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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil |Sahil Mathur |Pranay Rajiv |Shayan Acharya
The 2024 T20 World Cup in the West Indies and USA demonstrated that Afghanistan is no longer just making up the numbers. The incredible talent pool in the country’s reserves, coupled with the experience it has gained by playing cricket in leagues around the world, has made the team a serious contender to go deep into ICC tournaments.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil |Paul Fein
It will be a battle between the middle-order heavy lifters when Gujarat takes on Kerala in the first semifinal of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday. Both teams have banked on contributions from the mid-pack to bail them out of trouble through the premier domestic red-ball competition – their quarterfinal wins being an illustration.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil |Anil Kumble
The news of table tennis being excluded from the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games struck a sour note, but the paddlers delivered several inspiring performances over the past year. Sreeja Akula had her best year on the international circuit yet, winning singles titles in both the WTT Feeder and Contender series. She also registered an impressive win over World No. 2 Chinese player Wang Yidi during the ITTF World Team Championships.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil |Dhruva Prasad |Anil Kumble
The Indian men’s cricket team’s fortunes ebbed and flowed with the vagaries of different formats in 2024, as Rohit Sharma’s men oscillated between the delight of a T20 World Cup win in the Americas and a debilitating Test series defeat against New Zealand at home.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil
There was an air of flamboyance at the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Academy nets facility situated at the SRMC campus in Chennai on Monday. The visiting West Indies Academy batters, who are in the midst of a two-week intensive training camp, displayed glimpses of Caribbean flair, bringing out their repertoire of attacking shots, including reverse sweeps and paddle sweeps, against the CSK Academy spinners.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Abhishek Saini |Anish Pathiyil |Dhruva Prasad |Pranay Rajiv
India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate’s optimistic outlook for his bowling unit after the first day of the second Test match in Adelaide hinged on a simple tweak: bowl fuller. “If we bowl slightly better, we feel like we can get back in the game tomorrow. The lengths could have been slightly fuller to encourage more play. I thought Australia left very well. It seemed to be a trademark of the way they play,” ten Doeschate said on Friday after the home side ended the opening day at 86 for one.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Anish Pathiyil |Nihit Sachdeva
In this episode of the Sportstar Podcast, host Nihit Sachdeva is joined by Kavita Menon and Anish Pathiyil. They review the Formula One 2024 season which is heading towards an exciting finish with six races left this year.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil
Sudip Chatterjee marked his comeback to the Bengal red-ball team with a memorable hundred during the opening Ranji Trophy fixture of the season against Uttar Pradesh (UP) in Lucknow. The southpaw scored 4951 First-Class (FC) runs in 78 matches since debuting against Hyderabad in 2012. In this period, only three players have managed to cross Chatterjee’s tally of 3555 runs for Bengal despite him spending two seasons at Tripura.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil
Abhimanyu Easwaran continued his run-stockpiling with a masterful unbeaten century during the Ranji Trophy encounter between Uttar Pradesh and Bengal in Lucknow, helping his team to three points in its opening fixture. After a disappointing first innings, where he fell to a rearing delivery from Yash Dayal for just five runs, Easwaran returned with renewed intent in the second innings.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Anish Pathiyil
lAbhimanyu Easwaran reinforced his credentials to make the India squad for the upcoming Border–Gavaskar Trophy with a sublime century as Bengal played out a draw with Uttar Pradesh on day four of the Ranji Trophy encounter in Lucknow on Monday. Resuming the day on 78, the Bengal opener brought up his 27th First-class hundred – his fifth in the previous nine innings – to help Bengal declare at 254 for three, with a lead of 273.
