The forgotten ones

Patriot takes a look at some Indian sportspersons who couldn’t make it big despite bundles of talent and performances in the lower levels of their respective sports INDIAN BOXING kicked up a storm recently with the spat between five-time world champion MC Mary Kom being challenged by 25-year-old Nikhat Zareen. Zareen had accused the Boxing […]

Sportspersons made India proud this year

From overcoming physical and financial odds to opening up about their sexuality, Patriot lists the Indian athletes who have inspired us in 2019 Indian sports went through a lot of highs and lows in 2019. From India whitewashing Australia down under in cricket to the whole controversy in women’s boxing, there have been several memorable […]

New development or commercial gimmick?

Manchester City have recently acquired stakes in Mumbai City FC. Patriot analyses if this partnership will succeed or go down the drain On November 28, 2019, 65% of the stakes of the Indian Super League club Mumbai City FC were bought by City Football group. Now, though this may sound as any other investment, the […]

Presenting BBC’s best player of 2019 – Ben Stokes

England’s success and star appeal of its players is a welcome change from the cloying subcontinent fixation that world cricket has run into A day before the final of the cricket World Cup this year, I was asked during a panel discussion to pick the team that I would like to win the coveted quadrennial […]

Going under the hammer

With the auctions of IPL 2020 se to take place , Patriot looks at the teams and who they should buy ahead of the start of the season On Thursday, December 19, the auction for the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League will go underway for the first time in Kolkata. This year 332 […]

Looking for new pastures

Patriot looks at some of the players who are most likely to make a move in the winter transfer window and the clubs which may line up to buy them Its already mid-December and football around Europe has already begun to shape up for a thrilling few months ahead. At the beginning of the season, […]

The Ace of Pace

India with four premier fast bowlers has now become the best pace bowling nation in the world. Patriot analyses how Indian cricket has always been dominated by batting superstars, be it Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid or Sourav Ganguly, and now Virat Kohli. But what about bowlers? Well, Indian bowling has been always dominated […]

The quiet warriors of Indian cricket that Virat Kohli forgot

Kohli’s skillset may not include a sense of history, but he certainly shouldn’t maul history instead The historians of Indian cricket, especially those reflecting on the sociology of its changing demography, might not be able to defend Virat Kohli against charges of showing a lack of sense of history. Kohli had said India began to […]