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VOL.28 :: NO.42 :: Oct. 15 - 21, 2005
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THE Greg Chappell-Sourav Ganguly spat may have been "resolved" according to the politicalspeak of the special review committee set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). But, much more will certainly be written over the years ...
Turning the clock backAgassi's performance at the US Open speaks eloquently for his fitness, and even more his mental resilience. In a way it is also an indictment of the younger men who fell by the court-side, slugging it out against each other, writes VIJAY PARTHASARATHY
`Sweden pioneered modern tennis' HE WAS the last player to win three Grand Slam singles titles in the same year (1988) before Roger Federer accomplished the task last year. Mats Wilander continued from where another Swedish legend, Bjorn Borg, had left, and won seven Grand Slam ... Wilander on his contemporaries Bjorn Borg: He is the first player we should all thank, because he was the one who revolutionised tennis. He became an icon. He was a quiet man. To us he was more than a tennis player, which is why we forget Rod Laver. When you talk of ... Eyes firmly set on history `Apart from talent, you also need to build up a good understanding with your partner. Doubles being a team game, striking a good understanding is vital.'
Gilchrist calls the shots ADAM GILCHRIST scored Australia's fastest limited overs century to help his country wrap up its one-day series against the World XI with a 55-run victory in Melbourne. The host made 328 for four and the World XI, despite some belligerent ... ICC SUPER SERIES ODI — I Putting the past behind AUSTRALIA rebounded from last month's 2-1 Ashes series defeat to England with a 93-run win over the World XI in the first of three limited-overs internationals. Shane Watson took three wickets and made a crucial run-out as Australia — ...
THE World may have been in their backyard, but Australians early on were not overly impressed. Bowled Vettori, caught Lara. Ho hum. Sehwag and Pietersen running for the same ball. Big deal. Teams own particular styles, reflect distinctive ...
Have things changed at all?BEFORE the Irani Cup game there was hardly any sign that the Karnail Singh Stadium was going to stage an important match. Irani is a big game, it is just one notch below Test. But if this match was taken seriously there wasn't much evidence ...
Some TV fillip to Indian cricket!IT verily looked to be a point in Indian cricket history when Michael Ferreira had real reason to celebrate. Seeing Team India disintegrating even as Sania Mirza zoomingly joined Parveen Babi on the Time magazine cover. The TRPs for ...
So much money, but meagre margins ON the same recent Sunday, Arsenal squeezed through to a sadly meagre 1-0 win at home to 10-man Birmingham City, but Chelsea at Anfield thrashed Liverpool 4-1. Just four days after being somewhat fortunate to draw a European Cup tie there 0-0. ...
Landing a new punchINDIAN boxing has been riding high after an excellent show by the country's pugilists in the Commonwealth Championship. As a result, the recently held 52nd National Senior Men's Championship, hosted by the Tamil Nadu State Amateur Boxing ... 
Ringside vignettesTHE 52nd National Championship saw many unusual things. There was a spurt in entries and one could see more boxers from the North Eastern States and Sikkim. In any Nationals, one does not get to see participants from the North Eastern States ...
Randhawa's class actFOR a man who is making hundreds of thousands of dollars playing golf abroad, the prize money in the Hero Honda Open South, staged at the Karnataka Golf Association course in Bangalore, would have been just pin money. But Jyoti Randhawa is not ...
The timeless matchNEARLY three-quarters of a century later and the 1932-33 England tour of Australia — forever dubbed `Bodyline' — still ranks as one of the most contentious and talked about series in the history of cricket. The form of bowling was ...
A worthy possessionThe A To Z of Sachin Tendulkar. By Gulu Ezekiel, UBS Publishers' Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 150 pages, Rs. 195. GREAT players have so much written about them and yet, there is so much more to write about them. The fact that Gulu ...
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