Mohammad Rafique returned the best-ever figures by a Bangladesh bowler as South Africa was bowled out for 330 on the second day of the second Test in Dhaka.

A strong earthquake shook south-eastern Turkey today, killing nearly 100 people and injuring 1 000 others. Rescuers dug frantically in the rubble of a school dormitory, hunting for dozens of children believed trapped.

It may have started ten minutes late due to a lack of rugby balls, but nine tries later – the appreciative crowd at the Embalenhle township outside Secunda got what they came for – a decent game of rugby in the Vodacom Shield competition.

Sundowns is the only South African side remaining in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) club competitions after Jomo Cosmos and Santos were bundled out at the weekend.

If Iain Duncan Smith were to double up in his spare time as a football referee, it is unlikely that the Premier League would submit to a request by him to blow the whistle in a game between Tottenham and Arsenal.

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive Martin Snedden flew out for South Africa today confident a compromise would be reached to move the Blacks Caps’ World Cup match against Kenya from Nairobi.

English and Australian cricket chiefs were expected to call on the sport’s governing body on Tuesday to switch their World Cup matches in Zimbabwe to South Africa.

If spin magician Muttiah Muralitharan is allowed to bowl unchanged from one end, Sri Lanka have a better chance of containing runs in the World Cup.

A self-avowed former Israeli spy claimed in a Harare courtroom yesterday that the Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai plotted a coup to depose Robert Mugabe — backed by £6-million (about R84-million) from the British government.

Australian cricket authorities have decided not to follow their English counterparts in demanding that World Cup matches planned in strife-torn Zimbabwe this month be moved to South Africa, says a representative.