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Perera Shines As Sri Lanka Thrash West Indies SPORTS Thursday, November 5, 2015 31 Test three, Day four Pakistan hold edge on Day 4 Sharjah akistan grabbed two early wickets to hit England hard SCOREBOARD inP their chase of a 284-run target as the third and final Scores at close of play on Fall of wickets: 1-101 (Ali), Test heads for an intriguing fourth day: 2-105 (Malik), 3-146 (Younis), finish after day four in Sharjah 4-152 (Rahat), 5-245 (Misbah), yesterday. Pakistan 1st innings 234 6-257 (Hafeez), 7-312 (Sarfraz), England were 46-2 with (Misbah-ul-Haq 71; J. 8-319 (Shah), 9-354 (Shafiq) Alastair Cook (17) and Joe Anderson 4-17) Root (six) fighting hard Bowling: Anderson 26-8-52- against Pakistan’s spinners, England 1st innings 306 2, Broad 23-6-44-3, Patel 19-1- led by Shoaib Malik who (J. Taylor 76; Shoaib Malik 79-1, Ali 21.2-1-72-1, Rashid claimed both the wickets on a 4-33, Yasir Shah 3-99) 29-3-97-1 weary Sharjah stadium pitch. England will need another Pakistan 2nd innings (146- England 2nd innings 238 runs on the fifth and final 3) Moeen Ali lbw b Malik 22 day on Thursday for a series- Hafeez c Bell b Ali 151 A. Cook not out 17 levelling win while Pakistan Azhar Ali run out 34I. Bell b Malik 0 will fancy a 2-0 victory. Shoaib Malik lbw b Anderson 0 J. Root not out 6 Pakistan won the second Younis Khan lbw b Broad 14 Extras: (nb1) 1 Test by 178 runs in Dubai Rahat Ali b Anderson 0 Total: (for two wkts) 46 while the first ended in a draw Misbah-ul-Haq lbw b Broad 38 in Abu Dhabi. Asad Shafiq b Broad 46 Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Ali), It was Malik, due to quit Sarfraz Ahmed b Patel 36 2-34 (Bell) Test cricket after this match, Yasir Shah c Broad b Rashid 4 who provided Pakistan’s Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed plays a shot Wahab Riaz run out 21 Bowling: Rahat 2-0-13-0, Riaz early breakthroughs, trapping Zulfiqar Babar not out 0 2-0-10-0 (1nb), Babar 9-2-11- Moeen Ali (22) leg-before chasing an easier target had wicketkeeper for 36 before Graveney who died on Extras: (b6, lb5) 11 0, Malik 7-3-8-2, Shah 2-0-4-0 and then bowling Ian Bell they not dropped two crucial Broad had Shafiq to leave Tuesday at the age of 88 after Total: (all out) 355 (nought) in successive overs. catches, of Hafeez on 113 and Pakistan at 354-9. long illness. He played 79 Cook and Root survived Asad Shafiq, who made 46, England took the second Tests for England. confident leg-before appeals on 29. new ball after 81 overs with off Zulfiqar Babar in the dying It was paceman Stuart Broad Pakistan at a lunch score of Shoaib Malik retires from Tests moments, much to the relief who led the attack admirably 229-4 and Broad struck in the of the England camp. with 3-44 and was ably backed fifth over, trapping Pakistan Sharjah England in Abu Dhabi, England’s best chase in all up by James Anderson (2-52) skipper Misbah-ul-Haq leg ormer Pakistan captain smashing a career-best 245. Test cricket is the 332 they to help England take the last before for 38. Shoaib Malik announced But since then he has made against Australia at six Pakistan wickets with the Misbah hit two fours and a hisF retirement from Test made nought, two, seven, 38 Melbourne in 1928 while second new ball for 126 runs. six and became Broad’s 50th cricket after he failed in the and nought in the remaining they have not reached more It was only through Shafiq wicket in the calendar year in second innings of the third five innings of the series, than a 209-run target in Asia, and Srafraz Ahmed’s 55-run 13th Test, the best in 2015. Test against England in prompting him to call it a day. achieved against Bangladesh stand for the seventh wicket Misbah and Hafeez added Sharjah on Tuesday. “I am retiring from Test at Dhaka five years ago. that Pakistan’s lead soared an invaluable 93 runs for the The 33-year-old only made cricket after this match,” Malik England could have over 250, as the pair batted fifth wicket. a comeback in the longer said.,“I want to give more time dismissed Pakistan for less with determination. England players wore format of the game after five to my family and concentrate than 355 in their second Spinner Samit Patel black armbands in memory years in the first Test against on the 2019 World Cup.” innings and subsequently dismissed the Pakistan of former batsman Tom Shoaib Malik Perera shines as Sri Lanka thrash West Indies Colombo Earlier, West Indies opener pener Kusal Perera fell Johnson Charles top-scored SCOREBOARD just one run short of a with 83 after the visitors elected West Indies: Senanayake 6-0-25-1, Mendis centuryO as he guided Sri Lanka to bat. Charles lbw b Siriwardana 83 7-0-44-0 (w1, nb1), Jayasuriya to an eight-wicket win against Stand-in captain Marlon Fletcher c Perera b Malinga 0 2-0-11-0, Siriwardana 7-1-27- the West Indies in the second Samuels scored a quickfire Blackwood c Siriwardana b Senanayake 9 2, Dilshan 1-0-7-0 one-day international on 61-ball 63 before being run out Bravo c Dilshan b Siriwardana 21 yesterday. in the penultimate over. M. Samuels run out 63 Sri Lanka: Perera, 25, hit four sixes and The West Indies were off J. Carter b Lakmal 5 Perera c Brathwaite b Rampaul 99 six fours in his 92-ball knock to a wobbly start with opener Mohammed c Chandimal b Malinga 4 T. Dilshan b Narine 17 before being dismissed for Andre Fletcher edging behind C. Brathwaite run out 17 L. Thirimanne not out 81 99 in the rain-curtailed day- paceman Lasith Malinga (2-43) J. Taylor run out 1 D. Chandimal not out 15 night game at the Premadasa off the first ball that he faced in S. Narine run out 0 Extras: (lb6, w6, nb1) 13 stadium in Colombo. the game. R. Rampaul not out 1 Total (for 2 wkts, 36.3 overs) 225 The victory helped the hosts Jermaine Blackwood (9), Extras: (lb6, w3, nb1) 10 Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Dilshan), take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in making his one-day debut, Total (all out, 37.4 overs) 214 2-196 (Perera) the three-match series after Sri Lankan batsman Kusal Perera also departed early but Charles Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Fletcher), Bowling: Rampaul 6-0-39-1, having won the opener by one Set a revised Duckworth- Twenty20 games. Sri Lanka steadied the innings in the 2-29 (Blackwood), 3-99 Taylor 5-0-47-0 (w2), Narine wicket at the same venue on Lewis target of 225 in 38 overs swept the preceding Test series company of Darren Bravo (21). (Bravo), 4-139 (Charles), 5-152 8-0-27-1, Samuels 5.3-0-34- Sunday. after rain interrupted play for 2-0. Charles raced to his fourth (Carter), 6-169 (Mohammed), 0, Mohammed 6-0-25-0, Perera, who was troubled more than three hours, Sri Perera, dropped on 62, ran one-day half-century with 7-211 (Samuels), 8-212 Brathwaite 4-0-35-0 (nb1, w1), by cramps, shared a 156-run Lanka cantered to the emphatic out of luck when he holed out to a paddle swept boundary (Taylor), 9-213 (Brathwaite), Carter 2-0-12-0 (w3). partnership for the second win with nine balls to spare. Carlos Brathwaite at short fine followed by a massive six over 10-214 (Narine) wicket with Lahiru Thirimanne The third and final one- leg off paceman Ravi Rampaul, the long-on fence, Ajantha Bowling: Malinga 7.4-0- Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets who chipped in with an dayer will be played on much to the disappointment of Mendis being the unlucky 43-2, Lakmal 7-0-51-1 (w2), (Duckworth-Lewis method) unbeaten 81. Saturday followed by two the home crowd. bowler..
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