Arazi to spearhead Morocco&#39;s cup challenge in Australia
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Hicham Arazi will lead an understrength Morocco in their Davis Cup World Group playoff against Australia next week after Younes El Aynaoui was forced out with injury.
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PERTH, Australia, (AFP ): Lleyton Hewitt became the most successful singles player in Australian Davis Cup history following a straight sets blitz of Moroccan Medhi Tahiri in the Davis Cup World Group relegation tie at Perth&#39;s Royal Kings Park tennis club
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World champions Australia are champing at the bit to take on USA in the ICC Champions Trophy in what could be one of the most one-sided matches ever.
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Birmingham: England skipper Michael Vaughan said his team relished the challenge of playing against the world&#39;s best team -- Australia and would give it its best shot when the sides square up in the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final on Tuesday.
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MELBOURNE - Australia will start its bid for a 300th Test win when it takes on Pakistan today, a special day in the national sports calendar Down Under when the Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts the annual Boxing Day match.
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MELBOURNE, Australia  - Stand-in skipper Yousuf Youhana was leading from the front as Pakistan showed some steel to defy the Australian cricket juggernaut on the opening day of the second Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Coach Bob Woolmer is tipping Pakistan&#39;s top batsmen to play the tour-opening match against a Western Australia 2nd XI in Perth starting Wednesday in a bid to acclimatize quickly to Australian conditions.
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PAKISTAN cricket coach Bob Woolmer is hoping his new look team can catch Australia by surprise when their three Test series starts next month.
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Australia have all but assured they will remain inh the Davis Cup World Group after opening up a commanding 2-0 lead over injury-hit Morocco on Friday.
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India's captain Mahendra Dhoni is looking for a fresh start to the tour of Australia with Friday's Twenty20 game.
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Australia will want to justify their favourite&#39;s tag in this year&#39;s ICC Champions Trophy by demolishing outsiders the United States in their first match at Southampton on Monday.
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Zimbabwe cricket coach Phil Simmons said Friday that he has set a target of January 2005 to turn his young African team into a competitive unit.
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The new coach of the World Cup winning Springboks is expected to be named here on Wednesday.
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Australia will be aiming to build an unassailable lead when play resumes on day three of the opening cricket Test against Pakistan at the WACA ground in Perth today.
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SOCCEROOS coach Frank Farina will use the Solomon Islands as guinea pigs today in an attacking experiment he hopes will culminate in a World Cup finals place in 2006.
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Russia&#39;s Marat Safin will bid to scale the world&#39;s sixth highest mountain, giving the former world number one a fresh challenge which looks set to rule him out of this month&#39;s Davis Cup semi-final against Germany.
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Australia and Pakistan are poised for an explosive bowling duel in the first Test, which gets under way at the WACA ground in Perth today.