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50Q Geet Sethi billairds and snooker champ ...

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50Q
Geet Sethi
billairds and
snooker champ

What are you currently reading?
‘Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl. He’s a German psychologist
What is your favourite superstition?
I always wear blue suits when I compete, though you can’t call it a superstition really
What was your most embarassing moment ?
It was an important national-level tournament where I thought I had potted a red and moved on to pocket the black. I managed to get the black in but to my horror I realised I hadn’t pocketed the red
Who is the one athlete you’d pay to watch?
Tiger Woods, he’s a class act
If you weren’t in cue sports what would you have been?
I wanted to be a pilot. I wish I could fly

Number Game
15:5 That’s how England square up against Australia in the Ashes at The Oval, their 15 wins against Australia’s 5 making the ground England’s most successful Ashes haunt ever. The two teams have played 32 matches here, with 12 finishing in draws.


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September 12
5-45 p.m., STAR Sports
Fernando Alonso could become Formula One’s youngest champion on Sunday if he scores four points more than Kimi Raikkonen, who won this race last year. If he doesn’t, this title race goes down to the wire with four races remaining

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The Write Stuff
Never Say Die/
Steve Waugh

When Steve Waugh walked out to bat on 3 January 2003, in the fifth Ashes Test at Sydney, he knew his career was on the line. He ended that day with a century — off the last ball of the day. Never Say Die is the full story of that amazing hundred, told by the man who made it. It also features interviews with Nasser Hussain, Adam Gilchrist (the batsman at the other end for much of Waugh’s innings) and media personality Andrew Denton, who had bought a day as the Australian 12th man at a charity auction and won himself one of the greatest afternoons of his life


Sport Speak
How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?
Liverpool manager
Rafael Benitez
is unlikely to be enthused by the subtleties of Test cricket. Not for want of trying, though..

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