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Sachin and I go back a really long way. The first time I met Sachin was at an under-14 camp in Indore. We were 13, Sachin eight months younger, and we were there at the camp conducted by Vasu Paranjpe under the aegis of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association. Sanjay Jagdale was instrumental in putting the camp together. I first noticed that the curly-haired boy from Bombay just loved to bat. He was the first at the nets and just kept batting. Such was his passion and intensity that Vasu had to eventually pull him out on occasions. Sachin would…

I had heard and read about Sachin’s exploits at the school level but had not seen him play. Hemant Waingankar, who sadly is no more, was like my younger brother, and he used to tell me at every opportunity how good a batter young Sachin was. So no wonder when he drove me to the airport to catch a flight to London for the Bi-Centenary Test match in 1987, the topic came to Sachin. Anil Joshi was also in the car and mentioned that the young man was a bit upset that he had not received the prestigious Best Junior…

By Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Delhi (and Khaleel) drop the ball You do not drop catches like that. Come on, Khaleel Ahmed, what was that? Easiest of dollies. And what did that amount to? An enormous total for Lucknow Super Giants. Kyle Mayers was on 14 when that sitter was grounded, and he then went on to play a blinder, a 38-ball 73. A left-handed bat smashing bowlers out of the ground is a pretty sight, but today he had a huge stroke of luck. If you drop such catches, you lose matches. It was no different today. Good Wood…

Kolkata, March 5: India’s first individual Olympic Games champion, Abhinav Bindra today said athletes must be driven not just by outcomes but by values, joy of effort and purity of process. Speaking during a session titled ‘The story of medals and a changing values system’ in Trailblazers, India’s biggest sports conclave, he said it is important to win medals but there has to be a balance. “It is important to have financial security but values are important. I don’t look back at medals but at relationships that I built during my careers. For instance, my relationship with my parents,…

India’s left-handers, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel, batted nearly 60 overs on a surface that was supposedly tailormade to trouble Australia’s lefties. The visitors need to go back to basics to rebound from this disaster This abbreviated Test in Nagpur was Australia’s 15th on Indian soil in nearly 15 years. Of those, they have won one, at Pune in the series opener in 2017. There have been 11 defeats. Test cricket, a format that’s taken seriously by less than half a dozen countries, desperately needs its rivalries to survive. And if the Border-Gavaskar trophy is to be viewed as a…

 Long training session for Team India at VCA stadium in Nagpur!!! KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma all in the session but the focus was something else!! Debasis Sen reveals.



From second-class travel and rooming in dormitories to a TV rights deal worth more than Rupees 7 crores a game and high-profile ads promoting the team jersey, women’s cricket in India has enjoyed a dizzying rise over the past couple of decades. Two of its greatest names may have given up the sport recently, but as the bids worth hundreds of crores for the five franchises that will be part of the Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL) showed, the future is unmistakably bright. Here’s a quiz question for you. How many years has it been since an Indian team…