Events in sports 31 January 2005 (Monday) Cricket: Bangladesh (202 for 2) beat Zimbabwe (198) by eight wickets in the fifth One Day International at Dhaka to win the 5-match series 3–2. (BBC) Formula One: The WilliamsF1 team launch their 2005 car at Valencia. They also announce that Nick Heidfeld is to partner Mark Webber in a race seat for the season. (BBC) Football: The German Football Association (DFB) has appointed a special commission to investigate the ongoing match fixing scandal. It reported that the results of nine matches have been appealed. The German tabloid Bild published the names of three referees and nine players allegedly implicated by admitted fixer Robert Hoyzer. Also, a Munich sports book revealed that it had notified the DFB in August 2004 of unusually heavy betting on two matches worked by Hoyzer. (Reuters/Yahoo!) 30 January 2005 (Sunday) Football: Match fixing scandal in Germany: Two of the men arrested in Berlin on 28 January have reportedly implicated three Hertha Berlin players in the scheme. The players are alleged to have worked with the arrested men to fix a September 2004 German Cup tie between Hertha and Eintracht Braunschweig, which Braunschweig won 3–2 with the aid of an own goal by one of the accused players. (AP/Yahoo!) Regional league side Paderborn informed the German Football Association that one of its players had accepted money from an unidentified man before the team's German Cup tie with Hamburger SV in August 2004. The referee in this match, Robert Hoyzer, has already admitted to fixing matches. (AP/Yahoo!) Cricket: England (103 for 3) beat South Africa (175 for 9) by 26 runs (D/L method) in the first One Day International at Johannesburg. (BBC) 29 January 2005 (Saturday) Boxing: Nelson Dieppa retains his WBO world Strawweight championship with an eleventh-round knockout of former world champion Alex Sánchez.(El Vocero, in Spanish) Arturo Gatti beats Jesse James Leija by a fifth-round knockout.(Boxingtimes) Football: Chelsea Football Club posts the largest annual loss in British football history for the 2003–2004 accounts — £87.8 million (US$166 million, €127 million). This is not a matter of particular concern as the club is bankrolled by its Russian billionaire chairman, Roman Abramovich. Chief Executive Peter Kenyon said that the club intends to break even by financial year 2009–2010. (BBC) Cricket: Bangladesh (247 for 9) beat Zimbabwe (188) by 59 runs to win the fourth One-Day International at Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Cricinfo)