e_Paper, Monday, August 7, 2017

Jadeja bowls India to
series-clinching victory
• Reuters, Colombo
Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja
broke the back of Sri Lanka’s resistance
after lunch to secure India’s
series-clinching victory by an
innings and 53 runs in the second
Test yesterday.
The all-rounder claimed his
ninth five-wicket haul as Sri Lanka,
forced to follow on after being
shot out for 183 in the first innings,
made 386 in the second before
collapsing minutes before the tea
break on the penultimate day.
It was a first victory by an innings
or more for India in Sri Lanka
and, following their biggest victory
by runs in Galle last week, ensured
an eighth straight series triumph
under Virat Kohli.
Kohli will fancy equalling Australia’s
modern era record of nine
Historic win
for Nofel SC in
Championship
League
• Tribune Report
Newly formed Nofel Sporting Club
kicked off their first ever Bangladesh
Championship League campaign
with a comfortable 2-0 win
over former premier league outfit
Feni Soccer Club at Birsreshtha
Sepahi Mustafa Kamal Stadium in
Kamalapur yesterday.
It was the inaugural match of
this season’s second tier league and
also the first official match of Nofel,
who were formed early this year.
Both the clubs – Nofel and Soccer
Club – are managed by the same
owners.
Ariful Islam netted the historic
first goal for Nofel in the 26th
minute before Mohammad Sazzad
Zaman doubled the lead in the 45th
minute.
Relegated from the top flight
last season, Soccer Club shuffled
the entire squad and formed a new
team.
They later struggled to script a
comeback to the game. •
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consecutive Test series wins when
India host Sri Lanka for three
matches later this year.
Sri Lanka will take a modicom
of confidence into that series from
a second innings resurgence that
was built around the 191-run stand
between Dimuth Karunaratne and
Kusal Mendis, who fell for 110 on
Saturday.
Lefthander Karunaratne’s gallant
141 merely delayed the inevitable
on Sunday, though, as Jadeja
(5-152) and spin partner Ravichandran
Ashwin (2-132) tormented Sri
Lanka on a worn-out track where
the ball spun alarmingly and often
kicked off.
Sri Lanka had resumed the
fourth day on 209-2 at the Sinhalese
Sports Cricket Ground with
Karunaratne continuing his grim
battle with the Indian bowlers. •
Sports
Siddikur finishes 29th in TAKE
Solutions Masters
• Tribune Report
Premier Bangladesh golfer Siddikur
Rahman finished 29th, alongside
five others, as the fourth and
final round’s play in the TAKE Solutions
Masters concluded yesterday
at Karnataka Golf Association Golf
Course in Bengaluru, India.
Siddikur carded two-under-par
69 yesterday to take his overall aggregate
to two-under-par 282, 14 shots
India’s Ravindra Jadeja in action during day four of their second Test against Sri
Lanka in Colombo yesterday
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behind champion Poom Saksansin
of Thailand, who pocketed $54,000.
The 32-year old Siddikur from
Madaripur, who hit four birdies
against a single bogey in the 11th
hole, received $2,380 for his 29th
place finish.
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2018 season. •
Alexander Zverev of Germany hits a forehand against Kei Nishikori of Japan (not pictured) in the men’s singles semi-final at
Fitzgerald Tennis Centre. Zverev won 6-3, 6-4
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MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2017
2ND TEST, DAY 4
Jadeja
suspended for
Pallekele Test
• Agencies
DT
India 1st innings 622-9 dec (C. Pujara 133,
A. Rahane 132; R. Herath 4-154)
Sri Lanka 1st innings 183 (N. Dickwella 51,
A. Mathews 26; R. Ashwin 5-69)
Sri Lanka 2nd innings (overnight 209-2;
D. Karunaratne 92, M. Pushpakumara 2)
Karunaratne c A. Rahane b R. Jadeja 141 307
U. Tharanga b U. Yadav 2 9
K. Mendis c W. Saha b H. Pandya 110 135
M. Pushpakumara b R. Ashwin 16 58
Chandimal c A. Rahane b R. Jadeja 2 6
A. Mathews c W. Saha b R. Jadeja 36 66
Dickwella c A. Rahane b H. Pandya 31 56
D. Perera st W. Saha b R. Jadeja 4 10
D. de Silva c A. Rahane b R. Jadeja 17 17
R. Herath not out 17 30
N. Pradeep c S. Dhawan b R. Ashwin 1 9
Extras (lb5, nb2, w2) 9
Total (all out; 116.5 overs) 386
Bowling: U. Yadav 13-2-39-1, R. Ashwin
37.5-7-132-2, M. Shami 12-3-27-0, R. Jadeja
39-5-152-5, H. Pandya 15-2-31-2
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (U. Tharanga), 2-198 (K.
Mendis), 3-238 (M. Pushpakumara), 4-241
(D. Chandimal), 5-310 (D. Karunaratne),
6-315 (A. Mathews), 7-321 (K. Perera),
8-343 (D. de Silva), 9-384 (N. Dickwella),
10-386 (N. Pradeep)
Result: India won by an innings and 53 runs
Series: India take three-match series 2-0
India spinner Ravindra Jadeja has
been suspended from the third and
final Test of the series against Sri
Lanka after accumulating six demerit
points over a 24 month period,
reports espncricinfo.
Jadeja had come into the Colombo
Test with three demerit points,
slapped on him for running on the
pitch in Indore in October 2016. Now,
the ICC have penalised him further
after an incident in the 58th over of
the Sri Lankan second innings.
Jadeja had fielded the ball off his
own bowling and then thrown it a
the batsman Dimuth Karunaratne
“in a dangerous manner” according
to the on-field umpires Rod Tucker
and Bruce Oxenford. This was in
breach of article 2.2.8 of the player’s
code of conduct which deals
with “throwing a ball (or any other
item of cricket equipment such as
a water bottle) at or near a Player,
Player Support Personnel, Umpire,
Match Referee or any other third
person in an inappropriate and/or
dangerous manner during an International
Match”.
Jadeja admitted to the offence
and accepted his sanction by match
referee Richie Richardson. In addition
to the demerit points, which
tallied up to a suspension, he was
fined 50% of his match fees. Jadeja
had been a vital part of India’s innings
victory at the SSC, becoming
one of only two Indians ever to hit a
fifty and take a five-for in the same
Test. With him forced into the sidelines,
India might look to play leftarm
wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav in
Pallekele on August 12. •