Ton-up Trescothick flays Pakistan attack
MULTAN: Stand-in captain Marcus Trescothick cracked a robust century as England tightened the screws on Pakistan in the opening Test here on Sunday.
The left-handed opener scored an unbeaten 135 for his 13th Test hundred to help England post 253-3 in their first innings at stumps on the second... 
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Ramiz Raja Special: Pakistan surrender tamely to England
Pakistan find themselves dangling from the precipice. They will have to play out of their skins to save this game. When they sit down to ruminate about the reasons of their bland performance, they will agree that the wounds are self-inflicted. A batting collapse on a feather bed track followed by spasmodic...
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Delighted Bell makes the most of his chance
MULTAN: England batsman Ian Bell was delighted on Sunday with his 71 runs against Pakistan, saying he had not even expected to play in the first test.
“It is obviously a big innings for me,” he said. “I was not expecting to play but I got a chance because of (Michael) Vaughan’s injury. It is...
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Australian cricketers to keep it all in the family
MELBOURNE (Australia): Cricket Australia (CA) said Sunday it has no plans to prevent the families of Australian cricketers from staying with them on overseas tours.
Melbourne’s Sunday Herald Sun suggested the practice was partly to blame for Australia’s 2-1 Ashes loss in England. A CA spokesman...
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Windies tour match ends in draw
MELBOURNE (Australia): The West Indies’ three-day tour match with Victoria petered out in a draw here on Sunday. The tourists were dismissed for 302, trailing Victoria’s massive first innings of 571 by 269, when both captains agreed to end the match.
Captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul (59) and Marlon...
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Amjad, Burki, Heather and Kemp in CNS Squash semis
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Amjad Khan and Arshad Iqbal Burki and England’s duo of Mark Heather and Jonathon Kemp advanced to the semi-finals of the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) International Squash Championship at Jahnagir Khan-Roshan Khan complex here on Sunday.
Former Pakistan Open champion Amjad Khan,...
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Proteas coach not worried about Dhoni
HYDERABAD (India): South Africa’s coach Mickey Arthur on Sunday said his team was not worried about big-hitting Indian batsman Mahendra Dhoni ahead of their five-match one-day series.
“We have studied his technique well and have some plans for him. We only have to wait and see how well we are...
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Warne looks for business interests outside cricket
SYDNEY: Australian cricket superstar Shane Warne said Sunday he is looking for business opportunities once his glorious playing career ends.
Warne has taken the most wickets in Test cricket with 634 in 130 Tests and the 36-year-old leg-spinner is looking to cash in on his high-profile career...
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Chanderpaul urges patience for batsmen ahead of Test
MELBOURNE (Australia): Captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul has called on his West Indies team to curb their batting flamboyance ahead of the second cricket Test against Australia, starting in Hobart on Thursday.
Chanderpaul batted for four-and-a-half hours for 59 in Sunday’s drawn three-day tour...
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Cracks appear in confident facade of Beijing 2008
PARIS: Behind the IOC’s public praise of Beijing’s work to date in their preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games, there are private concerns about what the future holds.
Hein Verbruggen, head of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Games, said last week all was going well as the 1,000 day...
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Universal beat Gymkhana in opening match
Staff Report
LAHORE: Universal Club defeated Lahore Gymkhana Club by seven runs in the opening match of the Allied Bank Limited (ABL) Gymkhana Cup 2005 at the Bagh-e-Jinnah ground here on Sunday.
Put into bat, Universal gave a splendid performance with some extremely good batting...
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Marines beat Lions to win Konami Cup
TOKYO: Bobby Valentine’s Chiba Lotte Marines are now the best team in Japan and the rest of Asia. Masato Watanabe hit a two-run homer to left in the bottom of the fourth inning at Tokyo Dome Sunday as the Japan Series champion Marines downed South Korea’s Samsung Lions 5-3 to win the inaugural Konami...
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It’s gold or the frontlines for US Army boxer
MIANYANG (China): US Army field artillery officer Boyd Melson is raring to unload his big guns at the world senior amateur boxing championships here. It may be his ticket out of the real frontlines.
For the crop-topped 2004 World Military champion and 2003 graduate of the US Military Academy...
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Pierce to meet Mauresmo in all-French WTA final
LOS ANGELES: The WTA Championships final will be an all-French affair for the first time in history. Mary Pierce of France shocked top-ranked Lindsay Davenport 7-6 7-6 to reach the final on Saturday and was joined by compatriot Amelie Mauresmo, who took down defending champion Maria Sharapova 7-6 6-3....
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Docherty, Fernandes win final World Cup triathlon
NEW PLYMOUTH (New Zealand): Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal outpaced her rivals on the run leg to win the women’s elite race Sunday at the final ITU World Cup triathlon of the season.
Fernandes ran away from Australians Annabel Luxford and Rebecca Snowsill over the last eight kilometers (five...
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Punjab golf team for India announced
Staff Report
LAHORE: The Pakistan Golf Federation (PGF) on Sunday named a fifteen-member Punjab golf team which will take part in the first Punjab Golf Cup starting in Chandigarh, India from November 25.
Squad:
Waqas Ahmed, M Saffdarr Khan, Nadeem Abbass, Murad A Khan....
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Iran snubs Korea, pitches nuclear drive in soccer bout
TEHRAN: Furious over Seoul’s opposition to their nuclear programme, Iran has ditched the South Korean sponsors of a friendly football tournament and are using the event to promote their atomic ambitions.
The event once known as the “LG Cup”, backed in recent years by the South Korean electronics...
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Coaches agree Riquelme, Owen, Rooney to make big impact at WC
GENEVA: England will be terrified of facing Juan Roman Riquelme at the World Cup. Argentina will be having nightmares about Michael Owen. Owen’s two late headers in a friendly dominated by Riquelme gave England a 3-2 victory at the neutral Stade de Geneve on Saturday as the two powerhouse teams began...
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soccer: Spanish stroll but other ties finely balanced
LONDON: Spain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic all moved a step closer to the World Cup with victories on Saturday while Australia kept their hopes alive despite losing in the first leg of the final playoffs.
Trinidad and Tobago were held at home by Bahrain in the only drawn match so apart...
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BASKETBALL: Arenas scores 43 as Wizards down Spurs
NEW YORK: Gilbert Arenas scored 43 points as the surprising Washington Wizards improved to 5-1 with a 110-95 win over the San Antonio Spurs in National Basketball Association play Saturday in Washington.
Arenas finished 15-for-20 and made 11 of his first 12 shots as the Wizards handed the defending...
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England duo lift China Open badminton title
SHANGHAI: England’s Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms, runners-up at last week’s Hong Kong Open, beat second seeds Lee Jae-jin and Lee Hyo-jung of South Korea 15-10 15-10 to take the China Open mixed doubles title in Guangzhou on Sunday.
It was the Olympic silver medallists’ first title since back-to-back...
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Howell tames Tiger for Shanghai victory
SHANGHAI: Englishman David Howell fended off a tenacious challenge from world number one Tiger Woods to win the inaugural five-million-dollar HSBC Champions tournament Sunday for his fourth career title and his second this year.
Overnight leader Howell carded a final round four-under par 68...
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Francois Duval wins Rally of Australia
SYDNEY: Belgium’s Francois Duval captured his first world championship event with victory in the season-ending Rally of Australia on Sunday.
Duval, driving a Citroen, finished the three-day rally in a combined time of three hours 19 minutes 55 seconds, almost 53 seconds ahead of his closest...
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Federer triumphs in Masters Cup thriller
SHANGHAI: World number one Roger Federer returned from injury on Sunday to win a thrilling Masters Cup opener against old foe David Nalbandian, remaining on track for a third successive title.
Federer, dead and buried at 3-1 in the final set before rallying to win 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, hailed the victory...
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