Sporting Digest: Cricket
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Your support makes all the difference.THE start of today's inaugural Test between Sri Lanka and the West Indies at Colombo may be delayed because the ground is saturated. The West Indies will decide between playing a second spinner, Roger Harper, or another fast bowler, Anderson Cummins.
SRI LANKA (from): A Ranatunga (capt), R S Mahanama, D P Samaraweera, H P Tillekeratne, P A de Silva, S T Jayasuriya, R S Kalpage, P Dissanayake, G P Wickremasinghe, M Muralitharan, S D Anurasiri, D K Liyanage, A H Wickremaratne, C Vaaz.
WEST INDIES (from): R B Richardson (capt), D L Haynes, P V Simmons, B C Lara, K L T Arthurton, C L Hooper, J R Murray, C E L Ambrose, C A Walsh, W K M Benjamin, R A Harper, A C Cummins.
WASIM AKRAM returns to captain Pakistan for tomorrow's second Test against Zimbabwe. He missed the opening match of the three-Test series last week after fracturing his wrist in Sharjah last month. Zimbabwe are expected to keep the same side that lost by 131 runs.
TOUR MATCH (Melbourne): South Africa 261 (B M McMillan 55; D W Fleming 6-86) and 178 (J N Rhodes 59; C Howard 5-42); Victoria 330 for 8 dec (B Hodge 80, D J Ramshaw 71, D W Fleming 54) and 110 for 4. Victoria won by six wickets.
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