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PHF focuses on seniors, fails to form U-16 side
KARACHI, March 3: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has been involved in all kinds of time wasting exercises except building the base — the Under-16 squad.... 
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Dragila creates world record
 BOSTON, March 3: Reigning Olympic champion Stacy Dragila of the United States set a world indoor record in the women’s pole vault here Sunday, clearing 4.78m to win at the US...
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69th edition of Punjab Games begin
LAHORE, March 3: The 69th Punjab Games started at 18 different centres after a colourful opening ceremony at the newly built Punjab Stadium in Nishtar Park on Monday....
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Latif, Tariq Baran steal limelight
KARACHI, March 3: Jockey Latif and riding boy Tariq Baran stole the racing limelight, when they each finished the afternoon’s programme with a brace of winners at the Winter Gymkhana Meeting,...
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Polo season from Saturday
RAWALPINDI, March 3: The polo season in Rawalpindi is set to begin from Saturday with the Sardar Ahmed Khan memorial tournament....
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Nedved propels Juve to victory
 TURIN (Italy), March 3: Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved inspired Juventus to an impressive 3-0 win over title rivals Inter Milan on Sunday, sending the Italian champions three points clear at the...
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Holland score historic first one-day victory
 BLOEMFONTEIN (South Africa), March 3: Klaas Jan van Noortwijk and Feiko Kloppenburg hammered centuries as Holland recorded their first One-day International victory by beating Namibia in the World Cup on Monday....
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Bangladesh to sack Mohsin as coach
DHAKA, March 3: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCC) will soon set up a two-member inquiry committee to find reasons behind the team’s dismal performance in the World Cup in southern Africa, says...
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Hooper wants ICC to look at Cup rules
KIMBERLEY (South Africa), March 3: West Indies captain Carl Hooper said cricket chiefs would have to look at changing World Cup rules on match forfeits and wash-outs after his team were...
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Dravid relishing happy endings
CENTURION (South Africa), March 3: Rahul Dravid has always been India’s batting anchorman and he is now relishing his role as a specialist finisher at the World Cup....
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Heads you lose, Ponting tells Hussain
PORT ELIZABETH, March 3: England skipper Nasser Hussain dismissed claims from Australian captain Ricky Ponting that when it comes to battles between the old foes, his team simply lose their heads....
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Kenyans fear for the future
NAIROBI, March 3: Kenya’s joy at reaching the World Cup Super Six was cut short on Monday when some of the country’s top players warned that the game at home was...
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Today’s hero, tomorrow’s office worker...
BLOEMFONTEIN, March 3: On Monday, Feiko Kloppenburg was a cricket World Cup hero, decked out in bright orange kit....
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I wanted McGrath’s record, says Bichel
PORT ELIZABETH, March 3: Australia’s Andy Bichel produced one of the most outstanding all-round performances in World Cup history, then rued having missed a record....
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Pakistan facing hopeless task
BULAWAYO (Zimbabwe), March 3: Pakistan’s honeymoon with the World Cup is almost over as it will require a superhuman effort to overcome Zimbabwe on Tuesday which looks unlikely, given the team’s...
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Kiwis keep hoping after sealing Windies’ fate
 BENONI (South Africa), March 3: New Zealand threw caution to the wind as they hurtled to a five-wicket World Cup win over Canada on Monday, in the process knocking West Indies...
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Results and fixtures
Feb 9: West Indies beat South Africa by three runs (Cape Town, D/N) Feb 10: Zimbabwe beat Namibia by 86 runs on D/L method (Harare)Feb 10: Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 47 runs (Bloemfontein). .....
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Zimbabwe v Pakistan factbox
FORMWATCH: Pakistan lost 4-1 to South Africa in the World Cup warm-up but said those results had been ideal preparation. Since then, they have functioned at only around 60 percent, crashing...
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Inzamam storms out of training session
BULAWAYO, March 3: Pakistan’s premier batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq stormed out of his team’s practice session on Monday after a brawl with team-mates ahead of Tuesday’s key World Cup match against Zimbabwe....
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Dissenting fans still in jail: lawyer
HARARE, March 3: Lawyers representing 42 anti-government protestors who were arrested at the World Cup match between Zimbabwe and Holland in Bulawayo last week were on Monday still trying to get...
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Taufiq misses flight
BULAWAYO, March 3: Pakistan’s opening batsman Taufiq Umar missed the team flight from Johannesburg on Sunday as he was without a passport but was expected to rejoin teammates here sometime on...
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Atapattu’s century helps Sri Lanka post imposing total
 DURBAN, March 3: Opener Marvan Atapattu struck his ninth One-day International century to lift Sri Lanka to an imposing total of 268 for nine in their crunch World Cup Group ‘B’...
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