Erling Haaland: Pep Guardiola’s latest muse is bringing master tactician out of Lionel Messi’s shadow

The movement is so slick that Erling Haaland seems almost automatic, a machine whirring to life. He does not need to pause or ponder. He always seems to know where…

Duleep Trophy: Anantapur’s ‘Perth’ aims to fix India’s pace woes before Australia tour

There is a long-standing disparity on the honours boards at the Anantapur Cricket Ground. Concealed from premier First-Class cricket for nearly a decade, the contrast of an Indian ground where…

Massimo Costantini, the monkish Italian choosing to coach Indians over running a cocktail bar at his Italian port home-town

His thick-rimmed glasses have become his trademark look. He’s fair-skinned, short-statured, and has thinning, curly hair, usually grey or white. We’re not talking about the legendary American director Woody Allen,…

Jay Shah’s era of calm consensus and cricket’s missing nay-sayers

Cricket’s era of unanimity is well and truly upon us. Jay Shah’s unchallenged elevation as ICC chief confirms a radical shift in a sport with a history of acrimonious battles…

Rinku Singh on Duleep Trophy snub: ‘I wasn’t selected because I didn’t do well enough’

Rinku Singh attributed his exclusion from the Duleep Trophy to his underwhelming performance with the bat for Uttar Pradesh in the last Ranji Trophy season. Rinku was one of the…

Fabian Hurzeler, Premier League’s youngest ever manager at 31, loves setpieces and high-presses

Five of Brighton’s starters against Everton were older than their manager, Fabian Hurzeler. His managerial counterpart, Sean Dyche, 53, was already a grisly centre-back at Chesterfield when Hurzeler was born…

To match Paris 2024, Los Angeles faces Mission Impossible

Tom Cruise abseils from the roof, sprints towards the stage, picks up the Olympic flag from Simone Biles and zooms out of the Stade de France on a motorcycle. A…

Why China-Sweden TT rivalry isn’t bitter? Thank Jan-Ove Waldner

The other night in Paris, a 22-year-old rookie knocked out the World No.1. Just another upset in the cut-throat competitive world of Olympics, you would say. Not really, since the…

Football is replete with spying episodes, Canada’s drone disaster at Paris Olympics just the latest incident

Flying a drone over the opponents’ training session to gather information is perhaps the most indiscreet piece of espionage carried out in recent sporting history. The buzzing saucers with spidery…

On the dance floor: How will scoring work, what do the judges look for | Sport-others News

Breaking will be the only sport at Paris Olympics where calling a dancer’s set a “dope move” will not be frowned upon. In B-Girl and B-Boy lingo, ‘Dope’ is superlative…