| Cover Story |
Tendulkar’s Aussie moment of reckoningSachin Tendulkar’s desire to play and the hunger to compete have not diminished, but it is the other intangibles — of sinews grappling with age, of rival bowlers sensing a tentativeness and a dressing room that is increasingly featuring an entirely new generation — that he has to shrug off, writes K.C. Vijaya Kumar.
| Cricket |
A thinking bowler
Eight ODIs and two T20 matches later, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is among the top pace bowlers of the country, writes Vijay Lokapally.
India-Australia in Tests
| Column |
Right man for the jobMatt Prior has improved behind the stumps, and his aggressive, sturdy and sometimes long-lasting batsmanship has a proper back-up so that there will always be an argument that says he can bat at No. 6 in a Test and keep wickets, writes Ted Corbett.
| Chess Corner |
| Basketball |
The girls work harder!“I’m highly optimistic. We’re improving in all the younger age groups. Wait for four or five years — let the continuity remain and we’ll be very good,” says K. K. Chansoria (in pic), the Chief National Coach of the BFI, in this interview with Shreedutta Chidananda.
| Hockey |
In a different leagueThe HIL was a cut above the previous Indian professional leagues such as the Premier Hockey League and the World Series Hockey in terms of quality, writes Y.B. Sarangi.
HOCKEY INDIA LEAGUE
Yelps score over booming barks
The ability to work with diversity and use it as strength was what set the two finalists apart from the rest, writes Uthra Ganesan.
STARS IN THE MAKING
The ones for the futureYoungsters rubbing shoulders with the stars was one of the high points of the inaugural Hockey India League. Uthra Ganesan takes a look at some of the young guns who excelled in the competition.
Hockey India league 2013
| Motorsport |
Luchi’s love of speed“In F1, the margin for error is as low as five-hundredths of a second. As you go towards the top (F1), the demand for accuracy goes up too,” says the F2 champion, Luciano Bacheta, of his tryst with the pinnacle of motorsport. By N. Sudarshan.
| Wrestling |
IOC’s headlock!It is perplexing that the IOC executive board has chosen to do away with wrestling, an elementary sport, which offers 72 medals in 18 weight categories in the Olympics. Y.B. Sarangi analyses the matter.
| Volleyball |
Having excelled for AP in the National Championships, Naima has now set her sights on earning a berth in the Indian team. By J.R. Shridharan.
| Football |
Making an impact
Jack Cork was arguably the Man of the Match against Manchester City and has impressed since returning from the injury problems that blighted his start to the season. By Simon Peach.
Samba grabs headlines
The 28-year-old defender joins Harry Redknapp’s Loftus Road revolution as QPR look to avoid relegation to the second tier of English football, writes Niall McGlone.
KICKING AROUND
England needs to do moreEngland’s 2-1 victory at Wembly came against a Brazilian side very much in the making, only just taken over by the World Cup winner Big Phil Scolari, writes Brian Glanville.
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