THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015 SPORTS A look at the teams in the quarters at the World Cup

EDMONTON: The quarterfinals at the berths in the 2016 Rio Games by advancing Women’s World Cup are set. Here’s a look at farther than any other eligible UEFA mem- the upcoming matches, and how the teams ber. Germany didn’t make the 2012 London have fared so far in Canada: Games. France lost to Canada in the UNITED STATES VS. CHINA: This is the bronze-medal match. The game is tomor- first World Cup meeting between the row in Montreal. teams since the 1999 final, which the CANADA VS. : It’s all going United States won on penalty kicks at the according to plan for host Canada. The Rose Bowl. team is through to the quarters and gets The US women have scored six goals England in front of what is sure to be an during the tournament so far, but the amped-up home crowd. defense has been solid. The team has gone “Coming back into BC Place will mean 333 minutes without conceding a goal. we’ll get our home advantage, the 12th The second-ranked Americans finished man will really kick in at this point and give atop Group D, the so-called Group of us hopefully that sort of energy they did Death, defeating Australia and Nigeria and toward the end of the game to lift our playing to a scoreless draw with Sweden. team,” Canada coach John Herdman said. On Monday, the U.S. defeated No. 28 Canada, ranked No. 8, was the surprise Colombia to open the round of 16. bronze medal winning at London in 2012, The Americans will be without midfield- and the team’s next step is to finish strong ers Lauren Holiday and Megan Rapinoe for at the World Cup. Because England com- the quarterfinals. Both are out after receiv- petes as part of the United Kingdom at the ing two yellow cards. Olympics, its quarterfinal berth does not “No matter who they put in, I know count for qualifying for Europe’s third berth they’re going to step up. Whoever it is has in the 2016 Rio Games. to, because we’re in the quarterfinals. This While they haven’t had a lot of goals - is the World Cup. Obviously you win or you four in four games - the Canadians finished go home, and China’s not a team to take atop Group A before defeating Switzerland lightly,” said US forward Abby Wambach. 1-0 to open the knockout round. Josee China, ranked No. 16, has also displayed Belanger scored the goal. a stout defense during the tournament so England, ranked No. 6 by FIFA, scored its far. The Chinese went 1-1-1 in Group A, fin- first knockout stage win at the World Cup ishing second to host Canada, scoring with a 2-1 victory Norway Canada and three goals and allowing three. England met once before in the World Cup, China advanced to the quarterfinals a 3-2 win for England 20 years ago. The : ’s M S Dhoni (left) greets ’s captain after winning their third one-day international with a 1-0 victory over Cameroon. The match is Saturday in Vancouver. match. —AP match is scheduled for tomorrow at AUSTRALIA VS. JAPAN: Tenth-ranked Ottawa’s Lansdowne Stadium. Australia pulled off the upset of the elimi- GERMANY VS. FRANCE: This is widely nation stage with a 1-0 victory over Brazil considered the best match of the quarterfi- and star Marta. Kyah Simon came off the India avoid whitewash nals. Third-ranked France was stunned in bench to score the goal, Australia’s first in the group stage by falling 2-0 to Colombia, the knockout stage of a World Cup. but nonetheless finished atop Group F “Obviously beating a team like Brazil DHAKA: Brisk half-centuries from India’s Shikhar rate on the slow Mirpur surface through a (44) for a fruitful stand of 93 for the fourth before defeating No. 8 South Korea 3-0 in gives you a massive amount of belief and it Dhawan and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni 75-run stand for the second wicket between before falling to Mortaza, well by the round of 16. feels good to reach this stage of the tour- helped set up a 77-run victory against Dhawan and India’s test captain Virat Kohli (25). in the deep. “We’re happy to be in the quarterfinals,” nament but we want to go further,” forward Bangladesh in the third and final one-day inter- Left-handed Dhawan looked in sublime Raina then provided the late assault with French coach Philippe Bergeroo said. “The Samantha Kerr said. national and stave off a 3-0 whitewash. Opener touch and hit 10 fours in his knock before he three fours and two sixes to help set up a steep Germans are the best team in the world Australia finished second in Group D, Dhawan’s 73-ball 75 and Dhoni’s 69 off 77 balls mistimed a pull shot against Mortaza straight to chase for the hosts. Mashrafe took three according to the FIFA World Ranking, and wrapping up with a 1-all draw with No. 5 laid the foundation for India’s 317-6 in their 50 at mid-wicket where the fielder but gave away 76 in his 10 overs while left-arm so we’ll give them all the respect they Sweden. Simon leads the team with three overs after Bangladesh captain Mashrafe timed his jump perfectly to complete the catch paceman Mustafizur picked up two more wick- deserve.” Germany, under coach Silvia Neid, goals, while captain Lisa De Vanna has two. Mortaza won the toss and put the visitors in to over his head. ets to take his tally to 13 wickets in his debut leads the field at the World Cup with 19 They’ll face another tough opponent in bat with threat of rain in the evening. Dhoni then combined with Ambati Rayudu series.—Reuters goals in the tournament, compared with defending champion Japan, which defeat- The rain, however, did not arrive and just two allowed. Anja Mittag and Celia ed the U.S. on penalty kicks four years ago Bangladesh, who had comfortably won the first Sasic have five goals apiece. in Germany. Japan is the only team left in two ODIs of the three-match series, were bun- SCOREBOARD Germany finished atop Group B before the field which has won all its games. The dled out for 240 in 47 overs. defeating No. 5 Sweden 4-1 in its opening Japanese have allowed only two goals. gave Bangladesh a rollicking DHAKA: Scoreboard of the third one-day international between Bangladesh and India at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday: knockout-round match. With Europe using Japan defeated the Netherlands 2-1 in the start in their chase despite losing his opening the World Cup as part of its Olympic quali- round of 16. The match is Saturday at partner (five) in the second over India: Soumya Sarkar c Ashwin b Kulkarni 40 fying, France and Germany have secured Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium. —AP and the hosts crossed 50 inside seven overs. R. Sharma c Das b Mustafizur 29 Litton Das b Patel 34 But paceman Dhawal Kulkarni, who also dis- S. Dhawan c Nasir b Mortaza 75 c Dhoni b Raina 24 V. Kohli b Shakib 25 c Kulkarni b Raina 20 missed Tamim, pegged Bangladesh back by M. Dhoni c Mustafizur b Mortaza 69 b Binny 43 sending back the dangerous Sarkar after his 34- A. Rayudu c Das b Mortaza 44 Nasir Hossain c Rayudu b Ashwin 32 ball 40, that included five fours and two sixes. S. Raina b Mustafizur 38 Mashrafe Mortaza b Ashwin 0 Barring Tamim, most of Bangladesh’s recog- S. Binny 17 not out 14 nised batsmen got starts but none of them man- A. Patel not out 10 c Patel b Raina 2 aged to convert them into meaningful contribu- Extras (b4, lb3, w3) 10 Mustafizur Rahman lbw b Rayudu 9 tions and got out trying to keep up with the Total (for six wickets, 50 overs) 317 Extras (lb3, w13, nb1) 17 required run rate. Did not bat: R. Ashwin, D. Kulkarni, U. Yadav Total (all out, 47 overs) 240 Suresh Raina, whose 21-ball 38 ensured a Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Rohit), 2-114 (Kohli), 3-158 Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Tamim), 2-62 (Sarkar), 3-112 (Rahim), (Dhawan), 4-251(Rayudu), 5-268 (Dhoni), 6-301 (Raina). 4-118( Das), 5-148 (Shakib), 6-197 (Sabbir), 7-205 300-plus total for India, was the most successful : Mustafizur 10-0-57-2, Mortaza 10-0-76-3 (w2), (Mortaza), 8-216 ( Nasir), 9-222 (Rubel), 10-240( bowler with his part-time off-spin and picked up Sunny 6-0-42-0, Rubel 9-0-75-0 (w1), Nasir 6-0-27-0, Mustafizur. 3-45 in his eight overs. Off-spinner Ravichandran Shakib 9-1-33-1. Bowling: Binny 6-0-41-1 (w4), Kulkarni 8-0-34-2 (w3), Ashwin picked up two wickets while giving away Yadav 4-0-33-0 (w5), Ashwin 10-1-35-2, Patel 9-1-44-1, 35 runs in his full quota of 10 overs. Bangladesh: Raina 8-0-45-3 (w1), Rayudu 2-1-5-1(nb1) Earlier, India lost (29) after a Tamim Iqbal lbw b Kulkarni 5 : India won by 77 runs. decent start but managed to maintain a healthy Anderson wants end to Ashes ‘’

LONDON: James Anderson has called on both Clarke later apologised for the tone of his English season, Root has scored 1,318 Test runs sides to ditch the verbals and cut out ‘sledging’ comments and on Sunday promised the at 83.27, while his match-winning 78 in during the upcoming Ashes series between upcoming Ashes would be played in the “right Tuesday’s was his latest impressive England and Australia. spirit”. Anderson himself has been known to effort in white-ball cricket. New Zealand have just completed a tour of exchange words with opposition batsmen and “I feel quite confident at the crease at the England which, although it ended in a 56-run last year’s Trent Bridge Test saw him charged for minute,” he said. “I’d like to be a bit more consis- Twenty20 defeat at Old Trafford on Tuesday, the his part in an alleged altercation with India’s tent-I’m either getting a big score or nothing at Black Caps won praise both for the quality of Ravindra Jadeja, although the case was later the minute. “Obviously I want to get big scores their cricket and the way in which they conduct- thrown out. Someone else who could be on the all the time, I’m greedy, but that’s the nature of ed themselves on the field. receiving end of a few taunts is in-form England being a batter. “It’s really exciting that the Ashes Significantly, they showed it was possible to batsman Joe Root. is not far away now and we can get out there play aggressive cricket without resorting to The 24-year-old Yorkshireman, now a main- and hopefully put on a show again. “It’s obvious- ‘sledging’-verbal abuse of opposition players- stay of the England side in all three formats, is ly going to be massive for everyone involved. It’s and their approach had the knock-on effect of desperate to atone for the disappointment of a a very exciting time for English cricket and I’m improving England’s behavior as well. lacklustre 2013/14 Ashes tour which saw him sure everyone has seen the way we’ve played But doubts remain about whether the Ashes dropped foe the first time in his Test career. over this summer in all three formats will be can be played in the same spirit, particularly if However, since his recall during the last excited.” —AFP England feel obliged to match an Australia side who are never shy of a few words to their oppo- nents. “I hope it’s played in the same nature as the New Zealand series, that was a really positive Brazil’s Roberto Firmino series and the nature of both sides’ cricket was helped by the spirit the game was played in,” England paceman Anderson told Sky Sports News on Wednesday. Brazil striker “(But) there’s a different relationship between the two teams, the Ashes is a huge series for both sets of players.” “If there is needle, it’s some- joins Liverpool thing I thought I thrived on or needed in the past but having played in the last few months, I think it’s important we get LIVERPOOL: Brazil forward Roberto son to help improve its poor goal-scoring the balance right of playing in the right spirit, Firmino joined Liverpool from German side record of last season. The Reds scored 52 but also having that competitive edge to win a Hoffenheim yesterday for a reported fee of goals compared to 101 in the 2013-14 game of cricket for your country.” But, in a sign of 29 million pounds ($45.8 million) that Premier League campaign, when Luis how tricky it is to agree on what is or isn’t would make him the second most expen- Suarez and Daniel Sturridge struck up a acceptable, Australia’s Shaun Marsh, speaking sive player in the English club’s history. superb partnership up front that almost led ahead of the first Ashes Test against England in Liverpool said the 23-year-old Firmino the team to the title. Cardiff on July 8, said Monday: “It is an Ashes signed a “long-term contract,” subject to a Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers series and I am sure there will be sledging from medical examination that will take place has been looking to bolster his forward both teams, but I am also sure it will be in the after the Copa America. options with Suarez now at Barcelona and spirit of the game.” Firmino, who can play as a striker or as a Sturridge having a worrying injury record. central or wide attacking midfielder, scored Strikers Mario Balotelli and Rickie Lambert BRISBANE FIREWORKS 47 goals in 151 matches for Hoffenheim joined Liverpool last offseason but only Things were widely deemed to have got out after joining from Brazilian club Figueirense scored three league goals between them. of hand between the two teams during the last in December 2010. He has scored four Another striker, Andy Carroll, is Liverpool’s Ashes campaign, which saw Australia whitewash goals in nine appearances for Brazil, includ- record signing at 35 million pounds (then England 5-0 on home soil in 2013/14. ing the winner against Venezuela in the $56 million) in 2011. Firmino joins fellow The first Test in Brisbane saw Australia captain Copa America on Sunday. Liverpool has Brazil internationals Philippe Coutinho and Michael Clarke tell England tailender Anderson CANTERBURY: Australia’s Mitchell Starc catches the ball during the nets session at The Spitfire also signed striker Danny Ings this offsea- Lucas Leiva at Liverpool. —AP to “get ready for a broken fucking arm”. Ground. Australia will play England in the first Test of the Ashes series starting July 8. —AP