SPORTS
IPL 2024: Juniors will add to India’s quality quotient in year of T20 World Cup
Every IPL has produced surprises. New players have emerged with batting cameos or impactful bowling spells. And this IPL offers the perfect launching pad for young cricketers to vie for a spot on India’s T20 World Cup team and end India’s 13-year-long spell of ICC trophy heartbreaks
TRENDS
The moment when Indian chess players are ready to take the world by storm
India’s Gen Next in chess have finally emerged out of Viswanathan Anand’s towering shadow and are poised to make 2024 a very special year for the country. Success in chess is now attracting financial backing, the key milestone when a sport is seen to have arrived
TRENDS
India’s Asian Games high gave cricket a complex in an eventful 2023
Paris Olympics 2024 will test India’s progress as a global sports power but aspiration levels must be modest
CRICKET
ODI World Cup Final: Indian cricket and the travesty of ‘home’ conditions
Australia steered clear off conventional wisdom as a dry and slow wicket in Ahmedabad backfired on Team India
TRENDS
Why online gaming companies are engulfed by a sinking feeling despite the Cricket World Cup fever
Just not retrospective taxation which is before the Supreme Court now, the fragmented online gaming industry is seriously missing a central self-regulatory body as envisaged by MeitY
INDIA
An India vs Pakistan Olympics cricket final is now in the realms of reality
With all eyes on the India- Pakistan match at Ahmedabad, comes news that the inclusion of cricket in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is on track. It will be a win-win for cricket, commerce and fans, but most so for more than 5.4 million South Asians in the US where cricket’s footprint is now poised for rapid growth
TRENDS
Asian Games success merits kudos but hope is not a plan for Paris Olympics
India’s record haul of 107 medals at Hangzhou 2023 is a great leap forward but Olympics are a different ball game
TRENDS
Asian Games 2023: Hangzhou success mirrors the power of an aspirational generation
India has won a record number of medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games but the real test awaits us at the Paris Olympics. Almost every new medal-winning athlete like Parul Chaudhary has a backstory which basically says that no odds are insurmountable and nothing is impossible
BUSINESS
IPL auction and its bewildering dynamics
BUSINESS
FIFA World Cup 2022: With win, Lionel Messi moves out of Diego Maradona’s shadow
BUSINESS
FIFA World Cup | Why Morocco has more than a historic final berth at stake
BUSINESS
FIFA World Cup | Messi’s last chance to change Maradona’s Argentina template
BUSINESS
FIFA World Cup 2022 | Qatar ready to display Arab world’s sporting might; Olympics next?
BUSINESS
Cricket | BCCI’s pay equity policy is a good start, but asking rate is challenging
BUSINESS
How offshore betting sites are laughing all the way to the bank
BUSINESS
Google is upsetting India’s online gaming applecart
WORLD
Roger Federer | We will miss tennis’ on-court Buddha
