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Resuming their innings at 95 for 2 Bryan Young and Stephen Fleming put on 114 for the third wicket before Fleming was

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Resuming their innings at 95 for 2, Bryan Young and Stephen Fleming put on 114 for the third wicket before Fleming was run out on 66 after a careless decision to go for a third run.With the Kiwi captain, Ken Rutherford, unable to bat because of his injured left hand, Young remained to guide New Zealand out of the woods. At lunch, the Kiwis were 173 for 3 and by tea had established a small lead of seven runs to reach 240 for 5.New Zealand suffered a blow at 196 when Adam Parore departed for 19, and a run later, Vaas had his fourth wicket when Young was caught at slip by Asanka Gurusinha for 84.The New Zealand tail wagged in the final session to put on 67, and Sri Lanka, who faced two overs before the close, were nought without loss when stumps were drawn.(Third day; New Zealand won toss)SRI LANKA - First Innings 233 (U C J Vaas 51).NEW ZEALAND - First Innings(Overnight: 95 for 2)B A Young c Gurusinha b Vaas 84S P Fleming run out 66A C Parore c de Silva b Vaas 19D K Patel b Muralitharan 52G R Larsen c Gurusinha b Muralitharan 16M L Su'a not out 20C Pringle c S Ranatunga b Vaas 4K J Walmsley b Vaas 0*K R Rutherford absent injured 0Extras (b3 lb28 nb15) 46Total 307Fall (cont): 3-140 4-196 5-197 6-244 7-291 8-303 9-307.Bowling: Wickramasinghe 26-6-49-0 (8nb); Vaas 40-9-87-6 (2nb); Muralitharan 50-20-77-2 (4nb); Pushpakumara 16-3-42-0 (1nb); De Silva 1-0-11-0; Gurusinha 6-2-10-0.SRI LANKA - Second InningsA P Gurusinha not out 0D P Samaraweera not out 0Extras 0Total (for 0) 0Bowling: Walmsley 1-1-0-0; Patel 1-1-0-0.. Vaas took 6 for 87 as New Zealand replied to the Sri Lankan first-innings total of 233 with 307 on the third day.Playing in only his sixth Test, the 21-year-old fast bowler achieved a career-best of 10 for 90 in the first Test against New Zealand in Napier last week."He would have to be right among the top five or six all-rounders in the world already after scoring his maiden Test fifty yesterday," New Zealand's Dipak Patel, who made 52 himself, said. Sri Lanka 233 and 0-0 New Zealand 307 Chaminda Vaas, the Sri Lankan left-arm seamer, continued an impressive tour of New Zealand with his third five-wicket haul in an innings, in the second Test at Carisbrook in Dunedin yesterday. The tourists lost the series 1-0 after two Tests were drawn.Now Salim is free to play pending the inquiry, a committee statement said, adding that the decision had been taken after seeking legal advice.Salim wants to be allowed to "confront his accusers and to cross-examine them" and the committee intend to approach the London-based International Cricket Council to make the Australian cricketers available in Pakistan for the purpose, the statement said.The ICC chief executive, David Richards - a former head of the Australian Cricket Board - has been "verbally" informed and a formal request will be sent, it added.Salim had told the committee the charges against him were "totally baseless."The decision means Salim can play in the Asia Cup tournament in Sharjah next month, for which Pakistan have yet to name a squad - or a captain.. As the multi-millionaire winners will tell you, all that loose change begins to mount up after a while.The first commercial casualties are likely to be the little daily indulgences, such as sweets and chocolates, newspapers, magazines and soft drinks, which tend to be sold alongside the lottery tickets. Asked where the money came from, 95 per cent claim that they haven't cut back on anything in order to play.But £60m a week is a lot of money to appear from nowhere.

You might object that most theatrical flops come off quietly without one star in Bruges and another in a police cell, but the point surely is that neither Fry nor Mayall, though both experienced performers, are primarily stage actors. He was given seven days to answer the charges.Warne and May had alleged that Salim had offered them bribes when the Australian team toured Pakistan last year. CRICKET Pakistan's cricket authorities yesterday lifted the ban they imposed on their former Test captain, Salim Malik, over allegations of bribery. The decision was taken by a three-member ad hoc committee in charge of cricket affairs, which said Salim "must be considered innocent" until proven guilty.Salim was stripped of the captaincy of his country and banned from first- class cricket on 7 March, pending an inquiry into allegations of attempted bribery made by two Australian bowlers, Shane Warne and Tim May. "He hasn't won since his Champion, nor has he shown anywhere near that class for some time, so I don't think he is getting his chance out of turn.". A 33-1 shot, Whitelock Quest, won the first race at Southwell yesterday, sharpening a controversy over the late switch of the Tote Jackpot from another track. The Jackpot had swollen to £347,415.55 after punters failed to find the first six winners at Uttoxeter on Saturday. The pool had been due to be carried forward to the same course yesterday, but the Tote transferred the prize to bigger fields at the Flat meeting at Southwell. Whitelock Quest stormed home despite having been beaten a distance in a selling hurdle on his previous start.

Unsurprisingly, nobody won the pool, now amounting to £537,620.79 Stratford holds the prize today. A full cover perm on the 61 horses in action would require 742,560 lines.. "It's as if he's become a Jekyll and Hyde character who runs well when he wants to," Webb said. Even more reluctant these days is the 1993 Champion Hurdler, Granville Again. He has been dropped 7lb by the handicapper following his poor run behind Alderbrook last week - to 22lb lower than his rating after he won the title."He is entered in Aintree's Cordon Bleu Handicap and I feel it is time he was given a chance in a handicap," Phil Judge, the BHB handicapper, said. The Grand National meeting, which starts a fortnight on Thursday, will provide a swift opportunity for several of the horses that failed to collect at Cheltenham. Egypt Mill Prince mystified his owner, Steve Webb, when a well-beaten seventh to Viking Flagship in the Queen Mother Champion Chase and will now attempt to re-establish his reputation in the Martell Aintree Handicap Chase over two miles on National day.

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