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Abhishek Mukherjee Profile picture
@ovshake42
Mar 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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The Ashes, older than the Modern Olympics, continues to stay relevant in 2022, its 140th decade.

The number of books written on Ashes is likely to fill an empty MCG (maybe not, but no one is likely to check).

And yet, there is, to my knowledge, nothing like this one.
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Yes, I do know @senantix personally, and am a fan of @Mahasatish1's artwork.

But that has nothing to do with my assessment.

I call this book unique because the history of the Ashes has never, ever been drawn like this.
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Key moments and characters and some of my favourite panels.

Consider this, for Warwick Armstrong's team.
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Ah, 1975.
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One of my favourite panels.
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- the artwork
- "Swift"
- the Mailey reference
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Don't worry, it runs up to 2021/22.

A reference that merits the #IfYouKnowYouKnow hashtag.
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And then, there are quotes (sorry, could not resist showing off).
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Buy?

UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203103/
US: amazon.com/dp/9492203103/
Aus: amazon.com.au/dp/9492203103/
Ind: amazon.in/dp/9492203111/
*14th decade obviously

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Aug 18
Club rivalry is serious in Kolkata in a way it is difficult to explain.

I grew up in Kolkata knowing that East Bengal and Mohun Bagan fans do not gel.

Support could be hereditary. Households used to get marked as "East Bengal" or "Mohun Bagan".
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People get scandalised if a boy from one of these married a girl from another.

Not unexpected of fans who could refer to their club as maa.

Over the years, things have mellowed down.

But you hear stories of violence on derby days.
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When it is not actual physical violence, you see vile, toxic abuse on social media or hear the same in person.

Yesterday, fans of both clubs had planned protests at the scheduled Durant Cup derby (even after renovations, the Salt Lake Stadium can still accommodate 85,000).
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Feb 23
1971.
Two Test matches down. The decider at The Oval.

England 355, India 284, trail by 71.

Wadekar allows six overs of medium pace before turning to spin. Luckhurst is run out, but England are 24-1 when Chandra comes to bowl the third ball of the last over to Edrich.
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He has planned a googly, but Sardesai utters something at the last moment.

“Mill Reef daalo”.

Over the years, the sentence became part of Indian cricket folklore.
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Sardesai was referring to the thoroughbred racehorse that had won the Greenham Stakes, the Epsom Derby, and the Eclipse Stakes that year.

The code name for Chandra’s famous faster ball.
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Apr 3, 2023
The one Durani spell we seldom talk about is on Day 1, Calcutta, 1964/65.

This was a very strong Australian side. The series was 1-1. This was the decider.

Simpson and Lawry were busy being Simpson and Lawry (they added 97).

Then Durani bowled Lawry.
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Now the left-handed Cowper arrived.

Durani used a leg-trap. Nadkarni caught Cowper.

The next ball was short. Burge pulled for four.

Durani followed this with a no-ball.

The next ball was short again, but this time Hanumant held the catch at square-leg.
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Next ball, Booth clean bowled. Redpath averted the hat-trick.

From 97-0, Australia became 109-4. All four wickets to Durani on a pitch.

He wasn't done, though. Twenty minutes later, he got Veivers.

Play ended early due to bad light.
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Jan 9, 2023
Blame the administrators for this.

Between 1926 and 1982, the only Full Member they added was Pakistan – and the reason was geo-political reasons.

For decades, the authorities slept, happy with keeping Test cricket to a handful of nations (and even then there was hierarchy).
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Even now, in the 21st century, there is a World Test Championship where 3/12 teams don't play.

3/12 teams will play 5-Test series, the others will rarely play 3-.

It does not make money in most countries.

Tests are becoming more and more polarised.

And that is just men's.
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Women's Tests are virtually non-existent.

Outside the Big 3, more and more cricketers will obviously move away from Test cricket towards franchise cricket.

So Test teams for 9/12 teams will be weakened.

Series will get shorter. Matter of time before they become 1-off series.
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Dec 29, 2022
In 2021, I went to the theatre to watch exactly one Hindi movie: 83. And I would have watched it irrespective of the language.

In 2022, I watched only one new Bollywood release: Darlings, on OTT. I did not feel like watching anything else.
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Even if I did watch other new Hindi releases on OTT in 2021/22, I have no memory, so they didn't leave an impact.

Over this time, I cleared a 'backlog' of movies made in other Indian languages and Bangladesh.

I don't miss anything. In fact, I wish I had done this earlier.
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I do not plan to watch any new Hindi release in 2023. Unless something pathbreaking shows up, I intend to keep it that way.

Maybe watch the occasional Hindi OTT series. They seem superior to the movies.

Or rewatch the occasional old favourite Hindi movie. But nothing new.
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Dec 27, 2022
On Vijay Arora's birth anniversary, here are some memories.

I first saw him in Ramayan, where he played Indrajit. Easily one of the most impressive performances of the serial.

Indrajit created an impression on the young me.
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Those days, there was only one channel, Doordarshan.

This was the era before they started the Friday night movie. There was one Hindi movie, on Saturday evening (this was later scheduled to Sunday evening).

We also had Chitrahaar and Rangoli.
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Despite this very limited avenue to mainstream entertainment, Vijay Arora kept finding me (or the other way round).

The most famous of all hits was Yaadon ki Baaraat. Several songs featured him, of which I chose this one (could have been another song).
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