Sports FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013 Brilliant Broad silences Brisbane boos SCOREBOARD Haddin leads Australia fightback after early collapse BRISBANE: Scoreboard at the close on the opening day BRISBANE: Stuart Broad took five wickets of the first Ashes Test between Australia and England at to put England in charge on the first day of the Gabba yesterday: the first Ashes test despite a battling Australian rearguard that kept the hosts Australia 1st innings alive at 273 for eight at the close of play Chris Rogersc Bell b Broad 1 yesterday. The England paceman’s first four David Warner c Pietersen b Broad 49 wickets helped trigger an Australia collapse Shane Watson c Swann b Broad 22 from 71 for the loss of a single wicket prior Michael Clarkec Bell b Broad 1 to lunch to 132-6 during the middle ses- Steve Smith c Cook b Tremlett 31 sion. Broad, cast as the pantomime villain George Bailey c Cook b Anderson 3 in Australia after his failure to walk at Trent Brad Haddin not out 78 Bridge earlier this year, then returned with Mitchell Johnson b Broad 64 the second new ball to bowl Mitchell Peter Siddle c Cook b Anderson 7 Johnson for 64 and break his 114-run sev- Ryan Harris not out 4 enth wicket stand with Brad Haddin. Extras (lb11, w1, nb1) 13 Haddin, playing his 50th test, was Total (8 wkts; 90 overs) 273 unbeaten on 78 when stumps were drawn Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Rogers), 2-71 (Watson), 3-73 (Clarke), with long shadows across the ground, and 4-83 (Warner), 5-100 (Bailey), 6-132 (Smith), 7-246 will resume on day two with Ryan Harris, (Johnson), 8-265 (Siddle) who had scored four. Australia won the Bowling: Anderson 22-5-61-2, Broad 20-3-65-5 (1nb, 1w), toss and decided to bat on a bright, sunny Tremlett morning at the Gabba and the booing of 19-3-51-1, Swann 26-4-80-0, Root 3-1-5-0 Broad, branded a “smug Pommy cheat” on To bat: Nathan Lyon. the front page of the local Courier-Mail Toss: Australia newspaper, contributed to a festive atmos- Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK), Kumar Dharmasena (SRI) phere. TV umpire: Marais Erasmus (RSA) Opener Chris Rogers was the first victim Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NZL) of the bounce Broad managed to generate from the Gabba track but it was the dis- missals of Shane Watson, Michael Clarke and David Warner around lunch that shift- ‘Toughest-ever’ doping ed the momentum firmly England’s way. Watson, whose preparations for the series tests in Russia’s Sochi were disrupted by a hamstring injury, looked like reaching lunch with his wicket SEOUL: The upcoming Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi intact until Broad intervened. The all- will see the “toughest-ever” anti-doping tests, International rounder pushed at a ball he could have left Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said yesterday, despite skepticism over the host country’s testing capability. BRISBANE: Australian paceman Stuart Broad bowls during day one of the first and edged it to Graeme Swann at second Bach, elected head of the IOC in September, said the number of Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia at the Gabba Cricket slip, swatting his bat in disgust at the man- pre-competition tests at Sochi next year would increase 57 per- Ground in Brisbane yesterday. — AFP ner and timing of his dismissal for 22. cent compared to the previous Winter Olympics in Vancouver. “We can clearly say that both as regards to quantity as well as AUSTRALIA FIGHTBACK quality this will be the toughest anti-doping program we have Australia captain Clarke faced just seven ever had in the Olympic Games”, Bach told journalists during a Kostner and Fernandez balls after lunch before he was making his visit to South Korea. “The tests will be even more target- way back to the dressing room with one oriented... there will be more tests pre-competition... where most headline ISU Grand Prix run to his name after he popped a catch of the anti-doping violations are happening,” he said. Bell at short leg. Opener Warner had Bach arrived Wednesday to inspect preparations for the 2018 looked dangerous in building an innings of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. “So the anti-doping test program MOSCOW: Italy’s Carolina Kostner and Spaniard Javier Fernandez headline the for Sochi will be the toughest ever applied in Olympic Winter final in the six-leg ISU Grand Prix series starting in Moscow today as the battle for 49 with some choice shots but he threw it Games,” he said. Bach told the World Conference on Doping in the remaining berths in next month’s final are up for grabs. The men’s event will all away when he swatted a Broad delivery Sport in Johannesburg last week that athletes would undergo be without Russian icon Yevgeny Plushenko, who has withdrawn citing knee straight to Kevin Pietersen in the covers. 1,269 pre-competition tests-over 400 more than at the Vancouver pain, although the former Olympic champion insists that he still intends to chal- James Anderson then pitched in to remove games. However the global anti-doping agency this month provi- lenge for a spot at the Sochi Games. But in his absence all eyes will be on 22-year- debutant George Bailey for three runs sionally suspended the accreditation of Moscow’s sports drug- old Fernandez, the European champion and world bronze medallist, looking to before Chris Tremlett, the third England testing laboratory because of questions over the quality of its bounce back from a disappointing fifth at NHK Trophy this season. The final berths for the elite six-skater Grand Prix final in Fukuoka, Japan from December 5- quick, curtailed a promising innings from procedures. Steve Smith for 31. Haddin, whose half cen- Russia’s sports minister on Monday promised necessary meas- 8 are to play for with Canada’s world champion Patrick Chan setting the bar high when he qualified in Paris last weekend. tury was his 13th in tests, then combined ures would be taken at the lab, which has until December 1 to with Johnson, recalled for his pace bowling improve the reliability of its results. Global leaders passed a new Fernandez will face a battle with Japanese skater Tatsuki Machida, who won than his batting prowess, to stem the flow world anti-doping code at the conference in Johannesburg, this season’s Skate America, along with local favorite Maxim Kovtun, second at under which offenders could face up to four-year bans from com- the Cup of China, and hoping to stake his claim to Russia’s sole Olympic men’s of wickets. petitive sport. The code governs competitive sports ranging berth. Meanwhile, world silver medallist Kostner faces a tough task in the Johnson hit six fours and two huge sixes from athletics to football to cycling, and has been backed by women’s event against Russian teenagers Julia Lipnitskaia and Elizaveta for his eighth test 50 before Broad powerful sporting bodies like the International Olympic Tuktamysheva and a trio of Japanese skaters. smashed his wickets asunder to complete Committee, world football’s governing body FIFA and govern- Kostner, the 2012 world champion, has gotten off to a slow start as she bids his 11th test five-wicket haul. England, ments. for a third shot at an Olympic medal after finishing third in the Cup of China. The who won the first series of this year’s dou- 26-year-old needs a win over two days of skating to book her berth to Fukuoka The revised World Anti-Doping Code follows a two year-long ble header 3-0, are chasing a fourth suc- reevaluation, during which the discovery of extensive doping by and join Japan’s Mao Asada, already through along with American Ashley Wagner and Russians Adelina Sotnikova and Anna Pogorilaya. Russian champion cessive Ashes triumph and a first victory at champion cyclist Lance Armstrong highlighted the challenges of the Gabba since 1986. All is not lost for ensuring clean competition. Bach hailed South Korea’s prepara- Tuktamysheva finished just fourth at her season opener in Skate America and also needs to win. “I’m not really happy with the start of this season,” said 16-year- Australia, however, and they could look to tions for the 2018 Winter Olympics. “We’re satisfied with the corresponding Gabba test in the 2010- progress made by the organizing committee. This progress old Tuktamysheva, the national champion. “Here in Moscow I’m hoping to pro- makes us very, very confident about the success of the Winter duce solid performances in both programs to receive serious points. “I’ll do my 11 series for some comfort. England were Games in 2018,” he said. The eastern resort town of Pyeongchang best to get a pass into the Grand Prix finals but this is not a do-or-die goal for me. bowled out for 260 on the opening day won its Olympics bid in 2011 after two failed attempts, and will “It’s just the start of the season and it’s clear that the beginning of 2014 will be the but battled back for a draw, carrying the become the first Asian country to host the Winter Olympics after season’s most important part. We all still have time to prepare.” —AFP momentum from that recovery to clinch Japan. — AFP the series 3-1. — Reuters .