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England on the brink

Author: Brandon Barker
Date: 11/06/2009

England are on the cusp of qualifying for next summer's World Cup finals after routing Andorra 6-0 at Wembley.

Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe both scored twice while Frank Lampard and Peter Crouch were also on the scoresheet as Fabio Capello's side maintained their 100 per cent winning record in the group.

England were easy winners over the group whipping boys with Glen Johnson named man of the match after claiming assists for four of the goals.

England now hold a ten-point lead over Croatia at the top of Group Six and a win over their nearest challengers when they meet at Wembley in September would see the Three Lions qualify for South Africa.

Meanwhile, the British & Irish Lions produced the most impressive performance of their tour of South Africa when they scored five tries in a 39-3 victory against the Sharks.

The tourists only led by four points at the interval but turned on the style in the second half to make it four wins out of four as they continued their build-up to next week's first Test against the Springboks.

Lee Mears, Mike Phillips, Luke Fitzgerald, Lee Byrne and Jamie Heaslip all crossed for tries, while fly-half Ronan O'Gara kicked 12 points.

India warmed up for the Super Eight stage of the ICC World Twenty20 with a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Ireland in the final round of group matches.

Both sides had already qualified from Group A before the Trent Bridge encounter, but India kept their foot on the gas after chasing down Ireland's 112-8 total from 18 overs with plenty of wickets in hand.

Elsewhere, Sri Lanka were 15-run winners over West Indies in another dead rubber encounter.

West Indies rested skipper Chris Gayle with half an eye on their forthcoming Super Eight matches and Sri Lanka took maximum advantage by reaching 192-5 inside their 20 overs.

A half-century from Dwayne Bravo kept the Windies in the hunt but they ultimately fell short after reaching 177-5.

In tennis, Andy Murray brushed aside Italy's Andreas Seppi 6-1 6-4 to begin his Aegon Championships campaign at Queen's Club in impressive fashion.

The British number one was seldom troubled as he warmed up for Wimbledon.

In the absence of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, world number three Murray has been made the sportsbook favourite to win the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event.

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