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Unless they share coaches, which I don't think they do, the coaches will not want to be sharing a room either. So the cost savings is not much but the camaraderie is very valuable. It is hard to keep traveling on your own and having an experienced mentor types to talk to about what to do, how to pla...

What is the tie-breaker? Strength of opponents?

I would rather use the term "player" than top 7 batsman, although I suppose since he bats he is in the top 7 batsmen as Bumrah is in the top 11 batsmen.

Jadeja T20 batsman?

Wrt total impact, I think ESPN also includes catches and stumpings. I used total impact to account for their fielding a bit but maybe in T20s we don't care that much about the keeping? I hate the Bengaluru ground. They need to figure out how to make the field a tad bigger without causing injury haza...

Interesting Samson is ahead in the WK derby. With Ishan, KL, and DK back to back at #36, #37, and #41 wrt impact/game. Pant at #61. Jitesh #123. Jurel #145. The impact/game is skewed towards people who bat a bit up the order because they get more chances to bat.

If the Chinese guy paid them or whatever, then he should be fully banned along with these other ones too. But, it seems bizarre.

Well the Chinese winner may not be at fault. If I was running and for some reason, Chinese bribes, bookies, etc., the others let me win but I did not know about it or did not participate, then I should not be faulted. But this is totally wrong from the Africans' part. In fact, players holding hands ...

Weird collusion to let a Chinese runner win. The African runners should be suspended and if the Chinese runner was also complicit, he should be banned. For a while. This is no different than match fixing. Why did the African runners wave the Chinese to win? This looks bizarre.

I don't think they are traitors. It depends upon whether you are talking about individual events or aggregate. If the choice is: you will fail but your team will win and it is the WC final, almost all except the total psychopath will choose the team winning. However, if the choice is on the aggregat...

You, the father of the board, are very welcome.

I do not follow golf except at the Asian Games, etc. Who decides those handicaps? On what?

I am perfectly fine with staying away from these two. My point was that Hardik is still the best pace-bowling allrounder. He is just very bad now. But the other all-rounders who bowl pace are all worse than him (sorry if I missed anyone). So, drop him. We will go without pace-bowling allrounders and...

Kumar, I will never cheer a home team player's dismissal to see anyone bat. I will also never cheer an opposing player if KKR is playing them even though I love them. ISF, Hardik was by the numbers the best player in this year's IPL at least one match back among pace-bowling allrounders, i.e., allro...

So, RR, KKR, CSK, SRH are the top four now. My MVP so far Sunil Narine with apologies to Bumrah.