Sporting Digest: Cricket
AN unbeaten fifth wicket partnership of 92 between Aravinda de Silva and Hashan Tillakaratne edged Sri Lanka closer to avoiding the follow-on in the first Test against Pakistan in Colombo.
(Second day of five; Pakistan won toss)
PAKISTAN - First Innings
(Overnight: 297 for 6)
Inzamam ul-Haq c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena 81
Wasim Akram c Jayasuriya b Dharmasena 37
Akram Raza c Tillakaratne b Warnaweera 25
Mushtaq Ahmed not out 5
Waqar Younis c Gurusinha b Dharmasena 2
Extras (b11, lb6, nb16) 33
Total 390
Fall (cont): 7-345 8-354 9-387.
Bowling: Wickramasinghe 12-0-59-0; Gurusinha 4-1-24-0; Dharmasena 45.2-13-99-6; Muralidharan 36-6-123-1; Warnaweera 28-5-63-3; De Silva 1-0-5-0.
SRI LANKA - First Innings
R S Mahanama b Mushtaq 21
S T Jayasuriya c Sohail b Wasim 9
A P Gurusinha c Latif b Mushtaq 11
A M de Silva not out 74
* A Ranatunga c and b Mushtaq 9
H P Tillakaratne not out 25
Extras (b1 lb2) 3
Total (for 4) 152
Fall: 1-13 2-41 3-42 4-60.
To bat: H D P K Dharmasena, P B Dissanayake, G P Wickramasinghe, M L Muralitharan, K P J Warnaweera.
DAVID ACFIELD, the Essex chairman, has been appointed the new chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board cricket committee.
ENGLAND UNDER-19 (v India): M Vaughan (capt); M Trescothick; R Weston; C Schofield; A Morris; K Innes; I Dawood (wkt); A McGrath; G Keedy; C Silverwood; M Betts; S Lugsden.
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