On this early morning of my biggest cricket euphoria, I am gonna do a thread on Subash, the dude that personifies cricket for me. I know he will blush and curse me for this. But still. This is a @cricketcouch appreciation thread. Someone I'm privileged to call a friend. /1
I first heard from Subash in 2009 or 2010 randomly through the Penn State desi grad student group. He was like, dude, you seem truly into cricket. So am I. Let's meet. I said cool. And I meet this very sweet, smart, passionate guy who lives and breathes cricket!
He was and still is a career engineer. But his passion for the game seemed to match my own from our early interactions. When we met, I realized it wasn't even a contest. I can never love cricket as much as Subash does. I doubt anyone can, except career cricketers.
He had plans of taking his cricket passion to social media through articles, blogs, podcasts, etc. Which he has done splendidly over the last decade. Almost 200 podcasts with many legends of the game. Starting as just a blogger in Pennsylvania!
thecricketcouch.com/blog/tag/podca…
thecricketcouch.com/blog/tag/podca…
In our chats, we would discuss things like "wouldn't it be cool to just take a year off and watch cricket all over the world?" as many of us might.
Subash astounded me by going from from talk to actually doing it! He and @MissusCouch traveled the world for a year!
Subash astounded me by going from from talk to actually doing it! He and @MissusCouch traveled the world for a year!
Walking around a cricket stadium next to Subash is a whole other trip. Dude knows everyone and everyone knows dude. Everyone from cricket board media managers to production managers to ex test greats knows Subash. It was nice to bask in his shadow. 😁😁
https://twitter.com/gauravsabnis/status/1350797256576872448?s=19
Subash approaches cricket with a personal zeal of the kind you don't see very often in real life. A passion unconnected to money or fame. He is cricket and cricket is him. And you see it when you get to know this cutest sweetest nicest guy @cricketcouch
But that's not how he makes his living! He makes his living as an engineer.
But you can see he lives and breathes for cricket when he can.
Subash showed me the value of pursuing your passions, even if conventional wisdom says it's too late now.
But you can see he lives and breathes for cricket when he can.
Subash showed me the value of pursuing your passions, even if conventional wisdom says it's too late now.
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