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Onions and England dominate

Author: Rose Young
Date: 08/05/2009

A Graham Onions inspired England forced West Indies to follow-on on day two of the first Test at Lord's.

The hosts were eventually all out for 377 in their first innings, before skittling the tourists out for 152 and then reducing them to 39-2 in their second innings, with Onions taking a five-wicket haul on his debut.

Ravi Bopara and Graeme Swann made the Windies toil for much of the morning session, with the former eventually falling for a Test-best 143.

England remain clear favourites to win the series with online betting experts.

Elsewhere in the world of cricket, Pakistan were seven-wicket winners over Australia in their Twenty/20 encounter in Dubai.

Australia were bowled out for 108 in 19.5 overs before Kamran Akmal's unbeaten 59 guided Pakistan to a comfortable victory.

Chennai Super Kings won by 12 runs via the Duckworth/Lewis method in their Indian Premier League encounter with Chennai Super Kings.

Meanwhile, Rajasthan Royals defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in Pretoria.

Shakhtar Donetsk will face Werder Bremen in the UEFA Cup Final later this month following the second legs of the two semi-final ties.

Shakhtar were 2-1 winners over Ukrainian rivals Dynamo Kyiv as they won the tie 3-1 on aggregate.

Meanwhile, Werder overturned a 1-0 first-leg deficit to reach the Istanbul Final on the away goals rule.

Werder were 3-2 second-leg winners as they followed up their recent German Cup semi-final victory over Hamburg with another success against Martin Jol's side.

In the Football League play-offs, Bury are favourites to reach the League Two Final following their 1-0 away semi-final first leg victory over Shrewsbury Town.

An own goal by Shrews keeper Luke Daniels when he headed a chipped back-pass into the net has handed the initiative to the Shakers.

It was honours even at Spotland as the first leg between Rochdale and Gillingham ended goalless.

In Scotland, Hibernian edged out Hearts 1-0 in an Edinburgh derby at Tynecastle with Derek Riordan's second-half penalty proving decisive.

Aberdeen and Dundee United drew 1-1 at Tannadice as the race for the final European qualification place goes on.

Ben Crane is the first-round leader at the PGA Tour's lucrative Players' Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida.

The American has a two-shot lead over Germany's Alex Cejka, Sweden's Richard Johnson and compatriot John Mallinger, with world number one Tiger Woods six adrift.

On the European Tour, Northern Ireland's Gareth Maybin shot a course-record 64 to lead by three after the first round of the Italian Open.

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