Author: Rahul Giri



Shafali Verma has played a World Cup final before. What’s more, it was an experience that’s unlikely ever to be matched even if she plays another 20 years. It’s no exaggeration to say that the T20 World Cup final at the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 8, 2020 was the afternoon when women’s cricket came of age. A crowd of 86,174 watched Australia romp to the title. To put that into perspective, that was considerably more than the number (80,462) that watched England beat Pakistan to the men’s crown at the same venue in 2022. Verma’s time in…



-Atreyo Mukhopadhyay A marquee Test series coming up on which hinges India’s chances of making it to the World Test Championship final. All eyes on the build-up to the 50-over World Cup coming up later this year in India as well. In between, a T20 series? Is that not rather irrelevant? Yes it is. Surely, because the next World Cup in the T20 format is still some 20-21 months away. Before that, a lot of things will happen in the other formats. Those will have a more immediate bearing on what concerns the players, sponsors, fans and other stake holders.…



-Boria Majumdar It was just a few weeks after she had Izhaan and Sania was yet to shed off the baby weight. Making it back to competitive tennis was light years away and with nothing left to prove to anyone, it was tough to imagine she would give it one more shot and attempt one final comeback. But that’s Sania. Destinies child who loved to defy the odds. Shedding 26 kilos in a matter of months, her comeback was for all mothers than simply for herself. “Yes it was a way of telling every woman that motherhood isn’t the end…