SPORT SATURDAY 31 DECEMBER 2016 21 Starc earns Australia series victory Melbourne Reuters SCOREBOARD itchell Starc shone Pakistan (I innings): 443-9 dec with bat and ball as Australia dis- Australia (I innings): missed Pakistan M Renshaw b Yasir Shah 10 for 163 to secure D Warner c Sarfraz b Riaz 144 Man innings and 18-run victory in U Khawaja c Sarfraz b Riaz 97 the second test yesterday, the S Smith not out 165 P Handscomb c Sami b Sohail 54 win giving the hosts an unassail- N Maddinson b Yasir Shah 22 able 2-0 lead in the three-match M Wade c Shafiq b Sohail 9 series. M Starc c Shafiq b Sohail 84 Lanky left-arm paceman N Lyon c and b Shah 12 Starc smashed 84 with the bat, Extras (B1, LB12, W1, NB13) 27 including a record seven sixes at Total (8 wkts dec) 624 the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-244, 3-282, 4-374 (Hands- comb), 5-433, 6-454, 7-608, 8-624 then tore through Pakistan's tail Did not bat: J Hazlewood, J Bird. with 4-36 as Australia's bowlers Bowling: Amir 33-6-91-0 (1nb 1w) snatched an unlikely win from a Sohail 31-7-131-3 rain-blighted match. Y Shah 41-2-207-3 Pakistan's capitulation left Riaz 32-5-147-2 (12nb) their captain heart-broken and Azhar 5-0-35-0 after falling for a second-ball Pakistan (II innings): duck with a rash sweep-shot, S Aslam b Hazlewood 2 42-year-old veteran Misbah-ul- A Ali lbw b Hazlewood 43 Haq said he would consider B Azam lbw b Starc 3 Au stralian players rush to embrace team-mates Josh Hazlewood (2right) and David Warner (right) after Australia defeated retiring before the series finale Y Khan c Handscomb b Lyon 24 in Sydney. Pakistan on the final day of the second cricket Test match in Melbourne, Australia yesterday. M Ul-Haq c Maddinson b Lyon 0 For home captain and man A Shafiq c Handscomb b Lyon 16 S Ahmed b Starc 43 of the match Steve Smith, it was against the reversing ball after tea. maiden series win in Australia short leg, clutching two tough Sarfraz Ahmed for 43, cleaned M Amir b Bird 11 a golden day as he smashed an Pakistan lost the first Test in goes on and they have now lost chances to remove Younus and up through the gate. S Khan not out 10 unbeaten 165 in the morning ses- Brisbane by 39 runs but won four matches in succession. Asad Shafiq for 16. Starc returned to bowl W Riaz b Starc 0 sion and watched Pakistan admiration for their dogged Australia spinner Nathan Pakistan went to tea on a Wahab Riaz for a duck and Y Shah c Bird b Starc 0 disintegrate on a sun-bathed fourth innings resistance, when Lyon shrugged off recent form shaky 91-5 and three overs after wrapped up the win by having Extras (B4, LB5, NB2) 11 afternoon. After declaring Aus- they put an Australian record woes to bowl his best spell of the the break, seamer Josh Hazle- Yasir Shah sky an easy catch to Total (all out, 53.2 overs) 163 tralia's first innings at 624 for total of 450 on the board. series, capturing three wickets wood trapped Azhar Ali, Bird at mid-on. Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-6, 3-63, 4-63, 5-89, 6-101, 7-143, 8-153, 9-159, 10-163 eight just before lunch, Smith Much of that acclaim evap- in the middle session, two of Pakistan's last specialist bats- Following the Hobart thrash- Bowling: Starc 15.2-4-36-4 gave his bowlers 68 overs to run orated yesterday as their them in three balls to remove man, lbw for 43. ing by South Africa, which Hazlewood 13-3-39-2 through the tourists. shambolic batting followed an stalwarts Younus Khan (24) and Paceman Jackson Bird surrendered the series, Austral- Bird 11-2-46-1 (2nb) In the end, the Aussies needed equally abysmal effort in the field Misbah. bowled Mohammad Amir for 11 ia's new-look team have won Lyon 14-4-33-3 only 53.2 overs of the quota as in the morning. Rookie batsman Peter and a sizzling Starc inswinger their last three matches in Result: Australia won by an innings and 18 runs Pakistan's demise hastened Pakistan's 52-year wait for a Handscomb was outstanding at accounted for wicketkeeper succession. Pakistan South Africa crush Lankans fined for slow Port Elizabeth over rates Reuters outh Africa's bowlers needed a lit- Melbourne tle more than an hour of the final AFP S day's play to dismiss Sri Lanka for 281 in their second innings and claim akistan have been fined a 206-run victory in the first Test for a slow over rate yesterday. Pagainst Australia during Kyle Abbott struck twice and Ver- the second Test in Melbourne, non Philander, Kagiso Rabada and the ICC said yesterday. spinner Keshav Maharaj mopped up Match referee Ranjan the tail to complete a comprehensive Madugalle imposed the fine victory for the hosts at St George's Park after Misbah-ul-Haq's side and conclude a satisfactory start to the was ruled to be two overs three-match series. short of its target when time "We had to toil hard for this one allowances were taken into but the bowlers got great benefit today consideration. Misbah considers from all the hard work they put in," Under ICC regulations, winning captain Faf du Plessis told players are fined 10 percent retirement ahead of reporters. of their match fees for every South Africa took the last five wick- over their side fails to bowl in final Sydney Test ets for just 41 runs. the allotted time, with the Sri Lanka had displayed dogged captain fined double that resistance on Thursday after being set amount. Accordingly, Misbah Melbourne a mammoth target of 488 early on the was fined 40 percent of his AFP fourth day and stymied South Africa's match fee, while his players hopes of wrapping up the result with received 20 percent fines. aptain Misbah-ul-Haq (pictured) said he a day to spare. was considering retirement after Paki- A day of toil for the home attack Cstan's shattering two-session capitulation produced just five wickets but by to Australia in the second Test in Melbourne to stumps, captain Angelo Mathews and Bangladesh's lose the series yesterday. Dhananjaya de Silva were the last rec- Pakistan crashed to an innings and 18-run ognised batsmen for Sri Lanka and defeat to the Australians on the final day at the needed to dig in on Friday to give their Haidar officially Melbourne Cricket Ground. side any chance of salvaging a draw. Misbah's tactics and fielding strategy were However, Mathews departed in the reprimanded questioned during the Boxing Day Test and he third over of the day, trapped leg before scored just 11 and a duck in his two trips to the wicket by Abbott for 59 and then De Nelson crease. Silva followed four overs later in sim- AFP The 42-year-old veteran of 71 Tests from ilar fashion for 22. 2001 said he would decide in the coming days Philander had to change direction angladesh bowler Tan- whether to call time on his career and indi- on his follow through but made good veer Haider has been cated he was no guarantee to play the third ground to snatch a one-handed catch Bofficially reprimanded Test, starting in Sydney on Tuesday. to remove Rangana Herath for three by the International Cricket "I think I need to think about it," Misbah off his own bowling. South African bowler Kyle Abbott (left) celebrates with a team-mate Council (ICC) for swearing told reporters after the Test defeat. Rabada then sent Dushmantha their win against Sri Lanka during the fifth and last day of the first Test at New Zealand batsman "I always believed that if I couldn't contrib- Chameera back without scoring with at St George's Park ground in Port Elizabeth in South Africa yesterday. Neil Broom during the sec- ute to the team then it's no point staying there. a searing delivery that took a healthy ond one day cricket I haven't decided (about Sydney) but let's see." edge. international in Nelson on Misbah said he could offer no explanation Nuwan Pradeep was the last wicket SCOREBOARD Thursday. for his side's dramatic collapse after trailing by to fall, bowled by Maharaj for four, South Africa (I innings): 286 R Herath c&b Philander 3 The incident happened on 181 runs on the first innings following Austral- leaving Suranga Lakmal unbeaten on Sri Lanka (I innings): 205 D Chameera c de Kock b Rabada 0 the last ball of the 19th over ia's declaration of 624 for eight. 19. South Africa (II innings):406/ 6 decl S Lakmal not out 19 when Tanveer, after being hit "Pressure sometimes does things like that. South Africa, who won the toss and Sri Lanka (II innings): N Pradeep b Maharaj 4 for a four, used obscene lan- Full credit to Australia the way they batted to opted to bat, amassed 286 in their first D Karunaratne run out (Duminy, de Kock) 43 Extras (B-4 LB-3 NB-1 W-3) 11 guage which was heard by the put us under pressure," he said.