Honestly, I understand if you do not have good enough players to play in the national team and that's why you have to get players from another country to play in the national team. But it can be only 3 or 5 players maximum. If it is anything more than that, it isn't a national team in my opinion. But we have a lot of teams that have 11 players from whole other continents playing in the national team. That's the funny and sad part. If that is the case then why don't let franchise cricket teams participate in the world cup?

Deshpande, Theekshana and Matheesha might be inexperienced in comparison to Gujrat's attack but all of them bowled nicely throughout the tournament. Deshpande in particular is quite expensive but at the same time, he's also taking a load of wickets.

So far Saha scored almost 300 runs this season and 3rd highest for Gujrat so i think he did justice to his selection.

I saw a lot of difference between Pakistan and Zimbabwean team players. Pakistan team players could not bat and bowl very well. But Zimbabwean did very well from bowling to batting. I thought Zimbabwean will not play very well in the match. But Zimbabwean is very good.  played. Pakistan team players are in such a bad situation because of their poor performance.

Mumbai Indians vs LSG In the last match, Mumbai Indians came very close to losing to LSG. In other words, only 11 runs were needed in the last over to win where Tim David and Cameron Green were on the wicket but these two experienced batsmen failed to score 11 runs in the last over despite being on the wicket. 

Today's match is a do or die match for both teams. if today's match is won, there will be a chance to go to the final and if today's match is lost, then the dream of the final of this IPL season will be over, so both teams must make a specific plan before entering the field and then enter the field.
I will favor Mumbai Indians in today's match.

If FIFA is more concerned with money, why didn't FIFA choose Saudi Arabia as the host of the World Cup because Saudi Arabia itself has sufficient accommodation and finances to be able to make the World Cup the best after Qatar.
You are giving unreasonable assumptions buddy.
I know FIFA has its own rules and nobody can change them but this is all to increase the love and prominence of the sport of football in every country so it can't be said just for money.

Not sure if overconfident was the main reason as no one takes CSK that lightly. It was just a complete batting failure at a crucial time.

We all know Gujrat is a batting powerhouse and balanced team so call it an off day with the bat and it came against the Champion team.

And if this kind of situation continues, maybe after a decade, international matches will have any importance except for a few countries. Gradually, there is a clear perception among everyone that ICC is working to increase the number of countries and not the quality of cricket. The money in cricket is going up but the quality is going down and looks set to get worse in the future. The most surprising thing is that no one has taken any steps to exempt this situation. No one is saying anything. But sometimes many big cricketers and cricket experts or persons raise a storm of protest about any normal issue.

Hopefully these tree saplings will be looked after as well, until they are self sufficient. Otherwise, actual survival rate of planted trees will be much less. Anyhow, a great initiative by bcci.

We can not expect such a performance from Pakistan team. But since it is an unofficial match, the series is not played as seriously as it should be played. Many feel that they are trying to hold on to the series alive and end up with a tie or even loss. A big difference in the game was evident when Pakistan team scored only 295 runs in 50 overs in the 4th ODI for the loss of 9 wickets while Zimbabwe team surpassed that target by just 3 wickets. I personally think this is the indifference of Pakistan team players. But there is nothing to say here because the series is unofficial.

Pandya, Miller and Tewatia were the biggest flop yesterday. Each of them contributed a single digit to the scoreboard. 172 was not that easy under those humid condition to chase. Pandya after winning the toss got overconfident and choose to bowl first. In my opinion they should have batted first and defended the target. They still have a another chance but if MI win today then I won't be surprised if GT loses the match against them.

I feel the bowlers contributed more to Chennai Super Kings reaching the final. Although the importance of the batsman is not less. However, in recent times, big scores have higher chasing wins. As a result, teams like Gujarat lost all their wickets while scoring 172 runs. So I want to promote the achievement of the bowler. Deepak Chahar picked up two crucial wickets of Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill. Since then the decline of Gujarat started. Captain Hardik Pandya's wicket was picked up by Maheesh Theekshana who had two wickets to his name. Ravindra Jadeja and Matheesha Pathirana also picked up two wickets each.

The ICC is not actually very thoughtful about the associate nations. They are actually interested in decreasing the funding of them so that they can actually fund the bigger teams more and more. Basically, they want to fund those teams which are generating more revenue for them. This is absolutely bad practice for the cricket game itself. I am sure that ICC does not give too much importance to the associate nations because they are not very interested in bringing in new teams. Otherwise, cricket would have been very different around the world.

I was wondering about the reason as i was watching the match, good initiative but should provide these ideas to the government as well because the amount of trees cut which were centuries old in the name of road development was really huge.

What a batting display by Zimbabwean as they chase 295 without any problem in just 48 overs Craig Ervine 161 was the hero for the home side as they are now leading this series by 3 - 1 against Pakistan after securing their third win with two matches are remaining in this series.

Zimbabwe won the toss and choose field first which was not good decision by them as Pakistani batting done good job and hammered them badly with last five overs concede 50 runs which was surely good achievement for Pakistanis but sadly Zimbabwean batting was also done good job and have very organized second wicket partnership of 278 runs which give them success in this match and now having control in this series as well now on 25th May we will have 5th match of this series.

This was a little unexpected. That target was not certainly something that was not achievable by GT. If they started to keep up with the run rate I think they could have actually got the win. They actually have a good setup because if they can continue performing well from the top order they can rely on Rashid Khan to smash some in the end. But they have just put a little too much to do for the late order batsmen. And of course, they did not win. I will say this was actually a careless performance from Gujarat.

The other solution could be that any country will have to give the player acidity of that respective country. They can use players who come from another country but they will at least have to have citizenship. Without citizenship, a person cannot represent that country. That is actually going to fix most of the problems, to be honest.

Because we all know that the countries are not going to give away citizenship for free. And if the country does actually give citizenship to that player the country is going to be liable for the actions he takes and also the country will have to look after that person as a citizen.

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But at the same time, some other associate nations are very happy with what they are getting. So they do not want to make any kind of scene. If all the associate nations actually come forward together I think the ICC will have to take necessary steps about it. But again some associate teams are promised one or two series against the big four. And the associate teams basically do not say anything because they are very happy with only one or two series that they are getting.