THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY,EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AUGUST 4, 2019 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Saini sizzles on debut as India draws first blood in T20I series After restricting the Caribbean side to 95, the Men in Blue make heavy weather of the small target before scampering home in the 18th over INDIA IN WI off the second ball when up for wicketkeeper Rishab John Campbell slapped Pant to take an easy catch. straight to Krunal Pandya at Shimron Hetmyer (zero) PRESS TRUST OF INDIA LAUDERHILL (USA) deep midwicket. then dragged the next ball The other opener, Evin onto the stump for Saini’s se­ Debutant pacer Navdeep Sai­ Lewis, fell in the second over cond wicket. ni claimed three wickets in as Bhuvneshwar Kumar (two an impressive spell as India for 19) beat him with a knuck­ Falling apart restricted the West Indies to le ball and rattled his timber. The West Indies procession a paltry 95 for nine and in Both the openers failed to continued with Rovman Po­ reply, kept losing wickets at open their account as the well (four) falling to Khaleel regular intervals before West Indies was reduced to Ahmed (one for eight) in the crossing the finish line in the eight for two. next over and it was reduced 18th over, in the first T20I to 33 for five at the end of here on Saturday. Aggressive approach Powerplay. After losing Shikhar Dha­ Despite this, West Indies Pollard and Brathwaite wan cheaply, Rohit Sharma continued to be aggressive in curbed their attacking in­ and skipper Virat Kohli ad­ its approach and Saini ex­ stincts for a while and played ded 28 before the vice­cap­ ploited the situation by some sensible cricket, ad­ tain fell to Sunil Narine. Rish­ claiming two wickets off two ding 34 runs. abh Pant was out off the next balls in the fifth over. Brathwaite and Sunil Na­ delivery, going for a big hit. Pooran, who was looking rine were dismissed in the However, Kohli (19), Man­ dangerous after hitting two 15th and 16th overs as West ish Pandey (19) and Krunal sixes, went for another big Indies could not even reach Pandey (12) chipped in be­ shot but the ball ballooned 100 despite Pollard’s 49. fore Ravindra Jadeja (10 not out) Washington Sundar SCOREBOARD (eight not out) took the team WEST INDIES VS INDIA, 1ST T20I home. Washington finished WEST INDIES INDIA the match in style with a six John Campbell c Krunal b Rohit Sharma c Pollard b Nar­ off Paul. Washington 0 (2b), Evin Lewis b ine 24 (25b, 2x4, 2x6), Shikhar Bhuvneshwar 0 (4b), Nicholas Dhawan lbw b Cottrell 1 (7b), Bowlers to the fore Pooran c Pant b Saini 20 (16b, Virat Kohli c Pollard b Cottrell Opting to field, all the six In­ 1x4, 2x6), Kieron Pollard lbw b 19 (29b, 1x4), Rishabh Pant c dian bowlers got at least a Saini 49 (49b, 2x4, 4x6), Shim­ Cottrell 0 (1b), Manish Pandey b wicket, with Saini returning ron Hetmyer b Saini 0 (1b), Rov­ Paul 19 (14b, 2x4), Krunal figures of three for 17 on his man Powell c Pant b Khaleel 4 Pandya b Paul 12 (14b, 1x4), debut. India was also helped (5b, 1x4), Carlos Brathwaite c & Ravindra Jadeja (not out) 10 b Krunal 9 (24b), Sunil Narine c (9b), Washington Sundar (not by the reckless approach of Khaleel b Jadeja 2 (4b), Keemo out) 8 (5b, 1x6); Extras (w­5): 5; the West Indies batsmen. Paul c Kohli b Bhuvneshwar 3 Total (for six wkts. in 17.2 overs): There was no substantial (11b), Sheldon Cottrell (not out) 98. partnership in the West In­ 0 (1b), Oshane Thomas (not out) FALL OF WICKETS dies innings, the highest be­ 0 (3b); Extras (w­8): 8; Total 1­4 (Dhawan, 1.6), 2­32 (Ro­ ing 34 between captain Car­ (for nine wkts. in 20 overs): 95. hit, 6.3), 3­32 (Pant, 6.4), 4­64 los Brathwaite (nine) and FALL OF WICKETS (Pandey, 11.4), 5­69 (Kohli, top­scorer Kieron Pollard 1­0 (Campbell, 0.2 overs), 13.5), 6­88 (Krunal, 15.6). (49) for the sixth wicket. Ni­ 2­8 (Lewis, 1.6), 3­28 (Pooran, WEST INDIES BOWLING cholas Pooran (20) was the 4.4), 4­28 (Hetmyer, 4.5), 5­33 Thomas 4­0­29­0, Cottrell only other West Indian to (Powell, 5.6), 6­67 (Brathwaite, 4­0­20­2, Narine 4­0­14­2, 14.2), 7­70 (Narine, 15.1), 8­88 Paul 3.2­0­23­2, Brathwaite 2­ touch double digits. (Paul, 18.1), 9­95 (Pollard, 19.3). 0­12­0. INDIA BOWLING Toss: India. Miserable start Washington 2­0­18­1, Man­of­the­Match: Saini. India opened the bowling Bhuvneshwar 4­0­19­2, Saini 4­ India won by four wickets with off­spinner Washington 1­17­3, Khaleel 2­0­8­1, Krunal with 16 balls to spare and leads Jump of joy: Navdeep Saini is on cloud nine after breaching the defence of Shimron Hetmyer. (one for 18) and got a wicket 4­1­20­1, Jadeja 4­1­13­1. three-match series 1-0. * AP Australia on the backfoot at Edgbaston India­A makes it 2­0 with seven­wkt. win Looks to Smith to bail it out again; Woakes-Broad stand frustrates the visitors Mayank, Panchal, Abhimanyu and Anmolpreet come up with good knocks THE ASHES Press Trust of India liveries to set up the victory Singh contributed an unde­ nappa Gowtham took five Port of Spain on the final day of the four­ feated 51 as India­A reached wickets as West Indies­A was Openers Mayank Agarwal day match. 281 for three in 79.1 overs to bowled out for 149. Agence France-Presse The scores: Birmingham and Priyank Panchal struck win the match and take a 2­0 fine half­centuries as India­A Opening stand lead in the series. West Indies­A 318 & 149 in Australia was left hoping for registered a comfortable se­ Mayank and Panchal shared India­A didn’t lose any 39.5 overs (S. Ambris 71, San­ deep Warrier three for 43, another major innings from ven­wicket win over West In­ 150 runs for the opening wicket in the first session Krishnappa Gowtham five for Steve Smith as England took dies­A in the second ‘Test’ wicket to set the platform for and was just 33 shy of victory 17) lost to India­A 190 & 281 for charge of the first Ashes Test here on Saturday. India­A’s chase. at lunch. three in 50 overs (Mayank at Edgbaston on Saturday. Chasing 278, Mayank Abhimanyu Easwaran al­ India­A resumed the final Agarwal 81, Priyank Panchal When bad light cut short made 81 off 134 balls while so chipped in with an unbea­ day at 185 for three. 68, Abhimanyu Easwaran 62 the third day’s play, Australia Panchal scored 68 off 121 de­ ten 62 while Anmolpreet Earlier, off­spinner Krish­ n.o., Anmolpreet Singh 51 n.o.). was 124 for three in its se­ cond innings — a lead of just 34. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Former captain Smith, Tyagi, Jaiswal who had made a superb 144 No way out in the first innings, was bat­ star for colts ting on 46 along with Travis Head (21), their stand worth PRESS TRUST OF INDIA 49. CHELMSFORD Australia, looking to win The India under­19 team its first series away to En­ edged out England un­ gland in 18 years, was strug­ Big boost: Woakes and Broad’s ninth­wicket stand gave England a 90­run lead.* ACTION IMAGES der­19 by one wicket in gling at 27 for two after open­ their tri­series match here ers David Warner and for four runs to slump to 300 on Saturday. SCOREBOARD AUSTRALIA VS ENGLAND Cameron Bancroft both fell for eight — a lead of just 16. Put in to bat, England cheaply. But a ninth­wicket part­ Australia — 1st innings: 284. Australia bowling: Cummins was all out for 204 in 49.5 Smith, on 41, was struck nership of 65 between Chris England — 1st innings: Rory 33­9­84­3, Pattinson 27­3­ overs with pacer Purnank on the side of the head after Woakes, who made 37 not Burns c Paine b Lyon 133, Jason 82­2, Siddle 27­8­52­2, Lyon Tyagi producing a fine missing a pull off a Stokes out on his Warwickshire Roy c Smith b Pattinson 10, Joe 43.5­8­112­3, Wade 1­0­7­0, spell (five for 33). Head 2­1­7­0, Smith 2­0­9­0. bouncer, but was passed fit home ground, and Broad Root c & b Siddle 57, Joe Denly India chased down the lbw b Pattinson 18, Jos Buttler to bat on by the Australia (29) boosted England’s total. Australia — 2nd innings: C. target with 13.3 overs to c Bancroft b Cummins 5, Ben team doctor. Woakes hoisted Lyon for Bancroft c Buttler b Moeen 7, D. spare as opener Yashasvi Stokes c Paine b Cummins 50, Warner c Bairstow b Broad 8, U. six and the pair accumulated Jaiswal top­scored with 78 Jonny Bairstow c Warner b Khawaja c Bairstow b Stokes The slump runs steadily before Broad, off 82 deliveries. Hamidul­ Earlier, England opener Ro­ who batted for nearly two Siddle 8, Moeen Ali b Lyon 0, 40, S. Smith (batting) 46, T. Chris Woakes (not out) 37, Stu­ lah Qadri took five for 61 ry Burns batted for nearly hours, turned fast bowler Head (batting) 21; Extras (b­1, art Broad c Pattinson b Cum­ for England.