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India’s breakthrough athletes of 2025

India’s breakthrough athletes of 2025

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The 2025 season was full of ups and downs for Indian sports, featuring the impressive rise of a few youngsters and a slew of disappointing results from few established performers. In the larger scheme of things, it was a familiar post-Olympic year phenomenon where many elite athletes either don’t compete much or try different techniques, equipment to gear up for the next Olympic cycle. This also offers an opportunity for young and rising players to showcase their potential and put their hat in the ring for the upcoming three-year cycle. India has also seen such surprising results this year, including Samrat Rana’s historic World Championship gold medal and the rise of players like Suruchi Singh Phogat, Sachin Yadav and others. Here, we take a look at such breakout stars for India in 2025: Samrat Rana (Shooting) Samrat Rana was one of India’s biggest finds of the year, making his senior international debut and then claiming a world championship title in the same year. He clinched three medals at his maiden ISSF World Championships, which included …

Indian youngsters who impressed with their performance

Indian youngsters who impressed with their performance

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The 2025 Women’s Premier League concluded with Mumbai Indians lifting their second title in front of their home crowd at the Brabourne Stadium on Saturday. Many young Indian names impressed in whatever opportunities they were presented with within the five-team competition during the tournament. Here, we take a look at the Indian youngsters who left a lasting impression in the 2025 WPL: Amanjot Kaur Amanjot Kaur, a part of the Mumbai Indians since the inaugural edition, has often been an underused asset within the setup. She rarely got any opportunities to make any significant impact in the first two editions. However, the 2025 WPL was different for Amanjot. She was entrusted with more responsibility as the Mumbai Indians often lost a plethora of wickets. Amanjot starred with the bat in the match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, scoring an unbeaten 34 to provide finishing touches to a tense chase early in the tournament. She guided the teenager G Kamalini well to help her team through. Amanjot also played a crucial cameo in the final against the …

From tennis ball to UP Warriorz’s match winner

From tennis ball to UP Warriorz’s match winner

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As the UP Warriorz registered their first win of the 2025 Women’s Premier League with a win over the Delhi Capitals, they found an unlikely hero in Kranti Goud. Goud, 21, had made her WPL debut earlier this season. In the two matches prior to this, she had gone wicketless. But all that changed, on Saturday, against the Capitals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium – a ground considered to be batters paradise. Goud ran through the Capitals batting lineup with her fiery pace. She troubled some of the best batters in the world to finish with figures of 4/25 in her four overs. Goud’s wickets in the evening included the likes of Australian great Meg Lanning, the Capitals top-scorer Jemimah Rodrigues, swashbuckling opener Shafali Verma, and all-rounder Jess Jonassen, who had taken a four-wicket haul herself earlier in the match. Though it was Goud’s first performance of note in the Women’s Premier League, she is no stranger to such feats in the Indian domestic circuit. Goud had, in fact, recorded an identical bowling figure of …

All-round UP Warriorz beat Delhi Capitals for first win – Talking Points

All-round UP Warriorz beat Delhi Capitals for first win – Talking Points

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The UP Warriorz registered their first win of the 2025 Women’s Premier League as they got the better of Delhi Capitals by 33 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday. Here are the talking points from the match: First team to defend a total The UP Warriorz became the first team to successfully defend a total in the 2025 Women’s Premier League. All the seven matches prior to this were won by the teams batting second. Hence when Meg Lanning won the toss and the Capitals opted to field, it seemed like a routine decision. However, nothing went their way apart from the toss in the evening for the two-time finalists. The Warriorz, being put into bat, posted a competitive 177/9 in the first innings. They then bowled out the Capitals for 144 to pocket a crucial two points from the contest. Joint fastest half-century The 29-year-old all-rounder Chinelle Henry was the star of the match for the UP Warriorz. Roped in as the replacement player for an injured Alyssa Healy, Henry …