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Tillakaratne Dilshan
Tillakaratne Dilshan

All-round Dilshan powers Sri Lanka to quarters

KANDY, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka crushed  Zimbabwe by 139 runs to breeze into the quarter-finals but  Tillakaratne Dilshan, architect of the victory, narrowly missed  a rare milestone in the World Cup Group A match yesterday.

Phil Simmons

Gibson V Simmons – the tale of conviction

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In CHANDIGARH They wore the maroon of the West Indies as team mates in nine One-Day Internationals in Sharjah and Australia in the mid-1990s but Ottis Gibson and Phil Simmons were in different colours and in different roles at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in the Mohali district of this northern Indian city today (overnight south Caribbean time).

Morne Morke

India need to tame South Africa to calm nerves

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India can underline their  credentials as World Cup favourites with victory over South  Africa in Group B tomorrow — and convince their own fans who  are becoming increasingly jittery about their prospects.

World Cup Group A standings

(Reuters) – Cricket World Cup Group A standings on  Thursday. P                           W        L       T       Nr    NET PR        PTS Sri Lanka*         5         3       1         0     1    2.705          7 New Zealand    4         3       1          0    0    1.848          6 Pakistan            4         3       1          0    0    0.760          6 Australia           3         2      0          0    1    1.813           5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Zimbabwe        4    1    3    0    0           -0.690               2 Canada             4    1    3    0    0           -2.083               2 Kenya               4    0    4    0    0           -3.403               0 * Denotes qualified for the quarter-finals (top four qualify for the quarter-finals) Next fixtures: March 13 – Canada v New Zealand, Mumbai Australia v Kenya, Bangalore March 14 – Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Kandy March 16 – Australia v Canada, Bangalore – – – –

GRFU kicks off rugby season Sunday

The 2011 rugby season will kick off this Sunday at the National Park Rugby Ground when the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) stages its traditional Banks DIH Sevens Tournament commencing with an opening ceremony at 10:30 hrs.

Youth Basketball Series bounces off today

A packed day of schools’ basketball is scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall today as eight tournament games and free throw shootout competitions get the ball rolling on the inaugural YBG Challenge Series from 13:00 hours.

Kemar Roach

Twice the pace

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In CHANDIGARH THE West Indies have gone into their three previous World Cup matches with Kemar Roach as their solitary fast bowler.

Gary Wilson gave Ireland some hope with some big shots.

No luck o’ the Irish

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – JP Duminy agonisingly missed  out on his first World Cup hundred by a run but his sparkling  effort propelled South Africa into the quarter-finals with a  crushing 131-run win over Ireland yesterday.

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