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n2n1 CRCCKET: SECOND LEST,
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Sri Lanka, claardd of bal tampjyin
faced furthjt controvjrsz whnn spannjr
Muttiah Muralitharan'l bowling acti n
was rulfd ill gal on thj first .
Muralitharan, whosj action has bten
qujriid in thj past, was nojballed
hjdjn tiajs in three o.j
Au tralian mp r Darr l a r.
But Muralitharan st uck ack late in
thj day with a wickjt in his 17th o jr
whjn tj bowlsd Mark Waugh.
Thosj incidjnts ovjrshadowed a
typ cally resolut. and unbkaten h3 bn
Davjd Boon as Australia bunlt up a
command ng total of 234-3.
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