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Cricket
Rain washes out match
LONDON, JULY 17. The three-day match between the touring India `A' side and Surrey was abandoned due to persistent rain on the final day at the AMP Oval in South London here on Thursday. This is the second match on this tour that the visiting ...
Waugh to the defence of Bangladesh team
DARWIN, JULY 17.Australia has been warned to be on its best behaviour in the first Test against struggling Bangladesh which starts on Friday. The world's top-ranked team have been heavily criticised in recent years for their persistent ...
Stats tell the tale
DARWIN, JULY 17.Steve Waugh has played more Tests, taken more wickets and accumulated more runs than the entire Bangladesh team put together. The 38-year-old Test campaigner, who will lead Australia into the first Test at Marrara Oval here on ...
Rashid Latif retained skipper
KARACHI, JULY 17.Wicket-keeper Rashid Latif has been confirmed as Pakistan captain for next month's home series against Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday. The 34-year-old was reprimanded earlier this month for making public a letter he ...


Hockey
Surge in popular response heartening
CHENNAI, JULY 17. The predominant sentiment on the eve of the prestigious Madras Cricket Club-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament was despondency and scepticism. Deprived of its star content consequent to the fiat issued by the Indian Hockey ...
India not to take part in 4-nation event in Japan
NEW DELHI, JULY 17.The Indian Women's Hockey Federation has decided not to send the national team for a four-nation tournament in Japan in September and instead concentrate on improving its game in preparation for bigger events slated for later ...


Football
Bagan, Sporting register wins
KOLKATA, JULY 17. Mohun Bagan rode a Jose Barreto's strike in the injury time of the first half to down Bhratri Sangha as Mohammedan Sporting got a brace of goals from Dipendu Biswas to beat West Bengal Police in the Super Division matches of the ...
Bhutia performs hat-trick
JAKARTA, JULY 17. Baichung Bhutia struck five consecutive times as East Bengal almost assured itself a berth in the quarterfinals of ASEAN Club football championship with a 6-0 rout of Army Football Club of Philippines here on Wednesday. After ...


Golf
Montgomerie pulls out
SANDWICH (ENGLAND), JULY 17. Tiger Woods looked like any ol' hacker at the British Open, poking through the tall grass in a desperate search for his ball. Then there was Greg Norman, who looked like it was 1993 all over again. Trying to snap a ...


Sports : General
Serena, Armstrong voted best
LOS ANGELES, JULY 17.Serena Williams was honoured as Female Athlete of the Year and female tennis player of the year at sports broadcaster ESPN's 11th annual ESPY Awards on Wednesday, a year after she accepted the same trophies on behalf of older ...
All the winners
The various winners at the ESPN's 11th annual ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Male Athlete: Lance Armstrong Female Athlete: Serena Williams Team: Anaheim Angels Comeback Athlete: ...


Swimming
Indians have a job on their hand
BANGALORE, JULY 17.Making it big in the World championships might be a tall order for the Indian swimmers, nevertheless they are going to Barcelona with a clear cut task at hand, that is to qualify for the next Olympics in Athens in 2004. The ...
Dedieu earns France its first gold
BARCELONA, JULY 17. Synchronized swimmer Virginie Dedieu earned France its first medal of the World swimming championships on Thursday. Dedieu's gold-medal performance in the solo competition left Russia's Anastasia Ermakova with the silver ...


Archery
Indians remain in the hunt
KOLKATA, JULY 17. Indians stayed in the hunt for Olympic qualification as the record entry of 500 archers from 70 countries were reduced to 64 archers in each of the individual events and 16 teams in each of the team events of the 42nd World ...



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