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54 maltatoday, SUNDAY, 2 AUGUST 2015 Sport Virtù Ferries This week's winner is KURT OLIVA who collected his two tickets from Virtù Ferries MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. Winners will be informed before the end of the week, and then announced on maltatoday.com.mt and MaltaToday on Sunday. 3. By entering this offer, entrants consent to their photos being published and owned by Mediatoday Co Ltd. 4. The entrant with the best photograph will be awarded two (2) return tickets, valid for travel to any Virtù Ferries destination. Mediatoday's decision is final. 5. Tickets are issued free of charge, excluding port charges, and in accordance with Virtù Ferries' rules and regulations. All taxes and charges are to be paid accordingly by the winning entrant upon the issuance of tickets. 6. This offer is closed to employees and contributors of Mediatoday Co. Ltd and Virtù Ferries, or their family members. This week's theme: Travel SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY PHOTO COMPETITION Photos should be a hi-res image (one per individual entry) with a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo. Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other CRICKET England win third Test to take Ashes lead England beat Australia by eight wickets to take 2-1 Ashes series lead ENGLAND won the third Test of this year's Ashes series by eight wickets in front of a loud sunlit Edgbaston crowd. Required to make 121 to take a lead in a series that has lurched from one extreme to the other and now back again, an unbro- ken third-wicket stand of 73 be- tween Ian Bell and Joe Root saw them home, a job professionally and confidently done. Steven Finn took eight wickets and Ian Bell hit an unbeaten half- century to put England ahead in the series with two matches to play. Bell (65 not out) and Joe Root, with an unbeaten 38, anchored the chase after England were set to 121 to win on the third day at Edgbaston where a dominant performance banished memo- ries of a heavy defeat at Lord's. England lost Alastair Cook (7) and Adam Lyth (12) to set a few nerves on edge but Bell, dropped on 20 by Australia cap- tain Michael Clarke, made his second 50 of the match to spark raucous celebrations after Root hit the winning runs. The hosts took command on day one when Australia were shot out for 136, James Anderson, who will miss the next Test with a side strain, taking six wickets - a feat matched by the recalled Steven Finn in the second innings. Victory at either Trent Bridge, in the fourth Test which starts on August 6, or The Oval in the last match would guarantee England winning back the Ashes which they so dismally surren- dered in a 5-0 loss in Australia in 2013-14. Australia's tail wagged on Fri- day, adding 97 to their overnight total before they were dismissed for 265 just before lunch. England had hoped to quickly take the three remaining second- innings wickets but Australia pushed their lead to 120 before Moeen Ali removed Mitchell Starc. Starc had led Australia's resist- ance with some big hits in his 58, sharing an eighth-wicket stand of 64 with wicketkeeper Peter Nevill (59) who held up Eng- land for 147 balls in compiling a maiden test half-century. Finn eventually made the breakthrough when Nevill was caught down the leg side, the paceman taking a Test best 6-79 after a two-year absence from the side. England bowler Steven Finn was playing his first Test in two years