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VOL.28 :: NO.41 :: Oct. 08 - 14, 2005
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IN August, cricket witnessed the mother of all draws in Manchester. A no-result achieved off the very last ball of the third Ashes Test match after five days of fluctuating fortunes. Held the very next month, the 76th BCCI Annual General Meeting ...
Patchy patch-up -- will it last?Chappell is his own man. As is Ganguly. The cricketing town is not big enough for both. Which is why the patch-up seems as if it's held together by chewing gum, writes S. RAM MAHESH
The week Indian cricket mournedIt's the man-management aspect that the coach and the captain have to tackle. And when they can't manage each other, how do you expect them to get the best out of other players?
Holding his head highTATENDA TAIBU has had a full life. And he's only 22. Thrown into a morass, which would have sapped the life force of many a man, Taibu despite three millstones — captaining an anemic side, batting and wicket-keeping — tied to his ...
A win amidst turmoilTHE celebrations were subdued, the grins less toothy and the struts not as pronounced. India's first series win outside the sub-continent since Kapil Dev's men whipped England in 1986 came amidst curious circumstances. Reports of a spat between ... SRI LANKA V BANGLADESH / FIRST TEST, COLOMBO One bad shot turns the tide GOING into the first Test match at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, the touring Bangladesh team's confidence was as low as it could get. It had lost the tour opener to Sri Lanka's second string team by an embarrassing margin of 10 wickets and ... SRI LANKA V BANGLADESH / SECOND TEST, COLOMBO Lanka sympathises with Bangladesh BANGLADESH'S disastrous tour of Sri Lanka came to an end with another humiliating defeat by an innings and 69 runs in the second and final Test at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo. Bangladesh lost the series 2-0. This latest defeat in the ...
The new orderTHE poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson put into the mouth of King Arthur the words "the old order changeth, yielding place to new." As it was in mythical times, so it is now, particularly in the world of cricket. Under the old order, staffing a Test tour ...
Anastasia is top of the pops after Sania no showTHE label said a lot about the content. The Sunfeast Open was an appropriate name for the $1,70,000 Women's Tennis Association tour event, which laid out the grandest treat of top quality women's tennis seen in the country till date. Kolkata, ...
Self-belief is her asset The Sunfeast Open title is a bit special to Myskina as it has helped her get back to winning rhythm.
Swedes slick on wet grassTHE conditions were not good, but Sweden, easily the better of the two teams in the Davis Cup World Group play-off tie held in New Delhi — not just because it had world No.14 Thomas Johansson and the world doubles No.1 Jonas Bjorkman in its ...
A captain too soon?HE loves the job, but the question is whether captaincy is weighing heavily on Leander Paes. Right from tackling the problem of Harsh Mankad, the topmost Indian on the ATP computer being kept in the reserves, to deciding whether to put himself ...
The court draws some flakTHE Swedes were perturbed by the unpredictable bounce and the uneven nature of the match court. Yet, it was a surprise to see them coming down strongly on the playing conditions after winning the tie. In fact, Mats Wilander and company had all ...
The Magnificent MagyarVictor Barna's remarkable record of 22 World titles speaks volumes of the great player. Not only that, he brought grace, flair and dignity to the game, which he also popularised.
Boxing lives as boxers dieLAST week, Leavander Johnson went in search of a dream in the ring only to meet his maker. He began by defending his IBF lightweight title and finished with a fatal bleeding in the brain. Next week no one will remember him, collateral damage ...
Three in four for Sony and a bang for WangSONY DWI KUNCORO of Indonesia created history in Hyderabad recently by becoming the only player to win the men's singles title of the Asian Badminton Confederation (ABC) Championship three times in four years. Kuncoro staged a remarkable comeback ...
Malay magic in KolkataWITH its bigger cousin, tennis, having already produced icons in India, squash is waking up in search of wider acceptance. After Chennai had ushered in international competition through the Super Satellite series, Kolkata became the second stop ...
A tribute to TirkeyOlympic Captain: Dilip Tirkey by K. Arumugam; Field Hockey Publications; 13/330, DDA Flats, Madangir, New Delhi 110062; Rs. 120. Saunamara. It is almost impossible to spot this hamlet in the map of India. Nestling amidst the tribal areas of ...
Fergie and the farce HISTORY repeats itself, wrote Karl Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. I cannot imagine such a thought passing through the mind of Mark Hughes, the Blackburn Rovers manager, as he recently sat at Old Trafford, watching his ...
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