WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014 SPORTS World Twenty20 standings DHAKA: World Twenty20 Super-10 round standings after yesterday’s matches (played, won, lost, tied, N/R, points, run-rate): Group One Group Two South Africa 4 3 1 0 0 6 +0.075 India 4 4 0 0 0 8 +1.280 West Indies 3 2 1 0 0 4 +1.223 Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0 0 4 +2.199 Pakistan 3 2 1 0 0 4 +0.893 New Zealand 3 2 1 0 0 4 +0.362 Australia 3 0 3 0 0 0 -1.549 Bangladesh 3 0 3 0 0 0 -2.315 England 3 1 2 0 0 2 -0.102 Note: Top two teams in each group qualify Netherlands 3 0 3 0 0 0 -2.176 for semi-finals. Small comfort in Australia’s T20 win over Bangladesh DHAKA: Pre-tournament favourites Australia fin- “There are a few positives (from this tournament) ished their unimpressive World Twenty20 cam- but in a world tournament we need to do well as paign with a comfortable seven-wicket win over a team,” said Rahim. “Thanks to the crowd for Bangladesh in Dhaka yesterday. their support and hopefully we give back their Openers Aaron Finch scored a 45-ball 71 and faith soon.” Earlier Bangladesh, who batted after David Warner knocked a fiery 35-ball 48 to help winning the toss, were helped to 153-5 by Shakib Australia chase down a 154-run target in 17.3 Al Hasan’s 52-ball 66 for his fourth Twenty20 fifty- overs in the Super-10 Group Two match. the first from any Bangladeshi batsman in the Australia and hosts Bangladesh had lost their tournament. Shakib added 112 for the third wick- first three matches and were playing for pride in et with Rahim (47) in a much improved batting a match with no bearing on semi-final positions. display by the home team. The duo created a Finch and Warner put on a solid 98-run open- new Bangladesh record for the third wicket in all DHAKA: West Indies’ batsman Dwayne Bravo falls on the ground after he was hit by the ball during their ICC Twenty20 Cricket World ing wicket stand by the 12th over to quash any Twenty20 internationals, beating the 109-run Cup match against Pakistan. —AP hopes of a win for Bangladesh at a packed Sher- stand set by Aftab Ahmed and Mohammad e-Bangla stadium. Finch smashed four sixes and Ashraful against the West Indies at Johannesburg seven boundaries before he was bowled by in the 2007 World Twenty20. paceman Al-Amin Hossain who finished with 2- Bangladesh lost openers Anamul Haque Windies destroy Pakistan 30. Warner was also ruthless, hitting three sixes (nought) and Tamim Iqbal (five) in paceman and five boundaries before Hossain bowled him Nathan Coulter-Nile’s first two overs, leaving the with a beautiful delivery. Cameron White, who repair work to the two most senior players of the made 18 not out, hit a four and a six to seal the team. DHAKA: Defending champions West Indies The West Indies recovered from a top- The West Indies, who finished second behind unbeaten victory. Australian skipper George Bailey was sat- Coulter-Nile was the pick of the Australian charged into the World Twenty20 semi- order meltdown to post 166-6 after electing India in group two, will clash with group one champions Sri isfied with the result. “All the things we wanted to bowlers with 2-17. Shakib hit five boundaries and finals with a spectacular 84-run win over to take first strike, before three wickets each Lanka in the first semi-final in Dhaka tomorrow. do, we did today. Picked the balls, picked the three sixes before he fell to a brilliant catch by Pakistan in a key Super-10 match in Dhaka by spin twins Samuel Badree and Sunil India, who won all their four league matches, meet gaps and the bowling was good as well,” said Glenn Maxwell off Doug Bollinger. yesterday. Narine skittled Pakistan for 82 in 17.5 overs. South Africa at the same venue on Friday. The final will take Bailey. Rahim matched his illustrious partner as he place in Dhaka on Sunday. It was the first time Pakistan, “I think it’s still a game of basics, we just smashed five boundaries and a six off just 36 finalists in the inaugural World T20 in 2007 and champions haven’t done them well enough in crunch games balls, before he holed out off Shane Watson in in 2009, failed to reach the knock-out rounds in the five edi- and lost them. We had a side that was up for the the 17th over. India have already qualified for the tions of the tournament. The West Indies slumped to 81-5 challenge and I’d not want to take anything from semi-finals from this group. South Africa, who before skipper Darren Sammy and Dwayne Bravo led a dra- them.” meet India in the second semi-final on Friday, matic rescue act by adding 71 for the sixth wicket off just 32 Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim vowed and Sri Lanka have advanced to the last four from balls. to improve his team’s performance in future. Group One. —AFP Bravo smashed four sixes and two fours in a 26-ball 46, while Sammy remained unbeaten on 42 off 20 balls that contained five fours and two sixes. The West Indies plundered 71 runs in the last four overs, taking 21 runs in the 18th bowled by seamer Umar Gul and 24 in the 19th by off-spinner Saeed Ajmal. Bravo, who was named man of the match, said he would have preferred to share it with Sammy and Badree. “We have the bowling to defend any total, but I really did not expect the match to be so easy,” he said. “Pakistan did have our top order in some bother, but then our batting runs deep and we showed that today. “I think Sammy and Badree were equally deserving of the award. We have the momentum going into the semi- finals and I am confident we will do well there too.” SCOREBOARD Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez apologised for his team’s fans for not doing better in the key game. “I must DHAKA: Scoreboard of the World Twenty20 Super-10 group two match between Pakistan thank our fans for their support and apologise for letting and the West Indies played at Shere Bangla stadium yesterday. them down,” he said. “This was obviously not our best per- West Indies Pakistan formance, but we had the game in control at the start. “All credit to the West Indies for taking the game away D. Smith c Kamran b Tanvir 8 Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Santokie 0 Kamran Akmal c Bravo b Badree 0 from us. Those four final overs cost us dearly and then we C. Gayle st Kamran b Hafeez 5 panicked at the start of our chase. It became a very difficult Mohammad Hafeez c Gayle b Russell 19 L. Simmons run out 31 target to chase.” Umar Akmal st Ramdin b Badree 1 Pakistan never recovered after Ahmed Shehzad, who M. Samuels b Afridi 20 Shoaib Malik st Ramdin b Badree 2 scored a century in the previous match against Bangladesh, D. Bravo run out 46 Sohaib Maqsood st Ramdin b Narine 18 was leg-before to Krishmar Santokie off the first ball of the D. Ramdin c Umar b Babar 5 Shahid Afridi st Ramdin b Narine 18 innings. Sohail Tanvir c Sammy b Narine 14 Badree removed Kamran Akmal in the second over, DHAKA: Bangladesh’s bowler Taskin Ahmed bowls during their ICC D. Sammy not out 42 Umar Gul c Simmons b Santokie 4 Umar Akmal in the fourth and Shoaib Malik in the sixth to Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match against Australia. —AP A. Russell not out 0 Saeed Ajmal b Russell 1 leave Pakistan tottering at 13-4. Extras: (lb4, w5) 9 Zulfiqar Babar not out 3 Hafeez (19) and Sohaib Maqsood (18) fell in successive SCOREBOARD Extras: (w2) 2 overs to make it 42-6, before Narine removed Shahid Afridi Total: (for six wkts; 20 overs) 166 and Sohail Tanvir in four balls to hasten the end. Total: (all out; 17.5 overs) 82 Did not bat: S. Narine, S. Badree, K. Santokie. Earlier, the West Indies lost both openers by the fourth DHAKA: Scoreboard of the World Twenty20 Super-10 group two match between Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Shehzad), 2-1 (Kamran), over, with Chris Gayle stumped off Hafeez for five and Australia and Bangladesh in Dhaka yesterday: Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Gayle), 2-22 (Smith), 3- 3-9 (Umar), 4-13 (Malik), 5-37 (Hafeez), 6-42 Dwayne Smith caught behind off Tanvir for eight. Bangladesh: Australia: 61 (Simmons), 4-67 (Samuels), 5-81 (Maqsood), 7-74 (Tanvir), 8-75 (Afridi), 9-78 Lendl Simmons and Marlon Samuel add 39 for the third Tamim Iqbal c Bollinger b Coulter-Nile 5 A. Finch c Nasir b Al Amin 71 (Ajmal). wicket when both batsmen fell in the 11th over to reduce (Ramdin), 6-152 (Bravo). Anamul Haque c Watson b Coulter-Nile 0 D. Warner b Al Amin 48 Bowling: Santokie 2.5-0-9-2 (2w), Badree 4-0- the West Indies to 67 for four. Bowling: Hafeez 2-0-15-1, Tanvir 4-0-27-1 Shakib Al Hasan c Maxwell b Bollinger 66 C. White not out 18 10-3, Samuels 3-0-21-0, Russell 3-0-15-2, It soon became 81-5 as Denesh Ramdin holed out in the (1w), Babar 4-0-27-1 (2w), Afridi 4-0-23-1, Mushfiqur Rahim c Maxwell b Watson 47 G.