Sports

Spearhead

Dileep Premachandran

From a discard five years ago, Zaheer Khan is now a lynchpin of India’s cricketing ambitions. His is the greatest turnaround story of Indian cricket

The Man Who Never Got 100

Avirook Sen

How does it feel to contemplate Sachin Tendulkar’s feat of 50 Test hundreds from the vantage of another gritty Indian opener who got none? We asked Chetan Pratap Singh Chauhan

Game, Set and Match Nadal?

Vijay Parthasarthy

So, Roger Federer figured out Rafael Nadal at the recent ATP Championships. But the Spaniard still deserves to be called the greatest ever. Now, bring on the rotten tomatoes

A Firm Believer

Akshay Sawai

Most people get a hair job to prove that 50 is the new 30. Sailor Farokh Tarapore participates in his eighth Asian Games and wins a silver medal.

Football or Egg?

Venkat Ananth

What are the Venky’s Chicken People up to by trying to take over the Blackburn Rovers? Is it a new-found fondness for football or a way to advance their poultry business?

Athletes to Watch Out For

Open

India’s hopefuls for gold medal at London Olympics

Mission Plausible

Akshay Sawai

How exactly does the Olympic Gold Quest function? And what it means for India’s prospects at the 2012 London Olympics

The Dressing Room at Lunch

Venkat Ananth

It is the place where Kapil Dev hijacks Yashpal Sharma’s food in England and Australians insist on bananas with an inch-long stem

What I Saw at the Games

Akshay Sawai

For all the administrative bungling, the brazenness of smug officials, the stench of greed that surrounded the Games, it had its moments

Season of the Long Knives

Dileep Premachandran

For all the dust kicked up by the ouster of two franchises, the IPL juggernaut is not about to stall. But from the look of it, every last trace of Lalit Modi will be erased in its new avatar