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The turnout belied the insignificance of this match, with the crowds filling up the stands to primarily watch the cricketers more than the cricket.

As the inaugural edition Airtel Champions League T20 (CLT20) comes to the end of its second week, the tournament seems to be struggling to keep up with viewer expectation.

Argentina ended an embarrassing campaign by qualifying for the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay on Wednesday.

They might have won the hearts of fans with their free-spirited cricket, but Trinidad and Tobago (TandT) turned party-poopers on Wednesday.

Calling "every day pivotal and every hour vital", president of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Mike Fennell on Monday put the Suresh Kalmadi-led Organising Committee (OC) on a tight leash with the announcement that an "independent technical committee" of foreign experts would oversee preparations for the 2010 Games and report on a monthly basis.

Brendon McCullum's dream of replicating his knock in the opening match of the 2008 IPL at the Chinnaswamy stadium was shattered as Royal Challengers Bangalore reversed the script against his current Kiwi side Otago in their Champions League encounter on Monday.

Dhananjay Mahadik scored twice as India overcame a determined Canadian challenge to win 4-3 in the second hockey Test and go 2-0 up in the seven-match series at the University of Victoria Ground here.

In the build-up to this match, all talk revolved around the Delhi Daredevils needing to find a Plan B, having gone down to an embarassing seven-wicket loss in the opener.

Tiger Woods delivered the clinching point as the United States won the eighth Presidents Cup match play golf tournament.

He gave away nothing with the matter-of-fact look on the face, but the penalty drop was clearly blotting Gaganjeet Bhullar's agenda for the day.

There are two contrasting shades when it comes to India-Pakistan cricket. It's either the war-minus-guns rhetoric or the more romanticised brothers-separated-by-partition one.

England's star players Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Jamie Carragher could have been suffering from 'self regulatory breakdown' when they missed the penalties against Portugal at the 2006 Soccer World Cup.

A superb early goal from Cristiano Ronaldo and a second-half Kaka penalty gave Real Madrid a 2-0 win at 10-man Villarreal in La Liga on Wednesday.

Substitute Michael Owen struck in the sixth minute of injury time to earn Manchester United a 4-3 Premier League win over Manchester City in one of the most dramatic derbies for years on Sunday.

Kim Clijsters made history Sunday night, capping a comeback from two years out of tennis to become the first unseeded woman to win the US Open - and the first mother to win a major since 1980 - with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.

Leander Paes won the battle of Indians as well as his 10th Grand Slam title after defeating old pal Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in the US Open men's doubles final along with his partner Luaks Dlouhy here today.

IN NEED OF A LIFELINE
In the complex world of Indian cricket, there's one common chord. Cricketers of all ages and time frames are one in suggesting that Test cricket remains the cricketer's biggest test. And the primary supply line to discovering the newest Indian Test cricketer has been, and will be, the Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition.