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Al-Attiyah edges closer to second Dakar Rally title
Buenos Aires: Nasser Al-Attiyah stretched his overall lead by winning the 10th stage of the Dakar Rally.
The 44-year-old Wednesday won the 859km leg from Calama in Chile to the northern Argentine city of Salta in three hours and 49.59 minutes, as per reports.
His Mini colleague Orlando Terranova finished second, a minute and 35 seconds further back, while Yazeed Al-Rajhi was third.
It was Al-Attiyah’s fourth stage victory of the event and he is now a firm favourite to win the title for a second time.
The Qatari driver leads South African Giniel de Villiers in the overall standings by more than 28 minutes.
In Thursday’s 11th stage drivers will travel 520km south from Salta to Termas de Rio Hondo.
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.