Image 1 — If Tilak becomes the next MI captain I'll be done with this franchise for good!
Image 2 — If Tilak becomes the next MI captain I'll be done with this franchise for good!

If Tilak becomes the next MI captain I'll be done with this franchise for good!

Like...Idc about his personal life or who he dates/hooks up with. But this is not that. This is far from it!

It's like his pr team is fully focused on packaging him as some highly desirable catch of the GenZ batch of ICT instead of asking him to work on his extremely glaring weakness!

And no, I'm not some boomer Desi parent who wants wants his child to have his nose buried in the books 24*7 even during holidays. No one's suggesting that he should be practising 24*7 during a break. But hoping that he practices a little social media etiquette and moving with some seriousness and sophistication is not too much to ask for, is it?

He had a horrid season with the bat. His abysmal game against spin or when the ball is doing a bit is there for every Tom, Dick and Harry to witness. Even the stand-in captain of Ireland knew he had to get spinners the moment Tilak had walked in.

And what is he doing? Making useless reels and collabs with influencers.

This is who MI/Rohit fans want as captain??? And if the management actually goes through with it and awards him captaincy, I'm done with this franchise for good!

u/AssociationBright594 — 17 hours ago

Enough time has passed to admit that this was pr all right but not from Rohit's side

I had kept quiet mostly when people here accused Rohit of using pr to elicit sympathy when Saikia shut down rumours about Rohit's retirement.

I think what most people failed to see was that all of this was very clearly an orchestrated campaign to put the spotlight on an ageing star...again...to escape scrutiny and questions of how the team was being run, added with extremely questionable selections!

Pandey put his entire credibility at risk to report Rohit's retirement news moments after he got out in the 2nd match. Why would he do that? THINK. He has been spot on with all the selection "leaks" even after Rohit's retirement from 2 formats but somehow he got such a major news so horribly wrong??

Yeah, I don't think so. He must've gotten clear orders from his reputable source at BCCI to make this news.

Very conveniently distracting everyone from the real problems in the ODI setup like the middle order, Ishan Kishan's inclusion, the bowling lineup etc.

Would like to know what others think...

u/AssociationBright594 — 20 days ago

So...the Hardik Pandya-to-CSK trade is a done deal now? 🤔

There's this account called "Arattai Squad" (or something) which has had an upwards of 90% accuracy in reporting trade deals and other CSK related stuff since last year and I believe they have reported this news first.

And it looks like it's a done deal now. The question is, who, along with my GOAT Dube is going to MI in exchange of Pandya? 👀

u/AssociationBright594 — 21 days ago

Dost Dost na raha...Pyar Pyar na raha 🥀💔

Would have been even funnier if this was Tilak tho lol. But I guess I now understand why they don't hang out anymore... 😭😭

Context for those who didn't get it: Those are Samreen Kaur's likes on Abhishek's posts dating back to 2020. Samreen is currently dating Arshdeep.

u/AssociationBright594 — 22 days ago

Does Sanju Samson thinks no one would notice what he's doing...?

This quote of his, which was made post the T20 WC, "randomly" popping out of nowhere from a barely talked about segment on JioHotstar right after the day of the Zimbabwe series wrapping up in which Abhishek failed the whole series...being spread by the lesser known pages, websites, and blue tick cricket fan accounts- does he really think no one would notice or understand?

He made a sum total of 51 runs against England back in 2025...about 8 runs more than Adil Rashid. Made 46 runs against NZ in the series preceding the T20 WC. I don't remember a single youngster/potential top order batter coming for him via their pr this way.

But Lord knows this man doesn't know when to stop! From the whole made up bs about Gill photoshopping him out of the group pic to now this.

Give it a rest Brother. You might as well be given captaincy at CSK- become MSD's successor. Be happy with that!

u/AssociationBright594 — 24 days ago

So first it was the Badani appointment as coach and now this...?

Not my circus, not my clown...but I'm so fascinated by CSK's decisions lately as a cricket fan lol.

HP ka bhi sahi hai. He keeps getting offers from 5 times champion teams who haven't won anything in exactly 3 years and are getting impatient to get back to glory days...only for him to delay it even further. 😭

Would be very interested to see how all this unfolds as a IPL kalesh lover though. 😎

Link to the full article: https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/inr-20-crore-for-hardik-pandya-csks-reported-dube-brevis-cash-package-could-become-a-massive-mumbai-indians-windfall-101785037660647-amp.html

u/AssociationBright594 — 25 days ago

Abhishek Sharma channeling his inner Warner/Murali after failing with the bat 🫡

Having better stats than all the Indian bowlers and even Muzarabani. Batting se nahi toh bowling se hi bully karega re tera Zimbushek 😎🔥

PS: It's a joke post not a hate post 😁

Edit: I meant WARNE not WARNER 🙄

u/AssociationBright594 — 26 days ago

Need of the hour! 😈

Fun fact: Protesters at Jantar Mantar were ACTUALLY calling for GG's resignation!

This is not just a Twitter/social media outrage anymore. The masses want this to happen before it's too late.

u/AssociationBright594 — 26 days ago

Yes Tilak Sir you are the patriot who plays for country. All other batters play for the opposition. 🫡

Every line more embarrassing than the next. And he just happens to be the vc...🤐🤐🤐

Edit: The question that was asked was about his godawful strike rate and he answered it this way. Imagine his teammates who are known for their aggressive batting seeing this. Captain and vice-captain of the T20 team are ek hi thaali ke chatte batte. 👍

u/AssociationBright594 — 29 days ago

Do these promo guys never learn???

"RoKo nahi, thoko"

Lemme remind y'all ki thukaai hamaari hui thi- TWO b2b whitewashes no less!!

We have been screaming and crying about quality promos since those godawful "Enemy ko defeat karenge" "Choking on cupcake" promos during T20 WC. Then came that Sony promo of "Knock knock tera Baap aaya" and now this.

While I'd say that compared to the rest, this may not be *that* obnoxious but the promo makers in India need to drink the humble juice and quick! Because it's our players, at the end of the day, who bear the brunt of the public mockery that comes after a series loss after promos like these.

u/AssociationBright594 — 1 month ago

It's Joever 🥀💔

If Devendra Pandey is tweeting about it- consider it done.

Goodbye Goodbye Rohit Bhai...you were bigger than the sky (not you Surya). 🥲🥲

u/AssociationBright594 — 1 month ago

Wimbledon really fumbled by not having Gill and Abhishek together for the same match but khair...😁

Posted by Wimbledon official account

Lord knows how he got to London so quickly lol.

u/AssociationBright594 — 1 month ago

Ishan Kishan's T20i records outside Asia

It's genuinely amazing to me how Ishan Kishan has failed throughout the UK tour but I have barely seen a single post made against him.

I guess there are pros to not being the kind of player who ever had the spotlight on them. For not being the captain (Iyer), the justice gang leader (Sanju), the ones with huge female fanbases (Tilak and Abhishek), or being the teenaged prodigy/boy wonder (Vaibhav).

That way you can just move under the radar and go scot-free when it comes to criticism like Jadeja used to in white ball.

The ODI series will be very interesting to watch because it will prove if Rohit-Dravid were just biased and wrong or they were visionaries when it came to dealing with Kishan.

u/AssociationBright594 — 1 month ago

Can't blame the full team. Management is to be blamed!

As I had posted earlier, these failures have been a culmination of many things.

Good on Nasser Hussain for calling it out live! He talked about how the management must've ruined the confidence of both Vaibhav and Sanju.

Today's wicket is a proper highway but look at the difference in body language of the English players vs our players.

Abhishek looked nervous/shaky from the very first ball. He wasn't even on field throughout majority of the first innings (not sure why). This is the 2nd time I have seen him looking so...underconfident? Like he's proper scared to play his naturally aggressive game.

Sanju tried but got out to a soft dismissal.

Only Shreyas has been looking good.

This series hasn't just been a batting failure. It has been a bowling failure too!

And when both sides fail, you gotta start wondering if it's the champion team suddenly playing like shit or it's the management that has been so unstable that it has brought out so many insecurities with their chopping and changing.

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u/AssociationBright594 — 1 month ago

CSK confirming trade talks!

The random eagle in the bg might be a hint. During IPL, Hardik Pandya had posted a story of him practicing in the nets alone with an eagle emoji.

Maybe it's a hint that HP might be going to CSK instead of KKR?

It's either that or it might be trade talks with SRH (they have an eagle in their logo)?

Your thoughts? 👀

u/AssociationBright594 — 1 month ago