Big test for India in cricket's hour of redemption
ICC Knock-out Cup, quite fittingly the Mini-World Cup, couldn't have come at a better time with 11 Test-playing nations getting together in cricket's redemption hour.



S Africa postpone match-fixing probe
King Commission inquiry into corruption in South African cricket, due to resume on Monday, was postponed to allow the state prosecutor to sift through evidence obtained in India



Need for IHF to structure a uniform format
The Games are over -- and what a fabulous spectacle of hockey -- the final between The Netherlands and Korea turned out to be. The game had everything that is associated with modern hockey -- passion, tension, goals etc. but for we Indian's lacked one basic element -- India not being there.



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