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It was but inevitable that one day Rahul Dravid would coach the senior Indian team and his latest appointment in the hot seat was no surprise. Dravid always had abiding respect towards coaches. He never took his skillsets for granted and kept maximising his potential. And now as the coach, he would obviously try and instil those traits among his wards.

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27-11-202119 STORIES

Important point: One of the most overlooked aspect of training is the muscle imbalance from one sport to another. Sorting it out through proper biomechanical assessment and pertinent to sport can solve most of the issues regarding muscle imbalance and injury prevention. Participation of athletes in multi-sport develops a good resilience against injuries.

Coaching multi-sport athletes

Each sport has its own energy and skill set demands, and players involved in a multi-sport may be stronger or weaker in certain areas based on the oth

Ramji Srinivasan

Ramji Srinivasan

Standout performance: Leader of the Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, of Netherlands, jumps off his car after winning the Mexican Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City.

Fast and furious Max pulls ahead in title race

In Mexico City, Verstappen coasted to victory 16 seconds ahead of the pursuing pack and increased his lead over Lewis Hamilton to 19 points. Red Bull

Doom and Gloom: Manchester United continued its poor run in the Premier league under manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with defeats against Manchester City and Liverpool.

European Leagues: Clubs go on sacking spree

Norwich City’s Daniel Farke and Aston Villa’s Dean Smith lost their managerial seats. Nuno Espirito Santo

Challenges ahead: This Indian senior men’s team has its building blocks in place while Dravid would be mindful of the fact that India has not won any ICC silverware since the 2013 Champions Trophy.

Dravid has a wall to climb

Rahul Dravid as captain had also shed tears when India crashed out of the 2007 edition of the ODI World Cup. He knows what an ICC heartbreak is, and i

K. C. Vijaya Kumar

Legend in town: Muhammad Ali spars with a kid during his visit to Chennai in 1980.

Chennai boxing tales of yore - the clash of clans

The movie ‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ turned out to be a huge hit in Tamil Nadu, refuelling interest and passion in pro-boxing. Now it’s time for the sport

K. Keerthivasan

Family man: “One thing I don’t like is that I’m away from my family, my wife and my kids while I’m playing here. Other than that I love playing in India. I like when we have fans in the stadium and I love the atmosphere. The people here in India are very special,” says Rafael Crivellaro

Rafael Crivellaro: ‘I want to win a trophy with Chennaiyin FC’

The 32-year-old Brazilian, who signed a multi-year contract to extend his stay at the club, is raring to showcase his form from his maiden season, whe

Aashin Prasad

True legend: Not all sportsmen identified with their sport so closely and so fully as Michael Schumacher did.

A glimpse into sporting hero Schumacher

A media documentary on Formula One great Michael Schumacher gives us a glimpse into Schumacher the person.

Suresh Menon

Famed rivalry: A cricket match between Pakistan and India is a rare occasion these days and if it is a World Cup encounter the interest it generates is immense. This vendor makes a few quick bucks by selling the respective national flags for the spectators outside the stadium.

T20 World Cup Tour Diary: All for the love of sport

As the Diary goes from one match day to another, he is reminded of sport’s power to unite and inspire development.

Ayan Acharya

Gaining popularity: Sumit Antil became a household name overnight and the videos of his throws were all over social media. Athletes and celebrities showered praise on him.

Record-breaker Sumit Antil has more peaks to conquer

Sumit Antil broke world records on his way to a gold medal in F64 javelin throw at the Tokyo Paralympics with a final mark of 68.55m. He wants to cros

Shyam Vasudevan

Shyam Vasudevan

Never-say-die attitude: The memorable final was indisputably the best match of Badosa’s blossoming career. It also taught her a valuable lesson. “The first thing I learned this week,” she said, “is that nothing is impossible.”

Indian Wells: Underdogs become top dogs

Giant-killers Paula Badosa and Cameron Norrie climaxed their steadily improving results this year with career breakthroughs, their first Premier Manda

Paul Fein

Nitu

National Women's Boxing Championships: Emergence of new talent

Growing competition at the domestic level due to the continuous inflow of talented girls is a good sign for women’s boxing in India as it will enhance

Smooth transition: The Rahul Dravid-era restarts in Indian cricket as he takes over as the men’s senior team’s head coach from Ravi Shastri.

On The Write Line

Dravid’s big advantage is his knowledge of India’s talent pool

Even as we welcome Rahul Dravid to be the new coach of the Indian cricket team, let us also put our hands together and applaud Ravi Shastri and his su

Sunil Gavaskar

Wise decision: Virat Kohli has stepped down as captain for the T20 format to concentrate more on his game.

T20 World Cup: India troubled by too many factors

The pre-tournament favourite for the T20 World Cup title, suffered a group-stage elimination and failed to make the semifinals of an ICC event for the

Ayan Acharya

Fond memories: “South Africa’s best achievement happened in 2008, when it beat England in England and Australia in Australia. Graeme Smith’s team beat England 2-1 and Australia 2-1,” says Ali Bacher.

Ali Bacher on 30 years of Proteas’ return to international cricket

“I told our Board that we are back in world cricket because of India and hence we must invite India to come to South Africa. And they agreed,” says Al

Jasprit Bumrah is now India's leading wicket-taker in T20 Internationals.

Bumrah becomes India's top wicket-taker

In the T20WC match against Scotland in Dubai on November 5, 2021, Bumrah became India’s leading wicket-taker when he claimed the final Scottish wicke

Tarak Sinha never liked reeling off names of his successful trainees. The list was long but some were prominent, having represented India.

Tarak Sinha: A cricket yogi who believed in gurukul training

Tarak Sinha loved travelling to small towns to identify talent. Often they came to him because his name was synonymous with quality cricket coaching.

Vijay Lokapally

Ushering in a new era: The comfort level of India’s players with Rahul Dravid will be a bonus as Dravid tries to steer the team to new highs.

Rahul Dravid, a fresh beginning with new challenges

Rahul Dravid’s appointment as head coach of the Indian team may see new leaders and a seam-bowling all-rounder being groomed for the future.

Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya

Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya

Paul Farbrace

Paul Farbrace on how England went from struggling in white-ball cricket to owning the format

Paul Farbrace, England's former assistant coach ahead of the 2019 World Cup, talks about the side's white-ball transformation and the philosophy behin

Ayan Acharya

Owen Coyle

We want to play an attacking brand of football that Jamshedpur FC fans like to watch, says Owen Coyle

Owen Coyle, the former Burnley and Chennaiyin FC manager, is in his second spell at Jamshedpur FC and his team begins its ISL 2021-22 campaign against

Neeladri Bhattacharjee

Neeladri Bhattacharjee

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