TUESDAY, JUNE 30 2015 SPORTS

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CANTERBURY: Complete scoreboard on the final day of the four-day tour match between Kent and at Canterbury yesterday: Australia 1st Innings 507-8 dec (S Marsh 114, S J. Denly b Siddle 22 Smith 111, C Rogers 84, M Clarke 56; M Hunn 5-99) R. Key c Johnson b Ahmed 14 Kent 1st Innings 280 (R Key 87; M Johnson 4-56) S. Northeast c Haddin b M Marsh 11 B. Harmison c Harris b Smith 31 Australia 2nd Innings (overnight: 322-4) C. Rogers c sub (Weller) b Riley 45 S. Billings c S Marsh b Harris 3 M. Clarke c Harmison b Riley 47 A. Ball c Siddle b Smith 1 S. Watson c sub (Weller) b Riley 81 M. Claydon c Rogers b Ahmed 53 M. Marsh retired out 101 A. Riley c Watson b Johnson 0 B. Haddin 11 M. Hunn not out 15 M. Johnson not out 27 I. Thomas c S Marsh b Smith 0 Extras (b9, lb1) 10 Extras (b8, lb8, nb1) 17 Total (4 wkts dec, 62 overs) 322 Did not bat: S Marsh, S Smith, R Harris, P Siddle, F Total (all out, 58.4 overs) 294 Ahmed Fall of wickets: 1-55 (Denly), 2-84 (Key), 3-100 Fall of wickets: 1-91 (Rogers), 2-110 (Clarke), 3-263 (Northeast), 4-193 (Bell-Drummond), 5-203 (M Marsh), 4-290 (Watson) (Billings), 6-220 (Ball), 7-232 (Harmison), 8-233 Bowling: Claydon 8-2-25-0; Hunn 9-1-50-0; (Riley), 9-284 (Claydon), 10-294 (Thomas) Thomas 15-2-64-0; Riley 19-2-114-3; Ball 5-0-39-0; Bowling: Harris 14-4-59-2; Johnson 12-4-29-1; Denly 6-2-20-0 Siddle 12-4-34-1; Ahmed 9-0-74-2; M Marsh 6-1- Kent 2nd Innings (target: 550) 28-1 (1nb); Smith 5.4-0-54-3. D. Bell-Drummond lbw b Harris 127 Result: Australia won by 255 runs. Bell-Drummond ton can’t stop Australia

CANTERBURY: Daniel Bell-Drummond’s anchored Kent’s first innings 280 — made COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Angelo Mathews bats during the fifth day of the second Test match against Pakistan. —ñAP sparkling hundred for Kent could not pre- in response to Australia’s imposing 507 for vent Australia winning the opening match eight declared-with 87. of their Ashes tour by 255 runs at But Key could only manage 14 on Canterbury on Sunday. Sunday before, for the second time in the Sri Lanka victory romp Almost 40 years to the day since match, he fell to leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed. England great Colin Cowdrey made a Bell-Drummond, however, accelerated match-winning 151 not out for Kent in style after getting to lunch on 66 not out. against Australia on the same St Lawrence He was especially severe on Ahmed, taking levels Pakistan series ground, Bell-Drummond delighted a new 18 off one over from the leg-spinner includ- generation of fans with an innings of 127. ing a cut four, a straight-drive six, another However, the 21-year-old’s effort was in cut boundary and a clip off his legs to the COLOMBO: Dimuth Karunaratne hit 50 off 56 period,” he said. “It made all the difference in the when Pakistan hit back with two wickets off suc- a losing cause with Kent, set an improbable mid-wicket rope. balls as Sri Lanka trounced Pakistan by seven match. “The in the first innings is not cessive balls. 550 for victory, bowled out for 294 in their Bell-Drummond, long regarded as one wickets in the second Test in Colombo yesterday consistent enough and that is a big worry for us. Vithanage holed out in the deep off the last second innings shortly after tea on of England’s most promising young players, to square the three-match series 1-1. We put up a big score at Galle and here we col- ball of left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar’s second Sunday’s fourth and final day. wasn’t finished with Ahmed as a pull for Chasing 153 to win, the hosts made light of a lapsed from 74 for three to 138 all out. over after striking two sixes earlier in the over. Bell-Drummond, lbw to fast bowler four and two successive sixes in three balls delayed start of 30 minutes due to a wet outfield “The bowling has been good, especially Yasir Veteran Kumar Sangakkara, playing his last Mitchell Johnson for nought in the first from the spinner saw him to a 92-ball hun- and raced to victory in 26.3 overs before lunch who now has 54 wickets from his first nine Test match against Pakistan, fell to the first deliv- innings was initially just pleased to have dred. on the fifth and final day at the P. Sara Oval. matches. He is a match-winner, but the injury to ery he faced, caught at short-leg by Azhar Ali off avoided a ‘pair’ (two noughts in the same What was just the seventh first-class Karunaratne and skipper Angelo Mathews Wahab (Riaz) was a big blow.” Yasir. Sangakkara, 37, ’s leading cur- match). “It’s the best day of my career by a century of Bell-Drummond’s fledgling added a brisk 72 for the third wicket after two Pakistan pace spearhead Wahab suffered a rent run-getter, said on Saturday he will appear mile,” opening batsman Bell-Drummond career contained 21 fours and three sixes. wickets had fallen with the score on 49 to raise hairline fracture of his left hand while batting on in only the first two Tests against Pakistan and told reporters afterwards. He was eventually lbw to Harris. Pakistan’s hopes. the first day and has been ruled out of the series. play two more against India in August before “I can’t believe what’s just happened. It’s Not long afterwards, rain briefly halted Mathews remained unbeaten on 43, sharing “Hopefully we will recover from this loss and retiring from the international game. the best attack in the world and I watched play with Kent, bottom of the Second a fourth-wicket partnership of 32 with Lahiru try and win the final Test,” said Misbah. Karunaratne had hit four boundaries when he them on the TV when I was growing up.” He Division of England’s County Thirimanne, who hit the winning boundary off Kithuruwan Vithanage, promoted to open the was leg-before to Yasir with 32 runs still needed added: “All I wanted to do was get off a pair Championship, 203 for four. But when the leg-spinner Yasir Shah. batting in place of Kaushal Silva, smashed four for victory, but vice-captain Thirimanne part- in the first place to be honest and then it match resumed they lost four wickets for The win ended Sri Lanka’s three-match losing boundaries and two sixes in an aggressive 34 off nered his skipper to a facile win. Hard-working was a case of taking it from there.” 30 runs in slumping to 233 for eight. streak at the P. Sara Oval and set up a potentially 23 balls. Sri Lankan seamer Dhammika Prasad was For Australia coach Darren Lehmann, Leg-spinner Steven Smith, now better thrilling finale when the third Test begins at the The left-hander contributed a major share of named man of the match for his seven wickets in fresh from overseeing his side’s 2-0 Test known as the world’s number-one ranked Pallekele stadium near the popular hill resort of the 49-run opening stand with Karunaratne, the Test.—AFP series win in the West Indies, it was just the Test batsman, took two wickets for nine Kandy on Friday. Mathews said it was a very start he wanted as the side go in search of runs in two overs as Adam Ball and Ben good comeback by his team after losing the first their first Ashes success on English soil in Harmison, younger brother of Ashes-win- Test in Galle by 10 wickets. “The boys showed a SCOREBOARD 14 years. “I’m pretty happy,” said Lehmann. ner Stephen, both carelessly holed out off a lot of character after that defeat,” he said, adding “The change of conditions, to come couple of loose deliveries. COLOMBO: Final scoreboard on the fifth day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the P. Sara Oval in it was important to go for quick runs in the sec- Colombo yesterday: down here and play in front of a good Australia-born but England qualified ond innings because of the threat of rain. crowd and great facilities, we’re really Mitchell Claydon entertained another good “We wanted to bat positively because we Pakistan 1st innings: 138 (Mohammad Hafeez 42, K. Sangakkara c Azhar b Yasir 0 thankful to obviously Kent and Canterbury crowd with a 25-ball fifty that included two were not sure about the weather,” he said. “We Tharindu Kaushal 5-42, Dhammika Prasad 3-43) A. Mathews not out 43 Sri Lanka 1st innings: 315 (K. Silva 80, A. Mathews 77, L. Thirimanne not out 20 as a city, and pleased with the hit out for soaring straight sixes off Smith before gave the boys the green signal to play freely the lads.” After Australia had declared on falling to Ahmed. Yasir Shah 6-96) Extras: (lb6) 6 because it is easy to get bogged down.” Pakistan 2nd innings: 329 (Ahmed Shehzad 69, Azhar Total (for three wickets, 26.3 overs) 153 their overnight 322 for four, opener Bell- Smith, who scored a century in Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said being Ali 117, Younis Khan 40, D. Prasad 4-92, D. Chameera 3-53) Fall of wickets: 1-49 (Vithanage), 2-49 (Sangakkara), 3- Drummond looked in good touch. Australia’s second innings, ended the bowled out for 138 on the first day after electing 121 (Karunaratne). He struck three fours in an over from fast match when he dismissed last man Ivan to bat had cost his team dearly. “That session Sri Lanka 2nd innings: Bowling: Junaid 4-0-30-0, Hafeez 4-0-20-0, Babar 8-0-42- bowler Ryan Harris including a fine straight Thomas for a duck. Australia have one from lunch to tea on the first day really dented D. Karunaratne lbw b Yasir 50 1, Yasir 10.3-0-55-2 drive. Fellow opener Joe Denly made a more four-day match, against Essex in us because we lost all our main batsmen in that K. Vithanage c Hafeez b Babar 34 Result: Sri Lanka won by seven wickets. brisk 22 before he was bowled middle Chelmsford starting tomorrow, before they stump by first change Peter Siddle. begin the defence of the Ashes, with the Former England batsman Rob Key had first Test in Cardiff on July 8. —AFP Rahane to lead India in Zimbabwe

NEW DELHI: India rested regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and a host of other senior cricketers yesterday and put Ajinkya Rahane in charge of a second-string squad for next month’s tour of Zimbabwe for three one-dayers and two Twenty20 Internationals. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who played the last of his 229 one-dayers in June 2011, returns to the 15-member side for the world number two ODI team’s series against a Zimbabwe team ranked nine places lower. Apart from Dhoni, Virat Kohli, , Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and have also been rested after India’s disappointing tour of Bangladesh where they lost the three-match ODI series 2-1. “We are confident of Ajinkya’s ability (to lead) and want him to do well,” chief selec- tor Sandeep Patil told reporters in New CANTERBURY: Australia’s plays a shot during the tour match against Delhi. Kent at The Spitfire Ground in Canterbury. —AP “We’re very happy the way his career is shaping up. He is one of the most consis- tent batsmen we have,” Patil said of the 27- Clarke confident as year-old who has played 55 ODIs since his 50-overs debut in 2011. “That’s why we want to see his other Ashes loom large aspects. We have given him this opportuni- ty and we’ll definitely back him,” said Patil, LONDON: Australia captain Michael Clarke a first win in the UK,” Clarke told Sky Sports believes his side are building up to their yesterday. “Individually guys got what they insisting the team was chosen with an eye defence of the Ashes in just the right style needed as well. “It is a good start and now we on next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in after opening their tour with a convincing have the opportunity to play against Essex, India. victory over Kent. Clarke’s men now face hopefully with the same result. “We are trying The team does not include any special- Essex in another four-day match, starting on to work that perfect balance as a team lead- ist glovesman but contains three batsmen- Wednesday, before commencing the defence ing up to that first Test, where I have always , and Ambati of the Ashes they won 5-0 on home soil in believed tour games are important to play to Rayudu-who can keep wickets. 2013/14 in Cardiff next week. win to get some momentum and confidence, Manish Pandey and In Canterbury, Australia beat Kent by 255 and then to get individuals a bat, for them to are the uncapped players in the ODI side. runs in a match featuring hundreds for the have a bowl. Harare Sports Club hosts the ODIs on July Marsh brothers, Shaun and Mitchell, as well as “So you will have seen us change our bat- 10, 12 and 14, to be followed by Twenty20 star batsman Steven Smith. ting order in the second innings, but our Internationals on July 17 and 19 at the Veteran opener Chris Rogers and all- result was still what we wanted.” Australia same venue. Team director Ravi Shastri will rounder Shane Watson both spent time in the against England has been the foundation middle as well, while fast bowler Mitchell stone of Test cricket since the two countries not tour Zimbabwe either, Indian cricket Johnson looked sharp in taking four wickets first clashed in 1877 and 34-year-old batsman board secretary Anurag Thakur said. The in Kent’s first innings, with fellow-paceman Clarke was well aware of the importance of board would meet next month to discuss Ryan Harris also producing some lively spells. the upcoming five-match series. who would succeed Duncan Fletcher as For all their recent success, Australia have “It is a really exciting part of what comes the new head coach, he added. not won an Ashes series in Britain since 2001, with Ashes cricket; the build-up, the media, Squad: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), but Clarke reckons they will be well-prepared the public anticipation. I think that’s great for Murali Vijay, , Manoj to end a run of three straight away Ashes any series,” he said. “Being an Australian play- Tiwary, Kedar Jadhav, Robin Uthappa, series reverses on this tour. “There was a lot of er or an English player, Ashes at home or Manish Pandey, Harbhajan Singh, Axar positives that came out of the (Kent) game. away, that’s a big part of the package. It’s Patel, Karn Sharma, Dhawal Kulkarni, First thing, we won, and that was really great for the game but as a player you don’t , , Mohit DHAKA: In this photograph taken on June 18, 2015, Indian cricketer Ajinkya Rahane plays a shot important for us as a team, to get out and get need to build up the Ashes.—AFP Sharma and Sandeep Sharma. —Reuters during the first (ODI) cricket match between Bangladesh and India. —AFP