Anand Kumar Singh

The momentousness of 1983 WC win is unparalleled in Indian cricket, it wasn't obvious to me in 2011 but certainly is now.

In Hindi songs there is 60s and 70s, then there is a big patch of vacuum, and then there is everything else.

Many years into the future, there is an unnamed army. Its most important asset is an intellectual who can perform basic arithmetic with pen and pencil as everyone else needs a calculator. And he gets depressed thinking of that. I think about that story often now.

We used to get a bunch of comics and teens' magazines when I was a kid. One of them was Suman Saurabh. When I was around 8 there was this short story it published. The one page comic strip was basically this much -

@karachikhatmal @PCCIpod Pakistan/Mohsin Naqvi ~ SRK in Darr. LOL. I think Usman Tariq too

> He is either cheerful or angry, but never helpless, and that separates him from the likes of Tendulkar. Part of the reason why Kohli will never be tragic hero is his personality and competitiveness. A brilliantly articulated observation by Sidharth Monga on @ESPNcricinfo.

Sometimes all you need is a breakfast in a nice old fashioned diner, which has a one page dog eared plastic laminated menu, which is bustling with people even on a cold weekday morning, and where half the ambient noise is of metal turners clanging on warm pans.

It was played right after the 2022 WC debacle. Gill labored through powerplay, nudging and refusing to slog in spite of his struggle. To me, it was 'playing for average' and spoke volumes about his unsuitability as a modern T20 batter.

Disclosure - I could be biased. Half my mind about Gill's merit as a T20 batsman was made seeing him bat against SL in this 2023 match espncricinfo.com/series/sri-lan…

A thread on the merits of omission of Shubman Gill from India's T20I WC squad. @bhogleharsha and @joybhattacharj on Cricbuzz have endorsed it, while Sid Monga and @the_kk on Cricinfo have criticized it.

@samrudha_surana Related tidbit - Minneapolis-St Paul has Hmong signage.

Why does Detroit airport have Japanese on its signage? Automobile industry?

A phrase keeps its meaning only until its not been lazily misused enough, after which point its meaning changes and what was clear once then becomes vague.

@budgetcar I was given an unsafe car by you at Midland airport that broke down on way to Roswell and every tire mechanic told me the car is unusable and should have never left. I have videos of them saying so. I have been charged $700 for the tow anyway when I should be refunded

@karachikhatmal Is this on still?

Washington DC area people - there might be a chance to host a Batta Fast live show with audience Q&A next month. Wanted to get an idea of how many people would be down to attend smth like that - reply here if you'd like to visit. Thanks 🙏🏾🥰