R Ashwin has weighed in on the never-ending Sachin Tendulkar vs Virat Kohli debate, and he has made his choice clear.
“I will stick my neck out and say Sachin Tendulkar.”
Ashwin pointed to the conditions Sachin played in, noting that the ball moved significantly more and offered greater assistance to spinners. Beyond the numbers, he highlighted Sachin’s catalogue of iconic innings and the enormous expectations he carried throughout his career.
For an entire generation of Indians, Sachin wasn’t merely a cricketer. He was the man millions looked to when India needed hope.
Virat has built a legacy of his own. But when asked to choose between the two, Ashwin’s answer is Sachin. 🏏🇮🇳
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 🗣️:
I got a call from the TNCA saying, "Sachin Tendulkar is asking if you can come and bowl in the nets."
So I went there and was bowling over the stumps, then he said bowl round the stumps.
Ok, I bowled round the stumps for a while.
I was thinking, what is he going to do?
Then after bowling 4-5 balls, I told Sachin, "Me bowling round the wickets is of no use, in a match there will be footmarks, here there are no footmarks because no one has bowled from that side of the net."
He said, "Very good point, we have to play by creating a match-like situation."
He scratched the entire leg side with his spikes and dug up the pitch.
He told the groundsmen, "Don't touch this pitch for a week, at the end whatever money it costs to repair this pitch, I will give it."
It was by bowling in those rough patches he developed three sweep shots.
@LaxmanSivarama1 Sir, Indian cricket fans are forever indebted to you for helping the master invent a paddle sweep that he used so effectively against the wizard called Warne in the 1998 series and later used it against all with absolute perfection.
I call the idea that you can't have a doctor who's both compassionate and competent as Dr House fallacy.
Nevertheless, the (harsh) lived experience of thousands upon thousands of patients can't be ignored either.
The problem is neither compassion nor competence is easy to assess in medicine.
You might think information asymmetry can make competence hard to assess for patient, but what about compassion ?
What the patient thinks of as compassion - polite, smiles, listens carefully, validates their belief or encourages them, are merely bedside manners. In fact, chatGPT can do all of this. A more radical way of saying this is ego massage.
Compassion is not being nice. It's being good and doing good.
Being nice is telling the patient what they want to hear. Being good is telling them what they need to hear.
Giving competent treatment is the truest form of compassion.
So, Dr House is compassionate and competent, albeit with poor manners / social graces.
Men only have 5 moods:
1. i need to conquer and start a new country
2. horny
3. i must disappear to the woods
4. my woman and bloodline depend on me
5. i was born in the wrong century
One of England's all-time greatest captains, Ben Stokes, has decided to retire from international cricket at the end of this Test match.
Ben, you have been the most inspirational captain, leader and legend this team could have ever hoped for.
We love you so much and wish you all the best in your retirement ❤️
England will never be the same again.
Dear @mipaltan
I feel lucky that a small account like mine'a voice potentially has reached the top management at MI and so as a genuine well wisher of MI I would be doing great disservice if I do not put forward my honest views now.
This is potentially my last twitter post on MI until I see a change and until I see them playing for the badge again. It is high time I look after my well being because being too passionate about your team also takes a lot out of you as a human.
This is not from an MI fan who got attracted to this franchise because Rohit Sharma won trophies with them. This is from a fan who has been with the team even when they failed in 13 out of 18 seasons and who will always be with them no matter what. This is from someone who supported a team that had fighters like James Franklin, Aiden Blizzard, Sarul Kanwar, Jayasuriya, Abu Nechim, Ambari Rayudu, Aditya Tare, Lendl Simmons, Mitch McClenaghan, etc. Was always there for support no matter where we finished.
You chose Hardik to replace Rohit, we supported.
You chose to release Pollard and then release his replacement Tim David too, we supported.
You chose to make blunders in decision making for past several seasons, we still supported.
You chose to go into IPL 2026 auction with almost no purse showing extra confidence on players like Deepak Chahar when you knew that those 9 crore would help us strengthen key areas, we still supported.
But we draw the line when players show from their body language that they don't really feel like playing for the badge and that it is all fun and games even if we lose..it is okay it is chill..nah sorry.
Same mistakes, no sensing of moments that could turn the game and not turning on the screws was again seen vs SRH. 243 had to be 270..and then when you took 3 wickets in 4 runs you had to try and knock over Klaasen. But again dropping shoulders in Powerplay and then post those 3 wickets..Bumrah looked so tired it hurt us all.
When you feel nothing can get worse than RCB loss, Punjab came, then CSK came, then SRH. The word fortress has become a joke for Wankhede.
When Rohit became the captain, no one knew how it would end up, but atleast he had the passion for the badge when he said "Teams should fear while coming to play MI at Wankhede." Yesterday I saw the same man holding his head in disappointment looking at what had happened to the Kingdom he built brick by brick..all this just hours before his birthday. Does someone who brought so much success to your franchise deserve this? Do your fans deserve this?
Even during 2022 Wooden spoon season we got so many special moments like defending 9 runs vs GT, that RCB post requesting us to beat DC, the rise of Tilak, Brevis and Tim David. We are not behind trophies we are behind making memories with players who know what playing for the badge means.
We have pivoted away from picking players who can fight for the badge, to now picking players who are just shiny toys, not caring about team and squad balance. We were never a side historically that depended on individual brilliance but that is exactly what happened last season when SKY's Orange Cap and Bumrah's purple patch covered all the cracks.
You will need to earn this fan back MI, not with results, just with the desire that the players want to play for the badge. Gave 19 years to this team and the support during 14 of them where we won nothing was equally passionate.
It is high time I look after myself and my health because maybe Sport was the only source of happiness for now. Very tough to weather the storms in life and then turn up supporting a team that does not know to play with passion.
I don't recognize my club anymore. Hope I do one day, hope this all changes one day. Will always bleed blue, but for now from a distance.
Can you win this fan back with your cricket? Can you make tough calls to take MI back to glory days? Time will tell. For now, it is a pause from my end.
-From a part of your dear Paltan 💙🙏🏻
Probably the only guy in front of whom both Kohli and Dhoni remained silent. ☠️🥶
- The Greatest Overseas player in IPL history. 🐐
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