Andy Roddick turns 28 on Monday, and will commemorate the occasion by playing his first-round match against Frenchman Stephane Robert on the Ashe Stadium court on Monday afternoon. Roddick, the 2003 Open champion, is the last U.S. man to capture a Grand Slam title – the longest American major championship drought in the Open era.

Roddick, seeded No. 9, remains the top American male, and in a summer in which he got knocked out of Wimbledon in the round of 16 and dealt with a mild case of mononucleosis, is rarely mentioned as a serious contender. It is fine by him.

“I don’t pay attention,” he said. “I’ve been in this position before; I’ve been in the other position before. You go out and you try to win a tennis match.”

Mazhar Majeed, the speculator or bookie said in a statement that lot of Pakistani cricketers are “just looking for money, women and food”. Majeed, arrested for alleged ‘spot-fixing’ in the England-Pakistan Test.

He said that Pakistan cricketers just hungry of money, women and food and some of them have love for the game.

The bookie who has made sensational claims of bribing Pakistani cricketers for bowling no balls in a sting operation by a British tabloid, claimed a lot of players were only bothered about money.

“You’ll find there’s only a few players who are genuine and who are actually here for the love of the game, and there’s not many believe me. A lot of them are just looking for money, women and food,” said Majeed.

“They’d put it on one side of the ball and the ball would suddenly start in-swinging,” he said.

“I give out the information the night before or morning. What’s going to happen at the end of the fourth day. But now we are not going to do any results for the next two games because we want Salman Butt to be captain long term,” Majeed added.

International cricket was on Sunday stunned by a match-fixing scandal with as many as seven top Pakistani players, including captain Salman Butt, being under the scanner for their role in ‘spot-fixing’ in the ongoing fourth Test against England at Lord’s.

In a dramatic development the Scotland Yard detectives visited the Pakistan dressing room immediately after the third day’s play to question the players after a British tabloid’s sting operation exposed the alleged nexus between players and the bookies.

“Scotland Yard detectives had visited the team hotel where they had taken statements of captain Salman Butt, fast bowlers Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir, and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal,” Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed said.

The ‘News of the World’ tabloid alleged that a Pakistani man Mazhar Majeed, who is now under arrest, had paid bribes to the players to bowl no-balls and wides in the series and the Lord’s Test.

“No players nor team officials have been arrested in relation to this incident and the fourth Test match will continue as scheduled on Sunday.

“As this is now subject to a police investigation neither ICC, ECB, PCB nor the ground authority, the MCC, will make any further comment,” an ICC statement said.

Hi..friends, the Tri-series 3rd ODI match between India and Sri Lanka has been kicked off from 2:30 PM IST today on Monday 16 August, 2010 and playing at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Rangiri, SL.

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to batting first. SL captain Kumara Sangakkara consider that in the limited overs match batting first is always best for and sometimes it is help to won the match.

Sri Lanka home ground peoples are gathered here at stadium to watch the limited overs match and shouting for Sri Lanka team to support.

India’s strike bowler Praveen Kumar and Ashish Nehra again get success and removed the three important wickets of SL in the early overs.

Praveen Kumar got two wickets including Upul Tharanga (0) and Mahela Jayawardene (4) while Ashish Nehra got the single wicket of Sangakkara on 2 runs.

To watch IND vs SL (India vs Sri Lanka) 3rd ODI live score, scorecard visit cricinfo.com and match live streaming can be watch from allcric.com. Live score is also available on Yahoo Cricket.

Today on Friday, in the second ODI of the Tri-series at Dambulla, Sri Lanka’s strike bowler Lasith Malinga and Angleo Mathews took 3 wickets each to all out New Zealand for 192 runs in 48.1 overs.

Tri-series opening match winner New Zealand today all out in small score against Sri Lanka. But, New Zealand opening batsman Bradely Watling made his fifty or 55 runs with the help of eight boundaries.

Now Sri Lanka is playing for second innings and lost it’s first wickets on 11 runs at 2.1 overs of opening batsman Tilkaratne Dilshan.

Watch NZ vs SL (New Zealand vs Sri Lanka) or SL vs NZ (Sri Lanka vs New Zealand) live score on cricinfo.com. Live streaming can be watch online from allcric.com.

In the opening match of Tri-series New Zealand win against India by 200 runs and get two bonus point.

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