Sriram

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[Sriram @l_sriram]

Worth the tweet in cricket . Appreciations to bowlers !!!! Doesn't come easy these days ....

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

Courtney Walsh took more Test wickets than any bowler in history and made more Test ducks than any batter in history. Seventeen years, 5,004 overs, 519 wickets, and not one of them came easily. Aged 38, in his final series, he took more wickets than anyone else on either side. What a career, what a story.

The career trajectory of Courtney is pretty interesting. Maybe many do not know, but he had a second peak that should never have happened. Most fast bowlers break down or lose their pace after thirty, and the 6ft 6in ones tend to go first, because there is more body to hold together. Walsh went the other way entirely. He bowled those 5,004.1 overs across 132 Test matches in a seventeen-year career, and on 19 March 2001 at Port of Spain, aged 38, he trapped Jacques Kallis lbw for nought and became the first bowler in the history of the sport to reach 500 Test wickets. Now the freakish part is that today's sports scientists cap fast bowlers with strict annual over limits precisely to prevent what should have happened to him. (He had a smooth, low-impact action and he simply never stopped.)

And that second peak made him a proper workhorse right to the end. In that final series against South Africa, at 38 years old, in a West Indies side that had been collapsing around him for years, Walsh took 25 wickets. More than any other bowler on either side.

Seventeen years, 5,004 overs, 519 wickets, and a home crowd on its feet at the end.

Respect, mon.

[Sriram @l_sriram]

this needs a repost!!

[🥤𝐌𝐞𝐱 @Afcmex_]

🚨Before the Kroenke family could invest heavily in Arsenal, this man sacrificed his entire career to help the club build a solid foundation during the most difficult days...

🔸️ When Emirates Stadium is about to be built, banks will only lend to Arsenal if Professor Arsene Wenger commits to a long-term future. He did not hesitate and nodded.

🔸️Every season that passed, the Professor watched helplessly as his best player leaved because the club couldn’t meet their salary or requirements to upgrade their squad.

🔸️It is not possible to replace the stars who have left with equivalent quality options in the transfer market. Instead, they must tighten their belts to continue paying off the stadium construction debt.

🔸️Yet, Professor Arsene Wenger still helped Arsenal participate in C1 consecutively for 20 years, along with helping the club regularly generate profits to continue the sustainable self-employment model.

🔸️At the present time, Arsenal can continuously break spending records in the technology market, bringing in a contract of 100 million without worrying about violating the law - a huge success comes from the model Professor has worked hard to maintain in the past. there.

🔸️Correct. The professor's legacy is not a team of quality players or countless titles, but a solid financial foundation so that his successors can take his place and light up Emirates Stadium...! ❤️

Your thoughts...

#ars #Arsenal

[Sriram @l_sriram]

Happy Onam guys !!!

[JΛYΣƧΉ  @baldwhiner]

Wishing all Mallu brethers yand seesters a very yappy yen festive Onam!

May the tribe continue to be progressive, cognizant and argumentative.
May you achieve 120% literacy.
May you remain enterprising, cultured and proudly laic.
May your vocabulary be richer than Tharoor’s and your accent thicker than Lolakutty’s.

May there always be appam & stew, fish curry & rice, beef fry & porotta on the table and enough banana chips deep-fried in coconut oil to make a cardiologist nervous.

May divisive thoughts be kept outside the state border.
May the forces of nature be gentle with the land and may Kerala remain green, eccentric, argumentative, educated and impossible to stereotype.

Jai Keralam. 🌴
Yappy Onam! 🌼

#Onam

[Sriram @l_sriram]

Give it !!!!

[The Random Guy @RandomTheGuy_]

Give that green parrot an Oscar right now... The dramatic delayed reaction was absolute perfection 😂🦜

[Cult Ballers @thecultballers]

Sir Alex Ferguson once said: "That lad must have been born offside."

Jaap Stam called him a diving cheat. Defenders kept insisting he was lucky. Critics said he only scored tap-ins.

He scored 313 career goals and lifted every major trophy in the game.

This is Pippo Inzaghi.

Born in Piacenza, the son of a football coach, the older brother of Simone who would go on to become one of Italy's most successful managers. He grew up idolising Paolo Rossi and Marco van Basten. Two players who were also always there when it mattered most.

He played for Piacenza, Leffe, Verona, Parma, before becoming Serie A top scorer in 1996-97 with 24 goals at Atalanta. Juventus came, he won his first Scudetto alongside Del Piero and Zidane, and scored 89 goals in four seasons in Turin.

Then came Milan in 2001 and everything opened up. He played 300 matches for the Rossoneri and scored 126 goals, Won two Serie A titles, a Coppa Italia, two UEFA Super Cups, a FIFA World Club Cup and two Champions Leagues.

The thing about Inzaghi that his critics never explained was the numbers. 313 career goals. 69 in European competitions, 10 hat-tricks in Serie A, still an all-time record.

His method was simple. He didn't dribble. He rarely shot from outside the box. He simply watched defenders, read where the ball was going before it arrived, and got there first.

The offside trap that caught him 330 times in Serie A also meant that every time he stayed onside, he had a yard on every defender in the box. He used to get furious with wingers in training if they didn't send crosses to exactly the right spot. He had mentally already mapped where he needed to be and needed the ball to meet him there.

He played a crucial role in Milan's 2002-03 Champions League win. Scored 10 goals. But his absolute masterpiece came four years later, in Athens. He scored both goals in the Champions League final against Liverpool.

In between he had also lifted the 2006 World Cup trophy in Berlin. He played only once, coming on as a substitute against Czech Republic. he played 30 minutes and scored. Of course he did.

Ancelotti said of him: "Inzaghi strikes his opponent at the most unexpected moment." What he meant was: the man had no remarkable attributes except being in the right place at the right time, every single time, for twenty-one years.

His younger brother Simone managed Lazio and Inter. Pippo managed Milan, Bologna, Venezia and several others. He was never able to replicate his playing genius in the dugout.

313 goals. Two Champions Leagues. A World Cup. An all-time Serie A hat-trick record.

Born offside, exactly 53 years ago today.

Happy birthday Super Pippo. 🇮🇹

[Sriram @l_sriram]

❤️

[The Footy Section @FTBLsection]

Carlo Ancelotti on Paolo Maldini:

"Every time we won, we'd embrace each other. Sometimes I went to him, sometimes he came to me. What made Paolo special was that he always said, 'Thank you.'

After every victory, he had two rituals. First, he'd take off the captain's armband and place it on top of his locker. Then he'd go around the dressing room, shaking everyone's hand and thanking them.

I'd never seen a player with charisma like his.

On the day of his final match in Florence, he hugged me goodbye. At that moment, I realised the soul of my Milan was leaving. That's what great men are made of.

Paolo was the leader of that team. If a player made a mistake or behaved badly, he didn't need to shout. One look was enough.

Even players from other teams respected him. I don't remember anyone ever saying a bad word to him.

There were champions like Seedorf, Nesta and Shevchenko, but when the captain gave them a look, they listened. If someone arrived late for training, they knew they had to explain themselves to Paolo before they even spoke to me.

One day I asked him, 'Paolo, how do you do it?'

He replied, 'I do it to show everyone who comes here that you should never let your guard down, even when you're nearly 40. I'm the captain, so I have to be the first to set the example.'

AC Milan won trophies because we had great players.

But above all, we had a soul.

That soul was called Paolo Maldini." ❤️🖤

[Sriram @l_sriram]

💪🏻

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A force of nature.

Guimaraes is a Gunner ✍️

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on the day he was fired from Citigroup after 15 years: "my boss called me in and said we want you to resign - to which I said, OK. I went home. the youngest one said, Dad, do we have to sleep on the streets?"

this is him explaining how he rebuilt a bank from a $511 million loss into the largest in America, what he does every Sunday with the problems he is avoiding, and what he told the man who fired him a year later

"it was my net worth, not my self-worth"

"I called him a year later. I told him I didn't think he did the right thing for Citigroup. then I told him the mistakes I made. he acknowledged my mistakes"

"if you split a taxi receipt, that's stealing. if I caught you doing that, I'd fire you"

"would you have your child work for that person? half the time we promote people, we would not let our kid work for them"

bookmark & watch the full conversation ↓

[Sriram @l_sriram]

@DArsenalBureau I'm very thankful he didn't come coz he reeks more of money than attitude

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“No intelligent person is interested in dominating others. His first interest is to know himself.”

― Osho

[Sriram @l_sriram]

❤️

[V D Satheesan @vdsatheesan]

As Keralam catches the ultimate football fever ahead of the grand Argentina-Spain finale. To ensure our young fans can enjoy the midnight thriller without worrying about school, College the next morning, the Government has declared a holiday for all educational institutions tomorrow. Stay up, cheer out loud, and enjoy the game.

#CMOKeralam #FIFAWorldCup #ArgentinaVsSpain #KeralamCelebrate

[Sriram @l_sriram]

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[Words @wordsporn]

tenacity

[Sriram @l_sriram]

Nice!!!

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Mark Manson on how to win at life:

1. Commit to doing a hard thing.
2. Do the hard thing.
3. Feel good about doing the hard thing.
4. Become someone who enjoys doing hard things.

[Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 @RajeevRC_X]

The Nightingale of South India is no more 💔

Deeply saddened by the passing of legendary playback singer S Janaki Amma.

For decades, her timeless voice transcended languages, generations, and borders. She gave life to thousands of songs that became an inseparable part of our memories and our culture.

Her extraordinary contribution to Indian music will continue to inspire generations to come.

My heartfelt condolences to her family, friends, and millions of admirers across the world.

Om Shanti. 🙏🏻

[Sriram @l_sriram]

The scene just keeps rewinding in my mind !!! #Komorebi

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this Japanese word, Komorebi.

It captures not just the visual phenomenon but the serene, fleeting beauty and sense of wonder.

[Sriram @l_sriram]

Arg vs Egy

[Sriram @l_sriram]

There are so many things we don't know which happens off the pitch and mentality is one big thing and this lad has got it spot on, be it club or country. MØ8!!!

[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

The gesture here that makes Odegaard drops the baton for Haaland, talk you talk about Odegaard, but he’s a good leader.

On top of that, it’s not a coincidence he’s captain and led Arsenal to a first league title in 22 years and led Norway to their first quarterfinal in history.

[OFootball @ofootball__]

You won our hearts ❤️

[Mama @SriniMaama16]

They arrived as debutants & leave s everyone's 2nd favourite team.

Cape Verde's World Cup:
- Ranked #65
- Held off 2024 Euro Champions Spain 🇪🇸
- 3 group stage draws
- First ever WC knockout qualification
- Came back twice before pushing defending champions Argentina to the very end 🇦🇷

Led by the the 40 YO Vozinha! The Silent Guardian & Watchful Protector of the Goal. The Dark Knight of Cape Verde, denying Messi thrice today.

What a team. What a fight! ❤️🇨🇻

[Sriram @l_sriram]

Wow!!

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

Norway vs Brazil…its about to get real 😬