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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Ayon Sengupta |Paul Fein |Ryan Fernando
1 Number of players to do the all-rounder’s double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets in IPL history. Ravindra Jadeja achieved this on 28 March 2025 while playing for CSK against RCB in Chennai, becoming the only one to do so. The enormity of this achievement can be seen from the fact that of the 27 players who made 3000-plus runs in the IPL, only two have claimed fifty wickets (Shane Watson 3874+92 and Kieron Pollard 3412+69).
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Suresh Menon |Ayon Sengupta |Sunil Gavaskar |Jonathan Selvaraj
The German writer Patrick Suskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murdereris a morality tale full of vivid olfactory imagery. He writes,“People could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn’t escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn’t defend themselves against it.
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3 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Ryan Fernando |Ayon Sengupta |Shayan Acharya |Paul Fein
In today’s world, your diet is as much a flex as your gym stats. Scroll through social media and you’ll find everyone, from celebrities to recreational athletes, swearing by keto, intermittent fasting, or juice cleanses. But as a sports nutritionist, I have to ask a more serious question:Are these trends really improving your performance, or silently sabotaging it? Let’s break them down through an athletic lens. Intermittent Fasting — Boosting Discipline or Draining Endurance?
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3 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Satish Acharya |Ayon Sengupta |Shayan Acharya |Paul Fein
Bat check today, bicep check tomorrow? IPL2025 gets a flex-worthy twist! | Photo Credit: SATISH ACHARYA Bat check today, bicep check tomorrow? IPL2025 gets a flex-worthy twist! | Photo Credit: SATISH ACHARYA
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Neeladri Bhattacharjee |Ayon Sengupta |Shayan Acharya |Kavita Menon
Shillong has two things quintessential to it: football and music. For most of the year, the streets here are adorned with either banners of music festivals or players of the local club, Shillong Lajong, competing in the I-League. The capital city has been touted as the rock capital of India, having hosted concerts by artistes like the Scorpions and Steven Wilson to nurtured home-grown bands like Soulmate, Afflatus, and Aberrant.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Ayon Sengupta |Lavanya Narayanan |Sunil Gavaskar |Jonathan Selvaraj
In 2004, Kirsty Coventry swam her way to three Olympic medals in Athens, including a gold in the 200m backstroke. For Zimbabwe, it was a sporting revelation — before that, the country’s only Olympic medal had come from the women’s hockey team at the ‘boycotted’ Moscow Games in 1980. About 20 years later, Coventry returned to Athens to win again.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Ayon Sengupta
Pradeep Senthil Kumar admits he got a bit of a shock when he started his first year at the University of Nebraska. Born and raised in Chennai, the 21-year-old was barely prepared for the biting winter cold in the American Midwest. “It rarely goes below 70°F here (approximately 20°C). It was really cold. When I came for the first time last winter, it was something like 21°F (-6°C), and it only got colder. I genuinely didn’t know how to handle that. I was sick for a whole month,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Pranay Rajiv |S. Dipak Ragav |Ayon Sengupta |Ryan Fernando
Captain: Ruturaj Gaikwad Coach: Stephen Fleming Home Venue: M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Best Finishes: Champions (2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023) Last Season: Fifth Key Stats 1. Spin-Friendly Fortress 7.13 – The economy rate for spinners at Chepauk, the lowest among IPL venues with over 15 matches. Chennai’s home ground continues to favour spinners, making Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, and Noor Ahmad crucial assets. CSK’s well-rounded spin attack is built to thrive in these conditions. 2.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Suresh Menon |Ryan Fernando |S. Dipak Ragav |Ayon Sengupta
For a while in Oxford, my son lived in rooms overlooking the Iffley Road track where Roger Banister broke the four-minute barrier for the mile. We marvelled at the history. It became, unsurprisingly, the Roger Bannister running track. That record came in May 1954, as Bannister, aided by pacemakers, ran in 3:59.4, a set of numbers as famous in athletics as 19 for 90 is in cricket or 3.14 in geometry.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Ryan Fernando |S. Dipak Ragav |Ayon Sengupta
For years, I have crafted personalised nutrition plans for elite athletes, including top cricketers like Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, and Harbhajan Singh. I have studied every detail — metabolism, micronutrient needs, gut health, hydration strategies, and recovery cycles. My approach has always been driven by human expertise, intuition, and experience — things no machine could replicate. Or so I thought.
