Mayank Verma

Books & Cricket

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

For a player who headlined the sport and the format calling it a day so abruptly leaves a lingering sense of non-closure but also elicits reflection on his great body of work.

Whether you were on the field or at the wicket, we lived every ball with you.

Thank you Captain !!!

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@harish_staycalm That's the hope.

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

Thank You Captain 💙

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

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[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@harish_staycalm Not great with Virat pulling a fast one on all of us

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@bakarrben I think the athletes understand that. They also understand that there's no bigger amplifier for their messaging than a sporting field. They know they're going to stir opinions of all colors else Virat Kohli would've paused sharing his Diwali celebrations guidelines a while ago

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@bakarrben with Lewis Hamilton championing the cause but a select group of drivers refused to kneel while being sympathetic to the cause and that became a source of extreme opinions of varying types.

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@Hramblings Am like Jackie Shroff in Border "Ye saali raat khatam kyun nahin hoti god dammit

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@Hramblings 2002 apologists are your "India ko dictatorship chahiye" in 2008 are your "Hindu Khatre me hai" in 2014 are your demonetization is the panacea to all that ails India in 2016 to Saheb ne kara hoga to kuch soch ke kiya hoga.

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@Hramblings The same person in April last year on a Team Zoom Meeting starts talking about the pandemic, checks the last name of everyone in attendance out loud and then goes off on a tangent talking crap about the Tablighi Jamaat.

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@Hramblings True story, a close friend of mine was engaged unwillingly into a political back and forth by his senior. The senior finds himself on the backfoot in the middle of the argument and ends up calling him a Congressi

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

An acquaintance from work was hailing the virtues of India Against Corruption movement as recent as today.

Bhagwan itna bada chutiya kisi desh aur deshwasiyon ka na kaate.

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@HomerOpines @bakarrben I'd still think we're 2 batsmen away from really calling shots overseas. Gill looks a million $$$ and seemingly is our long term answer to our opening woes. *Goes back to doing havan for KL*

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@HomerOpines @bakarrben End of overseas leg, 2014 was more about having found a batting core that could last us the next decade in Test Cricket. 2021 feels like a more rounded graduation with an unrivalled cupboard

[Mayank Verma @vmayank87]

@bakarrben @rootofall3vil @HomerOpines I don't doubt it. As already shared, I've been munching on gujju snacks all through the winter with no perceptible gain in mass or been left with one and a half knee unlike certain someone we know gobbling chapli kababs forced into taking premature call on his tennis career