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3 days ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Amol Karhadkar

Suryakumar Yadav was at his marauding best on Sunday night. But it was the return of Rohit Sharma’s form with the willow that made the Mumbai Indians camp happiest at the Wankhede Stadium. After all, Rohit had a quiet – to say the least – IPL 2025 campaign until the big game against Chennai Super Kings. In six innings, he had tallied only 82 runs and had very little impact despite being used as an Impact Player for most of the season.

4 days ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Amol Karhadkar

The ability of big players to raise the bar in the most challenging conditions separates them from others. It was on display in abundance on Sunday night in the marquee clash in the Indian Premier League between the most successful outfits in the league. Ravindra Jadeja and Shivam Dube – despite having a relatively quiet first half with the willow – put on 79 runs off 50 balls to help Chennai Super Kings set Mumbai Indians a target of 177 at the Wankhede Stadium.

5 days ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Jonathan Selvaraj

Alongside an Olympic bronze and a European gold, Azerbaijan’s Giorgi Meshvildishvili has also won tractors, Bullet motorcycles and buffaloes in Indian dangals. When he won gold at the European wrestling championships last week, Giorgi Meshvildishvilli cemented his claim as one of the world’s top heavyweight wrestlers. Last year, representing Azerbaijan, the 33 year old won bronze at the Paris Olympics in the men’s 125 kg category.

6 days ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Amol Karhadkar

Rohit Sharma has referred to the recent announcement of a stand being named after him at the Wankhede Stadium – alma mater of Mumbai cricket for half a century – as an ‘unreal feeling’ and that it will be an ‘emotional moment’ for him when the plaque is unveiled. “To sit back and think that there is going to be a stadium stand in my name is such an unreal feeling. It is something that I have never thought of.

1 week ago | sportstar.thehindu.com | Rajdeep Saha

Anthony Andrews is obsessed with winning. So much so that he compiled videos of families of his players wishing them to motivate them at the team meeting on the eve of an important match against defending champion Odisha FC. After leading Gokulam Kerala to two consecutive Indian Women’s League (IWL) titles, the coach guided East Bengal to its maiden IWL trophy in the 2024-25 season in his first campaign at the helm.