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#IPL
#IPL2024
#Cricket
Rahul Dravid as India captain, lots of drama in Indian
#cricket
around him
Rahul Dravid as India head coach, lots of drama again...
Who writes your scripts?
#cricket
#Indiancricket
Full credit to Ajit Agarkar and Co for selecting Dhruv Jurel as a surprise pick, it shows that the selectors spend time watching
#cricket
at domestic level more than all of us. Well done to the selectors and more importantly well done Jurel for showing the grit!
#IndvEng
With so much money coming in for IPL media rights, in a few years it will and must run for 6-8 months. Then we could well have cricketers from world over buying houses in Bangalore, Mumbai and Goa. Imagine walking into a coffee shop in Bandra and Glenn Maxwell chilling there!
Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne and Brian Lara defined
#cricket
of the 1990s in their own genius ways. They brought crowds in droves for games, shocked beyond words to see one of the triumvirate passing away!!
Fully back Rishah Pant's experiment as an opener in ODI
#cricket
, India at least attempted something new in the format. That it did not work is a different matter, but India is trying something new and that is a good sign
#IndvWI
Virat Kohli is the reason why Test
#cricket
is still alive in India. He deserves every praise coming his way on the eve of his 100th Test. You have been a champion with the bat and as a leader. Would have been perfect if you had stayed on as a leader
#cricket
#IndvSL
No red-ball
#cricket
at domestic level now for close to two years, only country without any first-class
#cricket
, India will start feeling the pinch in two years because 'A' team has also hardly played
#SAvInd
Full credit to Virat Kohli for giving Test
#cricket
its well-deserved primacy, the growth of India's Test squad is down to captain's hunger to get better in the format. For that his backing of the pace attack deserves kudos
#SAvsIND
West Indies and Pakistan were the teams to watch in the 1980s and 1990s in ODIs, the same is true for both the sides in T20Is in today's
#cricket
, hence not surprised that both seem at home in the format, could be a huge threat at
@T20WorldCup
Sanju Samson got the momentum going for India in the previous ODI, but gets dropped. He needs to have a consistent run that some others get
#cricket
#NZvsIND
#NZvINDonPrime
Wonderful show by Ravichandran Ashwin to go past the great Kapil Dev, terrific achievement! 434 was a number that stayed with us for a long time, now aim higher Ash
#cricket
#IndvSL
Without even us realising, an era in India's Test
#cricket
has ended this week: Pujara, Rahane, Umesh are done, earlier it was Ishant, Saha and much earlier Vijay. This was the core of India's revival as a Test side under Virat Kohli, Ravi Shastri and Anil Kumble
#unsungheroes
All those hailing
#RahulDravid
today, conveniently erase his captaincy legacy because under him India exited 2007 50 over World Cup.
They forget that under him India won Test series:
a) in West Indies in 2006 after 35 years!
b) in England in 2007 after 21 years!
#Cricket
Babar Azam was mocked for comparing Abdullah Shafique to Dravid and Williamson. Though comparison was not right, the thought was to talk about Shafique’s ability. He has Proved the captain right
#cricket
#CricketTwitter
#SLvPak
Has everyone forgotten there is a bowler called Umesh Yadav who travels with his IPL and India squads but doesn't play?
This is his recent playing record!
Last Test: Dec 2020
Last ODI: Oct 2018
Last T20I: Feb 2019
Last FC: July 2021
Last List A: Oct 2018
Last T20: Sep 2020
Hope Indian men's and women's
#cricket
teams honour the memory of The Flying Sikh, Milkha Singh ji wearing black armbands...and hope at least three major stadium is named after the legend
With Shubman Gill’s fitness causing some potential selection issues, why not pull in
@DineshKarthik
? After all in 2007, the last time India won a Test series in England it was DK the opener with
@WasimJaffer14
who set the foundation for a famous win, worth a punt
#cricket
Past fortnight has been nothing short of hell. Tested positive with Covid19. With fever not subsiding, had to be admitted to hospital. full course of remdesivir injections, medicines etc later am back home. Please mask up, wash your hands, this is serious, stay safe
India should not risk Jasprit Bumrah if he is unfit. We have had a situation in 2011 when Zaheer Khan broke down on the first day of England tour and the rest was history. Risk a fully fit newcomer than a half-fit champion considering the upcoming matches
#cricket
#AusvInd
For every cricketer not keen to play red ball
#cricket
in India there are tons of other hungry boys like Jurel, Sarfaraz, Patidar, Akash who are keen to play in red ball format. Go with them rather than those who are not hungry
#IndvEng
Unfortunately India is playing an outdated form of ODI
#cricket
which is completely unfit for the modern day. There is a sameness about the batting with too many safe batsmen in the line-up. You cannot win ODI tournaments/series with this kind of approach
#AusvInd
Should India's Test players be really roaming about in crowded places and other areas when the Delta variant is so rampant currently in UK? Just see what happened to England's white ball squad just now! Someone needs to pull the troops back to base. But who will?
#cricket
So India will have their fifth Test captain since November 2021: Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma and now Jasprit Bumrah
#cricket
#CricketTwitter
#EngvInd
If India really wants to make a change then they would look at ODIs and T20Is as two separate entities or formats! Don’t change the ODI captain, because it is a totally different job to the T20I captaincy. Just because they play with same white ball doesn’t make it same
The World Test Championship final is now completely out of India's reach, which also means that it will never happen again in
#cricket
's history!
#AusvInd
Hope indian
#cricket
journos will go easy when they see an ex OVERSEAS cricketer in India and ask them if India is as good as West Indies and Australia of the past. They say things to please India, don’t fool yourself. This is not Clive Lloyd’s WI or Waugh/Ponting’s Aus
So India are going to play two warm-up games, both against India A before the five Test series against England in August. First game will be at Northamptonshire from 21-24 July, the second one at Leicestershire 28-31 July, should be good fun as both are four-day fixtures
#Cricket
IPL 2021, Sri Lanka white ball tour and now this England Test series, how is it that bubble or whatever breach happened with one set of players only? Disregard for rules, superstar culture, all rolled into one
#cricket
Surprised that even after 12 years of
@IPL
, former cricketers in India still don’t get the difference between ODIs and T20s!! What is acceptable in ODIs is not acceptable in T20s!
#cricket
#IndvBan
Hats off to all the players, franchises, team owners and the BCCI for conducting an almost flawless IPL without a single red flag except the CSK cases in the 2020 edition
#cricket
#IPL2020
Stop looking for genuine seam bowling all-rounders, rather depend on guys like Bhuvi, Shardul Thakur and of course Deepak Chahar. They all can bat and are more reliable than some others...
#cricket
#SLvInd
This was actually India's Test/ODI sweater, not the one bandied about on social media earlier today. This is the actual retro sweater of India in whites!
#cricket
If Kedar Jadhav is not fit for
#cwc19
, perfect time to include
@ashwinravi99
as his replacement. Bats adequately and will be very potent bowler, his record speaks for him
#cricket
This series has been a shot in the arm for Test
#cricket
in India, much like what the 2000-01 series against the same rival, Australia. That 2000-01 series win came after fixing scandal, this came after 36 all out, well done India
#cricket
#AusvInd
#GabbaTest
Till there is no incentive on the IPL auction for batsmen who bowl and bowlers who bat, no one is going to take the effort of trying to bat if they are a bowler or bowl if they bat...that is the reality of India's white-ball squad. Introduce the incentive now!
#cricket
#SLvInd
Re: crowds in England for Test
#cricket
, fact is if you simplify getting in, make drinking water available, clean up toilets and make getting out easy, you will see similar turnouts in most grounds in India too
#Ashes2023
#Ashes23
Good to see Suryakumar Yadav, Tewatia, Varun and Ishan Kishan get a gig in t20 team. Finally India rewarding specialists in the format that they perform, good to see. Remember to be patient with T20 specialists because they get limited chances
#IndvEng
#cricket
India's Best Test skipper ever: Virat Kohli
India's Best ODI Skipper ever: MS Dhoni
IPL's Best skipper ever: Rohit Sharma
That in a nutshell sums up Indian
#cricket
over the last 15 years!
#Mahi
India plays outdated ODI
#cricket
with the bat and with the ball struggles to control the game on flat pitches. So underestimate South Africa at your own peril in the ODI series. India is the same, South Africa had changed
#SAvInd
Finally standardised baggy blue Test caps for everyone in the XI, rather than looking like an assorted XI with different caps, good to see!
#India
#IndvEng
#cricket
The last two times India won a Test series in England their talismanic all-rounder at the time didn't play. In 1986 Ian Botham was banned and in 2007 Andrew Flintoff was injured...now in 2021 Ben Stokes is also not playing..Is this a coincidence or we are onto something?
#cricket
Interesting that the top three wicket-takers of the Test series in India between England and India...Ashwin (32), Axar (27) and Leach (18) are yet to feature in the return series! That series was just five months ago!
#cricket
#EngvInd
Ravichandran Ashwin's return to T20I squad and MS Dhoni as mentor of the squad. Huge surprises! No Chahal is another surprise, just three regular pacers, interesting squad
#cricket
#T20WorldCup
#T20WorldCup2021
Nearly two hours for 20 overs, fines and anything else that ICC has been trying is not helping. They need to start docking runs or overs for teams to get serious about over-rates
#cricket
#IndvEng
Now this is how it feels when lower order bats well against you! That feeling when Sam Curran, Pat Cummins, Mitch Starc score. But Sundar is better bat than this lot
#cricket
#IndvEng
Take care of Bhuvi, because he is terrific in white-ball
#cricket
, even if it means not picking him for Tests, please wrap him up and save him...three World Cups in three years...he will be priceless
#IndvEng
For all his problems in T20
#cricket
, got to say Rishabh Pant is India’s best Test batter right now; different formats different returns
#CricketTwitter
#ENGvIND
Excitement is fine, animated celebration is fine, but sometimes you need temper yourself and focus on the next ball rather than go OTT
#cricket
#EngvInd
England kept emotions aside while building their ODI squad. Dropped Ian Bell, left out their best Test bowlers: Broad and Anderson. Did not let Test form cloud ODI selection. India did something similar when they were building 2011 squad. Dravid, Ganguly were left out
#CWC19
Sony is just the broadcaster of the matches, they do not have their own production crew to film various Indian matches. They are dependent on the feed that the world feed crew provides. The world feed (as in feed produced by IOC) may or may not telecast India's matches
What a special effort by Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur, kudos also to the team think-tank including captain Rahane, coach Ravi Shastri and the other staff for picking this XI. What a fight by this XI
#cricket
#AusvInd
This is downright embarrassing! In 2011 and 2014 they were being rolled over similarly. In 2011 the excuse was oh they are old, 2014 it was oh they are too young and will learn. What now?
#EngvInd
#cricket
Too much fuss about who opens or batting positions in T20
#cricket
, situations matter not positions in this format unlike Test matches or even ODIs. It is not Test
#CricketTwitter
that Dravid is at 3 or SRT at 4, T20s are fluid, anyone can bat anywhere depending on situation
#T20WorldCup
starts today, it is not the qualifiers! Qualifiers took place in 2019 from where teams qualified to play here. Today onwards starts the FIRST ROUND! The second round starts on 23 October. There are 16 teams in the tournament, not 12!
#cricket
#CricketTwitter
Haider Ali and Tom Banton two stars for the future, started off well, good to see some young batting talents
#cricket
#EngvPak
@KKRiders
are very lucky to have Banton
Official now! Shubman Gill has returned home, Sundar and Avesh are out of England tour; Prithvi, SKY named as replacements; Rishabh, coach Arun, Saha, Easwaran are fit and rejoin squad!
@BCCI
#cricket
#EngvInd
Virat wants to continue to be in charge of the Test and ODI squads, which means he is looking at the ODI format separate from the T20I format, which is an interesting take
#cricket
The happiest person right now will be Ravichandran Ashwin for the way Deepti Sharma dismissed England’s last batter Dean. Well within the rules, well done Deepti and a perfect send-off for Jhulan Goswami
#cricket
#CricketTwitter
#ENGvIND
Three big lessons for India from
#AsiaCup
. from pakistan: you need strong really fast bowlers to strike early. From SL: need multiple dual purpose/all-round players to go from 58 for 5 to 170, and the biggest lesson create a specialist T20 squad without stars, it pays!
#PAKvsSL
Yuzvendra Chahal is playing by default and is showing what India may have missed by not playing him for his wicket-taking ability in the T20 format, confusing formats and form is an old trait in our part of the world
#cricket
#AusvInd
Imagine all this is for Test match
#cricket
, a format which everyone said no one watched in India! Guess after 1971 this is the first time I can imagine such scenes for Test match victories in the country. 50 years! Test
#cricket
is back
The enormity of the win in Aus is yet to sink in! Look at visuals coming in from various parts of India, welcoming their local heroes & you would yearn to be a part of this folklore. Visuals of
@Natarajan_91
in Salem
India's lower-order batsmen offer no resistance with the bat ever! The Sydney and Brisbane rearguard actions were an aberration. There is always a cycle stand effect waiting to happen, push one and the rest follow. Hence India always is below par overseas with the bat
.
@DineshKarthik
had taken England by storm during the
#IndvEng
series on
@SkyCricket
because apart from his commentary, they loved his Hi-Speed internet, now India is realising what they missed out then! But DK I want you in the next T20 World Cups playing, then commentary macha
Should India's Test players be really roaming about in crowded places and other areas when the Delta variant is so rampant currently in UK? Just see what happened to England's white ball squad just now! Someone needs to pull the troops back to base. But who will?
#cricket
India have made the right calls for their playing XI, Siraj is playing only because Bumrah needs to be kept fresh. But it is something to see guys being rested for Test
#cricket
, sacrilege in the past, not anymore!
#IndvEng
Who writes your scripts son? Last year at around the same time Pant was centrestage at Gabba to create history, year later he is again the centre of attention at Newlands as India seeks history once more
#cricket
#SAvInd
West Indies are looking a scary side with the return of their T20 superstars, the power and depth that they get with Gayle, Fletcher, Lewis, Pollard, Bravo, Holder, Russell…and Edwards makes them the side to watch out for at T20 World Cup. Can defend their title! Beware England
Nice time to share these pics of
#SunilGavaskar
from the day he was inducted into the
@ICC
Hall of Fame in Dubai in 2011. Was doing the interviews then and managing the day. Happy 50th SMG, the man with great stories to tell always
#cricket
Imagine being a young man like Devdutt Padikkal, opening with Aaron Finch, batting with Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers! On the job learning if ever there was one
#cricket
#IPL2020
#RCB
#MI
#RCBvMI
This means Hardik is fit, Varun has no fitness issues and Rahul Chahar was held back for strategic reasons. Smart change because Shardul should always have been in the XV