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World Cup India and Australia evenly matched JOHANNESBURG, MARCH 22. Sporting sainthood awaits Sachin Tendulkar if he carries India to the summit of one-day cricket. The fans are convinced that he is a messiah and Tendulkar, indeed, holds the key if oriental magic is to work at The ... Ganguly, Ponting: different strokes Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly have been the captains of this competition. As men they are as different as meat pies and dhal. Ganguly is a sophisticate from Calcutta, a city of the intellect from which have emerged nobel-prize winners ... India can pull it off So, after twenty years, India once again finds itself in a World Cup final. It is a huge achievement in itself and my congratulations to the Indian side for getting here. I can tell you that this is a feeling that can only be experienced and ... 
Indian victory depends on openersTRINIDAD, MARCH 22. India has a creditable and realistic chance of success in the World Cup final, but the obvious secret of success is being able to defeat what is an extremely powerful Australian side. Australia's main strength to date has ... Australia hopes to create history JOHANNESBURG, MARCH 22. The Australians play an excellent brand of cricket. There are no two opinions about that. An English captain named Douglas Jardine plotted a plan and executed it to perfection in order to defeat a run machine, Donald ... 
Support for the Aussies even in ChennaiCHENNAI, MARCH 22. `Go Aussie, Go' will be their refrain. A small bunch they might be, yet their support will be wholehearted. In a sea of emotions that India will be during the high-voltage duel, these men will be swimming against huge waves. ... Dice rolling in India's favour: Imran LONDON, MARCH 22. Former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan has a strong hunch that India would beat Australia in the World Cup final in Johannesburg on Sunday as the dice had started rolling in its favour. The key for India, he feels, will be to ... Hayden feels it's time to come good JOHANNESBURG, MARCH 22. Indian cricket fans all remember Matt Hayden, the big Australian opener who re-launched his international career with a devastating series on the subcontinent two years ago. Hayden has been out of sorts by his own ... Master plan to contain the `master' LONDON, MARCH 22. Australian batsman Michael Bevan has revealed that the Australians have ``one or two'' plans up their sleeves to contain Sachin Tendulkar in the World Cup final in Johannesburg, but did not divulge them. Writing in the ... Sachin is the key: Zaheer Abbas NEW DELHI, MARCH 22. Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas has said that if Sachin Tendulkar played another of his masterful knocks in the final of the World Cup, it will be difficult for the Australians to defend their title. Lavishing praise ... Statistical highlights of previous finals Result summary: 1975: West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs, Lord's 21-06-1975; 1979: West Indies beat England by 92 runs, Lord's 23-06-1979; 1983: India beat West Indies by 43 runs, Lord's 25-06-1983; 1987: Australia beat England ... Head to head 
West Indies' `Dev'astation and more...JOHANNESBURG, MARCH 22. The West Indies was `Dev'astated at Lord's in June 1983. And three more teams — Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — went on to earn the champion tag in subsequent editions. Highlights of the seven ... 
That night...June 25, 1983John McEnroe was running into trouble with Wimbledon officials for verbal abuse, the U.S. Dollar was quoting at Rs. 10.12 and the British Pound was Rs. 15.15, Ronald Reagan was writing to Indira Gandhi about ``security concerns,'' the only ... It's a battle between Lee and Tendulkar We have got the World Cup final we wanted. We have the best two teams on form — Australia with the reputation as the best in the world, and one of the best-ever, while India is the emerging powerhouse. The battle at the Wanderers in ... Best is yet to come: Ponting JOHANNESBURG, MARCH 22. Skipper Ricky Ponting said his unbeaten Australian line-up had yet to produce its best at the World Cup and he's expecting the defending champion to peak in Sunday's final against India. ``It'll be huge,'' said Ponting, ... Other Stories
Badminton India misses promotion BANGALORE, MARCH 22. India missed promotion to Group 2 by a whisker, losing to Russia 2-3 in the play-off for the overall No.1 position of Group 3 in the Sudirman Cup badminton championship at Eindhoven on Friday. India, which topped Group 3 A, ... Chess Leko, Anand share lead MONTE CARLO, MARCH 22. Linares champion Peter Leko of Hungary fought his way back into the lead when he defeated Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the 12th Amber chess tournament at Vista Palace Hotel on Friday. Leko joined ... Cricket Martin, Dharmani frustrate Elite-A HYDERABAD, MARCH 22. Jacob Martin and Pankaj Dharmani of Elite-C demonstrated the importance of staying at the crease in their unbroken 177-run stand for the fourth wicket which effectively put Elite-A out of contention in the four-day Duleep ... Crime 
Advantage Plate-BBANGALORE, MARCH 22. Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Deepak Chougule opted for flamboyance and perished. The duo's approach mirrored the woes that plagued Plate-A against Plate-B in the Duleep Trophy match in progress at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here on ... Tennis 
Mlynarik, from qualifier to championMUMBAI, MARCH 22. Rohan Bopanna's ceaseless bombing was not enough to subdue Zbnek Mlynarik, a qualifier picking up the threads of his game after a year out due to stress fracture injury of the ankle. The bustling Indian Davis Cupper hurled ... Shooting PM honours Indian medal winners NEW DELHI, MARCH 22. The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, honoured the Indian medal winners in the closing ceremony of the shotgun World Cup at the Parade ground here on Saturday. Congratulating all the medal winners, the Prime Minister ... Read Today's supplements: | Life | Magazine | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
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