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Selectors to choose between experience and youth today
KARACHI, Feb 23: Pakistan announce their hockey squad for next month’s Azlan Shah Cup on Monday with followers anticipating ageing ‘veterans’ to be replaced by youthful talent.... 
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Tyson flattens Etienne and stuns Lewis too
 MEMPHIS,(Tennessee), Feb 23: Mike Tyson flattened Clifford Etienne after only 49 seconds of their heavyweight fight here on Saturday, then staggered champion Lennox Lewis by saying he wants a long wait...
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Henin outplays Seles to lift title
 DUBAI, Feb 23: Top seed Justine Henin-Hardenne saved a match point on her way to beating Monica Seles 4-6 7-6 7-5 to win the seventh title of her career at the...
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Miracle completes double feat
LAHORE, Feb 23: Bay filly Miracle, performed a double feat when she won the Narowal Cup and completed a hat trick during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday....
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Pacer Ata to appear before tribunal
LAHORE, Feb 23: Former Test medium-pacer, Ata-ur-Rehman, will appear before one-man tribunal headed by PCB general manager Zakir Khan on Monday....
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Sultan and Pervaiz steal limelight
KARACHI, Feb 23: In a afternoon where upsets were the order of the day, owner Sultan and trainer Pervaiz stole the racing limelight with a brace of winners, when the Winter...
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Pakistan try to make sense of defeat
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 23: Pakistan began Sunday behind closed doors as they tried to make sense of their shock World Cup capitulation to England....
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Flower may play in Australia
SYDNEY, Feb 23: Zimbabwe batsman Andy Flower, at the centre of black armband protest against the regime of president Robert Mugabe, may play cricket in Australia, a newspaper report said here...
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Ponting plays down unbeaten campaign
 BULAWAYO (Zimbabwe), Feb 23: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has played down suggestions his side could go through the World Cup unbeaten, despite their impressive start to the tournament....
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Nairobi finally host a World Cup match
 NAIROBI, Feb 23: Sri Lanka and Kenya renew their World Cup rivalry here on Monday in a game that seems destined to be overshadowed by a huge security operation....
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Holland glad to face new storm
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 23: Pakistan have absolutely nothing to fear when they play Holland in the World Cup in Paarl on Tuesday, not even flooding and tempests....
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Zimbabwe v Australia match factbox
FORMWATCH: Australia are in prime form, having crushed England and Sri Lanka in a home triangular one-day series to complete a run of 15 wins in 17 matches. Hammered South Africa...
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Warne is no ‘drug cheat’: ACB chief
BULAWAYO (Zimbabwe), Feb 23:- Australian Cricket Board (ACB) chief executive officer James Sutherland has said he does not believe Shane Warne is a “drug cheat.”...
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No relief for Muralitharan
NAIROBI, Feb 23: Sri Lanka’s star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan goes into Monday’s World Cup clash against Kenya here facing a stern Australian examination of his bowling action....
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Davison blasts Cup’s fastest ever century: WI win with ease
CENTURION (South Africa), Feb 23: Brian Lara and Wavell Hinds destroyed Canada’s bowling on Sunday with an awesome display of hitting to steer West Indies to a crushing seven-wicket win in...
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Tendulkar, Ganguly make merry
 PIETERMARITZBURG (South Africa), Feb 23: Indian century-makers Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly brushed World Cup debutants Namibia aside by 181 runs on Sunday in one of the tournament’s biggest mis-matches....
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Pakistanis arrive in Paarl
PAARL (South Africa), Feb 23: A shell-shocked Pakistan squad arrived here from Cape Town on Sunday after their shameful defeat against England on Saturday night that left them with only an...
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Hussain lauds shock win
CAPE TOWN, Feb 23: England captain Nasser Hussain described his team’s upset World Cup victory over Pakistan on Saturday as a “special performance”....
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Fans forced to take short cut
PIETERMARITZBURG, Feb 23: Security chiefs have launched an investigation into why two spectators were refused entry into a venue — for wearing the wrong type of shorts....
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Australia to replace Warne tomorrow
MELBOURNE, Feb 23: Australia will replace Shane Warne in their World Cup squad this week despite the leg-spinner announcing he will appeal against his doping ban, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB)...
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Fastest Centuries in one-day matches
37 balls — Shahid Afridi, Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Nairobi, 1996-97...
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Results and fixtures
Feb 9: West Indies beat South Africa by three runs (Cape Town, D/N)....
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