Axar PatelAxar Patel
Asian CricketIndia's Christchurch defeat was settled in the middle overs, not in Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's eight ballsI was not at Hagley Oval on Saturday. I was in the two-room flat at Uppal, fo...
Asian CricketIshan Kishan Out of Second T20I, Kumar Kushagra Named Cover — India's Real Strength Is Hidden in ChristchurchOctober 23, 2026, a Friday evening. The board's media advisory arrived in two...
Asian Cricket455 Runs and Two Balls to Spare in Christchurch: India's Win Is a Record, Not a Comfortable One93/1 in 5.5 overs. That is 16.9 runs per over — extreme even by T20I powerpla...
Asian CricketThree Incomplete Ledgers for Bangladesh, One Day Before the Dhaka TestThe final practice session at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur wa...
World CricketAn Empty Box at 2 A.M.: Where Cricket's News Pipeline Actually BreaksAt two in the morning last week, an empty box was open on my laptop screen in...
AthleticsThe Empty Columns: Indian Athletics' Biggest Deficit Is Not Results, It Is EvidenceOn a June evening at a Federation Cup nobody was covering, the board at the e...
GolfPressing a Palm on a Wet Green: Penalty or Permitted? The Full File on Rule 13.1ePressing a Palm on a Wet Green: Penalty or Permitted? The Full File on Rule...
World CricketTest Hundreds From No.9 Or Below: The Quiz Asks the Question, the Batting-Order Habit Holds the AnswerAt 2:47 a.m. a voice note landed on the Abu Dhabi overnight desk. Three and a...
Asian CricketGold in the Cricket Ledger: How a Pakistani Bullion Report Contaminated a Cricket DatasetIn the last week of August 2026 I was running the monthly audit of my...
Asian CricketThe Newlands Morning: How One Stiff Neck Became Four Australian ChangesToss time at Newlands is a small ritual. The coin goes up, the captain's voic...
GolfOne Round of 63, a Two-Shot Gap: Katsuragawa Leads the Genesis Championship, but the Heavier File Belongs to JarvisThere is a date on the record board at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club that nobo...
Asian CricketTwo Crore in Points, One Lakh in Wages: What Dhaka's Auction Was Actually Bidding ForSheraton Hotel, Dhaka. Outside the ballroom, an air-conditioner hums without...
BasketballPAOK 65-62 AEK: Trinchieri's 'Excellent Defense' and the Five-Point Quarter Buried in the ScorebookTrinchieri sat down at the microphone and put defense in his first sentence....
ChessEleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Date That Runs Ahead of Its Own ReportThe Vietnamese headline made two claims in one sentence: an eleven-year-old...
WrestlingOne Hundred Grams, Six Entries and an Empty Year: Indian Wrestling's Weigh-In Ledger After ParisPage 214. August 7, 2026, 3:40 a.m., Bengaluru. The world feed on the laptop,...
Formula 1An F1 Story Written on a Blank Sheet: When the Evidence Column Stays EmptyAn F1 Story Written on a Blank Sheet: When the Evidence Column Stays Empty A...
BasketballSGA's 141-Game Streak Ends: Character Speaks Louder Than the RecordAt first glance, this is a story about a number. On November 1, 2026, Shai...
KabaddiNigeria Is Fourth in Ahmedabad Without a Single Raid: Reading Day 1 of the Commonwealth Kabaddi ChampionshipThe points table that came out of Ahmedabad on Monday night has Nigeria fourt...
Asian CricketHarmanpreet's 126 and India's 328/6: What the Vadodara Scoreboard Showed and the Ledger HidThe first ball of the 41st over, a cover drive, two runs, and the hundred...
Asian CricketGill's Ledger, Sooryavanshi's Option: The Real Scorecard of India's TransitionLance Klusener tried to settle Indian cricket's next decade in one sentence:...
Asian CricketIshan Kishan Out of Second T20I, Kumar Kushagra Named Cover — India's Real Strength Is Hidden in ChristchurchOctober 23, 2026, a Friday evening. The board's media advisory arrived in two...
Asian Cricket455 Runs and Two Balls to Spare in Christchurch: India's Win Is a Record, Not a Comfortable One93/1 in 5.5 overs. That is 16.9 runs per over — extreme even by T20I powerpla...
Asian CricketThree Incomplete Ledgers for Bangladesh, One Day Before the Dhaka TestThe final practice session at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur wa...
World CricketAn Empty Box at 2 A.M.: Where Cricket's News Pipeline Actually BreaksAt two in the morning last week, an empty box was open on my laptop screen in...
AthleticsThe Empty Columns: Indian Athletics' Biggest Deficit Is Not Results, It Is EvidenceOn a June evening at a Federation Cup nobody was covering, the board at the e...
GolfPressing a Palm on a Wet Green: Penalty or Permitted? The Full File on Rule 13.1ePressing a Palm on a Wet Green: Penalty or Permitted? The Full File on Rule...
World CricketTest Hundreds From No.9 Or Below: The Quiz Asks the Question, the Batting-Order Habit Holds the AnswerAt 2:47 a.m. a voice note landed on the Abu Dhabi overnight desk. Three and a...
Asian CricketGold in the Cricket Ledger: How a Pakistani Bullion Report Contaminated a Cricket DatasetIn the last week of August 2026 I was running the monthly audit of my...
Asian CricketThe Newlands Morning: How One Stiff Neck Became Four Australian ChangesToss time at Newlands is a small ritual. The coin goes up, the captain's voic...
GolfOne Round of 63, a Two-Shot Gap: Katsuragawa Leads the Genesis Championship, but the Heavier File Belongs to JarvisThere is a date on the record board at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club that nobo...
Asian CricketTwo Crore in Points, One Lakh in Wages: What Dhaka's Auction Was Actually Bidding ForSheraton Hotel, Dhaka. Outside the ballroom, an air-conditioner hums without...
BasketballPAOK 65-62 AEK: Trinchieri's 'Excellent Defense' and the Five-Point Quarter Buried in the ScorebookTrinchieri sat down at the microphone and put defense in his first sentence....
ChessEleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Date That Runs Ahead of Its Own ReportThe Vietnamese headline made two claims in one sentence: an eleven-year-old...
WrestlingOne Hundred Grams, Six Entries and an Empty Year: Indian Wrestling's Weigh-In Ledger After ParisPage 214. August 7, 2026, 3:40 a.m., Bengaluru. The world feed on the laptop,...
Formula 1An F1 Story Written on a Blank Sheet: When the Evidence Column Stays EmptyAn F1 Story Written on a Blank Sheet: When the Evidence Column Stays Empty A...
BasketballSGA's 141-Game Streak Ends: Character Speaks Louder Than the RecordAt first glance, this is a story about a number. On November 1, 2026, Shai...
KabaddiNigeria Is Fourth in Ahmedabad Without a Single Raid: Reading Day 1 of the Commonwealth Kabaddi ChampionshipThe points table that came out of Ahmedabad on Monday night has Nigeria fourt...
Asian CricketHarmanpreet's 126 and India's 328/6: What the Vadodara Scoreboard Showed and the Ledger HidThe first ball of the 41st over, a cover drive, two runs, and the hundred...
Asian CricketGill's Ledger, Sooryavanshi's Option: The Real Scorecard of India's TransitionLance Klusener tried to settle Indian cricket's next decade in one sentence:...