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Raza, Moor lift Zimbabwe to 126-5 on day three

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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe batsmen Sikandar Raza left and Peter Moor run between the wickets during the third day of the only one-off Test match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo on July 16, 2017.  By ISHARA S. KODIKARA AFP
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Zimbabwe batsmen Sikandar Raza (left) and Peter Moor run between the wickets during the third day of the only one-off Test match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo on July 16, 2017. By ISHARA S. KODIKARA (AFP)

Colombo (AFP) - Batsmen Sikandar Raza and Peter Moor helped Zimbabwe regain lost ground after a top-order collapse and stretch their second innings lead over Sri Lanka to 136 in the one-off Test in Colombo on Sunday.

The visitors were 126 for five at tea on day three, with Raza (45) and Peter Moor (30) putting on an unbeaten 67-run stand for the sixth-wicket a the R Premadasa Stadium.

Raza lifted Zimbabwe from a precarious 23-4, followed by 59-5, after Sri Lankan left-arm spinner Rangana Herath rattled the visitors' top-order with four wickets.

Herath, who got three wickets in the second session of play, bowled Sean Williams for 22 as Zimbabwe teetered dangerously close to losing their 10-run advantage.

Earlier skipper Graeme Cremer helped Zimbabwe take the lead after claiming his maiden five-wicket haul in a Test, helped bowl Sri Lanka for 346 in the morning session.

But it was Herath's left-arm spin that undid the fine work from leg-spinner Cremer (5-125).

Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera joined forces to get the prized wicket of first-innings centurion Craig Ervine for five at the stroke of lunch.

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