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Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Unexpected late twists Twelve needed off 13 balls, seven wickets in hand. This was a cakewalk for Gujarat Titans. A set Shubman Gill was in charge and dictating terms, playing on his home ground, albeit for a different team. Then came those twists that make the IPL an incomparable and unpredictable affair. There was every possibility of a Super Over or even a miraculous win for Punjab Kings. Arshdeep Singh and Sam Curran bowled two magnificent overs to raise hopes of the improbable, before Rahul Tewatia dashed their hopes. It was sloppy on the part of…

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay He has this habit of exceeding expectations. His father, a retired employee of the Southern Railways, used to be a medium-pacer playing in the third division of the Chennai league. He wanted his son to do better and play in the first division. Little did he know that his boy would go on to become one of Indian cricket’s all-time greats and of the best spinners the world has ever seen. Ravichandran Ashwin has kept raising the bar and scripting surprises. He was Player of the Match for Rajasthan Royals, when playing against…

The record books will tell you that Steve Waugh’s highest ODI score against India was an 81 he made in his debut season in 1985-86. They won’t tell you of the unbeaten 100 he made against an attack that included Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh and Debasis Mohanty, not to forget Sachin Tendulkar – who had taken a career-best 5 for 32 against Australia just five months earlier. Yet, this match, during the group stages of the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket event, was not given ODI status. Waugh’s match-winning effort, in a crushing 146-run win, is only part of his…





Mention Piyush Chawla to the casual cricket fan, and the response you’re likely to get will be on the lines of: “Oh? Is he still around?” It’s now over a decade since Chawla won the last of his 35 India caps, and more than seven seasons since he was even considered a contender for a comeback. In 2022, his Indian Premier League season was spent in the commentary box and not on the field. But this man, with the eternally youthful face, can still bowl a googly to telling effect, as the Delhi Capitals discovered to their cost on Tuesday…

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 What’s the latest on the #INDvPAK World Cup match? Which city could host the much anticipated clash? Is there any chance of it being shifted? Our team of reporters @CricSubhayan @Fancricket12 @atreyom @debasissen with the latest. Watch to know 👇@ThumsUpOfficial pic.twitter.com/Kfq7frYo09 — RevSportz (@RevSportz) April 11, 2023 A final decision isn’t likely until May, when the foreign ministers of the two countries are likely to meet, but Pakistan have signalled their willingness to play the World Cup in India later this year. There are now less than six months to go for the start…

You know you’ve watched something pretty special when several drafts of your report end up in the recycle bin. The memorable contests have so many twists and turns and reversals of fortune that the last word can’t be written until long after the final delivery or final whistle. It was that way with the FIFA World Cup final in December 2022, and cricket’s World Cup final three and a half years earlier. The match that made India fall in love with the shorter format, the World T20 final of 2007, went to the final over, with Pakistan finishing a…

A recurrence of a foot problem caused Tiger Woods to withdraw from the US Masters, after having made the cut for a 23rd straight time. What is it that keeps him going? On Sunday, April 9, a ball given by Tiger Woods to a then-nine-year-old boy during the 1997 US Masters sold for $64,000. Julian Nexsen was given the ball after Tiger bogeyed the fifth hole during his final round of 69. He would still win his first major title by the width of the Atlantic Ocean, finishing 12 strokes ahead with a record four-round total of 18…

G Rajaraman Shikhar Dhawan, the Punjab Kings skipper, shone like a beacon on a stormy night with a superlative unbeaten 99 but the brilliance of Mayank Markande, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s googly merchant, and Rahul Tripathi’s sedate-to-stunning effort with the bat sandwiched his effort as the home side cantered to its first win of the Indian Premier League 2023 season in Hyderabad on Sunday. It is not often that the performance of a player from a losing side cries out to be rated higher than the winning efforts of opposition players, but even the Sunrisers Hyderabad team would not…