India in West Indies

An unbeaten 55 from Shivnarine Chanderpaul helped West Indies compile a 375-run lead to take command on the third day of the deciding fifth Test against India.

The Guyanese left-hander's second half-century of the match led West Indies to a second-innings total of 165-7.

Earlier, the home side decided not to enforce the follow-on despite bowling out India for 212 in reply to their first innings' 422.

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Spin bowling all-rounder Gareth Breese has been called into the West Indies squad for the first two of five one-day internationals against India.

The selectors have made one other change to the 13-man squad named for the fifth Test with paceman Corey Collymore returning in place of Adam Sanford.

West Indies squad: C Hooper (capt), B Lara, C Gayle, W Hinds, R sarwan, S Chanderpaul, R Jacobs (wkt), G Breese, R Hinds, M Dillon, P Collins, C Cuffy, C Collymore.

Sri Lanka in England

Mark Butcher ground out 105 runs while England's top five batsmen all made half-centuries to complete a marathon fightback and salvage a draw from the first Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's on Monday.

The home side, outclassed for most of the match and forced to follow on 280 runs behind, declared just before the close of the fifth day on 529 for five, 249 runs in credit, after batting for two days as the game petered out.

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Mark Butcher, who scored his fourth Test century - and probably the slowest he will ever make - said England now had the opportunity to go into the Edgbaston Test against Sri Lanka in a confident frame of mind.

As the Lord's Test ended in a turgid draw - less than five wickets fell per day - Butcher became the last of four centurions in the match.

But he took exactly six-and-a-half hours to get there, facing 291 balls, and finding the tightly-marshalled boundary rope on just nine occasions.

"Like a few of the guys I was disappointed with the first innings," admitted Butcher.

"It was the kind of wicket that you had to work at and not to take too many risks and you couldn't be too flashy - we learned from the first innings.

"We can take the confidence from this innings into the next match and that is important.

Miscellaneous

South Africa face a packed schedule prior to hosting the 2003 Cricket World Cup. They will take part in a traingular one-day tournament against Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Morocco in August, prior to moving on to Sri Lanka for the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy.

But the most intensive part of their itinerary will take place on home soil with Test and one-day series against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan in a period of just over three months between September and early January.

It will be the first time Bangladesh have played South Africa since being granted Test status in 2000.

South Africa will play six Tests and 13 one-day internationals in total, with the World Cup to follow in February and March.

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Pakistan has announced that Waqar Younis will remain captain and Mudassar Nazar as coach for the three-match one-day series against Australia.

"Maintaining our policy of naming the captain series by series we have decided to retain Younis as captain for the three-match one-day series in Australia," Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Tauqir Zia said.

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The Pakistan Cricket Board are keeping up the pressure on their Australian counterparts in an attempt to persuade them not to cnacel the tour scheduled for later this year.

Australia are due to tour Pakistan in September and October but it has been thrown into doubt by a recent bomb attack in Karachi.

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Former Black Cap bowler turned rugby player Jeff Wilson has decided to retire from rugby and return to cricket.

Planet Rugby reports that the Super 12 semi-final between Wilson's outfit the Highlanders and the Crusaders at Jade Stadium was the last first-class match for one of rugby football's most skilled players ever.

In that match, although in a well-beaten team, he scored a try of brilliant vision and ultimate simplicity. Wilson has decided to give himself up to cricket

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