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DHAKA, May 10, (AFP): Bangla- desh lifted a ban on disgraced fast bowler Shahadat Hossain Tues- day, allowing him to play domestic matches weeks after he apolo- gised for torturing an 11-year-old girl he employed as a maid. Hossain was banned from all forms of cricket last year by the Bangladesh Cricket Board after he became a subject of investigation for alleged criminal offence, which drew huge media interest. The BCB said Hossain was now free to play domestic cricket includ- ing the lucrative Bangladesh Pre- mier League (BPL) after he made an emotional appeal seeking a re- turn to cricket. “He, however, will not be con- sidered for national team selection until his legal issues are settled,” BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said, adding the ban was lifted on “humanitarian consid- erations”. Hossain, who has denied abus- ing the girl in the past, apologised on April 28 for what he called his “misdeed” and said he had made “a mistake”. “I regret the unwarranted incident I was involved in and apologise to the whole nation,” the cricketer said in an emotional statement. Bangladeshi police charged the 29-year-old pacer and his wife, Nritto Shahadat, with charges of assault and torture last year after the young girl was found crying on a roadside, her eyes bruised and swollen. The couple went into hiding after police raided their house in Sep- tember when the girl complained that they had beaten and tortured her. Television footage showed her frail and thin looking appearance and police said one of her hands had been burnt with a hot cooking paddle. By Iddris Seidu Arab Times Staff KUWAIT CITY, May 10: Americana Food Company (AFC) won the Inter-Com- pany championship trophy, beating Kout Food Group (KFG) by a resounding 18 points gap at 96-78 at the Ha- wally Disabled Sports Club as the PBLK 5th Season in- ter-company basketball con- ferences reached its grand finals Friday afternoon. Jong Simbol poured in 32 points while Richie Javillo netted 17 points, 11 rebounds, two assists and two blocks for Americana, who won eight of their ten matches to get to the semi finals. Fajardo added nine points and 10 rebounds in the Americana win. Simbol scored six of his 32 points in the final 2 minutes as Americana headed for the win. KFG led by 3 in the opening quarter with 9 minutes to go before AFC went on a 16-15 run to roll back the deficit to one point with 4:12 playtime still left. AFC rallied to take the lead on a Javillo double jumper that pushed them four points past KFG on a 6-2 run in the first three min- utes of proceedings. AFC again went on an 8-4 run and led by two in the first quarter, capped off by an alley-hoop play with Simbol passing to Fajardo for an emphatic bucket. Then KFG struggled, missing three consecu- tive shots, and Americana capitalized and pulled to 40-28 at halftime. In the third round, KFG started mak- ing shots again and the Americana squad managed to cuff Rommel Dingson who finished with 14 points for KFG some- what as the defence thwarted most of his moves at the hoop. Simbol made a shot that hit the board and as the ball rebounded in Javillo’s hands, the point guard quickly flipped a pass to Simbol who carefully lobbed it from behind the arc for the three pointer as the clock counted down to 0.02 seconds, to hand Americana the win at 96-78. Meanwhile, Body Building with Mus- ab and Allan Basa spectacularly leading the way, staved off a second runner up game defeat with a pulsating 83-73 victo- ry over Kuwait Steel in the inter-compa- ny group contest. Body Building won the second runner up position beating Kuwait Steel to third runner up. Body Building forward Musab con- tributed a team-high 20 points, along with six assists, as Body Building made the most of home court advantage to lead all the way to the end of the third quarter 68-59. The point guard scored 9 of his points in the third round. Basa added 19 points for Body Building on seven-of-11 shooting while big centre Masangkay contributed 10 points and a game-high 13 rebounds. Kuwait Steel, seeking to win the third placer of the division were narrowly out- shot by 47 percent to 45 from the field with De La Cruz even though finishing with a game high 21, being held to six- of-10 shooting after running into foul trouble. Centre Bacunanag, who missed a three-pointer with five seconds left, fin- ished with 14 points and 10 rebounds in the Steel loss. The awarding of the winners was done as follows: ■ Champion- Americana Food Com- pany (AFC) ■ 1st Runner Up- Kout Food Group (KFG) ■ 2nd Runner Up- Body Building ■ 3rd Runner Up- Kuwait Steel ■ Finals Most Valued Player (MVP)- Jong Simbol (AFC) ■ Season Most Valued Player (MVP)- Richie Javillo (AFC) ■ Mythical-5: Richie Javillo, James Fajardo, Rommel Dingson, Don Don De La Cruz and Jeremiah Masangkay. ■ Best Coach- Noriel A Guanlao (AFC) SPORTS 41 ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016 Simbol sparkles as AFC rout KFG for title Body Building settle for 3rd Champions Americana Food Company Move expected to trigger bid for re-election as chairman of ICC Manohar quits as president of India board NEW DELHI, May 10, (AFP): Shashank Manohar resigned as the president of the Indian cricket board on Tuesday, as the embattled organisation comes under growing pressure from the country’s top court to introduce wide-ranging reforms. Manohar wrote to board secretary An- urag Thakur to announce his resignation “with immediate effect,” in a move expect- ed to trigger his bid for re-election as chair- man of the International Cricket Council. “The BCCI confirms that Mr. Shashank Manohar has resigned from the post of Presi- dent, BCCI,” Thakur said in a statement. “He has also resigned as the BCCI representative on the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Asian Cricket Council. “The BCCI places on record its deep appreciation of the immense contribution to Indian cricket made by Mr. Manohar.” Manohar had only been in his post since October last year, when he re- turned for a second stint as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the wake of the death of Jag- mohan Dalmiya. The 58-year-old lawyer had been widely regarded as a safe pair of hands who could bring some much needed sta- bility to a board whose reputation has been tarnished by several scandals. Manohar had pledged to clean up the board after being unanimously elected as head of what is the most powerful body in world cricket. After becoming BCCI president, Mano- har swiftly moved to topple another of his predecessors, Narayanaswami Srinivasan, from the ICC chairmanship and reverse some of the recent rule changes that had been designed to give greater power to In- dia, England and Australia. Manohar had publicly blamed Sriniva- san for bringing the BCCI into disrepute following a Supreme Court probe that found Srinivasan’s son-in-law guilty of corruption in the Indian Premier League. Indian newspapers have been report- ing for several days that Manohar would resign his post at the BCCI in order to stand for re-election as ICC head. Under reforms that Manohar had him- self supported, it will soon no longer be possible to be chairman of the ICC and head up the national board of one of its member countries. In the wake of the IPL corruption scandal, India’s Supreme Court commis- sioned retired judge Rajendra Mal Lodha to draw up a report on the BCCI’s gov- ernance in a bid to avoid future conflicts of interest. The Lodha Committee recommended that the board introduce term and age limits for its office bearers and a ban on television adverts in between overs dur- ing live broadcasts. Its mega rights deals with Indian broadcasters, including for the IPL, have helped make the BCCI by far the wealthi- est board in world cricket. Many of the game’s smaller Test-play- ing nations have been accused of bending to India’s demands in the ICC, desperate to attract tours by India which can ensure their financial security. BASKETBALL Jack Tagalog of Kout Food Group reversed lay-up Second runners-up Body Building Kuwait Steel Best Coach Americana team Finals MVP Jong Simbol and Season MVP Richie Javillo CRICKET Bangladesh lifts ban on Hossain Jong Simbol attacks the defence of Kout Food Group Jeffrey Salamida finishes strong First runners-up Kout Food Group CRICKET
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DHAKA, May 10, (AFP): Bangla-desh lifted a ban on disgraced fast bowler Shahadat Hossain Tues-day, allowing him to play domestic matches weeks after he apolo-gised for torturing an 11-year-old girl he employed as a maid.
Hossain was banned from all forms of cricket last year by the Bangladesh Cricket Board after he became a subject of investigation for alleged criminal offence, which drew huge media interest.
The BCB said Hossain was now free to play domestic cricket includ-ing the lucrative Bangladesh Pre-mier League (BPL) after he made an emotional appeal seeking a re-turn to cricket.
“He, however, will not be con-
sidered for national team selection until his legal issues are settled,” BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said, adding the ban was lifted on “humanitarian consid-erations”.
Hossain, who has denied abus-ing the girl in the past, apologised on April 28 for what he called his “misdeed” and said he had made “a mistake”.
“I regret the unwarranted incident I was involved in and apologise to the whole nation,” the cricketer said in an emotional statement.
Bangladeshi police charged the 29-year-old pacer and his wife, Nritto Shahadat, with charges of assault and torture last year after the young girl was found crying on a roadside, her eyes bruised and swollen.
The couple went into hiding after police raided their house in Sep-tember when the girl complained that they had beaten and tortured her.
Television footage showed her frail and thin looking appearance and police said one of her hands had been burnt with a hot cooking paddle.
By Iddris SeiduArab Times Staff
KUWAIT CITY, May 10: Americana Food Company (AFC) won the Inter-Com-pany championship trophy, beating Kout Food Group (KFG) by a resounding 18 points gap at 96-78 at the Ha-wally Disabled Sports Club as the PBLK 5th Season in-ter-company basketball con-ferences reached its grand finals Friday afternoon.
Jong Simbol poured in 32 points while Richie Javillo netted 17 points, 11 rebounds, two assists and two blocks for Americana, who won eight of their ten matches to get to the semi finals. Fajardo added nine points and 10 rebounds in the Americana win. Simbol scored six of his 32 points in the final 2 minutes as Americana headed for the win.
KFG led by 3 in the opening quarter with 9 minutes to go before AFC went on a 16-15 run to roll back the deficit to one
point with 4:12 playtime still left. AFC rallied to take the lead on a Javillo double jumper that pushed them four points past KFG on a 6-2 run in the first three min-utes of proceedings.
AFC again went on an 8-4 run and led by two in the first quarter, capped off by an alley-hoop play with Simbol passing to Fajardo for an emphatic bucket. Then KFG struggled, missing three consecu-tive shots, and Americana capitalized and pulled to 40-28 at halftime.
In the third round, KFG started mak-ing shots again and the Americana squad managed to cuff Rommel Dingson who finished with 14 points for KFG some-what as the defence thwarted most of his moves at the hoop.
Simbol made a shot that hit the board and as the ball rebounded in Javillo’s hands, the point guard quickly flipped a pass to Simbol who carefully lobbed it from behind the arc for the three pointer as the clock counted down to 0.02 seconds, to hand Americana the win at 96-78.
Meanwhile, Body Building with Mus-ab and Allan Basa spectacularly leading the way, staved off a second runner up game defeat with a pulsating 83-73 victo-ry over Kuwait Steel in the inter-compa-ny group contest. Body Building won the second runner up position beating Kuwait Steel to third runner up.
Body Building forward Musab con-tributed a team-high 20 points, along
with six assists, as Body Building made the most of home court advantage to lead all the way to the end of the third quarter 68-59. The point guard scored 9 of his points in the third round. Basa added 19 points for Body Building on seven-of-11 shooting while big centre Masangkay contributed 10 points and a game-high 13 rebounds.
Kuwait Steel, seeking to win the third placer of the division were narrowly out-shot by 47 percent to 45 from the field with De La Cruz even though finishing with a game high 21, being held to six-of-10 shooting after running into foul trouble. Centre Bacunanag, who missed a three-pointer with five seconds left, fin-ished with 14 points and 10 rebounds in the Steel loss.
The awarding of the winners was done as follows:
■ Champion- Americana Food Com-pany (AFC)
■ 1st Runner Up- Kout Food Group (KFG)
■ 2nd Runner Up- Body Building■ 3rd Runner Up- Kuwait Steel■ Finals Most Valued Player (MVP)-
Jong Simbol (AFC)■ Season Most Valued Player (MVP)-
Richie Javillo (AFC)■ Mythical-5: Richie Javillo, James
Fajardo, Rommel Dingson, Don Don De La Cruz and Jeremiah Masangkay.
■ Best Coach- Noriel A Guanlao (AFC)
SPORTS 41
ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016
Simbol sparkles as AFC rout KFG for title
Body Building settle for 3rd
Champions Americana Food Company
Move expected to trigger bid for re-election as chairman of ICC
Manohar quits as president of India boardNEW DELHI, May 10, (AFP): Shashank Manohar resigned as the president of the Indian cricket board on Tuesday, as the embattled organisation comes under growing pressure from the country’s top court to introduce wide-ranging reforms.
Manohar wrote to board secretary An-urag Thakur to announce his resignation “with immediate effect,” in a move expect-ed to trigger his bid for re-election as chair-man of the International Cricket Council.
“The BCCI confirms that Mr. Shashank Manohar has resigned from the post of Presi-dent, BCCI,” Thakur said in a statement. “He has also resigned as the BCCI representative on the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Asian Cricket Council.
“The BCCI places on record its deep appreciation of the immense contribution to Indian cricket made by Mr. Manohar.”
Manohar had only been in his post since October last year, when he re-turned for a second stint as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the wake of the death of Jag-mohan Dalmiya.
The 58-year-old lawyer had been
widely regarded as a safe pair of hands who could bring some much needed sta-bility to a board whose reputation has been tarnished by several scandals.
Manohar had pledged to clean up the board after being unanimously elected as head of what is the most powerful body in world cricket.
After becoming BCCI president, Mano-
har swiftly moved to topple another of his predecessors, Narayanaswami Srinivasan, from the ICC chairmanship and reverse some of the recent rule changes that had been designed to give greater power to In-dia, England and Australia.
Manohar had publicly blamed Sriniva-san for bringing the BCCI into disrepute following a Supreme Court probe that found Srinivasan’s son-in-law guilty of corruption in the Indian Premier League.
Indian newspapers have been report-ing for several days that Manohar would resign his post at the BCCI in order to stand for re-election as ICC head.
Under reforms that Manohar had him-self supported, it will soon no longer be possible to be chairman of the ICC and head up the national board of one of its member countries.
In the wake of the IPL corruption scandal, India’s Supreme Court commis-sioned retired judge Rajendra Mal Lodha to draw up a report on the BCCI’s gov-ernance in a bid to avoid future conflicts of interest.
The Lodha Committee recommended that the board introduce term and age limits for its office bearers and a ban on television adverts in between overs dur-ing live broadcasts.
Its mega rights deals with Indian broadcasters, including for the IPL, have helped make the BCCI by far the wealthi-est board in world cricket.
Many of the game’s smaller Test-play-ing nations have been accused of bending to India’s demands in the ICC, desperate to attract tours by India which can ensure their financial security.
BASKETBALL
Jack Tagalog of Kout Food Groupreversed lay-up
Second runners-up Body Building
Kuwait Steel
Best Coach Americana team
Finals MVP Jong Simbol and Season MVP Richie Javillo
CRICKET
Bangladesh liftsban on Hossain
Jong Simbol attacks the defence ofKout Food Group
Jeffrey Salamida finishes strong
First runners-up Kout Food Group
CRICKET
