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Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist is expecting a tough battle against India when the four-match Test series gets under way. He believes that Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar will provide stiff opposition and is not sure if the new generation of Australians can fill the breach left by McGrath, Warne, Langer and Martyn.
All cricket fans in India are aware of the feats of former West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd who is still involved with the game in a big way in West Indies. But Lloyd’s son, Jason, is a goalkeeper for the Guyana national football team. Jason has also tried his hand at cricket but decided that it was not his game and instead took up football.
Footballer Didier Drogba was born in Abidjan on March 11, 1978, and spent his childhood in his home country Côte d’Ivoire and in France. ‘Tito’ as he was known to friends and family, first left his native country at the age of five and went to France where his uncle, Michel Goba, was a professional footballer. His family later settled down near Paris.
Archer Dola Banerjee is confident that she has a good chance of winning a medal in the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. After winning the world title in the recurve bow competitions recently the archer from Bengal said that Indian archers now have attained a level from where they can realistically expect to beat the best in the world.
New Zealand cricketer Jacob Oram is 1.98m tall but shows a surprising amount of speed and agility while fielding, despite his height. Sports specialists feel that his quick reflexes and agility may have come about due to his training as a football goalkeeper in his earlier years.
Muttiah Muralitharan who recently broke the world record for the highest number of wickets in Test cricket is a man with a variety of interests. In 2004 he became an ambassador for the United Nations World Food Program, and joined an anti-poverty campaign. He was also instrumental in organising food distribution to victims of the tsunami in his country and elsewhere.
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