SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2014 SPORTS Amla strokes S Africa into strong position

PORT ELIZABETH: South Africa moved of the day when Philander had top- into a strong position on the third day of scorer David Warner caught at slip for 70. the second Test against Australia at St Nightwatchman Nathan Lyon, after stand- George’s Park yesterday but lost one of ing up to a bumper barrage from Morkel, their four specialist bowlers. chopped a ball from the tall fast bowler Australia were bowled out for 246 in into his stumps in the next over. their first innings, giving South Africa a lead and Brad Haddin both sur- of 177, which they stretched to 369 by the vived chances as they added 40 for the sev- close of play, reaching 192 for four. Hashim enth before Haddin was bowled by Amla returned to form with a sparkling . innings of 93 not out. Mitchell Johnson hit a quick 27 before But South Africa will be without left-arm he was bowled in the over before lunch by fast-medium bowler Wayne Parnell when off-spinner JP Duminy. In the previous over they attempt to bowl out Australia a sec- Johnson had been struck a heavy blow on ond time. the batting helmet by a bouncer from Parnell, who on Friday took two Morkel. with his first three deliveries of the match, Smith made 49 before he was given out pulled up with a groin injury after caught behind off a faint edge from Morkel DHAKA: Sri Lankan cricketers pose for a group photo with the tournament trophy following the presentation ceremony at the third One-Day three balls in his ninth over. after a review by South Africa. Australia International (ODI) cricket match between Bangladesh and at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. —AFP Team manager Mohammed Moosajee struck back at the start of South Africa’s said Parnell had a strain, not a tear, but second innings by dismissing both open- would nevertheless be unable to bowl in ing batsmen cheaply. the second innings. Graeme Smith failed for the Revamped Sri Lanka It left South Africa with three specialist fourth successive innings when he was bowlers after bringing in a batsman for an bowled off an inside edge for 14 by all-rounder after losing the first Test in Johnson - the eighth time he has been out Centurion by 281 runs. to the left-arm fast bowler in Tests. Australia found themselves in unfamiliar The opening partnership of 20 with whitewash B’desh territory in a dominant southern hemi- Dean Elgar was the highest by either side in sphere summer, during which they have seven innings of a series which features DHAKA: New-look Sri Lanka trounced Pakistan, Afghanistan and the hosts. Hossain (38), Naeem Islam (32) and skipper won six successive Tests, all by wide mar- two strong attacks. Bangladesh by six wickets in the third and final “It was nice to win even without the senior Mushfiqur Rahim (30) gave the hosts their high- gins. Elgar was caught behind off Peter Siddle one-day international in Dhaka yesterday to players,” said Mathews. “This was a good test for est score in the series. South Africa, though, looked more like for 16. Amla, who suffered a dislocated left sweep the series 3-0. our bench strength. It will put us in the right made light of the target as he the team that has surged to the top of the ring finger in dropping a difficult chance Seamer claimed three frame for the Asia Cup.” flayed the home team’s attack till the 40th over international Test rankings as they followed from Haddin at gully off Philander, struck wickets in his first match of the series as the Prasad was well-supported by new-ball part- when he was bowled by Rubel Hossain with 43 up a solid first innings with aggressive the ball with superb timing as he made his tourists restricted Bangladesh to 240-8 after ner , who finished with two for remaining for victory. bowling to put Australia under pressure. first Test half- in eight innings off 53 electing to field in the day-night match. 24 in 10 overs on the slow pitch. Rubel dismissed Chandimal in his next over The tall Morne Morkel was particularly hos- balls. He and steadied the Kusal Perera, a 23-year-old left-handed open- The hosts missed premier all-rounder Shakib to make it 205-4, but Mathews signalled the win tile, peppering the batsmen with numerous innings with a third wicket stand of 70. AB er, then hit a maiden one-day century as Sri Al Hasan, who was handed a three-match ban with a six off Naeem Islam. short deliveries as he took three wickets for de Villiers helped Amla add 55 for the Lanka surpassed the target with 15 deliveries to for a lewd on-camera gesture during the second “We have a lot to work on if we are to do well 63 runs. Vernon Philander claimed three for fourth wicket. By the close Amla had faced spare at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium. one-dayer on Thursday. in the Asia Cup,” said Rahim. “We need to score 68. South Africa were on top from the fifth 126 balls and hit 12 fours.—AFP Perera hit a belligerent 106 off 124 balls with Mominul Haque top-scored with a -a-ball big on these wickets, otherwise it puts the six boundaries and five sixes, sharing a third- 60, while valuable contributions from Nasir bowlers under pressure.” —AFP wicket stand of 138 with , who scored 64. SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka ended the month-long tour on a high, having also won both the preceding Test DHAKA: Full scoreboard of the third and final one-day international between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in and series. But the victory yesterday Dhaka yesterday: was sweeter as Sri Lanka took the field without Bangladesh: Priyanjan 6-0-42-0 (w1), A. Perera 3-0-17-0, Mathews 3- either of their three veterans, Mahela c Chandimal b Prasad 2 0-21-0 Jayawardene, and Shamsur Rahman c A. Perera b Prasad 25 , for the first time in a one- Mominul Haque 60 Sri Lanka: dayer since 2000. Mushfiqur Rahim c Senanayake b Prasad 30 K. Perera b Rubel 106 Jayawardene and Dilshan were nursing Naeem Islam c Prasad b Senanayake 32 L. Thirimanne c Shamsur b Mahmudullah 18 Nasir Hossain c Priyanjan b Lakmal 38 K. Vithanage b Mahmudullah 9 injuries, while Sangakkara was rested ahead of Mohammad Mahmudullah c Thirimanne b Lakmal5 D. Chandimal c Anamul b Rubel 64 the five-nation Asia Cup which opens in Sohag Gazi b T. Perera 23 A. Mathews not out 20 Bangladesh on Tuesday. Shafiul Islam not out 15 A. Priyanjan not out 22 The bowling was also depleted in the Arafat Sunny not out 1 Extras: (lb4, w3) 7 absence of pace spearhead , who Extras: (lb2, w7) 9 Total (for four wickets, 47.3 overs) 246 was given a break, and the injured duo of seam- Total (for eight wickets, 50 overs) 240 Fall of wickets: 1-44 (Thirimanne), 2-60 (Vithanage), 3- er and spinner Rangana Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Anamul), 2-62 (Shamsur), 3-108 198 (K. Perera), 4-205 (Chandimal). Herath. (Mominul), 4-130 (Rahim), 5-184 (Islam), 6-200 Bowling: Shafiul 4-0-27-0 (w1), Gazi 9-1-47-0, Rubel 10- Sri Lankan captain said the (Mahmudullah), 7-201 (Nasir), 8-232 (Gazi). 0-69-2 (w1), Mahmudullah 10-0-38-2 (w1), Nasir 4-1-12- Bowling: Lakmal 10-3-24-2 (w1), T. Perera 9-0-39-1 (w2), 0, Sunny 10-0-42-0, Naeem 0.3-0-7-0 series provided useful preparation for the Asia Prasad 10-0-49-3 (w2), Senanayake 9-0-46-1 (w1), Sri Lanka won by six wickets; sweep series 3-0. Cup, where the other contenders are India, Kuwaiti champions snatch top records at Qatar’s drag race

DOHA: Kuwaiti drivers ranked among the top in the sixth and final round of Qatar-hosted Arabian Drag Racing League which came to an end late on Friday. In the “Q-80” racing, Turki Al-Humaidi was crowned PORT ELIZABETH: South Africa’s batsman Hashim Amla (top) watches as Australia’s champion of the oulaw category. His fellow Kuwaiti racer, fielder Steven Smith (bottom) fields off his shot on the third day of their 2nd cricket Tareq Al-Qedairi came third in the “index-4.5,” and Abdullah Test match at St George’s Park. —AP Al-Shatti was fourth in the “8-c super street.” In the motorbike competitions, Al-Humaidi also came first in the “outlaw 10. 50,” and the Canadian Terry SCOREBOARD Schweigert won the championship in the “pro-extreme PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa: Close of play scores on the third day of the second Test between motorcycle” competition. In “super street,” the Kuwaiti racer, South Africa and Australia at St George’s Park yesterday. Misfer Al-Misfer, came second in the “stock.” The Kuwaiti team in the “drag-965” category bagged four cups for the South Africa, first innings, 423 Bowling: Steyn 13-3-55-1, Philander 13-0-68-3, top ranks and three champions’ cups. Australia, first innings (overnight 112-4) Morkel 17-0-63-3 (1nb, 1w), Parnell 8.3-2-31-2, C. Rogers lbw b Philander 5 Elgar 0.3-0-1-0, Duminy 5-0-24-1 In the cars’ race, Khalil Al-Ansari came first in the “pro- D. Warner c Smith b Philander 70 mod,” followed by the fellow Kuwaiti champion, Bader A. Doolan c De Villiers b Parnell 8 South Africa, second innings Khorshid. Other winning Kuwaitis were Abdul-Wahab Al- S. Marsh c De Villiers b Parnell 0 G. Smith b Johnson 14 Sulayem who came third in the “outlaw” and Jassem Al- M. Clarke c Elgar b Philander 19 D. Elgar c Haddin b Siddle 16 Maqhawi who recorded third spot in the “outlaw-8c-super N. Lyon b Morkel 15 H. Amla not out 93 street.” In the dragster cars, Nasser Al-Shatti won the race S. Smith c De Villiers b Morkel 49 F. du Plessis c Haddin b Siddle 24 coming first. In the motorbikes, the Kuwaiti Mohammad B. Haddin b Steyn 9 A. de Villiers c Haddin b Johnson 29 Bou-Rashed came first in the “pro-bike,” the seven-time M. Johnson b Duminy 27 Q. de Kock not out 9 world champion, the American, Billy Vose, ranked third in R. Harris c Du Plessis b Morkel 26 Extras (b2, lb5) 7 P. Siddle not out 11 Total (4 wkts, 47 overs) 192 the same contest. The Kuwaiti champion, Mohammad Al- Extras (lb4, nb1, w2) 7 Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Smith), 2-42 (Elgar), 3-112 Bedah, was fourth in the “super street bike.” Total (57 overs) 246 (Du Plessis), 4-167 (De Villiers) In the “street bike,” the Kuwaiti Bou-Rashed was first and Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Rogers), 2-41 (Doolan), 3-41 Bowling: Johnson 12-0-48-2, Harris 10-1-53-0, his fellow national, Bader Al-Eidan, was fourth. —KUNA (Marsh), 4-81 (Clarke), 5-120 (Warner), 6-128 Lyon 12-2-31-0, Siddle 13-2-53-2. (Lyon), 7-168 (Haddin), 8-205 (Johnson), 9-209 Match situation: South Africa lead by 369 runs (Smith) with six wickets remaining in the second innings. Busch wins Truck Series season opener at Daytona DAYTONA BEACH: Kyle Busch made series history. Peters was leading eluding me. I finally got one.” tried to block it.” Zou stops Yokthong to a little history at a pretty big track. coming out of the final turn and did Busch also gave Toyota its eighth The race was delayed more than Busch used a perfectly timed pass to all he could to block Busch, even consecutive Truck Series win at an hour after showers soaked the win the NASCAR Truck Series season nearly forcing him into the wall. But Daytona. It was the automaker’s 21/2-mile superspeedway. When the boost world title chances opener Friday night, becoming the Busch didn’t blink and drove by fourth victory in four races during green flag finally dropped, the trucks MACAO: Chinese flyweight Zou Shiming China’s largely untapped market. first driver to win an ARCA race, a Peters just before the finish line. Speedweeks. Busch’s Joe Gibbs raced relatively incident-free for 73 vastly improved his chances of a world Indicating his importance to promot- truck race, a Nationwide Series race It was Busch’s 36th Truck Series Racing teammates, Denny Hamlin laps. But then like it happens so often title shot when he registered the first ers, Zou’s non-title bout topped the bill and a Sprint Cup race at Daytona victory and first at Daytona. “Well, it and Matt Kenseth have the other at high-banked Daytona, a huge stoppage win of his professional career ahead of Mexican Miguel Vazquez’s suc- International speedway. Busch edged sounds awesome,” said Busch, three. wreck wiped out a large portion of Timothy Peters in the final few feet to acknowledging he would rather be a against Thailand’s Yokthong Kokietgym cessful IBF world lightweight defence Johnny Sauter was third, followed the field. provide one of the closest finishes in Daytona 500 winner. “This has been by Ryan Truex, Ron Hornaday Jr. and yesterday. The two-time Olympic cham- against Russia’s Denis Shafikov by unani- Ross Chastain started the 17-truck Ryan Blaney. Defending series cham- pion controlled the bout at Macau’s mous points decision. melee when he tagged Parker pion Matt Crafton was 13th. Venetian casino resort from early on and Also on the card, London Olympics Kligerman from behind. Kligerman’s This one will be remembered for he dropped Yokthong three times before middleweight gold-medallist Ryota truck turned sideways, sliding into the finish, which was the series’ clos- the referee halted it in the penultimate Murata took just four rounds to stop Mason Mingus. Mingus turned hard est in its 15-year history at Daytona. It right and slammed into the wall. He round, the seventh. Brazil’s Carlos Nascimento and make it was the eighth-closest margin in bounced back across traffic, collect- The 32-year-old meted out heavy three wins out of three since turning pro. series history. “I thought I was going ing several others in his wake. punishment in the fifth and sixth rounds And Russia’s Olympic light heavy- to throw it out there and see what “There really wasn’t anywhere for and he knocked down Yokthong, 19, weight champion Egor Mekhontsev was happens,” Busch said. us to go,” Mingus said. “Unfortunately, with a powerful shot in the seventh and an emphatic winner against previously Peters and Busch both figured the we destroyed a really good truck.” then twice more following an unan- undefeated Thai Atthaporn Jaritram, by leader would be a sitting in the Darrell Wallace Jr., John King, John swered flurry. The victory for Zou technical knock-out in the second round. final lap. Still, they both wondered Wes Townley, Joey Coulter, Brennan against the young but dangerous Thai Zou’s late plunge into the pro ranks how it would play out: Busch thought Newberry and Ben Kennedy also improved his professional figures to 4-0 follows an amateur career in which he he waited too long to make his move, were involved. None of the drivers and will allay his critics following some became China’s first Olympic boxing and Peters questioned letting Busch was hurt. unconvincing performances after mak- medallist, first world amateur champion create enough space to make a big Kennedy, the great-grandson of ing the leap from amateurism. Zou is and first Olympic champion. run. “You never want to be the NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., was being lined up to challenge The exploits made him a household bridesmaid, especially when you’ve making his Daytona debut. Kennedy, International Boxing Federation (IBF) name in China, where boxing was been to Victory Lane here before,” who ran five races in the Truck Series world champion Amnat Ruenroeng of banned under Mao Zedong, and where DAYTONA BEACH: Kyle Busch (51) spins through the infield after win- said Peters, who won the 2010 open- last season, led the first 52 laps Thailand in Macau in November, a fight his fledgling professional career has ning the NASCAR Truck Series auto race at Daytona International er. “Second place at Daytona isn’t too before stalling while driving off pit which would attract huge interest in been closely followed.—AFP Speedway. —AP bad. Kyle timed it right. I went up and road.—AP