12 Friday, June 4, 2021 Sports Root, Burns hold fort for hosts after Conway’s double ton ANI LONDON Scoreboard New Zealand (1st Innings; Overnight: 246-3) Bowling: Anderson 28-7-83-2; Broad 27-5-79-0; DEVON Conway’s double ton T. Latham b Robinson 23 Robinson 28-6-75-4 (2nb); Wood 27-8-81-3; Root D. Conway run out (Pope/Root) 200 12.4-1-38-0. and tight bowling from the K. Williamson b Anderson 13 Qatar Racing Limited’s Sunstrike in action in the Maiden Fillies’ pacers helped New Zealand R. Taylor lbw b Robinson 14 England (1st Innings) Stakes for two-year-olds at Kempton in UK on Wednesday evening. gain an upper hand against H. Nicholls c Robinson b Wood 61 R. Burns not out 59 (Pic: John Hoy) England on Day Two of the BJ Watling c Sibley b Wood 1 D. Sibley lbw b Jamieson 0 C. de Grandhomme lbw b Robinson 0 Z. Crawley c Watling b Southee 2 ongoing first Test here at the M. Santner c Anderson b Wood 0 J. Root not out 42 Lord’s Cricket Ground on K. Jamieson c Crawley b Robinson 9 Extras: (b2, lb1, nb5) 8 Qatar Racing Limited’s Thursday. T. Southee c Bracey b Anderson 8 Total: (For 2 wkts, 43 overs) 111 At stumps on Day Two, N. Wagner not out 25 To bat: O Pope, D Lawrence, J Bracey, O Robinson, S Extras: (b7, lb15, nb2) 24 Broad, M Wood, J Anderson. Sunstrike opens England’s score read 111/2 Total: (All out, 122.4 overs, 577 mins) 378 Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Sibley), 2-18 (Crawley). and the hosts are still trailing Fall of wickets: 1-58 (Latham), 2-86 (Williamson), Bowling: Southee 11-4-17-1; Jamieson 10-4-29-1 the Kiwis by 267 runs. 3-114 (Taylor), 4-288 (Nicholls), 5-292 (Watling), (1nb); De Grandhomme 9-3-12-0; Wagner 10-1-36-0 account on 2nd start For the Three Lions, Rory 6-293 (de Grandhomme), 7-294 (Santner), 8-317 (3nb); Santner 3-1-14-0 (1nb). (Jamieson), 9-338 (Southee), 10-378 (Conway). Toss: New Zealand. Burns and Joe Root are cur- TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK in their acceleration, still three rently unbeaten on 59 and 42 DOHA lengths off. respectively. After bundling have extended their third- sent back to the pavilion by Switched to the centre out Kiwis for 378, England wicket partnership to 93 runs. Wood while de Grandhomme IN the burgundy and gold in the final 100 metres, she got off to a bad start as open- Earlier, resuming Day was scalped by Ollie Robinson. braids of Qatar Racing Lim- showed a huge burst of speed er Dom Sibley (0) was sent Two at 246/3, overnight bat- Kyle Jamieson then joined ited, Sunstrike (IRE) (Dark to fly to the lead and just head- back to the pavilion in just ters Devon Conway and Henry Conway in the middle and Angel x Extricate) opened her ed the Archie Watson-trained the fourth over by Kyle Jamie- Nicholls put on 42 more runs both batsmen ensured that the scorecard at Kempton in UK and Adam McNamara-ridden son. Soon after, Tim Southee to the total, and along the way, visitors head into the lunch on Wednesday evening in the Blaast (GB) (Showcasing x removed number three Zak Conway brought up his 150. break with three wickets in Maiden Fillies’ Stakes over Absolute Blast) by a nose in Crawley (2) and England was He broke the record for the hand. 1,200 metres (6 furlongs) for a photo finish. TheS aeed bin reduced to 18/2. highest score by a Test debu- After the lunch break, two-year-olds. She was mak- Suroor-trained and Callum Skipper Root joined Burns tant in England. Jamieson (9) and Tim Southee ing just her second start for Shepherd-ridden Wild Place in the middle and the duo en- Finally, the 174-run stand (8) departed early, but num- trainers John & Thady Gos- (IRE) (Mehmas x Turuqaat) sured that the hosts enter tea for the fourth wicket was bro- ber eleven Neil Wagner pro- den, and was partnered in the was a half-length further be- break with eight wickets in ken by Mark Wood in the 98th vided support to Conway and race by Qatar Racing Limited hind in third. hand. over as he sent Nicholls (61) both batsmen scored runs in retained jockey Oisin Murphy. Sunstrike is by top juvenile Root and Burns revived back to the pavilion, reducing quick succession. Sunstrike was somewhat and sprint sire Dark Angel, the innings for the hosts in the New Zealand to 288/4. In the 122nd over, Conway slow into stride out of the who incidentally also sired the final session, even though the Soon after BJ Watling (1), dispatched Wood for a six, and stalls and so Murphy settled winning of the Qatar Racing run-scoring was slow. Both Colin de Grandhomme (0), as a result, he brought up his her in towards the rear. Trav- And Equestrian Club Ballyo- batsmen ensured that they and Mitchell Santner (0) were double ton. elling smoothly around the gan Stakes (Gr.3), Sonaiyla at keep the Kiwi bowlers at bay dismissed in quick succes- However, in the very next bend on the all-weather track, The Curragh minutes later. He and England does not lose any New Zealand’s Devon Conway celebrates after reaching 200 on his sion, reducing New Zealand to over, he was run-out and as a she was asked to lengthen by stands at Yeomanstown Stud wickets in the final session of Test debut on the second day of the first Test against England at the 294/7. result, New Zealand was bun- her jockey with 500 metres to in Ireland, who also bred the the day. Both Root and Burns Lord’s Cricket Ground in London on Thursday. (AFP) Watling and Santner were dled out for 378. run. They stalked the leaders promising Sunstrike. India men’s and women’s cricket Al Shaqab Racing’s January scores first teams touch base in Southampton win in the Prix Carling at Saint-Cloud ANI India women’s head coach is the toughest format of the TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK take the lead, crossing the SOUTHAMPTON (UK) Ramesh Powar also tweeted game, it is a format that tests DOHA line by 1½ lengths in front a picture of his room at the you. It has not happened over of the field for her trainer AFTER landing in the UK on Ageas Bowl, Southampton.” the three months, it has hap- THE 4-year-old filly January Andre Fabre. Four Genera- Thursday, both the Indian India skipper Virat Kohli pened over two years where (FR) (Siyouni x Al Naamah), tions (FR) (Mastercraftsman men’s and women’s teams and head coach Ravi Shastri on teams have played each other trained by André Fabre in the x Whisper To Dream) was set base at the Ageas Bowl, Wednesday had said that the across the world and earned Al Shaqab Racing silks, put the runner-up. She is trained Southampton. final of the World Test Cham- their right to play in the finals. her first win on the board in by Elias Mikhalides and was After landing in Southamp- pionship (WTC) will be the big- It is one hell of an event,” said the Prix Carling at Saint-Cloud ridden by Stephane Pasquier. ton, the likes of Jasprit Bum- gest event as the longest format coach Ravi Shastri during a on Wednesday evening. The Yvonne Vollmer-trained rah, Wriddhiman Saha posted of the game tests a player in virtual press conference. Ridden by Augustin Mad- and Aurelien Lemaitre-rid- pictures of themselves at the each and every department. Kohli said: “We take a lot amet in this 2,000-metre Class den SOLKIA (FR) (Makfi x Hilton Hotel, which is present India and New Zealand will of pride in playing Test cricket 2 handicap for 4-year-olds and Solveigh) finished further in the premises of the Ageas lock horns in the finals of WTC and the way we have progressed older, January was slow away three quarters of a length be- Bowl. Bumrah posted a picture at the Ageas Bowl, Southamp- as a side is an example of what from the starting stalls, but hind in third. on Twitter and he captioned the ton, beginning June 18. Test cricket means to us. was quickly encouraged for- January is the first foal out post as: “Hello Southampton.” “See it is the first time that “So for all of us as a unit, ward by her jockey from her Al Shaqab Racing’s January at the winning post in the Prix Carling at of the top-class racemare Al Indian Premier League you have a World Test Cham- this is like an accumulation of wide draw to take up the run- Saint-Cloud in France on Wednesday evening. (Pic: Scoopdyga) Naamah, who also carried the (IPL) franchise Mumbai In- pionship final. When you look all the hard work of the last five- ning after just 300 metres. Al Shaqab Racing silks. She is dians posted a picture of Ro- at that and the magnitude of six years where we started to Once in front, ears pricked, back straight, Raja Luna moved ter of Siyouni was initially by the French Champion sire hit Sharma and Rishabh Pant the game that is going to be come up the ranks as a side and she set a steady pace with Raja to the lead, with January hold- shut in on the rail, but her Siyouni and was bred at Al chilling in their balcony at the played, I think this is the big- we are just happy to take the Luna (Rajsaman x Luna) on her ing her place on the running rail.