SRI Lanka were plotting last night to take Test cricket where it has never been before as they vowed to fight towards landing a world-record sucker punch on Australia today.
Sri Lanka became the mouse that roared as – chasing a near-impossible target of 507 – they climbed off the canvas to be 3-247 at stumps at Bellerive Oval.
The tourists need another 260 today to become the first team in Test history to successfully chase a 500-plus total in the fourth innings.
PIM Verbeek, the Dutchman who took over the South Korean national team from Dick Advocaat, has emerged as a strong candidate for the Australia job after insiders yesterday ruled out Jurgen Klinsmann.
Verbeek was Korea’s assistant coach under Guus Hiddink, from 2000 to 2002, and under Advocaat, from 2005 to 2006, before being given the top job last year.
Three members of the Iraqi Olympic team as well as an assistant coach have deserted their country while in Australia. The four have grown tired of security concerns back home and are seeking political asylum.
Assistant coach Saadi Toma and playing trio Ali Mansour, Ali Khidhayyir and Ali Abbas were not present for the team’s flight back home after their 2-0 defeat, with Toma later informing the Iraqi FA by telephone that the quartet had applied for asylum.
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite scored an amazing goal for Brazil – a 30-metre shot which dipped and swerved away from Peru goalkeeper Diego Penny but Peru equalised through a goal from Juan Vargas.More on the game here..
If you’re considering an SUV or truck to explore the countryside, you’re thinking two wheels too many. To get really close to nature, have a blast and stay in shape, head for the hills on a mountain bike.
As the name suggests, today’s popular “mountain bike” style is a descendant of bicycles designed for tackling the ups and downs of mountain exploration. Of course, racing down a rocky mountainside can be a real adrenaline rush, but it is very dangerous. If you are actually thinking about taking on a mountain pass, be sure to invest in a bike that’s designed to accomplish such a task. The right equipment and a healthy dose of common sense can make mountain biking a fun sport for the entire family.
Rosangela has lived in her little town without ever having any worries, that is until something very mysterious started to take place in the small town of Blackwell.
During early morning news it was reported that two students have killed themselves, and after performing an autopsy and investigating the terribly scary event it was discovered that something unearthly has invaded the bodies of the college students that has forced them to commit the terrible suicide.
Marcus Nilson has one goal as a hockey player, and that’s winning the Stanley Cup. The downside is that the gritty Calgary Flames winger also only has one goal in 19 games this season.
“It’s been tough so far,” Nilson told HockeyAdventure.com with a wry chuckle. “A lot of nights you’re mostly penalty-killing and not playing many minutes 5-on-5, so it’s kind of tough to score.”
Playing on a checking line with Stephane Yelle and Eric Godard, the 29-year-old Swede found his ice time limited further in a 4-1 loss to Vancouver at GM Place on November 18. Nilson was credited with just four shifts in the third period due to some physical discomfort: “I had a few nagging injuries from before, so it’s probably a few places. It just needs a little rest. We played last night, and the body was a little tired, so I had to get off.”
It has been a strange week at Stradey Park, a week unprecedented in the annals of a rugby ground that sometimes seems to have been constructed from the raw material of history rather than mere bricks and mortar. The funeral of Ray Gravell – international centre and dyed-in-the-wool Scarlet, broadcaster and bon viveur and philosopher king, an actor and a comic and a front-of-house genius, a back-slapper and handshaker who would stand his own round and everyone else’s too – took place there on Thursday. Stephen Jones was one of the men who bore the dear departed’s coffin and laid it in centre field, watched in silence by a crowd of 9,000 mourners.
England’s 2006 World Cup campaign ended in quarter-final defeat and tears for skipper David Beckham, as coach Sven-Goran Eriksson departed after five-and-a-half years in charge.
When Steve McClaren took over on 1 August his first decision was to axe Beckham – who had given up the captaincy after the World Cup – from the England squad.
