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For a moment, I thought Venus Williams and was confused for a few seconds ... :-) Starting a new year with a new partner is more doable than if the partner is hurt in the middle of a year. Is there anyone in the top-20 who will be looking for a new partner and may be a good match tennis-wise? Or ...

Jitesh can hit 1-2 sixes and then gets out. He should not be in the team as a keeper in T20Is. In T20Is, our best keeper-bat is Samson and the second best is Rahul among those who have played. If you want someone at #4 or #5, go with Rahul if you do not trust Samson. The slowest are Ishan and Pant ...

Not only that, NTTV and Rinku are thinking what else they can do to get in. The key to selection is not performance on the field. If that was so, Sarfaraz would have walked in. It does not matter how well you bat. It matters how much you can "oil" Agarkar and his cronies. This is not how ...

Nobody other than Sundar could bat in these conditions. Axar was the one who was last out trying to hit out with perhaps the worst two batters among the top five nations test teams. Yes, Axar could not hit out and score a 50 with the tail. Axar cannot score a hundred if he is given Kuldeep, Bumrah ...

We don't need Karthik. We said it here too that our younger players cannot play spin. And, those who play spin will not be picked by Agarkar. So, this is the situation we have.

Axar batted perfectly fine in this match. It is his bowling that is innocous. He had to hit because we have three batters ...

Sai has performed nowhere. We are playing in India. Who can bat in SENA is irrelevant. I do not like either of Sai or Padikkal. Sundar batted well but he was too defensive. The odd ball was supposed to come and it came. Having said that Sundar was the best batter in this test from our side. But ...

Not watering the pitch must have been intentional. They wanted to force a result and take the bowlers out of the equation. Their assumption was that our batsmen would be able to cope with the conditions better than their counterparts, which seems to be holding true mostly. However they seem to ...

De Zorzi and Veryenne keep failing. As did almost all the RSA batters. Anyway, why did they not water the pitch the day before and made it into such a crumbler? Terrible pitch, I must say. Not much worse than the Perth pitch, etc. that sometimes we get when we travel abroad. But, still terrible.

Kartik Kumar accepted his sentence - so it is 3 years now. USADA random test caught him based on a top.

If PKB doesn't believe Neeraj Chopra would win a medal we are in serious trouble. Also we should win something in compound archery. I am not so optimistic about women's cricket given their tendency to choke.


I was not giving an exhaustive list of medals. Neeraj Chopra will almost certainly ...

We have a mixed team wrt age. I was looking at this RSA team.

Old: Harmer (36), Maharaj, Bavuma (35), Muthusamy, Bosch (31)
Young: Brevis (22), Stubbs, Jansen (25), Mulder (27), De Zorzi (28)

So, they have an oldish side. Perhaps their best chance to win in India before the two spinners and Bavuma ...

Good bowling performance by all the bowlers until tea. Hope they get the next two wickets for cheap. If he is rested, I would open with Bumrah and Kuldeep irrespective of the left-right combinations.

RSA get 159. The pitch is already keeping low with variable bounce. I hope our batters can scrap ...

We still have the best batting lineup in the world by far. Any team would gladly take any of our batsmen, except for Sai.
Australia wants an opener. So, Yashasvi would get in. I doubt they would prefer Rahul to Khawaja. If Gill replaces Head and Pant is the keeper, there would be no place for ...

There are not as many Hindus in the West as there are Muslims. And, Hindus are not as zealous as Muslims and I would suspect to a lot the religious component of their identity is not as great as the Muslims. Hence, there is more noise related to Muslims, both pro and against.

Mamdani is Gujarathi ...

England could not win against a rebuilding India at home. Now, they are trying to upend Australia at their home. But, if you want to do so, you need to get your best team there.

The best pace bowlers for them would have been Atkinson, Potts, and Woakes by the numbers. Along with Ollie Robinson, who ...