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Vivek Vasudevan's avatar

Delightful piece.. somehow the exaggerations seem appropriate and actually underwhelming.. Nirmal Shekhar-sque!

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you!

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Ankit Kumar's avatar

beautifully written

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you!

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Ajay Asranna's avatar

superbly written!

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Thank you, Ajay!

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Barun Ray's avatar

Wow Sarthak, what a great read. I wish I could write like you. Keep going. You have gained a subscriber today.

I'm also sharing this post with my group of school friends, some of whom are cricket affectionados.

Thanks again 👍

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you so much for reading and sharing :) Very kind of you.

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Abhishek Singh's avatar

Bhai! This was beautiful. Every word, every sentence kind of resonates what Bumrah does. The slow build-up beautifully gives way to the crescendo which is amazing.

This felt this listening to the best piece of commentary.

You gained a subscriber today. Thank you for writing this :)

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you for reading and subscribing, Abhishek :)

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H R Venkatesh's avatar

Perfect Sunday morning read. I get annoyed too when they talk only about his body position being a little ahead as if that accounts alone for his genius. They don’t much talk about his intelligence or how he sets up traps.

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you! And I fully agree. It is very annoying haha. They keep fixating on the action, and just refuse to move on.

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Mohan's avatar

There is so much to be written about this guy - good to see you do this. Excellent stuff as always! In my close to 40 years of following and watching cricket very few bowlers excited me as much as Bumrah. Akram and Warne ends that list. By the time Steyn came along, I had drastically reduced the time I spent on watching cricket so can’t put him in that list. Hopefully he will sustain his fitness and enthusiasm to continue to produce magic with cricket ball.

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you so much, Mohan.

Steyn was quite something, tbh :) And all fingers crossed on Bumrah. He'll get on Indian cricket's Mt. Rushmore by the time he's done.

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Rohan Banerjee's avatar

Exceptional writing (yet again).

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Thank you, Rohan!

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Arvind's avatar

So well written.

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Thank you, Arvind :)

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