Amit Banerjee
Sports Writer at Firstpost
Sports writer, currently with @Firstpost | ex-@cricket_country | @ACJIndia alumnus | 'Probashi' Bong | Mostly tweet on cricket
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2 weeks ago |
firstpost.com | Amit Banerjee
The 18th season of theIndian Premier League(IPL) is in its final stretch currently with exactly week left in the league phase, starting with Wednesday’s crucial meeting between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals. The season has come to a point where all teams except MI and DC have either already qualified for the playoffs, or have already bowed out of the race, thusmaking the upcoming match something of a virtual quarter-final.
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2 weeks ago |
firstpost.com | Amit Banerjee
There have been attempts to revamp the game of chess as we know it and try and make it more popular among the younger crowd. While Standard, or Classical, chess remains the cornerstone of the board game that has had international tournaments in existence for nearly two centuries, faster formats such as rapid and blitz have been gaining popularity all over the world, which might have something to do with the ever-decreasing attention spans of the social media generation.
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3 weeks ago |
firstpost.com | Amit Banerjee
Despite the fact that he won silver in the Paris Olympics three years afterwinning gold in Tokyoto cement himself as India’s greatest athlete of all time, the year 2024 was somewhat underwhelming for Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra by his own extraordinary standards.
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3 weeks ago |
firstpost.com | Amit Banerjee
“I’ll always look back at my Test career with a smile.”Virat Kohli closed another chapter of what has been a legendary career so far on Monday. Less than a year after he retired from Twenty20 Internationals with Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja, Kohli bid Test cricket goodbye.
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1 month ago |
firstpost.com | Amit Banerjee
Many, including commentatorsRavi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar, had believed Rohit Sharma had made the last of his Test appearances for India against Australia at the MCG after getting dismissed for scores of 3 and 9. Rohit, at that point, had collected just 31 runs at an average of 6.20 in what was a wretched tour Down Under, and 122 in what would be the last six Tests of his career at 11.09.
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