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India didn't lose to Ireland and England. It lost to its own excuses
July 26, 2026 8:49 am
Unfit players, a wicket-taker left serving drinks, and a captaincy saga nobody will end: the wash-out in the UK exposed exactly what Indian cricket refuses to fix
Djokovic finally has love; the wins are what’s slipping away now
July 11, 2026 7:17 am
He has the trophies. For years, he didn’t have love. This Wimbledon, with his children watching, he finally has both on his own terms.
Why Ronaldo and Salah went straight on the biggest penalties of their careers
July 04, 2026 9:38 pm
Why do the best players in the world, men who can thread a pass through four defenders, sometimes come apart with nothing between them and the goal but a set of gloves twelve yards away?
That Summer of '86 when Maradona, Socrates changed our sleepy town forever
June 13, 2026 8:12 pm
Remembering the Rajkot tales about a cobbler who fell in love with Germany because of Schumacher, how the Joshis ended up supporting Brazil and Socrates taught young minds the definition of 'Cool'
Riyan Parag vape row: It's not the smoking, it's the culture at Rajasthan Royals
May 02, 2026 5:50 pm
There was a time when cricket's dressing rooms smelled of cigarettes and no one cared but now when a captain vapes in the dressing room as casually as players sip tea this is a certain red flag.
Batsmen playing like golfers and dead tracks are hurting IPL with a thousand cuts, and killing Tests
April 25, 2026 10:27 am
IPL's flat pitches and golf-swing gospel are producing batsmen who can't leave a ball. A Mohammed Shami spell in Lucknow showed the damage. The WTC table shows the cost.
Samastipur ka Lara, Najafgarh ka Nawab, God's Bandra home: Cricketers change a place's identity
April 18, 2026 5:47 pm
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar have redrawn their surroundings. A small town has found fame, badlands outside Delhi have got a new hero and an up-market Mumbai suburb has turned into a pilgrimage for the faithful.
Is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi changing Bihar? His mama, despite clearing UPSC, feels second-best in the family
April 12, 2026 10:32 am
The 15-year-old who has taken the IPL by storm retains his teenaged carefree, unstressed approach to the game and life, even as a state that prizes academics falls hopelessly in love with cricket
The drunk, the dead football club, and the giant they killed
March 21, 2026 7:59 am
Rob Smethurst was on the floor of an empty house when alcohol nearly killed him. The football club he bought drunk, saved his life — and then beat Crystal Palace.
Saim Ayub lbw Jasprit Bumrah: The India-Pak short story with a twist that will worry South Africa
February 22, 2026 9:37 am
While batsmen have devised myriad ways to counter vanilla yorkers of other bowlers, Bumrah's well-disguised bolts from the blue invariably leave them all scrambling in futility
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