Author: Rahul Giri

India’s decision to bench SKY and Ishan Kishan didn’t prove costly in the first Sri Lanka ODI. In the end, the win was comprehensive. But there exist areas which will be closely followed over the next few outings -Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Apart from for pulling off a comprehensive win in the first ODI against Sri Lanka, the Indian team must also be complimented for taking a few tough calls. It is never easy to exclude some of the players who have done well in the recent past. Yet, captain Rohit Sharma and the team management decided to prioritise continuity and kept…



His relationship with the Real fan base may have soured in his last few seasons at the club, but Bale’s goals in the 2014 and 2018 Champions League finals will always feature prominently in the highlights reels of the world’s biggest football team.   Just who was Gareth Bale, and how good a footballer was he? Good enough to earn a $100m transfer to Real Madrid when he was 24, good enough to score the decisive goals in two Champions League finals, and win a Copa del Rey almost on his own. But the second half of his nine-year spell at…

                    –Abhijit Deshmukh, London                     With less than two years until the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, the entire official competition calendar has been announced. More than 10,000 athletes will compete at the 33rd Olympic Games which will take place in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024. The Games at French capital will feature 329 medal events in 32 sports (48 disciplines). Here’s is the day by day schedule of Paris 2024 Olympics. Add this in your bookmarks/favourites all medal events are listed in bold (local time-Central European…

-Atreyo Mukhopadhyay There will be experiments. Some will click, while some may not. It’s the beginning of a process that will end before the World Cup. In between, there might be fitness and form issues and new faces might come up. It’s going to be a wait and watch phase for the team as well as fans. India versus Sri Lanka. First ODI. At Guwahati’s Barsapara Stadium on Tuesday. The second ODI to be played at this venue is crucial. Not because it is the first game of a three-match series. Not because local authorities are making special arrangements to…

Press Release: January 09, 2023   “We don’t want to leave anything to chance”: Harmanpreet Singh on Backstage with Boria Season 4 Backstage with Boria Season 4 is back with a stellar line-up of sport stars. Over the next 3 months, the show will feature Nikhat Zareen, Satwik and Chirag, Manika Batra, Sourav Ghosal, Sharath Kamal, Abhinav Bindra, Tejaswin Shankar, Pankaj Advani, PR Sreejesh and Harmanpreet Singh, Dilip Tirkey, Mirabai Chanu Pullela Gopichand and a host of other leading athletes. With the much-anticipated Hockey World Cup 2023 to be held in India which is scheduled to begin from January 13,…