The FIFA World Cup has seen the loss of teams with star players, and seen the emergence of ones we didn’t have our eye on MOSCOW: At the halfway mark with the Round of 16 matches, it won’t be that difficult to summarise the 2018 World Cup. Several big names including Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo […]

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Why the new administration needs to ensure the DDCA is run in a more professional and transparent manner The results are out. Seeing the results, where the Rajat Sharma panel swept the polls, many cricket lovers felt despondent. While Rajat Sharma comes with clean hands, most others do not. After having waged a virtual war […]

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MOSCOW: The outside world still portray the Russians as serious and brooding types, but there’s a smile on their faces as they embrace the world citizens from Saint Petersburg to Sochi, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and others. Due to the relatively late involvement of Russia in modern globalisation and tourism, many aspects of their culture like […]

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Monsieur Bernard Koko makes a comeback for World Cup 2018 and Hartman is sure of a new World Cup winner You would have thought that being a senile Goan gentleman, overly fond of his feni and indigenous sausage, I would catch the inauguration and the first match of the World Cup 2018 coming as he […]

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The Indian team was indecisive and as unimaginative as you can get if you hire an English coach still brainwashed by England’s exploits in 1966 Just before the evening of June 14, 2018, the day the World Cup began, I found myself stuck in Goa, in the foothills of the Western Ghats, living in a […]

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With sports like cricket, football and badminton ruling the minds of Indians, rugby somehow remains in the shadows as clubs in Delhi find it difficult to even sustain themselves While the whole country is watching the Fifa World Cup and awaits the Indian cricket team’s tour of England next month, 29-year-old Gautam Dagar is waiting […]

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Unless you go to a stadium and watch a football match in progress, you might never understand what the excitement is all about. And why it is what it is I was the last person to get excited about a football match, because I simply did not like the sport. I thought it’s stupid that […]

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Coming months will tell how the application of technical adjustments helps him on the english pitches. the test for Virat the batsman and Virat the skipper awaits Early this year Michael Holding, the fast bowling legend and one of the most respected voices in world cricket, said something in midst of a test series between […]

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