Author: Rahul Giri

-Bharath Ramaraj If we take a piece of paper and do some number-crunching on Mohammed Siraj’s bowling, one particular statistic glows brightly: His first PowerPlay numbers in ODI cricket since the start of 2022. In that period, Siraj has plucked as many as 25 wickets in the first 10 overs. To understand Siraj’s ever-rising stocks with the new ball in the 50-over format, let’s turn the pages back in time to January 15 this year. The temperature at Thiruvananthapuram had cooled down a bit after soaring to almost 40 degrees in the afternoon. But while zooming on the action in…

-Anindya Dutta A flick off the legs. A single. A simultaneous expulsion of a billion breaths longing for release. A raised bat. A kissed wedding ring hanging from a chain around his neck. A look up at the sky. A silent prayer. It had been three years and a lifetime in the making, but the moment had finally arrived. Virat Kohli was once again a Test centurion. It didn’t matter that it was his twenty-eighth century. Nor, with this, his seventy-fifth overall in international cricket, he now stood alone at the top of the list of active…

-Boria Majumdar Indian badminton takes serious strides. Each time they lost a close match I’d call up Gopi and ask him why is it that Gayatri and Treesa can’t close out close games. Why is it that Gayatri isn’t being able to defend and why is Treesa rushing into closing points? Each time Gopi would tell me give them a little time. They have the ability. Gayatri will build more power and get better at defending and Treesa will get better at attacking. My question was when? Women’s doubles since Ashwini and Jwala hasn’t really been our forte and…

-Rohan Chowdhury The Hero ISL 2022-23 Grand Finale will kick off in a day, as ATK Mohun Bagan will lock horns with Bengaluru FC. After two breath-taking tie-beakers in the semis, both these sides sealed their final berths. The Green and Maroon brigade, however, the oldest in the country, 9-years old Bengaluru FC, might perhaps be the most successful Indian club in recent times, with two I-League titles, one ISL title, three Federation Cup titles and one Durand Cup title. This will be The Mariner’s first-ever ISL final since they joined the league in the 2020-21 season, but they have…

-G Rajaraman It is more than merely interesting to read the recent National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel’s order sanctioning 20-year-old middle- and long-distance runner Pallavi Chandrakant Jagdale a four-year ineligibility period after her urine sample, collected out of competition in Nashik in May 11 last year, tested positive for banned substance, Darbepoetin (dEPO) Pallavi testified before the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel that when she felt lethargic, she approached a supplement supplier Rajesh who administered her an injection on the pretext that it relaxed the body and was dope-free. Just 19 years of age at the time of sample collection, she…







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