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The IPL failed by ignoring stark warning signs of India’s Covid crisis | Anand Vasu
The IPL should have halted the competition earlier or made alternative plans but their timing was badly amiss
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IPL plays on as BCCI’s cash cow while India’s Covid-19 crisis worsens | Anand Vasu
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‘We worship the body’: India's kushti mud wrestlers – a photo essay
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Amnesty International: fans arrested in India for cheering Pakistan win ‘must be freed’
Nineteen cricket fans arrested in India for celebrating Pakistan’s win against India in the Champions Trophy ‘should be released immediately’, according to Amnesty International
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How teenage prodigy Aditi Ashok is becoming the face of golf in India
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Trevor Bayliss says England are ‘upbeat’ as squad land in cyclone-struck Chennai
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Indian cricket board hopeful England Test in Chennai will go ahead
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Hanif Mohammad obituary
Pakistani cricketer who held the record for the highest individual score in first class cricket – 499 – for more than three decades
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Cricket and pushing the boundaries | Letters
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Pranav Dhanawade: the first cricketer to navigate the nervous 990s | Andy Bull
Pranav Dhanawade, the 15-year-old son of an auto rickshaw driver, has shattered a record that stood for 117 years and that was not there to be beaten so much as marvelled at
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Pranav Dhanawade, Indian schoolboy, scores record 1,009 runs in one innings
15-year-old KC Gandhi School batsman Pranav Dhanawade now holds the record the highest individual score in an officially recorded match
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Revered Indian cricketer sparked bombardment of Twitter messages when he posted pictures of himself in Oxfordshire village and claimed to need a lift
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Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore: IPL 2015 – as it happened
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