Author: Gargi Raut

Indian badminton fans have a reason to cheer again with the news of Premier Badminton League making a comeback after a long hiatus. Sanjay Mishra, General Secretary of the Badminton Association of India (BAI), has confirmed that plans are in place to restart the once popular franchise-based league. Although a packed international calendar will make an immediate restart impossible. PBL was first launched in 2016 where the franchise Delhi Dashers lifted the inaugural title. The tournament quickly grew into one of the most prominent badminton leagues, it drew top international stars and featured India’s finest shuttlers. The league lasted five…

For decades, sports in India hid away in the shadows, lurking behind the one giant, cricket. Cricket has been towering over every other sport in the country, while other disciplines struggled for visibility, support and recognition. By default, parents would encourage their children to pursue engineering, medicine, civil services and other such educational fields. Parents who encouraged their children to pick up sport, especially track and field remained a minority. To dream of becoming a professional athlete is still seen as a gamble and not a career. But the narrative is changing in modern India. Today, sport is more than…

Gargi Raut The Asia Cup is returning after eight years and India’s World Cup qualification is at stake. The men’s hockey team is staring at both pressure and opportunity. In an exclusive conversation with RevSportz, vice-captain Hardik Singh and midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad open up about their worst “downfall” at the recent Pro League, the lessons they have learned and India’s ‘step-by-step’ approach in the hunt for a World Cup berth. From the heat in Rajgir to the dream of reclaiming continental glory, the duo discusses motivation, responsibility, and their vision for the next generation of players. Q: This is…

P.V Sindhu has had a hot and cold return to the international stage following a long injury break last year. After a run of disappointing tournaments, including multiple early exits, India’s star shuttler has shown a glimpse of her old self at the Round of 16 match at the BWF World Championships. She caused an upset as she beat World No. 2 Wang Zhi Yi with a dominating performance. A straight set 21-17, 21-15 victory secured Sindhu’s berth in the quarter-finals of the prestigious tournament. This is her first time in the last three years to have reached the…

Preethi Pal is fresh from her double-bronze-winning campaign at the Paris 2024 Paralympics,and she is already gearing up for another career-defining moment at the World Para Athletics Championships on home soil in New Delhi. As one of India’s flagbearers and leading medal hopes, Preeti is more than ecstatic to compete in front of the home crowd and add more medals to her cabinet. In an exclusive conversation, she opens up about her full-circle moment, the significance of competing on home ground, the honour of receiving the Arjuna Award and being felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the growing visibility…

The World Para Athletics Championships is only a month away and the Paralympic Committee of India has unveiled the official Team India jersey in Delhi. PCI also formally announced a 73-member Indian squad that will represent the nation for the Championships, scheduled to be held from September 27 to October 5 2025. The unveiling at The Lalit Delhi was host to PCI’s brand ambassador Kangana Ranaut, President Devendra Jhajaria, Head of World Para Athletics Paul Fitzgerald, and several Indian para athletics stars like Preeti Pal, Simran Sharma, Rinku, Dharambir, Devender Jumar, Amisha Rawat, Shreyansh Trivedi, Varun Singh Bhati and Pranav…

Mirabai Chanu, former World Champion and Olympic silver medallist, is back on the grand stage. After the 2024 Paris Olympics heartbreak, where she narrowly missed a medal and finished fourth in the 49kg category, Mira has now made a triumphant return at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2025 in Ahmedabad. In her first international competition in the 48kg category, she won gold and set records in the snatch, clean and jerk and total. The category change was prompted after the International Weightlifting Federation discontinued the 49kg category where Mira dominated. In an exclusive chat with RevSportz, Mira and her coach…

From the outside, the work of travelling media looks like a dream job, living and breathing cricket every day, getting the best seats in the house, witnessing sporting history, and in many ways it is a dream that everyone one of us in the press box have worked their hardest to achieve. Fifty days on the road, five Test matches, countless live shows, press conferences, practice sessions covered, drama unfolded, history made, but behind all the privilege lies one of the hardest parts of the role: staying objective. When you’re on tour as a media professional, you are the eyes…

Fifty days. That’s how long it took for everything to change, not just the stories I was chasing, but the journalist I was becoming. From countless live shows, rain or sunshine, to pushing your limits every day, covering the India vs England Test series was beyond just the matches. While many of us show glimpses of what it’s like travelling and covering games, few know about the quiet, exhausting, often invisible work behind the scenes. Running up and down stadiums, ideating, live shows in the pouring rain, articles written after a long and exhausting day, work done from buses to…

Fifty days of touring around England. Five Test matches lasting 25 days. A thousand stories, tales and moments to look back on. But if there’s one lesson I, along with many others watching on a screen, will carry from this Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, it’s this – never write off a fightback. Throughout the series, even when no one believed, even when the scoreboard said it was over, India showed that with fight and grit, comebacks could define a game. The lessons start with Mohammed Siraj, the man who bowled the most overs and yet, somehow, never looked like he was done.…