Madan Sanglikar (maddy)

2003 - Warne banned for 1 year 2018 - Warner banned for 1 year Grammatically & Statistically speaking, in 2033, an Australian cricketer named Warnest should get a 1 year ban. And yes, that last name does exist. #BallTamperingScandal

Everyone has an opinion about the toss in IPL. Captains obsess over it. Fans debate it. Ravi Shastri makes a huge deal out of it. So I wanted to see what the fuss is all about — I analysed every single IPL match. 18 years. 1146 matches. Here's what the data actually says.🧵(1/10)

Historic win for team India #ICCMensT20WorldCup

Excited about the many potential firsts, or at least the one first, tomorrow at the #ICCMensT20WorldCup finals. That, it’s being played at Ahmedabad adds drama to the anticipation. Any other team-first that I am missing?

Bumrah is the larger grey dot. And he's managed this in an era where T20 hitting has undergone a revolution...

THE EPSTEIN STORY‼️

Most of what you see online as “cricket analysis” …isn’t analysis. It’s averages, strike rates, and wagon wheels with zero context. So I built something different . This #icct20worldcup2026, I'm very happy to present before you ''DeepCrease''. 🧵👇

@NepalCricket - well played so far against England at the #T20WorldCup2026 But, why do you have ‘CAN’ printed on the team caps and helmets? I know the Cricket Association of Nepal reference, but when you have Canada playing in the same tournament does it even make sense? 🤦‍♂️

Imagine if he had instead taken the ship to the correct destination. Surely, cricket wouldn't have been the same.

@rawatrahul9 Looking at the way the PAK U-19 chased the total against IND, doesn’t seem like qualifying for the playoffs is part of their 2026 plan, at least.

If Pakistan has decided to boycott the India game, the ICC may not even have to get their hands dirty by pushing them out of the T20 World Cup. Going by the rain forecast in Colombo, Pakistan could well be out of the tournament on their own by Feb 15.

There’s a particular cruelty in cricket’s numbers when you’re a pace bowler. The sport will worship a quick who can touch 150kph even if his average hovers around 30, but a bowler who runs in with the intensity of a man trying to push a broken-down car uphill? He needs to prove himself in triplicate just to get his kit bag in the dressing room... Michael Neser has 423 first class wickets at 23 odd average. He also has 4000+ runs at average around 30. Those are allrounder numbers. Yet until last month, Neser’s entire Test career could be summarized in a coffee break: 2 matches, in last 4 years, each appearance feeling like Australia had remembered they had a spare key hidden under the doormat... Stat sheet doesn’t tell you about the 2010 Shield debut, when a 20 year old Neser dismissed Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh; two batters who’d go on to play Test cricket, whose Test careers would begin after that game & end before Neser got his baggy green. It doesn’t tell you about the countless times he’d be the best bowler in Shield, only to watch the selectors fax in another squad with his name in the “emergency only” column... “I feared my Test career was over,” Neser admitted last summer, and you could hear the exhaustion in that sentence. Not the dramatic exhaustion of a torn ACL or a stress fracture, but the quiet, grinding fatigue of a man who’d torn his hamstring playing Australia A against India A at the MCG; 12 months on the shelf for a glorified practice match. The kind of injury that happens to players who are always available, always dependable, always one phone call away from being told “we need you to carry drinks and maybe bowl 12 overs in nets if it rains.” Neser, at 35, became the human equivalent of that reliable sedan in your garage; works perfectly, gets you everywhere, but everyone’s dreaming about the sports car they can’t afford. And then, the twist. Gabba 2025. Last minute selection over Nathan Lyon, a decision that had Shane Warne’s ghost reaching for the whiskey. A 35 year old on his home ground, picked ahead of the greatest off-spinner of the modern era. The controversy was delicious. The vindication? Even better. Neser’s Test progression reads like a man who’s tired of being the backup plan. 1st Test: 2 wickets. 2nd Test: 5. 3rd Test: 6. 4th Test: 4 in the first innings at MCG, each wicket a middle finger to the idea that you need 90mph to succeed in Australia. He has never gone wicketless in an innings. Not once! In this series where England built their entire philosophy around speed; Wood, Archer, Carse, Atkinson. Neser & Scott Boland have tilted this Ashes by proving that 5 good balls an over beats one thunderbolt followed by four half-volleys... Depth of Australian fast bowling didn’t just keep Neser out of the side; it forged him into something harder, sharper, more complete. While others were being rested & rotated, he was bowling in Cardiff, batting in Glamorgan, learning to be the player you’d build a team around even if nobody ever did... You won’t find many pace bowlers with those numbers, in any country, in any era, still waiting for their moment. But then, you won’t find many cricketers like Michael Neser... He doesn’t need speed. He has got something better: perseverance. And finally, the opportunity.

This interview with Nathan Lyon on @7Cricket has understandably gone viral. Rarely do you get such raw emotion & feeling from a current cricketer & all credit to @Mel_Mclaughlin & her incredible interviewing skills

Honestly, it's a pleasure to listen to @RaviShastriOfc on the mic with Virat in full-flow. It's possibly the closest to listening to Kohli commentate on Kohli. The passion in his voice goes a notch higher when it's Virat smashing the bowlers.

@sidin She also founded the LV brand and graciously handed it to over a poor European family 👏

Very very few people know that Vandana Luthra is behind both the VLCC company and also the VLC video player. She was passionate about open source video playback that was not dependent on a multiplicity of codecs.

Even the final Over card seems to shout out loud to celebrate the Proteas win. #INDvSA #TestCricket

@ovshake42 @ajarrodkimber Two of my favorite crickets analysts with great sense of humor 🫡🫡

After years of interaction across multiple channels, I finally met @ajarrodkimber in person.

@ovshake42 did you hear that on stump mic?

Brief thread on something that has been brewing in my head. In 2009 and 2010, when I was working in the Mint office in Delhi, they sent me to be a jury member for a Tech Awards thing. Leaving the details intentionally vague for privacy and habeus corpus reasons. 1/n

@ovshake42 😬😬

@maddyisms Why is it that they can never get the spelling right?

@ovshake42 is this the first ever instance of an Indian movie celebrating an International cricketer? Check at 00:39 seconds youtu.be/8GQ2QXul-Po?si…

Very sweet of @TheDeshBhakt to give a shoutout. Those few threads were just a result of an adrenaline rush after the World Cup win and I wrote them from 3 am to 5 am lying on my bed. Wanted to write more of those player stories, but finally dozed off. Woke up to see them blow up.