Australia captain Alex Blackwell led from the front as her side advanced into the women’s World Twenty20 final with a seven-wicket win over India here on Thursday.

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said the team had no-one else to blame but themselves after a seven-wicket World Twenty20 semifinal loss to England here on Thursday.

World champions Australia and South Korea drew 2-2 in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup here on Thursday, leaving the fight for the finals berths wide open with five teams in contention.

Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver will be seeking to keep his Triple Crown hopes alive when he comes out of the eighth gate at the 135th Preakness Stakes.

Two-time champion Fernando Alonso showed the way ahead to a relatively inexperienced field on Thursday when he set the pace in the opening free practice session for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.

Oscar-winner Sean Penn was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to undergo anger management counselling on Wednesday after pleading no contest to a charge arising from a confrontation with a

Polished politicians both, Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai spoke directly to one another’s constituencies at a White House appearance, hoping to ease mistrust straining their war alliance.

No other player in the last 20 years has enjoyed a career as irrevocably intertwined with the romance of the World Cup as Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima.

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni insisted it was wrong to blame the Indian Premier League for his side’s failure to reach the semifinals of the World Twenty20 championships.

Inter Milan pair Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso will not feature at the 2010 World Cup after they were left out of coach Diego Maradona’s provisional 30-man squad on Wednesday.