The Island, Wednesday 6th December, 2006 Warne does it again ADELAIDE, (AP) - Shane Scoreboard Warne altered the course of the Ashes when he snared four England wickets England 1st Innings 551 for six decl. 2 (1w), Warne 32-12-49-4, Clark 13-4-22-1. Tuesday to trigger Australia’s six-wicket Australia 1st Innings 513 Australia 2nd Innings win in the second cricket Test. England 2nd Innings (Overnight 59 for one) J. Langer c Bell b Hoggard 7 Warne took 4-49 as England slumped A. Strauss c Hussey b Warne 34 M. Hayden c Collingwood b Flintoff 18 A. Cook c Gilchrist b Clark 9 R. Ponting c Strauss b Giles 49 from 59 for one overnight to be all out for 129, M. Hussey not out 61 I. Bell run out 26 leaving Australia needing 168 in 36 overs on D. Martyn c Strauss b Flintoff 5 a crumbling pitch to win the match. P. Collingwood not out 22 M. Clarke not out 21 Australia lost four wickets, including K. Pietersen b Warne 2 Extras (2b,2lb,1w,2nb) 7 A. Flintoff c Gilchrist b Lee 2 Ricky Ponting’s for 49, before reaching its TOTAL (for four wickets) 168 G. Jones c Hayden b Lee 10 Batting time: 161 minutes. Overs: 32.5. winning target with 3.3 overs to spare. A. Giles c Hayden b Warne 0 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-33, 3-116, 4-121. Ponting hailed Australia’s victory as “one M. Hoggard b Warne 4 Did not bat: Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, of the all-time great Test wins.” S. Harmison lbw b McGrath 8 Brett Lee, Stuart Clarke, Glenn McGrath. “We’ve all seen enough games of Test J. Anderson lbw b McGrath 1 Bowling: match cricket and I’ve played enough and Extras (3b,5lb,1w,2nb) 11 Hoggard 4-0-29-1, Flintoff 9-0-44-2 (2nb), Giles Warney has played enough to know that TOTAL (all out) 129 10-0-46-1, Harmison 4-0-15-0 (1w), Anderson 3.5-0-23-0. Pietersen 2-0-7-0. you have to do exceptionally well to be able Batting time: 323 minutes. Overs: 73. Result: to turn the course of a match over the last Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-69, 3-70, 4-73, 5-77, 6- Australia won by six wickets. three days,” he said. “That’s as good a Test 94, 7-97, 8-105, 9-119, 10-129. Series: match cricket as you’ll see from any team.” Bowling: Lee 18-3-35-2 (2nb), McGrath 10-6-15- Australia leads the five-match series 2-0. Susie is running , (Tuesday) - There was plenty to cheer about for the Sri Lankan fans in Doha as star sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe brushed aside weeks of uncer- tainty and confirmed her participation at the 15th . “I came here to run and I am fit and looking forward to the event,” Jayasinghe said during teams’ first training session ahead of the much-looked forward to track and field competition of the Asian Australia’s Shane Warne waves to spectators after Australia won the second Ashes cricket Test Games. The track and field events are due year-old sprinter. 100m heats. against England at the Adelaide Oval, yesterday. to start tomorrow. Jayasinghe will compete in women’s Meanwhile, the athletic manager, Jayasinghe was hit by the viral flu 100m and 200m dashes with an eye on Dervin Perera said that the team is gear- Chikungunya and many believed that the Damayanthi Darsha’s record of a sprint ing up for the Games despite cold whether ace sprinter would not be able to make it double at the regional games. Jayasinghe conditions. to Doha. has just won a single gold medal at the “It’s a little bit of a worry and certain- Kiwis bracing up for slinger, “I have no reason to lie. I am looking Games. She won it at the last edition in ly it’s same for everyone. So they need to for the elusive gold medal,” she said. but she failed to complete the dou- concentrate on their events,” he said Sri Lanka’s 35-member athletic contin- ble due to a groin injury which forced her adding that Jayasinghe would be their seamer and ‘elbow man’ gent arrived at the Qatar capital Doha on out of the Games. main medal prospect at the Games. Monday night with the hope of winning at “It’s true that I was hit with fever at a “We do have an outside chance in the least two gold medals and the nation has bad time and I missed a few training ses- men’s 400m relay and Manjula too stands a pinned much hopes on Jayasinghe and sions. But I have recovered and now I’m in very good chance,” he said. high jumper Manjula Kumara Wijesekera. perfect mood to strike here,” she said. Thus, Sri Lanka has put extra effort on “It’s a bit cold and we have put extra Jayasinghe, who is a hot favourite for the relay squad and had withdrawn its energy for training. But that will not ham- the titles in both 100 and 200m said that candidature from the 400m men’s hurdles. per my ambition to win here,” said the 31- stiff challenge will come from Kazakhstan Asoka Jayasundara was earlier named and Chinese run- for the event but the officials now have ners. withdrawn his nomination and asked him Jayasinghe to concentrate on the relay. will make her first “We didn’t want to go after a mirage appearance here knowing well that it’s beyond our reach in Doha on Friday and I think the wise thing is to concen- in the women’s trate on the relay,” Perera added.

Cyclist Sriyalatha fined A slinger, a veteran left arm seamer and the man Mathew Sinclair is recalled at number three and Champika Fernando over the Sri Lankan duo Thilina with the most famous elbow in cricket. always comes under close scrutiny. Sinclair says the Piyadasa and Rohana Sirisena. The in Doha They are the three main danger men the Black recent top order failures at the ICC Champions Sri Lanka’s number one woman Korean pair won 11-4, 11-6, 11-7. Caps batsmen are preparing for ahead of the first Trophy has only made things worse, with the whole cyclist and South Asian Games dou- Meanwhile, in the men’s boxing ble gold medallist, Sriyalatha Super Light 64Kg Session 4, Wasala Test against Sri Lanka starting in Christchurch on media emphasis having been on the top order after Wickramasinghe and her manager Wakadapola emerged winner when Thursday. the failures in India. were fined for violating competition he beat Nepalese boxer Sushil Recalled Black Cap Mathew Sinclair says they rules at Monday’s women’s 113km Ghimire. are working out how to combat Lasith Malinga, road race. The Sri Lankan swimmers failed Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan. He says Akhtar and Asif cleared Wickramasinghe was found to live up to expectations. Young they are getting together as a batting group collec- KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - An appeals panel on guilty of cycling behind a car to gain Mayumi Raheem again crashed out tively to work out how they are going to go about fac- Tuesday overturned doping bans on Pakistan fast an undue advantage. in the first round itself when she ing them and put up the big scores. bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif. clocked 1:17.26 seconds in the Wickramasinghe was fined 30 The three recalled and inexperienced top order A Pakistan Cricket Board tribunal on Nov. 1 Swiss Franks while her manager women’s 100m breaststroke prelim- banned Akhtar and Asif for two years and one year, Black Caps batsmen know they will be under the Nilantha Fernando was fined 100 inary round. respectively, after both players tested positive for the Swiss Franks. The fifteen year old who had a microscope in the two Test series. banned steroid Nandrolone. The Lankan officials in Doha best of 1:15.05 seconds was way The opening positions have been an ongoing Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, chairman of the three- however were not aware of the fine behind her best and subsequently headache for New Zealand, with Craig Cumming and member appeals panel, said that on a 2-1 split deci- despite an official communiqué has was placed 4th in the heat. Jamie How getting another opportunity. sion, it was setting aside that punishment. been issued by the competition com- Heshan Unmboowe was no bet- mittee. ter and was placed 6th with a time of “We were not informed of any 1:01.91 seconds in the men’s 100m thing of this nature,” Sri Lanka’s backstroke preliminary round. deputy chef-de-mission Maxwell de Milinda Wickramsinghe too finished Silva said. a disappointing seventh clocking Wickremasinghe finished 21st in 27.08 seconds in the men’s 50m but- the women’s cycling road race, clock- terfly event. ing three hours, 11 minutes and 39 In badminton Sri Lanka lost all seconds. She came five minutes and four preliminary round matches yes- 29 seconds behind the overall win- terday. Diluka Karunaratne lost his ner, Mayuko Hagiwara of Japan – first match to Indian Shidra Anup 3:06.10, who bagged the gold while the women competitor Thilini medal. China’s Na Zhao (3:07.38) Jayasinghe lost to Fransiska survived an exciting photo finish with Ratnasiri from Indonesia 2-nil. many others to secure the silver. The men’s and women’s double Meanwhile, Meemanage Perera teams of Dinuka and Diluka and D. finished 21st in the men’s individual Nadeesha and Thilini Jayasinghe cycling time trial which was eventual- were comprehensively beaten in ly won by Chinese cyclist Baoqing their respective matches 2-0 by Song. Indian and Honk Kong shuttlers. Sri Lanka’s hopes of getting into Sri Lanka also competed in six the quarter-final stage of the men’s disciplines in sailings but did not table tennis double competition was return any noteworthy performance. shattered when the Korean number In the men’s 50m pistol final Nepal’s Sushil Ghimire,(in red) and Sri Lanka’s Wasala Wakadapola exchange punches during Light- Senanayake Edirisinghe finished 27 three seeded J.W. Lee and S.E. Oh Welter weight 64kg category boxing preliminary bout at Asian Games, yesterday. Wakadapola won. completed a three straight set win out of 47 competitors. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

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