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Box cricket is the great equalizer of Indian cricket. You do not need a full ground, a leather ball, or eleven players per side. A caged net, a tennis ball, and…


Cricket tournaments are different from individual-sport events in one fundamental way: you are managing teams, not players. This means more people, more logisti…

Every coaching session in India starts the same way. The coach pulls out a register, flips to today's date, and starts calling names. Twenty students, twenty re…


Every cricket fan in India has watched an IPL auction and thought, "What if we did this for our Sunday league?" The answer is: you can, and it is easier than yo…


A tennis tournament in Jaipur announced registrations via a WhatsApp broadcast. Within 48 hours, the organizer had 90 messages to process: "I want to register f…


Starting a sports academy sounds straightforward until you actually sit down to do it. You know your sport, you can coach, and there are kids in your area who n…


The IPL auction is a spectacle — Rs 25 crore bids, live television, war rooms with spreadsheets. You are not running the IPL. But you can absolutely run a playe…


You have been playing badminton for years. Your club has 40 members. Someone suggests organizing a tournament. Everyone agrees. And then — silence. Because nobo…
