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FRANCE: Norway’s Alexander Kristoff (center) sprints to win at the end of the 222 km fifteenth stage of the 101st edition of theTour de France cycling race. — AFP Kristoff wins, Bauer suffers heartbreak

NIMES: Norway’s Alexander Kristoff claimed his second Tour de Italian Vincenzo Nibali stayed safe in a bunched finish and teams to organise themselves in the finale, Bauer and Elmiger Kristoff, who won the Milan-San Remo classic this year, is now France victory when he won a bunch sprint to take yesterday’s retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey in an unchanged believed they could hold off the chasing pack. eyeing a win on the Champs Elysees on the final day of the Tour 15th stage after the peloton reined in the day’s breakaway in the top 10. But their hopes were dashed when the Giant-Shimano team, next Sunday. final straight. New Zealand’s Jack Bauer, who broke clear with “I thought it was a little bit too late, I thought I’d have to go for looking to set up Marcel Kittel, took control and upped the pace. “It would be hard to compete but it would be great to win in Swiss Martin Elminger, was caught by the chasing pack less than second but I was relieved that we caught them,” said Kristoff. The German, who has won three stages in this year’s Tour, had Paris, but I have to beat extremely strong riders,” he said. Today is 100 metres from the line. “I was a bit surprised I could take the win today. Maybe they nothing left in the tank after struggling in the Alps and took 11th the second rest day of the Tour. Bauer, who finished 10th after seeing the sprinters whizz past had heavier legs than me after the Alps.” After two tough stages place while his compatriot Andre Greipel was fourth. Meanwhile, the 2017 Tour of Spain will start from Nimes, him, was in tears after his 222-km effort came to nothing in the in the Alps, there was no respite for the peloton, who rode Greipel and Kittel are slightly heavier than Kristoff and there- France, the city’s mayor said yesterday. “The Grand Depart of the final metres. through storms and heavy rain in dim and dusky conditions. fore struggled more with the long, demanding climbs of the 2017 will be held in Nimes, it will be the first time (the race will Katusha rider Kristoff, who won the 12th stage on With swirling winds that sometimes threatened to split the Tour’s 13th and 14th stages. start from France),” Jean-Paul Fournier told l’Eaufficiel, a free Thursday, won the race to the line as he edged out Australian peloton, it made for a nervy day as the Tour prepares to enter its Another German, time trial specialist Tony Martin, tried his newspaper circulating on the Tour de France. Heinrich Haussler and Slovakian Peter Sagan, second and final week. luck some two kilometres from the finish, but his effort lacked “It will start with a team time trial.” Nimes is hosting the finish third respectively. With a series of roundabouts making it hard for the sprinters’ conviction. of the 15th stage of the Tour de France later yesterday. —AFP India eye Lord’s SCOREBOARD LONDON: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the second Test between England and India at Lord’s yesterday: win, Cook fails India 1st Innings 295 (A Rahane 103; J Anderson 4-60) England 1st Innings 319 (G Ballance 110, L Plunkett 55 LONDON: India were on the brink of just fifty and taken five in successive their second Test win at Lord’s as Alastair Tests. no; B Kumar 6-82) Cook’s latest failure with the bat prolonged Left-arm spinner Jadeja struck with his the debate about his future as England cap- first ball Sunday when he had Australia-born India 2nd Innings (overnight: 169-4) tain. England were 105 for four at stumps opener Sam Robson lbw. Cook and fellow M. Vijay c Prior b Anderson 95 yesterday’s fourth day, needing a further 214 left-hander added 58 for the S. Dhawan c Root b Stokes 31 runs to reach their victory target of 319. But second . C. Pujara c Prior b Plunkett 43 the odds were on India going 1-0 up in this But Ballance, who made 110 in the first V. Kohli b Plunkett 0 five-match series, after last week’s draw at innings, was caught behind off Mohammed A. Rahane c Prior b Broad 5 Trent Bridge, and recording their second vic- Shami to leave England 70 for two. Bell did M. S. Dhoni c Bell b Plunkett 19 tory in 17 Tests at Lord’s following their lone not last long, clean bowled off stump by a S. Binny c Cook b Ali 0 win back in 1986. Sharma delivery that kept a touch low. Then R. Jadeja c Cook b Stokes 68 Joe Root was 14 and Moeen Ali Cook, after more than two hours at the B. Kumar c Bell b Stokes 52 15 not out at the close, the pair having come crease, fell in familiar fashion when Sharma Mohammed Shami c Prior b Ali 0 together after England lost three wickets for had him pushing out at a good length ball, two runs in collapsing to 72 for four. with wicketkeeper Dhoni taking the catch. I. Sharma not out 0 Left-handed opener Cook fell for just 22 Cook had now scored a mere 115 runs in Extras (b19, lb9, w1) 29 to make it 27 innings since he had scored the seven Tests innings at home to Sri Lanka and Total (all out, 103.1 overs, 482 mins) 342 last of his England record 25 hundreds. India so far this season. Ali, on 11, survived a Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Dhawan), 2-118 (Pujara), 3-118 His exit came shortly after Ian Bell, the confident lbw appeal from Jadeja and was (Kohli), 4-123 (Rahane), 5-202 (Dhoni), 6-203 (Binny), 7-235 other experienced batsman in England’s top dropped of the spinner on 15 when Dhoni (Vijay), 8-334 (Jadeja), 9-338 (Shami), 10-342 (Kumar) order, had been dismissed for one-his 19th failed to grasp a chance under the Lord’s Bowling: Anderson 29-11-77-1; Broad 23-6-93-1 (1w); innings without a Test century. floodlights. Stokes 18.1-2-51-3; Plunkett 22-6-65-3; Ali 11-3-28-2. Fast-medium bowler Ishant Sharma India resumed yesterday in overcast con- removed both Bell and Cook in a burst of ditions on 169 for four, with opener Murali England 2nd Innings (target: 319) two wickets for no runs in seven balls. At Vijay 59 not out and Dhoni unbeaten on 12. S. Robson lbw b Jadeja 7 lunch, India were 267 for seven, a lead of After Dhoni fell for a laboured 19, it was A. Cook c Dhoni b Sharma 22 243. Three quick wickets early in the second not long before James Anderson was bowl- G. Ballance c Dhoni b Shami 27 session and England would have been on ing to Jadeja, with both players facing a pos- course to end their run of nine Tests without sible ban as a result of their alleged con- I. Bell b Sharma 1 a win. frontation in the Trent Bridge pavilion last J. Root not out 14 But the first 10 overs after lunch saw week. M. Ali not out 15 Ravindra Jadeja and seamer Bhuvneswhwar Vijay, in sight of a second hundred of the Extras (b5, lb13, w1) 19 Kumar score 66 runs. Jadeja made a dashing series following his 146 in Nottingham, fell for Total (4 wkts, 46 overs, 186 mins) 105 68 while tailender Kumar was last man out 95 when he flicked an Anderson delivery to To bat: M Prior, B Stokes, S Broad, L Plunkett, J Anderson for 52 — his third fifty in four innings this wicketkeeper Matt Prior after more than six Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Robson), 2-70 (Ballance), 3-71 (Bell), 4- series after his Test-best six for 82 in hours at the crease. However, the swashbuck- 72 (Cook) England’s first innings. ling Jadeja drove both Broad and Anderson Bowling: Kumar 8-4-10-0; Shami 7-1-20-1; Sharma 10-5-13- His innings saw Kumar join two of crick- back over his head for four while Kumar 2; Jadeja 16-4-32-1; Vijay 4-1-11-0 (1w); Dhawan 1-0-1-0 et’s greatest all-rounders in Ian Botham made England pay for Root dropping him on LONDON: England’s captain Alastair Cook edges this shot to India’s Captain and wicketkeeper Match position: England need a further 214 runs to win (England) and Richard Hadlee (New Zealand) two before India were eventually bowled out MS Dhoni. Cook was out for 22 runs on the fourth day of the second Test match with six second-innings wickets standing. as only the third player to have both scored a for 342. — AFP between England and India at Lord’s cricket ground. — AFP