Chanderpaul and Lara star with the bat

Close Border 68 for 2 trail West Indians 278 (Lara 81, Chanderpaul 98, Henderson 5-57) by 210 runs
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Boundary-studded innings from Brian Lara and Shivnarine Chanderpaul set up a handy West Indian total at Buffalo Park in East London. Border, for whom Tyron Henderson took five wickets, had reduced the arrears by 68 runs by the close, for the loss of two wickets.

Lara, who opened, stroked 16 fours in his attractive 81, which took him 135 balls. And later Chanderpaul outdid his captain with 19 fours in only 121 balls, before he fell for 98 to the former South African Test player Pieter Strydom.

The rest of the West Indian batting was disappointing, with Carlton Baugh's 29 the next-best contribution. Henderson, 29, outbowled his new-ball partner Charl Langeveldt, who has played for South Africa but finished with 0 for 60 today. Henderson, meanwhile, took 5 for 57, including the wickets of Dave Mohammed and Ravi Rampaul in the space of three balls. Those two and Adam Sanford, the newest recruit to this injury-raddled West Indian team, all failed to score in a middling total of 278.

Sanford later made partial amends with the wicket of Mark Bruyns for 26 when Border batted. Their only other casualty before stumps were drawn was Michael Smith, in only his third first-class outing, caught by Ramnaresh Sarwan at slip off Mohammed's left-arm over-the-wrist spin off what turned out to be the last ball of the day for 32.