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VOL.28 :: NO.40 :: Oct. 01 - 07, 2005
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"CHAPPELL is a genius; Sourav is much below him in stature." This assessment of Raj Singh Dungarpur, former President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, puts the continuing spat between Greg Chappell and Sourav Ganguly in the right ...
Pathan is a gifted bowler. He has a very natural outswinger and can reverse the ball late. He can also bowl long spells and has the liking for the big stage, writes S. DINAKAR.
By revealing the gist of a pre-first Test team meeting, Ganguly broke an unwritten team rule, writes S. DINAKAR.
Beyond the boundaryLaxman considered every delivery with such circumspection that it seemed inconceivable that the same man had reduced the powerful Aussie attack to mortality.
No magic or mystery in nets sessionIF the Indians are doing anything different under Chappell it is not evident on the surface. They are training in the practice area at the Harare Sports Club, which is just behind square leg, a big hit from Blignaut almost lands in the middle of ...
Ashen India, England & the AshesEVEN as Michael Vaughan's England demonstrably deserved The Ashes, Sourav's India plunged into a Zimbabwelter of controversy. Zimbabwe and India thus illumined none but each other. For Team India, after that ODI Harare final fiasco, emerged ...
Higher work ethics required There may be many suggestions to improve, but there is nothing like getting back to the basics.
Eriksson and EnglandERIKSSON should go; that's obvious. But Eriksson can't go, cannot be got rid of, because the asinine Football Association cannot afford to pay him off. The taciturn Swede has inexplicably and fatally been given a £4 million a year contract which ...
COMMON sense, sometimes, can be a glorious aberration. If it were the sole guiding light, one would be led to believe that there were furious disagreements in a vote by 38,000 highly ambitious professionals — driven by excellence, ...
It could well be a three-horse raceTHE 12-year-old mess in the chess world looks set to get cleared. Come October 16, an undisputed World Chess Champion will be crowned at San Luis, Argentina. Hopefully, this will also put an end to the confusion that reigned at the highest level ...
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)ENJOYING a career-high rating and world ranking, Veselin Topalov is playing some of the best chess of his career. Winner of the Mtel Masters, an event that he helped organise in May, Topalov also tied for the title with Garry Kasparov at ... 
Viswanathan Anand (India)THE oldest in the fray and a former World champion, Anand is also the favourite to regain the crown if one goes by his form and record against other aspirants. He enjoys a favourable head-to-head score against each contender. Acknowledged as ... 
Peter Leko (Hungary)THE youngest challenger in the fray, Peter Leko was the world's youngest Grandmaster in 1994 at the age of 14 years, four months and 22 days. He has come a long way since then. He was within a draw of taking the World `Classical' title from ... 
Peter Svidler (Russia)A FOUR-TIME Russian champion, Peter Svidler plays at the ICC website under the name of Sachin Tendulkar. He loves cricket and follows all matches live on the Internet. His passion for cricket can be gauged from the fact that he knows the rules ... 
Alexander Morozevich (Russia)KNOWN to adopt unusual openings and his preference for complicated positions, Alexander Morozevich is the most unpredictable performer in this World Championship. His uncompromising style of play makes him one of the star attractions of any ... 
Michael Adams (England)THE best British hope after the much-hyped Nigel Short, Michael Adams missed out on a great opportunity to become the World Champion when he lost to unfancied Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the tie-break phase of the final last year. In the 2000 ... 
Judit Polgar (Hungary)THE strongest woman player in the history of the game, Judit Polgar gets a chance to become the champion of the world. For someone who stayed away from woman-only events from her early playing days, Judit is a part of a psychological ... 
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan)IRONICALLY, reigning World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov will be the weakest player in the field at San Luis. Though Kasimdzhanov has gained the respect of the chess elite in the past 15 months, he is still considered the whipping boy of this ... Facts and figures Alekhine dies before his Challenge round against Mikhail Botvinnik could be arranged. The FIDE organizes a World Championship in 1948 in The Hague and Moscow. Botvinnik wins the five-player league ahead of Vassily Smyslov (Soviet Union), Paul ...
Enough incentive, nothing to show INDIAN tennis missed yet another good opportunity to take a step towards the big league. The Asian Tennis Championship had served as the platform to launch the promising career of Sania Mirza last year, but the rest of the pack could not follow ...
When leggies ruled the roostSOUTH AFRICA'S early years in Test cricket were difficult ones. It lost ten of the 11 since its debut against England in 1889, the third nation after England and Australia to gain international status. Questions were being asked as to whether its ...
The disquieting rage of RooneyWAYNE ROONEY, it is written, once swore at a referee a 100 times in a match. That's more than once a minute of a regulation soccer match, suggesting either a wide vocabulary or astonishing verbal stamina. Or perhaps he did it all at once, a sort ...
Formula for successCALL it overconfidence or call it self-belief, there is this streak in Bobby George that refuses to accept that anything is impossible. Maybe, that is the way the George brothers have been brought up back home in Peravoor, Kannur district, ...
Sir, — A six-member panel of tennis experts assembled by the Associated Press, at the end of 1999, voted Laver, Sampras and Tilden, in that order, as the best ever male players. Now, Federer is fast emerging as a contender for the elite ...
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