Author: Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar Anirudh Thapa has been one of the cornerstones of Mohun Bagan’s dominance of Indian club football in recent seasons. He has scored six goals in his 60 appearances for the Mariners, since the move from Chennaiyin FC in June 2023. In this exclusive interview with Boria Majumdar, RevSportz editor-in-chief, Thapa talks of the weight of the Bagan jersey, the Kolkata derby and why success in Asian club competition would mean so much for football in India. BM: Hello, and welcome to a very special conversation with a very special player. Anirudh Thapa has enthralled Indian football fans…

It was around 6:30pm in the evening when Sandesh Jhingan picked up the call. I have been checking on him almost daily, and it is only fair to state that he is one of my favourite players. “Kaise ho, paaji?” he asked, sounding somewhat weak and tired. Understandable, for he had undergone surgery a day earlier. When I asked him how he was and if things were somewhat better, he replied: “Just reached home an hour ago. They have given some strong medications, which is why I am a big groggy. But now, the comeback process will start in earnest.…

What is an exclusive story? What passes as exclusive? Almost every story these days is labelled as exclusive. Take the Asia Cup in Dubai. The Indian team arriving for training is a common visual. There is nothing exclusive about it. Never will be. Whichever journalist is there in Dubai will get the visual. There is no extra effort needed except the legwork to be there. And yet, you see a few platforms and it is mentioned as first and exclusive. This is plain nonsense to be honest and it is where the media starts to lose credibility. The other distinction…

Boria Majumdar Amit Mishra’s international career was a stop-start affair, comprising 68 matches across formats over a timespan of nearly 14 years. In those games, he took 156 wickets, including a memorable five-for on Test debut against Australia. He was also a notable performer in the IPL, taking 174 wickets until his final appearance in 2024. In this exclusive interview with Boria Majumdar, RevSportz editor-in-chief, Mishra looks back at the twists and turns in a career where nothing came easy. Boria: How do you look back on your career? Mishra: I would say I have had my share of ups…

In all fairness, this piece should have been written yesterday on the occasion of Teacher’s Day. But that’s fine. Teacher’s Day can or should be celebrated all days of the year and it is perfectly okay to write this today. I was thinking what is the one special show that I could do, which would make Teacher’s Day special for RevSportz viewers. And that’s when Karsan Ghavri came to mind. Ghavri was the one who discovered Shubman Gill and it is a fantastic story. I had first written about it in my book Mission Domination (with Kushan Sarkar) published in…

Just 10 days left for the nomination process to get done at the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). And it is well-known that Sourav Ganguly will file his nomination for the president’s post, with the AGM on September 22. What is not known is will there be a contest? Will his panel be challenged by candidates from the Avishek Dalmiya group? And that’s where the problem is. Sourav and Avishek — how did it come to this? Why and where did it all start to go wrong and is there an end to the acrimony? The two were closest allies…

Karsan Ghavri, the former India seamer, unearthed a gem, answering to the name of Shubman Gill. That was about a decade-and-a-half ago. A lot of water has flown down the Beas since. Gill is now India’s Test captain, but the teacher-pupil relationship has remained strong. On Teacher’s Day, Ghavri takes a trip down the memory lane, the discovery of a champion batsman, as he speaks to RevSportz’s Editor-in-Chief Boria Majumdar. Boria: Tell us a bit about your visit to the Punjab Cricket Association camp and the discovery of Shubman Gill. Karsan Ghavri: In 2011 or 2012, the BCCI, NCA (National Cricket Academy) had…

Boria Majumdar In an exclusive interview with RevSportz’s Editor-in-Chief Boria Majumdar, former India wicketkeeper-batsman Deep Dasgupta, who is now a commentator, speaks about Shubman Gill’s captaincy, Shreyas Iyer’s omission from the Asia Cup squad, Jasprit Bumrah’s workload management, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s future and more. Excerpts: Boria: How do you see the selection of Asia Cup squad? Deep: First of all, it’s always a pleasure speaking to to you. Talking about the squad, at this point when it comes to white-ball cricket, it has got so many players, I can name at least 30-35 of them and every one of them would have…

September 4. Exactly a month since the Oval win. And yet, it still seems so real, and also, so unreal. We were all hoping that the game would finish on Day 4 and I had even said to my team that they could have a day off and fly back the next day. At 301/3, it seemed the inevitable was on us. Yet another defeat and yet one more time, Indian cricket will be left with many more questions than answers. I would be questioned regarding my decision to take a team of eight to England and asked if it…

Can Justice L Nageswara Rao overseeing the tender process be seen as “Third party” interference? This is the question doing the rounds since the SC passed the order yesterday evening. While the AIFF is of the opinion that it should not be an issue, there are multiple opinions doing the rounds. One of the country’s leading lawyers who has also worked with very high-profile sports cases helped put things in context. “Justice Rao was the one who finalised the constitution and filed it in the court in 2023. He was the one who was negotiating with FIFA and AFC and…