March 2006 in Sports - March 11, 2006 (Saturday)

March 11, 2006 (Saturday)

• Cricket:
  • Test cricket – Sri Lankan cricket team in Bangladesh in 2005-06:
    • Sri Lanka defeats Bangladesh by ten wickets in Bogra.
    • This match was notable for Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan taking his 600th Test wicket.
• Rugby union: 2006 Six Nations Championship:
  • Wales 18 – 18 Italy
    • Italy win their first-ever Six Nations point away from home, while Wales leave the Millennium Stadium to a chorus of boos.
  • Ireland 15 – 9 Scotland
    • The last-ever Six Nations match at Lansdowne Road before the stadium is redeveloped sees an old-fashioned tryless game in pouring rain. Ireland's five penalties are scored by Ronan O'Gara, while Scotland's three penalties are scored by Chris Paterson.
• College basketball:
  • Conference championship games (winners, in bold, advance to the NCAA tournament):
    • America East: Albany 80, Vermont 67
    • Conference USA: (5) Memphis 57, (24) UAB 46
    • Atlantic 10: Xavier 62, Saint Joseph's 61
    • MEAC: Hampton 60, Delaware State 56
    • Pac-10: (13) UCLA 71, Cal 52
    • MAC: Kent State 71, Toledo 66
    • Big East: Syracuse 65, (15) Pittsburgh 61
    • SWAC: Southern 57, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 44
    • WAC: (21) Nevada 70, Utah State 63 (OT)
    • Mountain West: San Diego State 69, Wyoming 64 (OT)
    • Big West: Pacific 78, Long Beach State 70
• Alpine skiing:
  • Benjamin Raich of Austria clinch the overall World Cup with four races to go after finishing fourth in the slalom race in Shiga Kogen, Japan. Michael Walchhofer lies second, 477 points adrift. (BBC)
  • Croatian Janica Kostelić wins the slalom World Cup after a second place in the race at Levi, Finland, though with a 254-point lead before the last four races in Åre she will have to take more points before she can be certain of the overall trophy. (BBC)
• Cross country skiing:
  • Tobias Angerer of Germany clinched the overall men's World Cup title despite finishing 40th in the 50 km freestyle race in Holmenkollen, Norway, over nine minutes behind Swedish winner Anders Södergren. It is the third successive time a German wins the World Cup. [(German) (ZDF.de)