England fast bowler Stuart Broad responded to the critics who have questioned his place in the side by bowling both India openers in the first Test at Lord’s yesterday.
Broad, bowling at a lively pace and swinging the ball from a full length, dismissed Gautam Gambhir (15) and Abhinav Mukund (49).
At lunch on the third day, India were 102 for two in reply to England’s 474 for eight declared.
Photo: Reuters
Sachin Tendulkar, who needs one more century to become the first man to score 100 international hundreds, was on 10 in what is likely to be his last Test at the headquarters of world cricket.
India made an assured start when play resumed yesterday with their total on 17.
Mukund, who made his Test debut in the Caribbean this year, scored the first run of the morning after three consecutive maidens. He had reached 12 when he slashed hard at Chris Tremlett and the ball fell just short of Jonathan Trott in the gully.
Broad replaced Anderson at the Pavilion end and Mukund picked up the first boundary of the day with a deft flick of his legs through mid-wicket.
He took consecutive fours off Tremlett on the leg-side as the England fast bowler struggled with his direction and played a delightful off-drive off Broad for another boundary.
Gambhir, much more subdued by comparison, was dismissed with the total on 63 when he was comprehensively bowled by a full-pitched delivery, which swung in late to the left-hander.
Mukund, substituting for the injured Virender Sehwag, followed his partner into the pavilion one short of what would have been his second Test half-century when he dragged another full-length ball on to his stumps.
Tendulkar, with the stage set for the greatest batsman of modern times to set a record unlikely to be beaten in the 2,000th Test and the 100th between the two countries, punched a ball only marginally short of a length from Tremlett to the cover boundary for his first four.
He was beaten outside the off stump by the same bowler in the next over and rapped on the pads with the following ball in the course of a fine second spell.
Freddie Freeman homered and drove in four runs, Shohei Ohtani also went deep and Roki Sasaki earned his first major league win as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Saturday night for their seventh straight victory. The Dodgers have won the first two games of the series to improve to 5-0 against Atlanta this year. Los Angeles’ three-game sweep at home early in the season left the Braves 0-7. Sasaki allowed three runs and six hits over five innings. The 23-year-old right-hander gave up a home run to Ozzie Albies, but received plenty of offensive support in his
Bayern Munich on Sunday were crowned German champions for the 34th time, giving striker Harry Kane his first major trophy, after second-placed Bayer 04 Leverkusen drew 2-2 at SC Freiburg. Bayern’s 3-3 draw at RB Leipzig on Saturday, when the Bavarians came from two goals down to take the lead before conceding a stoppage-time equalizer, meant defending Bundesliga champions Leverkusen needed to win at Freiburg to delay the title party. Leverkusen were two goals down before scoring twice in the final 10 minutes, but Xabi Alonso’s side could not find a third, as Bayern reclaimed the title at the first attempt after
Shuttler Lin Chun-yi yesterday kept Taiwan on the board as they faced their first major challenge of the group stage after marching into the last eight at the Sudirman Cup Finals in Xiamen, China. Taiwan were losing 3-1 to South Korea as of press time last night, with only the men’s doubles match remaining. Taiwan and four-time champions South Korea have already progressed to the quarter-finals, after Taiwan on Monday blanked the Czech Republic 5-0 without giving up a single game. Before last night’s tie, Taiwan were undefeated in Group B, with a 9-1 match record, ahead of South Korea, who, although also
A man fell from the 6.4m-high Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh during Wednesday night’s game between the Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Right after Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run double in the seventh inning to put the Pirates ahead 4-3, players began waving frantically for medical personnel and pointing to the man, who had fallen onto the warning track. The fan was tended to for approximately five minutes by members of both the Pirates and Cubs training staffs as well as PNC personnel before being removed from the field on a cart. The team issued a statement shortly
RSS