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Perspective
Purported path-breaking leads to heartburning
SOURAV GANGULY'S omission from the Indian cricket squad for the third Test against Sri Lanka has evoked strong reactions. And predictably so. The selectors have either acted in a manner that is extremely biased against an individual who, in this ...

Cover Story
Fallen IDOL
In dropping Sourav Ganguly, the National selectors were only looking at the future, especially India's upcoming tour to Pakistan. But the process has left a sour taste, and raised a pertinent question. Did he deserve such an inglorious exit, asks VIJAY LOKAPALLY

Special Section
SACHIN TENDULKAR
A decent champion
He is an adult, he is a father, he is a husband, of course, but he is still unspoilt, still honourable, still self-effacing. Sachin Tendulkar is an advertisement for the best in sport, writes ROHIT BRIJNATH

Interview
`The 35th had to happen'
A SOURCE of joy to millions, Sachin Tendulkar himself found a very special reason to rejoice. As described by the Master himself, his maiden Test century and his 35th century are "special," without discounting any of his three-figure scores in ...

Gavaskar & Tendulkar
Of short men and TALL DEEDS
THEIR paths to greatness and beyond might have been contrasting, but shining through is the kind of single-mindedness that can slice through roadblocks, melt down obstacles and swim across turbulent seas. Their footprints remain untouched by ...

Lara & Tendulkar
Left and right of perfection
IN the words of Ezra Pound, all what needs to be said in art is conveyed through the image. Pound, the mentor of T. S. Eliot, might well have been foretelling, a hundred years early, the physical existence of the greatest batsmen of our ...


TENDULKAR versus the best
People have said that my duel with Tendulkar in India in 1997-98 was the most compelling cricket they have ever seen, but there is no doubt he enjoyed the better of the exchanges. — Shane Warne

Sachin's Hundreds
The pick of his blooms
HERE'S an attempt to pick 10 of Sachin Tendulkar's best centuries out of the 35 he has scored till the conclusion of the New Delhi Test against Sri Lanka. This list is subjective and does not seek to take away any credit from the 25 hundreds that ...

Factfile
Tendulkar's record Test hundreds


Cricket
NEW DELHI TEST
Memorable in many ways
SACHIN TENDULKAR and Anil Kumble would treasure the Ferozeshah Kotla track. Landmarks were achieved by these two stalwarts of Indian cricket in grand style as the master hit his 35th Test century and the wily leg-spinner claimed his 300th Test ...

Interview
GREG CHAPPELL
`There is great cricketing knowledge within the side'
I am in a job that carries a lot of responsibility. There are going to be times when I am going to make some tough decisions, some tough calls, says Greg Chappell in this interview to S. DINAKAR

Comment
Umpires must be put out to pasture at 50
Replays must also be used to help the umpires. Cricketers trained to accept the decision of an umpire without demur reject the idea of referring matters to a remote figure, arguing that it destroys one of the beauties and disciplines of the game, the sportsmanship shown by Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar and many others when they are wrongly dispatched.

Cricket Corner
COLUMN BY BOB SIMPSON
It just isn't cricket
WHEN I retired from Test cricket the first time around, I was 31 and I vowed to myself that I would not be one of those boring old-timers who could see nothing good about the modern players and nothing wrong about us, the old-timers. I, no doubt, ...

Cricket
Little Master vs Little Blaster
What comes through, in the grand Sachin sum, is `Ten's' exemplary humility in the face of peerless public adulation. In the case of most performing greats, I have found their being self-effacing to be something of a put-on.

Kicking Around
COLUMN BY BRIAN GLANVILLE
Latino conquest of European fields
RONALDINHO has been voted European Footballer of the Year by a distance, and who can object? Shortly before the announcement, he had scored a goal at the Bernabeu Stadium of such individual brilliance that even the ranks of Tuscany could scarce ...

Football World Cup Draw
Global village gets the first touch
The past will be whispering loudly in the ears of Dutch coach Marco van Basten and Portugal coach Luis Felipe Scolari.

Great Test Matches
Blood on the track
Sutcliffe though was unstoppable and another six and four flowed from his bat. In 39 minutes he had added 50 with Mooney, helping to avert the follow-on.

Focus
Marked MAN
RAJYAVARDHAN SINGH RATHORE. The name spells fame in the world of shooting. Credited with earning the country's solitary medal — a silver in double trap event — in the 2004 Athens Olympics, this 35-year-old, ace shooter has arguably ...


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