SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2015 SPORTS

HOBART: Australia’s James Pattinson, center, celebrates with teammates after dismissing West Indies’ Jermaine Blackwood during their test match in Hobart, Australia, yesterday. — AP Australia thrash Windies by and 121 runs

HOBART: Paceman James Pattinson took five said in a pitchside interview. three balls before departing with his third for 27 to fire Australia to a thumping innings “I thought Josh Hazlewood led the attack duck in four test innings before Bravo (4) SCOREBOARD and 121- victory with more than two days beautifully. It was nice to see James Pattinson earned the questionable distinction of being to spare in the first test against West Indies in back bowling the way he did and to get a five- dismissed twice in the same session. HOBART, Australia: Scores on the third day of the first Test between Australia and the West Indies at Bellerive Hobart yesterday. for was an outstanding effort.” Two overs later and Pattinson sent back Oval in Hobart yesterday: Australia enforced the follow-on after dis- scored a fine 108 in the first Marlon Samuels (3) and Jermaine Blackwood missing West Indies for 223 inside the first five innings and Kraigg Brathwaite notched a defi- (0) in successive balls, giving Australia a hat- Australia 1st innings 583 for 4 declared (A. Voges West Indies 2nd innings overs of the third day at Bellerive Oval, and ant 94 in the second but questions will contin- trick chance for the second time in one day. 269 , S. Marsh 182; J. Warrican 3-158) K. Brathwaite b Hazlewood 94 completed the rout before tea by skittling the ue to be asked about the long-term future of Pattinson was unable to convert and it was West Indies 1st innings (207 for 6 overnight) R. Chandrika c Smith b Pattinson 0 K. Brathwaite lbw b Hazlewood 2 tourists for 148 in their second innings. West Indies after an otherwise hap- all-rounder Mitchell Marsh who next took D. Bravo b Pattinson 4 R. Chandrika c Smith b Lyon 25 M. Samuels c Warner b Pattinson 3 It was Australia’s second biggest victory in less display. “Tough three days for us, we didn’t advantage of the feeble , having D. Bravo c Lyon b Siddle 108 J. Blackwood b Pattinson 0 114 tests against the Caribbean islanders and really start very well,” Jason Holder Denesh Ramdin caught for four off his first M. Samuels c and b Lyon 9 D. Ramdin c Warner b M. Marsh 4 gave the hosts a 1-0 lead in a three-match said. . J. Blackwood c Burns b Lyon 0 J. Holder c Nevill b Pattinson 17 series, which concludes with tests in “We were pretty indisciplined in the first Holder put on 30 with Brathwaite before D. Ramdin b Hazlewood 8 K. Roach c Nevill b Hazlewood 3 Melbourne and Sydney. Australia, who could session of the test match and that carried on Pattinson returned to claim his fourth five- J. Holder lbw b Siddle 15 J. Taylor c Pattinson b Hazlewood 12 return to the top of the test rankings with a 3- for the rest of the first day. That really set us haul in tests, the West Indies skipper K. Roach c Nevill b Hazlewood 31 J. Warrican not out 6 0 series sweep, made 583 for four declared in back and then we were always catching up.” flicking his 32nd delivery down the leg side J. Taylor b Hazlewood 0 S. Gabriel did not bat (injured) 0 their first innings on the back of a world record Hazlewood (4-45) took the lead as the hosts and into the gloves of Peter Nevill for 17. J. Warrican not out 2 Extras (lb1, w1, nb3) 5 S. Gabriel did not bat (injured - Total (9 ; 36.3 overs) 148 fourth wicket stand of 449 between Adam wrapped up West Indies’ innings with only 16 Nevill was again in action to dismiss Kemar Extras (b7, lb10, w1, nb5) 23 Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Chandrika), 2-20 (Bravo), 3-24 Voges and Shaun Marsh. runs added to their overnight tally of 207-6 on Roach (3) off Hazlewood and the right-arm Total (9 wickets; 70 overs) 223 (Samuels), 4-24 (Blackwood), 5-30 (Ramdin), 6-60 Voges was named man of the match for his a chilly morning in Tasmania. paceman got his sixth wicket of the match Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Brathwaite), 2-58 (Chandrika), 3- (Holder), 7-91 (Roach), 8-117 (Taylor), 9-148 unbeaten 269 in the match-turning partner- It was Pattinson, playing his first test in 18 when Jerome Taylor holed out in the deep for 78 (Samuels), 4-78 (Brathwaite) ship with fellow Western Australian thir- months in place of the injured Mitchell Starc, 12. Brathwaite was the final wicket to fall, (Blackwood), 5-89 (Ramdin), 6-116 (Holder), 7-215 tysomething Marsh. “It was a good win, the who provided the spearhead after Smith had bowled by Hazlewood (3-33), as West Indies (Roach), 8-215 (Taylor), 9-223 (Bravo) Bowling: Hazlewood 10.3-3-33-3, Pattinson 8-2-27-5 (2nb 1w), Siddle 7-1-34-0, M. Marsh 7-0-36-1 (1nb), partnership between Voges and Shaun Marsh become the first Australia skipper in six years pace bowler Shannon Gabriel did not bat in Bowling: Hazlewood 18-5-45-4, Pattinson 15-0-68-0 (5nb, 1w), Siddle 15-5-36-2, Lyon 19-6-43-3, M. Marsh Lyon 4-0-17-0 really set up the match for us and the bowlers to enforce the follow-on on home soil. either innings after injuring his ankle on day : Australia won by an innings and 212 runs. did a terrific job again,” skipper Opener Rajendra Chandrika lasted just one. —Reuters 3-1-14-0

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DUNEDIN, New Zealand: Scoreboard yesterday on the third day of the first cricket test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at the University Oval:

New Zealand, 1st Innings 431 Sri Lanka, 1st 71-3, Doug Bracewell 21-6-42-0 (4nb), Neil Wagner Innings (Overnight: 197-4) 25-5-87-3, 21.1-7-37-2, Kane Dimuth Karunaratne c Watling b Santner 84 Williamson 1-1-0-0. Kusal Mendis c Watling b Boult 8 New Zealand, 2nd Innings Udara Jayasundera c Watling b Wagner 1 Tom Latham not out 72 Dinesh Chandimal c Guptill b Southee 83 b Herath 46 Angelo Mathews c Watling b Southee 2 not out 48 Kithuruwan Vithanage c Watling b Southee 22 Extras (1b,4nb) 5 Milinda Siriwardana c Taylor b Wagner 35 Total (for one wicket) 171 Rangana Herath c Boult b Wagner 15 Overs: 48. Batting time: 212 minutes. Dushmantha Chameera c Taylor b Southee 14 Fall of wicket: 1-79. Suranga Lakmal not out 18 Still to bat: , Brendon McCullum, Nuwan Pradeep c Watling b Santner 3 Mitchell Santner, B.J. Watling, Doug Bracewell, Tim Extras (1b,4lb,4nb) 9 Southee, Neil Wagner, . Total (all out) 294 Bowling: Suranga Lakmal 9-0-26-0, Angelo Overs: 117.1. Batting time: 506 minutes. Mathews 4-1-4-0, Dushmantha Chameera 10-0- Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-29, 3-151, 4-156, 5-198, 6- 40-0 (3nb), Nuwan Pradeep 9-1-29-0 (1nb), 209, 7-252, 8-273, 9-287, 10-294. Rangana Herath 8-1-39-1, Milinda Siriwardana 7-0- Bowling: Trent Boult 22-7-52-2, 27-4- 28-0, Udara Jayawundera 1-0-4-0.

Tougher measures demanded after bowler’s Pakistan race blast : Sri Lanka’s Milinda Siriwardana bowls past New Zealand’s Kane Williamson on day three of their first international cricket test at University Cricket Oval in Dunedin, New Zealand, yesterday. — AP LONDON: An anti-racism campaigner seems quite outrageous; that the punish- has called on the England and Wales ment does not fit the offence. It’s not Cricket Board to get tougher on abuse only serious abuse and misconduct, it is Williamson in elite set as after Somerset bowler Craig Overton was clearly racially offensive,” he told the only given a two-match ban for allegedly Guardian. telling a Pakistan-born opponent to “go “I would expect that if it was in foot- New Zealand take control back to your own f***ing country”. ball, that person would be getting a very Overton was found guilty of a level- heavy sanction. If cricket wants to main- one breach, the lowest of four ECB direc- tain a reputation of credibility it should DUNEDIN: Kane Williamson joined the elite Guptill and Latham set about building on from the setback to produce a stubborn 43-run tives, for comments he was heard mak- nip something like this in the bud and 1,000 runs-a-year club yesterday as New Zealand New Zealand’s advantage, moving swiftly to 79 stand for the seventh wicket. ing to Sussex spinner Ashar Zaidi in an make it clear that it is not going to toler- built a commanding 308-run lead over Sri Lanka before Guptill’s luck ran out when he was The 30-year-old Siriwardana, who only made English match at ate it. “If a decision seems quite outra- with two days remaining in the first Test in bowled by a shooter from Rangana Herath for his Test debut two months ago, had a reprieve Hove in September. Both umpire Alex geously wrong, then the ECB could Dunedin. Only the threat of rain and a flattening 46. The first-innings -maker had earlier on 29 when he was caught by a leaping Doug Wharf and Sussex’s non-striking batsman appeal and that goes to another panel. pitch loomed as possible barricades for New survived caught and bowled chances to Nuwan Bracewell on the long-leg boundary. Michael Yardy said they heard Overton’s “In appealing, and voicing its displeasure Zealand, who closed day three on 171 for one Pradeep and Suranga Lakmal and being The apparent dismissal turned into a six abuse of the 34-year-old. at the verdict, it can send the message with nine wickets in hand. dropped on 19 by Kusal Mendis at cover. when Bracewell fell backwards over the bound- It was reported that Wharf included that there should be zero tolerance of Tom Latham was on 72 with master batsman Latham, who posted his seventh Test 50 with ary rope. this in his report, with Yardy giving a writ- such discriminatory conduct.” Williamson on 48. Williamson, who started his a single off Milinda Siriwardana, has been con- However, Siriwardana was not to score again ten statement in support. Zaidi, who was An ECB spokesman earlier insisted innings with 992 runs for the year, reached 1,000 tent to build partnerships first with Guptill then as four balls later he edged Neil Wagner to Ross playing for Sussex on his British passport that it remains content with the CDC’s driving Rangana Herath elegantly over mid-off an unbroken 92-run stand with Williamson. Taylor at first slip. before being released by the club at the handling of the case, and Overton was to the boundary. He joins England’s Alastair Sri Lanka suffered a setback at the start of the Herath, who weathered a sustained short-ball end of the season, told the match offi- subsequently selected for this winter’s Cook and Joe Root and Australians David Warner day when they resumed their first innings at barrage and took a cruel blow to the head, faced and Steve Smith as the only players to achieve 197-4 and lost batting general Dinesh 74 deliveries before he was gone for 15. The cials he had not heard anything beyond England Performance Programme. the milestone in 2015 but his batting average of Chandimal with the first ball he faced. innings ended when leg-spinner Mitchell the “usual” comments that did not upset “The Cricket Discipline Commission is 94.54 is considerably superior to the other four. Santner had Pradeep caught behind to give him. an independent body which operates at Brendon McCullum, with 1,164 runs in 2014, is STUBBORN PARTNERSHIP wicketkeeper BJ Watling his sixth catch of the Overton denied saying the words, but arm’s length from the ECB,” the ECB the only other New Zealander to score 1,000 The Sri Lankans had expected Chandimal to innings. It is the second time the South African- Kick It Out chairman Lord Herman spokesman said. “Craig Overton’s selec- runs in a calendar year. lead them within close range of New Zealand’s born Watling has taken six catches in an innings, Ouseley believes the punishment by the tion for the EPP squad would have Williamson’s class shone as New Zealand 431, instead he was unable to add to his one short of the Test record of seven jointly held Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC), an played no part whatsoever in the CDC’s ramped up their dominance over Sri Lanka, overnight 83 as he fell to Tim Southee. by Pakistan’s Wasim Bari, New Zealander Ian independent arm of the ECB, does not fit ruling in this matter. “The ECB refutes any removing their last six wickets on Saturday to Southee struck again in his next over when Smith and England’s Bob Taylor. For New the offence. suggestion of interference or bias in the have the tourists all out for 294, 137 runs in he had Kithuruwan Vithanage caught behind for Zealand, Southee took three for 71 and Wagner “My personal view would be that it proper disciplinary process.” —AFP arrears. 22. Milinda Siriwardana and Herath emerged three for 87. — AP