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Bangladesh improves FIFA

Ranking

Only South Asian team recorded a victory in the second round of the Portuguese for the FIFA World Cup against the Lebanon the latest FIFA world rankings published, the football team received a timely boost from Bangladesh on Wednesday. Bangladesh rose by eight places in the position in the ranking for the second team with the highest rank in the region of South Asia behind Nepal, 139. classified. At the time rivals India, which currently qualify for 158th are Bangladesh significantly above South Asian, during Pakistan organisational position in the current ranking. Bangladesh reached the highest rank in 1993 was the 125th position.

-New age

Seeded Wozniacki

first at the US Open

World No 1 has received the top seeds for the last US open, the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments Caroline Wozniacki begins in less than a week. Denmark tour New Haven open is top seed in this week of WTA. It begins with a first-round match against Polona Hercog your title search. Two-time reigning US Open champion Kim Clijsters recently announced she would miss the event with a stomach muscle injury. American veteran Serena Williams is seeded 28 for the US Open. The 13 Grand Slam was winner on a lucky streak lately but missed almost a year with injuries. Williams has three titles of the US open and recently won two tournaments in Toronto and California. Their world rankings only in July to 29 this week rocketed. The US Open runs 29-September from August 11 - AFP, New York

Prefabricated CAT I

Back Hughes

Dumped opening batsman Simon CAT I has his bitterness behind him and supported unproven Phillip Hughes as the man to help successor, test lead, Australia's cricket team out of the doldrums. The 36-year-old launched an angry tirade against selectors, was cut after he annually area Andrew Hilditch led a list of players agreed at national level in June of Australia encourage potential of form in picking players accuse.

CAT I was a few years of Australia's best batsman in the last but missed ashes campaign condemned the last three tests to fail after is ruled out with an Achilles injury. His successor who continually tracks 22-year-old Hughes, for a perceived weakness against quality of Seamers, fixed against the rigours of England Quicks for a second consecutive ashes but is nevertheless rewarded with a contract. Rises above the character, Kat I insisted that Hughes has the potential to repay the faith of the selectors. "He knows how it runs." He knows, like one great results ' cat I said of Hughes, who on average of 16 in three tests against England, Wednesday Daily Telegraph. "He has already 16 first-class hundreds, that's for a player of his time." I think it better for the last year, he had little way from the period. ' All batsmen go through them at any time during their career. You have to adapt and better and he will do that, I have no doubt. Phil working hard and he is a good boy. "

-Reuters, Sydney

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