Farewell on vnykmshr

Thank You, Sachin

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Two days after the speech. I can’t stop thinking about the list.

So I went looking for the numbers. Andy Zaltzman at ESPNcricinfo had done a stat dive the week before – he had them all.

676,693 deliveries faced, across 663 international matches. 41,113 minutes at the crease – 28 days and change. 4,062 fours. 264 sixes. 982 international cricketers played with or against, 842 of them on the other side.

Goodbye 2010, Goodbye Hyderabad

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

New Year. Half-packed boxes. I am leaving Hyderabad.

Six and a half years here. Four in college on the city’s edge, two and a half working downtown. The first job out of college. The first bike. A flat full of friends – like-minded, carefree, the kind you don’t need a reason to stay up with. Concerts that ran past midnight. The city where I learned what it felt like to be free.