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Melbourne's Colonial Stadium will host next year's second rugby union Test between Australia and the touring British Lions.

African Games officials want to harmonise international sporting calendars to ensure their top athletes do not have to choose between lucrative overseas meetings and the continent's top event.

Nigeria pledged on Thursday that the building of facilities will be completed in time to host the All-Africa Games in 2003.

Manoj Prabhakar, banned for five years by the Indian cricket board, said on Wednesday he had deserved better treatment for helping expose match-fixing.

South Africa cricket chief Ali Bacher has said a proposal for a seeding system for the 2003 World Cup would be put to the International Cricket Council.

English rugby chiefs launched an inquiry into newspaper allegations that some of the national team's players had pooled their match tickets and sold them to corporate hospitality companies on the black market.

The African women championship final between hosts South Africa and Nigeria had to be abandoned in the second half after a riot broke out at the Vosloorus Stadium near Johannesburg.

The eight quarter-finalists from the 1999 World Cup will be granted automatic qualification for the 2003 tournament in Australia and New Zealand, the International Rugby Board said on Friday.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption unit has a $4 million budget to investigate wrong-doing in the game.

The anti-corruption unit of cricket's ruling body, the ICC, will investigate allegations about 15 foreign players made in an official Indian report on match-fixing, the International Cricket Council said on Friday.

Leeds United and South Africa captain Lucas Radebe is seeking to buy a 50% stake in a South African Premier League side, according to club officials.

Hansie Cronje's lawyers say the United Cricket Board (UCB) offer of rehabilitation for the banned former South Africa captain will not stop him challenging the ban in court.

CricInfo.com has broken its page impressions record during its coverage of the India vs South Africa ICC Knockout tournament semi-final.

The final of the 2003 World Cup in South Africa has been provisionally scheduled for Johannesburg on March 18, the United Cricket Board (UCB) has said.

India will host a 16-nation soccer tournament from January 10 to 25 next year, the president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has said.

US PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem believes the Presidents Cup has a bright future, whether or not the American players embrace the event.