India 352 for 5 (Dhawan 117, Kohli 82, Rohit 57, Hardik 48, Cummins 1-55) beat Australia 316 (Smith 69, Warner 56, Carey 55*, Bhuvneshwar 3-50) by 36 runs
As it happened

There was a masterclass in batting at The Oval. Shikhar Dhawan overcame a weakness to score 117. Steven Smith showed none as he made 69. Hardik Pandya was pure unfettered power. David Warner fought demons. And Virat Kohli, as always, was method over madness.

That the Oval pitch offered nothing to the bowlers dulled the contest a little bit, but India showed immense awareness with the way they paced their innings and for that alone they deserved victory.

There was no inkling at the start of the day that Australia would concede 352 - a new low for them in the World Cup.

Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins understood that there wasn't any help for them and so were quick to pull their lengths back and keep a tight line around the off stump, and occasionally resorted to cross-seamers, bouncers and yorkers to surprise the batsmen.

For the first seven overs, Dhawan and Rohit Sharma sauntered along at 3.14 per over. Then came Nathan Coulter-Nile. And three boundaries in six balls. India's victory is owed entirely to their batsmen recognising moments like these. They were like the muscle car revving up in front of the stop light.

Dhawan, especially. He had a big bulls-eye on him. A weakness against left-arm pace. And he'd have to deal with one of the best exponents of it in recent times. He'd been lbw to Trent Boult and Mustafizur Rahman in the warm-up games because of his front foot going too far across, but here a simple change - batting on leg stump, and even occasionally outside - helped him stay beside the ball and survive Starc's menace.

There were other obstacles in his way. Namely Cummins. The right-arm quick hurt Dhawan's left thumb with a bouncer and the batsman kept yanking his bottom hand off his bat every time he was forced to drive. The physio's magic spray helped but to play through pain for nearly three hours - he didn't come out to field in the second innings - was a monumental effort. And it came with a fitting reward. A sixth century in ICC tournaments. Of all batsmen from anywhere, only Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar have more.

India did a great many good things in this game. They identified Australia's fifth bowler (Marcus Stoinis) and their lead spinner (Adam Zampa) as weaknesses and carted them for 112 runs in 13 overs. A lot of that was Hardik's doing. The score read 220 for 2 when he walked out in the 37th over and the fifth ball he faced went to the boundary. Later, he hit a straight drive so hard that the bowler Coulter-Nile just ducked. It came back to him in the air and cricketers are supposed to catch those but human beings tend not to want their heads knocked off by a piece of leather.

ESPNcriinfo's Forecaster had India reaching 332 at the halfway stage of their innings. Hardik's 48 off 27 balls straight up lol-ed at data analytics.

Amid all this, Kohli scored 82 off 77 balls, his 50th ODI fifty. It was actually a bit of a scratchy innings. His most eye-catching moment was actually when he went up to the Indian fans in the crowd and told them off for calling Smith a "cheater".

The former Australia captain wasn't around when they won the ODI series in India three months ago and kickstarted a 10-match winning streak, and he was in the mood to make up for lost time. His footwork, especially against spin, was both instinctive and precise. And even when he found himself in a tangle, like when Chahal surprised him with a dipping yorker or Hardik with an lbw-written-all-over-it low full toss - his hands somehow placed the bat at exactly the place it needed to be.

Smith made 69, looking in perfect control. Warner, though, looked every bit a batsman still getting used to the rigours of international cricket again. He could have been bowled by Bumrah's first ball if the zing bails had worked, and went on to play as many as 48 dots. The man's capable of scoring Test centuries in that time but here he just couldn't line up India's bowlers.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the one responsible for that. His control - bowling back of a length but never giving the left-hander room to cut or pull - meant Australia couldn't get the kind of rapid start that might have made this more of a contest. And when it was threatening to be one as Smith and Glenn Maxwell put on a rip-roaring partnership, he came back to pick up two wickets in two balls in the 40th over to essentially kill the game. Alex Carey whacked the fastest fifty by an Australian in World Cup cricket, but even that couldn't make up for the early damage.

There was debate before the World Cup about Bhuvneshwar's place in the XI because he doesn't always bowl upwards of 140 kph and because the white ball doesn't swing very much. But his value as a death bowler should not be underestimated. Not only does he have the variations necessary - yorkers, bouncers, slower balls - he knows exactly when to use what. To go at five an over and pick up three wickets in a game that yielded 668 runs was sublime work.

Miami added a big recruit, both figuratively and literally, to its 2020 class on Sunday when ESPN 300 offensive tackle Jalen Rivers announced his commitment.

Rivers, the No. 32-ranked recruit overall, had a top five of Miami, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Florida State prior to his commitment.

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Rivers is a 6-foot-5, 330-pound offensive lineman from Oakleaf High School in Orange Park, Florida, and he is the first ESPN 300 offensive lineman to commit to Miami in this class.

The Hurricanes beat out the other in-state schools for Rivers, who is the No. 2 recruit in the state. Adding him to this class gives Miami two of the top five in-state recruits (running back Don Chaney Jr. is the other).

Both Chaney and Rivers are ranked among the top 40 overall, so landing those two recruits, and keeping them away from Florida and Florida State, was a big win for Manny Diaz and his staff.

Of the seven ESPN 300 commitments now in Miami's 2020 class, four -- Rivers, Chaney (No. 40), quarterback Tyler Van Dyke (No. 102) and wide receiver Bryan Robinson (No. 130) -- are in the top 150.

PARIS -- For a few, fleeting moments Sunday, Rafael Nadal found his French Open supremacy seemingly threatened by Dominic Thiem, a younger, talented opponent challenging him in the final for the second consecutive year.

A poor game from Nadal allowed Thiem to break him and even things at a set apiece. That development brought fans to their feet in Court Philippe Chatrier, roaring and clapping and, above all, wondering: Was this, now, a real contest? Could Thiem push Nadal more? Could he make this surge last? Would Nadal falter?

That the questions arose at all was significant. The answers arrived swiftly. Nadal reasserted himself, as he usually does at Roland Garros, by grabbing 16 of the next 17 points and 12 of the remaining 14 games, pulling away to beat Thiem 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 for his record-extending 12th championship at the French Open.

"He stepped on me," Thiem said. "The numbers are crazy. He won it 12 times."

No one in tennis ever has won any major tournament that frequently. Then again, no one ever has been as suited for success on any of the sport's surfaces as this 33-year-old Spaniard is on red clay: Nadal is 93-2 for his career at Roland Garros, winning four in a row from 2005-08, five in a row from 2010-14, and now three in a row.

"I can't explain my emotions," said the No. 2-seeded Nadal, who dropped to his back after the final point, getting that rust-colored dirt all over his neon yellow shirt, then wiped away tears during the trophy ceremony.

Looking at the bigger picture, he is now up to 18 Grand Slam trophies, moving within two of Roger Federer's men's record of 20.

Thiem, a 25-year-old Austrian who was seeded No. 4 and upset No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the semifinals, was eyeing his first major title in this rematch of the 2018 final in Paris. But again, he couldn't solve Nadal.

"First thing that I want to say is congrats to Dominic. I feel sorry, because he deserves it here, too," Nadal said. "He has an unbelievable intensity."

So, of course, does Nadal. This had been, by his lofty standards, a rough season, from the most lopsided Grand Slam final loss of his career -- against Djokovic at the Australian Open -- to entering May without a title for the first year since 2004.

He started to right himself by taking the Italian Open title on clay last month.

"It was very important for him to win in Rome. It was like he realized that he was getting back on the good level, on the right path," said Nadal's coach, 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya, "and gaining a lot of confidence."

Soon enough, Nadal found himself in a familiar position in Paris: playing in the final, and winning it.

This one began on a cloudy afternoon, with the temperature in the low 60s (mid-teens Celsius) and only a slight breeze. In the initial game -- interrupted briefly by a baby wailing in the stands, drawing a laugh from other spectators and prompting Nadal to back away from the baseline between serves -- three of the five points lasted at least 11 strokes.

And, thereby, a pattern was established: By the end of the 3-hour, 1-minute match, a total of 46 points went 10 strokes or more. Each man claimed half.

Both would station themselves along the baseline and sprint, scramble, slide, stretch to somehow reach just about every ball, not merely putting a racket on it but conjuring a booming reply. It was an impressive display of athleticism, skill and will, with Thiem managing to give just as good as he got, particularly with his ferocious backhand.

From the get-go, it was such a physical grind that Nadal was soaked with sweat and changed neon yellow shirts after seven games and 45 minutes, eliciting catcalls from the stands.

Early on, there were no signs of fatigue for Thiem, even though he was competing for a fourth straight day, because of rain that jumbled the schedule. Nadal, meanwhile, entered Sunday having played just once in the previous four days.

Not only that, but while Nadal dismissed Federer with relative ease in a straight-set semifinal that concluded Friday, Thiem was forced to work overtime, eliminating Djokovic in a five-setter that wrapped up less than 24 hours before the final began.

Thiem showed he can play defense. Showed he can flip to offense in a blink. Showed power off both sides. Showed precision, too, making only three of the match's first 12 unforced errors.

Indeed, it was Thiem who nosed ahead first, closing a 12-stroke exchange by ripping a forehand to earn the first break point of the final, then converting it with an overhead to cap a 20-stroke point for a 3-2 edge. He turned with a clenched right hand to face his guest box, where all of his supporters were yelling and shaking fists, too, including his girlfriend, French tennis player Kristina Mladenovic, who won the women's doubles championship earlier in the day.

Nadal immediately responded. He grabbed the next four games with elan, using a drop shot to help break for a 5-3 lead, then a serve-and-volley to help hold for the set.

That must have been demoralizing for Thiem. But at the ensuing changeover, he didn't whack a ball toward the stands, as Federer memorably did during his semifinal loss. He didn't spike a racket or kick a ball. He casually sat in his gray sideline seat, bounced his legs and chewed on an energy bar, furtively glancing to his left at Nadal.

Thiem bounced back, if only briefly. Talk about a stunning shift: Nadal won 25 of 26 points on his serve before -- with spectators trading between-point chants of nicknames, "Ra-fa!" and "Do-mi!" -- he got broken to cede the second set. That was the only set he'd managed to steal from Nadal in four career meetings at Roland Garros.

Maybe this was going to be a long one.

But Thiem, put simply, wilted a bit. He made three unforced errors in the next set's opening game to get broken at love, creating an opening that Nadal barged through. By now, Nadal was creating magic at the net, and he won the point on 23 of 27 times he went forward. One drop volley was spun so marvelously that it landed on Thiem's side, then bounced back toward the net. All Thiem could do was watch -- and offer an appreciative thumbs-up.

"Almost everybody will tell you that he's one of the best volleyers of our game," Thiem said. "Because the last time he missed a volley was, maybe, seven years ago, I guess."

Soon enough, it was over. The King of Clay, as Nadal is known, still reigns.

ST. LOUIS -- In a letter published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday, St. Louis Blues owner Tom Stillman thanked his fans after "the elation of breaking through and bringing St. Louis its first-ever Stanley Cup."

One problem: The Blues haven't actually won the Stanley Cup yet. The letter, as well as a few congratulatory advertisements, appeared in the digital edition of the newspaper hours before the team was scheduled to play Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Boston Bruins, leading the series 3-2.

The ad pages were visible in the subscribers-only E-edition of the paper and were removed. But not before more than a few readers noted them, and they hit social media.

"Winning the Stanley Cup was a dream come true for so many of you. All of us will remember where we were, what we did and how we felt when the Blues brought the Cup home," wrote Stillman.

Later in the letter, the Blues literally did what no hockey fan wants their team to do before winning: They planned the parade.

"We are so very proud of our players, our organization and our fans. And now, together, we can finally say 'We won the Cup for St. Louis,'" Stillman wrote. "We look forward to celebrating with you as we parade the Cup down Market Street."

Also published was an ad from Enterprise, the title sponsor of the team's arena, congratulating the Blues on "winning the Stanley Cup" and publishing a "2019 Stanley Cup champions" logo with the Blues' symbol on it.

Beth O'Malley, online content coordinator for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said that "in preparation for the outcome of the Stanley Cup Final, some of our readers got a sneak peek at what our advertisers are hoping to say to the Blues, the fans and St. Louis. We apologize for the sneak peek and hope to share their messages with everyone very soon!"

While some Blues fans may appreciate the "sneak peek," one wonders how many are wary of this premature victory lap being a potential jinx.

TORONTO -- Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant practiced with his teammates on Sunday -- marking the first time he has done so since injuring his right calf on May 8 against the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals. If Durant comes through Sunday's practice without any issues, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is optimistic that Durant could play Monday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors.

"He's going to practice with us today," Kerr said prior to the practice. "And he'll get some extra work in with some of our younger players. We'll gauge it from there."

The Warriors were hopeful that Durant would be able to make his return to action in Game 4, but he still had not been cleared for practice up to that point. With the Warriors facing a must-win game on Monday, down 3-1 to the Raptors, Kerr and his staff are holding out hope that Durant will be able to return. Kerr acknowledged being more hopeful about Durant's condition given the extra work he was scheduled for on Sunday afternoon.

"Yeah," Kerr said. "Because what he's going to do today he hasn't done. He's doing more today and then we'll know more after that."

The Warriors likely will have a shootaround on Monday morning, as they regularly do, which would give Durant another chance to test his calf injury.

"The hardest part about being an athlete is going through injuries," Warriors All-Star swingman Klay Thompson said. "Especially when your team is playing for a championship. It sucks. I feel for Kevin. I know what type of competitor he is and we obviously miss him dearly. But whether it's tomorrow or Game 6, we just have to do everything in our willpower to help him get back. If that's win a game and be patient, then we got to go do that."

Thompson does not think it will be difficult to integrate Durant back into the offense, even after missing so much time.

"He will be very welcome, I'll say that much," Thompson said. "I think it's pretty easy to realize we obviously miss him out there and he's propelled us to two championships in the last two years. So it would be pretty storybook if he could come back and help us do the same. But injuries are the hardest part of sports. You just got to play through them -- not play through them, but manage the injury. It's tough. I mean, I went through it. Kevin's is much more serious than all of ours, and I know how badly he wants to be out there. He's one of the best competitors I've ever been around."

Durant was not on the floor while the rest of his teammates got up some shots in the open part of Sunday's practice, but made his way to the court as soon as media and cameras were cleared away.

Durant's injury is one of several the Warriors continue to deal with. Thompson continues playing through a left hamstring injury, big man Kevon Looney is dealing with a non-displaced first costal cartilage fracture on his right side, while Andre Iguodala has been dealing with a lingering calf injury for several weeks.

Like Thompson, Warriors guard Stephen Curry doesn't think it will be tough to get Durant rolling into the rhythm quickly again.

"I don't think it will change much at all," Curry said. "It's just having another powerful weapon out there that can do some very dynamic things on the floor. We'll be able to adjust in transition pretty smoothly. He's been in plenty of Finals and has played well. No matter what percentage he's at, I'm sure he'll be impactful and effective out there. But again for myself or anybody in our rotation who's been playing a lot of minutes, we just have to be aggressive and smart and competitive, especially on the defensive end. And the rest should take care of itself."

NEW YORK -- Robinson Cano is right back on the injured list.

Four days after returning to the lineup, the slumping second baseman was placed on the 10-day IL by the New York Mets again Sunday with tightness in his left quadriceps. The move is retroactive to Thursday, after Cano aggravated the injury Wednesday night in his first game since May 22.

Cano sat out the next three days while the Mets tried to determine whether he needed another stint on the injured list.

"When you have an active guy and you start him, you want him to be able to go nine innings. I don't think at this point we were confident that that could happen safely without putting him at any kind of risk," manager Mickey Callaway said. "So we feel like a rehab assignment probably will be the best thing, and a progression throughout that rehab assignment to get him to where he needs to be. He could have probably pinch-hit, but we don't need Robbie to be just a pinch-hitter, we need him to be a starter and go out there and play and get four at-bats a night."

The move means Cano will miss both Subway Series games against his former team at Yankee Stadium this week. But he said he wasn't particularly concerned about that, and he's scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Tuesday with Triple-A Syracuse or Double-A Binghamton.

"I want to go down and get some at-bats and not just focus on one or two games and then it will take me longer to get ready at the plate," Cano said. "So I'd rather go down and just take some at-bats and work on what I have to do."

An eight-time All-Star, the 36-year-old Cano is batting just .238 with three homers, 14 RBIs and a .650 OPS in his first season with the Mets. They traded five players, included two highly rated prospects, to Seattle for Cano and closer Edwin Diaz -- taking on $100 million of what remained on Cano's contract, which runs through 2023.

Adeiny Hechavarria and Jeff McNeil have filled in nicely at second base for Cano, who was on the injured list from May 23 to June 4 with a strained left quadriceps. Hechavarria started at second Sunday in the series finale against Colorado as McNeil received a scheduled rest.

Cano went through pregame agility drills and said he feels good. But after meeting with the Mets, he agreed with the decision to put him back on the IL because he's had only two at-bats in 2+ weeks and wants to be able to play a full game and contribute offensively when he comes back.

"It's much better for me and the team and all of us," Cano said. "We've got to do what's best for the team, not for me."

To replace him on the roster, New York selected the contract of right-handed reliever Tim Peterson from Syracuse.

"I think it just got to a point where we felt like this was the best thing for Robbie at this point," Callaway said. "We need Robbie to be back and play at 100% and being the player he needs to be, and we felt that this route was going to give us the best chance to accomplish that."

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Frank Lucchesi, who replaced the fired Billy Martin as manager of the Texas Rangers in 1975 and was punched by a player upset over a demotion two years later, has died. He was 92.

The Rangers said Lucchesi died Saturday. The San Francisco native lived in the Dallas area.

Lucchesi managed in the minor leagues for 17 years before taking over in Philadelphia in 1970. He managed the Phillies for two full seasons and part of a third in 1972. He was a coach for the Rangers when he replaced Martin and managed Texas all of 1976.

During spring training in 1977, second baseman Lenny Randle was upset over being benched and punched Lucchesi, sending him to the hospital. Lucchesi was fired during the season with the Rangers at 31-31.

Lucchesi's final stint as a manager was in an interim role with the Chicago Cubs to finish the 1987 season. He had a 316-399 record, managing three full seasons and parts of four others.

Houston Astros prospect Yordan Alvarez, the minor leagues' home run leader, homered in the second at-bat of his major league debut against the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.

Alvarez, who was promoted from Triple-A Round Rock, served as Houston's designated hitter and batted fifth in Sunday's game against Baltimore right-hander Dylan Bundy. His first major league home run was a two-run shot to center field in the bottom of the fourth that traveled 413 feet.

Astros manager A.J. Hinch said Alvarez eventually will see some time in left field but he wants him to get a feel for Minute Maid Park first.

Alvarez, who turns 22 later this month, has dominated the Pacific Coast League this season, batting .343 with 23 homers -- the most in the minors -- and a league-leading 71 RBIs in 56 games. He has split time at first base and left field throughout his minor league career.

"He's outperformed Triple-A. It's time to challenge him in the big leagues," Hinch said.

Alvarez, recently ranked as baseball's No. 44 overall prospect by MLB.com, is the latest prospect called up to the majors by the injury-plagued Astros, who have All-Stars Jose Altuve, George Springer and Carlos Correa currently on the injured list.

Joining Alvarez in Houston's starting lineup Sunday were fellow rookies Jack Mayfield and Myles Straw.

CLEVELAND -- New York Yankees pitcher Domingo German, who is tied for the major league lead with nine wins, was placed on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a left hip flexor strain.

The Yankees announced the move two days after German struggled for a third consecutive start in Friday's 5-2 loss to the Indians.

German, 26, who was tested at Progressive Field on Saturday by Indians team physicians after cutting short a between-starts throwing session, will undergo an MRI on Monday.

"We're hoping that when we get back to New York and do some tests that it is something that's minor and doesn't hold him back for long," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.

The Dominican Republic-born German, speaking through an interpreter, told reporters Sunday that he first started feeling the discomfort in his hip during his start two Sundays ago at Kansas City. He couldn't pinpoint the exact moment he was hurt, but said he began feeling badly after that game.

During that outing, German allowed seven hits and nine runs in five innings. He also gave up four home runs en route to earning a no-decision after the Yankees lost in extra innings.

"It's the kind of injury that as you progress through the game, it gets worse," German said. "The beginning, not so much, but toward the later innings it adds on and it starts taking away strength from you from executing the pitches and commanding the pitches.

"I've been able to manage it in between starts. It's just that after the outing [Friday], it was hurting more than usual."

The right-hander allowed four runs in six innings in Friday's start. It was in the second inning when he said his hip really began bothering him. Across his past three starts, German has an 8.59 ERA. He has also given up seven home runs in those outings, compared with five through his first 10 appearances of the season.

Before his recent struggles, German had been a stabilizing force in New York's injury-plagued starting rotation. He is 9-2 with a 3.86 ERA in 13 games -- 12 starts -- this season and is tied with Justin Verlander, Hyun-Jin Ryu and Lucas Giolito for the major league lead in wins.

"It's a little frustrating," German said. "This is exactly what I was trying to prevent, trying to work on this and trying to prevent it from becoming a bigger thing. And now the IL is going to stop (me) from helping the team, and pitching, which is what I want to do."

German said he didn't tell the Yankees about his injury until Saturday because he thought it was something that he could manage and pitch through.

"In between starts it would kind of go away," German said. "So I didn't think it was something that would put me out of the rotation. I thought it was something I would deal with and get over it."

Until he signed with the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, left-handed starter Dallas Keuchel had been in talks with the Yankees about potentially signing with them as a free agent. Keuchel and the Yankees were reportedly less than $2 million apart on a potential offer.

Keuchel could have added some depth to a thin Yankees staff.

"We always want our players to treat whatever's going on with them if there's any kind of issues," Boone said. "But also understand major league sports, there's little things that you deal with that to you as a player is not that big of a thing that you know you're going to have to deal with when you get out there."

The Yankees recalled left-hander Stephen Tarpley from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to replace German on the 25-man roster.

German, 26, becomes the latest Yankees starting pitcher to spend time on the IL. Luis Severino has not pitched yet this season because of a shoulder injury, while James Paxton and CC Sabathia also have had IL stints over the first two months of the season.

Once the Yankees get past the Subway Series with the New York Mets on Monday and Tuesday, they'll have a better idea of how to manage their pitching staff in the coming days. It's likely they will go with another bullpen day whenever German's spot in the rotation arrives next.