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Jhulan Goswami retired from all formats of Cricket after a stellar 20-years of international career. Goswami finished with 255 ODI wickets and 355 wickets in total. “With her retirement, it would be the end of an era in world cricket. The impact she has had in women’s cricket at the …

Tennis has become a lot poorer within three weeks. The retirement of Serena Williams and Roger Federer brings forward the truth again- all good things come to an end. It’s not even fortnight since Serena Williams played her last match on the circuit. And now Roger Federer has announced his …

Naresh Kumar belonged to the league of Indian players of the 1950s and mentored several junior players including Leander Paes. Naresh Kumar was an India Tennis stalwart. He belonged to the Indian Tennis brigade of the 1950s who made valuable contribution to Indian sport by winning international matches and later …

Pickleball, one of the most trending sports in the world, is standing at a juncture. With its increasing popularity, there is integration of certain changes in it, but that has given rise to some inevitable arguments. Sunil Valavalkar, the President of International Federation of Pickleball (IFP) and the founder of …

“My story is not a story of success but a story of survival through a storm that I thought would never end.” It was a time of turbulence for Kajal Srivastava. A UPSC aspirant, Kajal was unable to crack the examination for the sixth time and she was in an …

Seerat Midha, with her ‘She Got Game’ project, wants the so-called ‘weaker gender’ to prove their strength, tenacity and talent through the beautiful game of Football. “A dream is not that which you see while sleeping, it is something that does not let you sleep.” This is what Seerat Midha …

Meet Shweta Chandaliya Avadh- the national fencer who turned to become a coach to produce future champions in a comparatively newer sport; keeping pace with India’s notion of emerging as a ‘Sporting Nation’. From where it all started…. Shweta Avadh: Initially I played Handball, Throwball, Kho Kho but I was …

India needs more stories like Divesh Rana’s, where a wide-eyed youngster took to Golf because his school in Faridabad, Haryana, offered it as part of the curriculum. Looking back to his early days in school, Divesh Rana, a pro in his second season on the Professional Golf Tour of India …

Rambai from Haryana, won gold in 100m at the age of 105 in 45.40 seconds by breaking the record of Late Man Kaur. She also won 200m gold in 1:52.17 seconds. In 1917, it was somewhat a different world. India was heavily in the grip of the British, Mahatma Gandhi …

Hari Chand, India’s finest long-distance runner, was two-time Olympian and won double gold at 1978 Bangkok Asian Games. Born in rural Punjab, Hari Chand’s father Jaggu Ram wanted him to become a wrestler. But Hari, who as a boy loved to chase rabbit across the village fields, turned out to …