20 Saturday, January 27, 2018 SPORTS Ogier mistake allows Tanak to close in Monte Carlo road having lost around half Travis Head ebastien Ogier’s Monte a minute. Carlo Rally lead is down That brought Tanak toS 14.9 seconds after a to within 19s of the lead, mistake yesterday afternoon and the Toyota driver then allowed Ott Tanak to close outpaced his 2017 World in. Rally Championship team- guides Aussies Tanak had already taken mate by another 4s on the six seconds out of Ogier’s day’s finale to get Ogier’s advantage on the loop’s first cushion down to under 15s. stage, but then began to lose Dani Sordo remains third all that time and more to in the leading Hyundai, Ogier in heavy rain on the inching clear of a closing toAdelaide victory next stage. Esapekka Lappi again when Wood straight to Eoin Morgan Just when it looked like his the rain intensified. ravis Head, promoted to the top of at mid-on, having faced 107 lead would grow to over 45s, Sordo’s advantage over the order, led Australia to a drought- balls and hit 15 fours. Ogier spun on the exit of a Lappi is now 10.2s, while breakingT win over England in the fourth one- That England were able to hairpin and went into a ditch Jari-Matti Latvala has caught day international in Adelaide yesterday. post any sort of competitive while trying to recover. his countryman and Toyota Replacing injured opener Aaron Finch, total was quite remarkable Spectators immediately team-mate and is now just Head anchored a shaky Australian run chase given their horror collapse in jumped in to assist and Ogier 0.2s from taking fourth with a polished 96, falling just shy of a the early overs. was able to get back on the place. (Autosport) deserved century and with victory imminent. On Australia Day, it was all England were dismissed for 196 after being the home side as the tourists lost sent in to bat in bowler-friendly conditions, five wickets with just eight runs losing four of their top six batsmen for ducks on the board. as the possibility of a record low score in one- Steve Smith had sent them in day cricket briefly loomed. to bat for the second successive In reply, Australia reached the modest match, this time in humid target with 13 overs to spare, finishing on conditions which favoured seam 197 for seven, but the chase was not without bowlers. concerns as they struggled to win their first Their lowest total of 86 looked game in the five-match series and turn around in danger until all-rounder their dismal recent one-day form. Chris Woakes came to the England had already secured the series rescue. by taking an unbeatable 3-0 lead in Sydney In the end, solid last Sunday, and that result had left the resistance from Woakes current World Cup (78) along with holders with just one Morgan and win in their past 11 BRIEF SCORE Moeen Ali (33 completed ODIs. Australia 197 for 7 (Head 96, each) -- and Tom Head looked Rashid 3-49) beat England 196 Curran (35) -- certain to notch his (Woakes 78, Cummins 4-24, Tye enabled England second limited-overs to scramble to a 3-33, Hazlewood 3-39) by three Australia’s Travis Head hits a shot century, but pulled a decent total. (AFP) wickets (Pic courtesy: theguardian) short ball from Mark Uneven pitch leaves Test match in doubt Johannesburg contending that it had behaved n their most glorious day the same way on all three days, of cricket on this tour of and that they would want the Kohli overtakes Dhoni’s record SouthO Africa, India closed in on game to continue. Johannesburg to 3456. a rare Test win in conditions This may have had a lot to irat Kohli yesterday Dhoni as a captain that required courage, skill and do with the match situation, surpassed Mahendra scored 3454 runs for India some luck, but one blow too engineered by some brilliant SinghV Dhoni to become in 60 Test matches while many to the batsmen forced the batting. Virat Kohli, Ajinkya the India captain with most his successor Kohli took umpires to take the players off Rahane and M Vijay batted runs in Test cricket. During just 35 Tests to better the the field with South Africa 17 out of their skins, putting India’s second innings of record. Dhoni was on top for 1 chasing an improbable 241. behind them the blows they the third Test against South of the list after overtaking South Africa were scheduled took from the inconsistent Africa at the Wanderers the legendary India opener to bat for 65 minutes before and exaggerated bounce, going in Johannesburg, Kohli Sunil Gavaskar, who scored stumps, but the day’s play did through periods of excessive scored a gritty 41 and took 3449 runs in 47 Tests as not get that far, with the umpires seam movement, putting every his tally of runs as captain captain. (TOI) taking the players off after Dean scoring opportunity away. Elgar was struck on the grille of The lower order, led by his helmet by a short, steeply Bhuvneshwar Kumar with a rising ball from Jasprit Bumrah. composed 33 and Mohammed It was the fourth time Elgar Shami with a whirlwind 27, then had been hit on the body in all but put the matter beyond his brief innings. The captains South Africa, setting the hosts met the match referee after the 241 to win. (espncricinfo) incident, but the future of the match remained unclear. In the post-match press conference, India manager BRIEF SCORE Sunil Subramaniam said the South Africa 194 and 17 for 1 need match officials would make a another 224 runs to beat India 187 and call on the match on the fourth 247 (Rahane 48, Kohli 41, Bhuvneshwar morning. He said India had 33, Morkel 3-47) Virat Kohli plays a shot no complaints about the pitch, Ajinkya Rahane plays a shot (Pic courtesy: BCCI).