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Mining Socials: When Jaddu told Virat a love story; Rishabh Pant sees LSG through and Bhuvi, unfazed by Chinnaswamy’s 200+ score challenge | Cricket News

Mining Socials: When Jaddu told Virat a love story; Rishabh Pant sees LSG through and Bhuvi, unfazed by Chinnaswamy’s 200+ score challenge | Cricket News

Rajasthan Royals are wasting no time on the flights criss-crossing the country, as their star players get chatty in the sky-lounge. LSG are warming up to captain Rishabh Pant, even putting out an unedited post clearing the air, where Sanjiv Goenka hugs Rishabh Pant after their first loss which mischief makers left out. And Bhuvi and Krunal talk about their minefield of a homeground that routinely leaks 200 scores, making life treacherous for their own bowlers. The Sosh-Snips: Jesal-Toral: Romantic apocalypse tale told by History Prof Jaddu to Virat A dozen years ago, Ravindra Jadeja had told Virat Kohli about the tale of Jesal-Toral, J, a 14th century bandit who reformed under the loving influence of poetess Toral, and both were immortalized through their adjacent graves. Kohli narrated the tale, in which details slightly changed to two buildings that keep shifting closer to each other and will end in apocalypse. “I’ll take Virat to that place. It’s actually Jesal, Toral’s samadhis (tombstones) in Kutch. But Virat added masala and told the story as if it’s …

Why the KKR-CSK wrangle over Cam Green in the mock auction had spinoff fan chatters on socials ahead of the IPL mini auction | Cricket News

Why the KKR-CSK wrangle over Cam Green in the mock auction had spinoff fan chatters on socials ahead of the IPL mini auction | Cricket News

“Mini auction, but MAX excitement. Just one sleep away,” announced KKR’s socials with a video of the construction of the auction set at the Etihad Arena, ahead of the IPL’s biggest winter shopping day. With KKR going for Cameron Green for a ridiculous 30 crores, chased all the way by CSK similarly looking for a middle order all rounder, fans on social media started chants of really buying Green on the main auction day. While experts reckoned realistically the two teams would wrangle upto Rs 20 crore, the mock auction seemed to have started a chorusing refrain from KKR fans to land the Aussie, to replace Andre Russell. With the biggest purse available, fans had assumed Green was the real target and were pleading with the franchise to not back out, joking about wrath of Kolkata fans. CSK meanwhile asked Twitter fans, “Any good uncapped player suggestions we should bid for?” With eyes wide open emoji and yellove heart. They were pointed inbthe direction of Auqib Nabi, Kartik Sharma and death overs specialist Prashant Veer …