Ashu

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Let this be written on my tombstone, if ever there is one.

[Shadowhunter @manisha72617183]

Grammar Haiku:

Every single time
I see the error I made
After I press "send"

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

In 2014 when Modi became PM, India's nominal GDP per capita was $1,573, while Bangladesh's nominal GDP per capita was approximately $1,118. That is, India's was 40% higher in 2014. Modi pushed India behind.

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

My shadow balling is still Warne.

[Ian Pont Official @Ponty100mph]

Every kid in the garden copied someone's run up and action.

Who was the bowler you tried to copy as a youngster?

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

A murder of crows

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A mischief of mice, a flamboyance of flamingos, a waddle of penguins (or a ‘raft’ if they are in water). What is your favourite collective noun? Feel free to suggest new ones!

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

What the hell are we preparing for?!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Roadster by launching it off a ramp before the car flipped in midair and safely landed on the ground.

The car is a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX.

One of the most insane things I've ever seen.

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Don and Ponting have to be there. The list in incomplete.

[CricDiva @CricDiva]

My ranking of the 10 greatest cricket captains of all time:

1. Mike Brearley
2. Clive Llyod
3. Richi Benaud
4. Imran Khan
5. MS Dhoni
6. Graeme Smith
7. Arjun Ranatunga
8. Hansi Cronje
9. Steve Waugh
10. Douglas Jardin

What’s your opinion guys?

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

This is the kind of stuff I use twitter for

[Saurabh Somani @saurabh_42]

It's the 145th birth anniversary of PG Wodehouse.

In one of the many absurd bits of trivia that make up my professional and personal life, I realised that Sachin Tendulkar doesn't have a single innings of 145 in international cricket. He doesn't even have an innings where he's faced 145 balls.

He has one knock where he has batted for 145 minutes: That was 98 off 75 balls vs Pakistan in Centurion, World Cup 2003. One of his most iconic innings of all time.

If he had to have just one association with 145, that's not a bad one, eh?

To all those whose lives Wodehouse has affected, he's always called The Master.

I needed to find a cricketing connect between his 145th birthday and the other master who shaped part of my childhood. It gives me unreasonable joy to find one that ties so specifically - within this absurdity of finding a connect at all - to such an indelible cricketing memory.

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Wrong scorecard? Sachin scored 143 that day. Mongia ji was one down.

[Sagar_H 🏏 @SagarH62]

🚨 Desert Storm Quiz! 🚨

We all know Sachin Tendulkar went berserk against Australia in Sharjah.

After losing Ganguly wicket early, Sachin & him, stitch a crucial partnership of 71 runs.

who walked out at 1 Down (No.3) for Team India that night?

Can you guess the name? 👀

[nonchalant @nonchalant_exe]

This is why you should be able to squat 150kg at least because what if a baby elephant wants to ride your back and you don't have enough strength to pick it up. Couldn't be me.

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

No sentiments hurt?

[हरिशंकर परसाई @harish_parsai]

राम चंद्र कह गए सिया से, ऐसा कलियुग आएगा।
तीन लोक के स्वामी को, मोदी प्लॉट दिलाएगा।।

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Also, Gilly ahead of Sanga in tests?

[Cric mate @Cricknight07]

Greatest Test X1 of 21st Century :

1)Mathew Hayden
2)Greame Smith (C)
3)Joe Root
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Jacques Kallis
6)Adam Gilchrist (wk)
7)Andrew Flintoff
8)Shane Warne
9)Mitchell Starc
10)Tanveer Ahmad
11)Jasprit Bumrah

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Joe Root ahead of Dravid? Arguably the best one-down since Don?

[Cric mate @Cricknight07]

Greatest Test X1 of 21st Century :

1)Mathew Hayden
2)Greame Smith (C)
3)Joe Root
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Jacques Kallis
6)Adam Gilchrist (wk)
7)Andrew Flintoff
8)Shane Warne
9)Mitchell Starc
10)Tanveer Ahmad
11)Jasprit Bumrah

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Wow!

[Abhishek Mukherjee @ovshake42]

There have been giants who have responded the same way.

[Siddhant Mohan @Siddhantmt]

ध्यान रहे कि मुद्दा ये नहीं है कि कोई ज़्यां द्रेज़ को नहीं पहचानता.

हो सकता है कि कोई दत्तात्रेय होसबोले या भैयाजी जोशी को ना पहचाने.

आज जेपी होते तो शायद ये युवा उन्हें भी न पहचानते.

लेकिन मुद्दा ये है कि आपको पता न होने पर भी आपके अंदर ऐरोगेंस है. आपके अंदर फिर भी ख़ुद को सही दिखाने का घटिया साहस है.

वहां पर ख़ुद को करेक्ट करिए.

अपने अज्ञान को बेशर्म बनकर डिफेंड मत करिए.

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

The head of @ANI ‘s knowledge of Jean Dreze is limited to NAC. Why am I not surprised? Says everything there is to say about ANI.

[Smita Prakash @smitaprakash]

Why should a young reporter know who Jean Dreze is? If he/she doesn’t know & asks him, it is what a reporter is supposed to do. Ask. Just coz he was in NAC during UPA (years ago) doesn’t make him a recognisable face to young reporters. The know it all ‘seniors’ need to chill

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Someone should tell @elonmusk that riling them up is not the way to get this government to agree. You need electoral bonds.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink is licensed in over 165 countries and has spent five years complying with every single law and requirement of the government of India, so why still no license?

Is Ambani the real boss of India?

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Dravid on 2nd, if this about just this century.

Root below Ponting and Sanga.

AB below Kohli.

Rest seems okay.

[CrickeTendulkar 🇮🇳🏏 @CrickeTendulkar]

JOS BUTLER STUART BROAD PICK TOP 10 BEST TEST BATTERS OF THIS CENTURY🚨

1 Sachin Tendulkar 1989
2 Brian Lara 1990
3 Steve Smith 2010
4 Joe Root 2012
5 Ricky Ponting 1995
6 Kumar Sangakkara 2000
7 Jacques Kallis 1995
8 AB de Villiers 2004
9 Rahul Dravid 1996
10 Virat Kohli 2011

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

This!

[Azra @AzraATweets]

An UNELECTED, nominated CEC is trying to silence ELECTED opposition leaders. That is probably the most absurd part of this whole situation.

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

Have you noticed how most guys - at least those who are over 25 or so - play the shadow defence first and any other shot comes later

[𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒉𝒚𝒂𝒂'�� @venus_twts]

Responsibilities over dreams!❤️

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

can you tell me why this wouldn’t work exactly?

[Ashu @AshutoshYash]

I have been meaning to read As Luck Would Have It. About time

[Amit T @amittallwalkar]

D.B. Deodhar, fondly called as the Grand old man of Indian cricket, was born in 1892. Tendulkar rose in the 1980s. Surely, no one could’ve shared a field with both?

Enter Madhav Apte, born on 5th October, 1932. Played just 7 Tests, but left a story longer than most 100 test careers.

In 1953, Apte toured the West Indies, scored 460 runs at an average of 51, and looked set for greatness. India said, “Thanks, but no thanks.” He was never picked again.

Why? Decades later, Apte spilled the beans. Selector Lala Amarnath allegedly asked his dad for shares in their family’s Kohinoor Mills. His dad said no. And in return, Amarnath said no for Junior Apte.

But Apte didn't need the Indian team to stay legendary. He played so many leagues. He played alongside Deodhar, Duleepsinhji, Mankad, Umrigar, Gavaskar, and faced a 14 year old Tendulkar when he was 55.

He played Mumbai’s rainy Kanga League till he was 71. Even while living in Malaysia, managing a sugar factory, he'd check the weather, fly in to play, and if it rained? Just packed his kit and flew back.

Madhav Apte was a cricket library. He played with Zaheer Khan as well as some Pre independence pacers. Apte passed away in 2019.

Birth Anniversary of Great, Madhav Apte (5th October).