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/ 2 September 2004
Alex Wharf had a debut to savour as England beat India by seven wickets in the first one-day international at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Glamorgan quick, only in the squad because Kabir Ali was out injured, took three for 30 as India were bowled out for a meagre 170.
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/ 2 September 2004
South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira played the final US Open match of his 15-year career on Wednesday, losing in the first round to former world number one Lleyton Hewitt.
The 32-year-old Ferreira plans to retire after representing South Africa for the last time in a Davis Cup tie at the end of September.
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/ 2 September 2004
Ernie Els is setting new goals to get over his near misses at this year’s major golf championships. ”I just want to try and be happy again,” he said on Wednesday. ”I want to get myself in better shape physically.” Els is in Switzerland to defend his European Masters title, starting on Thursday.
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/ 2 September 2004
Alex Ferguson has moved quickly to put a protective shield around teenage striker Wayne Rooney — and Manchester United’s new record signing insists he is mature enough to evade the pitfalls that could derail his emerging career. Ferguson, who has a formidable reputation as a disciplinarian, has no fears for his new acquisition.
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/ 2 September 2004
South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira played the final United States Open match of his 15-year career on Wednesday, losing in the first-round to former world number one Lleyton Hewitt. The 32-year-old Ferreira plans to retire after representing South Africa for the last time in a Davis Cup tie at the end of September.
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/ 2 September 2004
It is only too easy to argue that Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change did the right thing in deciding last week to suspend any further participation in polls until President Robert Mugabe’s government adheres to the Southern African Development Community’s electoral standards. It is more difficult to say the party did the wrong thing. But it is beginning to look like that, argues Iden Wetherell.
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/ 2 September 2004
Last week Oom Krisjan reflected on the pitfalls of die taal, particularly when it comes to translating place names. But English presents a whole host of dangers of its own, especially when you start to throw together some trite phrases. Speaker Baleka Mbete might reflect there were better ways than this to explain the initiative Parliament had taken to investigate the travel scam …
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/ 2 September 2004
French anti-terrorist police opened a formal inquiry on Wednesday into three tunnels discovered under La Santé, Paris’s main high-security jail, whose inmates range from millionaire society fraudsters and corrupt politicians to Islamic militants and Basque separatists.
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/ 1 September 2004
Human pride, based on the notion that man is the planet’s alpha animal, was dealt a crushing blow seven years ago when the computer Deep Blue humiliated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Be afraid, be very afraid, for another towering bastion of human achievement — table football — is about to fall to machines.