Jonathan Selvaraj

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.