I wouldn't call Mayank Agarwal as an inexperienced player. It is true that the number of test matches played by him is in single digits, but he has large number of first class matches to his name and he is a regular for the India A tours. And I would like Virat Kohli to bat at number 3, since he is one of those Indian batsmen who are not afraid of green surfaces.

Kingsmead used to be one of the most pace-friendly surfaces, but I don't know how whether that has changed recently or not. If it still supports the pace bowlers, then any total above 160 should be enough for England. They have already crossed that score (162/5 after 17.2 overs) and it is going to be an uphill task for the South African batsmen. 

Rohit Sharma is one of the most important players for India, but only in ODI and T20 formats. He doesn't have the patience to play long innings in test format and therefore I don't think that his absence (in case he is not fit) will have a large impact on the outcome of the series. He is 32 years old, and so far he has played just 32 test matches. Now compare this to Virat Kohli, who is younger than Rohit and has 84 test matches against his name. Personally I would prefer Mayank Agarwal instead of Rohit Sharma in the test format.

There is a lot of speculation regarding exchange coins and in my opinion, the vast majority of them are heavily over-priced. If you ask me, I don't think that a coin such as BNB can have a market cap of $4 billion. I would calculate its fair valuation at a much lower level. Investors are accumulating BNB, because they expect the exchange to grow exponentially over the next few years. Now this is a very risky investment strategy, especially with cryptocurrency exchanges.

For the ICC, it is somewhat beneficial not to have a bilateral series between India and Pakistan. If there is a bilateral series, then obviously the revenues will go to BCCI and PCB. On the other hand, if India and Pakistan plays against each other only in the ICC tournaments, then ICC will be getting the lion's share of revenue. I strongly suspect that this is one of the reasons why ICC is not pushing hard here (anyway even if ICC puts pressure on BCCI, I don't think that it is going to have any impact).

Right now I am concentrating on three coins mainly - Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. I had very bad experience with some of the smaller coins in the past and that is the reason why I am not much interested in them right now. But there can be some smaller coins that may give you god returns if a bull run materializes. For example, Ebitcoin (EBTC) has risen by 900% during the last few days. I don't think that any of the established altcoins will give you that sort of returns.

Indian batsmen are always vulnerable on green surfaces. And Virat Kohli was not playing in this match, so there was additional pressure on the batsmen to perform. As I can see from the scorecard, only two of the batsmen scored above 20 (Pujara and Hanuma Vihari). And Scott Kuggeleijn must be feeling ecstatic right now, after nabbing three of the Indian batsmen. I don't think that the selectors can ignore him now, especially in the absence of some of their strike bowlers.

No one joins a bounty project just for fun. If that was the case, then what is the need for the promoters to offer bounty? They can just ask the Bitcointalk users to give them free promotion, as they are having "fun". Even in the shittiest of the bounty project, the participants expect some sort of reward in the end and they will be dejected if that is not realized. For many of the new users here in Bitcointalk, even a reward of $5 or $10 matters a lot. But it is tragic that many of the bounties refuse to pay even this small amount.

There was no proof presented to this claim (that the Russian officials asked their athletes to take Meldonium). And the case in involving Simone Biles was very shady. She never revealed that she was taking Meldonium until the moment she got caught. And then she claimed that she was taking it for ADHD. But as far as I know, Meldonium is not used to treat ADHD anywhere in the world. My point is very simple. Russia was banned because the Americans were afraid of the competition (both in women's tennis and Olympics). And for me, Maria Sharapova is much superior to the transgender tennis players from the US.

That was the case 10-15 years back, but even in states like Bihar the majority of the births take place in hospitals now. Also, Aadhar card has been made mandatory in accessing government services and therefore the biometric information is recorded now, along with other details such as DOB. But then, India is a country of 1.4 billion people (expected to hit 3 billion by the end of this century) and we can't expect the system to cover each and every individual living here.

Indian pacers (Ishant, Shami, Bumrah.etc) will perform on green pitches. But the problem is with the batsmen. During the past, none of the batsmen (apart from Virat Kohli) have performed consistently on pitches that are supportive of pace bowling. And the performance of spinners on such surfaces have been pathetic as well. Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal may be better when compared to Ravichandran Ashwin in this regard, but even their bowling has been below par.

OK.. When Bryant Coleman posted the last update, the Bitcoin dominance was around 64.5%. And within one week, this figure has come down to 61.8%. And the most surprising thing is that most of the market share that Bitcoin lost, has gone to altcoins such as Ethereum and Ripple. Who would have expected this? ETH was trading at BTC0.018 a few weeks back. And now it is trading at BTC0.026. The same with XRP as well (2,500 Sat to 3,200 Sat).

I can't agree with your statement. If you are a day-trader, then it is really hard to concentrate on anything else. Because you need to track the important developments almost 24x7. And this is impossible if you have a full-time job. If you try to manage both of them, then you will suffer losses in both the sectors. And it can even result in the termination of your employment.

As per the law, mandatory birth registration is there. But even now, the coverage is low in the rural areas. And you can imagine the situation we had 15 or 20 years back, when the data was not stored digitally. A lot many times, the compiled data would be lost (either due to natural disasters such as flood, or due to accidents such as fire). And the penalty given to the offenders is not very serious and it actually encourages such crime. For example, Delhi player Prince Ram Niwas Yadav was found to have faked his age in a domestic U-19 tournament two months back. He was only given a two-year suspension (BCCI could have banned him for life). In his case, he was 24 year old but claimed that he was 19 so that he could participate in the U19 tournament.

Yesterday Nepal bowled out the United States for just 35 runs in an ODI match (which was part of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2). I didn't saw any posts mentioning that match here. This was the lowest ever score by any team in the history of ODI cricket. Sandeep Lamichhane picked up 6 wickets and Nepal chased the target in less than 6 overs.

Lamichhane missed very important matches for his franchise side (Melbourne Stars) in the BBL, as he chose to represent his national side. And looks as if his decision was the right one.

Are you talking about the 51% attack that happened to ETC last year? It happens with a lot many of the smaller altcoins. More recently, Bitcoin Gold (BTG) came under such an attack (although the transactions were reversed within a few hours). In the case of ETC, a single individual was able to control 60% of the hash power, and initiated a number of "double spend" transactions.

There have been some changes, but I don't necessarily agree with your post. Saurav Ganguly is the BCCI president and he is not affiliated to any political party (although he has been linked to the ruling party in the past). But politicians and businessmen still hold some of the important positions. For example, Rupa Gurunath (daughter of N Srinivasan) is the president of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA). Jay Shah, the son of Indian home minister is the secretary of BCCI and Arun Dhumal (brother of minister Anurag Thakur) is the treasurer.

I sold most of my alts back in 2018, so my portfolio doesn't have a large variety of different coins. However, during the past few days many of my remaining coins have gone up by up to 300%. For example, EBTC has gone up by 900% during the last two weeks. Deep Onion is another coin which has gone up during the last few weeks. It has gone up by 100% so far this week.

The reason is that Bitcoin has already gone up considerably (by almost 250% during the last 9 months). A part of this bull run can be attributed to accumulation by whales, in anticipation of the block reward halving. In a few months from now, the block reward halving will occur, and no one is sure in which direction the prices will be moving after that.

The problem with England was that their lower order batsmen failed to contribute, unlike what happened during the test series. During the test series, lower order and tail end batsmen such as Chris Woakes, Mark Wood and Stuart Broad contributed with bat and were able to build valuable partnerships. However, the squad for the T20 series doesn't feature most of these players.