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/ 25 November 2005

Graeme Smith seeks fresh start

South Africa captain Graeme Smith expressed confidence on Thursday that his team can make a fresh start after its unbeaten streak was broken during the ongoing series against India. South Africa finished one short of Australia’s world-record sequence of 21 games without a defeat last week when it lost by six wickets to India in the second one-dayer of the five-match series.

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/ 19 July 2004

Forty die as bus skids into ditch

Forty people, most of them commuters, were killed on Monday when a crowded bus shot off a highway in torrential rains and plunged into a rain-filled ditch in India’s West Bengal state, police said. ”The bus sank in the ditch filled up by monsoon rains,” state police inspector general Chayan Mukherjee said.