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12 hours ago, Felix the cat said:

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This photo is getting viral everywhere, no doubt it can shook any cricket fan, but if you think twice, there is no point in playing ranji if you're doing good in national team, sachin was playing bcs he was also struggling and it was almost the ending of his career, why virat would be playing ranji when after 2012 it was the peak of his career, he's better be contributing in national team.

 

I was thinking Is this also being done by Rohit's wife? Bcs if players can go at those lengths for their own PR then they can also do the negative PR of their fellow team mates for their own gains.  

 

Sachin has played Ranji throughout his career. His last match in 2013 was after he retired, so struggling or not struggling is irrelevant. Kohli has average of 20s-30s 4 years in the last 5 years in tests. His 'peak' is far far from over by now. No one was asking Kohli to play domestic cricket in 2016. But now, he has been failing for past few years to obvious technical flaws in his technique. If not now, then when?

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3 hours ago, Sach4life said:

Sachin has played Ranji throughout his career. His last match in 2013 was after he retired, so struggling or not struggling is irrelevant. Kohli has average of 20s-30s 4 years in the last 5 years in tests. His 'peak' is far far from over by now. No one was asking Kohli to play domestic cricket in 2016. But now, he has been failing for past few years to obvious technical flaws in his technique. If not now, then when?

No, his last ranji is just a month before he retired. But i agree, Virat should have started playing Ranji much earlier, and i think still its not late, he has good two years of cricket left in him. 

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43 minutes ago, Felix the cat said:

No, his last ranji is just a month before he retired. But i agree, Virat should have started playing Ranji much earlier, and i think still its not late, he has good two years of cricket left in him. 

 

Yeah, i meant he had already decided to retire so his playing ranji was more out of love for Raanji as a competition and Mumbai and had nothing to do with him struggling or not. Difference between the 2 is that Sachin averaged less than 40 in 2 consective years only once and thats when he decided to retire. Whereas Kohli has averaged less than 30 in 5 years out of last 6 (including 2025 till now). Sachin never had this big a drop in form for such a long time. He never let his game or technique drop that much.

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3 hours ago, Sach4life said:

Difference between the 2 is that Sachin averaged less than 40 in 2 consective years only once and thats when he decided to retire. Whereas Kohli has averaged less than 30 in 5 years out of last 6 (including 2025 till now). Sachin never had this big a drop in form for such a long time. He never let his game or technique drop that much.

Couldn't agree more

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All this while senior players used excuse themselves from domestic and some international matches (with weaker opponents) by giving the reason that they are playing too much of cricket however since T20 WC 2024 final; they have played three ODIs in SL which they failed miserably and 10 test matches which roughly translates to 53 days of cricket + 15 days of travel and 15 days of pre-series preparations (assuming this was even done for Ban and NZ series) so there was no excuse for Virat or Rohit to not play domestic but instead they chose to go to London and Kapil Sharma show. 

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The debate Kohli vs SRT is over a long time back, kudos to Kohli he could stay in contention for few years, but god is god. 

 

Apparently KL Rahul is asking to be rested for England ODI series, god knows what he did to be rested. He should be anyway shown the exit from ODI setup.

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10 hours ago, AtheK said:

 Apparently KL Rahul is asking to be rested for England ODI series, god knows what he did to be rested.

Most probably the poor guy has to prepare for IPL, only IPL is left now from where 80-90% of his yearly earnings come, because there is no surety for the rest of it. 

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Seems Rohit Sharma PR Team is in full flow to divert attention to Kohli as all the heat is currently being faced by Captain Sahib and Kohli is kind of escaping as all ire is directed to captain, who himself keeps making stupid statements.

 

Robin Uthappa Interview seems to be well timed

 

Also if this was not enough time to go behind his restaurant with sensational headlines

 

This is first time such mud slunging is rampant by one camp on another, what sad times for Indian Cricket. Social media's bane.

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3 hours ago, AtheK said:

Seems Rohit Sharma PR Team is in full flow to divert attention to Kohli as all the heat is currently being faced by Captain Sahib and Kohli is kind of escaping as all ire is directed to captain, who himself keeps making stupid statements.

 

Robin Uthappa Interview seems to be well timed

 

Also if this was not enough time to go behind his restaurant with sensational headlines

 

This is first time such mud slunging is rampant by one camp on another, what sad times for Indian Cricket. Social media's bane.

 

Uthappa has been speaking sh*t nonstop.
Better to ignore him. 

 

Rayudu is no tendulkar to believe he would have done well against NZ in those conditions.

 

 

 

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Both rohit and virat retiring will actually reduce the toxicity of our team on social media.
Idiots supporting individuals over country. 

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On 1/13/2025 at 7:50 PM, AtheK said:

Seems Rohit Sharma PR Team is in full flow to divert attention to Kohli as all the heat is currently being faced by Captain Sahib and Kohli is kind of escaping as all ire is directed to captain, who himself keeps making stupid statements.

 

Robin Uthappa Interview seems to be well timed

 

Also if this was not enough time to go behind his restaurant with sensational headlines

 

This is first time such mud slunging is rampant by one camp on another, what sad times for Indian Cricket. Social media's bane.

Its exactly same thing what I saw in harry & meghan docu. Leaking news, creating negetive image and almost like harrasment but indirectly. 

I think it all started around the time when virat ends up his 13-14 years old partnership with his marketing company, cornerstone, whose owner, bunty sajdeh, is the cousin of Rohit's wife. Virat's manager was Rohit's saala (Bro in law):rofl:. It was a disaster waiting to happen.

 

And i think its the same company that was mentioned in that newspaper article which i shared few days back, which was about how Rohit's wife fked up a PR stunt, aiming to polish her hubby's image. Its a full on daily soap sh*t happening in ICT. Cornerstone had virat kohli signed in a contract when he won U19 T20WC in 2008 and their partnership last until 2023, no doubt that things have turned very ugly between them. Its very much possible that Rohit's sala was leaking virat's secret to his sister and Jiju and she the one who's pulling all the strings. I even saw her in some of Rohit's interviews, she completly managing her husband's media businesses.

 

Idk how many of you guys knows about her finger crossing 🤞 act  for entire duration of Rohit's batting. Its been a long time i know this, i thought its a genuine thing, bc sab PR hai. Stars only allow those news to float about themselves that they want everyone to know. That makes me wonder, actually you dont have to put your crossed fingers upward near to your face all the time in a match, you can do that by simply relaxing yr hand on your lap also, lekin fir camere me kaise dikhega. Maybe im thinking too much, idk

 

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On 1/13/2025 at 11:40 PM, silentassassin said:

 

Uthappa has been speaking sh*t nonstop.
Better to ignore him. 

 

Rayudu is no tendulkar to believe he would have done well against NZ in those conditions.

 

 

 

P.S

 

Both rohit and virat retiring will actually reduce the toxicity of our team on social media.
Idiots supporting individuals over country. 

I think nothing will get fixed after their retirement, they only leaving poor example before the youngsters. They will also do same, it becomes a custom now in ICT. History has always repeated itself and the way things going, im sure nothing gonna change. If you watch some old interviews of older generation, like kapil, ravi, yograj, you can easily figur it out how divided they were in their time, they have groups just like a street gangs.

 

 

Robin uthappa is from the yuvi, gauti, sehwag, bhajji, Irfan gang. They all have one thing in common, they all hate dhoni and maybe they hate virat too, bcs dhoni passed on his captaincy to him, so according to them virat is from rival gang🤣. Btw Rohit's wife is also muh boli (adopted) sister of yuvi. So no doubt lot of things going on behind the curtains. Even old gang (robi, yuvi, Irfan) is also involved in this mess. 

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7 hours ago, Felix the cat said:

I think nothing will get fixed after their retirement, they only leaving poor example before the youngsters. They will also do same, it becomes a custom now in ICT. History has always repeated itself and the way things going, im sure nothing gonna change. If you watch some old interviews of older generation, like kapil, ravi, yograj, you can easily figur it out how divided they were in their time, they have groups just like a street gangs.

 

 

Robin uthappa is from the yuvi, gauti, sehwag, bhajji, Irfan gang. They all have one thing in common, they all hate dhoni and maybe they hate virat too, bcs dhoni passed on his captaincy to him, so according to them virat is from rival gang🤣. Btw Rohit's wife is also muh boli (adopted) sister of yuvi. So no doubt lot of things going on behind the curtains. Even old gang (robi, yuvi, Irfan) is also involved in this mess. 

 

TBH yuvi doesn't talk sh*t in public. Even in beer biceps podcast, he was civil when he spoke about MS and virat.

Lot of other things Uthappa said in that interview is all pure BS.

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1 hour ago, silentassassin said:

 

TBH yuvi doesn't talk sh*t in public. Even in beer biceps podcast, he was civil when he spoke about MS and virat.

Lot of other things Uthappa said in that interview is all pure BS.

Yeah thats true in todays time, but you can easily find old interviews where you can see him making statement which shows how deeply hurt he was when dhoni becomes a captain in place of him,  maybe he learned the hard way from his father.

 

Idk you watched this mega interview on aajtak of bhajji and yuvi in 2019 after we lost the WC, they both were slamming dhoni left and right, basically thats just a low blow when dhonis career was at the bottom near to his retirement, and it seems like a proper orchestrated negative pr campaign for Dhoni. They openly attacked dhoni for allegedly ruining the career of dozens of cricketers, not giving farewell to many OGs, which bhajji used to refer it as "ijjat se nawaza nhi gaya", bc dhoni ko konsi farewell mil gayi.

I strongly believe there is a circle of rich class in cricket fraternity that want to control things, cricket industry is a serious business now, 20 years ago there was money only who are in the top of the chain, but there are lot opportunities for everyone to earn huge money, even for former cricketers, and having good network is all you need to excel in this industry. There are lot of things that we common ppl dont know, like how former players interest is aligned with the current players, about training institutes, and business side of the cricketers.  

 

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Everything has a peak, for me i crossed that few years back, now slowly i have started to disconnect with game and watching it. Things like this will just expedite my move, there is a new gen of supporter emerging who think differently and for them probably all this is good, so let them enjoy the game.

 

Last IPL i missed more then 50% games which might change to 75% this year.

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On 1/13/2025 at 11:40 PM, silentassassin said:

Rayudu is no tendulkar to believe he would have done well against NZ in those conditions.

 

But i still think we would have done better that 3d googles.  XD

On 1/13/2025 at 7:50 PM, AtheK said:

Seems Rohit Sharma PR Team is in full flow to divert attention to Kohli as all the heat is currently being faced by Captain Sahib and Kohli is kind of escaping as all ire is directed to captain, who himself keeps making stupid statements.

 

Robin Uthappa Interview seems to be well timed

 

Also if this was not enough time to go behind his restaurant with sensational headlines

 

This is first time such mud slunging is rampant by one camp on another, what sad times for Indian Cricket. Social media's bane.

This PR has now become talk of small town playing tennis ball cricket too. most people will start to understand that all of this is PR, but the amount of toxicity 3 fan bases bring is insane. 

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With each passing day the rabbit hole is going deeper. 
 

cant believe some players took hairdresser, personal stylist, their own cooks etc on tours. I mean WTF. 
 

if GG has been planted by bcci to end the superstar culture of the team then im all for it. No way these things should have been allowed in the first place. 

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13 minutes ago, KnackChap said:

With each passing day the rabbit hole is going deeper. 
 

cant believe some players took hairdresser, personal stylist, their own cooks etc on tours. I mean WTF. 
 

if GG has been planted by bcci to end the superstar culture of the team then im all for it. No way these things should have been allowed in the first place. 

What! When this happened ?

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