SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015 Pakistan in trouble after Silva’s century

GALLE: Sri Lanka’s bowlers ripped through Prasad had caught at Pakistan’s top order in dramatic fashion to leave third slip off his sixth and then trapped the tourists struggling on the scheduled third day Ahmed Shehzad leg-before in his next over to of the first Test in Galle yesterday. After opener reduce Pakistan to 11 for two.It became 35-3 Kaushal Silva hit 125 to lift Sri Lanka to 300 in the when seasoned left-arm spinner , first innings, Pakistan collapsed to 35-3 in reply brought in to the attack in the sixth over, had before a partial recovery saw them to 118-5 by Azhar Ali leg-before in his third over. stumps. Veterans Younis Khan (47) and skipper Asad Shafiq was unbeaten on 14 and Sarfraz Misbah-ul Haq (20) attempted to rebuild with a Ahmed was on 15 when rain forced play to end 51-run stand for the fourth before both early with the tourists trailing by 182 runs with were dismissed in the space of 10 runs in the last five in hand. Seamer Dhammika Prasad session. removed both openers by the third over, paving Younis was bowled as he stepped out to drive the way for the bowlers to take control of the off-spinner Dilruwan Perera, and Misbah fell to a innings on what remained an easy-paced pitch at brilliant one-handed diving catch at first slip by the Galle International stadium. 37-year-old off Nuwan Pradeep. SCOREBOARD

GALLE, Sri Lanka: Scoreboard at stumps on the scheduled third day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Galle International Stadium yesterday GALLE: Sri Lanka’s Kaushal Silva raises his bat and helmet after scoring a century during Sri Lanka 1st innings: (nb4, w1), Babar 27-8-64-3, the third day of the first Test match against Pakistan. —AP D. Karunaratne c Sarfraz b Wahab 21 Yasir 30.3-6-79-2, Hafeez 10-0-40-2 K. Silva c Sarfraz b Babar 125 Solid defence Sri Lanka added 11 runs to their overnight K. Sangakkara c Younis b Wahab 50 Pakistan 1st innings: Sri Lanka’s innings were built around Silva’s score of 178-3 when they lost the wicket of skipper L. Thirimanne c Babar b Hafeez 8 Mohammad Hafeez c Karunaratne b Prasad 2 painstaking effort that was marked by solid Angelo Mathews, who was bowled by left-arm A. Mathews b Wahab 19 Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Prasad 9 defence even as wickets tumbled regularly at the seamer Wahab Riaz for 19. D. Chandimal b Babar 23 Azhar Ali lbw b Herath 8 other end. The diminutive right-hander lit up the Dinesh Chandimal contributed 23 in a fifth- K. Vithanage c and b Hafeez 18 Younis Khan b Perera 47 rain-hit Test with a stubborn 125, his second Test wicket stand of 37 with Silva before being bowled D. Perera c Sarfraz b Yasir 15 Misbah-ul Haq c Sangakkara b Pradeep 20 century after making 139 against in by Babar, who was surprisingly handed the second D. Prasad b Babar 0 Asad Shafiq 14 R. Herath not out 6 Sarfraz Ahmed not out 15 in January last year. Silva, however, failed to new ball which was claimed after 80 overs. N. Pradeep c and b Yasir 4 Extras: (nb3) 3 carry his bat through the innings when he was Kithuruwan Vithanage was the third batsman Extras: (lb5, nb4, w2) 11 Total (for five wickets, 41.4 overs) 118 ninth out from the 300th delivery he faced, caught to be dismissed in the morning session when, on Total (all out, 109.3 overs) 300 Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Hafeez), 2-11 (Shehzad), 3-35 behind off left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar. 18, he gave Hafeez an easy return catch. Babar Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Karunaratne), 2-142 (Azhar), 4-86 (Younis), Silva, who began the day on 80, had reached removed Prasad and Silva in successive overs (Sangakkara), 3-154 (Thirimanne), 4-189 5-96 (Misbah). his century 30 minutes before lunch when he before Yasir Shah held a skier off his own (Mathews), 5-226 (Chandimal), 6-261 (Vithanage), Bowling: Prasad 9-2-24-2, Pradeep 9-1-36-1 (nb2), drove Babar through the covers for his 15th to dismiss last man Nuwan Pradeep. Wahab and 7-277 (Perera), 8-288 (Prasad), 9-291 (Silva), 10- Herath 12.4-3-33-1, Perera 9-2-23-1, Mathews 2-1- boundary. Bad weather had washed out the Babar finished with three wickets each, while 300 (Pradeep). 2-0 (nb1) entire first day’s play on Wednesday and just 64 Hafeez and Shah took two each. The three-Test Pakistan trail by 182 runs with five wickets in overs were bowled on the second day due to a series will be followed by five one-day internation- Bowling: Junaid 16-5-38-0 (w1), Wahab 26-3-74-3 hand. wet outfield. als and two matches.—AFP Bangladesh thrash India Mustafizur claims five-wicket haul on debut DHAKA: Rookie left-arm pacer Mustafizur bowler’s performance. “Mustafizur was not a said. “Right from the first ball they took our to. “The spinners bowled well, Raina’s contri- Rahman claimed five wickets in his one-day surprise for us. We know he can destroy any bowlers on.” bution was important, but (I am) disappoint- international debut as Bangladesh thrashed batsman,” said Mortaza, who also praised his “It looked like they would score more than ed with the way the fast bowlers bowled.” India by 79 runs in Dhaka on Thursday. own side’s “brilliant” start in the first innings. 330 but we restricted them to 300, but the Yadav claimed 2-58 while Bhuvneshwar The 19-year-old’s figures of 5-50 helped “Maybe we were 15-20 short, but 300 is a big didn’t turn up the way we wanted it Kumar chipped in with 2-37.—AFP Bangladesh dismiss India for 228 in 46 overs ask for anybody.” Earlier, Bangladesh opener after half-centuries from , Tamim top-scored for the home side with 60 and led the runs, while Sarkar and Shakib added 54 and SCOREBOARD hosts to a record target of 307 runs. Fellow 52 respectively as Bangladesh scored 307 runs paceman complemented in the first innings, surpassing their previous DHAKA: Scoreboard of the first one-day international between Bangladesh and India at the Mustafizur’s bowling with 2-21 himself as high against India of 296. Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday: Bangladesh avenged their 109-run defeat in Opting to bat first, the hosts were looking Bangladesh: India: the World Cup quarterfinals this year to go 1-0 for an even more imposing total as Tamim Tamim Iqbal c Rohit b Ashwin 60 R. Sharma c Mortaza b Mustafizur 63 ahead in the three-match series. and Sarkar put on a 102-run opening stand, Soumya Sarkar run out 54 S. Dhawan c Rahim b Taskin 30 Opener Rohit Sharma top-scored for India but a rain break halted the game for about an Litton Das lbw b Ashwin 8 V. Kohli c Rahim b Taskin 1 with 63 and shared a 95-run opening stand hour, shifting the momentum. c Rohit b Ashwin 14 A. Rahane c Nasir b Mustafizur 9 with Shikhar Dhawan, but after Taskin broke Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who fin- Shakib Al Hasan c Jadeja b Yadav 52 S. Raina b Mustafizur 40 through and took Dhawan’s wicket, the hosts ished with 3-51, stopped the run flow with a b Jadeja 41 M. Dhoni c Rahim b Shakib 5 never looked back. Taskin followed up tight spell after the run out of Sarkar earned c Jadeja b Yadav 34 R. Jadeja c Sarkar b Mustafizur 32 Dhawan’s scalp by adding Virat Kohli, out for India their first breakthrough. c Rohit b Sharma 21 R. Ashwin c Rahim b Mustafizur 0 just one run, to his tally before Mustafizur sent Tamim then wasted his brilliant start, hol- c Sharma b Kumar 4 B. Kumar not out 25 Sharma and Rahane back in successive overs. ing out a catch at long on to Rohit Sharma to Taskin Ahmed c Kohli b Kumar 2 M. Sharma c Rahim b Mortaza 11 Left-arm spinner Shakib compounded end his 62-ball innings, which included seven not out 0 U. Yadav lbw b Shakib 2 India’s problems when he induced a sharp fours and a six. Ashwin then trapped debu- Extras (b2, lb6, w6, nb3) 17 Extras (lb4, w6) 10 edge from Mahendra Singh Dhoni to dismiss tant Litton Das leg before for eight and forced Total (all out, 49.4 overs) 307 Total (all out, 46 overs) 228 the Indian skipper for five and leave his side another mishit from Mushfiqur Rahim, also Fall of wickets: 1-102 (Sarkar), 2-123 (Tamim), 3- Fall of wickets: 1-95 (Dhawan), 2-101 (Kohli), 3- down five wickets for just 128. caught by Rohit at long on, for 14. 129 (Das), 4-146 (Rahim), 5-229 (Sabbir), 6-267 105 (Rohit), 4-115 (Rahane), 5-128 (Dhoni), 6- (Shakib), 7-282 (Nasir), 8-286 (Rubel), 9-298 188 (Raina), 7-188 (Ashwin), 8-195 (Jadeja), 9- Suresh Raina (40) and Ravindra Jadeja (32) Shakib helped Bangladesh regroup with an (Taskin), 10-307 (Mortaza) 219 (Sharma), 10-228(Yadav). tried to rebuild the innings with a 60-run sixth 83-run fifth wicket stand with Sabbir Rahman, Bowling: Kumar 7-0-37-2 (nb1, w1), Yadav 8-0- Bowling: Mustafizur 9.2-1-50-2 (w1), Taskin 6-1- wicket stand, but Mustafizur took three quick who made 41. Dhoni praised Bangladesh for 58-2 (w1), Ashwin 10-0-51-3 (w2), Sharma 4.4- 21-2 (w5), Mortaza 10-0-53-1, Rubel 6-0-36-0, wickets to seal the deal for Bangladesh. their win but voiced disappointment with his 0-53-1(nb1), Raina 10-0-40-0, Jadeja 8-0-48- Nasir 6.4-0-31-0, Shakib 8-0-33-2 Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza said side’s batting and . “Bangladesh 1(nb1), Kohli 2-0-12-0 (w2). : Bangladesh won by 79 runs he was not surprised with the teenage played some really good cricket as a team,” he