Vadodara—If the best way to spark interest in a
seven-match ODI series is to stage a brilliantly
tense opener, then Australia and India achieved
their goal in Vadodara. Ricky Ponting and
Michael Hussey set up what looked like being a
comfortable Australian win until a lively,
crowd-lifting partnership from Harbhajan Singh
and Praveen Kumar threatened to snatch victory
for India.
Lahore—The death of the wife of former Pakistan
cricket team captain Wasim Akram who died in a
hospital in Indian City Chennai on Sunday, has
been widely mourned. Huma (42) was
admitted to the Apollo Hospital last Tuesday
after her condition deteriorated on board an air
ambulance flying from Lahore to Singapore, where
she was due to be treated.
Karachi—Pace duo of Aizaz Bin Ilyas and Ali
Imran Pasha shared eight wickets between them to
bowl PIA to their first win in Quaid-e-Azam
Cricket Trophy when they thrashed struggling
Pakistan Customs by ten wickets NBP Sports
Complex Ground on Sunday.
Sepang—Defending world champion Valentino
Rossi claimed his seventh MotoGP title in a
thrilling race in wet conditions on Sunday at
the Malaysian Moto GP. Australian Casey Stoner
won the race but the 30-year-old Italian secured
the title by coming in third on his Yamaha.
Spain’s Dani Pedrosa was second. Rossi said he
was delighted to seal the championship title
with one race to go, in Valencia on November 8.
Los
Angeles—Lance Armstrong will compete in next
year’s Tour of California, which will feature
route changes and be moved from February to May
to avoid the rainy season. The 16 host cities
for the May 16-23 road race were announced on
Thursday via a Twitter exchange between
Armstrong, three-time Tour of California
champion Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and
George Hincapie, and California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
