Monday, June 15, 2009 LONDON: England restricted Sri Lanka's run chase to 69-8 as they comfortably won their World Twenty20 encounter to reach the semi-finals of the competition.Claire Taylor hit an undefeated 75 as England posted 140-7. Isa Guha returned figures of 2-4 with two maidens from her four overs as Sri Lanka fell 72 runs short of victory. Australia restricted West Indies to 135-8 before Shelley Nitschke hit 58 as her team won by eight wickets. Deandra Dottin struck 53 off just 25 deliveries at the top of the innings for the West Indies, with nine fours in her belligerent knock.But Sarah Andrews and Lisa Sthalekar both took two wickets as Australia ensured they had a manageable target to chase. And after Nitschke fell with the score on 83, Rene Farrell and Sthaleker saw the Australian team home, with both woman scoring undefeated 30s. The result also means that unbeaten New Zealand are guaranteed to reach the semi-finals.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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