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| | Sangakkara´s unbeaten 199 lifts Sri Lanka |  KUMAR Sangakkara was
stranded on an unbeaten 199
even as Sri Lanka took charge
of the first cricket Test against
Pakistan in Galle on Saturday.
The left-hander´s monumental
nine-hour effort saw
the hosts recover from 335-5
in the morning session to post
472 in their first innings on the
second day.
Pakistan were tottering at
48 for five in reply at stumps
with seamer Nuwan
Kulasekara and off-spinner
Suraj Randiv both taking two
wickets each off successive
deliveries.
Kulasekara removed opener
Taufeeq Umar and Azhar Ali,
while Randiv dismissed skipper
Mohammad Hafeez (20)
and nightwatchman Saeed
Ajmal in gloomy conditions.
Asad Shafiq fell to Rangana
Herath, leaving veteran
Younis Khan unbeaten ... | | | I´m still hungry for grand
slam glory, says Federer |  ROGER Federer insists he is
still hungry enough for grand
slam glory and will do whatever
it takes to break Novak
Djokovic and Rafael Nadal´s
grip on the top prizes.
For years, Federer reigned
supreme at Wimbledon, winning
the grass-court grand
slam six times, while also
enjoying huge success at most
of the other major events.
The Swiss star amassed a
record 16 grand slam crowns
and occupied the world number
one ranking for a total of
285 weeks.
But those halcyon days
must seem like a distant
memory to the 30-year-old,
who heads into Wimbledon,
which starts on Monday, without
a grand slam title to his
name since the 2010
Australian Open.
That barren sequence
includes successive
Wimbledon quarter-final exits... | | | England ready to take on
Italy in Euro quarterfinal |  ENGLAND will attempt to
reach the last four of a major
tournament for the first time
in 16 years on Sunday as they
face Italy in a heavyweight
Euro 2012 quarter-final collision.
The burgeoning confidence
within Roy Hodgson´s youthful
squad is tempered by the
knowledge that England have
rarely progressed beyond the
last eight of major tournaments,
with three quarterfinal
exits in the past 10 years
alone.
But after winning Group D
ahead of highly-rated France
and extending their unbeaten
run to five games, England
head into Sunday´s test in
Kiev with a mounting sense of
belief that they can prolong
their stay in the tournament.
"If we can go about the job
in the way we are doing at the
moment we will ... | |
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