Bangladesh have another chance to confound critics of their Test status when they face England in the first of a two-match series starting at Lord’s on Thursday.
Since their promotion to the five-day format a decade ago, the Asian side have won just three out of a possible 66 matches and lost all six of their Tests with England, including two in Bangladesh earlier this year.

Defending champion Roger Federer defied two rain breaks to reach the French Open third round on Wednesday as last year’s runner-up Robin Soderling took just 71 super-charged minutes to book his place.
Federer, chasing a 17th Grand Slam title, overcame a sloppy first set, where he was plagued by 21 unforced errors and had to save five break points, before defeating Colombian left-hander Alejandro Falla 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 6-4.
The world number one will tackle either Belgium’s Olivier Rochus or German qualifier Julian Reister, the world 165, for a place in the last 16.
Federer went into his match buoyed by having already defeated world number 70 Falla twice without dropping a set, including in the second round of Roland Garros in 2006.
But he struggled throughout the opening set before getting the better of the Colombian, shrugging off the distractions of two rain interruptions.
“A player like Falla needed the first set to have a chance of winning,” said Federer, on a day when bursts of heavy rain brought to an end three days when temperatures had soared to a sweltering 30 degrees.
“He

Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal expects to play against England in the first Test at Lord’s starting here on Thursday despite struggling with a wrist injury that could yet require surgery.

Eoin Morgan has insisted he will have no problems adjusting to the tempo of Test cricket should he make his debut in the five-day format against Bangladesh at Lord’s on Thursday.
And he even joked Brian Lara’s world record score of 400 not out might be under threat, such was the Ireland-born left-hander’s new-found discipline.

Former champion Stefano Garzelli of the Acqua & Sapone team made up for a series of disastrous mountain displays on the Tour of Italy by winning the 16th stage mountain time trial Tuesday.
Held over 12.9km, with the last 5km on a rustic, unasphalted road, Garzelli picked up his first win on the Giro since 2007 as Ivan Basso and Cadel Evans continued their respective bids for overall victory.

South Africa withstood a late West Indies fight-back led by Darren Sammy to prevail by 17 runs in the second one-day international on Monday and take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
The South Africans appeared to be coasting to victory, when West Indies chasing 301 slumped to 236/8 in the 45th over.

New technology developed by US researchers should shed light on whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded animals, a study has said.

Islamic police in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been issued with 20,000 long skirts and ordered to cover up women deemed to have broken Muslim dress codes, an official said on Tuesday.

Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer began his campaign for a 17th Grand Slam title with a comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australia’s Peter Luczak in the French Open first round on Monday.

Australian scientists on Monday unveiled the world’s smallest electronic switch measuring just a few atoms, which will shrink microchips and revolutionise computing speeds.