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@LaxmanSivarama1 In your playing or commentary days, if racism happened with you, it is plain WRONG. But, Siva, in all honesty, you did not have the voice quality or articulation to be a revered commentator. Accept it, as we accept that you were an outstanding cricketer. Stop demeaning yourself.

@LaxmanSivarama1 You often 'called' batting related stuff - strategy, false shot, technical aspect, etc. What you are now suggesting is not only hypocritical but also robotic. Amidst your many valid criticisms over the past few days, meaningless rants are demeaning your credibility. Pls stop.

@himganj153 The biggest concern amidst this is that Siva needs some help. He is clearly unwell. I hope some ex cricketers lend him support. Currently seems like a bitter lone ranger churning poison. Serious and sad situation.

Very importantly, he speaks very well, has a good voice, good tone, and great command over the language, so he can deliver both technical and casual. And he is bound by the need to make sense. The new Indian comms have none of these things.

@talksports45 Why not tabulate their coefficient of variation for consistency? Standard deviation/average

Calculated the median scores for test batsmen who managed to score 8000+ test runs. Took some efforts to do this, but was a fun stat. Have divided the list in 2 parts. The 1st has players with a median score >=30 and the next with <30. Brian Lara-33.5 Garry Sobers-33.5 Rahul Dravid-33 AB de Villiers-33 Viv Richards-32.5 Sachin Tendulkar-32 Kane Williamson-32 Kumar Sangakkara-32 Jacques Kallis-31.5 Allan Border-31 Steve Smith-31 Shivnarine Chanderpaul-31 Virender Sehwag-31 Younis Khan-31 Kevin Pietersen-31 Matthew Hayden-31 Javed Miandad-30 Geoffrey Boycott-30 (1/n)

@ABsay_ek "God" manipulated him/them to "owe" it to him/play for him! Good for all that it worked :)

Since today marks 15 years since that April night in Mumbai, here is something Yuvraj Singh once told Hemant Brar. The kind of story that slips out years later, when the noise has died down. Yuvraj numbers were ordinary before that World Cup: 24 ODIs, 490 runs, 24 Average, strike rate scraping 68. His body was not cooperating. The mind was worse. He was trying his best but Nothing clicked. Then Tendulkar found him. Not to talk cover drives or weight transfer. To talk about why he should won the World Cup. Play for someone who is special for you. Pick someone you owe, he said. Someone you watched as a boy. Play the whole thing for them. Yuvraj went to his room. Dug out a photograph from Nairobi, October 2000. His first game. Tendulkar, playing the on-drive. He took another phoro of himself, playing the same shot. He taped them to his kit bag. In cricket, bags travel. They carry your living. Players call them coffins. Every time he unzipped his kit bag, he saw his childhood staring back. The man he watched through a window. The debt. You know what followed. That roar in Motera, 362 runs, 15 wickets in the middle overs. The man of the tournament. The final, won at last after 28 years. But that is the scorecard. This is the story. Tendulkar had played in five World Cups. He had seen two semifinals & one final that ended in tears. He was 37 at that time. This was his last ride. Everyone in the dressing room understood what hung in the air. Yuvraj played for the man who had given him the game. When Yuvraj hugged Tendulkar after the victory. Both of them wept. The coffin had done its job & debt was settled. The boy had finally carried his hero home.

@BishOnTheRockx Reach to who? Aapni bhalo content chaaliye jaan. Jaader actually "reach" korbaar, theek e korche. Keep it up!

Made peace with this lack of reach.

@CricketopiaCom What outstanding glove work by Mongia on the 2nd stumping. Shady guy but what a wicket keeper he was.

Tendulkar, the All Rounder 3 for 38 followed by a little cameo innings of 23 off 19 runs (4 boundaries). India v New Zealand, Napier 1999

@nimishdubey The lack of pace could also be the only weapon in your arsenal. Hence Chris Harris is also a 'pace' bowler. It is the pace variable but in the opposite direction :D

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what a medium pace bowler is. Classically, the definition we were told used to be simple, and used to depend upon how important speed was to the bowler. If speed was a crucial element of the bowler's arsenal (and they were not spinners), they were generally categorised as pace bowlers. If they were not depending heavinly on speed, but were not spinners, they were called medium pacers. It was a pretty wide and yet simple definition. A medium pacer was someone who was not as quick as a pace bowler and depended on a number of other skills - generally accuracy, swing and movement off the seam, and even quickish off and leg breaks, called cutters. A pace bowler on the other hand, carried the threat of physical harm and making the batsman hurry. Pacers also swung the ball (although generally lesser) but were sharper off the wicket and were known for bouncers and swinging yorkers. There were some medium pace bowlers who could sometimes move up a level and even get into the pace category (Gary Sobers, Ian Botham and Maurice Tate were great examples) but their main strength was not speed. Some medium pacers were slightly quicker and some were not - just like some pace bowlers were faster than others. When the whole idea of speed guns came into vogue, there was a very rough defintion of pace bowling being around 136 kmph (abput 85 mph) and above. Everything below that was medium pace. A bowler was also considered pace when he consistently bowled at above this pace, and not just the odd delivery in six. This simple definition unfortunately, has been muddled up with commentators coming up with vaguely defined categories of "express pace" "fast medium" "medium fast" and God knows what else, and putting their own benchmarks out there. There are some who even consider 130 kmph to be pace, by which definition, Terry Alderman, Richard Hadlee, Ian Botham and Imran Khan would qualify as pace bowlers. To make matters worse, there is a lot of loose commentary out there, which randomly allots speeds to bowlers of the past. I have seen posts which which claim Kapil Dev bowled at close to 140 kmph (and even 150 kmph) and that Alderman was often close to 140 kmph. That might be true, but then that would place them close to the speeds of Michael Holding and Malcom Marshall. There is a section of cricket followers out there who seem to think that medium pace is basically bowled at 120 - 125 kmph. That's not exactly correct. A medium pacer is a bowler whose primary weapon is not pace, but is movement and accuracy. The presence of speed as a threat was the biggest difference between a pace bowler and a medium pacer. Dennis Lillee was pace, Terry Alderman was medium pace. Shane Bond was pace, Richard Hadlee was (for the latter part of his career) medium pace. In fact, as many bowlers grew older, they often graduated from being fierce pace bowlers to controlled medium pace ones - Richard Hadlee, Glenn McGrath, Joel Garner, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Zaheer Khan and Shaun Pollock are great examples of this. They retained the ability to 'slip in' a quicker delivery but did not depend on speed. Many commentators even would include Dennis Lillee in that, but the man would fiercely object to it! And that is the essence of the definition of a medium pacer - a seam and swing bowler who does not use pace as a primary weapon. The speed gun is a statistical distraction. It is the use of speed and its importance that counts. Of course, this will be disputed, but it is the definition that was broadly handed down by coaching manuals and I am happy enough with it. #Cricket #Bowling #MediumPaceBowling (@alawyerwrites @WG_RumblePants)

@TheBarmyArmy Be a good enough player to execute a spot fixed outcome.

What is the HARDEST thing to do in cricket? 🤔

@bcdeshmukh83 Yes. VVS 281, and Astle 222 (showed what is possible in test match attacking batting)

VVS 281

@BishOnTheRockx Mumbai lobby got some absolute jokers during this period. Dighe, Jacob Martin, Kanitkar, Khurasiya (just before this tour). One of my friends extensively spoke to Azza a few days back. Azza said "mai player laya Anil, Rahul, Sourav... Sachin kya laaya? SAM DIGGEE (lol)".

This was the most depressing phase I have ever lived as a watcher of Indian cricket. One of my friends after a loss in one of the ODIs against AUS in this tri-nation said - they have Damien Martyn, we have Jacob Martin. So that's that...

The moment Dhoni took off his right glove in that Bangladesh match in 2016 T20 WC the first thing that came to my mind was this match. Dighe didn't take off his right glove in this situation. It ended up being a pretty poor, slow as fuck throw with his right glove on. India lost

@BishOnTheRockx India was a one man ODI team in this period. No, not SRT. But SCG. Rest had either skill or temperamental deficiency to win. Hence, overall the 1980s WC/WCC winning ODI teams were way better.

@RSingh6969a Using @shekharkapur AI? Nice one, which AI is it btw?

Three of India's Parsi greats in one frame...Rusi Surti, Polly Umrigar, Nari Contractor.

@BumbleCricket Constant or Hampshire

Umpires name ?

@TheBarmyArmy Mute button.

Tell us who your favourite commentator is 👇

@joybhattacharj Why have you guys never called out Tony Greig's racism other than "grovel"? He was an absolute scum, all of you have glorified him as a great entertainer. Same with Blofeld. Mentioned this to @bhogleharsha also but you guys never engage on comments that you don't like.

On this day 41 years ago, when India played Pakistan in the finals of the World Championship of Cricket in Melbourne, this was a sign displayed in the stands. Today, there is no chance such a racist banner would be allowed in a game, and absolutely no chance the broadcast team would put it on air and think it was funny. I remember seeing it then and wondering how they got away with it.

@Mrsinha It was your chest expanding to 56 inches. Congratulations.

Had a severe chest pain last night.. Like I was unable to get up from the bed for over an hour. Felt like it's time to say goodbye, but survived.. Can't be a heart attack as pain remained the same for an hour and got better without any medical help.. 😶‍🌫️

@Fancricket12 @hvgoenka is a peddler of WhatsApp university forwards. I guess when you have money, you can spew any nonsense and get away with it.

See, this never-ending myth... Note - Wides and and no balls were not credited to the bowler until 1984. Kapil bowled a no-ball in his first Test itself in Faisalabad. There is a YouTube video too. Lance Gibbs bowled a no-ball in the Lahore Test in 1974-75. Imran Khan did bowl a no-ball in the 1992 WC final v England. This is for Botham, most likely from the 1985 Ashes series. "After [Alan] Whitehead had turned down an lbw appeal against Greg Ritchie, Botham’s response had been to try to bounce out the opponent. When Ritchie was then caught in the deep off a delivery which Whitehead called a no-ball Botham — who rarely bowled no-balls — lost his temper.” Lillee - 1972 Ashes, Trent Bridge, while bowling to Lukchrust.

@nimishdubey For them, India started after 2014 and first Indian fast bowler is Jasprit Bumrah.

For a lot of people following cricket, the following players did not exist: Dattu Phadkar Kapil Dev Karsan Ghavri Raju Kulkarni TA Sekhar Javagal Srinath Abey Kuruvila Vivek Razdan Atul Wassan And lots more. Ignorance is bliss.

@Math_files No wonder he was a third-order jerk.

Richard M. Nixon used calculus as a politician to win reelection. When campaigning for a second term in office, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing, which has been noted as "the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." Since inflation is itself a derivative—the rate at which the purchasing power of money decreases—then the rate of increase of inflation is the derivative of inflation, or the second derivative of the function of purchasing power of money with respect to time. Stating that a function is decreasing is equivalent to stating that its derivative is negative, so Nixon's statement is that the second derivative of inflation—or the third derivative of purchasing power—is negative.