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FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 4 NNBABA | Page 5 Lampard has Cousins looking brought unity forward to to Chelsea: teaming with Azpilicueta Davis again Friday, July 12, 2019 CYCLING Dhul-Qa’da 9, 1440 AH Thomas gains time GULF TIMES on rivals in brutal Tour stage fi nish SPORT Page 7 ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP England thump Australia to set up New Zealand fi nal Woakes and Rashid scalp three each to restrict holders to 223 before Roy’s 85 propels hosts to their first final in 27 years AFP Birmingham, United Kingdom Scorecard AUSTRALIA Bowling: Woakes 8-0-20-3, ngland booked their D. Warner c Bairstow b Woakes 9 Archer 10-0-32-2 (w2), Stokes place in the World Cup 4-0-22-0, Wood 9-0-45-1 (w4), fi nal against New Zea- A. Finch lbw b Archer 0 Plunkett 8-0-44-0 (w3), Rashid land with a dominant S. Smith run out (Buttler) 85 10-0-54-3 (w1) Eeight-wicket win over reigning P. Handscomb b Woakes 4 champions Australia at Edgbas- ton yesterday. A. Carey c sub (Vince) b Rashid 46 ENGLAND Jason Roy hit a blistering 85 as M. Stoinis lbw b Rashid 0J. Roy c Carey b Cummins 85 England reached a victory target G. Maxwell c Morgan b Archer 22 J. Bairstow lbw b Starc 34 of 224 with a mammoth 107 balls P. Cummins c Root b Rashid 6J. Root not out 49 to spare after restricting Australia. Openers Roy and Jonny M. Starc c Buttler b Woakes 29 E. Morgan not out 45 Bairstow (34) put on 124 for the J. Behrendorff b Wood 1Extras (lb1, w12) 13 fi rst wicket, their fourth consec- N. Lyon not out 5Total (two wickets, 32.1 overs) 226 utive century stand. England, losing fi nalists in Extras (lb6, w10) 16 Fall of wickets: 1-124 (Bairstow), 1979, 1987 and 1992, will now Total (all out, 49 overs) 223 2-147 (Roy) face New Zealand, who have also Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Finch), 2-10 Bowling: Behrendorff 8.1-2- yet to win the World Cup after (Warner), 3-14 (Handscomb), 38-0 (w1), Starc 9-0-70-1 (w3), fi nishing runners-up to Australia 4-117 (Carey), 5-118 (Stoinis), 6-157 Cummins 7-0-34-1 (w2), Lyon 5-0- four years ago, in Sunday’s fi - (Maxwell), 7-166 (Cummins), 49-0, Smith 1-0-21-0 (w1), Stoinis nal at Lord’s following the Black 8-217 (Smith), 9-217 (Starc), 10- 2-0-13-0 (w1) Caps’ surprise semi-fi nal win 223 (Behrendorff ) RESULT: England won by 8 wkts over India. “I’m pretty speechless,” said man-of-the-match Chris Woakes. “It was an incredible performance from the whole team. It started with the bowling performance and then the way they knocked that off was outstanding. “There were some nerves around this morning but that’s natural going into a semi-fi nal. The way we produced the goods just showed how good we are and where we are at as a team.” Roy, who missed three match- England’s Chris Woakes (right) celebrates taking the wicket of Australia’s David Warner during the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final at es earlier in the tournament with Edgbaston in Birmingham, United Kingdom, yesterday. (Reuters) a torn hamstring, was in particu- larly good form, hitting left-arm showed few signs of nerves in sixes in as many balls. Test skipper Joe Root (49 not pair of David Warner and Finch, fast bowler Mitchell Starc and Birmingham. Bairstow fell lbw to Starc, who out) and England captain Eoin as well as Peter Handscomb, were Nathan Lyon for sixes. Australia captain Aaron Finch in the process set a new record for Morgan (45 not out) fi nished the all back in the pavilion by the Australia were in desperate turned to Steve Smith’s occa- most wickets at a single World job as the crowd chanted “crick- seventh over. need of early wickets after suf- sional leg-spin in a desperate bid Cup of 27. et’s coming home”. Warner, who like Smith walked fering a top-order collapse on the to break the partnership. Roy was in sight of a hundred Defeat meant Australia suf- out to boos because of his role in way to being dismissed for 223, when he was given out caught fered their fi rst loss in eight the ball-tampering scandal, re- with the record fi ve-time cham- SMITH BOOED behind down the legside by World Cup semi-fi nals. turned to even louder cat-calls pions thankful for Steve Smith’s Smith was booed by a large crowd, wicketkeeper Alex Carey off fast Earlier, Woakes and Adil Rash- after being dismissed for nine. battling 85. a refl ection of the former Australia bowler Pat Cummins. id each took three wickets apiece. Smith and Alex Carey steadied All three of England’s de- captain’s role in a ball-tampering The batsman was visibly angry Woakes struck twice early on the innings with a fourth-wicket feats this tournament — includ- scandal in South Africa that saw and had to be ushered away from at his Warwickshire home ground stand of 103 but wickets tumbled ing a 64-run group stage loss to him banned for 12 months. the crease by square leg umpire as Australia slumped to 14-3 after at regular intervals and Australia Australia — have come batting But the jeers turned to cheers Marais Erasmus. England had ear- winning the toss. were unable to set England a England’s Jason Roy acknowledges the crowd as he walks off the field second but Roy and Bairstow as Roy hit three huge straight lier squandered their lone review. Australia’s prolifi c opening testing target. after getting out in the match yesterday. (AFP) RALLYING Fift h straight stage win gives al-Attiyah big Silk Way lead Agencies right lead over the chasing pack The Qatari said: “Whenever we and completing the high-speed stage of 408.15km in a day’s route Mandalgovi, Mongolia headed by China’s Kun Lui and fi nd ourselves in good conditions section 4min 13sec ahead of Van of 411.75km between Mandalgovi Frenchman Jerome Pelichet. we try to push. We were trying to Loon. The stage win also enabled and Dalanzadgad in Mongolia. Dutchman Erik van Loon and make a gap at the front. It is never the Qatari to extend his overall Dalanzadgad is the capital of atar’s Nasser Saleh Frenchman Sebastien Delaunay easy to open the track but I trust lead over Lui Kun to 26min 41sec. the Omnogovi Aimag area of al-Attiyah and French are crewing the second of the my co-driver Matthieu.” Van Loon moved up to 32nd over- Mongolia and is located 540km navigator Matthieu Overdrive Toyotas and are fi ght- Van Loon suff ered serious all in the car category. south of the capital and lies 1,470 Baumel extended their ing back well from time delays transmission issues on the sec- The Qatari said: “We did a metres above sea level. Qoutright lead in the 2019 Silk Way on stage two. Van Loon was third ond stage and lost his chance of good job on this long stage. There Rally to 37min 25sec after claim- fastest on the fi fth stage as he winning the event. The Dutch- was no problem with the car and POSITIONS AFTER SS5 (TOP 5) ing a fi fth successive stage win continues to push his way back man bounced back with the fi fth Matthieu did a good job with the 1. Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah (QAT)/ on the 364.59km timed section towards the top 15 with fi ve stag- quickest time on the third stage navigation. We enjoyed the Mon- Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota between Ulaanbaatar and Man- es to run in Mongolia and China. into the Mongolian capital but he golian landscape. It really was Hilux Overdrive 11hrs 46min 41sec dalgovi yesterday. He was classifi ed in an unoffi cial was still in the lower reaches of incredible. We are happy to be 2. Kun Lui (CHN)/Pan Hingyu Mandalgovi lies around 300km 21st overall after SS5. the leader board. doing well at this rally.” (CHN) Hanwei SMG Buggy 12hrs south of the capital on the border Al-Attiyah won his third suc- The fourth special comprised Saudi Arabia’s Yazeed al-Rajhi 24min 06sec of the Gobi Desert. cessive section with a stage win a loop around the vast terrain to and German navigator Dirk von 3. Jérôme Pelichet (FRA)/Pascal Overdrive Racing driver al-Atti- on the 243km stint into the Mon- the east of Ulaanbaatar. In a day’s Zitzewitz were forced out of the Larroque (FRA) Optimus 12hrs yah has been in a class of his own golian capital of Ulaanbaatar on route of 476.96km, 470.19km rally in the third Overdrive Rac- 29min 55sec this week, as he closes in on a fi rst Tuesday. The Qatari fi nished the were timed against the clock in ing car after terminal mechanical 4. Denis Krotov (RUS)/Dmytro ever victory for himself and Toyota special 6min 13sec in front of the longest timed section of the problems thwarted their progress Tsyro (RUS) MINI John Cooper at the gruelling Silk Way Rally. The Russia’s Denis Krotov, despite a entire event. on the second stage between Works Rally 12hrs 32min 43sec Qatari beat closest rival Matthieu fl at tyre, and extended his out- Overdrive Racing completed Baikalsk and Ulan-Ude in East- 5.