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Ijaz Bit leaves for Dubai to attend ICC meeting
LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ijaz Butt has left here on Monday for Dubai to attend the meeting of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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Aisam back home after winning doubles event in SA
LAHORE: Pakistan tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq has returned home after winning the doubles event in the South African Open Tennis Tournament, held in Johannesburg.
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Warne tells Aussies to take part in IPL
LONDON: Shane Warne has urged his fellow Australians to play in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) despite threats from an Indian political party.
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Pawar meets Thackeray, asks to drop ban on Aussie cricketers
MUMBAI: Sharad Pawar, India's minister for agriculture and president of the Maharashtra Cricket Association, met the founder of Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray, and his son, Udav, here on Sunday an... more |
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India 66-2 after South Africa enforce follow-on
NAGPUR: South Africa were eyeing victory after Dale Steyn picked a career-best 7-51 to trigger a dramatic India collapse on the third day of the first Test on Monday.
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Wasim Akram included in committee to probe team’s poor performance
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has included former skipper Wasim Akram in an inquiry committee formed last week to probe the national team's poor performance in Australia.
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Cilic retains ATP Zagreb title
ZAGREB: Top seed Marin Cilic of Croatia retained his ATP Zagreb indoor tournament title here on Sunday defeating German journeyman Michael Berrer 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3 in just over two-and-a-h... more |
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Chelsea on top again, beating Arsenal in English Premier League
LONDON: Didier Drogba's double returned Chelsea to the Premier League summit with a 2-0 victory over Arsenal on Sunday that left its London rival nine points adrift.
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Fabregas wants Barca return ‘one day’
BARCELONA: Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has said he hopes to go back to his boyhood club Barcelona in the future.
The London team’s captain told Catalunya Radio on Friday that he... more |
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Kipkorir wins Oita marathon
OITA, Japan: Jonathan Kipkorir edged past fellow Kenyan runner Daniel Njenga to win the Beppu Oita marathon on Sunday.
Kipkorir and Njenga were in a shoulder-to-shoulder battle in th... more |
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India’s Bhullar wins Tour opener
BANGKOK: Gaganjeet Bhullar of India produced a brilliant course record eight-under-par 64 to win the season-opening Asian Tour International by one shot on Sunday.
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Langeveldt added to SA squad for ODI
NAGPUR, India: South Africa have added medium-pacer Charl Langeveldt to their one-day squad for the three-match series against India later this month.
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Tait is Australia’s new Thommo, says Hogg
MELBOURNE: Former Australian Test quick Rodney Hogg has hailed South Australian Shaun Tait as the new-age Jeff Thomson and says he will pilot Australia to Twenty20 World Cup supremacy with h... more |
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Crowe made New Zealand batting advisor
WELLINGTON: Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, will assist the new national coach Mark Greatbatch as a batting advisor to some leading players, with a particular focus on Test cri... more |
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Scott Styris striving for national return
WELLINGTON: Scott Styris, the New Zealand allrounder, has been overlooked for the series against Bangladesh but new coach Mark Greatbatch, who is also a selector, said it was partly because ... more |
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England Lions to play T20s against UAE, Pakistan
DUBAI: England Lions arrived in Dubai to play four Twenty20 cricket matches against United Arab Emirates and Pakistan A, before an intriguing match-up in Abu Dhabi with full England side, wh... more |
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Proteas sacrifice records in India
NAGPUR: South Africa put match strategy ahead of chasing records as it declared its first innings at 558-6 on day two of the second Test against India on Sunday.
The total was five r... more |
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Proteas make India follow-on in Nagpur Test
NAGPUR: Fast bowler Dale Steyn blew India away with a career-best seven for 51 to allow South Africa to force the follow-on on the third day of opening Test on Monday.
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Pak squad announced for T20 matches against England
LAHORE: Pakistan on Monday left out coach Intikhab Alam and wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal from its 14-man side to face England in two Twenty20 matches.
There is speculation Alam will... more |
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South Africa pacemen rattle India
NAGPUR: Dale Steyn picked two quick wickets to derail India's reply on the third day of the first Test against South Africa on Monday.
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Intikhab accepts blame for Australian defeats
KARACHI: Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam said Sunday he accepted full responsibility for his team’s dismal performance on its tour of Australia last month, and vowed not to run away from any in... more |
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PCB summons coach, captain
KARACHI: An evaluation committee issued a demand on Sunday for Pakistan cricket coach Intikhab Alam and captain Mohammad Yousuf to explain the team’s dismal performance on their tour of Aust... more |
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Pakistan beat India for SAG gold
DHAKA: Defending champions Pakistan retained their gold medal in the 11th South Asian Games Hockey competition when they came from behind to overpower arch-rivals India 4-3 in a penalty shoo... more |
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It was a terrible display, says Gayle
MELBOURNE: A horror start and a lifeless tail-end saw West Indies tumble to a 113-run defeat in the first one-day international against Australia at the MCG here on Sunday.
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Asif not cleared for UAE trip
KARACHI: Paceman Mohammad Asif will not be able to play in the United Arab Emirates as its authorities have refused to revoke a travel ban on him, an official said on Sunday.
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Miandad was paid Rs8.4 m for seven days of work: Butt
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt dropped another bombshell on board’s director general Javed Miandad saying that the former captain was paid Rs8.4 million for a we... more |
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I may never bowl again: Lee
SYDNEY: Australian and New South Wales fast Bowler Brett Lee has said that there is a distinct possibility of him not bowling in competitive cricket again, as he is yet to recover from a ser... more |
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Give Shahid Afridi a break
LAHORE: Cricket is a great leveller. Nothing better exemplifies this truism than Shahid Afrid’s shocking fall from grace. It took a fleeting moment of madness for him to become the villain o... more |
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India’s absence contributed to T20 flop-show, says Azam Khan
MIRPUR: Pakistan may be the ICC Twenty20 world champions but their under-21 team failed to make the 11th South Asian Games’ Twenty20 final, attributing their lack of motivation to the absenc... more |
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Raikkonen revelling in new Swede challenge
PARIS: Finland has produced a long line of great Rally drivers but never one quite with the pedigree or potential of 2007 Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
The 30-year-old former... more |
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Patrick finishes sixth in debut
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida: IndyCar driver Danica Patrick survived a spinout to finish sixth in her stockcar debut at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday.
“That was fun,” Patrick, the ... more |
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Defending champion Spain get Czechs in Euro draw
WARSAW: Defending champion Spain will have the Czech Republic and Scotland among its rivals in qualifying for the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.
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Kaka ends barren spell as Real close gap
MADRID: Brazilian superstar Kaka scored his first league goal in three months as Real Madrid closed back to within five points of pacesetters Barcelona at the top of the Spanish top-flight w... more |
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‘Ferdinand’s England captaincy will boost United’
MANCHESTER: Sir Alex Ferguson believes Manchester United can benefit from Fabio Capello’s decision to make Rio Ferdinand the new England captain.
Ferdinand served the second game of his f... more |
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Inter juggernaut rolls on, Milan draw
MILAN: Inter Milan roared 10 points clear at the top of Serie A after an easy 3-0 win over Cagliari on Sunday.
Goran Pandev and Walter Samuel scored simple goals in the first half before ... more |
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Five-star Manchester United go top, Kuyt sinks Everton
LONDON: Manchester United stormed to the top of the Premier League with a 5-0 demolition of struggling Portsmouth at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s side moved one point cle... more |
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Drama in Dubai as Jimenez wins
DUBAI: Spanish veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Dubai Desert Classic for the first time on Sunday defeating European No 1 Lee Westwood on the third hole of a drama-packed playoff.
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Pakistan to fight for second spot in SAG
KARACHI: Pakistan placed themselves in a good position to fight for an overall second place behind the invincible India when they lifted six more gold medals on Sunday during the 11th South ... more |
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Willis wins indoor mile
BOSTON: New Zealand’s Nick Willis, who hadn’t run a competitive mile in nearly a year, used a last-lap sprint to overhaul Will Leer and capture the mile run at the 15th Boston Indoor Games o... more |
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IOC defiant on dopers: experts
VANCOUVER: As the clock ticks down towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, doubts are being raised over the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) promise to wage a pitiless war against the dr... more |
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Spaniard Lopez ends long drought
JOHANNESBURG: Spaniard Feliciano Lopez ended a six-year trophy drought with a 7-5, 6-1 triumph over French fighter Stephane Robert in the South African Open final on Sunday.
The only prev... more |
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Stosur leads Australia to Fed Cup victory over Spain
ADELAIDE: Samantha Stosur inspired Australia to a 3-2 win over Spain in their Fed Cup World Group II first round tie at Memorial Drive here on Sunday.
The world number 11 Stosur featured ... more |
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Oudin seals US Fed Cup semis spot
LIEVIN, France: Melanie Oudin sealed the United States’ passage to the semi-finals of the Fed Cup on Sunday with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-4 win over Julie Coin to establish an unassailable 3-0 lead ov... more |
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Zvonareva heads Pattaya Open field
BANGKOK: Defending champion Vera Zvonareva heads the field at the 220,000-dollar Pattaya Open this week and the Russian appears to have a comfortable draw as she bids to win her ninth career... more |
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Djokovic looks to bounce back from Aussie Open
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands: Novak Djokovic will strive to show that his recent case of indigestion at the Australian Open was just a case of bad luck, with the Serb world number two returnin... more |
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Australian team weakest for years, says Imran
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has described the Australian team as one of the weakest he has seen in years.
“This is one of the weakest Australian teams I have seen play, t... more |
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