The left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas, who took five wickets for 99, was the pick of the Sri Lankan bowlers. Saeed Anwar, Shoaib Mohammad and Moin Khan contributed with half-centuries each. The home innings was boosted by an unbroken last wicket partnership between the pace bowler Aaqib Javed and the debutant Saqlain Mushtaq, which added 36 runs Aaqib made 28, his highest Test score. For Pakistan, Inzamam-ul-Haq hit 95 and the captain, Rameez Raja, 78. When bad light stopped play, Mahanama was on 5 and Hathurusinghe had made 18 in 5.4 overs. The tourists, needing 260 runs to avoid the follow-on, opened with Roshan Mahanama and Chandika Hathurusinghe, who stood up well to the fierce pace attack of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

Birchfield won the Guardian Insurance Women’s Jubilee Cup, just holding off Windsor, Slough and Eton.CricketInzamam takes chargeSri Lanka, facing a Pakistan first-innings total of 459 for nine declared, scored 23 for no loss in reply at close of play on the second day of the first Test in Peshawar yesterday. Both clubs had 113 points but the Beagles took the trophy because they had six winners to Belgrave’s three Haringey were third. The Scottish veteran qualified alongside Menu on the front row of the grid for both of today’s races while his arch rival, the Swedish Volvo driver Rickard Rydell, could manage only sixth and 18th.AthleticsBeagles outrun HarriersNewham and Essex Beagles pipped Belgrave Harriers to win the Guardian Insurance Men’s Gold Cup Final at Stoke-on-Trent yesterday. But the happiest man at Oulton was the championship leader, John Cleland. Happily the field was restored to health after Friday’s food-poisoning fiasco, which required riders to make frequent comfort stops.Motor racingTasty MenuThe Swiss driver Alain Menu, of the Williams-Renault team, grabbed pole positions for both of today’s rounds of the Auto Trader RAC British Touring Car Championship at Oulton Park, Cheshire yesterday. But Laurent Jalabert, of France, riding for the ONCE team, kept the race leader’s yellow jersey after coming in second, 23 seconds behind Olano, with Jalabert’s team-mate, the Swiss rider Alex Zulle, finishing third, a further 20 seconds behind. The Brazilian goalkeeper Claudio Taffarel yesterday announced his retirement from international football, blaming his decision on remarks made by Riccardo Teixeira, the President of the Brazilian football federation, after Uruguay beat Brazil in July’s Copa America.CyclingOlano the fall guyThe Spanish rider Abraham Olano shrugged off a fall to win the seventh stage of the Tour of Spain cycle race yesterday, a 41km time trial starting and finishing in Salamanca.

Asprilla, 25, was keen to leave the club during the summer when Parma signed the Bulgarian striker Hristo Stoichkov However, he relented and signed a contract for this season. The striker, who has recently been pursued by Leeds United, arrived late for the session and immediately left still in his civilian clothes No reasons for his sudden departure were given. Giambattista Pastorello, Parma’s director of sport, said: “Asprilla did not seem to want to train. We will assess the situation when things calm down.” The club’s coach, Nevio Scala, said that Parma would issue a statement soon but that Asprilla certainly would not play in today’s match against Inter Milan. The Irish trainer Vincent O’Brien, who shared four of Piggott’s Derby successes, led the tributes, saying: “I have no doubt Lester was the greatest.”FootballAsprilla storms outParma’s temperamental Colombian striker Faustino Asprilla stormed out of a training session yesterday after an altercation in the dressing rooms. If any of them is to prevent that Scottish double, then he will have to become Jamie Spence for the day..