UAE women’s cricket captain, Chaya Mughal, talks about teaching, leadership, and the growth of the women’s game in the UAE. Zushan Hashmi: What has the experience been like to represent and eventually lead the UAE women’s cricket team? Chaya Mughal: Playing cricket in UAE is always exciting and very special to me. Getting to play internationally …
Carolina Gallo went from Tennis to Padel and took the sport of padel from Spain to Dubai. Today, her consultancy, Padel World UAE, is one of the pre-eminent padel focused organisations in the region. Hear her story, and the journey of padel which now boasts over 150 courts in the UAE, within the GCC region. …
Jared Davids is the ICCA Development & Performance coach and the Bowling Coach of the UAE U-19 cricket team. In this exclusive feature, Sportageous caught up with Jared Davids to discuss and analyse coaching in the UAE, his career and the future of aspiring players at the home of the ICC and ICC Academy. Kinza …
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Podcasts were once called the Wild West of the internet world, then, of course, COVID-19 came along, and today, the number of podcasts, globally, has significantly increased. Podcasts, after all, provide opportunities to literally anybody who wants to talk about something, to do so, and eventually, they can launch it into the endless cloud of …
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Abdullah Ghazi shares the story of playing domestic cricket in the UAE. A professional in the FMCG industry, and an amateur boxer, Abdullah has played for numerous T10 and T20 leagues, cricket clubs and more around the world. In this feature, he shares what it’s like to be a migrant cricketer with the ability and …
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Charvi Bhatt is the former captain of the UAE Women’s National Cricket Team. Now pursuing a PhD in gender roles in sports at Amity University Dubai, Charvi has knowledge of the game both on and off the field. We caught up with her to talk about how cricket has grown in the country, and what …
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Amal Murad is an Emirati who was born and raised in the UAE. She graduated with a master’s degree in multimedia design and in film, however; it was sports, particularly calisthenics and parkour, where her genuine passion was. Today, she is a trailblazer, as one of the few Emirati women in the industry, breaking gender …
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Upon arriving at the ICC Academy, the headquarters of UAE Cricket, Shahzada Asif Ejaz, is saying goodbye to his final patient before lunch, United Arab Emirates opening batsman, Chirag Suri. He welcomes me to the RU Active Sports Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Centre, one of the leading sports physiotherapy clinics in the UAE located inside the …
Asif Ejaz: Physiotherapy with the Emirates, Afghanistan and Pakistan Cricket Board(s) Read More »
Bushfires are ravaging Australia, with millions of people, flora and fauna being affected by the horrid conditions that the country sees itself in. Similarly, glaciers in the Arctic continue to melt at rapid speeds due to the rising heat temperatures and over the last year, we have seen fires in the Amazon, and a significant …
