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In the glorious annals of Test cricket, which will ring in its 150th anniversary next year, some numbers have acquired permanence over time. Sir Don Bradman’s otherworldly Test average of 99.94 will forever be iconic. Sunil Gavaskar’s 10,122 runs, on account of the Indian being the first in the world to cross 10K, is epochal….
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Yashasvi Jaiswal was less than five years old when the French footballer Zenedine Zidane headbutted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the final of the 2006 World Cup football. It earned Zidane a red card in the final match of his career. Zidane claimed that the defender had insulted his sister (professional lip readers couldn’t agree…
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When Mahendra Singh Dhoni was starting out as an India player, he had a favour to ask of the media. Please don’t rush to my parents’ house every time I score some runs, he pleaded. It is difficult to say which comes first, the public’s obsessive interest in a player or the media’s creation of…
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It was 25 years ago that Mark Butcher scored a monumental 173 not out in England’s successful chase against Australia in the Headingley Test. He scored seven other Test hundreds, some of them against the most fearsome attacks. He is now a popular commentator and sharp analyst of the game. Excerpts from Butcher’s exclusive interview…
Cockroach Janta Party Protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi on Thursday (July 23, 2026). | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday (July 23, 2026) backed the students protesting against repeated exam paper leaks, saying their disappointment is understandable and it is the society’s collective responsibility to ensure that…
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England’s Ben Stokes | Photo Credit: Action Images via Reuters It is one of cricket’s ironies that players welcome captaincy despite knowing that the chances of escaping its psychological and physical damage are low. Great captains are often those who hide their trauma well. Even those who enjoy the job and have a profound effect…
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It is one of cricket’s ironies that players welcome captaincy despite knowing that the chances of escaping its psychological and physical damage are low. Great captains are often those who hide their trauma well. Even those who enjoy the job and have a profound effect on the game reach a point when the ‘honour’ doesn’t…
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It took a personal intervention from Diana Edulji, a recommendation letter from Sachin Tendulkar and a stern conversation with the Railways Sports Promotion Board chairman before Harmanpreet Kaur, the India women’s cricket captain, secured a job with the Railways. Recounting the episode at the launch of Her Story, Her Glory — Aditya Bhushan’s book chronicling…
Ian McLean | Photo Credit: P.K. Ajith Kumar Sachin Tendulkar hadn’t made his Test debut when Ian McLean played against him. “He was one of Kailash Gattani’s boys and I played against them in Scotland,” McLean, a former Scotland Under-21 player. “Gattani, a former Ranji Trophy player for Rajasthan, used to bring young Indian cricketers…
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Virat Kohli plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans. File | Photo Credit: AP Mike Brearley once told me about his father who had played first class cricket for both Yorkshire and Middlesex. Late in life, damaged by Alzheimer’s, he had no understanding of the…
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