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Team India berth is not Yo Mahesh’s target now

Wednesday 26 September '07

An overcast sky in Ahmedabad on the eve of the one-dayer between India A and South Africa A disappoints Yo Mahesh.
Abdullah is back ‘home’

Tuesday 25 September '07

At the lobby of Taj Residency in Ahmedabad, South Africa’s A team player Yusuf Abdullah is frantically trying to arrange a local sim card for his phone.
‘Intense focus and rehabilitation helped’

Wednesday 19 September '07

Four days ago, when that Irfan Pathan delivery cut in sharply to take the inside edge of Younis Khan’s bat to dislodge the stumps...
Twenty20 World Cup a gamble for comeback men Pathan and Harbhajan

Sunday 9 September '07

For Irfan Pathan and Harbhajan Singh, the Twenty20 World Cup will perhaps be one of their toughest tours.
Playing cricket, the hockey way

Saturday 8 September '07

When Robin Uthappa scooped Stuart Broad behind the wicket over the keeper, at The Oval on Wednesday...
‘Performance will pay’

Sunday 26 August '07

Parthiv Patel knows he has a tough task ahead of him if he wants to make a comeback to the Indian team. He also knows that MS Dhoni and Dinesh Kaarthick are not leaving...
Dharmani declines ICL offer

Sunday 26 August '07

The Indian Cricket League should have been a natural choice for someone like Punjab’s Pankaj Dharmani.
‘I don’t play for the camera, I am not scared of anything’

Friday 24 August '07

Back home in Kochi after a disappointing Test series in England, Sreesanth says he has a point to prove — again, in South Africa
Zonal selectors fine: Jagdale

Tuesday 21 August '07

As the working committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) meets tomorrow, among various issues, the eligibility criteria of junior and senior selectors...
3-year ban leaves Gujarat boxers stranded

Saturday 11 August '07

With just two weeks to go for the Nationals in New Delhi, Gujarat’s boxers face a predicament—a chunk of them have been banned by their own state body.
For Baroda brothers, it’s a family outing in South Africa

Wednesday 8 August '07

Irfan’s presence will help ease pressure, says Yusuf Pathan
Kirmani’s ‘flatfoot’ diagnosis of Dhoni, Kaarthick

Tuesday 7 August '07

He’s a batsman with a pair of gloves, maybe for no apparent reason,” quipped former England player and commentator David Lloyd as Mahendra...
Bollywood dances down the track

Sunday 29 July '07

But they aren’t running around trees in sports flicks as our correspondent finds out. Here’s taking a look at the transition in Hindi movies where sports is no longer a mere prop, as film makers explore athletic endeavours and ethos
ICC washes its hands of ICL, says let the boards decide

Friday 27 July '07

We can’t stop current foreign players from playing for breakaway league: world body
Celebration time for Providence

Saturday 21 July '07

Celebrations are yet to die down in the streets of Vadodara. After all, it is a first for the city — a local club winning an international event.
Harbhajan enjoying his game, waiting for that comeback call

Saturday 14 July '07

Three wickets in his first county match for Surrey against Durham this season and aiding his county team to register their first victory of the season
‘No one told me why I wasn’t picked, no word of consolation either’

Friday 13 July '07

After India SoS, pacer Rakesh Patel just sat in the dressing room, watching his dream go bust
BCCI’s threat sounds hollow

Wednesday 11 July '07

There were strong reactions to the impasse. The Indian Express presents some excerpts
Pujara on top after Oz trip

Tuesday 10 July '07

The Indian Express met Cheteshwar Pujara just hours after his return from a five-week training in Australia where he went on the Border-Gavaskar scholarship. And he was bubbling with excitement about the experience.
Gujarat’s unlikely soccer boys shoot all the way to Canberra

Saturday 30 June '07

After football fan founded Providence Club in Vadodara in 1999, players sold vegetables, made detergent to support team
Parthiv pins hopes on India ‘A’

Thursday 28 June '07

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s explosive exploits with the bat, and Dinesh Kaarthick’s intelligent, all-round game seem to have shut the door on Gujarat’s Parthiv Patel to reclaim his place...
More set to resign from BCA post

Sunday 24 June '07

The secretary of the Baroda Cricket Association, Kiran More, who has joined Essel Group’s Indian Cricket League, may resign from his post on Sunday.
Have these guys Lost it?

Sunday 17 June '07

They messed up the search for a new coach like they mismanaged players’ contracts or bungled up those ambitious television deals. In these days of BCCI-triggered chaos and confusion, The Sunday Express team lists some of their lesser-known fumbles
Exclusion a boon for Pawar: Srikkanth

Wednesday 13 June '07

The Indian squad that went to Bangladesh had a genuine left-arm spinner in the form of Rajesh Pawar.
Mixed reaction on Borde appointment

Wednesday 13 June '07

The appointment of former captain Chandu Borde as the team manager for the tours of Ireland and England has evoked mixed reactions in the cricketing circles.
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