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Cricket: Kohli hits half-century in Bangalore win

Virat Kohli smashed a brisk half-century to help Royal Challengers Bangalore post a three-wicket victory over Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier League match on Tuesday.

He hit two sixes and eight fours in his 38-ball 56 as Bangalore surpassed Delhi's total of 160-6 with three balls to spare for their third win in seven matches of the Twenty20 tournament.

Bangalore needed 22 runs to win in the last three overs, but skipper Daniel Vettori (18 not out) and Syed Mohammad (13 not out) held their nerve under pressure to see their team

Cricket: Shehzad's century steers Pakistan to victory

Opener Ahmed Shehzad struck his second one-day international hundred to anchor Pakistan to a confident seven-wicket victory over West Indies on Monday.

Shehzad hit seven fours and one six in his 102 from 148 balls as Pakistan successfully chased 221 for victory in the second ODI at the Beausejour Cricket Ground.

Umar Akmal carried the visitors over the threshold with 12 balls remaining when he lofted a delivery from Dwayne Bravo to long-off for the final boundary of the match.

The result means that Pakistan take a 2-0 lead in the five-match

Blasts shake east Tripoli

Five loud explosions rocked the eastern part of the Libyan capital on Monday night, witnesses said, although they could not pinpoint the precise location of the blasts.

"We heard three loud explosions and we saw flames and smoke billowing close to us," a resident of Ain Zara neighbourhood in eastern Tripoli told AFP.

Two other detonations shook the same neighbourhood a few minutes later, another witness said.

Later, Al-Jamahiriya television said NATO had raided civil and military targets in the Ain Zara district and at Bir Al-Ghanam, 50 kilometres (30 miles) to the southwest.

The television quoted a military source as saying there had been

S. Lanka relent over IPL issue to avoid ‘embarrassing BCCI’

Sri Lanka said on Thursday they had allowed their players to honour their Indian Premier League commitments to avoid embarrassing neighbours India.

“We are giving players more time to play the IPL before joining the team for the England tour, after several requests from the Indian cricket board,” Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage told AFP.

“We have excellent relations with the government of India and

Brav, Sammy take West Indies to 222-6 against Pakistan

West Indies captain Darren Sammy opted to bat first in the opening one-day international against Pakistan on Saturday.

Pakistan replaced left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman with uncapped all-rounder Hammad Azam in the only change from the side that lost the one-off Twenty20 international against the hosts.

West Indies, meanwhile, replaced pacer Ravi Rampaul with Kirk Edwards.

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