You have to feel for Yashasvi Jaiswal. He can't play ODIs because a 39-year-old veteran wants to play the format. He isn't in T20 scheme of things because India are backing a 15-year-old. Opposite ends of spectrum.
Arguing with nostalgia merchants is just a waste of time.
One of my friends was saying Virat Kohli's achievements are nothing compared to Sachin Tendulkar's because Sachin batted in the toughest era, while Kohli played in the flat pitch era.
Today, I had a conversation with the same guy again today. I told him Mitchell Starc is the greatest left arm pacer, and he came up with his nostalgia agenda and said Wasim Akram is the greatest.
I reminded him that just two days ago, he was saying pitches are flat in this era. So if Starc can dominate in this era, doesn't that make him better than Wasim Akram, who bowled in the toughest era where conditions were favoured for bowlers?
Then he changed his argument and said batters today aren't technically strong, which is why Starc gets wickets so easily, while in Akram's era every batter was technically strong.
So I asked him, if batters today aren't technically strong and even mid bowlers can easily get them out even on flat pitches, then how did Virat Kohli manage to score most runs in this era?
Now he has blocked me.
Australian media company the @gradecricketer has written to Saltburn CC, offering to assist in funding legal representation for Brian Devine (the now infamous village cricket clicker who is being referred to as 'Clicky Ponting').
Believe TGC has also offered financial assistance to the club should the 'Click-gate' controversy result in sponsorship or commercial losses.
And that's not it... They've also contacted the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League, offering to fund umpire recruitment and development through a proposed "Penguin Fund" following the Saltburn CC controversy. 🏏
The spirit of the Commonwealth alive and well! 🏴🇦🇺
@7Cricket@1116sen@SEN_Cricket@7NewsMelbourne
the kind of pressure on next year's neet aspirants is gonna be so MASSIVE results need to justify their efforts, family's efforts and YOUTH OF INDIA's efforts 🙏🏻 i'd take a gap year
i don't get the rage against people who say they're not speaking up because they lack knowledge about these issues. i think what they're saying is fair. if they need more knowledge to agree that kids being beaten is fundamentally wrong, then maybe i don't want to hear from them.
Lord’s, August 1973. A 37 year old Garry Sobers was playing his last series in England. He was batting on 31 not out at the end of the first day’s play and decided to go out with Clive Lloyd.
After meeting friends they went to a nightclub and drank and danced till five. Sobers then decided it was no point going to sleep and went out for a few more drinks and then showered just before going in to bat. He took a break when batting to go to the toilet, had a couple more drinks in there and then went back in to smash an unbeaten 150.
RIP Sir Garfield Sobers, the man who could outdrink Botham and Boon and outplay every cricketer on the planet.
The Grade Cricketer saying if only Bancroft had written a note on the piece of paper in his pocket like Abhi and Urvil we wouldn't be here had me rolling on the floor.
imagine you're out on the road and suddenly you really need to shit. you struggle to find a rickshaw, beat through the slow traffic, reach your apartment, pay the rickshaw, wait for the lift, stop on 2 floors before yours and right when you're at the door, you poop your pants.