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4 days ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Ashwin Achal |Sunil Gavaskar
Stars from three generations — Shantha Rangaswamy, Mithali Raj, and Shreyanka Patil — engaged in a lively discussion at The Hindu Huddle on Friday on the growth of women’s cricket in India. Shantha, the first Indian women’s team captain, spoke about her pioneering role. “We laid the foundation. We may not have seen the likes of Mithali and Shreyanka if we had faltered in the initial stages.
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4 days ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Suresh Menon |Sunil Gavaskar
Traditionally, and certainly in India, we expected our sportsmen and sportswomen to be polite, humble, unselfish, empathetic, and respectful of the opposition. When I was growing into adulthood, our champions were Prakash Padukone (right), Gundappa Vishwanath, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Vijay Amritraj, and Ajit Pal Singh — all of whom embodied these values. When they won, they applauded the opponent; when they lost, it was with a smile. We believed this was how athletes ought to be.
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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | N. Sudarshan |Sunil Gavaskar
Royal Challengers Bengaluru will be keen to maintain its perfect away record in the Indian Premier League this season – six wins out of six so far – and seal playoffs qualification when it meets Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Cricket Stadium here on Friday. With 16 points from 11 games, RCB’s top-four hopes are not under serious threat.
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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Santadeep Dey |Sunil Gavaskar
Sift Kaur Samra has the vibe of any other 23-year-old. A Bollywood buff, her heart beats for lo-fi music, distant horizons, and untold adventures. She also swoons over puppies and swears by Italian platters at Chandigarh’s Virgin Courtyard. Her carefree demeanour is the very antithesis of the mental image we have of champion shooters. But at the shooting range, a quiet focus takes over. As her eyes lock onto the target 50 metres away, her fingers are steady, and breath measured.
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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Satish Acharya |Sunil Gavaskar
Rajasthan Royals’ 14-year-old opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi has taken the IPL by storm. | Photo Credit: Satish Acharya Rajasthan Royals’ 14-year-old opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi has taken the IPL by storm. | Photo Credit: Satish Acharya
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1 week 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 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Santadeep Dey |Sunil Gavaskar
7.09 per cent — At the time of writing, that’s the probability Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) is looking at if the side has to confirm a top-four berth in the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Skipper Ajinkya Rahane is well aware that his side sits right behind the eight ball; even if the defending champion wins all of its remaining four games, it has to await other results. But the experienced campaigner in him isn’t sweating it. “We don’t want to think about the past.
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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar
In a little over the course of a month, three Indian National sprint records have been rewritten in the record books. On March 28, Gurindervir Singh broke the Indian 100m record. Animesh Kujur then shattered the 200m record at the Federation Cup on April 24. On Wednesday, at the Sector 7 stadium in Chandigarh, it was the turn of the Indian 4x100m record, set in 2010 -- it was the oldest standing Indian men’s track record -- to fall.
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2 weeks ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Shayan Acharya |Sunil Gavaskar
Varun Chakaravarthy may appear calm on the field, but his mind rarely rests. “I think about how to improve 24x7,” he says, admitting it can be “irritating” for those close to him. But that’s just how he’s wired — constantly consumed by the game. Over the last few months, the leg-spinner has been on a remarkable run. A key figure in India’s Champions Trophy triumph, Varun emerged as the team’s second-highest wicket-taker in the tournament with nine wickets, thriving in the heat of Dubai.
