Every member of the the team contributed and it was a great team effort

“Every member of the the team contributed and it was a great team effort. Sri Lanka A was a very good side and the victory here will not mean that we will take them lightly in the other games. I thought we batted very well and also bowled and fielded extremely well.”* Shane Warne has signed a new two-year contract with Hampshire, with an option to extend it for a further two years.* The England fast bowler Simon Jones has signed a new three-year contract with Glamorgan. The 26-year-old, who has a central contract with the England Cricket Board, has committed himself to the county until the end of the 2007 season.. The first match at the new Wembley Stadium will not be the 2006 FA Cup final but a test event, such as an England Under-21 international, to be held in March next year. Construction is on course to be finished in January, with the pitch being laid in November.All the corporate boxes have been sold as well as around a third of the 15,000 premium seats.

These cost £3,900, plus £1,300 a year for 10 years, guaranteeing a seat at 12 major sports events per year at an average of £140 per event.”Before we have the first official match, the FA Cup final, we will stage a couple of ’soft events’ in order to gain the safety certificate from Brent Council,” Wembley’s chief executive Michael Cunnah said.”These events will probably be an England Under-21 international and possibly a schoolboy international, where there will be a crowd of between 30,000 and 60,000 which will enable us to test all the facilities, but not at full capacity.”. The bitter recriminations between Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric continued yesterday with the Southampton manager claiming his former employer was “pathetic and sad” for once more stoking what has turned into a south-coast feud. It could be a team sanction, which would be a fine, or if it was extremely serious there could be a suspension of the ground.”Mourinho has already been reminded of his responsibilities by the FA after he appeared to make a potentially provocative silencing gesture to Liverpool fans during the Carling Cup final, though the Portuguese manager maintained that he was addressing members of the press.The Premier League is still investigating the allegations that Chelsea made an illegal approach to the Arsenal defender Ashley Cole.. “We have not reached the stage where we are charging either team but we are trying to figure out what happened.”We have our usual array of sanctions, it all depends on the gravity of the offence. “We are now talking to witnesses and looking at video and audio evidence,” he said. Blackburn were fined £10,000 for the same offence but, unlike Chelsea, they did not contest the charge.Uefa has also announced that it will launch an investigation into the incidents that took place in the Stamford Bridge tunnel after Tuesday’s match against Barcelona during which their Cameroon international striker Samuel Eto’o alleged that he was racially abused by a Chelsea steward, an accusation that Chelsea strenuously denied on Wednesday after questioning the steward.

While Uefa is not likely to investigate those allegations, it will take action on whatever is deemed to have occurred in the tunnel.The Uefa spokesman William Gaillard said that the report from the match delegate Gerhard Kapl indicated that there were grounds for an investigation. He should only have had his two assistants and the fourth official with him but there was also someone else.”Chelsea were also fined £15,000 for failing to control their players during clashes with Blackburn Rovers on 2 February after a dispute that centred on John Terry and Paul Dickov. But I know the referee did not walk to the dressing-rooms alone at half-time. A Uefa source said it could find no evidence to support Mourinho’s allegations that his Bar?counterpart, Frank Rijkaard, had held a private conversation with the referee Anders Frisk in his changing-room at half-time.The FA called in Mourinho to fine him £5,000 for his comments following Chelsea’s first leg Carling Cup semi-final draw with Manchester United in January, in which he alleged that the referee, Neale Barry, had been influenced by Sir Alex Ferguson in an interview with the club’s in-house television channel.”The referee controlled the game in one way during the first half but in the second they had dozens of free-kicks,” he said “It was fault after fault, dive after dive.