Cricket: Cook hits ton in draw
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Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook share 183 as England post 356-5 and draw the tour game with Western Australia.
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Australia continued amass a huge lead on the fourth day of the second Test against New Zealand in Adelaide. The hosts had reached 135 for two in their second innings at lunch - a lead of 459.
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America&#39;s Steven Luevano sent England&#39;s Nicky Cook to the canvas five times on the way to winning the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) featherweight title at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday.
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John Cook won his first Champions Tour title in his second start on the 50-and-over circuit, closing with a 6-under 65 on Sunday for a two-stroke victory over Mark O'Meara in the AT&T Championship.
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MELBOURNE: Acting captain Yousuf Youhana led from the front with a century yesterday as Pakistan reached 318 for six on the first day of the second Test against Australia.
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ADELAIDE: Opener Justin Langer reached his 20th Test century and guided Australia to a commanding 327 for three in sweltering heat on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand yesterday.
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FACED with the prospect of losing the world&#39;s most in-form batsman, a bloke who knocked up 191 and 97 last start to take his runs tally for the year to 1426, most Test captains would be reaching for the headache tablets.
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England batsmen Ian Bell and Alastair Cook battled hard to save the Ashes, with five sessions still to play and the tourists needing another 458 to win or to bat out the match for a draw.
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In-form Alastair Cook hits an unbeaten 51 as England reach lunch on 112-1 in the third Test against West Indies.
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No other pitcher in more than 50 years had started a World Series game with such a long layoff, but Aaron Cook accepted the challenge to help his beleaguered pitching staff in last night's must-win Game 4.
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Sport: Tourists will need to score at a faster rate if they are to level the series after draw in Colombo
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Calcutta, India - South Africa&#39;s Shaun Pollock became only the fifth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on the fifth day of the second and final Test against India on Thursday.
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Opener Andrew Hall hit a record 163 for his maiden test century to put South Africa in command on the second day of the first test against India on Sunday.
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Chamara Silva notched a record-making century as Sri Lanka tightened their stranglehold on the second cricket Test against New Zealand on the third morning.
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Herschelle Gibbs and A. B. de Villiers smashed hundreds to fire South Africa to an impressive 294-5 in the first one-day international against Pakistan here.
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Australia's Adam Gilchrist smashed the second fastest Test century in history on day three of the third Ashes Test against England at the WACA Ground here.
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Simon Wakefield chipped in for birdie at the last hole to finish with a 73 and tie Fredrik Andersson for the third-round lead in the Johnnie Walker Championship yesterday in Gleneagles, Scotland.Andersson shot a seven-under 66 in a difficult wind on the Centenary Course to total nine-under 210 three hours before Wakefield finished his round.Mark Warren (73) was a stroke back. Lee Westwood (69), Alastair Forsyth (72) and Phillip Archer (73) were next at 212.Thomas Levet, who shared the second-round lead with Wakefield, was in the hunt until a double-bogey 7 at the 16th.Colin Montgomerie shot a 71 and was four strokes off the lead. Paul Casey, the defending champion, was another stroke back after a 73.