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The last tournament of the monsoon semester brought a gold in men’s football, two silvers in men’s badminton and squash, a litany of semi-final appearances and some stern reality checks for the Ashokan sports contingents. Eighteen Ashokan sports teams across ten disciplines were in action at SURGE 2026, the sports fest of Shiv Nadar University (SNU), from 29th October to 1st November.

On 3rd September, the Ashoka Office of Sports and Exercise formally confirmed the Squad Leaders for the academic year 2026/27. These are the new leaders of the Ashoka sports fraternity. As the biggest tournament of the Monsoon semester closes in — Surge, hosted by Shiv Nadar University (SNU) — there is no time to waste. With a solid foundation already in place, the teams’ performance at SNU will look to solidify the authority of this new generation of captains.

If Green Day were bigger fans of the SEC Batch Championships, they’d never have recorded “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” Their loss, as that glorious purpose falls to us at Edict Sports — and across five days, 17 sports, 294 Instagram stories and heaven knows how many posts on X (formerly Twitter), it was a purpose we embraced with open arms, as two-time defending Batch Champions UG2023, chasing a record-extending threepeat, were finally dethroned by the UG2025s.

There's never been more hype around a singular player in the women’s division than the Caitlin Clark spectacle. It seemed that the basketball world was waiting, stirring in anticipation of a new star who could bring excitement to and for the game - with a playing style and a disbelief factor built to dominate defences. Enter Caitlin Clark. Not to hype up Clark beyond reason, but there’s undeniably a Women’s Basketball before and after her.

The World Cup began and ended with a bang, but amid the fireworks, it left a smokescreen of whispers in its wake—those of an unfortunate future. Restrictions on the movement of entire teams, strict policing and immigration checks of professional athletes, entire nations barred from even travelling.

India are coming off a dominant T20I World Cup campaign, but their new squad selection shows that they are doubling down on their winning formula: evolution. The intent is clear — eye a hat-trick of World Cup trophies, and reward merit over legacy. It is a reset based on form, role clarity and long-term planning. In today’s era of fast-paced T20 cricket, the best teams evolve before they are forced to, and India are showcasing that exact champion mentality.

The T20 World Cup is the most coveted prize in women’s cricket. For India, it has been its most persistent tormentor. Near-misses and heartbreaks have proved the pattern of India’s long pursuit of T20I glory. Despite coming painfully close on multiple occasions, the Women in Blue have never won the competition. But if there is any year in which they arrive with better odds, it is this one...

It’s that time of the quadrennial again. Not the Olympics, not the Commonwealth Games, not the ICC Cricket World Cup. It is the biggest of them all. Born in Paris. Forged in the favelas of Brazil. Held in Buenos Aires currently. The FIFA World Cup returns to North America, 32 years on from 1994, when the famous yellow of Brazil flew highest on a day Robert Baggio famously skied his decisive penalty and ‘died standing’.

Aneek Chatterjee reflects on grief, memory, and the rediscovery of joy through Agneepath 7.0

The squash courts at Ashoka sit tucked into the dim first-floor corridor of the Sports Block. Hundreds of students pass them daily on the way to the gym, but few bat an eye. The majority of students on campus have either never heard of squash or have never had the opportunity to play the sport growing up, so it’s not a sport they instinctively try out. This is exactly what the squash team is trying to address with their daily team practices and tournaments. We spoke to Abhay