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Miracle Men: The Greatest Underdog Story in Cricket by Nikhil Naz Hachette India, Rs 399.

Nostalgia sip from a Cup that changed all

The most memorable one is Kapil Dev's tongue-in-cheek reply after his 175 versus Zimbabwe.

28 July 2019 3:26 AM IST

The Nine Waves: The Extraordinary Story of Indian cricket, By Mihir Bose HarperCollins Rs 999.

Cricket history comes alive with humour and off-the-record tidbits

Bose floats the theory that Pataudi's mother wrote to Prime Minister Nehru that her son was from the minority community...

14 July 2019 8:03 AM IST

Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder by Bishweshar Nandi, Digvijay Singh Deo and Vimal Mohan Fingerprint Publishing, Rs 499

How Indian gymnast' stopped being an oxymoron

The book has some priceless photographs from the history of gymnastics in Tripura and some personal ones from Dipa's...

24 March 2019 2:44 AM IST

The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Womens Cricket in India by Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Patnaik Westland, Rs 799

The rise and rise of the women in blue

Creditably, the book is not just documentation of matches, statistics and players but also provides many sociological...

10 March 2019 5:41 AM IST

Indian football coaches come of age

Till the end of the 20th century, the Asian Games football tournament had no age restrictions and senior teams...

11 Aug 2018 12:39 AM IST

Shyam Thapa (left) with P.K. Banerjee.

The lost glory of Asia's oldest football league

Many of these Youth Congress supporters were also ardent East Bengal fans. So in their slogans politics and football got...

4 Aug 2018 12:06 AM IST

Mesut saga: The politics of football

It is the timing of the meeting, which led to an outbreak of xenophobic attacks on Ozil.

28 July 2018 1:24 AM IST

France victory a triumph of diversity

During the 1960s and 70s when France did not do well in international football, they started a national coaching centre...

21 July 2018 12:19 AM IST

Belgium coach Roberto Martinez.

Martinez, an innovative coach

France vs Belgium should be an all-time classic between two countries oozing with confidence.

9 July 2018 12:25 AM IST

Kolkata youngsters flaunt their loyalty to Argentina by decorating a car with posters of Messi & Co. (Photo: PTI)

When will India qualify for the World cup?

The World Cup has shown that neither wealth nor size of population matters in producing quality football teams.

8 July 2018 3:15 AM IST

James Rodriguez (Photo: AP)

Colombia showed how to grind it out

Senegal got eliminated on the Fair Play rule & thus there will be no African country in the last sixteen for the first...

30 Jun 2018 12:12 AM IST

An Argentinas fan wearing a fancy hat depicting Argentinas forward Lionel Messi reacts after being defeated by Croatia at the end of the Russia 2018 World Cup Group D football match between Argentina and Croatia at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Nizhny Novgorod. (Photo: AFP)

Neither wealth nor population matters in Cup

African nations have not done well except for Senegal. Morocco, despite playing well, lacked finish and Egypt are...

23 Jun 2018 12:09 AM IST