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. ENGLAND: 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 over 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 DHAKA: India’s captain M S Dhoni (left) greets Bangladesh’s captain Mashrafe Mortaza after winning their third one-day international cricket 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 run rate on the slow Mirpur surface through a (44) for a fruitful stand of 93 for the fourth wicket 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, caught 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). Mustafizur Rahman 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 wickets 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 Nasir Hossain 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. Soumya Sarkar 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 Tamim Iqbal (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 Mushfiqur Rahim c Dhoni b Raina 24 V. Kohli b Shakib 25 Shakib Al Hasan c Kulkarni b Raina 20 missed Tamim, pegged Bangladesh back by M. Dhoni c Mustafizur b Mortaza 69 Sabbir Rahman 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 not out 17 Arafat Sunny not out 14 nised batsmen got starts but none of them man- A. Patel not out 10 Rubel Hossain 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 Bowling: 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.