West Indian great Clive Lloyd will mastermind the campaign of Brian Lara’s team during the Champions Trophy one-day tournament starting in India on Saturday. Lloyd, captain of World Cup-winning teams in 1975 and 1979, has been appointed a consultant to coach Bennett King and Lara during the 10-nation event, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said in a statement on Tuesday.
Spain’s Real Zaragoza face censure again after a Levante player was subjected to racist abuse from fans during their Primera Liga match on Sunday. Referee Fernando Teixeira Vitienes, in his match report, said he heard monkey chants being directed at a Levante player.
Football agents could be forced to reveal details of their bank accounts by the Premier League’s inquiry into allegations of corruption in football. Former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens, who is leading the inquiry, said his team may use Football Association rules to force agents to open their accounts for inspection.
We have already established that the new Alfa 159 is a rather becoming vehicle. It has the sort of macho lines you’d expect from this performance-driven Italian marque and, while I felt that the 2,2-litre engine was eager enough, for those who crave a little more vooma, the 159 didn’t have a model that inspired respect — until now that is.
For nearly four years South African motorists have been spoilt for choice, with a seemingly endless stream of keenly priced new makes and models arriving virtually monthly. The honeymoon is now over. So should we emulate the property writers who constantly urge readers that the time is right to buy? In this case, yes.
South Africa’s auto sales edged up 5,6% during September at 57 617 units — an improvement of 3 057 units — compared to 54 560 new vehicles sold during the corresponding month last year, data released on Tuesday by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa showed.
Western foreign policy and a tendency among some Muslims to impose their idea of truth have been key factors in the the rise of radical Islam, Muslim writers say. ”Islam is about peace and submission. But there are certain realities that we cannot hide from,” said Ziauddin Sardar, a Britain-based writer best known for his book, Why Do People Hate America?”.
Defending champion Colin Montgomerie and Major winners Retief Goosen and Michael Campbell will spearhead next month’s UBS Hong Kong Open. The trio are among the first players to be confirmed for the -million tournament at the Hong Kong Golf Club on November 16-19.
Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz said on Tuesday he was able to detect ball-tampering from 1 000 metres away and offered cricket chiefs his services to stop the practice. Nawaz, hailed as the pioneer of reverse swinging the ball during his heyday in the early 1970s and 1980s, said tampering was out of control in the modern game and called on world cricket chiefs to act.
Peter Norman, the lesser known of the athletes in the iconic civil-rights protest images from the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died on Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 64. Athletics Australia chief executive Danny Corcoran announced Norman’s death, paying tribute to the Australian sprinter.