Well.. you can say that... players such as Sehwag, Sachin and Gambhir were among the top-10 batsmen at that time (I am not listing Kohli here, because at that time he was not being considered as a "legend"). If we talk about the bowling, then Sri Lanka had Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan, who were legends. For comparison, India had Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth and Munaf Patel, with Harbhajan Singh being the first-choice spinner.

There may be new projects out there and I am not discouraging anyone from participating in them. But I have made my opinion clear in one of my previous posts. There is no respect for bounty hunters here, despite all the hard work they put in. Unless this mentality change, I am not going to participate in any of the bounties. Another condition is that the exploitative rules of bounty campaigns must be changed.

If everyone stay at home for 14 days, then there will be no new infections. Because the Coronavirus can survive in the air for only a few hours. But the problem is that there are a lot of anti-socials out there, who believe that it is cool or macho to break the rules and put others at risk. Also, there are some teenage idiots, who think that Coronavirus infect only the elderly people.

The government response varied from country to country. For example, in countries such as India and Russia, they have enforced draconian lockdown measures. Those who venture out without a pass risks getting arrested and put behind bars. At the same time, in countries such as Belarus and Brazil, the administration has refused to act against the outbreak. In Belarus, even sports events are allowed to go ahead as planned earlier.

LOL... this has happened to me a couple of times. The last time I participated in a bounty was sometime in 2018. But even in 2020 (almost two years later), I continue to get tokens credited to my ERC-20 wallet. Back then I had participated in a large number of bounties and I had given up on some of the campaigns where it looked like the payments are getting delayed. But now I am surprised to find the rewards getting credited, after such a lengthy delay.

Because of the COVID 19 outbreak, sporting events are being cancelled and the athletes are not being able to train properly. Even if this situation comes under control within the next 2-3 months, it will be tough for many of the athletes to get back to their regular routine. It is going to be an irreversible damage, which may take a few years to reverse completely.

This is a strategy being used by many of the bounty hunters. But I would say that it gives no protection against low quality projects. A good bounty manager may make sure that the bounty hunter receives his tokens. But at the same time, these tokens will be useless if the project is not performing well and if the development timelines are not being honored.

Back then it was entirely possible. Sri Lanka was a really good team, capable of giving strong competition to big 3 teams and India had a weak bowling attack (especially in the pace bowling department). And back then, Virat Kohli had just started his career, and was being overshadowed by heavyweights such as Gautham Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.

I don't know whether Binance will manipulate the data or not. But one thing is sure. From now onward, Coinmarketcap can't claim that they are an independent and unbiased organization. They may not be having any bad intentions. But what is the aim of Binance? What do they plan to achieve from this purchase, after spending such a huge amount of money to acquire CMC?

Folks.. it is not just Cricinfo, which is doing these "RetroLive" and "Virtual Reality" matches. A few days back, another website was showing the virtual match between the PSL finalists. I don't blame them. There is not a single cricket match ongoing at any part of the globe. On the other hand, football fans have the option to watch the Belarussian Premier League. Too bad that cricket is not a popular sport in Belarus. 

If I am not wrong, then only 3 matches remained in the PSL before it was suspended due to the COVID 19 outbreak. But I watched most of the group stage matches live on DSPORT and I have to say that the matches were of very high quality. I would say they were more of IPL-BBL level, rather than BPL-Super Smash level. The crowd response was really good and the foreign players performed well. They should not worry too much about the remaining three matches. What they achieved was phenomenal.

Being an Indian, I am a bit more skeptical about the future of the WIPL. Even matches involving the national women's team doesn't get a good response within India. In Australia, the women have a lot of interest in sports and a lot of them follow women players such as Ellyse Perry. But here in India, women are more interested in TV sops and shopping, rather than in sports. Among my female friends, there are only a very few cricket fans.

But that doesn't mean that BCCI can ignore the women players. They need to start the WIPL, latest by 2021.

I am working full-time since 2006. During this time, I managed to build a good portfolio and I was planning to buy a new house in 2022. But the ongoing COVID 19 outbreak has disrupted my plans. 50% of my portfolio is made up of cryptocurrency and till now it is down by 40%. Another 30% of the portfolio is made up of equities and mutual funds, and I am in deep red here as well. I am feeling depressed right now. It seems like the world has ended for me. My dreams are all shattered and I don't have any hope for the future.

What to say? Ideally I would have asked you to wait for a bit longer, but I am also getting skeptical now. Global economy is inching towards the deathbed and within a few days the number of COVID 19 infected will cross the one million mark. The total death toll is now more than 32,000. Here in India, we are under a strict lockdown and it will continue till April 14th. A lot of people have lost their jobs and there is a gloom in general. I would say one thing at this point. This is even worse than the recession that we had in 2008-09.

The basic purpose of the bounty is to advertise about the project, through various social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.etc. And for emerging projects, there are hardly any good options apart from the bounties. A very few may manage to advertise using mainstream channels. But the vast majority of the projects may not have the financial strength to do something like that.

It is very hard to create a virus against these viruses. Because they mutate very rapidly. Even if you come up with a vaccine against the COVID 19 strain, a few months later another mutation can appear and the vaccine will have no impact on it. And with the virus infecting almost 700,000 people till now, I think that mutations may have already occurred. By the time the scientists come up with a vaccine, it may not even be effective against the virus.

I would agree with this. IMO, 5-6 is the optimal number. If you have half an hour or one hour to spare everyday, then you can manage this many coins. Anymore than this, and you would struggle to track them all. I am saying this out of my own experience. At one point, I had more than 40 different coins and tokens in my wallets. In 2018, I made a very tough decision to keep just 5-6 of them, and to dump the rest. And surprisingly, it worked out very well for me.

Anymore reduction of the already reduced 20 overs per side would mean that bowlers would completely lose their significance in cricket. I would say that 20 overs is ideal. The batsmen have the advantage here, but still the bowlers have something to play for. If you reduce it any further, then it will become boring, as you will only witness one type of shot from the batsmen during the entire duration of the match.

Can I slightly take this discussion off-topic? Because I want to have a debate about the player salaries.

I came across this article recently:

https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1123792/who-gets-paid-what-in-cricket

And I was surprised to learn that the annual contract pay for Steve Smith ($1.469 million) was greater than that of Virat Kohli ($1 million). And even more surprising is the fact that within the Indian team, the individual with the highest package is the coach Ravi Shastri (popularly called "Damaadji" in India), with a package of $1.17 million per year.







Here is how Shastri's salary compare with the salary of other coaches:

I don't think that BCCI will make any deal with the ICC or with any of the other boards. ICC was forced to block two months every year in the international cricketing calendar, for the IPL. This has been happening ever since 2008. I have never heard about the BCCI reimbursing either the ICC or any of the other boards for this inconvenience. Actually they don't need to. BCCI controls a large part of the ICC revenue and therefore they can do whatever they want. The other boards have limited options.