It's not cricket as football wins out in England
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Cricket is the new football. Well, some pundits in England were saying as much 12 months ago when Ashes fever gripped the nation.
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For many in this impoverished Muslim nation, the most important thing &#151; after God &#151; is the gentlemanly English game of cricket.
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The tired old refrain of the sporting times has become: Is nothing sacred? Well, apparently not the Ohio State-Michigan football game.
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In LONDON item headlined &quot;Cricket-Zimbabwe win toss, bat v England - Champions Trophy&quot;, please read in headline and story ... Zimbabwe won the toss and will bowl against England ... instead of ... bat against
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This so-called friendly for the Cook Cup, rather than something more global, was generally billed as the payback Test. The team inflicting the revenge was supposed to be England
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In their opening match of the Champions&#39; Trophy, Sri Lanka did little to suggest they have the wherewithal to knock England out of the tournament at the Rose Bowl on Friday.
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Rain stops play with England 118-3 against Sri Lanka.
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BATTERED but unbowed, England lost the re-run of the World Cup final in one of the most sensational matches Twickenham has seen in recent years.
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Sport: Cricket: England left with inexperienced attack to face India after seamer ruled out.
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ENGLAND will resume their weather-hit encounter with Sri Lanka determined to win rather than relying on their superior run-rate get them to next Tuesday&#39;s semi-final against Australia.
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IT was not so much a Test triumph as a rite of exorcism as the Wallabies rid themselves of so many demons with their epic, second-wind win over world champions England in London yesterday (AEDT).
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There is an unfair notion that England are a one-man team and it gained credence here yesterday when they looked distinctly ordinary without Andrew Flintoff&#39;s muscular and multi-skilled ability.
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It is a measure of the progress of this England team that they have performed no more than adequately during the first two days of this Test match and yet they find themselves in control of the game.
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Sport: Top teams clash at home of English football as US game seeks a global audience.
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THAT England should have won at Twickenham on Saturday was not unexpected. That they should have won by so convincing a margin was, and the nature of the game revealed just how shallow is the confidence within South Africa, the Tri-Nations champions.
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It&#39;s hard to decide whether this fixture is a quaint anachronism, a free-flowing tribute to the game&#39;s glorious, money-free past or naked commercial opportunism.
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BIRMINGHAM, England : Play in the ICC Champions Trophy Pool C match between Kenya and Pakistan at Edgbaston here was abandoned for the day because of rain without a ball being bowled.