Only 642 balls were bowled in the second Test between India and South Africa and the results of this Test did not take exactly two days. Today's Test match in Cape Town was the shortest complete Test match, India won the first Test in Cape Town, South Africa. The entire match was controlled by the bowler's. I think the biggest contribution in this Test match was Mohammad Siraj's bowling spell against South Africa's first innings on the first day where he took 6 wickets for 15 runs. However, India ended their Test mission in South Africa by leveling the Test series 1-1.
This match has made a record in test history. This is shortest test match by balls bowled, which has given result. Earlier shortest test match by balls didn't produced any result. Muhammad Siraj in first innings and Bumrah in second innings destroyed South African batting lineup. We have result of this match in just 5 sessions. Apart from the centurion i.e. Aiden Markram no South African batsmen was able to make it to twenties. Poor batting performance from south Africa in both innings. |
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ODI WC win might come sooner because on a good day any team can beat big players but winning the test series in SENA or in this case, winning in Australia doesn't come easy. It takes a hell of an effort to win a test series and it gets tougher when you are visiting after 3-4 years gap. Indians compete and win in Australia because they visit regularly and the same with the England tours, playing longer series also helps a lot.
So let's say winning in the ODI WC against India is easy and could happen in the next WC but Test series win in Australia is very far.
Pakistan team is not going much to Australia because of Aussies stance on not touring Pakistan since 1998. Now that we have a full bilateral series in 2022 and there are chances that Aussies might visit Pakistan again. We might now see Pakistan touring Australia more frequently. Pakistan performance in test for last few years is below average because they are more focused on T20 format. |
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UAE International T20 cricket team won the match elected to bat first. UAE International T20 cricket team gave a target of 167 runs against Afghanistan International T20 cricket team.UAE International T20 cricket team played very well. Especially Aryan Lakra and Mohammed Waseem who played half centuries for their country. Aryan Lakra remained not out at the end of inning and he made 63 runs in just 47 balls.Mohammed Waseem made 53 runs in just 32 balls. UAE International T20 cricket team bowlers have to play very well to win this match because Afghanistan batting side is very strong. Afghanistan score is 12 with fall of no wicket.
The match ended in favour of UAE team, they won the match by 11 runs. Muhammad Nabi fought hard till end and recorded highest 10th wicket partnership of 27 runs with Farooqi. Nabi was also the highest run scorer for Afghanistan in this match, 47 run on 27 balls. Ali Naeer was man of the mach for his outstanding spell of 4-1-24-4. Muhammad Jawadullah also got 4 wickets and in batting Aryan Lakra and Muhammad Waseem both scored half centuries. |
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It is pretty doubtful that investing into bitcoin as aggressively as possible, even with investing a million dollars right now is going to get you close to the same levels of bitcoin that the ones who are better off than hypothetical 1 and 2 are facing.. so right now a million dollars is going to get you right around 23.5 BTC... so it could be a bit of a challenge to catch up to any of those in hypothetical 1 and 2 and even though there are abilities to get close to those in hypotheticals 3 through 5,.. but with way more upfront capital invested..
But even someone investing $100k right now into bitcoin will have had to struggle a lot more than the person in hypothetical 6, since the one in hypothetical 6 ONLY had to put $26k into his bitcoin investment over the past 5 years, and maybe the person in hypothetical 6 might not have had been in a position to invest more aggressively than the $100 per week that he was able to invest over the past 5 years.... so such a person would never be able to come up with $100k to invest into bitcoin even though his current BTC stash is getting to those levels of valuation...and he continues to buy $100 per week and to consider ways to increase his investment amount by increasing his income and/or reducing his expenses.
That's a valid argument that aggressively investment (putting huge money as Lump Sum) might not be a good idea. Rather the best option is to invest in continuous manner no matter how much money you have. As you said investing million dollar as Lump sum right now will give you around 23 bitcoin and that is still far from person in Hypo-3. In hypo-3, we are investing 60$ into Bitcoin every week for ten years and now the total bitcoins are 27 and there net worth is 1 million USD. What we can deduce is that even if you dont have million or 100k dollars funds then you can still take better osition provided you are willing to invest small amount in periodic manner (DCA).  And a Happy New Year to everyone on this thread. |
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میری طرف تمام دوستوں کو دل کی گہرائیوں سے نیا سال مبارک ہو۔ اللہ تعالٰی ہم سب کیلئے یہ سال باعث رحمت کرے آمین۔ 2023 kuch dar ma khatm ho kr mazi ka hisa bun jya ga. Is tarah hmari zindagi ma sa na jana kitna saal guzr gya hn. Eik naya saal hmari zindagi ma dakhil hona ko hy. Kshish krn ky is sa bhar por tareqa sa guzaran. ایک بہت ہی پیاری بات آپ دوستوں کی نظر۔
وقت کی قدر کریں کیونکہ وقت کے پاس اتنا وقت نہیں کہ وہ ہمیں دوبارہ وقت دے سکے۔ |
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New Zealand won the match by 17 runs in DLS method. I did not think that New Zealand would bat so badly with a target of only 111 runs. The performance of the Bangladeshi batsmen was erratic as usual. Captain shanto scored maximum 17 runs for the team. No batsman can bat responsibly. We do not know when the Bangladesh team will improve with such bad batting. But the Bangladeshi bowlers bowled well. Although the target was only 111 runs, the New Zealand batsmen were under a lot of pressure. Opener Finn Allen scored 38 runs. But the next four batsmen returned to the dressing room with just 1 run each on the scoreboard. Mehedi and shoriful bowled very well.
Credit defiantly goes to Bangladeshi bowlers for defending well a low target of 110 runs which was further reduced due to rain. 4 out of five top order batsmen were out after scoring one run each. Its a good performance from Bangladesh in this series they went close to winning the series but lost since they didn't have an adequate target. NZ were fortunate enough that Neesham and Santner held the Fort today. |
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The person joining this year can surpass hypo 6 if he has lots of capital. With small capital you can't surpass even hypo 6.
I would not consider coming up with $85k right now in order to buy 2 BTC to be small capital.. and sometimes a person who invests over so much time, is way more empowered by having had spent that time.. even if the amount ended up ONLY being $100 per week, but maybe that could have had been as aggressive as he was able to be over the last 5 years... and yeah, maybe a person who is ONLY investing $10 per week is only at 0.2 BTC (valued at $8,500) after 5 years, but if that is as much as he is able to invest, then he is still quite a bit better off by investing into bitcoin rather than not doing so.. as long as he is able to safeguard his investment so he does not end up losing it. Great point. I just compiled results of last 5 years investment of 10 and 100 $ per week. Results are very much positive. Even if you have 10$ per week of saving then invest it in Bitcoin. With time it will give you good result.   Even investors in hypo 4,5 and 6 should not stop investing in DCA manner, as we still have to see full potential of Bitcoin.
Maybe, we cannot really know their circumstances, but you might be correct that it makes sense for them to keep building their stash, but if the are already getting into their 60s, they might be at a point where they are not really able to continue to build their stash and might have to consider ways to start to transition into either maintaining and/or even selling portions of their BTC stash to support or to supplement their living. The whole point of investment is to get good return. Any investment is of no use if it cant benefit the investor. I have an opinion that don't wait till your 60's to start using your funds. Use them when you have energy in your body. What will be use of a million dollar in your 60's when you can't move freely and have different odds with your health. Try to use your investment when you are young and have energies. Driving lamborgani is your 30's or 40's is more Of course there are exceptions and have people in 60's and 70's that have good health, they can take the chance of using funds in later part of age. Just my opinion. |
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Australia Women vs India Women
The second ODI between Australia Women's team and India Women's team has already started.Australia women batting first in this match and they scored 96 runs for one wicket in 19.4 overs.They are doing this very well towards scoring big runs. What the Indian bowlers need right now is to pick up the wickets of the Australian women's team at regular intervals.If not, this match could be a repeat of the first match with the Indian women.
The 77 runs partnership between Phoebe Litchfield and Ellyse Perry just got broken and things at the moment not looking good for India. Aussies might give India a target of 300 and that might be challenging in women cricket. The opener Phoebe Litchfield is still on the crease, she is not out on 45. Get Phoebe Litchfield out asap otherwise Aussies might gave a huge target. Today game is do or die for India, if they lose they lose the series. |
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I agree with you. In the last few months we have been seeing excellent performances from Afghanistan players. They have become very strong in ODI and T20 formats. The squad has a lot of talented batsmen who are capable of batting at a smart strike rate. Afghanistan team also performed well in the World Cup. Afghanistan players are gradually becoming more experienced by playing in various franchise leagues.
UAE team is very weak compared to Afghanistan. These two teams will play three T20 matches in this series. And I guess Afghanistan team will win easily in all three. Defeating a team like UAE is not a difficult task for Afghanistan. Also Afghanistan players are in good form now.
UAE will remain a weak team because they don't have any domestic setup of cricket. There is no interest of cricket among local people there, the team is entirely made up of players from South Asia. On the other hand, despite the regime change in Afghanistan there team is getting stronger and stronger since they have a domestic setup and cricket s popular among locals there. Same is the case with Nepal, they have qualified for T20 world cup next year for the first time because of years of continuous effort. |
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Those byes were expensive ones because most of those deliveries went to the boundary line with big brainless wides.
Records and streaks are meant to be broken. Pakistan will cross the line eventually, which could take time or maybe soon. We don't know but it will happen for sure.
Pakistan and India started facing each other in ODI world cup for the first time in 1992 and since then there are 8 matches in a span of 31 years, all going to India favour. 1995 was the year when Pakistan won last time a test match in Australia to avoid a whitewash since then all test series in Australia are whitewashed. They may break these streaks in next 20 to 30 years or even more then that. There must be a limit of losing in such a humiliating manner. |
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Cricket is really a game of uncertainty because the team that can survive with more performance and wickets will win at the last minute. In particular, there should be an idea to check which team's players are stronger between the two teams, and I find that the Australian team is stronger when comparing these two teams. Australia won the first ODI match almost effortlessly. But in today's match Australia women's power play almost ended with no wickets falling, the start was much better. In this way, if the Australia women's team can perform well, then India women's team can definitely give a big target.
Don't forget that India recently won a test match against same Aussie team. Winning a test is not a small thing, it tells that how well you are in proper cricket. In test the chances of uncertainty are rear, the best one wins the test. Alyssa Healy was once again not able to play a big innings today, she is the only one who got out so far. Aussies have not lost wickets but they are also not playing very aggressively. Indian bowlers must try to retain pressure and pick wickets. |
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In women's cricket, totals in excess of 300 are quite rare. So I would say that the target set by India (283) was quite decent. And all of it was due to the partnership between Jemimah Rodrigues and Pooja Vastrakar. They made a good recovery, from 182/7 to 282/8. And then, India got the perfect start when they got Alyssa Healy out (wicket going to Renuka Singh Thakur). However the match slipped out of their hands. Once Renuka and Pooja completed their first spell, the inexperienced bowlers like Saika Ishaque failed to keep up the pressure on the Australians.
282 is quite a decent target in women cricket and we can't blame Indian batting for this loss. Indian bowlers were not able to get wickets today, there only success was to remove Alyssa Healy in first over and after that there is no major success. Second wicket has partnership of 148 runs between Phoebe Litchfield and Ellyse Perry. This is where game went in Aussies half and India lost the track. Aussies now lead the series 1-0 now but India still has two more chances to make a come back. |
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Ifs and Buts are always can be pointed out, but that's the reality and no one can play the game with 100% accuracy and Pakistan is known for their poor fielding throughout the cricket history.
As said, Pakistan really fought back, but 4th innings is not going to be easy to bat on so they fell short.
Pakistan lost Muhammad Rizwan at 219 runs and after that dismissal next 4 wickets went down for just 18 runs. Pat Cummins was too good with bowl in both innings by picking 5 wickets in each innings. Chasing 300 runs target against Australia is never easy. Pakistan should have restricted Aussies target to 250 but that dream was shattered by Marsh and Smith.They are the one who fought hard once Aussies lost 4 wickets for just 16 runs. |
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New Zealand was at 54-1 at the end of the powerplay. I was thinking that NZ will score around 180 runs as the way they were batting. But they situation completely turned in favour of Bangladesh in the next 5 overs, especially after the fall of Tim Seifert wicket. The target would have been low even if the match was played by reducing the overs. Bangladesh bowlers are doing quite well in the T20 format there. I won't be surprised if they manage to win the series by winning the last match.
In first T20I, Bangladesh chased target of 135 runs quite easily in 19th over and won the match by 5 wickets. NZ were going good today until the fall of Tim Seifert. NZ still have 54 balls to play when rain interrupted the game and it's hard to say what target they would have given if they play full 20 overs. This no result is in favour of Bangladesh, they can't lose the series now. The best things NZ can do now is to draw the series by winning the last game. |
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The scorecard suggests that the Pakistani batter fought well in patches and came close, but the same old classic collapse happened again.
Overall, it was a good contest and Australia is a different beast at home so i won't blame them much. Pakistan can still take a lot of positives from this match, at times they were doing pretty good in both departments. Although those first inning extras were blasphemous.
There are two things which Pakistan team has made itself impossible to achieve, first is beating India in ODI world cup and second is beating Aussies in test at there home ground. There are 37 extras (excluding Leg byes) in first innings plus a drop catch of Warner by Abdullah in 3rd over of first innings. All these runs accumulate to Pakistan loss. Overall it's good performance from Pakistan but still it's Aussies once again. |
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Pakistan and India are most probably screwed against their respective opponents in their ongoing tests. Pakistan has slight hope while India looks hopeless thanks to their bad bowling performances.
Both Australia and South Africa are proving how tough it is to defeat them on their own respective turfs.
India is always good on there home soil while they struggle alot when playing in SENA countries. India definitely are not in a position to win this game. They still trail by 101 runs with 3 wickets gone. Kohli is on the crease and if he produces some magic from his batting then India might make a come back.. Pakistan got good early advantage today. Picked 4 wickets for just 16 runs but that early advantage was spoiled by good batting of Smith and Marsh. Pakistan too don't have much chance today. |
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Match has now slipped out of Pakistan's control. Don't know what happened to Aamer Jamal, he is being very wayward now. Both Smith and Marsh are hitting him all around the park. Smith is batting at 49, and it will be a morale booster for him if he can get a century at this ground, against such a quality bowling attack. Khurram Shahzad missed this match as a result of injury, but his replacement (Mir Hamza) did a decent job. As of now, Jamal looks like the weak point in Pakistani attack. Hasan Ali bowled well at times, but so far he hasn't taken any wickets.
Match slipped away from Pakistan but they have a happy ending of day-3 as Smith departs. On stumps day 3, Australia lead by 241 runs and they will now surely give a target of over 300 runs which wont be easy for a fragile Pakistani batting. Smith and Marsh are the heroes of Aussies in second innings. Four of there batsmen were not able to make it to double figures. Pakistan got Warner out early but were not able to control Smith and Marsh. Shaheen finally start taking wickets and need to bowl well tomorrow to restrict Aussies from reaching 300. |
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I am not sure if we can make that general of a statement regarding what a guy should do once he starts to feel that he no longer needs to DCA.. because there can be quite a bit of variance in regards to how much a guy might be cutting out DCA or ONLY doing DCA during certain kinds of BTC price conditions.
Maybe it would be helpful to give a couple of examples?
Hypo 1 (10-year BTC investor who came into bitcoin already with a decently large investment portfolio)
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And, part of my point is that the time in which each of these person is going to feel that he has enough BTC is going to differ, and surely there are advantages in regards to having had started accumulated BTC earlier, and it may well be difficult for later comers to catch up.. and even the person with the worst situation (hypo 6) has a pretty decent advantage over a person who is brand new to bitcoin, unless the person comes in and is already able front load the investment and being able to buy a couple of BTC to get caught up to hypo 6.
I think person in Hypo 1 and 2 are comfortably placed with 300 and 115 Bitcoins with less investment and they can think of varying there investment ratio in Bitcoin. I got a snapshot of Bitcoin price in last 5 years and they are not as lucrative as price was 10 years back (from 2013 to 2018). Defiantly those who are early into Bitcoin and investing for last 10 years have edge over the ones joining 5 years ago or today. In Jan 2013, price of Bitcoin was around 13$ and in Dec 2013 it was around 700$. So one can easily figure out how much Bitcoins one can have if he is accumulating in that ear with 100 dollars per week. If you back to 2011 then Bitcoin was around 1$. The person joining this year can surpass hypo 6 if he has lots of capital. With small capital you can't surpass even hypo 6. Even investors in hypo 4,5 and 6 should not stop investing in DCA manner, as we still have to see full potential of Bitcoin.  https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/JayJuanGee is our ChatGPT of Bitcointalk.org  I surely have my limits. So has ChatGPT |
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Pakistan seamers are wasting the early advantage they got. Steven Smith has settled in at one end and from the other end Mitchell Marsh is attacking the bowlers. I won't be surprised if Australia manages to get to a lead of 300 plus. If that happens, then it is all over for Pakistan. Given their fragile top order, anything above 220-230 is not going to be achievable for the Pakistani batsmen. Pakistan needs a couple of quick wickets. After Smith and Marsh, it is goig to be Alex Carey and then the bowlers like Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins.
That's why Aussies are best in the world, despite losing 4 quick wickets they have a pair that has almost done the job for the team. It difficult to remove Aussies pair once they are settled. It's not possible to restrict Aussies to 220 or 250 now. The lead right now is at 175 and they have 6 batsmen to play. Shaheen and Mir Hamza were too god but not good enough to restrict Aussies to 200. 37 overs still to be played and Pakistan need to bowl out Aussies before stumps to have some chance in the game. |
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Decent partnership between Mitchell Marsh and Steven Smith. They were 16/4 and now these two have enabled them to reach 66/4. Lead is 116 runs as of now. If Pakistan can restrict the Australian lead to anything under 200, then they will be the firm favorites for this match. Mir Hamza took the last two wickets to fall, after Shaheen Shah Afridi provided the initial breakthroughs. But once again, Hasan Ali is looking like the weakest link in Pakistani pace bowling attack. Two more wickets and Australia are done for this match.
Smith and Marsh are doing the repair work for there team. Pakistan gave Aussies lead of 54 runs in first innings and that's proving to be quite runs now. Australians have score 107 runs so far and lead has gone up to 161 runs. Pakistan can only win if they have something to chase under 250 runs. Anything above 250 will be difficult for Pakistan to chase. Hasan and Jamal were fine in first innings but in second innings there performance is not up to the mark. |
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