TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 SPORTS

CARDIFF: Australia Meg Lanning (centre) holds the trophy as Australia players celebrate winning the Women’s Ashes series 2015 in a presentation after the T20 International women’s match between England and Australia. — AP Morgan leads England to T20 win against Australia Tempers flare as

CARDIFF: England captain Eoin Morgan marked his return to cricket by top-scor- ing in a five-run win over Australia in the India eye series win lone international in Cardiff yesterday. Morgan made 74 and shared a third- COLOMBO: Fired-up India eyed their first series stand of 135 with fellow left-han- win in Sri Lanka for 22 years when the home SCOREBOARD der Moeen Ali (72 ) in a total of team’s top order collapsed during the decisive 182 for five after England, sent into bat, final Test in Colombo yesterday. had slumped to 18 for two. Sri Lanka, set a tough victory target of 386, COLOMBO: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the third and final Test between Sri Lanka His innings was a vindication of the lost three for 21 runs before moving to and India at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo yesterday: month’s break Morgan had from cricket 67 without further loss by stumps on a tense India 1st innings: 312 (C. Pujara 145 not out, (Binny), 7-179 (Ojha), 8-234 (Mishra), 9-269 after being rested by Middlesex-whose fourth day at the Sinhalese Sports Club. A. Mishra 59, D. Prasad 4-100, R. Herath 3-84) (Yadav), 10-274 (Ashwin) director of cricket, Angus Fraser, is also Tempers flared in the final session as Ishant Sri Lanka 1st innings: 201 (K. Perera 55, R. : Prasad 19-3-69-4 (nb4, w2), Pradeep an England selector-following a poor run Sharma and the Sri Lankan fielders had a heated Herath 49, I. Sharma 5-54, S. Binny 2-24, A. 17-2-62-4 (w1), Herath 22-0-89-1, Mathews 6- of domestic form. Australia, however, exchange after Dhammika Prasad bowled three Mishra 2-25) 3-11-0, Kaushal 12-2-41-0 (nb1) were on course for victory while skipper consecutive bouncers to the Indian tailender. Steven Smith was making a Twenty20 Dinesh Chandimal nudged Sharma with his India 2nd innings (overnight 21-3): Sri Lanka 2nd innings: international best 90. shoulder, forcing umpires Nigel Llong and Rod C. Pujara b Prasad 0 U. Tharanga c Ojha b I. Sharma 0 But they lost five wickets for 16 runs in Tucker to step in to calm down the players. L. Rahul b Pradeep 2 K. Silva not out 24 A. Rahane lbw b Pradeep 4 D. Karunaratne c Ojha b Yadav 0 14 balls and finished on 177 for eight. As Sharma hurried off the field after the Indian innings ended, Prasad sprinted behind V. Kohli c Tharanga b Pradeep 21 D. Chandimal c Kohli b I. Sharma 18 Australia needed 12 to win off the last him and television pictures showed the two R. Sharma c Pradeep b Prasad 50 A. Mathews not out 22 over, bowled by all-rounder . players speaking to each other outside the S. Binny c Tharanga b Prasad 49 Extras: (lb2, nb1) 3 However, they lost three wickets, two to dressing rooms. N. Ojha c Karunaratne b Herath 35 Total (for 3 wickets, 18.1 overs) 67 run outs, with Stokes also having Nathan Indian batsman , who hit a half- A. Mishra run out 39 Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Tharanga), 2-2 Coulter-Nile out for a duck when Adil century, played down the on-field tension, say- R. Ashwin c Perera b Prasad 58 (Karunaratne), 3-21 (Chandimal) U. Yadav c Herath b Pradeep 4 Rashid held a skyer at short third man. ing he saw and Prasad chatting I. Sharma not out 2 Bowling: I. Sharma 7-2-14-2 (nb1), Yadav 5-1- Stokes conceded just six runs off the over over tea after play. “Such incidents happen,” he and finished with one for 29 in his maxi- Extras: (b1, lb1, w3, nb5) 10 32-1, Binny 4-1-13-0, Mishra 2-0-2-0, Ashwin CARDIFF: Australia’s Glenn Maxwell plays a said. “They are actually very good friends off the Total (all out, 76 overs) 274 0.1-0-4-0 mum four-over stint. Earlier, England lost shot during the T20 International cricket field. I just saw them having tea together after Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Pujara), 2-2 (Rahul), 3-7 Sri Lanka need 319 more runs to win with sev- openers Alex Hales (three) and Jason Roy match between England and Australia. — AP the game, which is good.” (Rahane), 4-64 (Kohli), 5-118 (R. Sharma), 6-160 en wickets in hand. (11) in four balls from paceman Pat Ishant Sharma, who was fined 65 percent of Cummins to be 18 for two in four overs. and dismissed for eight. his match fee for misconduct during the second Morgan, however, struck a superb Left-hander Warner saw a miscued Test, vented his anger with the ball when Sri India have not won a Test series in Sri Lanka six wickets contributing 210 runs after the top straight six off all-rounder Shaun Marsh pull shot off David Willey fly straight to Lanka’s second innings began. since 1993 when Mohammad Azharuddin’s men four had fallen for 64. that sent the ball soaring out of the Finn at third man. Watson’s woeful tour, The lanky seamer had Upul Tharanga edging clinched a 1-0 victory. Rohit Sharma said he The revival began with a 54-run partnership ground and into the River Taff. which saw him dropped from the Test his sixth to wicket-keeper , hoped India can win, just as they did in the sec- for the fifth wicket between Rohit Sharma (50) England took 19 runs off Cameron side during England’s 3-2 Ashes series and Chandimal was caught by skipper ond Test where Sri Lanka were bowled out for and (49) before Ravichandran Boyce’s lone over of the innings.It meant win, continued when he played on to at second slip after the ball bounced out of third 134 chasing a target of 413. Ashwin smashed 58 to boost the total. the leg-spinner, who did not feature in fast bowler Finn, the batsman missing slip Lokesh Rahul’s hands. “We are in a very good position right now,” he Ojha scored 35, but (39) and said. “Most of the wickets have been taken by Ashwin increased the lead with a 55-run stand the Ashes and has not been included for with a kick at the ball before it trickled In between, forced Dimuth onto the stumps. Karunaratne to edge a catch to Ojha. But opener the seamers but the spinners have also done for the eighth wicket. Prasad and Pradeep fin- the five one-day internationals that fol- well. “A target of 380-plus is never easy for any ished with four wickets each on a seaming But Smith and Glenn Maxwell (44) Kaushal Silva and skipper Angelo Mathews low yesterday’s match, was left contem- team and I guess we will just have to come out pitch where 15 wickets had fallen on the third repaired the damage with a third-wicket stemmed the rot with an unbroken 46-run stand plating a round trip of some 20,000 miles for the fourth wicket. Sri Lanka will begin the tomorrow and do what we did in the previous day. Sri Lanka won the opening Test in Galle stand of 112. Maxwell though fell to off- to bowl six balls in international cricket final day’s play on Tuesday needing 319 more to match. One more job, and we are through.” by 63 runs, but India drew level with a 278-run this tour. Morgan also hammered spinner Ali’s first ball when a pull shot win in a minimum of 98 overs, with Silva unbeat- Resolute by India’s lower order had win in the second match at the P. Sara Oval in Cummins for two sixes before he was was brilliantly caught by a diving Stokes, en on 24 and Mathews on 22. lifted their second innings to 274, with the last Colombo. — AFP well-caught on the long-on boundary by running round at long-on. Watson off paceman Coulter-Nile. Smith was in sight of a hundred when Former Ireland international Morgan he pulled Willey to Roy at mid-wicket. He faced 39 balls, hitting three fours and faced 53 balls, hitting four sixes and sev- seven sixes. Cummins, however, came en fours. It was Smith’s highest score at back well to finish with two for 25. Man- this level, comfortably surpassing his of-the-match Ali, deprived of the strike previous best of late on, faced 46 balls and struck six fours 34 against Sri Lanka at Perth in 2010. and two sixes. Australia, as was the case Australia were then 165 for five, needing with England, saw their openers fall 18 to win off nine balls. But from then on, cheaply, with David Warner out for four their innings fell away. — AFP

SCOREBOARD

CARDIFF: Completed scoreboard in the lone Twenty20 international between England and Australia at Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens yesterday: England Australia J. Roy c Coulter-Nile b Cummins 11 D. Warner c Finn b Willey 4 A. Hales b Cummins 3 S. Watson b Finn 8 M. Ali not out 72 S. Smith c Roy b Willey 90 G. Maxwell c Stokes b Ali 44 E. Morgan c Watson b Coulter-Nile 74 M. Marsh b Topley 13 J. Buttler c Cummins b Starc 11 M. Stoinis not out 10 S. Billings run out (Smith/Starc) 2 M. Wade run out (Morgan/Stokes) 2 B. Stokes not out 1 N. Coulter-Nile c Rashid b Stokes 0 Extras (lb3, w5) 8 P. Cummins run out (Roy/Stokes) 0 Total (5 wkts, 20 overs) 182 M. Starc not out 0 Did not bat: A Rashid, D Willey, S Finn, R Extras (lb5, w1) 6 Topley Total (8 wkts, 20 overs) 177 Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Hales), 2-18 (Roy), 3- Did not bat: C Boyce Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Warner), 2-12 153 (Morgan), 4-168 (Buttler), 5-180 (Watson), 3-124 (Maxwell), 4-161 (Marsh), (Billings) 5-165 (Smith), 6-172 (Wade), 7-174 Bowling: Starc 4-0-32-1 (4w); Coulter-Nile (Coulter-Nile), 8-175 (Cummins) 4-0-24-1; Cummins 4-0-25-2; Marsh 2-0- Bowling: Willey 4-0-34-2; Finn 4-0-39-1; 21-0; Maxwell 2-0-12-0; Stoinis 1-0-13-0; Topley 4-0-35-1; Rashid 3-0-32-0; Stokes Watson 2-0-33-0 (1w); Boyce 1-0-19-0; 4-0-29-1 (1w); Ali 1-0-3-1 COLOMBO: India’s Umesh Yadav celebrates taking the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunarathne (unseen) on day four of the third match. — AP