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GALLE, Sri Lanka, June 19, (AFP): Scoreboard at stumps on the scheduledthird day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the GalleInternational Stadium on Friday:

SRI LANKA 1st innings:D. Karunaratne c Sarfraz b Wahab................................................................21K. Silva c Sarfraz b Babar............................................................................125K. Sangakkara c Younis b Wahab..................................................................50L. Thirimanne c Babar b Hafeez ......................................................................8A. Mathews b Wahab.....................................................................................19D. Chandimal b Babar....................................................................................23K. Vithanage c and b Hafeez .........................................................................18D. Perera c Sarfraz b Yasir ............................................................................15D. Prasad b Babar ...........................................................................................0R. Herath not out..............................................................................................6N. Pradeep c and b Yasir .................................................................................4Extras: (lb5, nb4, w2) .....................................................................................11Total (all out, 109.3 overs)............................................................................300

Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Karunaratne), 2-142 (Sangakkara), 3-154(Thirimanne), 4-189 (Mathews), 5-226 (Chandimal), 6-261 (Vithanage), 7-277(Perera), 8-288 (Prasad), 9-291 (Silva), 10-300 (Pradeep).

Bowling: Junaid 16-5-38-0 (w1), Wahab 26-3-74-3 (nb4, w1), Babar 27-8-64-3, Yasir 30.3-6-79-2, Hafeez 10-0-40-2

PAKISTAN 1st innings:Mohammad Hafeez c Karunaratne b Prasad ..................................................2Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Prasad ........................................................................9Azhar Ali lbw b Herath......................................................................................8Younis Khan b Perera ....................................................................................47Misbah-ul Haq c Sangakkara b Pradeep .......................................................20Asad Shafiq not out........................................................................................14Sarfraz Ahmed not out ...................................................................................15Extras: (nb3).....................................................................................................3Total (for five wickets, 41.4 overs)................................................................118

Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Hafeez), 2-11 (Shehzad), 3-35 (Azhar), 4-86 (Younis),5-96 (Misbah).

Bowling: Prasad 9-2-24-2, Pradeep 9-1-36-1 (nb2), Herath 12.4-3-33-1,Perera 9-2-23-1, Mathews 2-1-2-0 (nb1)

Pakistan trail by 182 runs with five wickets in handToss: PakistanUmpires: Richard Illingworth (ENG) and Paul Reiffel (AUS)TV umpire: Chris Gaffaney (NZL) Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG)

Sri Lanka vs Pakistan Scoreboard

‘Our aim is to continue to play our young players to give them exposure’

West Indies new youth policy exposed against AustraliaKINGSTON, Jamaica, June 19,(RTRS): Before their recent two-testseries, West Indies chief selectorClive Lloyd said he wanted hisyoung players to gain “exposure” andbe “tested” against Australia.

“Our aim is to continue to play ouryoung players to give them exposure,and you can’t get better exposurethan playing against one of the bestteams in the world,” he said. “Theywill be tested and that is what it’s allabout.”

Lloyd’s wish was granted. Hisyoung players were certainlyexposed and tested. Unfortunately,most of his batsmen were found to bewanting against a strong Australianbowling line-up that turned the seriesinto a rout.

Australia did not enter the serieswith a good road record. They were a

It is no secret that West Indiescricket has fallen on hard times, andthe sight of sparse crowds watching ahopelessly outclassed home teamwas just the latest reminder of howfar Caribbean cricket has fallen fromthe halcyon days when they were themost feared team in the world.

Of the young batsmen inexperi-enced at test level who played againstAustralia, none exactly passed thetest given by Lloyd.

Test debutant Shane Dowrich didnot really fail, though he did notcome through with flying colourseither. The 23 year old fromBarbados scored 102 runs in fourinnings at an average of 25.5.

Jermaine Blackwood, a 23-year-old Jamaican, made 65 runs at anaverage of 16.25, nearly all his runs

scored in oneinnings of 51.

His scores wereparticularly disap-pointing, comingafter an impressiveseries in the previ-ous three testsagainst England.

Meanwhile, 21-year-old ShaiHope, coming offa disappointing

test debut against England, managedonly 80 runs at an average of 20.

Experienced opener KraiggBrathwaite was no better, scoring just29 runs in four innings.

And Darren Bravo averaged just

12.25 for the series, not once reach-ing even 20.

Then there is Rajendra Chandrika,who made just about the worst imag-inable test debut when he scored adreaded pair, lasting just nine balls atthe crease.

Many of the West Indies dismissalswere due to poor decision-making,such as taking unnecessary chancestrying to hit balls that were sailingharmlessly wide of off stump.

West Indies batsmen will face thefire again when they meet Australia,this time in Australia, in a three-testseries over the Christmas period.

By then, it should be clear whetherLloyd’s strategy to discard 40-year-old veteran Shivnarine Chanderpauland focus on youth is starting to paydividends, or whether it will be backto the drawing board.

West Indies’ Veerasammy Permaul (center), plays shot off Australia’s MitchellStare during the second innings on the fourth day of their second cricket Test

match in Kingston, Jamaica. June 14. (AP)

miserable 2-2-10 in their previous 14away tests, but what better place to

improve those numbers than theCaribbean?

‘Take wickets or create pressure’ Pak in trouble after Silva’s ton

Pakistan cricketer Asad Shafiq (right), plays a shot as Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal looks on during the third day of the opening Test cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle on June 19. (AFP)

Sri Lanka out for 300 and take 3 wickets on day 3

GALLE, Sri Lanka, June 19,(AFP): Sri Lanka’s bowlersripped through Pakistan’stop order in dramatic fash-ion to leave the touristsstruggling on the scheduledthird day of the first Test inGalle on Friday.

After opener Kaushal Silva hit 125to lift Sri Lanka to 300 in the firstinnings, Pakistan collapsed to 35-3 inreply before a partial recovery sawthem to 118-5 by stumps.

Asad Shafiq was unbeaten on 14 andSarfraz Ahmed was on 15 when rain forcedplay to end early with the tourists trailingby 182 runs with five wickets in hand.

Seamer Dhammika Prasad removed

both openers by the third over, paving theway for the bowlers to take control of theinnings on what remained an easy-pacedpitch at the Galle International Stadium.

Prasad had Mohammad Hafeez caughtat third slip off his sixth delivery and thentrapped Ahmed Shehzad leg-before in hisnext over to reduce Pakistan to 11 for two.

It became 35-3 when seasoned left-armspinner Rangana Herath, brought in to theattack in the sixth over, had Azhar Alileg-before in his third over.

Veterans Younis Khan (47) and skipperMisbah-ul Haq (20) attempted to rebuildwith a 51-run stand for the fourth wicketbefore both were dismissed in the spaceof 10 runs in the last session.

Younis was bowled as he stepped outto drive off-spinner Dilruwan Perera, andMisbah fell to a brilliant one-handed div-ing catch at first slip by 37-year-oldKumar Sangakkara off Nuwan Pradeep.

Sri Lanka’s innings were built aroundSilva’s painstaking effort that wasmarked by solid defence even as wicketstumbled regularly at the other end.

The diminutive right-hander lit up therain-hit Test with a stubborn 125, his sec-ond Test century after making 139 againstBangladesh in Dhaka in January last year.

Silva, however, failed to carry his batthrough the innings when he was ninthout from the 300th delivery he faced,caught behind off left-arm spinnerZulfiqar Babar.

Silva, who began the day on 80, hadreached his century 30 minutes beforelunch when he drove Babar through thecovers for his 15th boundary.

Bad weather had washed out the entirefirst day’s play on Wednesday and just 64overs were bowled on the second day due

NZ’s Hesson set forfantastic Poms finale

England’s Jos Buttler fields duringthe fourth One Day Internationalmatch between England and NewZealand at Trent Bridge cricketground in Nottingham, England, on

June 17. (AP)

New Zealand’s Mitchell Santnerreacts during the fourth One DayInternational match between Englandand New Zealand at Trent Bridgecricket ground in Nottingham,

England, on June 17. (AP)

IBF title clash

Lemieux vows to‘destroy’ N-DamMONTREAL, June 19, (AFP):David Lemieux and HassanN’Dam clash Saturday for thevacant International BoxingFederation middleweight worldtitle, both eyeing elite status inone of boxing’s hottest divisions.

Canada’s Lemieux is anexplosive puncher who hopes atitle will put him in line forpotentially lucrative bouts withthe likes of unbeaten KazakhGennady Golovkin — holder ofthe World Boxing Associationbelt — and the devastatingMiguel Cotto.

Puerto Rican star Cotto willdefend his World BoxingCouncil title against Saul“Canelo” Alvarez later this year.

“It’s extremely important,”Lemieux said of the title tiltagainst Cameroon-born Frenchformer world champion N’Dam.

“Of course, every fight isextremely important, but espe-cially this one,” he said.

“I’ve been waiting for a longtime to be able to become aworld champion. It is my time,”added the 26-year-old, who haswon eight straight fights sinceenduring back-to-back defeats in2011.

With 31 of his 33 career victo-ries coming by knockout,Lemieux believes he has the war-rior mentality that fight fanscrave — and that makes him aworthy opponent for the divi-sion’s best.

“I want to destroy people andwin the fight. That’s what peoplewant to see,” he said. “They wantto feel that rush, and that’s theway I fight.”

NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom, June19, (AFP): New Zealand coach MikeHesson believes Saturday’s decidingone-day international against England inDurham will provide a “fantastic finale”to an enthralling series.

England ensured a winner-takes-allclash at Chester-le-Street after levellingthe five-match campaign at 2-2 with astunning seven-wicket win at TrentBridge on Wednesday.

New Zealand — who thrashedEngland by eight wickets in Wellingtonin February en route to the World Cupfinal — appeared to be well-placed aftermaking 349 for seven.

But England romped to victory withsix overs to spare following a third-wick-et stand of 198 between Joe Root (106not out) and skipper Eoin Morgan (113).

Runs have flowed from the bats of bothteams this series and Hesson said: “It’sbeen a very entertaining four matches.

“Obviously, getting down to Durhamshould be a fantastic finale.”

There is no doubt that, aware of theclass of their opponents, a revampedEngland have raised their white-ballgame so far this series.

Not that Hesson took any pride inEngland’s revival.

“We’ll feel much prouder if we winthe series,” he said.

“We play the game in the right spiritand we think we play an entertainingbrand, but it’s all about winning gamesof cricket.”

New Zealand, without injured left-armpaceman Trent Boult, saw their attack takea pounding on Wednesday,Nottinghamshire opener Alex Hales lead-ing the way with a quickfire 67 on his homeground.

England lost Hales and fellow openerJason Roy in quick succession but thetourists couldn’t stem the tide of runs.

“At 111 for two, the game was sort ofin the balance,” said Hesson.

“The way Hales took the game awayat the start, we do that to many sides our-selves, so we know that it makes a bigchase look a lot smaller.

“Then Joe and Eoin played exception-ally well. We struggled to create anypressure at all, pretty much going at eight(runs) an over the whole time.”

A shower briefly halted England’ssurge to victory and Hesson said the adamp outfield, allied to an absence ofswing, hampered his side.

“The key thing is that the ball hasn’tswung over here (in England), at all.

“Then, with the ball getting wet, itskidded on beautifully so it takes out alot of your options and we were punishedfor that,” said Hesson.

However, the coach was adamant hisside should have made a better job ofdefending a “good” target of 350.

“You’ve got to take wickets or createpressure — or ultimately you do both.We struggled to create a succession ofdot balls. We struggled to create a suc-cession of overs that didn’t go for bound-aries,” Hesson said.

“We were both full and short, it wasn’tjust one. It’s quite a young bowling attack inmany ways and it was a good lesson for us.”

Wednesday’s match featured anotherbig stand from Kane Williamson andRoss Taylor, who put on 101 at TrentBridge following a partnership of 206during New Zealand’s three-wicket winin Southampton on Sunday, where theyboth made hundreds.

Williamson almost scored back-to-back tons, his 90 in Nottingham comingafter his superb 118 at the Rose Bowl.

“It was selfless from Kane, he knewwe needed impetus, so he wasn’t tryingto get a hundred. Heplayed for theteam,” Hesson said.

The InternationalCricket Council ison the verge ofimplementingchanges to one-dayregulations, notablyby increasing to fivethe number of field-ers allowed outsidethe 30 metre circlein the final 10 overs.

“I think five out in the last 10 overswould be a good decision,” said Hesson.“But not every series is like this.

“We’ve played in many series wherethe same rules have applied and it’s been200 plays 201.

“This has been a surreal sort of aseries,” Hesson added.

Sri Lanka’s Kaushal Silva raises his bat and helmet after scoring a century dur-ing the third day of the first test cricket match against Pakistan at the Galle

International Cricket Stadium in Galle, Sri Lanka, on June 19. (AP)

to a wet outfield.Sri Lanka added 11 runs to their

overnight score of 178-3 when they lostthe wicket of skipper Angelo Mathews,who was bowled by left-arm seamerWahab Riaz for 19.

Dinesh Chandimal contributed 23 in afifth-wicket stand of 37 with Silva beforebeing bowled by Babar, who was surpris-ingly handed the second new ball whichwas claimed after 80 overs.

Kithuruwan Vithanage was the thirdbatsman to be dismissed in the morningsession when, on 18, he gave Hafeez aneasy return catch.

Babar removed Prasad and Silva in

successive overs before Yasir Shah held askier off his own bowling to dismiss lastman Nuwan Pradeep.

Wahab and Babar finished with threewickets each, while Hafeez and Shahtook two each.

The three-Test series will be followedby five ODIs and two Twenty20 matches.

Meanwhile, India captain MahendraSingh Dhoni and Bangladesh fast bowlerMustafizur Rahman were fined on Fridayfor “deliberate physical contact” duringthe first ODI between the sides, theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) said.

The two players were found to havebreached the ICC code of conduct relat-

ing to “inappropriate and deliberate phys-ical contact between players” during theThursday’s match in Mirpur.

The ICC said a hearing was held onFriday morning by match referee AndyPycroft in which television footage wasused.

Bangladesh beat India by 79 runs inthe day-night game to take 1-0 lead in thethree-match series.

The incident occurred in the 25th overof the match when Dhoni made physicalcontact with debutant Mustafizur whilerunning between the wicket for a single.

The left-arm fast bowler had to tem-porarily leave the field after the incident,leaving Nasir Hossain to complete hisover. He later returned to complete hisfive-wicket haul, winning man of thematch award.

“My assessment was that Dhoni delib-erately pushed and shoulderedMustafizur, which was inappropriate,”Pycroft said in an ICC statement.

The Zimbabwean match referee saidhe had fined Dhoni 75 per cent of hismatch fee because “cricket is a non-con-tact sport and the players are expected toavoid physical contact at all times.”

He said Mustafizur had initially plead-ed not guilty but later changed his pleaand accepted the sanction.

“Mustafizur was fined 50 per cent ofhis match fee after he admitted that hisactions in not getting out of the batsman’sway were inappropriate and he shouldhave done more to avoid the contact,”Pycroft said.

The remaining two ODIs will be heldat the same ground in Mirpur on June 21and 24.

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