CRICKET / The mind games played by top cricketing nations like Australia have failed to shake up the sub-continental team in recent times
India up there with the big boys Sreesanth could well become the face of Indian cricket if he can rein his sometimes unruly behaviour in without losing innate aggression. Mahendra Singh Dhoni knows he has a fight on his hands, just as he knows that attitudinally, he will inherit perhaps the best Indian squad ever. Game for a scrap, hungry for success. ..
INTERVIEW / Gautam Gambhir
Gearing up for bigger tasks with confidence On a chilly Bangalore evening some two years ago, Gambhir had reduced the maniacal South African pace bowler Andre Nel to a blubbering toddler. More recently, the Delhi left-hander had responded to a hazardous task in the final of the Twenty20 World Cup in Johannesburg.
Remembering a black Munich day Indian hockey team cannot forget the Munich Olympics for two reasons..One is that India defeated the Dutch and clinched the bronze medal. The other is the gory attack on September 5 in which Israeli athletes bore the brunt of terrorists ...
Targeting Grand Slams The World No 21,Aussie Lleyton Hewitt, coming off a viral infection which forced him out of his country's reverse singles in the Davis Cup World Group play-off against Serbia, the 26-year-old gave it his all, but German Rainer Schuettler cut short the Aussie's maiden trip to India in the quarterfinals....
Emulating the feat of the rain kings Lewis Hamilton's accomplished win in the rain-sodden Japanese Grand Prix woke up Formula One's movers and shakers. It is one thing to win a race with a competitive car in the dry, but quite another to cope with a soaking track where the slightest error can spell disaster.
Champions in sports other than cricket complain that Indian cricketers get disproportionate rewards as compared to them. Are they justified in complaining? Is the recognition of achievements related to the popularity of the game? Deccan Herald had invited its readers to send in their opinions. Most readers feel that cricket is over-glorified and its players are pampered at the cost of other sports. Others contend that cricket is the nation’s religion and the players certainly deserve the booty.
