The greatest test captain we had!
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) May 12, 2025
And unlike Dada, Kohli focused more on bowling, regularly played 5 bowlers, and regularly looked to get 20 wickets - which is really the only way to win test matches.
🫡 https://t.co/HbNJ9URD0v
India's T20i dominance is not star-centric.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) September 14, 2025
We've had 18 different PoTMs in those 36 wins.
Axar, Sky, & Tilak 4 times each. Bumrah, Jaiswal & Dube 3 times each.
As many as 12 other players have won PoTMs.#INDvsPAK #AsiaCup2025 https://t.co/Oodp865b9s
No one gets off the mark with a boundary as often as #SuryakumarYadav
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) August 31, 2022
99% sure that his first ball SR is better than any other batter in the formats/leagues he plays.
And more often that not that boundary is behind square on the leg side. #IndvsHkg #AsiaCupT20
So, @ashwinravi99 equals Murali for most PoTS awards. He's the top 10 list along with frequency of PoTS wins.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 1, 2024
Is he India's greatest test cricketer ahead of Sachin, Dravid, Kumble, Kapil, etc?#indvsbangladesh #INDvsBAN pic.twitter.com/v3YpMJFCUW
From a Whatsapp group called CricGeeks in Jan 2023@MdShami11 is India's greatest ODI bowler of all time.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) November 16, 2023
Yes. Ahead of Bumrah & everyone else. pic.twitter.com/XpTqsJ3lzu
India has clearly changed its T20i batting strategy
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) January 26, 2025
Dropped sub-140-SR batters like Gill, Rahul, Iyer, Ishan, Pant, etc
Asked Abhishek, SkY, YBJ, #TilakVarma, Sanju, Rinku, etc to hit without fear
Result: We've lost only 4 of our last 35 T20is#INDvsENG pic.twitter.com/GihplcZBOA
Farewell to @ashwinravi99, our GOAT test bowler and our biggest test match-winner ever. Highly underrated despite his exploits.https://t.co/F3aVyqHpKD https://t.co/uYt7fOQ6Ul
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) December 18, 2024
I'm a huge Sky fan.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) December 15, 2025
He's the greatest Indian IPL batter. Gayle, AbD, Jos, and him are the only IPL batters with an avg of 35+ and SR of 140+.
I hope this is just media bravado & not genuine denial.
And I hope he comes back into whatever he's out of pretty soon. pic.twitter.com/BoyO2lR5DJ
13 innings from VC + 'one captain' hype to dropped.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) December 20, 2025
Avg 24, SR 133 in those 13 innings.
3 innings of note. Rest ordinary.
29*(16) & 37(20) in the 1st innings of 2 rained out games in Aus.
47(28) in a successful chase against Pak in Dubai.
Steep rise & sharp fall for Gill.
5th or 6th best red/white ball attack in intl cricket till 2010. Kapil, Zak, Bhajji, Kumble, Ishant, Srinath, Pathan, Agarkar all factored in
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) September 17, 2023
At least 2nd best now
Jaddu & Ash came 13y ago
Then Shami in 2013
Later Boom, Siraj, & Kul-Cha
This is the golden age of Indian bowling
Pant has 6 SENA centuries in 28 tests
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) July 6, 2025
Among Indians, only Sachin (17 in 63 SENA tests), Dravid (10 in 48), Kohli (12 in 43), and Gavaskar (8 in 33) had more.
He's only 27.
Test match survival is also an art.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) November 24, 2025
Kuldeep doesn’t score as many, but the bugger can hang around (as much as Mr. 6-test-centuries Ashwin!)
And look at Washy at the end!
ps: not comparing anyone with anyone. just sharing some stats. pic.twitter.com/hjcQYPUzyI
Rookie SENA spinners that won't qualify for anyone's test XI as a spinner ordinarily, but have out-spinned India in India in the last 20-30 yrs
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) November 16, 2025
Aus: Murphy, O'Keefe, Krejza, Hartley, Kuhnemann, Clarke
Eng: Panesar, Hartley, Root
SA: Harmer, Paul Adams, Paul Harris
NZ: Ajaz Patel
Since and including the world cup 2023, England have lost 23 out their last 34 ODIs and lost all the 7 series /tournaments they've played.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 30, 2025
They play tests like ODIs but can’t play ODIs!
Utterly brilliant piece by @OsmanSamiuddin. Uff!https://t.co/b1bzQjRaiB
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) August 6, 2025
Harsha's command over language, the smoothness of delivery, & knowledge of the game is impeccable. But his skills in calling the big moments using the most effective words & delivering it with the most effective emotion have been underwhelming. For eg, Kohli 's 18.5 & 18.6 shots. https://t.co/0yZ8SS4fPW
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) February 4, 2024
Jadeja’s last 10 innings as a test batter
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 3, 2025
Average of 122 (609 runs, 5 NOs)
5 fifties
2 hundreds
Bradmanesque @imjadeja!#INDvWI
5 years ago, if someone said an indian bowler will have the best ever test average (min 200 wickets), would you believe them?#Bumrah 🙌🏽#AUSvINDIA #INDvsAUS pic.twitter.com/eJM5GCfoP2
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) December 29, 2024
Hazlewood is an #IPL GOAT
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) June 1, 2025
Among those who've taken 50 IPL wkts, his average (20.4) is only behind Malinga's (19.8) & SR (15) is only behind Russell (14.6).
He's a steal at ₹12.5cr.
Starc, Cummins, Curran, Green, Stokes, Morris, etc got sold for a lot more!#IPL25
Jaiswal will walk into any cricket side in any format anywhere in the world, except India.#IndianCricket #INDvsWI pic.twitter.com/D2tKlNy5nX
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 10, 2025
In the last 4 yrs, @root66 has torn away from the fab 4.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 9, 2024
His runs > the next 2 (KW & Smith) combined.
Kohli, of course, has slumped dramatically.
Will turn 34 in December. A few more yrs still to go
Sachin's record is in danger which prompted 👇 chat in our cricket group 😂 pic.twitter.com/rFnOUItTaR
Fastest to 500 Test wickets (in terms of deliveries)
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) February 16, 2024
McGrath - 25,528
Ashwin - 25,714
Anderson - 28,150
Broad - 28,430
Walsh - 28,833#INDvENG
Wkts in each IPL year by @yuzi_chahal
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) April 12, 2023
2019 18 (#2 spinner)
2020 21 (top spinner)
2021 18 (top spinner)
2022 27 (purple cap)
2023 10 (in 4 games)
People don't take him seriously because he's relatively frail, affable & jocular
But he's been an IPL star for 5 yrs now#CSKvsRR
Hardik almost lost the chase. When India needed 86 in 48, he was 28(16) & Virat was 22(26)
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 23, 2022
Virat made 60 in 27
Hardik: Only 12 in 21
Totally lost his shape.
Couldn't score off short balls outside off.
He'll need to sort that part of his batting quickly.#INDvPAK
India has won 102 ODIs chasing with @imVkohli in the XI.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 22, 2023
He has been dismissed for less than 30 in only 28 of those.
Makes a 92-ball-90 on an average
🤯
The illustrious list of debutant spinners who trouble India in a home test.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) January 28, 2024
Hauritz did play a few more series, but the others weren't seen after the India series.
Why does this keep happening? 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️#ENGvsIND #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/faY05xiYj0
DreRuss has both
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) May 24, 2024
the highest batting SR (minimum 1000 IPL runs)
*and*
the lowest bowling SR (minimum 50 wickets)
in IPL history.
2.5K runs @ 175
112 wickets @ 15@Russell12A is the real IPL GOAT 🐐
The king #ViratKohli is well & truly back after his pandemic slump.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 8, 2023
Look at his batting average across formats in international cricket.#WorldCup2023 #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/VIYVuqVuke
At this point, keeping @sarfarazkhan977 at the 1st class level instead of Tests, is unfair not only to him, but also to other first class bowlers.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 2, 2024
How's it fair to pit F2 drivers against an F1 guy?
And who's keeping him out?
Mr-52-tests-at-under-35-avg KLR? 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️#IraniCup
Cricketers are generally called by their family names (Gavaskar, Dhoni, Ponting, Lara, Kohli, etc) except when its a generic one (Kumar, Sharma, etc.) or when their name doesn't come first (Laxman, Azhar, etc)
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) April 24, 2023
Its probably just endearment that makes people call him only #Sachin
In their last 33 ODIs across the last 4 ODI WCs, India have lost only 4 games.
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) October 29, 2023
2011: 1 group game against SAF
2015: SF against AUS
2019: 1 league game against Eng + SF against NZ
1 washed away.
1 tie.
27 wins.#IndiaVsEngland #WorldCup2023india #WorldCup2023
One of our greats!
— Rohit Tikmany (@some_rohit) August 24, 2024
Dhawan's injury after 2 games was the single biggest reason we couldn't win the 2019 world cup.
He was in prime form & England was always his happy hunting ground. He's still the only Indian apart from Rohit to score 500+ ODI runs in England @ 60+ https://t.co/XtOTx7nYSa