Usian Bolt is well known to anyone who has followed the
Olympics in recent years. The Jamaican
sprinter takes center stage whenever he approaches track for a race. He is currently the world record holder in
100 meters.
He has recently started a "second career" in
Australia, playing soccer on an A league team for an indefinite trial. The Sprinter scored his first goals in
professional football Friday after starting up front in a pre-season game for
Australia's Central Coast Mariners. He
suffered a kick to the groin early in the game, but within half an hour had
recovered sufficiently to score two goals within 14 minutes, as his team
triumphed 4-0 over Macarthur South West United in Sydney.
International Cricket is heating up these days as it tends to
do this time of year. The West Indies is
visiting India for a two Test match series.
Having dropped the first Test, they did well the first day of the second
test at Hyderabad, convincing everyone before tea was taken that they had learned their lessons and they are a
different team this week. England is touring Sri Lanka, but so far have seen
not much action, besides their touring truck being stuck in the mud...
Meanwhile, Pakistan and Australia are meeting for a two Test
series in the middles east, with games in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. In the first Test, Pakistan let defeat be
snatched from the jaws of victory, or rather, Australia greatly rallied to achieve
a draw in the match. Their 139.5 overs
was the most an Australian side have faced in the fourth innings of a Test in
47 years.
It was underpinned by one of
the most heroic innings in Australian Test history, the 141 made by Usman
Khawaja. His eight hour, 44 minute
occupation of the crease was the second longest by anyone in the fourth innings
of a Test, after Michael Atherton’s marathon in Johannesburg in 1995. And he
also became the first Pakistan-born player to score a Test century against
Pakistan.
