Manu Abraham

Humanist 🕵️ Omnist 💐 Left Liberal 💪 Football Fan ⚽ Photography Enthusiast 📷 & a proud Malayali 🌴

[Manu Abraham @manus_03]

@sachi92914 Donaldo
Kapil
Zaheer
McGrath

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@damzychillin The magician - Ronaldinho ✨

[Manu Abraham @manus_03]

@FootbalTimelyn Replace Cristiano with Xavi, if you are considering a World cup XI. And here you go. Subs would include Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Gerd Muller, Garrincha, and Iniesta.

[Manu Abraham @manus_03]

@futbolmundialsp Replace Cristiano with Xavi, if you are considering a World cup XI. And here you go. Subs would include Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Gerd Muller, Garrincha, and Iniesta.

[Manu Abraham @manus_03]

@bagga_buntyy1 I would add Sir Garry Sobers and Andy Flower, and replace Saeed Anware with Hayden..

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Virat Kohli keeps asking the same question & the critics keep running out of answers. Since 2023, he has scored 2365 runs in 51 IPL innings. He has been dismissed for single digits just 3 times in his last 40 innings (On average, 1 single digit score per season).
13 of his last 15 innings crossed 25, 11 went past 40, 8 cleared 50. While everyone else chased highlights, he built a floor of consistency so high that failure became a stranger.

Critics called him an anchor. They said T20 had moved past him, that his method was built for a slower era. So he changed the physics. The bat that used to come down straight & still started moving before the bowler released. Up, down, tap, hover. R Ashwin called it potential energy. Rest of us called it freedom.

Then 2025 happened. RCB won their first title in 18 years. Kohli made 657 runs that season, nothing flashy, just a man holding his nerve while the world wobbled. The title did not relax him. It unlocked something.

2026 brought the real transformation. He quit Tests. What remained was just a batter. No format switching, no need to keep one part of his brain defensive while the other attacked. This season he hits a boundary every 4.9 balls. He strikes at 160 in the powerplay, 140 in the middle, 200 in the death.

Dale Steyn watched the opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kohli hit 69 not out off 38 balls, 5 sixes, a chase of 202 done in 15.2 overs. Steyn said he was hitting aerial shots time & again. A man who had stopped fearing the fall.

The attacking shot percentage tells the story. 40.6 percent in 2021. Almost 75 percent in 2026. He steps down to spin now. He lofts over long on. He was the cover drive man, the wristy flick man. Now he is something messier & more dangerous. Striking at 163 this season. Averaging 54.6, which is technically a dip from his overall average of 56 since 2023. That is the level he has set.

No other batter has scored more runs than him in the last 4 IPL seasons. Not Gill, Not Jaiswal, Not Buttler, Not Samson. He has also hit more sixes than all of them since 2023. The man they called slow is out-hitting the generation that was supposed to replace him. He is not surviving T20 anymore. He is still defining it.

Critics will find something new. Kohli will hear them, fix what needs fixing & keep asking what is next. The bat is still moving, The red jersey is still his. And somehow, impossibly, he is just getting started.

[Manu Abraham @manus_03]

@Luck_7773 Andrew Flintoff?

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@LegacySiu

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Things everyone should know

[𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒔 @Shebas_10dulkar]

Happy Birthday 𝗔𝗕 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 🐐

- 20014 runs || 47 100s || 109 50s
- 39 M.O.M || 10 M.O.S Awards
- 3 times ICC ODI Cricketer of the year
- Fastest 50s in ODI (16b)
- Fastest 100s in ODI (31b)
- Fastest 150s in ODI (64b)
- Only Player with 50+ Avg in both ODI/TEST
- Highest Average in Worldcup (63.52)
- Best Batting Avg by WK in ODI (70.54)
- Best Batting Avg by WK in Test (57.41)
- Scored all 25 ODI 100s with 100+ SR
- 40+ Test AVG in 9 Different Countries
- Highest ODI AVG after 30 age (63.64)
- No.2 ODI Batter during his Final ODI
- No.6 TEST Batter during his Final TEST
- Most Runs in ODI with 100+ SR (9577)
- Most Runs in ODI as Cap with 100+ SR (4796)
- Most ODI Centuries in Less than 60b (4)
- One of Five batters with 900+ Rating Points in both ODI/TEST format
- 1st Players to Smash 50 ODI 6s in a year
- Joint Most Catches in a Test match (11)
- Joint Most 50+ in Consecutive Test matches (12)
- Most Innings batted Before 1st duck in Test (78)
- Highest SR in ODI Deathovers (173.24)
- Highest Score in an ODI Deathover (121)
- Only Player to Score ODI Century with 300+ SR
- Most 100s against an Opponent in WC (3 v WI)
- Most ODI 100s by Visiting player in IND (7)
- 1st player to end a year as No.1 ODI/Test batter for Consecutive years (2013 & 2014)
- Most runs in a year against an Opponent
(1402 v PAK in 2013)
- Only Player with Century + 10 dismissals in a test match
- Highest Average in IPL wins (76.5)
- Most M.O.M Awards in IPL (25)
- Joint Most M.O.M for RCB in Knockouts (2)
- 300 runs + 150 SR in most IPL Seasons (8)
- Joint Most Unbeaten 50+ in IPL (23)
- Most 50+ Scores in IPL with 200+ SR (13)
- Most Catches in an IPL season (19)
- Most 50+ Scores in IPL Deathovers (7)
- Joint Most IPL 100s as Non-Opener (3)
- Most runs in an IPL Season as Non Opener
(687 in 2016)

[Vertigo_Warrior @VertigoWarrior]

🧵15 Incredible coincidences that seem impossible, but really happened.

[Manu Abraham @manus_03]

@Reyas_Cena25 #ShahRukhKhan

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Best football players of all time ⚽️

1. 🇧🇷 Pelé
2. 🇦🇷 Diego Maradona
3. 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi
4. 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo
5. 🇳🇱 Johan Cruyff
6. 🇫🇷 Zinedine Zidane
7. 🇧🇷 Ronaldinho
8. 🇧🇷 Ronaldo Nazário
9. 🇩🇪 Franz Beckenbauer
10. 🇫🇷 Michel Platini
11. 🇪🇸 Alfredo Di Stéfano
12. 🇪🇸 Andrés Iniesta
13. 🇪🇸 Xavi Hernández
14. 🏴 George Best
15. 🇵🇹 Eusébio
16. 🇳🇱 Marco van Basten
17. 🇧🇷 Romário
18. 🇮🇹 Paolo Maldini
19. 🇮🇹 Roberto Baggio
20. 🇫🇷 Thierry Henry
21. 🇮🇹 Andrea Pirlo
22. 🇧🇷 Kaka
23. 🇧🇷 Sócrates
24. 🇩🇰 Michael Laudrup
25. 🇩🇪 Gerd Müller
26. 🇫🇷 Raymond Kopa
27. 🇷🇴 Gheorghe Hagi
28. 🇮🇹 Dino Zoff
29. 🇩🇪 Lothar Matthäus
30. 🇪🇸 Raúl
31. 🇩🇪 Miroslav Klose
32. 🇧🇷 Rivaldo
33. 🇨🇲 Samuel Eto'o
34. 🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne
35. 🇵🇹 Luís Figo
36. 🇪🇸 Iker Casillas
37. 🇪🇸 Sergio Ramos
38. 🇧🇷 Roberto Carlos
39. 🇩🇪 Oliver Kahn
40. 🇮🇹 Franco Baresi
41. 🇳🇱 Ruud Gullit
42. 🇫🇷 Patrick Vieira
43. 🇧🇷 Zico
44. 🇳🇱 Dennis Bergkamp
45. 🇧🇷 Cafu
46. 🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps
47. 🇧🇷 Garrincha
48. 🇪🇸 Fernando Hierro
49. 🇮🇹 Alessandro Del Piero
50. 🇫🇷 Eric Cantona
51. 🇧🇪 Eden Hazard
52. 🇧🇷 Dida
53. 🇨🇭 Sepp Maier
54. 🇦🇷 Juan Román Riquelme
55. 🇧🇷 Jairzinho
56. 🇪🇸 Carles Puyol
57. 🇧🇷 Thiago Silva
58. 🇮🇹 Fabio Cannavaro
59. 🇧🇷 Djalma Santos
60. 🇨🇴 Carlos Valderrama
61. 🇺🇾 Diego Forlán
62. 🇦🇷 Gabriel Batistuta
63. 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Meazza
64. 🇧🇷 Leônidas da Silva
65. 🇫🇷 Antoine Griezmann
66. 🇨🇭 Xherdan Shaqiri
67. 🇧🇷 Juninho Pernambucano
68. 🇮🇹 Giorgio Chiellini
69. 🇫🇷 N'Golo Kanté
70. 🇧🇷 Adriano
71. 🇮🇹 Gianluigi Buffon
72. 🇪🇸 David Villa
73. 🇮🇹 Christian Vieri
74. 🇳🇱 Arjen Robben
75. 🇩🇪 Bastian Schweinsteiger
76. 🇪🇸 Fernando Torres
77. 🇪🇸 David Silva
78. 🇧🇪 Vincent Kompany
79. 🇦🇷 Hernán Crespo
80. 🇩🇪 Manuel Neuer
81. 🇳🇱 Patrick Kluivert
82. 🇧🇷 Falcão
83. 🇫🇷 Marcel Desailly
84. 🇧🇷 Gérson
85. 🇫🇷 Franck Ribéry
86. 🇦🇷 Ángel Di María
87. 🇳🇱 Clarence Seedorf
88. 🇧🇷 Rivellino
89. 🇵🇹 Deco
90. 🇨🇲 Roger Milla
91. 🇧🇷 Tostão
92. 🇧🇷 Dunga
93. 🇫🇷 Lilian Thuram
94. 🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola
95. 🇩🇪 Philipp Lahm
96. 🇧🇷 Neymar
97. 🇧🇷 Zé Roberto
98. 🇧🇷 Taffarel
99. 🇫🇷 Just Fontaine
100. 🇦🇷 Daniel Passarella

Source: FIFA ⚽️

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Serious question to all PROUD INDIANS. What are you so proud of?

Is there something about India that is somehow better than most of the world?

[Khushboo Verma @khushbooverma_]

Pay
- 30% tax on salary
- 4% Health and Education Cess on tax payable
- GST on everything you purchase

If you manage to save something and invest, pay:
- 30% on savings and FDs interest
- 20% on investments under 1 year
- 12.5% on long term

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

What treasures are kept inside the Vatican?

Some of mankind's most precious artifacts have been living there for centuries.

But they're nothing compared to what's underneath the Vatican... (thread) 🧵

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

This building is nearly 2,000 years old. How can something so ancient, of such scale, still be standing?

The answer might surprise you... (thread) 🧵

[Abhinandan Nahata @khelgyani_abhi]

In UK and USA, work life balance is given lot of importance.

In UK/Europe, people are very particular about closing time and travel time with avg work time of 8 hrs.

Only in India, leaders/manager expect employees to give 9-10 hours (excluding 2 hrs of traffic time) and yet get asked to work more because they slogged for 12 hrs a day when they were mid-level.

I only feel this is screwing mental and physical health of most Indians who age around 25-35. You also hear a lot of heart failure in this age group now and many are suffering from depression, grey hair syndrome.

In India, work is not a part of life, its only way to survive. At 31 now, I already feel lack of gas by the end of the week. Not sure if this is the right direction and if not, Indian corporate system needs to think of balancing it more.

Prob is we have 10000s Narayan Murthy's at top level who indirectly demand you to give more time to work.