Australia has proposed that the Hero Honda FIH World Cup 2010 group B match featuring India and the Kookaburras be played as a Friendship Match for the Ajitpal-Charlesworth Trophy. This initiative has come against the backdrop of a string of dastardly attacks on young Indians in Australia. Set to coincide with Australian Foreign Minister...
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The 23-year-old Bharat Chikara may concede many inches to the gangling Rehan Butt but the dapper Indian towered over Pakistan’s star in the teams’ inaugural match in the Hero Honda FIH World Cup on a heady Sunday night when you could have reached out and felt the electricity that charged the Maj. Dhyan Chand...
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Live everyone else, I am excited by the approaching India-Pakistan contest in the Hero Honda FIH World Cup 2010 at the Maj. Dhyan Chand National Stadium in Delhi. It has been a little over six years since I sat in the packed stands and cheered a 3-1 India victory in the Afro-Asian Games final...
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The scoresheet will identify winners and losers at the end of the 40 overs at Lord’s on Sunday in the ICC World Twenty20 final but never reflect the courage Sri Lanka have shown in returning to competitive cricket, less than four months after a daring terrorist attack on the team in Lahore. Nor, for...
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I had no idea of what I was setting myself up for when I accepted an offer from yahoo! and its associates to travel to South Africa for the inaugural ICC World Twenty20. A votary of the conventional cricket, there was some skepticism at the back of my mind and I allowed myself to...
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