Sporting Digest: Cricket

LEICESTERSHIRE have appointed 46- year-old Tony Norman as their new chief executive in place of Mike Turner, who stepped down in October.

THIRD TEST (Lahore): Zimbabwe, with all first-innings wickets standing, are 132 runs behind Pakistan.

(First day: Zimbabwe won toss)

PAKISTAN - First Innings

Aamer Sohail c Campbell b Brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Shoaib Mohammad c Brandes b Rennie. . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Inzamam-ul-Haq b Brandes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Javed Miandad lbw b Brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Basit Ali b Brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Asif Mujtaba c James b Brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

] Rashid Latif c Houghton b Brandes. . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

* Wasim Akram not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Waqar Younis b Brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Mushtaq Ahmed b Brandes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Ata-ur-Rehman c James b Rennie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Extras (b4 lb6 nb4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Fall: 1-3 2-50 3-54 4-107 5-111 6-130 7-130 8-135 9-140.

Bowling: Brandes 14-3-45-3; Brain 15-3-42-5; Streak 12-3-28-0; Rennie 10.4-3-22-2.

ZIMBABWE - First Innings

G W Flower not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

M H Dekker not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Extras (lb1 nb2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Total (for 0). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

To bat: A D R Campbell, D L Houghton, * A Flower, H H Streak, G J Whittall, W R James, D Brain, E A Brandes, J A Rennie.

WORLD SERIES CUP (Melbourne) Australia bt New Zealand by 3 runs.

(Australia won toss)

AUSTRALIA

M A Taylor c Blain b Cairns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

M L Hayden c Cairns b Pringle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

M E Waugh c Rutherford b de Groen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

D C Boon c Morrison b de Groen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

S R Waugh ret hurt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

* A R Border run out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

] I A Healy not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Extras (lb7 w3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Total (for 5, 50 overs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Fall: 1-8 2-97 3-131 4-183 5-202.

Bowling: Pringle 9-1-26-1; Morrison 7-2-17-0; Cairns 7-0-33-1; Larsen 10-0-57-0; De Groen 10-0-40-2; Thomson 7-0-22-0.

NEW ZEALAND

B A Young lbw b McDermott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 .0

R T Latham st Healy b Warne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

* K R Rutherford b M Waugh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

M J Greatbatch lbw b Warne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

C L Cairns c Healy b Warne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

S A Thomson c Border b McDermott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

] T E Blain c Border b Warne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

G R Larsen b M Waugh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

C Pringle run out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

D K Morrison not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

R P de Groen not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Extras (b1 lb5 w17). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Total (for 9, 50 overs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Fall: 1-0 2-66 3-99 4-109 5-146 6-154 7-187 8-193 9-194.

Bowling: McDermott 9-1-40-2; Reiffel 10-1- 44-0; M E Waugh 9-0-42-2; May 10-0-35-0; Warne 10-1-19-4; Border 2-0-13-0.

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL (Colombo): Sri Lanka bt West Indies by 3 wickets.

(West Indies won toss)

WEST INDIES

D L Haynes c and b Anurasiri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

B C Lara c Mahanama b Jayasuriya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

P V Simmons c Wick'singhe b Kalpage. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

K L T Arthurton not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

* R B Richardson b Kalpage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

C L Hooper c Tillakaratne b Kalpage. . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

A C Cummins run out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

] J C Adams lbw b Kalpage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0

W K M Benjamin b Liyanage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

C E L Ambrose not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Extras (lb9 nb2 w9). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Total (for 8, 49 overs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

Fall: 1-128 2-136 3-155 4-184 5-194 6-195 7-195 8-223.

Bowling: Wickremasinghe 8-0-40-0; Liyanage 8-0-36-1; Kalpage 10-0-45-4; Anurasiri 10-0-32-1; Ranatunga 2-0-16-0; Jayasuriya 10-0-41-1; De Silva 1-0-10-0.

SRI LANKA

R S Mahanama c Lara b Cummins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

S T Jayasuriya c Adams b Walsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

H P Tillakaratne b Hooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

A M de Silva c Hooper b Cummins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

* A Ranatunga not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

R S Kalpage lbw b Cummins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

R S Kaluwitharana lbw b Cummins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

] A H Wickramaratne b Ambrose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

D K Liyanage not out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Extras (b4 lb9 nb10 w18). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Total (for 7, 48.1 overs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230

Fall: 1-26 2-40 3-120 4-180 5-187 6-189 7-208.

Did not bat: G P Wickremasinghe, S D Arunasiri.

Bowling: Ambrose 9-0-49-1; Walsh 8.1-0- 31-1; Cummins 10-0-33-4; Benjamin 10-0- 50-0; Hooper 7-0-33-1; Arthurton 4-0-21-0.