Author: Boria Majumdar

By Boria Majumdar The first Test between England and India will start in Leeds on June 20, 29 years to the day since a certain Sourav Ganguly (and Rahul Dravid) made his Test debut. He announced himself on the big stage with an accomplished 131, a knock he followed up with 136 at Trent Bridge. Having drawn a series in England as captain in 2002, Ganguly spoke exclusively to Boria Majumdar, RevSportz editor-in-chief, about the unique challenges that India will face in England, and how Jasprit Bumrah’s fitness is key to Shubman Gill enjoying a winning start as skipper. Boria:…

Talking cricket with Sourav Ganguly is a pleasure. And when it is an intense conversation with no phone calls in between, it is more so. That’s what happened at his Waterloo apartment on Monday, June 9, 2025. While we did do a formal interview and the transcript will be published on RevSportz in a couple of hours, the backstage, which was just normal cricket chat, was just as interesting. Take the Rishabh Pant case, for example. Sourav, for long, has been a Pant supporter. In fact, it was Sourav who had said to me in 2019 that Pant would be…

This game could well mark the end of the Manolo Marquez era. And may I say it isn’t a bad thing for Indian football. It has been the worst one year for the national team and someone who was negotiating and agreeing with FC Goa was clearly not interested in the India job. Or he had seen the writing on the wall. Either way, Manolo wasn’t on it 100 per cent and it will be better for the AIFF to look beyond him. Three years back India beat Hong Kong 4-0. Today, they lost 0-1 to the 153rd ranked side.…

Boria Majumdar As a player, Michael Clarke was part of one of the strongest Test sides in history, which won in India for the first time in 35 years in 2004. Now a commentator after an illustrious career as player and captain, Clarke spoke exclusively to Boria Majumdar, RevSportz editor-in-chief, about the World Test Championship final between Australia and South Africa. Boria: In your books, are Australia the favorites for the WTC final? Michael Clarke: I think the Australian team is playing beautiful cricket, the way we dominated India in Australia. And again, I think the conditions play a part…

A visibly relaxed Srinjoy Bose, who filed his nomination for General Secretary of Mohun Bagan Club, caught up with me around midnight India time. After a rather acrimonious election campaign where Bose and Debasis Datta traded barbs for almost two months, both called a truce and decided to come together to bury the hatchet. “Everything can be resolved through dialogue, and while it is true that we had drifted apart and did not see eye to eye for some time, I am glad we managed to resolve our differences and come together for a cause,” said Bose. When asked what…

It was a plan well made. Sourav Ganguly would be back from Lord’s by 12:30pm after his meeting, and we would catch up at his Waterloo apartment over lunch to set up the England-India series. Ganguly is always a delight to speak to, and more when it is in London and about Test cricket. What we hadn’t factored in was that the train journey from Oxford to London Paddington could be badly messed up. An incident at Reading meant the train wouldn’t go to Paddington, and one had to shift to the Waterloo option from Reading. Actually, it wasn’t a…

Boria Majumdar Kuldeep Yadav will be 31 in December. Yet, in a superb international career that has seen him take 306 wickets from 166 matches across all formats, it’s almost staggering to note that only 13 of those caps have come in Tests. Wretched luck with injuries hasn’t helped, and neither did the presence of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja – two of the all-time greats – in the Indian side. But with Ashwin now retired, Kuldeep has an incredible opportunity to nail down a place on the upcoming five-Test tour of England. In this exclusive interview with Boria Majumdar,…

Anyone who follows Kuldeep Yadav knows he is a football fan. In fact, an ardent fan who hardly misses a major football game. But that he was a fan of Mohun Bagan wasn’t known to me ahead of this interview. It was indeed a revelation as a Mohun Bagan fan myself. “Yes and I have gone and watched a number of Mohun Bagan games as well,” Kuldeep told me. “I did not tell anyone that I was coming, for then you get all the attention as a cricketer. I just wanted to go and enjoy as a football fan and…

Boria Majumdar I have so far stayed away from writing about this issue. But now, I think it’s time. Every passing day, this trend is becoming more and more prominent. People lifting interviews and passing them off as their own without giving credit. Ethics? Professionalism? Basic sense of professional integrity? We at RevSportz have time and again called some of these people out. While some have apologised, others have disappeared. Sometimes, we have let things pass because we are so used to it. Such acts weren’t right. We should have called such offenders out. And not let them be. It…

There has always been much talk about the renaming of the Pataudi Trophy. A number of former cricketers and public intellectuals have spoken against the idea and said it is a sign of disrespect to the Pataudi family. From what I have heard, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) certainly want the Pataudi name to be associated with the series, while also honouring James Anderson and Sachin Tendulkar by renaming the trophy after them. “It is not true at all that the Pataudi legacy is being disrespected,” said a…