Greatest All-Time NLSIU Cricket XI By Aditya Sondhi
1. Soumo Ganguly (’96) – swashbuckling opening bat. Never cared to stay at the crease beyond half an hour. But time enough to notch up some big runs.
2. Abhishek Dutta (‘02) – a compact opener. Looked every bit the part.
3. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (’98) – scholar-batsman. Dravid, sans the talent. Bowled some decent leg-spin too. And a ‘thinker’.
4. Nandan Kamath (’00) – our own Freddy Flintoff. Brilliant number 4 and could bowl some seam-ups (and off breaks) when needed. Sheer talent.
5. T.K. Bhaskar (’95) – steady middle-order bat and off-spinner. And a lovely bloke to have on the side.
6. Bipin Balakrishna (’96) – rock star and (self-proclaimed) pillar of strength. An all-rounder, who bowled medium-pace and made many bad jokes.
7. Manoj Menon† (’96) – our best wicket keeper. (Sorry, Sawant Singh!). Thorough team-man, he passed off as a batsman at times. Now passes off as a golfer.
8. Kartik Seshadri (’96) – captain extraordinaire. One of the few chaps who could genuinely swing the new ball. And drop himself from the side when pissed off.
9. Rabindra Jhunjhunwala (’99) – tearaway opening bowler. Got through the defences of some Ranji players from the opposition. (On his good days.)
10. Srinivas Katta (’96) –awkwardly quick off-spinner. Gave left-handers a torrid time (I confess). When he was not sneezing, that is. Called ‘Sneezy’, hence.
11. Praveen Viswas (’98) – sharp opening bowler, could actually reverse-swing the odd ball. Had delusions of being West Indian. And R.D. Burman.
It's alright. You need not be jealous of other people, we all know that if playing spoilsport was an Olympic game, you'd have got India the gold medal every year.
NUJS people are famous for staying up all night and playing PUBG and eating chips, but nowadays that technically counts because "esports" was included in the last Asian Games. However, India ranked last.
Shruti Anand, NUJS 2017 batch. Played for the Tamil Nadu Women's junior cricket team. There have also been a few other female alumni who have played state-level sports like rowing, tennis, basketball etc. There is a current male student who has played football for the MohunBagan (an ISL team now) junior team. However, I do not know of anyone who continued playing at that level while in college though.
We all like to compare NLU placements, moots, scholarships etc. But what about sports? Which NLU has the best athletes and which ones suck at sports? Also, which NLUs have produced people who have played at top-tier professional levels? The gold standard is probably is Nandan Kamath of NLSIU (also a Rhodes scholar). He played cricket for India Under 16 and captained Karnataka at the state junior level.
1. Soumo Ganguly (’96) – swashbuckling opening bat. Never cared to stay at the crease beyond half an hour. But time enough to notch up some big runs.
2. Abhishek Dutta (‘02) – a compact opener. Looked every bit the part.
3. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (’98) – scholar-batsman. Dravid, sans the talent. Bowled some decent leg-spin too. And a ‘thinker’.
4. Nandan Kamath (’00) – our own Freddy Flintoff. Brilliant number 4 and could bowl some seam-ups (and off breaks) when needed. Sheer talent.
5. T.K. Bhaskar (’95) – steady middle-order bat and off-spinner. And a lovely bloke to have on the side.
6. Bipin Balakrishna (’96) – rock star and (self-proclaimed) pillar of strength. An all-rounder, who bowled medium-pace and made many bad jokes.
7. Manoj Menon† (’96) – our best wicket keeper. (Sorry, Sawant Singh!). Thorough team-man, he passed off as a batsman at times. Now passes off as a golfer.
8. Kartik Seshadri (’96) – captain extraordinaire. One of the few chaps who could genuinely swing the new ball. And drop himself from the side when pissed off.
9. Rabindra Jhunjhunwala (’99) – tearaway opening bowler. Got through the defences of some Ranji players from the opposition. (On his good days.)
10. Srinivas Katta (’96) –awkwardly quick off-spinner. Gave left-handers a torrid time (I confess). When he was not sneezing, that is. Called ‘Sneezy’, hence.
11. Praveen Viswas (’98) – sharp opening bowler, could actually reverse-swing the odd ball. Had delusions of being West Indian. And R.D. Burman.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esports_at_the_2018_Asian_Games