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NZ take two SA wickets

Zimbabwe recover 

England upset Wallabies 22-19

Prasanna disqualified

Yousuf Youhana saves follow-on 

Mario,Indika guide CCC to comfortable victory

T.T. Tittle Tattle

Bangladesh, promise and performance

Tharanga soars high 

Are we ready for professionalism?

Scouring the Augean Stable - Guest Column

Caution Jorge

Well Done 

Expats to celebrate Aussie Day

Guy's great hope for gals

Bat, ball and foul mouth

Look out for Serasinghe

Rover pinpoints

Captain Sera's award lifted by Ambani 

Dilshan triumphs at mini tennis

Square peg in a round hole

Suwan Selvaratnam takes National Stroke Play title

Four Golds for Mallika at veterans' meet

NZ take two SA wickets

South Africa reached the interval on 305 for five. Mark Boucher was 13 not out with Lance Klusener yet to score.

The home side resumed on 270 for three after overnight rain had delayed the start by 90 minutes.

Jacques Kallis, 153 not out overnight, was given out caught behind by wicketkeeper Adam Parore off left-arm seamer Shayne O'Connor for his career-best score of 160.

Television replays suggested that Kallis had not made contact with the ball as he lunged forward defensively.

Kallis was at the crease 15 minutes short of six hours, faced 289 balls and hit 26 fours.

He shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 115 with Neil McKenzie.

McKenzie was out to the last ball before lunch. He waved his bat expansively and edged a catch to Parore to give debutant medium pacer Chris Martin his second wicket of the match.

McKenzie scored 55, his maiden test half-century, in just over three hours. He faced 289 balls and hit 11 fours.

Zimbabwe recover 

Campbell struck 70 and Carlisle 58 and their third-wicket stand of 120 revived Zimbabwe after Indian fast bowler Javagal Srinath had struck twice in the first hour at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground to leave the visitors reeling at 15 for two.

Andy Flower was 55 not out and captain Heath Streak 25 not out at the close and their sixth wicket partnership was worth 77 on a satisfactory first day for Zimbabwe in their two-test campaign.

Flower batted briskly to reach his 19th test half-century off only 87 balls and hit seven fours and a six.

Streak chose to bat first but Srinath, who took three for 39 in 16 incisive overs, bowled opener Grant Flower with a late inswinger which clipped the off-stump before Zimbabwe had scored a run. He also dismissed in-form left-hander Gavin Rennie under helpful morning conditions on a firm pitch.

Campbell and Carlisle repaired the early damage, building the innings into the afternoon session before Carlisle was out just before the tea interval, taken at 142 for three.

England upset Wallabies 22-19

Luger chased a high kick into the left-hand corner and just touched down to snatch victory for England who had not beaten the Wallabies since the 1995 World Cup.

The referee needed to ask his video official to study a replay of the action before confirming the try.

The try came after Australia seemed to be heading towards their fourth successive victory over the English after winger Matt Burke scored all of his team's 19 points with a second-half try, four penalties and a conversion.

Prasanna disqualified

By Leonard Ratnayake

The Jury of judges decided that Prasanna had punched the opponent defying the referee's command to stop the fight in the middle weight 75kgs & under event.

"He pushed me and in the counter, I had already thrown my arms for the punch when the referee called to stop the bout. How can I stop my punch when my arm was already stretched?," asked an emotionally charged Prasanna.

Prasanna is of the view that the referee, who did not even count down, should have made the decision, which the jury had done, following an appeal by a supporter of the opponent.

"I have never been beaten in this event for 14 years. 

This type of decisions is discouraging. I am not sure what I should do now" said a dissapointed Prasanna.

Sri Lanka Army retained the 75th National Boxing Championship title for the second consecutive year with Slimline going down fighting with the runners-up title.

Slimline Boxing club who represented a strong seven member team to destroy the 11-year hoodoo of the forces who have won the title, failed in their attempts to take the gloves away from the forces, but were able to make an impact finishing the runners-up to the championship.

Four out of seven Slimline boxers qualified for the finals and eventually they won all their finals amidst enthusiatic spectators' response who cheered them right through to victory.

In an interesting occurence, last year's best boxer M.M.D. Paris was beaten in the preliminary rounds by Slimline's Anurudda Ratnayake who won the Fly Weight 51 Kgs & Under in a third round RSC CCC to Jayantha Kumara of Army.
Results

Pin Weight 45.5 Kgs & Under: Bandula Wickramasinghe of Slimline beat S. Aragoda of SL Army - 2nd round RSC O/C.

Fly Weight 51 Kgs & Under: R.M.A.B. Ratnayake of Slimline beat Jayantha Kumara of SL Army - 3rd round RSC CCL.

Light Heavy Weight 81 Kgs & Under: S. Kiribanda of SL Army beat L.T Bandara of SL Army - 1st round Rtd.

Feather Weight 57 Kgs & Under: Nilantha Walisundera of Slimline beat A.B. Weeraparakrama of SL Air Force - 3rd round RSC O/C. 

Light Weight 60 Kgs & Under: D.P.R. Dayananda of SL Army beat R.T.O. Dissanayake of SL Air Force - 2nd round RSC O/C.

Middle Weight 75 Kgs & Under:W.P. Mendis of SL Police beat R.K.S. Prasanna of SL Army - 1st round Disqualification.

Heavy Weight 91 Kgs & Under: H.M.S.P. Wanninayake of SL Army beat R.M.S.N. Bandara of SL Air Force - 4 rounds 15-9 points.

Super Heavy Weight 91 Kgs & Over: Ajantha Gamini Perera of SL Police beat Ajith Prasanna of SL Air Force - 3rd round RSC O/C. 

Welter Weight 67 Kgs & Under: A.G.N. Bandara of SL Army beat J.M.D.N Jayasinghe of SL Police - 4th round 

Bantam Weight 54 Kgs & Under: M.D.K. Wanniarachchi of Slimline beat D.M. Samarasekera of SL Army - 4th round. 

Light Welter Weight 63.5 Kgs & Under: L.J. Perera of SL Army beat D.D. Jayasinghe of SL Air Force - 3rd round RSC O/C. 

Light Middle Weight 71 Kgs & Under: Sisira Perera of SL Air Force beat E.P.D.S. Pathirana of SL Army - 4th round.

Light Fly Weight 48 Kgs & Under: Chaminda Alexander of Seevali BC beat Chamila Abeyratne of SL Police - 4th round.

(RSC = Referee Stopped Contest; O/C = Out Classed; CCC = Compulsory Count Limit)

Yousuf Youhana saves follow-on 

He helped the home team end on 333 for eight in their first innings at the Gaddafi stadium, still 147 runs behind England's total of 480 for eight declared.

The number five put on an unbroken stand of 60 for the ninth wicket with off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq, who had taken all of England's wickets in their first innings.

England all-rounder Craig White, who made a test best score of 93 on Friday and ended Saturday with three for 48, said: "I am really disappointed that we were not able to enforce the follow-on.

"The ball reverse-swung all day but Pakistan batted well."

The home side had resumed on 119 for two, still 162 short of their immediate target, and Salim Elahi and Inzamam-ul-Haq added a further 80, taking their third-wicket partnership to 98, before White made the first breakthrough.

Elahi, dropped at silly mid-off by England captain Nasser Hussain off left-arm spinner Ashley Giles when on 38, edged the ball into his stumps as he played forward six runs later.

Inzamam reached his 28th half-century in 68 tests, including eight fours, before he was bowled for 63 as he aimed to hit Giles through midwicket.

In the last over before lunch White had 19-year-old debutant Qaiser Abbas caught by Graeme Hick at gully for two and at lunch Pakistan were 210 for five.

Mario,Indika guide CCC to comfortable victory

By Marlon Fernandopulle

Sent in to bat the visitors were soon in trouble against the accuracy and pace of the CCC medium pacers Gallage(3/22) and Villawarayan(2/30). Only Chamara Silva (40) showed some resistance as he held the crumbling Panadura batting together. Panadura were eventully bowled out for 152 in 43.1 overs.

NCC rout Sebastianites

A flambouyant unbeaten half century by Kumar Sangakkara helped NCC to an easy nine wicket victory over Sebastianites SC in a Premier Limited over game at Maitland Place yesterday.

Batting first Sebastianites were bundled out for 130 in 43.5 overs. Only Sanjeewa Warusamane with a defiant half century prevented NCC from completely running through the Sebastianites batting.

Warusamane faced 110 balls and struck two boundaries as he helped Sebastianites pass the three figure mark.

Cakewalk for SSC

Despite fickle weather and over 60 minutes of play lost to accommodate the departure of a VIP via a helicopter, SSC had a cakewalk in their limited over encounter against Police SC at Police Park.

Invited to take first lease of the wicket police struggled to come to terms with SSC medium pacers Pramodya Wickremasinghe (2/10) and Dilhara Fernando (2/14). They were eventually bundled out for 112 in 36.2 overs.

Crucial win for Tamils

Tamil Union coasted home to an easy seven-wicket victory over Singha SC on the Duckworth-Lewis formula after rain interupted their limited over game at the P. Sara Stadium. Batting first Singha SC were bowled out for 112 in 39.2 overs. Hasitha Rajapakse top scored for the vistors with 22 while Gayan Wijeyakoon, Upul Chandana and Anil Ridigamanagedara claimed two wickets each.

Scores at a glance

CCC bt Panadura SC by 4 wkts.

Panadura SC-152 all out in 43.1 overs (Chamara Silva 40, Charith Buddhika 75, Sham Liyanage 16; Indika Gallage 3/22, Mario Villawarayan 2/30 )

CCC-153/6 in 39.2 overs (Damitha Hunukkumbura 31, Michael Van Dort 32, Lanka Silva 28, Hemantha Boteju 23 n.o; Pubudu Wickrema 4/23)

NCC bt Sebastianites 

Sebastianites SC-130 all out in 43.5 overs (Sanjeewa Warusamane 51; Akalanka Ganegama 2/34, Ishara Amarasinghe 2/26, Russell Arnold 3/15, Malinga Bandara 2/27)

NCC- 116/1 in 17.5 overs (Kumar Sangakkara 57 n.o, Naweed Nawaz 36 n.o )

SSC bt Police SC by 8 wkts 

Police SC -112 all out in 36.2 overs(Anura Priyantha 28, Chaminda Liyanage 37; Pramodya Wickremasinghe 2/10, Dilhara Fernando 2/14, Tilan Samaraweera 2/27)

SSC- 112/2 in 16 overs (Avishka Gunawardene 26, Marvan Atapattu 22 n.o, Mahela Jayawardene 19 n.o)

Tamil Union bt Singha SC by 7 wkts 

Singha SC-112 all out in 39.2 overs (Gayan Sanjeewa 18, Thilan Thushara 20; Gayan Wijeyakoon 2/25, Upul Chandana 2/20, Anil Ridigamanagedera 2/19, Muttaih Muralitharan 1/170)

Tamil Union-96 for 3 in 15 overs (Ruwin Peiris 26, Upul Chandana 20 n. o Anil Ridigamanagedara 20 n. o)

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