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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015 SPORTS HEADINGLEY: Bowler Kane Williamson (bottom right) celebrates England’s Ben Stokes (upper centre left) wicket after being caught for 2 by New Zealand’s Luke Ronchi (third left) on the fifth day of the second Test match between England and New Zealand. —AP Kiwis leave England in a spin to win second Test LEEDS: New Zealand off-spinners Kane the-match for his 120 in a second innings length, inswinger. Craig then struck twice in Williamson and Mark Craig shared six wickets total of 454 for eight declared. three balls to reduce England to 62 for four. SCOREBOARD as the Black Caps thrashed England by 199 “There was a bit of rain around so it was Ian Bell had made just one when he runs in the second Test at Headingley yester- pleasing to get the job done,” Watling told turned Craig straight to leg-slip Williamson. LEEDS: Completed scoreboard on the fifth day of the second Test between England and New Zealand at day. Sky Sports. “To get 450 in the time that we Bell, one of England’s senior batsmen, has Headingley yesterday: Victory ensured the two-match series end- did with help from the tail is very pleasing.” managed just 55 runs in eight Test innings New Zealand 1st Innings 350 (L Ronchi 88, T Latham M. Wood c Craig b Southee 17 ed all square at 1-1 and was just New Cook and Buttler apart, England offered little since his 143 against the West Indies in 84; S Broad 5-109) J. Anderson not out 8 Zealand’s ninth win in 101 Tests against in the way of resistance in their second Antigua in April. England 1st Innings 350 (A Lyth 107, A Cook 75; T Extras (b12, lb2, w2) 16 England. This success was also New Zealand’s innings. Joe Root had promised England would Southee 4-83) Total (all out, 91.5 overs, 347 mins) 255 first Test win against England since a 189-run England resumed yesterday on 44 without “come out all guns blazing” but he lasted just New Zealand 2nd Innings 458-8 dec (BJ Watling 120, Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Lyth), 2-61 (Ballance), 3-62 (Bell), 4-62 (Root), victory at Hamilton in 2008. loss and had an outside chance of surpassing two balls before exiting for a duck when he M Guptill 70, M Craig 58 no, B McCullum 55; M Wood 3-97) 5-102 (Stokes), 6-141 (Cook), 7-153 (Ali), 8-188 (Broad), It meant too they had won a Test in the West Indies’ record fourth-innings win- turned Craig off the face of the bat only for 9-230 (Wood), 10-255 England 2nd Innings (target: 455, overnight 44-0) England for only the fifth time, with this vic- ning total of 418 for seven against Australia Tom Latham to cling on to a sharp chance. (Buttler) A. Lyth c Ronchi b Boult 24 tory their first Test success on English soil at St John’s, Antigua, in 2002/03. However, Williamson then removed dangerman Ben Bowling: Boult 23-4-61-2; Southee 18-7-43-1 (1w); A. Cook lbw b Williamson 56 since an 83-run triumph at The Oval in 1999. those slim hopes disappeared during a first Stokes on the stroke of lunch. “The ball was Craig 31.5-12-73-3; Henry 12-2-49-1 (1w); Williamson England, chasing what would have been a session where England lost five wickets for 58 turning, and that four-wicket burst really hurt G. Ballance b Boult 6 7-1-15-3 Test fourth innings record victory total of 455, runs in 32 overs as they slumped to 102 for us,” said Cook. The skipper’s second fifty of I. Bell c Williamson b Craig 1 New Zealand: Tom Latham, Martin Guptill, Kane were bowled out for 255. Williamson, primari- five at lunch. the match came after Cook surpassed J. Root c Latham b Craig 0 Williamson, Ross Taylor, Brendon McCullum (capt), BJ ly a batsman and once suspended from bowl- England, after a rain-marred fourth day, Graham Gooch as England’s highest run scor- B. Stokes c Ronchi b Williamson 29 Watling, Luke Ronchi (wkt), Mark Craig, Tim Southee, ing in international cricket because of a sus- resumed with Adam Lyth 24 not out and er in Tests during his first innings 75. J. Buttler lbw b Craig 73 Matt Henry, Trent Boult pect action, took three wickets for 15 runs in Cook 18 not out. But Lyth, who made a maid- His near four hours of second innings M. Ali b Henry 2 Result: New Zealand won by 199 runs seven overs, including the prize scalp of en Test century on his Yorkshire home ground resistance ended when Cook was lbw push- S. Broad b Williamson 23 Series: Two-match series ends level at 1-1. England captain Alastair Cook (56) in the first innings, fell for his overnight score ing forward to Williamson. Moeen Ali’s hun- Craig finished with three for 73 in 31.5 when he was caught behind fending at a dred in last year’s corresponding Headingley ing no stroke to fast bowler Matt Henry. At first Test at Lord’s last week. Mark Wood’s 40- overs and ended the match when he had Jos Trent Boult away-swinger. Test almost saw England to a draw before Sri tea, England were 206 for eight and needing minute innings of 17 ended when he edged Buttler lbw playing no stroke for 73. New Left-arm paceman Boult then bowled Gary Lanka won late on the final day. to survive a minimum of 35 overs to hold out Tim Southee to Craig in the slips before Zealand’s BJ Watling was named the man-of- Ballance for six with a superb, near yorker- But yesterday he was bowled for two play- for a draw following their 124-run win in the Buttler’s error ended the match. —AFP Shastri to lead India on West Indies upbeat Bangladesh tour over Aussies challenge NEW DELHI: Ravi Shastri will lead ROSEAU: West Indies and Australia the batting in his debut Test alongside India on their tour of Bangladesh lat- commence a short Test series at Windsor Kraigg Brathwaite. er this month, the Board of Control Park Stadium in Dominica today with The 25-year-old is yet to score a hun- for Cricket in India (BCCI) said yester- the visitors favoured to extend their 20- dred from 32 first-class matches and a day, as deliberations continue over a year dominance over the Caribbean modest batting average of 25.81 will permanent replacement for Duncan squad. Yet while quality, form and inter- hardly strike fear in the hearts of an Fletcher. national ranking suggest that Michael Australian bowling line-up expected to The 53-year-old former Test cap- Clarke’s side should prevail here and in be spearheaded by the two Mitchells, tain will be supported by assistant the second and final Test in Jamaica a Johnson and Starc. coaches Sanjay Bangar (batting), week later, Denesh Ramdin’s men will be Fawad Ahmed, whose transformation Bharat Arun (bowling) and seeking to pick up from where they left from Pakistani asylum seeker four years Ramakrishnan Sridhar (fielding) for off in the three-match series with ago to Australian international cricketer the three one-day internationals and England which ended a month earlier has been one of contemporary sport’s one-off test match. All three retain with victory inside three days in inspirational stories, is duelling with the roles they held under Barbados to leave the rubber square at established off-spinner Nathan Lyon for Zimbabwean Fletcher, whose term as 1-1. the specialist slow bowler’s role on a coach came to an end at the conclu- Australia, who head to England pitch that offers very little assistance for sion of the World Cup in Australia immediately after the Kingston match the pacers. and New Zealand earlier this year. for the defence of the Ashes, suffered a Three years earlier, Clarke snared five India test captain Virat Kohli believes setback leading into the first Test with for 86 with his left-arm spinners to bowl Shastri is the right man for the role. opening batsman Chris Rogers ruled out his team to a 75-run victory and 2-0 “He is a guy who does not shy due to symptoms of concussion after series triumph. Notwithstanding those away from responsibility. He is some- being struck on the helmet by a local figures, it is unlikely that either team will one who takes the blows on the chin. bowler in the nets on Sunday. venture beyond the lone frontline spin- He keeps moving forward,” Kohli told Shaun Marsh, who scored an impres- ner, leaving the bulk of the work in the Cricket Monthly in an interview. sive hundred in the tourists’ lone warm- match to be borne by their pace attacks. up match against a West Indies Cricket “There are no two ways about his Australia, then under Mark Taylor, Board President’s XI in Antigua, is virtual- ended the West Indies’ 15-year reign of thinking. He is the most amazing per- ly confirmed to open the batting with invincibility in Test series in 1995. Since son to have around this team right David Warner. Rogers’ recovery from the then, the visitors’ only hiccup in the now because it is a young unit and injury will be monitored closely to deter- Caribbean was in 1999 when Steve the kind of confidence he gives.