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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Jonathan Selvaraj |Ravi Shastri |Paul Fein
35 The number of innings Sai Sudharsan needed to reach the 1500th run of his IPL career. It was during his knock of 48 against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Ahmedabad on 2 May 2025. Of the 73 batters who accomplished this milestone in the IPL, Sudharshan is the quickest to reach this tally in terms of fewest innings. He just took one innings less than Shaun Marsh, who did it in 36 innings in 2012. Meanwhile, during this knock, Sai Sudharsan also crossed 2000 runs of his T20 career.
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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Ravi Shastri
A few days before Shambhavi Kshirsagar was to fly out to Germany for the ISSF Shooting Junior World Championships, the topic of the competition she was up against came up in a conversation with her father. “She is obsessed with shooting. Her entire day goes either in shooting or preparing for it. And if its neither of them, then she will be talking about it. We were talking about the World Championships and I asked her who her strong opponents were going to be.
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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj
Two days before they will compete at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, the Indian athletics team has been forced to withdraw an athlete from the squad following an adverse doping result. An official with the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), who preferred not to be named, confirmed that a member of the Indian 4x400m women’s relay squad was prevented from boarding her flight for the Asian Championships following the finding.
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj
In the hours after he beat Japan’s Yushi Tanaka 21-18, 24-22 in the semifinals of the Malaysia Masters World Tour 500 event, Kidambi Srikanth would have got a fair number of congratulatory messages. It’s easy to see why. The win takes him to his first major final since 2021. It is also his first summit clash on the World Tour in nearly six years – having previously reached the India Open final in March 2019. There’s one notable absentee in Srikanth’s message or call lists though.
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj
Tejaswin Shankar has set lofty goals for himself at this month’s Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, Korea. He hopes not only to improve on the bronze medal he won in the previous edition in Bangkok, but also to better his decathlon national record of 7666 points. However, while his competition begins on May 30, the real challenge for Tejaswin will start much earlier — on the day of his departure to Korea.
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Pranay Rajiv |Jonathan Selvaraj |Dhruva Prasad
Nothing unnerves a track coach more than a baton exchange in a sprint relay. You could have the fastest runners at your disposal, but even a slightly flawed handover can spell disaster for a relay team. For Indian sprint coach James Hillier, however, the three 30-metre baton exchange zones on a 100m relay track aren’t looming pitfalls. He sees them as fast-moving windows of opportunity — zones that could launch his team into the world’s elite.
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj
Regardless of the outcome of the contest, Mridul Saikia will be making history simply when he steps into the Octagon at the UFC Performance institute in Shanghai against China’s Agulalli on Thursday. The 26-year-old from Assam will be the first fighter from the North East of India to compete in the Road To UFC, a knockout tournament that provides a pathway for top MMA prospects from Asia to secure a contract in the Ultimate Fighting Championships.
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3 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj
On his third attempt of the competition, even as high speed TV cameras strained to frame the still-soaring fluorescent green projectile he had flung into the black night of Doha, Neeraj Chopra threw his arms up with his index fingers pointing to the sky. He didn’t need to wait to see where his javelin would bury itself on the turf of the Suheim bin Hamad Stadium. He’s spoken before of realising whether he’s made a good throw or not the moment the spear leaves his hand.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar
Before he stepped out to compete at the 2025 Federation Cup in Kochi, Praveen Chithravel wrote down something behind his numbered bib ahead of the start of the men’s triple jump competition. Later, once he’d won gold while equalling his own national record of 17.37m, the 23-year-old revealed just what he had written:‘17.20m’Chithravel had come in with high expectations and ended up exceeding them at the Maharaja Stadium in Kochi. That was true for much of the rest of the competition as well.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar
Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion Arshad Nadeem’s Instagram account was blocked in India on Wednesday evening, days after a terror attack that killed 26 Indian tourists in Pahalgam in Kashmir. Accounts of popular Pakistani artists, including actors Mahira Khan, Hania Aamir and Ali Zafar, were also blocked in India the same day following the terrorist attack which India blames on Pakistan.
