Sanvir Singh’s power show lights up Sher-E-Punjab
The Fazilka Falcons captain turned a record price tag into runs, sixes and match-defining performances.
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A college team, the best side in the world, and twenty minutes at Lake Placid
The United States beat the Soviet Union 4-3 in the 1980 Olympic ice hockey tournament. It was a medal-round game, not a final, and it was not shown live.
A twenty-third major, won against her sister, in the first weeks of a pregnancy
Serena Williams beat Venus 6-4 6-4 in the 2017 Australian Open final. She disclosed months later that she had been pregnant throughout the tournament.
Three-nil at half time in Istanbul, and six minutes that ended a Milan era
Milan led the 2005 Champions League final 3-0 at the interval and lost it on penalties. The side that had been the best in Europe for three years never quite recovered its authority.
The return, not the serve: what actually built twenty-four majors
Novak Djokovic's record is usually explained by flexibility and defence. The numbers point somewhere less romantic — the second-serve return.
5.2 seconds in Utah: the last shot of the second Chicago dynasty
Michael Jordan scored 45 in game six of the 1998 NBA Finals and won it with a jumper in the final seconds. It was his last act as a Chicago Bull.
Following on at Eden Gardens, and the 376 runs that stopped a great side
India were 232 behind and asked to bat again. VVS Laxman made 281, Rahul Dravid 180, and Australia's sixteen-match winning run ended three days later.
Fifth to first in one wet lap at Donington, in the wrong car
Ayrton Senna passed four cars on the opening lap of the 1993 European Grand Prix in changing conditions, and won by more than a minute in a car that was not the quickest.
The seven years at Dortmund that changed how Europe defends
Jürgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund won two Bundesliga titles with a wage bill a fraction of Bayern's, using an idea that is now taught everywhere.
Thirteen hundred wickets between them, and a partnership built on being different
James Anderson and Stuart Broad shared a new ball for over a decade. The reason it worked was that almost nothing about how they bowled was the same.
Two ways to win the same points: Alcaraz, Sinner and a rivalry of opposites
One plays with variety and improvisation, the other with the flattest ball-striking on tour. What makes the match-up worth watching is that neither style is beating the other.