There’s a line from Roy Keane autobiography in 2002, where he talks about the mentality of the United team in the first 15 minutes of games. I’m paraphrasing, but it was along the lines of “we know we have more quality than any other team, the only thing the opposition could ever be better at than us is intensity and fight. So for the first 15 minutes we always go out high intensity, starting from the tunnel. We let them know within 15 minutes that they won’t even beat us at duels and battles, then when we’ve killed their spirit, we start playing football”.
That was a treble winning captain talking about running and dueling first, before anything. No great team is 20th in running.
A disgrace.
Has there been a weaker @ManUtd in your living memory? This is just pathetic. I am not even angry, I don't have any hope either. I am just sad at the pathetic state of this club. It seems, it's beyond repair. #FULMUN
Nice run of form in T20 international cricket in the last 3 months for Shafali Verma. A first white ball international century being a T20i century is due reward. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Many congratulations sir Abhishek on the fastest 100 in T20 cricket! 💯
I had no doubt that with your talent and hard work, you would achieve this one day. This is just a start of many records to be broken 🔥
Once a great man said, “When people throw stones at you, turn them into milestones. Let the bat do the talking”, and that’s exactly what you’re doing. 👏 👏
Proud of you! Stay humble and keep following the process 👊
@OfficialAbhi04
people treat Yuvraj's 12-ball fifty like nostalgia, a nice memory from back when T20 was new and nobody knew what they were doing. But T20 grew up and it still hasn't touched it. In January this year, Abhishek Sharma, probably the most destructive opener India has right now, got to fifty in 14 balls against New Zealand. Shivam Dube did it in 15 in the same series. And Yuvraj, his own mentor, went online and teased him: "Still can't get a 50 off 12 balls, can you?" Think about that. The modern guys aren't beating the record….They keep getting close and falling short.
Secondly, and this is the part I love, look at how he did it. No scoops, no switch-hits, no ramps. Six sixes off Stuart Broad in one over, and every single one was a proper cricket shot, over midwicket, square leg, extra cover, point, square leg and long-on.
People call it a classic moment. I call it a record modern cricket should have broken years ago, and still can't.
the build-up to this was crazy, imagine getting clobbered for 5 sixes in an over, getting provoked by Flintoff and avenging it with 6 sixes in an over against the same team just 2 weeks later in a virtual quarter final of a t20wc, cricket doesn't produce this kinda drama anymore
Pessi would deadass say "There are many great players and whoever wins it deserves it, our focus is on Sevilla away", then go collect his Balon d'or in October, scratch his balls and report to training 9 AM sharp the following morning.
I miss him so much.
The cheetahs that landed in Kuno in 2022 still thought June was winter. Because in Namibia, it is. Shorter days. Cooler nights. A thicker coat growing in, exactly as their bodies had been doing for generations south of the Equator.
India does the opposite. June is heat and monsoon. Same months, inverted world.
So some of them grew a winter coat in the middle of an Indian summer. The fur held the rain. Ticks moved in. Collars rubbed wet skin. They scratched. Wounds opened. Maggots followed. Three adults didn’t make it.
Nobody had a textbook for this. Not the Namibian team. Nor the Indian scientists. The pineal gland only reads night length.
The ones who lived through a full year began to reset. The cubs born here never had the old clock at all. Thirty-two of them opened their eyes under northern daylight. Their coats, their breeding, their sense of when winter arrives - already Indian.
That is the quiet part of the 52. Not just numbers. A species that crossed the Equator, paid for the mismatch in skin and blood, and then handed a correctly timed body to its young.
Nature is stubborn. It is also faster than we give it credit for.
#ProjectCheetah #KunoNationalPark #CheetahsOfIndia #WildlifeIndia #Conservation