumar Yadav (pic) led by example as the tournament co-hosts began their Twenty20 World Cup title defence with a scratchy 29-run victory over the United States in a group A contest yester day. India recovered from 77-6

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to post a decent 161-9 with Suryakumar hitting a scintillat ing 84 not out off 49 balls includ ing four sixes. The US managed 132-8 in reply, putting up a decent fight but never really coming close to chasing down the target. “Only I can tell how much pressure I was feeling,” player of the match Suryakumar said. “But I had the belief. I knew if I bat till the end, I can make a difference.” “It was a little different wicket. But … we cannot brush everything under the carpet. We need to bat much better.” Earlier, the predomi nantly Indian fans at the Wankhede Stadium probably expected sixes and fours to rain down after US captain Monank Patel elected to field. Instead, it was a long proces

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HIDEKI MATSUYAMA, the 2021 Masters champion, fired a three-under par 68 to seize a one-stroke lead after yesterday’s third round of the PGA Phoenix Open. The 33-year-old Japanese star, who won the Phoenix title in 2016 and 2017, made five birdies and two bogeys to stand on 13 under 200 after 54 holes at TPC Scottsdale. “It was a great day,” Matsuyama said through a translator. “I hope tomorrow just to play well and stay on top. “Having won here twice, it does help, but it’s a brand new tournament and there are a lot of guys there at the top that will be bat tling, so I just need to play well.” Halfway leader Ryo Hisatsune, 10 years Matsuyama’s junior and seeking a first PGA triumph, played alongside his idol and nearly shared the lead with his countryman, but missed a par putt at 18 from just beyond five feet for a bogey to stumble into a share of second on 201. “Kind of a first today for Japan to have two Japanese pros play in a final group,” Matsuyama said. “I was hoping we could do it tomorrow.” Dane Nicolai Hojgaard birdied five of the