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Leslie Xavier
Thums Up: Taste the Hypocrisy, the Marketing and the Catch
11 Jul 2021
How much does an advert really matter? In the case of athletes marketing sugar sodas to impressionable youngsters, a huge deal. In this ever changing world where sport has been forced to take up…
PTI, Newsclick Sports
Indian Cricket Team to Continue Break Outside Bio Bubble Despite England Squad’s Covid-19 Scare
06 Jul 2021
The Indian players are set to convene in London on July 14 and proceed to Durham for a two-week training cum first-class game against Select County XI.
Vaibhav Raghunandan
IPL 2021 Scrapped After Covid -19 Breaches the Bubble. But What is a Bio Bubble, Anyway?
04 May 2021
This primer is based on the author’s personal experience inside the I-League bubble in Kolkata earlier this year. We acknowledge that football isn’t cricket and a lot has changed since then. We also…
Raghu Kesavan
IPL 2021: We Have Replaced Steel in Our Moral Compass With Gold; How Can it Point North?
01 May 2021
It is a profound lack of moral sense and responsibility that brought us here. The simple maxim, “Do unto others…,” was sacrificed at the altar of this government’s relentless ambition. People can see…
Newsclick Sports Production
IPL 2021: The Value of Sport in Times of Crisis
28 Apr 2021
IPL 2021: What we expect from cricket in this time of global crisis
Leslie Xavier
IPL 2021: Of Bubbles & Men Whose Heads are Stuffed in Them
26 Apr 2021
What is it about the current season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that provokes anger? It isn’t the game itself. It is the lack of empathy, as well as the blinkered approach most cricketers and…
Leslie Xavier
Power Shift, What Power Shift? This is Just a Casual Venue Shift
09 Mar 2021
At first look the shifting of venue of the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) final from Lord’s to the Rose Bowl may seem innocuous, provoked perhaps by a perceived advantage it may have given…
Leslie Xavier
Virat Kohli's Binary World View a Real Test for Cricket
03 Mar 2021
By snapping at reporters questioning the efficacy of pitches that produce results but shorten the game, Virat Kohli has revealed, yet again, his myopic view of cricket and the world at large. If…
Leslie Xavier
The Boys Played Well on Twitter; In Chennai, Not So Much
09 Feb 2021
England dominated India in the first Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, in all departments, to register a comprehensive 227-run victory. And what we’re hearing from Team India only serves…
Jaydeep Basu
Cut, Copy, Waste: Indian Sports’s Social Media Has Been Co-Opted To Serve A Nationalist Agenda
07 Feb 2021
In times of crises, arise the PR stuntmen, whose slick messaging and wordplay has become a feature of sportspersons Twitter feed in recent times. The problem isn’t what is being said, the problem is…