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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014 SPORTS Mura wins Skate Canada Australia beat England Cricket great almost quit KELOWNA: Japan’s Takahito Mura won the Skate Canada International men’s title 16-12 in 4 Nations Champs NEW DELHI: Cricket great Sachin Tendulkar considered early retirement Saturday, landing two quadruple jumps and finishing with 255.81 points. Mura was after a string of losses while India’s captain, according to excerpts from the in tears and buried his head in a towel after his marks went up. “I was a little bit sur- MELBOURNE: Australia denied England a potentially match-winning try record-holding batsman’s upcoming autobiography. prised how well I was able to do, until now I was lacking a bit of confidence,” Mura in the final minute for a 16-12 win in rugby league’s Four Nations “I hated losing and as captain of the team I felt responsible for the string said through an interpreter. “While I was skating, I was thinking, ‘I’m doing really Championship yesterday, keeping alive its title defense. of miserable performances. More worryingly, I did not know how I could great. Very comfortable.’” Spain’s Javier Fernandez, the leader after the short program, Center Ryan Hall, who had already scored one of the two tries that turn it around, as I was already trying my absolute best,” Tendulkar wrote in dropped to second with 244.87 points. He had trouble on his three quad attempts, gave England a 12-4 halftime lead, hurled himself at a ball over the extracts of the book “Playing It My Way,” published by the Press Trust of falling on one of them.
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