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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Rajdeep Saha |Shayan Acharya |Ayon Sengupta
Tara Prasad was seven when she first stepped onto the ice. For the next decade, figure skating remained nothing more than a recreational pursuit. Today, at 25, she proudly represents India on the sport’s biggest stages. “There’s obviously a more serious aspect now than when I was a kid.
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3 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Santadeep Dey |Anish Pathiyil |Vivek Krishnan |Ayon Sengupta
It wasn’t just the Chennai Super Kings’ talisman M. S. Dhoni who faced a momentous question on May 25. CSK and Gujarat Titans were playing their final IPL group-stage match that day, and as has become tradition in recent years, the world awaited Dhoni’s word on his future. On any other Sunday, this subplot would have had Trusha Vyas, a 29-year-old photographer from Ahmedabad, utterly thrilled. But this was no ordinary day.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Lavanya Narayanan |Ayon Sengupta
There’s great comfort in being the reliable bet when success is largely on autopilot. Ask India, the hot favourite in the recent tri-series against Sri Lanka and South Africa in Colombo. Harmanpreet & Co. cantered to a series win, after beating Sri Lanka in a final that was headlined by a sublime century from Smriti Mandhana.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Shayan Acharya |Ayon Sengupta |Anish Pathiyil |Ryan Fernando
Rashid Khan has been one of the star performers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for eight years. But the early stages of the 2025 edition were tough for the Afghan spin ace. Returning from a hamstring injury, he struggled in his first few outings for Gujarat Titans — conceding runs and lacking impact. As the tournament wore on, though, he found his rhythm. With eight wickets so far, he admits poor control over line and length cost him early on.
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1 month 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 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 28, 2025 | 
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.
