| India
will seek to take advantage of Lee's absence
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Adelaide,
Feb 16:
India will seek to take full advantage of speedster Brett Lee's
absence as they go into the tri-series one-dayer against Australia
here tomorrow, hoping to beat the world champions for the second
successive time.
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| Anand
beats Shirov in opening round
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Mexico,
Feb 16:
World Champion Viswanathan Anand scored an emphatic victory
over Latvian-born Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the first round
of the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament here.
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| Tendulkar
rises in ICC ODI rankings
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Dubai,
Feb 16:
Yuvraj Singh's form slump has seen him drop four rungs to 19th,
while master batsman Sachin Tendulkar continued to be upwardly
mobile, rising a couple of spots to seventh in the latest ICC
ODI rankings issued on Saturday.
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| Off
field furores have worn down Ponting: Gilchrist
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Perth,
Feb 16:
The pulls and pressures of captaincy have begun to take a toll
on Australian skipper Ricky Ponting and his form slump was a
result of having to deal with too many off-field furores in
recent months, feels his deputy Adam Gilchrist.
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