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IPL 2020: Priyam Garg stars as Sunrisers Hyderabad get the better of Chennai Super Kings

IPL 2020: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super kings by 7 runs in Dubai. Batting first, SRH posted 164 for 5 riding on Priyam Garg’s maiden IPL fifty. In reply, CSK could only manage 157 for 5 despite a half-century from Ravindra Jadeja.

IPL 2020: Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Jasprit Bumrah star in MI’s 48-run win

IPL 2020: Then, the duo of Kieron Pollard and Hardik Pandya smashed fours and sixes at will, scoring 67 runs in 23 balls to lift MI to 191 for four from 83 for three in the 14th over.

IPL 2020: Rashid Khan stars as Delhi Capitals fail in modest chase against Sunrisers Hyderabad

IPL 2020, SRH vs DC: On a slow-and-low Abu Dhabi wicket, Rashid had put the brakes on Delhi’s scoring with the wickets of opener Shikhar Dhawan and captain Shreyas Iyer.

Suresh Raina: A shoulder for giants

At his best, Suresh Raina was the perfect foil to greats. When he retired, he was an afterthought.

MS Dhoni retirement: End of an epoch in Indian cricket

Dhoni made this announcement via an Instagram post on Saturday, a day that marked India’s Independence Day, with the following message.

India’s jewel says goodbye

Everton Weekes’s passage to greatness, via India

OBITUARY: The legend’s debut season saw five successive tons, four in India.

The enigma of Novak Djokovic: Tennis hero turns antagonist in time of Covid-19

If there was no coronavirus, Djokovic would’ve in all probability tied Federer and Nadal for Slam numbers sometime next year. But there is no ‘if’ before coronavirus; the global pandemic has already had an irreversible impact on the world of the sport, and now on Djokovic’s already precarious reputation as well.

When Roger met Rafa met Andy met Novak

The only criticism to have held any water about the ongoing men’s era has been the lack of off-court characters in the game. Among the five men to have won 62 out of the last 67 Slams dating back to 2003, there simply are no ‘bad guys’.

A July without Roger Federer

How a Wimbledon-less year affects the 38-year-old champ and his legion of fans

Unadkat: Unplayable, Unplugged

For two domestic seasons on the trot, Jaydev Unadkat has been a wrecking ball through opposition batting line-ups. Even on the flattest of pitches, he makes batsmen dance. Why is he not in the national squad?

Ravichandran Ashwin named in Wisden’s Test team of the decade

The only Indian on the team apart from Virat Kohli and, significantly, the only spinner in the 11

A human face behind the stripes

But this is 2019, a year in which Woods ended a decade-long wait to win his fifteenth major at the Masters; and this is after all the Hero World Challenge, where Woods plays host to an 18-man field with no cuts and guaranteed prize money.

Almost Famous: A life in cricket

In a cricket crazy country, what happens when your father is a World Cup winner? When you are marked for the India team, you make it, notch up the record for the best bowling performance by an Indian in an ODI, and then fade away? The life of Stuart Binny, who, at 35, will turn out for minnows Nagaland at this year’s Ranji Trophy

A rebel who found his cause

The life of Ranjit Bajaj, owner of Punjab FC, who ignited a mini-revolution in Indian football during his journey from ‘Gangster Bajaj’ to ‘Reformed Ranjit’

India vs South Africa: R Ashwin hurtles on, speed bumps no bar

There’s also the widespread misconception that Ashwin has employed countless bowling variations to get to that tally—a misconception often fuelled by Ashwin himself by routinely remodelling his bowling action and even delivering the odd leg-break during bygone IPLs.

Quick gun Ashwin still unsure of place

Despite being one of the finest bowlers in the game right now, the Indian team management, led by captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri, consistently keep R Ashwin out of the side.

The Bradmanesque and the Smithsonian

What is it about Smith’s technique that has allowed him to transform from the attacking, more-or-less conventional basher he once was to the Bradmanesque figure he cuts today?

Newsmaker: The quick fix on the pitch

How Jasprit Bumrah’s action came to be and changed the landscape of Indian fast bowling.

The fault in his star

For the last three seasons Unmukt hasn’t been picked by any IPL team. For the last two years he hasn’t featured in a first-class match for Delhi, his state-team.

Rafael Nadal, 33, nineteen going on twenty?

At 33, Nadal has two Grand Slam titles more than Federer had at the same age, and three more than the other Greatest Of All Time (GOAT) contender, Novak Djokovic, has at 32

Ashes 2019, England vs Australia: Steve Smith - Doing the impossible

He can return from a 17-month absence from Test cricket and instantly start batting with better fluidity than before the ban. Because he knew we thought it wasn’t possible.

The Virat Kohli decade: 20K and counting

On Wednesday, the India captain Virat Kohli went where no one has before — scoring his 20,000th run in 10 years, across formats.

The Steyn spell Tendulkar says he will “never forget”

Of all the spectacular moments Steyn created over his 93-match Test career, one stood head and shoulders above the rest; mainly because Tendulkar, cricket’s most decorated batsman, called the day of the spectacle-in-chief’s occurrence a day “he will never forget”.

Is it time to give Rohit Sharma the reigns of the Indian T20 team?

Being distinctive doesn’t win cricket matches at the international level; being a great man-manager and a strategist does. Time and again—most recently at the World Cup—Kohli has proven he is not exactly great at either.

Be still my beating heart: Rafa-Roger at SW19

The hands of the large Rolex clock on Centre Court seemed to be spinning back, spinning fast, back eleven years, back to that final in 2008, and giving 15,000 of us a small taste of what it must have felt like to witness live the greatest tennis match ever played.

World Cup 2019: India post-mortem - Baffling decisions, some more than others

India topped the round robin stage with seven wins. But a defeat against New Zealand in the semis ende their campaign.

India vs New Zealand, semi-final World Cup 2019: Top order stumbles as India suffer loss in World Cup semis against New Zealand

India’s famed top-order imploded on a day when it mattered most as a gritty New Zealand survived a swift counter attack from Ravindra Jadeja to win an exciting World Cup semi-final by 18 runs.

India vs New Zealand, semi-final World Cup 2019: Ravindra Jadeja heroics in vain as India suffer heartbreak against New Zealand

New Zealand produced a brilliant bowling performance to upset India with an 18-run victory in their rain-affected World Cup semi-final on Wednesday.

India vs New Zealand, semi-final World Cup 2019: India-New Zealand semi-final pushed to reserve day after rain interruption

The World Cup semi-final between India and New Zealand will head into a second day after rain prevented the match finishing as scheduled at Old Trafford on Tuesday.