Warner has already made it clear that he is not interested in the BBL. But the audience ratings and viewership figures are really low, since the national team is also playing at the same time. It wasn't an easy decision for Cricket Australia to schedule the Indian tour, but in that case they could have postponed the BBL by a month or two. Current scenario hurts the brand value of the BBL.

China is a very homogenous country, and it gives them a big advantage over other countries such as India, United States and Russia, which are heterogenous. Not just 93% of the population is Han, but a large portion of the population is made of assimilated ethnic groups such as Manchu and Tujia, who speak the Mandarin language and are hard to distinguish from the Han. Only a few smaller ethnic groups such as Uyghur and Tibetan have resisted complete assimilation. And the citizens don't complain much, since their disposable income is increasing every year.

Other countries are caught up in a web of preferential treatment and affirmative action to certain ethnic group, which leads to inter-ethnic hostility.

Irish team is just disintegrating. The quality of cricket is declining because they are not allowed to play against the older test playing nations. Once in a while they play against weak teams like Scotland and Canada, and that is not doing much to improve their quality. On paper they have the test status. However in the three years since they received their test status, they have played a total of only 3 matches.

It is true that there are very few new infections in China, whatever may be the reason for that. For the last 7 months or so, the number of active cases in China has remained in three digits, with the number of daily new cases never getting in to three digits. Now compare this to countries such as the United Kingdom, which had 59,937 new cases and 1,035 new deaths just yesterday.

That depends on whether "one lucky punch" from Logan Paul would floor Floyd Mayweather or not. IMO, that is not possible. Logan Paul doesn't have enough power in his punches and Floyd is experienced as hell. Even if he lands a lucky punch, it will be hardly having any impact on Floyd. But I seriously doubt whether he will be able to land even one punch on Floyd.

Once again, it was Marnus Labuschagne/Steven Smith show for Australia. The other batsmen are hardly contributing anything (apart from Will Pucovski in the first innings and Cameron Green in the second). If the other batsmen are not scoring runs, then I believe that it will be better if they go with a 5-member or 6-member bowling attack. Bowlers such as Michael Neser and James Pattinson will be able to score at least 10-15 runs each per innings (which is more than what batsmen such as Matthew Wade has managed to score).

I don't have anything against Tesla (TSLA), but it is the most overpriced stock I could find in the market. The P/E ratio is more than 1,700, which is almost a hundred times the average level. AMZN also looks overpriced, with a P/E of more than 90, but not anyway near those levels for Tesla. The next time when a major market crash occurs, these stocks are going to drop like crazy.

The Bitcoin dominance is 70.0% right now, and previously it had stayed above the 70% level only for a short time. But the overall trend points to increasing market share by BTC, and it has occurred despite a slight recovery in the XRP prices. When the rally started some three months back, the figure was 58%. It has been continuously increasing even since, and for the next few weeks also we can expect the trends to continue.

Just looking back at the OP, the post was actually made less than two weeks back. It means that Bitcoin went from $27,000 to $40,000 in such a short time. Actually OP was right in pointing out that the investment should have been made when BTC was trading at $4,000 per coin. Well.. that was the logical thing to do. But again, the current rally proves that it is never too late to invest in cryptocurrency.

Just unbelievable. When I made my previous post India were at 195/4. Now they are 214/8. Just shows how quickly the situation can change in cricket, even in the longer format. Ravindra Jadeja is still there, but on the other end we have Jasprit Bumrah, with Siraj to come. The immediate priority for India right now is to keep the Australian lead in two digits. For that, they need to score another 23 runs.

Whatever lockdown measures are implemented now, they will not be there for long. Vaccination has already started, and according to Boomberg 18.9 million people have received the first shot of the vaccine (including 7.1 million in the United States and 1.5 million in the United Kingdom). Within a couple of months, hopefully we will be able to witness a steep decline in the number of new infections.

Just checked the points table and I was astonished to find Hyderabad FC at the third place, with 15 points from 10 matches. I think this is the highest position in ranking they ever got, since the ISL started. The top two positions are still occupied by Mumbai City FC and ATK Mohun Bagan, with 20 and 22 points respectively. They have maintained such a large gap between the rest. The NEUFC is at 7th position, which seems to be their worst showing for sometime.

A few years ago, celebrity adoptions such as the one from Russell Okung would have made an impact at the cryptocurrency market. But now, with hundreds of millions of users and large number of mainstream companies accepting Bitcoin, it may not make much movement. But the fact is that Okung made the request two years back, in 2019. The media ignored it then. They are covering it now because the Bitcoin hype is back.

Test status hasn't changed anything for Ireland. They are having test status only in name. They are not allowed to play tests against teams other than Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. On top of that, the share of revenues that they receive from the ICC remain far below what other countries such as Zimbabwe receive annually. I don't have high expectations from Ireland. They will end up like what happened to Kenya two decades ago.

Floyd's earnings from these exhibition matches may not be that small. The PPV for Floyd vs Logan match is priced at $89.99 and there will be at least 3 million purchases as per my estimate. And the vast majority of that revenue is going to Floyd, with Logan Paul receiving a relatively small fraction. On top of that, there will be other revenue sources, such as gate collection and advertisement.

There is still no definite advantage to any of the two sides and even now it is difficult to predict who will be able to get the first innings lead. The partnership between Cheteshwar Pujara and Rishabh Pant has added 46 runs till now, and Ravindra Jadeja is yet to bat. But the Australian bowlers look lackluster, especially Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon.

Ideally privacy coins should not be traded in regulated exchanges. Coins such as Monero and Zcash were invented in order to provide the maximum level of anonymity for the users. When that is the case, the fact that the majority of their trade volume comes from regulated exchanges is quite surprising. Ideally, these coins should be traded in P2P or DEX sites, which offer more privacy protection.

If you are around 25 years old, what is the probability that you may die in a given year? Looking at the life tables for various countries, I would say that the probability is around 0.02%. On the other hand, what is the probability that your Bitcoin wallet may get hacked in a given year? IMO, it may be around 2%. So the latter scenario is having a much higher probability and we should be more worried about it.

A choice needs to be made between implementing a lockdown or opting for more deaths and infections from COVID 19. Considering that, the governments don't have any other choice available. Anyway, it is just a matter of one or two months. By then, the peak winter will be over in the Northern hemisphere and the impact of the vaccination program will be visible.

338 is not a bad total, but at one point it looked as if Australia would struggle to cross the 300 mark. They made it, thanks to Steve Smith. For India, both Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj failed to impress. I think Siraj should concentrate on his game rather than on the theatrics. Bumrah and Saini did well, but it was Jadeja who kept Australia to a sub-350 total.