Sandip G, Delhi-based, writes primarily on cricket and football. He pens a weekly football column, Total Football. In 15 years of sports journalism, he has covered a vast spread of sports, including World Cups in three different sports (cricket, football and hockey).

March 15, 2017 01:15 IST
Ranchi’s PhD scholar-curator SB Singh gives no clue how the wicket will behave — or which surface on the central square will be used for the third Test
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
March 14, 2017 00:56 IST
Australia fret over the fitness of their frontline spinner, who suffered a finger injury in the Bangalore Test.
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
March 12, 2017 00:26 IST
Indian cricket team has been struggling to find a specialist fielder for short-leg position in Test cricket.
Sun, Mar 12, 2017
February 22, 2017 00:42 IST
For IPL franchises, market considerations are as important as talent
Wed, Feb 22, 2017
February 21, 2017 03:07 IST
Tamil Nadu's left-arm pacer is known for his yorkers and economical bowling.
Fri, Oct 02, 2020
February 19, 2017 01:08 IST
Virat Kohli might be few Test series wins abroad short of being likened to Steve Waugh, but he's moulding his team to look like the Australia’s Untouchables.
Sun, Feb 19, 2017
February 01, 2017 00:10 IST
Despite racism and constant criticism, Serena Williams is US’s greatest sporting icon.
Wed, Feb 01, 2017
January 26, 2017 01:09 IST
Hardik Pandya in the bowling department conforms to the old-fashioned values of discipline and accuracy, bowling within his limitations.
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
January 17, 2017 01:28 IST
While the Ranji champions’ batsmen walked away with most of the laurels, a pair of fast-bowling all-rounders too proved influential.
Tue, Jan 17, 2017
January 15, 2017 02:07 IST
The urge is to call this a fairytale. It is not. If you’d been following them, you could have noticed them unfurling like a slow-breaking wave.
Sun, Jan 15, 2017
January 15, 2017 01:57 IST
On Saturday, Parthiv Patel scarcely played a stroke that merited company or comparison with VVS Laxman’s canvas of melting strokes.
Sun, Jan 15, 2017
January 14, 2017 02:42 IST
Strategies and tactics Mumbai and Gujarat pursued were regulated by the clunky needles of the automatic clock atop the manual score card
Sat, Jan 14, 2017
January 13, 2017 01:19 IST
Prithvi Shaw played a scintillating knock in the second innings of the Ranji Trophy final. The right hander would smash bowlers around at will.
Fri, Jan 13, 2017
January 13, 2017 01:11 IST
Shreyas Iyer scored 82 runs in the second innings to lead Mumbai's comeback into the contest and push for a 108 run lead.
Fri, Jan 13, 2017
January 12, 2017 00:47 IST
Parthiv Patel and Manprit Juneja led the batting effort as Gujarat take 63-run lead with four first innings wickets left on Day Two
Thu, Jan 12, 2017
January 12, 2017 00:44 IST
Fast bowlers — he is of that snarling, combative type — generally harbour a feeling that they are perpetually luckless.
Thu, Jan 12, 2017
January 11, 2017 06:09 IST
Teenage opener Prithvi Shaw shows class but Mumbai implode on opening day of the Ranji Trophy final against Gujarat
Wed, Jan 11, 2017
January 10, 2017 00:37 IST
Gujarat will have to live without Jasprit Bumrah, while Mumbai to miss the services of experienced Dhawal Kulkarni
Tue, Jan 10, 2017
January 09, 2017 00:49 IST
The Gujarat-Mumbai rivalry has been more socio-political than cricket-related, but that may change now.
Mon, Jan 09, 2017
January 05, 2017 01:22 IST
While it maybe wasn’t entirely shocking, the abruptness of MS Dhoni’s retirement caught us off-guard. But there might have mitigating factors that prompted Dhoni to relinquish his captaincy.
Thu, Jan 05, 2017
December 31, 2016 00:45 IST
In the contest which saw Virat Kohli score his maiden double hundred, there was also Mohammed Shami's exceptional four-for in West Indies.
Sat, Dec 31, 2016
December 29, 2016 01:15 IST
Cheteshwar Pujara puts his year and numbers in perspective besides explaining forces at work behind the newfound buzz of the Indian team.
Thu, Dec 29, 2016
December 28, 2016 00:00 IST
‘Dangal’ succumbs unresistingly to the seductions of formula.
Wed, Dec 28, 2016
December 25, 2016 00:27 IST
Yet again, Tamil Nadu pace trio of K Vignesh, Ashwin Crist, T Natarajan made optimum use of the conditions to beat Karnataka.
Sun, Dec 25, 2016
December 24, 2016 04:35 IST
Pacers Aswin Crist and T Natarajan ran through Karnataka’s first innings, sharing nine wickets between them.
Sat, Dec 24, 2016





