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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


The vault in our stars: Rudraneil Sengupta on Indian gymnastics

India, May 3 -- "If you knew my story, you would never believe that I would become the greatest Olympic athlete from Brazil," Rebeca Andrade, 25, Brazil's most decorated Olympian and the most successf... Read More


Dutch legend Ruud Gullit: How football DNA shaped this year's Champions League semifinalists

New Delhi, April 29 -- The semi-finalists for this year's Champions League are a surprising mix of teams that worked through their adversities and found their identities over the course of the season-... Read More


"You can't fight it": Steve Waugh on the rise of T20s and the future of Test cricket

New Delhi, April 24 -- Steve Waugh, the most successful Test captain in the history of cricket, who once led Australia to fifteen of their record sixteen consecutive Test wins, and to victory in the 1... Read More