Daily Express - 07.08.2019

56 Daily Express Wednesday, August 07, 2019 CRICKET: ASHES SERIES

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By Gideon Brooks

DAN EVANS is

relishing the chance to

go head-to-head with

Rafa Nadal for the first

time tonight.

Evans beat Alex

de Minaur 6-4, 7-6 to

set up the second-

round clash in the

Rogers Cup.

The British No 2

missed out on a

meeting with Nadal at

Wimbledon last month

but now has the chance

to face the 18-time

Grand Slam winner in

Montreal. Evans said:

“It’s going to be great.

He is one of the best

players to ever walk on

the court and I’m going

to enjoy every minute

of it. It’s a shame it

didn’t happen at

Wimbledon, but there’s

no better place to do it

than here.”

Spaniard Nadal, who

is the top seed and

defending champion,

received a first-round

bye.

TENNIS

WORLD OF SPORT

GOT YOU: Kansas City

catcher Viloria tags

out Boston’s Bogaerts

object was accidentally

knocked over and hit

his hand that was

resting on a table.

X-rays confirmed a

fractured fifth

metacarpal that

has dashed a

six-figure

payday.

Frampton,

who had spent

almost a

month in the

US city

preparing for the fight,

said: “It is money

down the drain, the

guts of 30,000 on a

training camp. You

couldn’t make it up.”

CHRIS McKENNA

Frampton’s unlucky

break proves costly

CARL FRAMPTON

has revealed how a

£30,000 training camp

has been wasted after

breaking his left hand

in a freak accident.

The Belfast

featherweight was

due to face

Emmanuel

Dominguez in

Philadelphia

on Saturday

night. But

Frampton, 32,

was ruled out

when a concrete

ornament landed on

his hand on Monday.

Frampton was

relaxing in his hotel

lobby having a coffee

with his team when the

BOXING

1. Which American golfer won this year’s US Open at Pebble Beach?


2. Which England player was sent off in their 2-1 defeat by France
   in the European Under-21 Championship?


3. Which British tennis player won two matches in eight hours to claim the
   Nature Valley Open title in Nottingham?


4. Which Australian batsman hit 153 in their
   World Cup victory over Sri Lanka?


5. Which now-defunct team were the first beneficiaries
   when automatic promotion to the Football League was
   introduced in 1987?


6. Which boxer was BBC Sports Personality of
   the Year in 1999?


7. Which driver won the Formula 1 World Championship
   in a Tyrrell 003?


8. Which English League Two football team are
   nicknamed the Valiants?


9. Which British runner won the women’s long course
   world cross-country championship in 2001 and 2002?


10. Which former Great Britain rugby league player was nicknamed
    ‘Roger the Dodger’?

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tackle

to

RATINGS

0-3 Oh dear

4-6 Small beer

7-9 So near

10 Sporting Seer

FRAMPTON

Gary Woodland. 2 Hamza Choudhury. 3 Dan Evans. 4 Aaron ANSWERS:

Finch. 5 Scarborough FC. 6 Lennox Lewis. 7 Jackie Stewart. 8 Port Vale.

9 Paula Radcliffe. 10 Roger Millward.

confidence, which took a hit after he

was dropped from the World Cup

starting XI halfway through the

tournament, appeared to desert him at

Edgbaston.

“We have seen him go through

one or two periods like this

but we know he is a good

player.” said Bayliss. “It

can be one innings, one

good spell of bowling

that can get him back

on track. Everyone’s a

confidence player but I

think with Mo it is very

much like that.

“If he puts together

one good spell we know

he can pick up three or four

very quickly. He’s got to try not to

put too much pressure on himself and

go out and enjoy it.

“But I’m sure Leach will be in the

frame for Lord’s. He was very close to

this one, we got him up for the practice

days. I’m sure he will be

discussed.”

Bayliss refused to criticise

Jason Roy, who was out

dancing down the wicket

trying to hit Nathan Lyon

over his head when

England needed to bat out

the day.

“I thought he was trying

throughout both innings to

knuckle down and play

in a Test match

mode. But if he

gets out like he

did he has to

take it on the

chin and

we’ve got to.

“If you’ve

have been

applauding

him for

playing those

kind of shots

elsewhere it’s

a bit hard to

be too critical

if he gets out

playing that

way.”

themselves back up and prove a point

in the next game.”

Bairstow responded to criticism

about his form with back-to-back

group stage centuries in the World Cup

and Bayliss was hopeful questions

about his contribution at

Edgbaston will have the

same effect.

“Am I concerned? I

wouldn’t have thought

so. He has a bit [of

credit] in the bank,

Jonny. Like a few

other guys, when you

lose a game you’re

always disappointed. But

he usually finds a way to

motivate himself.

“When he has a point to prove

that’s usually when he’s at the top of

his game. I’m sure he’s disappointed to

miss out here and I’m sure he’ll be

approaching the next game with a

point to prove.”

Moeen will

probably be

heading

into

next

week

with a

little

more

apprehension

given his

TREVOR BAYLISS has dismissed

suggestions England’s players are

suffering a World Cup hangover but

said they may bring in new faces in

the second Test at Lord’s next week.

England are licking their wounds

after suffering a crushing 251-run

defeat at Edgbaston in the opening

match of the Ashes series.

And in addition to Jimmy Anderson

being ruled out with his calf injury, the

form of three of the World Cup squad

• Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow and Jos
  Buttler – is giving cause for concern.
  Jofra Archer will blow a bit of
  positivity back into a deflated dressing
  room at Lord’s after coming through a
  fitness test yesterday.
  But Moeen will have to face down
  stiff competition from left-arm spinner
  Jack Leach and both Bairstow and
  Buttler will need to improve if
  pressure from Ben Foakes is not to
  build.
  Bairstow got a pair at Lord’s against
  Ireland and looked some way off his
  best with the bat at Edgbaston where
  he posted eight and six in two innings.
  Buttler, who made five and one at
  Edgbaston, said the World Cup put
  him through an emotional wringer.
  Bayliss, right, insisted he was
  confident his players have got
  over their white-ball heroics
  even though the England
  coach admitted that
  it had been a
  worry ahead of
  the Test against
  Ireland.
  “The intensity
  we approached
  everything with
  in this match
  didn’t give any
  indication of
  that at all,”
  he said.
  “They are
  where they
  are
  because
  they are
  able to get

AGONY:

Moeen is

in danger

of the axe

but Bayliss

is backing

Roy, right

NEW BLOOD

TO GIVE US

LORD’S LIFT

Bayliss may ring changes for

England after Edgbaston flop

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