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INEXPRESSIBLE1 The woman’s appeal has maturity, a
thing from the past (8)
6 A universal god creator ( 6 )
9 Not worth bothering with
financing — it is complicated ( 13 )
10 Gin, say, needs flavouring, but no
ice ( 6 )
11 One in eight finished lease after
month (8)
13 Mark last word in order for
treatment ( 10 )
15 Lazy leaving line in fish ( 4 )
16 Failing to finish minimal inspection
( 4 )
18 Removal of stability of model of
underwater craft? ( 10 )
21 Two notes correctly so long (8)
22 Fast turning the Spanish mad (6)
23 Surpass one story about a Pope’s
action (13)
25 Main road with some reversing
tyre tracks ( 6 )
26 Odd behaviour of lad after running
(6-2)2 English take chances about
condition in house? ( 7 )
3 Lack of concern involved us in
cocaine ( 11 )
4 Who goes to Balmoral after
summer month? That is boring ( 5 )
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European pasty? ( 7 )
6 Thinking Greek child left during a
hike (9)
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8 Oscar sitting down to eat cereal (7)
12 Father during betting is very
careful ( 11 )
14 The latter stages of Faust: her pity
shows simplicity ( 9 )
17 Room with central heating control
light ( 7 )
19 Fixing what someone running
scared is doing (7)
20 Disembark in Gold Coast’s second
city (7)
22 Male teacher has son with friend
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24 Beer’s healthy if the head is
removed ( 3 )The winners of Prize Crossword No 27,726 are
M Ayling, Digswell, Hertfordshire
Sir D Morris, Oxford
J Rolfe, Kirkby-in-Furness, Cumbria
P Slater, Rainow, Cheshire
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Martyn Ziegler Chief Sports ReporterPenalty runs
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Elizabeth AmmonReferees should send players off if they
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Continued on page 55Leicestershire were hit with a five-run
penalty on the second day of their
opening fixture in the Bob Willis
Trophy after Dieter Klein hit a
Lancashire batsman with a “danger-
ous” throw.
Klein, the 31-year-old Leicestershire
left-arm seam bowler, was judged to
have broken Law 42 which relates to
“throwing the ball at a player... in an
inappropriate or dangerous manner”
after hurling the ball in the direction of
the Lancashire batsman, Danny Lamb.
The penalty was brought in by MCC,
who are the custodians of the Laws of
the game, in 2017 but yesterday was the
first time it has been imposed in county
cricket. The infringement is likely to
mean that further disciplinary
procedures will be taken against Klein,
Continued on page 522GM Monday August 3 2020 | the timesSp ort
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Page 54Mike Ather ton
Lewis Hamilton survived one of the
most dramatic final laps of his
career to extend his record number
of victories in the British Grand
Prix to seven yesterday.
Hamilton crossed the line with a
badly damaged front-left tyre after
suffering a puncture halfway
through the last of his 52 laps of the
Silverstone circuit, with Max
Verstappen gaining ground quickly
behind him. The Red Bull driver
gave a frantic pursuit to reduce adeficit of 31 seconds to finish only
5.85sec behind Hamilton.
“I have never experienced
anything like that before,”
Hamilton, 35, said.
“That last lap was
one of the most
challenging laps I
have ever had. I
was thinking,
‘How far is it to
the end of the
lap?’ I nearly
didn’t get it
round thoselast two corners. My heart nearly
stopped. I was just praying to get it
round. I don’t think I’ve ever
won a race on three
wheels.”
The drama
had begun
two laps
earlier when
Valtteri Bottas,
Hamilton’s
Mercedes team-
mate, also
sustained a
puncture inhis front-left tyre when he was
comfortably positioned in second
place. Unlike Hamilton, Bottas was
forced to retreat to the pits to
change the damaged tyre and
slipped quickly down the field,
eventually finishing 11th and
missing out on any points.
Verstappen, 22, seized the
opportunity to make a late change
to his own tyres in pursuit of an
extra point for the fastest lap of the
race but when Hamilton suddenly
began to slow, the Dutch driver
Continued on page 59John WesterbyVictory on three wheels
Hamilton limps
to victory at
Silverstone on
his flat tyre
and then
enjoys the
spoils, belowHamilton hangs on to win British Grand Prix despite finishing final lap with shredded tyre