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It has been a wonderful decade for Indian sports. Achievements have come in varied fields and the success story has led to a proliferation of events, some competitive and some not.

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25-01-202012 STORIES

Prolific: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were successful with the bat and scored runs in every format of the game in 2019.

On The Write Line

The glorious run of Team India in 2019

The Indian cricket fans would want their beloved blues to win more laurels and also some special silverware in the new decade.

Sunil Gavaskar

Swiss King: Roger Federer with the Wimbledon trophy in 2017. Though the Mighty Fed is considered by many as the greatest player of all time (GOAT), of his men’s record 20 Grand Slam titles, only five were captured during this past decade.

How they aced it: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Serena, Djokovic

Tennis lovers who witnessed Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Serena in the past decade will regale their grandchildren with stories.

Paul Fein

P. V. Sindhu of Hyderabad Hunters, the Premier Badminton League franchise, shares a light moment with Chennai Smashers’ Chris Adcock and Gabrielle Adcock, in Bengaluru last year. Sindhu has been retained by her franchise for a sum of ₹77 lakhs.

Pro Kabaddi League to ISL: The decade of financial avenues

The fact that a badminton and a table tennis player, a wrestler and a boxer, and not just a cricketer, have a manager to promote their business intere

Vijay Lokapally

Nostalgic: The author involved in a game of chess with the legend in the 1980s.

Viswanathan Anand has the gift of phrase-making too

Mind Master, Viswanathan Anand’s wonderful book combines all these elements: art, sport, self-help, while turning a light on his life with an honesty

Suresh Menon

Simply the best: No sprinter had ever retained the short sprint double in Olympics. Jamaican Usain Bolt did that in London. He then went onto to better that record by repeating the double in Rio.

Who is the next star sprinter after Usain Bolt?

Barring the 2011 World championships where he shockingly false-started in the 100m, to be disqualified, the long-limbed Jamaican powerhouse won everyt

Star attraction: The glitzy Indian Super League (ISL) which was launched in 2014 promised international appeal and drew stars like Robert Pires and Roberto Carlos, albeit when they were clearly over the hill. But fans flocked to the stadium to catch a glimpse of their favourite stars and match attendances soared in the first two years.

The decade in football: The birth of Indian Super League

ISL promised international appeal and drew stars like Robert Pires and Roberto Carlos, albeit when they were clearly over the hill. But fans flocked t

Sixth time lucky!: Sachin Tendulkar subjects Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to a bear hug after the latter had won India the 2011 World Cup with a soaring six in the final against Sri Lanka. It was India’s second World Cup triumph. It was also Tendulkar’s first experience as a part of the winning team in six appearances.

The journey of cricket from Sachin Tendulkar to Virat Kohli

From floodlit Tests, pink ball and four-day matches to the World Test Championship (WTC) bringing context to bilateral Test cricket, the ICC has shown

Ayan Acharya

Spotless record: Boxing star Vijender Singh in a bout with Ghana’s former Commonwealth champion Charles Adamu in Dubai recently. Vijender defeated Adamu and claimed his 12th successive win as a professional boxer. Even though professional boxing has been struggling to make an impact in India, Vijender is keeping the Indian flag flying high.

Boxing and wrestling: The 'power' play over the years

In the Delhi Commonwealth Games and Guangzhou Asiad in 2010, India bagged seven and nine medals respectively as boxing established itself as a medal f

Bull’s eye: In the year-end rankings, three Indian shooters Elavenil Valarivan, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Saurabh Chaudhary were No.1 in the world, and were presented the ‘Golden Target’ in a function in Munich by the ISSF on December 8, 2019. The President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), Raninder Singh, was also present.

The making of sharp shooters, now in Olympics race

Fifteen Indian shooters have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, and the chances are really bright for some medals.

Kamesh Srinivasan

Please maintain lane discipline: The rule changes in motorsports

Motorsport – from F1 to MotoGP, rallying and even Formula E – has seen unprecedented rule changes, both technical and sporting, in the decade gone pas

King of the pool: Michael Phelps of the U.S. celebrates after winning the 200m butterfly gold in the Rio Olympics, in what was touted as the most eagerly anticipated swimming race in years.

Why Michael Phelps is the superstar of the pool

It is no exaggeration to say that Michael Phelps has been the central figure of this last decade in swimming, even if he wasn’t competing for half tha

Shreedutta Chidananda

One for the big game: P. V. Sindhu exults after winning the World Tour Finals title last year. Her performances in the marquee events have been far more noticeable than Saina’s.

2010-2019: The rise of Indian badminton, emergence of P.V. Sindhu

It was a decade of phenomenal growth for Indian badminton from 2010 to 2019. New stars came and sparkled like never before.

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