That was the most visceral feeling I've ever experienced in sport. More than Kohli's greatness, it was the piercing, primal energy of the crowd that will stay with me forever. Humbled to have witnessed it. Life affirming stuff. #INDvsPAK
Sam Perry
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Sam Perry
@sjjperry
Grade Cricketer, writer Cricket et al, Guardian + others, Bear 🐻
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2012
- The Kotla, Delhi. Feels like a European away. Smog. Cauldron. Unroofed stadia. BCCI officialdom. Police. Checkpoints. Home team rampant. Australia on the ropes. It’s a beautiful thing. Test cricket in India. Bucket list. Yes. #INDvsAUS
- Big boy stuff from Babar. Runs under pressure are the best runs. Sensational hundred. #PAKvAUS
- I like when Axar Patel is bowling to someone and knowing that poor bloke will be shortly gone.
- Rohit tonne, India leads, children cheer, Jadeja’s in a cap, seen this movie, gets ominous.
- Indian batting techniques just so classic and pure. It’s day 1, wet, overcast, and India’s openers are just late, precise, still, patient. Art of Cricket stuff.
- Pumped for the cricket. Here for the skulduggery, mischief, sharp practice theatre. Exotic pitch curation practices. Journos sneakily peering over fences. The whataboutery. All valid, all silly, all good. Test cricket does this. Loins girded. Great to be in India 🇮🇳 #INDvsAUS
- He was a virtuoso and possessor of the most beautiful shapes and form I've seen in sport. And the show, the sorcery! How do you show gratitude to someone who delivered so much wonder and happiness? We were just so lucky. Love to his family & friends. RIP King, you were my hero 💔
- Exquisitely alpha postingNumero Uno showing why he's the best in the world. Didn't watch it live but I'm sure this was another video game innings by him. 😂 @surya_14kumar
- Ajaz Patel with all ten wickets, NZ collapsing, Patel batting 11 a huge shout at a not out. Tremendous opportunity for unprecedented individual smugness in the sheds. “Fuck sake boys…” as he rips his pads off etc.
- First time following the IPL properly. Was cynical, but can see why people rave. Nothing gets anywhere near it for quality. Young Indian players regularly bossing internationals the most eye-opening bit. Now much easier to understand why India will eventually annihilate all.
- Most epic Test I’ve had the fortune to see live. Have been foetal all day. Sense of dread and foreboding. Australia don’t usually win these. After five days of rightful praise for Stokes’ inventive and creative leadership, Cummins shows his own class. That was ice cold.
- Weird, just received 10 separate messages from Indian friends casually asking “are you watching the cricket?”
