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Tuesday 26th July, 2011 SLC stops England take series controversial private lead after Lord’s win security firm Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will not LONDON (AP) — England took a 1-0 the Indian captain was caught behind have the services of any private lead in the four-Test series against India off Chris Tremlett for 16 early in the security firms for the upcoming after winning by 196 runs Monday, bowl- evening session. cricket series against Australia, ing the visitors out for 261 on an exhila- Eoin Morgan dropped a simple leaving the job of providing securi- rating final day after a five-wicket haul chance to catch Harbhajan Singh on 11 ty for teams and spectators to the from James Anderson and three from off Broad, whose next delivery thun- armed forces, an official of the Stuart Broad. dered into the batsman’s pads but he Cricket Interim Committee told The If England wins the series by a two- was ruled not out by Billy Bowden. Test margin, it will overtake India as Replays showed this to be the umpir- Island yesterday. the top-ranked team in the world. ing crew’s first serious mistake of the Mass scale corruption and wan- Anderson took 5-65 as India, which Test, but Harbhajan’s reckless batting ton waste have been allegations lev- began the fifth day on 80-1 in pursuit of rendered it academic. In the next over, eled against SLC previously with an unlikely 458 to win, collapsed in the he swished a ball from Anderson high the previous Interim Committee evening session at Lord’s with Broad into the air and was caught by Tremlett spending a colossal amount on secu- chipping in with 3-57. at mid on for 12. rity. Suresh Raina led India’s rearguard Praveen Kumar made just 2 before he action, making 78 from 136 balls with 10 was clean bowled by Broad, and though “A sum of Rupees 58 million had fours. VVS Laxman scored 56, while Raina then survived a referral for been allocated for security and later Sachin Tendulkar was out for 12 in pos- caught behind off Anderson, he was out it had been pruned to 26 million sibly his final match at the home of at the end of the same over, caught by which is absurd,” an official of the cricket. Prior. Cricket Interim Committee told The Tendulkar fell an hour into the after- It was left to Broad to finish India off Island yesterday. noon session, two balls after being five balls later, when he had Ishant “It’s understandable had these reprieved when a delivery from Sharma lbw to spark raucous celebra- Anderson hit the toe end of his bat and tions. money been spent during the height he was dropped by Andrew Strauss at On a day of unrelenting tension, fans of war as there was a genuine first slip. had started queuing at 2 a.m. for the threat. But what’s the use of spend- However, to Strauss’s relief, Anderson 20,000 tickets available, yet the ground ing so much at a time the war has removed Tendulkar by trapping him was still only around half full when play ended,” the official questioned. plum lbw, ending an innings in which he began nine hours later, with thousands “We will talk to the Defence had faced 38 balls and went 47 minutes still locked outside. without scoring. Some stands were opened only after Secretary and get the services of Before another run had been added, India resumed on 80-1, although they armed forces to provide security. We Raina was given not out by the third were filling rapidly by the time the first don’t need to spend colossal umpire in a reviewed stumping appeal chance of the day went begging. amounts on private security firms,” by Matt Prior off Graeme Swann. A ball from Tremlett looped up off the official further said. Replays showed Raina’s toe may just Rahul Dravid’s bat and pad, just beyond Under the D.S. de Silva headed have been in his crease and he was the reach of Ian Bell at short leg. Interim Committee massive sums given the benefit of the doubt. It was a short-lived reprieve for Raina looked like he might help res- Dravid, who wafted at an outswinger were spent on security with several cue India as he forged a 60-run partner- from Anderson and was caught behind individuals questioning the need to ship with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, until for 36. spend such amounts. At occasions there were opposi- tion from the Interim Committee COREBOARD S itself for allocating so much on England 1st Innings 474-8 decl Ishant Sharma lbw Broad 1 security, but strong opposition, par- India 1st Innings 286 Extras: (2b, 6lb, 6nb) 14 ticularly from Interim Committee England 2nd Innings 269-6 decl Total: (all out) 261 Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga India 2nd Innings (Overnight 80-1) Overs: 96.3. ensured that the private security A. Mukund b Broad 12 Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-94, 3-131, 4-135, 5- R. Dravid c Prior b Anderson 36 165, 6-225, 7-243, 8-256, 9-260. firm’s services were continued with. V.V.S. Laxman c Bell b Anderson 56 Bowling: Anderson 28-7-65-5, Tremlett 21- In the last two years, under the G. Gambhir lbw b Swann 22 4-44-1 (6nb), Broad 20.3-4-57-3, Swann 22- D.S. de Silva administration, SLC S. Tendulkar lbw b Anderson 12 3-64-1, Trott 2-0-11-0, Pietersen 3-0-12-0. ended up spending over Rs. 100 mil- S. Raina c Prior b Anderson 78 Result: England won by 196 runs. lion on security alone. M. S. Dhoni c Prior b Tremlett 16 Toss: Ind. Currently SLC is going through Harbhajan Singh c Tremlett b Anderson 12 Umpires: B. Bowden (NZ) and A. Rauf (Pak) a major financial crisis. P. Kumar b Broad 2 Third umpire: M. Erasmus (SA) India’s Sachin Tendulkar walks off after being given out lbw to England’s James Anderson during Zaheer Khan not out 0 Match Referee: R. Madugalle (SL) the fifth day of the first Test Match at Lord’s Cricket ground in London, Monday, July, 25, 2011. (AP) UK takes ‘lone-wolf’ threat to games into account FIFA urged to launch new LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Olympics page at a youth camp. Minister says the country has already Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson bribery investigations prepared for attacks by “lone wolves” on says “we need to see what the direct the 2012 London Games but will re-exam- cause of that is, but that will always GENEVA (AP) — A global trans- bin Hammam for life on Saturday, ine security plans after the attacks in cause anybody to look and to re-examine parency watchdog says FIFA must then asked FIFA to launch other cases Norway. their own security plans.” investigate all football officials, because it doesn’t have that independ- At least 93 people were killed when a He added Monday: “Clearly where Norwegian with right-wing views set off there are lessons to be learned from including three executive committee ent power. a bomb in Oslo and went on a gun-ram- Norway we will learn them.” members who were in Trinidad when Transparency International advis- Mohamed bin Hammam allegedly er Sylvia Schenk tells The Associated tried to bribe Caribbean voters. Press that “if bin Hammam is pun- FIFA executive members Worawi ished for giving money, someone has Makudi, Vernon Manilal Fernando to be punished for taking money.” and Hany Abou Rida accompanied bin Schenk says “everything has to be Hammam in Trinidad. investigated,” including those “having FIFA’s ethics committee banned taken part in this meeting.” Manilal Fernando Norwegian hopes victory will lift country SHANGHAI (AP) — For though I’m here in China, I’m wore a black piece of tape around the a minute or two, Norwegian able to feel the same emotions.” sleeve of his T-shirt, just below the swimmer Alexander Dale Oen Dale Oen won in a time of Norwegian flag. was able to block out the mas- 58.71 seconds, with Italy’s Fabio “I guess I was racing a little bit more sacre that has traumatized his Scozzoli taking silver in 59.42 with my heart today than I was technical- home country and focus on and Cameron van der Burgh of ly,”he said. nothing but the pool. South Africa winning the Dale Oen said the Norwegian team has As soon as he won the gold bronze in 59.49. comforted one another throughout the in the men’s 100-meter breast- The Norwegain, the silver week, and in the hours leading up to his stroke on Monday,however, he medalist in the same event at race, they tried to focus on “positive feel- pointed to the Norwegian flag the 2008 Olympics, said it’s been ings and a positive atmosphere.” on his cap and then rose out incredibly difficult for him to “I just tried to use what happened back of the water and flexed his Alexander Dale Oen concentrate on swimming this home as fuel and try to think that we just The annual Sri Lanka Schools Colours Awards was held last night at the BMICH. Ramith biceps — a show of strength week in the wake of the bomb- need to push forward and we really need Rambukwella, who captained Royal College in this year’s Royal-Thomian is seen here to his countrymen back home.