MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016 SPORTS

West Indies stun India to win maiden U-19 World Cup

DHAKA: West Indies stunned over- month’s World Cup, Shimron was only Sarfaraz Khan’s 51, his fifth half- reducing West Indies to 77-5 in the 29th adjudged man-of-the-match while whelming favourites India to clinch their Hetmyer’s team chased down a 146-run century in six matches, that gave some over. Bangladesh Mehedi Hasan maiden ICC Under-19 World Cup title victory target with three balls to spare. respectability to their innings after they Carty, however, was unperturbed and Miraz, whose team finished third ahead after Keacy Carty’s unbeaten half-centu- It was their sharp unit which were asked to bat first. the right-hander added 69 runs with of Sri Lanka, won the man-of-the-tour- ry helped them chase down a tricky tar- laid the foundation for victory after dis- West Indies’ Alzarri Joseph and Ryan Keemo Paul (40 ) to end India’s nament prize. get for a five- victory in a tense missing the Indian team, coached by John claimed three each in a 15-match winning streak since losing to “We weren’t supposed to be cham- final yesterday. great Rahul Dravid, for 145 runs dominant pace bowling display by their England in the quarter-final of the previ- pions but we came up to top,” At a time when their seniors are in 45.1 overs. team. India made a spirited effort to ous edition in the United Arab Emirates Hetmyer said. “The pacers used the engaged in a protracted contractual dis- None of India’s top four batsmen defend their modest total and injected two years ago. pitch to their advantage, they stood pute with their board ahead of next could manage a double digit score and it some excitement into the contest by Carty, who was 52 not out, was out for us.” — Reuters S Africa back from 2-0 down to win ODI series

CAPE TOWN: AB de Villiers hit a series-win- by left-arm quick Reece Topley’s three early ning century as South Africa came back strikes. from 2-0 down to clinch the one-day inter- Amla and De Villiers, South Africa’s old national contest 3-2 over England yester- heads, settled the home team and sent the day. hosts on their way to completing the South Africa skipper De Villiers made come-from-behind series victory. Still, 101 not out, guiding his team out of trou- there was another mini-wobble when Amla ble at 22-3 as the Proteas ultimately chased fell and hit a catch down England’s below par 236 with ease straight to mid-on to make it 166-5. for a five-wicket win in the deciding game In the end, South Africa’s victory in the at Newlands. South Africa finished on 237-5 decider denied England a rare double on off 44 overs. this tour after the tourists won the test De Villiers and (59) put series 2-1. An ODI series to go with that South Africa back on track after its early would have given England a hugely suc- troubles with a partnership of 125. cessful tour. De Villiers got some big-hitting help But yesterday, after slipping up in the from David Wiese at the end, with the all- previous two games, England was put in to rounder smashing two sixes into the crowd bat by the home team and didn’t make against spinner Adil Rashid in his 41 from enough runs. Only Alex Hales got going for 32 balls. Wiese also struck five fours as the English with the opener making 112 for South Africa cruised home at the end. nearly half of England 236 all out. The next It wasn’t always easy for the home team, highest score was Ben Stokes’ 29. South which was up against it when Africa’s success was set up by an all-round was bowled first ball and Rilee Rossouw bowling display, with legspinner , gave away his wicket for 22-3 as England, fast bowler Kagiso Rabada and allrounder defending a small target, was given hope Wiese taking three wickets each. —AP VISHAKAPATNAM: Members of the Indian cricket team celebrate with the winning trophy after their Twenty20 cricket series win against Sri Lanka, in Visakhapatnam, India, yesterday. India won the series 2-1.—AP SCOREBOARD

CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Scoreboard yesterday after South Africa beat England by five wickets in the fifth and final one-day international at Newlands: Four-wicket Ashwin helps

England Innings South Africa Innings lbw b Tahir 8 c Buttler b Topley 4 Alex Hales c Rossouw b Rabada 112 Hashim Amla st Buttler b Ali 59 India clinch T20 series Joe Root lbw b Tahir 27 Faf du Plessis b Topley 0 Eoin Morgan c De Kock b Wiese 2 Rilee Rossouw c Hales b Topley 4 Ben Stokes b Rabada 29 AB de Villiers not out 101 VISAKHAPATNAM: Premier off-spinner with a direct throw. hiccup in India’s march towards victory as Jos Buttler b Rabada 0 Farhaan Behardien c Stokes b Rashid 13 Ravichandran Ashwin’s four-wicket haul With most of the pressure off their back, Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane put on an c Behardien b Abbott 12 helped India crush Sri Lanka by nine wickets the Indian batsmen did their job to bring unbeaten 55-run stand. Chris Woakes c Abbott b Wiese 0 David Wiese not out 41 Adil Rashid c Rabada b Wiese 9 Extras: (14w, 1nb) 15 in the third T20 international as the hosts up another T20 series’ win after their 3-0 tri- Dhawan remained the top-scorer in Stuart Broad c De Villiers b Tahir 13 TOTAL: (for 5 wickets) 237 clinched the series 2-1 in Visakhapatnam umph in Australia recently. the series with 106 runs from three Reece Topley not out 1 Overs: 44. yesterday. Electing to bowl on what seemed Opener Shikhar Dhawan, who hit a maid- games while Ashwin was named the Extras: (4b, 8lb, 11w) 23 Did not bat: Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Kyle like a flat deck, Ashwin (4-8) managed his en T20 fifty in the team’s last win on Friday, man of the series for his nine wickets. It TOTAL: (all out) 236 Abbott, Imran Tahir. best bowling figures in T20 cricket to skittle continued his fine run with an unbeaten 46 was Dhoni’s first T20 bi-lateral series Overs: 45. Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-14, 3-22, 4-147, 5-166. out the visitors for 82 in 18 overs-their low- to help the hosts register their biggest T20 win on home soil as the World Twenty20 Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-76, 3-85, 4-155, 5-156, 6- Bowling: Stuart Broad 9-1-34-0 (1w), Reece Topley 181, 7-183, 8-192, 9-223. est score in the shortest format. win in terms of balls remaining. hosts hammered home their status as Bowling: 9-0-28-1 (1w), Kagiso 7-1-41-3 (4w), Chris Woakes 5-0-32-0 (1w), Ben Chasing a modest target, India cantered was cleaned up by one of the favourites for the title in Rabada 9-1-34-3 (3w), Imran Tahir 10-0-53-3 (1w), Stokes 5-0-34-0 (2w, 1nb), Adil Rashid 10-0-59-1 home in 13.5 overs to hold on to their top Dushmantha Chameera but that was only a March. — AFP Chris Morris 8-0-59-0 (4w), David Wiese 9-0-50-3 (2w), Moeen Ali 8-1-37-1. spot in T20s and continue their winning run (2w). Result: South Africa won by five wickets. before the Asia Cup and the World T20. It was India’s night all the way after SCOREBOARD Ashwin, who was given the new ball by skipper MS Dhoni, struck twice in the very VISAKHAPATNAM, India: Completed scoreboard in the third and final between India and Sri Lanka in Visakhapatnam yesterday: first over to remove the Sri Lankan openers. Already fielding a depleted side, the visit- Sri Lanka Bowling: Ashwin 4-1-8-4, Nehra 2-0-17-1, Bumrah 3-0- ing batsmen struggled against a disciplined N. Dickwella st Dhoni b Ashwin 1 10-1, Jadeja 4-1-11-1, Yuvraj 1-0-15-0, Pandya 2-0-13-0, Indian attack, which had the right mix of T. Dilshan lbw b Ashwin 1 Raina 2-0-6-2 youth and experience. D. Chandimal c Pandya b Ashwin 8 The Sri Lankan scorecard painted a sorry A. Gunaratne c Raina b Ashwin 4 India picture with just Dasun Shanaka (19) and M. Siriwardana b Nehra 4 R. Sharma b Chameera 13 Tisara Perera (12) managing double figures D. Shanaka b Jadeja 19 S. Dhawan not out 46 as the rest of the batting collapsed. Sri Lanka though had a few moments to S. Prasanna run out (Jadeja) 9 A. Rahane not out 22 enjoy after top-scorer Shanaka smashed a T. Perera c Jadeja b Raina 12 Extras (lb 3) 3 couple of sixes during his 24-ball stay, but S. Senanayake c Dhoni b Raina 8 Total (1 wicket; 13.5 overs) 84 the visitors suffered from lack of partner- D. Fernando b Bumrah 1 Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Sharma) ships. D. Chameera not out 9 Bowling: Senanayake 4-0-22-0, Fernando 2-0-7-0, Part-time spinner Suresh Raina also Extras (b2, w3, nb1) 6 Chameera 2-0-14-1, Prasanna chipped in with two wickets. India probably Total (all out; overs 18) 82 1-0-3-0, Siriwardana 1-0-9-0, Gunaratne 2.5-0-22-0, ticked all the boxes after their opening loss Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Dickwella), 2-3 (Dilshan), 3-12 Dilshan 1-0-4-0 NEWLANDS: South African batsman AB de Villiers, misses a shot during the 5th and in Pune to not only bowl or bat well, but (Chandimal), 4-20 (Asela), 5-21 (Siriwardana), 6-48 Did Not Bat: S. Raina, H. Pandya, M.S. Dhoni, Y Singh, R. final (ODI) match, being played against South Africa, at also get their fielding act together in the (Prasanna), 7-54 (Shanaka), 8-72 Jadeja, R. Ashwin, J. Bumrah, A. Nehra Newlands yesterday, in Cape Town. This match will decide the ODI series as both three-match series. India’s ground fielding (Senanayake), 9-73 (Perera), 10-82 (Fernando) Result: India won by 9 wickets. teams have won 2 matches. — AFP was highlighted by Jadeja running out McCullum falls as Voges puts Australia in control WELLINGTON: Mitchell Marsh ruined New Zealand’s for 63 before he tried to sweep Lyon to the leg side and SCOREBOARD hopes for a Brendon McCullum salvage mission after skied the ball to Usman Khawaja at mid-off. Adam Voges’ record-breaking double century put WELLINGTON: Scoreboard at stumps on day three of the first Test Australia firmly in command of the first Test in Wellington RECORD LEAD between New Zealand and Australia in Wellington yesterday: yesterday. It was Voges, though, who ensured Australia had a firm At stumps on the third day, New Zealand were 178 for grip on the match. New Zealand 1st innings 183 (M. Craig 41 n.o.; Hazlewood 4-42, Lyon 4 in their second innings, requiring a further 201 to make He resumed the third day on 176 and added a further 3-32, Siddle 3-37) Australia bat again. Test debutant Henry Nicholls was not 63 before his marathon 504 minutes in the middle ended Australia 1st innings (overnight 463-6) out 31 with McCullum lbw to Marsh in the final over of caught and bowled by Mark Craig. J. Burns c Watling b Southee 0 the day for 10. He had scored 614 runs since his previous dismissal, in D. Warner c Watling b Southee 5 Voges’ 239 was in part testament to how docile the the pink-ball Test against New Zealand at Adelaide in U. Khawaja lbw Boult 140 pitch had become since New Zealand were rolled for 183 November, easily bettering the record of 497 runs S. Smith c&b Craig 71 inside two sessions on the first day. between dismissals set by India’s in A. Voges c@b Craig 239 But there were still wickets to be had, as Nathan Lyon 2004. M. Marsh c&b Boult 0 and found. For New Zealand there were It also left Voges’ Test average at 97.46 from 19 innings, P. Nevill c Watling b Anderson 32 memories of being on the ropes against India at the same after being ahead of Don Bradman’s all-time record of P. Siddle c Anderson b Bracewell 49 ground two years ago and being rescued by McCullum’s 99.94 before his wicket fell. J. Hazlewood c Southee b Bracewell 8 triple century. His double century-coupled with Usman Khawaja’s N. Lyon c&b Anderson 3 The usually big-hitting captain was showing every 140 — also ensured a record first-innings lead for J. Bird not out 3 sign of looking to dig in for a long stay with his 10 coming Australia against New Zealand in an innings where six Extras (b4, lb3, w2, nb3) 12 off 31 deliveries before he was out with three balls Australians failed to reach double figures. Total (10 wickets, 154.2 overs) 562 remaining in the day. Latham and Guptill saw off the new ball but just as Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Burns), 2-5 (Warner), 3-131 (Smith), 4-299 “To get McCullum (in the) last over of the day, the they looked comfortable, Guptill tried to smack off-spin- (Khawaja), 5-299 (Marsh), 6-395 (Nevill), 7-494 (Siddle), 8-508 changing room’s pretty happy,” Voges said while adding ner Lyon out of the ground and was caught by Marsh. (Hazlewood), 9-532 (Lyon), 10-562 (Voges) he was also happy with his own contribution. Hazlewood, Australia’s chief destroyer in the first Bowling: Southee 31-5-87-2 (w1), Boult 33-6-101-2, Bracewell 33-4- “I’m giving myself every chance to get in each time I innings, tempted Williamson to prod at a ball outside off 127-2 (nb2), Anderson 18-0-79-2 (w1, nb1), Craig 35.2-2-153-2, bat and when I do get in I’m hungry to score big runs. “To and it was nicked through to wicketkeeper Peter Nevill. Williamson 4-0-8-0 get to 200 today and get us into a great position is a very It was a chance for Nevill to make amends after he had satisfying feeling.” dropped Latham when the opener was on 31. New Zealand 2nd innings New Zealand were annoyed to lose McCullum, but A huge deficit is a situation New Zealand know well at T. Latham c Khawaja b Lyon 63 batting coach Craig McMillan said it would make them the Basin Reserve, where they request a green wicket to M. Guptill c Marsh b Lyon 45 more determined. suit their strike bowlers. But if they lose the toss, the K. Williamson c Nevill b Hazlewood 22 “It’s a blow when you lose any wicket in the last over. advantage goes to the opposition. H. Nicholls not out 31 You prefer to have that extra wicket especially when it’s Two years ago it required McCullum’s 302 to secure a B. McCullum lbw Marsh 10 Brendon McCullum,” he said. draw against India after New Zealand trailed by 246 on Extras: (b1, lb4, nb2) 7 “But we’ve got six wickets left to fight and make it as the first innings. Total (for 4 wickets, 62.3 overs) 178 difficult as we can over the next two days.” Last year New Zealand were 135 behind Sri Lanka after Fall of wickets: 1-81 (Guptill), 2-121 (Williamson), 3-157 (Latham), 4-178 Martin Guptill (45) and Tom Latham put on 81 for the the first innings and ended up winning by 193 after WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Tom Latham tries to get (McCullum) first wicket, New Zealand’s best opening stand against Williamson (242 not out) and Watling (142 not out put on out of the way of the ball during day three of the first Bowling: Hazlewood 17-3-42-1, Bird 11-2-26-0 (nb1), Siddle 8-0-30-0, Australia since 1993. 365 for the sixth wicket in the second innings and Mark cricket Test match between New Zealand and Australia Marsh 9.3-1-40-1, Lyon 17-6-35-2. Kane Williamson fell for 22 while Latham grafted away Craig spun Sri Lanka out on day five. — AFP at the Basin Reserve in Wellington yesterday. — AFP