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AFP Sports Agenda for Friday, March 5 (all times GMT): + India look to build lead over England in 4th Test + Australia bid to keep T20 series v New Zealand alive + European indoor athletics underway + Williams F1 launch + Second round of PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational CRICKET -- India resume on 24-1 in reply to England's first-innings 205 all out on the second day of the fourth and final Test in Ahmedabad, with the hosts only needing to avoid defeat to win the series and qualify for the World Test Championship final (0400). Coverage by Faisal Kamal. Picture (CRICKET-IND-ENG) -- Australia face New Zealand in the fourth T20 international in Wellington, with the tourists trailing in the five-match series 2-1 (0600). Picture (CRICKET-NZL-AUS) -- West Indies face Sri Lanka in the second T20 international in Antigua, after the home captain Kieron Pollard hit six sixes in an over in their opening win (2200). Picture (CRICKET-WIS-SRI) FOOTBALL -- German Bundesliga: Schalke v Mainz (1930) (FBL-GER-BUNDESLIGA) -- Spanish La Liga: Valencia v Villarreal (2000) (FBL-ESP-LIGA) -- CAF Champions League Group B: CR Belouizdad v Hilal (1900) (FBL-AFR-C1) -- English Championship: Huddersfield v Cardiff (1945) (FBL-ENG) -- French Cup last 32 (FBL-FRA-CUP) TENNIS -- Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas faces Russia's Karen Khachanov in the Rotterdam quarter-finals, with Andrey Rublev also in last-eight action. Picture (TENNIS-ATP-NED) -- ATP also at Buenos Aires (TENNIS-ATP-ARG) -- Former world number ones Victoria Azarenka and Garbine Muguruza clash for a place in the WTA Qatar Open final in Doha (TENNIS-WTA-QAT) -- WTA at Lyon Open (TENNIS-WTA-FRA) GOLF -- Second round of the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Florida (GOLF-USPGA) -- LPGA Tour event at Ocala, Florida (GOLF-LPGA) RUGBY UNION -- French Top 14: Montpellier v Clermont (1945). Picture (RUGBYU-FRA-TOP14) -- Super Rugby: Chiefs v Highlanders (0605), Waratahs v Western Force (0845). Picture (RUGBYU-SUPER) -- English Premiership: Leicester v London Irish (1945), Sale v Newcastle (2000) (RUGBYU-ENG-PR) -- Pro14: Munster v Connacht (1935) (RUGBYU-PRO14) ATHLETICS -- Opening day of the European indoor championships in Torun, Poland. Picture (ATHLETICS-EUR-INDOOR-POL) ALPINE SKIING -- Men's World Cup downhill race at Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. Picture (SKI-WORLD-MEN-AUT) FORMULA ONE -- Williams launch their car for the 2021 world championship (AUTO-PRIX-WILLIAMS) afp
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