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Cricket KOL v BAN There is a video associated with this story. Too good ... Kumble celebrates a wicket with Kevin Pietersen.

The clay is green, not red, and the palm trees and balmy breeze make Paris seem far away.

In a game that ran tied at 2-apiece for four innings, then see-sawed up to 4-4 over the next four innings, then saw the Cards explode for five runs in the top of the ninth, it was as if you were either waiting for the Cards to do well or the Nats to do poorly.

Slumping Carlos Quentin and Jermaine Dye hit consecutive home runs in the seventh inning Wednesday, leading the Chicago White Sox over the Seattle Mariners 6-3. A.J. Pierzynski also homered as the White Sox rallied from a 3-1 deficit and avoided what would have been their first losing April since 2001.

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Garza delivers to the Boston Red Sox during the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 30, 2009, in St.

Ellsbury fouled off an 0-2 pitch and took two balls before hitting a squibber past Garza over the mound.

Astros closer Jose Valverde has had fluid drained from his strained right calf. The Astros say team doctor David Lintner drew about 20 cubic centimeters of fluid from Valverde's calf on Thursday.

LONDON a ' Hamburg made itself favourite to reach next month's UEFA Cup final with a 1-0 semifinal win at Werder Bremen, and Shakhtar Donetsk's likely to fill the other spot after a 1-1 draw at Dynamo Kyiv on Thursday.

Australian News.Net Wednesday 29th April, 2009 Melbourne, Apr.29 : Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt is engaged in a bitter legal battle with his former management over alleged financial misappropriation and lost investment opportunities.

Christian Horner has denied reports that BMW, who first brought Seb Vettel into F1, have an option on the German from 2011 onwards.