Bierhoff makes headway
Oliver Bierhoff took Germany through to the World Cup quarter-finals yesterday when his hammer header four minutes from the final whistle sealed a 2-1 victory over Mexico. The three-time champions demonstrated their resilience once again by coming back from a Luis Hernandez strike two minutes after half-time to clinch a meeting against Romania or Croatia on Saturday.

Anand survives scare
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand (1.5) of India survived a spirited offensive from Russian Peter Svidler (1.5) to draw his third game in a row in the third round of Dortmund Chess Meeting.

Rain spoils play again
Monsoon showers forced abandonment of the fourth consecutive match of the three-nation Independence Cup cricket tournament as the India-New Zealand one-dayer was called off with the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) criticising India's rejection of a plan to replay the rain-hit ties as "not in keeping with the spirit of the game".

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