Author: Boria Majumdar

There is no question that Rohit Sharma has not been at his best in red-ball cricket in recent times. Compared to the Rohit we saw in England in 2021, the Indian skipper seems to be in a hurry each time he is out there in the middle. It is as if he is bringing his white-ball approach to the red-ball game, blazing away from ball one to try and get himself out of the rut. Maybe that’s where he needs to take a step back and pause. Ask himself what worked for him in red-ball cricket in tough batting conditions.…

New Zealand have humiliated India in India, clinching an unassailable 2-0 lead in the ongoing three-match Test series. After 12 years, India’s unbeaten streak at home has come to an end, and with one more Test remaining at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Indian fans are growing anxious about the team’s form – especially with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia on the horizon and their place in another World Test Championship final uncertain. In an exclusive chat with Boria Majumdar, RevSportz Editor-in-Chief, former India cricketer and chief selector MSK Prasad shared insights on the team’s struggles against spin, the quality…

A week that will forever define New Zealand cricket. In sport, the toughest thing to do is turn things around. Change a bad patch into a good one. Defaat into victory, and adversity into triumph. New Zealand has done it spectacularly in the last one week, and what happened with their cricket could be a good leadership case study. For context, the women’s team went into the T20 World Cup at the back of ten straight losses. No one really gave them a chance. We were all speaking of Sri Lanka as the dark horses that could upset India. Not…

It was always on the cards. And yet, you tend to think there would be fight. From someone. At least two or three of them would put their hands up. Make a difference and be counted. Virat Kohli would turn the clock back. Rohit Sharma would play a captain’s hand. Rishabh Pant would yet again lead India to an improbable victory. It was false hope. India were bad. Rank bad. The Pant dismissal was the turning point for me. A suicidal run, which made no sense whatsoever. He hesitated, and then ran. The ball was going to Mitchell Santner’s throwing…

No team have dominated India at home in the last decade in the manner that New Zealand have in these two Test matches. In that sense, credit to Tom Latham and his boys. But when we cast an eye on the Indian batting, there is far more than pitches and conditions behind the dismal failures in back-to-back matches. It is as if India are fighting some inner demons, and trying to be aggressive every third ball. No one is willing to grind it out, and look ugly. No one is keen on batting like you would in conventional Test cricket.…

Victory in defeat. Yes, it sounds a cliché, but if there was ever truth to that saying, it could be found in Rani Rampal’s career. First things first, I would surely have attended her farewell and had even booked tickets to do so. Had the cyclone not happened, it was one event I’d have loved to be part of. And I had promised her the same when she had called three weeks ago to ask me to save the date. How will I remember Rani, and what’s her legacy? To answer this question, we need to go back to the…

You speak to people, and you understand how much tension has been brewing. After all, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was supposed to have a Special General Meeting (SGM) on October 25, and the massive fissures within the organisation are all out in the open for the world to see. On Wednesday evening, a memo from the office of Kalyan Chaubey, the IOA’s joint secretary and acting CEO, announced that the SGM had been pushed back to November 10 because of ‘unavoidable circumstances’. The postponement changes little. Will the members rally behind PT Usha, the IOA president, or will they…

Glasgow has finally decided to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games (CWG). Also, the 10 sports that will make up the event have now been made public. Notable omissions are wrestling, cricket, squash, table tennis, badminton and hockey. The reasons given for the curtailment are escalating costs, and the desperation to make the Games viable and sustainable. While it is only fair that the organisers don’t want to host a mega event which eventually leaves a city with a huge debt burden, it is also clear that the CWG, as a movement, has completely lost relevance. This is an attempt to…

It was my first meeting with Chirag Shetty since the mixed-zone interaction after the quarterfinal loss in Paris. And the first thing that struck me was that Chirag had shed another couple of kilos. He looked unusually lean and was extremely quiet to start with. In fact, you wouldn’t even have known he was around. When we finally got a chance to catch up at some length, it seemed to me that Chirag was still trying to deal with the disappointment of Paris. He is still in mourning and hasn’t really been able to overcome the pain. “I am still…

Running gives us agency, and allows us to celebrate ourselves. Each one who ran the half-marathon in New Delhi is a star. For the last three days, I had the pleasure of hosting the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon in Delhi. It started with the fantastic “Beyond the Finish Line” on Friday, and ended with the Champions Dinner last night. Over 36,000 people took to the streets of Delhi on Sunday morning to make it a fantastic event, and I have to say the energy was palpable. Why is it that running is now a revolution in India? Why do we…