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BRISBANE: Peter Senior outlasted Geoff Ogilvy in a sudden-death play-off to seal his third Australian PGA Championship title in dramatic style Monday, 21 years after his first win. Senior, 51, won with a par on the second extra hole at the Coolum course after last week's Australian Open winner Ogilvy missed his two-metre par putt.
It was Senior's 28th career title, his 20th on the Australasian PGA Tour and he is the oldest winner of Australia's oldest professional title. "What a

LAHORE: Lahore humiliated Karachi by 10 wickets in the final of the National Women Under-19 T-20 Cricket Championship at Lahore Country Club, Muridke, on Monday.
Pakistan's star cricketer Bismah Maroof gave all-round performance for Lahore. First she sent three Karachi players back to the pavilion for just nine runs as the visitors managed just 65 runs. Later, she scored unbeaten 39 for Lahore in the successful run chase.
Karachi could use just 15.4 overs as they were all

LAHORE: Pakistan former captain Javed Miandad has turned down a request from the national team's one-day captain Shahid Afridi to accompany the team to New Zealand.
Miandad, who has been appointed as batting consultant by the Pakistan Cricket Board, is working with the players in the national camp in Lahore but has declined to accompany the players to New Zealand. "Shahid Afridi had a talk with me and he asked me to reconsider my decision not to go to New Zealand.
He said

LAHORE: Former captain Ramiz Raja said on Sunday Pakistan have the talent to ride out a spot-fixing scandal engulfing the national game. "For me credibility and integrity are the main issues and there is a need to draw a line between whether we want suspicious players or we just want talented players," Raja, also a member of the International Cricket Council's Pakistan task team, told AFP.
Pakistan cricket's image took a devastating knock when Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and

LAHORE: The Sri Lankan cricket officials are in a fix whether to tour Pakistan according to ICC's Futures Tours Programmes (FTP) or request the series to be held at a neutral venue. Sources in the PCB confirmed on Sunday that in 2011, Pakistan are scheduled to host Sri Lanka for a full series.
"The tour is important for us but obviously keeping in mind the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team last year, we have serious doubts that they will agree to play in Pakistan," one

LAHORE: Despite the introduction of a strong anti-corruption code by the PCB, incidents of indiscipline are still being widely reported in the ongoing domestic season. Pakistan's discarded opener Imran Nazir was banned from playing in a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match after he misbehaved with match referee Ishtiaq Ahmed during the last-round match in Rawalpindi.
Nazir, who was leading the ZTBL team, was fined Rs 10,000 by the match referee for abusing leg-spinner Danish Kaneria but

CHITTAGONG: Tamim Iqbal smashed seven sixes in a brisk 95 as Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by six wickets in the fifth and final one-day international on Sunday to clinch the series 3-1.
The left-handed opener also cracked five fours in a 96-ball knock to help Bangladesh pass Zimbabwe's total of 188-6 with seven overs to spare. The fourth match was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to a wet outfield in Chittagong on Friday.
It was Bangladesh's second successive

LAS VEGAS: Amir Khan used a series of combinations to the head and powerful body shots to grind out a 12-round unanimous decision over Marcos Maidana in their WBA title fight Saturday. The 23-year-old Khan survived the toughest test of his boxing career to successfully defend his 140-pound title.
"I was hit by his best shots and I am still there," Khan said. "I know I made mistakes, but I worked hard and came back stronger than ever. "He's a strong fighter, and he hits hard. My

MELBOURNE: Wicketkeeper Matt Prior said England were aiming to go through their Australian tour unbeaten after the tourists ground out a draw in their three-day match with Victoria on Sunday. Set 311 runs to win on the final day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, England were 211 for six off 54 overs when the match was called off as a draw with an hour of scheduled play remaining.
England shut up shop after tea, scoring only 52 runs in 21 overs with Prior finishing unbeaten on 102

LAHORE: Muhammad Leghari of Royal Palm surprised everyone at the Lahore Gymkhana's golf course by winning the 27th Millat Governor's Cup Golf Tournament here on Sunday.
The concluding moments of the final day of this three-day championship at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course produced exciting moments as till the last putt on the 18th hole, the winner of the title was not clear.
At the end of 54 holes, Muhammad Leghari of Royal Palm had an aggregate score of 213, net

LAHORE: Khan Research Laboratories defeated Lahore Ravi by nine wickets here on the final day of the Division-II Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at the LCCA Ground on Sunday. KRL bowled Lahore twice after forced the losers to follow on in the first innings. KRL made 247 in their first innings and Muhammad Imran, Rahat Ali restricted them to 75 runs in 31 overs. In their follow-on, Lahore managed 217 runs.
KRL batsmen had to chase mere 46 runs to win the match and they got that in 8.2

GENEVA: Retired tennis star Martina Hingis has married French showjumper Thibault Hutin in Paris, Swiss celebrity magazine Schweizer Illustrierte said. According to the magazine's website, the 30-year-old former Grand Slam champion and the 24-year-old rider held their civil wedding on Friday in the presence of close family.
"Our wedding came as a surprise for many, but it has been in planning long in advance," Hingis told the magazine, which said it would publish on Monday

SIEM REAP: Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee was in a class of his own as he cruised to an unprecedented 13th Asian Tour title at the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open on Sunday.
The untouchable three-time Asian Tour Order of Merit winner posted a final-round seven-under-par 65 to win the 300,000-dollar event in Siem Reap by four shots with a four-day total of 267. Japan's Kenichi Kuboya, who had held the lead for three rounds, had to settle for a disappointing second place after signing

LAHORE: Pakistan junior tennis players Samir Iftikhar and Faizan Khurram upstaged the second seed pair and qualified for the Servis Punjab Open Tennis Championship here at the Bagh-e-Jinnah courts on Sunday. Local tennis fans enjoyed the spectacular doubles match as cousins and Junior Davis Cuppers Samir and Faizan upset Heera Ashiq and Waqas Malik 6-4, 7-5 to reach the semi-finals.
The pair, who are also cousins of Pakistan tennis star Aisamul Haq and grandsons of late Indo-Pak

LAHORE: Saqib Khakwani and Zain Khakwani of Monnoo Polo combined well to thwart a spirited challenge from Shah Shamyl Alam in the final of the PSS Asia Cup here at the Lahore Polo Club on Sunday.
Monnoo Polo with the help of Khakwani duo smacked 10 goals and thwarted Shamyl's spate of attacks successfully containing Silk Bank to seven goals.
In the subsidiary final, Security 2000 were too smart for Goodwill Sweets beating them by nine goals to three and-a-half.
The

MOSCOW: Russian football fans and ultranationalists ran riot in the centre of Moscow on Saturday, when a demonstration against the death of a fan descended into violence that left 13 people hospitalised. Thousands of fans, supported by members of far-right groups, gathered in Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin for the unauthorised protest, with some shouting slogans such as "Russia for Russians" and performing Nazi salutes, according to an AFP photographer.
They were protesting

NEWCASTLE: Alan Pardew enjoyed the perfect start to his controversial reign at Newcastle as late goals from Joey Barton and Andy Carroll clinched a 3-1 win over Liverpool at St James' Park on Saturday.
Pardew replaced the sacked Chris Hughton as Newcastle boss this week and the Toon Army vented their anger at the appointment both inside and outside the stadium with a string of chants aimed at unpopular owner Mike Ashley. The former West Ham and Charlton manager was dismissed by