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Cricket · Border-Gavaskar, 3rd Test

Gill's 214 buries Australia at the Wankhede as India take a 123-run lead

Six and a half hours, 268 balls, and not one false stroke after lunch. Shubman Gill's third double hundred was less an innings than an eviction notice, and Australia's attack has nothing left in the tank with two days still to bowl. Cummins used seven bowlers. Six of them looked like they wanted to be somewhere else.

By Rukmini Iyer 21 Jul 2026, 9:40 AM IST 7 min read Read the report

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Analysis

Cricket

Jasprit Bumrah's workload plan for the England tour, decoded

Two Tests off, one on. We got the medical team's overs-per-spell model and asked three former physios whether it holds.

Harsha Kelkar 21 Jul 2026 9 min

Match report

ISL · Matchweek 14

Chhangte's 89th-minute winner sends Mumbai City top of the ISL table

Bengaluru had eleven behind the ball for twenty minutes. It took one turn and one low finish to undo all of it.

Arjun Sequeira 20 Jul 2026 5 min

Interview

Women's cricket

Smriti Mandhana on captaincy, sleep and the 2027 World Cup

Ninety minutes in Bengaluru, no press officer in the room. On leadership, the WPL grind and the one shot she has stopped playing.

Rukmini Iyer 20 Jul 2026 14 min

Analysis

Formula 1

Inside the 2026 aero rules that will decide the title before March

Active aerodynamics rewards whoever got their simulator correlation right in 2024. Two teams did. Nine did not.

Nikhil Rana 20 Jul 2026 11 min

Opinion

The selectors are done with the five-bowler experiment. Good.

It was never a plan. It was a way of avoiding a conversation about the No. 6 slot for eighteen months.

Harsha Kelkar 20 Jul 6 min

Kabaddi

PKL power rankings: Patna Pirates back on top after four straight

Our weekly twelve-team ladder, with the defensive numbers that actually explain the run.

Sandeep Kohli 19 Jul 8 min

Feature

The Hyderabad esports boom nobody in Delhi noticed

Three arenas, forty orgs and a ticketing business that quietly outgrew several ISL clubs.

Ishaan Bedi 18 Jul 16 min

Tennis

Chennai Open draw: Nagal's route to a first ATP 250 final

A kind quarter, a nasty semi. The bracket in full with our round-by-round call.

Farah Qureshi 18 Jul 7 min

18:42 Video

Sunil Chhetri, unfiltered: "We were never short of players. We were short of patience."

Eighteen minutes on the AIFF, academies and the succession nobody planned for.

Arjun Sequeira 17 Jul 19 min watch

Opinion

The impact-player rule has quietly killed the IPL all-rounder

Four seasons of data, one uncomfortable conclusion, and a franchise recruitment model that has not caught up.

Rukmini Iyer 17 Jul 9 min

Feature

Inside the Sonepat wrestling academy rebuilding a generation

Four hundred kids, eleven mats, one coach who has not taken a holiday since 2019.

Sandeep Kohli 16 Jul 21 min

NBA

Boston's 121-118 win over the Lakers was decided by one switch

With 41 seconds left, the Celtics stopped hedging. Everything after that was arithmetic.

Arjun Sequeira 16 Jul 5 min

ISL · Data

Mohun Bagan's press is the best in Asia. Here is the data.

PPDA of 7.4, a recovery line 12 metres higher than the league average, and a goalkeeper who sweeps like a centre-back.

Arjun Sequeira 15 Jul 10 min

Formula 1

"We stopped guessing in 2024": a Ferrari strategist on the pit-wall rebuild

Forty minutes with the person who calls the undercut, on why Maranello finally trusts its own model.

Nikhil Rana 15 Jul 13 min

Olympics

India's LA 2028 shooting quota: where the fourteen places actually stand

Two are secure, six are contested, and six depend on a World Cup leg in Baku that the federation nearly skipped.

Farah Qureshi 14 Jul 12 min

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Kerala Blasters' rebuild is a case study in doing it slowly

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Flights, grandstand, paddock club and the streaming bill. We added it all up, in rupees.

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