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Lion King of the jungle
Will the Big Cat from Chennai continue to roar in the IPL? While most teams wear a new look after the colourful auction in Bangalore, CSK has retained the core of the side that raised the bar for excellence last season. Over to S. Dinakar.

Cricket
IPL SNIPPETS
A ‘craze' called cricket
While the production line of monster hitters seems to be in fine nick, looking for the next young bowler here seems more and more like searching for your keys under the streetlights because it is brighter there than where you had actually dropped them, writes Raakesh Natraj.

Column
LONDON CALLING
Those glorious moments
Cricket is such a marvellous game — so much to chuckle over later, so much that bears retelling. Ted Corbett on what he thinks are his special moments in the sport.

Cricket
INTERVIEW
Rhodes has his wits intact
A man who made backward point a preserve of the fielding elite, Jonty Rhodes has a tongue-in-cheek funny side hidden up his sleeves. Arun Venugopal finds out.

Football
FEATURE
How good is England?
That facile win in Cardiff (against Wales), that draw, albeit with a weakened side, against Ghana, hardly make the current English side the finished article. Over to Brian Glanville.

Kicking Around
BRAIN GLANVILLE COLUMN
Whither Wenger?
The Gunners have been left with the Premier League alone. In quick succession they were removed from three other competitions, humiliation surely being reached at Nou Camp in the Champions League when Barcelona simply extinguished them.


PSA KOLKATA INTERNATIONAL
Whirling Darwish
The Egyptian, currently ranked No. 3 in the world, does justice to his reputation by winning the $35,000 PSA tournament at the Calcutta Racquet Club. Amitabha Das Sharma reports.

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