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August 1, 2005 Monday Jumadi-us-Sani 24, 1426 Dravid shapes up easy victory over West Indies DAMBULLA (Sri Lanka), July 31: Rahul Dravid hit a second successive half-century to shape India’s comfortable six-wicket victory over a depleted West Indies in the triangular one-day series match on Sunday.... England remain unchanged for second Test LONDON, July 31: England named an unchanged 12-man squad on Sunday to face Australia in the second Ashes Test starting at Edgbaston on Aug 4. Michael Vaughan’s side trail the five-match series 1-0 after losing by 239 runs at Lord’s.... PFF invites 77 probables to appear in trials LAHORE, July 31: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has invited 77 probables from its affiliated units to the trials for selecting a Pakistan team for the qualifying rounds of the Asian Football Confederation Youth Championship.... ‘England openers must learn to combat Warne’ LONDON, July 31: Steve Waugh has told England’s opening batsmen they must find a more effective way of combating leg-spinner Shane Warne if the team are to have a chance of winning the second Ashes Test at Edgbaston starting on Thursday.... Raikkonen upstages Alonso at Hungarian Grand Prix BUDAPEST, July 31: Kimi Raikkonen won the Hungarian Grand Prix for McLaren on Sunday to revive his Formula One title hopes and claw 10 points back from Renault’s championship leader Fernando Alonso.... Aussie golfer triumphs on 2nd playoff hole KUNGSANGEN (Sweden), July 31: Australian Mark Hensby disappointed the home gallery by beating Swede Henrik Stenson in a sudden-death playoff for the Scandinavian Masters title on Sunday.... Don’t judge England on Ashes results : Woolmer says LAHORE, July 31: Pakistan’s cricket coach Bob Woolmer warned his team on Sunday not to judge England on the Ashes series results and to plan well for a hectic programme leading up to the 2007 World Cup.... Crocker shatters 100m butterfly world record MONTREAL, July 31: Ian Crocker demolished the world record to win the 100 metres butterfly at the world swimming championships on Saturday and ruin Michael Phelps’s dream of winning six gold medals.... Lucky Murad comes from behind in photo finish LAHORE, July 31: The change of name proved lucky for the chestnut gelding, Lucky Murad, who produced a devastating turn of foot to catch the front running grey gelding, Millennium Count... Patricia makes it two in a row KARACHI, July 31: Riding on the crest of a wave, three-year-old filly, Patricia, made it two in a row as jockeys Muhammad Essa and Waheed Baran shared the day’s honours by... Memorial bridge starts KARACHI, July 31: The Aslam memorial bridge tournament began on Saturday to commemorate the death of Aslam Shaikh, the greatest connoisseur of his time of the duplicate bridge, who was brutally murdered by dacoits on Aug 5, 1995.... Meeting today on Punjab Games LAHORE, July 31: An important meeting to be chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi will be held on Monday to take decisions about organizing the second India-Pakistan Punjab Games.... Smith inspires Somerset to Twenty20 crown LONDON, July 31: South African skipper Graeme Smith inspired Somerset to a seven-wicket win against Lancashire at The Oval on Saturday to lift the Twenty20 title.... Army, Wapda in semifinal LAHORE, July 31: Army take on Wapda in the first semifinal of the National Challenge Cup soccer at Army Sports Complex, Rawalpindi, on Monday. The second semifinal will be played at... Agassi in final LOS ANGELES, July 31: Andre Agassi reached his first final of the year at the Los Angeles Open with an easy 6-4 6-2 win over Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela on Saturday.... Swimmers, coach for Bangkok LAHORE, July 31: Syed Moeed Mustafa and Ghulam Sakina accompanied by a national coach Hafeez Bhatti will leave for Thailand on Tuesday to take part in a training/coaching course prior to participating in the Asian amateur junior swimming championship in Bangkok.... Sindh, Punjab in final KARACHI, July 31: Sindh and Punjab qualified for the final of National junior softball championship on points at Polo ground on Saturday. In the final round matches Sindh easily overcame Balochistan... ICA Inter-club from 14th ISLAMABAD, July 31: The Islamabad Cricket Association (ICA) is to organise an Inter-club championship from Aug 14 as part of Independence Day celebrations.... Ghulam Abbas triumphs LAHORE, July 31: Army’s Ghulam Abbas pedalled ahead to clinch 15 points and win the 50km Punjab Open cycle race after covering the distance in 1:19.14... U-17 hockey camp ISLAMABAD, July 31: A training camp to select the National Bank under-17 team for participation in this month’s National Junior Hockey Championship is due to begin here on Monday.... Sara tops seedings ISLAMABAD, July 31: Sara Mahboob has been given top seeding for the inaugural PTF National women’s ranking tournament starting on Monday. Twenty players among them second seed Nida Rahim and No... Rustam-i-Karachi wrestling KARACHI, July 31: The Rustam-i-Karachi wrestling would be held on Aug 14, the Independence Day, at Green Belt, opposite Sindh Sports Complex. The trials were held on Saturday at Karachi Wrestling Club, in which wrestlers from all the towns took part....

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