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At the end of an eventful Indian Super League (ISL) season, dominated by a team that didn’t make the play-off final, we look back at some of the main talking points – the need for VAR, Sunil Chhetri’s slow fade and Simon Grayson’s remarkable rebuilding job.     So, the ISL season ended with ATK Mohun Bagan – now to be known as Mohun Bagan Super Giants – edging out Bengaluru in a penalty shoot-out. The teams that finished third and fourth in the regular season played out a final in Goa that wasn’t always high on quality, but one…

By Bharath Ramaraj One ball into his innings, KL Rahul had given some evidence that he could negate the threat of the moving ball in the first ODI against Australia. Mitchell Starc, who was in the middle of an excellent spell, pitched the ball further up in an attempt to sneak through Rahul’s defence with swing. Unfortunately for Starc, he didn’t generate much swing on that particular offering but his extra burst of pace and the left-arm angle could have still troubled a batter who was facing his first ball. Instead, what transpired was Rahul loading up the back…

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay The international cricket calendar forbids breathing space. Merely three days after a Test series, India and Australia are going to cross swords again, in the three-match ODI series from Friday. It’s a crucial engagement too, considering that this is a platform for both teams to check resources before the 50-over World Cup to be played in India later this year. It’s a different Australian squad where ODI specialists have replaced Test players. Back in the mix are Glenn Maxwell, Mitch Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa and others. Back home are the likes of Usman Khawaja and the spin…

Boria Majumdar March 16, 2012- Sher-e-Bangla Sadium, Mirpur: Sachin Tendulkar had just scored his hundredth 100 and only just finished the post-match media interaction. There was chaos all around, with everyone from the media, ground security, production crew and Bangladeshi administrators jostling to speak to the man. I knew it would be impossible to speak to him in that frenzy. Shortly after 11 PM, there were still thousands waiting on the road to catch a glimpse of the players leaving for the hotel. The Indian team was not able to leave the stadium for another hour or so and I…

 Lakshya Sen, Srikanth Kidambi, HS Prannoy will look to maintain their winning run, Satwik & Chirag to play Round of 16 in men’s doubles as Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly will eye QF spot Abhijit Deshmukh previewing day 3 of #AllEngland2023 from Birmingham

Making a second straight World Test Championship final is something to savour, especially when you look at Indian cricket’s history. It’s time too to name the trophy after Jagmohan Dalmiya, whose foresight made all of this possible. Thanks to the genius of New Zealand’s Kane Williamson and the hitting prowess of Daryl Mitchell, India were assured of a place in the World Test Championship final even before the players took the field for the post-lunch session on the final day in Ahmedabad. Again, their opponents will be from Oceania, with Australia replacing New Zealand, India’s conquerors in the 2021…

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Cricket is a unique game. It’s a sport where individual and team goals coexist without coming in the way of each other. In no other team game are personal milestones celebrated so effusively. This is manifested in cricket’s obsession with records such as number of wickets taken by someone, runs, five-wicket hauls, centuries and many more. But somewhere, these figures converge with what the team requires and the collective entity benefits from the individual pursuits. The fourth India-Australia Test showed this in no uncertain terms. From the Indian team’s point of view, at stake was and still is…

By Bharath Ramaraj Meg Lanning, Jemimah Rodrigues, Sophie Devine and Shafali Verma – some of Saika Ishaque’s victims in the ongoing WPL. Looking at some of the top names in Saika’s wickets column, the current Purple Cap holder in WPL can very well gilt frame the dismissals and keep it somewhere in her drawing room. It isn’t just about Saika picking up some prized scalps in the WPL but the manner in which she dismissed some of those batters exemplifies the point that she has unremitting self belief. As an example, just run through her scalps in Mumbai Indians’ game…

 Day 4 review by Atreyo Mukhopadhyay from Ahmedabad #WomensPremierLeague #WPLT20 #WPL

Atreyo Mukhopadhyay He cannot be questioned because of what he has achieved in the past. His ability to bounce back cannot be doubted because of what he has done with the bat in a Test career of nearly 12 years. There can be no argument about his class because of his success against every type of bowling in any condition. His mental strength is enormous, considering the way he has overcome adversities in his illustrious journey in international cricket so far. In a nutshell, that is Virat Kohli, inarguably the King of Indian cricket during his reign. In a country…