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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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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Paul Fein
The return of World No. 1 Jannik Sinner to a hero’s welcome at his home tournament in Rome this month heightened the excitement for this season’s second Grand Slam and its only Major on clay. This is only the second French Open without the retired Rafael Nadal since the King of Clay took his first crown there in 2005, and intriguing questions abound. How much will Sinner’s three-month absence from competition affect his match toughness — especially his shot selection and ability to win big points?
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Ayon Sengupta |Paul Fein |Ryan Fernando
1 Number of players to do the all-rounder’s double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets in IPL history. Ravindra Jadeja achieved this on 28 March 2025 while playing for CSK against RCB in Chennai, becoming the only one to do so. The enormity of this achievement can be seen from the fact that of the 27 players who made 3000-plus runs in the IPL, only two have claimed fifty wickets (Shane Watson 3874+92 and Kieron Pollard 3412+69).
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Ryan Fernando |Ayon Sengupta |Shayan Acharya |Paul Fein
In today’s world, your diet is as much a flex as your gym stats. Scroll through social media and you’ll find everyone, from celebrities to recreational athletes, swearing by keto, intermittent fasting, or juice cleanses. But as a sports nutritionist, I have to ask a more serious question:Are these trends really improving your performance, or silently sabotaging it? Let’s break them down through an athletic lens. Intermittent Fasting — Boosting Discipline or Draining Endurance?
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Satish Acharya |Ayon Sengupta |Shayan Acharya |Paul Fein
Bat check today, bicep check tomorrow? IPL2025 gets a flex-worthy twist! | Photo Credit: SATISH ACHARYA Bat check today, bicep check tomorrow? IPL2025 gets a flex-worthy twist! | Photo Credit: SATISH ACHARYA
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Paul Fein |Sunil Gavaskar
“I feel like I’m born for this sport.”– Novak Djokovic, winner of a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal “Given the same chance as others have had, blacks would dominate our sport as they have done in other sports.” – Arthur Ashe, in 1988 “You train the tennis player very similar to an N.H.L. player.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Paul Fein
India will bid for a third title when it begins its ICC Champions Trophy 2025 campaign against Bangladesh in Dubai on Thursday. India won the tournament in 2002 (joint-winner with Sri Lanka) and 2013, before losing to archrival Pakistan in the final in 2017. Only two-time champion Australia has won the ICC Champions Trophy as many times as the Men in Blue.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
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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Feb 17, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Paul Fein
Nabil Bentaleb could not have scripted his comeback any better after the Lille midfielder marked his return to the side following a heart attack last year with a goal in Sunday’s 2-0 win at Stade Rennais. The former Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United player suffered a cardiac arrest on June 18, and there were doubts about the 30-year-old’s future in the game.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Paul Fein
ICC Champions Trophy (1998-2017) – a statistical surveyThis 50-over tournament started in the late 1990s when one-day cricket was probably at its peak popularity. The ICC Champions Trophy, as we know it today, was called the ICC Knockout. The first edition was lapped up by both television viewers and the host nation Bangladesh purely for the exciting high-octave cricket it generated.
