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Neeraj Chopra’s Gold Medal heroics at Tokyo – The red-letter day of Indian sport

Some 28 years ago, yours truly ended up watching the Olympics for the first time. It…

Decoding Team India ODI and T20 squads for the Sri Lanka tour

  With Gautam Gambhir taking over as the India cricket team head coach, an often-repeated term…

Carlos Alcaraz, the new king in tennis

In the third set tiebreak of the 2024 Wimbledon Men’s Singles final, Carlos Alcaraz, the eventual…

Cricketing Gods have final say in Anderson’s farewell Test

Do you believe in Cricketing Gods? On a pleasant day at Lord’s, it certainly felt like…

Gus Atkinson – from medium pace to 90mph and seven on debut

Bilateral T20Is played without any context attached to them are generally forgotten by fans within a…

Challenges and opportunities abound as Gambhir takes over coaching mantle

Before the 2012 IPL final between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, Gautam Gambhir had…

Sourav Ganguly’s 52nd birthday – Memories from a bygone era

On a rather cloudy morning at The Lord’s, Saurav Chandidas Ganguly, on his Test debut, walked…

The aura and mystery behind MS Dhoni’s cult status

Ever since MS Dhoni smashed a career-defining hundred against Pakistan in Vizag in 2005, his name…

Netravalkar shares his feelings on how he missed playing for India but clicked for the USA in World Cup

The photograph of a pleased Saurabh Netravalkar holding his hands aloft after bowling the all-important Super…