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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.

Is the craze for IPL fading? It doesn’t feel like IPL anymore

People still go crazy for the matches. Brands go crazy for sponsorships. But something feels different this year.

On Camera

Why I choose Raya, Inner Circle over Hinge, Bumble—dating and ‘fairness’ are separate domains

Nobody dates democratically. We like pretending that we do. But we are filtering, sorting, selecting all the time when we date or marry.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.