Karthik Krishnaswamy
@the_kk
He/him. Cricket writer by day, photographer by night. Except when I work night shifts. Which is often.
40% of all stumpings by substitutes in Test history have now been by Jurel in this innings.
Stumped by a substitute! Extremely rare for most of Test history because a sub needed permission to keep wicket - only cases pre-2000 SJ Snooke by NC Tufnell, Durban 1909-10 and Pervez Sajjad by BE Congdon, Lahore 1964-65. A few more now sub keepers are routine, but unusual.
Steven Smith went through two years of no one thinking they could ever get him out, and of teams thinking that aiming at his stumps was futile. No other batter in my lifetime has reduced bowlers to that kind of hopelessness.
It shouldn’t have taken nearly 2 years for context like this to be applied to Guardian articles on Gaza. All it shows is that the omission of key information and the diluting of reality was a conscious choice all along.
Finally, someone dares to ask the big question Why does Ben Stokes get hit in the nuts so much goodareas.co/p/why-does-ben…
Despite the moments of despair and exhaustion we face during work—due to relentless pressure and fatigue—all of it seems to fade the moment our shift ends, even if only briefly, as I make my way back to my tent. I forget the pain, because our cause is greater than all this…
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
Every editor who canceled a story about Palestine brought us here. Every boss who censored an employee. Everyone who said “not this way” to protesters. Every university admin calling the cops. Bloody. All your hands are bloody, and we will never forget.
In January 2024, on the basis of Israeli claims that 12 UNRWA employees out of 30,000 might be Hamas, the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and others stopped funding UNRWA, de-legitimatising the UN aid model and directly paving the way for Israel's final solution in Gaza
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Despite the hunger and injustice, despite our nights that feel like hell, my children and I send a message of love to everyone who supports us and feels our pain. Hunger has drained our bodies, and fear hasn’t left us for a single day… But we are still alive, still fighting to…
Despite the hunger and injustice, despite our nights that feel like hell, my children and I send a message of love to everyone who supports us and feels our pain. Hunger has drained our bodies, and fear hasn’t left us for a single day… But we are still alive, still fighting to…
Liam Dawson's 10,000 first-class runs is the new Adil Rashid's 10 first-class hundreds.
Root's Test career has gone on for just over half of Tendulkar's. It'll never stop boggling the mind that the BCCI scheduled exactly one (1) home Test in the first three full years of Tendulkar's career.
The doosra is dead, but that ball to Brook brought back memories of Saqlain.
Another man is at Old Trafford, in whites, doing vaguely similar things.
This man is at Old Trafford, wearing a bib.