Akshay Ram

ask me and I will tell you

[BCCI @BCCI]

A maiden #TeamIndia call-up at the age of 1️⃣5️⃣ 🌟

Congratulations to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on setting a remarkable record 👏

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@himganj153 Keen to know why Narine 2024 misses out

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@himganj153 Nothing new for the league. MI through CKD and team have established analytics for ages.

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@LoyalSachinFan Bumrah
Ashwin
Kapil
Tendulkar
Jadeja

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@cricketingview This is Top 8 record for all T20s or just internationals?

[cricketingview @cricketingview]

Bumrah is the larger grey dot. And he's managed this in an era where T20 hitting has undergone a revolution...

[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.

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@melindafarrell Aus cricket culture is insular in the same way the US is about anything not American.

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@the_kk Tendulkar's 2 to 5 (for two-thirds) were also not as good as Kohli's peers in Top 5 - both for consistency and scoring rate.

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@Luck_7773 Pooran?

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@cricketingview Curious if you did an analysis on the Ind v SA series for control and false shots. Just not able to get my head around Harmer/Maharaj outbowling Jaddu/Kuldeep/Sundar. Toss advantage aside, how luckier did SA get with false shots not resulting in a dismissal?

[Jannik Sinner @janniksin]

Living in my dream ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you!!! 💜💚 @Wimbledon

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@RicFinlay That's 7711 overs and assuming 90 overs on all 5 days, that's around 17 Tests 😬

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@cricketwallah @sachin_rt T20s use just one ball per innings. Was his suggestion for ODIs?

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@ESPNcricinfo Padikkal?

[cricketingview @cricketingview]

Here's a comparison of Test cricket during the Waugh/Ponting years (1999-08) and the Smith/Cummins years (2016-25) with the bowling averages by bowling position.

This is what I mean by deeper bowling. Many more top attacks in 16-25 compared to 99-08.

[Akshay Ram @akshayplus]

@the_kk Even if it is, and assuming the pitch follows a similar pattern to Perth (i.e ease out by post lunch Day 2), I’m afraid our bowlers wouldn’t get to enjoy the spiciness of the pitch for long enough as they did in Perth.

[cricketingview @cricketingview]

Reddy will go through a rough patch at some point, and the same guys who are presently abusing Gill and praising Reddy, will abuse Reddy.

[Ashwin 🇮🇳 @ashwinravi99]

If some one told me 25 years ago that I would have a smart phone with me and the call log on the last day of my career as an Indian cricketer would look like this☺️☺️, I would have had a heart attack then only. Thanks @sachin_rt and @therealkapildev paaji🙏🙏 #blessed

[7Cricket @7Cricket]

We had a handful of Ravichandran Ashwin features ready for our broadcast over the next couple of Tests, but with his international retirement, we’ve decided to post them all right now to enjoy in this thread 🧵

@ashwinravi99 | @beastieboy07