EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 20 SPORT TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Australia Australia crushes New Zealand, sweeps series firmly in Another five­for gives Lyon 10­wicket match haul; Warner gets 24th century second spot NZ IN AUSTRALIA Pattinson in the outfield for runs being added to New ANI 17. Starc yorked William So­ Zealand’s first innings total Dubai merville’s middle stump for meaning the target was re­ Agence France-Presse Australia grabbed full 120 seven and B­J. Watling was vised down from 421 to 416. Sydney points from the series the last to fall, caught by Nathan Lyon captured five CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC against New Zealand and is Cummins for 19. for 50 and 10 match wickets ț firmly in second position Earlier, Warner complet­ Taylor became the leading as Australia crushed New run­scorer in Tests for NZ on the ICC World Test ed his 24th Test century and Zealand by 279 runs on Mon­ with 7,174 Championship (WTC) day, capping a golden dom­ skipper Paine declared upon points table. estic summer as it swept the the dismissal of Marnus ț Labuschagne completed three­Test series. Labuschagne. 1000 Test runs in 18 Australia has 296 points The off­spinner led the innings. He scored 896 after completing a 3­0 se­ powerful Australian bowling Penalty runs in five matches, the ries win and is behind In­ attack to dismiss the Kiwis There was drama late in the second best after dia, which is on 360 points Hammond (905 runs in for 136 and seal another hea­ Australian innings when from three series. 1928­1929). vy win over the Black Caps Warner was given an official Australia gained 120 after similar victories in warning by umpire Aleem ț Lyon now has 18 five­ points from the series Perth and Melbourne. Dar for running down the wicket hauls in Tests and against Pakistan and 56 middle of the pitch in scam­ three 10­wicket hauls in a from a 2­2 draw with Unbeatable pering a single. match England. Australia has been unbeata­ It resulted in five penalty CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC New Zealand is on 60 ble this season, winning all points after two series, five Tests at home — two SCOREBOARD having split points for a 1­1 against Pakistan and three series draw with Sri Lanka against New Zealand — after Australia — 1st innings: 454. mins b Lyon 19, C. de Grand­ earlier. retaining the Ashes by draw­ New Zealand — 1st innings: homme c Burns b Lyon 52, T. Sri Lanka and Pakistan ing the series 2­2 in England. 256. Astle c Pattinson b Lyon 17, W. are slightly ahead with 80 “It’s been a great summer Australia — 2nd innings: D. Somerville b Starc 7, N. Wagner points each. Warner (not out) 111, J. Burns (not out) 0, M. Henry absent for the Australian Test side,” Each series of the WTC lbw b Astle 40, M. hurt 0; Extras (b­3, lb­1): 4. Lyon said. On a roll: The Australian team notched up another series win, beating New Zealand comprehensively in Sydney on Monday.* AP Labuschagne c Latham b Henry Total (in 47.5 overs): 136. is worth 120 points, distri­ “It’s pretty special to be 59; Extras (b­3, lb­3, w­1): 7. Fall of wickets: 1­3, 2­4, 3­22, buted evenly over the num­ part of it, we have been im­ pitch. Test with a virus. for leg before wicket. leading all­time Kiwi bat­ Total (for 2 wkts. decl. in 52 4­22, 5­38, 6­107, 7­128, 8­136 ber of matches in the pressive, pretty clinical, the But the Kiwis buckled un­ New Zealand was reeling Jeet Raval was out in a re­ sman, going past Stephen overs): 217. , 9­136. series. batters have done well and der the pressure of Austra­ early at 27 for four and never view to the faintest of edges Fleming (7,172) before he Fall of wickets: 1­107, 2­217. Australia bowling: Starc 9­3­ England and South Afri­ given us bowlers plenty of lia’s superior bowling attack recovered after Starc and on ‘Snicko’ in Lyon’s first ov­ was bowled by Pat Cummins New Zealand bowling: Henry 25­3, Cummins 11­3­29­1, ca, currently engaged in a time.” with Mitchell Starc taking Lyon took two wickets each er for 12. for 22 to take his Test aggre­ 12­2­54­1, de Grandhomme 13­ Pattinson 6­3­8­0, Lyon 16.5­ four­Test series which Australia declared its se­ three for 25 to support in the middle session. First­innings top­scorer gate to 7,174. 1­43­0, Wagner 9­1­37­0, 4­50­5, Labuschagne hosts South Africa leads cond innings at 217 for two Lyon’s wiles. Starc removed both open­ Glenn Phillips went for a Colin de Grandhomme Somerville 10­0­36­0, Astle 5­0­20­0. 1­0, are on 56 and 30 8­1­41­1. Man-of-the-Match & Series: with David Warner scoring “They were clinical in all ers — Tom Latham and Tom duck after technology de­ smacked Lyon for six to points, respectively. New Zealand — 2nd innings: T. Labuschagne. an unbeaten century, leav­ areas and after the first Blundell — in the first five ov­ tected a faint outside edge to bring up his fifty but went Latham lbw b Starc 1, T. Blun­ Australia won match by 279 Meanwhile, the West In­ ing the Black Caps with a re­ match they put us under ers. Blundell fell to a stun­ wicketkeeper Paine off Lyon. next ball hoicking to Joe dell c Lyon b Starc 2, J. Raval c runs and series 3-0. dies and Bangladesh, who vised 416­run target in the pressure, session after ses­ ning catch by a diving Lyon Burns at deep mid­wicket for Paine b Lyon 12, R. Taylor b (Target revised following have played one series fourth innings on a wearing sion,” said skipper Kane Wil­ at point for two and stand­in Taylor’s record 52. Todd Astle was out to a Cummins 22, G. Phillips c Paine five-run penalty in Australia’s each against India, are yet Sydney Cricket Ground liamson, who missed the skipper Latham lost a review Ross Taylor became the superb diving catch by James b Lyon 0, B­J. Watling c Cum­ 2nd innings) to earn a point. Tilkowski Sindhu aims to start year on a high No balls: Third umpire on the job again Saina looks for return to form; Kashyap runs into Momota passes away MALAYSIA MASTERS Agence France-Presse ANI against West Indies. be contested trialling “During the trial, which Berlin Dubai West Indies will host technology that will will be carried out in all Former Germany goal­ The front­foot no­balls in Ireland for a three­match authorise the third umpire three ODIs and three T20Is, IANS Kuala Lumpur keeper Hans Tilkowski, the limited­overs series ODI series and as many to call front­foot no­balls, the third umpire will who conceded a controver­ between West Indies and T20Is, starting on January like during West Indies’ monitor each ball for any Since the World Champion­ sial Geoff Hurst ‘ghost­goal’ Ireland will be monitored 7. recent ODI and T20I tour of front­foot infringement and ship win, P.V. Sindhu hasn’t at the 1966 World Cup fi­ by the third umpire. “The upcoming limited­ India,” the International communicate it to the had a great run and the ace nal, died at the age of 84, This was done during overs series between the Cricket Council (ICC) said in on­field umpire to call a shuttler will look to put that his family told on Monday. India’s limited­overs series West Indies and Ireland will a statement. no­ball,” the statement said. behind her and start the During the England­ new year on a high when she West Germany final at begins her campaign at the Wembley, Tilkowski, who Malaysia Masters Super 500 made 39 international ap­ tournament, here on pearances, was beaten by Tuesday. Hurst’s shot which hit the cross bar and was ad­ Early exits judged to have crossed the Sindhu made early exits in line during extra­time as the rest of the season since Fresh start: P.V. Sindhu needs to find her form in order to England went on to lift the becoming the World cham­ return to the pinnacle where she belongs. * AP trophy 4­2. pion and also failed to de­ The incident continues fend the World Tour Finals against a qualifier at the Ax­ K. Srikanth will take on to leave a mark on German crown in December. iata Arena. Chou Tien Chen of Taiwan. football where the term Sixth­ranked Sindhu B. Sai Praneeth will meet Satwiksairaj Rankireddy “Wembley­goal” is used to should ease past Russia’s Ev­ Thailand’s Kantaphon and Chirag Shetty, who be­ describe goal efforts which geniya Kosetskaya in the first Wangcharoen in the first came the first Indian men’s are difficult to validate. round and the Indian will round. pair to claim a super 500 tit­ In English, “Russian li­ look to stay on course for an Former World No. 6 P. le at the Thailand Open and nesman” is a term some­ expected meeting with Kashyap will face top seed also reached the final of the times used to describe con­ World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying of and World No. 1 Kento Mo­ French Open Super 750 troversial refereeing Chinese Taipei in the mota of Japan in the first event, will lock horns with decisions after Azeri Tofik quarterfinals.