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@swaris16 Surely Eden will get some important matches now

Why does Ahmedabad host so many big games – and does it need to? ⬇️ wisden.com/series/ipl-202…

Post #ipl2026, many "how-I-hit-a-six-off-Bumrah" documentaries coming up! Maybe even a series! Jokes apart, need more matches where bowlers have a role to play!

@bhaleraosarang @irbishi

Like a mid year appraisal, if we do a mid season appraisal of the IPL - who should get maximum hike and get a promotion?

Rupert Grint, the English actor who played Ron in the Harry Potter films, was too young to spend his money when he started getting rich. He had to wait until he was of legal age to commit his first folly. His first adult purchase, with the enormous fortune he had accumulated, was... an ice cream truck. An ice cream truck. This is the truck he bought. A 1974 Bedford van, designed by Mr. Whippy. And surprisingly, the young actor didn't want an ice cream truck to be displayed in his front yard. He wanted to use it to sell ice cream! Or rather, offer them to children for free. Which he did for a while, driving his truck through the small villages in his region, handing out popsicles along the way. It was a childhood dream.

My daughter Annika is proudly autistic and 12 years old. She drew this butterfly from a photo she took herself — every vein, every scale, rendered by hand on a tablet. She signs everything she makes. Dates it. Like she already knows it matters. She's turning 13 tomorrow. Please share this for her birthday. Let's make her day.

I went to see Project Hail Mary. Great movie, I highly recommend it. The less you know about it going in, the better. Trust me. The guy in front of me in the theater brought his dog in to see the movie with him. I think it was a service animal. But the dog really seemed to be enjoying the movie, it was strange. So I said to the guy afterwards, "I know this is going to sound strange, but it seemed like your dog really enjoyed the movie." He said, "It is strange. He hated the book."

@babumoshoy After stacking, I also ensure the number is even

Am I the only one, who opens a packet of biscuits with an honest intention of transferring them into a container, only to discover the new home can't hold them all - so, out of duty, eats the extras until left with exactly the number of biscuits that would fit in the new storage?

@bhogleharsha Wankhede hosted India vs US barely 40 days back...the gulf didn't show then. Give the bowlers a bit to work with to work on IPL's imbalance, further enhanced by the meaningless impact player rule

I know the wickets offer so little to bowlers but the gulf between batting skills and bowling is now huge. And threatens to get even bigger

@sushobhan @joybhattacharj @peeleraja @PeelaRaja He has been on a rampage recently against south kolkata and IIT, mostly ragebait

@joybhattacharj @peeleraja Quite clueless about South Calcutta or South Point, aren’t you, @Peelaraja?

He taught English at South Point. Thats why privileged South Calcuttans are so eloquent in establishing how subaltern they are.

This would be like Australia hosting its five marquee Tests in Hobart, Brisbane, Kalgoorlie, Wollongong and Canberra.

@Oam_16 Sachin reportedly had a bowl of ice cream before his famous knock against Pakistan in Centurion 2003 Let a 14 year old enjoy and realize what works for him!

He's a 14-year old kid. Give him a break.

My fave Chuck Norris joke: Chuck doesn't flush the toilet, he scares the shit out of it.

@Vipintiwari952 What a story! No wonder VVS 'muscle'-d his way to 281!

Former Indian cricketer V. Raju claimed that it was his contribution behind VVS Laxman’s historic 281-run innings : He said : “I still remember the evening after Australia enforced the follow-on. National selector Madan Lal asked us to keep fighting. Laxman then said something that surprised me. He said, “We might win this.” At that stage it felt hard to imagine, but he had the belief.” Laxman’s innings was extraordinary. He was coming down the track to Shane Warne and hitting him even against the spin. That confidence came from years of playing domestic cricket on turning tracks in Hyderabad. For me, the Kolkata Test was special because it turned out to be my last game. Getting the wicket of Mark Waugh made it even more memorable. It was the perfect farewell. More importantly, that Test transformed Indian cricket. It gave the team belief that we could fight back from any situation and win. There’s another small personal memory: the bat Laxman used to score that famous 281 was actually mine. So, in a small way, that was my contribution to that historic knock.” (Beyond the boundaries)

@bhaleraosarang Anything but "brilliant"!

The evergreen debate: Laws of the game vs. the spirit of the game. Every argument seems valid, yet every point can also be questioned. In the end, the laws are followed. What’s your view on this?

Thanks to the ongoing geopolitical situation, receiving an LPG cylinder feels like a victory! #lpg

@AbijitG He is practicing Intermittent peace

Arre Donald bhai, ek baar mei bata de World War 3 karna hee hai toh. Mai yaha jo faltu mei intermittent fasting kar raha hu voh sab chodhu.

@babumoshoy পশ্চিম টা common পড়ে গেছে!

Apparently some of the West Indies players are still stuck in Kolkata and may cast their vote in Bengal election.

@bhaleraosarang 1987 prudential cup paved cricket reach its current popularity in India. I hope BCCI has honoured him apart from an NKP Salve Challengers cup which is defunct post IPL

On the first step India took towards becoming a dominant force in cricket Here's an interesting story 👇 India won back-to-back T20 World Cups. Before we celebrate the players, let us remember the man who made all of this possible. His name was NKP Salve. June 1983. Lord's Cricket Ground. India has just reached the World Cup final. Salve - the Cabinet Minister of India and BCCI President - makes a simple request: Two tickets. Box seats. For the Indian High Commissioner and his wife. The officials at Lord's said no. The box was half empty. England hadn't even made the final. But India's cricket president could not be given two seats. Salve never forgot. In his own words: "They refused me two tickets in a half-empty box at Lord's to watch my own country play the World Cup final. That day I realised - India may have reached the top in cricket, but in the game's politics, we had been permanently damned to second-grade status. That had to change." India won the Cup that afternoon. The nation erupted. But Salve was already planning. He met PM Indira Gandhi, told her of the humiliation, and received her full backing. His mission: bring the World Cup out of England. Forever. Everyone said it was impossible. England and Australia held veto powers. They had hosted every World Cup in history. Salve didn't argue with the fortress. He studied its blueprint. He united India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka into an Asian bloc. He courted 21 Associate Member nations that England had always ignored - promising them five times more money. He peeled Australia away from England by offering them the next hosting rights. And when England said Asian daylight was too short for 60-over matches, he simply changed the format to 50 overs — creating the modern ODI standard the whole world plays today. The ICC vote: 16 to 12. For the first time in history, the World Cup left England. What followed changed everything. England and Australia lost their veto powers within a decade. The financial centre of cricket shifted from Lord's to Mumbai. The BCCI became the richest cricket board on earth. The IPL was born. Billion-dollar TV deals followed. Every rupee. Every franchise. Every World Cup on Indian soil. All of it traces back to two refused tickets in a half-empty box. The lesson: The officials at Lord's spent one minute refusing those tickets. Salve spent four years responding to that refusal. Respect costs nothing. Disrespect can cost you the ownership of an entire sport. Rest in peace, NKP Salve. India's cricketers win with bat and ball. You won with vision, patience, and self-respect. Reliance World Cup of 1987 offered highest prize money to winner n participating nations than earlier Prudential World Cup of 1975, 1979 & 1983. The non-India final in 1987 between Australia & England had recors crowds of 100,000. That put India on global cricketing map. Story shared by my friend on whatsapp

@Su4ita @zico_gh0sh Loved reading it @zico_gh0sh and thanks for sharing @Su4ita loved the mention of Lamhe from Pagglait, Arijit's range was very different in it. Will be interesting to see how Bollywood playback evolves!

"Film songs used to grow on you; now they need to explode." Just some excellent writing by @zico_gh0sh - if there's anything you must read today, let it be this.

@Oam_16 Who in Ahmedabad would have stayed back and watched it? :-)

Wonder if they had prepared anything for New Zealand winning...