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As chill thaws, Dhaka’s full toss to New Delhi to confirm India’s cricket tour of Bangladesh next month

The series originally scheduled for 2024 has since been rescheduled twice due to strained ties between India & Bangladesh. BCB writes to BCCI, reaches out to government to push for tour.

The cost of being a cricketer in India—there’s a world beyond Rinku, Reddy, Suryavanshi

In 'Chasing Like Dhoni', Aayush Puthran and Samod reveal the numbers behind India's great cricketing dream.

Kranti Gaud’s first match was for a local boys’ team. Her name is now etched at Lord’s

Long before pacer Kranti Gaud earned a platform to prove herself, it was her parents who staged the first revolution in Ghuwara, a tribal-majority village in Madhya Pradesh.

Mehrauli’s own IPL: How a neighbourhood cricket league became its biggest festival

The Mehrauli Premier League has transformed a corner of Delhi into its own IPL, where gully cricket comes with jerseys, commentators, fierce rivalries and dreams of playing for India.

Why modern cricket will never make another Garry Sobers

The more structured cricket gets, the less room it leaves for the kind of unstructured genius that built Garry Sobers.

Yastika Bhatia & Kranti Gaud make history—first women on Lord’s honours board

This feat came after India’s one-off Test against England at the Lord's Cricket Ground in London. It was the first-ever women’s Test match at the Home of Cricket.

Why everyone wants a seat at Bay 13 of the Melbourne Cricket Ground

In ‘My Summer of Cricket’, Nikhil Kulkarni chronicles the Test cricket matches between Australia and India over the 2024—25 summer.

Second straight IPL trophy for RCB as Virat Kohli stars in easy win over Gujarat Titans

The defending champions chased a target of 156 with 12 balls remaining. Kohli smashed his fastest IPL half-century in just 25 balls, finishing not out with 75 runs off 42 balls.

Sooryavanshi out, TV off—How star obsession is affecting IPL viewership

Attention spans are officially fractured as Gen Z swaps long television broadcasts for super sixes, memes, and 20-minute digital streams.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi reminds Mohammad Yousaf of a young Afridi. Indian fans beg to differ

Former Pakistani cricketer’s comment came after the teen smashed an astonishing 97 runs off just 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2026 Eliminator.

On Camera

VN Sharma wasn’t just the former Army Chief of Staff. He was an institution

A champion of cross-border diplomacy, the former Army Chief brought together Indian and Pakistani military leaders to celebrate their shared alma mater.

Indian govt bets on battery storage boom to help abate mounting solar power losses

India’s transmission system failed to absorb more than 8 billion kilowatt-hours of power in April to June, when 63 billion actually reached the system.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman