Lahar Appaiah

Corporate lawyer, Chevening Fellow. Likes Cricket, Crosswords, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Personal Account, all views my own.

[Lahar Appaiah @cricketsnob]

@ovshake42 puts together a memorable Christmas XI for the cricket field

[Abhishek Mukherjee @ovshake42]

Christmas XI:

Jacques Rudolph
Russell Cake
Ian Bell (c)
Phil Mead
Noel McGregor
Carol Oyler
Joyce Christ
Holly Calvin
Claus Morild
Mary Waldron (wk)
Blessing Muzarabani
Gift Mkhondwane (12th)

John Snow, Betty Snowball may play in the Northern Hemisphere depending on the weather

[Lahar Appaiah @cricketsnob]

@himganj153 The alternative team:
Gavaskar
Nayudu
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Pant- or Kirmani on another day
Mankad
Kapil
Kumble
Srinath
Nissar

Yes, Nayudu may turn out to be an Afridi, and Mankad may be a FTB. But we owe huge debts to these guys, we should never forget their contributions

[Lahar Appaiah @cricketsnob]

@himganj153 So, one middle order batter left. Your options are Sehwag, Merchant, Hazare, GRV, Kohli, Laxman.

Laxman for me, but it's a Laxman - Hazare-GRV fight. Kohli gets eliminated early on here. 5/

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@banglani Great team - maybe Azhar instead of Rahul? Azhar was magnificent in the 90s.

Srinath was another rock for India in so many ODIs, but there's a case for both Shami and Bumrah over him.

On a side note, another favourite of mine was Sidhu. If only...

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@Shrabonti @pglonghouse Poor Evelyn Waugh got it wrong, that idyllic world may soon stale 😢

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@isawsukul @cortisoul_ Actual golf courses.

Three army golf courses (MEG, ASC, Training Command), and two non army ones - BGC and KGA.

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@isawsukul @cortisoul_ Bangalore has 5 golf courses between Hebbal Flyover and the old airport!

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@GurpriyaSidhu My favourite "Wistful, Yet Upbeat Rock Song" is Your Wildest Dreams by The Moody Blues. The music video is a lovely watch as well, and suffused with What Might Have Beens

https://t.co/OtprSh0mni

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India's bad cover version of Kolkata 2001:

- Dismiss Australia for 445
- Collapse in first innings. Follow on?

Marx was right. History repeats itself- the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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@banglani Just stumbled across this. What an amazing article! It was poignant, beautiful, and so familiar at times, the way it blended cricket and Life Events.

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@Prasang_ This is a different catch. Today's stunner is here:

https://t.co/8AyC3Xponb

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@boraxx @nandiniv @Shrabonti hardly defectors :) more like "another book club? Bring it on"

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@udupendra Bond is, hands down, the finest fast bowler I've ever watched. I only caught the tail end of Malcolm Marshall's and Richard Hadlee's careers, but would have loved to watch more of them.

[Shrabonti Bagchi @Shrabonti]

The Greek embassy @GreeceinIndia has now rejected mine and my family's Schengen visa TWICE. For no discernible reason, and after providing every document possible, they sent rejection letters with TWO DIFFERENT flimsy reasons each time. This is unacceptable.

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@elitecynic @BishOnTheRockx Wow, I thought I was one of the very few people who had this as the greatest ODI game they had ever seen ❤️❤️❤️ I still get goosebumps reliving this in my head