VOL.28 :: NO.53 :: Dec. 31 - Jan. 06, 2005
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.28 :: NO.53 :: Dec. 31 - Jan. 06, 2005
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The triumphs & tragediesNo athlete perhaps lifted the mood or dazzled the senses more in 2005 than Ronaldinho , whose feet own an intelligence that qualifies them for a footballing Mensa.
In the big league Sania Mirza won one title from two finals in 2005. She is expected to win a few more in 2006 if everything goes well. STAR OF THE YEAR/SANIA MIRZA The sequence — 2005 As a wild card, makes a good debut at the Australian Open. She becomes the first Indian woman to reach the third round of a Grand Slam event. In the third round, she goes down fighting to No. 7 seed and eventual champion Serena Williams. The ...
Eventful 2005 The passion that rose during the Ashes and the maturity shown by the spectators during the India-Pakistan series also went a long way in confirming the popularity of the longer version of the game.
Brave new IndiaThe advent of newcomers meant there was pressure on the Indian seniors to perform. If some complacency had crept in, it had to be shrugged away fast. Dravid and Chappell kept the seniors on their toes.
Federer is stoppable after all!If Roger Federer wasn't toppled, he was certainly compelled to scrap over his gilded throne; and what an engrossing scrap it proved.
The best last year are the best againThere was no stopping Isinbayeva, just as there seemed to be no limits for Bubka in his time. And there looked no barriers were insurmountable for Kenenisa Bekele as it used to be for another Ethiopian, Haile Gebrselassie.
African revolution surprises the world Going by the World Cup Qualifiers, Germany 2006 could usher in a new array of stars and perhaps a fresh power equation.
Vibrant growthAs the dynamic FIH President Els Van Breda Vriesman put it in perspective, 2005 was significant for development in more ways than one.
Several eventful happenings Through the year, Topalov's rise was meteoric, Anand remained consistent, but Kramnik slipped in the rankings.
Split wide open in Zimbabwe The year 2005 had its share of controversies with the Ganguly-Chappell spat taking the centre stage.
Challenging Brazil — but who? NOW that the draw for the 2006 World Cup finals has been made — and please don't ask me by what perverse alchemy England were rated number two — I still can see nobody to beat Brazil. In their Group F, only Croatia looks likely to ...
Skill quotient THE trickiest part of filling in football pools, is picking the away-winning sides. And in the past half a dozen years, the Indian Test XI have found it just as hard to win at foreign venues, as I have to put my crosses in the squares which would ...
Sharad Pawar has his job cut outSharad Pawar solved a lot of cricketing problems in Mumbai by appointing a Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC). One expects him to appoint a similar committee now in the BCCI, which can make the Indian selection system more meaningful.
Lanka spun, drawn and quarteredINDIA played smart cricket and outplayed Sri Lanka to win the Videocon Test series by a handsome margin on a not-so-pit-like-pitch at the Motera Stadium.
Leg-spin is not just about the four stock deliveriesANIL KUMBLE became the fifth Indian and the 34th cricketer in the history of the game to earn the 100th Test cap. On the eve of the third Videocon Test in Ahmedabad against Sri Lanka (his 100th), Kumble spoke to G. VISWANATH and S. RAM MAHESH ...
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