Watson and Johnson to miss final India ODI today
MUMBAI: All-rounder Shane Watson and paceman Mitchell Johnson will be sent home ahead of Australia’s seventh and final limited-overs international in India in order to rest and prepare for a heavy domestic summer involving series against the West Indies and Pakistan.
Australia clinched the seven-match... 
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Fit-again Zaheer back for India against Sri Lanka
MUMBAI: Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan was on Tuesday included in India’s squad for the first two Tests against Sri Lanka after being sidelined for five months with a shoulder injury.
The selectors also recalled temperamental fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth in a 15-man squad for the first two...
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Botham off on new walk in aid of leukaemia research
LONDON: England cricket great Sir Ian Botham unveiled plans for his latest charity walk on Tuesday, saying he would not stop until childhood leukaemia had ceased totally to be a fatal condition.
Former all-rounder Botham’s 13th charity walk will start in April next year and take him on a 10-town...
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Pietersen set to join England in South Africa
BLOEMFONTEIN: Star England batsman Kevin Pietersen will be waiting in Johannesburg for his England team-mates and will be missing the first two Twenty20 matches. However he looks set to make his return from Achilles surgery in the first one-day international, an injury that forced him to miss the last...
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Win against Pakistan boosts NZ, says Vettori
ABU DHABI: Captain Daniel Vettori said New Zealand had grown in confidence after winning their three-match one-day series against Pakistan 2-1.
New Zealand scored a seven-run victory over Pakistan here on Monday, having survived an explosive half-century by tail-ender Mohammad Aamir, during which...
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Senior players want Younis sacked
Staff Report
LAHORE: Three senior players of the national team have demanded from Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt to sack Younis Khan. Sources said on Tuesday that the captain after getting out in the third one-day international against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi on Monday...
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Hockey team get rousing welcome on arrival
Staff Report
LAHORE: The Pakistan hockey team arrived back home here on Tuesday morning at the Allama Iqbal International Airport amid cheers from supporters after their triumph in the 2010 World Cup qualifying tournament in Lille, France. Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) officials including...
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Quaid-e-Azam Trophy First Class Tournament: Tanvir shines as Karachi Blues dismiss Lahore Ravi for 190
* Naveed hits another century to put Multan in control
Staff Report
LAHORE: Fast medium bowler Tanvir Ahmed took another five-for as Karachi Blues bowled out Lahore Ravi for 190 in their first innings on the second day of their four-day Quaid-e-Azam Trophy First Class Tournament...
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Verdasco and Davydenko edge closer to London in Paris
PARIS: Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko and Spain’s Fernando Verdasco tightened their grips on the remaining ATP World Tour Finals places by reaching the third round of the Paris Masters on Tuesday.
Sixth seed Davydenko cruised past Germany’s Benjamin Becker 6-2, 6-1 at the Bercy arena but seventh seed...
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Safin tells Agassi to return titles and prize money
PARIS: Marat Safin has come up with an instant remedy to help Andre Agassi clear his conscience after his admission that he lied about using drugs – hand back the millions of dollars he made in prize money. Safin also suggested Agassi might also want to consider forfeitting all the titles he won during...
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Nadal repeats criticism of drug-testing regime
PARIS: World number two Rafael Nadal on Tuesday reiterated his criticism of the World Anti-doping Agency’s (WADA) controversial ‘whereabouts’ rule. Belgian players Xavier Malisse and Yanina Wickmayer were each handed one-year bans last week for falling foul of the regulations, which require players...
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Knighthood beyond Faldo’s dreams
LONDON: British golf great Sir Nick Faldo said receiving his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday had been an “unbelievable experience”.
Faldo, Britain’s most successful golfer of modern times with six Majors to his credit (three British Opens and three US Masters), is now entitled to call...
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Tiger Woods bemused by warm Australian reception
MELBOURNE: Thousands of fans and a media circus worthy of a head of state greeted Tiger Woods at Melbourne’s Kingston Heath golf club on Tuesday, as the world number one made his first visit to Australia in 11 years.
Woods, who arrived by private jet in Melbourne on Monday, tuned up for this week’s...
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Athletics: Helsinki awarded 2012 European championships
PARIS: Helsinki was awarded the 2012 European Athletics Championships on Monday unanimously by the European Athletics Council at a meeting in Barcelona.
The championships in Helsinki, who have hosted them twice before in 1971 and 1994, will run from June 27 to July 1 and will not include either the...
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2012 Olympics: London tickets expected to raise $660 million
LONDON: Tickets sales for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics are expected to generate around £400 million ($666 million), London organising committee chief executive Paul Deighton said on Tuesday.
Deighton told a sports event management conference that organisers had wanted also to raise between...
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Qatar would let Israel attend World Cup
DOHA: Qatar would let Israel take part in a World Cup on its territory despite not recognising the Jewish state, the head of the Gulf nation’s bid to stage the 2022 soccer extravaganza said on Tuesday. Such an invitation would be unprecedented in the...
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Liverpool saved by controversial Gerrard penalty
LONDON: Steven Gerrard saved Liverpool from another damaging Premier League defeat on Monday when his controversial penalty earned a 2-2 home draw with Birmingham City.
Substitute Gerrard, who has been nursing a groin injury, came on late in the first half and equalised with 19 minutes remaining...
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