MONDAY, JULY 28, 2014 SPORTS Ricciardo wins drenched GP

BUDAPEST: Australian Daniel Ricciardo charged to a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix victory yes- terday, his second Formula One win for Red Bull, as a drenched track caused chaos among world championship leaders. Rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate and championship leader Nico Rosberg reached a new peak as Hamilton rebuffed team orders to let Rosberg by into third place. Mercedes said it would hold a team inquiry. But Hamilton’s success trimmed Rosberg’s lead in the title race from 14 points to 11. The German now leads with 202, Hamilton has 191 and Ricciardo is third with 131. Ricciardo, 25, held off Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso to take first place in a race which saw several high-speed crashes after a heavy downpour just before the start changed the course of the race. Ricciardo led twice before he fought back to recapture the lead with three laps remaining, fol- lowing a series of daring passes. Ricciardo’s win was executed with great elan and confirmed him as a driver with the potential to be a future champion. Ricciardo won the Canadian Grand Prix in June and is the only non- Mercedes driver to have won a race this year. “This feels just as good as the first one,” said Ricciardo. “It was a lot of fun in the last few laps, with the passing. I had to go for it.” Hamilton and Rosberg had a fierce battle on the track and via the Mercedes team radio as BUDAPEST: Red Bull Racing’s Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo celebrates on the podium with they tried to make the most of contrasting the trophy after the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit. — AFP strategies in the changeable conditions. German Nico Hulkenberg crashed out at Turn On lap 47, Hamilton’s race engineer Pete Hamilton started from the pit lane along with One, after clipping team-mate Mexican Sergio Bonnington warned him “Nico is behind and on rookies Daniil Kvyat of Toro Rosso, who had COLOMBO: Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella (right) makes an unsuccess- Perez, and soon after Perez lost control at the the option tyres so don’t hold him up.” stalled on the formation grid, and Dane Kevin ful appeal for the wicket of South African cricketer Dean Elgar (left) during the final corner and spun heavily into the walls. Further warnings followed but Hamilton Magnussen, who crashed his McLaren in qualify- fourth day of the second Test match. — AFP The Safety Car came out for a second time declined to heed them. “I’ll let him through if he ing. Hamilton was running with cold brakes in a and Ricciardo pitted again from the lead, gifting gets closer,” he said. “I’m not slowing down for car rebuilt overnight following the blaze, caused Alonso the rarity of running at the front for Nico...” by a fuel leak. Pushing to make up places, he SA lose Petersen Ferrari as the beleaguered Italian team struggled Rosberg pitted again with 13 laps remaining. spun on his opening lap and brushed the barri- to end their poor form. On lap 33, Sebastian He rejoined seventh and battled his way to ers at Turn Two. “My front left hit the wall. The Vettel’s Red Bull car spun at the final corner and fourth and finished half a second behind brakes just gave up,” said Hamilton. in steep run chase down the straight, saving himself from disaster Hamilton. Rosberg said after he had been told Another crash, when Swedish rookie Marcus by kissing the wall. Rosberg pitted, endured a by the team that Hamilton would let him by. “I Ericsson lost control of his Caterham, on lap problematic stop, and rejoined 13th. Offered his don’t know what happened,” he said, saying it COLOMBO: South Africa lost the wicket of including eight fours, before he was dis- eight brought out the Safety Car. opener Alviro Petersen for a duck as they missed edging Morkel to de Kock. chance, Hamilton seized it. On lap 34, he deliv- would have to be discussed “internally”. Jenson Button in a McLaren took the lead for ered a sublime pass round Jean-Eric Vergne in a Mercedes cheif Toto Wolff said there would chased 369 runs for victory in the second Morkel picked up his 200th test wicket a while but as the conditions changed he had to test against Sri Lanka yesterday. when Kithuruwan Vithanage (seven) was Torro Rosso to take second and begin the chase be “no knee-jerk reaction” to Hamilton’s actions pit. This put Ricciardo back on top again. after Alonso. and there would be an internal inquiry. Petersen was caught at silly point by caught splendidly by Faf du Plessis at back- Hamilton, sensibly, had pitted and was soon Kithuruwan Vithanage as he prodded for- ward point off a top edge. Alonso finally pitted again after lap 38 and Brazilian Felipe Massa of Williams finished back up to ninth, within two cars of Rosberg, as Hamilton, from a pit lane start, took the lead. It fifth ahead of Finn Kimi Raikkonen, in the second ward to a length ball from Rangana Herath Niroshan Dickwella (16) fell to Dale Steyn the field, shuffled heavily by the rain and the that turned appreciably to take the edge of when he top edged a pull to lob up an easy lasted one lap before he pitted again, for medi- Ferrari, defending four time champion German Safety Car, began to settle again. Both Force um tyres, rejoining fifth behind Alonso with Sebastian Vettel in the second Red Bull and Finn his bat. catch for de Villiers at square leg. Indias were soon among the list of retirements. On a pitch that was assisting the spin- Wicketkeeper Dickwella was earlier fined Ricciardo leading. Valtteri Bottas of Williams. — AFP ners, South Africa were spared further dam- 10 percent of his match fee and officially age when bad light ended play with 21 reprimanded by the match referee for overs still remaining to be bowled for the claiming a catch on the bounce off de day. Dean Elgar was on 13 and wicketkeep- Villiers and celebrating it by throwing the England well-placed er-batsman Quinton de Kock, promoted up ball in the air on Saturday. the order, on 21, as South Africa ended the Sri Lanka lost three wickets in the morn- day on 38 for one wicket. ing session, including that of first-innings South Africa, who lead the two-test centurion Mahela Jayawardene for a duck. as Cook falls short series 1-0, require a further 331 runs from a Jayawardene was given out caught off his minimum of 98 overs to win on the final day glove when he attempted to reverse sweep with nine second-innings wickets in hand. leg-spinner Tahir. He immediately referred SOUTHAMPTON: England captain Alastair Earlier, Sri Lanka captain Angelo the decision but as there was no conclusive Cook fell agonisingly short of ending his bar- Mathews completed his second half-centu- evidence to overturn the umpire’s call, ren spell without a Test hundred as he led ry of the match and went past 1000 runs for Jayawardene had to go and he trudged off from the front against India at Southampton the calendar year before declaring the sec- unhappily, certain that the ball had hit his yesterday. Cook won the toss and then made ond innings at the fall of the eighth wicket arm guard. Resuming on 11-0, Sri Lanka 95, having been dropped early on, out of on 229. The right-hander followed his first- made clear their attacking intentions when England’s 247 for two at stumps on the first innings 63 with a similar knock in the sec- play began with Upul Tharanga straight day of the third Test. ond to remain unbeaten on 63 with two six- driving the first ball of the day from Vernon Gary Ballance, who helped his captain put es and two fours. Philander for four. Tharanga lived danger- on 158 for the second wicket, succeeded Sri Lanka lost two wickets in the final ses- ously outside his off stump and eventually where Cook had failed by reaching three fig- sion with Imran Tahir bowling Dilruwan edged a delivery from Steyn to de Kock to ures to be 104 not out at the close. Perera for seven and Morkel claiming his be dismissed for 30 following an opening fourth wicket of the innings by having stand of 38 with Kaushal Silva. The first “I was desperate to score runs,” Cook, who Herath caught by AB de Villiers for four. hour’s play produced 55 runs in 13 overs has averaged a modest 26 since scoring the Kumar Sangakkara and Mathews led Sri but following the dismissals of Silva and last of his England record 25 Test hundreds Lanka’s hunt for quick runs on Sunday with Jayawardene, the second hour brought only more than a year ago, told Sky Sports. a fourth-wicket partnership of 81. 42 runs. Silva’s innings of 26 was ended by “It’s been a long time since I have done it. Sangakkara registered his 50th test half Morkel when the batsman scooped a deliv- Tonight I feel like I have contributed. The 29- century with an aggressive 72 off 90 balls, ery to Philander at point. — Reuters year-old left-handed opener added: “I can’t tell you how much I wanted to score a hun- dred. “It’s a step in the right direction. You SCOREBOARD always back yourself to score when you are under pressure. “To be 247 for two is a great COLOMBO: Scoreboard at the close of the fourth day of the second test between Sri day. We have given ourselves a platform.” Lanka and South Africa yesterday. Ballance’s innings meant the Zimbabwe- Sri Lanka first innings 421 173 6-203 7-214 8-229 born left-hander, who’d repeatedly come in South Africa first innings 282 Bowling: Steyn 13-1-59-2, Philander 11-3- with England in difficulty, had now scored Sri Lanka second innings (overnight 11-0) 35-0, Tahir 18-0-76-2 (1nb), Morkel 9.4-1- three hundreds and two fifties in his six Tests. U. Tharanga c de Kock b Steyn 30 45-4, Elgar 1-0-9-0, Duminy 1-0-2-0. An India attack missing injured paceman K. Silva c Philander b Morkel 26 Ishant Sharma, whose career-best seven for K. Sangakkara c de Kock b Morkel 72 South Africa second innings 74 sealed their 95-run win in the second Test M. Jayawardene c Elgar b Tahir 0 A. Petersen c Vithanage b Herath 0 at Lord’s, was unable to pose much of a physi- A. Mathews not out 63 D. Elgar not out 13 cal threat on an even-paced pitch. But if K. Vithanage c du Plessis b Morkel 7 Q de Kock not out 21 those circumstances were in Cook’s favour, he N. Dickwella c de Villiers b Steyn 16 Extras (lb-4) 4 still needed to stay at the crease. D. Perera b Tahir 7 Total (one wicket; 17 overs) 38 Several ex-England skippers, the latest R. Herath c de Villiers b Morkel 4 Still to bat: F du Plessis, H. Amla, AB de being Test exile Kevin Pietersen on Saturday, Extras (b-1, lb-2, nb-1) 4 Villiers, JP Duminy, V. Philander, D. Steyn, had called for Cook to resign as captain. Total (eight wickets declared; 53.4 overs) M. Morkel, I. Tahir. But the undaunted Cook, despite his run 229 Fall of wicket: 1-4. drought and with England 1-0 down in the Did not bat: S. Lakmal, A. Mendis Bowling (to date): Herath 8-5-7-1, Perera five-match series, opted to bat first on a Fall of wickets: 1-38 2-82 3-83 4-164 5- 6-1-24-0, Mendis 3-2-3-0. green-tinged surface. Cook edged the first ball of the match, from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, just short of the SOUTHAMPTON: England’s Captain Alastair Cook walks back to the pavilion after being Mercury rises over Liberty slips. He then had a huge let-off on 15 when caught out by India Captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni for 95 runs during the he pushed out to 6ft 6in Test debutant Pankaj first day of the third cricket Test match. — AFP PHOENIX: Brittney Griner scored 18 points Conference playoff berth. Singh, Ishant Sharma’s replacement, and got a nine fours. Yorkshire left-hander Ballance late cut and the Phoenix Mercury tied the second- Crystal Langhorne had 21 points and thick outside edge only for Ravindra Jadeja to longest winning streak in WNBA history with Camille Little added 16 to lead Seattle, which England were now 213 for two and were Shami for four to complete a 189-ball hun- drop a seemingly simple catch at third slip. their 15th straight victory, beating the New has lost five straight and six of seven. fortunate not to lose Ian Bell (16 not out), for a dred including 15 boundaries that followed York Liberty 78-63 on Saturday night. The Toler lost her first two games after she But a first-wicket partnership worth 55 ended duck when he survived an lbw appeal after the 24-year-old’s 110 at Lord’s. Mercury (21-3) matched the 1998 Houston took over July 20 following the dismissal of when Sam Robson fell in familiar fashion. Singh’s outswinger rapped his pads. England made three changes from the side Comets with the victory and are three short coach Carol Ross. The Sparks are 4-0 against Mohammed Shami squared up the Singh deserved better than his figures of that lost the second Test, bringing in debutant of the league mark set by the Los Angeles Seattle this year and have clinched any Australia-born opener and this time Jadeja none for 62 in 20 overs but his was just one of wicketkeeper Jos Buttler for the injured Matt Sparks in 2001. potential tiebreaker. held the catch. Shami also beat Cook outside several economical contributions as India’s Prior while all-rounders Chris Jordan and Chris Griner also had eight rebounds and six off stump. bowlers kept England to a run-rate of under Woakes replaced fast bowler Liam Plunkett blocks, and Diana Taurasi added 15 points, 10 FEVER 75, STARS 68 But two cut fours off spinners Rohit three an over. and Ben Stokes respectively. — AFP assists and five rebounds for Phoenix, which Lynetta Kizer scored 16 points and Indiana Sharma, recalled in place of dropped all- clinched home-court advantage in the first rallied to beat San Antonio. Shavonte Zellous rounder Stuart Binny, and Jadeja took Cook to round of the playoffs. added 14 points and Natasha Howard had 11 48 not out at lunch. SCOREBOARD Tina Charles had 20 points and seven for Indiana (12-13), which tied Washington for Cook completed a 98-ball fifty with a rebounds to lead New York (10-14). The second place in the Eastern Conference. pulled two off Shami as the crowd signalled SOUTHAMPTON: Scoreboard at stumps on the first day of the third Test between England and Liberty had won three in a row and six of their Becky Hammon scored 18 points and its support with a standing ovation, an unusu- India at Southampton yesterday: last eight. The Mercury’s last loss was a 96-95 Danielle Robinson added 15 for San Antonio al accolade for a half-century. At tea, England England 1st Innings Fall of wickets: 1-55 (Robson), 2-213 (Cook). setback at Connecticut on June 12. (12-14), which suffered back-to-back losses were 186 for one, with Cook 82 not out and A. Cook c Dhoni b Jadeja 95 Bowling: Kumar 22-7-58-0; Shami 18-3-62-1; after losing at Minnesota on Friday night. In Ballance 72 not out. S. Robson c Jadeja b Shami 26 Singh 20-3-62-0; Sharma 6-0-21-0; Jadeja 22-6- SPARKS 77, STORM 69 her first home game since announcing her But Cook’s near five-hour innings ended G. Ballance not out 104 34-1; Dhawan 2-0-4-0. Nneka Ogwumike scored 22 and Candace retirement, Hammon showed flashes of for- when, swiping at a long hop from left-arm I. Bell not out 16 Parker added 19 to help Los Angeles beat mer All-Star form. She drove and double- spinner Jadeja, he got a bottom edge and was Extras (b1, lb5) 6 India: Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Seattle for general manager Penny Toler’s first pumped at her hip, spinning the ball off the caught down the legside by wicketkeeper and Total (2 wkts, 90 overs, 360 mins) 247 Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya victory as a coach. Ogwumike scored 10 glass for a layup that pulled the Stars to 55-52 Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Mahendra Singh Dhoni points in the final quarter as the Sparks (11- with 8 minutes remaining. She later hit a 3- opposing captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Cook received another standing ovation as he To bat: J Root, M Ali, J Buttler, C Jordan, S (capt/wkt), Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar 14) moved three games ahead of the Storm pointer and drove in for a layup that pulled Broad, C Woakes, J Anderson Kumar, Pankaj Singh, Mohammed Shami. (9-18) for the fourth and final Western San Antonio to 74-68 in the final minute. —AP walked back having faced 231 balls including