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Gurukula College paceman Roshan Anuruddha has picked up five wickets, including a hat-trick according to school sources to steer the team to a crushing eight wicket victory over Raddoluwa MV in the Inter School Under-15 Division I limited overs tournament match played at Raddoluwa on Saturday.

Anuruddha picked up the third, fourth and fifth wickets in a row when the score was at six runs to rattle the top order of Raddoluwa MV. Raddoluwa could muster only 39 runs as paceman Anuruddha and leg spinner Namal Pathum shared five wickets apiece for Gurukula.

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RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) – Jamie Carragher still has the same perspective on being in the starting lineup in his comeback to the England squad as he had when he quit international football three years ago.

"I have come here and realized I wasn’t first choice, but I didn’t want to just be on the bench watching the games – I wanted to be involved," said Carragher, a strong contender for a starting role in England’s second World Cup match against Algeria on Friday. "I’m sure my experience will help. Experience is a big thing in football."

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Brazilian legend Pele has launched a broadside against Argentina coach Diego Maradona, charging that he only took the job as he was out of work and needed the money, according to Brazilian media.

Pele and Maradona – widely considered as the two best players of all time – have regularly indulged in verbal sparring.

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Cristiano Ronaldo added his voice to the complaints about the wall of sound being made by the vuvuzela trumpets at the World Cup, protesting they disturb the players’ concentration.

"It is difficult for anyone on the pitch to concentrate," the Portugal star told a press conference.

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Dale Steyn claimed three for 65 as South Africa completed an emphatic 163-run win over West Indies after just four days of the first Test in Trinidad.

While Steyn took three wickets, Morne Morkel and Paul Harris both claimed two as the visitors tore through the hosts’ batting line-up, bowling them out for 293.

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DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka (AP) – This month’s Asia Cup will provide the region’s cricket nations with an ideal preparation ahead of the World Cup to be played on the subcontinent in just eight months time.

Host Sri Lanka joins India, Pakistan and Bangladesh at the central town of Dambulla for the region’s top limited-overs tournament starting Tuesday.

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RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) – Slovakia and New Zealand, two World Cup outsiders, are keen to show they won't be easy prey in South Africa when they meet in their Group F opener on Tuesday.

Slovakia is in its first international tournament as an independent nation since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP) – The biggest question ahead of the Ivory Coast's opening World Cup match against Portugal revolves around the fitness of injured striker Didier Drogba.

Drogba remains a doubtful starter after breaking his right arm in a friendly against Japan on June 4, and Ivory Coast coach Sven-Goran Eriksson can't afford any risks on Tuesday against a powerful Portugal squad led by Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A Brazil lineup bursting with global football stars will open its World Cup campaign against a North Korea squad they, and pretty much everyone else, knows very little about.

While five-time champion Brazil has won more titles than any country at football's biggest showcase, North Korea hasn't played in the tournament in more than 40 years and its international isolation is about its only advantage ahead of Tuesday's match at Ellis Park.

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DURBAN, South Africa (AP) – Armed riot police charged into hundreds of stewards at a World Cup stadium in the early hours of Monday morning to break up a protest about low wages.

Police appeared to set off two percussive grenades, causing loud bangs, to drive the protesters out of a parking lot under the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban hours after Germany beat Australia 4-0 in Group D.

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