I was expecting Novak Djokovic to win the match as Roger Federer never had a win over him for years and the form in which Djokovic was playing made me think that it is impossible for Federer to win but this tournament is really exciting as all the unexpected things are happening and luckily i am not wagging a bet because of all the twist and turns in the past few days, it was a legendary performance from Federer.

Arabs have the money and they can conduct tournaments and there is nothing wrong in that and they are trying to change their view of dictator rule and i think so is the reason they are conducting many tournaments including UFC and boxing events.

People should consider any sport as a profession and anyone could hire these professionals if they are available. The choice of playing for their country or getting hired to play for another country depends on individual choice and if they are so talented they would get selected in the national team and people who does not have a place usually look for other opportunities.

There are not much Test matches either to take rest from the longer format and then the Test championship and then the battle for the best batsman between Kohli and Smith is going on and Smith is scoring runs and so does Kohli and the battle will be for the best test player for this year.

Smith already lost a year because of the suspension and there is no way he is going to take rest anytime now.

The climate is changing world wide and it is a real issue but putting all the fault into bitcoin is not the way things have to be done, here you are talking about the global mining energy consumption and if you are taking that into account you need to take the rest of the industries globally and calculate how much energy they are using. I wonder whether these tech companies are using green energy to power their servers globally and i bet they are eating a lot of energy combined than bitcoin mining and it will pale in comparison.

There is no specific ban for holding any cryptocurrency but they do not have any exchanges to trade as far as i know as the government forced them to shut down a couple of years ago and if the government wants to shut the exchanges they can do that, first fight for freedom and ask for a free internet without restrictions and you expect the government will allow freedom of trade with bitcoin  .

The decision to bat first by Bangladesh is to avoid batting in the fourth innings and the pitch will aide the spinners and Bangladesh wanted to ball and they expect they will have a better chance if they can put a good total on the board, they already lost 3 wickets and if they are able to build some good partnership and put a good total then we might see a good match but i still see India scoring a huge first innings lead and taking them out.
When is the day night test starting as i thought this one is a day night test as i saw pink balls images posted here.

The entire tournament looks like they are trolling all the gamblers by getting unexpected results in all of the matches, one day they perform well and the next day they perform sub par, reminds me of the old Pakistan cricket team who used to play really well sometimes and play like club players the next match  . I too did not expect Tsitsipas to win after the performance of Zverev against Nadal but the surprise continues.

I thought Rafael Nadal would loose this match too as the first set went to Medvedev and it was a really close match and i was expecting an upset in this match but Nadal came back from behind in the final tie breaker and it was an incredible come back as the odds were moving crazy in the final few minutes of the match and so does the drama when he challenged the umpire for a call and that went in Nadal favor.

The main fighters might not be earning the amount like Floyd Mayweather but i doubt none of the boxers will be earning that kind of money and if you look at the rest of the fighters in a boxing event none of the fighters will be getting paid like they get in the UFC, so the comparison is not meaningful.

You cannot compare and expect a different result when a boxer steps in MMA and the other way round, boxing is one dimensional and MMA is multi dimensional.

T20 starts tomorrow and West Indies have a set back as one of the players Pooran is banned for four T20Is for ball tampering in the last match. Afghanistan has much better team for T20 and i expect it to be more competitive than the ODI, Steve Smith and Warned was banned for ball tampering for a year if i am not mistaken and why such a lenient suspension for Pooran ?.
 

Mohammad Shahzad is their best player and his absence is felt throughout the tournament and they do not have a big pool of players to select and if Afghanistan needs to play some competitive cricket they need to develop young talents and they need to sort out the issue with Mohammad Shahzad as he is the top run maker in T20 and ODI and their best opener to date, he is talented but lacks fitness and he is the bad boy in the team.

Since Max Holloway has an opponent to face in Alexander Volkanovski which is scheduled for the December card we might see Zabit Magomedsharipov and Yair Rodriguez as they are ranked 5 and 6 respectively and any fight with these two opponents will be a spectacle for the audience as you will see many unorthodox techniques.

Since this is a Brazilian even you will see many fan favorites in the event and in the main event Jan Blachowicz is the favorite as Ronaldo Souza is moving up in weight.

I thought he was a spinner but after checking his profile i was surprised to see that he is a medium pace bowler who took the best figures in T20 internationals and that too in Indian pitches is incredible. India is currently resting all their top bowlers and what happens when the rest of the players return, if he could perform consistently then he will be an asset to the team. After the win in the first T20 i thought Bangladesh could win another and seal the series but India came back strong .

Abubakar Nurmagomedov might be too confident going into this bout and for David Zawada it is a do or die fight and he already lost two fights and if he lost this fight he would have been released from the UFC and everything was going according to Nurmagomedov and he took him down but he never expected he could get stuck in a triangle chock and  Conor started his fun games after the fight.

Bangladesh lost two early wickets but now they are playing really well as they need 65 runs from 44 balls and they have 8 wickets in hand and it is a total they can chase easily with the current standards, unless they loose the composure and starts loosing wickets Bangladesh will win the match. Two bowlers bowled economically really well but the rest of the bowlers went for plenty of runs and i hope Bangladesh will win the series.

Finally Watford FC leading the score line with two goals and ten more minutes and we will see the first win from the official sponsors for this season, Gerard Deulofeu and Andre Gray scored the goals and i hope they will win both half and the only doubt is because Watford is playing with 10 men as  Christian Kabsele got a send off and hopefully there is no other twist this time .

Abubakar Nurmagomedov is making his UFC debut and he already has two losses in his career but i cannot find any details about his opponent to know what he is dealing with, there is no doubt Abubakar Nurmagomedov will be a highly skilled fighter as they are practicing with the greatest fighter of this generation and he is a former Sambo champion.

A couple of fights and Zabit could be challenging for the title and i would like to see him against Max Holloway and there is no doubt it will be a high level fight.

What pool you are talking about.

Both the bottom ranked teams are playing and Watford is yet to register a win in this season, i am not a big fan of both these teams but Watford is having the BTC logo and hence i will support them and more over they managed to draw three times in their past four matches and i wish this will be their first win this season.

Pakistan is playing with a new time and it will take time to gel together and with experience they might perform better, they need to find young talents and they have PSL and that will give them more opportunities to find young talents because IPL gave a platform for many young talents to showcase their talents and majority of the performers are in the national team.

It is not a surprising news if you know that all the application you use in your mobile phone or otherwise will monitor all your activities including your IP address and when it comes to application they have the capability to monitor your contact list and gallery and you need to expect these companies to share your sensitive documentation because you are giving them the authority to do so in the terms of service. It is unacceptable behavior and you cannot do anything about it, the only solution, stop using them  .