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VOL.28 :: NO.31 :: Jul. 30 - Aug. 05, 2005
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.28 :: NO.31 :: Jul. 30 - Aug. 05, 2005 |
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Forging a new allianceWhile it is premature for obituary writers to pull out their pens on the Ganguly era, the new Dravid-Chappell alliance, albeit just for the one series, promises great things, writes S. RAM MAHESH.
Focus is back on all-roundersThe amendments made to One-Day rules have lent a new dimension to limited overs cricket. The introduction of the Super Substitute means all-rounders have a more vital role to play. COLOMBO TEST Sri Lanka gets more than a scare SRI LANKA'S first Test of the season against the touring West Indies was significant not only because the hosts were playing their 150th game, but for a few other reasons too. This was the first important game after the Tsunami disaster. Even the ... SRI LANKAN CRICKET 
Marching ahead, majesticallySINCE gaining status as a full member of the ICC in 1981, Sri Lanka became the eighth country to have played its 150th Test match — against the touring West Indies at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo last fortnight. Over the past ... 
Jason Dasey will be missedHOW saddening was the evening of Friday, July 15, 2005 for sport in India! For our cricket especially. For that Friday was the last evening during which we were compulsive witness to Jason Dasey as the Sportscenter of attention. A bombshell did ...
The Flying Sikh's exploitsMILKHA SINGH ranks as one of the greatest Indian sportspersons of all time. But his story is more than just about his sterling exploits on the track, culminating in the 1960 Rome Olympics where he missed a medal by a whisker in the 400 metres. ...
A puzzling decreeJULY 11. Andrew Symonds is man of the series in the NatWest one-day tournament and with plenty of justification. He turns a bad start — remember his night on the town and suspension — into two good batting performances, a record ...
Jack and Tiger: a question of legacyJACK NICKLAUS defined golf, embodied it, graced it. As a boy, it's all Tiger Woods wanted to be, maybe not just Nicklaus either, but better. As a man, not everyone is sure he is on his way there. Nicklaus' 18 major championship victories has ...
Umpires divert attention from ArgentinaIT is not easy to reflect on the seventh Junior Hockey World Cup at Rotterdam without a sense of anguish. This is not because India failed to win a medal; but for the manner in which the team was forced to forego what could have been a bronze ... NATIONAL WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP 
A walkout, and a manufactured resultRAILWAYS had much to offer, but Haryana turned far too mean. Adding arrogance to their skills, Haryana forced a farce on the 53rd National Women's Hockey Championship in New Delhi. Historically, there is no instance to support what the ...
Ideas to make it creativeTHE recommendations of the experts in the ICC's cricket committee to make one-day cricket more unpredictable and interesting seem to have been accepted even by the connoisseurs of the game. Now that the concept of pyjama cricket has been ...
ON MISSION FUTURE"DO you mind if we talk after I am through with the morning practice?" asks a polite Mahesh Bhupathi, when an interview was sought. For Mahesh practice precedes everything and barring heavy rain, nothing can stop him from his daily routine of an ... SOURAV GANGULY 
The wheel of fortune will start changing from Sri LankaYeah. I know that. I'm a big fan of Ronaldo and Brazil. The way Brazil won the Confederations Cup is simply brilliant. I watched the action on television. I also watched the French Open and Wimbledon regularly. I wanted to go to Roland Garros ...
The summer merry go round AT the very time Jose Mourinho was telling poor put upon Joe Cole in the Chelsea Magazine that he would have to contest his place with the gifted international wingers Arjen Robben and Damien Duff, Chelsea were preparing to buy the ...
THE times, they are a changing. Half a century ago, Neville Cardus celebrated cricket as "the background music to an English summer." Today, with the summer leisure industry having turned global and churning out competing pursuits for the young, ...
1. The last of the Indian Test cricketers to have played before WW II passed away recently. Name him. 2. Many would have seen a lot of honking at the Tour de France. What is it? 3. At which American club did Pele and Franz Beckenbauer play ...
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