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19 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Fingers crossed for levelling at the biggest stage of them all - Melbourne Cricket Ground. It's the real Lord's of cricket, not Lord's.
Again realizing just how mind bendingly cathartic the 2018 win was for me. I'm just mildly annoyed and amused at India's collapse. Not getting into a multi week funk like previous collapses. Able to think with equanimity, like, wow this is as classic a test as any! #INDvAUS
Is 340 AM too late for the first drink of the night or too early for the first drink of the day? Asking for a friend. #INDvAUS #36allout
I often have elaborate dreams during India's test matches. Like really elaborate, building on the previous days' play. When I woke up after the first session, for a while I thought it was just a dream. But it was India in the corner, India in the spot. Light...
Who else has test cricket dreams? Mine have featured some brilliant innings and spells that never happened. I still remember that Kohli triple century in the 5th test in England. Or Ashwin's 10/28 in an innings at Sydney.

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18 Dec
People, I'm 40 years old. You don't have to tell me about Sachin, Lara, Akram, McGrath, Warne etc etc. I'm just saying that when kids today are 40 years old, Smith, Kohli, Bumrah, Cummins, Shami, Lyon etc will be joining that pantheon too. It's not a zero sum game. #INDvAUS
I'm from the generation that in the 90s heard middle aged uncles sneer if someone said Dravid was great with "you didn't see Vishy!". Laxman fans were told Azhar was better. Azhar fans were told Jaisimha was better. Kumble fans were told Chandra was better. Nostalgia is seductive
I still remember a family hangout during a wedding in 1992 in which an uncle and a granduncle said "this new chubby blond spinner can't even get Shastri out! Standards of spin bowling in Australia have really slipped from the days of Benaud."

They were talking about Warne.
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17 Dec
Remaining cauliflower is too little to use in anything except Gobi Paratha. So trying @krishashok's method of just mixing atta:water 1:1 by weight and letting it autolyse. I've done autolyse for baking. Why did I never think of doing it for rotis and parathas until #MasalaLab? ImageImage
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Definitely easier to knead and roll than my previous paratha flours, @krishashok. Especially for cauliflower, whose texture makes it break the dough somewhere. Gobi paratha are a go. Just grate, spice simply, squeeze out water if there, add salt at the last minute in the filling. ImageImageImageImage
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17 Dec
The blizzard continues, although the winds are mild. A kid out sledding. Manhattan looks gorgeous the morning after (or in this case during) a snow storm. Relishing this beauty after over a year. Last winter was snowless. #NYC
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Upstate however is a different story. Way more snow! Got this picture from a friend in Ellenville NY with the message "spot the car!" Image
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In my cricket watching career, I've never changed my estimation of a player over the years more than Nathan Lyon. 12 years ago I thought him a harmless joke. Now I think of him as the best all-surface test spinner in the world. What a brain. #INDvAUS
Cummins-Lyon is at least as challenging a combination to face as McGrath-Warne, if not a bit more. Maybe a bit more because Lyon is a lot craftier than Warne in my estimation. Warne's strength was the insane turn he got. But you could strategize against him easier than Lyon.
Thing with Warne was, if you survived him in one series, you would likely survive him in subsequent series with roughly similar technique and approach. Lyon keeps evolving. What worked in 2018 against him might not this time.
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Ah there comes the predictable Channel 9 old boys bit about lol lol how it is difficult to pronounce Cheteshwar Pujara's first name and lol they nicknamed him Steve. It's not #INDvsAUS without an Aussie commentator being casually racist.
You would think you'd have some respect at least for the guy who beat you last time to learn how to say his name. Not giggle about it on an international broadcast like schoolyard bullies picking on anything in the opposition.
It's not Channel 9 but Fox. Ah, even more on brand then. Murdoch world is known for exoticism in such regards.
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