Monday 25th February, 2008

Under-19 World Cup India, SA make Australia home by 18-runs it to semi-finals KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Second-seeded India defeated England by Lee takes five seven while South Africa demol- SYDNEY, Australia to the best-of-three finals against ished Bangladesh by 201 runs on Sunday SCOREBOARD (AP) - Fast bowler Brett Australia beginning next Sunday, also at to breeze through to the semifinals of the Lee took five wickets, Sydney. Australia Under-19 World Cup. including three in seven balls Ponting, ending a A Gilchrist c Dhoni b Sreesanth 16 Left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah took late in the innings, to help batting slump, M Hayden run out 54 3-29 as England staggered to 146 all out in 46 overs, losing its last seven wickets for Australia beat India by 18 runs in a free- picked up his R Ponting c Pathan b Sreesanth 124 only 39 runs. Seamer Siddarth Kaul and scoring tri-series limited-overs 26th one- M Clarke c R.G. Sharma b Sehwag 31 left-arm slow bowler match Sunday. day centu- A Symonds b I. Sharma 59 picked up two wickets each. Led by Ricky ry, with only Sachin M Hussey 15 Ponting's 124 runs, Tendulkar (41) hav- J Hopes run out 4 Australia scored 317-7 after ing registered more B Lee run out 0 winning the toss and bat- one-day international Extras: (5lb,8w,1nb) 14 ting first. India poured hundreds. TOTAL (for seven wickets) 317 on the run chase at The 33-year-old Overs: 50 the end - Ponting skipper cele- Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-131, 3-196, 4-296, 5- achieving the brated by raising his bat 304, 6-317, 7-317. highest and exuberantly punching the Did not bat: Hogg, Bracken, S Clark. score by a air in the direction of the : Sreesanth 8-0-58-2, Sharma team bat- Australian changerooms. 10-0-65-1 (1w), Pathan 9-0-73-0 (1nb,2w), ting In six innings this series before 9-0-50-0 (1w), Sehwag 6-0-27- second Sunday's match, Ponting had only 1 (4w), Y Singh 8-0-39-0. in a scored 64 runs at 10.66, and scored India Innings only moderately in the preceding test V Sehwag c Gilchrist b Clark 17 Opener James Taylor's 41 provided series. S Tendulkar lbw b Lee 2 the only resistance to the India attack. Andrew Symonds scored 59 off 49 G Gambhir st Gilchrist b Hogg 113 In reply, India went through a minor balls to end his lean form, and Matthew R.G. Sharma c Gilchrist b Bracken 1 scare as Essex off-spinner Tom Westley dismissed star batsmen Tanmay Hayden (54 off 62 balls) reached a half Y Singh c Gilchrist b Clark 5 Australia's Brett Lee, right, is Srivastava (22) and skipper (8) century before being run out, as the M S Dhoni Dhoni c Gilchrist b Lee 36 home side's batsmen clicked into gear. embraced by teammate Matthew in successive overs, but reached its target R Uthappa c Hussey b Lee 51 in the 40th over. Symonds, at the center of a name- Hayden after dismissing Indian bats- I Pathan c Bracken b Hopes 22 man Sachin Tendulkar during their One But Punjab batsman Taruwar Kohli calling controversy with Harbhajan Harbhajan Singh c Gilchrist b Lee 20 hit an unbeaten 63 to guide India to victo- Day international at the Sydney Singh during the Australia-India test S Sreesanth not out 3 ry. He is now the tournament's leading series, had a fiery exchange with Ishant Cricket Ground, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008. I Sharma b Lee 2 scorer with 207 runs in four matches. Sharma after the paceman bowled him (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Extras: (6b,5lb,12w,4nb) 27 In the other quarterfinal, South TOTAL (all out) 299 Africa captain Wayne Parnell struck 57 Overs: 49.1 off 60 balls, and took an extraordinary 6-8 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-45, 3-46, 4-51, 5-149, 6- with his left arm seamers. 216, 7-257, 8-290, 9-290, 10-299. Put in to bat first, South Africa recov- ered from 69-4 to make 242-8 from its 50 Bowling: Lee 9.1-1-58-5 (3nb,3w), Bracken 10- overs. Jonathan Vandiar made 45 and 0-53-1 (1w), S Clark 10-0-55-2 (8w), Hopes 6-0- Yaseen Vallie made 28 in a 66-run fifth 27-1, Hogg 9-0-62-1 (1nb), M Clarke 5-0-33-0. partnership before the 18-year-old Ponting picked up his Umpires: Tony Hill, New Zealand, and Daryl Parnell came in to smash his half-century. 26th one-day century, Harper, Australia. Bangladesh was all out for 41 in the with only Sachin TV Umpire: Bruce Oxenford, Australia. 12th over with (17) the only batsman to reach double figures. Tendulkar (41) having Match referee: Jeff Crowe, New Zealand. Result: Australia won by 18 runs. Parnell's six wickets made him the registered more one- tournament's leading bowler with 14 day international hun- wickets from four matches. break in the Australian innings. dreds. inside the webbing of Dhoni's gloves SL vs NZ quarters today Australian Associated Press said one-day match at the Sydney Cricket with a slower ball. between his thumb and index finger. On Monday, defending champions Crowe took one of the gloves away for Ground - but couldn't overcome the The umpires intervened to try to Under the laws of cricket, webbing Pakistan will play Australia while Sri further inspection. Australian total thanks to Lee's late cool down Sharma as Symonds trudged on wicketkeeper's gloves is not allowed Lanka will clash with New Zealand in the remaining two quarter-finals. wicket burst, and was out for 299 in the off the ground. to protrude "beyond the straight line Points Table last over. Match referee Jeff Crowe earlier joining the top of the index finger to the Brief scores: "It was touch and go for a while, but became involved in an incident featur- top of the thumb." Dhoni's gloves England 146 (James Taylor 41, Iqbal Team M W L T NR BP Pts a win's a win," said Lee, who finished ing the catching gloves of Indian wick- appeared to be in violation of that rule. Abdullah 3-29) x-Australia 7 5 1 0 1 04 26 with 5-58. India lost its last three wick- etkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Television commentator and former India 149-3 in 39.1 overs (Taruwar India 7 2 3 0 2 00 12 ets for nine runs. The India captain used the gloves to Australian test wicketkeeper Ian Healy Kohli 63 not out) Sri Lanka 6 1 4 0 1 00 06 Gautam Gambhir scored 113 for collect a one-handed catch off an inside raised concerns about the gloves on air. India def. England by seven wickets. India and Robin Uthappa added 51. edge to dismiss fellow wicketkeeper Crowe apparently approached Indian South Africa 242-8 (Wayne Parnell 57, (x-clinched finals berth) India plays Sri Lanka on Tuesday at Adam Gilchrist for 16 early in the team officials about the matter and Subhasish Roy 2-30) Hobart, with an India win advancing it Australian innings. The ball lodged Dhoni changed his gloves during a Bangladesh 41 (Wayne Parnell 6-8) South Africa def. Bangladesh by 201 runs. NEW YORK (AP) - Wladimir our division by winning every major Klitschko is one belt closer to being the unification fight title. He appeared capable of the task in undisputed heavyweight champion the most significant heavyweight fight after an indisputably dominant victory in several years, winning his eighth Roddick rolls to over Sultan Ibragimov on Saturday. straight bout and asserting his pre-emi- Far too strong and much too Klitschko wins easily nence atop a division that has lacked an victory; faces Stepanek long, Klitschko barely took a punch eminent champion since ' while winning a unanimous deci- jab, Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) slapped tion. retirement. in San Jose final sion, defending his IBF title and and herded Ibragimov Ibragimov (22-1-1) constantly From the opening round, Klitschko claiming Ibragimov's minor around the ring in front of strained to launch punches too small used his long left arm to slap down SAN JOSE, California (AP) - Top- WBO belt in the first heavy- a and slow to find their mark, and Ibragimov's jabs with a patronizing seeded Andy Roddick will meet Radek weight unification fight in crowd of 14,011 filled with Klitschko appeared fresh and mostly ease. Klitschko also repeatedly stepped Stepanek in the final of the SAP Open, as nearly nine years. Russians who whistled and unmarked at the final bell - even ready on Ibragimov's lead foot, further nullify- both overwhelmed semifinal opponents booed during to go another 12 rounds with WBA Klitschko, the chess-play- ing the smaller fighter's hopes of get- after hard-fought starts on Saturday. the fre- champion or WBC ing Ph.D. from a famed ting inside Klitschko's incredible reach. Roddick, the tournament winner in Ukrainian fighting family, used quent champ Oleg Maskaev, the next oppo- Klitschko dominated nearly every physics and simple geometry to stretch- nents on his quest for heavyweight round but did little significant damage 2004 and 2005, beat Spain's Guillermo remove nearly all risk from his es of unity. until the eighth, when he staggered Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (2), 6-1, backing up his meeting with Ibragimov, the pre- inac- Klitschko is determined to bring Ibragimov with a big left hook. big serve with consistently deep ground- viously unbeaten Russian under- order to 's fractured former glam- Ibragimov slipped to the canvas later in strokes that had Garcia-Lopez working dog. The 6-foot-7 (1.99-meter) , of Ukraine, punches the round, and Klitschko battered hard for every rare opening. Klitschko is at least a half-foot (15 Ibragimov into the ropes early in the Sultan Ibragimov, of , right, during Stepanek had an exciting comeback centimeters) taller and 20 pounds ninth. victory over Robby Ginepri, winning 6-7 (9 kilograms) heavier than the first round of a championship unifi- Don Ackerman scored it 119-110 for (5), 6-4, 6-1. Ibragimov, who constantly appeared cation boxing match Saturday, Feb. Klitschko, while Chuck Giampa saw the to be flailing against a mean-spirited 23, 2008 at Madison Square Garden in fight 117-111 and Steve Weisfeld favored Roddick has a 3-0 career record over older brother. New York. Klitschko won the fight. Klitschko 118-110. The Associated Press Stepanek, including a victory in With little more than an insistent (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) also scored it for Klitschko, 119-109. Washington last year which Roddick won 6-3, 1-6, 7-5.

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