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Zouks beat Hawksbills Top trio to join Limacol CPL franchises by 17 runs (D/L method)
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ntigua Hawksbills went down by 17 runs to the St Lucia Zouks after falling behind on the Duckworth-Lewis calculations at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua, on Thursday night. When the rains came the Hawksbills had 76-3 from 10.4 overs, needing another 104 runs with seven wickets in hand and 56 balls remaining to beat the St Lucia Zouks, who earlier had posted an imposing 179-4. At the crease were captain Marlon Samuels on 22 from 23 balls and Orlando Peters, who was yet to yet to face a delivery. Johnson Charles (12), Kieran Powell (12) and Jahmar Hamilton (24) were the dismissed batsmen. Garey Mathurin and Tino Best were the wicket takers for the Zouks, snaring figures of 2-26 (3) and 1-8 (1.4) respectively. Earlier, the Zouks won the toss and decided
to bat and posted 179-4 with Andre Fletcher (76), Darren Sammy (35 not out) and Devon Smith being the principal scorers. Rakheem Cornwall and Samuels took two wickets apiece for the Hawksbills.
Andre Fletcher
SCOREBOARD St Lucia Zouks innings Tamim Iqbal c Powell b Samuels 20 A Fletcher† b Samuels 76 DS Smith c Cotterrell b Cornwall 29 Misbah-ul-Haq c Powell b Cornwall 8 D Sammy* not out 35 A Morkel not out 1 Extras: (lb3, w6, nb1) 10 Total: (4 wkts, 20 overs) 179 Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-92, 3-106, 4-165 Bowling: K Roach 4-0-27-0, O Peters 4-0-44-0, S Cotterrell 4-0-36-0, M Samuels 4-033-2, R Cornwall 4-0-36-2
Antigua Hawksbills innings J Charles b Mathurin 12 K Powell c & b Mathurin 12 J Hamilton† b Best 24 M Samuels* not out 22 Extras: (lb2, w3) 5 Total: (3 wkts, 10.4 overs) 76 To bat: O Peters, BJ Rohrer, DC Thomas, RT Ponting, RRS Cornwall, KAJ Roach, SS Cotterrell Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-30, 3-76 Bowling: G Mathurin 3-0-26-2, L Sebastien 1-0-8-0, D Sammy 3-019-0, T Best 1.4-0-8-1, A Morkel 1-0-9-0, S Shillingford 1-0-4-0
T&T’s Jehue Gordon wins 400m hurdles gold
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rinidad & Tobago’s Jehue Gordon pipped American Michael Tinsley to the men’s 400m hurdles title at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Thursday. Gordon, 21, clocked 47.69s, the fastest in the world this year, with Olympic silver medallist Tinsley taking silver with a personal best of 47.70. Ezekiel Kemboi won his third straight 3,000m steeplechase world title, with fellow Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto second. Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko won the men’s high jump with a leap of 2.41m. Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic won the women’s 400m hurdles, Sweden’s Abeba Aregawi the women’s 1500m and Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia the women’s triple jump. Gordon hunted down the fast-starting Tinsley over the second 200m and won courte-
sy of a lunging finish. Serbia’s Emir Bekric finished third in 48.05. Gordon’s was his country’s first World Championships gold medal since Ato Boldon won the 200m crown in 1997. The flamboyant Kemboi, who clocked eight minutes and 6.01 seconds, pointed across to the 18-year-old Kipruto (8:06.37) as he crossed the line in a gesture of defiance. Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (8:07.86) finished third. Kemboi, 31, matches Moses Kiptanui’s three successive world titles, won between 1991 and 1995. Bondarenko had three failed attempts at Javier Sotomayor’s world record of 2.45m but had already seen off Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim (2.38m), who in turn beat Canada’s Derek Drouin on countback. Olympic bronze medallist Hejnova came on strong in the second half of the race to clock
Semi-final bound... He delivered two good yorkers without success but his third would defeat Gayle, rippling through the Jamaican’s late defence. Gayle had scored 43 from 46 balls and once again, his patient approach had failed. Rudolph kept going, stroking two consecutive fours to keep the Tallawahs in the hunt. Narine returned to take his wicket. Sarwan mixed up his bowlers quite well, almost too well. He was left with a tough decision on who should bowl the final over with ten runs needed, and all of his front-line bowlers done. If it was any consolation though, Santokie had gotten rid of
52.83 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year. Americans Dalilah Muhammad (54.09) and Lashinda Demus (54.27), the defending champion, finished second and third respectively. Aregawi, formerly of Kenya, clocked four minutes, 2.67 seconds to beat defending champion Jenny Simpson of the United States (4:02.99) into second. Kenya’s Hellen Onsando Obiri (4:03.86) was third. American Allyson Felix got her campaign for a fourth 200m title and ninth World Championships gold under way with victory in her heat in a season’s best time of 22.30 seconds. Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is bidding for a sprint double after regaining her 100m title, won her heat in 22.54. Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure, who took silver in the 100m, won her heat in 22.46. (BBC Sport)
Lasith Malinga
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t John’s, ANTIGUA – Three of the world’s leading Twenty20 players, the Sri Lanka duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Lasith Malinga, along with former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood, are coming to play in the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL), organisers have confirmed. Batsman Jayawardene, who sits in tenth place in the list of all-time run-scorers in Twenty20 cricket, is stepping in for the Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel in place of South African Davy Jacobs, ruled out with an injury to his right ankle. Fast bowler Malinga, second in the list of all-time wicket-takers in the shortest form of the game, replaces Pakistan Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez for the Guyana Amazon Warriors, with Hafeez set to join his country’s upcoming Pakistan tour of Zimbabwe. Malinga once took four wickets in four balls for Sri Lanka against South Africa in 2007’s ICC Cricket World Cup in Guyana. Like Hafeez, Umar Akmal of the Barbados Tridents is also heading to Zimbabwe with his national team, which has created the opportunity for Mahmood, currently fourth in that list of all-time Twenty20 wicket-takers. In another change, Orlando Peters has also been confirmed as the replacement for South Africa all-rounder Justin Kemp for the Antigua Hawksbills with Kemp side lined with an injury to his right gluteal muscle. Commenting on his impending LCPL debut, Jayawardene said: “I’ve always enjoyed playing crick-
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hard-hitting right hander Andre Russell in the penultimate over. Barnwell produced a very good last over, getting the wickets of Vernon Philander and Dave Bernard. Carlton Baugh couldn’t get the ball away. It quite summarised the challenge of batting on that Sabina Park wicket. The Tallawahs had fallen five runs short, but after Barnwell’s first three balls, the Warriors looked all out favourites. Seemingly, it was that type of wicket, where a score around 140 would be competitive. It was quite similar for the Warriors batsmen. Openers Lendl Simmons and Martin
Guptill put on a partnership of 68 runs, but it came from 59 balls; so even those two couldn’t get away. Simmons hit two sixes and two fours in his score of 30, but his two sixes came in consecutive balls. Guptill struck five fours, scoring 39 from 36 balls. James Franklin, promoted up the order to number three, would give the Warriors the boost in run rate they needed. He’s been in fine touch and continued on Thursday afternoon. He hammered 40 from just 29 balls, but ran hard between the wickets. He struck two sixes and a four. He batted through to the 20th over before being one of
three wickets to fall in the last over of the Warriors’ innings. Barnwell chipped in with 11, but it was Franklin’s knock that made the difference between a win and a loss. It was perhaps some consolation that he was awarded the Limacol Super Six of the Match for his 97 metre boundary. Narine’s 4-0-10-1 however, gave him the coveted Manof-the-Match award. Walton’s knock of 36 runs from 20 balls earned him the Digicel 4G Fastest Scorer award. Maybe he’s in line to open the batting for the Tallawahs this weekend. They lose again, and it could be curtains. (CPL)
Mahela Jayawardene
Azhar Mahmood
et in the Caribbean, so I am really looking forward to this short stint with T&T Red Steel. “We have got a really talented young team and I hope I can help us first get into the semi-finals and then go on and challenge for the title. “It should be a really entertaining and exciting finale to the tournament,” he added. Lasith Malinga agreed. “Playing cricket in the West Indies is always fun and I am really looking forward to playing in the final stages of the inaugural Limacol CPL. “I’ve been following the progress of the tournament back home and I am very happy to be joining the Guyana Amazon Warriors.” The 36 year-old Jayawardene has played for three franchises – Delhi Daredevils, Kings XI Punjab and Kochi Tuskers Kerala – in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He has a total of 3876 runs in the shortest form of the game at an average of 29.36 and a strike-rate of 130.02 runs per hundred balls, including two hundreds, and he captained Sri Lanka to the final of the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka last October. Jayawardene, who has more than 23,000 runs in international cricket, has played 138 Tests, 404 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and 48 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is). He led Sri Lanka in 38 Tests, 129 ODIs and 19 T20Is and it is hoped he will be available for the Red Steel’s match against the St Lucia Zouks in Jamaica on Saturday. Malinga has 219 wickets in Twenty20 cricket, a mark bettered only by one player – South Africa’s Alfonso Thomas. That haul of wickets includes the remarkable analysis of six for seven for the Melbourne Stars against the Perth
Scorchers last December in the latest Big Bash League in Australia. The 29 year-old has played in 30 Tests, 152 ODIs and 45 T20Is and has a total of 387 international wickets. He is one of only seven bowlers in history to have taken more than 50 international wickets in the shortest form of the game. Azhar Mahmood last played for Pakistan in 2007 and since then has become one of the most highly-regarded all-rounders in Twenty20 history. He has played shortform cricket for teams from five different countries – including in India for the Kings XI Punjab in the IPL – and most recently has been part of the Surrey side that has reached the semifinal of England’s domestic Twenty20 tournament. Mahmood’s haul of 213 wickets in Twenty20 cricket places him fourth in the list of all-time wicket-takers behind Thomas, Malinga and Australia fast bowler Dirk Nannes, and added to that effectiveness with the ball is 3633 runs at a strike-rate of 136.06 runs per hundred balls, including two hundreds. Mahmood’s international career included 21 Tests and 143 ODIs with his last appearance in Pakistan colours coming during the ICC Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean in 2007. The 25 year-old Orlando Peters made his Limacol CPL debut for the Antigua Hawksbills on Tuesday and made a crucial 31 from 22 balls to help steer the home side to victory over the Barbados Tridents in a lowscoring thriller. The Tridents’ next match is on Saturday 17 August against Jamaica Tallawahs in Kingston, while the Guyana Amazon Warriors next action is on the same day, against the Antigua Hawksbills in Antigua. The inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League runs until 24 August with the two semi-finals and final taking place in Trinidad. (CPL)