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The second Test between India and England largely belonged to the man from Madras. Even if Rohit Sharma had set the tone with his magnificent 161, it was Ashwin who etched his prominent signature as India won by a whopping 317 runs.

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Rovman Powell rose to prominence after scoring a brisk hundred in a World Cup 2019 qualifier against Ireland in Harare.

Rovman Powell, a soldier on Windies duty, hopeful of third T20 World Cup title

Young batsman Powell believes West Indies can clinch the T20 World Cup for the third time if it is a full-strength squad with the senior players aroun

Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya

Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya

When Sourav Ganguly has undergone two heart procedures in his late 40s, should we be worried that athletes need to focus beyond performance?

Food For Thought

Your body is your real-life partner

If you learn to listen to your body, if you are conscious of your body’s signals, you will get the maximum performance out of it.

Ryan Fernando

Seeing David Gower play a blazing cover drive with a casual flick of the bat was a treat to watch.

Worst casualty of cricket's shorter formats - its artistry

There is no doubt that the thrill quotient of cricket has gone up, but all is definitely not well with this “gentleman’s game.” There have been many c

Dr Gulbahar S. Sidhu

Jemimah Rodrigues bats for Supernovas during the Women’s T20 Challenge final in November 2020. “Somewhere you need some motivation to practise. Initially, you can do it, but after a while you are like, ‘Why am I practising so much when we don’t know when are the next matches?’' says the batter.

Women's cricket: When will Team India return to the field?

Over the last few months, there have only been verbal assurances by BCCI officials that they would take all measures to resume domestic and bilateral

Sachin’s thoughts about cricket flow as exquisitely as his straight drives with a willow in his hands.

Sachin Tendulkar: 1996 World Cup changed everything for Indian cricket

Sachin Tendulkar: The inflow of money into the game, through sponsors, broadcasters, et cetera. From thereon, the infrastructure got a huge boost and

England played its best cricket in decades on the 2012-13 tour of India. The teams were evenly balanced, but the difference was Kevin Pietersen and his all-time great knock of 186 in Mumbai.

England in India: Never a team to be taken lightly

Few teams have met with resounding success in India in the last 50 years. Australia has won just one series, in 2004, since Bill Lawry’s team won in 1

Vijay Lokapally

Jinson Johnson leading the pack in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. “The main event this year is the Olympics. So to prepare for it we must do things well with good, quality competition,” says the ace runner.

Jinson Johnson says he is satisfied with his training for Tokyo Olympics

“Instead of immediately rushing into competition and participating in the Indian GP and the Federation Cup, I’m planning to participate in competition

Ashwin whips one to the boundary during his century knock in the second Test against England in Chennai.

Ravichandran Ashwin, the champ of Chepauk

Just for a moment, pause and consider R. Ashwin’s mind-boggling sequence in the second Test against England in Chennai: 13, five for 43, 106, three fo

K. C. Vijaya Kumar

Regardless of what East Bengal has done in the past, Robbie Fowler’s expectations are to make the club do well in the future.

East Bengal's Robbie Fowler: Shepherding the future of a legendary club

“I think being a good player may help you at the start, but once you are into your new job, people stop thinking about what you have done; they are mo

Amitabha Das Sharma

Sachin Tendulkar, who has kept himself away from making any political statements, has broken the principle of a lifetime, when he tweeted on the farmers’ issue recently.

Of sports, politics and the impact of social media

Most sportsmen are not political animals and sound like the mouthpieces of the establishment when they venture into unknown territory.

Suresh Menon

“If this format gets into the Olympics, it will be amazing for all players from all around the world. It fits in with the time-frame, it is not too long. It will give people a snapshot into what cricket is like. If it ever comes about, I would like to get involved in it and push my case,” says Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Moores, son of former England coach Peter Moores.

T10 League: Gully-style cricket now an Olympic dream

The Abu Dhabi T10 League did the unthinkable — conduct 29 matches in 10 days to set a template for the Olympics.

Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya

Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya

Ederson passes the ball during Manchester City’s 3-0 thrashing of Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium on February 13.

European football wrap: Ederson the man for City, La Liga title race heats up

With 14 clean sheets from 22 outings so far, the goalkeeper could possibly match Petr Cech’s tally of 24 in a single Premier League edition.

Ishan Pandita has excellent movement off the ball and the ability to sneak past markers at will.

ISL 2020-21 Player of the Fortnight: Ishan Pandita, FC Goa’s super-sub

Ishan Pandita has two goals to his name from 25 minutes of game time in the last fortnight. And both of those goals were match-savers that enabled the

Shyam Vasudevan

Shyam Vasudevan

On the rare occasions that ATK Mohun Bagan concedes chances, Arindam has been on hand to shut them out.

ISL Team of the Fortnight: ATKMB’s stars step up

In addition to goalkeeper Arindam Bhattacharja, ATK Mohun Bagan contributes two men each in defence and attack to our ISL Team of the Fortnight for Fe

Aashin Prasad

Harmeet Desai in action for his club Roanne LLTT in the French Pro B League.

Harmeet Desai hopes to break into top 50 rankings in 2021

Harmeet Desai, who has travelled to France, Germany, Denmark and Belgium since November, says he tries to deal with circumstances positively instead o

Shivansh Gupta

C.D. Gopinath is the only surviving member of the Indian team that beat England in 1952 for its first-ever Test win.

Down memory lane: Reliving India's first-ever Test win with C.D. Gopinath

"I got the ball signed by my teammates...but it has been almost 70 years since, you know...the signatures have all worn off,” Gopinath says as a smile

Ayan Acharya

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