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Heath Streak dismissed Arjuna Ranatunga, the Sri Lankan captain, and Romesh Kaluwitharana in the space of three balls to give Zimbabwe the initiative on the first day of the first Test in Colombo. After electing to bat on a grassless pitch, Sri Lanka were reduced to 4 for 2 before Ranatunga and Kaluwitharana shared a partnership of 142 for the sixth wicket. Streak then swung the game back towards Zimbabwe when he took the second new ball and quickly accounted for both batsmen. (Sri Lanka won toss)SRI LANKA - First InningsR S Mahanama lbw b Streak 4S T Jayasuriya c Evans b Olonga 0A P Gurusinha c Olonga b Strang 52P A de Silva b Strang 35H P Tillakaratne c A Flower b Olonga 20*A Ranatunga lbw b Streak 75R S Kaluwitharana c and b Streak 71H D P K Dharmasena not out 16W P U C J Vaas not out 3Extras (lb6, nb7, w1) 14Total (for 7, 90 overs) 290Fall: 1-4, 2-4, 3-53, 4-105, 5-128, 6-270 7-271.To bat: M Muralitharan, K J Silva.Bowling: Streak 17-5-41-3, Olonga 14-2-46-2, G Whittall 9-1-31-0, Strang 29-3-88-2, A Whittall 11-3-35-0, Evans 6-0-27-0, G Flower 4-1-16-0.ZIMBABWE: *A D R Campbell, A Flower, G W Flower, C N Evans, H H Streak, P A Strang, C B Wishart, M H Dekker, G J Whittall, H R Olonga, A Whittall.Umpires: S Bucknor (WI) and B C Cooray (SL).. Substitutes not used: Wright, Rush, Cureton.Queen's Park Rangers (4-4-2): Sommer; Jackson, Yates, McDonald, Brevett; Challis (Murray, 69), Quashie, Barker, Impey; Sinclair, Dichio, Substitutes not used: Maddix, Charles.Referee: M Bailey (Impington)..
Instead, it was Rangers who began to get a grip on the match, with Trevor Sinclair a more threatening presence down the right, forcing his opponents to deal with a series of dangerous crosses.Paul Murray bounced a lofted attempt off the top of the bar as an equaliser loomed. It duly arrived following a second booking for the full-back, Danny Mills, which raised Norwich's red-card statistics to four for the season. The free-kick was only partially cleared and Impey gleefully accepted his chance.Norwich City (4-3-3): Gunn; Sutch, Newman, Polston, Mills; Crook, Milligan, Carey; Adams, Akinbiyi, Eadie. They were trailing from the 17th minute when a cleverly worked free-kick from Crooks opened the way for Adams to strike his fifth goal of the campaign with a splendid drive.Shaun Carey and Akinbiyi both worked themselves into inviting openings but Norwich were never able to sustain such pressure again. Yet Mike Walker's return has instilled a new impetus at Carrow Road and, at 33, Ian Crook, their midfield creator, is playing as well as ever.His accurate, laser passes enabled Ade Akinbiyi, Darren Eadie and Neil Adams to stretch their legs, and Rangers struggled to catch their breath.
But having dominated with something to spare, Norwich were left cursing at the end as their chance to regain second place in the First Division was denied.It seemed strange to mention harmony and Norwich in the same breath after two dark and desperate years experienced by the Canaries. Here Mantilla had a forehand drive called out - which would have given the Spaniard a 5-3 lead - only for the umpire to over-rule the call.Rusedski and Danny Sapsford, Britain's last two survivors in the singles, are not due to play their second-round matches until today.. Queen's Park Rangers may still be without a manager to replace Ray Wilkins, but at least they successfully rejoined the search for league points last night with Andrew Impey's smart drive eight minutes from time securing them a deserved equaliser It was a remarkable turnaround for the London club. Rangers were run ragged in the opening 45 minutes, and then they demonstrated, in the way they steadied then counter-punched, that they are a side who have not lost their spirit despite losing their mentor. A third successive defeat had looked likely. The early evidence was of the advantage to be gained from a settled club and a happy dressing room.
But then the wheels came off and Mantilla won nine of the next 10 games to lead 3-0 in the third.The young Argentinian, who has climbed from No 380 in the world rankings to No 125 in the last nine months, looked down and out but battled back to win five of the last six games.Zabaleta had a bit of luck when Mantilla led 4-3 and reached break point on his rival's serve in the following game. The Canadian-born left-hander was injured for that tie and was replaced by Luke Milligan.The big surprise at Bournemouth yesterday came when the 18-year-old Argentinian Mariano Zabaleta beat the second seed, Felix Mantilla of Spain, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals.The Centre Court match lasted for two hours and 13 minutes, and Zabaleta, the world junior champion, showed outstanding courage in beating an opponent ranked No 16 in the world.Zabaleta won the opening set of a long baseline duel, then broke the Spaniard in the first game of the second set. I don't know how much good because for the last week I have not been doing anything, just visiting family and friends."David Lloyd, the team captain, announced yesterday that if Henman is fit, the team would be Henman, Greg Rusedski, Mark Petchey and Neil Broad. The recall of Rusedski would then be the only change to the team who beat Ghana 5-0 in Accra in the last round. I will test it at Wimbledon on Monday, hit a few balls and see how it goes At the moment I'm very hopeful.