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Pakistan face uphill battle after Sangakkara century
COLOMBO, March 29: Kumar Sangakkara scored 185 and spinner Muttiah Muralitharan claimed two late wickets to push Sri Lanka towards victory in the first Test against Pakistan on Wednesday....
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Odds heavily stacked in Sri Lankan favour
COLOMBO, March 29: Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has backed his side’s bowlers to secure a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series against Pakistan. A wonderful seven-and-a-half-hour 185 from Sangakkara left Pakistan chasing an improbable 458 for victory....
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Pakistan to tour England from June
KARACHI, March 29: Pakistan will play four Tests and five One-day Internationals against England during their upcoming tour starting in late June. Pakistan’s extensive tour will start with three-day game against...
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West Indies avoid clean sweep after watery draw
NAPIER (New Zealand), March 29: Wet weather ensured the final Test between New Zealand and the West Indies ended in a damp draw on Wednesday, enabling the host to win the three-match series by a 2-0 margin....
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‘Ashes defeat taught us new lessons’
DURBAN, March 29: Captain Ricky Ponting credited Australia’s series win over South Africa to the lessons learnt from last year’s Ashes defeat. Australia won the second Test on Tuesday by 112...day....
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Unfancied Imran, Khurram storm into final
KARACHI, March 29: The 31st National snooker championship will throw a new champion as unfancied Imran Shehzad and Khurram Agha propelled into the final after they toppled Abu Saim and Saleh Mohammad in one-sided pre-finals on the penultimate day, Wednesday....
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PWD triumph despite Sarfraz supreb century
KARACHI, March 29: PAK PWD moved into the DHA Trophy KCCA Inter-departmental cricket tournament final despite a brilliant century by KESC skipper Sarfraz Ahmed on Tuesday....
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Tendulkar unlikely to face Windies
LONDON, March 29: West Indians may not be able to see legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar in action during India’s cricket tour of the Caribbean starting in May. ...
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S. Africa recalls Amla and Steyn
DURBAN, March 29: South Africa added batsman Hashim Amla and fast bowler Dale Steyn to their squad for the third and final Test against Australia, starting in Johannesburg on Friday....
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Pentangular Cup starts from today
KARACHI, March 29: The Pentangular Cup, which is being revived after a long lapse, gets under way from Thursday with Faisalabad taking on PIA in the opening four-day fixture at Lahore’s Qadhafi Stadium....
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Kenyan opener quitting
NAIROBI, March 29: Kenyan top-order batting veteran Kennedy Otieno has vowed to quit international cricket after being dropped for the opening match of the ICC Intercontinental Cup on Wednesday....
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Champion regards team mate main threat
SYDNEY, March 29: Spaniard Fernando Alonso is sure of one thing: a Renault will win this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix. However, the reigning world champion has no idea whether it will...
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Champions League: Arsenal down Juve, Barcelona held by gutsy Benfica
LONDON, March 29: Arsenal produced another mighty European performance to overwhelm Juventus 2-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday as the Italian champions ended in disarray with two late red cards....
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Figo describes world’s richest club a circus
MADRID, March 29: Inter Milan midfielder Luis Figo has described his former club Real Madrid as like a circus, and criticised the way it was run under former president Florentino Perez....
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Federer and Roddick in quarterfinals
MIAMI, March 29: Swiss world number one Roger Federer and American fourth seed Andy Roddick advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP and WTA hardcourt tournament with triumphs on Tuesday....
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Hockey: PHF picks probables for camp
LAHORE, March 29: Twenty-three probables were called for the training camp being held in Islamabad from March 31 to prepare and finalise Pakistan team for the hockey World Cup qualifier to be held at Changzhou, China, from April 12 to 23....
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Punjab rout Sindh
LAHORE, March 29: Punjab and Balochistan scored second consecutive wins against Sindh and NWFP by identical margins of 6-0 in the Inter-provincial girls U-17 hockey championship at the National Hockey Stadium on Wednesday....
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Ahmed’s goal blitz
LAHORE, March 29: Seven-goal Ahmed Ali Tiwana enabled Enzo beat Sherwood 9-2 1/2 in the 2-6 Goals polo tournament on Wednesday....
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Squash team for Malaysia
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Pakistan Squash Federation on Wednesday announced a six-member team that will take part in Junior International squash tournament to be played in Malaysia from 31 May....
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Hasan, Shoaib named skippers
KARACHI, March 29: Mohammad Hasan and Shoaib Nazar will lead KCCA North Nazimabad and Orangi Zone teams in the PCB Under-16 Cricket Championship. Muhammad Hasan will lead North Nazimabad and Orangi...
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Shooting: Jury cost Khurram a medal
KARACHI, March 29: Khalid Javed, secretary, National Rifle Association of Pakistan (NRAP), has said that Pakistan could have won one more medal at the just concluded Commonwealth Games had country’s ace...
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Army recalls PSB DG
ISLAMABAD, March 29: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) is to have a new Director General following the transfer of its current head....
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Sara, Maria in semis
HYDERABAD, March 29: Sara Awan, Muqadas Ashraf, Maria Toor and Saima Shaukat advanced to the semifinals of First Hyderabad Open women squash championship at Hyderabad Gymkhana on Wednesday....
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Juniors for India
KARACHI, March 29: A seven-member junior tennis squad will leve for India on Thursday to attend week-long training camp at Ludhiana. The players will get training from Chandigarh-based Kanwal Jeet Singh...
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