THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015 SYDNEY: South Africa’s Dale Steyn (centre) celebrates with his teammates after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan (right) during their Cricket World Cup quarterfinal match. —AP South Africa storm into semis SYDNEY: South Africa stormed into the World of 130 was not much. There were no demons on neighbours just three times in 28 meetings. Cup semi-finals yesterday with a nine-wicket this track. But we didn’t bat well. Maybe it was “Tomorrow will be a high-scoring match on a flat rout of Sri Lanka which brought the curtain nerves, we didn’t go for our shots and it’s easily pitch. We have to bowl well,” said skipper down on the ODI careers of Kumar Sangakkara our worst performance we have done in the Mushrafe Mortaza. and Mahela Jayawardene. Off-spinner JP World Cup and it happened to be in the quarter- Friday sees four-time champions Australia Duminy (3-29) took a hat-trick and leg-spinner final,” he said. Duminy said he was shocked to face 1992 winners Pakistan who suffered a major Imran Tahir claimed 4-26 as South Africa, who have become the first South African to take a setback Tuesday when giant fast bowler had never before won a World Cup knockout World Cup hat-trick. Mohammad Irfan was ruled out of the rest of the match, set up a clash against either New Zealand “I’ve never got close to a hat-trick so I’m pret- World Cup with a stress fracture of the pelvis. or West Indies for a place in the March 29 final. ty pleased with that performance. It was mainly Australia have called in former World Cup win- Chasing just 134 to win, the Proteas reached about keeping the runs down,” said Duminy, ning skipper Steve Waugh to give pep talks to their target in the 18th over with opener who dismissed Mathews and then, at the start of the squad. Quinton de Kock making an undefeated 78. his next over, got rid of Kulasekara and Tharindu “It was good to sit down over dinner with him Sangakkara, in his last one-day international Kaushal lbw for a golden duck on his one-day and just chat about cricket and World Cups,” appearance, top-scored for Sri Lanka with 45 as debut. opening batsman Aaron Finch revealed. his record-breaking run of four successive ODI After Kyle Abbott and Dale Steyn sent back “He’s obviously captained a winning one and hundreds came to an end. Together with Lahiru openers Kusal Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan, it played in another one as well. There are not Thirimanne (41) he put on 65 for the third wick- was the turn of Pakistan-born spinner Tahir to many better-credentialed players to talk to et. Fellow veteran Jayawardene, who now quits strike, dismissing Thirimanne and Jayawardene. about it.” The winner of that Adelaide match will all international cricket, made only four before Man-of-the-match Tahir also got rid of Thisara face either India or Bangladesh for a place in the he became one of Tahir’s victims as 1996 cham- Perera (0) before wrapping up proceedings with final. The West Indies are sweating on the fitness pions Sri Lanka lost their last six wickets for just the wicket of Lasith Malinga. of star opener Chris Gayle who has been laid low SCOREBOARD 19 runs. Meanwhile, the build-up continues to the by a back injury ahead of their quarter-final South Africa skipper AB de Villiers, who lost other quarter-finals. Bangladesh insist they will against New Zealand in Wellington on Saturday. SYDNEY: Scoreboard in the World Cup quarter-final between South Africa and Sri Lanka at the Sydney the toss, said he feels his team can now go on have nothing to fear from defending champions Former captain Darren Sammy turned to box- Cricket Ground yesterday: and win an elusive first World Cup. India when they face off in front of around ing to illustrate his belief that the West Indies Sri Lanka Bowling: Steyn 7-2-18-1 (1w); Abbott 6-1-27-1 “I’m quietly confident. I’m always a positive 90,000 fans at the iconic Melbourne Cricket can shock favorites New Zealand. “I remember K. Perera c de Kock b Abbott 3 (1w); Morkel 7-1-27-1 (2nb, 2w); Duminy 9-1-29-3 kind of guy-I always believe in big things,” he Ground today. some guy called Buster Douglas beating Mike T. Dilshan c du Plessis b Steyn 0 (2w); Tahir 8.2-0-26-4 (1w). said. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews admit- The odds are stacked against them, however, Tyson and it’s a case of that on Saturday,” said K. Sangakkara c Miller b Morkel 45 ted his team suffered severe stagefright. “A score as Bangladesh have beaten their illustrious Sammy. —AFP L. Thirimanne c and b Tahir 41 South Africa M. Jayawardene c du Plessis b Tahir 4 H. Amla c Kulasekara b Malinga 16 A. Mathews c du Plessis b Duminy 19 Q. de Kock not out 78 T. Perera c Rossouw b Tahir 0 F. du Plessis not out 21 N. Kulasekara c de Kock b Duminy 1 Extras (lb4, w12, nb3) 19 T. Kaushal lbw b Duminy 0 Total (1 wkt, 18 overs) 134 D. Chameera not out 2 Did not bat: R Rossouw, AB de Villiers, D Miller, JP L. Malinga c Miller b Tahir 3 Duminy, D Steyn, K Abbott, M Morkel, I Tahir Extras (b4, lb2, w7, nb2) 15 Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Amla) Total (all out, 37.2 overs) 133 Bowling: Malinga 6-0-43-1 (2nb, 3w); Dilshan 2-0- Fall of wickets: 1-3 (K Perera), 2-4 (Dilshan), 3-69 10-0; Kulasekara 1-0-13-0; Kaushal 6-0-25-0; (Thirimanne), 4-81 (Jayawardene), 5-114 Chameera 2-0-29-0 (1nb, 8w); T Perera 1-0-10-0 (Mathews), 6-115 (T Perera), 7-116 (Kulasekara), 8- (1w). 116 (Kaushal), 9-127 (Sangakkara), 10-133 (Malinga) Result: South Africa won by nine wickets. History of conflict for Australia and Pakistan ADELAIDE: Pakistan and Australia go into go home” from Pakistan after controversial tomorrow’s World Cup quarter-final burdened umpiring forced the Australians to react by a history of tension, setting the stage for sharply. The most notorious incident between DHAKA: Bangladeshi cricket fans attend a rally as a show of support to their national team at the Dhaka University Campus yesterday. an explosive contest at the Adelaide Oval. the two nations came about on Australia’s Bangladesh play the World Cup quarterfinal match against India today. —AP Pakistan’s head coach Waqar Younis tour to Pakistan in 1994 when Shane Warne admits previous matches between the two and Tim May alleged then Pakistan captain teams have been hard-fought and he expect- Salim Malik offered them bribes to underper- ed another tough contest for a place in the form in the Karachi Test. Bangladesh to battle odds semi-finals. Mark Waugh also went on record to say “I won’t call Australia bitter rivals but there Malik had asked him to underperform in a is a fierce rivalry that should provide for a one-day match in Rawalpindi. The allegations and crowd against India high-intensity game,” Waqar, one of the forced the Pakistan government to conduct a game’s great fast bowling exponents, told judicial inquiry which heard testimonies from, MELBOURNE: Playing ‘fearless’ cricket has been Zealand’s quality attack was complemented by than any other result in recent decades. AFP. “We respect each other but do not give among others, the three players in Australia Bangladesh’s war-cry at the World Cup but courage another disciplined effort by the bowlers, underlin- India’s unexpected demise in the first round an inch on the field of play.” The hostilities before Malik and paceman Ataur Rehman alone will not be enough to upset India and their ing the strides they have made since being flayed caused financial carnage for broadcasters and the began in 1981 when Pakistani great Javed were banned for life. army of blue-clad fans at the Melbourne Cricket by Sri Lanka in their second completed pool match. tournament was subsequently re-jigged to ensure Miandad almost came to blows with Six top players, including Waqar, spin Ground where the teams play their quarter-final Captain Mortaza Mashrafe will need his rejuve- cricket’s most bankable team would be guaranteed Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee during a bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed and Waqar’s today. nated seamers to heap pressure on India’s powerful a minimum six matches. Test match in Perth. pace partner Wasim Akram, were fined. After a listless leadup to the tournament, reign- batting lineup early or it could be a long, noisy day Melbourne’s big Indian community and army of Lillee appeared to have deliberately Pakistan losing to Australia in a one-sided ing world champions India have turned into a jug- at the MCG. travelling fans will be in force at the MCG to cheer obstructed Miandad who was about to com- final of the 1999 World Cup held in England gernaut, winning all six of their pool matches and “We know that 95,000 people will come to the Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team into an eighth plete a single and the volatile Pakistani also became the basis of another match-fix- drawing as much admiration for their bowling and ground and most of them will be Indian support- match, just as they were for the match against pushed the bowler and threatened to hit him ing inquiry by the Justice Karamat Bhandari fielding as their renowned batting prowess.