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aspiring relaxed cricket hedonist | twitter's one man 🏅 committee | friend of @bnp_cricket | 1/2 of Heads and Tales on @audiomaticIN

Mumbai, India
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Joined March 2016
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Last Sunday, India reversed the 1 run misfortune of 1987 against Australia at Chennai in the ODI World Cup And @knittins and I found just the right excuse to go back to that absolutely epic match from 1987 Give us a listen, maybe?
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"Kya kiye?" "Koot diye."
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He may be bold but he bats in italics
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Pujara has made every kid's dream come true for himself ✔️ Batting for both teams ✔️ Bowling for none
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@StuartBroad8 @ICC Wait, what were *you* on about here, Stuart?
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Pant's down, de Kock is excited
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Caption this 😁 #SAvIND
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@StuartBroad8 @ICC There are folks more learned than you and me in much wider fields who'd tell you that one isn't wrong or "terrible" just because one is in the minority. Good luck.
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Virat Kohli captains the ten others in his team on the field and the thousands others in his team in the stands.
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Go well, Warnie. Spin out Bradman and Hughes as Rod Marsh keeps wicket to you up there. You will be missed.
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Craig: Rohit, what's your score? Rohit: Overton
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One year of this epic win :) h/t Vinoo Mankad, Deepti Sharma
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Rishabh Pant is playing cricket, tennis, badminton, lacrosse, and frisbee at the same time.
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Gavaskar only had to take 3.5 pheras during his wedding Because he converted ones into twos 🤟🏽
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@CricCrazyJohns RC Bees?
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Doing *this* at what they call *the home of cricket* is what makes it extra special. Congratulations, team. Cry me a river for all I care.
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If that yorker is not going into the Hall of Fame of yorkers, this is not a sport worth playing or watching. Jasprito Bumrah, we are not worthy.
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@StuartBroad8 @ICC A celebrappeal? Terrible way to get a wicket.
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Home of cricket, it may be. It's the balcony of Indian cricket. 🤟🏽
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Dawid Malan has upgraded to Dawid MaWifi.
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You the one she told you not to worry about
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This Kohli looks like a fine young bat; could be on that flight to Australia, I am telling you.
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To have Ravi Shastri in the stadium and not get him to do the presentation ceremony is not cool by Qatar
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Bairstow st Carey eh?
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Well done @StarSportsIndia on having 15392643 sports channels and not telecasting #VijayHazareTrophy on any of them 🤡
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Cam Green *breathes* Aus comms: He will be Imran + Kapil + Botham + Hadlee. You just watch. Oh how cute too.
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I had never seen this picture of Sachin Tendulkar. Now I have and it has all my heart. 1992 World Cup.
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The absence of Jasprit Bumrah will send us back to the 90s and that is the best compliment one can pay to him.
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The day has barely begun. But I am a winner alright.
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It's Mohd. Shami's world and we are living in Lala Land. :)
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Did you not know?
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Kane Williamson did this madly beautifully act in Dec 2019. It was a terrible loss. It's a wonderful win today. I hope some of those MCG folks are at Southampton today. Go thank them, Kane. For the Indian fans too. Congratulations, NZ.
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This match was organized just to Phil Salt in Pak's wounds.
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@Brad_Hogg Hey Brad, I corrected your tweet. You're welcome. :)
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3rd anniversary of a team dance in Sydney 🕺
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Each of the three stumps is in a different timezone.
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Bapu taking out the Inglis has been happening in India since 1947.
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Remembering Phil Hughes through Matthew Wade's glorious arms today :) #T20WorldCup
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Indian cricket Twitter wants experimentation and winning *at the same time* *in every match*. :D
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When in a far off country from England, a little child is careless while at the non striker's end in a random evening cricket match, her mother scolds her and says, "Stay in your crease or @PeterDellaPenna will make a thread about you."
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In between matches on the SL tour, Skipper Shikhar Dhawan will also prepare for his upcoming Engineering Drawing exam.
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All Kohli innings are events now, it's like getting a little glimpse of your childhood sweetheart as she visits the balcony for a brief while :)
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Australia's opening pair with the bat ❤️
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The state of Ramiz Raja at the end of this Test #PAKvAUS
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When I was a kid, Sri Lanka would be 70/3 chasing 263 in an ODI and my innocent little heart would hope and then Aravinda, Ranatunga would run a million singles and hit three (3) fours and take SL home with 4 overs to spare. Edgbaston 2022 is that feel again. #ENGvIND
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In a shit year for Indian cricket, Allrounder Ashwin's leave and lofted single in the T20 World Cup and boundary flurry at Mirpur have given us precious moments of joy The more you bury him, the more his roots spread What a man
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Ooooh aaaaah Je Mi Maaaaah (worst selfie in the history of worst selfies but my hands were literally shaking at the thought of being in the same frame as her)
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The match has moved forward but I am still stuck at the two Bumrah wickets - is this the calmest pacer the world has ever seen? Maybe a leap at times but otherwise there's such a sense of finality and obviousness to his wicket celebration "Of course I am here to do this, gents"
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I request Rahul Dravid to come out wearing a T shirt on which there is a message to the spectators at Chinnaswamy about match probability being very low. That way they will be able to see the writing on The Wall. 😎
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Osman on Bumrah is something else. Read it right away.
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As we speak, some Star Sports fellow is putting together an AV clip proclaiming the upcoming T20 series as revenge chance for World Cup loss
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In a world of cricket chaos, choose Jason Gillespie's deep goodness of heart.
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If you didn't see Kohli moving around the man at backward square leg a little here and there before the wicket, you didn't enjoy the wicket as much as I did. ❤
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Kohli, Pant, Siraj are a classic joint family scene. Shakespeare couldn't write a better tragicomedy.
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Screw the result, it was absolutely wonderful to see Ishant vs Virat for a little bit there with both winning some and losing a bit Won't be a lot of this in the future, sadly
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@ESPNcricinfo Remember the name but forget this shit take
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Deleting Cricinfo so that I can get cricket score updates the old fashioned way : from next day's newspaper opened last page first along with Chai and Parle G while sitting in the small balcony of my small home in small town India
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On the great man's birthday, I repeat: They didn't give him enough Tests during the 1990s, when he was just something else.
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The last few embers of a day which burnt bright and glorious and consumed me.
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Gideon Haigh ending a write up on Rahul Dravid in 2012, just after his retirement: "Dravid's greatest impact on cricket might lie ahead of him. And that would be a story worth telling." :D
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So refreshing to see KL acknowledge quite matter-of-factly that he was going for an individual landmark too when the win was certain Those who think individual landmarks shouldn't matter are delusional
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Naseem is the kind of bowler you could watch for a couple of hours in the nets without a batter against a single stump Bio mechanical poetry
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Shami isn't bowling today, he is composing live music in a concert.
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We sent a what? by mistake into Pakistan?!
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Yesterday, Ashwin asked Axar how he bowls the one that stays low. Today, Ashwin has taken a wicket with it. The man is nothing if not a fast learner. 🤓
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Goodness gracious me, what a picture by @dudleyplatypus ❤ Warner's Daughters
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Didn't see many tweets on the Axar run out decision by third ump Do folks think it was actually out? Riz took off bails without ball in contact with gloves, I thought
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Whenever India's pacers do well, a father's pride surges through the big heart of Virat Kohli and comes out in the form of the choicest cuss words delivered with a lot of fire and a whole lotta love
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Ashwin's shirt number is 99 because he has 99 problems but batting against spin in Bangladesh isn't one of them
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If your eyes don't well up on seeing this, I implore you to let sport into your life. It will break your heart on most days but on a few precious ones, you will be happy and you'll know it. #Hockey #Bronze
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PSA: If you know someone who is a cricket fan and would have watched cricket during the 90s and later, please give them a big hug. They need it. Now, more than ever.
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Justin Kemp vibes, anyone?
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40 years from now, I will be sitting in a rocking chair and shall narrate to kids from the neighborhood sitting on the floor around me the story of two Bumrah slower balls - Shaun Marsh and Ollie Robinson :)
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It's time.
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Can't we get Australia to trade the ODI World Cup to India in an all cash deal + undisclosed transfer fee?
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Sydney 2021 anniversary tweet of the day 🏅
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@SuPriyoBabul *Hanuma Vihari
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This crossing of legs to advance down the track to a slow bowler is a total thing of beauty Brook on the left, Trumper on the right
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Wasim Jaffer, thank you for being the hero you are. Someday I hope I am able to go back in time and cheer for you as you reach yet another century in FC cricket at Wankhede. I wish you didn't feel let down by those of us who pull you down using your religion. Please be well.
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How Marnus Labuschagne moved into Steve Smith's role after the latter was concussion subbed.
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Almost all criticism of Shaw is perfectly valid but if you can't put a kind word in there and hope for a good comeback from him, then I'm sorry but we aren't watching the same sport. #AUSvsIND
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Well played, Virat There will soon be a day when you are gone away from all this and we will know only then what you meant to us Thank you for today :)
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Same reaction for newborn babies of his friends too eh
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Siri, show me what heartbreak looked like on this day in the 90s. Siri:
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Not sure how or why but the first thought that came to my mind when Shami dropped that Williamson catch was how his existence itself will be questioned on social media if India were to end up losing. Thank God, for his sake too, that we won.
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Surya's Tinder Bio: High elbow six over cover off front foot in the streets, filthy sexy scooped six over backward square leg in the sheets #T20WorldCup
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Guess Bairstow walked too soon today without even nicking the ball 🤭
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@El_Chopernos @ICC I’d say 99% of players I’ve played with have nicked the ball & not walked. I’d say 1% of players I’ve played with would use the Mankad as a mode of dismissal. All The Best
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Kohli blowing air kisses at Shami and then hugging him as if they have been brothers in all universes and all lives Sigh, what even is this man!
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8 years since Adelaide 💔
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India's Net Run Rate is now more than England's points in this World Cup ❤️
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@Trendulkar Arnjali bhabhi 🙏
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I hate the impatient version of me when India bowl these days. 14/0 off 3ish overs means I cannot able to understand
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@InfoGujarat
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When Harshal prepares the dip, he removes Salt from the recipe. #ENGvsIND
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2003. Never forget.
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All our cricket fandom suffering has led to the positive karma called Jasprit Bumrah. No logical way to describe him. He doesn't celebrate his wickets much. They're inevitable.
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This four over extra cover off Shaheen will not go into the Hall of Fame but just look at the body shape and marvel! Bat face, hands on the handle, arms, eyes, big front toe, and the frankly obscene cross of the legs Good God.
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The kind of spell you will talk about 23 years from now when old friends with wonky knees, inhalers, thick af glasses meet up to reminisce Bumrah, you beauty you legend you blessing ❤️
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Shamar is literally limping with a duck walk while walking back to his mark and then steaming in like a sprinter to let the ball out with a loud grimace WI may not win this but what is this gem they have uncovered!
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When Virat talks about Sachin, it's all of us talking about Sachin. When Sachin talks about Virat, he talks about a close friend of ours. That's what makes Virat Virat.
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Likhe jo khat tujhe Wo teri yaad mein Hazaaron rang ke Nazaare ban gaye
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@El_Chopernos
El Chopernos
@El_Chopernos
2 years
Wrote many heartfelt words on yesterday's cricket match between India and Pakistan :) Please give it a read, will you?
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My friend, Virat's at it again!

The Melbourne 2022 Chapter

cricketwithpohejalebi.substack.com
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