Aryan Surana
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The Trans-Tasman rivalry is on show today as we move from one set of neighbours to another. After India and Sri Lanka opened the tournament, it’s time for Australia to take on New Zealand as Holkar Stadium in Indore hosts its maiden women’s international.
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Women's ODI World Cup: Live Blog - Australia vs New Zealand - Guerilla Cricket
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October 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Trans-Tasman rivalry is on show today as we move from one set of neighbours to another. After India and Sri Lanka opened the tournament, it’s time for Australia to take on New Zealand as Holkar Stadium in Indore hosts its maiden women’s international.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Heading into the title clash of Asia Cup, India's catching efficiency of 67.5% was the second-worst only to Hong Kong. On the big night they were presented with eight catching opportunities and not a single ball hit the turf.
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@aryansurana.bsky.social's feature: guerillacricket.com/77642,ring-o...
September 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Heading into the title clash of Asia Cup, India's catching efficiency of 67.5% was the second-worst only to Hong Kong. On the big night they were presented with eight catching opportunities and not a single ball hit the turf.
@aryansurana.bsky.social's feature: guerillacricket.com/77642,ring-o...
@aryansurana.bsky.social's feature: guerillacricket.com/77642,ring-o...
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Having dropped a dozen catches in this Asia Cup - eight of those in the two games leading up the final - India resembled a pitcher trap on the big night, grabbing everything that came their way.
#AsiaCupFinal #AsiaCup2025 #INDvPAK #BCCI
#AsiaCupFinal #AsiaCup2025 #INDvPAK #BCCI
Ring of fire, humidity, confidence deficit: India slay catching demons in Dubai - Guerilla Cricket
Among the eight catching opportunities not a single ball hit the turf, denoting meteoric progress for an under-fire fielding unit.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Having dropped a dozen catches in this Asia Cup - eight of those in the two games leading up the final - India resembled a pitcher trap on the big night, grabbing everything that came their way.
#AsiaCupFinal #AsiaCup2025 #INDvPAK #BCCI
#AsiaCupFinal #AsiaCup2025 #INDvPAK #BCCI
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Farhan’s celebration after scoring his half-century and Rauf’s hand movements towards a section of fans while fielding at the boundary – the incidents the BCCI has complained about – have led to a furore on social media given their geopolitical messaging.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Farhan’s celebration after scoring his half-century and Rauf’s hand movements towards a section of fans while fielding at the boundary – the incidents the BCCI has complained about – have led to a furore on social media given their geopolitical messaging.
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An exhilarating run-fest in Dubai saw India post a gargantuan 202 – the highest total of this Asia Cup on the back of another blitzkrieg from Abhishek Sharma. Sri Lanka responded in kind, led by Pathum Nissanka’s awe-inspiring 107 off 58 balls.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An exhilarating run-fest in Dubai saw India post a gargantuan 202 – the highest total of this Asia Cup on the back of another blitzkrieg from Abhishek Sharma. Sri Lanka responded in kind, led by Pathum Nissanka’s awe-inspiring 107 off 58 balls.
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Sri Lanka and Pakistan have had to lick their wounds after being beaten by Bangladesh and India respectively, so both the teams have a point to prove. Should some out-of-nick players strike form, this contest has the raw ingredients to be a thrilling one.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Sri Lanka and Pakistan have had to lick their wounds after being beaten by Bangladesh and India respectively, so both the teams have a point to prove. Should some out-of-nick players strike form, this contest has the raw ingredients to be a thrilling one.
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While different cogs in India’s wheel revolved to near-perfection, revving up the machinery to function at its optimal, their neighbours turned up in splits to an encounter seeking sustained brilliance.
#INDvsPAK #AsiaCup2025 #CricketAnalysis #MatchFeature
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#INDvsPAK #AsiaCup2025 #CricketAnalysis #MatchFeature
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Pakistan blow hot and cold in the ask for the thoroughgoing - Guerilla Cricket
The back injuries, the form dips, and the T20I captaincy fiasco behind him, Shaheen Afridi had reverted to type. The skiddy pace and late inswing marked a comeback in the second half of PSL 2025 and t...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
While different cogs in India’s wheel revolved to near-perfection, revving up the machinery to function at its optimal, their neighbours turned up in splits to an encounter seeking sustained brilliance.
#INDvsPAK #AsiaCup2025 #CricketAnalysis #MatchFeature
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#INDvsPAK #AsiaCup2025 #CricketAnalysis #MatchFeature
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A sleeping giant is now waking up to the seriousness of its health predicament by indulging in a not-so-serious game of cricket. Read my ground report for which I spoke to medical science professionals and a trailblazer of India's recreational sports boom.
Box cricket, the phenomenon helping India age gracefully - Guerilla Cricket
Japan and Hong Kong cannot hold a candle to India when it comes to cricketing competence but these nations blow their Asian counterpart out of the water once Global Health Index is a yardstick. India ...
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August 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A sleeping giant is now waking up to the seriousness of its health predicament by indulging in a not-so-serious game of cricket. Read my ground report for which I spoke to medical science professionals and a trailblazer of India's recreational sports boom.
For non-striker Indra Agrawal, whose college batchmates have moved out of town, box cricket has been a game-changer on the socializing and mental health front. An engineering graduate turned grocery store owner's account of how recreational sport is a boon wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
August 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
For non-striker Indra Agrawal, whose college batchmates have moved out of town, box cricket has been a game-changer on the socializing and mental health front. An engineering graduate turned grocery store owner's account of how recreational sport is a boon wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
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India's happiness quotient isn’t much to write home about – 4.3 out of 10 to end up at the 118th spot among 147 countries.
‘’Sporting activity makes for a good release. Serotonin and dopamine improve your mood,'' sports psychiatrist Chinmay Patkar observes.
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‘’Sporting activity makes for a good release. Serotonin and dopamine improve your mood,'' sports psychiatrist Chinmay Patkar observes.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
India's happiness quotient isn’t much to write home about – 4.3 out of 10 to end up at the 118th spot among 147 countries.
‘’Sporting activity makes for a good release. Serotonin and dopamine improve your mood,'' sports psychiatrist Chinmay Patkar observes.
www.guerillacricket.com/76860,box-cr...
‘’Sporting activity makes for a good release. Serotonin and dopamine improve your mood,'' sports psychiatrist Chinmay Patkar observes.
www.guerillacricket.com/76860,box-cr...
Box cricket has pervaded the Indian ecosystem, delivering joy to and uplifting the morale of corporate employees slogging away in pressure-cooker environs.
Read my feature on the popular phenomenon that is recreational sport and its multilateral benefits: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
Read my feature on the popular phenomenon that is recreational sport and its multilateral benefits: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
August 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Box cricket has pervaded the Indian ecosystem, delivering joy to and uplifting the morale of corporate employees slogging away in pressure-cooker environs.
Read my feature on the popular phenomenon that is recreational sport and its multilateral benefits: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
Read my feature on the popular phenomenon that is recreational sport and its multilateral benefits: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
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Indian women have 5–15% lower bone mineral density than non-Asian women, leading to osteoporosis and osteopenia. ‘’Because of menstruating for most of your life,’’ nutritionist Sneha explains.
Recreational sport is bringing women into the athletic fold in a traditionalist society: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
Recreational sport is bringing women into the athletic fold in a traditionalist society: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
August 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Indian women have 5–15% lower bone mineral density than non-Asian women, leading to osteoporosis and osteopenia. ‘’Because of menstruating for most of your life,’’ nutritionist Sneha explains.
Recreational sport is bringing women into the athletic fold in a traditionalist society: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
Recreational sport is bringing women into the athletic fold in a traditionalist society: wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
In vogue in metropolitans, the concept of recreational sport has penetrated downwards at full tilt in India, with arenas mushrooming in incipient cities, suburbs and even towns. Box cricket, in particular, is ameliorating several key aspects of life.
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Read my detailed ground report wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In vogue in metropolitans, the concept of recreational sport has penetrated downwards at full tilt in India, with arenas mushrooming in incipient cities, suburbs and even towns. Box cricket, in particular, is ameliorating several key aspects of life.
Read my detailed ground report wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
Read my detailed ground report wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
Since y'all showered love on my last deep dive and made it one of the best-performing features in my six years of cricket journalism, I'm back with another! This time around, I examine the recreational sports boom in India.
𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
August 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Since y'all showered love on my last deep dive and made it one of the best-performing features in my six years of cricket journalism, I'm back with another! This time around, I examine the recreational sports boom in India.
𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 wp.me/peBPGk-jZG
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Enduring a fallow patch, Labuschagne was recently left out of the side for the West Indies Tests. With Cameron Green playing one drop in the Caribbean, Labuschagne's favoured spot, he has no qualms batting at the top of the order if that's how he gets his place back in the team.
August 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Enduring a fallow patch, Labuschagne was recently left out of the side for the West Indies Tests. With Cameron Green playing one drop in the Caribbean, Labuschagne's favoured spot, he has no qualms batting at the top of the order if that's how he gets his place back in the team.
Middle-aged Indians are reintegrating themselves with their favourite sport rather than spending the weekend partying or binge-watching Netflix, triggering an unprecedented health revolution in a sedentary society that treats fitness as an afterthought.
Box cricket, the phenomenon helping India age gracefully - Guerilla Cricket
Japan and Hong Kong cannot hold a candle to India when it comes to cricketing competence but these nations blow their Asian counterpart out of the water once Global Health Index is a yardstick. India ...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Middle-aged Indians are reintegrating themselves with their favourite sport rather than spending the weekend partying or binge-watching Netflix, triggering an unprecedented health revolution in a sedentary society that treats fitness as an afterthought.
An enterprising community that lived and breathed cricket, embracing the sport under the British rule of India, has distanced itself from willow and leather to a shocking degree in recent times. Read my ground report to untangle the knots: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
July 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
An enterprising community that lived and breathed cricket, embracing the sport under the British rule of India, has distanced itself from willow and leather to a shocking degree in recent times. Read my ground report to untangle the knots: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
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In a land where there is no shortage of cricketing aspirants, it is scarcely believable that Parsis are having to pull out all stops to unearth a committed individual. Read @aryansurana.bsky.social's feature on a dwindling community's efforts to restore lost glory.
The woebegone Parsi cricketing exodus - Guerilla Cricket
I am quizzing Eric Billimoria on the first floor of the iconic Parsi Gymkhana. Perpendicularly to my right, the announcement speaker bolted to the thick, diagonal wooden beams above us has caught rust...
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July 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In a land where there is no shortage of cricketing aspirants, it is scarcely believable that Parsis are having to pull out all stops to unearth a committed individual. Read @aryansurana.bsky.social's feature on a dwindling community's efforts to restore lost glory.
Once a steady supplier of top-flight talent, the Parsi community of India has grown out of their fervent relationship with cricket.
‘’I’m sick of hearing that after you why hasn’t any Parsi come up on the scene,’’ Farokh Engineer laments. Read to know why.
#INDvsENG #Parsi #Zoroastrians #History
‘’I’m sick of hearing that after you why hasn’t any Parsi come up on the scene,’’ Farokh Engineer laments. Read to know why.
#INDvsENG #Parsi #Zoroastrians #History
The woebegone Parsi cricketing exodus - Guerilla Cricket
I am quizzing Eric Billimoria on the first floor of the iconic Parsi Gymkhana. Perpendicularly to my right, the announcement speaker bolted to the thick, diagonal wooden beams above us has caught rust...
www.guerillacricket.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Once a steady supplier of top-flight talent, the Parsi community of India has grown out of their fervent relationship with cricket.
‘’I’m sick of hearing that after you why hasn’t any Parsi come up on the scene,’’ Farokh Engineer laments. Read to know why.
#INDvsENG #Parsi #Zoroastrians #History
‘’I’m sick of hearing that after you why hasn’t any Parsi come up on the scene,’’ Farokh Engineer laments. Read to know why.
#INDvsENG #Parsi #Zoroastrians #History
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As you enjoy red-ball action at the home of cricket, here's an interesting bit of trivia: In 1886, a team of Parsi cricketers from India embarked on a pioneering tour of England, an emphatic demonstration of the community’s love for the sport.
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Read more: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
July 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
As you enjoy red-ball action at the home of cricket, here's an interesting bit of trivia: In 1886, a team of Parsi cricketers from India embarked on a pioneering tour of England, an emphatic demonstration of the community’s love for the sport.
Read more: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
Read more: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
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The disappearing Parsi cricketer, reflection of the disappearing Parsi population noted for its education, affluence & relative equality between genders (for India), down from 114,000 at independence to just above 50,000, in a nation that has quadrupled in size
Till 1993 the Parsi Gymkhana team, which partakes in the A division of Mumbai's famous Kanga League, used to be true to its name. Today it boasts of Suryakumar Yadav and a dozen Ranji Trophy cricketers but none of them are Parsis. Why so?
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#INDvsENG #Parsi #History
Read to discover wp.me/peBPGk-jWK
#INDvsENG #Parsi #History
July 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The disappearing Parsi cricketer, reflection of the disappearing Parsi population noted for its education, affluence & relative equality between genders (for India), down from 114,000 at independence to just above 50,000, in a nation that has quadrupled in size
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Till 1993 the Parsi Gymkhana team, which partakes in the A division of Mumbai's famous Kanga League, used to be true to its name. Today it boasts of Suryakumar Yadav and a dozen Ranji Trophy cricketers but none of them are Parsis. Why so?
Read to discover wp.me/peBPGk-jWK
#INDvsENG #Parsi #History
Read to discover wp.me/peBPGk-jWK
#INDvsENG #Parsi #History
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Till 1993 the Parsi Gymkhana team, which partakes in the A division of Mumbai's famous Kanga League, used to be true to its name. Today it boasts of Suryakumar Yadav and a dozen Ranji Trophy cricketers but none of them are Parsis. Why so?
Read to discover wp.me/peBPGk-jWK
#INDvsENG #Parsi #History
Read to discover wp.me/peBPGk-jWK
#INDvsENG #Parsi #History
I travelled to Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad to ask sentient Parsi figures like Arzan Nagwaswalla about the community's disinclination towards playing the sport their forefathers held a torch for. Took me a month to compile this up-to-date ground report: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
July 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I travelled to Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad to ask sentient Parsi figures like Arzan Nagwaswalla about the community's disinclination towards playing the sport their forefathers held a torch for. Took me a month to compile this up-to-date ground report: guerillacricket.com/76678,the-wo...
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The Parsi community spearheaded India's embrace of cricket in ways more than one but their new generations have gone cold turkey on the sport of willow and leather.
@aryansurana.bsky.social speaks to Zoroastrians in the know to demystify the baffling withdrawal.
@aryansurana.bsky.social speaks to Zoroastrians in the know to demystify the baffling withdrawal.
The woebegone Parsi cricketing exodus - Guerilla Cricket
I am quizzing Eric Billimoria on the first floor of the iconic Parsi Gymkhana. Perpendicularly to my right, the announcement speaker bolted to the thick, diagonal wooden beams above us has caught rust...
www.guerillacricket.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The Parsi community spearheaded India's embrace of cricket in ways more than one but their new generations have gone cold turkey on the sport of willow and leather.
@aryansurana.bsky.social speaks to Zoroastrians in the know to demystify the baffling withdrawal.
@aryansurana.bsky.social speaks to Zoroastrians in the know to demystify the baffling withdrawal.