The duality of Shakib Al Hasan: Accused of murder, inspires Bangladesh to first Test win in Pakistan
Around 48 hours after he was accused of murder during the recent protests and violence in Bangladesh...
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Will Harry Kane’s Trophy curse finally end this season? ‘When you play for Bayern Munich, you know have to win, it’s easy,’ says Lothar Matthäus
The German word for ‘trophy curse’ – Trophäenfluch – has rarely been used for Bayern Munich in the 2...
Copa America: Lautaro Martinez’s 112th minute winner, a rare moment of composure on a chaotic night, hands Argentina a third consecutive major title
The 2024 Copa America Final was doomed to be chaotic long before the ball was kicked off at Hard Roc...
Nico lives the Williams dream in Spain’s record Euros triumph
All through the tournament, and especially in the lead up to the final, it was Spain’s sprouting rig...
Mastery of penalty shootouts behind England overcoming their greatest hoodoo and Argentina becoming world champions
Through the history of the England football team, no two words have struck more fear than penalty sh...
How Lamine Yamal, baptized by Messi, silenced Rabiot with a stunner to become youngest goal scorer at Euros
It was fitting that Adrien Rabiot stood right in front of him before Lamine Yamal pulled the trigger...
Former coach reveals reason behind Jude Bellingham’s steeliness: ‘As a kid, he watched his dad get kicked all over the place’
On ITV’s This Morning show, a guest didn’t hold back when the possibility of Jude Bellingham being b...
Euro 2024: Mbappe and Ronaldo clash in a passing of the baton quarterfinal match
When a 14-year-old Kylian Mbappe was at Real Madrid’s training ground, Zinedine Zidane, the club’s t...
T20 World Cup: How catching a 15 kg tigerfish helped Quinton de Kock’s comeback
All hell had broken loose after Quinton de Kock didn’t follow his team mates in taking the knee at t...
Lionel Messi says the end is near, so this football summer, switch from Euros to Copa America when you can
Fellow football fanatics, we’ve been warned. And so, we must turn our attention from Euros to their ...
How Rahmanullah Gurbaz, KKR’s jaani, revived his confidence for T20 World Cup from an emergency trip back home during IPL
Masked with a crochet on top to disguise himself, Rahmanullah Gurbaz decides to prank his Tuk-Tuk dr...
Euro 2024: Main man owns the big stage! How Jude Bellingham scored his stunning header in England’s 1-0 win
It wasn’t a walk in the park but England secured a 1-0 win and three points from their Euro 2024 ope...
Uganda’s Dhoni, Frank Nsubuga, stars in a special T20 World Cup win at age of 43
Four overs, two maidens, four runs conceded, and two wickets. Franco Nsubuga was only playing his se...
T20 World Cup: Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir, once tipped to be better than Wasim Akram, now making another comeback at 32
Asif Bajwa remembers the chilling November evening in 2011 when he heard those fateful words: his wa...
How Kohli is embracing the slog-sweep to shrug aside the strike rate debate
Less than a couple weeks after he went rogue and lashed his critics for delving into his strike rate...
Dortmund in Champions League final is a reason to celebrate football but they must not pop open the champagne yet
It was fitting that Mats Hummels was the one who headed home the goal which eventually sealed the Ch...
With a ticking mind and change in pace, Pat Cummins delivers at crunch time
SRH’s one-run heist vs RR is proof, never count out Cummins the bowler. Every now and then, the worl...
Behind Shashank Singh’s IPL success: A student who stepped up to keep his late coach’s academy running, a bit of Mumbai’s Khadoos and street-smart batting
It was late last year that Shashank Singh received the soul-crushing news from Mumbai. Vidya Paradka...
How Rishabh Pant almost nailed his T20 World Cup spot with a blinder
Synopsis: Axar and Pant stitch a vital stand and the latter takes the game deep, a speciality of Guj...
KKR, DC, now MI: In IPL’s home-away format, are local pitch makers offering host teams enough home advantage?
The other night, with Sunrisers Hyderabad nearing another win away from home, former India captain S...
Punjab Kings find Indian pinch hitters in Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma
Synopsis: After a Shubman Gill special in Ahmedabad, Noor Ahmad nearly scripted a familiar nightmare...
How the ‘child of wind’ Mayank Yadav has emerged as the wind beneath LSG’s wings
Synopsis: Propelled to 181 by Quinton De Kock and Nicholas Pooran, Lucknow seal the eve thanks to In...
SRH vs MI run-fest shows why power-hitting in T20 shouldn’t be reduced to street cricket’s lappas
Here’s a dystopia for all you cricket bowling aficionados. It’s IPL 50. Your icons are no longer aro...
How the much-chided Riyan Parag composed his IPL-best to orchestrate RR’s win over DC
Synopsis: Delhi set up the game with early breakthroughs but Riyan Parag, in his new role, turned th...
How Rachin Ravindra at CSK is fast becoming IPL 2024’s best signing: ‘I’ve always idolised Jadeja’
The IPL subreddit, usually a battleground for browbeating diatribes, last night offered something to...
Smriti Mandhana finally arrives to the WPL party but RCB fail to execute record-chase against Delhi
Of the few things that the Women’s Premier League missed last year was a signature Smriti Mandhana i...
WPL 2024: Obsessed with MS Dhoni, powered by javelin skills, Kiran Navgire leaves behind finisher role to arrive as an opener
Kiran Navgire loves finishing games. Her personal coach Gulzar Shaikh shares an aspiration the swash...
WPL 2024: Harmanpreet Kaur makes it two in two for Mumbai Indians, toothless Gujarat Giants back to chasing games
It can be difficult to find polar opposites in a five-team tournament, with a small sample size of g...
India vs England: How Shane Warne steered Shoaib Bashir, the Rajasthan Royals academy product, on the path to best Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja
It was a brief conversation with Shane Warne, exactly five years in February 2019, that left an inde...
Former BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah becomes another office bearer to have a stadium named after him
On Tuesday, the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) announced that it would rename its home venue i...