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JOHANNESBURG-Disappointing in the extreme as it was, the defeat against India at Centurion on Saturday is just the latest of setbacks for Pakistan

India win their fourth consecutive World Cup game against their long-time rivals

Steve Tikolo (KEN) needs 82 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs Maurice Odumbe (KEN) needs 191 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs Kennedy Otieno (KEN) needs 190 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs Ravindu Shah (KEN) needs 225 runs to complete 500

Article: Agha Akbar on the start of the India-Pakistan match WC2003

Sachin Tendulkar fell just two runs short of his 35th one-day century, though he notched up another landmark - his 12,000th run.

Article: Taha Noor on the PAK v Indai match WC 2003

Article: Preview by Agha Akbar, Ind v Pak WC2003

Kenya are practicing at Wanderers on Thursday morning until 1pm, both the coach and the captain will be available for interview

Never shy of throwing down a verbal gauntlet to the opposition, Shoaib Akhtar has warned that he would be at his fastest and most furious in the crucial Centurion game against arch-rivals India on Saturday.

Article: Taha Noor on Pak prospects India v Pakistan WC 2003

Apart from providing the fastest ever ICC Cricket World Cup century - John Davison (67 balls) and fastest ever ICC Cricket World Cup fifty - Brian Lara (23 balls) there were a few other features of this match

Carl Hooper (WI) needs 8 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club

A brilliant century off off 67 balls - the fastest in World Cup history - from Canadian John Davison could not prevent a comfortable West Indies win in their Group B encounter at SuperSport Park in Centurion.

West Indies will conduct a development clinic at the Irene Villages Country Club today (Friday) at 4.30pm with local U-19s players organised by the Northerns Cricket Union and the team's sponsor

Any game against the current world champions Australia is bound to be a difficult one

The nature of Indian cricket makes it inevitable that much optimism - however unwarranted - is attendant upon each of the team's fixtures

If it were not for the nature of the teams involved, Saturday's Pool A match would already be written off as a no-contest, SuperSport Park, Centurion, would be half-filled at best, and journalists would be tempted to use agency reports in place of

Canada were well beaten, indeed outclassed by Northerns at Centurion, going down to defeat by a massive 217 runs to a side that finished bottom of their pool in the Standard Bank Cup.

Article: Somi Rai on India-Pak WCup clash 1 March 2003

A week ago the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins travel to Centurion in defence of the Discovery Health Challenge, leaving empty handed, they returned on Sunday (22nd) to take sweet revenge on Northern Titans by beating the hosts by six wickets in a fourth