Author: Trisha Ghosal

It’s Ashes time again from Thursday, with a few changes. Instead of Pat Cummins, the focus will be on Alyssa Healy, and instead of Ben Stokes, the spotlight will fall on Heather Knight. Instead of “Bazball”, it’s back to good, old, conventional cricket. England Women and Australia Women will lock horns in the one-off Test match of the Women’s Ashes series. The match starts at 3:30pm IST on June 22, at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground in Nottingham. The Australian women’s team has dominated the women’s Ashes for nearly a decade. The last time England women won the Ashes series was…

In a generation where T20 and T10 franchise leagues are ruling the cricket world, there has been a lot of talk about whether the Test format can survive. The introduction of the World Test Championship was the ICC’s way of reviving interest in Test cricket. It has worked, but with T20 leagues taking place in almost every country across the year, will viewers still be interested in Test cricket? This has been a constant concern in the last few years, and England’s coach-captain duo of Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes seem to have come up with a solution – Bazball.…

It’s not easy being an RCB fan. The team has always had star power, but we don’t have IPL trophies in the 15 years that the tournament has been played. For all the trolling that the RCB franchise gets for not winning the trophy, it might seem that RCB has never even come close. The truth, however, is far from that. RCB has consecutively qualified for the playoffs for the last three years but has fallen short ahead of the final hurdle. If you are an RCB fan, living your life becomes easier because RCB’s performance is as unpredictable as…

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) breezed past a stiff target set them by Sunrisers Hyderabad to keep alive their playoff hopes in IPL 2023. Virat Kohli’s first IPL hundred since 2019 led the way, and yet another century stand with Faf du Plessis ensured that RCB had few alarms on the way to a target of 187. Here are our takeaways from the game. Kohli comes alive In you’re chasing in a must-win game, you would want to have Virat Kohli on your side. He loves a challenge, and he loves chasing. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) had to win this game…

Writing an autobiography is never easy, but Jaidip Mukerjea has done it well. It adds to India’s tennis literature and increases its depth. The book, titled Crosscourt, is co-written with Papri Sen Sri Raman and released by Vitasta. Ramanathan Krishnan, one of India’s greatest tennis players, was impressed by Mukerjea’s style of play, “aggressive, more on the unorthodox side”. “I felt happy seeing him for selfish reasons,” said Krishnan. “I was keen to do well in Davis Cup competition for India.” His dream came true in 1966 when India reached the Challenge Round [the final] of the Davis Cup. After…

I don’t recall how and why I became a Sachin Tendulkar fan. But growing up, Sachin Tendulkar became synonymous with God for me. I had numerous scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, and Boomer cards; everything was about the Master. But, I had obviously never imagined that I would be writing in a book dedicated to him. I had Sachin’s poster on my cupboard, and I would go to that poster for all sorts of help; I would pray in front of the poster even before my school exams. That’s how much he means to me. In 1996, I was on a train…

 The Netherlands hockey players love playing football. In this video we see few players showing their football skills as they were about to board the team bus before leaving the Birsa Munda Stadium after their practice.