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1 week 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 | Kavita Menon |Vivek Krishnan |Rajdeep Saha |S. Dipak Ragav
Pre-season testing offers a glimpse into the new season, yet it rarely reveals the full picture. While lap times and mileage offer clues, teams use this period to experiment rather than push their cars to the limit. The three-day testing is for refinement, setups and gathering mountains of data under varying conditions. As the engines roared at the Bahrain International Circuit at the end of February, one thing became clear — this could be the closest F1 season in years.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Rajdeep Saha |Kavita Menon
“Our middle order didn’t quite click this season,” opined the fairly new UP Warriorz captain Deepti Sharma, after her side finished at the bottom of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 table. Warriorz had a turbulent season, struggling with their middle-order stability, utilising nine players in the five positions (4-8) across eight matches. Their middle order had the second-lowest boundary percentage (14.97) and lowest strike rate (116.12) among the five teams in WPL 2025.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Paul Fein
Priya Mishra seized her opportunity in style. After waiting patiently on the sidelines for an entire season, the young leg-spinner proved she truly ‘belonged here’ in just her second Women’s Premier League (WPL) match for Gujarat Giants. In a dominant six-wicket win over UP Warriorz at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Sunday, she made an immediate impact, claiming the crucial wickets of Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, and Deepti Sharma.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Paul Fein
Delhi Capitals will look to banish the demons of the 2024 final when it takes on defending champion Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Kotambi International Stadium here on Monday. Both teams are coming off contrasting wins – Delhi secured a final-ball victory against Mumbai Indians, while Bengaluru dominated in a 200-plus run chase against Gujarat Giants.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Paul Fein
Gujarat Giants recovered from a tough loss in the opener and notched its first points in WPL 2025 after beating UP Warriorz by six wickets at the Kotambi International Stadium on Sunday. Giants’ head coach Michael Klinger said that the team learned from the defeat in the first game and executed the plan to perfection, restricting UP to a sub-par total. “I thought that game one was played very well, but we just had some learnings, in particular in our bowling and fielding.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Paul Fein
UP Warriorz mentor Lisa Sthalekar praised new skipper Deepti Sharma’s all-round effort despite the team’s six-run loss to Gujarat Giants on Sunday. “Thought the way that Deepti batted was really well. She had a pretty good all-round game and actually showed the fight. Whilst wickets were falling, she knew her plan and stuck to it,” said Sthalekar after the game. The former Australian skipper felt that her side was a good 30 to 40 runs short of a defendable target.
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Paul Fein
An improved fielding effort and a rounded performance with bat and ball helped Gujarat Giants beat UP Warriorz by six wickets to register its first points of the Women’s Premier League’s (WPL) 2025 season. Ashleigh Gardner and Deandra Dottin’s power-hitting capped a clinical performance which began with a fiery spell from Priya Mishra. Dottin and Harleen Deol’s fifty-run stand helped the home side chase 144 with two overs to spare.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon
There was a brief pause before Aishwarya Pissay, the record-breaking Indian road racing and rally rider, delved into the origins of her decade-long journey and why she chose to pursue a career in rally racing. Eventually, the 29-year-old, one of the earliest TVS Racing woman factory racers, had a smile across her face, as she figured out how to respond. “Why rally? I wanted to be at the pinnacle of racing and MotoGP when I started.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Dhruva Prasad |Pranay Rajiv |Sunil Gavaskar
He was pushed to the limit this year, often finding himself in unfamiliar territory — the back of the grid. But greatness is forged in the fire of adversity, and Max Verstappen rose above all challenges, reaffirming his status as the sport’s indisputable champion. The 2024 Formula One season witnessed a Verstappen who was not as dominant as before.
