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When Tillakaratne Dilshan played his final international matches this month, special attention was being paid by a forklift driver in Melbournes western suburbs. It drew his interest not because he was Australian and Dilshan was playing against Australia, but because he was a Sri Lankan for whom the moment had personal significance.His name is Indika Gallage, and last century he and Dilshan shared an international debut.The year was 1999. Sri Lanka had just completed a historic series win over Australia. Gallage and Dilshan had both played against the Australians in tour games that year - in one match Michael Slater was caught Dilshan bowled Gallage - but neither of the Sri Lankans was called on to play in a Test.The following month, the Sri Lankans headed to Zimbabwe without Aravinda de Silva, who withdrew for personal reasons, nor Arjuna Ranatunga, who was not selected. And when fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa was ruled out of the first Test, in Bulawayo, due to illness, it meant three men would make their Test debuts: Dilshan, Gallage and Indika de Saram.The trio would go on to very different international careers. Dilshan played 497 games for Sri Lanka across all formats, including 87 Tests. De Saram played only 20 internationals, including four Tests, and was picked out of the blue for one T20 against India in 2009, nearly eight years after he last played for Sri Lanka. Gallage had to settle for four internationals, three of which were ODIs.Bulawayo would be his solitary Test cap. He felt he bowled well there, albeit without taking a wicket, but by the second Test, in Harare, Zoysa was well enough to resume his place in the side and duly claimed a hat-trick with his first three deliveries, in the second over of the match. Zoysa missed the third Test with a groin strain, but Ravindra Pushpakumara was preferred there to Gallage.But Gallage remains the 81st man to play Test cricket for Sri Lanka, and hanging on a shelf of cricket trophies and memorabilia in his Melbourne home is his Sri Lanka Test cap. A right-arm fast-medium bowler who was good enough to claim 293 first-class wickets at 22.19 in a 113-match career, Gallage still plays the game, although now hes perhaps more medium than fast-medium.He will turn 41 in November, but looks younger than his age. He is about to enter his 11th consecutive season with the Sunshine Druids Cricket Club in Melbourne, and hopes there are a couple more years left in him. He smiles when asked if he still loves cricket.Yes - too much, he says. Im 40 years old. I will still play, they still have a contract for me. This is my 11th year with the same club, Sunshine Druids ... I have to maintain my body. I have a short run-up now.He remains in touch with Dilshan, who is a year younger. It frustrates Gallage to see a player such as Dilshan moved on from international cricket to make room for younger men. After Dilshans last ODI, in Dambulla in August, he was replaced by the 18-year-old opener Avishka Fernando, who had not played so much as a single first-class or List A game.Dilshan could continue playing... what is too old? Gallage says. All the time in Sri Lankan school cricket, guys get two or three centuries and get picked in a Sri Lanka A team, and no first-class cricket. Its not good. Youve got to play first-class cricket.By the time of his Test debut, Gallage himself had played 55 first-class matches. He did his chances of selection for the Bulawayo Test a world of good by claiming 6 for 60 in a tour match against the Zimbabwe Cricket Union Presidents XI. At a team meeting in the lead-up to the Test, Gallage was told he was in the XI, and he later received his cap from the captain, Sanath Jayasuriya.But in the first innings of the Test, Gallage bowled 14 overs for 53 without a wicket, and in the second innings he took 0 for 24 off 11 overs. Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan did the bulk of the bowling, and Pramodya Wickramasinghe took the lions share of the wickets. I had the performances in first-class cricket and in the three-day [tour] game, Gallage says. I bowled well in the Test but didnt get a wicket. Then I didnt get picked for the second Test. It was my one chance, thats it. It was almost the same in one-dayers. I played my first one-dayer in Zimbabwe, in Harare. I did well. Then two games in New Zealand, then never got picked again.I bowled well in my last one-dayer - nine overs, 42 for two wickets. I dont know why I didnt get picked again. In my first game in New Zealand I bowled seven overs, thirty-something for one wicket. I got Nathan Astle out. Then in my last game, I got [Adam] Parore and [Craig] Spearman out. Then I dont know what happened.What happened was that Gallages international career was over, and he ended up signing a contract to play league cricket in England. Then he joined Sunshine Druids and moved with his wife and young daughter to Melbourne. Eleven years and two more children later - his two sons were born in Australia - Gallage is still in Melbourne. He has permanent residency, and intends to stay.He remains in touch with some of his former team-mates, men like Zoysa and Rangana Herath, as well as Dilshan. But he is far from alone in Melbourne, which is now home to numerous former Sri Lanka cricketers. The likes of Asanka Gurusinha, Ravi Ratnayeke and Saliya Ahangama have lived in Melbourne for decades, but others such as Chanaka Welegedara, Rumesh Ratnayake and Dulip Liyanage are more relatively recent arrivals.Its a good country, Gallage says of Australia. Now I work as a forklift driver full-time, part-time cricketer... but I have still got the Test cap. Shoes UK From China . Clarke was injured while practicing on the Doha Golf Club range after the pro-am on Tuesday. The Northern Irishman arrived at the course on Wednesday hoping to start, but after hitting a few balls on the practice putting green Clarke advised officials he was not fit to play. Wholesale Shoes UK . The team also announced Tuesday that the Braves will wear a commemorative patch on the right sleeve during the season. 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Kraigg Brathwaites unbeaten 142 off 318 balls - he carried his bat - steered West Indies to a hard-earned lead of 56 in the first innings, before Jason Holder made three breakthroughs in a lively spell after tea.Pakistan lost four wickets before erasing the deficit, but Azhar Ali and Sarfraz Ahmed stabilised the innings with an unbroken 39-run partnership for the fifth wicket and took Pakistan to 87 for 4 by stumps.The inroads into Pakistan came via a short-ball barrage. Holder bowled a fast bouncer to Sami Aslam that the batsman could only top edge to fine leg. Another well-directed bouncer got big on Asad Shafiq and had him fending to Darren Bravo at gully. Then Younis Khan got a faint tickle on a leg-side delivery to give Holder his third. When Misbah-ul-Haq pulled offspinner Roston Chase straight to Devendra Bishoo at deep-backward square leg, Pakistan had lost four wickets for 11 runs to slip to 48 for 4.It could have been even better for West Indies. With Pakistans score at 71, Shannon Gabriel bowled a nasty, steep bouncer at Sarfraz, batting on 9, who fended it to Bravo at slip. But Gabriel had overstepped - for the 26th time in the series - by a big margin and Sarfraz survived. He moved on to 19 by stumps, while Azhar had 45. But with Pakistans lead still only 31, they were a fair distance from safety and heavily dependent on Azhar and Sarfraz to get them there. West Indies, for their part, had worked their way into a good position to push for their first win in 14 Tests.The foundation had been laid by Brathwaite, who became the fifth West Indies batsman to carry his bat. He was a paragon of patience and concentration for the majority of his marathon knock and his temperament was matched by an ability to work ones and twos to all corners of the ground. Though all but one of his 11 fours came behind the wicket, owing to the slow outfield, he scored evenly all around the field thanks to his ability to manoeuvre the ball into gaps.Resuming on 95 on the thiird morning, Brathwaite made that 99 with the first ball of the day, helping a slightly wide delivery from Mohammad Amir between gully and point.ddddddddddddBrathwaite worked the fifth ball for a two through midwicket to bring up his fifth Test century. His overnight batting partner was Holder, who started promisingly, looking solid in defence and playing a couple of sumptuous drives for four. The first, off left-armer Wahab Riaz, was a straight drive to a delivery angled into him from around the wicket. He kept his balance perfectly and timed the ball sweetly, beating mid-on to his left. The second, off Amir, was a gorgeous drive through the extra-cover region to a ball that was angled across him.But Holders dismissal came immediately after that second boundary. Amir, also a left-armer, changed the angle by going around the wicket to attack the stumps. Holder misjudged the line, shouldered arms and had his off stump rattled.Left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz, introduced in the 96th over for just his fifth over of the match, created the next two chances - in the space of four balls. First, he got Brathwaite to attempt a cut at one that was too straight. The ball bounced more than Brathwaite had expected and he got a thin edge to wicketkeeper Sarfraz, who fumbled it onto the grille of his helmet before it fell to ground. Then, off the last ball of the over, Bishoo swept onto his pad to Azhar at short leg, but he, too, fumbled it onto the grille of his helmet before taking the catch. While Michael Gough gave it out on the field, Bishoo reviewed and third umpire Richard Illingworth spotted the infraction.By that time, West Indies had taken the lead, and Brathwaite and Bishoo continued to build an eighth-wicket partnership that steadily extended it. Bishoo was more than adequate in the pairs 60-run stand, mirroring some of the grit that Brathwaite had shown in spades. But he was the first to depart after lunch, nicking behind off Wahab. Wahab then accounted for Alzarri Joseph and Gabriel to wrap up the West Indies innings and claim his second five-wicket haul in Tests.That still left West Indies with a handy first-innings lead, and it looked handier still after Holders post-tea exploits. ' ' '