Mihir Vasavda

Delhi, Mumbai

Principal Sports Correspondent at The Indian Express

Sportswriter, @IndianExpress/ @IExpressSports

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With assist from Kashmiri greats, Suhail Ahmad Bhat makes his way from Srinagar to Indian football team

4 days ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

Suhail Ahmad Bhat was in a cradle, just two months old, when Sunil Chhetri first played for India in June 2005. “Imagine,” the 20-year-old blushes, “now I am sharing the dressing room with him.”On the first day, he was ‘gripped by nerves’. “We were doing rondos (a passing drill). I was so afraid… I kept telling myself, ‘Don’t make any mistake!’” Chhetri, one of India’s all-time greats, sensed the anxiety and put his arm around Bhat’s shoulders.
The Shubman Gill effect in his Chak Kherewala village: A new stadium being built, an uptick in cricket enrollments

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

Shubman Gill has been picked to lead India’s Test team into a new era, steering through a transition phase following the retirements of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, starting with the five-match series in England from June 20. While Jasprit Bumrah (31) has played the role of stand-in captain in the past, the selectors did not hand him the reins for the long term, citing “workload management”.
India squad for England tour: Shubman Gill new Test captain as BCCI names 18-member side; Mohammed Shami dropped

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday announced India’s Test squad for the forthcoming tour to England, with Shubman Gill named as the new captain for the five-match series starting June 20. Gill takes over from Rohit Sharma, who announced his Test retirement after the national selectors opted to overlook him for the tour after his poor Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 tour to Australia.
Neeraj Chopra has found path to 90m. Now, it’s down to what he does best: Remain consistent

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

Ever the seeker, Neeraj Chopra was already looking expectantly towards the future as everyone around him was revelling in the present. Not for him the outpouring of emotions, a big sigh or any over-the-top celebrations after doing what no other Indian, and only 24 men globally before him, had done: make the javelin travel more than 90m. 90.23, to be exact.
Neeraj Chopra’s 90m dream achieved: On ‘bittersweet’ night, Neeraj hopes it is just the beginning for bigger throws

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

A wry smile, a shake of the head, and a side embrace with his fellow competitors. There wouldn’t be a more muted, low-key celebration to any sporting accomplishment than this, let alone when an athlete joins an exclusive club that only a couple of dozen were a part of before Friday night. Indeed, Neeraj Chopra roared and raised his arms in the trademark fashion as he launched the javelin into Doha’s night sky. But that he always does.
Neeraj Chopra kickstarts 2025: At Doha Diamond League, all eyes on a fit Neeraj and how much impact coach Jan Zelezny has had

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

As he switched between exuding charm and showcasing diplomacy — drawing chuckles as he sheepishly narrated his awkwardness on ad-shoot sets and deftly handling the Arshad Nadeem bouncer hurled at him — only one thing Neeraj Chopra declared mattered: that, for the first time in months, he was fully fit. “(Earlier) I had some problems in my groin,” Chopra said in Doha ahead of the Diamond League curtain-raiser for men’s javelin throw. “This time, I never missed any (throwing) session.
At ‘Floating Village’ for 2026 Asian Games in Japan, athletes will be briefed on dealing with tsunamis and typhoons

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

Thousands of athletes at next year’s Asian Games will compete on land and stay on water. In a first, the organising committee of the 2026 Asiad, to be held in Japan, have created a ‘floating’ Athletes’ Village after it was decided that nearly one-third of the total 15,000 athletes and officials will be housed on a luxury cruise ship that will be docked at the Nagoya Port. The host city, the capital of Aichi prefecture, has a population of 2.3 million.
‘Camp mode: Dead’ - Eye on World Cup qualification, India’s men’s hockey team turns to sprints, mountain runs to improve endurance

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

By their own admission, Craig Fulton has made his players do ‘crazy’ things. They’ve climbed Table Mountain and rappelled in the Swiss Alps. Yet, when they returned to the team’s base in Bengaluru late April, the back-to-back Olympic medallists were already ‘questioning’ their ‘life choices’. Sharpening skills and learning new tactics weren’t the only items on the to-do list of the 55 players, now pruned to 40, who reported for the national camp.
‘We had Pahalgam victims in our mind’: Amidst conflict, J&K teenagers win Khelo India volleyball gold

4 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

Bilal Ahmed stepped onto the volleyball court in Patliputra on Thursday to ‘play the biggest match of his career’. The teenager’s thoughts, however, were with his family in Poonch, where Pakistan had resorted to heavy artillery fire, targeting the civilian population. Ahmed barely slept a wink the previous night and spent tense hours leading up to the 5 pm game.
Drafting, super spikes: How Faith Kipyegon can become the first woman to run a mile under four minutes

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Mihir Vasavda

Seventy-one years ago, on May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier to run the mile, he closely followed two pace-setters for more than 80 percent of the race, a technique known as drafting. In 2023, when Faith Kipyegon broke the world record — completing the mile in 4 minutes, 7.64 seconds — she tailed her pace-setters for just the initial 56 percent of the race and ran the rest solo, with no benefit of drafting.

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Articles

With assist from Kashmiri greats, Suhail Ahmad Bhat makes his way from Srinagar to Indian football team

The Shubman Gill effect in his Chak Kherewala village: A new stadium being built, an uptick in cricket enrollments

India squad for England tour: Shubman Gill new Test captain as BCCI names 18-member side; Mohammed Shami dropped

Neeraj Chopra has found path to 90m. Now, it’s down to what he does best: Remain consistent

Neeraj Chopra’s 90m dream achieved: On ‘bittersweet’ night, Neeraj hopes it is just the beginning for bigger throws

Neeraj Chopra kickstarts 2025: At Doha Diamond League, all eyes on a fit Neeraj and how much impact coach Jan Zelezny has had

At ‘Floating Village’ for 2026 Asian Games in Japan, athletes will be briefed on dealing with tsunamis and typhoons

‘Camp mode: Dead’ - Eye on World Cup qualification, India’s men’s hockey team turns to sprints, mountain runs to improve endurance

‘We had Pahalgam victims in our mind’: Amidst conflict, J&K teenagers win Khelo India volleyball gold

Drafting, super spikes: How Faith Kipyegon can become the first woman to run a mile under four minutes

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