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DUBAI: Coach Mohsin Khan says his team will need to raise their standards in all three departments to stop England from a clean sweep of the one-day series in the fourth match here on Tuesday.
Pakistan have been on the receiving end in the one-day series after blanking England 3-0 in the preceding Test series, with Khan stressing his team needed improvement.
"We have not played well as we did in the Tests. I will not take any credit away from England but we have to look at ourselves and we need to raise our standards in all three departments to avoid defeat," Khan said on Monday.
Pakistan have been outsmarted by England, who rode on back-to-back hundreds by skipper Alastair Cook to win the first two matches in Abu Dhabi before Kevin Pietersen hammered an unbeaten century -- his first since 2008 -- to win the third match here on Saturday.
Paceman Steven ...
DUBAI: Results from the WTA Dubai Open here on Monday (x denotes seeding):
1st rd
Jelena Jankovic (SRB x8) bt Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 6-2, 6-2
Flavia Pennetta (ITA) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-3, 6-3
Julia Goerges (GER) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 2-6, 7-6(2), 6-4
Shahar Peer (ISR) bt Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) 6-3, 6-1
Maria Kirilenko (RUS) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM) 6-3, 6-0
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012 
SYDNEY: The Australia squad named on Monday for the tri one-day series internationals against Sri Lanka in Hobart on February 24 and against India in Sydney on February 26:
Australia: Michael Clarke (Capt), Shane Watson (vice-capt), Dan Christian, Xavier Doherty, Peter Forrest, Ryan Harris, Ben Hilfenhaus, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee, Clint McKay, Matthew Wade, David Warner.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012 
WELLINGTON: New Zealand have named allrounder James Franklin along with big-hitting Jesse Ryder and paceman Andy McKay in a 14-man squad for the Blackcaps' three-match one-day international series at home against South Africa starting on Saturday.
The trio replace injured pair of Dean Brownlie and Jacob Oram, and dropped teenager Tom Latham, from the squad that whitewashed Zimbabwe in their three-match series that finished earlier this month.
The 19-year-old Latham, who made his one-day debut against Zimbabwe ...
MADRID: Lionel Messi hit four goals to inspire Barcelona to a 5-1 victory over Valencia on Sunday, but the champions still remain 10 points behind leaders Real Madrid.
Messi, playing his 200th game for the club, took his league goals tally to 27 for the season and 42 in all competitions although third-placed Valencia had stunned the Spanish and European champions by taking a shock early lead.
"The most important thing was that the team played like ...
LOS ANGELES: National Basketball Association star Jeremy Lin made a public plea Sunday for reporters in Taiwan to respect the privacy of his family members there.
Lin's fairy-tale run, and the media storm that has accompanied it, has had an affect on those in his ancestral homelands.
The US-born Lin is the son of Taiwanese immigrants and his maternal grandmother is from mainland China.
"One special request I have is for the media in Taiwan to kind of ...
BRISBANE: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has denied he is jaded and wants to battle through his current batting slump.
His teammates made merry against India on a benign Gabba wicket in Sunday's tri one-day international drubbing. But Ponting scratched around for 26 deliveries to make only seven runs.
It was the fifth consecutive ODI that Ponting has failed to reach double figures and called into question the 37-year-old's place in the Australian one-day team.
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