The Sunday Guardian

PROBABLES FOR KYRGYZSTAN TIE

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Indian football team coach Stephen Constantin­e announced a list of 35 probables on Saturday in preparatio­n for the forthcomin­g 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against the Kyrgyz Republic. The Indian squad will be camping at the Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai from May 20 to prepare for the match which is slated to be played in Bengaluru on June 13. Kyrgyzstan are currently placed at the 128th spot in the FIFA world rankings, 28 places below India. The probables list includes eight U-22 players, all of whom would go through a rigorous training process to claim their spot in the final squad of 23.

Skipper David Warner led from the front to help Sunrisers Hyderabad cement their place in the Indian Premier League (IPL) play-offs after the visitors comfortabl­y beat Gujarat Lions by eight wickets at the Green Park Stadium here on Saturday.

Warner scored a 52-ball unbeaten 69 and was well compliment­ed by young Vijay Shankar’s 44-ball unbeaten 63 to lift the visiting side to the second spot in the IPL standings, with 17 points from their 14 games.

Chasing a decent 155, Warner held up one end firmly after veteran medium pacer Praveen Kumar took two wickets in the same over to dismiss Shikhar Dhawan (18) and Moises Henriques (4).

Dhawan gave the visitors a rollicking start, smacking three consecutiv­e boundaries off left-

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