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The Black Caps have a lead of 115 runs after day two of their second tour match against a County Selection in Chelmsford.

After posting 362 all out in their first innings, New Zealand bowled the County side out for 247.

Spinner Ajaz Patel led the way with 3-32 from 16 overs, while seamers Kyle Jamieson and Blair Tickner were more expensive but bagged two wickets each.

The Black Caps faced one over in their second innings, getting through to stumps unscathed at 0-0.

Earlier, the visitors inflated their first innings score thanks to some strong lower order batting.

After Matt Henry retired not out on 65, Cam Fletcher (50 not out) and Patel (36 not out) put on an unbeaten ninth-wicket stand of 64.

- RNZ

New Zealand team close at Queen Sirikit Cup

The New Zealand women's golf team have fallen just shy of winning the 42nd Queen Sirikit Cup.

The Kiwi side of Vivian Lu (Royal Auckland and Grange), Fiona Xu (Titirangi), and Eunseo Choi (Takapuna), finished second to Japan in Singapore.

Choi and Xu had the two-counting scores, shooting even-par and one-over respectively.

New Zealand had a team score of one-over which meant they finished on 13-under. Japan shot five-under as a team to finish on 20-under-par.

Choi led the Kiwis out of the gate and played solidly to finish 18th on the individual leaderboard after rounds of 72, 79, 71, and 72.

Xu finished in a tie for tenth at one-under, with rounds of 70, 69, 75, and 73.

Lu had the non-counting score of 81 today.

New Zealand was looking for its first win since 1999.

Fox on the charge at Dutch Open

New Zealand golfer Ryan Fox has charged up the leaderboard on day two of the Dutch Open.

After starting with a solid two-under par opening round, Fox has fired a round of five-under par 67 on Saturday (NZ time) to leap into a tie for fifth.

The Aucklander mixed five birdies and an eagle on the par-five 12th hole with two bogeys to move with three shots of leader Ricardo Gouveia of Portugal.

Meanwhile a disappointing one-over par second round has seen Steven Alker fall from joint leader into a tie for third at the Senior PGA Championship in Michigan.

The in-form Alker fired a superb opening round of seven-under par 64.

But he struggled to get going on day two, making two bogeys and just one birdie to be two shots behind joint leaders Stephen Ames and Scott McCarron.

Michael Campell was tied for 30th after backing up an even-par opening round with a one-under second round.

- RNZ

Lawson stripped of Monaco pole

New Zealand driver Liam Lawson has been stripped of pole position for the Formula Two feature race in Monaco.

Lawson has been found guilty of failing to reduce his speed under a yellow flag after championship leader Felipe Drugovich hit the wall during qualifying.

The stewards determined he didn't noticeably reduce his speed, despite seeing the yellow flags and the yellow light panel stationed at the marshal post.

As a result, Lawson's best lap time was deleted and his second-best time was used instead.

He would start fifth for the feature race, while he would be 11th on the grid for the sprint race after an additional five-place grid drop.

- RNZ, F2

Carrington and Hoskin into K2 500m final

Dame Lisa Carrington is through to another A final at the second Canoe Sprint World Cup regatta in Poland.

After winning her heat and semifinal in the K1 500m on day one, the five-time Olympic champion teamed up with Alicia Hoskin in the K2 500m on day two.

The Tokyo Olympians finished second in their heat, before claiming a narrow win in their semifinal, edging the French pairing of Manon Hostens and Lea Jamelot by 0.06 seconds.

Of the other New Zealanders in action on day two, Ben Duffy and Kurtis Imrie won their heat and were fifth in their semifinals to qualify for the B final in the men's K2 500m.

Ashton Reiser and Ben McCallum were fifth in their heat and seventh in their semifinal to go into the C final.

Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughn advanced to the women's K1 200m semifinals with fourth and fifth-place finishes, respectively, in their heats.

James Munro and and Zach Ferkins went through to the men's K1 500m semis after both finishing third in their respective heats.

Venus through to third round at Roland Garros

Michael Venus and his German partner Tim Puetz are through to the third round of the men's doubles at the French Open in Paris.

The seventh seeds have beaten the French pair of Benjamin Bonzi and Arthur Rinderknech 6-4 6-4 in an hour and 24 minutes.

Venus is rapt with the way he and Puetz have gelled together after the German missed most of the clay court season with an ankle injury suffered at the Monte Carlo Masters.

"You never know quite what's going to happen," he said.

"But it was great being back on court with him and some of the things we've been working on in practice we have done well. We are both clear what we are trying to do individually and as a team."

Venus and Puetz will face either 12th seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez or French wildcards Enzo Couacaud and Manuel Guinard for a place in the quarterfinals.