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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Indian Cricket

Pakistanis say India’s 3-0 loss to New Zealand is ‘karma’, a ‘massive wake-up call’

While India lost the final Test against New Zealand in Mumbai, Pakistan, in a recent home series against England, showcased their spin prowess to bounce back and win the series 2-1.

Golden era of Indian Test cricket is fading. It’s time ageing superstars moved out

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

From Kolkata Test to World Cup win as spectator, how cricket came full circle for Ganguly

In ‘Gully Gully’, Aditya Iyer, looks at the story of a team brimming with legends & the game’s forgotten heroes: nameless and faceless Indian fans, emerging from all those gullies.

A part of Tiger Pataudi’s legacy is glossed over—cricket commentary

Indian Cricket: Then and Now captures the evolution of cricket in India. The book discussion was a gathering of old colleagues, each a bottomless pit of cricket content.

Shikhar Dhawan announces retirement from all cricket formats

Throughout his career, the veteran opener appeared in 34 Tests, 167 ODIs & 68 T20Is for India.

T20 WC win is a turning point for Indian cricket—now begins the end of Rohit-Kohli era

Heartbreaks, anger, blame game, pressure, efforts, and sacrifices—that has been the story of Indian cricket over the past 13 years. Let's just hope any future interregnum doesn’t last this long.

Debt, poor mental health — Cricketer David Johnson’s death hints at troubles of ‘forgotten’ players

David had retired from international cricket at 31, rejected by Indian selectors after playing only 2 test matches. He allegedly jumped to death from his balcony last week.

Ravichandran Ashwin urges Tamillians to learn Hindi, says they will ‘blossom’ if they change mindset

Ashwin has just released his memoir — 'I Have the Streets: A Kutty Cricket Story' — recounting stories from his early days as a player to playing in World Cup & his relationship with Dhoni.

Indian cricket did a great favour to England by puncturing Bazball. Stop indulging mediocrity

England's batters have been hiding their failures under the pretext of Bazball. This classic case of escapism has now been exposed by India's 4-1 victory in the Test series.

Nari Contractor’s courage against pace bowling has made him immortal in Indian cricket

Nari Contractor, who has turned 90, was hit by West Indian fast bowler Charlie Griffith’s delivery in 1962. The hit on the skull caused serious damage to Nari’s cricketing career.

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.