Author: Boria Majumdar

He has always had a calmness about him. A very West Indian relaxed kind of mindset and demeanour. And having seen adversity, he knows that one needs to celebrate and value the good that comes your way. The urge to keep getting better, and be the best version of oneself, is what defines the new Nicholas Pooran. That’s what came through in the candid conversations we had on the IPL and his own approach to batting. Not overawed by the 21-crore price tag or the weight of expectations, Pooran is simply going about his job. He knows he can hit…

Surely, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) aren’t this bad. To be routed in under 30 overs and pummelled by eight wickets. It was a no-contest that even the most ardent Mumbai Indians (MI) supporter found difficult to believe. Understandably, the fans are angry. In fact, fans often overreact and that’s always been the story of fandom. But, to a degree, they are entitled. In my book, the two most important constituents of the IPL are the players and the fans. Unless the fans watch it, there is no IPL. They help the broadcaster make money, encourage the advertisers to spend and…

This is part 2 of RevSportz’s exclusive interview with Igor Stimac, former coach of the India men’s football team. You can read part 1 here. You are touching upon some really important questions, but then what is the solution? Change the law, bring in PIO, that will give you a 10-year gap. You are talking about taking 13 years to make young players into good footballers. So this gap, you fill with PIO players. Solution 2, I- League, let it be played with Indian footballers. ISL, you are saying these clubs should now have ambitions at the Asian level. Only…

Hamza Choudhury, the English Premier League footballer, did very well for Bangladesh in the recently held India-Bangladesh match where India could not win even on home soil. Suddenly, there is clamour over whether players of Indian origin should play for India. There is a rule which stops them. Coach Igor Stimac had made and advocated this point as India coach. Why did he do it? Is it the only solution? We wanted to discuss the way forward for Indian football. It’s a year since Stimac left the job. Manolo Marquez has taken it over and, no disrespect to Stimac or…

It was much like the 2019 World Cup. MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja were both out there and the game was on edge. There were 25 crore people watching on Jiostar and the stadium was all yellow, screaming for their idol. Only, Dhoni is six years older and a hobby cricketer of sorts. But it was still very intense. The 19th over was proof. They needed 20 an over and Tushar Deshpande was handed the ball. Dhoni started with an upper-cut for four and then went big off the third ball for six. The commentators were all excited and when…

Uday Shankar is one of the brightest minds in the Indian media ecosystem. And this is what he said a few days back in an E4M media conclave. “You couldn’t be at Lord’s to watch a match or in Chile during an earthquake, but the journalist could. We were the link. Then the world changed. Journalism didn’t. When Steve Jobs put a camera in every pocket, everyone became a journalist. Instead of innovating, journalists started sourcing stories from the same places as their readers – Twitter, FB, WhatsApp. The power of journalism began to vanish the moment journalists stopped being…

It was about 925pm in Birmingham in August 2022 and the Commonwealth Games women’s doubles medal match was still on in the Badminton arena. I had come out to buy a sandwich when I saw Sharath Kamal walking towards the stands. We greeted each other and as expected started chatting about what he had achieved earlier in the day. 2006-2022 – 5 Commonwealth Games appearances, 5 gold medals and 10 medals in all and counting. It will take some doing to break Sharath Kamal’s record. Add the historic Asian games mixed doubles medal, multiple national medals and the sheer excellence…

It is very rare that you see Stephen Fleming lose his composure in a press conference. We witnessed this rarity on Friday after CSK’s loss against RCB. Fleming went on to say that they don’t really have any home advantage at the Chepauk and haven’t been able to read the pitch for some years now. Frankly, this meltdown is unusual. Fleming normally has a lid on his temper and isn’t the most temperamental man around. Or, that’s his public persona at least. Parthiv Patel added to the debate last night when he said GT deliberately used a black soil wicket…

Gujarat Titans (GT) suffered a loss in their first game of the IPL 2025 season, against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Ahmedabad. In the second game in front of the home crowd, Shubman Gill and his men will look to make a comeback against Mumbai Indians (MI). But, ahead of that season opener, RevSportz’s Editor-in-Chief, Boria Majumdar, had a free-wheeling chat with GT’s assistant and batting coach, Parthiv Patel for Back. He shared his journey, from being a player with distinction, then a broadcaster and then evolving into the coaching-set up for the Gujarat Titans. He talked about the franchise, the…

I was at Bhubaneswar airport in April 2023 when MS Dhoni walked out with just a few balls left of the CSK innings against LSG at the Chepauk. The television set in front of boarding Gate 1 on the ground floor, which till then had no takers, was all of a sudden the object in demand. Each one who did not have their mobiles open to Jio Cinema had queued up in front of the TV. In fact, the crowd was all of a sudden bigger than the queue in front of the security check. All wanted a piece of…