KANPUR, India (AP):

Spinner Harbhajan Singh and pace bowler Ishant Sharma shared six wickets as India wrested control of the deciding third Test away from South Africa on day one yesterday. India bowled South Africa out for 265, after the tourists were at one stage 152-1 and in firm control of the match approaching tea.

Harbhajan Singh (3-52) and Sharma (3-53) brought India back into the game, heightening its chances of winning the final Test to square the series. However, the pitch was already exhibiting uneven bounce and India will face a challenge today to match South Africa's first-innings total. The turnaround came when captain Graeme Smith (69), Hashim Amla (51) and Jacques Kallis (1) fell in the space of 27 deliveries late in the second session.

Immelman still leads

AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP):

Showing that 4-under 68 in the opening round was no fluke, Trevor Immelman put up the same score with birdies on the final two holes to break a logjam atop the leaderboard at the Master yesterday.

The South African was at 8-under 136 heading to the weekend and one stroke ahead of unheralded Brandt Snedeker, with two-time champion Phil Mickelson right in the mix with a 68 of his own.

And Tiger Woods? He bogeyed two of his first six holes and dropped a daunting nine strokes off the pace that was set by Immelman. After shooting a pedestrian 72 the day before, Woods looked like he was rolling with a birdie on the very first hole yesterday but his momentum didn't last long. Woods hit an awful chip at No. 2 that plopped in the bunker and he failed to get up-and-down when a 5-foot putt slipped by the cup.

He took another bogey at the sixth, lipping out an 8-footer. He was one over for the round and tournament.

Steve Flesch shot a 67, the lowest round of the tournament thus far and headed to the weekend three shots off the pace. That other lefty, Mickelson, was right in contention, too. Mickelson, going for his third green jacket in five years, birdied three of the first eight holes, then reeled off nine pars in a row. The last two were a bit grating - especially No. 15, where he chipped down to four feet but missed the birdie putt. Ian Poulter, who made a hole-in-one on Thursday, stayed in the mix by shooting 69. He was tied with Flesch and Mickelson at 139.

Stephen Ames put himself in contention with a second straight 70. Paul Casey also was at 140, four shots off the lead, with Stewart Cink another stroke back after a 69.