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A thing of beauty: Rudraneil Sengupta on Shubman Gill at Edgbaston

India, July 10 -- In his first few weeks as India's Test captain, Shubman Gill has wrought wonders. Leading India to a win at Edgbaston for the first time since 1967? Done. Scoring a century on his ... Read More


India's hockey team hits a roadblock

New Delhi, July 4 -- On 9 June in Amsterdam, when India took on the Netherlands in their second match of the European leg of the FIH Pro League, there was little indication of what was to come. India ... Read More


Pant's on fire: Rudraneil Sengupta on India's fearless Test batter

India, June 28 -- Who is India's most successful Test batter today? If not for his exuberant twin centuries in India's first Test against England this week, Rishabh Pant might not have been the most ... Read More


India Tour of England 2025: A tightrope walk awaits Shubman Gill

New Delhi, June 8 -- Has Shubman Gill been thrown into the deep end with nothing more than a rubber duckie as flotation aid? The clean-cut, square-jawed, calm-eyed, close-shaved 25-year-old with 8% bo... Read More


It's the end of a goalorious journey

India, June 1 -- By the time he was six years old, Luka Modric had seen the horrors of war up-close. His grandfather had been shot in front of him by Serbian rebels, who then set fire to his house in ... Read More


The end of a goalorious journey: Rudraneil Sengupta on Modric and De Bruyne

India, May 31 -- By the time he was six years old, Luka Modric had seen the horrors of war up-close. His grandfather had been shot in front of him and his family by Serbian rebels, who then set fire ... Read More


The end of the Age of Kohli

India, May 18 -- Virat Kohli's retirement from Tests, which he announced this week, was sudden, but not really a surprise. The 36-year-old had been struggling in his favoured whites for some years and... Read More


The end of the Age of Kohli: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on an exceptional leader

India, May 17 -- Virat Kohli's retirement from Tests, which he announced this week, was sudden, but not really a surprise. The 36-year-old had been struggling in his favoured whites for some years and... Read More


Mastering the impossible: Inside the record-breaking world of pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis

New Delhi, May 8 -- In 2024, there were athletes, and then there was Mondo Duplantis. To describe that season, words are hard to come by, and Duplantis himself mutters things like "weird" and "surrea... Read More


The vault in our stars

India, May 4 -- "If you knew my story, you'd never believe I could become the greatest Olympic athlete from Brazil," said Rebeca Andrade, 25. Speaking in Madrid, a day ahead of the Laureus World Sport... Read More