Leaders Yorkshire were denied victory in three days by a battling unbroken eighth-wicket partnership of 113 between Leicestershire captain Vince Wells and all-rounder Phil DeFreitas in their CricInfo Championship clash at Grace Road.Now they will be looking anxiously at the weather with heavy rain forecast for the final day. If that proves correct then Leicestershire could yet salvage a draw, having been 53 for five in 13 overs after being set an unlikely victory target of 539.But with Wells leading by example to score his second Championship century of the season, Leicester finished the day at 245 for seven after Yorkshire had claimed the extra half-an-hour in a bid to clinch the win that would take them a step nearer their first title in 33 years.Wells finished on 123 not out and DeFreitas on 47. They came together with the score at 132 for seven and their partnership was spread across 32 overs and nearly two hours.Wells faced 167 balls and hit 18 fours and a six to spearhead the rescue act just when it seemed that his side were on the way to a heavy defeat.Fast bowlers Steve Kirby and Paul Hutchison wrecked the top order with a hostile opening spell, Kirby taking three for 37 and Hutchison two for 21. Kirby was also involved in a verbal exchange with Wells and told to calm it by his captain David Byas after umpire Bob White stepped in to help defuse the situation.Darren Maddy and Wells then laid the foundations for the recovery with a stand of 69 for the sixth wicket before DeFreitas joined his captain in a resilient partnership which frustrated the Championship leaders.If rain does intervene to save Leicestershire then Byas might be regretting delaying his declaration until 15 minutes after lunch. By then Yorkshire had made 429 for eight and led by 538. Darren Lehmann hit 193 and Byas 100.

Central Districts’ all-rounder Glen Sulzberger impressed at the right time during New Zealand A’s tour of India and has won a trip to Pakistan as a result.Off-spinner Sulzberger and Wellington wicket-keeper Chris Nevin were today named as the final two players to be included in the New Zealand team for the three-match One-Day International series with Pakistan starting on October 19.They replace Grant Bradburn and Adam Parore from the side which played in Sri Lanka last month.New Zealand selection chairman Sir Richard Hadlee said today: “Chris Nevin offers more versatility to the batting lineup.”He is capable of opening with Nathan Astle and he may also be trialled lower down the order where we would expect him to maintain a high strike rate and add impetus to the run-scoring.”Nevin has played 13 ODIs and has scored 291 runs at an average of 24.25 with his best score 74 against Australia two summers ago.Last summer he set a record for wicket-keeping dismissals in New Zealand domestic cricket with 47.Hadlee had earlier hinted at Parore’s exclusion from the one-day programme on the Pakistan tour saying New Zealand wanted to ensure Parore was not over-used in the latter part of his career.”While Adam Parore’s recent Test form has been good, his ‘keeping in the one-dayers has not been as sharp as it should be and he has been too inconsistent with the bat,” Hadlee said.Hadlee has not ruled out the longer term development of one of the side’s best close-to-the-wicket fieldsmen, Lou Vincent, as a wicket-keeper in ODIs.Vincent kept for the State Auckland Aces last summer and in one match when Nevin was injured in India he kept wickets for New Zealand A and took four catches.Sulzberger has impressed selector Ross Dykes in India where Dykes has been managing the New Zealand A team.Suzlberger made his New Zealand debut last summer in Zimbabwe when called into the side as a replacement player. He came back into consideration in India where he took a five-wicket bag in one of New Zealand A’s Buchi Babu tournament victories and on the tour over he had shown enough form to be given another opportunity at international level, Hadlee said.The full CLEAR Black Caps squad is: Stephen Fleming (captain), Nathan Astle, James Franklin, Chris Harris, Craig McMillan, Kyle Mills, Chris Nevin, Dion Nash, Jacob Oram, Mathew Sinclair, Glen Sulzberger, Daryl Tuffey, Daniel Vettori, Lou Vincent.The squad for the Test leg of the tour will be named in Christchurch next week.

The WACA is pleased to announce that the two final Rookie Contracts for season 2001-2002 have been awarded to Adam Voges and Andrew James.Adam Voges is a promising Right-Hand Batsman and Left-Arm Wrist-Spin Bowler, who spent last season at the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy in Adelaide.Andrew James is nineteen years old and a Right-Arm Fast bowler who hails from the Western Creek Cricket Club in Canberra. Andrew arrived in Perth last Thursday and spent the weekend familiarising himself with the rest of the Western Warriors squad, at the pre-season training camp in Busselton.James played for the Australian under 19’s team last year, and has spent the past winter at the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy. He will play for the Perth Cricket Club in the WACA’s Pennant competition.Following the naming of these last two playing contracts, all major appointments for the WACA, leading into the start of the 2001-2002 Cricket season, have now been finalised.

Sri Lanka will go into their three-Test series without key fast bowler Dilhara Fernando and wicket-keeper Romesh Kaluwitharana after the pair sustained injuries during the recent tournament in Sharjah.Manager Jayasekera said that Fernando would be out till the end of November which eventually rules him out of the entire three Tests against the West Indies. He said that a bone scan revealed that Fernando had a stress fracture in his back.”It is unfortunate, but Dilhara will not be able to bowl till the end of November even at practice,” said Jayasekera. He said Kaluwitharana would be out for at least six weeks.There are also some concerns over the fitness of champion off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who has been suffering from a sore shoulder, which prompted the management to rest him in Sri Lanka’s last group game in Sharjah.Muralitharan is, however, expected to play in the first Test in Galle, which starts on 13 November.During the official launch of the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka, BCCSL interim committee chairman Vijay Malalasekera said there had been a lot of negative reports going in the media about the West Indies tour to Sri Lanka, and said that it was time to stop talking of events off the field and concentrate on the cricket.West Indies team manager Ricky Skerritt said that initially they had certain reservations on the tour after the September 11 terrorist attack on the USA, which created safety fears about all international travel.He, however, was reassured about player safety after a scouting mission to Sri Lanka a few weeks before the teams arrival in Sri Lanka.Malalasekera said all doubts were cleared when he met the West Indies Cricket Board president Wes Hall at the ICC meeting at Kuala Lumpur and assured him of the team’s security.Skerritt said that injured batsman Wavell Hinds would be joining the team this morning afterundergoing surgery to his nose, which was hit by a ball while playing in a charity match in Jamaica.The West Indies manager and captain Carl Hooper stayed back in Colombo for the press conference, which was also attended by Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya, and Cricket Board CEO Anura Tennekoon.The rest of the West Indies team left for Matara yesterday morning to begin a 3-day practice match against a Sri Lanka ‘A’ side on Thursday.Skerritt said the team, which was confined to indoors (indoor nets and swimming pool) in Colombo because of the bad weather, had a good work out at Matara on Tuesday.

Speculation that South Africa might lose the right to host the 2003 World Cup as a result of the country siding with India in the Mike Denness affair is groundless, a top United Cricket Board official said on Friday.South Africa and India have defied the International Cricket Council by appointing their own match referee for what has now become an unofficial "Test" match between the two countries at SuperSport Park, but the UCB believes that few, if any, sanctions will be taken against the home country.In fact, said United Cricket Board Communications Director Bronwyn Wilkinson, South Africa will be awarded the third Test match with India deemed to have forfeited the game. "This means that South Africa will have won the series 2-0 as for as the Test championship table is concerned," said Wilkinson.Wilkinson said that the UCB had been in constant touch with the ICC as the controversy unfolded. "We asked the ICC what the consequences of our staging an unofficial match would be and the reply was that India would be deemed to have forfeited the match," she said. "There has been no mention of any sanctions against South Africa and the World Cup is not in danger. We have spoken to (ICC president) Malcolm Gray and (ICC chief executive) Malcolm Speed on numerous occasions over the past two days and we would not have decided on our course of action if there was any threat to an event like the World Cup."Because the match will not be official, the statistics from the game will not be reflected in the players’ career records.

In what appeared to be an attempt to break the spirit of the foot-sore WestIndians, Sri Lanka’s batsmen ground on remorselessly on the fourth day of theGalle Test, to set-up an opportunity for their spinners to press for victoryon the final day.Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya finally called the innings to close on590-9 after Hashan Tillakaratne had completed his eighth Test century andthe West Indian players had been forced to endure just over 14 hours in thefield.The old fashioned “wear them out then knock them out” strategy then producedits first casualty when a weary Chris Gayle was caught at mid-off whilsttrying to drive an innocuous looking delivery from Chaminda Vaas.Daren Ganga and Ramnaresh Sarwan held their together their concentration till the umpires finally called off play, with the West Indies 9-1, still 133 runs in arrears.West Indies coach Roger Harper was upbeat at the close, pointing out thatthe team had scored over 400 in the first innings and were confidant ofbatting out the final day on a pitch that has not deterioratedsignificantly.Sri Lankan coach Dav Whatmore described it as “a tremendous effort by thebatsmen to overhaul the West Indies total” but the tourists could have beenput under greater pressure if the batsmen been more industrious earlier inthe day.Starting the day on 343-3, they struggled to score freely in the first twosessions, as the West Indies employed deep-set fields and bowled tighterthan they had done on Thursday and Wednesday. Sri Lanka scored 69 in themorning and 94 in afternoon before raising the tempo slightly in evening,but still only cobbled together 247 runs in 92.4 overs.Sanath Jayasuriya admitted that they had got “a little bit stuck” butinsisted that the intention had always been to gather a lead of around 150.”We wanted to try and make sure that we didn’t have to bat again,” heexplained. “Unfortunately we lost Russel (Arnold) and Kumar (Sangakkara), asthey are the players who can score freely. At the end of the day I am happy.We managed to get a 140 run lead got one wicket before the close.”It will be difficult tomorrow, as batsmen can still score runs on thiswicket,” he warned. “Getting out Carl Hooper and Brian Lara will be the keyto victory.”Sri Lanka were indeed handicapped by the early loss of Russel Arnold, whowas trapped leg-before by Dinanath Ramnarine for 33 in the fourth over ofthe day. He had the ability to push the run-rate and without him therun-scoring mantle was passed onto the team’s grafters.Kumar Sangakkara’s 140, which last for eight hours and 48 minutes, was anepic display of concentration and patience, but he struggled on the fourthmorning and should have been caught off his very first scoring shot by ChrisGayle at first slip. In the end, he managed only 14 runs in 107 minutesbefore he was run out after a mix-up with Tillakaratne.Tillakaratne and Thilan Samaraweera, playing his second Test innings aftermaking a century on his debut, then chipped away at the lead.After lunch the innings came to a virtual standstill as 22 runs were scoredin 12 overs during a grim passage of play. At one stage the pair went 36overs without hitting a boundary.When Tillakaratne lofted Neil McGarrell straight down the ground to bring uphis fifty, and finally overhaul the West Indies first innings total, the pairstarted to show greater urgency.The partnership was only broken after tea, when Samaraweera top edged anattempted pull and was caught by Ridley Jacobs for 77, by which time it hadyielded 154 runs.Chaminda Vaas (7), Niroshan Bandaratillake (4) and Muttiah Muralitharan (14)then attacked the bowling as Tillakaratne completed his patient century. WhenMuralitharan was trapped leg-before and Jayasuriya declared, he had scored105 from 247 balls.Sri Lankan hopes, as they have done so often before, now appear to rest inthe hands of off-spinner Muralitharan. However, on this flat pitch, the WestIndies really should be able to salvage a draw.

A sparkling century from young tyro Ambati Rayudu saw Hyderabad amass 296 for four from the first day’s play of their Ranji Trophy elite group match against Bengal at Secunderabad on Thursday.Rayudu pretty much held the innings together with Daniel Manohar, but scored almost twice as many runs off a similar number of deliveries as his partner. While Manohar made 64 off 163 balls with eight fours, Rayudu hit 134 off 165 balls with 16 fours and five sixes. The knock pushed Bengal onto the back foot, and at the close of play, the hosts were in a strong position, with D Vinay Kumar and Arjun Yadav unbeaten on 39 and 23 respectively.Kishan Choudhary rattles Himachal PradeshPlaying against Rajasthan at Jaipur, Himachal Pradesh found themselves bowled out cheaply on the first day of their Ranji Trophy elite group match, with medium-pacer Kishan Choudhary scalping four for 28 off 20.2 overs.No Himachal batsman crossed 30, and only Sandeep Sharma’s 28, Aashish Kapoor’s 26 and Shakti Singh’s 27. The visitors were bowled out for just 166 in 84.2 overs, and in reply, Rajasthan played out three overs without getting off the mark.Mumbai suffer batting collapse at DelhiMumbai’s batting continued to let their side down in this year’s Ranji campaign, collapsing against Railways on the first day of their Ranji Trophy elite group match on Wednesday.Off-spinner Kulamani Parida took four wickets for 30 runs off 16 overs, hastening the Mumbai decline. NS Shetty was the only batsman to offer a measure of resistance, but he too could scrape together only 26. At the close of the day’s play – which started after lunch due to heavy fog – Mumbai were 101 for seven.Amit Bhandari runs through AndhraPicking six wickets for 73 runs off 17.4 overs, medium-pacer Amit Bhandari ran through Andhra Pradesh in their Ranji Trophy elite group encounter against Delhi on Wednesday.Apark from Andhra skipper MSK Prasad and KS Sahabuddin, no other batsmen displayed any sign of application at the crease. Prasad made 59 off 132 balls, but Sahabuddin’s unbeaten 71 off 109 balls was a far more entertaining affair, displaying nine fours and one six and ruining Bhandari’s figures to some extent. Andhra were bowled out for 198 in just under 60 overs, and in reply, Delhi staggered to 59 for five, Sahabuddin starring again by taking four wickets for 16 runs off eight overs.Balaji rips through Orissa at ChennaiWith a deadly spell of five wickets for 25 runs off 12.1 overs, Lakshmipathy Balaji shattered the Orissa middle order in their Ranji elite group encounter against Tamil Nadu at Chennai.Orissa found themselves bowled out for only 122 in 42.1 overs, with Sanjay Raul making 24 as the top-scorer. Extras, of course, outscored him with 34. In their first innings, Tamil Nadu were 144 for two, with S Sriram and Hemang Badani unbeaten on 47 and 36 respectively.Zaidi scalps five against PunjabIf it had not been for 40s from Ravneet Ricky, Reetinder Sodhi and A Uniyal, Punjab would have been even more humiliated by Ashish Winston Zaidi’s five for 84 off 28 overs at Mohali.Punjab could only manage 208 in their first innings, with Ricky top-scoring with 45 and Uniyal following up with 44. Considering they were, at one stage, 21 for four, it may be looked upon as a fair recovery. In reply, Uttar Pradesh were 39 for no loss.Naidu gives Vidarbha the edgeVivek Naidu made an unbeaten 74 (100b, 13×4)that gave Vidarbha the upper hand in their Ranji Trophy plate group tie against Tripura at Nagpur. After Tripura were bowled out for a measly 102 in 53.1 overs, openers AV Deshpande and Naidu almost overhauled that on their own, putting on 84 for the first wicket.Deshpande hit 51 off just 49 balls (11×4) against Tripura’s toothless attack, and although he was dismissed, Naidu guided Vidarbha to 165 for two by the close of play, a lead of 63 runs.Leggie Mishra deflates BiharHaryana managed to skittle Bihar out for just 225 in their Ranji Trophy plate group match at Gurgaon on Wednesday, with leg-spinner Amit Mishra picking six for 86.Only Bihar opener MS Dhoni managed to play with any semblance of comfort, stroking 85 off 120 balls with 14 fours and one six. He did finally fall to Mishra, and the next eight wickets fell for only 120 runs. Bihar occupied 78.2 overs for their 225, and by stumps, Haryana had reached 23 for no loss.Maharashtra, Mandar Sane dominate J&K at PuneAnother leggie who performed the starring role for his side was Mandar Sane of Maharashtra, who ripped through Jammu & Kashmir to scalp eight for 43 off 16 overs at Pune.Jammu & Kashmir’s only significant batting performance came from opener H Fayaz Ahmed, who made 49 off 104 balls with nine fours. None of the others could play Sane at all, and the visitors collapsed to 131 all out in 48 overs. In reply, Maharashtra were 155 for two, with NA Godbole batting well on 68 off 116 balls.Hemanth Kumar strokes century at DelhiBatting fluently, C Hemanth Kumar hit 116 delightful runs off 251 balls (11×4), rescuing Kerala from 50 for two and taking them to 220 for two by the close of play against Services at Delhi.Hemanth Kumar was given good support by skipper Sunil Oasis, who made 71 off 157 balls (8×4), and the two kept the Services attack at bay for almost two and a half sessions, adding 170 runs for the third wicket. The day ended early due to bad light, but it left Kerala in a good position.

The Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, David Morgan, and England’s senior player, Alec Stewart, today confirmed that England’s players will back the ECB’s decision to play their World Cup match in Zimbabwe.Morgan himself has been in constant touch with the England camp over the controversy, and has sought the views of both the captain Nasser Hussain and coach Duncan Fletcher.”The decision yesterday was one that I had – along with Tim Lamb and Mike Soper – recommended to the management board and they were unanimous in their support and reaction,” said Morgan.”We should continue to attempt to fulfil commitments to the World Cup by playing in Harare. The players have made it very clear, as have the management, that they are prepared to follow ECB instructions in this case.”Providing there is no further deterioration in the safety and security issue then we can fully expect to be playing in Zimbabwe.”The ECB’s decision to resist Government pressure to boycott the match has also received the backing of the Professional Cricketers’ Association.Members of England’s World Cup squad have been gathering information about the situation in Zimbabwe, and today their views were voiced by wicket-keeper Alec Stewart.”We should discuss it,” Stewart said. “Because we are cricketers it doesn’t mean we don’t know what goes on in the outside world. It’s like the India situation last year over security when the players discussed whether they would go or not.”But we still take guidance from the ECB management board. We have bosses above us that have dealt with the Government and they are the ones who know what is going on. If the Government steps in and puts sanctions on Zimbabwe then I am sure that will change.”Stewart added that he believed the ECB’s chief executive, Tim Lamb, had been put into a difficult position by the Government.”I’d say he’s handled himself and the ECB situation very well,” added Stewart. “He’s obviously had high-powered meetings with the Government, and they have been, using his words I think, ‘less than supportive’ and backed him into a corner.”The ECB came under belated pressure from ministers to boycott the game over Christmas, after the International Development Secretary Clare Short voiced initial opposition to the match.The Government also ruled out compensation in return for the game’s abandonment, and Morgan added that there were other issues to consider.”It is not just money the ECB stands to lose but the unity of world cricket is at stake,” he told the BBC. “Yesterday’s decision goes a long way to preserving the unity of world cricket.”It isn’t cricket’s job to make moral judgements. We have a commitment to play a World Cup match in Zimbabwe and providing it is safe for cricketers and administrators to travel, and it is, we have to fulfil that commitment.”We have great sympathy for the plight of people in Zimbabwe but also sympathy for cricket worldwide and cricket in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Cricket Union would feel terribly let down if we fail to fulfil the commitment of playing a World Cup match there.”Meanwhile the BBC cricket reporter, Pat Murphy, has taken a personal decision not to travel to next month’s match.Murphy, who is covering England’s one-day games in Australia, said: “This is not an issue of safety for me, it is a matter of personal morality. I think it reflects well on the maturity of the BBC that they allow me to reflect such freedom of conscience.”This is something that has bothered me for some time and it is a personal and private decision. I don’t make any criticism of my colleagues who choose to travel. I wish them well.”

If it is a World Cup, it seems only right that each game should be treated as a cup-tie. That certainly is the way that England are having to approach every match they play in the tournament after forfeiting the points against Zimbabwe.Their next hurdle in the do-or-die campaign is against Pakistan at the scenic Newlands ground in Cape Town under lights, but England will have little opportunity to admire the setting. They would much prefer to maintain their current position in Group A so they can return to play a Super Six match at the same venue in two week’s time.Even before all the political wrangling began and they lost those four points to Zimbabwe in a court room rather than on the field, England knew that this match was going to be a defining moment in their World Cup. A look at the draw suggested that Australia would head the group to leave England, India and Pakistan fighting for the last two qualifying spots. Now Zimbabwe have been thrown into that equation and England are playing catch-up.They started well with a pretty ruthless defeat of the Netherlands, but then had a somewhat pedestrian win against Namibia. From an English point of view, not too much should be read into that, for there was not the intensity associated with a major match and England missed the driving presence of their captain, Nasser Hussain.Hussain was suffering from a stiff neck, which had eased enough for him to take part in today’s practice session. That has got to be a good sign, for while his deputy, Alec Stewart, did a sound job in his place it was no more than that.It was only on the morning of the match that Stewart was asked to do the job, despite the fact that Marcus Trescothick is officially vice-captain. The management’s decision to opt for the tried and trusted Stewart rather than an inexperienced Trescothick initiated some feverish writing among those members of the press who specialise in such stories.Trescothick himself was expecting to get the call if his captain was unfit, but he has not enjoyed a happy time with his batting this winter and it appears that this fact weighed heavily in the debate. Leave the Somerset man to get his own game in order before adding to his workload was the theory. Of course, there is always the view that if he had something else about which to think he might have just gone out and smashed the thing rather than worrying how he was going to do so. That was not the chosen option.If Hussain is fit, it would make sense for his replacement in the side, Ronnie Irani, to drop out. However, England selection is never straightforward. Left-arm spinning all-rounder Ian Blackwell tweaked his back in the Namibia match and while he took part in practice, he did not appear to enjoy total freedom of movement and scans have proved to be inconclusive.If Blackwell is unfit, a like-for-like replacement would be Ashley Giles. He is just recovering from tonsillitis and does not offer the same potential for the valuable runs down the order as either Blackwell or Irani. Having said that, Giles has established himself as England’s first-choice spinner and can be relied upon to offer ten overs of control for his captain.As far as Pakistan are concerned, the match takes on scarcely less importance than it does for England. They would have been disappointed to have had Australia in trouble in the opening match of their campaign and then losing by 82 runs in Johannesburg. They then demolished Namibia in a way that England failed to.In both cases it was their fast bowling pair of Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar that did the damage and this looks to be the key to this match. England enjoy steady rather than destructive bowlers while Pakistan have potential match-winners in Wasim, Shoaib, Waqar Younis and Saqlain Mushtaq.Pakistan’s batsmen have yet to convince in the tournament but, like the team as a whole, they ooze talent. The team has the potential to beat any other side in the world. It also has the ability to under-perform woefully.So much could depend on the toss. Unless there is undue moisture in the pitch at the start, the captain favoured by the coin will bat first and leave the opposition to chase a total under the Cape Town lights. That is never an easy proposition.As for history, that is all in favour of Pakistan. They have not lost to England in the World Cup since 1983 – a record that encompasses five matches including the 1992 final in Melbourne. England would certainly have broken that sequence in a group match in 1992 had not the weather intervened, but that is scant consolation. On the other hand, in 49 one-day international meetings in total, England have won 28 to Pakistan’s 20 victories.It all adds up to a fascinating encounter between two evenly matched sides. It must be hoped that conditions allow for both sides to play to potential. If they do, it is likely to be a desperately close-run thing.

India v Kenya:Virender Sehwag (IND) 106 runs to complete 2000 ODI runs
Dinesh Mongia (IND) needs 96 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Javagal Srinath (IND) needs 118 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Anil Kumble (IND) needs 158 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Ravindu Shah (KEN) needs 3 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Thomas Odoyo (KEN) needs 51 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Hitesh Modi (KEN) needs 147 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Zaheer Khan (IND) needs 5 wickets to join the 100 ODI-wicket clubSteve Tikolo (KEN) needs 43 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Maurice Odumbe (KEN) needs 139 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Ravindu Shah (KEN) needs 176 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Kennedy Otieno (KEN) needs 187 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Maurice Odumbe (KEN) needs 7 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-clubAustralia v Sri Lanka:Adam Gilchrist (AUS) needs 38 runs to complete 5000 ODI runs
Andy Symonds (AUS) needs 36 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) needs 86 runs to complete 9000 ODI runs
Michael Bevan (AUS) needs 20 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Adam Gilchrist (AUS) needs 131 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Darren Lehmann (AUS) needs 192 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Aravinda De Silva (SL) needs 64 runs to complete 1000 World Cup runs
Marvan Atapattu (SL) needs 112 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs
Hashan Tillakaratne (SL) needs 138 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs