TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016 SPORTS

India panel proposes BCCI revamp after scandals

NEW DELHI: A panel appointed by last year to recommend changes after executive body for the IPL as well as the India’s Supreme Court yesterday pro- the top court found two IPL franchise appointment of an independent posed sweeping changes to the coun- owners guilty of betting on the outcome ombudsman, and ethics and electoral try’s scandal-hit board and said of matches in 2013. In July it suspended officers to address grievances and con- gambling should be made legal. the and Chennai Super flicts of interest. The panel headed by former chief jus- Kings (CSK) teams, triggering the resig- The BCCI, which generates huge rev- tice Rajendra Mal Lodha was appointed nation of former BCCI chief enues due to its vast television audi- after a string of corruption scandals at Narayanaswami Srinivasan. ences, should also be brought under the Board of Control for Cricket in India He was found guilty of a conflict of India’s Right to Information Act to (BCCI). Its report, seen by AFP, recom- interest for being at the helm of Indian ensure accountability, the panel added. mends barring politicians from the Cements which owns CSK. The panel Commentators welcomed the recom- sport’s governing body and introducing exonerated IPL chief operating officer mendations, saying they would help time limits on holding office. Sundar Raman, citing lack of evidence, restore the BCCI’s credibility and bring It also suggests legalising betting after it was tasked to investigate match- transparency. after a popular tournament fixing allegations against him. “It might be tempting to term them run by the BCCI, the Indian Premier “I have heard that I have been given a radical, but the Lodha committee has League (IPL), was rocked by allegations clean chit and I appreciate it,” Raman, basically recommended good corporate of corruption, match-fixing and crooked who resigned in November, told the practices,” Cricinfo editor Sambit Bal umpires. Press Trust of India news agency. tweeted, calling them “well thought out NEW DELHI: The head of Supreme Court appointed committee Justice Rajendra “As far as betting alone is concerned... and wide-ranging”. Lodha poses for photographs during a press conference in New Delhi, India, it would serve both the game and econ- MINISTERS BANNED The BCCI enjoys a pre-eminent posi- yesterday. The court-appointed committee has urged a shake-up to the admin- omy if it were legalised,” the report sug- Lodha said the BCCI should bar minis- tion in world cricket and effectively runs istration of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in the wake of a spot-fixing gests, with several riders. Gambling is ters and government officials as well as the International Cricket Council with its scam and alleged conflicts of interest. —AP mostly illegal in India, but betting on anyone over 70 from holding office and allies Australia and England. The top cricket matches thrives through net- impose a three-year maximum term for court will now rule on whether the rec- Former lawyer Shashank Manohar cash-rich but faction-ridden body has works of underground bookies. holding office. ommendations should be legally bind- took charge of the BCCI in October, vow- usually been run by politicians or indus- Lodha’s panel was formed in January The panel also suggests a separate ing. ing a new era of clean governance. The trialists with conflicting interests. — AFP Rain soaks Sydney Test

SYDNEY: Carlos Brathwaite provided some said, ‘You know what, just enjoy the feeling’ fireworks in a lively cameo as rain washed raised my bat and looked around and it out all but 11.2 overs of the second day of was a very, very good feeling.” the third Australia-West Indies Test yester- Steve O’Keefe, one of two recognised day. spinners along with Nathan Lyon in an The Barbados all-rounder clouted two Australian team for the first time in a massive sixes off one over decade in a home Test, said there was still on his way to a dynamic 69 after lunch at time for Australia to get a result. the Sydney Cricket Ground. Brathwaite “I think so. I think there’s still a hell of a smashed Pattinson over cover for his first lot of cricket to go,” O’Keefe said. powerful blow before flicking another off “If you can get three days in then that’s his pads for an effortless six over backward close to 300 overs. “Hopefully, if the skip- square leg. But Pattinson had the last per sees that spin will play a big role then laugh, the hulking all-rounder in we might get more overs in towards the his next over. back end of the match if the keeps Brathwaite’s 69 runs came off 71 balls spinning, it’s spinning already.” with seven fours and four sixes and further Only four overs could be bowled in the enhanced his reputation after his 59 on first session and 7.2 in the second before debut during the second Test in another heavy squall forced the players to Melbourne. leave the field for a third and final time. “I just went out there and tried to play There was no further play after tea with my game, thankfully I got from 30-odd large tarpaulins covering the pitch and overnight to 69,” Brathwaite said. wicket surrounds. “I’m not satisfied that I didn’t carry on to The West Indies were 248 for seven with get three figures or firstly to see out the Denesh Ramdin on 30 and Kemar Roach day but I’m still happy in sense that I got yet to score. “It (the rain) is annoying. It’s my highest Test score.” Brathwaite, who hard for the guys to continually switch off gave the 14,266 bedraggled fans some and get back up,” O’Keefe said. entertainment on a frustrating stop-start “But we have got loads of good struc- day, said he was disappointed to get out. “I ture around us and support staff and they was very, very upset. Not on the dismissal get us switched on and Smithy (Steve because I think it was a good nut (ball), but Smith) makes sure that with 10 minutes to I was upset that once again I got a start and go that we’re ready and out there to do a couldn’t carry on and one of the main job.” Australia have already retained the mantras in cricket is that when things are Frank Worrell Trophy after huge wins in the going good you maximise,” he said. first two Tests, and are chasing a 3-0 series clean sweep. The West Indies, who are CAPE TOWN: South African batsman and Hashim Amla plays a shot during the third days play in the second match between ‘GOOD FEELING’ playing in their first Test at the Sydney England and at the Newlands stadium yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa. — AFP “Then reaching halfway off and hearing Cricket Ground in 15 years, have not won a the crowd’s applause and I even saw some Test in Australia since 1997. More rain was people standing, I just took a step back and forecast for today. — AFP Amla stands firm SCOREBOARD

SYDNEY: Scores at the close on the second day of the third Test between Australia and the West Indies at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday: against England West Indies 1st Extras (b5, lb1, nb1) 7 K. Brathwaite c Smith b Lyon 85 Total (7 ; 86.2 overs) 248 S. Hope c Nevill b Hazlewood 9 Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Hope), 2-104 (Bravo), 3- D. Bravo c Khawaja b Pattinson 33 115 (Samuels), 4-131 (Blackwood), 5-158 (K. CAPE TOWN: South African captain Hashim By contrast to the second day, when Ben scored in the day for the loss of three wickets, it M. Samuels run out (Hazlewood) 4 Brathwaite), 6-159 (Holder), 7-246 (C. Amla defied England’s bowlers and batted Stokes and thrashed 196 runs was attritional cricket, with only 212 runs J. Blackwood b Lyon 10 D. Ramdin 30 Brathwaite) throughout the third day of the second Test at for England before lunch and 453 runs were scored in 87 overs. — AFP J. Holder c Burns b O’Keefe 1 Bowling: Hazlewood 15.2-5-37-1, Pattinson 16- Newlands yesterday. C. Brathwaite b Pattinson 69 3-67-2 (1nb), Lyon 35-12-78-2, Marsh 4-1-15-0, Amla made an unbeaten 157 as South Africa K. Roach not out 0 O’Keefe 16-5-45-1. reached 353 for three at the close, still 276 runs SCOREBOARD behind England’s first innings total of 629 for six declared. AB de Villiers was the only bats- CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Scoreboard yesterday at stumps on the third day of the second test between South man dismissed during the day as South Africa, Africa and England at Newlands: 1-0 down in the four-Test series, dug in on a England 1st Innings Dean Elgar 4-0-17-0. pitch which offered no assistance to the c Morris b Rabada 27 South Africa 1st Innings bowlers. was the only successful c De Villiers b Morkel 60 Dean Elgar c Compton b Stokes 44 bowler. He had De Villiers caught at midwicket Nick Compton c Bavuma b Rabada 45 Stiaan van Zyl run out Compton/Bairstow 4 shortly before tea after Amla and De Villiers had c De Kock b Morris 50 Hashim Amla not out 157 put on 183 in a third wicket partnership which James Taylor c De Kock b Rabada 0 A.B. de Villiers c Anderson b Finn 88 lasted for two minutes short of five hours. Faf run out De Villiers 258 Faf du Plessis not out 51 du Plessis, who like Amla had endured a lean Jonny Bairstow not out 150 Extras: (3lb, 6w) 9 spell with the bat, made 51 not out as he not out 0 Total (for 3 wickets) 353 helped his captain put on an unbeaten 85 for Extras: (12b, 6lb, 13w, 8nb) 39 Overs: 130. the fourth wicket. It was a crucial innings for TOTAL: (for 6 wickets declared) 629 Still to bat: Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock, Dane Amla, who was under pressure for both his - Overs: 125.5 Piedt, , Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel. taincy and his . Did not bat: , James Anderson, Steven Finn. Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-85, 3-268. South Africa have not won a Test since beat- Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-129, 3-167, 4-167, 5-223, 6-622. Bowling: James Anderson 24-8-53-0, Stuart Broad 20-4- ing the West Indies at the same venue a year Bowling: Morne Morkel 29-5-114-1 (1w, 1nb), Chris 54-0, Moeen Ali 31-9-80-0, Steven Finn 26-3-82-1 (2w), ago, while Amla had made only 150 runs at an Morris 28-3-150-1, Kagiso Rabada 29.5-2-175-3 (4w, Joe Root 5-2-12-0, Ben Stokes 21-3-67-1 (4w), Alex Hales average of 15.00 in 10 innings since that match. 7nb), Dane Piedt 25-5-112-0, Stiaan van Zyl 10-0-43-0, 3-1-2-0. It was a triumph of technique and concentra- tion as he made his first Test century since he hit 208 against the West Indies in Centurion in December 2014. By the close he had batted for nine hours and 26 minutes and had faced 371 balls. His innings included 21 fours. Pakistan to appeal Yasir After the worst year of his international career, Amla had two strokes of luck. He was dropped by James Anderson at slip off Joe Root Shah’s failed dope test when he was on 76 and by Nick Compton at backward point off Steven Finn when he had LAHORE: Pakistan will appeal against the (PCB) said Shah told the medical panel last 120. With South Africa’s batting having been decision to suspend Yasir Shah over a failed week he had taken a tablet from his wife to fragile for most of 2015, the partnership dope test, authorities said yesterday, as treat hypertension. PCB chairman Shaharyar between Amla and De Villiers, the side’s two sources said the spin star told a panel last Khan said the board’s medical panel had met senior batsmen, was important for the team. week he had taken medication for hyperten- on Monday after receiving more details from Both men batted solidly for the most part sion. the ICC on Shah’s case, and had decided not but had anxious moments which required deci- The 29-year-old leg-spinner was provi- to request a second urine sample. “We have sions by television umpire Rod Tucker. Amla sionally suspended by the International decided not to go for the ‘B’ sample test, and managed to get his bat down just in time after Cricket Council (ICC) on December 27 after instead will appeal with the ICC,” he told AFP. Finn deflected a drive by De Villiers into the testing positive for chlorthalidone, a diuretic Under the ICC rules Shah has until Sunday stumps at the bowler’s end. De Villiers was giv- used to treat hypertension that is listed on to challenge the suspension or plead guilty. en out to Ben Stokes by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list If his appeal is rejected, he faces a possible umpire Aleem Dar when he had 85, but De of masking agents. Shah, whose test was ban of up to four years. Shah emerged as a Villiers immediately sought a review which conducted on November 13 during the one- match-winner for Pakistan in Test cricket showed the ball had gone off an inside edge day series against England in the United after he replaced ace spinner Saeed Ajmal, onto his pad. Arab Emirates, has recently emerged as a who struggled with a remodelled bowling De Villiers scored only three more runs match-winner in Test cricket and is the action after it was reported in 2014. Shah before he pulled a short ball from Finn hard but world’s highest-ranking spinner in the for- took 24 wickets in Pakistan’s 2-1 series win in SYDNEY: West Indies batsman Carlos Brathwaite, left, looks back as Australia’s wick- straight to Anderson at midwicket. He had mat. Sri Lanka in July and another 15 in a 2-0 Test etkeeper Peter Nevill tries to stump him out during their cricket test match in defied the England bowlers for 298 minutes Sources within the Pakistan Cricket Board win over England in November. — AFP Sydney, Australian, yesterday. —AP and 211 balls, hitting 12 fours and a six.