Karthik Krishnaswamy
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He/him. Cricket writer by day, photographer by night. Except when I work night shifts. Which is often.
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Next year he'll play one match in a green jersey and everything will be okay.
Global air charter services arranged a special flight for King Kohli from West Indies to India.
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India players taking the knee for BLM while staying absolutely mum about everything happening in India is just...
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The Indian team didn't raise a complaint when fans at the same venue did this to Shami earlier this year. I hope the PCB complains now because too many Indian fans have gotten away with unapologetic Islamophobia for far too long.
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What we know after 50 overs:
1) Don't judge a pitch until both sides have bowled on it.
2) Free Palestine.
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How is Mayank Agarwal always on the field when Mohammed Siraj takes a wicket?
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Shreyas Iyer was out for a duck edging the same no-footwork poke that Travis Head happened to play and miss twice in a row early in his innings. It's how batting works. It doesn't diminish Head's innings, and it shouldn't diminish your estimation of Iyer's talent.
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I know people are now laughing at the idea of Thakur playing ahead of Shami, but you see why India went with that combination when you see Starc and Cummins bat. They're genuine frontline bowlers, but they can bat. None of India's genuine frontline bowlers can.
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I've watched a lot of Virat Kohli innings, and this 9* off 37 is among the best I've seen.
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The pitch at the Gabba last month could have easily led to 4-5 players having broken bones. No one complained about it.
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RCB are two down in the 16th over.
Commentator: "Once again, Virat Kohli holding the team together."
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First-ball ducks don't say much about someone's form, but that sort of innings says slightly more.
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Rohit Sharma's technique is probably the best of any opener in Test cricket right now.
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Vihari, Iyer and Bradman would have probably all been out to that ball.
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No one in Indian cricket said one word when a recent BCCI president said "goli maaro saalon ko."
SPORT is meant to UNITE us, not DIVIDE us.
Cricket never discriminates. The bat & ball recognizes talent of the person holding them - not race, colour, religion or nationality. Those who don’t understand this have NO PLACE in a sporting arena.
@ICC
@BCCI
@CricketAus
#racism
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I wonder what Jasprit Bumrah did that got Anderson so riled up in 2021. Starc and Hazlewood have bounced him just as relentlessly and he seems more or less unbothered.
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What is this "can't be defined by one performance" logic? The Islamophobic abuse he's faced would be deplorable even if every ball he's bowled in international cricket had been hit for six.
Mohammed Shami has been a stellar performer for India for eight years, playing a significant role in many a victory. He can't be defined by one performance. My best wishes are always with him. I urge fans & followers of the game to support
@MdShami11
and the Indian team.
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Three all-time greats and Anderson.
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The overseas cricket fans who cancelled their plans to watch the World Cup in India must now be thanking the BCCI profusely for all the scheduling delays and organisational missteps.
Shoaib Ali, Bangladesh's superfan, fondly known as 'Tiger Shoaib' has faced harassing behavior from the Indian fans in the India vs Bangladesh match in Pune
Look how his Tiger Mascot had been torn apart by the Indian fans!
It's not acceptable from the HOME crowd
#INDvBAN
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T20 will peak if KKR win this game with one wicket in hand.
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Imagine being so opposed to an anti-racism gesture that you'd risk your future in international cricket.
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South Africa have more depth of talent in every department in Test cricket than England currently do.
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On the day that Dale Steyn retires, a reminder that he remains a far, far greater bowler than the other guy everyone keeps bracketing him with, and that's no insult to the other guy, who's also very good but not quite that good.
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Funny thing about Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav in the context of how everyone generally views the two of them is that Umesh is older.
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R Ashwin. Five wickets for absolutely nothing on a pitch with very very little in it for him.
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The James Anderson outside England narrative has swung all the way from Clouderson to subcontinent genius. He's neither. Slightly annoyed by the Gill and Rahane balls being eulogised so much. Mohammed Shami bowls two like that in the second innings of every Test he plays at home.
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Can't believe that I covered Bangalore, Ranchi and Dharamsala back to back in 2017 and have now done Rajkot and Ranchi back to back. Two of the great home series, and one more Test still to go.
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On R Ashwin, a magnificent cricketer I've written a lot about, and one I'll never tire of writing about.
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Love how a specific, long-standing criticism of a player is invalid because a guy played one innings where he acted on that criticism and changed his game.
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Ishant Sharma averaging in the high 30s was India's best fast bowler in their worst period for fast bowling (2011-14) because no matter how well or badly he bowled, he always bowled a lot of overs. Test cricket is hard work, and the O column of O-M-R-W matters.
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Whether it's Bumrah bowling bouncers to him or Gill needling him, England are weirdly protective of Anderson, like he should be exempt from things every other cricketer goes through.
Exchange b/w Bairstow and Gill:
Bairstow: What did you say to Jimmy about him retiring?
Gill: Retire.
Bairstow: Then he got you out next ball.
Gill: So what? …. He can get me out after 100. How many 100s did you score?
Bairstow: How many did you score? Full stop.
#INDvENG
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Devang Gandhi should return to cricket as a wily 52-year-old mystery spinner and dismiss Phil Salt so someone can write a "Gandhi sends Salt marching" headline.
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Jadeja had to run past the ball to pick it up with his throwing hand, so to get his body aligned just right for the throw was just... We almost take it for granted now how freakishly good he is on the field.
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If you're of a certain age and bowled legspin of any kind, even the most egregious tennis-ball version, you probably stuck your tongue out and loaded up over your right shoulder.
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An all-time-great pace attack wins the Test match and every commentator is talking about Kohli.
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Yash Dayal's post is only a symptom of the horrors that the BJP has unleashed across the country, empowering right-wing militias to harass interfaith couples with impunity and turning fearmongering over "love jihad" into de facto state policy.
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At a time when India should be nationalising its private hospitals, it's privatising its railways.
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How the hell does Washington Sundar have two dark-square bishops?
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Glenn McGrath, sitting in a studio 13 years after his retirement, reeling off the batsman and exact mode of dismissal for random wicket numbers thrown at him. What a man, what an astonishing cricketing life.
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Saying "I love the national anthem but the cinema isn't the place for it" is the worst reaction to the jingoistic bullying we're seeing. I don't want to stand for the anthem, anywhere, and I want to be able to not stand without fearing that some asshole might beat me up for it.
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Turning a symbol of protest into a gesture for which everyone gets a certificate of participation was always going to end with something as transparently absurd as this.
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No matter how easy or difficult the catch is at slip, Ajinkya Rahane always flicks the ball to the square-leg umpire when he's done.
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None of India's players deserves to lose and perhaps Bumrah least of all. Cricket is cruel and more beautiful for it.
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The lofted hits and sweeps are okay, but did Pujara just hurry Kohli into taking a quick single?
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Why is the DJ yelling "jeetega bhai jeetega" at a Bangladesh-Scotland match in Oman?
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They did no such thing for VB Chandrasekhar, an actual cricketer who played for India.
India team to sport black armbands on the passing of Arun Jaitley.
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If only Edgbaston last week had a little bit of this pace and bounce...
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You could have simply kept quiet as usual, no? Pitiful.
India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants.
Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation.
#IndiaTogether
#IndiaAgainstPropaganda
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Two debutants from Tamil Nadu in the Gabba Pongal Test.
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Ishant Sharma turns 100.
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Shubman Gill was born to bat in long sleeves. Dhananjaya de Silva too.
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Each time I see it, I'm amazed at how steady Arshdeep's head is when he runs in to bowl.
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One of the all-time-great spells by a visiting fast bowler in India.
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One hypothesis for English cricket's tendency to melt down whenever Mankading happens: only a tiny fraction of players in that system learned the ruthless lessons of street/gully/terrace/apartment-complex cricket while growing up.
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c Bumrah b Kuldeep is such a fitting way for this series to end.
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India's greatest cricketer, probably ever (I probably don't need to say probably), and it's an absolute joy to watch him back and bowling like this again. Back stress injuries are scary AF.
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Few batters in history have had his god-given gift for playing and missing.
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Left-arm inswing at 90mph from one end, left-arm inswing at 90kph from the other.
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The ideal Test-match pitch. Both Jamieson and Axar get to maintain their averages.
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Australia are about to go 2-0 up in an away Ashes series for the first time since 2001. Another reminder that India without Bumrah and Pant were always clear underdogs against them in English conditions, and that the knee-jerk reactions to their WTC final defeat were unwarranted.
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I have laughed
at her poetry but
am now forced
to acknowledge
she's a queen.
I received an invite from the Biden administration for a Diwali event being held by the VP on nov 8. I decline any invitation from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population—50% of whom are children.
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Chepauk has fallen. Feroz Shah Kotla will remain a fortress for India even if they lose their next Test there because it's been renamed.
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TIL: The team winning the toss chose to bat first in ALL of Don Bradman's 52 Tests.
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I remember India scoring 287 in a 50-overs game at the Chinnaswamy and feeling like something uncommonly exciting had happened.
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Best use of a tennis ball is to play cricket with it.
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Ganguly will cheerfully contradict himself now, most probably, as he's done plenty of times before. Example: saying he wants the rescheduled Test in England to be a one-off game, and a few hours later saying it should be the fifth Test of the series.
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I hope for the day when an Indian sports broadcaster gets a Muslim sports icon to talk about the rampant Islamophobia here. If it happens, it won't be because that broadcaster holds progressive views, but because it'll reflect a wider public consensus that Islamophobia is bad.
"Until we educate the entire human race, this thing will not stop."
Michael Holding delivers a powerful message, explaining why
#BlackLivesMatter
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People will speak of big-match pressure and nerves etc, but the simpler explanation for both 2017 and this final is that India have tended to have quality top-order batting but not a lot of depth.
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2000-01 was a fairytale, 2016-17 was two superb teams at full strength fighting tooth and nail, 2020-21 is an improbable underdog script that would make you roll your eyes if it were fiction.
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Rohit was right about India's bowlers but also wrong to throw them under the bus. And right through the tournament, he tried to bat like a proper T20 opener but struggled to make it happen. In all, a strange and sad World Cup for him.
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This is superb from Monga, needless to say. The first piece I've read on Siraj that discusses his being a Muslim sportsperson in post-2014 India.
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He could go on to end his innings in a blaze of boundaries, but for what it's worth, I think Kohli's control percentage (81%) is too high for a T20 innings on a pitch like this. You've got to be taking more chances in the situation he's batted in, and be prepared to look ugly.
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The Kohli bhakts have arrived, demonstrating their complete inability to understand any emotion more complex than devotion or loathing. Always astounded by the dissonance between the brilliance of Kohli and his teammates and the toxicity of so many of their fans.
On my dirty, compromised relationship with Virat Kohli.
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On a pitch where West Indies' spinners were turning everything square, Jadeja and Ashwin are constantly testing both edges. This is what makes them so dangerous.
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The real Congress is sadly not as based as the Congress the fearmongerers are fearmongering about.
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It's been five years since Ashwin spoke about his reverse carrom ball to Ian Ward on Sky, so you'd think Indian TV commentators would by now be familiar with the variation.
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What's Siraj's average when Agarwal is on the field vs when Agarwal isn't on the field?
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What a tour. He deserved a pitch like this for batting so masterfully in far more difficult conditions in the Tests before this one.
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This is, if I'm not wrong, the 18th time Ashwin has taken the match-ending wicket in an India Test win.
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How do you leave out Mohammad Abbas, Hasan Ali and Yasir Shah, and pick *this* attack?
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Kohli on 99 off 66. Slowest IPL century so far: Manish Pandey in 2009, off 67 balls.
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PSA, but it can be simultaneously true that the BCCI exerts a dangerously unhealthy level of power and influence over world cricket and that the India players had legitimate reasons to not want to play the Old Trafford Test.
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On my dirty, compromised relationship with Virat Kohli.
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I'm convinced that the simple fact of being left-handed has added at least five runs to the Test averages of Pant and Jadeja.
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Yes. The nip-backer to hit the top of off and the yorker. Deliveries that didn't exist before T20.
Jasprit Bumrah - an absolute artist. And, with all the talk about how T20 can hinder players in Test cricket, illustrates how the very best players bring in T20 skills to enhance their Test game
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I know he got that hundred in Chennai earlier this year, but Ashwin in this game has looked the closest in a long time to the glorious timer of the ball he used to be in his first 5-6 years in Test cricket.
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They really need to give the Player of the Match award to players on the losing team sometimes. Litton played the innings of the day, by far.
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For the sake of T20 hipsterism and for the lolz, it would be terrific for a bunch of Umesh Yadav slogs to beat the team with the hundred and the five-for.
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You've watched this video hundreds of times but watch it again and keep your eyes on Healy's hands. What a beautiful, beautiful wicketkeeper.
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I don't know if the best way to develop spinners is to make them debut in the most challenging tour of them all, bowl them into the ground while experienced quicks take long breaks between short spells, and take them back to a first-class competition where they'll barely bowl.
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