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Legendary Clive Lloyd is 80: He pulverised Hyderabad batting 50 years ago
The legendary captain of the West Indies, Sir Clive Lloyd, is a very senior citizen now. He celebrated his 80th birthday on August 31st. Not only was he a charismatic leader of a great team he was...
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Cricket: Young tigers of Bangladesh maul Pakistan to chalk up a historic...
Bangladesh’s cricketers created history when they defeated Pakistan 2-0 in the recently concluded Test series. It was the first time that Bangladesh had made a clean sweep of a series against...
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Inspiring stories of courage of Indian players emerging from Paralympic Games
Tales of great heroism and courage are emerging from the ongoing Paralympics Games 2024 in Paris. One such story is that of Sunder Singh Gurjar who bagged a bronze medal in the javelin throw...
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India’s pace attack must be maintained at high level by grooming new talents
India has an outstanding crop of fast bowlers. But the cutting-edge attack may lose its sharpness shortly. That is because three of our top-level bowlers namely Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, and...
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Pakistan is a team with eleven captains, says ex-player Danish Kaneria
Pakistan is going through one of the worst phases in its cricket history. In the past this land had produced some of the best cricketers of the world. Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Fazal Mahmood, Hanif...
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Bangladesh series will provide golden chance for India’s young players to...
Team India will be in action again from Sep 19th in Chennai. The Bangladesh cricket team is scheduled to tour India to play two Test matches and three T20 Internationals. The contests will provide a...
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Octogenarian Rani Hamid fights chess battles like a young warrior
Rani Hamid of Bangladesh is a legend in the sport of chess in her country. At the age of 80, most people experience the ebb of their physical and mental faculties. The energy and skills of youth fade...
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Cricket against crime: Mexican prisons use the game as a therapy to reform...
There was a time when cricket was known to be a game that stood for principles of honesty and fair play. A crooked deed used to be described by Englishmen as “not quite cricket” and the perpetrator of...
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Arthur Conan Doyle: The sporting life of Sherlock Holmes’ creator
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote 56 short stories and four novels about his intrepid detective. But in the midst of his prolific writing career, he also found time...
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Ashwin is proving to be India’s trump card in his role of spin bowling all...
A cricket fan once remarked that Ravichandran Ashwin has as many blades in his game as a Swiss army knife has in its hilt. That is an apt way to describe the cricketer who is being hailed nowadays as...
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Ashwin is proving to be India’s trump card in his role of spin bowling all...
A cricket fan once remarked that Ravichandran Ashwin has as many blades in his game as a Swiss army knife has in its hilt. That is an apt way to describe the cricketer who is being hailed nowadays as...
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History of the birth of chess in India and its world wide proliferation
It is difficult to describe India’s extraordinary twin triumphs in the Chess Olympiad in mere words. Our young men and women have come out on top in a tournament in which 190 countries and almost 2000...
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Hansie Cronje’s Struggle with Money Addiction: Is It Time to Forgive Him?
Had Hansie Cronje been alive now, he would have celebrated his 55th birthday on Sep 25. Perhaps he would have been a well known cricket commentator and a television personality. He would have been...
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Dwayne Bravo: Ultimate T20 strategist joins Kolkata Knight Riders
The flamboyant Dwayne Bravo may never be included in the same bracket as the legends of West Indies cricket such as Gary Sobers, Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd but the livewire all rounder from Trinidad...
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Coach Sanath Jayasuriya revives Sri Lankan cricket with help of new talent
With a bunch of exciting new players in its line up, it looks like Sri Lankan cricket is on the road to resurgence. Within the last few months, Sri Lanka has won an ODI series against India after 27...
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Ignoring Sarfaraz Khan’s potential may harm India’s cause
At times the BCCI’s selection policies can be baffling. The latest case that is causing bewilderment is the exclusion of Sarfaraz Khan from being a regular member of the Indian Test team. At the age...
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Lisa Sthalekar’s fairytale journey from Indian orphanage to top Australian...
Former Australian woman cricketer Lisa Sthalekar who is nowadays providing us with her invaluable analysis of the ongoing matches in the ICC women’s T20 World Cup, was a well known player during the...
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Philip Noel-Baker: Only man to win Olympic medal and Nobel prize
When we think of Nobel prize winners we visualise people with exceptional brains whose dedicated work in their respective fields finally fetches them the world’s most prestigious prize. When we think...
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Dipa Karmakar, the gymnast who defied death, retires after an outstanding career
In the sport of gymnastics the Produnova Vault is known as the Vault of Death. While executing this extremely difficult maneuver, the risk of crashing down and suffering serious injury, even death, is...
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Young Shreyas’s chess skills saved his family from deportation
There are plenty of examples where a player’s sports skills enabled him or her to earn a good living and lifted their family out of poverty. But an unusual case has now emerged in which a young boy’s...
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