Scroll@10: Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold, a Srinagar football club works to stop addiction and more

In a decade, Indian sport has grown leaps and bounds. There has been a mentality shift in the athletes – from being happy to simply qualify for the biggest tournaments to realising that they belong at the greatest stages.

Through that journey, Scroll’s sports desk, The Field, has been around to bring the news and help understand that seismic change in the Indian sports graph – especially the sports that get overlooked in a cricket-crazy country.

From the greatest moment of an Olympic triumph, to the most heart-breaking of losses in a World Championships final, The Field was there to help encapsulate the story of Indian sport in this past decade.

Describing the highs and lows of an epic World Championship final battle, Abhijeet Kulkarni charted out the second-longest match in women’s badminton, a truly memorable encounter between India’s PV Sindhu and Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in 2017. This piece captured it all – the sheer determination of both players to achieve a never-seen-before feat for their country and the emotion after it ends.Read here.

Arka Bhattacharya outlined the building blocks being laid by those in North East India to sustain their valuable contribution to India’s football legacy. From Aizawl FC’s I-League triumph to state leagues in Arunachal...

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