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Prince’s second ton puts South Africa in control
LEEDS (England), July 19: Ashwell Prince’s second century in consecutive Tests took South Africa past England’s modest total as they went to tea on day two of the second Test on 262 for four at Headingley on Saturday....
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Shoaib to be dope Tested today
LAHORE, July 19: Shoaib Akhtar made an appearance at the National Cricket Academy on Saturday evening where he joined a nets session with youngsters and sought to allay doubts over his fitness....
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Referee’s about-turn makes South winners: Women’s Twenty20
KARACHI, July 19: South Zone beat North Zone due to delayed over rate and Central Zone Blues overpowered Central Zone Greens by four wickets on day two of Pakistan Cricket Board’s...
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Discarded Hoggard fears for his England future
LEEDS, July 19: Matthew Hoggard fears he may have played his last Test for England after former roof-tiler Darren Pattinson was dramatically plucked out of county cricket obscurity for a shock...
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Coaches divided on controversial catches
LEEDS, July 19: Controversial catches on the opening day of the second Test at Headingley on Friday threatened the good relations between England and South Africa....
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Dalmiya vying for CAB presidency
KOLKATA, July 19: The former ICC and BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has filed his nomination for the election to the post of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president, his first step...
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PCB starts personality Development programme for youth
KARACHI, July 19: Former Pakistan batsman Moin-ul-Atiq has been appointed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) recently for carrying out the personality development task for the budding talent across the country....
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Indian batsmen struggle in tour opener
COLOMBO, July 19: Sachin Tendulkar marked his return from injury with a well-made 69 but the rest of the Indian batsmen struggled in a three-day tour match against a Sri Lanka Board XI here on Saturday....
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Cavendish claims 13th stage as Evans retains yellow jersey
NIMES (France), July 19: Britain’s Mark Cavendish claimed his fourth victory on the Tour de France here on Friday after dominating another bunch sprint at the end of the 182.5km...
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Black Caps to tour Bangladesh
DHAKA, July 19: The Bangladesh Cricket Board announced the itinerary on Saturday for a tour by New Zealand in October....
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Bam Bamm eyes second win at KRC meet today
KARACHI, July 19: Three-year-old chestnut colt Bam Bamm which came out with a sterling performance in the last outing by registering his maiden win in three attempts seems to make it...
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Secret Memories on track to achieve consecutive victory
LAHORE, July 19: Three-year-old filly Secret Memories, who has a facile victory to her credit, will be on the trot to make it two-in-a-row when the day/night Lahore Summer Meeting gets underway at the Racecourse on Sunday evening....
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MLS is better than people think, says Beckham
EAST RUTHERFORD (New Jersey), July 19: While the quality of play in Major League Soccer (MLS) is better than people think, David Beckham believes it will take time to catch up to some of the world’s better leagues....
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‘Kaka not for sale’
LONDON, July 19: AC Milan on Saturday dismissed reports that their Brazilian star Kaka is set to move to English Premier League side Chelsea on a world-record transfer worth 80 million pounds ($160 million)....
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Totti hints at Italy return
ROME, July 19: Francesco Totti is not ruling out a return to the Italian national team, the AS Roma captain said....
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Blake breezes into semis in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS, July 19: Top-seeded James Blake breezed into the semi-finals of the Indianapolis Championships with a straight-set romp of Chinese Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu 6-2, 6-0 on Friday....
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Army clinch six golds
LAHORE, July 19: The Army dominated on the second day of the 48th National swimming championship here on Saturday, picking up six gold medals, four silvers and a bronze....
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Venus withdraws from LA event
STANFORD, July 19: Wimbledon champion Venus Williams has withdrawn from next week’s Los Angeles Classic with tendonitis in her right knee, tournament organisers said on Friday....
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Cuban hurdler gives another Olympic warning to Liu
PARIS, July 19: Cuban Dayron Robles demonstrated once again the struggle Olympic champion Liu Xiang will face at next month’s Beijing Games by clocking the joint second fastest time ever for the men’s 110 metres hurdles on Friday....
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Greek boxer fails doping test
ATHENS, July 19: A boxer in Greece’s Olympic team has tested positive for banned substances less than a month before the start of the Beijing Games, the boxing federation said on Friday....
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Early signs good for injured boxer
SAN ANTONIO (Texas), July 19: Doctors were cautiously optimistic on Friday as welterweight boxer Oscar Diaz continued to improve in the wake of brain surgery that followed his collapse in a bout on Wednesday....
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British Open leader Choi one ahead of golden oldie Norman
SOUTHPORT (England) July 19: Greg Norman, attempting to become the oldest winner of a major, defied his 53 years to finish one stroke behind leader K.J....
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Zone-VII U-17 trials
KARACHI, July 19: Trials to select the KCCA Zone-VII Under-17 squad will be held at the Customs Cricket Academy on Monday....
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U-15 final postponed
KARACHI, July 19: The KCCA Inter-zonal U-15 Cricket Championship final, which was earlier scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed....
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Cool Hamilton takes pole for German GP
HOCKENHEIM (Germany), July 19: Lewis Hamilton stayed cool Saturday after clocking the fastest lap in qualifying to grab pole position for Sunday’s German Grand Prix....
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