SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015 SPORTS LONDON: New Zealand’s Ross Taylor plays a shot off the bowling of England’s Moeen Ali during the second day of the first Test match. —AP Williamson frustrates England in first Test LONDON: Kane Williamson’s unbeaten 92 ment, England found life tough, with captain by Ian Bell at second slip off Stokes. But rounded off a fine day’s work for New Zealand Alastair Cook not often straying from orthodox England took two wickets for no runs in three SCOREBOARD in the first Test against England at Lord’s yes- field settings. balls shortly before tea. Ali succeeded where terday. The 24-year-old Williamson drove down the the quicks had failed by having left-hander LONDON: Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the first Test between England and New Zealand at The Black Caps ended the second day well- ground impressively and also used the cut Latham lbw. Lord’s yesterday: placed at 303 for two, just 86 runs behind shot to good effect in the first of this two- It was the end of a 95-ball innings featuring England 1st Innings (overnight: 354-7) 1w); Henry 24.5-3-93-4 (1w); Craig 18-2-77-1; England’s first innings 389. Williamson and match series. 10 fours, with Latham’s effort all the more A. Lyth c Watling b Southee 7 Anderson 5-1-14-0 Ross Taylor (47 not out) had so far shared an His fifty came in good time, off 78 balls with impressive after he found himself keeping A. Cook c Watling b b Henry 16 unbroken stand of 155 after coming together six fours. England resumed on 354 for seven, wicket for 75 overs while England batted fol- G. Ballance c Southee b Boult 1 New Zealand 1st Innings when the tourists had lost two wickets with having been 30 for four on Thursday before a lowing an injury to first-choice gloveman BJ I. Bell b Henry 1 M. Guptill c Ballance b Broad 70 their score on 148. fifth-wicket stand of 161 between Root (98) Watling during Thursday’s play. J. Root c Latham b Henry 98 T. Latham lbw b Ali 59 But Williamson was given a reprieve late in and Stokes (92) revived the innings. But they Next over, 148 for one became 148 for two the day when he went down the pitch to off- lost their final three wickets for just 37 runs in when Guptill carelessly drove a Stuart Broad B. Stokes b Craig 92 K. Williamson not out 92 spinner Moeen Ali on 92 only for Jos Buttler, 10.5 overs. Left-arm paceman Trent Boult (four outswinger low to Gary Ballance at cover. J. Buttler lbw b Boult 67 R. Taylor not out 47 still more of a batsman than a wicketkeeper, to for 79) and debutant fast bowler Matt Henry Guptill, one of the stars of New Zealand’s M. Ali c Latham b Boult 58 Extras (b14, lb20, nb1) 35 miss the stumping chance, albeit the ball spun (four for 93) leading the way. run to the World Cup final faced 115 balls S. Broad c Latham b Boult 3 Total (2 wkts, 77 overs, 332 mins) 303 sharply. England might have seen the back of both including eight fours and a swept six off Ali. M. Wood not out 8 To bat: B McCullum, C Anderson, BJ Watling, M Craig, T Now the stylish number three will hope to New Zealand openers when they were each in Then, with both new batsmen on nought, J. Anderson c and b Henry 11 Southee, M Henry, T Boult avoid the fate of England duo Joe Root and the 20s. Guptill was on 24 when he edged Williamson called for a reckless single which Extras (b16, lb6, w2, nb3) 27 Fall of wickets: 1-148 (Latham), 2-148 (Guptill) Ben Stokes, both out in the 90s on Thursday. debutant fast bowler Mark Wood to Cook at would have seen Taylor run out had bowler Total (all out, 100.5 overs, 433 mins) 389 Bowling: Anderson 16-4-46-0; Broad 16-2-42-1; Wood Earlier, Martin Guptill made 70 in his first first slip. Broad’s underarm throw hit the stumps at the Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Lyth), 2-25 (Ballance), 3-25 13-0-60-0 (1nb); Stokes 13-2-63-0; Ali 17-3-52-1; Root Test in two years and was well-supported by But would have been the Durham pace- striker’s end. England were often ragged in the (Cook), 4-30 (Bell), 5-191 (Stokes), 6-251 (Root), 7-354 2-0-6-0 Tom Latham (59) during what was just New man’s first Test wicket to be rubbed out when field on Friday, with Buttler conceding 14 byes, Zealand’s fifth century opening partnership in an umpire review to check for a no-ball although he could do little about one Broad (Buttler), 8-363 (Ali), 9-368 (Broad), 10-389 (Anderson) Match position: New Zealand are 86 runs behind a Test in England. showed he’d overstepped the crease by a frac- bouncer that sailed over his head en route to Bowling: Boult 29-6-79-4; Southee 24-1-104-1 (3nb, England with eight first-innings wickets standing. On a sunny day, and without much move- tion. After lunch, Latham was dropped on 21 the boundary. —AFP Pakistan beat Zimbabwe for emotional win on home soil LAHORE: Pakistan marked international cricket’s return to the trouble-torn coun- try with a five-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the first Twenty20 International at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium yesterday. Openers Mukhtar Ahmed (83) and Ahmed Shehzad (55) added 142 runs before captain Shahid Afridi hit a bound- ary off the first ball he faced to seal an emotional victory with three balls to spare. Earlier, Hamilton Masakadza (43) shone upfront and captain Elton Chigumbura (54) provided the late assault to help Zimbabwe post a strong 172-6 having opting to bat first. Six years after an attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus in Lahore left six Pakistani policemen and a van driver dead, Zimbabwe became the first test-playing nation to tour the country for a limited overs series. The visitors got off to a strong start with Masakadza and Vusi Sibanda adding 58 runs before Mohammad Sami (3-36), returning to the national side after a three-year absence, dismissed the openers in successive deliveries in the seventh over. Zimbabwe overcame mid-innings wobbles to reach 114-4 after 15 overs before Chigumbura, beneficiary of a missed stumping opportunity, accelerat- NEW ZEALAND: Francois Hougaard (left) of the Northern Bulls misses an attempt to ed hitting Wahab Riaz for three succes- tackle Damian McKenzie (right) of the Waikato Chiefs during the Super 15 rugby sive boundaries. The Zimbabwe skipper match. —AFP reached his fifty with an effortless flick that cleared long leg ropes for the only six of his breezy 35-ball knock. LAHORE: Zimbabwe’s Tinashe Panyangra clean bowled Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik at the Gaddafi sta- Chiefs overrun Pakistan looked in a hurry to wrap up dium. —AP the chase with Ahmed hitting Chris Mpofu for four successive boundaries in Bulls in Super rugby the bowler’s first over. SCOREBOARD Brian Vitori was hit for three consecu- LAHORE: Scoreboard in the first Twenty20 international between Pakistan and Zimbabwe played at Gaddafi WELLINGTON: Scrumhalf Augustine They remain at the top of the South tive fours in the next over as the 22-year- Stadium yesterday. Pulu scampered in for two tries in two African standings but could be overtaken old Ahmed, playing only his second Twenty20 International, cruised to his Zimbabwe Pakistan: minutes to steer the Waikato Chiefs to a by either the Stormers or the Lions. H. Masakadza b Sami 43 Mukhtar Ahmed c c Mutumbami b Cremer 83 34-20 win over South Africa’s Bulls in The South Africans made a bright maiden fifty in 27 balls and Pakistan reached the 100-mark in the 10th over. V. Sibanda c Ahmed b Sami 13 Ahmed Shehzad c Mutumbami b Williams 55 Super rugby yesterday. start, scoring the first two tries when Mohammad Hafeez c Coverntry b Cremer 12 At 142 for no loss in the 14th over, C. Coventry? c Ahmed b Riaz 14 Pulu darted over in the 53rd minute Hosea Gear failed to get his boot on the Shoaib Malik b Panyangara 7 Pakistan were cruising to victory before E Chigumbura b Riaz 54 after fooling the defence with a dummy ball and Jan Serfontein dived on it, then S. Williams c Riaz b Malik 16 Umar Akmal c Sibanda b Vitori 4 losing five quick wickets as Zimbabwe Sarfraz Ahmed not out 3 then strolled over two minutes later after Heem gifted a try to Bjorn Basson when Sikandar Raza c Ahmed b Sami 17 bowled with considerable discipline to Shahid Afridi not out 4 lock Ross Filipo was tackled just short of he inexplicably batted the ball to him R. Mutumbami not out 4 the line after making a big break. from in-goal. leave the hosts needing four runs from Extras: (lb 5) 5 G. Cremer not out 2 Liam Messam, Bryce Heem and But the Chiefs regained their compo- the final four deliveries. Afridi looked Total: (for five wkts; 19.3 overs) 173 Extras (lb3, nb 1, w5) 9 replacement Tim Nanai-Williams also sure and tied the scores at halftime when unperturbed by the pressure to noncha- Fall of wickets: 1-142 (Shehzad), 2-144 (Mukhtar), 3-157 Total (for six wkts; 20 overs) 172 scored tried for the Chiefs who picked up Messam burrowed his way over and lantly dispatch Tinashe Panyangara’s (Hafeez), 4-162 (Umar), 5-169 (Malik) Did not bat: T.