England beat Australia by 15 runs at Lord's

June 30, 2012
England

London, June 30: A swashbuckling 89 not out from Eoin Morgan proved crucial as England beat Australia by 15 runs in the first one-day international at Lord's on Friday.

Steven Finn and Stuart Broad both took 2-47 as England produced a stifling fielding display to dismiss Australia for 257-9 and take a 1-0 lead in the five-game series.

Australia captain Michael Clarke hit 61 from 67 balls with a six and six fours, while David Warner made 56 from 61 balls, also with one six and six fours, but after crusing to 96-1 the tourists lost wickets at regular intervals and fell too far behind the run rate.

Earlier, England posted 272-5, with Morgan's innings, which included four sixes and five fours, ultimately proving the difference between the sides.

Jonathan Trott hit 54, with three fours from 70 balls, while Clint McKay was the pick of Australia's bowlers with figures of 1-43, after the tourists won the toss and chose to field in overcast and damp conditions.

England captain Alastair Cook admitted he would have bowled given the choice and the openers found life difficult early on.

Ian Bell was on 3 when he was given out caught behind off McKay, but the batsman successfully referred umpire Richard Kettleborough's decision. Replays showed the ball brushed Bell's trousers.

After three separate rain delays, which kept the players off the field for exactly an hour in total, conditions improved, allowing Bell and Cook to put on 74 for the first wicket, before the former was lbw to Brett Lee for 41 at the end of the 17th over.

Bell didn't realise he'd got the faintest inside edge on the ball and walked without asking for a referral.

Cook was dropped by wicketkeeper Matthew Wade from the very next delivery from Shane Watson, but he fell for 40, caught behind off Pat Cummins to the final ball of the 21st over.

Ravi Bopara made just 15 when he edged McKay to Clarke at first slip in the 29th over.

Australia then wasted its referral when Trott was given not out either stumped or caught behind to Xavier Doherty in the 32nd over.

Cummins dropped a difficult return catch off Trott and Morgan hit the first six of the innings with the final ball of the same over, the 38th, by smashing Cummins back over his head.

Trott brought up his 50, from 65 balls, by glancing Lee to backward point for two, but he was bowled by Doherty with the first ball of the 41st.

Morgan reached his 50, from 45 balls, when he nudged Cummins to square leg, then hit Lee for successive sixes from the last two balls of the 47th over as England tried to accelerate.

The next ball that Morgan faced, from Watson, also went for six, but Watson did well to limit England to eight off the final over and had Craig Kieswetter caught for 25 by Warner off the final ball of the innings.

Australia's chase got off to a bad start when Watson was given out caught behind to Steven Finn after a referral but Warner pulled Stuart Broad for six in the 15th over and he reached his 50, from 57 balls, with a single in Broad's next over.

Australia was coasting until James Anderson bowled George Bailey (29), who played on to the final ball of the 19th over.

Anderson had Warner caught by a diving Kieswetter in his next over and with the scoring rate dropping Clarke called for the batting powerplay after 29 overs.

The move backfired when David Hussey played the first ball, from Finn, onto his stumps and was bowled for 13.

Clarke was on 13 when Tim Bresnan dropped a return catch, but Bresnan then had a fidgety Steve Smith caught behind for 8.

By the end of the powerplay Australia had added just 17 runs for the loss of two wickets.

Australia went 10 overs without a boundary until Clarke edged Broad through the vacant slip area for four.

Matthew Wade pulled Anderson for six at the start of the 41st over and Clarke brought up his 50 by smacking Swann for six in the next over, but two balls later when Clarke tore down the wicket for an unlikely single, Wade was run out by the substitute fielder Jason Roy.

In the 43rd, Bresnan traped Clarke lbw with a full toss and McKay perished in the 46th when he holed out to Broad and Kieswetter took a steepling catch.

Cummins unsuccessfully referred a Broad lbw and was out for 4, and despite a battling 29 not out from Lee, England clinched the win when Australia failed to hit the 21 runs needed from the final over.

The second match is on Sunday.



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July 5,2020

Colombo, Jul 5: Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Mendis was on Sunday arrested for knocking down a pedestrian while driving, police said.

Mendis hit a 74-year-old man, killing him in the wee hours, in the Colombo suburb of Panadura.

He is to be produced before a magistrate later today, police said.

The 25-year-old wicket-keeper batsman has represented Sri Lanka in 44 Tests and 76 ODIs. Mendis was part of the national squad which had resumed training after the Covid-19 lockdown.

Sri Lanka's international assignments, including a tour by India, have been cancelled due to the pandemic.

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February 14,2020

Hamilton, Feb 14: Batting first, India finished at 263 for nine on the opening day of the three-day warm-up game against New Zealand XI here on Friday.

Hanuma Vihari made 101 off 182 balls before retiring, while Cheteshwar Pujara scored 93.

Besides, Ajinkya Rahane (18) was the only other Indian batsmen to register double digit score.

The likes of Prithvi Shaw (0), Mayank Agarwal (1) and Shubman Gill (0) failed to cash in on the opportunity.

Scott Kuggeleijn (3/40) and Ish Sodhi (3/72) shared six wickets between them for New Zealand.

Brief Scores:

India: 263 for 9 in 78.5 overs (Hanuma Vihari 101, Cheteshwar Pujara 93; Scott Kuggeleijn 3/40, Ish Sodhi 3/72).

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January 23,2020

Melbourne, Jan 23: Sania Mirza's return to her first Grand Slam after a two-year break was cut short on Thursday when the former world number one was forced to retire midway through her first round match in women's doubles at the Australian Open due to a calf injury.

India's Mirza, who won six Grand Slam doubles titles, took a break from the game after the China Open in October 2017 and gave birth to her son a year later.

The 33-year-old made a winning return to the WTA Tour at this month's Hobart International with Ukrainian Nadiia Kichenok, picking up her 42nd WTA doubles title and the first since winning the women's doubles in Brisbane in 2017.

Mirza said she strained her calf muscle in her right leg during the Hobart final.

"It just got worse in the match. It was bit of a bad strain, but I had a few days off," she told reporters. "So I obviously had to try to do whatever I could to try to get on the court.

"It felt okay when I went on the court, but it was tough to move right. I just felt like I'm gonna tear it or something pretty bad."

Mirza won her first Grand Slam in mixed doubles at the Australian Open in 2009 and also bagged the women's doubles in 2016.

Mirza always believed there was tennis left in her which inspired her comeback, she told Reuters on Sunday.

She had already pulled out of the Australian Open mixed doubles, where she was to partner compatriot Rohan Bopanna.

Mirza and Kichenok were trailing the Chinese pair of Xinyun Han and Lin Zhu 6-2 1-0 on Thursday when the Indian had to call it quits due to the injury.

"As a tennis player you want to compete, it is the Grand Slam. If it's any other tournament, you would probably take a call and be like 'I don't want to risk it'," she said.

Mirza, who is married to former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik, said she would take two weeks to recover and was hoping to play at next month's Dubai championships.

"When you play a professional sport, injuries are really part of it. And it's something that you have to accept," she said. "Sometimes the timing is really not ideal, it's tough that it happened in a Grand Slam, or just before a Grand Slam."

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