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grameenphone ODI Series
Tigers focus on more improvement
Habibul Bashar cannot ignore the criticisms for his poor form during the Cricket World Cup over the last two months as the Bangladesh cricket captain prepares for his last one-day home series.
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B. League
MSC closer to top
Christina Emeka fired Mohammedan one point within leaders Muktijoddha in the B. League with a 1-0 win over Brothers Union yesterday.
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Hero's welcome for Champs
Australia's World Cup winning cricketers returned home to a hero's welcome Thursday, feted at breakfast by the prime minister and later by thousands of fans at a civic reception in central Sydney.
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Mahela accepts Aussie supremacy
Sri Lanka's World Cup squad returned home on Thursday to a damp welcome with skipper Mahela Jayawardene conceding they had lost the World Cup final to a superior Australian side.
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BCB in talks with Greenidge
Former West Indian opening batsman Gordon Greenidge has been approached by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for their coach post, it was learnt here.
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Pigeon has no regrets
Glenn McGrath said he had no regrets or second thoughts after calling time on his international cricket career.
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India-SA set for Belfast meeting
The Irish Cricket Union has confirmed a three-match one-day international series between India and South Africa will take place in Belfast this summer.
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Local Snippets
Tripti Dutta and Atiqur Rahman comfortably won gold medals on the inaugural day of the 21st National Shooting Championships yesterday.
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Windies drop Samuels
Marlon Samuels has been dropped from the 15-man squad for the four-Test series in England which starts next week.
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Burglar has the last laugh
As Jose Reina was performing heroics in a penalty shoot-out to send Liverpool into the Champions League final, burglars were ransacking the Spanish goalkeeper's Merseyside home, it emerged on Wednesday.
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UEFA Champions League
Milan blow United apart to set Liverpool date
AC Milan produced a masterclass display to blow away Manchester United 3-0 here on Wednesday and reach the Champions League final for the third time in the last five seasons.
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UEFA Champions League
Time for revenge
AC Milan are desperate to beat Liverpool in the Cham-pions League final to erase the memory of their nightmare defeat at the hands of the Merseysiders in the Istanbul final two years ago.
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Nadal wins battle of the surfaces
Spanish champion Rafael Nadal won his "battle of the surfaces" one-off exhibition clash on world number one Roger Federer here on Wednesday, the claycourt king edging the grass giant 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (12/10)
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UEFA Champions League
Mourinho defends Robben
Jose Mourinho has insisted that Arjen Robben should be praised not damned by Chelsea fans after the Dutch winger stepped up to take the opening spot-kick in Wednesday night's shootout defeat by Liverpool.
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Sanath mum on retirement
Sri Lanka's veteran opening batsman Sanath Jayasuriya was non-committal Thursday about playing in the cricket World Cup's next edition in 2011, saying it was too early to mull the prospect.
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Shoaib wants fitness issue sorted
Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has said he wanted to get his fitness problems sorted out once and for all during the lean cricketing season to come back tougher for the home series against SouthAfrica
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Sheva gets libel damages
Chelsea star Andriy Shevchenko accepted libel damages from a British newspaper Thursday after it claimed that he was a "dressing room spy" for the club's tycoon owner Roman Abramovich.
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Floods disrupt SL celebrations
Two people were killed in heavy rains in Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday while flash floods caused traffic jams and disrupted ceremonies to welcome back the national cricket team.
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