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Stokes Blasts Century As England Set Australia 267 to Win Second Test Australia Set 267 to Win Second Ashes Test by England 26 Sports Monday, August 19, 2019 Stokes blasts century as England set Australia 267 to win second Test Australia set 267 to win second Ashes Test by England LONDON: Ben Stokes 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 not out, 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) Marnus Labuschagne will be able to bat in his place after Australia 1st innings 250 (S Smith 92; S Broad 4-65, C becoming Test cricket’s first concussion substitute. 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 Pat Cummins 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 Jonny Bairstow 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 the Ashes in England for the first time since J. Bairstow not out 30 2001. Meanwhile, Australia batsman Steve Smith 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 Jofra Archer bouncer during his innings on Saturday, Fall of wickets: 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 Bowling: Cummins 17-6-35-3; Hazlewood 13-1-43-0; for 92. LONDON: 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: David Warner, Cameron Bancroft, Usman staff overnight,” Cricket Australia said in a statement. “He Khawaja, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Matthew Wade, Tim slept well but woke up with a bit of a headache and feel- Paine (capt/wkt), Pat Cummins, Peter Siddle, 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, Nathan Lyon 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 partnership 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 wicket in Hamilton. Relief for Tokyo The opening stand was pivotal in Sri Lanka achieving N Zealand Test win the highest successful run chase in Galle, 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: Captain Dimuth Karunaratne 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 Lahiru Thirimanne, 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 scoring 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 Test cricket 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 South Africa, 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 Kusal Perera after Karunaratne’s dismissal 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 Dhananjaya de Silva (14) joined Mathews and acceptable standard and the running section of a while wicketkeeper BJ Watling missed a stumping chance umpire 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. Kusal Mendis 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 slip,” 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 Colombo on Thursday. — AFP France in a photo finish from Great Britain after a nail-biting final sprint.
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