Sports

A Weight off His Back

Akshay Sawai

With Sachin Tendulkar retiring after his 200th Test, chief selector Sandeep Patil can move on to other things on his agenda

Who Is Sundar Raman?

Anjali Doshi

The man who ruthlessly runs the kingdom of the BCCI

Growing Up on Sportstar

Akshay Sawai

How the magazine was to shape what I’d do later in life

Lucknow to Hollywood

Ryan Whirty

A movie starring Mad Men’s Jon Hamm will immortalise the remarkable story of Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, who went from small-town javelin throwers to big league baseball relief pitchers in America

Birth of a Salesman

Akshay Sawai

As one of Andy Murray’s business managers and the man behind an ambitious tennis league, Mahesh Bhupathi has his hands full and suitcase always packed

Return of the Board Warrior

Arindam Bandopadhyay

What will Jagmohan Dalmiya’s interim appointment as BCCI chief mean for Indian cricket? Probably not much

The Gavaskar Dichotomy

Akshay Sawai

An otherwise strident critic turns a blind eye to the ills of the BCCI

Zombies United

Michael Edison Hayden

Pirated feeds, Toyota commercials in Arabic, long distance calls to Dad. The challenges and joys of watching the NBA Finals and other American sports in India