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Tigers go the slow way
Selectors name first Test squad
Bangladesh selectors are banking on a left-arm spin attack to topple Zimbabwe and called up Enamul Haque (Jr) in a 13-member squad for the first Test against visiting Zimbabwe yesterday.
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Zim practice batting well
The three-day match between the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) XI and Zimbabwe was heading for a draw after the tourists took a 68-run lead on the second day at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday.
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Green Delta Dhaka Premier League 2004-05
Victoria march on, Abahani crash
Victoria Sporting Club continued their impressive run in the Green Delta Premier Cricket League but there were contrasting for-tunes for arch-rivals Abahani and Mohammedan in yesterday's matches.
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Familiar Pak collapse
Pakistan squandered a Salman Butt century with another middle-order batting collapse as Stuart MacGill captured five wickets to put Australia in charge after the opening day of the third and final Test
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Star cast World XI
Cricket's world stars on Sunday signalled their support for victims of the overwhelming Asian tsunami by agreeing to play in the first of two benefit matches in Melbourne next week.
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Tsunami match
Asian XI to be selected in Dhaka today
Chief cricket selectors of the Sub-Continent will meet in Dhaka today to select the Asian XI squad that will play against an International Cricket Council (ICC) XI in a charity cricket match for victims
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Usha blank Mariner
Pakistani forward Nayeem Ahmed slammed a hattrick and his compatriot Mohammed Nadim scored a spectacular goal as Usha Krira Chakra thrashed Mariner Youngs Club 4-0 at the Maulana Bhasani National Stadium
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SA 247-4
South Africa, who won the toss and chose to bat, were 247 for four at stumps on the first day of the third Test against England in Cape Town on Sunday.
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'Lara no problem for me'
New West Indies cricket coach Bennett King says there are no problems in his working relationship with team captain Brian Lara.
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England wrest initiative
England spinner Ashley Giles made a crucial breakthrough for his country when he dismissed South African captain Graeme Smith for 74 on the first day of the third Test at Newlands here on Sunday.
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Dhanmondi and Sonargaon win
The top three batsmen smashed half centuries as Dhanmondi Club handed a 51-run defeat on Eskaton Sabuj Sangha in the First Division Cricket League at the Jagannath Hall Ground yesterday.
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Australian fans give $55,000
Australian cricket fans at the opening day of the final Test against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground Sunday donated a total of 71,786 dollars (55,275 USD) to the Asian tsunami relief fund, officials
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Sharapova shocks Venus
Reigning Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova overpowered American Venus Williams Sunday in an exhibition match in northern Thailand overshadowed by last week's tsunamis that ravaged the kingdom and much
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Wasim foresees English chances
England have been given an even chance of reclaiming the Ashes from Australia this year by former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram.
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Hopman Cup Argentina down Italy
Guillermo Coria exorcised a few ghosts on Sunday when he recorded his first victory in more than six months as Argentina made a winning start to the Hopman Cup with a 2-1 victory over Italy.
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Premiership
The gap remains the same
Jose Mourinho claimed Chelsea had enjoyed the good fortune that makes champions after his team rode their luck to beat Liverpool and preserve their five-points lead at the top of the Premiership.
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PREVIEW: Premiership
Ailing Magpies, Reds
Newcastle United and Liverpool have been hit by major injury worries as the gruelling Christmas and New Year schedule begins to exact a heavy toll in the Premiership.
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Roberto Carlos staying put
Brazil World Cup star Roberto Carlos, continually thwarted in his pay demands at Real Madrid, denied press reports Sunday that he wants to leave the Spanish giants and said he had turned down an offer
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Gazza critically ill
Former England football international Paul Gascoigne was gravely ill in hospital Sunday suffering from pneumonia and a possible collapsed lung, Britain's News of the World tabloid said.
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Aragones gets on British nerves
Spanish football coach Luis Aragones should be punished following his latest racist comments, British sports minister Richard Caborn said.
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Real to dance samba
Newly-appointed Real Madrid coach Wanderley Luxemburgo said on Friday that under his stewardship it would be a little bit more like watching his former charges Brazil in the coming months at the Bernabeu.
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Keegan's Yugoslav nightmare revealed
England football star Kevin Keegan was beaten up in custody by Yugoslav police after the national team arrived in Belgrade for a match in 1974, newly-released British government archives said Saturday.
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