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When i started the journey from mumbai along with my cameraman I was told specifically to go to Rajkot first (Baroda was my other destination) because Sourav Ganguly would be making his comeback after his controversial tour of Zimbabwe. Everything for him went wrong in that tour and in a way no one in media supported him because everyone needed someone to criticize and Ganguly was that man for

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A wrong'un in every sense of the word. In a text message to an unnamed lady friend, Shane Warne wrote, from his home in London: "Hey beautiful, I'm just talking to my kids, the back door's open." Unfortunately, and unwittingly, the romantic teaser winged its way nearly 11,000 miles to Warne's ex-wife, Simone, in Melbourne instead. Even for Warne, this was a clanger of deliciously cringing

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The next time you hear of a player retiring hurt with a hairline fracture of his pinky, point him in the direction of David Morrison, a league wicketkeeper in England who has broken each and every finger and thumb. The end result does not make for an attractive picture, and his crooked digits certainly rule out a future career as a glove salesman, but let us admire the man's blind courage and

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Times of India in its 20th September edition printed a full page interview of Rahul Dravid. The interviewed covered many aspects of his personality. On how aggression for him is not what he thinks of other sportsperson's mother, wife and sister. How he has dealt with certain difficulties in life. But the last 5 questions in that interview (out of 23) were all about Rahul's loyalties with Reebok

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In his Ramon Magsaysay Award acceptance speech in Manila on August 31,P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, spoke of the legacy bequeathed to Indian journalism by freedom fighters who doubled up as journalists, and said he was accepting the award on behalf of the same tradition of giving voice to the voiceless. Mr. Sainath won the award in the Journalism, Literature and

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Generations of grandkids will know of the greatest one-day match of all, and of the man who scripted it. It's the stuff of folklore; the bizarre last over, with the two boundaries hammered by Lance Klusener, the inexplicable mix-up with Allan Donald, the scores tied. But without a doubt, every soul who was at Birmingham that lovely day will say it was a pudgy blonde's day.Five months after a

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Going mild … Stuart Clark's not your average fast bowler. Photo: Dallas KilponenFAST bowlers usually conform to a type. Cranky. Skittish. Nutty. Fast bowlers scowl and swear and mutter and sulk. Only one Test player in history has been hanged. He was a fast bowler. "No doubt

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Shane warne on his debut against India.Ian Healy congratulates Warne on his 100th Test wicket against South Africa in November 1994Warne looks to the heavens after clean bowling Jacques Kallis to take his 300th Test wicket ... Australia v South Africa, Sydney, January 1998Warne leaves the field after breaking the Australian Test wicket-taking record held by Dennis Lillee on the final day of the

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It's been an interesting few days since the Perth Test match, trying to work out what the Ashes urn actually means. Since 2005 it's been an amazing thought process for a lot of us to think about what actually happened to try and get the urn and those Ashes back. For me it was a mission to try and get that urn back and today I sit here a very happy man at getting that urn back and I'm going to

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A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when it has been sourced and selected as exquisitely as those in Boria Majumdar's superb 256-page magnum opus, The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket. This is an extraordinary work of scholarship masquerading as a coffee-table flick-book. A sticky-dog century condensed to a ten-over slog, yet somehow retaining the virtues of each. A Rhodes

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Len Hutton, England's first professional captain, and his two Yorkshire team mate caused havoc in between the showers, recalls Christopher SandfordThere are a small number of cricketing snapshots which, apart from questions of nostalgia or period detail, have a lasting place amongst the icons of the game. England's Test series against India in 1952 may not have been the greatest, but it did

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About a months back there was a huge cry in India and also from some remote corner of the world about a new cafe that was opened in Mumbai with a neme called Hitler. The owners or Hitler Cross were forced to shut down their cafe after a huge controversy was created once BBC and Reuters showed a story on this eating joint.Somehow the entire media followed this story for about a week and once

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It was a beautiful warm sunny afternoon in January 2004. It was my first and only political rally that I've ever attended so far. The students rally was organised by NSUI at Parliament street to protest against the education policy of the then NDA government. It was in a way also a process where by which the Congress was trying to gather students support in the upcoming Loksabha elections.The

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Fittingly, the Martina Navratilova era ended with a Grand Slam win.Playing in the very last match of her illustrious tennis career, Navratilova added to her long list of achievements Saturday in the US Open Mixed Doubles championship at Arthur Ashe Stadium.She and partner Bob Bryan captured the title by defeating Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm of the Czech Republic in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3.

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This year's US open was bid as the farewell open for Andre Agassi, however there was one more player who was playing her last tounament of her carrer. To her accomplishments were not more that 383 titles including 58 grand slam titles. Martina Navratriloa started her carrer way back 32 years ago when most of the players who are playing this season were not even born. even aggasi was only 3 years

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Only when Kevin Pietersen raised his arms to cheer his sublime hundred did he show his one sign of fallibility during the entire innings: he dropped his bat. Now, really, if he's going to live up to England's Mr Cool tag that he so often gives himself, he's going to have to learn to celebrate with more flair than that. Luckily, he'll have many more opportunities.Pietersen's 142 followed up his

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'India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters.'This is a pledge that most of us must have taken at some point or the other during our school days. All young minds are trained to treat all our fellow Indians as equals in every respect right from childhood.Unfortunately the reality is quite the opposite. As soon as we finish our schooling and take the first step towards higher

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How do you score runs? By not getting out.It seems an obvious answer to a question that would probably prompt responses ranging from natural ability and mental application to the nature of the pitch and the quality of the bowling.But in an era where every aspect of cricket is analysed to a microscopic degree, it took two of the legends of an earlier period in West Indies cricket to remind us how

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Odd Men In - a title shamelessly borrowed from AA Thomson's fantastic book - concerns cricketers who have caught my attention over the years in different ways - personally, historically, technically, stylistically - and about whom I have never previously found a pretext to writeAnyone who grew into their cricket in the 1970s will remember how crisply the world then divided. From Australia came

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With he summer in India getting to its peak somehow the entire reservation controversy is dying down. the government is also trying to come up with other alternative to save its face by introducing more seats in the premier institutes or by announcing 5-10% quota for the backward section of the upper caste.By this the government is just trying to wash its hands from the entire situation. for the

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Viv Richards blazed to the Fastest hundered in test cricket, ripping a century of 56 balls against England. John Embury, one of the bowlers who suffered the onslaught, recalls the dayEngland had been outplayed in the series. We came to St John's after losing the first Test in three days, the second in five, the third in four and the fourth in three. David Gower sent West Indies in to bat and

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There was something rather ironic about David Gower and John Morris sharing the same birthday - April Fool's Day. For it was during the 1990-91 Ashes tour that the pair of them decided to have what Gower described as "a little bit of fun", which almost ended in them being sent back home in disgrace.England were not enjoying the best of series, two-down after three Tests, although Gower was in

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The latest Brian Lara record was achieved by overtaking Allan Border's tally of 11,174 Test runs, but it is not to Border one must turn to measure the epic stature of the feat. Passing Border's record was all but inevitable from the time Lara appeared in cricket's saga with the classic 277 at Sydney. This was going to be an epic journey of the proportions of an odyssey. As his footprints mark a

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