While You Were Asleep: Roach at par with Holding, Shelly-Ann equals her personal WR, Verstappen on pole in Canada
Kemar Roach has as many Test wickets (249) as Michael Holding and now the pacer desires to go for 300. The 33-year-old bagged a five-wicket haul in Bangladesh’s second innings to equal the report of West Indies legendary pacer Michael Holding. It was Roach’s tenth five-wicket haul within the Test cricket.
35 runs wanted to win the first Test tomorrow. #WIvBAN #MenInMaroon pic.twitter.com/hRM5Y5I7X4
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket) June 18, 2022
Kemar Roach has now taken 50 Test wickets on the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
“Stats man, stats and money too but stats definitely keep me going and I live to be amongs the great,” stated Kemar Roach. Holding has taken 249 wickets in 60 Tests at a formidable common of 23.68, whereas it took Roach 71 Tests to succeed in the milestone.
His tenth Test 5 wicket haul.💥 #WIvBAN #MaroonMagic pic.twitter.com/a9z3ZpcnRM
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket) June 18, 2022
Shakib Al Hasan (63) and Nurul Hasan (64) placed on a superb 123 runs for the seventh wicket to offer the visiting facet a glimmer of hope, earlier than ROach eliminated each the batters with the second new ball. Bangladesh had been all out for 245 runs, and left West Indies with solely 84 to win with greater than two days left.
Bangladesh medium-pacer Khaled Ahmed took three wickets in 11 balls and diminished West Indies to 9 for 3 within the fourth over of the chase. Opener John Campbell (28 not out) and Jermaine Blackwood (17 not out)eased the stress by holding out to stumps and main West Indies to 49 for 3. The staff ought to knock off the remaining 35 runs on Sunday morning within the sequence opener.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce equals World Record
Jamaica’s two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce equalled her 2022 world’s finest time to win the 100m on the Diamond League meet in Paris. The Jamaican powered to victory in 10.67 seconds.
The Jamaican was in a category of her personal as she defeated Britain’s Daryll Neita by 0.32 and Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou by 0.34.
Is it even doable to place all of the superlatives required for @realshellyannfp in a single tweet?!
The Jamacian 100m world champion equals the world lead and @MEETINGPARIS report with 10.67 🔥#ParisDL 🇫🇷 #DiamondLeague
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— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) June 18, 2022
The 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce will go for a tenth world championship gold medal in Eugene, Oregon, subsequent month.
“The goal is always to be on top technically, then the lap times follow,” Fraser-Pryce advised reporters.
Fraser-Pryce ran the identical time in Nairobi in May, which has solely been crushed by 4 different ladies in historical past.
“Physically I was good too. Running 10.6, only a few sprinters can achieve that,” she stated.
Verstappen takes Canadian F1 GP pole
Formula One chief Max Verstappen took pole place in a moist qualifying on the Canadian Grand Prix with Fernando Alonso a shock second, his first entrance row slot in a decade.
Join @Max33Verstappen for the quickest lap round Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, as he takes his second @pirellisport Pole of 2022#CanadianGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/35vFWTKpu9
— Formula 1 (@F1) June 19, 2022
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was third, forward of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher impressed to take fifth and sixth and with it Haas’ finest ever staff qualifying consequence.
Verstappen’s title rival Charles Leclerc certified fifteenth having not run within the second session as a result of he has a penalty for utilizing too many power-unit elements meaning he’ll begin from the again of the grid.
Starting from pole, Verstappen now has a golden alternative to inflict most injury on Leclerc within the championship.
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“I still expect it not to be a straightforward race,” stated Verstappen. “But today with the tricky conditions we stayed calm and didn’t make mistakes.”
