Ashok Sharma wants to bowl one hundred and sixty kilometres per hour, and the one hundred and sixty is the number that is the thing that is the thing that the ambition is, and the ambition is the ambition that is the thing that is the thing that India need him to, and the need him to is the need him to that is the thing that is the thing that the express pace is the thing that is the thing that India do not have and that Ashok wants to be.
Babar Azam said "reset" at the press conference, and the "reset" is the word that is the thing that is the thing that the discipline and the fitness and the performance are the things that are the things that the reset is about, and the reset is the reset that is the thing that is the thing that Pakistan cricket's introspection is.
Harsha Bhogle said "unacceptable", and the "unacceptable" is the word that is the word that is the thing that is the polite version, and the polite version is the polite version that is the thing that is the thing that is the thing that Bhogle said vs what Bhogle meant, and the said vs meant is the thing that is the thing that the voice of reason in Indian cricket is.
Sourav Ganguly turned fifty-four, and the fifty-four is the fifty-four that is the thing that is the thing that the retrospective is for, and the retrospective is the retrospective that is the thing that is the thing that the captain who taught India to win away is, and the win away is the win away that is the thing that is the thing that changed Indian cricket culture.
Rohit's press conferences, in the last two years, have become the thing that journalists attend and that the BCCI broadcasts and that the fans watch, and the reason is not the reason that the BCCI says, which is transparency. The reason is that Rohit tells the truth, and the truth is the thing that captains do not, in the modern game, tell.
Siraj took five for thirty-two in the first innings of the first Test against the West Indies, and the five wickets were the wickets of a bowler who learned his craft in the IPL, and the learning is the thing that the Test team has benefited from, and the benefiting is the thing that the IPL's critics do not credit the league for.
Kuldeep took eighteen wickets in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, the most by an Indian spinner in a three-match series in eight years, and the wickets were the wickets of a wrist spinner who has, after three seasons of being in and out of the side, found his length, and the length is the thing that wrist spinners lose and find and lose again.
Pant returned to international cricket in the third Test against England, seventeen months after the accident, and the hundred he made was the hundred that nobody in the dressing room expected and that everybody in the dressing room needed, and the story of why is a story about a team and a player who had, for a year, been each other's ghost.