Australia then raced to an easy target on what remained an inviting pitch for batting, Hughes hitting 12 boundaries and a six in his dashing 75-ball innings.
BBC: Phillip Hughes takes Australia to victory in Wellington
But the tourists were further frustrated by a final-wicket partnership of 37 between Das, batting at nine after hitting 124 as an opener on the first day, and Shiv Sankar Paul, who took 5-61 on Saturday in England's first innings score of 225.
In his first year with the Yankees, Youkilis opened the season with a nine-game hitting streak and was batting .266 with two homers and seven RBIs in 64 at-bats before going on the DL. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he will be careful to give them days off in an attempt to prevent them from wearing down.
Saj Mahmood (30 not out) produced some lusty hitting to earn Lancashire a batting point before James Tomlinson trapped Gary Keedy leg before to wrap up the innings.
Big-hitting South African keeper Mark Boucher, batting for the first time in the tournament, also fell cheaply.
The switch-hitting catcher sparkled in spring training with a .341 batting average, but the Orioles decided to have him start the year in Triple-A. The reasons are mostly financial: by pushing back Wieters' major league debut, the O's have ensured that their star catcher won't be eligible for salary arbitration until after 2012.
New York 1B Mark Teixeira (wrist) hit several long homers on curveballs off a pitching machine at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa, Fla. 3B Alex Rodriguez, coming back from hip surgery in January, is hitting off a tee and swinging at soft toss flips in a batting cage as he wraps up his second week of baseball activities.
Kemp, who just two seasons ago finished runner-up to Milwaukee's Ryan Braun in the NL MVP voting after hitting a career-high 39 home runs with 126 RBIs and a .324 average, is batting .251 this season with two homers and 17 RBIs in 51 games, and has struck out 60 times in 191 at-bats following offseason shoulder surgery.
Wickets eventually came England's way at the other end, Clarke and Steve Smith hitting catches into the off-side, before Mike Hussey became the third Australian to fall in the batting powerplay.
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