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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015 SPORTS Herath spins Sri Lanka to big victory over Windies

GALLE: Sri Lanka needed less than four nightwatchman (10) in days to thrash West Indies by an innings wily left-arm spinner Herath’s third over and six runs in the opening Test at Galle and then experienced batsman Marlon yesterday with Rangana Herath leading the Samuels was out lbw off the first ball he victory charge by claiming his fifth 10-wick- faced. Samuels did not offer a shot to a et haul. The touring side, who have never straight and more surprisingly, won a test match in Sri Lanka, were bun- decided to waste a review by challenging dled out for 227 in their second innings in the umpire’s decision. The bowler’s hat-trick the afternoon session, after being asked to ball was fended away by Blackwood. West follow on by the hosts. Indies’ hopes of avoiding a heavy defeat Herath added three to his previ- rested on (31), who scored a ous day’s removal of opener Kraigg 50 in the first innings, but the left-hander Brathwaite (34) after claiming six victims in edged behind after cap- the first innings to finish with match figures tain ’ decision to allow the of 10-147. Three of the 37-year-old’s land- paceman one more over was vindicated. mark hauls have come at Galle, the venue “We had a lot of things to learn,” West for his test debut against Australia more Indies Jason Holder, leading the than 16 years ago. side for the first time in tests, said. “We did “When I play here, there is always some- not put enough runs in our first innings thing for me as a spinner,” Herath said after total and struggled again in the second picking up the man of the match award. innings. “We did create chances but we just “That’s the main reason (for my success).” didn’t take them. If we had held our Debutant all-rounder Milinda chances I think the game would have been Siriwardana and paceman Dhammika lot different.” Prasad picked up two wickets apiece in the Blackwood and wicketkeeper Denesh second innings for Sri Lanka. Ramdin (11) stitched together a dogged Jermaine Blackwood played some 48-run stand for the sixth before ABU DHABI: ’s batsman in action as England’s protects himself during the final day of first stTe match at delightful shots and showed nimble foot- Siriwardena ended the pair’s resistance Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. —AP work against the spinners during his knock when Ramdin edged a catch to Kaushal of 92, his second highest score in tests, but Silva at second slip. The second match of was the last man out. the two-test series starts in Colombo on After resuming on 67-2, West Indies lost Thursday. —Reuters Cook proud, Misbah SCOREBOARD relieved after draw GALLE, Sri Lanka: The final scores of the first cricket Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium.Sri Lanka won the match by an innings and six ABU DHABI: England captain Alastair Cook was a lot of the time and playing to your strengths.” and bounce. But credit to them,” said Misbah runs on day four yesterday proud while Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-haq was Misbah said he was relieved that Pakistan were who criticised the pitch. Sri Lanka 1st innings Devendra Bishoo 23 relieved after the first Test ended in a dramatic not trailing in the series. “Even a kid knows what kind of pitch you c and b Samuels 186 Shanon Gabriel b Herath 0 draw with England falling just 25 short of victory “I think the big advantage is that we are not need when you are playing against England,” Kaushal Silva c Ramdin b Roach 17 Extras: (b4 lb7 w1 nb7) 19 yesterday. A result looked highly unlikely when 1-0 down,” said Misbah. “I think in said Misbah of the flat Sheikh Zayed Stadium c (sub) Chandrika b Bishoo 16 Total: all out (82 overs) 251 England finished their first innings on the fifth pressure lets everything happen and we caused pitch where only 16 wickets fell on the first four c Blackwood b Taylor 151 Fall of wicket: 1-33 (Brathwaite), 2-49 (Hope), 3-70 and final morning but leg-spinner Adil Rashid that pressure with some wrong shots.” days and 15 on the last. Angelo Mathews c and b Holder 48 (Samuels), 4-111 (Blackwood), 5-132 (Bravo), 6- then took 5-64 as Pakistan were dismissed for a “If you commit mistakes then such situations “You need a spin track. If the pitch was not c Ramdin b Taylor 1 165 (Holder), 7-171 (Ramdin), 8-217 (Taylor), 9- paltry 173. arise especially Younis (Khan) and I played prepared like that then I am as surprised as you Kusal Janith Perera b Gabriel 23 251 (Roach), 10-251 (Gabriel) That gave Cook’s men a 99-run target in a wrong shots at the wrong time,” said Misbah are,” said Misbah, who was also critical of no cov- c Holder b Bishoo 13 Bowling: Prasad 15-6-38-2, Pradeep 15-4-56-1, maximum of 19 overs but when the umpires who fell to a rash shot off spinner Moeen Ali er in his spin after key leg-spinner was Rangana Herath lbw Bishoo 0 Herath 33-9-68-6, Kaushal 14-4-65-1, Siriwardana called off play eight overs early due to bad light after scoring 51. Younis was caught off a poor declared unfit before the match. “I think you Tharindu Kaushal not out 9 5-2-13-0. England were marooned on 74-4. shot of Rashid for 45. should ask this question to the selectors or Nuwan Pradeep c Gabriel b Bishoo 0 The result left the three-match series level “England are a good team and the pitch also somebody back home,” said a critical Pakistan Extras: (b4 lb5 w5 nb6) 20 West Indies 2nd innings: follow on with the second Test starting in Dubai from helped them because there was not much turn captain. —AFP Total: (all out; 152.3 overs) 484 lbw Herath 34 October 22. b Siriwardana 6 England’s remarkable change of fortune, after Fall of wicket: 1-56 (Silva), 2-101 (Thirimanne), 3- Darren Bravo c Perera b Pradeep 31 Pakistan had piled up a mammoth 523-8 SCOREBOARD 339 (Karunaratne), 4-425 (Chandimal), 5-427 Devendra Bishoo c Mathews b Herath 10 declared in the first innings, left Cook the happi- (Siriwardana), 6-448 (Mathews), 7-467 (Prasad), 8- lbw Herath 0 er of the two captains. 467 (Herath), 9-475 (Perera), 10-484 (Pradeep) Jermaine Blackwood c Silva b Prasad 92 “I am proud of my boys,” said Cook, who was ABU DHABI: Complete scoreboard in the first Test between Pakistan and England on the fifth Bowling: Taylor 20-4-65-2, Roach 19-3-57-1, c Silva b Siriwardana 11 declared man-of-the-match for his epic 263 in and final day at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on yesterday: Holder 21-4-36-1, Gabriel 20-2-76-1, Samuels 27- Jason Holder run out 18 England’s 598-9 declared which gave them a 4-84-1, Bishoo 40.3-2-143-4, Brathwaite 5-0-14-0. st Perera b Herath 5 lead of 75 runs. Pakistan 1st innings 523-8 dec ( 245, Asad Shafiq 107, 98; B. lbw b Prasad 5 “More (proud) for the fact when you concede Stokes 4-57) West Indies 1st innings not out 7 520-plus and then you are the side who are pret- England 1st innings (overnight 569-8) Sarfraz Ahmed c Anderson b Rashid 27 Kraigg Brathwaite lbw Herath 19 Extras (lb3 w2 nb3) 8 ty much going to win the game and with an A. Cook c Masood b Malik 263 c Bairstow b Ali 1 Shai Hope b Herath 23 Total: all out (68.3 overs) 227 inexperienced side.” M. Ali c Ahmed b Khan 35 Zulfiqar Babar c Anderson b Rashid 1 Darren Bravo c Chandimal b Herath 50 Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Hope), 2-60 (Brathwaite), 3- Cook said Pakistan’s collapse raised hopes of I. Bell c Hafeez b Riaz 63 not out 0 Marlon Samuels b Herath 11 74 (Bishoo), 4-74 (Samuel), 5-88 (Bravo), 6-136 an unlikely win. “It’s a really strange feeling M. Wood b Riaz 4 c Anderson b Rashid 0 Jermaine Blackwood c Siriwardana b Prasad 11 (Ramdin), 7-172 (Holder), 8-178 (Roach), 9-189 because there’s one of disappointment in the J. Root c Ahmed b Rahat 85 Extras: (b3, lb2, nb2) 7 Denesh Ramdin c Perera b Pradeep 23 (Taylor), 10-227 (Blackwood) dressing room which is very strange because J. Bairstow lbw b Riaz 8 Total: (all out; 57.5 overs) 173 Jason Holder c Perera b Prasad 19 Bowling: Prasad 9.3-3-28-2, Herath 22-5-79-4 everyone would have taken the result at tea B. Stokes b Malik 57 Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Masood), 2-3 (Malik), 3-47 Kemar Roach St Perera b Herath 22 Pradeep 14-1-28-1, Siriwardana 12-1-60-2, time,” said Cook of the interval when Pakistan J. Butler c Shafiq b Babar 23 (Hafeez), 4-113 (Younis), 5-139 (Shafiq), 6-159 Jerome Taylor c Mathews b Kaushal 31 Kaushal 11-3-29-0. were apparently safe at 102-3. A. Rashid b Khan 12 (Misbah), 7-165 (Riza), 8-168 (Babar), 9-173 (Ahmed) But Pakistan lost seven wickets in the space S. Broad not out 17 Bowling: Anderson 10-3-30-2, Broad 8-5-8-0, Wood of 71 runs, the last five off just 14. Cook hoped J. Anderson not out 3 7-2-29-0, Rashid 18.5-3-64-5, Stokes 7-4-9-0, Ali 7-0- his team keeps up the same fight in the next two Extras: (b7, lb7, nb11, w3) 28 28-2. Tests. “Over the next 10 days of Test cricket we Total: (for nine wkts dec; 206 overs) 598 need to show the same resilience,” said Cook, Fall of wickets: 1-116 (Ali), 2-281 (Bell), 3-285 (Wood), England 2nd innings part of the England team routed 3-0 by Pakistan 4-426 (Root), 5-443 (Bairstow), 6-534 (Stokes), 7-549 Moeen Ali c Malik b Babar 11 in the UAE in 2012. (Cook), 8-563 (Butler), 9-590 (Rashid) J. Butler lbw b Malik 4 Cook praised Rashid, who went for 163 runs Bowling: Rahat 28-1-86-1, Khan 27-7-74-2, Babar 72- J. Root not out 33 in his wicket-less 34 overs in the first innings-the 17-183-1, Riaz 37-3-125-3 (11nb, 3w), Shafiq 7-0-19- B. Stokes c Hafeez b Malik 2 worst analysis for a bowler on debut. 0, Malik 35-4-97-2. J. Bairstow st Ahmed b Babar 15 “We know how important a leg-spinner can I. Bell not out 5 be,” said Cook of Rashid. “He can change games Pakistan 2nd innings Extras: (lb2, w2) 4 very quickly and the criticism he got was unfair, Mohammad Hafeez run out 34 Total: (four wkts; 11 overs) 74 he handled the pressure well.” Shan Masood b Anderson 1 Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Butler), 2-29 (Babar), 3-35 Cook attributed his good form in tough Asian Shoaib Malik c Bairstow b Anderson 0 (Stokes), 4-66 (Bairstow) conditions to patience.”I don’t quite know why Younis Khan c Stokes b Adil 45 Bowling: Babar 5-0-27-2 (1w), Malik 4-0-25-2, Riaz 2- I’ve got such a good subcontinent record,” said Misbah-ul-Haq b Ali 51 0-20-0 Cook who now has eight hundreds in Asia. Asad Shafiq c Butler b Rashid 6 Result: Drawn “It’s pretty much a game of patience out here

Royals reign over Blue Jays

KANSAS CITY: The Kansas City Volquez was described as Royals nullified the strongest batting “superb” by Kansas City manager line-up in the majors and let their Ned Yost. “He had everything going, own sluggers do the talking as they great fastball... on the attack from romped to a 5-0 victory over the the first inning on.” Toronto Blue Jays in the American Not that Yost was comfortable League Championship Series opener with an early three-run lead after on Friday. four innings, which the Royals Catcher Salvador Perez belted a padded with two more in the eighth. solo home run and four pitchers “Even though you have a two or combined to outfox the potent Blue three-run cushion, that club has the Jays batters in front of a delighted ability to put two or three runs up Kauffman Stadium crowd as the on the board in a heartbeat, so home team drew first blood in the you’re never comfortable,” he said. best-of-seven series. Lead-off batter Alcides Escobar Kansas City starter Edinson (2-for-3 with one RBI) set the tone for Volquez pitched six strong innings, the Royals by smacking a double off relying primarily on a two-seam fast- the first pitch he faced from Toronto ball to strike out five, while giving up starter Marco Estrada, who took the two hits and four walks in 111 pitch- loss despite a solid 5 1/3 innings. es before handing over to the Toronto manager John Gibbons bullpen to close it out. refused to blame the Mexican pitch- Dominican Republic native er, instead lamenting an off night by Volquez earned his first postseason his offense. win, after entering the game 0-3. The “He (Estrada) knows how to sur- Blue Jays were by far the best offen- vive and he kept us in the game but sive team in the majors in the regu- we just got shut out,” Gibbons said. lar season, averaging more than five The victory did not come without a runs per game and were shut out potential cost for the Royals, howev- just five times in 162 contests. er, as Perez suffered an injured left However, they were unable to middle finger when he was struck by counter some excellent Kansas City Josh Donaldson’s bat on the Toronto pitching on Friday, with nobody third baseman’s follow through in managing more than one hit. “My the eighth inning. fastball was good, outside part of Perez opted to remain behind the the plate,” Volquez said in an on-field plate but will be assessed ahead of interview. “I changed my game plan Game Two in Kansas City late yester- against them. Last time I faced them day. The Royals are seeking a quick I threw a lot of pitches inside and return to the World Series after los- KANSAS CITY: Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista gets out of the way of GALLE: West Indies’ cricketer Shannon Gabriel bats during the fourth day of the first tonight I was able to command my ing to the San Francisco Giants in a pitch during the eighth inning in Game 1 of baseball’s American Test cricket match in Galle against Sri Lanka. —AP fastball down and away.” seven games last season.—Reuters League Championship Series against the Kansas City Royals. —AP