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January 09, 2023 Backstage with Boria Season 4 is back with a stellar line-up of sport stars. Over the next 3 months, the show will feature Nikhat Zareen, Satwik and Chirag, Manika Batra, Sourav Ghosal, Sharath Kamal, Abhinav Bindra, Tejaswin Shankar, Pankaj Advani, PR Sreejesh and Harmanpreet Singh, Dilip Tirkey, Mirabai Chanu Pullela Gopichand and a host of other leading athletes. With Indian hockey team kickstarting its Hockey World Cup 2023 campaign against Spain on Friday, January 13. Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey shared his thoughts on the event and India’s chances. Dilip Tirkey on BWB Season 4 said, “It…

Resenting cricket its popularity won’t help other sports progress. Media coverage has always been proportional to success, and that isn’t going to change. It’s been interesting to follow the discussions about the lack of media coverage given to the Indian men’s hockey team ahead of the World Cup that starts in Orissa later today. The likes of Viren Rasquinha, and others, are entirely justified in being dismayed at the lack of column inches, but to shed tears about the coverage is to ignore the cold, hard truth of how the media works. For the past quarter century, as Indian hockey…



– Boria Majumdar It was early into the second quarter of the bronze medal encounter against Germany and the pressure on the Indian defence was relentless. And soon enough the Germans had taken the lead scoring their second goal of the match in the 24th minute. Even before the German bench had stopped celebrating the second strike did they score a third. India was 1-3 down and things were fast going away from them. Yet again the spectre of underachievement was starting to loom large. The dream was turning sour and the agonising wait of 41 years was all set…





It’s a mark of the respect and admiration that Rahul Dravid commanded during his playing career that even his opponents didn’t want to see him fail. When Australia toured India in 2008, losing 2-0 in a four-Test series, Dravid’s contribution to the Indian cause was a paltry 120 runs. Before the Australian team left Indian shores, Ricky Ponting, then their captain, had a chat with Dravid. “You’re not doing a whole lot wrong” was the gist of his message. Even as the man who had been India’s unchallenged No.3 for the better part of a decade struggled to work the…

Before you make an instant judgement of the social-media kind, think about the question for a while. And before you answer, check some numbers too. No one is saying that a triple-century against Assam – even if the 379 is the second-highest score in the history of the Ranji Trophy – is reason enough to fast-track Prithvi Shaw back into the Test team. But it should at least make us think of why he’s shifted so far away from the conversation when it comes to India’s opening options. We had to wait more than 80 years for an Indian opener…