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@kushansarkar Two words: Vipraj. Nigam. Hope he has another good IPL

Varun Chakravarthy gets a respectable break option due to "injury". He had a very poor last three months and this was waiting to happen. This "supposed injury break" would help him go back to drawing board, may be get some new tricks up his sleeve. His India slot isn't safe either. He was project till "2026 T20WC". Above and beyond no guarantees.

@SamRoy84 I'll take your word bro, I've only read about him. Do you think Dubey is a better test prospect? What I feel sure of is that Sundar, Axar are good all rounders but unlike prime Jadeja and Ashwin can't play as specialist bowlers

@raashah Don't know how he (Suthar) is bowling in last 6 odd months though.

So happy for Dube... take him to test squad in SL as the 4th spinner (Jaddu, Kuldeep, Washy) and him..Take Axar too if you want (as a batting all-rounder)..

@SamRoy84 Vs Aus A at home espncricinfo.com/story/ind-a-vs…

@SamRoy84 Really? I thought with Manav his ability to vary pace was a strength. It helps that both have that ability to beat batsmen with flight. They will bowl at the right pace on home pitches. Spin attack needs an overhaul. None of Sundar, Axar, Jadeja can play as specialist bowlers

@Varungiri0 Tilak is now a finisher. Ishan is no 3. I Don't think Paddikal can take that finisher role.

Paddikal to replace Tilak Verma in Indian T20i team. Better spin hitter, better range. Not slowing down. Honestly, this version of Paddikal is different from any other left handed middle order T20 batters of the country. He is an upgrade over them.

@thereddaredev1l Started too slow and It had some great moments, let down by a very poorly scripted end. The final epic fight should have been amazing but was just... mehh

Now Rewatching: 'THE DEFENDERS' (2017)

It's getting to a stage where I'm beginning to think that what stops Vaibhav is Bumrah and Bumrah alone. Ridiculously freaky talent.

@talksports45 Will be interesting to compare his SR in the first 10 to 15 balls he faces Vs the current India openers and other contenders...

Sai Sudarshan may not be the most ideal T20 batter for many, but his run scoring ability is unmatched. After 42 innings he has scored 1861 runs in the league, which is a record surpassing Gayle's tally of 1804. Since 2023 Sai has scored 1734 runs at 148.2, including 14 50+ scores. 11 of those scores have been scored at a SR > 150. And his 4 hitting in the Powerplay is unmatched. The only batter other than Jaiswal to have scored 50+ 4s in the PP, since 2025.

@SurajeetSingh4 @aleem_1690 Ct25 pitches were tailor made for Jaddus bowling. He/we got lucky

@aleem_1690 Well, that's story of 3 years ago... Now we have another shot ... Although happy that Jaddu played CT25...

More people are seeing the light too late. We have to look past him in ODIs as well.

@SamRoy84 It's utterly ridiculous that he still gets into ODI team should have been dropped years ago Test great but his bowling has really dropped of late, he's now more of a batting all rounder. Team balance needs to reflect that Was probably never a good T20 player. Krunal was better.

Jadeja is an all-time great test cricketer, very good ODI Cricketer (remember how good he was in 2013, 2014), but was very lucky to play T20Is for Ind as long as he did. Used to perform poorly or below average in most T20 WCs he played..Nobody to replace him..

@Jsp_Nic If a state takes land, builds settlements, annexes some of it, and withdraws only when it’s too costly — what is that, if not expansionism? 3/3

@Jsp_Nic Since then: settlements expand, East Jerusalem + Golan annexed, long-term control entrenched. And the pattern is consistent: Sinai → returned for peace Golan → kept + annexed Lebanon → left when costs rose Gaza → settlers removed but control over access remains 2/3

No one can ever actually explain why if Israel is an “expansionist colonial endeavor” to establish “Greater Israel,” it has not actually expanded in size, and, in fact, gave back land in 1982.

@Jsp_Nic 4/n... x.com/i/status/20406…

@Jsp_Nic the “they haven’t finished the job, so they must not be expansionist” line doesn’t work. Expansionist projects do not need to grab everything at once. They advance in layers: take land, build settlements, fragment the local population, and lock in facts on the ground. 3/n

If Israel was actually trying to expand and form “Greater Israel,” (it’s not, but let’s pretend for a sec) that means it would have achieved only about 2.5% (% of Greater Israel territory) of this objective in its almost 80 years of existence. And if Israel controls the gov of the strongest country in the world (ZOG of the US) you’d think it could leverage that influence to help it achieve its objective. But in fact, it has not made any progress one way or the other.

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@Jsp_Nic “Israel hasn’t expanded” just doesn’t hold up. After 1948 it controlled ~78% of Palestine (vs ~56% in the UN plan), and in 1967 it took the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Sinai, and the Golan Heights. That’s major expansion. 1/n

It’s as if people who believe in this conspiracy have never heard of Occam’s Razor. To believe Israel is fundamentally expansionist, you need to weave together a mosaic of different ad hoc explanations, using each one to plug the holes in the theory to account for each time Israel did something that is non-expansionist and you have to invent intentions. Israel withdraws from the Sinai in 1982? They say it’s purely due to American pressure. Israel grants autonomy to the PA over most of the WB? The PA is a Zionist subcontractor. Israel withdraws from Lebanon? It desperately wanted to stay and annex but it was kicked out. Israel withdraws from Gaza? Was just a trick to turn Gaza into an “open air prison.” Israel currently holding territory in Syria and Lebanon? Has nothing to do with defensive buffers and Israel plans on annexing. The point is that you need to find some acrobatic explanation for each individual instance, because each one of them pokes a hole in the theory. If Israel’s ambitions were truly expansionist, why would it have withdrawn from territory again and again? There is a simpler explanation: Israel does not have an expansive agenda. People seem to forget that the simplest explanation is often the correct one. If you have to concoct a different explanation to account for each observation or if each of observation is an exception and you’re left with many exceptions, then your theory is probably flawed.

@Jsp_Nic Israel is expanaionist It expands when possible, pull back when it’s too costly, and keep control where it matters most (especially over Palestinians and the West Bank). That pattern is pretty consistent. End

@Jsp_Nic Gaza gets used as an example too, but Israel still controls access, airspace, and movement, and has imposed a blockade since 2007 according to UN sources. Leaving physically doesn’t mean giving up control. 11/n