England declared their innings by collecting 415 runs. England team managed to take a huge lead of 264 runs. Ben Foakes scored the highest for the team. He played an unbeaten innings of 113 runs. Also Bairstow and Ben Stokes played very well.

South Africa managed to collect only 151 runs in the first innings. I don't think they will be able to score 264 runs in the second innings. Unless any miracle happens and England's bowlers don't bowl atrociously badly then it is certain that England is going to win this match very easily. Because today is just the second day of the match.

Chelsea and Liverpool have not started the season well. They have made several changes within the team, but the players are still not able to adapt to the team. We may see unstable performances from Liverpool and Chelsea in a few more matches.

As I remember, Arsenal was at the bottom of the points table after losing their first 3 matches of the previous season. But this season the scenario is completely different. Arsenal is now at the top of the table after winning their first three matches. Scored 9 goals in three matches and conceded only 2 goals. Their gameplay is very good. Arsenal will be a worthy contender for this season's title if they can maintain this consistency.

Does the absence of a player in the team ever stop scoring? It doesn't happen. When the most important player of the team leaves the team, the effect is definitely seen in their performance. And after Lewandowski left the team, everyone assumed that Bayern Munich's attacking performance would decrease somewhat. But this is not the case. Bayern Munich played great in the first 3 matches. At the same time, Lewandowski's replacement Sadio Mane proved Niez's ability. So far Bayern fans are not missing Lewandowski.

However, we look forward to seeing how Bayern Munich fares against a strong defence in the Champions League. Sadio Mane has long played with Liverpool in the most competitive league in the world. He is very experienced. Therefore, Bayern Munich may not face too many problems in the Champions League.

Despite losing Lewandowski, Bayern Munich is now a strong enough team. Sadio Mane has been able to fit in well with the team and has been consistently performing well. Overall, Bayern Munich's attack is still strong. Bayern Munich will be able to maintain their dominance in the Bundesliga this season as well.
Teams need to be more conscious in selecting players. Liverpool is in dire straits after selling Sadio Mane. Liverpool has dropped points in their first three matches this season. Now they are 16th on the table. If Sadio Mane was in the squad, maybe Liverpool's performance would have been more stable.

Considering the performance of some past matches of both teams, it can be seen that Southampton's performance is better than Manchester United's. Even if United won against Liverpool. United lost badly against teams like Brighton and Brentford. On the other hand, Southampton has performed well in their last two matches against Leeds United and Leicester City. And so the match between Manchester United vs Southampton looks to be very competitive.

Well, my opinion is the selectors are working more up close and personal with Virat Kohli compared to us people just talking about him and analyzing his gameplay. So the selectors will know better what to do with him. Or at least I like to think they know better. In India, good cricketers are counted as very important personnel. They are representing their country so if they are doing the job well they are often thought of as elite-level citizens. I am not saying that anything of this should influence the selectors to select Virat Kohli for the team. I am also not trying to defend Virat Kohli. I am just saying that there is a process and maybe BCCI is going through that with Virat Kohli.


After all, they cannot just drop Virat Kohli from the team just because he has not played well in the last three or four years right ? hope people understand sarcasm.

After sharing points with Rayo Vallecano in the first leg, Barcelona is back on the truck. It was not easy to score 4 goals against a team like Real Sociedad. Barcelona only made 15 shots in this match. 7 of these were on target. Although Barcelona was less attacking, but each attack was very powerful. Barcelona's gameplay is now very organized. They are slowly going to win the title.

I am looking forward to watching Barcelona's friendly match against Manchester City today. This is not an important match though. But the performance of Barcelona in this match can be guessed just how strong they are.

Roma's performance has been pretty steady and consistent since the start of the season. They won the first two matches of the season. They won both matches 1-0. Maybe didn't win by a huge margin, but their performance was good enough. They will play with the goal of winning against Juventus. Roma's defence is very strong. Juventus does not seem to be able to score any goals in this match.

Even with Sampdoria, Juventus played a completely defensive strategy. Neither team could score, and the match ended in a goalless draw. I don't think Allegri will take any risk against AS Roma. Roma is strong this season. Even though it is Juventus' home match, Allegri will be happy with 1 point in this match. Both teams seem to play with poor defensive tactics. Mourinho also does not want to lose points.

It's true that Roma has missed many chances, but we have to admit that Roma's performance this season is better than in previous seasons. They are able to create a lot of chances. Also, their defenders are playing well. Since the defenders are performing well, I think Roma will do well against strong teams.

Attacking players are missing easy chances, I don't blame Mourinho for that. Roma's match strategy is good, and so they are able to create a lot of chances. Now forward players need to be more careful. If the performance of the attacking players improves a bit, they should not suffer to score against a strong Roma team.

The decision to drop Virat Kohli from the team is very difficult. I doubt if India will find a talented player like him easily. But he has been out of form for a long time. More than 3 years. The BCCI has given him plenty of opportunities, but Kohli has consistently disappointed the selectors. Kohli can remove his problems by participating in domestic league matches. Also, he has to work hard. And if he doesn't want that then he should retire now. This will ultimately save his honour.

Some really bad luck and some excellent goalkeeping prevented Athletico Madrid from scoring in that match. Furthermore, the red card for Molina was not needed at all. I mean he should have kept his mouth shut and shouldn’t have pushed his opponent like that. It is understandable that something like this can happen when you are losing to basically a weaker opponent. But a player should never lose his composure under any circumstances. On the other hand, Real Madrid played really well against Celta.

In the Barcelona versus Real Sociedad match, the result is 1-4 in favor of Barcelona. Barcelona won the match quite easily. Probably this is the start of a positive thing for Barcelona.

Westbrook was brought into the team because he was supposed to play alongside the most skilled players on the team. However, when any of the three key players are not playing or are injured it is really challenging for the team to perform well. I think using Westbrook as one of the key players again is not looking to be a very bad decision. Maybe they should just give him more time and trust him to deliver a competent performance.


If he is still going to play with this team, I don’t think he necessarily has to play from the bench. He can perform well in my opinion even though he has not done anything major to prove himself so far. But the more logical option seems at the moment to be for him to start from the bench. Because that will probably also reduce their expectations of him. And by doing so he will also be able to perform well. There is no team right now willing to trade, so I suggest they make the absolute most of him.

For me, it is really difficult to imagine England not having a good batsman for test cricket who can give proper support to Joe Root.

England has always been one of the finest teams in the world. We all thought that England's performance was going to improve when they took all the necessary steps to improve the performance of the team during the last world cup in order to make the team better. The thing is, it seems like that was just a temporary solution, and England did not work very well on any permanent solution to the problem. It really feels like they did not have any long-term plans about what they were going to do. Just because we are talking about England I really cannot imagine that they don't have good enough players in the pipeline.

topman21, In the event that India plays against Pakistan, it is obvious that the fans will be divided into two halves. And whenever Asia Cup is played, India and Pakistan are the two most successful teams in the tournament. It is quite understandable that people would assume that these two teams are going to be in the finals.

@SirLancelot, Obviously subcontinent people like cricket a lot. And the support from these people is really unbelievable. I just hope that in the UAE the toss is not going to have so much of an impact as it did the last time. Because that takes away a lot of interest from cricket. The luck factor is obviously going to be there but it shouldn't be that obvious.

West Indies played very well but the problem is Shai Hope wasted a lot of balls. He scored only 51 runs from 100 balls. It is clearly not enough to do that.

In my opinion, if he had been able to score a lot more runs in those hundred balls, maybe even close to 80 runs from the same 100 balls, then West Indies might have been in a better position than they were. As you know, this was a batting pitch, so I think he would be able to do that very easily. New Zealand won the match with 17 balls left. It is evident from that fact that West Indies should have scored a lot more runs than they did. In the end, New Zealand was able to win this match without any problems at all.

Mitchell is not going to work closely with Jazz, as far as I am concerned. Getting Mitchell and losing jazz is obviously not going to be worth it. In order to acquire a player who might not even fit perfectly in the team, we could lose someone who would be able to provide a very stable performance? This is not something I see happening.

At this moment it does not feel like they are in a very strong position because obviously Kevin Durant and Kyrie want to leave. Nevertheless, they seem to be acting a little bit like Drama Queens right now, but they are also quite significant.

Messi cannot contribute to stabilizing the team or strengthening the bond between his teammates. As we have seen in the previous match, even though Messi is Mbappe's senior, Mbappe shows no respect. I would say he is very rude. Mbappe should behave more elegantly. If Mbappe is not able to control himself, PSG's team situation will not change. At the same time, Mbappe's performance will continue to deteriorate.

Chelsea's performance today was a mess from the start of the match. In the first 30 minutes of the first half, both teams tried to score several times. But after Leeds United scored in the 33rd minute, Chelsea's dominance in the match began to wane. And finally Leeds managed to win the match by 3-0. Every Leeds United player performed well today.

Bayern Munich will play very carefully in this match. Bayern Munich is definitely favorites against Bochum. But Bayern Munich lost 4-2 in their last match against Bochum. Robert Lewandowski scored both goals for Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich will definitely want to win today's match and will want to win by more goals. I think Bochum will be able to score today.