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LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board Tuesday announced the 15-member squad for the 2011 World Cup without naming captain. Star middle order batsman Mohamamd Yousuf was left out from the team.
The PCB will most likely wait till the completion of the ODI series against New Zealand to reassess the performance of Shahid Afridi.
However, Pakistan's Test captain Misbahul Haq is one of the likely choices provided the PCB does not come under pressure from certain 'influential

LAHORE - Gujranwala consolidated their position with 433 points to win gold medal in the second Chief Minister Sports Competitions (high school intermediate stage) Tuesday.
Faisalabad were second with 403 points while Lahore attained third position with 359 points. In boys events, Faisalabad won with 283 points whereas Lahore were second with 281 points and Gujranwala third with 221 points. In girls events, Gujranwala won 212 points. Sahiwal were second with 141 points while

LAHORE - The ghosts of captaincy have once again come back to haunt the Pakistan cricket team with some players and officials raising questions over the attitude of Shahid Afridi. Sources in the PCB claimed that there were deliberations among officials on retaining Afridi as captain as there were negative reports about his behaviour.
"Right now there is a 50-50 split within the board and in the team management on whether Afridi should be allowed to captain the team in the World

BERLIN - Borussia Dortmund extended their lead at the top of the Bundesliga to 13 points on Friday, blitzing second-placed Bayer Leverkusen with three goals in just six minutes for an impressive 3-1 away win.
Having already begun 2011 with a ten-point lead, Dortmund hit second-half goals in quick succession from teenager Mario Goetze and two from 22-year-old Kevin Grosskreutz to seal the win.
With such a commanding cushion, Dortmund can start dreaming of their first German

COPIAPO - Qatari driver Nasser Al-Attiyah took the overall race lead after winning the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally, a 508km special on a 776km run through the Atacama desert from Antofagasta to here on Monday. The Volkswagen driver, runner-up last year, finished 6min 36sec ahead of teammate and defending champion Carlos Sainz from whom he takes the overall race lead following a battle through the lunar landscape of one of the driest places on earth. Al-Attiyah - who also won

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho riled the Villarreal bench with an inflammatory goal celebration in front of their dugout during Real's 4-2 victory on Sunday. Substitute Kaka had just sealed victory at the Bernabeu with an 82nd-minute strike when Mourinho left his technical area to pass in front of the visitors' bench and punch his arm in the air while facing the stands.
Villarreal substitute Cani reacted by lobbing a water bottle at him and, although it did not hit the

PARIS - US actor Robert De Niro will chair the jury of this year's Cannes film festival, which opens May 11 on the French Riviera, organisers announced Thursday. De Niro will the third American in four years to head the jury of the world's most prestigious film festival, after director Tim Burton in 2010 and actor-director Sean Penn in 2008.
"The Cannes Film Festival is a rare opportunity for me as it is one of the oldest and one of the best in the world," the 67-year-old

LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love has been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes.
So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of shocking insults at the designer known as the "Boudoir Queen." Love's tweets, which instantly landed in the Twitter feeds of her 40,000 or so followers (and countless others via retweets), announced that Simorangkir was a

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI - The appearance of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday turned into an hours-long chaotic drama as dozens of his angry supporters stopped the relocation of his hearing from Rawalpindi to Islamabad.
The police officials in Islamabad had planned to present Qadri before an anti-terrorism court that was temporarily shifted from Rawalpindi to the capital city's sector G-7 owing to

CAPE TOWN - Sachin Tendulkar and Dale Steyn fought out a titanic battle before India took a two-run first innings lead on the third day of the third and final Test against South Africa at Newlands on Tuesday.
Tendulkar, Test cricket's all-time leading run-scorer, made 146 in an Indian total of 364, while Steyn, the world's number one fast bowler, took five for 75.
By the close, South Africa had reached 52 for two in their second innings to take a lead of 50 into the last two

MADRID - Pedro Rodriguez netted a brace as champions Barcelona started 2011 with a nervy 2-1 home win over Levante on Sunday to move five points clear of Real Madrid at the Spanish first division summit.
Pedro struck on 47 and 59 minutes to clinch an 11th successive league victory for Barca and Real must now defeat derby rivals Getafe on Monday to move back to within two points of their bitter rivals.
Brazilian Dani Alves set up the opener for Pedro, faking to shoot twice

DHAKA - Bangladesh have named ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan as their World Cup captain for the showpiece event starting next month, an official said Saturday. Shakib, who led Bangladesh to a historic 4-0 whitewash of New Zealand as stand-in skipper in Oct at home and a 3-1 victory over Zimbabwe last month, was chosen over the injured Mashrafe Mortaza.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board said it was "proud" to announce Shakib as captain for 2011. BCB spokesman Jalal Yunus said Shakib,

LONDON - Manchester United and Manchester City will look to stay out in front at the top of the Premier League when they continue their push for the title on Tuesday.
Before then at least one, and possibly both, of the Manchester clubs' title rivals will have dropped points when third-placed Arsenal take on Chelsea in a London derby on Monday. United,
who top the table by two points from City, are away to Birmingham on Tuesday where Sir Alex Ferguson, having seen off a

LONDON - Manchester United hope to strike a major Boxing Day blow as the Premier League title race enters its most hectic period of the season on Sunday. United head into the latest round of fixtures at the top of the table with Sir Alex Ferguson's men, who have a game in hand, two points clear of Arsenal and Manchester City, with champions Chelsea a further point adrift in fourth place.
United have yet to lose in the league this season, having won nine and drawn seven of their

KARACHI: The day kicked off with PSO shares rising to Rs 298.34 because of the Rs 35 billion assured yesterday on account of the circular debt issue. The index floated around the 11,800 mark in the first half, with a few second tier scrips performing well along with PSO.
The second half brought news that fertiliser companies raised their urea prices by Rs 190, which made Engro and FFC cause a little bull run. The index closed at 11,858 points with 87 million shares traded,

LAHORE: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis on Tuesday said he wanted to earn respect and admiration of his fellows like he did as a player.
A day before the close of the camp training of the team, Waqar said: "As a coach I am giving the same commitment I gave as a player. The intensity and hunger has not gone down."
Waqar, who was named head coach of the team in place of Intikhab Alam this year after a disastrous tour of Australia, was also confident that the present Pakistani team

KARACHI: Balochistan hides vast mineral reserves under its seemingly barren surface. It is hoped that when these mineral deposits are tapped, they will be a great windfall for the economy. However, Pakistan is moving at a very slow pace on this front and does not seem to have fully grasped its potential wealth.
Many countries blessed with rich natural resources, have pressed home the advantage through sound planning and made great economic progress. In Pakistan, copper and gold