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June 2023. A source at Renault told the BBC : “We understand that discussions have stopped.” Arafat leaves Australia in a spin SPINNER Arafat Minhas became the first Pakistan bowler to take five wickets on his ODI debut yesterday as the hosts eased to a five-wicket win over Australia in the series opener in Rawalpindi. Arafat finished with 5-32 as an under-strength Australia were bowled out for 200 in 44.1 overs before Pakistan chased down the target with 45 balls to spare for a memorable win in their 1,000th ODI. Babar Azam struck 69 off 94 balls and Ghazi Ghori made an impressive 65 as Australia’s inexperienced spinners failed to match their Pakistani counterparts on a dry pitch assisting

the slow bowlers. Babar and Ghazi added 127 runs for the third wicket after the departures of Sahibzada Farhan (28) and Maaz Sadaqat (8) left Pakistan 49 2. Babar hit four fours and a six, while Ghazi’s knock featured eight boundaries. Both eventually fell to paceman Nathan Ellis with victory in sight. Arafat, who smashed a six to complete the win, said he was delighted with his starring role on debut. “It’s great to have achieved a record,” said Arafat. “I like to enjoy that pressure environment, and my focus was on enjoying this opportunity and it’s great to have contributed to the victory.” Australia’s stand-in skipper Josh Inglis rued a lack of runs. “I think 30-40 more runs would have been interesting,” said Inglis. “I thought we made them work really hard to get over the line.”

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MERCEDES have withdrawn from talks to buy a minority shareholding in the Alpine Formula One team because they felt it was overpriced, the BBC reported yesterday. The German car company and its F1 team boss Toto Wolff had agreed in principle with Alpine owners Renault to buy the 24% stake in their team that is owned by investment group Otro Capital. But the BBC , citing “insiders”, said Otro wanted a price Mercedes thought above market value, prompt ing the deal to collapse. The BBC reported Otro wanted US$720 million (RM2.9b) for its share holding, a figure that values the team at US$3 billion (RM12b). Otro paid €200 million (RM920m) for its stake in

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M ERCEDES are investigating what caused the “heat damage” done to the battery which ended George Russell’s hopes of winning the Canadian Grand Prix the previous week end. It could also have significant repercussions for the Brit in the title race as he finds himself trailing teammate Kimi Antonelli by 43 points after just five rounds of the season. The two Mercedes racers were emboroiled in a tense, thrilling battle for the lead for almost the whole of the first half of the Montreal race. But the duel came to an abrupt end when Russell pulled over while leading, having suf fered an engine failure. Antonelli went on to win the race unchallenged. Mercedes are still looking into the exact causes of the failure, but team principal Toto Wolff said after the race that it was the battery in Russell’s engine that had cause it to shut down. And technical director James Allison has now offered further insight into the “engine kill”. “It was a big weekend for us. Key because it was the weekend where we introduced our first major upgrade for the year,” he said. “We were looking for it to be strong. It was. But a weekend that was otherwise extremely good was marred by the disappointment we all feel for letting George down with the reli ability of the car. “On George’s power unit failure, it was an engine kill caused by a failure in the battery, which just suffered a catastrophic failure a

third of the way into the race and brought George’s race to an end. “We could see enough at the end of the race that the battery was fairly unhappy, some heat damage there. We’ll have to figure out in the coming days and weeks exactly what caused that and put it right.” Antonelli’s win was his fourth in a row and marked the first time in F1 World Championship history that a driver has taken their first four Grand Prix victories consecu tively. The 43-point lead over Russell that he enjoys as a result is a larger lead than any driver had at any point during the 2025 cam paign, when the biggest gap was the 34 points between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris after the Aussie’s Zandvoort win. And in terms of what each of them can bring on a race weekend, Martin Brundle feels there is “nothing to choose between Russell and Antonelli at the moment”. He said: “Experience and wisdom seems to match unbridled speed and enthusiasm perfectly, and that’s why they keep meeting in the middle of a corner. “They constantly seemed to be side by side especially when either driver ran a touch deep on the brakes into the Turn 10 hairpin. That is until Russell’s Mercedes expired for good with a rare technical failure and he was out. “Russell is now 43 points behind his teen age teammate, that’s equivalent to a first and second place, and he has to believe that what goes around comes around.” – Express Newspapers