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There are good tours and there are bad tours, and this was one of the bad ones. That was the opinion of United Cricket Board CEO Gerald Majola, after the South African cricket team returned home on Wednesday from a disastrous tour of Sri Lanka, in which they drew one Test, lost the other and then were defeated in all five one-day internationals.
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/ 2 September 2004
The war has lasted for most of 10 years and, with each year that passes, Islamist separatists have had to sink to ever greater depths of brutality to get their cause noticed. Chechnya — a war the Kremlin reignited to boost the political career of an unknown former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin — today returns to haunt the Russian president. Moscow has allowed an enemy with a definable objective to morph into extremists who are ready to die — and kill.
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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
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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/ 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
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
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
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
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.