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...cricket-obsessed India, where the travails of the country's national team are front-page news, a feud between its coach, Australian Greg Chappell, and its captain, Sourav Ganguly, has become more captivating than any test match. During the team's tour to Zimbabwe last month, an outraged Ganguly told the Indian press that Chappell was demanding he resign as captain; Ganguly threatened to quit the team in protest. Days later, in an e-mail to India's cricket board which was leaked to the media, Chappell described the 32-year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested...
...decades?were over. But Chappell's ambition hasn't sat well with some players: bowler Harbhajan Singh complained to reporters that the new coach was subjecting the team to "fear," "tension" and "immense pressure." The row peaked last week when Chappell and Ganguly were summoned by the Indian cricket board, which enjoined the two sides to rebuild their "professional working relationship"?despite widespread expectations that one or both would be shown the door. ("Look how we are cheated!" grumbled Mid Day over the anticlimax.) That day may yet come. "I only want some rest," Ganguly told reporters after the hearing...
...good historical films come out of India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...some extent, speculation," says Po'oi Puloka, secretary general of the Tonga Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (tasanoc), "but it's more than likely what happened." (The banning of a sport has a more recent precedent in Tonga. In the 1920s authorities prohibited the playing of cricket, which had so gripped the local men that they were neglecting their crops. "It was a food security issue," says Puloka, adding that the ban lasted a decade. In the 1950s, rugby overtook cricket as Tonga's favorite sport and it remains so today...
...year-old grade-school teacher with a baby daughter and a reputation for devotion to his learning- disabled students; an 18-year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth was a 19-year-old Jamaican who had become a British citizen, married a British woman and had a young son, a man who seemed just an "ordinary Joe Bloggs to me," in the words...