Beyond Victory
International sport has always had an unusual ability to redraw the boundaries of possibility.
International sport has always had an unusual ability to redraw the boundaries of possibility.
India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate admitted the team’s 0-2 T20I series defeat to Ireland was difficult to digest but said it exposed an important lesson: the need to adapt much quicker to unfamiliar conditions.
Every four years, the World Cup reminds the world that football is not merely a sport.
Snehangshu Dutta from Chinsurah, Hooghly, beat over one million applicants to become an official FIFA World Cup 2026 volunteer in Dallas. It is the second consecutive World Cup with a direct Bengal connection.
As a child, I played a game called 'Saap Seeri' (Snakes and Ladders). It was a simple pursuit: except for an occasion or two - having not mastered the "art of throwing dice" - I climbed the ladders of progress only to be swallowed by a snake that pulled me back to the threshold.
Edwards, who coached Harmanpreet-led Mumbai Indians to two WPL titles before taking over as England’s head coach, called her “an incredible player” who “really steps up in big games.”
Ahead of the ODI game between India and Australia in the ongoing Women's World Cup, the Andhra Pradesh Cricket Association has announced that two stands at the Visakhapatnam Cricket Stadium will be named after legendary cricketers Mithali Raj and Ravi Kalpana.
When the Women's ODI World Cup was last played in India in 2013, it came and went without much fanfare. Though a few thousand fans trickled into the stadiums, most games were played largely to silence, and only a handful of the world's best players were recognised.
“To be honest, the 2007 T20 World Cup that India won inspired me to start playing cricket, but it was the 2011 World Cup at home, with Sachin sir being part of it and everything that happened that year, that really left a mark on me,” she recalled.
Most players in the current Australian squad are no strangers to Indian conditions, having featured regularly in bilateral series as well as the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
