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26 Sports Monday, August 19, 2019 Stokes blasts century as set 267 to win second Test Australia set 267 to win second Ashes Test by England

LONDON: made a brilliant century and England declared on 258 for five to set Australia 267 to SCOREBOARD win the second Ashes test at Lord’s yesterday. Stokes scored 115 , hitting three sixes and 11 fours, as the hosts added 162 runs to their overnight score Scoreboard at the close of England’s second innings on to give themselves a chance of securing an unlikely victo- the fifth day of the second Ashes Test against Australia ry in the rain-affected match which would level the series at Lord’s yesterday: at 1-1. The absence of Smith, who made 92 in the first innings and 144 and 142 in the touring side’s emphatic win England 1st innings 258 (R Burns 53, J Bairstow 52; J in the first test, is a major blow for Australia, although Hazlewood 3-58, P Cummins 3-61, N Lyon 3-68) will be able to bat in his place after Australia 1st innings 250 (S Smith 92; S Broad 4-65, C becoming Test ’s first concussion . Woakes 3-61) After resuming on 96-4 following another rain delay, England 2nd innings (overnight 96-4) Stokes and Buttler dug in to take England to 157-4 at R. Burns c Paine b Siddle 29 lunch. Buttler fell for 31 to after the interval, J. Roy c and b Cummins 2 but Stokes went on the attack and brought up his seventh J. Root c Paine b Cummins 0 test century, adding 97 with who finished J. Denly c and b Siddle 26 on 30 not out. B. Stokes not out 115 The hosts have 48 overs to bowl out Australia, who are J. Buttler c Hazlewood b Cummins 31 bidding to win in England for the first time since J. Bairstow not out 30 2001. Meanwhile, Australia batsman has been ruled out of the rest of the second Ashes Test against Extras (b5, lb19, nb1) 25 England at Lord’s due to delayed concussion, Cricket Total (5 wkts dec, 71 overs, 306 mins) 258 Australia said yesterday. Smith was struck on the neck by Did not bat: C Woakes, J Archer, S Broad, J Leach a during his innings on Saturday, Fall of : 1-9 (Roy), 2-9 (Roy), 3-64 (Denly), 4- forcing him to retire hurt, but he returned to the crease 40 71 (Burns), 5-161 (Buttler) minutes later and added 12 runs before being dismissed : Cummins 17-6-35-3; Hazlewood 13-1-43-0; for 92. : England’s Ben Stokes plays a shot during play on the fifth day of the second Ashes cricket Test match between Siddle 15-4-54-2 (1nb); Lyon 26-3-102-0 “Steve Smith has been closely monitored by medical England and Australia at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London yesterday. — AFP Australia: , , Usman staff overnight,” said in a statement. “He Khawaja, Steve Smith, , , Tim slept well but woke up with a bit of a headache and feel- Paine (capt/wkt), Pat Cummins, , Josh ing of grogginess.” “As part of the Cricket Australia con- test victory, did not field at the start of England’s second Test in Leeds starting on Thursday. “In terms of his Hazlewood, cussion protocol, repeat testing was performed this morn- innings on Saturday and will play no part in the last day of availability for the next test, it will be considered over Note: Marnus Labuschagne on as concussion substi- the match. England resumed on 96 for four on Sunday the coming days but the short turnaround is not in his ing and demonstrated some deterioration, which is consis- tute for Smith after a rain delay of over an hour, leading by 104 runs. favour. He will be assessed on an ongoing basis and will tent with the emergence of the symptoms he was report- Match position: Australia set 267 to win. ing. On that basis, he has been withdrawn from the Smith, who was also hit on the forearm during a hos- have a precautionary scan on his neck yesterday,” match.” Smith, who made 144 and 142 in Australia’s first- tile spell by Archer, will be assessed ahead of the third Cricket Australia said. — Reuters

breakthroughs.” Karunaratne and Thirimanne’s stand Karunaratne’s ton equalled the record for the highest opening in Tests between the two countries. In 1991, John Wright and leads S Lanka to Trevor Franklin had also put on 161 for the first in Hamilton. Relief for Tokyo The opening stand was pivotal in Sri Lanka achieving N Zealand Test win the highest successful run chase in , easily surpassing the previous best of 99. Resuming play on 133 for no loss, 2020 after smooth Sri Lanka required 135 from the remaining three sessions. GALLE: scored 122 as Sri “Thirimanne did a very job for us. The key was rotating triathlon mixed Lanka chased down 268 for the loss of just four wickets to the strike. I told him that we needed a big partnership. win the first Test against New Zealand at Galle yesterday They had two left-arm spinners and the two of us being and take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. left-handers, we had to handle them. That was what we relay test Karunaratne posted his ninth Test hundred along with were talking about,” Karunaratne said. enjoying a record-equalling opening partnership of 161 “When we started this morning, we had a small target with , who made 64, as Sri Lanka col- TOKYO: France won a thrilling mixed triathlon test to get another 30 runs and then reassess and all went to GALLE: Sri Lanka’s cricket team captain Dimuth lected their first points of the World Test Championship. plan.” Karunaratne said he was happy with his perform- event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics yesterday, Former captain Angelo Mathews chipped in with an Karunaratne (R) celebrates after a century (100 which passed off as planned in a welcome boost for ance. “The last time I scored a hundred was a year ago. I runs) during the final day of the first match unbeaten 28 as Sri Lanka finished off the game before had gone through 11 games without a hundred since then... organisers after difficulties with high temperatures lunch after the morning session was extended because between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Galle and water pollution. During the tours of , New Zealand and International Cricket Stadium in Galle yesterday. — AFP only 22 runs were needed at the scheduled time for Australia I couldn’t make an impact but when I got an The swimming leg of the paratriathlon on the interval. opportunity today I cashed in,” he added. New Zealand Saturday was scrapped after water tests showed Karunaratne enjoyed some luck on the way to his cen- finally got their breakthrough when Thirimanne was Lanka lost after Karunaratne’s levels of e-coli bacteria more than double the tury, dropped on 58 at forward short leg by Tom Latham trapped leg before by William Somerville. Given not out by but (14) joined Mathews and acceptable standard and the running section of a while wicketkeeper BJ Watling missed a stumping chance Richard Illingworth, New Zealand overturned the helped Sri Lanka knock off the remaining runs with two women’s test event on Thursday was curtailed in on the same score. He batted for over five hours, facing decision on review. sessions to spare. blistering temperatures, with French athlete 245 deliveries, and hit six fours and a six. soon fell after taking on Somerville, hit- Mathews brought up the winning runs with a single to Cassandre Beaugrand treated for heatstroke. “Perhaps we didn’t have a lot go our way, and maybe ting him for a four and a six from the second and fourth fine leg off Boult. “Having 268 to defend going into the last But yesterday in the Japanese capital with the the odd chance we let ,” New Zealand skipper Kane balls he faced. But when he attempted to slog sweep Ajaz innings, we thought the wicket would deteriorate more temperature a slightly cooler 30 Celsius, the levels Williamson told reporters. “We knew that on that sort of Patel in the next over he ended up hitting straight to mid- than it did. It perhaps got slower. It wasn’t turning a huge of bacteria reduced to within permitted levels. surface if you are able to get a breakthrough things can wicket where Jeet Raval completed the catch. amount out of the rough. It didn’t get more difficult to bat The mixed relay, a new event for Tokyo 2020 happen quickly, as we saw later on today when perhaps Angelo Mathews joined Karunaratne and the pair put on,” Williamson said. The second and final Test begins in involving two men and two women, was won by the game was already lost. It was a shame not to get early on 44 runs for the third wicket to steady the ship. Sri on Thursday. — AFP France in a photo finish from Great Britain after a nail-biting final sprint. Dorian Connix chased down Alex Yee on the final well,” said Archer. “It’s never a nice sight.” The build-up to straight despite being behind for most of the race Archer’s ‘heart this match had seen Australia coach question and breasted the tape fractionally ahead of his Australia cricket whether Archer had the stamina required for Test cricket, British competitor. A powerful United States team skipped a beat’ as opposed to one-dayers where bowlers are restricted to came third. union condemns a maximum of 10 overs per match. The format is much shorter than the individual But Barbados-born Archer, coached at Sussex by for- race with each athlete completing a 300 metre after ball hit mer Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie, returned fine fig- swim, a 7.4 kilometre cycle and a 2km run before boos after Smith ures of 2-59 in 29 overs where his speed rarely dropped handing off to a teammate, making it less demand- Smith’s neck below the 90 mph mark. ing in hot weather. felled by Archer “Obviously a lot of people haven’t seen first-class “I don’t think conditions were as bad as cricket shown on TV, so they won’t know what I’m used to Thursday when we raced,” South Africa’s Gillian doing anyway,” Archer said Sunday, with England set to LONDON: England fast bowler Jofra Archer insisted he Sanders told AFP. “I don’t think it’s too hot not to resume on 96-4 in the second innings, a lead of 104 runs. SYDNEY: Australia’s cricket union yesterday had no intention to hit Australia’s Steve Smith during the race or too hot to reduce the distance,” added slammed fans at Lord’s for booing Steve Smith after second Ashes Test, saying “everyone’s heart skipped a After stumps, Langer praised Archer’s performance by saying: “His endurance was outstanding today, his skill, his Sanders, who said that the water quality also felt he was felled by a bouncer from fast bowler Jofra beat” after he felled the star batsman with a fearsome better. bouncer at Lord’s. pace. “To be able to bowl 29 overs today, what a great Archer, saying the sport deserves better. “Personally, I don’t think I’ve acclimatised prop- In a compelling passage of play on Saturday’s fourth effort. Time will tell whether that has an impact,” he added, The star batsman collapsed face forward after a erly because I haven’t been here for long. I’ve been day that saw World Cup-winner Archer, making his Test with only a few days between the end of this match and sickening blow to the side of the neck and head when here five days and I think you need two or three debut, repeatedly test Smith with the short ball, the 24- Thursday’s start of the third Test at Headingley. — AFP on 80 during Australia’s first innings of the second weeks. So it’s a really good learning curve,” said the Ashes Test against England on Saturday. year-old Sussex quick produced a 92.4 mph (148.7 kph) 37-year-old. He was eventually able to walk off the field for bouncer that hit Smith on his unprotected neck. Battling the heat of the sweltering summer has concussion checks to a standing ovation after another Smith, who fell to the ground, retired hurt after receiv- become the main challenge for Tokyo 2020 organis- gritty performance. But when he returned some fans ing onfield treatment. But after just 46 minutes away, Smith booed him, mirroring the treatment he has received returned at the fall of the next wicket before he was lbw to ers, who have otherwise won widespread praise, from sections of the crowd in England keen to remind for 92. It was the first time this series that including from the International Olympic him of his 12-month ban for ball-tampering. England had dismissed Smith for under a hundred after his Committee, for their preparations. The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), innings of 144 and 142 in Australia’s 251-run win victory in Yasuo Mori, deputy executive director of the which represents players, said it was wrong to hurl the first Test at Edgbaston. Tokyo 2020 Games Operations Bureau, said ath- abuse at an injured player. Archer was criticised on social media for exhibiting a letes needed to have greater access to water during “Cricket deserves much better than that. And lack of concern on the field for Smith’s well-being but in an the race. “That alone would lower the risk of ath- Lord’s, the home of cricket, deserves much better than interview with BBC Radio before Sunday’s final day, he letes getting heatstroke. That may be one of the that also,” president Greg Dyer and chief executive insisted: “That is never the plan (to hit a batsman).” realistic measures,” he told reporters. Alistair Nicholson said in a joint statement. “You are trying to get a wicket first. To see him go The International Triathlon Union would examine “What we witnessed was bravery from an out- down, everyone stopped and everyone’s heart skipped a increasing the of water supply points and standing young man. It should be commended not vil- beat,” he added. “After he got up he was moving around was deploying medical staff every 500 metres along ified. “Over the English summer, generally the crowds and you breathe a sigh of relief. No-one wants to see any- the course in case of an emergency, Mori added. have been terrific and really added to the contest. But one getting carried off on a stretcher. It was a good chal- Aside from the problems at the triathlon, about a when someone is hurt, yet the boos continue, it’s time lenge, a really good spell. “For me, I wouldn’t like to see it dozen people, including a spectator, were taken ill to call ‘enough’.” end like that.” at a rowing test event last week with suspected Several former Australian greats also condemned Archer insisted he was just trying to force Smith out of heatstroke. the behaviour with Ian Healy calling it “disgusting” his comfort zone. “I’ve never seen Smith get out of his own A construction worker also died on an Olympic while Mark Taylor said it was “very disappointing”. accord until yesterday, so I was just trying to rattle him,” site as Tokyo sweats through a prolonged and While angry at Smith’s treatment by some fans, the he told Sky Sports. “I was trying to get him out, I had a deadly heatwave. The triathlon test events have ACA applauded the decision by medics to insist the short leg and a leg slip and he was trying to work the ball courted controversy even without the heat — two 30-year-old leave the field for concussion checks, a off his hip, so if one bounces a bit more it should go to British athletes were disqualified on Thursday for protocol pushed by Australia following the death of short leg, or one of the guys waiting.” crossing the line first holding hands. in 2014. Hughes, a former team-mate of Smith was not wearing the additional neck guard on his Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown fell Smith’s, died after being hit by a bouncer in a domes- helmet that came into use following the death of Phillip foul of ITU rules stating that “athletes who finish in tic Sheffield Shield match in Sydney. “The events at Hughes after his former Australia team-mate was hit by a LONDON: England’s Jofra Archer (R) celebrates with England’s captain (L) after taking the wicket of Australia’s a contrived tie situation, where no effort to sepa- Lord’s show the importance of the concussion proto- bouncer in a 2014 domestic Sheffield Shield match in rate their finish times has been made, will be dis- Sydney. “You don’t ever want to see anyone carried off on during play on the fifth day of the second cols which have been developed in Australia over the qualified”. — AFP last few years,” it said. — AFP a stretcher, or you don’t want to see them missing a day, or Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia at a game, especially with what happened a few years ago as Lord’s Cricket Ground in London yesterday. — AFP