THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014 SPORTS Jayawardene’s double ton piles on Bangladesh misery

DHAKA: become Test ’s sixth-highest -getter with a glorious unbeaten double- as Sri Lanka com- pounded Bangladesh’s misery in the first Test in yesterday. The veteran right-hander made 203 , his seventh double-century in 33 three-figure knocks, as the tourists piled up 730- 6 declared on the third day at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium. Having gained a mammoth lead of 498 runs, Sri Lanka reduced Bangladesh to 35-1 in nine overs before stumps to step closer to an overwhelming victory in the first match of the two-Test series. Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, brought on after three overs, struck with his third when he forced to mistime a catch to point. Shamsur Rahman was unbeaten on nine and Marshall Ayub was on 11 at close, with Bangladesh still trailing by 463 runs. Jayawardene leapfrogged Allan Border (11,174 runs) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,219) to move behind record-holder , , Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid and Brian Lara in the all-time list. The 36-year-old former , who now has 11,236 runs in 142 matches, equalled team-mate and close friend Kumar Sangakkara’s Sri Lankan DHAKA: Sri Lankan cricket player Mahela Jayawardene bats on the second day of the first Test record of 33 Test centuries. cricket match against Bangladesh. —AP Jayawardene said he was not aware of the mistimed a drive against spinner Sohag Gazi and Jayawardene and Vithanage joined opener personal milestones, insisting the team’s needs was caught at short mid-on by Marshall Ayub. Kaushal Silva as the three century-makers in the always took precedence. “It probably feels good, That turned out to be Bangladesh’s lone suc- , while Sangakkara, Dimuth Karunaratne but at the end of the day what matters is that we cess in the day as Vithanage helped and Mathews chipped in with half-centuries. put up a decent score on the board,” he said. Jayawardene add 176 for the seventh , Left-arm spinner was “Along the way if you achieve those things it before Mathews closed the innings. Bangladesh’s most successful bowler with three gives a tremendous feeling.” The only time Jayawardene appeared in trou- . But his 43 overs cost 159 runs. Al-Amin Jayawardene refused to take victory for ble was when he survived a loud appeal for leg- Hossain had one for 118 in 32 overs, while fellow granted despite his team being in such a com- before on 119 as he attempted to reverse-sweep seamer Robiul conceded 109 runs in 29 wicket- manding position. “Cricket is a funny game and I Sohag Gazi. Television replays favored the less overs. The two-Test series will be followed by have played enough to realise that nothing hap- bowler, but the Decision Review System is not two matches and three one-day inter- pens easily,” he said. “We just need to be patient, being used in the series. nationals. —AFP create pressure and grab those opportunities that come our way. HOBART: ’s batsman plays a shot against Australia during the “We have two days to go, so I hope that is SCOREBOARD first cricket T20 international series match. —AFP enough time. We will wait and see.” Jayawardene Scoreboard at the close of play on the third day of the first test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Dhaka yes- smashed 16 boundaries and four sixes in a typi- terday. Australia down England cally elegant innings, reaching 203 with a six over mid-wicket off Nasir Hossain. Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field 118-1 (1nb, 1w), Rubel 20-0-84-0 (3nb, 1w), Gazi 39-5- Bangladesh first innings 232 130-2, Shakib 43-6-159-3, Mominul 6-0-20-0, Nasir 10.5- HOBART: England lost the opening four after they won the toss. Kithuruwan Vithanage joined the run-spree Sri Lanka first innings (overnight 375-5) 0-60-0, Ayub 8-0-38-0. in Hobart yesterday White put on 106 with opening partner with an unbeaten 103 as Bangladesh conceded D. Karunaratne c Robiul b Shakib 53 after narrowly failing to chase down Aaron Finch (52 from 31) as the Australians their highest ever total, surpassing the 648-9 by K. Silva lbw b Shakib 139 Bangladesh second innings Australia’s massive 214-run target. The came out with all guns blazing. “It’s a nice the West Indies in Khulna in November 2012. K. Sangakkara c Nasir b Al-Amin 75 Tamim Iqbal c Perera b Herath 11 Australians were always in the box seats, feeling to be back and it’s something I’ve Vithanage, a 22-year-old left-hander playing M. Jayawardene not out 203 Shamsur Rahman not out 9 with the tourists on 176 for nine with an worked hard for, to get the opportunity his third Test, hit 12 fours and two sixes in his D. Chandimal b Shakib 40 Marshall Ayub not out 11 over left. But some prodigious late hitting playing for Australia since I last played,” maiden century. Bangladesh struggled to con- S. Lakmal c Nasir b Gazi 0 Extras (b-4) 4 by Ravi Bopara got England to within 13 White said. tain the runs on the even-paced wicket after Sri A. Mathews c Ayub b Gazi 86 Total (one wicket; nine overs) 35 Lanka resumed the day on 375-5. K. Vithanage not out 103 Still to bat: , , Shakib runs of the target at the finish. “England are a dangerous side and they Extras (b-12, w-12, nb-7) 31 Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Sohag Gazi, Robiul Islam, Al- Bopara smashed seven sixes and two bat really deep in the order, and with the Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews part- Total (six wickets dec; 187.5 overs) 730 Amin Hossain, fours in his unbeaten 65 off 27 balls but short boundaries here at Bellerive the nered Jayawardene in a sixth-wicket stand of Did not bat: D. Perera, S. Eranga, R. Herath Fall of wicket: 1-15 paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile bowled the game was never really won. Ravi batted 179, himself making 86 before being dismissed Fall of wickets: 1-118 2-273 3-302 4-374 5-375 6-554 Bowling (to date): Lakmal 3-0-8-0, Eranga 1-0-5-0, Australians to victory with four for 30 off his really well.” before tea. Bowling: Robiul 29-2-109-0 (3nb, 2w), Al-Amin 32-3- Herath 3-2-8-1, Perera 2-0-10-0. four overs. Finch hit three sixes and five fours as the Mathews missed his third century when he scored 32 off 24 balls and pair reached a century partnership off 59 opener hit 22 off 12 balls for the balls. He was caught in the deep in the 11th beaten tourists, who have only won one over, while it took the most eventful over of limited-over international on their hapless the innings to claim White. Ahli United Bank, NBK and tour of Australia. Australia won the Ashes The over brought 18 runs off the bowl- Test series 5-0 and the ODI series 4-1 before ing of and looked also to have the three-game T20 series began. claimed White’s wicket when he skied to Ahli Bank of Kuwait triumph “Ravi’s performance was a positive, but Danny Briggs at fine leg. if you lose three wickets in the first six overs However a no-ball was called. The third you rarely win,” said England skipper Stuart umpire took several looks at the replays at KUWAIT: Devastating by left arm Broad. Wright’s full toss to confirm it was above seamer Sajid Kalam enabled Ahli United Bank to “We’ll reflect and consider changes, but I waist height and White survived. score a convincing 7 wickets victory over Gulf err on the side of consistency and back But White was dismissed leg before Bank in the ongoing Kuwait Banks Club tourna- these players to come back strong in wicket before the over was completed and ment organized by Kuwait Cricket. Melbourne.” Australia were 134 for two. Winning the toss, Mahmoud Bastaki, the AUB was named man-of-the- (20 from 13) produced an astonishing skipper decided to bowl first as the green match for his 75 off 43 balls as Australia set reverse sweep for six off Briggs, but the topped wicket with lots of dew on it assisted the England 214 to win. England’s previous shot proved to be his downfall when he AUB seamers and as the sun came out the ball highest T20 run chase was 181 against was caught at 157 for three. began to swing more. Sajid the left arm fast India in 2012 so their 200 for nine was their Australia could not sustain their early bowler bowled with lively pace to take the first highest score in the format. pace until, on debut, Chris Lynn cracked three wickets and took advantage of the bounce White, recalled by Australia for the three sixes in his late cameo of 37 from 19. to run through the top order line up. He first time since 2012, smashed six was six not out. The second was well supported by Rashid and later boundaries and four sixes to set the game in the three-match series is in Mahmoud Bastaki, whose flighted deliveries platform for the home side’s 213 for Melbourne tomorrow. —AFP accounted for 3 wickets as Gulf Bank were shot out for 48 runs. Gulf Bank gave their opponents a tough fight The winning Ahli United Bank team. SCOREBOARD as they accounted for the first three batsmen with not much on the scoreboard but Jagath Chasing a modest total, Burgan were in trou- (2-5) bowled well for NBK while Binu Mathew, HOBART: Scoreboard in the opening Twenty20 international between Australia and England in Hobart batting beautifully scored 222 runs to clinch the ble by losing their prolific scorer Arther & Sufiyan Jalal & Anil chipped in with one wicket each. yesterday: match in AUB’s favor. Rifat & Waleed took a wick- quickly and never recovered to gain control of On a wicket which started taking turn, Kuwait the match. Dilip & Kunal tried to restore the International Bank fought back valiantly to give Australia: L. Wright b Henriques 9 et each. Sajid Kalam for his excellent bowling performance was declared Player of the match. innings with some fine batting but Ahli bowlers a tough fight for their strong opponents. NBK C. White lbw b Wright 75 J. Root c Finch b Coulter-Nile 32 In an exciting and well balanced match Ahli Shanker & Fahad bowled a hostile spell to wreck openers Kiran (28 runs) & Sarfaraz (19 runs) A. Finch c Hales b Broad 52 E. Morgan b Maxwell 4 the middle order batting to restrict Burgan total struck the ball fluently to post 37 runs but the G. Maxwell c Bresnan b Bopara 20 Bank of Kuwait scored a nail-biting 3 runs victory J. Buttler c Muirhead b Coulter-Nile 20 over Burgan Bank to keep their hopes alive for a to 94 runs. Irfan, Israr & Shehzad took a wicket introduction of Manoj Mishra who bowled a G. Bailey c Bresnan b Dernbach 14 R. Bopara not out 65 each for Ahli Bank. Fahad of ABK was presented nagging line resulted in the loss of three quick C. Lynn not out 37 semifinal berth. T. Bresnan b Muirhead 11 Batting first, Ahli Bank openers Anthony & with the Player of the match. wickets. Nadeem from the other end supported D. Christian not out 6 S. Broad b Coulter-Nile 13 National Bank of Kuwait scored a 5 wicket vic- Manoj very well and in 6 overs half of the NBK Extras (b1, w6, nb2) 9 Sajiv scored 27 runs for the first wicket in which J. Dernbach run out (Finch/Wade) 5 tory over Kuwait International Bank in the third batsmen were back in the pavilion. Khurram, Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) 213 Anthony played a major part to score a solid 32 D. Briggs not out 0 match of the day in the ongoing KBC trophy. KIB batting at three down, took control of the situa- Fall of wickets: 1-106 (Finch), 2-134 (White), 3-157 runs to his credit. Sajiv (11 runs) & later on Extras (lb3, w7) 10 winning the toss batted first and posted a rea- tion and blasted a quick fire 20 runs to seal a 5 (Maxwell), 4-200 (Bailey) Shehzad (13 runs) contributed well enough for Total (9 wickets; 20 overs) 200 Ahli Bank to score 97 runs in their 20 overs. sonable total 84 runs loosing 9 wickets in their wicket win for NBK. Manoj Mishra took 3-26 & Did not bat: M. Henriques, M. Wade, N. Coulter- quota of 20 overs. Opener Nadeem played a flu- Nadeem captured 2-21 for KIB. Imran of NBK Nile, J. Hazlewood, J. Muirhead Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Lumb), 2-44 (Wright), 3-45 Burgan bowlers Sharma ( 4-13) & Manohar (4-26) (Hales), 4-51 (Morgan), 5-98 (Buttler), 6-100 bowled extremely well to restrict the free scor- ent knock of 25 runs with a huge six over long who bowled well to capture 4 wickets was Bowling: Broad 4-0-25-1, Dernbach 4-0-50-1 on & 4 hits to the fence. Imran (3-14) & Ronald declared Player of the match. (1nb), Bresnan 4-0-40-0 (2w), Bopara 3-0-26-1 (Root), 7-147 (Bresnan), 8-162 (Broad), 9-176 ing Ahli batsmen. (1w), Briggs 4-0-53-0 (3w), Wright 1-0-18-1 (1nb) (Dernbach) Bowling: Maxwell 3-0-30-1, Coulter-Nile 4-0-30-4, England: Hazlewood 4-0-46-0 (2w), Henriques 3-0-36-2, A. Hales lbw b Henriques 22 Muirhead 4-0-34-1 (1w), Christian 2-0-21-0. DKS and Wilhemson shine M. Lumb c Lynn b Coulter-Nile 9 Australia won by 13 runs. KUWAIT: The third match of the tourna- Group Business Development Manager ment played between Dana Kuwait and guess & win gift by Tik Tok watch ICC unveils new women’s Shipping (DKS) and Kuwait was presented by Halim Transcontinental Shipping (KTS) started The fourth match between cricket championship at 06.30 pm at Kuwait Cricket Floodlight Wilhemson and Inchcape started at stadium in Sulaibiya. DKS won the toss 9.30 pm. Inchcape won the toss and LONDON: A new international champi- file and competitiveness of women’s crick- and elected to bat first. Despite low elected to bat first. Inchcape scored 120 onship, which will determine qualification et,” said ICC chief executive David scoring games of the season, DKS were runs in their 20 overs with the loss of 8 for the next Women’s World Cup, was Richardson, in a statement issued from the able set a massive target of 187 for the wickets (Amitash 17, A Gafoor 15, Sanu announced by the International Cricket governing body’s Dubai headquarters on loss of 6 wickets with an outstanding 3-17 & Shinu 3-26). Wilhemson bagged Council yesterday. the second and final day of its board meet- performance by Stanley who scored a a 10 wicket win as they scored 121 The bilateral competition will involve ing yesterday. quick 74. Dean was placed second on runs without any loss of wickets in the top eight ranked women’s teams in the “The ICC Women’s World Cup last year the scoreboard with 31 runs. Chasing 12.2 overs and grabbed a bonus point. world-including England, Australia, West set a new benchmark in terms of quality down the target KTS lost their wickets Asad of Wilhemson was in amazing Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South and public interest and with this added in quick succession and ended up on form and hit a quick fire 82* together Africa, India and Pakistan. They will all play context the pathway to the 2017 event in 133 (Nadeem 46, Jeffy 3-18, Romieo 2- with Kiran 31*. Asad of WILHEMSON the others in a series of matches between England looks really exciting,” former South 28) which resulted in a 54 runs win for was declared Man of the Match for his mid-2014 to the end of 2016, with the top Africa wicket-keeper Richardson added. DKS. brilliant 82* and the awards were pre- six qualifying automatically for the 2017 The bottom countries at the end of the Stanley of DKS was declared as Man sented by Abdul Kader chairman of Women’s World Cup in England. International Women’s Championship will of the Match and the awards were pre- Win Cargo. A cash award of $ 25.00 Unlike changes to the men’s internation- be joined by a number of teams from the sented by NMM Anas, head of chan- was presented by DG Karu which is al programme announced on Tuesday, ICC’s regional qualification structures to cellery & second secretary of Sri Lanka, sponsored by Transcontinental there will be promotion and relegation at play in a Women’s World Cup qualifier and a cash award of $25.00 from Shipping Services Co. Also guess and the end of the first cycle. which will determine the final partici- Transcontinental Shipping Services Co. win gift by Tik Tok watches were pre- “This is a very positive step for the pro- pants.—AFP was presented by Bader Al-Bader, sented by Abdul Kader.