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Adrian Shankar

Starfighter

Starfighter

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The rock-solid (that's sarcastic by the way) financial basis behind Mongoose reminds me of a lot of startups today. They were ahead of their time.
 
NotMcKenzie

NotMcKenzie

International Debutant
Reading that second article with those (one would think) clearly phoney blog posts, I think that Shankar missed his real calling as an author, screenwriter or journalist.
 
cnerd123

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I hate the wisden website layout btw. Can only read text on like 20% of the screen. It's better on mobile.
 
Starfighter

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I know what I'm doing for the next half hour.

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The Adrian Shankar Files, Part Four: Rajasthan Trials And IPL Auction Manoeuvres

The Adrian Shankar Files, part four, by Scott Oliver, picks up as he ramps up his attempts to crack into the IPL, first through the auction
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The Adrian Shankar files, part five: Kings XI and the Sri Lankan Sojourn

The Adrian Shankar Files, part five, by Scott Oliver. Part four is available to read here.
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The Adrian Shankar files, part six: The Rajasthan rejection and the Worcestershire debacle

The Adrian Shankar Files, part six, by Scott Oliver. Part five is available to read here.
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Chubb

Chubb

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What strikes me is that Lancashire signing him in the first place has never been explained. Even more than Worcester - at least he got found out in a few days - Lancs paid him a salary for 2 whole years.

As pointed out before his uni record was dreadful and minor counties decent enough - I mean I certainly couldn’t average 27 in minor counties - but clearly not professional standard. Why did Lancashire decide to sign him?
 
NotMcKenzie

NotMcKenzie

International Debutant
Next step is obviously (and I know it can't happen) to use this story to make a cricketing version of the Selling Hitler miniseries.
 
cnerd123

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The amount of work that Adrian put into lying about his career and accomplishments is amazing. If he had just put that effort into actually trying to be good at cricket he might have still had a county career of some sort.
 
Magrat Garlick

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the only simulated cw xi trace of him is abhinav shankar

hmm...interesting. very interesting.

also did someone dig up his old tweets
 
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SteveNZ

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This is insanely good stuff.

Fair play to the guy for managing to horse shizen his way to a List A game on Lord's.

Any indication of what he's doing now, or is that in Part 7?
 
Chubb

Chubb

International Regular
SteveNZ said:
This is insanely good stuff.

Fair play to the guy for managing to horse shizen his way to a List A game on Lord's.

Any indication of what he's doing now, or is that in Part 7?
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Claims to be a documentary filmmaker. Scott Oliver has said the last instalment will look at his post cricket life.

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Adrián Shankar Filho Archives - Love Talkin'

PrevNextAdrián Shankar Filho Adrián Shankar-Filho is a filmmaker having joined Five Fifty Five in 2018, and is now developing over 5 series and feature films. Having made over 20 short films and music videos, starting out by capturing the mass protests in Brazil in 2013-2014, Adrián spent years...
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