 | Gharafa, Sadd to clash in Emir Cup final AL GHARAFA sealed its place in the 2012
Emir Cup final with a 5-4 penalty shoot-out
victory over Al Kharaitiyat at the Al Sadd
Stadium on Tuesday. Both were deadlocked
1-1 during the regulation time.
Al Kharaitiyat missed ...
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| | Watson, Tait fashion easy win for Royals |  AUSTRALIAN players Shane Watson
and Shaun Tait powered Rajasthan
Royals to a seven-wicket victory over
Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier
League on Tuesday, and Kings XI
Punjab beat the Deccan Chargers by
25 runs.
Watson smashed an unbeaten 90
as Rajasthan made 126-3 in only
16.2 overs after Tait had taken 3-13
to help restrict the home side to a
meager 125-6 at Subrata Roy Sahara
Stadium.
Watson hammered four sixes and
10 fours from 51 balls against the
hapless Sourav Ganguly-led side.
Watson, who came in to bat at No.
3, belted left-arm spinner Murali
Kartik for 16 in an over and took 15
off five deliveries from pace bowler
... | | | Cautious Kanter wants to
go slow in Olympic year |  ESTONIAN Olympic discus
gold medallist Gerd Kanter
will be seeking to become
the fourth man in 100
years to defend his title at
the 2012 London Games
later this year.
Shaking off early season
rust and a little bit of extra
fab at the Aspire Academy
track before kick-starting
his crucial season in the
Samsung Diamond League
on Friday, the 33-year-old
giant said he would be
happy to launch the allimportant
season in
Friday´s Samsung
Diamond League, hurling
the disk around 65m.
"So far, the preparations
have been good. I´ve come
here for my final preparations
for the season... | | | Spain to chase unique
hat-trick as Euros loom |  SPAIN will begin as hot
favourite to complete an
unprecedented treble next
month when the European
Championship ventures into
new territory in Poland and
Ukraine.
Winner of Euro 2008 and
the 2010 World Cup, Spain
will become the first footballing
nation to complete a
hat-trick of major championships
if Vicente del
Bosque´s side retains its
crown.
No side has ever retained
the European championship,
underscoring the concentrated
competitiveness of the 16-
team tournament which
many purists regard as superior
in quality to the 32-team
World Cup.
However Spain retains the
nucleus of a side which has
carried all before it ... | |
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