TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2017 SPORTS Wood joins Burnley from Squash players, coach Lehmann backs Agar Leeds in club record fee hurt in bus crash for Test return LONDON: Burnley have signed New Zealand striker Chris Wood from Leeds KUALA LUMPUR: Seven squash players and a coach were injured DHAKA: Australia coach Darren Lehmann yesterday backed Ashton in a club-record fee reported to be £15 million (16.4 million euros), the in a bus crash at the Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia yesterday, Agar to make his Test return during the tour of Bangladesh, four years Premier League side announced yesterday. The 25-year-old moves to forcing organisers to suspend matches on the first day of competi- after the all-rounder made his last appearance. Agar impressed England’s top flight after finishing last season as the Championship’s top tion. Police said two buses were in collision near Kuala Lumpur, Australian selectors with his form in the domestic Sheffield Shield com- scorer with 27 goals. In all he scored 44 goals in 88 appearances injuring seven players from Myanmar and a coach from the petition this season, earning him a recall ahead of left-arm spinner Steve for Leeds. The Clarets did not disclose the sum paid to Leeds Philippines. A Thai contingent was also travelling on the buses. “All O’Keefe. “Ashton batted really well and he is a gun fielder. We are really but confirmed it was more than their previous record, around matches this morning have been suspended,” Low Beng Choo, sec- pleased for him,” Lehmann told reporters in Dhaka. “We are £13million for Robbie Brady from Norwich this year. Wood, retary of the Games’ sports and technical committee, said in a state- hoping for Ashton to reproduce that sort of form,” Lehmann who joins on a four year deal, is Burnley manager Sean Dyche’s ment. She added that the accident was being investigated by said of Agar. Australia are expected to field at least two spin- first signing of the transfer window. He returns to the Premier ners in the first Test in Dhaka starting this Sunday, with Agar police. Police said the Philippines coach suffered light leg injuries, League after brief spells with West Bromwich Albion and now set to join regular spinner Nathan Lyon in the while the seven players from Myanmar were also left with “small Leicester City. “My ambition has been to play in the Premier attack. Lehmann said Australia were prepared for League for years,” Wood told the club’s Clarets Player HD. “I’ve wounds” on their legs. The accident happened when one of the bus- anything at the Sher-e Bangla National Stadium, had tastes of being in there but I’ve never had the es braked suddenly to avoid a car that cut into its lane, and was hit where Bangladesh defeated England inside three chance to give it a proper bash. —AFP from behind by the second bus, the statement added.—AFP days last October. —AFP Sweden’s Stenson captures Wyndham Championship LOS ANGELES: Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and the scoring that we did showed claimed his first title since winning the that.” Schniederjans’s 21-under total of 2016 British Open, outdueling Ollie 259 gave him sole possession of second Schniederjans down the stretch Sunday place, one stroke ahead of former US to win the USPGA Tour’s Wyndham Open champion Webb Simpson, who Championship. shot a 67 for 262. The 41-year-old from Gothenburg American Kevin Na was knocking on closed with a six-under 64 for a 22-under the door for much of his final round but a 258 total to set a tournament scoring bogey on 18 left him with a 68 and record at the Sedgefield Country Club in dropped him into a tie for fourth with Greensboro, North Carolina. South Africa’s Rory Sabbatini (64) and He won by one stroke over American Ryan Armour (64). American Schniederjans, who roared With six holes to play, Stenson, to the finish with birdies on his final Armour, Schniederjans and Na all shared two holes en route to 64. But Stenson the lead. Stenson, who tied for 11th in his matched Schniederjans hole-for-hole- Open title defence at Royal Birkdale, reg- both producing birdies at three of istered birdies on Nos. 13, 15, 16 and 17. their last four holes. Schniederjans had birdies on Nos. 17 Stenson drained a 40-foot putt on the and 18 and nearly produced an eagle on par-four 17th to help seal his 17th inter- the final hole, but the ball rolled past the national title including his sixth on the cup on his shot from the fairway. USPGA Tour. “He pressured me right to the end,” Stenson said of Schniederjans. PLAYOFF BOOST “It was a tight race. Luckily I was able to Stenson’s 22-under score topped the put my foot down and make a couple of previous tournament record of 21-under birdies coming home.” 259 belonging to Kim Si-Woo and The win makes him the winningest Pettersson. He also earned 500 points to Swedish player of all-time on the US Tour, vault into 23rd place in the season-end- surpassing Jesper Parnevik and Carl ing FedEx Cup playoff standings. Pettersson who both have five. “Feels This was the last tournament of the good to inch ahead and get that 6th win,” regular season before the playoffs, so Stenson said. Stenson, who is ranked several golfers needed good finishes to ninth in the world, is hoping to return to move into the top 125 in points to quali- the form that saw him win his first major fy for the playoff events. The list of late championship at the 2016 Open playoff qualifiers included Sabbatini WEST DES MOINES: Team USA pose with the Solheim Cup trophy after the final day singles matches of The Solheim Cup at Des MoinesGolf and Championship at Royal Troon. (began the week at 148), Geoff Ogilvy Country Club on Sunday in West Des Moines, Iowa. —AFP “I don’t know how many times I’m (was 125), J.J. Henry (was 134) and going to be able to get close to playing Harold Varner (was 138). Vaughn Taylor GOLF as well as I did at Troon,” he said Sunday. slipped from 119 to 124, but stayed in “That was a performance of a lifetime the hunt. — AFP USA beat Europe for second straight Solheim Cup crown LOS ANGELES: The United States won the But the American came alive on the back nine Gerina Piller assured of at least halving theirs, the Solheim Cup on Sunday, thwarting Europe’s with a gutsy display that included holing out for Americans were home and dry. “We just got out- comeback bid to triumph 16 1/2 to 11 1/2 in the an eagle at the 11th and an eagle at 15 to square played, there’s no doubt about it,” said women’s match-play showdown. The Americans the match. Thompson, who was six-under on the Sorenstam, adding she was proud of her players’ took a commanding five-point lead into the day’s back nine, won the 16th with a birdie to take a 1- determination in the face of adversity. “They 12 singles matches at Des Moines Golf and up lead that she took to 18 after both players were out there fighting for every single point,” Country Club in Iowa. bogeyed the par-three 17th. she said after her players grabbed six of the 12 The scoreboard showed the 14 1/2 points The world number two was on the green in points on offer on the final day. needed for an outright victory when Lizette Salas two at the last when Nordqvist fired her sank a par putt at the 18th for a 1-up win over approach to within two feet. Thompson conced- FOURBALL DOMINANCE DECISIVE Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England. “My hands are still ed the birdie putt, and when she couldn’t get her The United States had taken control of the shaking just thinking about it,” said Salas, who own long attempt to drop the match ended tournament with dominant performances in the was draped in a US flag on the green in a low-key halved. “It was probably fitting that they both got fourball matches on Friday and Saturday-winning celebration. half a point, they both played amazing,” US cap- seven of eight points on offer in that format. Indeed the moment was little more than a for- tain Juli Inkster said. The United States continued Their whitewash in the Friday fourballs erased mality, with the Americans already assured of the to edge closer to their goal as veteran Cristie Kerr Europe’s narrow lead from the opening four- win thanks to the number of matches on course closed out a 2 & 1 victory over England’s Mel Reid somes session and the visitors wouldn’t get in in which they were leading. and Paula Creamer defeated Georgia Hall 1 up. front again. Inkster joined Judy Rankin as the They had been hurtling toward victory ever Germany’s Caroline Masson helped stem the only women to captain back-to-back winning US since Lexi Thompson’s remarkable rally to halve tide with a 4 & 2 win over Michelle Wie. And Solheim Cup teams. “I’m just proud of my team,” the opening singles match with Sweden’s Anna Scottish veteran Catriona Matthew, pressed into she said after the 10th American victory in 15 Nordqvist.