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^^ Why do you think that? If he goes to the top like Nishesh Basavareddy, would he play for India? If you know more, that is good news though... You are way better off being a middling tour regular as an Indian in terms of sponsorships and media attention (see Sania Mirza with one tour title in sin...

I know this forum's origins but I don't really care about our rankings amongst Asian tennis.

It is all different degrees of sucking at the global level in the men.

Atithee wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:29 pm ^^Where we stand now is where we always stood. And that is that we will reach the semis and lose.

Always == Kohli era.

We did win 3 ICC tournaments under Dhoni in 6 years.

The Kohli era has been a disaster-class in team building in LOI cricket.

Beating Spain 2-0 is an expected result, not a surprising one. As I have said many times here, this is not 2008-12. We have finished in the top 4 in every CT or Hockey League since 2016 (including the finals loss in the shootout against Australia in Breda that I watched in person) and also finally w...

Maybe Sindhu sleeps a bit in the regular tournaments and wakes up for the WCs and Olympics, etc. The reverse-choke artist. This is not a maybe. She has never been world #1 which 3 other of our shuttlers have been (Padukone, Saina, Srikanth) but has been by our most successful athlete at the biggest...

rajitghosh wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:21 am 4 out of 4 today.... all losses

This reads worse than it actually is.

We won the one match that we should have won. Srikanth-Nishimoto was a tossup and we lost the other 3 as expected.

Agree about Chahal - he also has no confidence as a bowler when he is taken on.

prasen9 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:18 am In tests, Kohli's form has been bad in the last 2-3 years. Is it terminal decline or temporary decline in form?

20 tests and almost 3 years at an average of 26 is not form - it is more than most people's test careers. Otherwise agree with you.

Yes, that won't happen. This is not 2008-12.

Yeah - the World championships and the Asian games are the only tournaments I care about for 2023.

When are the next world championships sameer?

Unfortunately, not a great run in the open section with Hari finishing 17th and Nihal 18th as the only top-20 finishers.

Still, the bronze for Savitha in rapid and silver for Koneru meant it was a reasonable outing for the Indian contingent.

So as per Jay, online speed chess is a sport since it requires good mouse skills?

While I agree that Mbappé has more to prove in club soccer, he also has the largest contract among Champions league players and it was agreed to before the WC. So clearly he’s seen as elite by those that actually run the teams and put their money behind their assessments…. He has definitely been co...

Thanks for the link suresh. The links I had read had more serious allegations.