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Thursday 1 August 2019 The Guardian •
Sport^37
Results
Football
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Second qualifying round: Second leg AIK 3 Maribor 2
(aet; agg 4-4; Maribor win on away goals);
Copenhagen 1 The New Saints 0 (agg 3-0);
HJK 2 Red Star Belgrade 1 (agg 2-3); Karabakh 3 Dundalk 0
(agg 4-1); Rosenborg 2 BATE 0 (agg 3-2)
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
Second qualifying round: Second leg
Cukaricki 1 Molde 3 (agg 1-3)
LOWLAND LEAGUE
Dalbeattie Star 0 East Kilbride 2; East Stirling 4
Edinburgh University 0; Caledonian Braves 3 Gretna 2008 2
FRIENDLY MATCHES
Angers 1 Arsenal 1 (Arsenal win 4-3 on pens); Bayern
Munich 2 Tottenham 2 (Tottenham win 6-5 on pens); Hertha
3 West Ham 5; Liverpool 3 Lyon 1; RB Salzburg 3 Chelsea 5
Cricket
WOMEN’S ASHES: THIRD T20 INTERNATIONAL
England Women v Australia Women
Bristol England beat Australia by 17 runs.
Australia win the Ashes 12-4 on points.
England
DN Wyatt b Schutt ........................................................ 20
TT Beaumont c Mooney b Jonassen .................................. 5
*HC Knight run out (Perry)............................................ 23
NR Sciver c Kimmince b Vlaeminck................................... 5
†AE Jones c Healy b Gardner .......................................... 19
L Winfield not out ........................................................ 26
KH Brunt not out .......................................................... 25
Extras (b9, lb2, w4, nb1) ............................................... 16
Total (for 5, 20 overs).................................................. 139
Fall 28, 35, 45, 83, 84.
Did not bat MK Villiers, A Shrubsole, S Ecclestone, KL Cross.
Bowling Perry 2-0-16-0; Schutt 4-0-27-1;
Jonassen 4-0-19-1; Kimmince 4-0-26-0; Vlaeminck
2-0-9-1; Wareham 2-0-15-0; Gardner 2-0-16-1.
Australia
†AJ Healy c Ecclestone b Villiers .................................... 28
BL Mooney c Cross b Brunt .............................................. 2
*MM Lanning lbw b Ecclestone ....................................... 2
EA Perry not out ........................................................... 60
A Gardner st Jones b Villiers ............................................ 0
RL Haynes c Wyatt b Brunt ............................................... 8
JL Jonassen lbw b Ecclestone .......................................... 9
D Kimmince lbw b Ecclestone .......................................... 0
G Wareham c Sciver b Brunt............................................. 0
ML Schutt not out .......................................................... 8
Extras (lb2, w3) .............................................................. 5
Total (for 8, 20 overs).................................................. 122
Fall 24, 27, 44, 45, 79, 112, 112, 113.
Did not bat TJ Vlaeminck.
Bowling Cross 3-0-21-0; Shrubsole 3-0-22-0;
Brunt 4-0-21-3; Ecclestone 4-1-22-3; Sciver 2-0-14-0;
Villiers 4-0-20-2.
To s s Australia elected to field.
Umpires M Burns and AG Wharf.
THIRD ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL
Colombo (RPS) Sri Lanka 294-8 (AD Mathews 87, BKG
Mendis 54). Bangladesh 172 (Soumya Sarkar 69).
Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 122 runs.
VITALITY T20 BLAST - NORTH GROUP
New Road Derbyshire 156-4 (JL du Plooy 52no).
Worcestershire 159-8 (WD Parnell 81no).
Worcestershire (2pts) beat Derbyshire (0) by two wickets.
Riverside Leicestershire 142-7 (CN Ackermann 52).
Durham 143-2 (DJM Short 70, G Clark 59no).
Durham (2pts) beat Leicestershire (0) by eight wickets.
Tennis
ATP AUSTRIAN OPEN (Kitzbühel)
Second round: J Chardy (Fr) bt D Lajovic (Ser) 3-6 6-4 6-3;
C Ruud (Nor) bt M Bachinger (Ger) 6-4 7-6 (7-3);
A Ramos-Viñolas (Sp) bt J Munar (Sp) 6-2 6-3; P Cuevas
(Uru) bt D Novak (Aut) 6-7 (1-7) 6-0 6-2; L Sonego (It) bt
R Carballés Baena (Sp) 2-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-1);
F Verdasco (Sp) bt J Kovalik (Svk) 6-4 7-6 (9-7);
P Andújar (Sp) bt P Kohlschreiber (Ger) 6-4 6-4;
D Thiem (Aut) bt S Ofner (Aut) 6-3 6-2
ATP/WTA CITI OPEN (Washington DC)
Men: Second round: J-W Tsonga (Fr) bt K Khachanov
(Rus) 6-4 2-6 7-5; M Cilic (Cro) bt M Copil (Rom) 7-6 (7-4)
7-6 (7-4); N Gombos (Svk) bt A Mannarino (Fr) 6-4 7-6
(11-9); J Isner (US) bt H Hurkacz (Pol) 6-4 6-4
Women: Second round: Hsieh S-W (Tai) bt K Flipkens (Bel)
6-4 6-3 ; C McNally (US) bt Zhu L (Chn) 6-4 6-2.
WTA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC (San Jose, California)
First round: V Azarenka (Blr) bt H Tan (Fr) 6-2 6-4;
B Mattek-Sands (US) bt V Williams (US) 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-1;
M Brengle (US) bt A Petkovic (Ger) 6-0 6-3.
Cycling
VOO-TOUR DE WALLONIE (Belgium)
Stage five (Couvin-Thiun, 186.4km): 1 T Van Der Sande (Bel)
Lotto Soudal 4hr 37min 23sec; 2 B Coquard (Fr) Vital Concept-
B&B Hotels at 1sec; 3 D De Bondt (Bel) Corendon-Circus at
3sec. Selected other: 14 C Lawless (GB) Ineos at 4sec.
Final general classification: 1 L Vliegen (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
22hr 12min 13sec; 2 T Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal at
8sec. Selected other: 4 C Lawless (GB) Ineos at 15sec.
Fixtures
Football (6pm unless stated)
Uefa Europa League
Second round qualifying: Second leg (selected)
Crusaders (0) v Wolves (2) (8pm); Linfield (2) v HB (2);
Partizan (1) v Connah’s Quay Nomads (0) (8pm);
Progres (0) v Rangers (2) (6.30pm).
Rugby league
Betfred Super League Hull FC v Wigan Warriors (7.45pm)
Cricket
First Test (first day of five)
Edgbaston England v Australia (11am)
Vitality T20 Blast - South Group
Lord’s Middlesex v Kent (6.15pm);
Chelmsford Essex v Hampshire (7pm);
Swalec Stadium Glamorgan v Gloucestershire (7pm)FootballThreat of league expulsion
still hanging over Bury
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David ConnBury still face a threat of being
expelled from the Football League
after 125 years of membership if the
owner, Steve Dale, does not provide
the EFL with evidence that he has the
funding to pay former players and
full-time staff , and to run the club
this season.
The EFL has suspended the club’s
first fixture , against MK Dons on
Saturday, stating that Dale has not
shown them the required “proof of
funds” and that he must provide it
by 12 pm tomorrow or the scheduled
second match, away at Accrington
Stanley, will also be suspended.
If that does happen, the EFL board
will then meet to review Bury’s overall
situation and a possible expulsion
from the league is among the options
it would then consider. If that were to
happen, the EFL clarifi ed that League
One would be played with 23 rather
than 24 clubs and next season an
extra club would be promoted from
League Two.
Speaking to the Guardian the EFL’s
executive chair, Debbie Jevans, said:
“We asked for ‘suffi ciency of funds’ to
demonstrate that Bury can compete,
that staff are being paid on and off
the pitch. We gave a deadline for that
information, it was a real deadline,
I spoke to Mr Dale, he was aware of
it and, when it didn’t come through,
we took the only decision we could.
“Now we need the information
by this Friday or else the Accrington
Stanley match will be suspended.
And at that point the board will meet
to review the future. You can’t go
through a whole season one match
at a time.”
Dale said in a forthright statement
on Tuesday that he had indeed pro-
vided the EFL with proof of funds,
including to cope as requested with a
possible £1.5m loss which he described
as “fi ctional”. But Jevans said thatthe EFL had asked for evidence that
former players – who were part of the
squad which won promotion from
League Two in May but then revealed
they had not been paid since February- have now been paid all the money
owing to them.
Full-time staff must now also be
paid in full, as they are classed as
“football creditors” in any insolvency
procedure, such as a company volun-
tary arrangement (CVA) which Bury
entered into last month.
At the time of the CVA, in which
Dale committed to paying “non-foot-
ball creditors” 25p for every pound
owed, players were stated to have
been owed £405,815, within a total of
almost £1m owed to football creditors.
No separate category was noted for
wages owed to full-time staff.
Jevans said the EFL has also been
asking for evidence that: “The club
could operate for a season, which
means running a stadium, paying
players, staff , stewards; we asked
for that in very simple terms. Cur-
rently we have not received what we
have asked for.”
Dale told the Guardian in response
that the CVA will be fi nanced and cover
the former players’ wages, that he is
still in discussions with the EFL over
the “mythical £1.5m,” and said that
current players have all been paid.
Jevans added that the EFL will
refl ect on its rules governing take-
overs in the light of the crisis at Bury
which has followed Dale’s £1 takeover
in December, as part of the league’s
ongoing review of its governance.
▲ Bury have been members
of the Football League for 125 yearsCricketVilliers and Ecclestone steer
England away from whitewash
Raf Nicholson
Bristol“Australia are producing 20-year-old
superstars,” Tammy Beaumont had
said as she bemoaned the disparity
between the two sides after England’s
defeat at Hove on Sunday. Last night
England fi nally showed some fi ght,
courtesy of two 20-year-old stars of
their own, Mady Villiers and Sophie
Ecclestone, who between them took
fi ve wickets to reduce Australia to 122
for eight, after England had earlier put
139 on the board.
Introduced for the fi rst time in the
eighth over, the off -spinner Villiers –
on her international debut – had ini-
tially put down a caught and bowled
chance off ered up by Alyssa Healy but
got her revenge the following over
when Healy sen t up a catch straight
to Ecclestone at mid-off after a danger-
ous looking 28 up top.
Four balls later Villiers tempted
Ash Gardner into coming out of herground, and she departed for a duck
as Amy Jones whipped off the bails.
That left Australia 45 for four at the
halfway stage, as they had also lost
Meg Lanning early on, the Australia
captain dismissed for the fi rst time in
Twenty20s against England since 2016
as she was trapped lbw by England’s
other star, Ecclestone. Having upset
the Australian chase, Ecclestone then
dismissed Jess Jonassen and Delissa
Kimmince with successive deliveries
in the 19th over to hand England their
fi rst win of the series.
For once Ellyse Perry – named player
of the series for her 378 runs and 16
wickets – was unable to spoil England’s
party, her unbeaten 60 coming too late
to get Australia over the line.
In their innings England had ini-
tially looked at risk of another collapse
after the run-out of Heather Knight in
the 14th over by Perry with a brilliant
throw from midwicket. Jones was out
two balls later, edging to Healy behind
the stumps, leaving England fi ve down
with just 88 on the board.
However, a quick-fi re unbeaten 50
partnership between Lauren Winfi eld
and Katherine Brunt at the back end
of the innings– during which the pair
added 34 runs across the last three
overs and included a six launched
over midwicket and out of the playing
area by Brunt – laid a platform to allow
England to fi nish the series on a high.Sport
In briefRugby leagueSt Helens lose Holbrook
to Gold Coast Titans
St Helens have begun the search
for a new head coach following
confi rmation that Justin Holbrook
will return to his native Australia
to join the Gold Coast Titans at the
end of the season. The 43-year-old,
who has transformed the fortunes
of the Super League leaders since
arriving in May 2017, is out of
contract and rejected the club’s off er
of a new deal in order to return to
the National Rugby League, where
he was assistant coach with Sydney
Roosters. The Titans said Holbrook
had agreed a two-year contract to
succeed Garth Brennan, who was
sacked this month with the team
bottom of the table. PA MediaCycling
Bridge collapse likely to
divert Yorkshire routeOrganisers of the road world
championships in Yorkshire seem
certain to be forced to change the
route of the men’s elite race after
Grinton Moor Bridge was washed
away by fl oodwaters, leaving the
road impassable. With less than
two months until the race on
29 September, it i s unlikely the
bridge c an be repaired in time. The
Yorkshire 2019 chief executive, Andy
Hindley, said the fi rst priority had to
be for local residents cut off by the
bridge collapse. He said: “ We will
address any damage to race routes
with North Yorkshire county council
in due course.” PA MediaTrophy hunter England’s Toni Duggan says
she joined Atlético Madrid Women from
Barcelona in a bid to win silverware. ‘I had
several off ers, but at this stage in my career
I wanted to be at a side consistently challenging
for honours. Atlético’s record is incredible.’ATLETICO
MADRIDEngland Women 139-5
Australia Women 122-8
England beat Australia by 17 runs
▼ England celebrate
Sophie Ecclestone’s
dismissal of Meg Lanning
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