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Writes and edits SportTrack under a pen name — one independent editor, covering Indian sport cricket first. Every post is researched from public sources: official scorecards, governing-body statements, broadcasts and published reporting. Not a news agency, not at the ground, and every post is read before it goes live.
Six teams, a round-robin pool, and a knockout to decide the best in Asia. India have won five times — more than any other nation — and host the 2026 edition with Pakistan absent.
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Another 102 not out, another West Indies win in India. Hope’s third T20I hundred powered a 24-run victory and levelled the series at 2–2.
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Twelve classical games, a tiebreak cascade, and a five-time champion waiting. Here is what the format rewards and what history says about challengers.
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Fourteen classical games, a tiebreak cascade, and a structure designed to produce the most legitimate winner chess knows how to find.
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Clubs now run their own league. The 2026-27 season starts under a new commercial framework that hands 90% of revenue to the clubs and keeps the AIFF in a regulatory role.
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A 120-run partnership in 54 balls turned a near-impossible equation into a six-wicket win. India’s 249 was not enough.
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The four-year ODI league decides who qualifies for the Women’s World Cup. India face Zimbabwe next week in their first bilateral meeting, and every match counts.
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The captain reached 102 off 43 balls to chase down 172 with more than five overs to spare. He is now only the seventh Indian with centuries in all three formats.
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The first player to captain 150 T20Is finishes with an ODI World Cup, two Asian Games golds, and a record that may never be matched. Smriti Mandhana is the likely successor.
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A 5–1 win over Malaysia completes what the semifinal set up. Harmanpreet Singh scored twice, Manpreet Singh won his third gold, and the Olympic berth is banked.
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The first India–Pakistan final in Asian Games cricket history ended with India defending their title. Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma set up the total; the spinners protected it.
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The captain kept wicket for 50 overs in high humidity, then batted through the innings to break West Indies’ chase record. India lost despite KL Rahul’s unbeaten 129.
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Lalremsiami’s tenth-minute strike and Savita’s penalty-stroke save beat China 1–0 in the final. The Olympic berth is secured. The wait is over.
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The joint-lowest T20I total by a Full-Member nation. A semi-final that lasted under ten overs. And on Saturday, the first India–Pakistan men’s cricket final in Asian Games history.
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A three-goal lead turned into 3–3 in nineteen minutes. Abhishek’s deflected winner in the final minute sent India through. The final is on Friday, and an Olympic berth comes with it.
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The highest individual score in any ODI run chase. The fastest double century in ODI history. The second-highest successful chase ever. India chased 406, and Gill made it look routine.
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The milestone came 74 innings faster than Tendulkar. The chase, the century, and what the numbers actually prove about where Kohli sits in ODI history.
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A 54.75 in the 400m hurdles final erases the mark that had stood since 1984. PT Usha was in the stadium to see it fall.
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The defending champions could not repeat. A final-round loss from the World Champion, a host nation peaking at the right moment, and the gold slips away.
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A debut in Rotterdam, a national record broken twice, and India’s first Asian Games marathon medal since 1982. The distance runner’s year.
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The men win their ninth Asian Games gold. The women win their fourth. And both finals came down to the same opponent.
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In 28 years of women’s pole vault at the Asian Games, no Indian had reached a podium. A national record holder from Tamil Nadu just changed that.
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A loss to China in the semi-final, a doubles win over the world champions, and a milestone that says more about depth than about this result.
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The only major medal missing from her collection, and the longest drought in Indian weightlifting. Both ended on the same platform in Aichi.
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Mandhana became the first woman to reach 11,000 international runs, and India posted the highest total in Asian Games history. The final was over before it began.
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The opener’s unbeaten 100 off 49 balls powered India past Bangladesh and into the final, on an afternoon that also saw Smriti Mandhana become the leading run-scorer in women’s T20I history.
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India beat Uzbekistan 19-0 in their Asian Games opener, and a 22-year-old drag-flicker from Haryana rewrote the tournament’s scoring history.
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A group stage, knockout rounds, and no second chances. India have won eleven golds across the two events since 1990. This is how the format tests them.
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The fastest hundred by any batter from an ICC Full-Member nation. What the record required, how the innings unfolded, and what it does not settle.
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Nepomniachtchi beats Carlsen on the Icon board, Tsolakidou clinches it against Humpy. A 7-5 aggregate over Alpine APL Pipers crowns a second title.
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A shootout loss to Belgium in the seventh-place match. Harmanpreet Singh finishes joint top scorer with eight goals, and none of it changes the number.
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A shoot-off in Saltillo, a 10 against a 9, and a 19-year wait ends. What the title means for Indian recurve archery.
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The men beat South Korea 4-1 for a sixth title. The women beat China 1-0 on their home turf for a third straight. Both teams head to the World Cup.
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The milestone came off a six in the first over against Afghanistan. What the numbers say about how he bats, and what they leave out.
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Seventy per cent of the total came before the first wicket fell. What the opening stand actually did, and what a 72-run final still does not settle.
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Trailing by six points on the final day, he won both rapid games to seize the lead and held on through the blitz to beat Caruana 15–13.
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Five events across classical, rapid and blitz, then a knockout final. Points accumulate differently at each time control.
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A ligament tear ends the defending champion’s season. India’s javelin at the Asian Games now rests on a 24-year-old who won Commonwealth bronze six weeks ago.
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Shreyas Iyer leads India. Ibrahim Zadran leads Afghanistan for the first time. Three T20Is in Delhi before both sides head to Japan.
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The captain decides who plays which board, and there is no rule requiring rating order. Here is why the World Champion is fourth.
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The first wicketkeeper to score a double century in the final. East Zone end a 13-year title drought. Here is what the numbers actually mean.
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Eleven medal events across fighting games, MOBAs and battle royales. The format, the qualification, and what a medal would actually mean.
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A defending champion lower-rated than the challenger is rare. Understanding why it happened explains how chess ratings actually work.
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No man or woman has led a national side in the format as often. The gap to second place is 29 matches and still growing.
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A Swiss-system team event across eleven rounds. India arrive as defending champions with four of their Budapest five and a record field of 400 teams.
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Down 11-21 in the first game, they took the next two 21-13, 21-17. What the comeback says about how they play under pressure.
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Shree Charani and Prema Rawat claimed six wickets between them for 16 runs. Pakistan’s previous lowest T20I total was 56.
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New coaches, new captains, same expectation: the men seek a record sixth Junior Asia Cup, the women a third straight.
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The opener passed Meg Lanning for most centuries in women’s cricket and overtook Mithali Raj as the all-time leading run-scorer, both in one innings.
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Eight teams in Dubai until 13 September. India open against Thailand, meet Pakistan on 5 September, and are chasing a trophy Sri Lanka took from them in 2024.
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Eight teams, no league stage, straight to the quarter-finals. The format at Aichi-Nagoya gives the defending champions no room for a bad afternoon.
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The 2026-27 season starts on 4 September with three foreigners and an OCI player allowed to start — plus one rule that reshapes every forward line.
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India beat Germany 3-1 to finish fifth at the World Cup, and Hockey India put ₹50 lakh behind it. The number that decided the tournament was one goal.
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A 768-strong contingent across 36 disciplines, three weeks after a fourth-place Commonwealth Games. What the size of a squad does and does not tell you.
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A maiden Test hundred and ten wickets on a ground that punishes tourists who expect it to do the work. India lead 1-0 with one to play in Colombo.
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Twelve points for a win, four for a draw, and a percentage table that makes a two-match series worth exactly as much as a five-match one.
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Three points for a win, one for a draw, and a tiebreaker order that decides more pools than the results do.
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Three points for a win, one for a draw, two trophies, and a tiebreaker order that decides more than the results do.
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Five points for a win, three for a tie, one for losing narrowly — plus every single way a point is scored on the mat.
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Continental championships do most of the work, and that is a deliberate design choice with real consequences for India.
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