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India's Power Play: Cricket to Politics | Mint Explains | Mint

ver the past decade, India has emerged as a cricket superpower, disrupting a colonial hierarchy and demonstrating how market size can create political leverage. India's rise in the International Cricket Council offers insights into how a more powerful India might approach global politics.

26 Jun 2023
Markets

Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni quits international cricket

Dhoni has not played since India's semifinal exit from the ODI World Cup last year in JulyThanks a lot for ur love and support throughout. from 1929hrs consider me as retired, Dhoni posted on his Instagram handle

6 min read15 Aug 2020
Sports

Are cricketers playing more now?

Compared with 2009, they are not, shows data. There is more cricket being played, but rotation and rest are active levers of time management now

3 min read30 Jan 2020
Sports

Delhi pollution no problem for Team India, Rohit gives thumbs up to Ganguly

India will be playing T20 International against Bangladesh despite growing concerns about severe air pollution in NCRWhile the Bangladeshi players wore anti-pollution masks during the fielding session in the morning, there was no such concerns for the Indian team as it practised in the afternoon

3 min read1 Nov 2019
Opinion

Cricket's big bucks

The financial growth of the cricket world in the recent past has been on a steroid-fuelled trajectory. And within the cricket world, BCCI reigns supreme

1 min read6 Apr 2018
Sports

Boria Majumdar: We consume spectacle, not sport

Sports historian Boria Majumdar talks about his new book and what happens behind the scenes in Indian cricket

11 min read24 Mar 2018
Mint-lounge

When I didn't interview Sourav Ganguly

Has it ever been easy to pin down a 'god'? Notes from the Kolkata Literary Meet 2018

3 min read17 Feb 2018
Sports

How India learnt to bowl fast

In the U-19 World Cup, the Indian pacers were clocking an unusual average of 145kmph

5 min read14 Feb 2018
News

Why Virat Kohli, the ‘chaser', is weaker in Tests

India's captain Virat Kohli could improve his fourth-innings performances and lead the team to more victories

5 min read2 Sep 2021
Mint-lounge

Indian cricket's away blues continue

Lack of preparation, and a horror show by batsmen, cost India the South Africa seriesthat's what the team should learn from

4 min read26 Jan 2018