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Virat Kohli’s Chronological Transformation to Test Cricket from Short-Formats of the Game

 December 17, 2015   R K Gupta

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It took Virat Kohli nearly 4 years after his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in August 2008 before he could find a place in India’s test team. He was drafted for the ODI side after he led India’s under-19 team to victory in 2008 U-19 World Cup at Malaysia. His aggressive approach and consistently good […]

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2015 Will Go Down As the Best Year for Indian Ace Sania Mirza’s Decade-Long Tennis Career

 December 11, 2015   R K Gupta

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Just before 2015 tennis season, India’s Sania Mirza was in a fix. Her women’s doubles partner Cara Black had decided to curtail her appearances and Sania wasn’t quite sure about who she would pair with. For the year-opening Brisbane International, Sania Mirza and Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-Wei lost in the semifinal and as Sania headed to […]

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Stage Set for Two-Legged Semifinals in Indian Super League Football as League-Phase Ends

 December 10, 2015   R K Gupta

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On Sunday December 6, the last league game of 2015 Hero Indian Super League was played at Delhi between Delhi Dynamos and FC Goa. The two teams had already cemented their places in the Final Four but Goa’s thrilling 3-2 win afforded them the top-spot finish ahead of Atletico de Kolkata. Chennaiyin FC were third […]

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Despite India’s Massive Win Defiant South African Batsmen Stole Headlines in Delhi Test

 December 9, 2015   R K Gupta

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Delhi’s fourth and last test match was played amid ongoing criticism of test-match pitches at Mohali and Nagpur. While there was no need to assess conditions of the washed-out Bangalore test, after three-and-half day’s play in the Kotla test, India looked like heading for a 3-0 whitewash. There was hardly any chance that South Africa […]

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Nagpur Pitch Proclaimed Poor by ICC Ahead of the Fourth India-South Africa Test at Delhi

 December 3, 2015   R K Gupta

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As South Africa prepare for their last engagement in India, the memories of their two back-to-back debacles against the hosts could be haunting them. On the other hand with the 2-0 series victory, the Indians have a reason to be on the seventh heaven before the start of fourth test at Delhi on Thursday. Except […]

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Novak Beats Roger for the 4th Straight Win in ATP Tour Finals Bopanna Falls at Last Hurdle

 November 23, 2015   R K Gupta

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Novak Djokovic ended the 2015 tennis season on a historic note. Never before a player has been as successful as Djokovic was in a single ATP season. On Sunday, the Serb ended the challenge of 6-time ATP World Tour winner Roger Federer with a commanding victory and finished way ahead of the field as world’s no.1 […]

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Djokovic Sets Title Clash with Federer in 2015 Tour Finals Bopanna Mergea in Doubles Final

 November 22, 2015   R K Gupta

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For the second time in less than a week, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer will take on each other in the same tournament. In their first meeting last Sunday, Federer had defeated the Serb but that is no guarantee of a repeat performance. In fact, it may not be easy for Federer to beat the […]

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Battle Lines Drawn In the 2015 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at London’s O2 Arena

 November 21, 2015   R K Gupta

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After another error-prone game, this time against Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka, Andy Murray lost the chance to enter the semifinals of the 2015 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The off-shoot of Murray’s defeat will be his sad exclusion from the Final Four at O2 in London, where the other three entrants are the members of the […]

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Disastrous Day for Indians at Hong Kong Open as Saina Nehwal Pulls Out at Last Minute

 November 19, 2015   R K Gupta

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While ace shuttler Saina Nehwal withdrew from the $350,000 Hong Kong’s Yonex-Sunrise BWF Super-series tournament, rest of the Indian challenge faded away on the opening day itself. PV Sindhu and Ajay Jayaram were unfortunate to be drawn against top-seeded women and men’s seeds in their first round matches. While Sindhu couldn’t stand up to fire […]

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Federer Stops Djokovic Juggernaut Follows Bopanna Mergea to Semis at London on Tuesday

 November 18, 2015   R K Gupta

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Two semifinal spots were decided after play ended on Tuesday night in the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London. First to go through was the doubles team of India’s Rohan Bopanna with his Romanian partner Florin Mergea, and following them, came the celebrated Roger Federer. In the afternoon session, Bopanna/Mergea […]

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