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Worst Loss in 93 Years: 408-Run Hammering Amplifies Demands for Gambhir and Agarkar’s Resignations

India’s 408-run loss to South Africa marks the heaviest Test defeat in its history, exposing deep flaws in selection and coaching. Constant chopping, favoritism, and neglect of proven performers have pushed the team into crisis. The humiliating whitewash has intensified calls for major leadership and structural changes.

Sarfaraz Khan: The Run Machine India Keeps Rejecting

Sarfaraz Khan, India’s most consistent domestic run-scorer, remains ignored despite 863 Ranji runs last season, a Test century, and remarkable fitness transformation. His exclusion from the India A squad for South Africa exposes BCCI’s continued selection bias and raises serious questions about meritocracy in Indian cricket

How the Sports Bill Was Bent to Please the BCCI

The Sports Governance Bill 2025’s original draft brought all sports bodies under RTI, including BCCI. A last-minute change limits RTI to those taking government funds, exempting BCCI. Critics say this undermines transparency, defies court recommendations, and shields cricket’s powerful private body from public scrutiny despite its national role

Chen Shih-hsin’s Dangal: Wrestling with Life, Legacy and Olympic Gold

"When I watched Dangal with Chinese subtitles a few years ago, I noticed an uncanny resemblance between the...

Tears & Triumph: India’s T20 World Cup Win Marked by Emotional Farewells

New York: In sports, glory comes to those who work hard and never relent. Team India epitomizes this...
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For a first, Kolkata hosts tri-nation T20 wheelchair cricket

Kolkata: At a time, when Indian cricket lovers are engrossed with their favourite Indian Premier League (IPL) teams, several para-sports organizations have come together...

Has Mahendra Singh Dhoni become selectors’ nightmare?

In the recently concluded Asia Cup, Mahendra Singh Dhoni looked a pale shadow of his former self. His diehard fans somehow found him out...

All is not lost: Team India can still make a comeback in the remaining tests

Delhi: On Monday, a daily from Mumbai carried an interesting picture on its front page. It captured the pensive and dour faces of Sanjay...

India’s chess prodigy fights with brilliant minds and poverty together

Kolkata: Nine-year-old Sneha ranks fifth in the all India under 9 ranking. Yet the chess prodigy from Bengal is facing financial constraints, which is preventing...

The ‘endangered’ cricket ball

Kolkata: Do you know that the cherry coloured Cricket ball, which Bhuvneshwar Kumar will gently rub on his pants before running a couple of...

Ritu Phogat: Queen of the Rings

Kolkata: She is just 22, but her moves are not that of a novice when on the mat. And guess what? She was bought...
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