Ashok Sridharan

Finance guy who tweets on history, politics and economics.

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@BabajiSutar3 Dominic Cork

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@dekhane_mukul कायतरी काय!

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@SagarH62 Flintoff to Agarkar(?). Its clearly the first test match at Lords from India’s 2002 tour of England

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@IndiaHistorypic Nelco. It was a black & white TV that needed the occasional thump to work at its best

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@vkc1000 Salil Ankola. Mumbai fans of 90s vintage always wondered why he never got more chances. At his peak, he was one of the quickest bowlers in the country

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@BabajiSutar3 Rahul ‘The Wall’ Dravid

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@SagarH62 Mike Whitney. Perhaps he’s best remembered for keeping out Hadlee’s last over at the MCG in 1987-88, giving Australia their first series win in 4 years

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@SHD766 Wally Hammond

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@ravimane53 Its ironical to see the word googly mentioned here- Warne never possessed a particularly good effective wrong ‘un.

It may sound incredible to young fans, but the man who was perhaps the greatest wrist spinner of all time never mastered the googly

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@vkc1000 Of the ones I’ve seen: Sachin Tendulkar & Arjuna Ranatunga

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@AmitAgrawl Jalal Agha?

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@Manzurshaban123 Derek Underwood

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@Khanmohammed12 In all fairness, there was an easy run out chance that was missed the previous ball. SA weren’t the only guys who lost their nerve. Just that they didn’t get away with it

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@93Yorker Broad rather conveniently forgot that Jadeja has a lower bowling average than his

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@SagarH62 I almost didn’t recognise Swann in this pic. He was a great off spinner- a sub 30
average for a spinner operating in the late 2000s to mid 2010s was gold dust

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@Khanmohammed12 After five ducks in his previous tour, every single run was bound to be cause for celebration!

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@Manzurshaban123 The one & only Richie Benaud. Great player, supreme commentator

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@SHD766 Must be Zaheer Abbas

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@SHD766 Ricky Ponting at Old Trafford in 2005

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@BabajiSutar3 Gundappa Vishwanath. Alas, there is no surviving footage of that epic innings