Home Subscribe Publications Advertise with us Write for Us Donate About Us Login Centre July 05, 2022 Blog Cover Themes Edu Landscape Edu News Edu Resource Edu Retreat Edu Services Edu Support Skill Academy Login Centre Leadership Instincts: IIT Hyderabad -ICAT MoU for Collaboration in Autonomous Navigation | Education Information: IIT Hyderabad Retains Top 10 Rank in QS Rankings in India | Cover Story: Elimination Round or Aptitude Test- How to Align CUET with NEP 2020 Goals | Life Inspirations: Master of a Dog House | Education Information: Climate Predictions: Is it all a Piffle! | Leadership Instincts: Raj Mashruwala Establishes CfHE Vagbhata Chair in Medical Devices at IITH | Parent Interventions: 10 Tricks to Help You Prepare for This Year's IB Chemistry Test | National Edu News: TiHAN supports a Chair for Prof Srikanth Saripalli at IIT Hyderabad | Teacher Insights: How To Build Competitive Mindset in Children Without Stressing Them | Parent Interventions: What Books Children Must Read this Summer Vacation | Policy Indications: CUET Mandatory for Central Universities | Teacher Insights: Classroom Dialogue for a Better World | Rajagiri Round Table: Is Time Ripe for Entrepreneurial Universities in India? | Life Inspirations: How to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking | Parent Interventions: Wide Ranging Problems of Preterm Infants | Home Author K Pradeep Search for: K Pradeep Sports Writer and Former Senior Deputy Editor, The Hindu Recent posts by K Pradeep 24-08-2021 Redemption, Resurrection and Hope What a month! July 2021 had a blind date with sports. The month was packed with some pulsating sporting events that brought an end to the long drawn drought cre... 21-07-2021 Hidden Talents of Football In any team game there are the superstars who hog all the attention and the unsung members who really make the group tick. It’s always easy to focus on a hots... 23-06-2021 War on Football Recently, I found an interesting statistic which said that most political coup attempts in recent years (from 2011 to 2017) have failed. There have been around ... 14-05-2021 Sport Tech The 2008 Beijing Olympics will be remembered for some spectacular performances – Usain Bolt’s record breaking wins in the 100 and 200 metres, Michael Phelps... 17-04-2021 A Poor Batsman Blames the Pitch ‘Don't blame it on the sunshine, don't blame it on the moonlight, don't blame it on the good times. Blame it on the pitch.’Rummaging through my dependable n... 20-03-2021 Two Legends of Indian Cricket One big takeaway of three decades and more of journalism has been shaking hands with numerous luminaries, many of them my childhood heroes. A proper handshake... 18-02-2021 Resuscitating Test Cricket It could not have come at a better time. At a time when there’s no dearth of ‘experts’ arguing and predicting that Test cricket is dying India’s heroi... 23-01-2021 Limited Sporting Action of 2020 What a year! Since World War II nothing has impacted sports as this pandemic of 2020. High profile events were cancelled and several postponements. Look... 21-12-2020 Gallery Views I have a bucket-list, a collection of places to go before I leave. And if you are a sports fan, the list will be much more specific. Among the sports venues I h... 21-11-2020 The Desert Pitch I’m not a great fan of cricket’s Twenty20 (T20) format. I feel that these T20 leagues are not an evaluation of skill, wits, expertise but rather a four ho... 23-10-2020 Triumph of Team Spirit The takeaways from the UEFA Champions League 2019-20 are many. Bayern Munich’s supremacy from start to finish champions, Paris Saint Germain making their pr... 25-09-2020 Batting for Windies A powerful West Indies team is essential for cricket and now efforts are on to revive the lost glory of this Carribean nation on the field. West Indies fla... 12