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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
Tigers home, set new target
On a tranquil morning, the Bangladesh cricket team landed at the Zia Interna-tional Airport yesterday.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
Australia fire into final
McGrath, Tait choke Proteas
Glenn McGrath and Shaun Tait struck it rich as Australia stormed into a fourth succ-essive World Cup final with a crushing seven-wicket win over South Africa here on Wednesday.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
Dav, tired and out!
After two months and seven days in the Caribbe-an, it took a 40-hour jour-ney for Habi-bul Bashar's men to return home.
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Faruque firm on Bashar
Chief selector Faruque Ahmed has poured cold water into speculations of an immediate change in one-day captaincy by saying that it would be unwise to unstable the team ahead of next month's home series
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B.League
Minnows meet today
The B. League enters the ninth week today with bottom-table sides Rahmatganj and Chittagong Abahani pitted against each other at the Bangabandhu National Stadium.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
A brief respite
Sri Lanka's surge into cricket's World Cup final this weekend has raised hopes of a peace dividend on an island united by sport but divided by conflict, even if no one is showing long-term optimism.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
War minus shooting
Sport is war minus shooting, said George Orwell and Sri Lanka's cricketers are doing their part in keeping the guns silent.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
Ponting can't wait
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting admitted that he couldn't wait for Saturday to come when his all-conquering team take on Sri Lanka in the World Cup final.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
Stage-fright blamed
The latest chapter in South Africa's sorry World Cup history was put down to a case of stage fright by former stars Wednesday as the Proteas once again suffered semifinal heartache at the hands of Australia.
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
WC to clear WI debts
The profits from the World Cup may entirely clear the debts of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
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ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007
'Bring on Murali, Vaas'
Australia captain Ricky Ponting insists his world champions are ready to face down Sri Lanka's veteran bowlers Muttiah Muralidaran and Chaminda Vaas in Saturday's World Cup final.
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UEFA Champions League
Chelsea take slim advantage
Joe Cole scored the only goal of the game as Chelsea emerged from the first leg of their Cham-pions League semifinal with a 1-0 advantage over Liverpool to take to Anfield.
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DCA 3rd Div champions
Dhanmondi Cricket Academy emerged champions of the Kai-Altech Third Division Cricket League when they beat Rayer Bazar by seven wickets at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium yesterday.
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Nat'l Youth Football
Gazipur, Comilla win comfortably
Gazipur thrashed Sherpur 5-0 in the most one-sided match on the second day of the Western Union National Youth Football Championship yesterday.
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Howard ready for parade
Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday he would "amazed" if Australia failed to bring home cricket's World Cup after the semifinal win over South Africa edged them closer to a third straight title.
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Dilhara faces final axe
Struggling pace bowler Dilhara Fernando is likely to be axed from Sri Lanka's team for Saturday's World Cup final after his disastrous performance in the semifinal win over New Zealand.
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Chappell attacks Tendulkar
Ian Chappell, who received considerable flak in India when he suggested recently that Sachin Tendulkar should retire, has said that the Indian master batsman was now playing the game for "wrong reasons".
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No place for Inzy in Tests?
Having recently retired from one-day cricket, Inzamam-ul Haq's future in Pakistan's Test team now looks in jeopardy with a top PCB official indicating that he would be dropped for the home series against
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Clarke excites Buchanan
Australian coach John Buchanan has tipped upcoming young batsman Michael Clarke to become captain after Ricky Ponting's time was up if he made right choices in that direction.
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UEFA Champions League
Jose rues missed chances
Jose Mourinho admitted that Chelsea had blown a chance to put the outcome of their Champions League semifinal clash with Liverpool beyond doubt after his side emerged with only a 1-0 lead to take into
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LFP
Saviola set to defect
Barcelona's Argentine forward Javier Saviola is set to defect to arch-enemies Real Madrid, sports newspaper Marca said on Thursday.
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Klinsmann shuts door on clubs
Former Germany boss Juergen Klinsmann has accepted a job with German TV, apparently ruling himself out of becoming coach of English Premiership champions Chelsea, a report said on Thursday.
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UEFA Champions League
Gerrard certain of Reds chances
Steven Gerrard has insisted that Liverpool are capable of overturning a 1-0 first leg deficit against Chelsea to clinch a second Champions League final spot in three years.
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Bundes Liga
Bayern Klose-ing in
Werder Bremen's German international striker Miroslav Klose held talks with out of form defending Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich according to Thursday's edition of Bild.
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Nadal carries on clay charisma
Rafael Nadal extended his record run on clay to 69 straight wins as he moved a step closer to a title hattrick at the 900,000-dollar Barcelona Open on Thursday.
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Ranson steps up City bid
Ray Ranson has stepped up his bid to secure control of Manchester City by submitting revised takeover proposals to the Premiership club.
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Podolski out for three months
Bayern Munich's drive for a Champions League place suffered a massive blow on Thursday with the news German international striker Lukas Podolski is out for six months.
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Lehmann stays with Arsenal
German international goalkeeper Jens Lehmann extended his contract for another year with Premiership side Arsenal, he told German daily Bild on Wednesday.
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United, Roma both fined
Manchester United and AS Roma were both fined by UEFA on Wednesday over the violence which erupted during their Champions League quarterfinal in Rome this month.
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Pires considering Metz return
Villarreal's Robert Pires said Wednesday that he is considering ending his career at his first club, Metz in France.
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Essien denies drink charge
Chelsea's Ghanaian midfielder Michael Essien was not contrary to reports arrested on a drink driving charge this week, one of his entourage told AFP on Wednesday.
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