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Cricket

Kaarthick on song
CHENNAI, MARCH 26. One over from Nilesh Kulkarni was all it took to steal the initiative gained by Tamil Nadu after it chose to bat first. The Mumbai attack, which looked rather ordinary at the start, developed fangs sharp enough to rip open the ...

Kumble raring to go
MULTAN, MARCH 26. The lush green outfield at the Multan Cricket Stadium is a sight to behold. And the pitch too, with a fair tinge of green on it, should encourage a healthy tussle for supremacy between the bat and the ball. The pacemen would ...

No injury to Ganguly's back: Manager
MULTAN, MARCH 26. Indian cricket team manager Ratnakar Shetty said that the MRI tests done on Sourav Ganguly in Lahore had revealed only a muscle spasm in his back. "There is no injury to his back. He will undergo two more sessions with the ...

THE GREG CHAPPELL COLUMN
It's about courage and determination
Like most young boys growing up in Australia in the 1950's with a love of cricket, I dreamt of playing Test cricket for Australia. One-day cricket was unheard of then and as the Australia-England series were the most prominent of the time I ...

Other Stories

Test series win guarantees Rs. 1 crore to Team India

Sinclair stages New Zealand's fightback

Jadhav stays put

Tennis
Isha, Megha withdraw
MUMBAI, MARCH 26. Injury withdrawals by Isha Lakhani and Megha Vakharia will turn the spotlight on Rushmi Chakravarthi, the highest ranked Indian at 362 on WTA computer, when the International Tennis Federation Women's Futures circuit shifts to ...

Football
India faces tough opener against Bangladesh
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26. Three-time football champion India faces a daunting task when it takes on Bangladesh, winner in the last edition of the event in 1999, in their first Group A encounter in the SAF Games at Islamabad on Sunday. Clubbed with ...

Punjab SC moves up
KOLKATA, MARCH 26. Punjab Sports Club staged a remarkable recovery to oust Police Athletic Club by the odd goal in three, in the opening match of the Indian Oil Servo 109th all-India Beighton Cup hockey tournament at the CC&FC ground here on ...

Chess
Anand-Kramnik match drawn
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26.Joint leaders Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik quickly drew their sixth-round blindfold match in just 18 moves of Sicilian Defence to stay ahead of the field in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament on Friday. ...

Golf

Four atop the leaderboard
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26.No wonder, Mexican golfer Pablo Del Olmo rates the Delhi Golf Club among his favourite courses. A tied second place in the Hero Honda Masters last November and a first-round 67 in the last edition of the Indian Open show ...

IGU announces plans for juniors
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26. Finally, the Indian Golf Union (IGU) seems to have realised the importance of being "media savvy'' and plans to "interact'' with the members of the Fourth Estate more frequently. Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, ...

Racing : Motor
Rally Cross 2004 today
BANGALORE, MARCH 26.The third edition of the Rally Cross 2004 will be held at the Bangalore Palace grounds here on Saturday. Top drivers like Sagar Muthappa, Vikram Mathias, Babban Khan, reigning champion in the 1400 cc class Lohith Urs, Rally ...

Swimming
SAF Games-bound squad expresses wish to emulate the cricket team
BANGALORE, MARCH 26. The Friendship Cricket series with Pakistan has set a shining example for promoting enduring sporting ties with Pakistan and the Indian swimming contingent for the SAF Games, scheduled to be held in Islamabad next week, is ...