The genius of Dhoni is that even though he does not perform, his team does. I had compared him once to an exceptional engineering manager, and that’s what they do. Even though they have forgotten the architecture and can’t write a line of code themselves, they make others deliver
How does a good engineering manager do it? Because they were once a good architect/developer themselves, they put the right people on the right task, make great hiring and firing and reassignment decisions, know when to escalate (review decision) & when to stay quiet.
As a bad engineering manager, look no further than Kohli. He is a good architect, he always throws money at the very best (Maxwell, Gayle, ABDV), but he is over excitable, pushes people away and starts coding, shouts & harangues & cannot operate under assertive management.
For the world T20 championship I am going to say something extreme. Rohit Sharma, the only person left from the first T20 World Cup, should not be the first XI. I know he shines in ICC tournaments & I hope he proves me wrong, but we need a more aggressive opening pair than now
Yes my openers are Shaw and Ishan Kishen. The England approach. Go hell for leather. But back it up in next 2. Surya and Kohli.
After that the two finishers: Hardik and Pant. Followed by 2 all rounders: Kunal and Jadeja. Followed by 2 bowling all rounders: Shardul and Deepak Chahar. With Bumrah at end.
Follow me on Clubhouse. I can’t promise you Prashant Kishore level honesty though.
If what I am reading actually happened in Clubhouse, no wonder Modi and Shah win. It’s like Wasim Akram bowling to Rinku Singh.
For those who have asked for Clubhouse invites, I have 5. Please provide phone numbers and oh how I wish I had this ruse to get phone numbers in the 90s during my salad days....
IPL thread. The only weakness MI has is that there hasn’t been a Netflix MI documentary for years, what would be better than to see Chris Lynn playing rumaalchor at Antila & inspirational speeches from the Ambanis. Otherwise MI has the greatest T20 side that ever drew breath.
Ambani ka haath is truly magical. They have God on their payroll, Talent as their captain, one end of the Modi stadium, and while sky may be the limit for others, they have him at one-drop. How can anyone go up against them?
The only player in Delhi Capitals who would fit in to the Capital of Delhi is Ricky Ponting. The rest of the side has talent but not much character, which is why they lose to the Ambanis, and if that sounds familiar it is.
The last thing I had in 8 stages in Bengal was a sit down dinner during a wedding (back when people still had them). Lemon(yes they identified that as an item too), radhaballabi, aloor dum, fish, chicken, doi, misthi, paan.
This was of course the “Bengali middle class menu”. Variations were cholar dal and beguni. If the groom had a private sector job (i.e. executive), there would be a fancy item like “fish orly” or “chili pheesh”. If mutton was served, there was a presumption of “black money”.
This was of course Jyoti Basu times. Even if people had money, they would keep it low key to avoid army of local toughs to show up to extort with a “yeh hum hai, yeh humara Marx hai, aur yahan CPM pawty ho rahee hai”