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Number Game 10 Number of Tests England have won on the trot at home. The big question: Can they go on to make it 11 after the first ...

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Number Game
10 Number of Tests England have won on the trot at home.
The big question: Can they go on to make it 11 after the first Ashes Test this week?

50Q
Aparna Popat
Badminton

What are you currently reading?
The Inimitable Jeeves by P G Wodehouse

Your most embarrassing moment8230;
I can8217;t remember any

A sportsperson you8217;d pay to watch
Steffi Graff8230;her aura and powerplay were unmatched

What is your pet superstition?
I don8217;t think of myself as a superstitious person. So I don8217;t have any

If you were not a shuttler, you8217;d be8230;
An architect; I am qualified to be one.

Pick Of the Week

England Vs Australia
Ashes, Day 1
Let the show begin. Enough of one-dayers, enough of verbal duels, let8217;s get to the real thing. Start of the most anticipated Ashes in the last 20 years.
Live on Star Sports
Thursday, July 21 3 p.m onwards

The Write Stuff
This week8217;s suggested reading:
Jack Nicklaus My Story,

By Nicklaus with Ken Bowden
The Golden Bear, one of golf8217;s greatest ever, retires after the British Open. This is his story, with his trademark humour and humility. Especially interesting is how he shares what was going through his mind at important turns of his career. Very little of golfing jargon makes it enjoyable for non-golfing readers too. A double-birdie.

Sport Speak
8220;I felt like killing him.8221;
Guillermo Coria doesn8217;t mince his words after a long-running feud with Lleyton Hewitt spills over into the semi-final of the Davis Cup

 

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