Local cricketers set

Local cricketers set
to begin on Sunday

JAKARTA : The new season of the Jakarta Cricket Association
(JCA) cricket league is due to commence on Sunday, with six of
the ten cricket teams in action.

Defending champion ISCI cricket club will be seeking to make
JCA history by becoming the first team to win the championship
three years in succession.

According to the President of the JCA, Sachin Gopalan, JCA
continues to be committed to providing cricket-playing
expatriates in Jakarta with a format to play a decent standard of
competitive cricket.

Gopalan said in a press release that he was very proud that
several JCA players were included on the team to represent
Indonesia at the recent ICC world cup qualifying tournament in
Japan.

"The JCA had a good season last year and we will also organize
an international sixes tournament in October and are very
interested in putting on a tournament for expatriate
schoolchildren," Gopalan said. -- JP

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Schmeichel urges Rooney to choose Old Trafford
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Rooney urged to choose
Old Trafford

MANCHESTER, England: Former Manchester United keeper Peter
Schmeichel has urged Wayne Rooney to choose Manchester United
over Newcastle if its silverware and glory he seeks.

Both clubs have in recent days seen bids for the teenaged
Everton striker rejected by the Merseyside club, although United
is believed to be making an increased bid for the 18-year-old
later Friday.

As Rooney makes up his mind, with the likelihood that he will
opt for Old Trafford over St James' Park, Schmeichel feels
Newcastle just doesn't have the pedigree to match a player of his
talents.

United had an initial bid - reported to be 20 million pounds
(US$36 million) - turned down by Everton. Newcastle's second,
improved bid of 23.5 million pounds has also been rejected. --AFP

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Deco named best European player of last season
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Deco named best
European player

MONACO: Barcelona's Portugal international Deco was named
Europe's top player of last season by UEFA here on Thursday.

Deco won the Champions League with FC Porto before joining
Barcelona in the close season.

Porto beat Monaco 3-0 in the final and one of the players on
the losing team, Fernando Morientes, picked up UEFA's best
striker award.

Morientes was on loan to Monaco but has since returned to his
parent club, Real Madrid.

Porto players were strongly represented in the honors' list
announced by European soccer's governing body, with Ricardo
Carvalho nominated as best defender and Vitor Baia taking the
goalkeeping award. --AFP

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Former tennis star Roscoe Tanner arrested in California
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Former tennis star
arrested in California

SANTA ANA, California: Former tennis star Roscoe Tanner was
arrested on Thursday for allegedly failing to pay child support,
an Orange County sheriff's official said.

The 52-year-old Tanner, a Wimbledon finalist in 1979, was
taken into custody at a doughnut shop in Laguna Niguel on a
fugitive warrant from Somerset County, New Jersey, according to
Jim Amormino of the Sheriff's Department. Tanner allegedly owes
more than US$80,000 in back child support.

Tanner, once ranked as high as No. 4, was booked at the Men's
Central Jail with bail set at $50,000, Amormino said.

Tanner was charged in Somerville, New Jersey, last August for
allegedly failing to pay child support. He was jailed at the time
in Florida on theft and bad check charges, having been extradited
from Germany on Aug. 4, 2003. --AP