OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Sunday 11.00pm. A 49-run ninth wicket partnership between Harbhajan Singh and Amit Bhandari helped the India Board President’s X1 to avoid having to follow on against South Africa on Sunday. On a day when several batsmen on trial for a place in the India test team failed it was left to […]

ENRIQUE Areco failed to come out for the eleventh round for his WBO junior middleweight world title clash with Harry Simon in Dagenham, England on Saturday night. Simon dominated the entire bout and punished the brave Argentian throughout. This victory sets Simon up for his next defence which is schedlued to take place the first […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Sunday 11.00pm. SACHIN Tendulkar is to step down as India’s captain following the team’s disastrous performance under him on their recent tour of Australia. Tendulkar said on Sunday he would give up the job after the two-test home series against South Africa starting in Bombay on Thursday. He is staying on […]

TWO people were killed as tropical cyclone Eline battered the island of Madagascar, causing heavy damage to the capital Antananarivo and in two towns on the east coast, rescue services said on Friday. The victims died in a mudslide in Antananarivo, where trees were uprooted, roofs torn off and electricity and telephone lines cut when […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Friday 6.45pm. ENGLAND muddled their way to a one wicket victory over Zimbabwe on Friday to take a 2-0 the four-match series. The tourists almost threw away a winning position at the Queen’s Sports Club when, with just 12 runs needed for victory and five wickets in hand, they lost four […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Saturday 11.00pm. SOUTH Africa made a solid start to their tour of India on Saturday, reaching 293 for six against an Indian Board XI. Openers Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs were soon into their stride and scored 104 for the first wicket. Kirsten was first out when he was beaten by […]

A TEAM from French car manufacturer Peugeot arrived in Gabarone, Botswana on Thursday for talks about bailing out Hyundai’s bankrupt car assembly plant. The 193-million pula ($41-million) plant, Botswana’s biggest manufacturing enterprise, was placed under temporary liquidation last month after it could not service loans of about $127-million. The talks with Peugeot follow similar ones […]

Marlene Burger The marathon trial of Dr Wouter Basson degenerated into a clash of legal wills this week after the extraordinary demand by the state prosecutor that the presiding Judge, Willie Hartzenberg, step down. After searching in vain for legal precedent, lawyers on both sides concluded that this was probably the first time in South […]

Christian Figenschou In what is likely to be one of the year’s most important new car launches, Italian car maker Fiat has marked an aggressive leap into the local market with the introduction of its 178 “world car” range, comprising the Fiat Palio hatchback, the Palio Weekend station wagon and the Siena sedan. Fiat, which […]