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SYDNEY - Buoyant England will go into the final Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday intent on wrapping up their first series triumph in Australia for nearly quarter of a century.
As holders, Andrew Strauss's team are already guaranteed to keep hold of the Ashes after thumping Australia by an innings and 157 runs in the fourth Melbourne Test to take a 2-1 series lead with just one match to play.
But despite England's dominance throughout most of the series, the

DURBAN - India completed an 87-run win on the fourth day of the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead on Wednesday to set up a series decider in the final match in Cape Town.
Set a target of 303, South Africa were bowled out for 215.
The match finished an hour after lunch but South Africa's hopes were effectively ended when overnight batsmen Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers were dismissed in the first hour of the day.
It was a remarkable fightback by India, who

HAMILTON - New Zealand wrapped up their Twenty20 cricket series against Pakistan with a match to spare when they blasted their way to a 39-run win in the second match here Tuesday.
Scott Styris and Peter McGlashan were the principal contributors to a 79-run onslaught in five overs which swung the match New Zealand's way in the second half of their innings of 185 for seven.
Pakistan made a valiant start to the run chase and were 58 for one after six overs before their batting

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation plans to organise a reciprocal hockey series with Egypt early next year, it was announced on Tuesday.
PHF secretary Asif Bajwa said that Pakistan will tour Egypt in February and Egypt will give a return tour in March. He said that the annual calendar of the PHF laid more emphasis on the team's international exposure and the plan is to begin the efforts with a series against Egypt.
He said that the dates and number of matches will be

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board on Saturday made it clear the security situation in the country has forced it to organise matches at neutral venues.
An official of the board said that Pakistan would play more major home series at neutral venues because of the refusal of teams to play in Pakistan.
The official said the England and Wales Cricket Board had confirmed a full series of three Tests, five one-day internationals and a T20 match against Pakistan in early 2012

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan blind cricket team on Friday white-washed the Nepali blind cricket team by winning last of the three one-day matches by nine wickets here at Shalimar cricket ground. A hat-trick by all rounder Yasir Andleeb and a sparkling half century by captain Arsaln were the highlights of the match. Set a target of 198 by Nepali cricket team which batted first, the target was overhauled by the hosts in only 15.1 overs.Pakistan captain remained not out with 79 runs and Munawwar

PERTH: A defiant Australia regained their traditional Ashes swagger in Perth on Sunday, routing England by 267 runs to level the series while hailing the momentum-swinging return of their mercurial pace bowler Mitchell Johnson.
Australia mowed through England's last five batsmen for only 42 runs, giving the hosts nearly two days to savour their third-test victory and some 16,000 spectators at the WACA ground more free time than they may have planned for. The astonishing

LAHORE: The camp training of the New Zealand bound Pakistan cricket team ended here on Wednesday with injuries to Sohail Tanvir and Test captain Misbahul Haq.
The injury to Misbah was of minor nature but left-arm bowler Sohail Tanvir has been ruled out of the tour to New Zealand with a knee injury. Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam said: "He tried his best in the camp but is not fit enough to carry on. He requires time to recover." "The injury to Misbah is of minor nature 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

When portraying tyrants and dictators to larger audiences, more often than not, historical accounts and present-day narratives tend to present only the monster behind mass murders, atrocities and human suffering. We tend to forget that behind that rather overbearing veneer of cruelty lies a human, a family man, a father and a son.
To tell a personalized account of a tyrant, not lacking in entertainment, whilst maintaining historical accuracy and objectivity is certainly a

LAHORE: Pakistani racing driver Adnan Sarwar finished 4th at the Sodi World Series Masters Cup final race at the Dubai Autodrome. This remains the best finish for a Pakistani driver in an international race.
Qualifying and starting from 5th place, Adnan fell back to 8th after an incident in turn one but then climbed back up the grid, overtaking four drivers to finish only 0.2 seconds behind third place finisher Fabian Lunz of South Africa and ahead of drivers from Germany,

ADELAIDE: England crushed Australia by an innings and 71 runs after a spectacular collapse of wickets early on the final day in the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. The tourists ran through the Australians after snaring the important wicket of Mike Hussey with spinner Graeme Swann finishing with five wickets for 91.
It was England's first Test victory in Adelaide since 1995 and their first innings triumph in Australia since Mike Gatting's team won in Melbourne

PALLEKELE: West Indies captain Darren Sammy said Darren Bravo's highly impressive performances were chief among a number of plus points his team could take from the drawn Test series against Sri Lanka.
The three-match series ended 0-0 on Sunday following rain-hit Tests in Galle, Colombo and Pallekele and they now head into the one-dayers.
"Bravo's batting was one of the positives. He was in his debut Test series and scored a half-century every time he batted," Sammy said

LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation is seeking permission from the government to organise the Pakistan and India hockey test series at the neutral venue of Dubai.
According to an official of the PHF, the board has gotten clearance from the Sports Minister, Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry to go head on with India in the field of hockey. He further stated that the Indian Hockey Federation would also go through the same routine after showing its willingness to play against

ABU DHABI: Misbah-ul-Haq played a captain's knock of 58 not out to salvage Pakistan a draw in the second Test against South Africa and finish the two-match series without a result.
Misbah, who scored an unbeaten 76 in the drawn first Test in Dubai last week, countered South African bowlers on a weary fifth day pitch at Abu Dhabi Stadium, taking Pakistan to 153-3 after they were set a 354-run target in 82 overs.
Misbah added 87 for an unbroken fourth wicket stand with Azhar

NAGPUR: India rode on some inspired spin bowling to thrash New Zealand by an innings and 198 runs in the third and final Test on Tuesday and claim the series 1-0.
Spinners Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Suresh Raina shared seven wickets before paceman Ishant Sharma finished off the tail, bowling out New Zealand for 175 early into the second session on the fourth day of the match.
New Zealand started the day needing 349 runs to avoid an innings defeat after conceding a

DUBAI: Pakistan paceman Wahab Riaz was ruled out of the remainder of the on-going first and next week's second Test against South Africa after straining a muscle, team manager Intikhab Alam said on Saturday.
The 25-year-old took 2-61 off 18 overs on the opening day of the first Test on Friday before suffering the muscle injury on his right side and could not bowl on Saturday.
"Riaz has suffered a side strain on the right side and needs four to five weeks for recovery before