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VOL.26 :: NO.48 :: Nov. 29 - Dec. 05, 2003
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INDIA's successful bid to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi has triggered extreme reactions.
Programmed to winOne of the reasons for Australia doing well consistently is the leadership. Steve Waugh in the Tests and Ponting in limited overs cricket command total respect from the team. And they lead by example, writes VIJAY LOKAPALLY.
Panning out as per the Aussie plan THEY came in hordes, only to watch their heroes capitulate after promising much. INDIA V AUSTRALIA 
A promising all-rounderHE had no pretensions when he came on the tour to India. Michael Clarke told himself that he was on a tour to educate himself, but at the end of the series he has emerged as one of the prime candidates to keep aloft the Australian cricketing ... INDIA V AUSTRALIA 
The bulwark of Indian battingWHAT would Indian cricket be without Sachin Tendulkar? Hard to imagine this team performing without the sevices of Tendulkar in any form of cricket. The consistency level achieved by Tendulkar would be hard to match. There are signs of his ...
A runaway victory for the home team It was a shoot-out in Hyderabad, and the Indians came out with all their guns blazing. INDIA V NEW ZELAND Sehwag simply explodes It was on a rather eventful day at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo during 2001 that Virender Sehwag gave us the first real indication that he would be such an explosive opener in limited overs cricket. The league stage of the ...
Some glaring omissionsTHE selection of the Indian Test squad to Australia does not satisfy me at all. I am sure there would be a lot of others who would be feeling the same way. The fact that the selectors took over two hours to agree on the final 16 from the 20 ...
A daunting task aheadIn a manufactured world, India will beat Australia in the Test series. In a debate where one side must oppose the motion, there might be arguments put forth in India's favour as well.
Now who shall deny that Ravi Shastri did a super STAR job as Wilko's BEST OF THE DAY nighter?
When David "Bumble" Lloyd was England coach his wild, wild Press conferences were always worth attending.
An absorbing seriesIT is interesting how both the West Indies and Zimbabwe credit their improvement — resurgence in the former's case — as Test nations to their recent series against Australia.
Andrew Flintoff hogs the show ENGLAND, predictably, won the one-day series 3-0 and completed a double whitewash as it had beaten Bangladesh 2-0 in the preceding two-Test series.
The Cutting Edge does cut deep He loved the sniff of the battle and the whiff of a conquest. 
Down memory laneIt was a dream meeting. The sons of India's first pair of fast bowlers, Mahomed Nissar and Amarsinh Ladha, had a chance meeting at the Cricket Club of India (CCI) on October 18. Can we afford these Games? THE awarding of the Commonwealth Games to Delhi in 2010 has no doubt elicited much cheering.
Federer in sublime form ROGER FEDERER showed no mercy as he demolished Andre Agassi 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 in the Tennis Masters Cup final at Houston. WTA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP 
Clijsters retains crownSHE may have lost her No. 1 ranking, but no one was going to take away the Bank of America WTA Tour Championships, presented by Porsche, from the grasp of Kim Clijsters. 
JUICY QUOTES -- PAUL FEINI have another idea of standards. I don't even tell my best friends what my last girlfriend was like in bed so I'm certainly not going to do it in public. — Boris Becker, insisting that his book is not like other celebrity ...
Indians should improve their all-round skillsChina is undoubtedly one of the super powers in badminton. The Chinese coaches are regarded with awe and there is also a perception that Chinese don't easily part with their knowledge and they have some secret formula for producing champions.
Lauda back again in airline businessThree-time Formula One champion Niki Lauda said he was getting back into the discount airline business, buying a majority stake in the Austrian arm of bankrupt German charter carrier Aero Lloyd. Lauda, who launched an eponymous charter airline in ... Ronaldo and his wife to separate Real Madrid's Brazilian star Ronaldo and his wife Milene Domingues are in the process of divorcing. Ronaldo's spokesman Rodrigo Paiva said, "The relationship between the two has deteriorated for some time." Paiva said that although the couple ... Vieri's love for cricket is immense His love for cricket is immense. So much so that given an opportunity Inter Milan's feared striker Christian Vieri does not mind giving up football for his favourite sport. His passion for the game even led the Italian international to spend a ... Fioravanti fails fitness test Italy's double Olympic gold medallist swimmer Domenico Fioravanti is temporarily out of competition after failing a fitness test, throwing his participation in next year's Olympics into doubt. The Italian Swimming Federation said that ... 
Mashrafe Mortaza to undergo knee surgeryBangladesh's main strike bowler Mashrafe Mortaza will undergo knee surgery, keeping him out of the game for at least eight months, after suffering an injury during the second Test against England recently. The 20-year-old grabbed a career-best ... Rie Mastenbroek is dead Dutch swimmer Rie Mastenbroek, the first woman to win four medals during one Olympic Games, has died aged 84 in her home town of Rotterdam, the ANP news agency reported. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Mastenbroek, who was only seventeen, ...
Rene Zimmermann was adjudged Mr. Universe 2003 at the 57th World men's bodybuilding championship held at the Brabourne Stadium, Cricket Club of India.
Tamil Nadu has a field dayTHE squash scene has never looked this healthy at the National level. From what used to be in the main just a National without the throng of competitors, the National sub-junior and junior squash championship held at the now familiar TNSRA-SDAT ... TRIPUNITHURA 
Maiden title for Southern RailwayA little more than a decade ago, this writer, virtually new to Tripunithura and its long cricket tradition, had to leap over a small gap in the compound wall to get into the Palace Oval for the Pooja all-India cricket ... KOLENCHERRY 
Manohar, Rupinder triumphSTRANGE, really. Despite winning their maiden all-India inter-university cross country titles at Kolencherry the other day, the two new champions kept slipping away after each question from the media. Clearly, Kumaun University's Manohar Singh ... NEW DELHI 
IOB, Chennai men and W. Rly. women bag titlesWINNING may have become a healthy habit with the basketball team of the Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai. It may have maintained an unbeaten record in every single match it has played since March 2001, but it is a challenge every time it gets on ...
Juan Pablo MontoyaJuan Pablo Montoya is moving from BMW Williams to McLaren Mercedes for the 2005 Formula One season, giving McLaren a driver lineup to rival Ferrari. Montoya, 28, is likely to team up at McLaren with Kimi Raikkonen, 24, who finished just two ... 
Bob CarmichaelBob Carmichael, a former tennis player and coach of Pat Rafter and Indian doubles specialist Leander Paes, died on November 18 at the age of 63. Carmichael, a former carpenter and boxer, started his tennis career in the early 1960s and later ... Hanif Khan Former Pakistan hockey coach Hanif Khan advised the current officials of the national team to stop experimenting with the players if they are to improve Pakistan's chances of reaching the Olympic Games' victory stand in Athens next year, said a ...
Atwal has the last laugh IT was just the kind of finish one expects on the final day of a premier golf event. TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP 
Easy run for Chad CampbellChad Campbell turned the Tour Championship into a runaway. The voting for the PGA Tour Player of the Year, however, will be closer than it has been in years. Capturing his first Tour victory in a big way, Campbell won by three strokes in the ...
Salgaocar is the championIF you are the best, better be prepared to take the load. It is another matter that eventually you may end up carrying only the load, and not the trophy!
Precious playmakers BLESSED are the playmakers. Or are they? Call them what you wish; schemers, midfield generals, registi or directors, in the Italian word. |
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