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Mahela cautions Bangladesh
Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene issued a warning for Bangladesh ahead of the second one-day match that the home side will not make the same mistakes they had done in the first game.
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Steep challenge for Tigers
To be brutally honest, the Bangladesh team management have looked utterly clueless as to how they would solve their never-ending top order batting failures ahead of the second one-dayer of the three-match
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Abahani's match deferred
Inclement weather took its toll on the B. League for the second time as yesterday's match between league leaders Abahani and Arambagh was postponed following heavy showers in the capital.
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Women's H'ball
Familiar finalists
Defending champions BJMC set a repeat final against Bangladesh Ansar and VDP after both teams comfortably routed their semifinal opponents in the BASIC Bank 18th Women's Handball Championship yesterday.
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KP puts England on top
Kevin Pietersen's first Test hundred against India put England in a strong position on the fourth day here at Lord's and left the tourists needing to rewrite the record books if they were to claim anunlikely
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Pulling their punches
If there's one thing India have done with a single-minded focus from the start of this Test, it's the huddle.
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Crowe's no to India
Former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has laughed off suggestions that he could be one of the candidates to succeed Greg Chappell as the next cricket coach of India.
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AFC Asian Cup 2007
Korea edge an epic
South Korea won a gruelling and fluctuating epic 4-2 on penalties against Iran here Sunday to set up an Asian Cup semi-final with Iraq.
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AFC Asian Cup 2007
Celebrating with gunfire
The sun sinks behind the palm trees and dusty streets of west Baghdad, blue sky dissolving into twilight, and gunfire erupts out across the city -- Iraq's football team has defeated Vietnam 2-0.
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Ribery on the Double
Bayern thrash Bremen
French midfielder Franck Ribery struck either side of half-time to book Bayern Munich's place in the German League Cup semifinals with a 4-1 defeat of Werder Bremen on Saturday.
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Formula 1
Alonso win European GP
Double world champion Fernando Alonso brilliantly won the European Grand Prix here on Sunday as confusion reigned at the Nurburgring.
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Kawaguchi's dream comes true
Japan's Asian Cup win over Australia was a foregone conclusion in the psyche of Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, whose goalkeeping heroics helped his country into the last four.
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Podolski vows fight for place
Injured Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski, voted the best young player at last year's World Cup, has vowed on Sunday to win back his place with the German giants.
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Anna outlasts Sania
Top seed Anna Chakvetadze outlasted India's Sania Mirza 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 Saturday to reach the final of the 175,000-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here.
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AFC Asian Cup 2007
Saudi squeeze into semis
The woodwork and a linesman's flag helped Saudi Arabia beat Uzbekistan 2-1 in the Asian Cup here on Sunday and sneak into the semifinals.
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AFC Asian Cup 2007
Australia's harsh lesson
Australia and its highly paid European-based stars were hotly tipped to waltz through the Asian Cup on their debut appearance, but they learnt a hard lesson.
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Justice for some
When the subject of third-umpire referrals was first raised in the 1990s, my initial concern was that it would result in a system of justice for some but not for all.
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Like old times
Nothing illustrates the unforgiving nature of sport more than a peek at the bottom third of England's scorecard for this Test match.
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Harvey to wait a week
Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey will find out next week if he can play again for Derbyshire this season.
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40 years of Lord's PA
"Good morning and welcome to Lord's," announced the public address system on the first morning of play between England and India.
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AFC Asian Cup 2007
Osim's 'near death'
Ivica Osim says he had a brush with death when Japan beat Australia at the Asian Cup, a joke that perked up his first anniversary as coach of a side fighting back from a World Cup disaster.
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Beckham Makes Debut
Chelsea down Galaxy
David Beckham kicked off his US football career in low-key fashion here Saturday, making a 12-minute cameo appearance for Los Angeles Galaxy in a 1-0 defeat by English giants Chelsea.
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Wiltord moves to Rennes
Following a troubled final season at French champions Lyon, former Arsenal striker Sylvain Wiltord wants to put his career back on track at Rennes, the club where his professional career began ten years
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