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  • SYDNEY: A clinical Sri Lanka rode on captain Mahela Jayawardene's unbeaten half century to register their first win of the cricket tri-series with an eight-wicket crushing of Australia in a...

    2012-02-18 15:40:17 |
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  • Adelaide: Needing four to win off the last ball, MS Dhoni's pick-up drive over the covers fetched India three runs that locked both India and Sri Lanka at 236 to end the fifth match of the CB series...

    2012-02-14 20:07:16 |
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  • Melbourne: India revived their Australian tour with a convincing eight-wicket win over the home side in the second Twenty20 international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday. Australia won...

    2012-02-03 20:16:20 |
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  • Perth, Jan 13: A familiar batting collapse saw Australia bundle out India for a paltry 161, few minutes after tea, on the first day of the third cricket Test at WACA, here on Friday. It took only 32...

    2012-01-13 15:01:50 |
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  • Sydney:The historic 100th international ton continued to elude Sachin Tendulkar as India slumped to an innings and 68-run defeat in the second cricket Test against Australia, who have now taken an...

    2012-01-06 12:40:42 |
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  • As in Brisbane nine months ago this was a day for the record books with Alastair Cook to the fore. However, the landmark of a triple hundred eluded him when he fell for 294 as England built up a...

    2011-08-13 12:07:34 |
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  • He was known to lecture Saina Nehwal to not expend too much energy, and urging her to increase her repertoire of strokes, but Mir Mahboob Ali — one of the shuttler’s earliest coaches who passed...

    2011-08-11 11:26:33 |
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  • England paceman Stuart Broad took a hat trick Saturday as India lost five wickets for 15 runs to be bowled out for 288, a lead of 67 on the second day of the second test at Trent Bridge. India...

    2011-07-31 13:51:44 |
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India vs UAE - Indian footballers hope for a...

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