South Africa dominate second Test

LAHORE, Pakistan -- South African captain Graeme Smith led from the front as his side took a stranglehold on the second Test against Pakistan by the close of day three in Lahore.

Smith was unbeaten on 75, sharing an unbeaten third wicket stand of 88 with Jacques Kallis, as his side reached 154 for two wickets, an overall lead of 305.

Pakistan, who lost the first match of the two-Test series, now face an uphill battle to square it up.

Earlier, Inzamam-ul-Haq was dismissed for 14 in his final Test as Pakistan were all out for 206 having started the day on 140 for four wickets.

It left Inzamam with an aggregate of 8,827 Test runs, still five behind Javed Miandad's Pakistan Test record, established in 1993.

South African paceman Makhaya Ntini hastened Pakistan's slide with a triple-wicket maiden, including the dismissal of Mibah-ul-haq for 41, as they trailed by 151 runs on first innings.

South Africa lost two wickets before tea as Herschelle Gibbs edged Umar Gul behind, and Hashim Amla was bowled by Abdur Rehman.

But the dependable Kallis proved the perfect foil to a the more adventurous Smith in the final session as no further wickets fell.

Alastair Cook cracked a superb 80 as England thrashed Sri Lanka by five wickets in the fourth one-day international in Colombo to earn their first series win in the subcontinent for 20 years.

The 22-year-old left-hander shared a 110-run stand for the third wicket with Kevin Pietersen -- 63 not out -- to give England victory in the day-night game.

After restricting Sri Lanka to 211-9, England reached the target with 19 balls to spare for an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.

"The boys bounced back brilliantly after the defeat in the first one-dayer. Credit to the players, the coaches, everyone worked hard. It is great to win this series," England skipper Paul Collingwood said.

"The conditions were very difficult and the way our bowlers put their batsmen under pressure despite losing the toss, they deserve a special mention."

Sri Lanka owed their total to gritty half centuries by Kumar Sangakkara and Chamara Silva who shared a 126-run stand for the fourth wicket to halt the slide after they slumped to 20-3.

The platform for England's win was laid by disciplined bowling performances from the new-ball pair of Ryan Sidebottom and James Anderson who took three wickets apiece.

"We lost the game in the first 10-15 overs. We did not have any momentum to take us forward," Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene said.

"We did not have enough runs on the board. If we had taken a few early wickets, then 220-odd would have been a competitive score but we failed to do that."

England cricket legend Ian Botham was knighted by the queen in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.

The 51-year-old former all-rounder, who was knighted for his services to charity and cricket, described it as a "mind blowing" day he would never forget.

"I've had some great moments in sport and other walks of life but nothing matches this." He added: "It was mind blowing, magnificent ... That today blows everything away."

Botham, a fervent royalist, is England's leading Test wicket-taker with 383 victims and he scored over 5,000 Test runs.

He has also raised millions for Leukaemia Research, embarking on a host of long-distance charity walks including from John O'Groats to Land's End. E-mail to a friend