Bharath Ramaraj
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Principal Correspondent at @RevSportzGlobal. Ex @cricbuzz. Covered 2024 Women's World Cup and 2025 Champions Trophy. Once upon a time known for doing MBA
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Joined July 2009
That chipped off-drive is enough to tell Rohit has still some cricket left in him.
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Potts bowled rubbish in Sydney while Jofra took a five-for in Adelaide. The narratives...
Jofra is still a good bowler. He had one of the highest percentages of beats in the Ashes or perhaps the highest percentage. Just needs to bowl a tad fuller after pushing the batter back. Remember, he took a five-for in his last Test. Tongue to bowl first change. People here
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Jofra is still a good bowler. He had one of the highest percentages of beats in the Ashes or perhaps the highest percentage. Just needs to bowl a tad fuller after pushing the batter back. Remember, he took a five-for in his last Test. Tongue to bowl first change. People here
@Fancricket12 @CricketTrend308 Who do you think should start with Gus in summer with new ball mine bet would be pennington or potts for home condition. Everyone here saying either sam cook or fisher, or they should try josh hull against pak with new ball as left arm angle if he shown improvement in county
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He is still Lord Shardul... Good into-the-pitch slower one.
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These guys rarely play with a straight bat, need to jam down the bat swing.
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You need a SLA v the likes of Allen (or Seifert). Allen and Seifert now mostly concentrate on T20 cricket, helping them to focus on power-hitting.
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Allah G - You can't drag it down v any batter. And especially v Finn Allen; he is a butcher of dragged down deliveries.
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Peak Robinson was the missing link in England's pace attack in AUS.
Peak Robinson was more from Jimmy Anderson's school of pace bowling - outswing, 3/4 seam, contrast swing. Although he gets a bit bounce due to his height. Duffy is your quintessential HTD bowler - high release point and snaps his back hard. Yes, he swings and seams it a bit but I
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Peak Robinson was more from Jimmy Anderson's school of pace bowling - outswing, 3/4 seam, contrast swing. Although he gets a bit bounce due to his height. Duffy is your quintessential HTD bowler - high release point and snaps his back hard. Yes, he swings and seams it a bit but I
@Cricsam01 Oh, i could see Robinson of the year 2021 in Duffy. @Fancricket12
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Injuries, injuries...
🚨BREAKING🚨 Dewald Brevis is likely to miss the first two to three games due to a side strain. #IPL2026
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What he changed last season was to have a small back foot trigger. Loads up on the front foot, the lighter foot - back foot - then goes back and slightly across. He continues with it this season too. But he was also stepping out a little more v 130-135-137 kph bowling yesterday.
Will keep an eye on Padikkal when playing back foot shots vs pace this season. Last season and in yesterday's game, notably better vs pace when on frontfoot or attacking by stepping out. Since 2025 vs pace in IPL, SR on backfoot- 112 SR on frontfoot - 167 Higher dismissal
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Mark Waugh is perhaps a top 12-13 AUS Test batter, considering the kind of knocks that he has played. Not top 20 as some make it out to be. Ian Chappell and Shane Warne would have had different views as they rate Mark higher than Steve.
I don't think I ever said he is better than Steve Waugh in Test cricket. I said this - Bradman, S Smith, perhaps Border, Guru ji Chappell, Ponting, S Waugh.
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I don't think I ever said he is better than Steve Waugh in Test cricket. I said this - Bradman, S Smith, perhaps Border, Guru ji Chappell, Ponting, S Waugh.
@Fancricket12 I have observed one thing, as a batsman you have given more waitage to Junior than Senior Waugh. Do you really think it was?
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Bro, this looks like a team photo related to India's round* robin* 1983 WC game v the West Indies at the Oval. No offence meant. @Marcus60s70s80s
This is the Indian cricket team during their 1986 tour of England. The photo was taken at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London ,likely around the time of the 1st Test in early June 1986. Led by Kapil Dev, India achieved a memorable and historic series victory, winning the Test series
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Just for fun, do you remember this junior squad? @nassercricket Mark Ramprakash, Harvey Trump, Simon Brown, Trevor Ward, Martin Bicknell, Angus Fraser, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Warren Hegg, perhaps P Martin and co.
A hundred and the winning runs in his final innings! 👏🎉 Happy Birthday to Nasser Hussain! 🎂
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In a way, it could be that Adelaide hundred. In terms of lack of timing, it was perhaps his worst hundred. But when a gifted player isn't able to land those fluent shots, he might gift it way. He grinded out a hundred that day. In this case, The Swan turned into an Ugly Duckling
@Fancricket12 Your favourite innings by him? Mine would be 116 against South Africa at Port Elizabeth. One of the most gripping test matches, I saw
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. @LongyWTID My old point on Azharuddin's defensive game v the moving ball. Ian Chappell: "Beautiful wrists. The trouble with Azhar is that he tends to take the bowler’s on when there is something in the pitch. That is the time you have got to give yourself a defensive chance
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Perhaps a little more than other things. From being slightly* overrated in the 1990s to an underrated Test cricketer. He has some blinders in Test cricket.
@Fancricket12 Your memory of Junior is insane. He was my fav too but a fair distance behind Lara, Warney & Akram.
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It was Mark Waugh's underrated hundred, alongside Slater's 95, that played the key role. Even then, when Slater was dismissed, they were only about 10 in front, with 6 wickets in hand.
A fitting farewell for Allan Border, who ended his career with a match-saving unbeaten 42 against South Africa in Durban. He retired as the record-holder for most Tests (156), runs (11,174), and matches as captain (93), after helping revive Australian cricket in the 1980s.
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