Wednesday 18th February, 2009 13 Collingwood century puts England in control SCOREBOARD England 1st Innings (overnight 301-3) A. Strauss c and b Edwards 169 A. Cook c Smith b Gayle 52 O. Shah run out (Taylor) 57 K. Pietersen b Taylor 51 J. Anderson c Ramdin b Edwards 4 P. Collingwood c Smith b Hinds 113 A. Flintoff b Taylor 0 M. Prior c Chanderpaul b Nash 39 S. Broad c Ramdin b Hinds 44 G. Swann not out 20 Extras: (10b, 1lb, 1w, 5nb) 17 TOTAL: (for 9 wickets declared) 566 Overs: 165.2 Fall of wickets: 1-123, 2-276, 3-295, 4- 311, 5-405, 6-405, 7-467, 8-529, 9-566 Did not bat: S. Harmison Bowling: Taylor 28-7-73-2 (1nb), Edwards 26-2-75-2 (1w, 3nb), Powell 26-3-103-0, Gayle 13-1-41-1, Benn 39-5-143-0 (1nb), Hinds 22.2-4-86-2, Nash 11-2-34-1 West Indies 1st innings C. Gayle c Anderson b Harmison 30 D. Smith not out 10 D. Powell not out 2 Extras: (4b, 1w, 8nb) 13 TOTAL: (for one wicket) 55 Overs: 13 Fall of wickets: 1-45 Still to bat: Sarwan, Hinds, Chanderpaul, Nash, Ramdin, Taylor, Benn, Edwards Bowling: Anderson 4-0-9-0 (1w, 2nb), Flintoff 5-0-22-0 (3nb), Harmison 3-0-18-1 (3nb), Broad 1-0-2-0 Umpires: R. Koertzen, (SA), D. Harper, (AUS) Third umpire: N. Malcolm, (Jamaica) Match referee: Alan Hurst, (AUS) England’s Kevin Pietersen is clean bowled by West Indies Jerome Taylor, unseen, for 51 runs during the sec- ond day of the third cricket Test match at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St. John’s, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Nash with his maiden test wicket, the right- (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) hander lofting a catch to deepish mid-off just before tea. ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) - Paul Edwards jolted England in the day’s sec- Collingwood reached three figures after Collingwood hit a fine 113 Monday as England ond over when he removed nightwatchman the break, his eighth test hundred spanning maintained its domination of the West Indies James Anderson (4) in the course of a fine 186 deliveries. on day two of the third cricket test at the spell. Stuart Broad, who lashed six fours and a Antigua Recreation Ground. Collingwood and Pietersen were tested by six off 55 balls fell soon after, nicking an Collingwood’s eighth test century helped some hostile bowling but survived to add 94 attempted drive against left-arm spinner England stretch its overnight lead of 301-3 to for the fifth wicket. Ryan Hinds. 566-9 declared. Collingwood outscored Pietersen, who Hinds (2-86) also accounted for Steve Harmison then grabbed the key played with unusual restraint to reach his Collingwood, who holed out to deep midwick- wicket of West Indies captain Chris Gayle to half century off 130 balls. et to bring about the declaration with an hour limit the home team to 55-1 in reply at the Taylor lifted the home team’s mood 20 close. minutes after lunch when he ripped out the remaining. The 32-year-old Collingwood was the stumps of Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff in The West Indies’ reply was led by Gayle’s backbone of the visitors’ effort, striking 14 the same over. counter-attack. But after hitting five fours and fours off 202 balls in five hours. Pietersen dragged on while Flintoff was a six in 30 off 32 balls, Harmison claimed the Kevin Pietersen (51), Matt Prior (39) and defeated by a ball that kept low and lost his off crucial breakthrough. Stuart Broad (44) all shared half century and middle stumps as England slipped to 405- Gayle slapped an off drive straight to mid- stands with Collingwood to keep the pressure 6. off where Anderson grabbed a head-high on the home team. But Collingwood continued to score freely catch. Fidel Edwards (2-75) and Jerome Taylor and Prior shared a partnership that added 62. Devon Smith (10 not out) and nightwatch- (2-73) were the best of the West Indian Prior struck six fours off 61 balls before man Daren Powell (2 not out) survived until bowlers. he provided left-arm medium pacer Brendan stumps. Question mark over venue for IPL final There’s a question mark against the venue of the final though; it could be Cricket Club of India (Mumbai), D.Y. Patil Ground (Nerul) or any other city in India. “From this year the IPL will run and operate the semi-finals and the final because of the obli- gations to franchises and Lalit Modi partners and the revenue would be shared by the IPL and the fran- chises. “Rajasthan Royals (last year’s win- ner) had the option to choose the venue of the final. It has applied to the Cricket Club of India. The IPL wants the bulk of the seats in the Club House in exchange for 5000 free tickets in the West Stand. “The CCI has convened an EGM on February 27 to amend its constitution and remove an impediment after which there will be clarity. If CCI does not hap- pen, then Royals can chose D.Y. Patil or any other city in India,” said Lalit Modi, Chairman and Commissioner, IPL. Modi said eleven cities have been identified so far for this year’s IPL matches, including Ahmedabad and Cuttack. Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders are likely to host two matches at Ahmedabad and Cuttack. “But a franchise has expressed a wish to host a match at another venue in India or abroad. We will come to know about this in a day or two.” With the situation in Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) inimical to host home matches at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Modi revealed that the IPL has the authority to shift match- es if there is any form of deterrent to stage matches in a city of the franchise owners..