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Day 3, 10:50 am Good morning. We are good to go in a little less than ten minutes.
New Zealand have worked hard enough to get themselves ahead in this Test
Pakistan know that three or four sessions of good batting here could bring them back into the game.

It's a bright, sunny Monday morning
Tim Southee has confirmed on the broadcast that Neil Wagner is sore, but ready to go this morning !

Pakistan, Zindabad !

Stumps, Day 3 :

133- 6

5.58pm With four wickets in that session, India are fully in control of this Test

even though these two have kept them at bay for 18.2 overs now while adding 34

and taking Australia into lead of 2 runs !

Stumps, Day 3 : 239 - 10

Pakistan trail by 192 runs

7.28 pm The New Zealand players are the first to come to Faheem and shake his hand.
He leads the teams off at stumps on what has been a really dramatic Day 3

102.4
Jamieson to Faheem, edged and taken behind the wicket !

Ashraf c †Watling b Jamieson 91 (193m 134b 15x4 1x6) SR: 67.91

99.5
Wagner to Faheem, FOUR runs : that's the follow-on avoided !

621

FaF 199, Elgar 95, Temba 71, Maharaj 73

137.5
Hasaranga to du Plessis, Faf fluffs it! Looks to go over the top but picks out mid-on !
Oh dearie me, he's in the Ian Bell club.....
A simple catch for Karunaratne, and du Plessis threw back his head in disappointment.
The same emotion is etched on the faces of his team-mates and the SA management.

F du Plessis c Karunaratne b de Silva 199 (276b 24x4 0x6) SR: 72.1

45 -2

Day 3 - Session 3 : Sri Lanka trail by 180 runs.

6.4
Ngidi to Perera, FOUR, slightly back of a length, he steers it nicely away through the covers and there's no one there

56 - 2

Session 3: Sri Lanka trail by 169 runs

8.6
Ngidi to Chandimal, FOUR , slightly over-pitched and just outside off, he plays a lovely straight drive to the boundary

"Kusal Perera scored 153* last year to win from the jaws of defeat, can he do it again? "

Currently on 33* Chandimal 21*

Dhananjaya de Silva out after tearing a thigh muscle in the first innings, where he scored 79 before retiring hurt.

Stumps, Day 3 : Sri Lanka trail by 160 runs.

India won by 8 wickets

South Africa won by an innings and 45 runs

Pakistan need 302 runs : Stumps, day 4 !
Azhar Ali 34*, Fawad Alam 21*

New Zealand won by 101 runs

Fawad 102