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aka The Analyst. … Virtual club: World Cup documentary: The Greatest Game

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4 years
I don’t think anyone has had the skill audacity to do that to Jimmy Anderson (in a Test) before #INDvENG #astonishing
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Pakistan are the greatest asset world cricket has. Their cricketers are utterly compelling. #ICCT20WorldCup
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Equal best shot of 2022 by the amazing ⁦ @imVkohli ⁩ Podcast looking back at an incredible year: #india #england #pakistan
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Astonishing game. This was the incredible shot by @imVkohli that shifted the momentum. #genius #ICCT20WorldCup
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Ridiculous
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Classic two-card trick from @ashwinravi99 - you can see why he’s second fastest to 450 Test wickets # #INDvsAUS
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How do you play that?!
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Brilliant @ashwinravi99 deception and control #INDvsAUS
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What a cricketer @imjadeja is. Don’t try this at home…or anywhere #INDvsENG
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Outstanding bowling by @ashwinravi99 with a classic carom ball perfected on the streets of Chennai #INDvENG
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2 years
If you can bowl googlies like this from round the wicket you hardly need a leg break #PAKvENG
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1 year
Not bad for a 41 year old who hasn’t picked up a bat since last May. #dhoni #ipl2023
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2 years
This kind of shot is totally demoralising to any bowler. Had the desired effect. @msdhoni #devastating
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6 months
This graphic demonstrates how hard it is to beat india in their own conditions. #INDvENG
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10 months
The Ahmedabad groundsman said all along that the final would be played on a used pitch. It was clearly part of the ‘plan.’ It has backfired spectacularly #CWC23Final
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2 years
Surely the shot of 2022. Expect more of the same from the brilliant Harry Brook in 2023. Review of a remarkable year:
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India should be docked WTC points for this pitch. It’s a sandpit. Makes batting a lottery . #INDvsENG
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The Spirit of Cricket: father and daughter batting together and the sun shining #cricket #greatestgame
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Ashwin’s variations with subtle manipulations of the seam giving him a 35th five wicket haul #INDvENG
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The audacity and incredible bat swing of the amazing @msdhoni He IS the IPL. #IPL23
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3 years
England unbeaten in 2022 😀 #ashes
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4 years
He hits you for a six, he babysits your kids... @RishabhPant17 #AUSvIND
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7 months
That is a ridiculously good shot #indveng
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Superb exhibition of reverse swing bowling by @Jaspritbumrah93 to snare @root66 for the eighth time #INDvENG
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4 years
Stunning take by Ben Foakes. Unsighted. Class. should have had a stumping too... #INDvsENG
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2 years
Completely deficient of any actual skill in taking a wicket
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I get that it's legal. I get that it's part of the rules. But a tiny piece of my heart breaks seeing this happen at U19s level. I guess this is where the game is going...
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They spend $110m on a magnificent new stadium and about 50 cents on pitch preparation. This surface is crap (for both sides.) batting is a total lottery #INDvsENG_2021
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Putting faith in young Unknowns is @rajasthanroyals hallmark - join the conversation #IPL2020
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2 years
Suryakumar Yadav is some player. He and @imVkohli are stars of the tournament so far. @bcci are surely favourites for the trophy. #ICCT20WorldCup
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This was brilliant from @benstokes38 and Ben Foakes and unbelievably dozy from Bracewell. #NZvENG
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To all @BCCI cricket fans - yes the Gabba pitch was an unfair contest between bat and ball - look at the dints in the surface created by it being too green and damp at the start - but it DIDN'T especially favour one side. #AUSvSA
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New career for @jimmy9 ? Make sure you bat right handed as well! #INDvENG
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Re Joe Root lbw at least 50% of the ball must be pitching on the line of leg stump. There’s no umpires call as it’s an actual ‘fact.’ Marginal but if the computer says yes then it’s yes. #indveng
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So much easier to get lbws from @imjadeja position on the crease #INDvsAUS
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IMO HawkEye got the Crawley lbw spot on. Kuldeep releases from close to the stumps, ball pitched on leg, hit Crawley in front of leg stump and he was right back on his stumps. OUT! #indveng
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3 years
A golden duck can happen to anybody but you’ve got to wonder about the front foot position here. #ashes
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Sorry Australia. England were pathetic there. Apologies for not making it even half a contest #Ashes
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One of the unexpected drawbacks of a 100,000 cricket stadium is you can’t hear each other call. #IPL2023
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1 year
The most expensive purchase in IPL history bowls the first ball of the innings…no respect is there! #IPL2023
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Top catch by Ben Foakes. That’s why he should always play in the sub continent #INDvENG
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Btw - this is the spirit of cricket... #ashes
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Could this be a match-turning catch by @stevesmith49 to dismiss @cheteshwar1 for a determined 59 #INDvAUS #classic
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Merry Christmas from Starfield Road where cricket is truly for all 🎄🎄😜
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A fast bowler’s double whammy. Happily no injury to either batter
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So what did the pinky signal mean?
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219 balls and five hours of Hard Yakka and a record-breaking 10th Test hundred against India for the brilliant @root66 #INDvENG
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Joe Root defeated by pure Jadeja wizardry and natural variation. Two identical balls, one turns, one doesn’t. Gone. #INDvENGTest
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The Joe Root lbw explained with HawkEye founder Paul Hawkins. Listen to the full interview on our latest podcast
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2 years
Anyone who thinks that @root66 will not be in England’s World Cup team needs their head examined. His average is almost 10 ahead of anyone else. #pureclass
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Another reason why @Jaspritbumrah93 is so difficult to face is because he releases the ball so much nearer to the batter than most fast bowlers (32cm closer to the batter than say Rabada.) #notime #INDvENG
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A score of 353 is looking pretty good on this ropey surface
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He’s still got it - 16 to win off 4 balls - @msdhoni #IPL2022
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Two of Englands finest men see them home 👏👏👏 #Ashes2023
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Third umpire is having a shocker today #indveng
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Masterly two card trick from @ashwinravi99 for @rajasthanroyals b @ChennaiIPL The big turner followed by the slider. Brilliant deception. #IPL2023
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4 years
If that’s a shot then I’m a rockstar #INDvEND
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Not the Dilscoop, the Duckscoop #INDvENGTest
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Wow - what a delivery to produce to take a 5-fer in your first Test when you’re first ball in the match was snacked for six. #INDvENG
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4 years
Save of the century
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3 years
Tallest commentary team in history? Not a bad attack either #btsoort #wivsl
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3 years
Cricket the great unifier. Love that. But india came second tonight. #ICCT20WorldCup2021
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What fantastic positions Yashasvi Jaiswal gets himself into to strike the ball over the ropes. 25 sixes in the series now. #indveng
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Devastated to hear of the passing away of Thorpey. What a wonderful player, and a brilliant coach and fantastic guy, who concealed his fragility bravely. A tragic loss to the game and the country. RIP GPT
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From a random listener - "just bought my first Hundred tickets on my 8 year old daughter’s request after she got completely taken in by the drama of the ashes! She asked if we could have a mummy/daughter date 🏏 Sport is really capturing the attention of young girls" #Cricket
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Mayank Yadav is hot!!
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Well bowled Shoaib Bashir. Absolute travesty that he was forced to leave Somerset (albeit temporarily) to get some cricket
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So miss the theatre and mastery of Shane Warne in key moments #ashes
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A great moment for a wonderful player and fine man @ImRo45 #ICCMensT20WorldCup2024
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Have to say @BCCI should do something about the Sharjah stadium. It’s a disgrace, uncomfortable, stifling, tiny scoreboard and big screen, and suffocating diesel fumes! Not fit for 21st century sport #IPLinUAE
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I have looked at the footage and I really don't think Smith was trying to cheat. He is - truly - an honest bloke. I have never heard of anyone trying to scrub out someone else's guard, he was more subconsciously remarking his own as he does every new session.
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Another stunning innings by @ybj_19 (ret hurt 104*) but as his coach said on our podcast, his biggest issue going forward might be fitness as he suffered quite significant malnutrition growing up #INDvENG
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Cricket elitist? Not in the experience of @MAWood33 Here's a little slice of his upbringing in Ashington with his best mate and lifetime coach. Watch the @GreatestGame19 on @SkyUK documentaries. #Cricket #ashes
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Ball of the decade?! Test match review podcast #indvseng
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View from an impartial. Why play on a used pitch for the World Cup final?! (There’s a lovely new one a strip to the left..) #ICCWorldCup2023
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Another excellent opening partnership by Crawley and Duckett now the longest running opening pair since Strauss and Cook. Who would have guessed it…
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You see it’s not only @stevesmith49 who shadow bats at the crease when he’s in the field! #AUSvsIND
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New York - India v Pakistan Epic
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Oh dear - England don’t even make the World Cup league table in this version
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Clever tactics from Stokes encouraging Sarfaraz to push into the gap on the offside creating the edged drive #INDvENG
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Universe Jos: the toast of all Rajasthan. Highest run chase in the history of @ipl @rajasthanroyals
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That England batting performance was a disgrace #ICCCricketWorldCup
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It’s a beautiful game isn’t it...
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Similar two card trick on Ben Stokes by Kuldeep. The left armers leg break followed by the classic back of the hand googly. #INDvENG
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Rubbish pitch for such a big World Cup game. Hope India lose. And that’s a Pom supporting Australia! #icccwc2023
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Wow what a day for Englands youngest ever test cricketer - Rehan Ahmed. Remember the name… #pakveng
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One of the best things of all is that over 100,000 people attended that Test match. What a treat they were given #INDvsENG
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Re the Bairstow dismissal, he was out, but the Aussies could have withdrawn their appeal. Should they have done? Difficult after the controversy of last nights catch, but probably. #Ashes
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Is there anything @benstokes38 can’t do? #INDvENG
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Yadav c Roy b Rashid 32 Never has a scorecard entry concealed so much #indveng
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Quiet day on the beat in west London
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New IPL based in Lucknow goes for more than $900m - 9x more than the mumbai Indians were bought for. #bcci #ipl #loaded
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I owe a huge debt to Parky. He was a massive reason why this book was a success. Heartfelt thanks to a great man who will be hugely missed
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Its a shame the other England batsmen can't bat with the same intelligence as Stokes.
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No scoops no sweeps from @root66 today (so far!) #INDvENG
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Epic finish to an epic series and it puts India top of the World Test Championship. NZ 2nd, Australia 3rd. Long live Test cricket #AUSvIND
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6 6 6 6 @JofraArcher remember the name
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