ARAB TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2021 SPORTS 14 Bassino gets 2nd straight GS win, Shiffrin 6th

Sri Lanka wipe out huge deficit England top order stumbles, need 36 runs to win 1st Test GALLE, , Jan 17, (AP): Buttler, playing in his 48th test England’s top order stumbled on a match, finally got his first stumping in turning after Sri Lanka wiped the five-day format when he had out a huge deficit and setup a tricky Perera before Leach grabbed his sec- target of 74 runs on the fourth day of ond five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka the first Test on Sunday. when Mathews finally edged to Root Leftarm spinner in the lone slip. grabbed 2-13 and first innings double The 87-test veteran Mathews, who century-maker Joe Root was brilliantly came to the crease in the second over run out by Niroshan Dickwella for 1 as of the day, batted for five hours and 44 England went to stumps on a nervy minutes to raise his 36th test half cen- 38-3. tury and hit four boundaries. Jonny Bairstow, who also escaped a Bess had struck twice in the middle run-out, was session when he had stand-in unbeaten on 11 caught in the slip in while debutant the first over after lunch. Dan Lawrence was not out on 7 as England still needed 36 for victory. Sri Lanka had Dickwella (29) added 48 runs with earlier defied Mathews before playing a loose cut England spin- against the offspinner and got a thick ners through edge to wicketkeeper Buttler before Lahiru Root Leach clean bowled Dasun Shanaka Thirimanne’s (4) with a full-pitched that (111) first Test century in almost eight went underneath the bat to hit the years and a fighting 71 off 219 balls by stumps. Angelo Mathews to reach 359. Earlier, Thirimanne’s patient centu- Leftarm spinner Jack Leach (5-122) ry, spanning just over six hours and got a five-wicket haul and offspinner featuring 12 fours, carried Sri Lanka to Dom Bess (3-100) finished with eight 242-4 at lunch after the home team ’s speeds down the course of an alpine ski, women’s World Cup , in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Jan 17. (AP) in the game, but Mathews dug resumed on 156-2. in well against both spinners to push Sam Curran (2-37) provided the the match into the final day. much-awaited breakthrough when he It was a remarkable turnaround in got the inside edge off Thirimanne’s Norwegian skier Foss-Solevaag dominates slalom batting form of the home team, which bat from a delivery that nipped back was skittled out for just 135 in the into the left-hander. first innings before Root’s 228 had Mathews, who was dropped on 11 at KRANJSKA GORA, led England to a daunting 421 and forward short leg, reached his second Slovenia, Jan 17, (AP): gave the visitors a meaningful 286- slowest fifty in off 164 Bayern pip Freiburg, return to winning ways run lead. balls in the second session before Marta Bassino won her Sri Lanka was just 10 runs ahead England struck through its spinners. second World Cup giant MUNICH, Jan 17, (AP): Bayern Kiel. After Bayern had an early pen- when it lost its seventh wicket on 296, But Thirimanne, who wouldn’t have slalom in two days Sunday Munich opened up a four-point Even after Bayern slipped up, alty appeal for handball turned but Mathews was well supported by played had regular captain Dimuth lead in the Bundesliga on its title rivals have failed to take down on video review, Robert No. 10 batsman Dilruwan Perera (24) Karunaratne recovered from a thumb after first-run leader Sunday as the German champi- advantage. When Bayern lost to Lewandowski gave Bayern the to stretch the lead to 73. injury, grabbed the opportunity with dropped on beat Freiburg 2-1 to return to Gladbach last week, second- lead in the seventh minute when England had its chances, but Jos both hands on a difficult wicket where winning ways after two rare place Leipzig lost to Borussia he found space in the penalty Buttler missed a difficult stumping the ball was spinning. to sixth. defeats. area from a Müller pass. The Italian skier has won four of when Mathews was on 58 while He put in a determined effort against Thomas Müller knocked in the Lewandowski had another Bairstow couldn’t hold onto a sharp spinners and fast bowlers alike in rais- the five races in the discipline this winning goal in the 74th minute SOCCER shot deflected onto the crossbar low catch close to the wicket before ing only his second test century in his season, with Shiffrin winning the on a snowy day in Munich to in the 59th. Shortly after, Perera had scored. 37th test. only other event, in Courchevel in avoid a third winless game in a Freiburg won a corner and sub- December. row, which would have been a stitute Nils Petersen scored with “It’s so amazing, I am so emotional. record under coach Hansi Flick. Dortmund and followed up his first touch of the game at the It’s like a dream, I can’t believe it,” The victory came after a 3-2 loss Saturday with a draw at far post with a diving header. to Borussia Mönchengladbach in Wolfsburg. Third-place Bayer That meant Bayern has conced- Bassino said while fighting back tears the league and elimination from Leverkusen and fourth-place ed at least one goal in 11 in a TV interview. the German Cup on penalties Dortmund are in similarly mixed Bundesliga games in a row since The result saw Bassino closing in on against second-division Holstein recent form. October. a 13-year-old record: No Italian skier won more than four giant slaloms in a single season since “Yesterday was a big learning experi- This weekend’s races were moved Vlhova has finished on the podium won a record five events in the 2007- ence,” she said. “I changed a bit my from Maribor because of a lack of once in her last 11 starts. 08 campaign. focus, what I’m thinking in the course snow. , the defending while I’m skiing. It felt a lot better, going Petra Vlhova was 2.41 seconds overall champion who led the GS SKIING with the hill and not fighting so much.” behind in 10th and the overall World standings coming into the weekend, Still, her second run lacked the flu- Cup leader from Slovakia saw her was 12th after the opening leg before ency of the first on a tough course, advantage over runner-up Gisin sliding off the track in her final run. usually used on the men’s circuit. reduced to just 60 points. Bassino trailed Shiffrin by three- The women’s World Cup continues tenths of a second after the American’s with two downhills and a super-G in near-perfect opening run, but the Italian Crans Montana, Switzerland, from posted the fastest time in the final. Friday through Sunday. The last racer on course, Shiffrin Shiffrin was expected to return to was still in the lead at the first split action at another GS, at Kronplatz in time. However, the Olympic GS Italy, on Tuesday. champion was late on a turn after the In Flachau, Austria, Sebastian Foss- first steep part, lost speed and never Solevaag won his first World Cup Team IVCC pose for a group photo during the 2nd edition of KVCC league regained her rhythm. slalom in dominating style on Sunday. tournament. Shiffrin finished 1.27 back in sixth, The Norwegian skier clocked the equaling her result in Saturday’s race. fastest time in both runs to beat Marco Bassino won the race 0.66 ahead of Schwarz by 0.76 seconds, a week after IVCC defeat Shaheen by 36 runs Michelle Gisin, a day after the Swiss skier the Austrian had captured his first earned her first career podium in GS. career win. IVCC (Indian Veterans Cricket batsman from Shaheen who fought Local favorite Meta Hrovat, daugh- Foss-Solevaag became the sixth dif- Club) started 2nd edition of KVCC well scoring 103 runs but rest of ferent winner in six slaloms this sea- league tournament with victory shaheen batting collapsed and ter of the village’s mayor, Janez over Shaheen. Batting first IVCC could score only 174 runs in 20 Hrovat, finished third, 0.73 off the son. He had three previous podiums in scored 210 in 20 Overs due to solid overs due to some excellent bowl- lead. the discipline, most recently at a night opening stand by Shekhar Sharma ing by Shakeelahmed (2 wkt for 9 The rest of the field trailed Bassino race in Italy in December. (33 runs) Alva (22 Runs). Khurram runs) Naveed Ashraf (2 wkt for 28 by more than a second. Overall World Cup leader Alexis Akhtar was the major corntributor Runs) &Jamshed (2 wkt for 30 runs) Before posting the 15th-fastest time in Pinturault climbed from eighth posi- for IVCC scoring 74 runs in 41 balls intheir allocated 4 overs. Khurram the final run, Shiffrin said she had done Norway’s Sebastian Foss-Solevaag kisses his trophy after winning an tion after the opening run to third, 0.95 with 9 Fours & 3 sixes. was awarded man of thel match for “a lot of analysis” after Saturday’s race. alpine ski, men’s World Cup slalom in Flachau, Austria, on Jan 17. (AP) behind Foss-Solevaag. Mohammed Akbar was the only his brilliant batting performance.