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SPORT MONDAY 18 DECEMBER 2017 25 James lifts Australia tighten grip on the Ashes Cavs over Perth, Australia Australia’s bowler Mitchell AFP Starc (centre) celebrates Jazz in NBA the dismissal of England’s ustralia had one hand James Vince on day four of on the Ashes at Los Angeles the third Ashes Test match stumps on the fourth AFP in Perth yesterday. day of the third Test against England in eBron James posted his PerthA yesterday. 60th NBA triple-double Trailing by 259 runs in the Lon Saturday, passing first innings after Australia Larry Bird for fifth on the all- declared at 662 for nine, Eng- time list and leading the land were 132 for four when Cleveland Cavaliers to a 109- stumps was called early after a 100 victory over the Utah rain-interrupted final session, Jazz. with Dawid Malan on 28 and James scored 29 points, Jonny Bairstow on 14, still behind pulled down 11 rebounds and by 127 runs. handed out 10 assists. It was The home side lead the five- his third triple-double -- Test series 2-0 and a win in the putting up double digits in last-ever Ashes Test to be played three statistical categories -- at the WACA Ground would see in the four-game homestand them regain the urn. that concluded Saturday. England’s best hopes of stay- His drive to the basket ing alive would appear to rest with one second left in the with the weather, and there was third quarter gave Cleveland a loud cheer from England fans an 80-73 lead going into the when the forecast rain first fourth, and he scored 10 arrived just minutes before tea. points in the final period. More rain is forecast on the James had scored or final day, although it is only pre- assisted on Cleveland’s first dicted to be a problem before 13 points. He connected on lunchtime. nine of his 15 shots from the The tourists’ second innings field and made all 10 of his got off to a dismal start when free throws. opener Mark Stoneman was in the second over. Alastair brilliant one-handed return 10 to his overnight total before three wickets for 12 runs. They Kevin Love had 15 points caught behind from the bowling Cook’s woes then continued catch to remove him for 14, leav- being dismissed for 239, his were also lucky not to lose Paine and five rebounds, and rookie of Josh Hazlewood for just three when Hazlewood snared a ing the former skipper with just innings was the cornerstone of for 11 when he was given out Cedi Osman scored a career- 83 runs at 13.83 for the series. the massive total. looking plumb lbw to Anderson, high 10 points for Cleveland, SCOREBOARD Captain Joe Root was the Smith was adjudged leg only for a review to show the ball who are 17-1 since November third man out, to spinner Nathan before wicket on review after would have gone over the leg 11 and notched an 11th straight England (I innings): ..............................403 Bowling: Anderson 37.3-9-116-4 (1nb), Broad 35-3- Lyon’s first ball of the innings, James Anderson’s confident stump. home win. Australia (I innings): 142-0, Woakes 41-8-128-1 (1w), Overton 24-1-110-2, caught at first slip by his Austral- shout was turned down by on- England have reportedly Cavaliers coach Tyronn C Bancroft lbw b Overton ......................................25 Ali 33-4-120-1, Root 3-0-13-0, Malan 6-1-13-0 ian counterpart Steve Smith for field umpire Chris Gaffaney. been unhappy with the decision Lue earned his 100th regu- D Warner c Bairstow b Overton ..........................22 England (II innings): U Khawaja lbw b Woakes .....................................50 A Cook c and b Hazlewood ...................................14 14 off the glove of wicketkeeper The review ended a chance- review process in the match. lar-season victory since being S Smith lbw b Anderson .....................................239 M Stoneman c Paine b Hazlewood .......................3 Tim Paine. James Vince looked less 399-ball epic innings which According to one British news- promoted to the job on Janu- S Marsh c Root b Ali ...............................................28 J Vince b Starc ........................................................... 55 impressive in making 55, but included 30 fours and one six. paper they have lodged an ary 22, 2016. M Marsh lbw b Anderson ....................................181 J Root c Smith b Lyon .............................................14 there was little he could do when The other overnight bats- official complaint after Mark The Jazz were without T Paine (not out) .....................................................49 D Malan (batting) ....................................................28 a Mitchell Starc delivery hit a man, Mitchell Marsh, had Stoneman was given out conten- French center Rudy Gobert M Starc run out ............................................................1 J Bairstow (batting) .................................................14 crack and deviated sharply to departed a few minutes earlier tiously by the third umpire, and Derrick Favors, who P Cummins lbw b Anderson .................................41 Extras (LB4) ..............................................................4 crash into his stumps as England -- failing to add to his 181 when caught off his glove, in their first were both hurt in a win over N Lyon c Ali b Anderson........................................... 4 Total (for four wkts) ..............................132 slumped to 100 for four. he was trapped leg before wicket innings. Boston on Friday. Gobert is Extras (B4, LB16, NB1, W1) ................................22 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-29, 3-60, 4-100 Total (for 9 wkts) ................................. 662 Bowling: Starc 10-3-32-1, Hazlewood 9-3-23-2, Earlier Australia scored their by Anderson to end a 301-run Anderson finished with four expected to miss up to a Fall of wickets: 1-44, 2-55, 3-179, 4-248, 5-549, M Marsh 3-1-14-0, Cummins 8.2-2-31-0, Lyon highest Ashes total at home and partnership with Smith. wickets, all claimed on day four, month with a sprained left 6-560, 7-561, 8-654, 9-662 8-3-28-1 fifth-highest against England. Australia then had Mitchell while Stuart Broad recorded knee, while Favors suffered Although Smith added just Starc run out for one as they lost career-worst figures of 0-142. an eye laceration. Meanwhile, Michael Bea- sley had the hot hand as the New York Knicks used a bal- anced scoring attack to defeat Kuldeep, Chahal set up ODI series win for India the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-96, spoiling the return of Carmelo Anthony to Madison Visakhapatnam SCOREBOARD Indian cricket team Square Garden. Reuters captain Rohit Sharma Beasley shot 11-of-18 Sri Lanka Bowling: Kumar 6.5-0-35-1, Bumrah 8-1-39-1, D Gunathilaka c Sharma b Bumrah ............13 Pandya 10-1-49-2 (w1), Yadav 10-0-42-3 (w2) looks on as he holds from the field to tally 30 pinners Kuldeep Yadav and U Tharanga st Dhoni b Yadav .....................95 Chahal 10-3-46-3 (w1) the One Day trophy points as six players scored Yuzvendra Chahal picked S Samrawickrama c Dhawan b Chahal ......42 India after winning the third in double figures for the Sup three wickets each to set A Mathews b Chahal ....................................17 R Sharma b Dananjaya ..................................7 One Day International Knicks, who improved to up a comfortable eight-wicket N Dickwella c Iyer b Yadav ............................8 S Dhawan (not out) .................................. 100 match against Sri 16-13 on the season. win for India against Sri Lanka A Gunaratne c Dhoni b Kumar .................... 17 S Iyer c Lakmal b Perera ..............................65 Anthony struggled in his Lanka at the Dr. Y.S. in the deciding third and final T Perera lbw b Chahal ....................................6 D Karthik (not out) ................................... 26 return, making just five field Rajasekhara Reddy ACA- one-day international in Visa- S Pathirana c Chahal b Pandya .....................7 Extras (B4, LB2, W15) ...............................21 goals and finishing with 12 A Dananjaya b Yadav .....................................1 Total (2 wkts) .................................219 khapatnam yesterday. VDCA Cricket Stadium points including none in the S Lakmal lbw b Pandya .................................. 1 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-149 The wrist-spinners scythed in Visakhapatnam second half. N Pradeep (not out) .......................................0 Bowling: Lakmal 5-2-20-0 (w1), Dananjaya 7.1- yesterday. through the Sri Lankan batting Extras (LB4, W4) ..........................................8 0-53-1 (w6), Mathews 3-0-30-0, Pathirana 4-0- Anthony, who was fea- order to bundle them out for 215 Total (all out) ................................. 215 33-0, Pradeep 3-0-10-0, Perera 5-0-25-1, Gu- tured in a highlight video in under 45 overs after the tour- Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-136, 3-160, 4-168, 5-189, naratne 4-0-30-0 (w8), Gunathilaka 1-0-12-0 during the introductions, ing side had made a blazing 6-197, 7-208, 8-210, 9-211, 10-215 Result: India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets heard cheers from the crowd start. of 19,800 but also a smatter- The hosts, who won the second wicket with Shreyas Iyer ball, Sri Lanka lost opener ing of boos. three-Test series between the and an unbroken 70 with Dinesh Danushka Gunathilaka for 13. sides 1-0, breezed to their tar- Karthik, who finished on 26 not But former captain Upul get with almost 18 overs to spare out.The left-handed opener Tharanga launched a brutal NBA RESULTS to secure their eighth series vic- reached his 12th ODI hundred counter-attack on the Indian Utah 103 Dallas 100 tory in a row in the 50-over in 84 balls, hitting 13 fours and quicks, smashing all-rounder Milwaukee 95 Chicago 69 format. two sixes. 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