India vs Bangladesh: Destiny smiles again on ‘forgotten man’ Rinku Singh
The last bleary memory of Rinku Singh in the India colours was bowling innocuous off-breaks on a swe...
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How a mother’s failed dream spurred rise of Wayanad as nursery for women’s cricket
It all started on a train trip from Kochi to Kozhikode in early 2000, after K M Elsamma’s daughter A...
QUICK COMMENT: India 2.0, Bangladesh 0; Rohit Sharma led team’s ‘Bazball X2’ approach snatches win from jaws of draw
A match, rudely broken by rain and an archaic drainage system, was won with a session and a half to ...
QUICK COMMENT: How Ravindra ‘300’ Jadeja proved the world wrong
Some bowlers are predestined to capture 300 wickets. Ravindra Jadeja was not one of them. That is wh...
Football shouldn’t be pretentious in thinking Arsenal and the use of dark arts is new to the game
Trash-talkers, time wasters, wind-up merchants, roughhousers. Every football team in the world has t...
India vs Bangladesh: Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj make it a team for all conditions and situations
A crew of high-grade fast bowlers storming in, whipping up speed and fear, soiling shirts with dirt ...
Lower representation of South Asians in English football due to lack of ambition, not facilities
In the Manchester United shellacking of Barnsley in the Carabao Cup, a willowy 18-year-old with dist...
Duleep Trophy: India A’s late surge beats India C & clinch trophy as Prasidh Krishna & Tanush Kotian upstage Sai Sudharsan ton
When Anshul Kamboj, the last India C batsman, took a last-gasp review, the India A players had begun...
Duleep Trophy: Arshdeep Singh proves red-ball credentials with 6-wkt haul as India D thrash India
In the tiny patio of the India D dressing room, Arshdeep Singh sought a marker to inscribe his match...
Riyan Parag answers the question: can he temper his adrenaline rushes?
Riyan Parag was cursing near the boundary ropes. The merry stands had fallen abruptly silent. The fe...
Matinee idol Suryakumar Yadav struggles, while unsung Abhimanyu Easwaran goes the whole hog in Duleep Trophy
The burly men under the sprawling gulmohar tree were stretching their legs and stifling their yawns ...
Duleep Trophy: Sanju Samson wins battle with self, Shreyas Iyer self-destructs
When twilight set in, the beat of the drums quietened and the bowlers waited for stumps on an exacti...
Runs and ruins at Duleep Trophy: Shreyas Iyer needs mountain of runs to surge back from the fringes
Relatable to the arid expanse that surrounds the Rural Development Trust Ground of Anantapur has bee...
India vs Bangladesh Tests: Mushfiqur Rahim, the everyman hero who embodies a country which thinks it has underachieved
Under the sombre Lord’s sky, a 16-year-old walks out to bat for the first time in a Test match. He l...
Staring at the unthinkable: Brazil’s plight in World Cup qualification points to the rot that entered its footballing soul long ago
Brazil’s latest coach Dorival Junior has waged several battles for survival. As a journeyman defensi...
India Test series provides pathbreaking moment for Bangladesh: The first 150-kph-er in Nahid Rana and Hasan Mahmud, with unique action, raise fast-bowling hopes
A speed merchant nudging 150kph, a sui generis in his country; a seam and swing merchant with dexter...
Ishan Kishan slams hundred in Duleep Trophy to begin his comeback from notoriety
Ten months after his last appearance for the country, Ishan Kishan made his first comeback step in A...
Has Sri Lanka taken one big step forward with Test win over England or is it a false dawn?
Pathum Nissanka, of sturdy constitution and brisk manners, marching towards his hundred and a memora...
Football stat confusion: Varying versions of even goals by Pele as no unanimity over competitiveness of various fixtures
The wait for his thousandth goal annoyed Pele. The journey from 989th to 1000 consumed only 24 days ...
Cristiano Ronaldo scores 900 goals: The numbers behind the versatility, greatness
Compressed in 900 goals spread across 21 years, 1236 games and numerous triumphs of Cristiano Ronald...
Duleep Trophy: Crisis man Axar Patel responds again, sends strong reminder to selectors
The stocks of Axar Patel, the red ball terminator on crumbling tracks, have plummeted. But the profi...
Messi-Ronaldo era ends? Neither footballer in shortlist of Ballon d’Or for first time in 21 years
The 30-player shortlist of Ballon d’Or contenders, for the first time since in 2003, did not feature...
Bangladesh fast bowlers emerge from the shadow of their spinners during historic Test series win against Pakistan
In the hardest of times, Bangladesh scripted the sweetest of their Test triumphs, beating Pakistan b...
Erling Haaland: Pep Guardiola’s latest muse is bringing master tactician out of Lionel Messi’s shadow
The movement is so slick that Erling Haaland seems almost automatic, a machine whirring to life. He ...
Why Richard Hadlee was moved to tears when he gave Lou Vincent a special cap
In the haze of depression a few years ago, Lou Vincent couldn’t imagine a night of redemption like t...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s YouTube channel: another foray into self-celebration and conceit
Cristiano Ronaldo does not want to go quietly into the sunset. Rather, he wants to suspend the sunse...
A new football super league has one goal: Get Kerala back on its feet
The name Sergio Barboza may hardly ring a bell among most football enthusiasts. He is a winger from ...
Shikhar Dhawan, the ODI batsman, combined the dazzle of Ganguly, the grit of Gambhir and the derring-do of Yuvraj
Shikhar Dhawan would have made one last entry into the diary that he has kept so close to his heart ...
Record 39 runs in an over in T20Is: Why Samoan Darius Visser’s six sixes in an over needs to be celebrated despite small ground and a matting pitch
Four months ago, Darius Visser, a cricket coach in a Sydney club, decided to dust up his old dream o...
Fabian Hurzeler, Premier League’s youngest ever manager at 31, loves setpieces and high-presses
Five of Brighton’s starters against Everton were older than their manager, Fabian Hurzeler. His mana...