With Sakshi Malik winning the bronze medal for women’s free-style wrestling and P.V. Sindhu bagging the silver for women’s badminton, India finally arrived at its long-awaited victorious closure in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Quite predictably, the exemplary achievements of
On 18 June 1983, India and Zimbabwe met in the 20th game of the Prudential World Cup in the affluent Kentish town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, the only international match ever played at the ground. It was a clash of
Even in the month of February, Rajasthan can get unbearably warm. That day was no exception. The hot afternoon desert sun beat relentlessly down on the crumbling walls of the factory outhouse. Bharat Singh was going about his daily routine,
Leicester City have shown that it is not necessary to have a cash-rich squad to win the Premier League. Their success in the 2015-16 season was achieved on a shoestring budget of £52.8 million. The budget of second-placed Arsenal was
Sammy from Samuel, Biblical judge and prophet, literally “the name of God” Darren Julius Garvey Sammy is a religious man. He was born in a family of devout Christians, and might have become a pastor if the whole cricket thing
A day before the quarter finals of the 2014 World Cup, Forbes ran an article by Agustino Fontevecchia titled “The End of the Beautiful Game: World Cup 2014 is Killing Attacking Soccer”. In a near-apocalyptic tone backed up by statistics,
“If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport. They really have.” Raymond Moore, Indian Wells Tennis
Cricket has never been just a game in South Asia. Even in its country of origin, it mimicked certain Victorian values of masculinity, purity and pride, and that is the reason why cricket was brought to India as part of
You’ve described the awarding of hosting rights for the 2017 Under-17 World Cup to India as, “It’s a penalty given to us; if we miss it, we miss everything.” How big a deal is this, and what did you mean
“At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953, when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the