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Mahela resists the Kiwis

INTERNET/AFP, Colombo
New Zealand fast bowler Daryl Tuffey warmed up for the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka with a five-wicket haul in a practice match at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground here on Saturday.
Tuffey (5-55) was brilliantly supported by paceman Shane Bond (3-56) as the tourists restricted the Sri Lankan Board President's team to 258 in the first innings on the opening day of a two-day tour opener on Saturday.
New Zealand were 74 for no loss in reply at stumps, with Matthew Horne (38) and Mark Richardson (27) at the crease.
The home side made a poor start,
losing their first three wickets with only 35 on the board, but they were revived by a stand of 131 between middle-order batsman Mahela Jayawardene and Romesh Kaluwitharana.
Jayawardene slammed an impressive 108 to regain form after a dismal World Cup performance as he propped up the reeling hosts.
Jayawardene, who made just 21 runs in seven matches in South Africa, added 131 for the fourth wicket with skipper Romesh Kaluwitharana (55).
He struck two sixes and 15 fours in his 137-ball knock before being caught by Richard Jones in the last over before tea to become Bond's second victim.
With the squad for the first Test about to be announced, Jayawardene staked his claim for a place. He was
backed to come good by former teammate Aravinda de Silva, now a selector.
The Jayawardene-Kaluwitharana venture came to an end when the latter was lbw to Tuffey for 55.
Stephen Fleming's New Zealanders will play a pair of two-day practice matches before the opening Test, starting here on April 25.
The second and final Test begins at
Kandy on May 3.
The tourists will then figure in a triangular one-day series against the hosts and Pakistan.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard on the first day of the two-day tour match between a Sri Lanka Board President's XI and New Zealand in Colombo on Saturday (each team fielded 12 players apiece, but only eleven of them are eligible to bat):
SL BOARD PRESIDENT'S XI: First innings
R Arnold c Sinclair b Tuffey 4
M Vandort c Fleming b Tuffey 25 T Dilshan c Fleming b Bond 4
M Jayawardene c Jones b Bond 108
R Kaluwitharana lbw b Tuffey 55
C Silva c Fleming b Tuffey 4
M Pushpakumara st Hart b Vettori2 S Wijeratne c Sinclair b Oram 0
H Fernando c Horne b Bond 20
M Maharoof hit wicket b Tuffey 22 D Fernando not out 1
Extras: (lb-5, nb-8) 13
Total: (All out in 64.5 overs) 258
Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-31, 3-35, 4166, 5-174, 6-181, 7-181, 8-230, 9-235
Did not bat: D Gamage
Bowler O M R W
Tuffey 14.5 1 54 5
Bond 15 3 52 3
Oram 9 1 48 1
Styris 2 2 0 0
Wiseman 10 1 49 0
Vettori 14 1 50 1
NEW ZEALAND: First innings
M Richardson not out 26
M Horne not out 38
Extras: (lb-6, nb-4) 10
Total: (For no loss 23 overs) 74
To bat (from): R Hart, S Bond, R Jones, J Oram, P Wiseman, M Sinclair, S Styris, S Fleming, D Vettori, D Tuffey
Bowler O M R W
Gamage 6 2 7 0
D Fernando 4 1 12 0
Maharoof 5 1 20 0
H Fernando 4 0 25 0
P'kumara 2 1 1 0
Arnold 2 0 3 0