April 2005 in Sports - 24 April 2005

24 April 2005

• 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup:
  • Kenya (32pts) beat Uganda (15pts) by 168 runs in Kampala
• 2005 English cricket season:
  • National League Division One in 2005:
    • Gloucestershire (4pts) beat Northamptonshire (0pts) by 9 runs
    • Middlesex (4pts) beat Lancashire (0pts) by 69 runs
  • National League Division Two in 2005:
    • Durham (4pts) beat Surrey (0pts) by 138 runs
    • Kent (4pts) beat Leicestershire (0pts) by 6 runs (D/L method)
    • Sussex (4pts) beat Derbyshire (0pts) by 2 runs (D/L method)
    • Yorkshire (4pts) beat Somerset (0pts) by 5 wickets
• Basketball: Defending champions Guangdong Southern Tigers defeat Jiangsu Dragons in the fifth and final match of the best-of-five Chinese Basketball Association finals, winning the finals 3 games to 2. Guangdong had a 42-point fourth quarter, overcoming a 14-point deficit in the early minutes of that quarter to win the final match by eight points, 107–99.
• Rugby union, Heineken Cup semifinal: Leicester Tigers 19, Toulouse 27 at Walkers Stadium, Leicester. Toulouse will face fellow French side Stade Français in the final on 22 May at Murrayfield, Edinburgh. (BBC)
• Formula One: Fernando Alonso wins a dramatic San Marino Grand Prix, beating Michael Schumacher by just 0.215 seconds. It is the closest finish in Formula One (not involving teammates) since 1992. (Formula1.com)