With South Africa co-hosting the 2027 ODI World Cup, Cricket SA has quietly begun replacing the natural turf at iconic grounds like the Wanderers and Newlands with artificial drop-in pitches. 🤯
Preparing for the upcoming World Cup by ripping out the historic, lethal, and natural turf of venues like the Wanderers and Newlands for drop-in pitches feels like a massive corporate sellout. We are willingly sacrificing iconic home-ground identity for standardized, flat, batter-friendly highway tracks just to please international broadcasters who want cheap entertainment.😭
Drop-in pitches are essentially an industrialized shortcut that covers up underfunded local ground management. If South Africa cannot prepare authentic, natural decks that reflect our unique regional soils, they shouldn't be hosting. Standardised pitches kill the beautiful, hostile unpredictability of true Proteas conditions. We’re trading legendary cricket culture for cookie-cutter road tracks.
The man who defeated Australia at Gabba with the following bowling line-up has announced his retirement from all formats of cricket.
➡️ Natarajan (Debut)
➡️ Washington Sundar (Debut)
➡️ Saini (2nd match)
➡️ Siraj (3rd match)
➡️ Shardul Thakur (2nd match - effectively debut as he retired hurt in 1st test without batting/bowling)
Even today, it's difficult to imagine even competing with Aussies with such an inexperienced bowling line-up, let alone winning the game!
He remains unbeaten as a captain in test cricket having led India in 6 games. We won 4 and drew 2.
In case you feel his captaincy record is too small to judge his ability, have a look at his record in domestic cricket! He has won all the major domestic tournaments.
It won't be wrong to say that his leadership skill is largely underutilised at international level.
Happy Retirement @ajinkyarahane88! You will be remembered as the man of crisis in overseas conditions and someone with exceptional leadership quality, someone who led us to a miraculous series victory in Australia. That MCG 💯 will remain etched in the memories of all the fans forever!
Kept us on our toes all season long and pushed us right until the end. 🫡
Thoroughly deserving finalists. Kudos on a memorable campaign, @gujarat_titans. 🤝
@wrendom Let’s not spread such hate bro being a GT fan he has been fine so far let’s back our team to play well in next match and anything can happen in Ahmedabad
- Sai Sudharsan is the ONLY SECOND player to be dismissed hit wicket in IPL knockouts/Playoffs after Kusal Mendis for GT vs MI in New Chandigarh last year.
GT HERITAGE
amaaro vaarso
When legendary Manna Dey was asked to sing non-Bengali song…
He chose Gujarati folk song “Helo Maro Sambhalo”!
Observe his pronunciation of ણ and ળ. More clear than of many Gujaratis.
- Batting line-up: TukTuk specialists
- Bowling line-up: TukTuk Academy recruiters
- Team performance: On top of the points table
Ladies and Gentlemen, underrated, modern T20 game haters, Gujarat Titans for you 🔥🔥
Just a reminder that nobody rated Gujarat Titans under captain Shubman Gill to reach playoffs even after the mid season.
Now GT is at the top of table with 16 points.
People are criticising Shubman Gill unnecessarily tonight, he was playing anchor to Sai Sudarshan tonight as Sai went all gun blazing & Gill did his job well as parter & given Sai the strike regularly.
& the kind of middle order Nehra has built, Gill knows that he can't throw his wicket early. Vaibhav, Arya, Abhishek & others go bang bang coz they know, if they gets out there are so many quality batters there in middle order who gonna win them the game but same is not the case with Gujarat Titans!
Super Sunday… Feet up!
First up… Let’s goooo @ShubmanGill@gujarat_titans
Then let’s see if City put pressure on Arsenal.
Then Rio Presents Live
Finishing off with Rory winning the Masters 🤣👍🏽
Life of an Indian cricket fan trying to watch a final from the stadium: 🧵
• Wait for the team to qualify
• Refresh news to confirm the final venue
• Ticket sale suddenly announced
• Half the tickets already gone in presales
• Open BookMyShow exactly on time
• “You are in the queue”
• Queue number somewhere in thousands or lakhs
• Seats disappearing in seconds
• Flight prices suddenly surge
• Hotel prices triple overnight
• Friends asking “tickets milega?”
• Payment page panic
• Page refresh… session expired
• Tickets sold out
And somehow travelling fans are expected to plan flights, hotels and tickets in 24 hours.
Maybe knockout ticket sales deserve better planning for the fans too.
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