Cup of Good Hope
India will be banking on individual brilliance rather than on traditional teamwork to carry on their campaign in the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies. This has happened in the past. Abhijit Chatterjee looks at India’s chances in the mega event
India’S only success in the World Cup in 1983 came largely due to the bits and pieces contributed by each member of the team rather than a combined team effort that year. Every member of Kapil Dev’s squad played to the plan and delivered what was expected of them. Do that in the West Indies (and this is all a matter of motivation) and history might well be repeated.

Captain Rahul Dravid has two match-winning left-handers to rely upon—Sourav Ganguly and Yuvraj Singh

• Build-up blues

• Colonel in command

‘I hope I can fulfil my dreams’
These are testing times for Raima Sen. She is up on trial in Eklavya and Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd. Vickey Lalwani chats up the happening actor
You play a mentally challenged girl in Eklavya?
Yes. I play Nandini, Prince Yashwardhan’s (Saif Ali Khan) sister. She is like an eight-year-old trapped in the body of a 25-year-old.

Meryl doesn’t worry about looks
Oscar winner Meryl Streep insists that the last thing she has to thank for her successful acting career, is her looks.