Legends gather on eve of Eden Test to remember Jagmohan Dalmiya, cricket’s greatest administrator

After six long years, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) organised the Jagmohan Dalmiya Conclave. The…

Memories of Eden 2010 – Amla’s defiance and Bhajji taking the roof off

Boria Majumdar With less than a day to go for the India-South Africa Test match at…

Getting the madding crowd back to Eden will be Ganguly’s biggest challenge

Boria Majumdar As we get ready for the first Test match of the India-South Africa series…

Sport and superstition – the journalist as (un)lucky mascot

Boria Majumdar It was the Asia Cup final, and India were reduced to 20-3 with Abhishek…

November 10, 1991 – the day India won despite White Lightning striking Eden Gardens

Boria Majumdar With the Indian and South African players having touched down in Kolkata, the focus…

The South Africa readmission tour that paved the way for BCCI’s billions

  Boria Majumdar You watch a cricket broadcast today and there are 30-plus cameras being used,…

Indian football stares into the abyss, undermining FSDL has hit hard

Boria Majumdar Indian football is facing a battle for  survival. To imagine a country’s national league…

100 years of Indian Hockey – How it all began

Boria Majumdar Writing in 1959, this is how AS de Mello described the formation of the…

Could Dhruv Jurel be the answer at No. 3 for India against South Africa?

It was a green deck, and South Africa A bowled with a lot of venom in…

With Jaiswal in the wings, and Samson in the squad, Shubman Gill will feel the heat

Shubman Gill’s inclusion in India’s T20 side has polarised opinion. Ahead of Gill’s return to the…