THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 SPORTS Johnson spells trouble for Kiwis on lively WACA

PERTH: Mitchell Johnson’s fearsome reputa- ’s team are coming off a tion on what has been termed the fastest resounding 208-run first Test win at pitch on the planet looms as a big threat to Brisbane’s Gabba, which also ranks among New Zealand chasing a series-levelling win in world ’s fastest pitches. Friday’s second Test in Perth. Johnson ranks WACA groundskeeper Matt Page is prom- second only to Glenn McGrath (52) for most ising a pitch conducive for the speedsters taken at the pacey WACA ground and and given New Zealand’s indifferent along with fellow left-arm quick Mitchell performance in Brisbane, where they leaked Starc represents a hostile new-ball attack for 820 runs for just eight wickets, it spells trou- the Australians. ble for the Kiwis. “There will be some pace and bounce for the quick guys, absolutely. We’ll see a ,” Page told reporters this Younis Khan retires week. Johnson has taken 42 wickets at an average of 20.19 in his six Test matches at the ABU DHABI: batsman Younis WACA, with his finest moment coming in Khan has announced his retirement from 2008 when he snared a career-best eight for one-day cricket, saying the first day- 61 against South Africa. night international against England in Smith, who is fast putting his stamp on Abu Dhabi yesterday will be his last the Australian team he inherited this year match. from Michael Clarke, is demanding more The 37-year-old had wanted to leave from his quick despite the Brisbane mauling, the format on a high after he was select- which was spearheaded by twin centuries ed in the 16-man squad for the four- from man of the match David Warner. match series against England despite “I thought our new ball bowling needs a patchy recent form. Yesterday’s game bit of improvement. I thought we bowled a was Younis’s 265th one-day internation- little bit too short,” Smith said. al, nearly 16 years after making his debut “I think that is going to be important for against Sri Lanka in Karachi in February us leading into Perth, which are probably : cricketers pose for a photograph following the presentation ceremony after the third one-day international (ODI) cricket 2000. going to be similar conditions.” The WACA match between Bangladesh and at the Sher-e Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. — AFP Going into his last match, Younis has pitch still has to be assessed but both sides scored 7,240 runs with seven hundreds may be tempted to go with four pacemen, and 48 half-centuries in one dayers. “He although off-spinner Nathan Lyon is a key will retire from one-day cricket after member of the Australian attack. The Kiwis Wednesday’s game and he has conveyed Five-star Mustafizur will have to make a decision on the availabili- this to us,” team manager Intikhab Alam ty of pace spearhead Tim Southee, who told AFP. bowled only in the first innings in Brisbane Younis had retired from because of back problems. cricket after leading Pakistan to the “I thought Tim started to come right pret- thrash Zimbabweans World Twenty20 title in England in 2009. ty quickly which is a good sign,” Kiwi skipper He was subsequently out of the one-day Brendon McCullum said. “We’ll give him squad for most of 2013 before being every chance. He’s one of our leaders, an out- DHAKA: Paceman grabbed Chakabva completed his second stumping, this Cremer then dismissed for 17 and selected for the tour of Sri Lanka in June standing bowler and he showed in the first 5-34 as Bangladesh thrashed Zimbabwe by 61 time off . Left-hander Tamim took two catches at point off Luke Jongwe in the last year. He managed to score just three innings he will pose a lot of questions for runs in the third and final one-day international faced 98 balls, his innings featuring seven fours same over to send (one) and in the only match before he had to them.” to complete a whitewash in Dhaka yesterday. and a six. , who hit five fours and a (nought). Zimbabwe return home following the death of his Neil Wagner, who was called up as cover Mustafizur jolted Zimbabwe with two early six, got a reprieve when he was on 32 as he Chigumbura lamented his team’s poor nephew.— AFP for Southee, is confident the tourists can do strikes and then returned in his final spell to pol- walked assuming he was run out. But a TV replay throughout the series. some intimidating of their own.—AFP ish off the tail to grab his third five- haul in confirmed Zimbabwe wicketkeeper Regis “It is obviously disappointing, especially the just nine ODIs. Chakabva had dislodged the bails before receiv- way we have batted in the last three games,” he His heroics left the visitors all out for 215 in ing the ball, prompting the umpires to call said. “We started to get better but obviously it is 43.3 overs, in reply to Bangladesh’s decent 276-9. Mahmudullah back. too late when you consider that it is a three- Bangladesh had won the first two matches by The right-hander was finally run out in the match series,” he said. Cremer claimed 2-53 while 145 runs and 58 runs to seal their fifth successive last over. removed Mushfiqur Jongwe finished with 2-50. The two teams will ODI series win. Rahim for 28 to become Chakabva’s third stump- play two Twenty20 internationals on November and Tamim Iqbal both scored 73 ing. 13 and 15 at the same venue. —AFP to set up Bangladesh’s score after skipper opted to bat first at the Sher- e-Bangla National Stadium. SCOREBOARD Sean Williams scored 64 runs and added 45 to give Zimbabwe some DHAKA: Scoreboard of the third one-day international between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe at the Sher-e-Bangla hope but Bangladesh did not look back after National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. occasional spinner Sabbir Rahman broke their Bangladesh R. Chakabva c Nasir b Mustafizur 17 80-run fourth wicket stand. Tamim Iqbal st Chakabva b Cremer 73 C. Ervine lbw b Nasir 21 Mortaza then removed Williams, who faced Imrul Kayes st Chakabva b Raza 73 84 balls, before 20-year old Mustafizur took out S. Williams c Sabbir b Mortaza 64 st Chakabva b Waller 28 E. Chigumbura b Sabbir 45 and Luke Jongwe off successive Liton Das c Sub b Cremer 17 M. Waller c Nasir b Al Amin 32 balls. Mortaza heaped praise on Mustafizur, who Mahmudullah run out 52 S. Raza c Sabbir b Mustafizur 9 made his ODI debut against India earlier this Sabbir Rahman c Cremer b Jongwe 1 L. Jongwe c Sabbir b Mustafizur 11 year. Nasir Hossain c Cremer b Jongwe 0 “He has many variations. For instance, he has Mashrafe Mortaza b Panyangara 16 G. Cremer 5 two kinds of cutters,” Mortaza said about not out 3 T. Panyangara c & b Mustafizur 3 Mustafizur after the match. “If a batsman plays Mustafizur Rahman run out 1 T. Muzarabani c & b Sunny 0 two balls, he may think that he (Mustafizur) will Extras (lb2, w8, nb2) 12 Extras (lb2, w2) 4 bowl this way but then he opts other way. So the Total (nine wickets; 50 overs) 276 Total ( all out; 43.3 overs) 215 batsman gets confused.” Tamim and Kayes earli- Did not bat: Al-Amin Hossain er put on 147 runs in their opening Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Chibhabha), 2-43 (Chakabva), 3-47 Fall of wickets: 1-147 (Kayes), 2-173 (Tamim), 3-190 (Ervine), 4-127 (Chigumbura), 5-186 (Waller), 6-188 to lay the foundation for Bangladesh’s total. (Rahim), 4-222 (Liton), 5-226 (Sabbir), 6-226 (Nasir), 7- (Williams), 7-207 (Raza), 8-207 (Jongwe), 9-214 Zimbabwe hit back after removing the duo in 263 (Mortaza), 8-275 (Mahmudullah), 9-276 (Mustafizur) (Panyangara), 10-215 (Muzarabani) quick succession but Mahmudullah smashed a Bowling: Panyangara 10-1-49-1 (nb2), Muzarabani 4-1- Bowling: Mustafizur 8-0-34-5(w1), Mortaza 9-0-40-1(w1), rapid-fire 52 off 40 balls to help the hosts recov- 21-0, Jongwe 9-0-50-2 (w3), Chigumbura 6-0-29-0, Raza er for a decent total. Kayes, who scored 76 in the 8-1-48-1(w4), Cremer 10-0-53-2 (w1), Waller 3-0-24-1. Nasir 7-0-36-1, Al-Amin 8-0-44-1, Sunny 9.3-0-47-1, previous match, led the charge knocking six Sabbir 2-0-12-1. fours and four sixes off 95 balls before he was Zimbabwe Result: Bangladesh win by 61 runs by Chakabva off Raza. Tamim soon fol- C. Chibhabha b Mustafizur 4 Series result: Bangladesh win the series by 3-0 lowed, dismissed in the same fashion as COLOMBO: Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan (R) plays a shot as West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin looks on during the second and final T20 International cricket match between Sri Lanka and the West Indies at the R. Premadasa Stadium in SCOREBOARD Colombo yesterday. — AFP Hafeez leads Pakistan to ABU DHABI: Scoreboard at close of play in the first One easy win over England W Indies beat S Lanka Day International between Pakistan and England yesterday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ABU DHABI: Mohammad to tie T20 series England Innings Hafeez made a fluent unbeaten J. Roy b Irfan 0 102 to lead Pakistan to a com- COLOMBO: Dwayne Bravo grabbed four even more impressive with right-arm medi- A. Hales c Y. Khan b An. Ali 10 fortable six-wicket victory over wickets as the West Indies defeated Sri um pacer Bravo putting in a man of the J. Root lbw b An. Ali 0 England in the first one-day Lanka by 23 runs to draw their two-match match performance that saw him take 4-28. international in Abu Dhabi yes- E. Morgan c S. Ahmed b Malik 76 series in Colombo Ravi Rampaul, who was one of two terday. England spluttered to yesterday. changes to the West Indies side following J. Taylor c Az. Ali b Malik 60 216 all out after winning the The visitors’ victory at the R. Premadasa their defeat to Sri Lanka in the first T20 on J. Buttler run out (Az. Ali, S. Ahmed) 1 toss and the hosts, who won the Stadium ensured the West Indies finished Monday, also impressed with three wickets. their tour of Sri Lanka on a positive note Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan notched his M. Ali c B. Azam b Shah 7 recent test series 2-0, overcame after losing both the one-day international second half of the week, recording C. Woakes run out (S. Ahmed) 33 the loss of two early wickets to and Test series. 52, but a collapse of the host’s middle and A. Rashid c sub b Irfan 7 coast to their target with more West Indies won the toss and opted to lower meant the West Indies than six overs to spare. D. Willey b Irfan 13 bat, scoring 162-6. Johnson Charles and avoided a tour whitewash. “We were des- Hafeez struck a six and 10 Denesh Ramdin top-scored with 34 runs perate to get this win,” said West Indies’ R. Topley not out 0 fours in his 11th one-day inter- each while Bravo notched 31 as the tourists captain Darren Sammy. Extras (lb-5 w-4) 9 national century, sharing an amassed a decent total. Sri Lanka swept the three-match one- Left-arm spinner Milinda Siriwardana day international series 3-0 and also won Total (all out, 49.4 overs) 216 unbeaten fifth-wicket partner- and captain were the star the preceding Test series without loss, tak- Fall of wickets: 1-0 J. Roy, 2-7 J. Root, 3-14 A. Hales, 4-147 E. ship of 106 with to guide his side to victory. bowlers for Sri Lanka, taking two wickets ing it 2-0. They then won the first T20 in Morgan, 5-148 J. Buttler, 6-157 J. Taylor, 7-161 M. Ali, 8-180 A. each for only 17 and 16 runs respectively. Pallekele by 30 runs before yesterday’s Azam finished on 62 not out But the West Indies’ bowling display was defeat resulted in 1-1 draw. — AFP Rashid, 9-213 D. Willey, 10-216 C. Woakes off 62 balls, reaching his fifty Bowling: M. Irfan 10-2-35-3(w-3); An. Ali 6-0-32-2; S. Malik 10-0- with a huge six off Chris Woakes SCOREBOARD 45-2; Y. Shah 10-0-38-1; W. Riaz 9.4-1-29-0(w-1); B. Asif 4-0-32-0. shortly before the end of the match. England lost Jason Roy, COLOMBO: Full scoreboard of the second Twenty20 international between Sri Lanka and the West Pakistan Innings and Alex Hales with Indies in Colombo yesterday. just 14 runs on the board before Az. Ali lbw b Topley 8 West Indies: T. Dilshan c Holder (sub) b Rampaul 52 a fine partnership of 133 B. Asif lbw b Topley 2 A. Fletcher lbw b Siriwardana 23 S. Jayasuriya c Russell b Bravo 30 between captain J. Charles lbw b Siriwardana 34 D. Chandimal c Carter (sub) b Rampaul 1 M. Hafeez not out 102 and James Taylor dragged them M. Samuels run out 1 A. Mathews c Carter (sub) b Bravo 5 Y. Khan c Rashid b Topley 9 back into the game. D. Bravo c Mathews b Malinga 31 M. Siriwardana st Ramdin b Narine 15 A. Russell c Chandimal b Chameera 9 C. Kapugedera c Charles b Pollard 2 S. Malik c Roy b Ali 26 Morgan hit 11 fours in his 76 D. Ramdin not out 34 S. Senanayake c Pollard b Bravo 3 B. Azam not out 62 and Taylor made 60 but the dis- K. Pollard b Malinga 5 N. Kulasekara c Narine b Bravo 4 missal of the skipper prompted Extras (b-2 lb-2 w-4) 8 D. Sammy not out 12 S. Malinga b Rampaul 2 another collapse as Jos Buttler, Extras: (lb6, w7) 13 D. Chameera not out 3 Total (for 4 wickets, 43.4 overs) 217 Total: (6 wickets; 20 overs) 162 Extras: (b1, lb4, w3, nb2) 10 Taylor, Moeen Ali and Adil Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Fletcher), 2-65 (Samuels), 3- Total: (10 wickets; 20 overs) 139 Fall of wickets: 1-12 Az. Ali, 2-15 B. Asif, 3-41 Y. Khan, 4-111 S. Rashid followed him back to the 75 (Charles), 4-97 (Russell), 5-138 (Bravo), 6-147 Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Perera), 2-93 (Jayasuriya), 3- Malik pavilion for the addition of 33 (Pollard) 94 (Chandimal), 4-102 (Dilshan), 5-117 (Mathews), Bowling: Malinga 4-0-16-2 (w1), Kulasekara 4-0- 6-126 (Kapugedera), 7-129 (Siriwardana), 8-133 Did not bat: S. Ahmed, A. Ali, W. Riaz, Y. Shah, M. Irfan runs. Woakes hit 33 before being run out to end England’s innings ABU DHABI: Pakistan’s Muhammad Hafeez cele- 22-0 (w1), Senanayake 3-0-38-0, Chameera 3-0-36- (Senanayake), 9-135 (Kulasekara), 10-139 Bowling: D. Willey 7-0-43-0; R. Topley 9-1-26-3(w-3); C. Woakes 1 (w2), Siriwardana 3-0-17-2 (w2), Jayasuriya 3-0- (Malinga) with two balls of their 50 overs brates after scoring a century (100 runs) during 27-0. Bowling: Narine 4-0-24-1 (w1), Rampaul 4-0-20-3, 8.4-0-40-0; A. Rashid 9-0-60-0; M. Ali 7-0-32-1(w-1); J. Root 3-0- remaining. The second game in the first (ODI) cricket Taylor 2-0-22-1 (w1), Pollard 4-0-23-1 (w1), Sammy 12-0. the four-match series is in Abu match between Pakistan and England at the Sri Lanka: 2-0-17-0, Bravo 4-0-28-4 (nb1) Zayed Cricket Stadium in the Gulf Emirate of Abu K. Perera c Bravo b Taylor 12 West Indies won by 23 runs Result: Pakistan won by 6 wickets Dhabi tomorrow. — Reuters Dhabi yesterday. — AFP