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Top Order Collapse Against Anderson and Tremlett Friday 17th June, 2011 First SL lady golfer Pam Fernando no more Sri Lanka’s first lady golfer, Pam Fernando passed away yesterday, at her residence, at the ripe old age of 84. She was the wife of golf maestro Pin Fernando and mother of the vice cap- tain of the Royal Colombo Golf Club, Tiru Fernando, Sri Lanka’s only Lady Tour Professional. Pam Fernando won the Sri Lanka Ladies’ Amateur title five times and also was the first Sri Lankan to win the England’s Andrew Strauss, centre, tosses the coin as Sri Lanka’s stand-in captain Kumar Sangakkara, Ladies’ Amateur. She is in the Guiness left, watches during the first day of the 3rd Test match at the Rose Bowl cricket ground, Southampton, Book of World Records as the oldest England’s Andrew Strauss leads the team out to face Sri Lanka during the first day of the 3rd Test Britain, Thursday June 16, 2011. England skipper Andrew Strauss won the toss and asked Sri Lanka winner of a National golf title. match at the Rose Bowl cricket ground, Southampton, Britain, Thursday June 16, 2011. (AP) to bat. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi, Pool) The cremation will take place at Borella Kanatte this evening. Top order collapse against Schumacher rated greatest German Anderson and Tremlett sports figure REX CLEMENTINE REPORTING Strauss at first slip. Match having scored a hundred against wickets apiece. FROM SOUTHAMPTON Just two balls later play was suspended Essex in the three day warm up game, but Andrew Strauss’ decision to bowl first due to rain and in the first over after failed to convert that good form into the proved to be a sensible one as all there Sri Lanka’s top order batsmen dug a resumption Paranavithana was trapped Test Match. Sangakkara hasn’t scored a seam bowlers troubled the Sri Lankan deep hole and were prepared to bury them- leg before wicket by a full Tremlett deliv- half-century in five innings in the series so batsmen. England did one change to the selves on the opening day of the third Test ery that swung in late and wrapped on the far. side that drew the first Test by bringing in Match against England here at the left-hander’s back leg. Paranavithana His overall record in England is even James Anderson for Steve Finn. Sri Lanka, Rose Bowl after they collapsed to 39 for poor having managed meanwhile, left out Farveez Maharoof four as Chris Tremlett and James just two half-centuries along with the injured Dilshan brining in Anderson had them all at sea with fine in nine Test Matches Thirimanne and Thisara Perera. swing bowling yesterday. (17 innings). He aver- After the early wickets, a 42 run ages a pathetic 25:06 in SCOREBOARD stand followed between wicketkeeper England, way below Sri Lanka first innings Prasanna Jayawardene and Thilan his career average of T. Paranavithana lbw b Tremlett 11 Samaraweera as Sri Lanka crawled to 55:76. L. Thirimanne ct Strauss b Anderson 10 81 for four at stumps. An over after K. Sangakkara ct Prior b Anderson 02 On a day where only 38 overs of Sangakkara was dis- M. Jayawardene ct Prior b Tremlett 04 the scheduled 90 were possible due to missed, play was sus- T. Samaraweeranot out 24 rain, the Sri Lankan batsmen were in pended again due to P. Jayawardene not out 09 rain. Play again a state of confusion as they re-lived the Extras: (b 2, lb 13, w 4, nb1) 20 resumed at 6pm with mayhem in Cardiff, a fortnight ago, Total: for four wickets 81 where they were shot out for 82 runs Sri Lanka set to sur- vive 20 overs Overs: 38 in the second innings inside 25 overs Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-23, 3-29, 4-39. to lose the first Test by an innings and Mahela To bat: T. Perera, R. Herath, S. Lakmal, D. 14 runs. Jayawardene, a key Fernando and C. Welagedara. This was the first Test Match Rose made 11. man along with Sangakkara strongly pro- Bowling: Anderson 16-6-24-2 (1w), Broad Bowl was hosting becoming the tenth Test Anderson was bowling unchanged moting the idea to join the tour of England venue in England and after more than an from the Northern End and Sangakkara late due to IPL commitments, was troubled 11-2-25-0 (2w), Tremlett 11-5-17-2. hour’s play was lost due to rain, the two fell in his ninth over when he chased a by the steep bounce the England bowlers England: A. Strauss (Captain), A. Cook, J. openers – Lahiru Thirimanne and wide delivery,but ended up offering a com- were generating and eventually was dis- Trott, K. Pietersen, I. Bell, E. Morgan, M. Michael Schumacher Prior, S. Broad, G. Swann, J. Anderson and Tharanga Paranavithana – denied England fortable catch to wicketkeeper Matt Prior. missed when he nicked a rising Tremlett BERLIN (AP) — Germans have It was a poor effort by Sangakkara, possi- delivery that he could have left alone. He C. Tremlett. for 12 overs before disaster struck. rated seven-time Formula One champi- Thirimanne, a 21-year-old left-handed bly playing his last Test Match in England made just four. Toss: SL on Michael Schumacher their greatest batsman, playing in place of the injured and his horrendous run here continued. Thilan Samaraweera and Prasanna Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Rod Tucker Tillakaratne Dilshan, looked solid in The 33-year-old left-handed batsman Jayawardene then dug out to ensure they (Aus) sporting figure of all time, despite his defence until he attempted a loose drive off captaining the side in the absence of will be back on day two to fight it out. Third Umpire: Billy Doctrove (WI) so-far lacklustre comeback. Anderson and was picked up by Andrew Tillakaratne Dilshan came into the Test Tremlett and Anderson picked up two Match Referee: Alan Hurst (Aus) The ‘Bild’ daily said Thursday it gave readers a choice of 50 candidates after Dirk Nowitzki last weekend became the first German to win the Injured Clijsters Ballack’s Germany NBA basketball title. It says more than 56,000 readers responded and more than 28 percent of out of Wimbledon career over them chose Schumacher. In second place was football great Franz BERLIN (AP) — Longtime cap- future — though it would like him tain Michael Ballack’s Germany to play one last game as captain in a Beckenbauer, with just under 13 percent Australian Open champion Kim naments. I’ve always enjoyed being career is over, the German football friendly against Brazil on Aug. 10. — followed by Nowitzki, with 12.4 per- Clijsters has withdrawn from a part of the Wimbledon atmosphere federation said Thursday, ending Loew said recent months have cent. Wimbledon because of a foot injury. but I have no other choice now but months of speculation about his brought many young players to the Formula One’s reigning German The second-ranked Belgian, who to rest, recover and to not play ten- future. fore who have “good prospects.” champion, Sebastian Vettel, was 10th was seeded No.2 on Wednesday, said nis for a few weeks.” The 34-year-old midfielder has “In our talks, I had the impres- with 1.8 percent of the votes. she had to pull out of the grass- The two-time US Open winner 98 caps but has not played for sion that Michael definitely under- court grand slam after re-injuring hurt her right ankle in April while Germany in more than a year and stands our point of view,” Loew her right foot at the Unicef Open in dancing barefoot, at her cousin’s missed seven months with an said. “So in the interest of every- ankle injury, including last year’s one, an honest and clear decision is the Netherlands on Tuesday. wedding. World Cup in South Africa, where Michael Ballack now appropriate.” Clijsters says “at this moment I She played at the French Open Germany finished third. The coach lauded Ballack’s Head of Rio feel frustrated that it has to happen but lost in the second round. Coach Joachim Loew had left Ballack achievements over nearly a decade with now before one of my favorite tour- (AP) nominally in place as captain, but left him the national team, saying that “he has an out of the Germany squad recently despite enormous share in the team’s great suc- Olympic committee a strong end to the season. cesses since the 2002 World Cup” — where On Thursday, however, the federation Ballack helped power Germany to the said Ballack won’t be part of the squad in final. hospitalised RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The president of the Rio 2016 Olympic Workers renovating 2014 WCup organising committee has been hos- pitalized after suffering from heart stadium go on strike problems. Rio’s Olympic committee said in a SAO PAULO (AP) — A group of workers. statement Wednesday that Carlos workers went on strike Wednesday at the They said that work was not completely Arthur Nuzman checked himself into construction site for one of the stadiums halted because of the strike. a hospital late Tuesday after a rou- that could host the 2014 World Cup open- The private Agencia Estado news serv- tine health exam showed an abnor- er, demanding higher salaries and ice says workers want to raise their month- mal heart rhythm. improved conditions. ly salaries from about $580 ( 400) to $755 Detailed exams on Wednesday About 160 of the nearly 400 workers ( 520).
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