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16 Sports NcA emerging Players Program begins
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GALLE: Sri Lanka cricketers warm up during a practice session at the Galle International Stadium ahead of the first test match. AFP
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A four-week NCA emerging players program-2012 started thursday at the National Cricket Academy under the supervision of NCA elite coaches/support staff. On THe recOMMenDaTiOn Of naTiOnaL seLecTiOn cOMMiTTee THe fOLLOWing 21 PLayers are aTTenDing THis aDvanceD cOacHing PrOgraM: usman Salahuddin, Mohammad Saad, rohail Ali (Lahore), Shan Masood, rameez Aziz, Anwer Ali, Shahzaib Ahmed, Mohammad hassan, Faisal tahir (Karachi), Sharjeel Khan (hyderabad), Mohammad yasin, Bilawal Bhatti, Prince Abbas, Sarmad Anwar(Sialkot), Gulraiz Sadaf (Multan), zeeshan Mushtaq, Naeem Anjum (islamabad), taimur Ali (Quetta), Sadaf hussain, yasim Murtaza, Muhammad rameez (rawalpindi)
National inter-club women Football starts LAHORE sTaff rePOrT
the 5th National inter-Club Women Football Championship-2012 started at Karachi and Lahore with wins for Diya and sports sciences. Being organized by the Karachi-sindh Football Association, the opening day winner Diya WFC beat Rubaisha WFC by 20 goals at the Kpt Football stadium, Karachi. scOrer Of THe Winning TeaM Were Diya Wfc: (hajra 5 Goals @ 10, 12, 14, 29 & 16 minutes), (Kiran 5 Goals @ 6, 9, 15, 33, 48 Minutes), (Afshan 4 Goals @ 25, 46, 59, 57 minutes), rukhsar 2 Goals @ 54, 57 Minutes), (hateeba 2 Goals @ 51, 69 Minutes), (Nazia Naz 2 Goals @ 68, 71+1). At Lahore’s Punjab Football Association organized match, Sports Science wFc beat Model town wFc 1-0 at the Model town Football. Academy Ground, Model town d Block, Lahore. Sports Science wFc’s lone scorer was ishrat Fatima 1 in the fourth minute.
Top ranked Indian player paired with low ranked
england unveil Nz tour itinerary
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india's top tennis doubles player will team up with a poorly-rated and inexperienced partner at the Olympics after two higherranked players refused to play with him, officials said thursday. Leander paes, ranked seventh in the world as a doubles player, will be paired with 207th-ranked Vishnu Vardhan, the All india tennis Association (AitA) announced following days of arguments in which even the government tried to intervene. Both Rohan Bopanna (ranked 13) and Mahesh Bhupathi (15) said they would not play with paes for a range of personal and professional reasons, including, Bhupathi said, that he was not trustworthy. paes and Bhupathi formed a long-standing and highly successful team for years, winning Grand slam doubles titles at the French Open in 1999 and 2001, and Wimbledon in 1999. the duo, who have represented india in the doubles at four Olympics, broke up as a full-time pair in 2002, but continued to team up for india in the Davis Cup and multi-sports events such as the Olympics.
england will travel straight to New Zealand at the end of their tour of india next January after the schedule for their trip was released on Wednesday. england will meet the Black Caps in three tests, three oneday internationals and three twenty20s in a two-month tour that will be their first trip to New Zealand since 2008. engLanD TOur Of neW ZeaLanD: february 4 - New zealand Xi v england, cobham Oval, whangarei (t20 warm-up) feb 6 - New zealand Xi v england, cobham Oval, whangarei (t20 warm-up) feb 9 - First twenty20 international at eden Park, Auckland feb 12 - Second t20 international at Seddon Park, hamilton feb 15 - third t20 international at westpac Stadium, wellington feb 17 - First Odi at Seddon Park, hamilton feb 20 - Second Odi at McLean Park, Napier feb 23 - third Odi at eden Park, Auckland february 27-MarcH 2 - Nz Xi v england, Queenstown events centre (four-day warm-up) Mar 6-10 - First test at university Oval, dunedin Mar 14-18 - Second test at hawkins Basin reserve, wellington Mar 22-26 - third test at eden Park, Auckland.
BD bring Zimbabwe down
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Zimbabwe failed to build on their stunning win over south Africa and fell by six wickets to Bangladesh thursday in a noncap twenty20 tournament. Much was expected of Brendan taylor and his team after they shocked strong favourites south Africa by 29 runs tuesday, but a total of 149-8 off 20 overs proved insufficient at Harare sports Club. Bangladesh, needing a win to retain a chance of mak-
ing the final this sunday, responded with 153-4 off 17.3 overs to give recently appointed england-born coach Richard pybus his first win in charge of the tigers. south Africa play Bangladesh Friday and Zimbabwe saturday and the top two finishers in the table qualify for the final of an unofficial tournament as it falls outside the future tours schedule. scOres: zimbabwe 149-8 (20 overs) (h. Masakadza 56, B. taylor 27, S. Matsikenyeri 27; M. Mortaza 2-28) v Bangladesh 153-4 (17.3) (N. hossain 41 not out, M. rahim 31, M. Mahmudullah 29, M. Ashraful 19). Bangladesh win by six wickets.
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Greece are hoping for another euro 2012 giant killing when they take on Germany with the political spectre of the eurozone crisis hanging over Friday's quarter-final. Having shocked Russia 1-0 on saturday in Group A to confirm their place in the Gdansk last-eight clash, runners-up Greece take on Group B winners Germany, who are the only team with a 100 percent record at the european championship. the Germans are bidding to win a fourth european title and having won their three pool matches against Holland, portugal and Denmark, plus all ten qualifiers en route to the final, the Greeks start as underdogs. the David verses Goliath clash has added spice between two nations at the heart of the eurozone financial crisis with one Greek paper demanding "Bring us Merkel!" after their team reached the knock-out phase. German Chancellor An-
gela Merkel, who will attend the match, has provoked anger in Greece for leading calls on Athens to impose tough austerity measures in return for financial assistance from Germany to help to bring down debt. Both teams have already fielded numerous questions as to whether politics will play a role
with Germany coach Joachim Loew insisting: "As far as we are concerned, we are approaching a normal football contest". But it will be anything but just football for many Greeks, as their proud nation owes Germany billions of euros in bailout money and where Merkel is a popular hate figure.
Ready even to take a penalty: hart KraKoW: england goalkeeper Joe Hart has revealed he is ready to take a penalty if sunday's euro 2012 quarter-final against italy goes to a shoot-out. england have won just one penalty shoot-out in six attempts since 1990, a record of failure which has weighed heavily on successive english sides over the past two decades. However the supremely confident Hart told a press conference he would welcome the responsibility to be one of england's five penalty-takers should the opportunity arise at Kiev's Olympic stadium on sunday. "if they let me, i would put my name forward 100%," the Manchester City stopper said. "Hopefully it won't come to that (taking penalties) but i would back myself (to take a penalty) in a tournament. "if penalties are required then so be it," said Hart, who is one of the few players in the england squad to have tasted victory in a shoot-out. afP