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@cricketcouch

4 years

OMG the pitch turned 90 degrees in a day!!

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Heard from a friend Mohammad Asif plays in his team in Virginia. Still just as gun with his lengths. When he doesn’t play cricket, drives Uber, delivers pizza and smokes the finest. Legend.

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What’s up guys? Just got cervical spine surgery, doing okay, allegedly first thing I said to the anesthesiologist when I came around was “it would be a bloody travesty if Ireland were to lose.” Just checked the score card. It’s a travesty.

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The Indian team management must really think very high of Shreyas Iyer to provide him all these opportunities. He is of James Vince variety. Too good for FC but not good enough for Internationals.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

There are 24 TV commentators used in 2019 CWC. This is how I classify them: Best - Bish, Athers, Doull Good - Guha, Polly, Nass, Harsha, Ward Okay - Mikey, Mel, Biff, Smith, Baz, Nicholas, Alison, Sanga Bad - Waz, Manjrekar, Dada Trash - Rambo, Athar, Slats, Pup, Pommie

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@cricketcouch

1 year

Greatest Test innings - Kusal Perera in Durban Greatest ODI innings - Maxwell today Greatest T20I innings - Carlos Brathwaite Greatest T20 innings (Baz McCullum IPL opener). No arguments will be considered.

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@cricketcouch

4 years

Axar is so Burma bazaar Jadeja

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@cricketcouch

8 months

Vaughan is basically insinuating that there is cheating going on. Asking for transparency is a bad faith request. Fuck this guy and the rest of ‘em.

Test Match Special

@bbctms

8 months

Michael Vaughan says cameras should be placed in the DRS trucks to provide "transparency".

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3 years

This is correct. And it’s mostly the English journos that drone on and on about over rates.

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5 years

Let’s make XI of “Mispronounced Names by Ganguly”. I’ve got so far: Shekhar Dhawan Kedar Yadav Ocean Thomas

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@cricketcouch

2 years

India were one Umran Malik over away from winning this series 3-0. Not bad. If they can actually get couple more hitters instead of Kohli and Iyer, they’d be terrific.

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@cricketcouch

1 year

Rohit yelling at Kuldeep for not getting after the ball sooner while rest of the team wanted a DRS. He should be captain for life.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

No Indian cricketer since Sachin in 1989 has come along with such abilities, skill and potential that the first instinct from the Indian setup appears to be to protect/safeguard them well to ensure a long and successful career, as Jasprit Bumrah.

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5 years

If The British Monarchy had any sense of humor, they should’ve taken Trump to Trent Bridge and made him sit along with a section of Pakistan fans and made Farage explain cricket to him while at it. Free milkshakes for the punters obvs.

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3 years

India’s pace lineup by design is an attack the stump type bowlers. On bouncier wickets, they need to bowl fuller to take wickets which means they will go for runs quickly. When the length is pulled back, you will get plenty of plays and misses but not as often find edges.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

New Zealand - You will always be my 2019 WC Champion. (241/9 > 241/10)

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3 years

NZ batted like this was a T20 game for half their overs. Aus batted like it’s a T20 for most of their innings. That’s the story.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Twitter never disappoints

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10 months

2-man bowling attack. The other 2 seamers can’t keep the runs down. Another SA series gone bye bye.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

After nearly 22 years of being a smoker, I’ve been cigarette free for nearly two weeks now. Ramped down first from 10 a day to 3, then 2 and then 1, over just a week. Taking Chantix which cuts the urge. So far so good.

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@cricketcouch

2 years

The short ball strategy - the stubborn pigheaded way not to change course no matter what - that NZ employed today to win the game is actually Bazball. High risk High reward cricket.

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@cricketcouch

1 year

Shakib is a fucken professional. “Right or wrong I don’t know, but have to do what I have to do that helps my team”.

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@cricketcouch

8 months

Passage from the piece by Pujara on Ashwin’s 100th Test. It is one of the most stirring test matches I’ve attended and was lucky enough to talk about it with Pujara and Ashwin on CouchTalk subsequently.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

This technique of getting Jadeja on to the field has been perfected @ABVan

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5 years

What a partisan crowd at Oval. Maxwell on first delivery drives Bumrah down the ground for 4 and hardly any acknowledgement. They are not there to watch cricket

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@cricketcouch

10 months

Unbelievable to discredit and not even acknowledge the innings played by KL, Elgar and Markram… the nostalgia merchants are the plague afflicting cricket.

PRAKASH WAKANKAR

@pakwakankar

10 months

An overwhelming thought after the shortest Test in history..pitches can be spicy or rank turners, bowlers will exploit those conditions.. but where are the Laras Tendulkars, Petersens & their ilk who braved alien conditions and displayed the true art & skill of batting?

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@cricketcouch

1 year

Slow track. That should indicate how crazy good that initial bash from Rohit was and masterfully Kohli’s innings was constructed. Shut one end down.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

One sided contests are not going to be an issue when only the “best” 10 sides are invited to the World Cup tournament.

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@cricketcouch

4 years

The better bowling line up lost the series. One for @cricketingview to dissect.

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@cricketcouch

2 years

Wasim bhai - true to form - comments on required rate when 9 balls left in the innings.

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5 years

Never seen an advert for a Test before in any place I’ve seen Tests in Windies. That could just be me. This time noticed one right away on a busy intersection on All Saints Rd.

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@cricketcouch

3 years

Great bowler. Handsome devil. By all accounts, a fantastic person. But this nonchalant toss and catch of that stupid urn makes his my all time favorite. Giving thatstupid token all the respect it deserves

TheRealOogieBoogieBush🌳

@JamieRadford66

3 years

@JacquiReed_ @AndrewFaulkner9 #Ashes

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5 years

ENG played out 173 dots. NZ played out 160 dots. Trying to force fit a happenstance to a convenient narrative has its problems.

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@cricketcouch

1 year

tedious complaint that the matches are not thrillers as if it can be manufactured. Equally tedious takes that the WC has come alive after a few close games. The skill, and quality of cricket has been very good for the most part. Close games is happenstance.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

More teams need to be part of CWC. But more importantly, the teams need regular games against the “bigger” teams in the intervening 4 years. That’s how they get better. That’s how you grow the game.

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1 year

Thanks to Bangladesh for reengaging England and their fans in this World Cup.

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3 years

SA bowlers due to their height can bowl fuller and still threaten the edges. Which would explain why Aus have been so successful in SA as well. India needs to give Hazlewood passport based on his citizenship of the great nation of CSK and could then master next SA tour.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Archer does all the hard work. Woakes gets the wicket. This is not a metaphor for the last few centuries of Western Civilization.

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@cricketcouch

4 years

I keep thinking back to Moeen Ali wrist band in support of Palestine struggle. Is that allowed now by the establishment or not, in light of the strong message sent by the cricket teams, IcC officials and staff at Southampton earlier today?

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5 years

Rahkeem Cornwall and Jermaine Blackwood in a 50-run partnership for 6th wicket. WI-A v IND-A Test day 1. I'm mostly posting this for the contrast, though.

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@cricketcouch

3 years

This is Kohli’s legacy as Test captain. Truly impressive that he understood the importance of bowlers over batters and never really wavered from the pursuit of 20 wickets. Well captured by ⁦ @cricketingview ⁩

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Grotesque Cricketers XI Rory Burns Alastair Cook Steve Smith Shiv Chanderpaul Ijaz Ahmed Gary Ballance Kamran Akmal (more ways than one) Sohail Tanvir Paul Adams Bumrah I’m missing a bowler to complete the XI. Help.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

For a journalist, not to have a basic understanding of how contracts work between an organizing body and participating member, is mind boggling. But then supposed injury to nationalistic pride is always a top seller.

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

5 years

Only people entitled to decide if @msdhoni sporting the Paras insignia on cricket field violates any norm is @adgpi . Else, he has worn it with pride, as a personal code and not as an act of hostility against any nation. No basis for ICC to have a problem #DhoniKeepsTheGlove

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@cricketcouch

3 years

Only nagging thing I have from the Lords Test: How did Mayank Agarwal reach the pitch so fast in a bib at the fall of Buttler’s wicket to celebrate with Siraj? And so soon with no bib after Anderson’s wicket? Will remain a mystery forever.

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2 years

Lord, please give me such unwarranted self confidence. I’m sure this guy if around in 1905 would tell Einstein “pfft, I’ve been saying all along it is all relative”

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@cricketcouch

2 years

Frustrating aspect is there are hitters available to be picked in the squad and they keep selecting batters. (This applies to quite a few teams actually)

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5 years

Bangladesh have played the tournament worthy of a spot in the final four. That game vs NZ will come back to haunt them and the washout vs SL would make them wonder what could’ve been.

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@cricketcouch

4 years

QdK did not do anything that prevented Fakhar from following the ball. Fakhar outsourced his responsibility to QdK and got burned. Nothing devious or deceitful in what QdK did. But then batsmen write the rules. Bastards.

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1 year

Ded. 🤣🤣🤣

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4 years

I was convinced esp after Adelaide and Shami’s injury (+missing ishant) that there was no way India could compete and expected 0-4. Ridiculously remarkable achievement by India B. Hard to explain how Ind managed to win/draw key passages and Aus just couldn’t close the door

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10 months

I hope IND never pick Shardul in an away match as a compromise. They are better off picking a pacer than his two bit all-rounder nonsense. But then they will pick him Because cricket is bloody conservative and they like respectability over competitiveness.

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3 years

Baz McCullum and Craig McMillan clearly pointing the flaw in the overemphasis on overrates. If the match is over in 3.5 days, what’s the fuss about overrates? And what matters is good competitive cricket rather than rushing through overs with part timers for the sake of rates?

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Cricket ecosystem is a weird thing. There is endless moralizing and posturing about perfectly legal Mankading. But then it is absolutely quiet when a predator is ushered back without having shown contrition or shown that there is change or apologize to the people victimized

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@cricketcouch

3 years

This should be the plan for every ball of every T20 and not just when 50+ needed in 24 balls

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2 years

Bairstow could have been out bowled a dozen times but here he is being Sehwag on steroids. Such is cricket.

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@cricketcouch

3 years

Trained the babycouch to say two very important lifesaving things: “Appa, put cricket on” and “Howzat!”

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Given the early collapse, and loss of Pant and Pandya when it happened, excellent chase by MS & Jaddu. Very old school MS chase. Take risk ONLY when it is absolutely necessary. There is almost always way more time in the game than we think.

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2 years

SKY is the limit. He needs to play all formats. Tests at #5 . ODI - 4. T20 - #3

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5 years

Joffrey Archer Varun Arun Ian Morgan Martin Gooptill Mahender Amarnath (Thank you all. Need three more and we are set)

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Joffrey Archer. Cousin of Shekhar Dhawan. #Dadaism

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Sharda Ugra on being single by choice 👏👏

‘Aching loneliness is different from solitary calm’: Sharda Ugra on being single by choice

An excerpt from ‘Single By Choice’, a collection of personal essays by ‘happily unmarried women’, edited by Kalpana Sharma.

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5 years

The best knuckleball in cricket. Ever. No questions. Zaheer Khan to Mike Hussey WC QF 2011

Zaheer Khan got Hussey cheaply in WC Quarter Final

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Surprise ENG are only 87% on win predictor given they have got 1000% on the luck scale.

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5 years

Discharged. On the way home.

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5 years

I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or punch myself in the face for taking these screenshots

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5 years

ICC could’ve easily held this shitshow opening ceremony in a pub and would’ve drawn a bigger crowd and stayed dry

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5 years

CouchTalk with the wonderful Che Pujara. On net sessions, facing spin, fielding in slips, “fierce focus”, the 2011 SA series and the 2017 Aus series etc.

Cheteshwar Pujara: Have got better at dealing with failure

Cheteshwar Pujara speaks to Subash Jayaraman on the nitty gritty of batting, his favourite Test innings and more in Episode 02 of our cricket Podcast, Couch Talk.

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5 years

I see Dileep Premachandran is back being a columnist for a newspaper. I wonder what the process was that Deccan Chronicle and Dileep went through for this to happen, and where in all this are the young women in cricket that Dileep preyed on.

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2 years

Bumrah in place of Avesh and Pant instead of Kohli. That’d be the perfect XI for India given the options for T20WC.

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1 year

Headed to her first Test match action is babycouch

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@cricketcouch

10 months

KD is almost always on the money. And there is a whole Twitter subgroup of people bitching about how little KD understands cricket. Idiots be idiots.

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5 years

Win toss bowl first on pitch with assistance. Poor lengths, drop catches. No one does reversion to the mean like Pakistan

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@cricketcouch

1 year

Thought experiment 1: Alex Carey makes the same throw but Bairstow’s feet are still in. The incident passes on without any further comment and England go on to win with Stokes making 100+. Thought experiment 2: Stokes makes 180+ and is unbeaten as England win. 1/n

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@cricketcouch

8 months

If a tree fell in the forest and there was no one to hear it, did it bazball?

Lawrence Booth

@BoothCricket

8 months

That's an excellent Bazball innings from Root: adapted to the situation, absorbed pressure (both are Bazball mantras) and followed through with his gameplan.

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@cricketcouch

1 year

This is tremendous comedy. Two international sides behaving like high school kids. Naagin drama.

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@cricketcouch

7 years

So much Lulz that Rabada is SA’s fourth to get the ball and it was Pandya for India. That’s your series.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Boom

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@cricketcouch

4 years

As usual Dada says one thing and contradicts it immediately. Legend.

Sourav Ganguly

@SGanguly99

4 years

Just a remarkable win...To go to Australia and win a test series in this way ..will be remembered in the history of indian cricket forever ..Bcci announces a 5 cr bonus for the team ..The value of this win is beyond any number ..well done to every member of the touring party..

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Atherton, a good human being and commentator. Acknowledged Asif Ali’s loss and wished him well. And did not dwell on it.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Harry Gurney ( @gurneyhf ) explains how hard it is to bowl a yorker in the recent episode of #CouchTalk (harder than hitting a bullseye on a dartboard) @sportstarweb

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@cricketcouch

5 years

If any of the full member nations were to appoint a woman as the head coach of their men's cricket team, which nation is the most likely to do it? For me, it is a toss up between NZ and SA.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Please Please Please let India withdraw from the World Cup. I can’t take the stupid superfan guy waving the flag and blowing the conch and shown on tv every minute any more.

DNA

@dna

5 years

#DNAPoll Should India withdraw from the ICC World Cup over Dhoni’s glove controversy?

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4 years

Baby couch enjoying some Zouks v Warriors @CPL action

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5 years

Mr. Apte bowling underarm to Missus Couch as she could not handle the legbreaks earlier.

Missus Couch

@MissusCouch

10 years

Was bowled a googly by Madhav Apte on his roof terrace in Mumbai. #cricketworldproblems http://t.co/t7ChQr4UVl

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5 years

Pant is selected and an ex-cricketer moans about kind of message sent to Vijay. Shami does well and another ex-cricketer is basically dissing Bhuvi. Fucking peddlers of grievances.

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@cricketcouch

1 year

Cummins. Rabada. Bumrah. Best of the lot. Next tier has Hazlewood, Afridi, nortje, Robinson, Shami, Jameson. Then the rest.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

Those 3 deliveries from Boult to Kohli. Trent showing with two going away. Kohli deciding to protect the outside edge and in the process leaving inside edge open. Woefully out of line head position and too far across. Worked over by inswing.

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@cricketcouch

6 years

Got the itch to bring CouchTalk back... not sure when I’ll scratch

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@cricketcouch

5 years

For England to win the trophy, they have to beat 2 of Ind, Aus and NZ, twice!!!! Chances are very slim to none.

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5 years

Basically every commentator when their team is doing bad becomes a projection artist. Their hopes and dreams and disappointments are dashed and instead of talking cricket it becomes one long bitch session

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1 year

Need an Overthrow deflection to boundary to add to the occasion

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2 years

Downside is that we will never know what shot Siraj would’ve played for the winning runs.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

A-ha. We have competition for Napoleon Einstein as the best name in cricket.

Thejaswi Udupa

@udupendra

5 years

There's a Karnataka cricketer named Stalin Hoover. His name's like the perfect marriage of the worst of communism and capitalism.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

GOAT batting along with GOAT.

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@cricketcouch

1 year

“Pitch has got nothing. Pitches like these are going to be the reason for death of test cricket. Blah blah. And on it, Ashwin, Siraj and Jadeja are putting on a masterclass. Any half decent bowler can look good on helpful tracks. Great ones excel anywhere.

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@cricketcouch

5 years

@gurneyhf @sportstarweb Also, @gurneyhf talked in detail about how he sets the field to bowl in the T20 death overs, and the variations he uses for a given field to keep the batsmen guessing. [Fun thing for me was to actually watch it in action against TKR literally hours after I interviewed him]

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5 years

Jonty Rhodes made such a colossal impact in 92 that anyone that did anything noteworthy as a fielder got their first name changed to Jonty, such as Jonty Sidhu. Has there ever been another fielder since that was such a phenomenon?

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8 months

@cricketingview LSiva will ask you how much cricket you’ve played shortly

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