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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Sanju Samson (Image credit: Insta) LUCKNOW: Coming off the golden glow of their Asian Games triumph in Japan, India step into Tuesday’s fivematch T20I series opener against the West Indies at the Ekana Stadium here carrying momentum, silverware and an intriguing selection headache at the top of the order.While Abhishek Sharma’s explosive … Read more

Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy NEW DELHI: What does playing for India actually mean for an athlete? At what point does physical pain become too much? When does the body simply say enough? The Indian teams at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, found themselves answering that question in their own way.Both the open and women’s … Read more

NEW DELHI: India’s 85-medal haul at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games was its secondbest finish, but the headline numbers don’t reveal everything.A sport-by-sport audit by TOI shows that 137 Indian athletes across 16 disciplines returned empty-handed, exposing persistent gaps in the country’s medal ambitions.India’s pruned-down 495-member contingent competed across 36 sport disciplines and finished fourth with … Read more