 | Al Gharaffa holds off Al Rayyan AL Gharaffa Club served a
wake-up call as it held off a
spirited comeback bid by
champion Al Rayyan to win
the last match of the Qatar´s
Basketball League by 78-69
on Sunday.
At its home court,
Gharaffa, boosted by exciting
scoring flair of Oussey
Nou Ndiaye (26) and persistence
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| | Warner´s ton inspires Australia
to down Lanka in first final |
 DAVID Warner scored a
magnificent 163 as Australia
downed a gallant Sri Lanka by
15 runs in the first tri-series
one-day international final on
Sunday.
Warner, whose previous
highest ODI score was 74,
smashed 13 fours and two
sixes in his 157-ball innings to
lead Australia to an imposing
total of 321 for six after skipper
Michael Clarke won the
toss and chose to bat.
After a bright start, the Sri
Lankans fell behind the run
rate as wickets began to fall,
slumping to 144-6 before an
entertaining 73 from Nuwan
Kulasekara and 60 from Upul
Tharanga kept them in touch.
The pair put on 104 runs
from only 70 ... | | | Abdulaziz crowned Porsche GT3 Cup champion |  QATAR´S first encounter with
the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge
Middle East under the lights of
Losail International Circuit saw
the champion in waiting clinch
his title earlier than expected.
Though Abdulaziz al Faisal
arrived in Doha in a commanding
position, he was aware that
he might need two more rounds
in Bahrain at the end of the
month to ensure his second
Porsche GT3 Cup triumph in
three years.
As the luck would have it, the
Saudi instead found himself celebrating
on a bitterly cold
Saturday night at Losail after a
first corner disaster in Round 10
of the 12-round one-make series
took his only remaining challenger. | | | Chelsea fires Villas-Boas,
Di Matteo takes charge |  ANDRE Villas-Boas has been
sacked by Chelsea after less
than a season in charge at
Stamford Bridge, the Premier
League club announced in a
statement on its website on
Sunday.
Former Chelsea midfielder
Roberto Di Matteo, who had
been working as Villas-Boas´s
assistant, has been appointed
interim manager until the
end of the season.
Villas-Boas, who arrived
from Porto in June 2011, has
paid the price for a dismal
run of results that left
Chelsea in fifth place and on
the verge of elimination from
this season´s Champions
League after a 3-1 defeat at
Napoli in the last 16 first leg.
The 34-year-old also had
strained ... | |
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