From the publishers of THE HINDU
VOL.28 :: NO.30 :: Jul. 23 - 29, 2005
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.28 :: NO.30 :: Jul. 23 - 29, 2005 |
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Friends and foes POSSIBLY the most overdue book in sport arrived on bookshelves this month and it is a sweet read worth the long wait. Johnette Howard's The Rivals is an enchanting, erudite dissection of the most beautiful rivalry sport has been ...
Below par, to say the leastONE National record and three new meet marks do not augur well in a major meet, which is in the midst of a busy season and just ahead of the World championships at Helsinki. But that was all what the MetLife sponsored 45th edition of the National ...
Fitness is the KEYDIE-HARD fans clinging onto trees and craning their necks past a high wall parallel to the leafy Cubbon Road in Bangalore is fast becoming an annual vignette in June and July. For the fans it is a heady sight past the wall as the Indian ...
Gearing up for the big fight Ricky Ponting is inexperienced. He is not as aggressive or knowledgeable as Steve Waugh and this could weigh heavily against him. England, led by Michael Vaughan, can upstage the Australians, writes TED CORBETT.
Australia has fate and luck on its sideWHAT happened to England in the 72 hours between their easy victory in the first NatWest Challenge match and the second which Australia won just as easily and the third, another 48 hours on, which Australia won with 15 overs to spare? Frankly, it ...
Will the station's interest continue?JULY 4. The radio station talkSPORT is sold to Ulster Television and there is doubt about whether this organisation, based in Belfast, will continue the station's interest in cricket. It has its highest listening figures last winter during the ...
A qualitative decline in the countryIS spin taking a back-seat in the land of spin? Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh form international cricket's most potent spin combination, but scratch the surface and we are left with more questions than answers. India does have Murali Kartik, ...
The Tendulkar conundrumIT HAS been 16 years since he burst onto our collective consciousness as a curly-haired boy wonder who took on the might of Pakistan's lethal pace attack. During this period, Sachin Tendulkar has borne the nation's high expectations. A creator ...
Of the very first grand matchBeginning this week, we will be featuring a new fortnightly column on the Great Test Matches in the history of cricket. We kick off with the very first played in Melbourne in March 1877.
Going out of fashionTO yesterday's cricketers county cricket was a big thing, securing a contract was itself a colossal triumph. Those days not many got an opportunity to travel abroad to play and if success was achieved, however moderate, on the circuit it was ...
It's tough even without KasparovKasparov's exit has not made life easier for Viswanathan Anand. His rivalry with Veselin Topalov is getting really intense, writes VIJAY PARTHASARATHY
Teams can fly high with wingersTWICE in his commentaries on the recent Confederations Cup finals in Germany did Steve Claridge, new manager of the Millwall team for which he played so well in his late 30s, wondered why Brazil went without wingers; thus in his own words ...
Grunting has added a new dimension to tennis, especially when women players are involved. This was very much in evidence in the match between Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon. Intending it as a psychological weapon to intimidate ...
The harm of excessive pad playTHE conditions and pitches in India make the contests spin oriented and one of the options youngsters resort to is using their pads to counter them. It is understandable if pad play is used on a rank turning track as a ploy to frustrate the ... |
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