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/ 10 December 2005
Andrew Strauss missed his deserved century on Saturday, but paceman Liam Plunkett (3-51) filled the role of super sub with perfection and led England to a 42-run victory over Pakistan in the first limited-overs cricket international. Strauss’s 94 helped England score 327 for four off their 50 overs.
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/ 1 December 2005
England cricket coach Duncan Fletcher conceded on Thursday his Ashes-winning team was in danger of losing the Test series on ”a mentally tough tour of Pakistan”. ”It’s mentally a tough tour as most of the time we are stuck in our hotels and it has got to the players a little bit,” Fletcher said after England conceded a big lead on the third day of the third and final Test in Lahore.
Struggling under an onslaught of Bollywood movies on black market DVDs, the owners of Pakistan’s empty cinema halls are imploring their government to lift a ban on India’s wildly popular masala flicks. Movie houses that once saw audiences queue for Pakistan’s home-grown ”Lollywood” productions now say they need to screen films made by their once bitter rivals in glitzy Mumbai.
A newly born girl and three women were strangled to death by the women’s two male relatives in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, apparently because the men suspected one of the victims of having an affair that disgraced the family, police said.
A court in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Saturday sentenced a young Muslim to death for making derogatory statements about the Prophet Mohammed and Islam as a whole, police and court officials said.