England middle-order batsman Eoin Morgan, who was a key member of the side that won the the World Twenty20 final against Australia in Barbados last Sunday, has been called up into a Test squad for the Bangladesh series opener, which starts at Lord’s on Thursday.

New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 28 runs in the first of two Twenty20 matches on Saturday as international cricket made an historic attempt to break into the American market.

Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova reeled off 11 of the last 12 games to move into the French Open second round with a 6-3, 6-1 win against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea on Sunday. But 10th seeded Belarusian Victoria

World and Olympic triple gold medallist Usain Bolt launched his IAAF Diamond League campaign in Shanghai on Sunday with a comfortable 200m win in 19.76 seconds.

Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo, on a Yamaha, won the French Grand Prix, the third race of the season, here on Sunday to cement his lead in the MotoGP championship.

Fabio Capello will discover on Monday whether he has to rip up his World Cup master plan and go back to square one in his quest to deliver England’s first major trophy in 44 years.

Iraqi security forces were sharply criticised on Saturday a day after a car bomb in a market in central Iraq killed 30 people, in the worst attack to hit the country since May 10.

The White House on Friday declined to give detailed reasons for pushing aside America’s spy czar Dennis Blair, insisting that US President Barack Obama had simply decided it was time for a change.

Internet giant Google marked the 30th birthday of Pac-Man by featuring the classic arcade videogame in the first-ever playable doodle on its home page.

Italy’s Valentino Rossi took pole position ahead of Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo and Spain’s Dani Pedrosa (Honda) in qualifying for the MotoGP French Grand Prix here on Saturday.