I completely agree with your post, and I never found anything objectionable about the way the Indian Super League is being conducted. The league is attracting a lot of new fans and it has contributed significantly to the growth of football in India.

BTW, today we had the Hyderabad vs Mumbai City match, which ended in 1-1 draw. Hyderabad is looking hapless, with just 1 win from their 14 matches. I can't remember the last time when any of the ISL teams had such a bad tournament.

Shoaib Malik reminds me of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Both are of the same age (38 years) and the fans in their respective countries are heavily polarized between those who argues for them to be allowed in the team, and those who want them to retire. But I can tell you one thing. Pakistan needs Malik now to stabilize their playing XI. The younger players are not performing that well.

Zimbabwe is a failed country with a failed political system. The same can be said about the cricket team as well. Two decades back, they were being regarded as one of the strongest underdog sides. Players such as Neil Johnson, Andy Flower and Andy Blignaut helped them to upset many of the bigger teams. But when politics and sports got mixed, the team simply started disintegrating.

It is a franchise league and all the matches are being telecast live through multiple channels. So it is not possible for the referees to act in a biased manner. If they do so, then the team owners would launch a complain against them and they'll never get to officiate another match. Till now, I haven't observed any such incidents in the matches that I have watched.

After such a good partnership between Tamim Iqbal and Mohammad Naim, I expected the Bangladeshis to make a total of somewhere around 160. But they ended up at 141/5. Such a total was not going to bother the Pakistanis much. And they never looked to be under pressure at any point during the chase. All credits to Shoiab Malik. He's 38 years old, and still going strong.

Incredible match ongoing at the U19 World Cup. New Zealand needs 193 to win against India, in 23 overs (Required Run Rate of 8.39 runs per over). New Zealand is off to a very strong start, and as of now they are from 74/1 from 7 overs. Rhys Mariu has scored 38 from 24 balls and he is smashing the Indian bowlers all around the park. BTW, both the teams have already qualified for the next stage. 

Shaw may get a chance, but he is more likely to bat in the middle order. The Indian top order right now is composed of top players such as Kohli, Rohit and Rahul and there is no room for anyone else unless some of these players gets injured. On the other hand, the middle order batsmen (apart from Sreyas Iyer) are not in good form and the selectors will be more open to replacing them.

Sreyas Iyer is the future of Indian T20 squad. I won't be much surprised, if he becomes the captain after the end of Kohli/Rohit era. As of now, I regard him as the best among the younger players. He is much more consistent and skilled, when compared to the others in his group, such as Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Karun Nair and Manish Pandey.

Hey OP, your post makes no sense. She invested in a scam, and that is the reason she lost her savings. When I first saw the title of the thread, I though someone had hacked the poor lady's online wallet and stole all her coins. But that is not the case. She willingly sent all her coins to some criminal and now there is no way to recover them. And a hardware wallet would have made no difference in this case.

This is just a typical shitcoin scam. In such cases, the coin will be listed in just one or two exchanges, which makes it easier for the whales to manipulate the exchange rates. Another example of such coin is IOUX. It is being traded primarily in Coinsbit. But here, Coinsbit has disabled the IOUX deposits, which means that an artificial scarcity is created for this coin. As a result, the prices have increased by 20x during the past few weeks.

This is a very illogical move from the developers. Perhaps they want the medium sized and small sized miners to drop off, so that the handful of mega-sized miners can compete among themselves. Among all the Bitcoin forks, BCH is the coin where large-scale miners have absolute dominance in the mining sector. And steps such as this one will ensure that things will remain the same in the future as well.

In reality, XRP never became the 2nd ranked cryptocurrency. The methodology for calculating the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies is flawed. In case of XRP, anywhere from 80% to 90% of the circulating supply is not in free-float. So the exchange rate of the remaining 10% to 20% is inflated. And they use the exchange rate of this 10% to calculate the market cap of Ripple. The actual market cap would be much lower than this amount.

This is what low morale can do to players. Taylor, Ervine, Jarvis.etc are playing county cricket in England they had virtually zero interaction with the other team members. And this was the reason for the lack of team bonding. The Zimbabwe team is always in a state of flux. No one knows who will go missing from the team and who will be coming back. But I am sure about one thing. There is still a lot of talent there and if all the experienced players turn out for the national side regularly, then they will be able to give good fight to the visiting sides.

I never said that the Zimbabweans played well at any point during the test. They were horrible, right from the first day. I was saying that, on paper the strength of the Zimbabwe team looked great. Sri Lanka was not doing well.. at least during the past few months. So before the match, I was expecting a close contest between the two sides (which was proved wrong). 

As of now, more than 10,000 different altcoins exist. And none of them have managed to give tough challenge to Bitcoin, which happens to be the original cryptocurrency. And the OP is talking about a scenario in which some new coin is going to do what all these thousands of alts failed to do. Theoretically, it may be possible. But I don't think that it will happen anytime soon.

If you want to talk about the bear market affecting Ethereum, then it is necessary to talk about the bullish phase which preceded that. You have mentioned about the phase in which ETH lost 90% of its value (2018-19). But you also needs to mention about the bull run in 2017, when ETH gave 120x returns for the investors (as a result of the ICO hype).  

I was just saying that defeating the weakened Sri Lanka side would have been their easiest shot at a test victory. They failed to do that, and it is an entirely different story. Brendan Taylor, Kyle Jarvis, Craig Ervine, Sean Williams.etc are world class players. If Zimbabwe can't win a test match even after including all these players... then may god help them.

If you want to invest in altcoins, then it is your choice. But you need to remember a few things before taking that step. Considering the fact that 99% of the altcoins have failed to deliver, you need to chose those coins which has a real life usage. Also, you need to make sure that the developers are honoring the timelines without much delay.

Sri Lanka just needs another 11 runs to win the match. This has been a remarkable turn around. The Zimbabwe middle order and tail collapsed like a peck of cards. The Zimbabweans should be ashamed of this performance. This was a golden chance for them to win a test match, and they wasted it. Now there will be a lot of pressure on Zimbabwe and their test status can be under threat.

There is a lot of hype surrounding the ongoing court case between Craig Wright and the nominees of Dave Kleiman. And this is the reason why BSV went up so much during the past few weeks. But you need to be very careful before investing in BSV. If Craig Wright loses the court case, then the value of BSV can plummet. There is even a chance that it can become worthless.