Anand Bakshi

Tends to live in Nostalgia, Ardent Liverpool fan, Cricket is Love, Try to keep up with Most of the Sports around the Globe.. Views are Personal

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@racingblogger Yeah we've seen this before.. Remember 2006 WC Argentina vs Germany

[learie @astrogeanie]

Earth signs

Everything is about to shift in your favor. I’m seeing new keys, successful business moves, a place to call your own, and exciting trips ahead. The same people who tried to bring you down are about to watch you rise. Your blessings are speaking louder than any

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My dad's been a huge Sir Garfield Sobers fan. Since morning, he's been taking us through stories of the great man, not just the records, but the moments that defined his character. Listening to him feels like opening a living cricket museum.

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The stories just keep coming: 6 sixes off Malcolm Nash for Notts vs Glamorgan, A marathon 22-over spell in the 1960–61 Tied Test (8-ball overs),Then the majestic 132 in same Match. The numbers are astonishing, but they barely scratch the surface. (2/5)

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He's been going on and on with these stories all day... Maybe Some legends are remembered through scorecards,others live on through stories passed down generations. In Sobers Case it was both for sure. RIP LEGEND (5/5)

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

My late father, obsessed with cricket, never saw Sobers bat, field or bowl (orthodox spin, chinaman or swing).

He merely heard a cantankerous uncle, the only one that owned a short wave radio in his village near Tirunelveli, narrate to him with the vivid eye of a poet how Sir Garry’s collar would be up and how his bat, from his backlit, would descend from the heavens as he smashed 95 at Chepauk in January 1967.

He would sometimes forget his own birthday, but never forget this second hand memory of a legendary sportsperson, reconstructed from a crackling radio broadcast, delivered to him via cranky uncle describing a cover drive he never saw himself.

Human memory is indeed reconstructive, rebuilding each scene from stored fragments rather than playing back a recording, so a story heard enough times gets rebuilt with the same neural intensity as an actual afternoon you have lived through.

Some human beings provide the raw material for second, third and fourth hand memories that play back in IMAX level detail and immersion, and Sir Garfield Sobers was one of them.

I heard this story, practically third hand, and yet, I can see him play in my mind’s eye. A child, across a generation, and before adulthood and society and schooling shackle one’s mind, concluded that a human being can be incredibly good at everything at once.

Go well, Sir Garry.

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Pickford you beauty

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@CricCrazyJohns Wo Niche gill k left side mai "Gogi" hai kya

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@Utdcen Di Maria

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@Trendulkar Same here, I was done with my XIth class exams & boy did I not watch every bit of this WC. It was truly a spectacle of stars.

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@hershybru Is that Boeta Dippenar

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@CRBrathwaite26 But Today's Match had All Majority of Referees from France, But Nobody would talk about that #FIFA #FIFAWORLDCUP2026 #ArgentinavsEgypt

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@FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup But Today's Match had All Majority of Referees from France, But Nobody would talk about that #FIFA #FIFAWORLDCUP2026 #ArgentinavsEgypt

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@cvarikos @beastieboy07 Portugal were HBK 😅

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@Footysm Messi or Ronaldo
Me : Steven Gerrard 🫳🏻🎤

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Never watch a Football Match with your Non Footballing mates. I repeat Never Ever, Especially If It's a World Cup Game. #FIFA #PortugalVsEspaña

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@TheFakeFakeer How did he miss Dravid & Kumble

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@xzx_slipknot Bhajji