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VOL.27 :: NO.04 :: Jan 17 - 23, 2004
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STEVE WAUGH has his undoubted place among cricket's all-time greats. Not just for the mountain of runs he scored in both forms of the game, or for his astonishing stint as Australia's captain, or for figuring in the most number of Tests by any player, but for the qualities with which he enriched the game.
A rugged nation is moved by its rugged captainSteve Waugh has been around so long that one cannot think of cricket without him. He has been building his legend gradually before our eyes. Once a dasher with the bat, then altering his game, morphing into a grafter, then again, at the very end of his career, throwing his bat at anything in hitting distance. His batting was not always compelling, but his stubborn nature, his honed survival instincts, his narrow-eyed look during battle, that was riveting, writes ROHIT BRIJNATH.
TO understand Steve Waugh you have to understand the life and times of all Australians.
Some Waugh specialsTHE red rag that he sported so proudly in his left hip pocket was symbolic of his courage. This man would spill his blood for the Baggy Green cap on the cricket field.
The Indian connectionWHEN Stephen Waugh was appointed Australia's Tourism Ambassador to India last September, the Minister for Small Business & Tourism, Mr. Joe Hockey, noted, "Cricket is a top sport in India and Steve has achieved celebrity status in this country. He is recognised there for both his sporting prowess and his compassion and active work for charities."
FOR once the Iceman melted, and smiled, and then took a brisk step towards Sachin Tendulkar to shake his hand with genuine warmth.
The man understood his playersSTEVE WAUGH has been a great player, one of the best produced by Australia. He deserves all the praise he is getting but I wonder whether all the adulation and elevation to near sainthood rests easily on his shoulders.
Steve bares his heart in Sydney MARK WAUGH got it right about Steve Waugh, so did Rahul Dravid; one had grown up and shared clothes with him.
THERE is an interesting tale behind Stephen Rodger Waugh's great Indian connection — Udayan.
Australia on top after round twoAUSTRALIAN cricket moved forward swiftly in a new direction immediately after the conclusion of an action-packed and engrossing Test series in which the Indian batsmen left their mark.
Australian team on the wane?NOW comes the true test of Australian greatness. Can this extraordinary team, given the mauling their attack was subjected to in Sydney, regather their strength, rise again and turn on more match-winning performances?
Talent has to be used wiselyWELL done, India! You came to this country with a reputation for frailty and will leave the country with the respect of the Australian Cricket Team and the admiration of the Australian people.
It's been a successful campaign INDIA'S Test series against Australia was a successful campaign. It may not have won the series but there's no question that the Indians dominated it.
Does money take a heavy toll of players?In the second part of his probe into the threat to the integrity of cricket, TED CORBETT deals with the influence of the money men on the way the international game is played in the 21st century.
Marion Jones will be back in actionPREGNANCY prevented Marion Jones competing at all in 2003. But the Olympic champion is to return to competitive action for the first time since becoming a mother. But her agent Charlie Wells has denied a report that she will compete at the ... 
I don't think I was being unprofessional — BowdenNEW ZEALAND cricket umpire Brent Bowden has denied claims that his exuberant behaviour at the end of Steve Waugh's farewell Test in Sydney was unprofessional. Bowden, who stood in the Test between India and Australia — the last of Waugh's ... 
Ganguly happy with current one-day formatINDIAN captain Sourav Ganguly has come out strongly in support of the existing one-day format and said it was serving the game fine. "I believe one-day cricket is doing just fine and there is no reason why it should be tampered with," said ... SASF meeting in Islamabad INDIAN Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadi will head the seven-memeber delegation which will attend the South Asian Sports Federation (SASF) meeting to be held in Islamabad on January 31. The Indian delegation will be the largest one ... Plea for Kapil-Imran Trophy CRICKET Dronacharya Desh Prem Azad has urged Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya to introduce `Kapil-Imran Trophy' for the coming long-awaited India-Pakistan cricket series on the pattern of Gavaskar-Border ...
What price the premiership? WHAT price the Premiership? What price B Sky B, for that matter. And what price the billionaire patron of Chelsea, Roman Abramovich?
Owen likely to stay with LiverpoolMICHAEL OWEN has hinted that he will be ready to sign a new contract with Liverpool later this season. The England striker, whose future has been subject of intense speculation, made his comeback from injury in the Reds' recent 1-0 win over ... 
UEFA chief back in action after surgeryUEFA president Lennart Johansson has revealed that he missed the Euro 2004 draw in November 2003 because he had a surgery for colon cancer. "Now I feel fine. I have been resting and now I'm up and running again," Johansson, 74, told The ... Real Madrid's form dips REAL MADRID's form has dipped noticeably since the turn of the year but England midfielder David Beckham believes the club are still on course for a domestic and European treble. Real lost the league leadership at the halfway mark in the season ... 
Ronaldo denies speculationRONALDO has dismissed speculation that he met representatives from Chelsea on a flying visit to London recently and said he did not expect to be disciplined by Real Madrid for missing a day's training. "It's totally false that I had dinner in ... 
Trying time for Kevin KeeganFORMER England Manager, Kevin Keegan has been given a £1.25-million transfer kitty to drag Manchester City out of their current crisis. Keegan watched his side collapse against Portsmouth recently. If that was not bad enough, first-choice `keeper ...
ONE of Aarthie Ramaswamy's prized possessions is an old clipping from The Hindu. It's a small single column news, headlined `Arthi stuns Ramesh.'
How big a match-winner is Sachin Tendulkar?WHENEVER Sachin Tendulkar wields the willow, the nation freezes. Considering this fact, the debate whether he is a watch-winner or not seems to be redundant. He may not be a Viv Richards but that is because two of his fine innings — 241 not ...
K. M. BeenamolWith good fortunes coming in the New Year, in the form of a promotion as Officer on Special duty with Southern Railway, K. M. Beenamol is determined to cash in on that inspired start with a creditable performance in the Athens Olympics in August. ... 
Andre AgassiEIGHT times Grand Slam winner, Andre Agassi says tennis is a front-runner in the fight against drugs in sport and that he had been tested 13 times in the past 12 months. The reigning Australian Open champion said. "One of the things we can say is ... 
Alain BaxterALAIN BAXTER is the man who won and lost an Olympic medal in skiing. Nearly two years after he plunged from glory to despair faster than a downhill run, the life of Britain's most successful skier is still defined by a simple relative clause. ... 
Carol OwensWOMEN's squash number one Carol Owens has quit the professional game weeks after winning the World Open for the second time. Australian-born Owens, 32, has left open the possibility she may still play for New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth ...
In the teeth of a new stormWITH exquisitely painful timing, the Greg Rusedski drug revelations came at just the moment British tennis was trying desperately to pull up its white socks.
LENNY PAUL, the British bobsleigher, blamed the mince in his spaghetti bolognese for his failed nandrolone test. Dieter Baumann, the German runner, said his toothpaste had been contaminated. And an unnnamed British boxer insisted that he had ...
Time to clean up tennisJohn McEnroe has called for the governing body of the men's game to put its house in order and impose the sternest possible penalties against offenders, whether it be for illegal betting or drug-taking, adding: "Surely it's time now for tennis to have its own commissioner.''
Girls take the centre-stageTHERE was a buzz in the hall and an air of expectancy during the competition in the girls' section at the V.K.Krishna Menon indoor stadium where the National junior and sub-junior weightlifting championships were held.
Rusedski seeks compensationTHE Association of Tennis Professionals could be hit by a costly compensation claim in the American courts if the independent tribunal which will hear Greg Rusedski's case on February 9 rules that the British No. 2 is innocent of any doping offence.
Overage issue overshadows performanceIT is a scourge, which has haunted Indian sport for a long time now. And as such, it never came as a surprise when the participation of overaged athletes completely overshadowed the string of fine performances that were witnessed in the 19th junior National athletics meet in Kollam recently.
Titles for Rupesh & SanaaIT was a good idea. The timing was not so good. To have the best eight junior players compete on a league cum knock-out basis, to spot the champion of the year, was a good attempt to imitate what is being practised on the professional tours of the ATP and WTA.
WHEN Parthiv Patel needled Steve Waugh with the line, "one of your famous slog-sweeps before you finish" at Sydney, the senior statesman told him to "show a little respect" because Parthiv had been in his nappies when Waugh made his ...
MIKE Weir stepped into the sunshine, dropped three balls onto the putting green and rapped them toward a hole some 40 feet away.
GREG RUSEDSKI claimed that 44 leading tennis players had tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone and he was the only one facing a two-year ban. The British No. 2 said he would fight the case "to the bitter end.'' In a statement ...
Can Vijay Singh keep it up?AGE is just a number for the 40-year-old Fijian, especially for someone so fit — and hungry. Even so, David Duval is the only player who has been able to sustain a challenge to Woods for longer than a year, replacing him briefly at No. 1 in ...
A major drought for Tiger WoodsSHUT out in the Grand Slam events for the first time since 1998, Woods now has gone six majors without winning. His longest drought is 10, although he has never gone more than one season without winning a major. Don't be alarmed to see the ... |
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