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...looked as if he "did most of his training in restaurants," Puskás was an unstoppable shotmaker, scoring 84 goals in 85 matches for his national team. In 1953 he starred in one of soccer's most famous contests: a surprise trouncing of England that debuted the fast, flowing style of play with which Hungary would dominate-and revolutionize-the game. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, the rebellious Puskás defected to the West, going on to score 324 goals for soccer powerhouse Real Madrid-four of them in a legendary European...
...global supply comes from Essel Propack's 20 factories in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The company also churns out tubes for cosmetics, pharmaceutical creams, hair-care products and food. It may not be the sexiest industry, but the business is growing fast and Essel is determined to be its biggest player. "We definitely see an opportunity to move further into the global space," says R. Chandrasekhar, Essel Propack's president. "India always had a global outlook in the past but we became very inward-looking after independence. Now we're back...
...questions the extraordinarily high caliber of recent Australian sides, which have recharged as well as dominated the Test scene. As he settled into international cricket in the early '90s, Warne discredited the prevailing view that the only way to rout batting line-ups was to bowl fast at them. With his growing mastery of what had been the dying art of leg-spin, he reminded us that batsmen could be killed softly with archaic weapons like flight, drift and spin. Compatriots of yesteryear wish he'd arrived sooner. "If we'd had Warne," says former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson...
...From the early 1990s, Australia's batsmen realized that many of the fast-scoring techniques used in one-day cricket could be applied to Tests, and as a group routinely began to amass 350-plus runs a day. Other countries copied them, to the point where the drawn match?the somnolent one, anyway, that blight on the game?has all but vanished. As Australia rose, then soared, so did the notion that Test teams should have a coach to complement the captain in finetuning their performance. Between 1986 and '96, Bob Simpson was crucial in taking Australia from the bottom...
...main reason they lost was that England had the better fast bowlers. The worry for Australia is that even without Simon Jones, they still might. McGrath is a champion. He's also 36. Watching him running in to bowl revives memories of an Australian practice at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the late '90s, when two speedsters at opposite ends of their careers were operating in adjacent nets. Veteran Craig McDermott was bustling in as though he had a lead weight strapped to each thigh; a flowing Brett Lee, meanwhile, might have been mistaken for an Olympic sprinter. Though...