The Island, Wednesday 1st February, 2006 Jayasuriya provides only spark in Sri Lanka’s patchy display by Revata S. Silva in lengthy 83-match Australia SA 81 for no loss career where he had The dream start taken only five provided by veteran after 15 scalps. dasher Sanath The Sri Lankans South Africans were cruising on 81 for Jayasuriya soon fol- started in thunder- no loss after 15 overs. Graeme Smith lowed with Sri ing fashion but sur- was on 40 with Dippenaar on 37. Lanka in disarray as rendered meekly. It they slid from 137 for proved, yet again, one in 22 over to 222 all out in 47.4 overs that the Sri Lankan batting is an empty in their penultimate league match of the shell without Jayasuriya, whose inclu- VB tri-series against South Africa in sion in the national side only days before Perth yesterday. raised some eyebrows. Jayasuriya scored 86 in 65 balls in his After Russel Arnold and Tillakaratne usual ‘destructive’ style while hammer- Dilshan batted for six overs (from 159 for ing nine fours and three sixes on his way five in the 31st over), Sri Lanka’s down- to his 59th fifty in his 350th ODI. But the fall gathered momentum as the rest of Lankans then lost four quick wickets, their middle and late order batsmen, including Jayasuriya, to go down from Arnold, Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan 137 for one in the 22nd over (run rate of Kulasekara, displayed a ‘free-of-charge 6.37) to 159 for five in the 31st. Along with pageant’ for the sparse Sri Lankan sup- Jayasuriya, they lost Mahela porters, giving away their wickets within Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara the space of three overs, reducing the within seven runs and four overs (1-137 to total to 182 for eight with 11.2 overs to go. 4-144). With only Dilshan remaining at the From then onwards South Africa crease as a recognised batsman, the situ- wrested control of the game to reduce the ation prompted the ‘super sub’ Malinga islanders to eight for 182 by the 39th over Bandara to bat at the expense of paceman and then 222 all out to the utter disap- Dilhara Fernando. Dilshan and Bandara pointment of their supporters who added 34 runs for the ninth wicket. expected an all out battle from them in SCOREBOARD this crunch game. Lankans lost their grip, mainly due to Sri Lanka the bowling of part-timer Graeme Smith, J. Mubarak b Smith 31 who bowled slow right-arm off-breaks. S. Jayasuriya c Prince b Smith 86 K. Sangakkara c Kemp b Langeveldt 16 Smith changed the entire complexion of M. Jayawardene lbw b Smith 1 the Sri Lankan innings taking three M. Atapattu c Rudolph b van der Wath 7 quick wickets, that of Jehan Mubarak R. Arnold c Kemp b Pollock 15 who fought hard for a fifty-ball 30, T. Dilshan run out 37 Jayasuruya and Mahela Jayawardena, C. Vaas run out 0 successively in his first three overs. N. Kulasekara c Kemp b Pollock 1 Kumar Sangakkara (16) and skipper M. Bandara run out 11 M. Muralitharan not out 1 Marvan Atapatu (7) soon followed off the Extras: (lb10, nb2, w4) 16 Perth, Western Australia AUSTRALIA: Sri Lankan opening batsman Sanath Jayasuriya cuts a ball as wicketkeeper Mark Boucher looks on at the WACA bowling of Charl Langveldt and new- Total: 222 yesterday. – Pic. Tony Ashby, AFP. comer Johan Van der Wath respectively. Fall of wickets: 1-94, 2-137, 3-142, 4-144, 5- Bowling from the Prindiville Stand 159, 6-179, 7-179, 8-182, 9-217, 10-222. End, the 24-year-old South African skip- Bowling: S. Pollock 10-3-17-2, C. Langeveldt per put the brakes on the flurry of runs 10-0-50-1 (1w, 2nb), A. Hall 9-0-49-0 (1w), J. van der Wath 8.4-0-66-1, G. Smith 10-0-30-3 (2w) No respite for India from Younis and Yousuf by the Lankans while enjoying his best Overs: 47.4 outing with the ball in One-dayers, after a Toss: Sri Lanka KARACHI, Jan 31, 2006 (AFP) - Younis Islam last year, was unbeaten on 74 and Pathan (1-61) and Rudra Pratap Singh (0- Khan and Mohammad Yousuf compiled their also in search for his third century in the 57) made little impression on the batsmen fourth century partnership of the series as series. and India looked set for a long haul in the Pakistan took a vice-like grip on the decisive The Indian bowlers once again had no field. third Test against India here on Tuesday. clue how to dismiss Younis and Yousuf on a A draw at Kandana The duo put on 148 for the unbroken wicket that appeared to ease out from the SCOREBOARD third wicket to lift Pakistan to 270-2 in their seaming track that produced 14 wickets on Maris Stella College took first innings who claimed eight wickets each, guided Pakistan 1st innings: 245 (Kamran Akmal 113; honours in their match against De Dharmapala College Kottawa to an out- second innings by lunch on the third day, an the first day and eight on the second. Irfan Pathan 5-61) Mazenod Colleg Kandana which ended in right victory over Wickramasheela overall lead of 277 with eight wickets in Younis and Yousuf had put on 319 in India 1st innings: 238 (Yuvraj Singh 45; a draw at Kandana on Monday. College in their inter school match hand. the first Test in Lahore and 142 and 242 in Mohammad Asif 4-78) With two full days and two sessions the two innings in the second Test in Pakistan 2nd innings (overnight 173-2): Maris Stella 284 (Channa Fernando played at Dharmapala Ground on Sunday. remaining in the match, Pakistan have Faisalabad. Both games ended in high-scor- Salman Butt lbw b Ganguly 53 97, Shanuka De Silva 49, Dhinan Nonis 48, Dharmapala 165 (S. Weliwatte 40, D. enough time to pile up an unassailable lead ing draws. Imran Farhat c Tendulkar b Pathan 57 Nilantha Kotikawatta 32, Terence Hewage 35, S. Kandanarachchi 27, A. Younis Khan not out 72 for their bowlers to exploit in the fourth Both batsmen failed to score in the first Levangama 5/67) and 73 for 4 at close Nimeshan 3/26, R. Rankoth 3/18) and 170 Mohammad Yousuf not out 74 innings. innings here, falling off successive balls to De Mazenod 221 (Sham Fernando 96, for 4 decl. (S. Kandanarachchi 60 n.o, I. Extras: (b3, lb3, nb7, w1) 14 Younis, leading the hosts in the absence complete Irfan Pathan’s sensational hat- Total: (for two wickets) 270 Nilushan Nonis 55, Nilantha Kotikawatta Athureliya 52 n.o, R. Rankoth 3/57) Wickramasheela 127 (E. of the injured Inzamam-ul Haq, was 72 at trick in the first over of the match on Sunday. Fall of wickets: 1-109, 2-122 5/80, Ashen Silva 4/43) Bowling: Pathan 16-1-61-1, Zaheer 16-1-66-0, Gunathilaka 63, A. Nimeshan 58, Rusiru the break and looking for his third hundred in They made amends in the second out- Singh 13-0-57-0, Kumble 9-0-39-0, Ganguly 9-1- the series. He has so far hit 11 boundaries. ing by smashing 97 runs in 25 overs in the Dharmapala triumph Belagama 5/33, Sithara Perera 3/37) and 39-1, Sehwag 1-0-2-0 102 (I. Pushpakumara 50, Sithara Perera Yousuf, formerly Yousuf Youhana two-hour morning session. Overs: 64 Sithara Perera and Rusiru Belagama, 5/41, Rusiru Belagama 3/26) before he converted from Christianity to Left-arm seamers Zaheer Khan (0-66), Toss: India India poses biggest threat to hosts at Youth World Cup by Rex Clementine game against India will be their last as it happened in 2000, when India, of expectations from the support- fixture in the group stages and will captained by Mohammed Kaif beat ers put the young players under Neighbour India poses the be played on February 10. The R. the hosts to win the 2000 edition of additional pressure? biggest challenge to hosts Sri Lanka Premadasa Stadium will host all Sri the competition at the SSC. “Conditions here are going to in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup Lanka’s first round games. Sri Lanka played India in the help us obviously and it’s an that gets underway next week in Two teams will qualify for the Afro-Asian Cup last year in India advantage. With expectations Colombo. Sri Lanka’s captain quarter-finals of the competition and were beaten in the final, but being so high, the pressure can Angelo Mathews, coach Sumithra from each group and if Sri Lanka apparently have addressed key build, but looking positively it will Warnakulasuriya and manager go through they will probably meet areas that didn’t go right for them help us to do even better,” Ashley de Silva addressed the either the West Indies, Australia or in that tournament. Mathews said. media in Colombo, on Monday. South Africa. “During the Afro-Asia Cup The hosts are also the most pre- Sri Lanka are drawn in Group “The Indian game is going to be fielding was our main concern. We pared team in the competition hav- ‘C’ in the two week long competi- the toughest for us. They are a good have done a lot of hard work ing toured Pakistan, Bangladesh tion along with India, Scotland and side, but having said that, we’ll be towards rectifying the shortcom- and England.