Life in a bio-bubble

Amid the ongoing pandemic, BCCI needs to  tread carefully — as the well-being of players is involved Officially describing life in a bio-bubble from the BCCI point of view, is just like “when a player has to spend days in solitary confinement of his hotel room.” Yes, that’s tough and all over the world sportsmen […]

Given what we saw in Euro 2020

With the conclusion of Euro 2020, the Patriot has made an effort to debate about a good mix of all these known and unknown faces to come up with a ‘one perfect playing XI’ that our readers would love to read about…   Euro 2020 has entered our history books, but not before it turned […]

The youngest grandmaster

Abhimanyu Mishra made history by becoming the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess. He has bigger plans. It’s just the beginning…..  Abhimanyu Mishra was 12 years 4 months, and 25 days old when he became a chess grandmaster in Budapest–Hungary last week. The youngest in the world to do that, he broke a 19 […]

IPL will have two new teams, but players are crying for help

Despite being one of the richest and most influential cricketing boards of the world, BCCI is yet to come up with a concrete plan to help ensure job security for the country’s domestic players  With two more teams set to be added by the BCCI in the ‘Super Rich Club’ of the Indian Premier League […]

Did Team India’s dependency on a few cost it the WTC title?

India’s defeat at the WTC is a sign of problems in the team, most important of which is the team’s dependency on a few players  Going into the sixth and final day of the World Test Championship final, the New Zealand team was staring at a possible defeat at the hands of Team India. With […]

Milkha Singh: Tale of the tallest Sikh!

After inspiring generations, the legendary athlete Milkha Singh succumbed to post Covid complications on 18 June. A look at his life and achievements The first time I met Milkha Singh, it was somewhere in 1985 at the Punjab University campus playground area in Chandigarh. He was taking an evening stroll along with his better half, […]

Play fair for a checkmate 

Nikhil Kamath using unfair means during a charity match, which he incidentally won, against the five time world champion Vishwanathan Anand has created an uproar and rightly so Last week, an unprecedented incident took the chess world by storm. Vishwanathan Anand, a five time world champion and chess legend was defeated in an online chess […]

Indian batsmen hold the key against strong Kiwi swing attack

With the WTC approaching, the Patriot takes a look at the preparedness and chances of the Indian side against New Zealand  It was decided then and there in Gabba, Brisbane, Australia, when Team India defeated a full-strength home side without their first-choice playing eleven and also in the absence of its regular skipper, Virat Kohli. […]