BASEBALL | Page 5 FORMULA 1 | Page 7 Conforto Vettel takes stars as pole position Mets beat for Hungarian Mariners 7-4 Grand Prix Sunday, July 30, 2017 FOOTBALL Dhul-Qa’da 7, 1438 AH Ronaldo to start GULF TIMES season in court for tax evasion SPORT Page 2 CRICKET SPOTLIGHT Jennings rides luck as England extend Ashwin, Jadeja lead at The Oval complete India’s thumping Test win The hosts, chasing a mammoth 550 for victory, only managed 245 runs before their second innings folded in the final session of the penultimate day England’s James Anderson (C) is congratulated by his captain Joe Root (2nd L) and England’s Moeen Ali (R) after taking the wicket of South Africa’s Morne Morkel (not pictured) at The Oval yesterday. AFP display on Friday, had Bavuma London caught behind to end the innings. Middlesex seamer Roland- Jones fi nished with fi gures of fi ve eaton Jennings sur- for 57 in 16.4 overs. vived a couple of scares In the process he became just against his native the sixth England cricketer, and South Africa as Eng- fi rst since Graham Onions in Kland maintained their grip on the 2009, to take fi ve or more wick- third Test at The Oval yesterday. ets in a debut Test bowling in- England were 74 for one in nings. their second innings, a lead of South Africa resumed on 126 252 runs at stumps on a gloomy for eight, still 28 runs shy of third day where rain meant only avoiding the follow-on. 32 overs out of scheduled 98 Bavuma was 34 not out and were bowled. Morne Morkel unbeaten on two, Jennings was 34 not out and with this four-match series in Tom Westley, one of three debu- the balance at 1-1 and the con- tants in England’s XI, unbeaten tinued overcast conditions again on 28 in what is the 100th Test at favouring the faster bowlers. The Oval. South Africa were bolstered Johannesburg born and raised by knowing Philander had been Jennings, the 11th man tried as passed fi t after a night on a hos- an England Test opener along- pital drip that followed a second side Alastair Cook since Andrew day’s play from which the all- Strauss retired in 2012, was un- rounder was largely absent. der pressure for his place after a The diminutive Bavuma had run of low scores — including a a reprieve on 40 when an edged duck in the fi rst innings of this drive off Stuart Broad fl ew low to match. gully where a diving Stokes could The 25-year-old Durham not hold what would have been a left-hander, England-qualifi ed stunning catch. through his mother and by resi- Bavuma subsequently en- dence, nearly fell cheaply again sured South Africa avoided the to another slip catch by Dean El- follow-on by driving a Broad gar off Vernon Philander only for half-volley through the covers an edge on six to be dropped on for four. this occasion. And he then produced an Earlier, Temba Bavuma’s gutsy even better cover-driven four off 52 helped South Africa avoid the James Anderson, with England’s India’s captain Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane celebrate after winning the Galle Test match yesterday. follow-on. record Test wicket-taker hit on His innings was the corner- the up. But a valuable ninth- Reuters GALLE SCORECARD Sri Lanka were 29-2 at that stage and stone of the Proteas’ 175 all out. wicket partnership of 47 ended Galle needed a solid 79-run stand between That left them 178 runs be- when Morkel (17) nicked Ander- India 1st innings 600: Dhawan 190, N. Dickwella c Saha b Ashwin ............................67 Karunaratne and Kusal Mendis to settle hind England’s fi rst innings 353, son to Cook at fi rst slip. Pujara 153; Pradeep 6-132 Dilruwan Perera not out .............................................21 things down. which featured Ben Stokes’s 112 Bavuma’s edge to the third pinners Ravichandran Ashwin 2nd innings (overnight 189-3) N. Pradeep c Kohli b Ashwin ..................................0 India came back strongly after lunch and former captain Cook’s 88. man boundary off Roland-Jones and Ravindra Jadeja shared six S. Dhawan c Gunathilaka b Perera .................14 L. Kumara c Shami b Jadeja ...................................0 with two quick wickets from left-arm Toby Roland-Jones, who’d saw him complete a hard-earned wickets to help India to a thump- A. Mukund lbw Gunathilaka ..................................81 Extras: (w7, lb3) .................................................................10 spinner Ravindra Jadeja, ranked number removed all of South Africa’s fi fty off 111 balls, including eight ing 304-run win against Sri Lanka C. Pujara c Mendis b Kumara ...............................15 Total: (76.5 overs) .......................................................245 one in the world in the longest format. top four in a sensational debut fours. onS the fourth day of the fi rst Test yester- Mendis, who made 36, was given not V. Kohli (c) not out ........................................................103 R Herath and A. Gunaratne did not bat day for a 1-0 lead in the series. A. Rahane not out ............................................................23 injured out on a caught behind appeal but India The hosts, chasing a mammoth 550 Extras: (w2, nb1 lb1) ........................................................4 successfully overturned the umpire’s de- THE OVAL SCORECARD for victory, only managed 245 runs be- Total: (53 overs — three wickets) .............240 Bowling: M. Shami 9-0-43-1, U. Yadav cision on review. Former captain Angelo fore their second innings folded in the Did not bat: H. Pandya, W. Saha, R. Ash- 9-0-42-1, R.Jadeja 24.5-4-71-3, R. Ashwin Mathews fell soon afterwards, mis-hit- England 1st Innings 353 (B Stokes 175 (Bavuma) fi nal session of the penultimate day, after win, R. Jadeja, U. Yadav, M. Shami 27-4-65-3, H. Pandya 7-0-21-0 ting Jadeja to get caught by Hardik Pan- 112, A Cook 88; M Morkel 3-70, K Ra- Bowling: Anderson 13-6-25-3; Broad opening batsman Dimuth Karunaratne Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-56, 3-189 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-29, 3-108, 4-116, dya. bada 3-85) 15-5-44-1 (1nb); Roland-Jones 16.4-57-5; had been dismissed for 97. 5-217, 6-240, 7-240, 8-245 Mathews’ dismissal brought Karu- Stokes 7-1-26-1 (2nb); Root 2-0-5-0; Ali Sri Lanka 1st innings 291: Tharanga 64, naratne and Niroshan Dickwella together South Africa 1st Innings (overnight: 5-1-9-0 India came back strongly aft er Mathews 83, Perera 92no; Jadeja 3-67 India win by 304 runs and the pair added 101 for the fi fth wick- 126-8) lunch with two quick wickets from Sri Lanka 2nd innings et, before Dickwella was caught by wick- D. Elgar c Bairstow b Roland-Jones .......8 England 2nd Innings left -arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja, D. Karunaratne not out ..............................................97 Toss: India etkeeper Wriddhiman Saha to become H. Kuhn lbw b Roland-Jones .......................15 A. Cook b Morkel ..........................................................7 Ashwin’s fi rst victim of the innings. H. Amla c Bairstow b Roland-Jones .....6 ranked number one in the world in U. Tharanga b Shami ....................................................10 Umpires: Richard Illingworth (ENG), K. Jennings not out ...............................................34 the longest format M. Gunathilaka c Pujara b Yadav ........................2 Bruce Oxenford (AUS) Karunaratne dragged the off -spinner, Q. de Kock c Stokes b Roland-Jones 17 T. Westley not out ....................................................28 K. Mendis c Saha b Adejja ......................................36 TV umpire: Rod Tucker (Aus) playing his 50th test match, back onto F. du Plessis lbw b Anderson ..........................1 Extras (lb5) .........................................................................5 Asela Gunaratne, who had fractured A. Mathews c Pandya b Jadeja ............................2 Match referee: Richie Richardson (WIS) his stumps while playing a sweep shot T. Bavuma c Bairstow b Roland-Jones 52 Total (1 wkt, 21.2 overs, 95 mins) .........74 his thumb and was ruled out of the series, and fell perilously close to his sixth Test C. Morris c and b Anderson.............................2 To bat: J Root, D Malan, B Stokes, J and stand-in captain Rangana Herath, hundred. K. Maharaj c Cook b Stokes .............................5 Bairstow, M Ali, T Roland-Jones, S Broad, who suff ered a hand injury on Friday, did bowlers had to work hard.” Sri Lanka needed a solid opening stand Ashwin, who took 3-65, also dismissed K. Rabada b Broad ................................................30 not bat for Sri Lanka in the second in- India, the world’s top-ranked test side, but their hopes were dashed when Mo- Nuwan Pradeep without scoring before M. Morkel c Cook b Anderson ...................17 J Anderson nings. declared their second innings closed on hammed Shami bowled Upul Tharanga Jadeja (3-71) wrapped things up when La- V. Philander not out .................................................10 Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Cook) “(I’m) Really happy with the way things 240 for three after Kohli completed his for 10, a relief for Kohli who had dropped hiru Kumara skied an attempted slog to Extras (b4, lb5, nb3) ................................................12 Bowling: Morkel 9-3-20-1; Philander went in this particular game,” India cap- 17th Test hundred. the batsman at second slip in the same become the last man to fall for the hosts. Total (all out, 58.4 overs, 277 mins) 175 6-0-30-0; Rabada 4.2-3-9-0; Morris 2-0- tain Virat Kohli said at the presentation. The right-handed batsman, who re- over. “All credit goes to the India team,” Her- Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Elgar), 2-23 10-0 “All bases were covered nicely and the sumed the day on 76, remained unbeaten Debutant Danushka Gunathilaka did ath said.