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Jordan Spieth lost the Masters from a position of strength.

Meltdowns, a knotty quiz in modern day sport

Meltdowns in sport are not uncommon. The standard pun on athletes or teams snatching defeat from the jaws of victory says it all.

20 Apr 2016 11:26 PM

Heroic IPL Rahane was World T20 villain

Ajinkya Rahane’s heroics made light of a simple enough task for his new rising team from Pune on the opening night of the IPL season-9 and he was justly awarded the man of the match and feted as a T20

12 Apr 2016 2:08 AM

Intoxicating day and night of pure Caribbean theatre

This will go down as the greatest climax of all time. The principal character in the deux ex machine — Carlos — was no stealthy assassin creeping up on his prey.

05 Apr 2016 1:35 AM

Little Master mantle passes to Virat Kohli

Has Team India ever had a batsman better than this when performing under immense pressure Virat Kohli has a mind like a sponge that simply soaks up pressure.

29 Mar 2016 3:26 AM

MS Dhoni’s experience showed in every step of his sprint

That was a humdinger of a finish the likes of which may not be good for cricket fans with weak hearts, but it was a fantastic advertisement for action-packed T20 with its adrenaline-pumping, tension-r

25 Mar 2016 7:36 AM

New Zealand players celebrate the fall of an Indian wicket in Nagpur. (Photo: PTI)

Nagpur pitch let T20 fans down

The Kiwis have given Team India the biggest wake-up call. By spinning the Indians out, they have done in India what Indians generally do to others. One defeat does not end India’s World T20 campaign.

17 Mar 2016 2:05 AM

Desert God rules turf

In a thrilling battle virtually all the way up the straight, Desert God, the champion four-year-old, staved off the stiff challenge of Quasar, the champion five-year-old, to raise the pennant for youn

07 Mar 2016 5:56 AM

Former home secretary G.K. Pillai. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Two to tango in turf ball

Rarely do trainers state their opinions as frankly as Padmanabhan does. Going by his confidence, the Invitation Cup should be his.

06 Mar 2016 12:42 AM

Hard grind at Guindy

The grand stand at the Madras Race Club is spruced in preparation for the Invitation Cup races to be held over the weekend. — E.K. Sanjay Adam, Dancing Prances in test of speed at Chennai course

05 Mar 2016 5:22 AM

Quasar appears to Be Safe in Chennai straight

The Indian Turf Invitation Cup changed tack four years ago in following the international practice of the biggest races being open affairs rather than being restricted to a particular age group.

04 Mar 2016 7:20 AM

Batting depth makes India formidable in T20 format

The electric contest would have made everyone sit up and take notice.

02 Mar 2016 2:05 AM

Adam eclipsed the Don, for a while

“99.94 — I want to bat like Bradman” reads the message on my mousepad from the Bradman Museum of Cricket, Bowral. The Don’s average is the gold standard of sporting performance in the willow game.

17 Feb 2016 2:12 AM

‘Santa Claus’ IPL bears gifts for young Indians

In the momentous first week of February, the ups and downs of fortune were stressed in a game rather famous for being capricious in its dispensing of favours.

11 Feb 2016 7:34 AM

Good wickets make for great batting

The transformation was stunning. In the old days, Team India would usually be a better performing tour after a tour of Australia.

04 Feb 2016 12:06 AM

Team India prosper on Pandey’s touch

There was a remarkably cool performance by the relative newcomer to Team India.

28 Jan 2016 5:50 AM

India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni speaks during a press conference. (Photo: AP)

Captain Cool, it is time to step aside

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is beginning to sound like a stuck 78 rpm record.

21 Jan 2016 6:00 AM

‘Luddite’ Indians can’t whine about DRS

It was a fine day’s cricket on a good pitch and Team India came off second best. Given India’s ODI form this cricket season, to expect more would have been too fanciful.

14 Jan 2016 6:27 AM

Arrogant BCCI has been put in its place

The BCCI had it coming. This was comeuppance for all the disdain shown towards niceties like ethics in governance and a sense of morality.

06 Jan 2016 11:47 PM

A curate’s egg of a year for India

Indian cricket would have been somewhat pleased with the year that went by because its young Test skipper and his fledgling team fared well enough to climb the rankings smartly to the number two spot.

30 Dec 2015 6:49 AM

Donald Trump is joker in president race

Donald John Trump is defying the laws of political gravity.

26 Dec 2015 9:26 PM

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