📈 Every family has one uncle who remembers every cricket score

My uncle in Hyderabad can tell you who opened the batting in a match from before I was born. He doesn't look it up. He just closes his eyes for 2 seconds and says it. Last Eid I was visiting, and my cousin and I made a bet about an old final. We both pulled out our phones. He kept sipping his tea and said, you'll find I'm right. He was right. My cousin lost 100 rupees and refused to pay, saying phones don't count. After that everyone treats my uncle like a search engine. Someone asks a question and the room goes quiet. He enjoys it, though he pretends not to. He leans back in the chair and waits a few seconds. Then he gives the answer plus 3 things nobody asked for, including who was injured that week. I once asked how he remembers all this. He said he followed every match on the radio first. He said when you only hear it, you build the picture yourself, and you never forget it. I don't know if that's true, but I tried it with a song I was learning and it stuck. He can't remember where he's kept his glasses though. They're usually on his head. My father has a smaller version of this. He knows about 10 old matches very well and nothing after. When the two of them talk, it sounds like a different language. I just nod and refill the tea. I live in Jeddah now and I miss that more than I thought I would. Does your family have one of these people? What are they the expert on?

Ours is my father's cousin. He'll stop the whole dinner to correct someone about a match date.

My uncle can recite strike rates from matches decades before I was even born without hesitating once, meanwhile struggles to remember what he had for breakfast that exact same morning reliably every single time without fail. Something about numbers attached to a sport clearly sticks differently in memory than nearly everything else does for most people I personally happen to know.