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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

3 months

Where does Jasprit Bumrah rank now among India's greatest ever cricketers? Top five?

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@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Steve Smith is convinced every lbw ever given against him isn't out except for the one that isn't actually out

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3 months

Jasprit Bumrah taking twice as many wickets as he has conceded boundaries at this T20 World Cup is one of those stats that sounds like it just shouldn’t be real. And yet…

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For those focussed on New York, Scotland have just chased 151 against Oman in 13.1 overs. They have five points, the maximum England can reach, and have given their net run rate a big boost too. It's now probable that neither of the 2022 finalists makes it through the group stage

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

4 months

If England and Pakistan both get knocked out early, they should agree to a three-Test series on this New York strip

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Jan 15, 2017: Virat Kohli hundred Jan 15, 2018: Virat Kohli hundred Jan 15, 2019: Virat Kohli hundred Jan 15, 2020: No Virat Kohli hundred Jan 15, 2021: No Virat Kohli hundred Jan 15, 2022: No Virat Kohli hundred Jan 15, 2023: Virat Kohli hundred The drought is over

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Ben Gardner

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2 years

#PAKvZIM #T20WorldCup

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@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Fitting that the first close game at this World Cup is between Virat Kohli and scoring an international century

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

7 months

Shreyanka Patil was five years old when RCB played their first game, and somehow she's still won a title for them before Virat Kohli has

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Imagine being newly hooked on Test cricket by the Ashes and then deciding to watch this India-West Indies game, you'd be put off for life

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

6 months

Travis Head has scored 84 off 26 inside the powerplay and his opening partner is scoring faster than him

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Geoffrey Boycott Joe Root a week ago today #ENGvNZ

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

India could have declared at the end of the powerplay and still won by eight runs

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

6 months

Congratulations India on winning the 2024/25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy

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@WisdenCricket

6 months

21-year-old Mayank Yadav is seriously quick and seriously talented 🤯 He’s been clocked at 156.7kph (97.3mph) in the ongoing clash against RCB! 🔥 #IPL2024

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

4 months

Has anyone told India that manipulating their result to get a rival knocked out is banned under the ICC Code of Conduct?

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

From tomorrow, there is Test cricket scheduled to be played on every single day until January 1, 2023

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Mark Wood finishes with 7-100 with the ball and 40 off 16 with the bat in the game

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Jos Buttler's 47-ball ODI hundred sees him just miss out on taking the record for England's fastest ODI hundred from Jos Buttler (46 balls v Pakistan, 2015), but he does take second place, pushing Jos Buttler (50 balls v Pakistan, 2019) into third #NEDvENG

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

India have scored 800 runs in two games and Suryakumar Yadav has contributed 3 (3)

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Don't know if I agree with this '2-2 is a fair result' stuff. Rain is the what stopped this series being 3-2 to England, and they have been, across the five Tests, the better side

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11 months

Amazing that the PCB had Babar Azam's successors ready to be announced less than two hours after he decided voluntarily to step down as captain, what a slick, well-run organisation!

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

To sum up: India dropped loads of chances, Mitchell made a brilliant hundred, Kuldeep got smashed, New Zealand fielded like demons, Boult and Henry beat the bat loads, there was a silly run out, and they still had enough in the tank to piss about trying to get Kohli another ton

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

Two days into this five-Test series

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Shaheen Afridi going off injured will go down as one of the great World Cup final 'what-ifs'. Game turned completely on that one moment

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

Such a shame that R Ashwin didn't reach 500 Test wickets with an exact split of right- and left-handers. The tally is currently 251 to 249

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Ravi Shastri announcing that Australia have won the World Cup in front of 120,000 people is amazing given a) the official attendance is 92,000 and b) half of them have left already

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

For Pakistan, this tournament feels like the start of something rather than the end. Only three of their XI in the final are older than 30. Four of them are 22 or younger. The core of an excellent side could be there for a long time

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

3 years

England made their highest Ashes opening stand in eight years and still got bowled out for 124. Extraordinary commitment to comedy batting #Ashes

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 months

Suryakumar Yadav and Rinku Singh, who had never bowled before in 94 T20Is between them, have just come on with nine runs to defend in two overs against Sri Lanka, taken two wickets each, and the game is going to a super over. Madness

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Stuart Broad's last ball as a batter: Six Stuart Broad's last ball as a bowler: Wicket Test cricket? Completed it

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Is Rohit Sharma the best batter ever to have never been his country's best batter in any format?

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

10 months

Four English medium-pacers bowling to Steve Smith at the MCG:

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10 months

Come on break the Cybertruck 💪🏻 #Cybertruck #Tesla #Optimus

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

4 months

The ICC managing to arrange an India-Pakistan World Cup game on a pitch no one is able to bat on with tickets no one can afford to buy is impressive, even by their standards

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Batters with multiple men's World Cup hundreds before turning 24: Sachin Rachin End of list

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

The greatest innings of all time, it's as simple as that

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

That last-ball no-ball is absolutely brutal on Rinku Singh. He doesn't get the six, but he does get the ball faced, and that brings his T20I career strike rate down below 200

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Great to see Dinesh Karthik give Glenn Maxwell a warning by knocking off the first bail without the ball in his gloves. Spirit of Cricket at its finest #INDvAUS

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Mohammed Shami is now India's leading wicket taker at the 2023 World Cup, having played only half their games

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Virat Kohli has the best batting average and the second best bowling average among all players at the 2023 World Cup

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Virat Kohli after everyone makes fun of him for scoring a hundred

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

For some reason, there's quite a lot less fanfare about Ravindra Jadeja equalling Sachin Tendulkar's tally of ODI five-fors

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 month

Joe Root Test tons for England: 34 Virat Kohli Test tons for England: 0 Case closed

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Maybe 'The Biggest Upset In World Cup History' was actually Bangladesh beating Afghanistan

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

When Babar made that 196 to save the Karachi Test against Australia, you wondered if he’d ever make a better hundred. It’s taken him three innings. Some player #SLvPAK

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Fair play to Australia, dropping one of your most in-form batters because he can’t play spin and then his replacement getting out to spin for 0 (1) is funny

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Think about it from the cricket ball’s perspective though. It’s 2018 and you’re excited to get played with, but you only get 13 overs before being shut in a box for five years. You’re long past hope, but then finally you’re chosen to win England an Ashes Test. It’s Pixar stuff

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

In 2023, India have bowled Sri Lanka out for 51, beaten them by 302 runs and recorded a world-record margin of victory, and those are three different ODIs

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

3 months

It's a mark of just how good Jasprit Bumrah is that South Africa would probably have shaken your hand on a wicketless maiden at the start of his final over. And then even when they do just try to block him out, they can't

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

4 years

The way all the New Zealand fielders jump in unison with Mitchell Santner here is just wonderful

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

It's all just so beautifully orchestrated. Gives Sky advanced warning so they can get the tribute package together, finishes the day not out to guarantee an ovation first thing tomorrow, and he's got his Mail on Sunday column tomorrow a few thousand more clicks too. A master

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

The correct Barbenheimer schedule 10.00am - Wake up 10.59am - Watch Pat Cummins get out first ball 11.00am - Watch Oppenheimer 2pm - Watch Zak Crawley smash a run a ball Ashes double hundred 630pm - Watch Barbie

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Suryakumar Yadav is obviously the best T20 batter in the world right now. But I think his current form and peak might be the best ever. Can't think of a player who has scored this quickly this consistently and been this impossible to bowl to. Peak AB, maybe? #T20WorldCup

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Should Ben Stokes really be comparing Brook to Kohli as an all-format player when Kohli is still yet to show he can make runs in the Hundred or the PSL?

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

9 months

In T20 cricket, 0 (1) is a better innings than 0 (2), so Rohit is at least improving

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

I wouldn’t worry, Australia are just following the India method of getting smashed in the first Border-Gavaskar Test before staging a comeback. Expecting Cummins to fly home after this game and a net bowler - maybe the Ashwin lookalike- to bowl them to victory at Ahmedabad

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Even if Joe Root doesn't get a bat in this IPL, he'll learn so much just watching the greats like Yashasvi Jaiswal close up

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Mitch Marsh has as many Ashes hundreds as David Warner and Adam Gilchrist, and as many Ashes five-fors as Pat Cummins and Merv Hughes

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

It's incredible that Jasprit Bumrah is both a biomechanical freak who bowls 90mph off effectively 18 yards and pinpoint accurate with loads of variations that he knows exactly when to use. Just one or the other would be enough to be a great bowler

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Bit rude of India to schedule a World Cup semi-final that clashes with Pakistan captaincy reshuffle day

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Ben Stokes really messed up by not scoring a fifty against England

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2 years

Virat Kohli is the only player to score fifties against both finalist in this T20 World Cup.

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

So Bangladesh are worried about the wet conditions, but play resumes, then Litton Das slips over and hurts himself first ball, and then turns tentatively and gets run out second ball. Hmmm #T20WorldCUp

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Amazing that England can pointlessly declare, bowl a million no balls, drop a load of catches, injure their frontline spinner and somehow still end up with a lead

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

KL Rahul clearly understood that hitting a four and then a six would have given India a bigger NRR boost

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

4 months

Pakistan needed a run a ball off the last eight overs with eight wickets in hand. The conditions played their part, but it's an astonishing comeback from India

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

Some effort given he didn’t know what a six was until he saw Tom Hartley hit one on day one at Hyderabad

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Yashasvi Jaiswal🇮🇳 becomes the FIRST ever player to hit 20 sixes in a Test series. Previous highest: 19 - Rohit Sharma🇮🇳 v SA, 2019 15 - Shimron Hetmyer🏝️ v BAN, 2018 15 - Ben Stokes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v SA, 2023 #INDvsENG

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

The cool leave for the wide and then the checked lofted drive - R Ashwin has given Jack Leach competition for the greatest 1* of all time #INDvPAK

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Zak Crawley has faced 103 overs less than Usman Khawaja in this series, and has scored more runs than him

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

10 months

Rinku Singh's ninth T20I and he's yet to score a fifty, questions must be asked

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

England have been more competitive than anyone could have hoped for this series, but the worry for them is it's 1-1 and India still have Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami to come back

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Cricket's good, but watching Mohammad Rizwan repeatedly punch himself in the thigh is better

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

JUST IN: The BCCI have requested another schedule change, asking the ICC if they can restart today's game again tomorrow

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

Holding back your left-arm spinner, who also happens to be the world's No.1 ranked bowler, because you're worried about the left-hander smashing him, and then you're forced to go to him and he turns one through the gate first ball. Sometimes your best bowler is your best bowler

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Ben Gardner

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1 year

This is just a huge weekend for Accuweather. If it’s right and the rest of the Manchester forecasts are wrong, I don’t think any England cricket fan is ever using another weather service again

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

Feels like India have really missed Virat Kohli in this Test. Those balls that spin past the bat or shoot low once an over feel a lot different if he's hooting and clapping after each one

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Zak Crawley has scored more runs in the 2023 Ashes than Alastair Cook or Andrew Strauss ever scored in any home Test series

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Mark Wood's strike rate of 250 at Headingley is the highest in history for anyone facing more than 10 balls in a single Test match

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

How has Jarvo managed to get a visa when not a single Pakistani journalist has one?

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Ben Gardner

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3 months

Ravi Shastri really dragging out the toss introduction, the time-wasting has already started

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6 months

Mayank Yadav, a 21-year-old with 10 T20 appearances to his name, has just been clocked at 97mph on his IPL debut. The only thing quicker than him is the speed with which he's been changed from 'medium fast' to 'fast' in his player profiles

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

3 years

Whatever your thoughts on Virat Kohli as a person and captain (and I was a fan), while he was in charge it was hard not to feel Test cricket was safe. He was the most powerful figure in cricket’s world, and it seemed he loved Tests more than anyone else in the world

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

"That shot is nigh-on impossible for a normal human being" - Ian Smith on that Kohli madness #INDvPAK

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Rashid Khan and his Afghanistan teammates have shown extraordinary bravery in speaking out against the actions of the Taliban. They should be at the heart of cricket's response to the crisis, rather than blindsided by it.

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

5 months

The Test starting each new season immediately after, but also ignoring, every Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy defeat is a good bit

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@cricketcomau

5 months

🚨 FIRST LOOK 🚨 The official trailer has just landed for season three of #TheTest documentary series on last year's WTC Final and remarkable men's #Ashes . Coming soon to Prime Video!

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

India under Rahul Dravid have lost a Test series in South Africa, lost the final Test in England, and failed to make the Asia Cup and T20 World Cup finals. Not the results the BCCI were hoping for when they appointed him, you imagine #T20WorldCup

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

The Ashwin net bowler thing is fascinating, and surely so ill-founded. Imagine signaling to a genius like that that not only is he in your head, but also that what you think makes him special is how he sticks his elbows out when he bowls, rather than everything else. 4-0 India

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

A 'clever' declaration to have a go with the new ball late in the day before losing a tight game, well I never

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

8 months

The only reasonable reaction to Jasprit Bumrah

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

11 months

It will almost be a shame when Hardik Pandya is back fit because it will likely mean not seeing this bowling attack together. They are extraordinary

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

Hearing reports that the Aussies wanted to finish the night with a quiet avo on toast and a flat white in Clapham, but Ben Stokes demanded a Spoons fry-up and pushing on into day two. Not sure the rifts from this series will ever truly heal

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Feels like Rishabh Pant gets picked in T20Is on Test form, and then dropped from ODIs on T20I form

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

For the first time under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, England have drawn a Test match. And they were right, this is worse than losing

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Zak Crawley scored more runs in his first over in Pakistan than he managed in eight of his 13 Test innings this summer #PAKvENG

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Ben Gardner

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11 months

The second top-scorer in the innings has got 24 and he's not the bloke Maxwell shared a double-century stand with

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

2 years

Jonny Bairstow has made 11 per cent of his career Test runs and 33 per cent of his career Test hundreds since the start of Love Island 2022 #ENGvIND

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Ben Gardner

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2 years

RIP India's No.1 in all formats status, Feb 15 2023-Feb 15 2023

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1 year

If only Cheteshwar Pujara had warmed up playing the IPL rather than the County Championship, he might have executed the ramp shot better

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

1 year

The BCCI did a great job not selling tickets for these games so that when bits of their stadiums start falling from the sky spectators can flee to other, empty bits of the stands. Genius planning

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Ben Gardner

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2 years

Among all T20I batters with at least 1,000 runs, Suryakumar Yadav's average (46.41) is the fourth-best, and his strike rate (180.34) is the only one above 160. He's so, so far ahead of the rest

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Ben Gardner

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11 months

Since the start of the 2019 World Cup, Mohammed Shami has played 10 World Cup games and taken four five-fors and three four-fors

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Ben Gardner

@Ben_Wisden

3 years

England allowing Shardul Thakur to make himself undroppable so India don't pick Ashwin for the fifth Test, clever #ENGvIND

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