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18 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This series is the most assured and relaxed I've seen Rohit Sharma in an away series. Far cry from 2013 South Africa where he looked just laughably bizarrely inept compared to Kohli, Pujara. Bizarre cos he's actually a good player of pace. Now he's starting to look it. #IndvAus
Please get a match winning century here, Ro. One hill I'm really really looking forward to vacate is the "Rohit does not belong in a full strength test XI outside India" hill. Do an Ivanisevic at Wimbledon type thing. #IndvAus
Could we implant Rohit with a chip where he sees all Australian kits as yellow and all indian including his as blue and some garish pink on the umpires? #IndvAus
Dude is in zen zone for 50 overs in ODIs in way tougher conditions. In tests, he starts getting antsy in like 20 overs. Just let him think this is an ODI and he might get us there in 50 overs. 😁 #IndvAus
Also if we are doing sci fi anyway, let's also make him think it's always over 20-40 of an ODI. No one, not even Sachin or Virat, is the king of that relatively test-ish part of an ODI. #IndvAus

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Dear 2001 #IndvAus series,

We regret to inform you that you are no longer the most memorable story-filled emotion inducing series India has ever played.

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