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Pakistan confident of clean sweep against Zimbabwe: Final ODI at Sheikhupura
LAHORE, Feb 1: Opener Khurram Manzoor and all-rounder Rizwan Ahmad are likely to make their international debuts in the fifth and final One-day International against Zimbabwe at Sheikhuura Stadium on Saturday as Pakistan look for clean sweep....
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Aussies brush aside India in Melbourne: Tourists record their lowest Twenty20 score
MELBOURNE, Feb 1: Australia crushed a lamentable India by nine wickets in front of a huge crowd in the Twenty20 international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) here on Friday....
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I play for Pakistan, not for money: Shoaib Akhtar: PCB’s monthly remuneration declined
LAHORE, Feb 1: Maverick fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who made a dramatic appearance in the national training camp at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday, said that he will not accept any...
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Malik stumped by Indian ‘wife’
MUMBAI, Feb 1: Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik was playing on a sticky wicket on Friday after an Indian girl, insisting to be his wife, demanded a divorce following a denial from the all-rounder that he ever married her....
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Cashless Sri Lanka banking on India, says Ranatunga
COLOMBO, Feb 1: Sri Lanka’s new cricket chief and former captain Arjuna Ranatunga has revealed his board has no money left and is banking on financial support from India to stay afloat....
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Gilchrist is cricket’s latest revolutionary
LONDON, Feb 1: Adam Gilchrist, who retired from Test cricket this week, revolutionised the role of wicketkeeper-batsman with his uninhibited stroke player at number seven....
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Vengsarkar wants Procter to be hauled up by ICC
MUMBAI, Feb 1: India’s chief cricket selector Dilip Vengsarkar on Friday said he wants senior match referee Mike Procter to be hauled up by the ICC for bungling the incident involving India’s Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds at Sydney Test....
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Sharapova sprinkles stardust on depleted Fed Cup
PARIS, Feb 1: Maria Sharapova will sprinkle some desperately-needed stardust on the Fed Cup World Cup this weekend as the 45-year-old tournament reels from a succession of big-name absentees....
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Last-wicket stand lifts West Indies to 263-9
DURBAN, Feb 1: An unbeaten last-wicket stand of 57 between Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards lifted the West Indies to a competitive total of 263 for nine in the fourth One-day International against South Africa at Kingsmead on Friday....
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Unlawful third term for POA officials
LAHORE, Feb 1: The re-election of Syed Shahid Ali Shah and Idris Haider Khawaja as the president and secretary of the Punjab Olympic Association on Thursday for a consecutive third term is a clear violation of the national sports policy....
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Vettori doubtful
WELLINGTON, Feb 1: New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has injured his ankle and is a doubt for his side’s Twenty20 matches against England next week....
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Angola, Tunisia advance to quarters in drawn game: African Nations Cup
TAMALE (Ghana), Feb 1: Angola and Tunisia drew 0-0 Thursday and advanced to the 2008 African Nations Cup quarter-finals from Group D at the expense of Senegal and South Africa....
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Champions League exile looms for Liverpool
LIVERPOOL, Feb 1: Jamie Carragher has conceded that Liverpool go into Saturday’s clash with Sunderland with a fight on their hands to secure Champions League qualification this season after admitting that...
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AKU girls’ Throwball starts today
KARACHI, Feb 1: The sixth edition of the Aga Khan University (AKU) Inter School/Collegiate girls’ throwball tournament starts at the AKU Gymnasium here on Saturday (today)....
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Adam returns to Sydney racetrack
SYDNEY, Feb 1: A1 Team Pakistan returned to the track today, for the sixth round of the 2007/08 season. Under cloudy skies, Adam Khan took part in the first day of...
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NBP, Pakistan Steel and Port Qasim secure wins: National Hockey Departmental Round
PESHAWAR, Feb 1: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Pakistan Steel and Port Qasim secured victories on Friday in the 55th National Hockey Championship’s departmental round at the Lala Ayub Hockey Stadium....
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Muneeb in next round: Sindh Tennis
KARACHI, Feb 1: Upcoming Muneeb Khan overcame a stiff challenge from Omer Usman in three sets to reach the next round of juniors’ U-17 singles on the opening day of the Sindh Ranking Tennis Championship at DHA Sunset Club on Friday....
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Inter-collegiate badminton
KARACHI, Feb 1: Hosts Karachi College for Women were through to the next round after imposing a straight 2-0 win over Commecs College in the Karachi Board Inter-collegiate girls badminton championship at the former college courts on Friday....
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Argentina, NZ aim for Olympic slot
AUCKLAND, Feb 1: Olympic field hockey regulars Argentina and New Zealand face a desperate last chance bid to reach Beijing in a winner-takes-all qualifying tournament starting here on Saturday....
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Shiraz’s effort goes in vain
KARACHI, Feb 1: Off-spinner Shiraz Ali Khan’s six-wicket haul failed to save KCCA Zone-VII from a 40-run defeat at the hands of Zone-II in a PCB Under-19 Cricket Championship (Karachi Region) match at the TMC Ground on Friday....
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