MiD DAY’s weekend Sports Guide

MiD DAY's weekend Sports Guide

MiD DAY's weekend Sports Guide

The Incredible

After playing a key role in England's victory at Lord's, skipper Andrew Strauss is set for another big innings in the third Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Chances are that he could do...
The Ashes Third Test, LIVE on Saturday and Sunday 15.30, Star Cricket

Sister act to roll on?u00a0

After facing each other in yet another all-Williams final at the Wimbledon, the American siblings are hoping for a repeat in the Bank of the West Classic WTA Tour event in Stanford. And unless Maria Sharapova spoils the party by surprising Venus Williams in the quarter-finals, it could very well be final between the Williams once again.u00a0
Bank of the west classic, second semi-final, live on sunday 06.30, on Neo sports

Plenty at stake

The British Open is over and done with. But golf fans across the globe are waiting in anticipation for the coming PGA Championships. Naturally, some of the big names on the tour are taking the ongoing Buick Open very seriously in order to prepare well for the year's last major championship. Will Tiger Woods resurrect his stumbling year or will it be someone else who will walk with the coveted trophy.
Saturday and Sunday, 22.30 LIVE on Star Sports

Hardcourt Tennis

After slugging it out first on clay and then on grass in the middle of the year, the tennis players return to the hard courts ahead of the US Open, the last Grand Slam of the year. Will Nikolay Davydenko emerge as a strong contender on a surface that suits his game best by winning the Allianz Suisse Open?
Semi-finals, Saturday 16.30; Final, Sunday 17:00, LIVE on Star Sports

Tension-free cricket

World Cup 1999 with former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram
Saturday at 10:30 (Star Cricket)

Champions Trophy Classics, India vs South Africa
Saturday at 09:30 (Star Cricket)

Summer of 1999
Saturday at 12:30 (Star Cricket)

Mumbai local

If you want to see whether some of the city's corporate bigwigs are good at playing football, then you've got to watch the Challenger Match of the Indoor Corporate Soccer Championship, India's first such event
Indoor Corporate Soccer Championship
Saturday 16.45, at World Trade Center, Cuffe Parade

Mithil Shinde (above) created a stir by shocking favourite Satbir Narula in the opening round of the Matunga Gymkhana-BSAM 6-Red All India Open Snooker Championship yesterday. Will the Thane Sports Club lad continue his splendid run?
Matunga Gymkhana-BSAM 6-Red All India Snooker, Saturday and Sunday 12 noon, at Matunga Gym

The cadet and sub-junior events of the year's first state ranking table tennis tournament are over. Watch how the big boys and girls fare at the start of another gruelling season.
Bombay YMCA State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament,
Saturday and Sunday 09.00 onwards at University Pavilion, Marine Lines

Topu00a0Five Faces on TV

Gaganjeet Bhullar

when the 21-year-old carded 5-under-67 in the last round of the Indonesian President Invitational Open in Jakarta last Sunday, he became the youngest Indian to win an international golf title. Relive his moment of glory.

Indonesian president invitational open, Saturday 12.30 and 20.30, Star sports

Tiger Woods

After failing to make the cut in the British Open, the American golf king had a disastrous opening round in the Buick Open on Thursday. But history tells us that Woods can be lethal on weekends. Watch out if he lives up to his reputation.

Buick open, Saturday and Sunday 22.30, NEO sports

Andrew Flintoff

The all-rounder has already made his last Test series special with a match-winning bowling spell at Lord's last week. Can Freddie sizzle with the willow and the cherry yet again to give England a 2-0 lead in the Ashes and make his swansong doubly special?

Ashes third test,u00a0 Saturday and Sunday 15.30, Star cricket

Irfan Pathan

Yusuf Pathan created a stir by saying Irfan's exclusion from Champions Trophy probables is because of reasons other than non-performance. The Indian cricket fraternity reacts to the accusations in a weekly cricket wrap-up.

India cricket weekly, Saturday 22.30, Star Cricket

Harbhajan Singh

The Australians have sparked off a debate over whether the doosrau00a0'the wrong-un bowled by off-spinners' is legal or not. Watch what The Turbanator, one of the world's leading tweakers, feels about the unique delivery.

India cricket weekly, Saturday 22.30, Star cricket