MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017 SPORTS

Bangladesh player arrested over photos of girlfriend

DHAKA: Bangladesh police yesterday “She said Sunny opened up a fake used to crack down on dissent. ed from international matches during claimed to be his fiancÈ. arrested national cricketer Arafat Sunny Facebook account of hers and posted There was no immediate comment the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 for an ille- The fast bowler was however grant- for allegedly breaching strict internet their personal photos, which she found from the cricketer. “It seems to be a per- gal action. ed bail days after his arrest to join the laws after his girlfriend accused him of offensive and defamatory,” he told AFP. sonal matter. We don’t want to comment Since then he has been playing squad for the 2015 World Cup. The uploading sensitive photos on social “We have arrested him and sent him to now, however, we are observing (the sit- domestic first-class for Dhaka actress later withdrew the charges. media. Police raided the home of the the court, seeking to take him into cus- uation),” Bangladesh Cricket Board chief Metropolis. Sunny is the third national Shahadat spent nearly two months in 30-year-old slow left-arm bowler in the tody for five days for questioning.” executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury told team cricketer to have been arrested in custody last year after he and his wife Dhaka suburb of Aminbazar after his If found guilty Sunny could face up to AFP. The spinner has played 16 one-day recent years, after pacemen Rubel were arrested on charges of torturing longtime girlfriend filed a complaint two 14 years in jail or a fine of 10 million taka internationals, taking 24 , and 10 Hossain and . Rubel an 11-year-old girl whom he weeks ago, said local police chief ($126,340) under the controversial law, Twenty20 internationals in which he was jailed in 2015 after he was charged employed as a maid. A court acquitted Jamaluddin Mir. which local right groups say is being picked up 12 wickets. He was suspend- in a rape case filed by an actress who the couple. —AFP Injured Mathews wins it for Sri Lanka

JOHANNESBURG: Injured Angelo discovery gave Mathews hit two sixes in the last over to hope of defending their low total, taking hand Sri Lanka a series-levelling three- four for 19. win in the second Twenty20 interna- tional against South Africa yesterday. But BIG HIT the win came at a cost. Mathews said at the Ngidi, who was man of the match when after-match presentation that he could South Africa won the first game in miss the rest of the tour after twisting his Centurion, took three wickets in an electri- right ankle when he dived to avoid being fying three-over opening spell, then came run out in the penultimate over. “It’s pretty back to take another wicket in the 15th bad, I think I will be out for a couple of over, at the end of which Sri Lanka were 89 weeks,” said Mathews, who made 54 not for four. out as Sri Lanka chased down a low South It came down to eight needed off the African total of 113 with two balls to spare. last seven balls when man of the match The third and final Twenty20 interna- Mathews was injured after a risky leg bye. tional will be played in Cape Town on He managed to hobble a single off Wayne Wednesday, followed by five one-day inter- Parnell’s last ball to keep the strike. nationals, finishing on February 10. On an Mathews went for a big hit off the first unusually dry, slow Wanderers pitch, South ball of the last over, bowled by left-arm Africa were bowled out in 19.3 overs. spinner Jon-Jon Smuts, and was dropped Left-arm wrist spinner Lakshan by a diving Heino Kuhn at deep midwicket. Sandakan, playing in his first T20 interna- He did not take a run. He hit the next ball tional-although he has played in three Test for six to level the scores and two balls later matches and a one-day international-took finished the match with another six. “I had four for 23 and bamboozled the South to hit sixes because I couldn’t run,” he said. African batsmen with his ability to spin the South African captain ball both ways. said: “On a deck that was a little bit slow, Sri Seamers Isara Udana and Nuwan Lanka kept taking wickets and we couldn’t Kulasekera took three for 13 and two for launch at the end. “We were put under pres- 10 respectively. Heino Kuhn top-scored for sure today. But the guys really fought hard South Africa with 29. New fast bowling and I’m proud of them.” — AFP KOLKATA: Indian team pose with trophy after winning the series after their third cricket match against England at Eden SCOREBOARD Gardens in Kolkata, India, yesterday. —AP

JOHANNESBURG: Scores in the second between South Africa and Sri Lanka at the Wanderers Stadium yesterday. Jadhav’s 90 in vain as South Africa Sri Lanka J. Smuts c Sandakan b Kulasekera 4 N. Dickwella c Mosehle b Ngidi 22 H. Kuhn st Chandimal b Sandakan 29 D. de Silva c Miller b Ngidi 2 T. de Bruyn c D. de Silva b Udana 7 K. Mendis b Ngidi 4 M. Mosehle c Chandimal b Sandakan 11 D. Chandimal c Mosehle b Ngidi 22 England wins third ODI D. Miller c Mathews b D. de Silva 11 A. Mathews 54 F. Behardien c Chandimal b Udana 27 A. Gunaratne lbw b Imran Tahir 3 W. Parnell c Mathews b Sandakan 3 S. Prasanna c Imran Tahir b Smuts 2 KOLKATA: England narrowly avoided an Indian A. Phehlukwayo c Chandimal b Sandakan 0 T. de Silva c Behardien b Parnell 3 sweep of the one-day international series, win- SCOREBOARD A. Phangiso c Gunaratne b Udana 13 N. Kulasekera not out 0 Imran Tahir b Kulasekera 1 ning the third and final cricket match by five Extras (b3, lb2, w2) 7 L. Ngidi not out 2 runs as Ben Stokes took 3-63 and ’s KOLKATA: Scoreboard yesterday from the third one-day international between India and England at Eden Gardens: Total (7 wkts, 19.4 overs) 119 Extras (lb2, w3) 5 fighting 90 went in vain yesterday. Fall of wickets: 1-11 (D. de Silva), 2-15 (Mendis), 3- England Innings India Innings Total (19.3 overs) 113 India fell short on 316-9 in reply to England’s 35 (Dickwella), 4-86 (Chandimal), 5-93 b Jadeja 65 Ajinkya Rahane b Willey 1 Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Smuts), 2-13 (De Bruyn), 3-41 321-8 in 50 overs. Stokes blasted an undefeated (Gunaratne), 6-97 (Prasanna), 7-105 (T. de Silva) c Bumrah b Jadeja 35 Lokesh Rahul c Buttler b Ball 11 (Mosehle), 4-57 (Kuhn), 5-68 (Miller), 6-74 (Parnell), 57 off 39 balls to propel the tourists’ innings late 7-74 (Phehlukwayo), 8-107 (Behardien), 9-109 Bowling: Ngidi 4-0-19-4 (1w), Parnell 3-0-16-1, c Jadeja b Pandya 56 Virat Kohli c Buttler b Stokes 55 Phehlukwayo 2-0-22-0, Imran Tahir 4-0-14-1, on, after Jason Roy (65) and Jonny Bairstow (56) Eoin Morgan c Bumrah b Pandya 43 c Billings b Plunkett 45 (Imran Tahir) both scored half-centuries. Bowling: Mathews 2-0-11-0, Kulasekera 3-0-10-2, Phangiso 4-0-24-0, Smuts 2.4-0-19-1 (1w) Jos Buttler c Rahul b Pandya 11 MS Dhoni c Buttler b Ball 25 Udana 2.3-0-13-3 (1w), Prasanna 3-0-24-0, Did not bat: I. Udana, L. Sandakan India won the first two ODIs to take the Ben Stokes not out 57 Kedar Jadhav c Billings b Woakes 90 Sandakan 4-0-23-4 (2w), Gunaratne 4-0-27-0, D. de Result: Sri Lanka won by three wickets series 2-1. India started badly as its openers’ c Jadeja b Bumrah 2 Hardik Pandya b Stokes 56 Silva 1-0-3-1. Series: The three-match series is tied at 1-1 poor form continued. David Willey (1-8), who Chris Woakes run out Kumar/Dhoni 34 c Bairstow b Woakes 10 went off with an injured shoulder later in the Liam Plunkett run out Pandey (sub)/Dhoni 1 Ravichandran Ashwin c Woakes b Stokes 1 innings, bowled Ajinkya Rahne (1) in the second Extras: (1b, 8lb, 7w, 1nb) 17 Bhuvneshwar Kumar not out 0 over. Lokesh Rahul (11) skied a catch while TOTAL: (for eight wickets) 321 not out 0 attempting a wild pull off Jake Ball (2-56) in the Overs: 50. Minutes: 221. Extras: (8lb, 13w, 1nb) 22 sixth over. Did not bat: David Willey, Jake Ball. TOTAL: (for nine wickets) 316 Virat Kohli (55) then put on 65 runs for the Fall of wickets: 1-98, 2-110, 3-194, 4-212, 5-237, 6-246, 7- Overs: 50. Minutes: 241. third wicket with Yuvraj Singh (45) but they did- 319, 8-321. Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-37, 3-102, 4-133, 5-173, 6-277, 7- n’t look in control of the chase against England’s Bowling: Bhuvneshwar Kumar 8-0-56-0 (2w), Hardik 291, 8-297, 9-316. pacers. Pandya 10-1-49-3 (1w), Jasprit Bumrah 10-1-68-1 (1nb, Bowling: Chris Woakes 10-0-75-2 (1nb), David Willey 2-0- Dropped on 35 by Ball at fine leg, Indian 3w), Yuvraj Singh 3-0-17-0, Ravindra Jadeja 10-0-62-2, 8-1 (5w), Jake Ball 10-0-56-2 (1w), Liam Plunkett 10-0-65- skipper Kohli reached his 39th ODI half-century Ravichandran Ashwin 9-0-60-0. 1 (2w), Ben Stokes 10-0-63-3 (5w), Moeen Ali 8-0-41-0. off 54 balls, as India’s 100 came in the 19th over. Stokes got the big breakthrough in the next the run-rate rising, they played some attacking fours and 1 six in all, took his side close. over with Kohli caught behind. strokes to change the complexion of the chase. With 16 needed off the last over, Jadhav After adding 31 runs with MS Dhoni (25) for They put on 50 off only 45 balls, as India’s smacked the first two balls for 10 runs, before the fourth wicket, Singh holed out to Sam 200 came up in the 36th over. Jadhav reached holing out to Billings in the deep. Chris Woakes Billings in the deep off Liam Plunkett (1-65). his maiden ODI half-century off 46 balls, while (2-75) then held his nerve as England registered England continued to claim regular wickets as Pandya scored his first half-century in interna- its first win on the tour, stretching back to the Dhoni too departed in the 32nd over, caught tional cricket too, off only 38 deliveries. test series in November and December. behind off Ball. Stokes bowled Pandya in the 46th over, and India won the first ODI in Pune by three wick- JOHANNESBURG: Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews takes a run during the second India was 173-5 at that stage, but Jadhav put India needed 43 runs off the last 24 balls. ets, and the second ODI in Cuttack by 15 runs. T20 match between South Africa and Sri Lanka yesterday at Wanderers Cricket on 104 runs for the sixth wicket with Hardik Ravindra Jadeja (10) and Ravichandran Ashwin The three-match Twenty20 series starts in Ground in Johannesburg. — AFP Pandya (56). The duo started off slowly but, with (1) couldn’t do much, but Jadhav, who hit 12 Kanpur on Thursday.— AP

SCOREBOARD Warner helps Australia seal

SYDNEY: Complete scoreboard from the fourth one-day interna- ODI series win over Pakistan tional between Australia and Pakistan in Sydney yesterday. SYDNEY: Pakistan coach Pakistan fielding. Warner top-scored with Australia U. Khawaja c Rizwan b Hasan 30 blasted his players after their blunders 130 but Pakistan did not help themselves, D. Warner c Rizwan b Hasan 130 helped Australia secure their one-day series conceding a number of overthrows and S. Smith lbw Hasan 49 at Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday, taking dropped catches at crucial times. T. Head c Shoaib b Amir 51 a 3-1 lead in the five match series. He was dropped on 113 when Hasan Ali G. Maxwell c Sharjeel b Hasan 78 Set an imposing 354 to win, Pakistan grassed a simple chance at mid-off from M. Wade c Imad b Hasan 5 were never really in the hunt. spinner . M. Starc not out 0 After Australia made 353 for six on the Smith scored 49 off 48 balls, but was let Extras (lb8, w2) 10 back of a century that was off at 10 when Sharjeel made a lazy one- Total (for 6 wickets, 50 overs) 353 aided by appalling fielding from the handed attempt at gully from Junaid Fall of wickets: 1-92 (Khawaja), 2-212 (Warner), 3-213 (Smith), 4-313 tourists, Pakistan replied with 267 from 43.5 Khan’s bowling. (Head), 5-339 (Wade), 6-353 (Maxwell) overs. A frustrated Arthur was left lament- Sharjeel also dropped Travis Head when Bowling: Hafeez 9-0-54-0, Amir, 10-0-75-1 Junaid 10-0-82-0 (1nb), ing another sloppy fielding effort marked he was on 28, again to the chagrin of the Hasan 10-1-52-5 (1nb), Imad 9-0-69-0, Shoaib 2-0-13-0. by a number of dropped catches. luckless Junaid. Head went on to make 51. “We can’t compete with a side like And Hasan put down a difficult chance Pakistan Australia if we give their top five that many off Glenn Maxwell when he was on eight Azhar Ali c Smith b Hazlewood 7 chances,” he said. “It’s unacceptable, those and the Australian ended on 78. Despite his Sharjeel Khan c Warner b Zampa 74 standards we set as a cricket team those two dropped catches Hasan redeemed Babar Azam c Hazlewood b Head 31 standards haven’t been met. Is it skill level, himself by taking five for 52, easily the best Mohammad Hafeez c sub (Faulkner) b Zampa 40 attitude, or is it fatigue?” of the Pakistan bowlers. c Warner b Head 47 Umar Akmal c Cummins b Starc 11 Opener Sharjeel Khan, who dropped Warner and Smith put on 120 for the Mohammad Rizwan lbw Zampa 10 two catches in the Australian innings, second wicket to put Australia in a com- Imad Wasim c Wade b Hazlewood 25 whacked out 74 from just 47 balls, but once manding position before Hasan removed c Wade b Cummins 5 he fell to recalled leg-spinner Adam Zampa both in the space of three balls to give the Hasan Ali not out 8 Pakistan’s fate was all but sealed. tourists a lift. b Hazlewood 0 Warner backed his form with the bat by However, Head and Maxwell then cut Extras (lb5, w4) 9 doing what the Pakistanis couldn’t and loose to add 100 for the fourth wicket in 64 Total (all out, 43.5 overs) 267 hanging on to two excellent catches. balls. Pakistan recalled captain Azhar Ali Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Azhar), 2-88 (Babar), 3-119 (Sharjeel), 4-183 He was pleased to have the series after a hamstring injury at the expense of (Hafeez), 5-215 (Shoaib), 6-218 (Umar), 7-245 (Rizwan), 8-252 wrapped up ahead of the final game in , while Australia recalled (Amir), 9-267 (Wasim), 10-267 (Junaid). Adelaide on Thursday, saying the team Mitchell Starc and spinner Zampa for James Bowling: Starc 7-0-42-1 (3w), Hazlewood 8.5-0-54-3, Cummins 8-0- “played fantastic”. Faulkner and Billy Stanlake. Zampa, contro- 45-1, Head 10-0-66-2, Zampa 10-0-55-3 (1w). After Australian captain Steve Smith versially overlooked for the upcoming India Australia won by 86 runs won the toss, the home side took advan- tour, took his opportunity with 3-55 from SYDNEY: Australia’s Adam Zampa bowls during the fourth one-day international Australia lead series 3-1 tage of a placid wicket and the hapless his 10 overs. —AFP (ODI) cricket match between Australia and Pakistan in Sydney yesterday. — AFP