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a day without humiliation is a day wasted - Jay Shah (pbuh)

Nitish already failed in IPL; he is not a T20 player at the moment. Maybe he has some utility in longer formats but should be kept away from T20 sides until he has a bumper IPL season.

And the other famous Garfield

People are talking about it right now. I understand that you don't care about aggregates but a lot of people do care about them. Literally every single podcast that is covering the ashes talked about the possibility of breaking that record today, both aussie and english comms are discussing it

You only proved that LOI records are losing relevance. Babar is about to break Kohli's most T20 runs record and hardly any kohli fan is stressed about it. But if Babar's test runs ever come close to Kohli's runs there will be a huge discourse for sure

We're arguing about different definitions of caring here. Casual fans who can name 5 cricketers in any given calendar year but still flood the ipl games obviously exist in massive majority numbers everywhere but they are not the ones worrying about the existential questions like who's a great batsman, who's merely a very good batsman, who's an all time legend etc. I'm 99% sure if you conduct a poll for who's better Bradman or Thala outside chepauk, Thala will win with super majority but none of us here care about those opinions. In fact you'll be the first one to make fun of casuals, come ipl season when they're shouting Thala when csk needs 40 of 6. Sporting records only have any value because of people who like to compile lists every other weekend and argue about them. And that subset among cricket fans still believe that test cricket separates wheat from chaff. Its like cinephiles discussing about which is better Godfather or Citizen kane and someone replies akshually Tinpot-man 4 made ten gorillion dollars so that's the greatest movie

No one cares about test cricket, no one cares about odi cricket, funny thing is no one cares about T20 cricket either. It is an era of not caring about anything, but arguing about everything

Nope he didn't score in last Aussie ashes (2021)

Australia's backup bowlers are better than their backup batsmen though. Ofcourse it doesn't matter since Smith missed a test in this series and England still got smashed

Problem with this sendoff concept is the number of ODIs have reduced drastically now. If we were playing 20-24 ODIs every year still, it would have been easy to sneak in a WI, Afg series somewhere and give Shami the farewell series. Right now Shami will most likely get smashed all around the park and also waste whatever precious ODI practice we can have. We still don't know if Harshit/Prasidh/Arshdeep are any good in ODIs and can be picked for 2027..

I think bad optics is the point. If something like this is handled behind the scenes, the voters wouldn't know how hard the govt is committed to Hindus. So the BD players must be allowed in the auction, KKR must buy him and then the saviour govt must come in and ban him

Hope you remember to do a press meet and present all the crime statistics of India if you ever become victim of a crime then

Because other Aussie players were also attending F1 at the time but only Khawaja got questioned

I just know he'll grt a 5fer in one of them. That's what bhuvi used to do