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Number Game 4 Number of times MS Dhoni has hit a six to win a match for India. Before the consecutive matches at Jaipur and Pune,...

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Number Game
4 Number of times
MS Dhoni has hit a six to win a match for India. Before the consecutive matches at Jaipur and Pune, hersquo;d done it against the West Indies at Dambulla on July 31 and against Zimbabwe at Harare on September 4. He now holds the record in this category, leaving behind Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar who twice ended matches with hits over the boundary
50Q
JYOTI RANDHAWA
Golfer

8226; The last book you read?
Jose Mourinhorsquo;s biography Mourinho: The True Story. He is a master act and I have followed his career as manager since his Champions League triumph with Porto. Now, I like him even more since hersquo;s a phenomenal coach and I support Chelsea
8226; The sportspersons yoursquo;d pay to watch?
Andre Agassi, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, because they all have personas bigger than their games
8226; Your favourite superstition?
I never lose when I wear red; I like red. Also, the colour of my grip needs to be yellow
8226; Your most embarassing moment?
While playing a doubles match in the world championship at Chennai, an opponent pulled my shorts down.
8226; If not a squash player, yoursquo;d have been8230;
A rock star. I am not trained in music but I love it, and catch up on all the jazz shows when I can.

Pick Of the Week
Manchester United vs Chelsea
Live on Star Sports, Sunday 9-30 p.m.

United fans will watch it for signs of life in a club in apparent irreversible decline. Red-haters will watch it for the same reason,
with different intent. Chelsea fans will watch for the goals they should pump in. The neutral will watch it for some of the best
talent in football

The Write Stuff
Farokh Engineerfrom the Far Pavilion
John Cantrell

An insight into Indiarsquo;s original swashbuckling wicket-keeper, before MS Dhoni happened. Incidentally, one of Engineerrsquo;s first modelling stints was for Brylcreem; Dhoni with his flowing mane looks set to follow as corporates queue up. The serious background stuff in the book is peppered with Engineerrsquo;s extraordinary tales of his life as a cricketer, and the book includes a foreword by former British Prime Minister John Major, who calls the Indian one of the finest entertainers

Sport Speak
ldquo;He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out.rdquo;
Thatrsquo;s fighting talk: Mark Nicholas on fellow commentator Geoffrey Boycott
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