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Top Sporting moments of 2005

Hiya folks !!!

It was a long break after my first post and the reason was there wasn't anything worthy or interesting to post about all these days. I could find anything and everything being blogged about in blogosphere and nothing much was left out.

But with the 2005 inching towards its close, it's that time of the year again. The 'Year in Review'. You could find this being done everywhere in MSM and I thought I'll do one for myself and that became the idea for my second post of the blog (At this rate, I am already a superstar celebrity- just one or two releases per year).When I say '2005 - Year in Review', I cannot go about and talk about all the things that happened in 2005 which would be too big a list to discuss. So I'll stick to my favourite and the one that I have some knowledge about - Sports.
Let's cut to the chase and list out my top sporting moments of 2005 (Sorry!!! Triwizard games don't count here!)

Maverick's Top sporting moments of 2005 (in no particular order)

1. England winning the Ashes.
2. Liverpool's stunning comeback in the second half of Champions trophy finals against AC Milan and winning it in extra time.
3. Rob Horry's (San Antonio Spurs) game winning 3 pointer with 5.8 secs left in Game 5 of 2005 NBA finals against the Detroit Pistons.
4. The rise of Sania Mirza - the new tennis sensation !!!
5. Lance Armstrong winning his 7th Tour De France title.
6. Roger Federer's becoming the 3rd man (after Bjorg, Sampras) to clinch 3 Wimbledon titles in succession when he beat Andy Roddick in 2005 Wimbledon finals.
7. Chelsea lifting the English Premiership crown after a gap of 50 years.
8. Sourav Ganguly, India's most successful test captain dropped from the Indian team after a spat with coach Greg Chappell.
9. The decline of Ferrari in F1 and the rise of Alonso.
10. The little master, Sachin Tendulkar scoring his record breaking 35th ton in test cricket and Lara becoming the highest run-getter in Test cricket.
11. Kiwis' record world record run chase against Australia in match 3 of Chappell-Hadlee series.

Well...that was my list and I'd love to see yours !!! What are you waiting for? Go ahead and post your top sporting moments of 2005 !!!