SPORTS DIGEST
BASKETBALL
NBA: Miami Heat 97 Milwaukee Bucks 79, Minnesota Timberwolves 120 Portland Trail Blazers 103, New York Knicks 118 New Orleans Pelicans 123 (After Overtime), Phoenix Suns 97 Indiana Pacers 120.
CRICKET
2nd Test (Centurion) South Africa 335 (A K Markram 94, H M Amla 82, F du Plessis 63, R Ashwin 4-113) & 90-2 (A B de Villiers 50 no) v India 307 (V Kohli 153, M Morkel 4-60). TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT (Mirpur) Zimbabwe 170 (Sikandar Raza 52) v Bangladesh 171-2 (Tamim Iqbal 84no). Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 8 wkts.
GOLF
OFFICIAL WORLD RANKINGS: 1 Dustin Johnson (USA) 11.23pts, 2 Jordan Spieth (USA) 8.93, 3 Jon Rahm (Spa) 8.69, 4 Justin Thomas (USA) 8.27, 5 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn) 7.74, 6 Justin Rose (Eng) 7.67, 7 Rickie Fowler (USA) 6.86, 8 Brooks Koepka (USA) 6.19, 9 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 5.65, 10 Sergio Garcia (Spa) 5.46, 11 Rory Mcilroy (Nirl) 5.35, 12 Marc Leishman (Aus) 5.19, 13 Jason Day (Aus) 4.89, 14 Paul Casey (Eng) 4.71, 15 Matt Kuchar (USA) 4.57, 16 Pat Perez (USA) 4.52, 17 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng) 4.49, 18 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) 4.43, 19 Alex Noren (Swe) 4.33, 20 Brian Harman (USA) 3.88, 21 Rafael Cabrera-bello (Spa) 3.85, 22 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 3.72, 23 Charley Hoffman (USA) 3.67, 24 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 3.59, 25 Patrick Reed (USA) 3.57. WOMEN’S WORLD RANKINGS: 1 Shanshan Feng (Chn) 7.72pts ave, 2 Sung Hyun Park (Kor) 7.54, 3 So Yeon Ryu (Kor) 7.30, 4 Lexi Thompson (USA) 7.02, 5 In Gee Chun (Kor) 6.02, 6 In Kyung Kim (Kor) 6.00, 7 Anna Nordqvist (Swe) 5.97, 8 Ariya Jutanugarn (Tha) 5.94, 9 Cristie Kerr (USA) 5.19, 10 Lydia Ko (Nzl) 5.13, 11 Hye Jin Choi (Kor) 4.54, 12 Sei Young Kim (Kor) 4.45, 13 Inbee Park (Kor) 4.42, 14 Brooke M. Henderson (Can) 4.28, 15 Amy Yang (Kor) 4.07, 16 Stacy Lewis (USA) 3.76, 17 Mirim Lee (Kor) 3.62, 18 Jin Young Ko (Kor) 3.55, 19 Minjee Lee (Aus) 3.47, 20 Carlota Ciganda (Spa) 3.40, 21 Danielle Kang (USA) 3.40, 22 Moriya Jutanugarn (Tha) 3.37, 23 Jeongeun Lee (Kor) 3.22, 24 Mi Jung Hur (Kor) 3.11, 25 Jiyai Shin (Kor) 3.08.
GRIDIRON
The Minnesota Vikings booked a place in the NFC Championship game with a 29-24 victory over the New Orleans Saints. They did it in stunning style as Stefon Diggs made a 61-yard run to touchdown, from Case Keenum’s throw, with the last play of the game. A much easier evening had looked on the cards as the Vikings had led by 17 points in the third quarter before an impressive comeback by the Saints, who led by a point with 10 seconds left on the clock. But Diggs’ memorable last-gasp touchdown gave Vikings the victory and set up a meeting with the Philadelphia Eagles. NFC DIVISIONAL PLAY-OFFS: Minnesota Vikings 29 New Orleans Saints 24.
ICE HOCKEY
Phil Kessel reached a career milestone as the Pittsburgh Penguins added to the New York Rangers’ woes with a 5-2 drubbing. The Penguins’ fourth-straight victory saw Kessel reach 700 NHL career points after a NHL career first for Dominick Simon, while Sidney Crosby, Patric Hornqvist and Carl Hagelin made sure the visitors were left well behind.michael Grabner and Brendan Smith were on target for New York, managing to put them 2-1 up in the first, although the advantage was short-lived. Two for Dougie Hamilton helped the Calgary Flames to 4-1 over the Carolina Hurricanes – their seventh-straight win. Goaltender Petr Mrazek made 27 saves to shut out the Chicago Blackhawks and help the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-0 victory. Anthony Mantha, Tyler Bertuzzi, Dylan Larkin and Mike Green netted for Detroit on a disappointing night for Chicago. Elsewhere, the Vancouver Canucks edged out Minnesota Wild 3-2 in overtime thanks to Brandon Stutter’s winner 2.50 into the extra period. NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE: Carolina Hurricanes 1 Calgary Flames 4, Chicago Blackhawks 0 Detroit Red Wings 4, Minnesota Wild 2 Vancouver Canucks 3 (OT), Pittsburgh Penguins 5 New York Rangers2
TENNIS
ATP RANKINGS: 1 Rafael Nadal (Spa) 10600pts, 2 Roger Federer (Swi) 9605.00pts, 3 Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) 4990pts, 5 Dominic Thiem (Aut) 4060pts, 6 Marin Cilic (Cro) 3805pts, 7 David Goffin (Bel) 3775pts, 8 Stan Wawrinka (Swi) 3060pts, 9 Jack Sock (USA) 2960pts, 10 Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) 2725pts, 11 Pablo Carreno-busta (Spa) 2615pts, 12 Kevin Anderson (Rsa) 2610pts, 13 Sam Querrey (USA) 2535pts, 14 Novak Djokovic (Ser) 2335.00 pts, 15 Jo-wilfried Tsonga (Fra) 2320pts, 16 John Isner (USA) 2265pts, 17 Nick Kyrgios (Aus) 2260pts, 18 Lucas Pouille (Fra) 2235pts, 19 Andy Murray (Gbr) 2140pts, 20 Tomas Berdych (Cze) 2050pts, 21 Roberto Bautista Agut (Spa) 2015pts, 22 Albert Ramos-vinolas (Spa) 1845pts, 23 Milos Raonic (Can) 1750pts, 24 Kei Nishikori (Jpn) 1735pts, 25 Fabio Fognini (Ita) 1715pts, 26 Diego Sebastian Schwartzman (Arg) 1675pts, 27 Adrian Mannarino (Fra) 1625pts, 28 Gilles Muller (Lux) 1490pts, 29 Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) 1415pts, 30 Damir Dzumhur (Bih) 1391pts, 31 Richard Gasquet (Fra) 1375pts, 32 Andrey Rublev (Rus) 1373pts, 33 David Ferrer (Spa) 1360pts, 34 Martin Cuevas (Uru) 1345pts, 35 Alexander Zverev (Ger) 1302pts, 36 Filip Krajinovic (Ser) 1298pts, 37 Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) 1296pts, 38 Feliciano Lopez (Spa) 1295pts, 39 Gael Monfils (Fra) 1265pts, 40 Fernando Verdasco (Spa) 1225pts, 41 Yuichi Sugita (Jpn) 1200pts, 42 Benoit Paire (Fra) 1190pts, 43 Robin Haase (Ned) 1175pts, 44 Paolo Lorenzi (Ita) 1120pts, 45 Ryan Harrison (USA) 1115pts, 46 Borna Coric (Cro) 1036pts, 47 Karen Khachanov (Rus) 1030.00 pts, 48 Steve Johnson (USA) 1010pts, 49 Kyle Edmund (Gbr) 992pts, 50 Denis Shapovalov (Can) 986pts.