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On This Day in Sport (13 March 2010):

1873: The Scottish Football Association was formed when representatives from eight clubs met at the Dewar's Hotel in Glasgow.
1948: The Lincolnshire Handicap drew a field of 58 horses, the largest number of runners for a flat race in Britain.
1967: Former West Indies cricket captain Sir Frank Worrell, who scored 3,860 runs in 51 Test appearances, died at the age of 42.
1991: Ronnie O'Sullivan, at the English Amateur Snooker Championship, became the youngest player to compile a maximum 147 break at the age of 15 years and 98 days.
1997: David Graveney was appointed chairman of England cricket selectors.
2002: Everton terminated the contract of manager Walter Smith.
2003: Best Mate, ridden by Jim Culloty, became the first horse since L'Escargot in 1970 and 1971 to win consecutive Tote Cheltenham Gold Cups.

Headlines (13 March) :

Wheel falls off for Virgin
Virgin Racing suffered acute embarrassment ahead of their qualifying debut for Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.
Kuyt moves on from 'off-day'
Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt has written off Monday's Barclays Premier League horror show at Wigan as a one-off.
Fabregas: Time to step up
Injured Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas has challenged his team-mates to seize the opportunity to keep their Barclays Premier League title challenge alive with victory at relegation-battling Hull on Saturday night.
Storrie leaves Pompey
Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has decided to leave his post at the crisis-hit club.
Defence is best base for attack - Rooney
Wayne Rooney is predicting Manchester United will become even more prolific now their first choice central defensive partnership is back in action.
Kear keen to seal Cooke deal
John Kear is confident a deal can be struck to make Hull KR outcast Paul Cooke a Wakefield player in the coming days.
Strong start for Ennis
Jessica Ennis made a strong start in her challenge for the World Indoor pentathlon title in Doha on Saturday morning when scoring an impressive 60 metres hurdle victory.
Tevez wants repeat of Bridge brilliance
Carlos Tevez believes it is imperative Manchester City maintain the level of performance which saw Chelsea demolished if a top-four place is to be achieved.
Monye excited by Murrayfield atmosphere
Ugo Monye insists England are ready to take on the world as they prepare to enter the Murrayfield cauldron for Saturday night's Calcutta Cup clash with Scotland.
England in dominant position
Paul Collingwood became England's second centurion of the match and Stuart Broad began the job of bowling Bangladesh out as the tourists moved moved into a dominant position at tea on day two of the first Test.

International Results Roundup

Dateline 12 March 2010

FOOTBALL
Coca-Cola Division Two
Lincoln City 3 Hereford 1
CRICKET
Bangladesh v England Test Series at Chittagong
Bangladesh 145 - 4 29.5 ovs England 599 - 6 dec 138.3 ovs In Progress
New Zealand v Australia One Day International Series at Wellington
New Zealand 241 - 9 50 ovs Australia 190 all out 46.1 ovs New Zealand won by 51 runs.
GOLF
Women's Australian Open
Collated second-round scores (Aus unless stated, par 73):
139 Giulia Sergas (Ita) 70 69 142 He-yong Choi (Kor) 73 69, Soo-jin Yang (Kor) 70 72 143 Stefanie Michl (Aut) 71 72, Karrie Webb 73 70, Rebecca Flood 70 73 144 Alison Whitaker 70 74, Laura Davies (Eng) 68 76, Katherine Hull 72 72 145 Felicity Johnson (Eng) 70 75, Lindsey Wright 71 74, Yani Tseng (Tai) 74 71, Anna Nordqvist (Swe) 75 70 146 Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 70 76, Alexis Thompson (USA) 71 75, Stacy Lewis (USA) 75 71
WGC-CA Championship
Collated second-round scores (USA unless stated, par 72):
134 Ernie Els (Rsa) 68 66 135 Robert Allenby (Aus) 68 67 137 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 67 70, Bill Haas 71 66 138 Soren Hansen (Den) 69 69, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 70 68 139 Vijay Singh (Fij) 68 71, J.B. Holmes 69 70, John Senden (Aus) 69 70, Mike Weir (Can) 73 66, Yuta Ikeda (Jpn) 71 68, Tim Clark (Rsa) 70 69 140 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 69 71, Peter Hanson (Swe) 74 66, Phil Mickelson 71 69, Camilo Villegas (Col) 72 68, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 72 68 141 Dustin Johnson 69 72, Paul Casey (Eng) 69 72, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 72 69, Liang Wen Chong (Chn) 72 69
TENNIS
ATP & WTA BNP Paribas Open
Men's 1st rd:
Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) bt Oscar Hernandez (Spa) 6-1 6-2
Women's 2nd rd:
(5) Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) bt Anna Chakvetadze (Rus) 6-2 5-3 ret