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अहसास, रूह और आवाज से.....एक सुकून हूॅं

[KSR @KShriniwasRao]

#SouravGanguly

The 144 wasn’t just his personal best. It is one of the greatest Test knocks played by any visiting batter in Australia.

For India, Ganguly’s 144 at Gabba is a cornerstone in Test cricket. An innings that allowed India to finally grow in confidence that they could stand up to the Aussies in their backyard.

Tendulkar’s 114 was from an era that today’s generation perhaps won’t understand. Dravid’s 233 was grit, sweat and determination. Laxman’s 167 had magic. Virat’s 123 had swagger. Rahane’s 112 was a fightback. Pant’s 89 sweet & historic.

But Ganguly’s 144 was a conquest. He showed India what was possible. Something we knew very little about.

Remember the morning in front of the television like it was yesterday. That helmet coming off and he jumping into the air in celebration when the century came off MacGill.

Cricket’s keyboard warriors wouldn’t know what Indian cricket was like in the days when Dada ruled. Today’s so-called Twitter influencers would’ve eaten from his hands and how.

Can’t think of another Indian cricketer — until Virat arrived — who had the stomach and the itch for a fight at the drop of a hat.

Can’t think of another name that polarised world cricket like Sourav did.

That Hall Of Fame is bloody well deserved.

[iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno]

Isn’t multiculturalism great?

[Himanshu  @oyehimanshu0]

I've already told grandma not to wrap food in newspaper.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I read that Pakistan has set out its demands for taking back their Rochdale rapist.

Here's the official Restore Britain response to the Pakistani Government.

You can piss right off.

We would end all Pakistani visas. No more Pakistani immigration into Britain. Scrap foreign aid, unquestionably. Tax remittances/dividends into Pakistan.

We would work with international allies to ensure that all Pakistani visas into those countries too are cancelled along with ruthless trade sanctions.

Our deportation NATO.

Britain will not be bullied or blackmailed by a rogue state that has supplied us with endless child rapists and paedophiles.

A Restore Britain Government would retaliate with the full force of the British state.

Watch how quickly the Pakistanis fold.

We would do it so hard and so brutally, it would never be needed again.

We will not allow Pakistan to bully Britain any longer.

[vishal dayama @VishalDayama]

bhaiyya paanch litre petrol neat no ice no soda

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

Indian fans under Shreyas captaincy

[Gagan🇮🇳 @1no_aalsi_]

FIFA when Argentina is about to lose 😭

[Prithvi @Prithvi10_]

How do u even concede 3 in a span of 12 minutes when u are leading 2-0 😂😂😂

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

And yet, if we warn about the impending danger of radical Islam, we are called "Islamophobic."

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

This is the type of shit I pay my phone bill for

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Most male lions never live to see their tenth birthday. The ones who win a pride usually keep it for two to four years. Then a younger, bigger group of males shows up and pushes them out. And a lion who loses his land rarely dies quietly. He starves, or the rivals who replaced him kill him, or hyenas run him down.

Scarface held his ground in Kenya's Maasai Mara for close to a decade. When he died in June 2021, it was of old age, at around 14, lying in the grass.

He didn't do it alone. For a male lion, survival comes down to numbers, and Scarface had three brothers: Morani, Sikio, and Hunter. People called them the Four Musketeers. In 2012 the four of them took over the Marsh Pride, the lions the BBC had made famous years before. Four males hunting and fighting together is close to unbeatable. It let them hold a wide stretch of land along the Mara River and hold off the younger males who kept trying to take it.

The scar came from that life. He tore up his right eye in a fight over territory, and it never fully healed. It split open more than once, and vets had to treat it so it wouldn't get infected. That torn-up face made him one of the most photographed lions on earth. Guides could pick him out from across the plain.

You've probably seen the stats that get posted with his photos: 400 hyenas killed, 130 rival lions beaten, never once defeated. None of it is on record. The people who tracked him for years say those numbers are made up. He was a hard fighter, but the giant kill counts are just a story.

By the end, the brotherhood was gone. Two of his brothers had died, and the group that kept them all safe had fallen apart. Scarface spent his last months mostly alone, thin, limping on old wounds, slowly losing the ground he'd held for years.

Then he walked. In his final days he covered more than 15 miles, heading back toward the corner of the Mara where he was born. Photographers watched three young males come near him at the end. They didn't attack. They let the old lion lie down. He died there, quiet and undisturbed, in the place he started.

A wild male lion dying peacefully of old age is one of the rarest ways to go in the wild. Almost none of them get it. Scarface did.

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

you don’t release a team photo like this unless you know you’re making a run 🇳🇴

[Helenuki 🎀 @iamhelenuki]

Luego nos dirán que nos demos duchas de 5 minutos y que no pongamos el ventilador porque contamina mucho.

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

Assam Forest Minister Jayanta Mallabaruah paid tribute to Joymala, one of Kaziranga National Park's most celebrated patrol elephants, following her death after more than three decades of service.

Born in 1960 and inducted into Kaziranga's conservation efforts in 1992, Joymala participated in anti-poaching patrols, wildlife monitoring, rescue operations and forest protection duties for 34 years.

The Minister recalled the iconic 2004 incident when a tiger leapt over Joymala during a patrol, a moment that became one of the most recognised images associated with Kaziranga.

Despite receiving veterinary treatment for nearly a year, Joymala died on Saturday at the park's Agoratoli Range and was accorded a ceremonial Guard of Honour during her last rites. Her legacy continues through her offspring, several of whom remain in service as patrol elephants in Kaziranga.

[` @worshipVK]

Wonder what these two are doing right now

Himanshu
- Applied to a few tech companies
- Got rejected by all of them
- Posted a story saying he doesn't know what to do next in life
- His family was surviving on his salary. They must be devastated right now

Sejal Pawar
- Started going to college regularly again
- Her college formed a "committee" that investigated nothing in her case
- Went to watch Argentina vs Jordan
- Got brand deals with Mamaearth
- Now Flipkart has approached her for a "what not to buy" ad

One is struggling just to survive while the other continues living the same lavish life. And people still say a man's life is easy

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

Batao. Koi sense hai is baat ka.

They canceled the event when they needed it most !!

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

"How come Americans write the month first?"
"That's how you say it, month first"
"What's the date today?"
"It's the fourth of July"

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

Your dad is not wrong. I even have written on it once.

Morocco shows up as MAR on scoreboards because FIFA's country codes do not always come from the English name.

A lot of them come from French, which is the working language FIFA has used since it was founded in Paris in 1904. Morocco in French is Le Maroc. First three letters: MAR.

And Morocco is not alone. This happens more than people realise.

Germany is GER, which tracks in English. But then you get to Ivory Coast, which shows up as CIV, from Côte d'Ivoire. Algeria is ALG from Algérie. Haiti is HAI from Haïti. Switzerland is SUI from Suisse. Spain is ESP from España. Iran appears as IRN.

The pattern runs across the entire scoreboards.Some countries are also coded based on whatever their language is.

FIFA built its codes in an era when French dominated international administration, and colonial history shaped which language a country's name was recorded in first.

That legacy is still sitting quietly on every scoreboard at this World Cup.

I hope you have learned something today.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.