He doesn't even bat at this number whenever he plays for Baroda but for some weird reason, he or maybe management thought that he's solid for the top 3.

Well, Rahul wasn't there, that's why LSG reached the playoffs, otherwise his only contribution would've been shouting Go Green (dot-ball initiative of BCCI)

Pakistan Shaheens with its young squad have played an awesome innings. The team had got a solid start with Imran Butt scoring 64 runs, Haseebullah scoring 62 runs, and Omair 89* runs not out, Missed his century. The team was able to score 314/6 which is really good to defend the Zimbabwe team. For now it is a confirmed winning for Pakistan Shaheens as Zimbabwe have lost 6 wickets scoring 98 runs by the end of 23 overs. Young players getting opportunity to play is really good and Pakistan is making arrangements to keep the next set of players in a prepared manner for the upcoming tournaments.

I agree with you. Mumbai looks more likely to win this match. Last few matches of the Mumbai team I watched live. Mumbai players are in great form. Both batsmen and bowlers are playing well. Yesterday against LSG we saw the dominance of Mumbai bowlers. And if Mumbai's bowlers can do well against Gujarat as well then it is certain that Mumbai will play in the final. Mumbai's batting lineup is very strong. Their main weakness was their inexperienced bowlers. But now the bowlers are also in a very good rhythm. The players are very confident now. And so against Gujarat, I will put the Mumbai Indians team ahead.

When it comes to the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, the pitch tends to play a touch slow and favors spinners. So, both of MI's openers were dismissed cheaply due to the pitch's tendency. An average first innings score at this venue is around 163 runs. Taking the nature of the pitch at Chepauk, MI put up a decent target for their opponents to chase. However, it was Akash Madhwal who really stole the show by taking five wickets and leading his team to a well-deserved victory.

There is no reason for ICC intercontinental cup in my opinion. The associate Nations are not in the best shape right now. and of course, if there is any tournament between the associate Nations the team which has the most amount of foreign players is going to win. At least that's what I think. It is going to be a bad expense of resources. ICC do not care about the associate Nations. Nor do the teams which are at the top, the big 4.

Even if India and China have the infrastructure to support the hosting of the world cup or they have the funds for it as long as they never bid themselves forward as organizers, is it possible for FIFA to appoint one? It seems that it is impossible because FIFA only appoints countries that volunteered because it means they have the ability or desire to become the organizer, because it seems that at this time FIFA is no longer considering the development of football from the countries that bidding to be the host, so every country currently has the opportunity to become a host as long as it has the funds and FIFA sees an opportunity to get bigger profits there.

On a side note, DeSantis has the financial backing of major Republican donors to take on Trump. His avenue to the nomination exists.

Pooran was a fine choice, I don't think LSG has better finisher than him, great fielder as well even when not playing as WK. However, Quinton de Kock should have been included in the squad instead of Prerak Mankad/Badoni. I don't know what logical reasoning they used to drop a star international player in such an important match. 

China and India are densely populated countries and don't really prioritize the sport of football so if you want to host one of them as the host of the World Cup you have to prepare well in advance so that there are improvements and efforts made so that spectators and players from various countries feel comfortable when compete and lived there for some time.
I don't know whether this option is a good one or not, but I think that with more and more countries that have never hosted the World Cup becoming World Cup hosts, the love for football in these countries will also increase.
However, considering that China and India are densely populated countries and have insufficient football facilities, maybe FIFA will consider all of them if you want to choose one of them.

We can't term this to be completely bowling pitch. It is the home ground for Chennai, but the team had won 4 matches out of 7 matches played. On an average throughout this season we were able to see the score to be around 180-190 runs. In this ground Chennai had scored 200 runs. Most of the match results on the Chennai ground is on defending. Maybe that have once again reflected in the eliminator match.

Cricket is growing on papers under this ICC management because they want to have better things through sponsors and media rights, so they are doing their tricks which are not helpful for the game and fans with now most chances they have no chance in IOC as well because their current policies are not helpful for allowing them into this event, and they are also having not solid strategy.

If we have 60 to 80 teams which are having adopted players from India and Pakistan with not domestic setup and facilities for their players which is not helpful for the game, but just few players are having better things for themselves as many times mentioned they need to work on minimum 4 or 5 native players can bring better interest but no one going to listen this.

Going down to a target of 183 runs in the Eliminator match, LSG were bowled out for just 101 runs. Going into bat first, it seemed that LSG might finish the match before 18 overs. But Akash Madhwal was struck early by the wicket of Prerak Mankad, who was dismissed for a team-high 12 runs and an individual 3 runs. But Akash Madhwal didn't stop there as he took 5 wickets for just 5 runs in 4 overs and contributed a lot to Mumbai Indians' victory. Anyway best wishes to Mumbai Indians for a win and looking forward to another match like today's match against Gujarat Titans.

I am not in favor of this idea right now because this gap is surely having his impact, and we can't bring any positive from this if we have this idea in running from the start then surely things could be different and many countries could be able to have teams for this long run format, but now it's not going to have anything ideal.
Jagmohan Dalmiya was the cricket lover but his all amazing ideas and work ruin by Srinivasan/Pawar mafia which hurt this game in long run as well now with this all we are having good idea to develop franchise cricket and enjoy with this.

Test is now played of just 8 to 10 countries game which will surely have changes in near future as well because when we will have not good funding for the domestic setup which is needed then surely more players will be gone for these franchise instead of going to play this long term format which is also having no salary which is needed to stay in this format.

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.