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Rishabh Pant stands up as vice captain to give India control in Headingley
Rishabh Pant is 65 batting at the end of day 1 and there is no reason why he wouldn’t bat on for a 100. It will stop people from asking questions for a while and set Pant up for the rest of the series.
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Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and now Shubman Gill: India skipper fills in the big boots with landmark century
This was Shubman Gill’s moment and he stood out with a hallmark century, which now places him in an elite list featuring Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli - a ton in debut innings as India's Test captain.
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'Don't think about ...': Sachin Tendulkar's advice to Shubman Gill on his big transition
Sachin Tendulkar spoke at length to Boria Majumdar about the churn and how this is always a constant in cricket and will always be the case.
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Shubman Gill and the enormity of being India’s red ball captain
Shubman Gill was forever tipped for greatness. Now as India’s red ball captain, he needs to transform potential into performance.
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18 June, 1983: The day India’s World Cup dream found wings
What followed the World Cup triumph was a media revolution that has now made cricket in India a kind of secular religion. And all of this started with one special effort from the skipper, Kapil Dev on this day 43 years ago at Tunbridge Wells against Zimbabwe.
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Sachin, Leeds and the salad story: Life lessons from cricket
With his friends here with him, finances were always tight forcing Sachin Tendulkar to resort to innovative ideas in making things work.
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Sourav Ganguly’s best hour- can Shubman Gill do an encore at Headingley?
Leeds will pose India a very tough challenge. But if you look back, one of India’s best overseas wins also came in the same venue under Sourav Ganguly in 2002.
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Father’s Day special: Sachin and Arjun — The difficulty of being a Tendulkar
While writing Playing it My Way, Sachin Tendulkar had spoken to me a lot about Sara and Arjun and the difficulties of being a Tendulkar.
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South Africa claim World Test Championship: A win that will ‘Turn it Up’
South Africa claim World Test Championship: It will make superstars out of Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram, and Kagiso Rabada, tags they have deserved for a while now.
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Shakira's tune 'Its time for Africa' buzzes at Lord's as Temba Bavuma-Aiden Markram put South Africa on cusp of history
In sum, Day 4 has been set up. For the one hour or so of cricket, fans will get their monies worth. A day when we could indeed see the birth of a new world order. A new rainbow and a new beginning.
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Exclusive | 'Shreyas Iyer should have been in England, this is the best he has ever batted': Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly was very clear that Shreyas Iyer should have been part of the Test team to England.
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1971 and 2025 - Victory parades in Indian cricket
Victory parades are a feature of Indian cricket for 55 years now. While fans weren’t taken for granted then, they are now. The human touch has been sacrificed at the altar of big money. Looking back at the 1971 England victory parade and the emotions attached to it.
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India’s best hour in England: The 1971 sunrise
While the intensity of the scrutiny has increased in recent times under the watchful eyes of a 24/7 media, in 1971, the BCCI faced stinging criticism for some of its decisions ahead of the crucial England tour.
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Justice for the Bengaluru stampede victims can only be delivered if civil society stays vigilant
There have now been arrests and the issue stays a national headline. The head of marketing for Diaggeo and a couple of senior people from DNA have been arrested for their alleged role in causing the stampede.
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Chinnaswamy stampede revives memories of ugly 1969 Eden Gardens episode: Fans who never really mattered
In a couple of days it will all be okay and the men and women who died will be mere footnotes in the larger IPL story.
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End of the 18 year long wait- Krunal, Jitesh and teammates present Virat with greatest IPL gift
In a fairytale world, it had to be RCB. It is. Kohli had to lay his hands on the trophy and it would be a moment of history that every cricket fan would cherish.
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Beating Magnus Carlsen in Norway adds another layer to the D Gukesh story
“The world championship doesn’t mean you are the best player in the world. I am conscious of the fact that I may be world champion and I am not the best player just yet. That’s the goal- to be the best player in the world and dominate the sport” - D Gukesh
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PBKS vs MI, IPL Qualifier 2: Hardik Pandya’s moment of reckoning as skipper
From finishing at the bottom to winning the IPL has a certain magic to it and knowing Pandya he will leave no stone unturned to get there and make history.
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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty and the beauty of sport
The Indian pair on comeback defeated the world number 1 team of Goh and Izzuddin in the quarter finals of the Singapore Open and in the process avenged their Indian Open loss. They play Chia and Soh next, a pair that had beaten them in the Paris Olympics.
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The Shubman Gill story- when dreams do come true
Shubman Gill is now India’s red ball skipper and on Friday he would want to add another chapter to his glorious IPL career as he takes on the Mumbai Indians in Chandigarh.
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Exclusive: ‘Virat Kohli is the biggest constant in brand RCB,’ COO Rajesh Menon
RCB are just two games away from their maiden IPL title and it will mean the world for their talisman Virat Kohli, who has been with the brand from its very inception.
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Rishabh Pant’s hundred a welcome sign for India ahead of the England test series
With the England series just days away, every Indian fan wanted to see Rishabh Pant score. He did and that’s the big takeaway. As Gill’s deputy, a confident Pant is a must for India in England.
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Two steps away from back to back IPL titles with different franchises, Shreyas Iyer the captain has proved his mettle
Leading from the front with the bat and marshalling his resources superbly well, Shreyas Iyer has had a telling impact on the IPL. For KKR, who let him go, it is a grim reminder of what could have been.
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As Gill ushers a new era, throwback to India's first tour of England 93 years ago
The truth is India now travels to the UK as the team that controls the world cricket purse and is the team that is the most sought after.
