That would have made it 279-8 and the left-handers made the tourists pay for the profligacy.
It is estimated that left-handers make up between 13% and 30% of the UK population.
Fellow left-handers Vandort and Sangakkara dominated the bowling before the latter gave a return catch to left-arm spinner Enamul Haque.
The two left-handers took the total to 181 before Michael Kasprowicz removed Chanderpaul with the help of a catch by Ponting.
He needs to be swinging it back into the left-handers, and at the moment he has lost the knack of doing that.
"Three left-handers in the rotation, I like that a lot, " Hurdle said.
The stage appeared set for Harbhajan to get amongst the Australian middle order, but instead left-handers Katich and Hussey produced an admirable response.
The Philadelphian has recorded wins over Antonio Tarver and Winky Wright in his last two fights, both former world champions and both left-handers.
Brunt, swinging the ball into the left-handers and seaming it away from the right-handers, took 3-6 as the White Ferns were bowled out for just 85.
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Looking at 507 handprints from 26 caves in France and Spain, they deduced that 23% of them were right-handed, which indicated that they were made by left-handers.
Left-handers enjoy an advantage in some sports, such as tennis.
Because handedness has a genetic component the researchers wondered why the proportion of left-handers should have remained so constant over 30, 000 years - the age of the oldest cave studied.
Some of them taste so sweet, it makes me want to petition the higher-ups at Sony to consider celebrating National Left-Handers Day (August 13) as part of the holiday season.
Marcum joins a Mets' rotation that includes left-handers Johan Santana and Jonathon Niese, and righties Matt Harvey, a rookie, and Dillon Gee, none of whom reached 200 innings last season.
There was a fair amount of good fortune, and several shots came off the edge through the slip and gully area, but the left-handers dug in to produce an admirable partnership.
Off-spinner Croft, who has been out of the England side for 18 months, is recalled because of the likelihood that the West Indies will field six left-handers in their batting line-up.
Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria posed all sorts of problems in the morning for left-handers Andrew Strauss and Cook, who should have been on his way after the fourth ball when he appeared to edge to silly-point.
But the two left-handers escaped further alarm and will need to do considerably more on day two for India to haul themselves back into a game they looked in control of a few hours earlier.
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Chris McManus, a professor of psychology at University College London who has made a study of the pros and cons of left-handedness, said it was true that left-handers did have an advantage in a fight.
Indeed England were ahead of the rate from the off with left-handers Strauss and Steven Davies playing in calm fashion, picking off the loose balls and using the pace of Shoaib Akhtar to good effect.
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James Anderson is still feeling his way back into Test cricket, and is delivering some lovely balls at high speed going across the left-handers but most of the batsmen are not good enough to edge those.
Australia had begun the match in the unusual position of facing two of their own countrymen, as attacking left-handers David Warner and Adam Gilchrist opened the innings after Middlesex had won the toss and chosen to bat first.
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Fidel Edwards, Daren Powell and Dwayne Bravo all leaked runs at a rate of almost five an over as the two left-handers moved their side past the West Indies total of 149 and laid the foundation for a massive first innings lead.
However, runs were not easy to come by for obdurate left-handers Katich and Hussey, given that all but one of the fielders were placed on the off-side and seamers Ishant Sharma and Zaheer made the batsmen reach for the ball wide of the off-stump.
Denied the alacrity of Dale Steyn through injury, South Africa recalled Nel while Morne Morkel, taking the new ball in Steyn's absence, made the most of the pitch, offering openers Andrew Strauss and Cook little width with a probing line around both left-handers' off stump.
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