Shai Hope becomes the first West Indian with three T20I centuries
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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Hope and Rutherford power West Indies to the second-highest T20I chase in history
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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Shreyas Iyer’s maiden T20I century completes the set
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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Harmanpreet Kaur steps down as India captain after a historic tenure
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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Shai Hope’s 162* powers West Indies to their highest ODI chase and first win in India in seven years
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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Sri Lanka 45 all out, and India have a final they have never played
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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Gill’s 223 rewrites the record book for ODI chases
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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Virat Kohli becomes the second player to reach 15,000 ODI runs
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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Vithya Ramraj breaks PT Usha’s 42-year-old record with Asian Games bronze
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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Sawan Barwal wins marathon silver, ending a 44-year wait
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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Baranica Elangovan wins bronze, India’s first Asian Games pole vault medal
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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Mirabai Chanu wins silver. India’s 28-year wait is over.
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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India crush Sri Lanka for second successive Asian Games gold
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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Shafali Verma scores the first women’s century at the Asian Games
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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Abhishek Sharma breaks the T20I century record with 30 balls
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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Dhiraj Bommadevara becomes the first Indian man to win an Archery World Cup Final
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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Abhishek Sharma becomes the fastest Indian to 6,000 T20 runs
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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Ishan Kishan rewrites the Duleep Trophy record book with 270
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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Harmanpreet Kaur becomes the first player to captain 150 T20Is
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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Mandhana’s 124 rewrites two records at once
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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