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Gillespie's spell leads Aussie winAfter a couple of hiccups, Australia eventually scrambled to a seven-wicket victory and a one-Test adva...

Gillespie8217;s spell leads Aussie win
After a couple of hiccups, Australia eventually scrambled to a seven-wicket victory and a one-Test advantage in the Ashes series. The win was a lot harder to claim than appeared likely after England8217;s first innings demise and Australia are now aware that they face a much improved bowling attack, but the fragile batting still leaves Alec Stewart8217;s team extremely vulnerable.

Wrestlers8217; chances
When Kaka Pawar walks through the dusty lanes of Patiala to make a call back home in Poona, the phone booth owner curses him for not having enough small-currency notes. The incident doesn8217;t rankle the small-built wrestler, who finished fourth in the last Asian Games held at Hiroshima 8217;94, on his cycle-rickshaw ride way back to the National Institute of Sports here for he knows he is not a Dream Merchant, enjoying the super-stardom status like Tendulkar or Jadeja but an Indian wrestler, who is given a 120-Rupees daily diet in the preparatory camp for the December Bangkok Asian Games.

Sasikiran fails
India8217;s Krishnan Sasikiran ran into champion Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakhstan in the last round of the World Junior chess and seemed to pull off a creditable win but in the end there was only a draw for Sasikiran. Sadvakasov remained unbeaten with 10.5 points while Sasikiran was involved in a tie for the 4-8 places and could finish eighth as his progressive score was low.

SA win
South Africa wiped away memories of Bridgetown 1992 when they completed a landmark first Test triumph over the West Indies today. Led by an unbeaten 57 from Jacques Kallis, South Africa cruised home by four wickets just ahead of a thunderstorm that threatened to rob them of victory.

Pak humbled
Murray Goodwin8217;s unbeaten knock of 73 helped Zimbabwe humble Pakistan by seven wickets on the fourth day of the first cricket Test on Monday. The historic victory came with Andy Flower hitting a boundary to post the winning target of 162 for three with two full sessions and a day to play.