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England defeat NewWellington Zealandstranded and New Zealand England’s Jos en Stokes’ brilliant diving 199 for seven with 4.4 overs Buttler and Joe Bcatch proved the catalyst remaining. Root appeal for a spectacular middle-order and Woakes for lbw against collapse, while then bowled brilliantly at the Henry Nicholls bowled a superb final over as death, with the latter restricting (Pic courtesy: England beat New Zealand by Williamson from scoring the espncricinfo) four runs in their third one-day 15 runs needed to win in the international yesterday. last over. The hosts had looked Williamson, who needed a comfortably placed to chase six off the final ball to win the down England’s 234 when game, or a four to secure a Stokes turned the game as tie, failed to make contact and spinners and Adil finished 112 with his Rashid took five for 23 side on 230-8 to leave England runs between them in the space with a 2-1 lead in the five- of 41 balls. match series. New Zealand Kane “Brilliant game of ,” Williamson, who scored his England captain 11th one-day century, however, said. “Our spin twins did a combined with Mitchell fantastic job. BRIEF SCORE Santner to halt the slide and “The pressure shifted a England 234 (Morgan then gave the hosts hopes of little bit with the Williamson- 48, Sodhi 3-53) beat New achieving a remarkable win Santner partnership and it was Zealand 230 for 8 (Williamson with a 96-run partnership. a tight game that could have 112*, Moeen 3-36) by four runs Santner was then unluckily gone either way.” run out for 41 when Woakes All of England’s batsmen got his hand to a straight had got starts but only Morgan drive from Williamson and looked comfortable on the deflected the ball back onto the drop-in pitch that appeared to stumps, leaving the all-rounder be two-paced. (Reuters) Aussies take lead past 400 Shakib ruled out of Durban Sri Lanka tri-series outh Africa fought back on Dhaka Test series and both Twenty20 the third day of the first Test angladesh captain Shakib internationals against Sri Sbut could not stop Australia Al Hasan has been ruled Lanka last month due to the from taking their lead beyond Bout of the upcoming tri-nation injury. 400 at Kingsmead yesterday. Twenty20 tournament in Sri Bangladesh included Australia were 213 for nine Lanka as he is still nursing a Shakib in the squad for the when bad light stopped play, finger injury, Bangladesh Nidahas Trophy in the hope an overall lead of 402. Cricket Board said yesterday. that he would recover at some will be faced The Nidahas Trophy, stage of the tournament. with a daunting task when they which also includes hosts Sri The BCB last week sent eventually get to bat on Sunday BRIEF SCORE Lanka and India, will start in Shakib to Thailand for an on a slow pitch on which Australia 351 and 213 for 9 Colombo on Tuesday. expert opinion on his injured batsmen have struggled to play (Bancroft 53, Morkel 3-42, Shakib picked up the injury finger, where doctors said it with freedom. Maharaj 3-93) lead South during the final of a tri- would need more time to heal. But the hosts could take heart Africa 162 by 402 runs nation one-day international Interim Bangladesh coach from a fighting, disciplined competition against Sri Lanka Courtney Walsh said Shakib performance after Australia in Dhaka in January. should not be rushed back to made a sparkling start to their He missed the two-match play cricket. (AFP) second innings. Dean Elgar won an lbw decision against Steven Smith (Pic courtesy: AFP) Cameron Bancroft (53) and (28) put on 56 in 13 overs for the first and eking out another 101 runs in attacked left-arm spinner who did not bowl between Australia seemed to be racing 44.4 overs before the umpires Keshav Maharaj when he lunch and tea after to an unassailable position. took the players off the field. started to bowl on Saturday, poorly in the morning, came The run rate remained brisk as bowled with scoring 20 runs off his first back strongly in late afternoon Australia reached 112 for three pace and hostility and was two overs. But Maharaj settled and finished with three for 42. at lunch. unlucky not to claim more down and again bowled the Bancroft made his first fifty The scoring dried up after than the two wickets he took most overs for South Africa, since he hit 82 not out on debut lunch, however, and Australia for 28 runs. taking three for 93 in 28 overs. against England in Brisbane in lost six more wickets while Bancroft and Warner Fast bowler Morne Morkel, November. (AFP) Shakib Al Hasan (file pic) Johnson-Thompson claims gold London She went into the final 800m event a wobbly day but I’m happy I got the reat Britain’s Katarina Johnson- with effectively a two-second lead opportunity. Thompson claimed her first global over Austria’s Ivona Dadic. “All my family are here, which Gtitle with victory in the pentathlon at the Johnson-Thompson looked is something that never normally World Indoor Athletics Championships. comfortable throughout and pulled happens. The 25-year-old built on three solid clear to win. “I had a hard year at the end of the events in Friday’s morning session by “I can’t believe it,” Johnson- year last year so I’m so happy they moving into first place with 6.50m in Thompson told BBC Sport. “I’ve got to witness it. I still can’t believe it Katarina Johnson-Thompson the long jump in Birmingham. dreamed of this for so long. It’s been really.” (BBC)