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Teenaged prodigies are celebrated in India, but how many of them are able to graduate to the bigger league?

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07-03-202022 STORIES

World champion P. V. Sindhu believes that the PBL is one of the best things to happen to Indian badminton.

Premier Badminton League: An uplifting experience!

The Premier Badminton League has been of immense help to up and coming Indian players in terms of exposure and learning new skills.

V. V. Subrahmanyam

“The best coaches will be hired from within the country or outside the country. Training quality will improve because we are concentrating on regular training and not camps. There is no scarcity of funds but efficient utilisation of resources and facilities is the focus,” says Union Sports Secretary Radhey Shyam Julaniya.

Sports ministry hatching a plot for success

“Minimum 10,000 athletes will get high performance training in 15 disciplines. The focus is to use available infrastructure better,” says Union Sports

Vijay Lokapally

Harshita has set a target to qualify for the 2022 Asian and Commonwealth Games.

Harshita Sehrawat: Never afraid of competition

Hammer thrower Harshita Sehrawat, only 16, hopes to improve with each and every competition and wishes to break more records.

The green smoothie is my start with any athlete wanting to go supplement-free.

Food For Thought

Go green!

The green smoothie may not taste the best, but the effects it offers within six weeks make up for it.

Ryan Fernando

Dr. Silvina Delgado, a leading cardiologist and a specialist in sports medicine in Argentina, competes in national and international tournaments and currently ranks No. 1 in the world in ITF women’s 40 singles and doubles.

Heart health for tennis players

Playing tennis provides one of the most enjoyable and successful ways to prevent cardiovascular diseases and to mitigate, or even reverse, their effec

Paul Fein

In charge: Steve Smith will be leading the Rajasthan Royals again in this IPL season.

Steve Smith: Exciting to be back leading Royals

“I am looking forward to this year, hopefully we can start well and build momentum throughout and hopefully be there, come finals time,” says Steve Sm

Transferring cricketing excellence to other fields

In his book, Simon Taufel has drawn on his experiences from high-pressure match situations and transferred that into the development of an individual.

Aashin Prasad

India was a country which always interested me, says Corominas.

FC Goa's Ferrán Corominas: On a hat-trick

After taking home the golden boot in his first two seasons with FC Goa in the ISL, Ferrán Corominas has 13 goals this season despite missing three gam

Aashin Prasad

Abir Chatterjee (in purple) says he has been lucky enough to have met some of his heroes like Kapil Dev and Sourav Ganguly.

For The Love of Sport

Dhoni is an inspiration, I want to meet him someday

Dhoni will always remain special. I do wish to have a conversation with him sometime and find out how he manages to keep his cool despite the odds.

Abir Chatterjee

Learning from the past: “We are treating the end of the fifth edition (of the PBL) as a big milestone and we are trying to improve from the experiences of the last five years to strengthen it,” says Mangipudi Prasad, Executive Director of Sportzlive, which conducts the Premier Badminton League.

Learning from PBL: Broadening the base on the cards

Mangipudi Prasad, Executive Director of Sportzlive, which conducts the Premier Badminton League, is a happy man after the completion of the fifth edit

V. V. Subrahmanyam

The cup of joy: Akbar Ali, the Bangladesh captain, displays the under-19 World Cup which his team won beating India in the final at Potchefstroom in South Africa. Akbar played an anchoring role as a batsman in the final and steered his team to victory.

Akbar Ali: Too early to think of senior team call-up

Bangladesh U-19 World Cup winning captain Akbar Ali idolises AB de Villiers and wishes to be part of Indian Premier League in the future.

Sprouting talent: Sanjana Ramesh, who was voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the first year of the NBA Academy’s women’s programme in India, became the second Indian after Kavita Akula to earn a scholarship from a Division 1 college in 2019. She is with Ruth Riley, the Athens Olympics gold medallist and star WNBA player.

How NBA academy is unearthing girl talent in India

Sanjana Ramesh, who was voted the Most Valuable Player in 2019, is the second Indian after Kavita Akula to earn a scholarship from a Division 1 colleg

Aashin Prasad

A real find: Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal on way to a century against Pakistan in the semi-finals of the recent under-19 World Cup in South Africa. Jaiswal looked a class apart and justified the faith reposed in him.

ICC U-19 World Cup 2020: An age when you dream of becoming ageless!

The under-19 squad which gets its share of fame once in two years often feeds the curiosity of the sub-conscious obsession to find the next star.

K. C. Vijaya Kumar

ICC U-19 World Cup 2020: The making of Bangladesh

If you watch David Attenborough’s famous wildlife documentaries, you will know how tigers teach their cubs to hunt. Train them hard and keep them hung

Prize wicket: Pat Cummins celebrates the wicket of Ben Stokes in the Ashes Test at Old Trafford last year. Australia went 2-1 ahead and with only one Test to play ensured that it would retain the Ashes, the first time it had done so in England since 2001.

Pat Cummins: If I'm bowling well, my actions need not be intimidating

The 26-year-old Cummins is just like what the 18-year-old Cummins was: mouth-watering potential and an unblemished match-winner.

Ayan Acharya

K. L. Rahul in action during the T20I series against New Zealand.

Number crunching: Rahul races to T20I record in India's series win against New Zealand

Here are a list of records that were made during India's T20 series win and ODI series loss against the Black Caps in New Zealand.

At the ICC ODI World Cup last year in England, the middle order had hardly got to bat because of the sparkling form of Rohit Sharma, who hit five hundreds in the competition, and skipper Virat Kohli, who missed out on the tons but got five half-centuries.

On The Write Line

Sunil Gavaskar: Games you play for India not irrelevant

Virat Kohli terming the ODI matches results irrelevant in a year when the ICC T20 World Cup is to be played was hard to understand.

Sunil Gavaskar

A sparsely populated Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai has slowly seen an increase in footfall with every home game..

ISL Diary: Chennaiyin's transformation under Coyle, Jarni's brief NorthEast stint

Owen Coyle who was brought in as John Gregory’s replacement and was charged with steadying the Chennaiyin FC ship has turned the club’s fortunes aroun

Amitabha Das Sharma,Anirudh Velamuri

The top four India pacers, the experienced Ishant Sharma, the unpredictable Umesh Yadav (below) and the mesmerising Mohammed Shami, and the transcendental Jasprit Bumrah have been stifling the best of batting units in varied conditions across continents.

India's booming pace battery and the 3mm policy

Aside from India’s main pace attack, the Ranji Trophy has seen the rise of more than half a dozen capable pacers, which certainly augurs well for the

Jiří Veselý with the trophy after winning the Tata Open Maharashtra.

Rescheduled Tata Open Maharashtra loses its advantage

From this year onwards, the Tata Open Maharashtra has been pushed to the week after the Australian Open, for which it was earlier a pre-season warm-up

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, the world record holder, crosses the finish line wearing Nike Vaporfly shoes to break the two-hour barrier in the marathon in October 2019.

Technological doping!

The Tokyo Olympics later this year will see much discussion on Nike’s Vaporfly, a shoe not banned by World Athletics.

Suresh Menon

Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann celebrate after the latter's goal against Getafe.

European Leagues Review: Real Madrid drops points, Lazio extends unbeaten run

La Liga leader Real Madrid dropped crucial two points against Celta Vigo at home, while Lazio emerged as a Serie A contender by defeating Inter Milan.

Anirudh Velamuri

Anirudh Velamuri

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