14 Wednesday 18th January, 2012 Chameera Ajmal scalps seven as and Erandi top seeds at Pakistan rattle England for 192 Junior TT BY RIZWAN ALI Nationals SCOREBOARD DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan Chameera off-spinner Saeed Ajmal was in mesmerising form on England 1st Innings Ginige and Tuesday, taking career-best figures of 7-55 as England A. Strauss b Ajmal 19 Erandi was bowled out for 192 before his team’s openers A. Cook c Akmal b Hafeez 3 Warusawithana, reached 42-0 at stumps on the first day of the first J. Trott c Akmal b Cheema 17 both from Test. K. Pietersen lbw b Ajmal 2 Dharmasoka Ajmal won five lbw decisions after England won I. Bell c Akmal b Ajmal 0 College, the toss and elected to bat first at Dubai International E. Morgan lbw b Ajmal 24 Ambalangoda, Cricket Stadium, with Matt Prior’s gritty knock of 70 M. Prior not out 70 have been rated to rescue his top-ranked team from a precarious 94-7 S. Broad lbw b Ajmal 8 as the top seeds the sole innings of substance. G. Swann b Rehman 34 in the boys’ and “It’s just a reminder that sub0continental cricket is girls’ Under-18 slightly more attritional. You have to play longer,” C. Tremlett lbw b Ajmal 1 J. Anderson lbw b Ajmal 12 singles respec- Prior said after facing 154 balls and hitting just three tively at the Chameera boundaries. Extras: (2lb) 2 Ginige TOTAL: (all out) 192 upcoming Junior “The batters will have to hold their hands up and Table Tennis say, ‘We didn’t get it quite right today.’ We know we Overs: 72.3. Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-31, 3-42, 4-42, 5-43, 6-82, 7-94, 8- Nationals, sched- have got the bowlers to bring us back in the game.” uled to be Pakistan openers Mohammad Hafeez (22) and 151, 9-168. Bowling: Gul 12-4-35-0, Cheema 12-0-43-1, Hafeez 6-3-5- worked off on Taufeeq Umar (18) saw off 15 overs in the last hour of January 19 and the day without too many problems in facing 1, Rehman 18-5-52-1, Ajmal 24.3-7-55-7. 20 at the Jagath England’s three seamers or lone spinner Graeme Pakistan 1st Innings Rajapaksha Swann. Mohammad Hafeez not out 22 England’s supporters dominated the crowd of Taufeeq Umar not out 18 International about 1,500 people that watched a long list of batsman Extras: (1lb, 1nb) 2 Table Tennis fail miserably to counter Ajmal’s variety of deliver- TOTAL: (without loss) 42 Stadium in ies. Overs: 15. Peradeniya. Captain Andrew Strauss (19), Ian Bell (0) and Kevin Still to bat: Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, According to a Pietersen (2) departed within five of Ajmal’s deliver- Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal, Abdur Rehman, Umar release issued by Udaya ies before lunch as England limped to 52-5. Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Aizaz Cheema. the Table Tennis Ranasinghe Ajmal had promised to unveil a mystery delivery Bowling: Anderson 5-1-16-0, Tremlett 3-0-13-0 (1nb), Association of but it wasn’t required to take any wickets on the Broad 4-2-3-0, Swann 3-1-9-0 Sri Lanka opening day of the three-test series. However, the Toss: England who chose top bat first (TTASL), the hype created by the off-spinner appeared as if it Umpires: Billy Bowden, New Zealand, and Bruce championships played on the minds of English batsmen. Oxenford, Australia. will be worked “I did try to bowl that mystery delivery but I am TV umpire: Steve Davis, Australia. off in the Under- not confident about that, maybe after one or two Match referee: Javagal Srinath, India. 10, 12, 15 and 18 innings it will come,” Ajmal said with a smile. “I age groups with tried to bowl wicket to wicket because the ball was the events being not turning, and that earned me those lbw decisions.” with two more wickets. the singles and Earlier, Strauss and Alastair Cook watchfully After polishing off the top order before lunch, doubles. There played out new ball bowlers Umar Gul and Aizaz Ajmal trapped Eoin Morgan (24) and Stuart Broad (8) will be a mixed lbw as both failed in their attempts to sweep the last Cheema before Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq called up his spinners in only the sixth over. doubles event, year’s top wicket-taker in Test cricket. apart from the Erandi It could have been 46-6 but Morgan escaped a Hafeez responded in his very first over when Cook tried to cut the off-spinner’s third delivery and was singles and dou- Warusavithana stumping chance off Ajmal just before the break. Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal celebrates after successfully bles events, only Ajmal continued to baffle the England batsman, and appealing for his seventh wicket of the day, taking caught behind by Adnan Akmal. Akmal took another brilliant acrobatic catch down for boys and girls when he trapped last man James Anderson lbw he England’s James Anderson, not pictured, lbw during contesting the eclipsed his previous best of 6-42 against West Indies the first cricket Test of a three-match series between the leg side off fast bowler Aizaz Cheema’s short delivery, which claimed a thick edge of Jonathan Under-18 age last year. England and Pakistan at the Dubai International group. As many Prior added 57 precious runs for the eighth wicket Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Trott’s (17) bat. But it was the introduction of Ajmal midway into as 400 boys and with Swann (27) before left-arm spinner Abdur Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) girls have Rehman broke the stand and closed England’s innings the first session that hurried the England collapse. entered the championships. Ginige is expected to have stiff competition Under-19 Cricket coming his way from Malith Ruwani Dilusha of Siri Kannangara Devananda Petes win a thriller as Julian bags 12 wickets College, BY REEMUS FERNANDO Dananjaya shared seven wickets between them to Ambalangoda. restrict their opponents to 180 runs in reply to their 196 A draw at Panadura Another hot St. Peter’s College cruised to thrilling 18 runs victory runs in the tournament match which ended at BRC The match between Royal College, Panadura and prospect who can over Wesley College with just three balls to spare as spin- Ground yesterday. Moratu Vidyalaya ended in a draw at Panadura create some ner Julian de Zilva completed a match-bag of twelve Esplanade yesterday. upsets is upcom- wickets in their Under-19 cricket encounter which ended Scores: ing Udaya at Campbell Park yesterday. Isipatana 196 all out in 91 overs (Pavan Anjana 58, Scores: Ranasinghe of Chasing a target of 204 runs to win a half century by Salinda Ushan 24, Matheesha Ranaweera 35, Malin Dias Moratu Vidyalaya 163 all out in 50.4 overs (Ishan Vidyartha Lahiru Perera and 48 runs by Ashen Fonseka took the 20, Charith Rajapaksha 26; Nimesha Mendis 7/52, Nilaksha 20, Janith Samarajeewa 39, Sanka Ramesh 43; College, Kandy. match to the wire but Zilva managed to snare the last Indunil Samarananda 2/42) and 91 for 3 wkts at close in Thenuka Dananjaya 5/58, Kavindu Ashan 4/65) and 238 Ruwini wicket with just three balls to spare to guide Petes to a 39 overs (Salinda Ushan 26 n.o., Pavan Anjana 38 n.o.; all out in 60.5 overs (Ushen Tharuka 39, Champaka Kannangara of thrilling victory. Zilva bowled 22.3 overs and (4 maidns) Nimesha Mendis 2/17) Fernando 22, Ishan Nilaksha 55, Janith Samarajeewa Musaeus Nuwani picked up six wickets in the second innings. St. Sylvester’s (58 for 3 overnight) 180 all out in 79.4 21, Dushan Sulakshana 20, Udith Harshana 38; Asanka College, Colombo Navodya overs (Faiz Ahamed 19, Ruwantha Ekanayake 51, Indunil Alwis 2/15, Thenuka Dananjaya 3/70, Kavindu Ashan has been rated as Scores: Samarananda 36, Harsha Madushan 26 n.o.; Sidath 3/72) the second seed in the girls’ U-18 sin- St. Peter’s 148 all out in 62.4 overs (Shasheen Mallawarachchi 2/42, Malin Dias 3/27, Kaminda Royal Panadura (238 for 5 o/n) 281 for 8 wkts decl in gles. Fernando 29, Dinith Hewathanthri 45, Chemila Dananjaya 4/43) 63.5 overs (Damindu Ashan 95, Dulanjan Charith 48, There will be a lot of excitement Obeysekara 25 n.o.; Sachin Jayawardena 5/19, Ashail Kavindu Ashan 57, Asanka Alwis 50; Sanka Ramesh generated by one time Sri Lanka U- Kariyawasam 4/36) and (4 for no wicket overnight) 149 all Sebs in ten wickets win 4/103, Safran Preena 2/77) and 94 for 6 wkts at close in 18 number one, Nuwani Navodya, out in 48.2 over (Shehan Fernando 45, Shasheen St. Sebastian’s College beat under-strength Royal 21 overs (Dulanjan Charith 25, Dulip Gayan 21; Iresh who is expected to contest the tour- Fernando 32, Dinith Hewathanthri 25; Ashail College by ten wickets after restricting the latter to 118 Chamara 5/43) nament. She has seen her lofty rank- Kariyawasam 6/42, Sachin Jayawardena 3/19) runs in the second innings in their U-19 encounter which ing drop because of a break she Wesley 94 all out in 32.4 overs (Lahiru Perera 21, ended at Moratuwa yesterday. Kusal disappoints Sri Sumangala took from the sport to concentrate Ashail Kariyawasam 39; Julian de Zilva 6/22, Dushan Despite the defeat Royal, who fielded virtually a sec- In reply to Nalanda College’s 222 runs, Sri on the Ordinary Level Examination.