STATE OF PLAY
Sep 19, 2020
3 minutes
Illustration by SIDDHANT JUMDE
—Shougat Dasgupta
Around the world, sport is back. The sight of dozens of fans beamed in on screens into largely empty arenas, cheering ecstatically for their teams or favourite players, has become a fixture of these denuded events, a grim simulation—like canned cheering—of the way things were. Still, cricket series have been played, the IPL, in all its boisterous, abrasive glory, is back at the weekend, the US Open tennis has just concluded while the US Open golf will
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