Two decades have passed since Hansie Cronje's demise, but there isn't a day that passes without his mention at the Parsons household.
Hester opens up about coping with grief, and healing over time, her brother's legacy & more
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If anything, the reaction of Dhoni here after that nerve wrecking match, where Faf Du Plessis and Shardul Thakur took them to the finals, define the way he looked at results in a cricket match.
When CSK won the IPL 2023, the crowd stood till MS Dhoni finished his speech around 2.15 AM. Here, they have abandoned the team at 10 PM.
When you feel the heartbreak as a fan, you have to think about how much more it'd hurt if you were a player. Empathy is not that hard.
As Murali Vijay calls it a day, would be a good time to recognise that he was easily one of the best Test openers India had in the last 15 years. The phase between 2013-2015, no Indian opener thrived in tough conditions as he did.
- Jhulan was at the toss
- There was a team huddle with a speech
- She was presented with a momento.
But people in India do not know/cannot see any of it.
#ENGvIND
#JhulanGoswami
presented with a signed shirt from the England team to commemorate her retirement and her extraordinary career by ECB Interim Chief Executive Clare Connor and Head Coach Lisa Keightley.
#ENGvIND
📸 -Christopher Lee (ECB)
Kohli didn't go for it until the contest was actually sealed. It didn't seem like he would get there until Trent Boult's over. After that six and a four, if anyone is in a position to equal Tendulkar's record of 50 tons and said it didn't matter, they would be blatantly lying.
Among the six teams that are playing in
#CWC22
warm-ups today, only one teams social media handle has nothing to say about it in the last 6-7 hours. No prizes for guessing who that is. Just incredibly annoying, it's becoming.
No one, no one, has made debut at the age that Ashwin did (25) and has taken as many wickets as he has. Among spinners, only Graeme Swann (29) made debut at an older age than Ashwin and went past 250 Test wickets. Take a bow, man!
Dinesh Karthik: It's high time Indian women get something going for them in India. They have raised the bar so high, ODI and T20 World Cup finalists, you have to give them something!
#TheHundred
Lastly, nothing but respect for the England women. They treated
#JhulanGoswami
with every bit of adulation she deserves. So much that Ecclestone started calling her Jhulu di. They celebrated Jhulan like she belonged to the world and not just the country she played for.
#ENGvIND
The lyric Arivu wrote for Enjoy Enjaami, 'Naan anju maram valarthen, azhagana thottam vachen, thottam chezhichalum, en thondai nanaiyalaye,' pretty much sums up the way he's been treated since. Having nothing but love and respect for him. More power to you,
@TherukuralArivu
! ❤️
When Sneha Deepthi made her India debut in 2013 alongside Smriti Mandhana, she was the country's youngest T20I debutante.
Now, 16 months after having a baby, she dreams to become the first cricketer to make India comeback after pregnancy.
#CricketTwitter
Know that Jemimah is going through a patch, but to compare someone's on-field performance with what an athlete does on their personal social media handle tells a lot about the person than the athlete.
They may not have World Cups to show, but for what they've done and stood for in women's cricket not just in India, but across the globe, Jhulan Goswami and Mithali Raj deserve nothing but respect.
#CWC22
Buttler on Ireland's slow over rate: whether its gamesmanship or what you call it, but we lost well before that..
Balbirnie, a few minutes later: Nah, mate, my lads were just slow. It actually wasn't gamesmanship. If it was, I would have slowed it down even more🤣🤣
#T20WorldCup
Rishabh could have answered it differently, but don't think he was arrogant or impolite. And at some level, he also acknowledged his T20I record is not up to the mark. He got defensive yes, but he said what he thought and he did it while being respectful.
While the argument of handling pressure would go around Women's IPL, and rightly so to a large extent, there are so many other things that needs to be addressed such as selections, tactics, backing the right players, long-term planning and more. Let's talk about that, first.
🥁 Because, I just had to! 🥁
Spoke to DJ Zen and Prashanth - on how they work, pick songs to be played at Chepauk for
@ChennaiIPL
games and how the scene has changed in the last few years - and some of the fans who have been part of the experience over the years.
#IPL2023
Heartening to see sports pages on today's Newspapers filled with tributes for
@M_Raj03
! With her, there's always so much to tell and there's only so little you can fit in. I tried my best to make sense of a career that had an impact beyond the numbers
#Mithali
𓃵
#ThankYouMithali
Watched
#Gundu
yesterday. Yet another hard hitting reality portrayed from the banner of
@officialneelam
@beemji
. Barring the few instances where I felt songs dragged the pace in first half,
@AthiraiAthiyan
stands tall. Although it came late, it is a MUST WATCH of 2019.
Can't believe I'm gonna miss the opening match of the
#T20WorldCup2023
, but pretty chuffed to say that I am going to be there soon enough to bring you all the coverage from the World Cup for
@NewIndianXpress
. Wish me luck!✨✨✨
Say what you want,
@ashwinravi99
has been one of the male cricketers from the country to have consistently spoken about women's cricket and players on his platform, especially in the last couple of years! Good to see this ahead of the
#CWC22
Just thinking out loud here, if toxicity keeps coming for a male cricketer going home for the birth of a child, imagine what'd be the case for any top Indian female cricketer if they take a break to have a kid. And, there is no official parental policy in place for them either.
Might get lost in all the noise of a RCB win, but feel the need to say this.
9 wickets overall, 1/11 in four overs in final. Leading Indian pacer in WPL. Yet, Shikha has no place in the Indian side and the South Zone (one-dayers too) side for the inter zonal red ball event.
Its WPL final day, and here are the stats of Indian pacers this season. Will leave this here with no additional comments.
PS - Last year, Shikha Pandey led the list with ten wickets, Anjali Sarvani was second with three.
#WPL2024
Post-match press conferences after knockouts haven't always been a happy place for Harmanpreet Kaur.
For a change, here she is with a big smile as the winning captain of the inaugural
@wplt20
alongside the trophy.
#WPL2023
There is nothing wrong with Prithvi. We have to look at players who are already in system and doing well. We are in constant touch with him. He will get his chance very soon: Chetan Sharma on Prithvi Shaw's non-selection.
In less than 24 hrs India women will play Sri Lanka in the first T20I in Dambulla. Yet, there's no official information so far, despite the confirmation that it's being produced, on the broadcast/streaming details. So much for caring and promoting women's sport.
#SLvIND
#SLWvINDW
Mithali Raj has confirmed that the team will have a sports psychologist travelling with the team for the first time for the long tour of New Zealand including the upcoming ODI World Cup.
#NZvIND
#CWC22
Everytime a squad is announced, keep going back to the outrage that happened after Virat removed as ODI captain following a media interaction with Chetan Sharma. Wonder if it'll ever happen with the women's selectors. 23 months and haven't been asked a single question.
Something we all know, and Directors Ram and Vetrimaaran have often talked about it as well. The presence of
@beemji
in Tamil cinema and his success has certainly changed the political landscape in movies for good. His successful journey continues in
#SarpattaParambarai
as well✊
Can't wait for the next PC where the Indian captain and coach would have to say 'oh that BCCI and selectors can give you the answers'.
Note: The selection committee hasn't addressed the press not even once since they took over in two years. Not even for the World Cup.
Live ball by ball of ICC said South Africa won, then the score was updated, but now, per the scoresheet, it says INDIA WON BY 2 RUNS! WHY DO WE EVEN! 😭
Not the first time it has happened (across men and women), but genuinely wish overseas players and coaches understand what the Indian players disclose about the system is a private conversation and they should not be airing it in public like this.
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@RobertDowneyJr
We love you
@Iron_Man
😘!More than u wil ever know!This Love journey doesn't end ever❤️!Love 4 u penned after watching
#Endgame
!
@cinemapayyan
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#RDJ
😘 👇with spoilers!
Anyone who compares women's cricket team with men's or any other individual sport for that matter without taking into account the disproportionate lack of infrastructure and matches is just a hypocrite. Or even comparing the women's team with countries England, Australia.. 1/n
Kudos to Smriti Mandhana for the poised and measured answers through the press conference for almost 10 minutes where every question were about the heated moments, Harman, and umpiring while putting it out there the decisions could have been better.
Could not help but be proud of Shikha Pandey! The stand out Indian pacer of
@wplt20
and to come out and bat the way she did! What an absolute champion! ❤️
Seven wickets for
@imjadeja
with the ball on comeback!
In second innings:
First spell: 5 overs 1/17
Second spell: 12.1 overs (either side of Tea) 6/36
Saurashtra need 266 to win.
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Chris Lynn just dropped a bomb! Are they seriously gonna vaccinate players who are in a bio-bubble while millions are on roads for vaccine, oxygen and hospitals??? WTAF!
#IPL2021
Mayank Agarwal and Devdutt Padikkal get things under way for Karnataka as Amit Mishra starts with the ball for Railways at Guru Nanak College ground in Chennai.
#RanjiTrophy
Harmanpreet Kaur on boundary lengths for next season:
We are not the ones who laid the ropes no (laughter). Ask those who laid it no. It's not in our hands no.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
#WPL2023
Approximately 9,500 tickets have been sold for the final at Newlands with a capacity close to 18K. Some tickets in the upper tiers which were R200 have been made available at R30.
South Africa and Cape Town, this is your moment to turn up for the women!
#T20WorldCup2023
No telecast for Vijay Hazare. None for U19 Women's quadrangulars. And seems like none for Senior Women's T20 Challengers - all but three internationals are playing - as well.
Note: This is at a time when the broadcaster doesn't have any international series to show.💁
I generally do not get into this argument, but will just say that the 2016 England series was arguably the most sporting/even-matched surfaces India have had for a Test series in the past decade.
"It's not going to be a shock whatever they throw at me" 💪
Ben Duckett looks back on his 2016 Test performance against India, and what he learnings he'll take into England's upcoming series 🇮🇳
This has to be said time and again. Context might be different, yet, it still applies to the case of News18 Tamil. In a state like Tamil Nadu, it should have been better. All it took was a series of YouTube videos from a guy, who holds no credibility.
#ShameOnYouNews18
Sanju Samson so far: 356 runs so far at 156.14 SR. Among Indian batters who have scored more runs than him, only Jaiswal and SKY have a better SR and no WK have more runs than him.