Champions League Twenty20
Lee stars in New South Wales title triumph
HYDERABAD: New South Wales Blues stunned Trinidad & Tobago by 41 runs to win Friday night’s Champions League Twenty20 final in Hyderabad.
T&T appeared to have gained the advantage when seamers Ravi Rampaul and Dwayne Bravo engineered a... 
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First Australia ODI in Vadodara today
Injury cloud over India ahead of opener
VADODARA: Injury doubts over captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and explosive batsman Yuvraj Singh hit India’s preparations ahead of the first one-dayer against Australia here on Sunday (today).
Dhoni limped off the ground after hurting his left...
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Poutiainen wins opening race of ski season
SOELDEN: Finn Tanja Poutiainen beat local favourite Kathrin Zettel by the slimmest of margins to spoil the show for Austria in the opening giant slalom of the season on Saturday.
Poutiainen won in a combined time of two minutes 24.96 seconds, leaving last year’s winner Zettel just 0.01 adrift....
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What is wrong with Pakistan sports? (IV)
By Zakir Hussain Syed
The other important pillars of the Pakistan sports structure are the national sports federations and the Pakistan Olympic Association. At the time of independence, the number of national sports federations was limited and it was confined to those sports only where...
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Golf: Former Masters champion has wrist surgery
NEW YORK: Former Masters champion Trevor Immelman has had surgery on his left wrist and expects to return to the US PGA Tour next year at full strength. Immelman, who has not won since the 2008 Masters, missed most of this year with severe tendinitis in his left wrist. The South African tried to let...
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New Zealand coach quits amid player criticism
WELLINGTON: New Zealand coach Andy Moles quit Saturday, New Zealand Cricket officials confirmed, ending a stand-off in which senior players had appealed for him to be sacked. English-born Moles, who was contracted through to the 2011 World Cup, lasted less than a year in the job, resigning just three...
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Quaid-e-Azam Trophy First Class Tournament
KRL and Rawalpindi score crushing wins
* Mohammad Irfan (KRL), Rashid Latif and Mohammad Ramiz (Rawalpindi) shine with the bowl
* Saleem Elahi (Habib Bank) and Fawad Ali (Peshawar) hit tons
Staff Report
LAHORE: Muhammad Irfan with inspired second innings bowling...
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Vancouver Stadium to get new roof after Olympics
VANCOUVER: The stadium hosting the opening and closing ceremonies of next year’s Winter Olympics will get a roof worth about a $0.5 billion after the games. A retractable roof for the 60,000-seat BC Place Stadium is planned for 2011. It will replace the current air-supported dome. The CFL’s BC Lions...
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Rally of Great Britain: Sebastien Loeb takes command on second day
CARDIFF: Sebastien Loeb seized control of the Rally of Great Britain and the world title race with a dominant performance on day two of the season-ending race here on Saturday.
The defending champion finished the day with a 30.2sec lead over title rival Mikko Hirvonen of Finland, who led him...
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Tennis: Bacsinszky, Lisicki to meet for Luxembourg title
LUXEMBOURG: Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky will on Sunday (today) attempt to win her first WTA tour title when she faces German sixth seed Sabine Lisicki in the final of the $222,000 Luxembourg Open. Bacsinszky, the world number 70, put out Belgian fifth seed Yanina Wickmayer, last week’s Linz champion,...
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Youzhny sets up men’s title clash with Tipsarevic
Schiavone to face Govortsova in final
MOSCOW: Italy’s Francesca Schiavone, the last seeded woman standing, cruised comfortably into the Kremlin Cup final with a straight-sets win over Ukraine’s Alona Bondarenko here on Saturday.
In Sunday’s (today) final, the eighth seed will face...
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Rossi breaks own pole record in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Valentino Rossi edged closer to winning his seventh premier class championship on Saturday by breaking his own pole record in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Italian, who leads by 38 points from Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo, needs only to finish in the top four in Sunday’s...
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Liu Xiang advances to 110m hurdle final
BEIJING: Chinese star Liu Xiang’s comeback gained momentum Saturday as he advanced to the 110 metre hurdles final at the China National Games, finishing second to rival Ji Wei in a preliminary heat.
Ji, who runs for the People’s Liberation Army, took first place in 13.70 seconds as Liu slowed...
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Red-hot Pucay mounts Malaysia challenge
JOHOR BAHRU: Mars Pucay of the Philippines closed in on Indian leader Himmat Rai when he posted a superb second-round seven-under-par 65 at the Iskandar Johor Open on Saturday.
But Himmat, who finished his second round on Friday, continues to hold on to the outright lead with his two-day total...
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Baghdatis in final as Soderling retires
STOCKHOLM: Home favourite Robin Soderling had to withdraw from his Stockholm Open semi-final on Saturday, sending Marcos Baghdatis through to the final without the Cypriot having to strike a ball.
Baghdatis will face Olivier Rochus in the final after the Belgian outlasted rising Brazilian Thomaz...
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Tottenham and Aston Villa miss chances to close on top
Lampard scores twice in 5-0 Chelsea win
LONDON: Frank Lampard scored twice Saturday to lead Chelsea to a record 5-0 win over Blackburn and first place in the Premier League.
Chelsea dominated throughout and led at halftime through an own-goal by Gael Givet, before four second-half...
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