Melbourne, Jan. 15 : Australian batsman Michael Clarke has passed a fitness test and will play against South Africa in Friday''s first one-day international match at the MCG.
According to Fox Sports, Clarke passed a fitness test on his injured right thumb at training on Thursday, including a couple of net sessions, after missing the two Twenty20 matches.
London, Jan. 15: Manchester United will be without the services of striker Wayne Rooney for the next three weeks after the player limped off the field with a hamstring injury.
Rooney, however, ensured that his club secured a 1-0 victory over Wigan, and move to within two points of title aspirant Liverpool.
"Being at the top is the place to be and now we can do that by Saturday night," said coach Alex Ferguson, adding that he wasn't too worried about the absence of Rooney from the line up.
London, Jan. 15 : Manchester City has said that it will launch a major charm offensive to attract Brazilian and AC Milan forward Kaka, though the latter is said that he is not interested and would like to play for the Italian club till his retirement.
On Wednesday, Kaka responded to a potential weekly salary at City of 500,000 pounds by saying that he would like to "grow old at Milan" and captain the team in the future.
Sydney - Lance Armstrong is unlikely to finish next week's Tour Down Under in the leader's ochre jersey but some are predicting the seven-time Tour de France victor might leave the Australian city of Adelaide with a yellow Jersey cow.
It's traditional that a stage winner is presented with a local dairy cow - and the hot gossip is that the lanky Texan hopes to mark his return to professional cycling with at least one stage win.
Auckland - German Philipp Kohlschreiber faces a fitness fight for Monday's start of the Australian Open after the Heineken Open holder pulled out before his Thursday quarter-final with a shoulder injury.
The decision handed a walkover to Spanish second seed David Ferrer and prevented a challenge between the last two winners of the ATP event.
Adelaide, Australia - Mis-firing Mark Philippoussis has apologized for a miserabke performance at the World Tennis Challenge, as the two-time Grand Slam finalist made a timid return to the game.
The 32-year-old was competing for the first time in more than a year since re-injuring his right knee and undergoing another operation. Australia with Philippoussis and Pat Cash lost to the US side with Jim Courier and Taylor Dent.
Melbourne, Jan. 15 : Australian batsman Michael Clarke has passed a fitness test and will play against South Africa in Friday''s first one-day international match at the MCG.
London, Jan. 15: Manchester United will be without the services of striker Wayne Rooney for the next three weeks after the player limped off the field with a hamstring injury.
London, Jan. 15 : Manchester City has said that it will launch a major charm offensive to attract Brazilian and AC Milan forward Kaka, though the latter is said that he is not interested and would like to play for the Italian club till his retirement.
Sydney - Lance Armstrong is unlikely to finish next week's Tour Down Under in the leader's ochre jersey but some are predicting the seven-time Tour de France victor might leave the Australian city of Adelaide with a yellow Jersey cow.
Auckland - German Philipp Kohlschreiber faces a fitness fight for Monday's start of the Australian Open after the Heineken Open holder pulled out before his Thursday quarter-final with a shoulder injury.
Adelaide, Australia - Mis-firing Mark Philippoussis has apologized for a miserabke performance at the World Tennis Challenge, as the two-time Grand Slam finalist made a timid return to the game.
