Virat Bhuptani

Passion for Cricket, Current Affairs, Travel and Random facts. Also, memes!

[TheRandomCricketPhotosGuy @RandomCricketP1]

There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.

Take a bow, Sanju Samson!

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

This morning there was an article, quite naturally, in the media that the Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi was unhappy with the team's performance and conveyed his displeasure to the team manager.
And that one item explains the single largest reason, beyond the talent, beyond the money and the economics why Indian cricket today is far ahead of Pakistan cricket, and all other Indian sport.
For the truth is that in the 21st century at least, whatever happened in the BCCI board rooms did not impact how cricket was run on the ground.
I was in ESPN Star Sports when the BCCI was fighting a huge internal battle about broadcast rights, saw Sharad Pawar overthrow Dalmiya and his team, saw Lalit Modi and his vision for cricket.
Through that period, the age groups game went on, the Ranji trophy was played regularly. If anything, some of the Challenger and other formats were tweaked for better results. And the IPL was born
While at KKR, saw the IPL move to South Africa in a titanic battle between the BCCI and the home ministry. The change of IPL Commissioner, the fixing scam of 2013, the Mudgal committeee, the BCCI being run by an interim President from 2017, the return of the elected body.
Through all that India kept playing top level cricket, won two World Cups, dominated the Champions trophy, the test team won in Australia and the IPL just went from strength to strength.
There have been seismic changes in the BCCI, but the game on the ground remained unchanged, the show went on, and not one of the administrators allowed that to slip. Or allowed a President, be it Dalmiya or Pawar to dictate player selection for a tour, or saw a board member ordering the coach or captain to change a player.
The BCCI endured finally because of its fundamentally strong structure which allowed the game to be insulated from the politics of running a game.
And so while stars might come and stars might go, and administrators might come and go, Indian cricket goes on growing.
Other Indian sports have done well when driven by either a star perfomer or two or a charismatic administrator, but always stumbled when they left or retired
No other Indian sport has this powerful separation between the actual game and its administrators, and nor certainly does Pakistan cricket.
And that perhaps is the real story.

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

“We can't get you out, shame on you for batting”

This is hilarious 😁

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

“For 60 overs they should feel hell out there.”

~ Virat Kohli

This Is Cinema.

#OnThisDay in 2021, India dimissed England in just 51.5 overs on the fifth day of the match.

[POTT⁷⁶⁵ @KlolZone]

The CHEETAH run out by Kohli
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[Virat Bhuptani @imvirat]

@ankit_sorathiya https://t.co/Im6ZNvkIuc

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

In 2011, a Nielsen survey report stated ‘Parle-G’ was one of the bestselling biscuit brands in the world surpassing wildly popular international brands like ‘Oreo’. So how did the cheapest teatime snack become the no. 1 choice around the world? A thread. 1/23

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

About 70 years ago, the whims of India’s first Minister of Information & Broadcasting paved the way for the creation of an iconic radio program for the Indian audience. As we bid adieu to Ameen Sayani, let's take a nostalgic look back at his legendary Binaca Geetmala. 1/17

[TheRandomCricketPhotosGuy @RandomCricketP1]

THREAD

Now that the dust has settled on the 2023 IPL Auction, let's cast our eyes over the first of these auctions that took place in 2008. Why? Because we remember a lot of drama from that auction but there was a lot going on behind that drama . That's what the thread is about.

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

good evening @TheBarmyArmy 🦆🦢

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Watching Gill bat today made me a bit pensive. So lucky to have seen the tail end of the Gavaskar and Kapil Dev era, blessed to call the magnificence of Tendulkar and Dravid and Kumble, put words to the extraordinary skills of Virat Kohli and Ashwin and now seeing another flower bloom with Shubman Gill. Life has been kind.

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

About 70 years ago, the whims of India’s first Minister of Information & Broadcasting led to the birth of the most iconic radio programme for Indian listeners. A thread (1/17)

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why?

Because of the biggest accident in history

Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?

[Narendra Bhuptani @ndbhuptani]

https://t.co/Z905tnFdRb whenever we make advance payment online, the delivery of Cylinder is uncertain. Invoice generated before 5 days but the Cylinder is not delivered Consumer No. 7223088441, Service provider Sahyog Gas Agency, City Vadodara Area Bhayli

[KSR @KShriniwasRao]

#Thread
Rahul Dravid will address his first press conference as India coach on Wednesday from Jaipur, venue for first T20 vs New Zealand. Down south, VVS Laxman is getting ready to take charge as National Cricket Academy (NCA) director. Beginning of a fresh, new journey! (1/25)

[Fleur Brown 🌻🌻🌻 @fleurbrown]

At 40, Franz Kafka who never married and had no children, walked through a Berlin park when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day THREAD 1/5

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

Never seen this side of Rahul bhai 🤯🤣

[Cricket’s great moments @PitchedInLine]

What have I just seen? 🤯🤯🤯

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Two teens from Delhi get picked to play Ranji together. When one got picked for tests, the other had to wake him up to give him the news.
15 years later, the tall one is playing his 100th test under India's most successful test captain, the friend who woke him up
Ishant & Virat

[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

#IndiaTogether
#IndiaAgainstPropaganda

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