Debayan Sen

Bangalore, New Delhi

Senior Assistant Editor at ESPN

Multi-sport, multi-lingual commentator & presenter. Leadership experience across TV, radio and online spaces. Ramnath Goenka awardee, ✉️ [email protected]

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Cricket World Cup Fun Facts : Did You Know?

Oct 4, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

Cricket World Cup Fun Facts : Did You Know? Debayan Sen Debayan Sen Published Oct 5, 2024 While India’s win against West Indies in the 1983 Men’s Cricket World Cup final is often looked at as a monumental upset, it really shouldn’t be considered one. Both teams had also met in their inaugural match of the tournament, where India had won by 34 runs.
Key Traits of a Pro Kabaddi Player : What Sets Them Apart in Season 11

Oct 2, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

Key Traits of a Pro Kabaddi Player : What Sets Them Apart in Season 11 Debayan Sen Debayan Sen Published Oct 3, 2024 With the 11th season of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) not far from us, let us take a look at the qualities that comprise a good kabaddi player.
HIL to FIH : My Journey in Hockey Commentary

Sep 27, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

HIL to FIH : My Journey in Hockey Commentary Debayan Sen Debayan Sen Published Sep 28, 2024 In 2013, I was commentating the Hockey India League for Star Sports, my second mainstream hockey assignment after having covered World Series Hockey for Neo Sports the year before.
Behind the Scenes: The Teamwork Behind a Successful Sports Broadcast

Sep 11, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

A popular saying in Africa goes that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’, and the same could be said of a successful sports production. When we sit at home and watch a live cricket or football game, we have no idea of the effort and preparation that goes into broadcasting it. Of course, we can see the visible production – we can watch the visuals, and we can hear the commentators. However, there is so much that goes in, before, during and after the game.
Calling the Action: Wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

Sep 10, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

Calling the Action: Wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Debayan Sen Debayan Sen Published Sep 11, 2024 When the Commonwealth Games came to Delhi in 2010, I had the privilege of being drafted into the world feed team for wrestling by SIS LIVE (an offshoot of the BBC), recommended by a British colleague James Ramsey.
Beyond Medals: Transforming India's Sports Culture

Aug 9, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

‘Why do India not win more medals at the Olympics? When can India compete with global sports powerhouses at multi-nation events? What is wrong with the sports culture of India?’ These are the common questions that come by, every few years, when there’s an Olympics or an Asian Games or Commonwealth Games (written deliberately in that order, because largely these are the top three events in decreasing order of difficulty) around and most Indians become engrossed in non-cricket sports.
Debayan Sen on LinkedIn: Manu Bhaker's Redemption: India's Newest Olympic Medalist Shines in Paris…

Jul 29, 2024 | linkedin.com | Debayan Sen

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With academy delivering and national league in the works, Indian basketball set to fly

Sep 27, 2023 | espn.in | Anirudh Menon |Debayan Sen

Princepal Singh jumps high, catches the lob from Lokendra Singh and slams a dunk down, before hanging on for just long enough to ensure he's not censured but his opponents, Malaysia, know what they are in for. What they were in for was a 20-16 defeat, India dominating them inside the paint as well as along the perimeter in the opening game of the 3x3 men's basketball tournament at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
For Vandana Katariya, hockey isn't a sport, it's a gamechanger in life

Sep 26, 2023 | espn.in | Shamya Dasgupta |Aaditya Narayan |Sharda Ugra |Debayan Sen

There are several reasons why Vandana Katariya is important to India's hockey chances at the Asian Games, and also why the tournament is important to her. The first is obvious: Even at 31, she has the goalscoring nous and record that the team is short of, especially in Rani Rampal's absence. She has played more matches and scored more goals than anybody in the squad, and her form becomes crucial if India want to win the gold medal and qualify for the Paris Olympics.
A view from the inside out by one of Indian cricket's key insiders

Aug 31, 2023 | espn.co.uk | Debayan Sen

If you've ever wondered what pre-match routines Sachin Tendulkar or Sourav Ganguly typically went through, or how chaotic the initial years of the IPL were, or how cannily the best cricket administrators work out the arithmetic during BCCI elections, you will get a lot of insights in Amrit Mathur's Pitchside: My Life in Indian Cricket.