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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Please write "Abhishek, who never proofread his tweets" on my epitaph, if one is ever written.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

18 days

Siraj: Bowls a no-ball. Gavaskar: A professional cricketer cannot bowl a no-ball. Wide, I understand, but not a no-ball. Siraj: Bowls a wide.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

What I learnt today: Whatever you do, whatever, anything, any bloody thing, if you promise Mr Bean to Zimbabwe, send Rowan Atkinson, not a lookalike.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Everyone is going mad, on the ground, in the dugout, in front of screens. Ashwin comes out, leaves nonchalantly. Field comes in. He lofts the next ball, runs. As if this is a club match, happens every day, no tension, get this done, go home, have tea, watch a web series.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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7 months

When nothing was happening, Eden Gardens generated more decibels in a neutral semi-final than this world record capacity.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

History will remember Dean Elgar as the first Test captain to beat a side with Shardul Thakur in it.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Between 36 and 336, we all grew up.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

please ignore and keep scrolling, nothing to look here

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Kohli walks out to bat in his 100th Test match. The crowd might have cheered. Or might not. The Indian dressing room might have celebrated. The Sri Lankan fielders too. Or might not. I never knew. I was not supposed to know. Because I pay Hotstar for commercials, not cricket.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

This is D. Dhenier from EA Sports Cricket 2007.

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MS Dhoni wax statue in Mysore.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

WHERE IS RAVI SHASTRI WHEN YOU NEED HIS VOICE

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Kohli did at least two things very unIndian. He took a paternity leave. And a mental health break (and spoke about his mental health, his vulnerabilities openly). He was criticised for both, but he set examples for Indians, not just cricketers but across sectors.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Virat Kohli took over as Indian Test captain in 2014/15. India played Test cricket for 82 years until then, but had never tasted such success. They did win, at times even away from home, but nowhere close to what they did in the Kohli era. +

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

Priceless

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

I have seen Kohli bat many, many times and I think this was his best in Twenty20 cricket.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Ravindra Jadeja flicks Sam Curran for four. He now has 2,046 Test runs, three more than Sanjay Manjrekar.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

This planet is billions of years old and I was alive when Jasprit Bumrah, in his first Test match as captain, set a new world record before bowling a single ball.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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1 year

The only reason Vinay Kumar, Dinda, Unadkat, etc get trolled is that the IPL gets televised more than the Ranji Trophy.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Has no one converted Ashwin's leave into a GIF yet? :(

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

100 and 10,000 happened to Joe Root at the same time. This was obvious, given that √10000=100.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

I am petrified of tomorrow's Linkedin posts, featuring life lessons you would learn from the World Cup final.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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1 year

If India retain the same XI and batting order, India’s top four will have three ODI double-centurions and a man with 46 ODI hundreds. After a bowling attack goes past them, they will run into, er... Suryakumar Yadav.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 months

Give Mayank Yadav 1-2 dedicated personal doctors, physios, whatever it takes to keep him away from injuries.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Shout out to Charu Sharma. Not easy at a moment's notice. Loving the subtle jokes.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

A wicketkeeper is not mandatory, as per the Laws of Cricket. All 11 can be fielders. Gujarat Titans might have taken this too seriously.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

This World Cup may be remembered for Haris Rauf.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Justify Evin Lewis' batting position in IPL 2022 Eliminator (15 marks).

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Running out at the non-striker's end without warning at Lord's is EXACTLY how I would have loved India to win. Absolute legend, Deepti Sharma. Beautiful. Beautiful.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

Sachin Tendulkar's 1894 runs in 1998 is a world record in men's ODIs for a single calendar year. This is a World Cup year, it is still only January, and Shubman Gill has 567 runs. Game on.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Ishan Kishan may become the most expensive buy in IPL auctions 2022.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Just realised that 973, most runs in an IPL season, is just 1 fewer than 974, most runs in a Test series.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

keep scrolling, nothing to look here

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Sikandar Raza deserves a statue somewhere in Zimbabwe.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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7 months

No captain with a beard has won an ODI World Cup.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

New Zealand were 234-1, then 345-9, then 449. In other words, Pakistan went from being Pakistan to being Pakistan, and then back to being Pakistan. Cricket fans, good luck with trying to explain the above paragraph to non-cricket fans.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

Source: Facebook

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Terrific hundred from Babar Azam. He is a player so good that I cannot even say this is his best hundred of the year.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Ashwin may emerge as the greatest Indian cricket commentator of all time. Mind you, he has not even started his career as one.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

You know you are an excellent team if a team celebrates drawing a series against you at home.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Rahul faced four more balls than Patidar.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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1 year

Poor Axar Patel averages 31.30 with bat and 15.65 with ball and is still the third-best all-rounder of the XI. :(

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Only Pakistan can lose for the first time to Thailand and end a streak of defeats against India on consecutive days. Only Pakistan.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

4 years

I understand Pranab Mukherjee's demise has made a lot of us emotional. However, I need to point out here that I am not his son. That is Abhijit Mukherjee. I have been tagged in multiple tweets since yesterday. Neither am I Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee. Please.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

India 191-6, but... Ishan Kishan 36(31) Rishabh Pant 6(13) Shreyas Iyer 13(9) Hardik Pandya 11(12) Deepak Hooda 0(1) Washington Sundar 0(1) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1*(1) Total of the above 67(68) SKY single-handedly made the total look reasonable.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Kohli's was not merely the greatest Indian Test team of all time. It was the only great Indian Test team. The others were, at best, decent.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

6 years

I apologise for every single time I had joked, every meme I had shared about Manmohan Singh's silence. At that point I had no clue of what a silent Prime Minister could actually be like.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

@bhogleharsha Two bouncers are the acceptable limit, Harsha. You bowled eight in that thread.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

India did not get to see Jagadeesan's 277 because BCCI chose not to telecast Vijay Hazare Trophy matches.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

No, Nasser, India did not lose in controversial fashion. Davies left the crease and paid the price for it. There was NO controversy about it.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

My respect for Deepti Sharma went up so much today after that run out. SO MUCH. What a superstar.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

So 175 is the new 194?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

This is the first time since the 1983 World Cup final that Indian seamers took all 10 wickets in an ODI on English soil.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Has no one branded Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma as SKY TV yet?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Some day Virat Kohli will step down as captain. That will mark the end of the Golden Age of Indian Cricket.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

Neither Kohli nor Rohit has done really well in IPL 2022. But Kohli fans are happy as long as Rohit fails, and Rohit fans if Kohli fails. I really do not get these things. :(

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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1 year

When Kohli was captain, the body language experts among Indian fans used to miss the calmness of Dhoni. When Rohit is captain, the body language experts among Indian fans miss the passion of Kohli. Dhoni, Kohli, or Rohit is not the problem. Body language experts are.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Ajaz Patel dropped after taking 10 wickets in an innings. No “sources” mentioning “rift” between the New Zealand team management and Ajaz Patel. Weird country, no? Their media chooses to cover cricket instead of making up gossip...

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

25 in first 6 balls: Jitesh Sharma 23 in last 6 overs: Lucknow Super Giants

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Despite being out of form, the strike rates of Rohit Sharma (123) and Virat Kohli (112) are higher than Williamson's (96) in IPL 2022.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Dhoni resigns as CSK captain. Jadeja to lead. End of an era.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Joe Root was probably the best batter for England. Daryl Mitchell was the best batter for New Zealand. But Jonny Bairstow was the best batter for Test cricket.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

The most followed cricketer in the world celebrating like there is no tomorrow because a colleague and the team has got a wicket. Like? I absolutely LOVE this.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Does Rowan Atkinson know all this?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

So Ahmedabad gets three matches and Kolkata three for the West Indies series. Must be because of logistical reasons. It is not that important people at the BCCI are connected to these venues.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 months

It was not Dube versus Rinku. It never was. Both should have been in. It was always big names versus T20 pedigree.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

I will be really upset if fours and sixes in the IPL are not branded Tata Assault. A quick single, maybe a Tata Steal?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Rajapaksa resigns. The power of sustained protests. You have been an inspiration, Sri Lanka.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

The ball Jadeja got Hameed with would have been called The Ball of the 21st Century had it been bowled in the Ashes.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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15 days

Imagine the reception Netravalkar is going to get when he resumes work.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Decades of following cricket and still nothing like toota hai Gabba ka ghamand. Vivek Razdan is a legend.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

What if... the Indian camp spreads rumours about dropping Shami and Siraj for Kuldeep and Sundar for the Delhi Test match?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

7 months

These tweets should come with a "I don't follow South African cricket outside World Cups" disclaimer.

Abhishek Singhvi

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7 months

Is this captain really the most deserving in the team? Has the Proteas team management lost wisdom? #SAvsAUS

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Shubman Gill is a national treasure.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Personal update. Joined @WisdenIndia as Head of Content today.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

In Test cricket, Rishabh Pant has never been dismissed between 50 and 91.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

Buttler’s strike rates: 144 T20I 145 all T20 149 IPL 144 IPL 2023 Buttler, the defending world champion captain, is among the most-feared limited-overs batters in the world. He decided Jaiswal’s wicket was more important than his. You can see why. +

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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1 year

One day, Jaiswal Buttler Samson Hetmyer won't click and you inexplicably don't promote Jurel. You are left with Padikkal and Riyan. Riyan’s IPL SR is 124. Tonight, 125. Padikkal’s IPL SR is 123. Tonight, 124. You pick them. You get this result. The fault is yours, not theirs.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

Bazball made this outcome happen. This would almost certainly have been a draw otherwise. England would have taken 40-50 overs more for that first innings score, and then the rest. Lost the Test match, but won it for Test cricket. Keep them coming.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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2 years

First Jadeja, now Bumrah. Has India toured Australia in the past two years without key players and still done well? OH WAIT...

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Abhishek Mukherjee

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18 days

So many statues in this country, can’t Jasprit Bumrah have one?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

BCCI appoints a committee of selectors to select the committee of selectors.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

3 years

Jasprit Bumrah becomes the first Indian man to take a wicket at the T20 World Cup since Virat Kohli in 2016.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

I do not know of a single other instance in 500 years of cricket where the sport leveraged a fan's anguish over an actor's impersonator to a conversation between two national leaders. The more I think of it, it sounds too ridiculous to be real. Yet it is real. All of it.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

One common thing about Sehwag and Pant is neither probably ever respected a spinner.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

I am watching India play an international match. An over got completed. No ad. I am watching the cricketers. Now a close-up of the pitch. The scorecard. I saw the bowler take the ball. He has not yet started his run up. In 2022. Unbelievable.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

I liked Rohit Sharma’s body language today.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

This is my personal favourite.

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1 year

@ovshake42 Is it Abibas or abidas or adibas. I guess, it could be anything.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Abrar is compressed de Villiers. AB.rar

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Not sure who clicked this, but one of the greatest cricket photographs I have seen.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

4 years

You deserve an apology from perhaps the entire nation.

Rahul Gandhi

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4 years

The Corona Virus is an extremely serious threat to our people and our economy. My sense is the government is not taking this threat seriously. Timely action is critical. #coronavirus

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 months

Travis Head 61*(18) and he is the slower of the two openers. What sort of cricket is this?

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

A person born in January 2005 can vote or drive today. In their lifetime, they have never seen Australia win a Test series in India.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Siraj 13 wickets @ 29.53 in AUS 18 wickets @ 31.11 in ENG 6 wickets @ 16.67 in IND His only failure 3 wickets @ 51 in SA So far, 40 wickets @ 29.92, better than most fast bowlers in Indian history. The criticism he is facing is *partly* due to IPL 2022, a different format.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

None of the 22 cricketers who played today knows when they will next play Test cricket.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

1 year

Never expected an IPL match to end in Avesh Khan throwing his helmet on the ground.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Random rant. IPL should recruit former T20 greats as commentators. Not Test or ODI greats but T20 greats. We saw how refreshing Watson was in the World Cup. Unless that happens, we shall keep hearing “smart batting” when a six is followed by a single.

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Abhishek Mukherjee

@ovshake42

2 years

Lord drops Stokes. Lord has Stokes dropped off him. Lord gets Stokes. Basically he likes playing with his food before a meal.

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