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Murali fears Aussies will target him again
SYDNEY, June 5: Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan may miss the triangular one-day series with England and Australia here in December-January because of fears local umpires will call him for... 
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Gold Bird notches up first win
LAHORE, June 5: The bay colt Gold Bird registered his first victory in the feature event of the midweek Lahore Gymkhana races at the Racecourse Wednesday....
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McMillan leads Kiwis’ revival
KINGSTON (Jamaica), June 5: Hard-hitting batsman Craig McMillan initiated a recovery after New Zealand had been reduced to a shaky 14 for three by West Indies in the opening One-day International...
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South Africans bid farewell to fallen hero
 BLOEMFONTEIN (South Africa), June 5: South Africans remembered only the best of Hansie Cronje Wednesday as they buried the disgraced cricket legend who died in a weekend plane crash....
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Lahore to host World Cup polo semis
LAHORE, June 5: The semi-finals of the World Cup Polo Zone “D” will be held in Lahore next year from Nov 30 to Dec 7....
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Boxers get NOC for C’wealth Games
KARACHI, June 5: Pakistan boxing officials Wednesday took a sigh of relief when Army agreed to allow its boxers to participate in the Asian Championship and Commonwealth Games....
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Waseem to join camp on Monday
LAHORE, June 5: Midfielder Waseem Ahmad will join the national hockey camp for July’s Manchester Commonwealth Games on June 10 after returning from Germany where he is playing league....
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Rain comes to Agassi’s rescue
 PARIS, June 5: Rain had the final word at the French Open Wednesday when officials finally bowed to player pressure and allowed Andre Agassi and Juan Carlos Ferrero to leave centre...
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Slovenian coach to quit after bust-up with player
TAEGU (South Korea), June 5: Slovenia coach Srecko Katanec will stand down at the end of the World Cup after a bust-up with his side’s highest-profile player, he said at a...
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‘Countrymen will be after my blood if we lose’
PUSAN (South Korea), June 5: France coach Roger Lemerre expects his fellow countrymen to be “after my blood” if France lose their critical game against Uruguay on Thursday....
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Under fire FIFA defends doping procedures
SEOUL, June 5: FIFA has defended its decision to keep observers from the independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) out of its drug-testing procedures at the World Cup finals....
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President requests Katanec to forget feud
LJUBLJANA, June 5: Slovenia’s president Milan Kucan called Wednesday for the World Cup squad’s coach Srecko Katanec and his top player Zlatko Zahovic to forget their feud and continue their success...
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Beckham apologises for arrogance
HIGASHIURA (Japan), June 5: Captain David Beckham apologised to England supporters on Wednesday for failing to applaud them after their 1-1 World Cup draw with Sweden....
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Police send hazard truck to false alarm
SAPPORO, June 5: Nerves are running high in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo ahead of Friday’s match between Argentina and England....
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FIFA is rotten, says governor
TOKYO, June 5: The governor of Saitama prefecture, which includes the site of Japan’s opening World Cup match against Belgium, blasted FIFA Wednesday, saying football’s world governing body was “rotten.”...
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Turkish, Albanian supporters killed
ISTANBUL, June 5: A Turkish World Cup fan died on Wednesday when he fell from the top of a four-storey apartment building while attempting to adjust a television antenna....
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Irish fans celebrate
 DUBLIN, June 5: Relieved and invigorated Irish soccer fans scrapped plans to go back to the office on Wednesday after a last-minute equaliser kept their World Cup hopes alive....
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US achieve greatest win in over 50 years
 SUWON (South Korea), June 5: The United States recorded their greatest soccer victory in over half a century when they upset fancied Portugal 3-2 in their World Cup opening group D clash on Wednesday....
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France and Uruguay in must win situation
SEOUL, June 5: French hopes of retaining their world crown could dissolve Thursday when they take on Uruguay in a group A match neither side can afford to lose....
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Rivaldo fined for antics
ULSAN (South Korea), June 5: Brazil’s Rivaldo was fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($6,390) on Wednesday for play-acting in Monday’s World Cup game against Turkey....
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Saudi, Senegal skippers to miss action today
SAITAMA, June 5: Saudi Arabian skipper Sami al-Jaber said Wednesday that he will miss the match against Cameroon due to a knee injury sustained in the opener against Germany....
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Ireland stay in contention after Keane’s injury time equalizer
 IBARAKI (Japan), June 5: Robbie Keane scored an equalizer deep into injury time to keep Ireland’s World Cup hopes still alive in a 1-1 draw with Germany Wednesday....
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